0166 - Possessed by the Devil (10/28/1974)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Donald Buka; Joan Shay; Ian Martin; Guy Sorel; Leon Janney.

A minister's young son is hospitalized with a supposedly fatal skull injury; the boy's recovery may be due to possession by a spirit.

0165 - A Cage for Augie Karo (10/24/1974)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Leon Janney; Evie Juster; Robert Maxwell; Earl Hammond.

Incarcerated criminal Augie Karo may have found a way out of prison when an elderly fellow inmate gives him a vial of powder that can put him to sleep for centuries.

0164 - See Naples and Die (10/23/1974)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Michael Wager; Marian Seldes; Larry Haines; Dan Ocko; Ken Harvey.

A U.S. Senator fears for his daughter's well-being and his political future when he learns she's about to marry the target of his subcommittee's investigation.

0163 - Mind Over Matthew (10/21/1974)

Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: William Redfield; Evie Juster; Bryna Raeburn; Court Benson.

A 40-year-old bachelor marries a woman half his age, but her power to heal leads him to believe she might be a witch.

0162 - The Last Escape (10/17/1974)

Written by Henry Slesar. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Robert Dryden; Joan Lovejoy; Joseph Julian; Russell Horton; Bob Kaliban.

Aging escape artist The Great Ferlini plans a headline-making endeavor, one that even Harry Houdini couldn't complete; his wife and her lover wants to make sure he does not succeed.

CBSRMT Trivia: This Henry Slesar story was broadcast on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" on 1/31/1961.

0161 - Picture on a Wall (10/15/1974)

Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Dianne Baker; John Newland; Anne Seymour; Dennis Cole.

An aspiring stage ingenue finds a visitor in the courtyard of her new Greenwich Village apartment, a man who says he's the grandson, and is also the spitting image, of a figure on a painting in the apartment.

0160 - A Scaffold for Two (10/14/1974)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: John Beal; Bret Morrison; Denise Alexander; Casey Kasem.

Waylaid on a small island, a lawyer becomes witness to the locals' own brand of justice a kangaroo court determined to hang a man who was already acquitted of murder on the mainland.

0159 - The Doll (10/10/1974)

Written by Henry Slesar. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Joanne Linville; Ross Martin; Virginia Gregg; Karl Swenson.

Jealous over the upcoming marriage of his old friend's daughter, an anthropologist arranges to have a voodoo doll made in the woman's likeness to stop the nuptials.

CBSRMT Trivia: "The Doll" is the same title of two Mystery Theater episodes (Episode 159: 10/10/74) and (Episode 1182: 4/8/81).

0158 - Trapped (10/9/1974)

Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Nina Foch; Charles Aidman; Lesley Woods; Joan Tompkins; Joe DeSantis.

An ailing woman is convinced her husband, and her new caregiver are plotting to kill her, and conspires with her old nurse to stay alive.

0157 - Sister of Death (10/7/1974)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Kay T. Stevens; Amzie Strickland; Alan Reed; Bret Morrison.

At a public auction, a recently married woman purchases a portrait that happens to depict her new husband's first wife who was murdered during a robbery.