MY OLD TIME RADIO LISTENING LOG

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MY OLDTIME RADIO

LISTENINGLOG

…so I stumbled upon the joy of old time radio some time ago..andstarted listening to it online when I am working on other stuff, as

well as via a Smartphone app that i listen to at night as I fall

asleep…so many “goldie oldies” as they say.. from Laurel & Hardy

to many mystery shows such as “Mysterious Travel” (MT) episodes

to “Escape” to “Inner Sanctum” stories as well as numerous comedy

(Fibber McGee,MisAdventures of Si & Elmer,.., “Baby Snooks” is

hilarious; “Father Knows Best” is always good;”Life of Riley” ;”The

Aldrich Family”;”Life with Luigi” (very funny); “The Bickersons”

(husband & wife squabbling); “Our Miss Brooks” (re a teacher’slife); ) , law enforcement genre: detectives & crimestoppers (Philip

Marlowe,”Squad Cars” ; “Rocky Fortune” (Frank Sinatra); Johnny

Dollar; et al) , westerns (eg “The Six Shooter”with James Stewart

is one of my favorites; also “The Whistler”; “Have Gun Will

Travel” ; “Gunsmoke”) adventure (“Rocky Jordan”, “Harry Lime”

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& “Bold Venture” are good ones), drama (CBS radio mystery

theater; Lux radio theatre; Screen Guild Theatre; ), Science Fiction

& Outer Space (eg “X Minus One”; “Dimension X” et al) and

musical shows, among others, also there’s at least one specific site

that re-tells the story of the Bible in narration form, which is called“The Greatest Story Ever Told” and can be found at

http://archive.org/details/TheGreatestStoryEverTold and the LIST

GOES ON…! There are many websites devoted to old time radio,

but some of them are actually trying to get people to PAY for what

is FREE! These are all shows that are in the “public domain” (pd)

meaning they are available to the public to use as we choose without

charge (the copyright is expired). Therefore, I encourage you to find

the free sites. One which has a large selection is athttp://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio . Just seach the words or

“OTR” and you will find others as well.

I didn’t start the log until some time after I had been listening for a

while, so not everything is shown here. Also in some cases I tried to

jot down a brief summary of the plot & characters. There’s even

old-time commercials that you may remember, depending on how

long you’ve been around. This is mostly for my own memory, but if

you find it entertaining or helpful all the better.

Thru 6/19/13 I am still listening to the Speed Gibson series…it goes on and on

and ON! …it’s quite a piece of work…fun stuff ¡

*SpeedGibson "Heading 4 Hong Kong"

*POF: "IS Anybody There?"

*Price of Fear(PoF): "Family Album"

*NB "football player syndicate"

*NB "gunners last fight" (complicated)

*NB "the doctors secret" (doctor upset re son executed by electricchair...turns out the doc should have been the one...; reporter randy stone says

he won't tell bc the doc is already living his daily punishment)

*NB "Tong war" (complicated re chicago chinatown)

*NB "the black cat"

*NB "his name was luke" (excellent! Mysterious man named luke, with whom

all persons resonate/identify)

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*NB "a case of butter"(reporter randy stone of chicago star uncovers scheme

to sell bad butter...)

*NB "joys of fatherhood"(man becomes father of twins...he ponders it

drunkingly)

*NB "elevator caper" (reporter goes on a wild-goose chase re murder

suspect...then in moment of danger realizes the tipster done it..."10 shots in

back" frank lovejoy is the reporter)

*NB "old pop the musician" (blind,street violinist...missing daughter..will

they ever meet again?)

*NB "the girl in the park" (reporter encounters troubled gal in park...her

boygriend about 2b executed, but its more complicatd than that...)

*NB "zero" (medical secretary makes a single-digit mistake, leading to a

patient mis-believing he's going to die...& the clock is ticking...as he can't be

found to correct their error

*NB "I Know Your Secret" (hounded by anonymous notes that say "I knowyour secret" a woman goes crazy, until...)

*NB "am I my brothers keeper" (mobster on run from cops...man/woman

caught up in it,reporter wonders why...turns out the man is the mobster's-----)

*NIGHBEAT (NB): "Girl from Kansas" (innocent girl gets caught up in

scam..heroic detective saves her)

*LO: "little people" man bitter re estranged wife kills her lover & shrinks

him, then her...only to find out...

*LightsOut (LO) "The Sea"

*IS "the girl & the gallows" (too much sobbing...)

*IS "black seagull"(hard2follow...re woman/wife (?) Who died &

man/husband(?) Who kept hearing her voice

*IS"Bog Oak Necklace" (extra creepy,terminated early )

*IS "death is an artist" reporter discovers its his own dad who is the killer

*IS "musical score"..on raft..man kills 2...or so he thinks

*IS "the meek die slowly"

*IS "THE lonely sleep"(man talks to mannequins,doesn't like laughing gal...)

