CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)

0527 - Not for Sale (9/30/1976)Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Rosemary Murphy; Gordon Gould; Court Benson; Jack Grimes.After she inherits her late uncle Milo's antique shop (where he was murdered during a robbery attempt) and the building that houses it, Milo's ghost advises Faye Colfax not to sell the property to the man who lives above the shop.

0526 - One Girl in a Million (9/28/1976)Written by Alfred Bester. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Michael Tolan; Ralph Bell; Evie Juster; Leon Janney; Russell Horton.Alfred Bester adapts his short story "Time is the Traitor" for this futuristic tale about a rock-star business consultant with twin psychological desires.

0525 - The Ghostly Private Eye (9/27/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Larry Haines; Paul Hecht; Betty Winkler; Guy Sorel; Ian Martin.Psychic detective Flaxman Low investigates a manor in Surrey that its owner believes is cursed by a violent poltergeist.CBSRMT Trivia: Appearing in this episode are Paul Hecht and Larry Haines whose real name is Larry Hecht. They are not related.

0524 - Queen of the Deadly Night (9/24/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Marian Seldes; Arnold Moss; Bryna Raeburn; Bob Kaliban; Court Benson.After a woman in the Dark Ages sees her husband killed on their wedding night, his apparition appears to advise her that she's destined to become Queen of the Khazars provided she passes a crucial test.

0523 - Don't Play with Matches (9/23/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Mandel Kramer; Joan Shay; Earl Hammond; Gilbert Mack; Himan Brown (uncredited).Thanks to fire chief Delbert Casseroll's prevention program, fire calls in Caswell Corners have become almost non-existent.CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited near the beginning of act 3.

0522 - The Rainbow Man (9/21/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Ralph Bell; Jada Rowland; Robert Dryden; Russell Horton.An Old West con artist helps a man who lost his fortune to a cardshark.

0521 - A Very Dear Ghost Indeed (9/20/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Russell Horton; Patricia Elliott; Court Benson; Ian Martin; Earl Hammond.Thanks to a washed-out bridge, a father and daughter traveling to Ireland in the late 19th century are waylaid at an old castle.

0520 - To Whom It May Concern (9/17/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Marian Seldes; Ian Martin; Bryna Raeburn; Bob Dryden; Earl Hammond.Rebecca Randolph Owen has mysteriously avoided death more than several times and discovers those escapes from the Angel of Death's clutches have come with a personal price.

0519 - Dr. Peterson's Pills (9/16/1976)Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Leon Janney; Rosemary Murphy; Joe Silver; Catherine Byers.In his 25 years as a doctor in small-town Maine, Emery Peterson has possessed just about every type of cure-all for his patients.

0518 - Journey to Jerusalem (9/14/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Vincent Guardenia; Joan Shay; Evie Juster; William Redfield; Himan Brown (uncredited).Elwood longs to be young again and be appreciated for his personality and not his business success.CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as Cardigan, head of plant security in act 1.

0517 - The Tell-Tale Corpse (9/13/1976)Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Catherine Byers; Earl Hammond; Court Benson; Guy Sorel.Just out of prison, Ernie and Sid visit the aunt of a deceased fellow prisoner, who can help open a chest that contains $100,000.

0516 - A Magical Place (9/10/1976)Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Marian Seldes; William Redfield; Anne Seymour.A middle-aged couple find the house they rented as newlyweds, and rent it again in an aim to rekindle their marriage and recapture the joys of their youth.CBSRMT Trivia: The Poem recited by Tim to Eleanor in this episode is from "Hymn of Empedocles" by Matthew Arnold.

0515 - A Two-Bit Fortune (9/9/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Paul Hecht; Morgan Fairchild; Ian Martin; Leon Janney.Auto mechanic Mike Wilson comes to the aid of a bum who claims to be the billionaire businessman Stanford Spruce. Mike doesn't believe him until he learns that he's the sole heir of Spruce's entire fortune.

0514 - Killer's Helper (9/7/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Michael Wager; Joan Lovejoy; Robert Dryden; Evie Juster.John Masters has neglected his wife, Margaret, for so long that when he invites newly promoted protégé Marty Carroway home for dinner, Margaret asks Marty to not only start an affair with her, but to kill John and take his place as head of the company.

0513 - Graven Image (9/6/1976)Written by Bob Juhren. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Jack Grimes; Robert Dryden; Hetty Galen.Jodie Barnes is a talented singer on the county fair circuit when he meets talent agent Craig Herbert. Their partnership makes Jodie a national star but a frightful product that bears Jodie's likeness proves all too much.

0512 - The Magic Cay (9/2/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Paul Hecht; Marian Seldes; Leon Janney; Ian Martin.Tom Reynolds leaves behind his wife, children, and boring job and, upon the advice of a psychiatrist friend, takes a two-week vacation on a remote Caribbean island.

