Scott's Old Time Radio

Scott's Old Time Radio

por Scott W. Fields

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Radio Mystery Theater Sunset to Sunrise 0081

Original Airdate: April 25, 1974 Episode 0081 "Sunset To Sunrise" Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Following the death of her domineering and mean-spirited mother, a grieving daughter struggles with growing suspicions that the deceased woman has become a vampire. Welcome to another adventure into the incomprehensible. I like to think of myself as a thinking person, A reflective man. Someone not given to fanciful imaginings. That's the way I like to think of myself. But is that the way I am? Because I must admit that my thinking has not solved many problems for me My reflections have not carried me very far So now and again I find it extremely solitary to indulge in fanciful imaginings To take a short walk into the world of obscurantism For as you will hear one of our characters say the mind makes so many mistakes. How monstrous you say to want to live on in wickedness rather than die quietly perhaps you're right oh of course you are right and yet don't we all hope we won't have to die not yet And not altogether? Is this only monstrous? Or is it strangely admirable? In a perverse sort of way, of course. Starring: Marian Seldes, Bryna Raeburn, William Redfield, William Johnstone

Radio Mystery Theater All Living Things Must Die 0082

Original Airdate: April 29, 1974 Episode 0082 "All Living Things Must Die" Original Story by Elsbeth Eric, Directed by Himan Brown, Hosted by EG Marshall A lonely woman is left with just the houseplants for her company under the rules of her tyrannic husband. But he goes too far in trying to take even the plants away from her and the vegetation isn't willing to comply. I want very much to tell you the story of a young lady named Barbara. Everyone is more or less mad on one point, said Rudget Kipling, the famous English writer. And I'm inclined to agree with him, since I myself am more or less mad on the point of mystery. But our sweet heroine's madness took a strange turn, as we shall soon discover in the unfolding of the tale entitled, All Living Things Must Die. Now begins our story of the lightly demented Barbara. A lovely lady of 31 or 2, even 4 or 5. But as we now discover her in the living room of her suburban home, she could be younger than springtime. She could be spring itself. Starring: Mercedes McCambridge, Larry Haines, Ralph Bell

Radio Mystery Theater The Venus D'Ille 0083

Original Airdate: April 30, 1974 Episode 0083 "The Venus D'Ille" Original Story by Prosper Merimee, Adapted by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall A down on his luck gambler marries for money. However, when he carelessly places the ring on a statue, he finds himself betrothed to a goddess. The Romans called her Venus. The Greeks knew her as Aphrodite. To other ancient peoples she was Ishtar, Isis, and Astarte. But whatever the name, she was always the same, the mysterious, passionate, voluptuous goddess of love, and sometimes of death. Who was it that said, some men are born wise, others are more fortunate, they're born handsome? We commend to your attention the young Vicomte Claude Louis de Charbert. At 38, Who can count the hearts he has already broken? And who can even guess at the vast amount of golden francs he has already lost at such aristocratic pastimes as Baccarat, Vingt-et-un, Chemin-de-Faire? But this is of small importance to our handsome hero. He has long ago learned that his true fortune is in his face. And so, On this evening, this intoxicatingly beautiful evening, In the spring of the year 1908, we find our Claude Louis in a luxurious casino on the coast of southern France. Starring: Dan Ocko, Evie Juster, Robert Dryden, Joan Lovejoy, Norman Rose

Radio Mystery Theater The Death Bell 0084

Original Airdate: May 01, 1974 Episode 0084 "The Death Bell" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall There is a green land called the Emerald Isle, where stardust dapples shining lakes that sparkle against blue mountains which fall away to winding bays. But there are darker sides to Ireland currents that run deep a wasting bitter civil war in the north and everywhere lurking behind the shamrock and beneath the laughter a dark world of legend of banshees and warlocks of voices on the wind against which the traveler should stop his ears or the sound of the death bell. Since time in memorial, man has sought to trace the future in the lines of the palm. Can it be read there? Can a future be read from the stars, or from tarot cards, or in a crystal ball? The best answer always is, if you truly believe. As in spite of herself, it would appear that Sheila Doyle does. Starring: William Redfield, Guy Sorrell, Marian Seldes, Michael Tolan

Radio Mystery Theater Dracula 0085

Original Airdate May 02, 1974 Episode 0085 "Dracula" Written by Bram Stoker, Adapted by George Lowther, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall An adaptation of the original novel by Bram Stoker. Vampire. Perhaps in the safety of your home, the word means little to you. Oh, you've heard of vampires, of course. But do you believe that they exist? Not you. Well, all I can say is Mina Harker didn't believe either. Nor did Dr. John Seward. Not till that night in the graveyard, when they gazed horror stricken into that coffin. Horror, in its purest form, lies ahead for us. I would be remiss if I didn't warn you that if your nerves are not strong, it might be better for you not to listen. No, really now. Be warned. Because as Mina Harker tells us in her diary. Starring: Mercedes McCambridge, Paul Hecht, Marian Seldes, Michael Wager, Stefan Schnabelr