*IS "colorblind formula"(didn't follow the whole story)

*IS "Voice on the Wire" (lady is told she has "4 hours to live"...but its a trap

for another purpose)*IS "Death in the Depths"

*IS (inner-sanctum) "Song of the Slasher" (detective-gone-bad investigating

slasher case frames & kills the wrong person...but why?)

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*is,"man fr yesterday"

*inner sanctum(is) "desert death"

*esc "log of evening star" (retired submarine commander...one last

voyage...goes down w. Ship)

*esc "man w steel teeth" (man gets falsely arrested in russia for

espionage...then allowed to escape...guard follows with intent to defect...)

*esc "the loop garou"

*esc,"ordinary man" (thief couple choose an "ordinary man" to help them re

stolen gem....he unwwittingly obliges...until...)

Esc,clr4action

*escape, 'pressure',(story by richard chandlee?usa submarine..captain facing

desk job,fires @ airforce carrier ...does he get it?)

*escape,"13th truck" (story by douglas m smith?, sneaking into nazi territory

to plant vombs, they escape w a nazi who has a "hitlers knight cross")

*escape "train from obiefelde" (one of the best I've heard...maybe what themodern day "speed" film derived its plot from..a train with a bomb will go off

if the train stops...)

*escape "the adversary" (complicated)

*escape "open boat" (four men in boat ,open sea, surviving,..near

island,,finally have to make life or death decision...)

*escape "classified secret"(man tries to sell govt secret, decides to kill when

can't get price; woman he confides turns out to be)

*escape "study in wax" (2 men at northpole research station for

months...after a while begin to quarrel,...one night things get really bad...sad

story)

*escape "the footprint", search for rubies leads to priests,snake,greed,death,

*escape "4 went home" (john boehner? American pows breeak out of nazi

camp)

*escape "I saw myself running"(creepy,didn't hear end)

*escape "sundown" (good story, man saves kid from death, kid's horse is

stolen, kid becomes honest gunslinger, kid becomes adult,gets revenge

*escape "bloodbath" expedition discovers uranium...half abandons other

half...abandoned half makes chase, finds some dead,3 remaining get stuck on

sandbar surrounded by piranhas & electric eels, one by one individuals betraythe others with hope of getting the riches for themselves until only one

remains...story of greed

*escape "man who could work miracles"

*escape "the island"(war story,okinawa, 2 usa soldiers separated from their

troops,,,one soldier has dream of his own island,..other thinks he's crazy, they

meet lone gal,,he wants to marry her, ...but she's a leper).

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*escape "shark bait" (charter fishing, gun smuggling,doublecross, sam the

deckhand gets killed)

*escape "power of hammer" (congo,man named hammer wanted by

law,expedition to get "king hammer", renegade finally gets courage to kill)

*escape "7 hours2freedom" ..fishermen near pt dume catching mackeral, pick

up men in rowboat,get hi-jacked,...ordered to head to mexico...

*escape "something4nothing" (man stumble upon murder scene,helps coverit

up, but in th end gets fingered 4 murder)

*escape "maracas"(man takes boat trip as a "mate", captain

drunk,contraband on board,turns out they r fake rifles)

*escape "the red forest"

*escape "yellow wake" (man kills man,takes his gold map, takes job on

whaling boat, kills captain,leaves a bunch behind in rowboats, finds the gold

cave, but...)

*escape "present tense" (elaborate dream of escaping from death row)*escape "golden snake"(mayan adventure,)

*escape "green splotches" (bad audio)

*escape "night in havana cuba" (complicated,suspenseful)

*escape "the man who could do miracles" (kept doing bigger miracles until he

made the moon stand still & all havoc broke loose,,so he reversed ,,,learning a

valuable lesson,ie laws of nature still apply)

*escape "an ocurrence @ owl creek bridge"

(Man about to be hanged dreams/envisions he is escaping)

*escape "beau geste" (complicated)

*escape "2nd class pssngr" (mozambique adventure,curio,rain; good)

*escape "letter fr jason" (complicated)

*escape "country of the blind" (unique...falls over cliff into land of blind...)

*escape "back 4 christmas" (hen-pecked husband kills wife,re-marries,only to

find out she had a christmas surprise for him)

*Escape "Ring of thoth" (sir conan doyle story re a liquid for eternal life on

earth (or 50 centuries), ...but then the search for an antidote as "living

forever" doesn't seem so great anymore)

*Escape "finger of doom" (another vanishing act, guy's girlfriend disappears)

*Escape"vanishing lady" (mother & daughter travel in paris, suddenlymother dies nof bubonic plaque but daughter is kept in the dark)

*Escape "snake doctor" (rural man tries to kill local "snake dr.", but

discovers he killed his own wife instead)

*Escape "command"

*Escape "the pistol" (complicated)

*Escape "seeds of greed" (search for lost pearls turns into tragedy,good )

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*Escape "the gnrl died @ dawn"

*Escape: "she" (strange re a goddess named "she")

* escape: "the lost special" (suspenseful re "lost train" & temporary train

tracks

*escape "ss san pedro"

*escape "orient express" (thriller,good)

