Scott's Old Time Radio

Scott's Old Time Radio

by Scott W. Fields

Comedy Fiction Science Fiction

Season 1

Radio Mystery Theater The Ring of Truth 0021

Original Airdate: January 26, 1974 Episode 0021 "The Ring of Truth" Written by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall In the next 52 minutes, you'll hear a story about truth. Everyone is in favor of truth, of course. It's a word which produces immediate reverence and respect. But sometimes the truth can be a terrible thing. Even a shattering thing. The place, a charming college town in New England. The people you're about to meet, young Lorna Kittredge and the special man in her life, Mark Kramer. His driving speed, a comfortable 30 miles an hour. Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Dan Ocko, Santos Ortega, Mandel Kramer, Ian Martin

Radio Mystery Theater Time and Again 0022

Original Airdate: January 27, 1974 Episode 0022 "Time and Again" Written by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall It was the ill -fated Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, who lamented, The time is out of joint, O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right. Many people before and since have echoed the same cry of despair, but none with more compelling justice and reason than Ethan Vigil, clockmaker and destroyer. Ethan Vigil, for whom a special clock struck a magic and an evil hour. Few of us can resist the fascination of an auction, and I'm no different than most, which is how and why I happen to possess this curious document in which reveals a bone -chilling account of how many lives were lost so uncannily and eerily to the inhuman demands of what Ethan Vigil called that damnable machine. The tale I'm about to tell... No, no, wait. If you can manage to decipher his cramped long hand, let Ethan Vigil confess for himself.... Starring:John Beale, Carmen Mathews, Bryna Raeburn, Ian Martin

Radio Mystery Theater Three Women 0023

Original Airdate: January 28, 1974 Episode 0023 "Three Women" Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall I have a story for you about a writer, a writer of books. We all know what it is to read a book. We all read. Sometimes to learn, sometimes to pass the time, sometimes to experience a life unrelated to our own, and sometimes to surrender ourselves to the fantasies of a person we have never met and will never meet. But what is it to write a book? Ah? That's another thing altogether. But what difference does it make? All the difference in the world. What is a book? Two, three, four hundred pages of words lying side by side in rows. That's all. Words we all know. Many of them we use. Nothing mysterious about the words themselves. But they are not thrown helter -skelter on the pages, are they? No, they lie there in a certain order, each one following on the one before. And who prescribed that order? Who put this word here and that word there? A writer. And this is the story of a writer named Stephen Lake and the book he wrote. Starring: Ruth Ford, George Petrie, Elspeth Eric, Joan Loring, Roger DeKoven

Radio Mystery Theater The Man Who Heard Voices 0024

Original Airdate: January 29, 1974 Episode 0024 "The Man Who Heard Voices" Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall I have a ghost story to tell you. but here we have a most unusual ghost story since it violates all the established rules. You know the rules for a ghost story. It must be set on some desolate windswept moor or perhaps in a ruined isolated mansion or a lonely deserted castle. However, this spine-tingling tale actually takes place in a modern luxury high -rise apartment building and in broad daylight. At 42, George Wesley Sanderson is handsome, intelligent, and wealthy. He is married to a most beautiful woman. He is a partner in a prestigious law firm. He has a host of friends because he is gracious, considerate, sensitive, and obliging. And so you look at him sipping his morning coffee in his luxurious apartment in New York City and you say to yourself, here indeed is one of fortune's favorites. How wonderful life must be for George Wesley Sanderson. But we have invaded his privacy. We have caught him alone and off guard. And so we see a look of terror in his eyes. And no wonder, because George Wesley Sanderson hears a voice. A woman's voice. Starring: Larry Haines, Augusta Dabney, Leon Janny, Suzanne Grossman

Radio Mystery Theater Mother Love 0025

Original Airdate: January 30, 1974 Episode 0025 "Mother Love" Original Story by Bob Juhren Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Paula Richards and her husband have been told that she will never be able to bear a child so Paula Richards aged 24 put her future in the hands of an old fortuneteller and dealer in the macabre who told her one thing she must add about their arrangement. The fortune-teller told Paula that on the birth of her child she would demand one favor and that she must promise to grant it. She told Paula that she would ask it when the child was born. She would not say what it was only that it would be a very small favor. She warned Paula that if she did decide to bargain with her she must be ready to keep her part of it. Starring: Joan Hackett, Mason Adams, Leon Janny, Evie Juster, Roger DeKoven, Vinette Carol

