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A high stakes gambler joins a club where he may be asked to commit someone else’s murder, or be forced to commit suicide. The tale is adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson classic.
CBS Radio Mystery Theatre – The Suicide Club
E. G. Marshall (host), Robert Louis Stevenson (author), George Lowther (adaptor), Barry Nelson, Marian Seldes, John Baragrey, Dan Ocko, Lloyd Batista.
A fascinating story about a sailor lost at sea, on a raft, for almost three months.
The script was re-used on the program on January 11, 1944.
Words at War – Eighty-Three Days
Paul Mann, Paul Gordon, Tom Hoyer, Ken Lynch, Myron McCormick, William Quinn, Jackson Beck, Glenn Anders, Morris Mamorsky (composer), Joseph Losey (director), Max Goberman (conductor), Mark Murphy (author), Edith Sommer (adaptor).
A spaceship filled with women emigrating to the stars find themselves taken to a planet not of their choosing. Miss Travis finds herself an innocent pawn in a high stakes game of intrigue.
The final public service announcement and system cue have been deleted.
Dimension X – Competition
Albert Buhrman (music), Bill Chambers (engineer), E. M. Hull (author), Edward King (director), Elaine Rost, Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), Les Tremayne, Norman Rose (host), Van Woodward (producer), Bob Warren (announcer), Joseph Julian, Ed Latimer, Staats Cotsworth, John McGovern, Peter Capell.
Robbery rode the show train until police officers found the mysterious passenger and stopped murder on the carnival midway.
Gangbusters – The Case Of The Carnival Caper
Robert Dryden (narrator-by-proxy), Arthur Vinton, Bill Smith, Frank Readick, Jean Ellen, Stanley Niss (writer), Phillips H. Lord (producer), William Sweets (director), Don Gardiner (announcer).
ABC network. Sponsored by World Wide Handicrafts. WRVR rebroadcast date: April 18, 1974.
Holmes and Watson find good companionship in a gypsy camp. But they also find kidnapping, attempted murder, and a beautiful girl who gives up her life for Holmes! You know, a typical evening in a gypsy camp…
The story is based on The Adventure Of The Red Circle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – The Guileless Gypsy
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Denis Green (writer), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), Dean Fosler (music), Edna Best (producer).
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