*escape "how love came to prof guildea" (mysterious invisble "force"

torments man)

*escape "leinengen vs ants" (classic)

*escape "3 good witnesses" (on train out of lebanon ? A stowaway

("deadhead"), a stolen briefcase, 2 killed, 3 witnesses save the day

*escape "action"

*escape "tooth4paulrevere" (whimsical)

*escape "man who liked dickens" (hard2follow)

*escape "typhoon" (new captain, 1st mate,different personalities,survivetyphoon)

*InnerSanctum(IS): "the man from yesterday" re gorilla gone mad

*escape:"wild oranges"

*escape: "the man who would b king"

*clock "bad dreams"

*clock "jungle drums"

*clock "jeannie claire"(she meets man of dreams,but b/c convinced he's a

murderer; almost tragic ending,but happily ever after twist)

*clock "only death timeless" (twilight zone style, "mrs crocker" spooks couple

but she may have saved their son's life)

*clock "reference please" (sort of a scrooge-like story)

*clock "good valet" (he buries 2 in the basement, then finds corp purchased

the house to tear it down)

*clock "bank vault" (double-cross & revenge re bank robbery plot,"inside

job"; lacked suspense)

*clock "man who lived once before"

*clock: "return of vanished wife" (man tries to frame wife 4 murder per

insanity, but other woman tells truth & goes crazy in process)

*the clock: "helping hand"(super-creepy re police officer trying to frame aninnocent man for a murder he (the cop) committed

*the clock: "man w/ a strange trunk" creepy re man w/ huge trunk

*the clock: "hw heartache"(sinister re life ins)

*the clock: "island of women" (funny)

*arch "rocket fr manhattan" (hard2Hear

*the clock: "all the money in the world"

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*arch "the truth" (hard2 hear)

*TU "sweet 16" (creepy)

*TU "museum",burns house,then discovers he inherited it

*T.U. "birthday present",she wanted a gold bracelet,but got platinum instead

*TheUnexpected T.U."easy money",man at casino loses all, then gets big

prize, w/ a twist at the end

*arch "my chicago",big ben

* arch: "this precious freedom"

*arch oboler, "love,love,love" (whimsical,shrt)

*arch oboler,"special to hollywood" (airplane story,still flying but engines off)

*arch oboler "the cliff"

*screen guild theatre "beachcomber"

*MIMH "SNOWbound" (wife angry re husband's affair ; title makes no

sense)

*Myst is My Hobby (MIMH) "Faithless Wife" (complicated murdermyst,vital clue: wife's riding boots)

*NightBeat "night as a weapon"

*TS "Missing Angel" steel shinbone plate xray is key clue to finding fugitive

*MT "good die young" (daughter angry about new mother)

*TheSaint (TS) "the cowboy" (some sort of "cow fraud" case, ...cabbie helps

solve case)

*TheSaint "moneybusiness"

*PhiloVance(Pv):"case of strange music"

*MT "I died last night"

*MT "Behind the Locked Door" (vermillion cliffs,cave,survivors from 1849)

*Mt "haunted trailer" (funny ghost story...ends w/ one ghost chasing away

another ghost)

*MT "hideout" (gangster hires street thug to drive 4 him, ...after jail in

hideout...coal dumped on him,...his brother)

*MT "strange new world" (plane crash,adrift,bikini island,giant crab due to

atomic bomb...

*MT "most Famous man in the world" ...2 from the future visit man & wife,

assasinate sb,.tell guy he will be famous..for 6 boys

*MT "Survival of Fittest" (man murders another and assumes his identity forinheritance, shortly later he finds out he's been committed to an institution)7

*MT "SOS" botched piracy attempt leaves perpetrators adrift in raft

*Mt "Death Has a Cold Breath" (faked suicide is murder,ice cold body is the

clue)

*mt "Murder in 2952"(outer space,martian moon apples,framed 4

murder,spacecrash,body/brain transplant)

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*MT "its only money" (began w/ a horse scheme, then money printing..then

search for aztec gold)

*MT "big brain" (professor uses computer to pick horses...gets

blackmailed..plane crash resolves)

*MT "christmas story" (man takes identity of another to get inheritance, but

gives it all to charity)

*MT "planet zevius" (hard to follow but it ends with the explorers who are

not from "earth" disscover the remnants of "humans" on a "planet earth"

*MT "THE MAN who knew everything" (cough drop mind reader)

*MT "Lady in Red"

*MT "DEVIL & DEEP blue sea"

*MT "man in black derby"(woman haunted by man in black)

*MT "mind over murder" (hard to hear,very crackly audio, re mindreader)

*MT MystTrav "Zero Hour"

*MystTrav "I Won't Die Alone" (2 thieves,1caught does time,when releasedother wants the dough he hid; #1 leads him to the worthless money in cave,#1

only has 3 months to live)

*MystTrav "Death Laughs Last" (locksmith needs $ to pay for wife's life-

saving surgery..which only 1 doc is capable of doing...; a crook coerces him

into robbery to get the $,...the botched job leaves 2 dead...one of whom is the

doctor)