Radio Mystery Theater 1974 The Man Who Asked For Yesterday 0026

Original Airdate: January 31, 1974 Episode 0026 "The Man Who Asked For Yesterday" Original Story by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall If only I had to do it all over again is a constant cry from the human heart. And the implication is, of course, that if some magical power could grant the plea, how much better things would be handled. Or, at the very least, how differently. But is that a valid concept? Does it follow inevitably that people could or would handle things better a second time around? The almost always misquoted quote by an obscure poet is the theme of tonight's Spine-Tingler. Backward, turn backward, oh time in thy flight. If you haven't spotted the misquote, I'll clear it up for you later. Concentrate first on the fascinating problem of a man with fatal brain injury who still finds time to talk to himself. Starring: Mandel Kramer, Paul Hecht, Evie Juster, Ralph Bell, Gilbert Mack

Radio Mystery Theater 1974 Dead Ringer 0027

Original Airdate: February 01, 1974 Episode 0027 "Dead Ringer" Original Story by Murray Burnett, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall It is raining hard as Gloria Winters is driving home knowing that she is going to be late for dinner and Gloria Winters has a husband who doesn’t appreciate lateness. The night seems to be getting blacker and the rain shows no sign of easing. Suddenly the headlights pick up something in the road and she stops to discover that it is a man who has been hit by a car, which drove off. She is surprised to see that Al Grisham looks exactly like her husband such a dead ringer in fact that they could be twins. Gloria is having problems with her husband and she gets it in her mind that Al Grisham could take out her husband and take his place. Starring: Leon Janny, Joan Lovejoy, Larry Haines, Paul Hecht, Robert Dryden

Radio Mystery Theater A Ghostly Game of Death 0028

Original Airdate: February 02, 1974 Episode 0028 "A Ghostly Game of Death" Original Story by Murray Burnett, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall Welcome to the world of your own terrifying imagination. Since the beginning of time, people have argued about the existence of ghosts. They've been called variously wraiths, specters, phantoms, apparitions, shadows or shades. But everyone agrees that if there are such things as ghosts, they are the souls of dead persons, haunting living persons. And that's what our story is about. Ghosts. Nameless horrors, a nice phrase. But as soon as you put a name and identity to horrors, somehow they prove bearable. In the last century, people have shown that they can and do bear up under mass genocide and atomic bombings. But the horror that is nameless, that is the most fearful of all. And our spine-tingler will try to put a name to one kind of horror. Starring: William Prince, Ralph Bell, Joan Tyson, William Redfield, Gilbert Mack

Radio Mystery Theater The Sign of the Beast 0029

Original Airdate: February 03, 1974 Episode 0029 "The Sign of the Beast" Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall What is the difference between man and beast? There are those who ask is there a difference? It wasn’t very long ago tat man himself was a beast, a carnivorous hunter with an insatiable appetite for raw meat. True quite a bit has happened since, we’re learned manners, invented civilization and culture, we’ve created a conscience, a code of morals a system of ethics. But how deep do all these things go? Does the beast still slumber in each of us waiting patiently biding its time ready at any moment to assert its mastery with fang and claw? An impetuous female archaeologist violates the customs of a local South American tribe by offering them praise and she steals their artifacts. She soon finds there is a price to pay.. Starring: Dan Ocko, Tom Kenna, Paul McGrath, Lois Smith

Radio Mystery Theater Here Goes the Bride 0030

Original Airdate February 24, 1974 Episode 0030 "Here Goes the Bride" Original Story by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall The supernatural doesn’t always have to presuppose something totally beyond the earth. There are those among us who hover somewhere between earth and sky, the stars who light up our theater marquees or movie screens, all the human beings who have become by extension a little larger than life. This is the shocking tale about two of those… A woman arrives at the estate of her new husband to find his former wife' s spirit still haunts the place. She died under suspicious circumstances. Starring: Ruby Dee, Michael Wager, Teri Keane, Bryna Raeburn, Ian Martin

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