0511 - The Night Shift (8/30/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Howard DaSilva; Bryna Raeburn; William Griffis; Earl Hammond.Eddie O'Brian loathes working 9-hour shifts each day as a bus driver until he is assigned a brand new bus.

0510 - The Man Who Could Work Miracles (8/26/1976)Written by Arnold Moss. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by H. G. Wells.Cast: William Redfield; Marian Haley; Russell Horton; Arnold Moss.This adaptation of H. G. Wells' short story chronicles a man who realizes he can alter fortunes and make wishes reality out of sheer will.

0509 - The Train Stops (8/23/1976)Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Norman Rose; Jada Rowland; Ann Sheppard; Gene Francis.A small-town doctor's daughter falls in love with a mysterious man who comes to town on the same train every week and continues to do so even after the town loses its spot on the train schedule.

0508 - The Golden People (8/19/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: William Redfield; Marian Seldes; Bryna Raeburn; Evie Juster.* Richard Paradon has the looks, charm, and smarts to make money in an unsavory way — by bilking beautiful, wealthy women out of theirs.CBSRMT Trivia: William Redfield died two days before this episode aired. He was 49 years old. Redfield acted in 82 episodes. His last appearance will be in episode #531, "Pool of Fear" (10/7/76).

0507 - Your Grade is A (8/16/1976)Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Bob Kaliban; Ralph Bell; Joan Shay; Joe Silver.The wife of a creative writing student is found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning; was her death accidental, suicide or foul play?

0506 - The Haliday Prediction (8/12/1976)Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Tony Roberts; Morgan Fairchild; Robert Dryden; Ian Martin.Cash Haliday fills his weekly newspaper column on crime and corruption with predictions that come true. Cash's talent could be a case of uncanny insight, ESP, or just wishing things into reality.

0505 - Overnight to Freedom (8/9/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: William Redfield; Robert Dryden; Earl Hammond; Mandel Kramer; Rosemary Rice.An American POW escapes his captors and tries to reach a French Underground contact.

0504 - Lovers and Killers (8/5/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Robert Dryden; Russell Horton; Marian Seldes; Evie Juster; Robert Maxwell.The fate of a lothario accused of murdering his lover's husband rests in the hands of a jury in particular David Miller (Juror #2), who didn't want to fulfill his civic duty.

0503 - Every Dog Has His Day (8/2/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Court Benson; Russell Horton; Morgan Fairchild; Ian Martin.As his sons argue over who should receive his estate, and his lawyer's daughter ponders which of the two she's truly in love with, an ailing millionaire has only two faithful servants by his side — his butler, Chadsworth, and his dog, Whiskey.

0502 - Shotgun Wedding (7/29/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Jack Grimes; Patricia Elliott; Leon Janney; William Griffis.Gus Virko sets colleague Charley Demerest up with his daughter. Despite Charley's apprehension, it's a perfect romantic match that soon turns into a nightmare.

0501 - The Brain Without Mercy (7/26/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Norman Rose; Bryna Raeburn; Leon Janney; Ian Martin.Dr. Werner Diethardt finds a severely injured skyjacker who made off with $2 million and removes the crook's brain, so that it can tell him where he hid the loot.

0500 - The Men with the Magic Fingers (7/22/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Mason Adams; Marian Seldes; Catherine Byers; Earl Hammond.A carnival owner at the turn of the century creates a lifelike doll, Leonora, that can predict customers' futures.

0499 - Future Eye (7/19/1976)Written by Alfred Bester. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Tony Roberts; Evie Juster; Court Benson; William Redfield; Catherine Butterfield.An investigator from the future is sent back to the present day to retrieve a data bank, no bigger than a matchbox, that holds a chronology of time up until the year 2976.Defects: Background noise.

0498 - The Last Trip of Charter Boat Sally (7/15/1976)Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Mandel Kramer; Teri Keane; Robert Dryden; Russell Horton.The captain of a tugboat-turned-fishing charter is implicated by a scheming woman and her beach-bum boyfriend for the murder of the woman's husband.

0497 - Blood Red Roses (7/12/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Robert Dryden; Bryna Raeburn; Arnold Moss; William Redfield; Bob Kaliban.His son's death at the hands of mobsters shakes the usually pacifist beliefs of Nick Birko.

0496 - Loser Takes All (7/1/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Patricia Elliott; Paul Hecht; Ian Martin; Nat Polen.Theatrical agent Jake Alexander takes a professional and personal interest in Delphi Carr, whom Jake considers the world's most beautiful woman.

0495 - Forty-Five Minutes to Murder (6/28/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Larry Haines; Leon Janney; Court Benson; Sam Gray; Joan Shay.A years-long business feud ends with a peace offering from chemical company associate Jim Raglan to vice-president Emmet Martindale: A bottle of cognac laced with poison.