*MystTrav "death writes a letter" (some sort of future-teller..predicts when

people will die)

*MystTrav "They Struck it Rich" (bank robbers accidentally discover gold as

well, but get caught..the gold belongs to them. But they are behind bars for

life)

*MystTrav "They Who Sleep" (woman swaps souls w/ sister? Man who

makes it happens warns hers its only for 10 days...serious consequences)

*MystTrav "Woman in Black" (like a grim reaper)

*MystTrav "case ofCharles Foster" (henpecked husband kills wife to be w/

another...& gets away w/ it, but then gets wrongly charged for murder in

accidental drowning of woman)

*MystTrav "Man who died twice" (clever story re man framed for

murder,does his time,only to find out the man he "killed" was still alive, thistime he does kill him. Should he be tried for murder again?

*MystTrav "locomotive ghost"

*MystTrav "Man Insects Hated" (strange re man inventing insect spray)

*MystTrav "If u believ" (professor creates artificial

life,protoplasm,...unscrup. reporter starts false story...begins it & ends it)

*MystTrav "Queen of the Cats" (man marries lady who is infatuated w cats)

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*MystTrav "Change of Address" (man kills wife at "murder house", 2nd

time it happened, )

*MystTrav "Beware of Tomorrow" (re computer-man or robot-man, gone

awry)

*MystTrav "Stranger in t House"

*MystTrav "Good Die Young" (daughter hates daddies new wife..tries to get

rid of her until the new mom turns the tables)

*MystTrav "Vac fr Life"

*Mysterious Traveler,"New Years Nightmare" (amnesia after drunken

accident)

79 "unseen watcher" (traffic helicopter pilot witnesses murder)

78 "night eyes

74 "a very old man"

82 "Iam the killer"

*rocky jordan "portrait of rocky"*harry lime "too many crooks" (lime foils a bank robbery)

78 postmistress of laurel run(whimsical re postal's widow doing his job)

78 forgetful ghost

77 Happy Death Day (woman being 2-timed by husband & half-sister wakes

up from sleep-walking just in time)

75 Windandingo (convoluted...re belief in a "spirit" of some sort named

windandingo)

77 "little green death" (man framed 4 murder on the one night per year he

gets drunk. Big-time lawyer helps exonerate him based on paint evidence)

75 "the death wisher" (man shows up at home of man & three women..)

78 "safety match" man is missing from bedroom, some cry "murder", the

magistrate & his assistant investigate...the assistant presumes to have figured

it all out...only to discover a surprise. Moral of the story: don't begin with a

premise & try to make the evidence fit .

76 pension plan" (man angry at boss for promising a pension plan he never

got...takes law into own hands; then the devil gets involved & the story takes a

twist for the better,or worse,depending on your perspective: moral re making

a deal with the devil;or, For what would u give up your soul?

76 "the ferrett" (re spies)74 "ring of roses" (engaged couple visits friend at rural home...bizarre scene

unfolds...)

82 "His 4th Wife"

74 "dead ringer",lookalike duplicity comes back to haunt the con-couple

75 "death in the stars'

79 "fabulous pillow"(repeat)

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81 "her long blonde hair" (professor has infatuation w/ blonde lady's violin

bow)

79 "everybody does it" (theatre critic low on money accepts offer to deliver

stolen goods...then changes his mind...drama ensues)

82 "in cards"

81 "small money" (pro golfer becomes resentful of wife after she becomes

better than him @ golf...)

79 "the missing day"

76 "angry god" (man steals diamond necklace,...)

78 "reflected terror" (garbled)

77 "cherchez la femme" (man invests woman's $25,000, dies w/o telling her

where he left $...find "miss liberty")

81 "courage" (re alexander the great & philip)

77 "2 renegades" (conman w/ confederate allegiance. Saved from execution by

another confed., o'henry story)80 "the vampire plant" (woman kills usng plant until fiance turns table on her

82 "tippecanoe & tyler too" (older man owns furniture factory...marries

younger secretary..he wants to sell everything..& sail ..she plans to kill him)

77 "warriors from loanda" re ivory trade

78. Talkinf women" (man has affair w / woman in NYC,...she dies...waitress

has pic of him w/ her..tries to blackmail him..he kills her..tears up pic, leaves it

there...)

82 "widow wonderland"(con-man targets recently widowwd women @

cemetery)

77 "legend of phoenix hill" (complicted)

81 "catch the smallest devil"(rich man turned away @ pearly gates by st

peter)

75 "must hope perish" (senator believes a foreign woman's poetry was

dedicated to him bc of his initials...they finally meet...under extenuating

circumstances w/ unexpected outcome)

80 "magic touch" (movie producer,actress...married..he's controllinh..they

have adopted son..she decides to leave him..he finds them in SF ..Falls thru

bannister..later @ big bear)

79 "burning bough" (educated woman relies on voodoo (pulling log fr fire)to

save infant son from death,...but the boy becomes a "wild child", bringing

death & bad will to all he encounters..finally he causes his own demise

78 "in another place"(man/woman suspectedof murdering m-millionaire

...sheriff knows they did it but lacks proof until mechanic is murdered)

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76 "from the horses mouth" (man dreams he accidentally bought a stable

horse @ an auction & it turns out to be a talking horse that gives him racing

tips)

77 "a departmental case"

81 "troubled waters"(construction foreman given a 2nd chance; wife tells him

his belief in a "river spirit" is foolish; will he re-discover his confidence?)

