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"The Men with the Magic Fingers" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - July 22, 1976

A turn-of the-century tale of romance and tragedy where a circus owner sculpts a fortune teller out of wax and falls in love with his own creation. Held captive in his world of make-believe, his poor wife has no other recourse but to question his sanity.

Suspense "Forcast The Lodger Audition" (July 21, 1940)

CBS Presented "The Lodger" as its audition program of the hugely successful radio series Suspense. Mr. Alfred Hitchcock brilliant English director of such outstanding motion pictures as "The Thirty-Nine Steps", Rebbeca and Foreign Correspondent was eager to create a very special type of radio drama, the suspense stories. As narrator and star of his production he thought at once of the distinguished actor with whom he had been associated in countless British film successes, Herbert Marshall. Mr Marshall suggested that they dramatized a certain favorite story of his and that story happened to be the very one Mr Hitchcok had in mind, Marie Belloc-Lowndes classic in chills, The Lodger. The Lodger is a work of fiction, which springs from recorded fact a story that begins in the year 1888 in London, a London terrorised by the fifth in a succession of recent murders. It is believed that these deeds were the works of one person, a tall gaunt figure in a black Inverness cape carrying a small narrow bag. The mysterious killer known as the Avenger preyed on young attractive blond haired women just like Daisy the daughter of the Buntings, the Buntings who had taken in a gentleman lodger…

Suspense "Murder Goes For A Swim" July 20, 1943

The program is introduced by, "The Man In Black." The first radio appearance of "The Lone Wolf." A treasure hunt at a society party leads Michael Lanyard to a dead bathing-beauty and a dead gossip columnist. + Warren William as Michael Lanyard and Eric Blore as Jamison who have appeared together many times in screen thrillers based on the celebrated character of crime pictures, The Lone Wolf are together again in this episode of Suspense.

Suspense "Of Maestro And Man" July 20, 1944

Peter Lorre is typecast as "The Maestro," a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steamroom! + Written by Jo Eisenger this original story for Suspense is a play with sporting blood in its veins and in which death has a ringside seat.

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"Future Eye" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - July 19, 1976

An investigator is sent back in time with a critical mission-- to secure a microchip which has a complete account of the world until 2976. It's a race against time to retrieve the technology which, in the wrong hands has the power to wipe out the future.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "Treasure Island" (July 18, 1938)

 Richard Diamond Private Detective "The Man Who Hated Women" (July 16, 1949)

A serial killer is on the loose, slashing women and threatening Lt. Levinson's job! A good, serious cops and robbers story. Dick Powell sings, "Cruising Down The River" after the story. The same script used on the program on April 12, 1950. + When Lynnette Knight quits her job as a café photographer she is surprised at the unprovoked attempts on her life. She goes to Richard Diamond but leaves, as she cannot afford his $100 a day fee. But when Diamond receives a call threatening him not to take the job, he takes it… Levinson contacts Dick Powell to help him with a case. Someone is killing women in a brutal way and Levinson has to solve the case by next week or his job is on the line. This is the third killing like this in three weeks. Virginia Gregg is credited as Virginia Del Valle, her married name to Jamie Del Valle.

"The Last Trip of Charter Boat Sally" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - July 15, 1976

An old charter boat captain is set-up as the fall guy for murder of her husband by a scheming woman and her good-for-nothing lover.

The Thin Man  - "The Adventure Of The Haunted Hams" (July 13, 1948)

Every once in a while a man’ wife gets the idea that her husband needs a change. Of course the conscientious little homemaker never suggests her husband change his wife. Well this evening we find the great ex-detective Nick Charles in the car with his lovely wife Nora and his good friend Ebenezer Williams driving through the countryside…