CBS Mystery Theater eps 61-80

CBS Mystery Theater

CBS Mystery Theater was a general radio drama series which ran for nearly 1400 episodes from 1974-1982 on the CBS network. It specialised, unsurprisingly, in the mystery genre, but did include a fair bit of fantasy, SF and the supernatural. The show was created by Hilman Brown and hosted by E. G. Marshall. Collected here are some of the SF and fantasy episodes, including those with only a slight inclination towards the genre, such as the supernatural. Some episodes are omitted due to poor audio quality.

Please note that the episode numbers given below are merely the order in which the episodes are thought to have been broadcast — they are not the actual episode numbers.

Episode 61: The Covered Bridge

A newly-married young woman drives across a covered bridge and finds herself transported 200 years into the past, to 1776.

First broadcast: 23 March 1976.
Original Story by Ian Martin.
Cast: Ian Martin, Jada Rowland, Bob Kaliban, Bryna Raeburn.

Episode 62: Brain Drain

A government agent, investigating the death of a space scientist, encounters the mysterious Dr. Kadar and his collection of brains.

First broadcast: 24 March 1976.
Original Story by Ralph Goodman.
Cast: Carol Teitel, Paul Hecht, Robert Dryden, Staats Cotsworth.

Episode 63: Time Killer

A parapsychology professor finds he can transport himself through time.

First broadcast: 5 April 1976.
Original Story by Arnold Moss.
Cast: Arnold Moss, Mandel Kramer, Rosemary Rice, Jackson Beck, Russell Horton.

Episode 64: The Boy Wonder

A schoolteacher and a gangster team up to find a child who has vanished from the face of the Earth — a child whose friends may have dreamed up inventions worth millions, and who himself may be a genius — but it seems the boy does not want to be found.

First broadcast: 6 April 1976.
Original Story by Alfred Bester.
Cast: William Redfield, Robert Dryden, Ken Harvey, Martha Greenhouse, Dan Ocko.

Episode 65: Strange Passenger

An idealistic lawyer is invited by aliens to undergo training to become a national leader, in order to advance their plans for the bloodless conquest of Earth.

First broadcast: 15 April 1976.
Original Story by Roy Winsor.
Cast: Nat Polen, Bob Kaliban, Evie Juster, Ian Martin, Frank Behrens.

Episode 66: The Walking Dead

An android tries to break its conditioning and become a man.

First broadcast: 20 May 1976.
Original Story by Alfred Bester.
Cast: Paul Hecht, Rosemary Rice, Jack Grimes, Joan Shea, Gilbert Mack.

Episode 67: Future Eye

An investigator is sent back in time one thousand years, to 1976, in order to retrieve a databank containing the last thousand years of history, which has been mistakenly sent into the past.

First broadcast: 19 July 1976.
Original Story by Alfred Bester.
Cast: Tony Roberts, Evie Juster, Court Benson, Catherine Butterfield, William Redfield.

Episode 68: The Brain Without Mercy

A mad scientist removes the brain of a severely injured hijacker in order to ascertain the whereabouts of his hidden two million dollar ransom.

First broadcast: 26 July 1976.
Original Story by Ian Martin.
Cast: Ian Martin, Norman Rose, Bryna Raeburn, Leon Janney.

Episode 69: The Haliday Prediction

It seems every prediction a journalist makes comes true, or do they come true because he predicts them?

First broadcast: 12 August 1976.
Original Story by Fielden Farrington.
Cast: Tony Roberts, Morgan Fairchild, Robert Dryden, Ian Martin.

Episode 70: The Man Who Could Work Miracles

A mild-mannered bank clerk has to be careful what he wishes for, when he discovers he can work miracles.

First broadcast: 26 August 1976.
Original Story by H. G. Wells (adapted by Arnold Moss).
Cast: Arnold Moss, William Redfield, Marianne Haley, Russell Horton.

Episode 71: One Girl In A Million

An interplanetary business consultant is driven to find a duplicate of his dead girlfriend.

First broadcast: 28 September 1976.
Original Story by Alfred Bester.
Cast: Michael Tolan, Ralph Bell, Evie Juster, Leon Janney, Russell Horton.

Episode 72: The God Killer

An author's secretary, accused of his murder, insists he was killed by a character from his novel.

First broadcast: 12 October 1976.
Original Story by Sam Dann.
Cast: Tammy Grimes, Earl Hammond, Leon Janney, Ken Harvey.

Episode 73: A Point In Time

A pair of hikers stumble upon a small mining town, which seems to be stuck in the 1920s, and may be linked to an alien invasion of Earth.

First broadcast: 15 October 1976.
Original Story by Mary Jane Higby.
Cast: Paul Hecht, Russell Horton, Teri Keane, Court Benson.

Episode 74: City of The Dead

An expedition to one of the deepest parts of the oceans finds a strange civilisation of fish-people living on the sea bed.

First broadcast: 4 November 1976.
Original Story by H. G. Wells (adapted by Arnold Moss).
Cast: Earl Hammond, Kristoffer Tabori, Court Benson, Catherine Byers.

Episode 75: The Colony

A pair of tourists stop to report a UFO sighting and find the small town of Colony has been taken over by aliens.

First broadcast: 9 November 1976.
Original Story by Fielden Farrington.
Cast: Tony Roberts, Morgan Fairchild, Frances Sternhagen, Jackson Beck, Guy Sorel.

Episode 76: Now You See Them, Now You Don't

The patients in a military hospital of the future keep disappearing into thin air.

First broadcast: 30 November 1976.
Original Story by Alfred Bester.
Cast: Ian Martin, Leon Janney, Martha Greenhouse, Robert Dryden, Earl Hammond.

Episode 77: Child of The Sea

A scuba diver falls in love with Neptune's daughter.

First broadcast: 6 December 1976.
Original Story by Bob Juhren.
Cast: Evie Juster, Tony Roberts, Bryna Raeburn, Earl Hammond.

Episode 78: The Man From Ultra

An alien witchdoctor tries to cure an artist of his childish fantasies, which have led to his incarceration in an asylum.

First broadcast: 6 January 1977.
Original Story by Alfred Bester.
Cast: Court Benson, Robert Burr, Mandel Kramer, Roberta Maxwell.

Episode 79: The Star Killers

A nuclear scientist is accused of murdering her husband, but she insists he was an alien, killed by his colleagues for betraying their plot to take over the world.

First broadcast: 15 February 1977.
Original Story by Sam Dann.
Cast: Mercedes McCambridge, Norman Rose, Court Benson, Judith Light.

Episode 80: The Meteorite

A meteorite, which has landed in a farmer's field, is found to be a crashed spaceship containing an injured alien.

First broadcast: 11 April 1977.
Original Story by Roy Winsor.
Cast: John Beal, Marian Seldes, Joe Silver, Evie Juster, Russell Horton.