81 "face of the waters"(no)

74 "no hiding place"

74 "thing in the cave" (trapped in cave)

77 "luck sisters" (small town strikes gold, but mayor thinks one lady is bad

luck, decides they must kill her; decide to blow up a dynamite truck, but it

kills them & the whole town instead; the "bad luck" lady was the only

survivor)

75 "deadly pearls"(radium pearls,astrology,investigator)

81 "when in rome" a usa ambassador in a country near austria uncovers amurder plot to save the king; albeit king doesn't know it & doesn't like

ambassador , & requests a new one

77 "8th deadly sin" (repeat re man meets famous woman; soap opera )

75 "small question of terror"

78 "quadruple" (will man sell his soul to the devil to complete the trapeze

quadruple?)

77 "area 13" (complicated story re futuristic civilization where everything is

hyper-controlled; citizens are 'accomodated' and "adjusted", but one "free"

child alarms the establishment)

77 "rockets red glare" (defense contractor gets caught in scandal as he does

some desparate deeds out of fear of losing big defense contract)

77 "transmutations inc" (frightening story of a man initially willing to sell his

soul to the devil to b/c a .millionaire; but at the last moment bails out, only to

discover his gal friend "gussy" called the insane asylum. Nonetheless, he saved

his soul while she lost her's.

76 "checkmate" (landlord is murdered; turns out a chess rival hit him over

head w/ umbrella & inadvertently stabbed him in the eye, causing slow death;

when rival finds out what he did & will be charged for it, he's so shocked hedies of heart attack

81 "my good name" (waldo becomes a star; his agent kills him after waldo

decides he wants out; police reporter, a childhood friend of waldo,follows a

hunch to solve the crime)

78 "arctic encounter" (strange inexplicable force threatens to ruin mankind )

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75 "the climbing boy"(complicated "climbing boys" were chimney sweeps

back in the day; they were mistreated, orphans, died young)

75 "the deadly double" (sane woman's insane twin sister escapes fr asylum &

switches places w/ sane sis against sane's will; friend of sane,Max, figures out

what happened but double-crosses sane w/ hopes of writing a book about it.

Insane realizes Max knows & tries to kill him, but sheriff figures out the

switch b/c sane has a painting style that can't be duplicated.

77 "1001st Door" (pharmacist's son meets gal,they marry; she gets

lazy,marriage unhappy,but they have a son,mark who dad wants to become a

Dr. As dad had originally planned himself,.low-life "friend" suggests killing

bad wife & he goes along w/ it only yo discover the friend was two-timing him

& switched the pills to kill him instead (in concert w/ his wife). Apparently

based on true story. He ends up in coma for 2 years so no life insur money..&

their plot unravels & they are caught.

77 "borderline case" (famous pearl transfixes people, turning some intothieves; clever sheriff's daughter helps solve the case)

76 "brain w/o mercy" (bank robber plane hijacker parachutes out w/ $2

million, injured upon landing; mad scientist saves his brain & is able to

communicate w/ it to ask where is $ hid. Brain lies in hopes of being put in

new body. Man scientist & wife arrested 4 murder)

75 "thru the looking glass" (time travelers from the future come to '75 w/

solar powered engine; one couple believes,the other thinks they're spies; their

future world is underground b/c of climate change)

74 "the resident" (new resident,crazy cat,mailman, unwanted "guest")

75 "plastic man" playboy swinger finally gets out-matched

75 "til death do us join" (man offers riches for man's niece, young painter

protests,uncle relents, but the rich man was a corpse. Strange.)

77 "bound east for haiti" (young medical dr. Takes boat to haiti where

captain & 1st mate r rivals for lady's affection. Voodoo & "witch dr's"

become involved.

76 "your journey to jerusalem" (strange "witch" woman allows old ceo to

become young again & discover his "inner" jerusalem)

76 "your grade is A"(murder by carbon monoxide)

76 "last trip,charter boat sally"(wife wants husbands money, plans to havehim killed bf divorce papers;she's having 2 affairs & both are implicated in

the plot re boat blowing up,etc)

75 "mad monkton" (too complicated)

82 "yearbook" (

77 "bottom of the world" (doomsday, climate freezing,escape,overcome)

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76 "cornstarch killer" ("Biblical woman" with an aversion to men looking at

her as a "sex object" takes the "moral law" into her own hands to "punish"

them)

80 "number one"

80 "silent partners" big ceo & secretary ,victims ...end up in jungle,get

married to appease the "god of thunder"

79 "copenhagen connection" complicated re cocaine

dealers,mexico,denmark,deceit,duplicity,& one smart,honest cop.