0494 - Child of Fate (6/24/1976)Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Jada Rowland; Ann Williams; Guy Sorel; Ken Harvey.Ignored by her busy father and invalid mother, Halcyon Trent created an imaginary friend named Gerald. When Halcyon makes new, real friendships Gerald becomes really, and dangerously, jealous.

0493 - Checkmate (6/21/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Marian Haley; Robert Dryden; Court Benson; Bryna Raeburn.A rookie police detective and her crotchety veteran partner encounter an apartment building full of peculiar suspects while investigating the murder of a genius chess player's friend and frequent opponent.

0492 - Pension Plan (6/17/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Norman Rose; Ann Pitoniak; Leon Janney; William Redfield.* On the eve of his retirement, a purchasing manager discovers that a career of being honest and straightforward has left him with no financial reward whatsoever.

0491 - The Unthinkable (6/14/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Larry Haines; Teri Keane; Russell Horton; Robert Maxwell.While wife Roxanne lands a job as a bank manager's assistant. Her out-of-work husband does housework until he learns from an equally down-on-his-luck architect information that could be profitable for both.

0490 - Free the Beast (6/10/1976)Written by Ralph Goodman. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Paul Hecht; Marian Seldes; Joan Lovejoy; Ian Martin.A freak accident that claims the life of an insane asylum inmate leads to an investigation centering on the horrifying familial secrets surrounding another inmate who's been having clandestine conversations with an unseen visitor.

0489 - The Corpse That Would Not Die (6/7/1976)Written by Arnold Moss. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Emile Zola.Cast: Patricia Elliott; William Redfield; Mary Jane Higby; Roger DeKoven; Arnold Moss.A man murders his best friend so that he can marry his wife, but their relationship begins to erode by the weight of their sins.

0488 - Blue Justice (6/3/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Leon Janney; Jackson Beck; Evie Juster; Robert Dryden.A corrupt assistant prosecutor in a totalitarian state convicts, for capital murder, a man he knew was innocent.

0487 - Ghost Town (5/31/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Lois Nettleton; Ralph Bell; Ian Martin; Nat Polen; Russell Horton.A man who has escaped from a mental institution carjacks a schoolteacher and orders her to drive to a deserted Death Valley town to find an old relative.

0486 - Demon Lover (5/27/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Mandel Kramer; Marian Seldes; Bryna Raeburn; Earl Hammond.A college professor finds himself the unwilling object of a colleague's obsessive, and violent, romantic advances.

0485 - A Mexican Standoff (5/24/1976)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Joe Silver; Catherine Byers; Robert Dryden; Sam Gray.After small-town Nebraska mailman George Adams is honored as "Mr. Good Citizen USA," he and his wife are invited to an all-expenses-paid trip to Mexico City.

0484 - The Walking Dead (5/20/1976)Written by Alfred Bester. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Paul Hecht; Rosemary Rice; Jack Grimes; Joan Shay; Gilbert Mack.On a planet where crime is unknown, an organically-constructed android servant becomes tired of his work and goes on a deadly spree of violence.

0483 - Blind Witness (5/17/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Patricia Elliott; Carmen Matthews; Leon Janney; Bryna Raeburn; Earl Hammond.Police, and the assailant, are on the hunt to find a blind woman who unknowingly witnessed the murder of a pharmacist.

0482 - The Secret Sharer (5/13/1976)Written by Elizabeth Pennell. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Joseph Conrad.Cast: Norman Rose; Mandel Kramer; William Redfield; Court Benson.An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's short story about a fugitive, his alter ego, and the ship captain who accommodates them both.

0481 - The Ghost of San Juan Hill (5/10/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Jack Grimes; Marian Haley; William Redfield; Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin.A couple's wedding plans are disrupted by the bride's deceased husband, who had supposedly perished while charging up San Juan Hill in the Spanish–American War.

0480 - What A Change in Hilda (5/6/1976)Written by Bob Juhren. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Lois Nettleton; Robert L. Green; Bryna Raeburn; Nat Polen; Himan Brown (uncredited).* Impressed by its results on her untalented friend (who is now a top concert singer), Hilda Turner starts seeing a doctor who claims anyone can attain their heart's desire solely through meditation. The charge for the service is only $100 but in the long run, the results are more than what Hilda bargained for.CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited and appears at the end of act 3.

0479 - The Cornstarch Killer (5/3/1976)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Robert Dryden; Marian Seldes; Earl Hammond.Police are baffled by a series of murders; the perpetrator appears to be a virtuous woman who can bring the wrath of God down on anyone who approaches her with impure intentions.

0478 - Two Plus Two Equals Death (4/29/1976)Written by Alfred Bester. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Marian Seldes; William Redfield; Robert Dryden; Sam Gray.Peter Gerard takes his father's place in a traveling circus act and falls in love with one of the show's ballerinas who, unfortunately for Peter, has a cruel identical twin sister.