0723 The Case Of Chateau-Margaux

The Case Of Chateau-Margaux
Episode 0723
Original Air Date: October 12, 1977

A wealthy man disappears in the desert with only his wounded horse to provide any clues. All clues point to his nephew and only heir who is arrested for the crime. A case of expensive wine shows the way to the real killer.

Cast: Robert Dryden, Jackson Beck, Lloyd Batista, William Griffis

Writer: Edgar Allen Poe adapted by James Agate, Jr.

Rating: **1/2

Commercials: 1977 Buick, Kraft Carmels, March of Dimes PSA, Tru Value Hardware, National Foundation for Genetic Jewish Diseases, Contac, 1977 Buick, National Leukemia Association, American Radio Relay League,

0281 The Executioner

The Executioner
Episode 0281
Original Air Date: May 27, 1975

A young American couple's car breaks down in the swampy Scottish moors. They seek shelter in a manor house nearby inhabited by a strange lord of the manor. It is also the former home of Queen Elizabeth I's personal executioner.

Cast: Tony Roberts, Marian Seldes, Arnold Moss, Jaqueline Brooks

Writer: George Lowther

Rating: ***

Recorded from KIXI, Seattle, WA

News: President Ford unilaterally raises price of oil, Ford to leave NATO summit, US opening new Vietnamese refugee center in Pennsylvania, Gulf Oil tanker hits pier causing an explosion, Congress divided along party lines on President Ford's tax on imported oil, Institute of Medicine reports that fewer women are dying or being injured since legalization of abortion, Sudan says Ethiopian rebels have accepted a peace plan, Students occupy AIE offices in Laos,

Commercials: Time Magazine,CBS News election coverage, Budweiser, Catholic Communications Foundation, Sine-Off, Metric System PSA, National Alliance of Businessmen, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, National Alliance of Businessmen, Hemmoraid, Mike Roy's Cook Thing, Vantage Press,

NEEDS REPLACED Tape speeds up dramatically during final thought and then cast list is cut off.

0233 The Pit And The Pendulum

The Pit And The Pendulum
Episode 0233
Original Air Date: March 4, 1975

A modernization and retelling of the Poe classic. A married couple are threatened and tortured to compel him to disclose a formula that could destroy the world were it to fall into the wrong hands.

Cast: Tony Roberts, Marian Seldes, Norman Rose

Writer: George Lowther retelling Edgar Allan Poe

Rating: ***

Recorded from KOIN, Portland, OR

News: Ford holds off on tariff increase on gasoline, Iran and U.S. agree $15 billion in trade agreement that sends American nuclear reactors to Iran, Sine Off, Small force of Marines in Gulf of Thailand to prepare for evacutation of Americans from Pnom Penh, East Germans negotiate to give asylum to anarchists in Yemen, local Portland news, Communists have attacked Pnom Penh surrounded by communists, House slows Ford's request for aid to Cambodia, OPEC meets in Algiers to discuss principles for getting along with their customers, Spain prime minister overhauls his cabinet. Local Portland news,

Commercials: Harts 2 in 2 flea collar, Sine Off, Budweiser, Save the Whales, Buick, Better Business Bureau PSA, Sine Off, Catholic Communications Conference, March of Dimes PSA, Contac, Hemmoraid Ointment, Super Chef Mike Roy radio show,

0203 The Cask Of Amontillado

The Cask Of Amontillado
Episode 0203
Original Air Date: January 12, 1975

A man's wife sleeps with a piggish financier to save her husband from ruin. He seeks revenge with an invitation the financier can't refuse.

Cast: Richard Kiley, Frances Sternhagen, Roberta Maxwell, Leon Janney, Robert Dryden

Writer: Edgar Allan Poe adapted by George Lowther

Rating: ***

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0202 The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart
Episode 0202
Original Air Date: January 11, 1975

A down on their luck couple and their daughter are forced to move in with the man's sadistic uncle on his remote farm. The uncle works them nearly to death and does not feed them, all the while making sexual overtures to the wife.

