CBS Radio Mystery Theater - 0013 - A Ring Of Roses A trip to the country to visit a friend turns into a nightmare as a couple comes across a small girl being whipped by a man. It's only the beginning of a journey back into an old family curse and a murder - all wrapped up in a ring.
Lights Out - Bon Voyage Two elderly women go on a cruise to get away from it all. It get a little strange when they find out that no one else is aboard.
The Whistler - Blind Impulse Coming home late one night, a man finds parked in the front of the garage a getaway car with the driver dead and a satchel containing fifty thousand dollars.
Inner Sanctum - Mark My Grave A reporter heads to a nearly abandoned town to investigate the recent disappearance of a couple.
Suspense - Beware The Quiet Man A woman believes that her mild-mannered husband suspects her infidelity and plans to kill her for it.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - 0012 - You Can Die Again A man is convinced that he murdered his wife. He is also convinced that he has been having an affair with another woman. However, he can't convince a police detecitve of either.
Escape- The Dark Wall A man must take his schizophrenic wife across the high Pyrenees to get her to the hospital, but her delusions persuade the locals on the way that he is a threat to her life.
Suspense - Catch Me If You Can While staying at a mountain resort during the off-season, a woman plans to kill her husband. Some guests arrive that complicate her plans. Starring Jane Wyman.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Arctic Encounter Two American pilots on an Arctic patrol mission sight a downed Soviet aircraft. Suddenly their own plane mysteriously loses power and they too are forced down onto the ice. Just who or what is responsible?
The Mysterious Traveler - Behind the Locked Door Two archaeologists go on an expedition to the Vermillion Cliffs of Arizona seeking to uncover ancient Aztec artifacts. They instead, find a cave containing something bizarre and deadly.
Suspense - Backseat Driver Fibber McGee and Molly appear on Suspense as a couple with a killer riding in the backseat of their car.
Inner Sanctum - Detour to Terror One his way to Hurricane Cove during a storm, a woman's brother get a premonition of danger. Can he save his sister in time?
The Whistler - Deadly Rumor An engrossing story about a nurse who starts a rumor about her former employer, hoping for revenge. Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - 0006 - Honeymoon With Death A woman just coming home from her honeymoon discovers her new husband has vanished. Her sister insists that the entire marriage was nothing but a dream. She enlists the aid of the police to prove that her husband was actually murdered.
Nightfall - The Room A wealthy widow's offers money to spend a night locked in a haunted yellow room in the mansion. Despite the fact that previous volunteers have all gone insane.
Suspense - Sleep is for Children A kind, old egg farmer begins to feels the pressure of his small town becoming a blossoming community - so he begins to murder the town's women.
Molle Mystery Theater - Killer Come Back To Me The ultimate femme fatale radio noir; gun moll forces green thief to become a replica of a former gang leader who was her old boyfriend. Bizarre and unique story, extremely well done.
Inner Sanctum Mysteries - Fog A thick fog rolling in, the bridge is out. Why is a man's dead wife calling him on the phone?
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - 0558 - How to Kill Rudy Rudy loves a good murder mystery. Rudy notices that all of Mace Hackers stories seem to take place in reality shortly after the books have been written. When he learns of a book in the series he had never read, Rudy obtains a copy only to find what appears to be a forecast of his future.
The Whistler - The Perfect Alibi A man's attempt to get his woman out of blackmail by killing her blackmailer and suppling himself with a perfect alibi...which in typical Whistler fashion goes horribly awry.
The Shadow - Temple bells of Nebum The shadow goes up against a group selling drugs, one of which (a woman of india) holds the key to exposing the secrets of The Shadow. Will the Shadow bring the drug sellers to justice, or will the Shadow fall into shadow?
Rocky Jordan - Gold Fever A mysterious phone call leads Rocky to an old friend who's been shot. There's a gold mine up for grabs and people will kill to get it.
