The Public Avenger
Episode 0376
Original Air Date: November 10, 1975
A secretary wonders if her meek and mild coworker is actually a vigilante super hero.
Cast: Arnold Stang, Marian Haley, Robert Dryden, Leon Janney
Writer: Sam Dann
Rating: **
News: Australian constitutional crisis, U.N. condemns Zionism as a force of racism, sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Angola achieve independence but is awash in civil war, Morrocan army marches into desert, Karen Ann Quinlan's parents do not know if they will appeal court ruling, local Portland news, VP Rockefeller says he's not ruling out a presidential bid,
Commercials: Rolaids, Sine Off, American Lung Association, Buick Skylark, Mennonite Churches, National Association for the Blind PSA, Sine Off, National Institute on Alcoholism, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Buick, International Rescue Committee PSA, Give to the College of Your Choice, Share A Ride, Washington Watch on CBS Radio, United Nations PSA, U.S. Army recruiting,
Recorded from KOIN, Portland, OR
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Monday, April 4, 2011
0492 Pension Plan

Pension Plan
Episode 0492
Original Air Date: June 17, 1976
A purchasing manager spends his entire career being honest and forthright. On the eve of retirement, he finds himself penniless. His morals are tested when he learns his virtue was worthless.
Cast: Norman Rose, Ann Pitoniak, Leon Janney, William Redfield
Writer: Sam Dann
Rating: **1/2
No news
No commercials
Sunday, March 27, 2011
0475 The Prince Of Evil

The Prince Of Evil
Episode 0475
Original Air Date: April 24, 1976
Adaptation of "Richard III
Cast: Howard DaSilva, Evie Juster, Hetty Galen, Ian Martin, Cort Benson, Earl Hammond
Writer: Ian Martin Adaptation of William Shakespeare
Rating: **
Recorded from WOR, New York
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Labels:
0475,
1976,
451-500,
CBS Radio Mystery Theater,
CBSRMT,
Cort Benson,
Earl Hammond,
Evie Juster,
Hetty Galen,
Howard DaSilva,
Ian Martin,
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Prince of Evil,
Richard III,
William Shakespeare,
WOR
Saturday, March 26, 2011
0464 The Paradise Café

The Paradise Café
Episode 0464
Original Air Date: April 7, 1976
A mob boss recounts for his psychiatrist the attempted rape and murder of a cocktail waitress. He needs to exorcise the demons that possess him.
Cast: Cort Benson, Evie Juster, William Redfield, Len Gotchmann
Writer: Sam Dann
Rating: **1/2
No news
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0446 Pandora
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
0438 The Providential Ghost

The Providential Ghost
Episode 0438
Original Air Date: February 26, 1976
A young girl who loses her parents in an accident soon loses her grandfather whom she loves dearly. She is forced to live with her two aunts who frighten her. But her grandfather hasn't deserted her completely.
Cast: Beatrice Straight, Hetty Galen, Bryna Raeburn, Cort Benson, Gilbert Mack
Writer: Ian Martin
Rating: **1/2
No news
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0436 The Patient Visitor

The Patient Visitor
Episode 0436
Original Air Date: February 23, 1976
An elderly widow must turn to an old love to help her get into a home for the elderly funded by her late father. The lawyer, terminally ill, wants to win his last case.
Cast: Ian Martin, Marian Seldes, Ken Harvey, Bryna Raeburn, Robert Dryden
Writer: Ian Martin
Rating: **
Recorded from KOIN, Portland, Or
News: New Hampshire will cast ballots in presidential primary tomorrow, President Ford optimistic about winning New Hampshire, Ford and Kissinger do not think President Nixon was being critical in remarks in China, President Ford hosts nation's governors for dinner, Washington Post reports that Congress votes against aid to Israel, Secretary Kissinger continuing mission in South America, Local Portland news, Reagan campaigns in Illinois, Engineer who quit Nuclear Regulatory Commission out of safety concerns testifies before Congress, Richard Burton and Liz Taylor separate again,
Commercials: Metropolitan Life Insurance, Vantage Press, Buick Elektra, American Heart Association PSA, Allstate Insurance, High Blood Pressure PSA, Budweiser, Better Business Bureau PSA, Foundation Church, Vantage Press, Mike Roy's Cook Thing, March of Dimes PSA,
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
0391 Pharaoh's Daughter
0390 Portrait Of A Killer

Portrait Of A Killer
Episode 0390
Original Air Date: December 4, 1975
A man stands in an art museum fascinated with an obscure painting. He is able to project himself into the painting to relive --- and hopefully correct --- history.
Cast: Michael Wager, Joan Lovejoy, Robert Dryden, Russell Horton, Jada Rowland
Writer: Ian Martin
Rating: **1/2
Recorded from WOR New York,
Commercials: Buick Century Regal, Gimbles Department Store, Sine Off, Hill & Cohan Vision, New York Knicks tickets, Israel 5736 festival, Buick Skylark, Shop Rite Supermarkets, Missis Paul foods, Macy's Department Store, WOR Christmas Fund, TV Guide, Barry Fauber Show,
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
0356 Primrose Path

Primrose Path
Episode 0356
Original Air Date: October 1, 1975
A "retelling" of the Patty Hearst abduction. The person's last name is Mellon (see the Mellon-Scaifes, Pittsburgh news tycoons), and the Symbionese Liberation army has a new name, but the circumstances are similar.
Cast: Mason Adams, Rosemary Rice, Ken Harvey, Ian Martin, Jack Grimes
Writer: Sam Dann
Rating: **1/2
No news
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
0345 The Prison Of Glass