Cast: Fred Gwynne, Robert Dryden, Ann Shepherd

Writer: Edgar Allan Poe adapted by George Lowther

Rating: **1/2

Recorded from KAH, Wichita, KS

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0201 The Masque Of The Red Death

The Masque Of The Red Death
Episode 0201
Original Air Date: January 10, 1975

Poe's classic adapted to the year 1996 where an ecological disaster has created the bloody plague. An old miser sequesters himself, his fiancee, daughter, and son in law in his mansion to wait out the crisis.

Cast: Karl Swanson, Staats Cotsworth, Lois Smith, Jack Grimes, Evie Juster

Writer: Edgar Allan Poe adapted by George Lowther

Rating: ***

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0200 Berenice

Berenice
Episode 0200
Original Air Date: January 9, 1975

A man falls in love with his wife's younger sister while his wife lay dying. He is haunted by his wife's ghastly smile. When that same smile shows up on his new love, he goes insane.

Cast: Michael Tolan, Norman Rose, Joan Lovejoy, Roberta Maxwell

Writer: Edgar Allan Poe adapted by George Lowther

Rating: **1/2

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0199 The Oblong Box

The Oblong Box
Episode 0199
Original Air Date: January 8, 1975

On a ship leaving Europe bound for the U.S., a man encounters an old college friend traveling with his "mistress" and a strange box he claims contains a rare painting. But it's strange shape convinces everyone on board its contents are something more ghastly.

Cast: Grace Matthews, Cort Benson, Bryna Raeburn, Richard Mulligan

Writer: Edgar Allan Poe adapted by George Lowther

Rating: **1/2

0198 The Murders In The Rue Morgue

The Murders In The Rue Morgue
Episode 0198
Original Air Date: January 7, 1975

A woman is brutally murdered and mutilated in a locked room. A police detective desperate for promotion calls on an amateur detective to help him solve the crime with a most unusual solution.

Cast: Paul Hecht, Guy Sorel, Corrine Orr, Dan Ocko

Writer: Edgar Allen Poe adapted by George Lowther

Rating: ***1/2

Recorded from KCBS

Commercials: Mens Wearhouse, Western appliance,

0197 The Premature Burial

The Premature Burial
Episode 0197
Original Air Date: January 6, 1975

A physician assists his friend in unearthing the dead body of his beloved who wed another man who is evil. It turns out she is still alive, much to her husband's regret.

Cast: Keir Dullea, Paul Hecht, Guy Sorel, Marian Seldes

Writer: Edgar Allan Poe adapted by George Lowther

Rating: ***1/2

Recorded from KRNT Des Moines, IA

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0066 The Black Cat

The Black Cat
Episode 0066
Original Air Date: April 1, 1974

A man finds out that when he married his wife, he also married her cat with whom she has a close relationship. The cat convinces him that he will murder his wife.

Cast: Norman Rose, Robert Dryden, Evie Juster, Marian Seldes, Joe DeSantis

Writer: Edgar Allen Poe adapted by Sam Dann

Rating: ***

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Commercials: IRS PSA, CIT Income Tax Service, Budweiser (Jingle), Di-Gel, Special K, State Farm Insurance, the New Navy,

0057 The Fall Of The House Of Usher

The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Episode 0057
Original Air Date: March 14, 1974

Adaptation of Poe's classic tale of a castle haunted by the living dead.

Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Marian Seldes, Robert Dryden, Arnold Moss

Writer: Edgar Allan Poe adapted by George Lowther

Rating: ***

Recorded from WOR New York

Contains news coverage of Nixon's trip to Chicago, President Ford defends Nixon in Watergate, First Lady Pat Nixon in Brazil, political turmoil in Ireland, Ethiopian labor strife, Nixon officials indicted in the break in at the office of Daniel Ellsburg, Russian Mars probe lands, 15 year old California boy stows away on Pan Am flight to London as reported by Lowell Thomas

Commercials: ACTION PSA, The New Navy, Jansen Beach Center (local), Peace Corps PSA, Budweiser, Special K, The Franciscans, Junior Achievement,