Radio Mystery Theater Murder With Malice 0086

Original Airdate: May 06, 1974 Episode 0086 "Murder With Malice" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall An son who hates his father attempts to hypnotize his sister to carry out the murder. In 1843, a Dr. James Braid of Manchester developed the art of being able to produce trance sleep. Of course, he was not the first. That honor belonged to Friedrich Anton Mesmer. But Dr. Braid did coin the name of this both beneficial yet potentially disastrous pariscience, hypnotism. In the skilled hands of a doctor or a psychiatrist, it can be profoundly beneficial. But in the hands of an amateur or someone unscrupulous, it can be murderously dangerous. In principles of mental physiology, Carpenter wrote, the method of producing this state consists in the maintenance of a fixed gaze on a bright object placed somewhat above the line of sight. A light behind the subject shining on the bright object, a coin, a jewel, a small mirror, is very helpful, and a darkened room. Once the subject is in the trance, he or she is open to post-hypnotic suggestion. Luckily for our peace of mind and their father's health, Marge is a subject and not the bloodthirsty Mark. Starring: Staats Cotsworth, Marsha Rod, Nick Pryor, Ira Lewis

Radio Mystery Theater The Suicide Club 0087

Original Airdate: May 07, 1974 Episode 0087 "The Suicide Club" Original Story by Robert Lewis Stevenson Adapted by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A high stakes gambler joins a club where he may be asked to commit someone else's murder, or be forced to commit suicide Himself. Fear, it may be said, is a malignancy which, once the seed is sown in the human soul, spreads like a voracious and all -consuming fungus throughout the psyche, smothering it at last in death. No one knew this better than the justly celebrated author Robert Louis Stevenson No one has ever expressed it more vividly more frighteningly than he in his story the Suicide Club. Compulsion. What is it? What is it within most of us, perhaps all of us, that compels us to do this or that? What drives the alcoholic to take that first drink he knows will lead to drunkenness, and almost certainly eventual death? What spurs a compulsive gambler to bet again and again,aware always that in the end it can only bring him to ruin? That was a question Victor Harris often asked himself, but could never answer, until a certain fatal night when he met a man who called himself John Smith. Starring: Lloyd Batista, Marian Seldes, Dan Ocko, John Baragrey, Barry Nelson

Radio Mystery Theater The Breaking Point 0088

Original Airdate: May 08, 1974 Episode 0088 "The Breaking Point" Original Story by Hank Warner Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A scientist discovers how to project his thoughts. He targets his wife's subconscious to influence her to murder -- him! Welcome to another hour of mystery and suspense. To a terrifying experiment in supernatural power. An experiment by a retired scientist to direct his wife's subconscious mind to shoot him. She is lying on her back in the dark bedroom. He is in his study, concentrating, transmitting by mental energy his instructions. Come, ride with me in this ambulance, speeding through the midnight fog across the Golden Gate Bridge to St. Francis Hospital in downtown San Francisco. As the trauma emergency team tries with plasma and oxygen to keep critically wounded Professor William Baker alive. The driver and the two doctors know that the patient must get to the operating room in minutes. Now, quickly up this hospital corridor as the patient is wheeled into the operating room. Stand outside the door and listen as they try to save him. And maybe you'll learn what Professor Baker tried to learn about the dark mystery of life and death. Starring: Roger DeKoven, Bryna Raeburn, Nat Polen

Radio Mystery Theater A Tiny Drop of Poison 0089

Original Airdate: May 09, 1974 Episode 0089 "A Tiny Drop of Poison" Original Story by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A former hippie radical, now a respected politician, suffers guilt for a murder she committed 5 years prior. Her husband, a detective, has been assigned the cold case. Welcome to another world. A world of suspense. A world of the unexpected. And a world where fantasy and reality may often wear the same face. We are told the truth shall make you free. However, in certain situations, the truth can send you to jail. And so it's all a matter of what freedom really means, not to mention what truth really means. For Eleanor Hartley, this is no philosophical, theological, or intellectual exercise. It has become suddenly a tangible and terrible fact of life. There's simply no way of knowing. So often, a fateful day will begin quietly, prosaically, with absolutely no hint that the steady pace of the commonplace is destined to quicken or falter. With no intimation that today, a die will irrevocably be cast, and henceforward, our lives will change forever. Or... even cease to exist. A day like this has dawned for Eleanor Hartley, but she doesn't know it yet. Eleanor Hartley, at 32, she has it all. Looks, brains, personality, and a mission in life that seems certain of fulfillment. And on this day, this particular day, Eleanor Hartley is in a recording studio making a very important statement. The principal issue, the primary issue, the overriding indeed the only issue is morality. Do you or do you not? Can you or can you not trust your elected representatives? Starring: Tammy Grimes, Paul Hecht, Earl Hammond, Robert Dryden

Radio Mystery Theater The Lodger 0090

Original Airdate: May 13, 1974 Episode 0090 "The Lodger" Original Story by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall The widowed owner of a boarding house fears that one of her tenants might be a serial killer.(Jack the Ripper type). He leaves messages in lipstick at each murder scene. The fates, they say, weave the pattern of our lives. Some there are who believe that whatever happens to us is destined so to be, while others talk of free will. However it may be, certainly there is one element that touches all our lives, the element of the unexpected. How often have you asked, Why did this happen to me? Rarely, if ever, have you found a satisfactory answer. So it was one fatal night with Nell Pearson, Mrs. Nell Pearson, widow, whose life was about to be shattered by unimaginable, unexpected horror. The fates brought unexpected horror that night to Nell Pearson's house on 9th Street, where she rented rooms. Yet one wonders, was it altogether unexpected? Could the frightful things that happened have been avoided? Had she been more alert, say, more sensitive to warnings of impending tragedy? No matter now. What matters is that earlier that day in the afternoon, She had no idea that death, in its most grisly form, was shortly to enter her house. Starring: Kim Hunter, Michael Wager, Robert Dryden, Mary Jane Higby, Joseph Julian

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