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Suspense "Case History On Edgar Lowndes" June 8, 1944

A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad dreams...and with good reason! + Case History On Edgar Lowndes is a story in which psychiatry is called upon to deal with a sick mind, which has unknowingly been tempted thrice by murder. Thomas Mitchell stars as the millionaire tycoon Edgar Lowndes and Donald Crisp as the psychiatrist Dr Erinson. A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad dreams...

Suspense "Five Canaries In The Room" June 8, 1943

A fun filled bachelor party turns serious when a dead body, a vanishing apartment and those damn birds are introduced. + Ronald Denham was getting married to Anita in two weeks and his friend Jimmy Westlake threw a bachelor party for him. When he arrived home after only two drinks he felt as though his drink had been spiked. He entered a room with five canaries in cages all in a line. But it wasn’t his apartment. He discovered a dead man and then something hit him and he remembered nothing after that. Trouble was the whole apartment vanished and a dead man disappeared with it.

"The Corpse that Would Not Die" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - June 7, 1976

To marry his lover, a man kills her husband despite being his best friend. Soon the weight of both their sins begins to slowly poison their love.

"Blue Justice" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - June 3, 1976

A restless ghost seeks justice from an assistant prosecutor who knowingly convicted him and sentenced him to death. The unearthing of two blue ribbons takes them to the path of the truth.

Suspense "Fugue In C Minor" June 1, 1944

A good ghost story about a huge pipe organ built throughout an entire house, and the reason that it tends to play itself. The script was used subsequently on "Audion Theatre" on July 14, 1990. + Lucille Fletcher has written the Suspense play “Fugue in C Minor” which deals with brooding anxiety and sharpening suspicion played against the severe and forbidding background of the late Victorian era.

Suspense "Banquos Chair" June 1, 1943

A detective, tracking down an elusive murderer, uses ghosts and the victim to get his man. The story was produced on "Suspense" subsequently on August 3, 1944 and March 9, 1950. + Sir William Brent is the ex-head of the English Criminal Investigation. Arthur Grange knew him well and he always terrified him with his cold face, particularly his eyes. When he looked at you, you flushed with guilt. Sir William was the scourge of criminals, coldly unemotional and utterly without fear or passion. He tracked them down mercilessly and never lost a case. There was no feeling in him, no pity, no hate, nothing but terrifying cold intelligence and he was deadly to everyone he went after. Arthur Grange tells us about his last case, a case that even recalling it sends shudders through him. Grange witnessed it in all its dreadful details and wished he never had…

"Ghost Town" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - May 31, 1976

In the journey to find his family, a man carjacks a lonely traveler in Death Valley. Together they drive to a ghost town to find answers.

Richard Diamond Private Detective "Betty Moran Case" (May 29, 1949)

A double murder, a rich woman named Betty Moran, and a touch of blackmail lead the police to think it a murder/suicide. Dick sings, "Again." + The bell of Mrs. Moran's door rings. She answers it. It's a blackmailer called Matt Grayson. He wants another instalment, but this time Betty Moran refuses to hand over the money and instead shoots the gangster dead before putting the gun to her own head and committing suicide. Mr. Moran wants to get justice for his dead wife and so pays a visit to the offices of Richard Diamond.

"Demon Lover" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - May 27, 1976

When a college professor becomes the object of a colleague's obsessive love, he is terrified for his life. What they both don't know is that her passion is fueled by a strange amulet from the goddess Isis. As time moves forward, he must discover the source of her insanity before it's too late.

Suspense "Donovans Brain Part 2" May 25, 1944

A determined scientist plans to keep Mr. Donovan's brain alive in a jar...not such a good idea! The conclusion of the story begun the week before. The story was subsequently produced on "Suspense" on February 7, 1948. This was the first "Suspense" two part story (of a total of four), the last appearance of Orson Welles on the program. + Donovan’s Brain, the famous novel by Curt Siodmak was deemed so unusual by the producers of Suspense that it was made in two 30-minute parts. Orson Welles stars as Dr Patrick Cory who has been experimenting on keeping alive the brain of a dead monkey. When a plane crashed nearby and knowing they’d be unable to save its passenger, ruthless millionaire William Donovan, Dr Cory saw this as an opportunity to keep alive a human brain. Through telepathy he succeeded in communicating with Donovan’s brain but before long it took over his whole mind and began to make him do things that he didn’t know about. When his wife tried to help him Donovan’s Brain in Dr Cory’s mind had her committed to a sanitarium. When Dr Cory and his son David tried to kill the brain the brain paralyzed them against doing this and now had control over David. Dr Cory’s thoughts were less and less his own and his mind was filled with evil fantasy. Finally Dr Cory realizes a way to set him free from Donovan’s aspirations to dominate the world but David fears that the brain also knows and his plan would fail. Dr Cory tells David “it is a chance they will have to take”. Orson Welles’ performance of Dr Cory and the transition between Dr Cory and Dr Cory possessed by Donovan’s brain is magnificent.