Episode 27 aired February 8, 1948 on CBS Radio. Somewhere in the Appalachian mountains a strange old man is too friendly with the cottonmouths.  And a small-minded hillbilly who is afraid of snakes has a neighbor he calls the "snake doctor."  The old man has no fear of the snakes, as he uses them to create a snake oil to sell for healing remedies.  Starring William Conrad (Photo). Paul Frees plays the teen-age hillbilly son.