Cabin B13 - Bill and Brenda Leslie While vacationing in London, Scottland Yard informs Bill Leslie that he is an exact double for a wanted murder. See what happens when Bill takes matters into his own hands.
The Shadow - Death Prowls At Night While vacationing at a ski lodge Margo is kidnapped and taken to a creepy sanitarium. Can the Shadow get to her in time? Find out now!
Suspense - On A Country Road A couple finds themselves stranded on an isolated country road at night in the middle of a storm. If that's not bad enough... There is a murderer on the loose that just escaped from a mental institution! Starring Cary Grant. Original broadcast 1950.
Escape - Treasure Inc. An ambitious developer builds a hotel on a remote tropical island but all his plans go out the window when he gets mixed up with a greedy woman, a hidden treasure and a misanthropic hermit.
Gripping stuff starring Frank Lovejoy, Paul Frees and Mary Lansing.
Feels like a Somerset Maugham piece, but was actually written by the prolific scriptwriting team of John and Gwen Bagni
Suspense - A Little Matter Of Memory SUSPENSE September 30, 1954 "A Little Matter of Memory" was based on the story by James Helvick. A couple staying in an isolated cottage return from a walk only to discover a note on their door telling of a dangerous maniac on the loose.
Nick Carter - Eight Records of Death The background is as interesting as the plot. Here the lead-up to a murder is captured on record by the victim and it's up to Nick Carter to make sense of it all.
Box 13 - The Professor And The Puzzle A friend of Dan Holiday's who was teaching at a college was engaged to be married when suddenly his fiance's uncle "committed suicide" and she called the engagement off and was determined to marry someone much older than she was. Listen and find out what the uncle was involved in and who found out and how the tangled mess got solved.
Suspense - The Face Is Familiar One of the rare comical episodes of Suspense. Arthur Ross (writer) Elliott Lewis (director) and guest star Jack Benny combine to give us a whimsical thriller about a talkative small-town nobody who runs into an old acquaintance... who happens to be a bank robber. Jack is soon playing the leading role in a hold-up without knowing it. The robbers' theory is that he's such a boring and unmemorable type that none of the witnesses will even be able to describe him!
Orson Wells - War Of The Worlds This Halloween will mark the 70th aniversey of the Orson Wells broadcast "War of the Worlds". Because of its format, many listeners who tuned in late believed the play about an invasion from Mars to be live news coverage of the actual event! Public panic ensued.
Nick Carter - The Vanishing Weapon Even out for a quiet drive in the country, Nick and his assistant/girlfriend can't help but stumble over a curious murder. This time it's a woman who dies at the wheel of her car for apparently no reason. You may be ahead of the sleuth in parts of the plot, but it's an entertaining journey to get to the finish.
Sherlock Holmes - Disappearing Scientists Sherlock Holmes solved this case without meeting with any of the suspects. He was attempting to retire to his bee farm when the case became irresistible. Listen to the show to find out what these scientists were doing with radium and why all of them disappeared.
Mystery In The Air - The Black Cat This mostly faithful adaption of Edgar Allen Poe's classic tale of intemperance, murder, and supernatural justice features the unmistakable voice talent of Peter Lorre in the starring role. Lorre is at his manic best as he draws the listener along on his journey into madness at the hands--or should we say paws--of a mysterious ebony feline named 'Pluto'.
Mystery In The Air was an limited-run anthology series, which originally aired in the summer of 1947. Each episode featured Peter Lorre in a different spooky or suspenseful tale, "culled from the pages of world literature". Mystery In The Air only ran for eight episodes, but each is an audio gem in its own right.
Candy Matson - Devil In The Deep Freeze When the body of a man is discovered in a freezer dressed in a devil costume, why isn't it reported to the police?
And, just where did the body go when Candy Matson tries to show it to the police? Listen to Devil in the Deep Freeze and find out.
ABC Mystery Time - Death Walked In A fast talking sales lady tries to get an honest man to kill his wife. Will he actually do it? Find out now...
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