The Prison Of Glass
Episode 0345
Original Air Date: September 16, 1975
The tale of an actress, her dead father she loved, her overbearing mother, her manipulative husband, her concerned agent, and a glass snow globe in which she wishes to escape her life.
Cast: Lois Nettleton, Barry Kroeger, John Newland, Peg Lasentra, Hans Conreid
Writer: Ian Martin
Rating: *1/2
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0337 Portrait Of Death

Portrait Of Death
Episode 0337
Original Air Date: September 2, 1975
An American couple travels to Venice for their honeymoon. The woman wants to view a rare painting she had seen when she was a student studying art there years before. When they get there, they find the painting is replaced by a fake. They set out to find the original, and the woman's former teacher.
Cast: Tony Roberts, Rosemary Rice, Robert Dryden, Gilbert Mack
Writer: Elizabeth Pinnel
Rating: **
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0332 Person To Be Notified

Person To Be Notified
Episode 0332
Original Air Date: August 25, 1975
A woman takes a job on a remote island witha strange author and his house staff. She is sure the author's butler is up to no good and tries to prove it. Meanwhile, the guy who placed her in the job gets concerned and comes looking for her.
Cast: Mercedes McCambridge, Russell Horton, Gil Mack, Bryan Raeburn, Ian Martin
Writer: Sam Dann
Rating: *1/2
No news
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
0313 The Poisoned Pen

The Poisoned Pen
Episode 0313
Original Air Date: July 22, 1975
Several people who scorn an actress of marginal talent end up dead after receiving a mysterious letter.
Cast: Roberta Maxwell, Michael Tolan, Catherine Byers, Earl Hammond, Richard Seth.
Writer: Sam Dann
Rating: **
Recorded from KOIN, Portland, OR
News: Fighting along Lebanese/Israeli border, President Ford optimistic about compromise with Congress on energy policy, Cosmonauts honored upon their return to earth, Secretary of Interior hospitalized, Attorney General proposes new gun control measures, Christina Onasis marries, President Sadat does not reply to UN peacekeeping force, Apollo astronauts will hold a press conference from space,
Commercials: Michelob, American Red Cross PSA, Vantage Press, Budweiser, Metric System PSA, Catholic Communications Association, Keep America Beautiful, Sine Off, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, American Lung Association PSA, Radio advertising, Mike Roy's Cook Thing, Quaker State Motor Oil,
Sunday, March 6, 2011
0286 The Plastic Man

The Plastic Man
Episode 0286
Original Air Date: June 5, 1975
A shallow playboy gets hooked up with a married woman. Her husband is a parapsychologist able to inflict pain and revenge from afar.
Cast: Don Scardino, Joan Loring, Russell Horton, Catherine Byers
Writer: Ian Martin
Rating: *
No news
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
0268 The Paradise Of The Devil

The Paradise Of The Devil
Episode 0268
Original Air Date: May 5, 1975
A night watchman is murdered in a factory. His daughter hires a private investigator to help because the cops have too many other cases to work. The investigator finds out that the young woman's father was much more than a simple night watchman.
Cast: Larry Haines, Bob Kaliban, Peter Collins, Gilbert Mack, Catherine Byers
Writer: Sam Dann
Rating: ***
Recorded from WOR New York
Commercials: Uncle Ben's Long Grain Wild Rice, Shop Rite Supermarkets, Tasty Cakes, 34 East paperback book, Grand Marque wine, Rogers and Hart Broadway musical, 1975 Buicks, Lincoln Savings Bank, Budweiser, Barbados Tourist Board, The McCann Report, Park Sausages,
News: A federal court dismisses a $1 million suit against Watergate defendant Bob Haldeman, Ford reports sharp drop for April 1975, car sales at all time low with large increase in foreign car sales, King Hussein of Jordan gets guarantee of American Hawk missiles, Arm shipments to Israel stopped, Israel and Egypt prepare for a new war, An explosion in Beruit hits a newspaper, President Ford's request for funding to assist South Vietnam refugee is met with resistance, Consumer debt is down, weather report,
Labels:
0268,
1975,
251-300,
Catherine Byers,
CBS Radio Mystery Theater,
CBSRMT,
Gilbert Mack,
Larry Haines,
P,
Paradise of the Devil,
Peter Collins,
Recommended 1975,
Robert Kaliban,
Sam Dann
0264 The Phantom Of The Opera
Sunday, February 27, 2011
0255 The Phantom Stop

The Phantom Stop
Episode 0255
Original Air Date: April 11, 1975
The express subway passes the stop at 35th and Neely. But Alvin Frieburger is able to get off there, and when he does, he finds heaven.
Cast: Norman Rose, Nat Polen, Bryna Rayburn, Carol Teitel
Writer: Ian Martin
Rating: **1/2
Recorded from KFYI, Phoenix, AZ
Commercials: Harts Blockade flea and tick repellent, Wall Street Journal, Apartment Finders,
Saturday, February 26, 2011
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,
Labels:
0233,
1975,
201-250,
CBS Radio Mystery Theater,
CBSRMT,
Edgar Allan Poe,
George Lowther,
KOIN,
Marian Seldes,
Norman Rose,
P,
Pit and the Pendulum,
Recommended 1975,
Tony Roberts
Sunday, February 20, 2011
0208 The Precious Killer

The Precious Killer
Episode 0208
Original Air Date: January 20, 1975
A scientist and political leader in a European dictatorship is accused of treason. He learns that the revolution he fought so hard to bring about is
oppressive. He plots to defect. But betrayal comes from all directions.
Cast: Arnold Moss, Beatrice Straight, Ralph Bell, Dan Ocko, Ann Pitoniak
Writer: Sam Dann
Rating: ***1/2
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