75 "faith & the faker" con man becomes faith healer

77 "god named smith" (genius tries to create his own world, but things go

awry, ...as he steals friends wife,...ego gets best of him)

76 "free the beast

75 benj frankl murder case" (kind of comical,re haunted house,clever

deductions)

80 "tomorroww is never"80 "blue tiger" re hitman , kills gal,kills fed, final assignment to pretend he's

long lost son of widow w/ land they want. Gets blue tat on hand to convince

her.

74 "sea fever" (captain kills crew b/c of wife)

78 "yesterdays giant",discovering living neandarthals after nuclear test blast

78 "bet w. The angels" re addictive gambler (hard 2 follow)

78 "identified flying objects"

78 "the black door" (young man believes his father died abroad...letters

suggested it..& was given orders not to sell or rent house until age 21, at which

point he was to also open "the black door"...)

79 "the believers" (underground world,tunnel)

79 "hole in the sky" (interesting but aborted)

75 "just 1 more day" cop who never fired his gun,until his last day

74 "cold storage"

74 "return of moresbys" man marries woman for money,then realizes she's

not leaving any of it to him; he kills her, but she returns to haunt him as an

animal

78 "charlie the actor"...escaped convict returns to usa as king of morania.

Cop figures out the scam79 "the love god"

76 "shotgun wedding" ..young man working @ factory...older co-worker

thinks he is perfect for his daughter..

77 "fan mail" (who killed joe? Illusion v reality)

80 "ur going2like rodney". (Disappointing story... offers to take care of

brother's creepy orphan boy for a week...named rodney..)

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82 eva & adolf

82 come b next week...widow wants to know why a hitman killed her

husband...tries to visit him in prison..he resists, finally consents..and leads her

to unravel the truth re why her husband was killed

74 med rare:man returns to life from purgatory

74 "the sighting" ufo story, implant in brain,psychiatrist figures it out

75 "every blossom dies" (wife's husband is a cop..and he unconsciously killed

his mistress..she wants to believe he's not having an affair...etc)

82 "the wound that would not heal" (disappointing story...too obvious,

husband has affair w/ secretary, wife knows abut it, husband decides to break

it off & try to rehab marriage; that same night wife kills mistress & frames

husband; husband confessses thinking he did it (wife drugged him),..detective

doesn't buy it; detective coerces wife to talk when she thinks she's not being

taped but husband & 3rd party r listening in closet .

79 "cup of bitter choc" (female butler doesn't approve of female bosses son &arranges an "accidental" death re clothes dryer...then drinks poison chocolate

to kill herself at same time she's dying of tumor (missed a part of it)

78 "house & the brain" (eery,twilight zone style)

76 "afterward'

81 "my good name" (re painter named waldo who becomes wealthy..but is

murdered by an associate..; female friend uses intuition to figure out what

happened, ..story ends prematurely,.tapes cuts out)

77 ."warriors from loanda" (trip down the congo, mention joseph conrad,

"out of darkness" or "heart of darkness'?

74 "after the verdict"

Sealed book: "murder must be paid for" (complex story of duplicity upon

duplicity)

Sealed book: "beware of tomorrow" re man making robot using real brain of

a murderer

76 "children of death"

78 "delusion of reprieve"

77 "little green death" man frames another for murder..but spots of green

paint on his car incriminate him

74 "3 women" "writer's character comes alive ...haunts him, he dies in fire"77 "if mischief follow"

80 "how can I ever thank u?

79 fabulous pillow (bank teller implicated in bank robbery testified to

innocence of security guard ...all exonerated but teller shunned by banking

industry afterwards..driving w. Wife has accident,,wakes up in dead security

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guards house..who tells him, he was, in fact, part of the scheme,..offers teller

part of the take..teller wakes up in car,,was a dream..or was it?)

82 "matching chairs" (about 2 adult kids living w/ single wealthy mom,

youngest child spoiled brat,older brother caring...2 matching chairs by

fireplace, younger believes 1 is bad luck, housekeeper switches their place,

younger sits in it & dies..)

78 "st in the air"

75 "the follower"

81 "catch the smallest devil" (his dream of the gates of heaven, being denied ,

meeting the devil,waking up,its a dream

76 "brain drain" (re a mad scientist)

75 "the preciois killer" ..country of urania, state

worker,platinum,accused,released?plan to leave country,...; double-crossed by

wife

77 "jobo" easter island,matching metallic obcts,man w superhuman

strength..mysterious

74 "the resident" ( new lady moves in, single,cat haunts her, mysterious

woman makes herself at home w new lady..is jealous when cat likes new

lady..names cat "evil"(sp backwards is "live"...at end letter asking for cat

back, real name "viola")

