0203 - The Cask of Amontillado (1/12/1975)

Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Cast: Richard Kiley; Frances Sternhagen; Roberta Maxwell; Leon Janney; Robert Dryden.

After his wife is forced to spend the night with the lecherous banker, he owes money to, a man seeks revenge by enticing the financier with an offer he can't resist.

0202 - The Tell-Tale Heart (1/11/1975)

Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Cast: Fred Gwynne; Ann Sheppard; Robert Dryden.

Edgar Allan Poe's short story is adapted to a rural setting, where a down-on-their-luck family are forced to live on the farm of the husband's sadistic, perverted uncle.

0201 - The Masque of the Red Death (1/10/1975)

Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Cast: Staats Cotsworth; Karl Swenson; Lois Smith; Jack Grimes; Evie Juster.

Set in 1996, this futuristic adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story finds a wealthy old miser and his family staging a masquerade party at his mansion while a deadly plague ravages the outside world.

0200 - Berenice (1/9/1975)

Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Cast: Norman Rose; Michael Tolan; Joan Lovejoy; Roberta Maxwell.

A man falls in love with the younger sister of his dying wife, who promises on her deathbed that her smile will haunt him to the point of insanity.

0199 - The Oblong Box (1/8/1975)

Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Cast: Richard Mulligan; Grace Matthews; Bryna Raeburn; Court Benson.

On a transatlantic cruise, Cornelius Wyatt brings with him a peculiar pine box that, as his college friend and his wife later learn, contains something ghastlier than the painting Cornelius insists it contains.

0198 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1/7/1975)

Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Cast: Paul Hecht; Guy Sorel; Corrine Orr; Dan Ocko.

A slow-thinking police detective seeks help in solving the case of a woman murdered in a locked room and calls on a newbie who offers an unusual suggestion.

0197 - The Premature Burial (1/6/1975)

Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Cast: Keir Dullea; Paul Hecht; Guy Sorel; Marian Seldes.


A physician assists his friend in exhuming the corpse of a recently deceased loved one; they find her alive, and now the evil husband she married wants her back.

CBSRMT Trivia: To celebrate the start of their second year, Mystery Theater presents seven consecutive adaptations of stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

0196 - The Many Names of Death (1/5/1975)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Cast: Alexander Scourby; Lori March; William Redfield; Marian Haley.

A bank's trust officer hires a secretary, who charms him into experiencing the wild side of life an adventure that turns out wilder than he expected.

0195 - The Reluctant Killer (1/2/1975)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Tony Roberts; Roberta Maxwell; Leon Janney; Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin.

* Disillusioned by the game's brutality, a football player quits the game but becomes vengeful after his wife and mother-in-law unjustly accuse him of spousal abuse.

0194 - The Deadly Pearls (1/1/1975)

Written by Elizabeth Pennell. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Kate Reid; Paul Hecht; Grace Matthews; Court Benson.

A private detective goes undercover as a writer in a remote Hawaiian island to track a set of radioactive pearls that were used in two murders.