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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 brother attempts to hypnotize his sister into killing their father.
CBS Radio Mystery Theatre – Murder with Malice
E. G. Marshall (host), Bram Stoker (author), George Lowther (adaptor), Mercedes McCambridge, Paul Hecht, Stefan Schnabel, Michael Wager, Marian Seldes.
A man is murdered in the midst of a seance conducted by a phoney medium. However, no one present could have done it as everyone was holding hands.
Suspense – Moment of Darkness
John Dickson Carr (writer), Peter Lorre, Wendy Barrie, George Zucco, William Spier (producer), Ted Bliss (director), Joseph Kearns (“The Man In Black”), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Wilbur Hatch (conductor).
A re-telling of the Bram Stoker tale of the undead. A woman is having her blood drained and they must kill the vampire to save her soul.
CBS Radio Mystery Theatre – Dracula
E. G. Marshall (host), Bram Stoker (author), George Lowther (adaptor), Mercedes McCambridge, Paul Hecht, Stefan Schnabel, Michael Wager, Marian Seldes.
A taxi driver relates the story of people getting into his cab and asking to go to the graveyard. These people don’t care which graveyard, they just want any graveyard. The people also have the curious habit of dropping dead in the cab.
The driver, noticing the trend, becomes more and more nervous and upset. He resolves never to take anyone to the graveyard. Yet, fate will not be cheated.
Quiet Please – Take Me out to the Graveyard
Don Briggs, Ed Latimer, Ernest Chappell, Evie Juster, Gene Paratzo (music), Wyllis Cooper (writer, director).
The first show of the season. A good story about a poker game with murder as the stakes.
Inner Sanctum Mysteries – Dead Man’s Deal
Larry Haines, Emile Tepperman (writer), Paul McGrath (host), Mary Bennett (commercial spokesman), Himan Brown (director), Santos Ortega, Myron McCormick.
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