74 "death rides a stallion" man meets gal, uses her to woo wealthy sister

..abandons gal who loved him, she's so upset she rides horse,spartacus, to

death,...man continues plans to marry sister but is haunted by orig gal...until

sister decides he's crazy & calls off wedding..& man tries riding spartacus but

dies

74 "no hiding place". (Man has hidden past, ex-con blackmails hi, he divises

plan w/ wealthy fiance to either have him leave the country or "terminate"

him; the plan goes awry & the fiance ends up dead as well as the blackmailer,

man gets charged w/ killing fiance, when he didnt; but by that time nothing

was believable)

77 "beyond the barrier"

79 "the permanent man"(they live on neptune, spiritual man decides to give

up his life b/c he doesn't belong in the science age..offers body to scientist whocreates a frankenstein-like creature; at end he may want to do the same w/ his

own wife

82 "the diff people" (anthropologist finds old letter..discovers clue to a colony

of people who don't age..or age x4 less quickly than normal humans..based om

gb shaw..he wants to return w scientists but they commit mass suicide ?)

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77 "the star killers" (man fr another planet comes to earth, randomly meets

hi-rank nuclear scientist ..they fall in love, get married..he tells her the truth

about himself & warns her that the atomic quest will doom earth forever..she

tries to stop atomic plans..but is thwarted..maybe framed & double-crossed by

her own colleague...ends up in psychiatric unit trying to explain it to a

disbelieving psychiatrist)

77 the aurora group" . Man finds future 1986 coin in pocket,,new suit old

coffee stain.man gets fired by aurora group, has visions of killing wife..later

she controls aurora group & he kills her as he envisioned..

82 "the legend begins" re alexander the great "I leave it to the best"

78 "the defectors" senator having an affair gets extorted...his wife also having

an affair..neither suspect e/o ..senator tries to kill w/ gun but is so inept,

unable...decides to resign, persuades extortionist to defect...happy ending in

an ironic way

79 "the missing day" (criminals attempt to infiltrate hi security corp to makehydrogen bombs,...using an injection to get info..but it takes a day out of their

life, finally caught)

77 "the overcoat"

*mystery traveler "stranger in the house" man tormented by past..& a

"ghost"..wife tries to help him

60-62 suspense, "the long night" (prisoner escapes, and they think its him who

takes the farmer & wife hostage, but it turns out he's the lover of the wife..but

the farmer has no hidden money)

82 "dreamers & killers". (Man cuts off engagement to woman,fiance starts

getting vivid dreams that seem to come true re near death experiences of her

ex-fiance..he eventualy gets dumped by his new fiance & comes crawling back

to her but she won't take him)

77 "the talking women"

81 "the 10th life" (re woman & cats, spooky,...she turns into a cat at end?)

74 "a very old man"

77 jimmy valentines gamble (expert thief gives up life of crime after prison,

but with new charges pending & the law on his trail, he must use his "tools"

one last time, to save a life..& the law gives him grace)

76 boy wonder (school principal reads 5th graders composition, figures he's aboy genius with likewise pals, & tries to find him, only to discover the boy is

"wishing away",permanently, those who bother him)

80 !"thrown to lions

'77 "white wolf"abort

'79 "side effects" (pharmaceutical owner gets a "taste of his own medicine"

after trying to conceal a deadly defect in a new antibiotic)

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'79 "cobra strikes"

'77 "the light that failed" (aborted)

'82 "shelter" (prescient gentlman builds bomb shelter, ...but it turns out to be

a scam to get his wife back..which backfires when the duped fellow turns the

joke back on him

'76 "the spit & image" (wealthiest man in world gets disease, needs a look-

alike to pose as him...finds man but man has integrity..)

'81 "murder on space shuttle"

'75 "the dark closet"

'76 "half a life" plain gal is seduced by man in bar...gives him

$10,000...friends warn her,..she doesn't believe until push comes to shove

'82 "the jataka"

'82 "the old country"

'82 "chess master" (re espionage)

'81 "stranded" earth beings crash on unknown planet, discover oxygenatmosphere, human-like beings who call them "aliens"

'74 "house of 7 gables"

'80 "honest mistake" (hitman targets wrong guy, wrong guy confronts him,

hitman surrenders, happy ending)

9/11

'77 hound baskerville

'55-59 susp,"hw hostages"(sleep)

'78 mt (myst thea) "loser take all", battle of shiloh, captain abusive of inferior

offcr abt 2b discharged,, then frames him for striking a superior officer, & is

executed, but sb says here @ roll call when they acc call his name

*'75 myst the, "journey to nowhere" supernatural, "majera" black lamb,

broken fragment, old man duplicity, it was all a dream

*'82 myst theat: "whimpering pond" re unsolved murder,ghost

9/8

*'74 myst theat "dead 4a dollar" (duplicity re killing of man, confession,

insanity)

*susp '50-54 "slow burn

*hallmark Playhouse "man called peter" (bc chaplain of the senate)

9/5*susp,'41^44 "cabin 13"

*mercury summer theat: "the hitchhiker" (repeat)

*'75 myst "death on skiis" (repeat), husband mystery writer

*75 myst theat: premature burial (the woman man loves is found still alive in

tomb, husband she hates demands her ,..conflict..dr mesmerizes people,..she

askes to be "released"...spooky)

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9/4

*susp 45-49 "beyond good-evil"

*susp 55-59 "final payment" (2 guys plan to defraud insurance co goes awry

when one actually dies)

*susp 60-60 "legend of robbie" (supermarket mgr, plot to rob store,both

killed in double-cross scheme)

*dangerously yours, "berkeley square" (man goes back in time, finds woman

he loves)

9/3

*matinee theat: sentimental romantic genre

*adventure theat:"master thief" (long-lost son returns home, parents

ashamed he is a thief, passes neighbor's 3-part test, decides to end life of

crime, happy ending)

*h-beat "a case in point" (kind of long-winded, man & wife marital problems,

business owner, skid row, complicated)*h-beat "the emergency" wife says she will leave husband if he stays w job on

submarine. Emergency causes all to reflect & reconcile.

*h-beat "tea party" little gal mocked by kids b/c she talks to Jesus, mom

relieved to discover that's her "problem"

* lux: "she knew all the answers" (no moral,just a rich man falling in love w/

an upstart woman)

9/2

*hbeat: "abstract" (unknown struggling artist suddenly gets known, finds $,

then discover real meaning of life, meets nice gal)230p

*Hbeat: "the kettle" (history of salv army)

9/1

*Hbeat: "deadman" (drifter kills a man, tries to cover it up, finds out he's not

wanted, decides to give himself up...conscience)

*H-beat: "Once a thief always a thief" re juvenile gone good

*hbeat theat "good angel" (re gal w clubfoot, dad & charity)

8/31

Myst'76 "boy wonder"

8/31

Susp,'45-49 "pearls r a nuisance"8/30

Susp,'41-44 "wet Saturday"

Heartbeat; "lucky break" (despondent cartoon writer gets a break)

Heartbeat: 'last witness" (re immigrant falsely accused)

*outside story re shooter, mt ranier (barnes)

8/29

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'79 "war of angels"

*Hallmark p-house: "mother"

*susp 60-62 "bitter grapes" (wife poisons husb's food thinking wrongly he was

cheating on her)

*Susp 45-49 "drive-in"

(murderer kidnaps drive-in waitress)

8/28

'76 "blood red roses"(inc)

"The old nest"(inc)

Hallmark ph "girls are like boats" (ha ha,good)

8/27/12

"77 "the light that failed"(sleep)

Myst: '79 "complete recovery" (fell asleep)

'50-54 "on a country road" (crazy woman escapes, confusion)

'50-54 "going,going,gone"(auction,jewels)9'41-44 susp "enormous radio"

'41-44 suspense "forcast the lodger"

*'75 "every blossom dies"detective turns out to be the murderer he was

investigating

*"41-44 diary of sophronia" 1240p (freaky,spooky, man meets gal,seduces her

back to mansion, tries to kill her)

*fam theat "prayer that won the west" (from mexico, 1 a "practical man"

(non-believer), but God saves them, changes his heart

*Fam theat: "strictly amateur" (trying to make it in hollywood, a couple

discovers what's more important)

8/24 stopwatch finale (repeat) re man sentenced to death for killing guy who

had affair w/ his wife

*60-62 "big dive"

*'55-59 suspense: "speed trap"

*'81 "cold comfort",730p (optometrist committed treason as a p.o.w., )

*'76 "other side of the coin" 453p (2 men exchange identies , cop-gangster)

* fam theat; "some rain must fall", writer befriends homeless lady, they fall in

love, he overcomes life-threat illness

*fam theat: "point-of-law", judge rules in favor or ranch owner versus oilman

*fam theatre "blue memorandum" (took a kidnapping threat to remind a

man of the importance of human relations above #'s)

*Fam theatre: "the tin whistle" (kid mocks teacher, feels regret later)

'74 "the girl who found things" 905a

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'75 repeat "sleepy village",828a,wanting to buy real estate in small town,

becomes big ordeal

(walking @ 830 s onofre)

8/23

'81 "fount of truth"

'78 "2nd sight", 2nd time ...the guy got framed for murder, donated his eyes

'78 enchanted child,545p(spooky re kid who can "think-kill")

"Man in macabre" dumb.com 1030a o-side lib

'78 don't look back, 944a (coral snake, journey to hell?, bizarre, based on

greek myth of eurydice & orpheus)

'77 conquest of fear,728a

8/22

'78 red scarf (writer takes blame for murder)

'76 secret sharer 955p (maverick capt helps man escape)

'78 laughing maiden 845p (buried treasure)Fam Thea: "Outnumbered" (boy didn't know how to count butt used his

intuition)

'77 Don't die w/o me,849a

8/21 '77,pleading voice,exorcism

8/20 '82,y is this lady smiling,missed end

'76 the white ghost,1014p (good)

'76 the transfo,joebee 923p(p-jokester killed)

8/18"strange passenger"'76,730p,(m-end)

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