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Suspense "Sorry Wrong Number" May 25, 1943

The first broadcast of this thriller classic. Probably the best remembered program of the series. An invalid woman battles the frustrations of the telephone system after she overhears a plot to murder someone! The story was subsequently produced on "Suspense" on August 21, 1943, February 24, 1944, September 6, 1945, November 18, 1948, September 15, 1952, October 20, 1957 and February 14, 1960. + Sorry Wrong number is the dramatic and tense story of an invalid woman, Mrs Stevenson who is all alone at home and trying desperately to contact her husband by telephone. When she contacts the operator to connect her she accidentally overhears a conversation about death and strives frantically to prevent murder from claiming an innocent victim.

"A Mexican Standoff" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - May 24, 1976

An upstanding citizen finds himself the recipient of an all-expense-paid trip to Mexico from a mysterious sponsor and thinks it's too good to be true. Hell breaks loose when he is suddenly charged with fraud and even worse-- murder.

Richard Diamond Private Detective "The Stolen Purse" (May 22, 1949)

A little old lady gives Diamond a seemingly valueless black purse. Everyone wants it very badly...bad enough to kill for it. Dick Powell sings, "Lullaby and Goodnight," or tries to. + Two hard looking thugs are watching a dishy young blonde get in a cab, but they're not too happy. After a heated arguement she takes the cab and the two hard men follow secretly behind to find out where she is going. The blonde soon stops and has a mysterious discussion with an elderly woman called Glenda who then makes her way to the offices of Richard Diamond with the young woman's purse.

Candy Matson "Candy's Last Case" (May 21, 1951)

The last show of the series. A double murder, a missing half million dollar diamond, and suspicion of Lt. Mallard's innocence can't keep Candy from marriage at the end of her career. + For days Detective Mallard has been acting rather grumpily towards Candy when he hasn’t been avoiding her altogether. She was determined to find out why and ended up with more than she bargained for.

"The Walking Dead" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - May 20, 1976

In the future, all androids are mindless robots with one exception-- Rex, who is the most advanced of his kind. Society is threatened when he acquires a macabre obsession-- murdering women.

Suspense "Donovans Brain Part 1" May 18, 1944

A determined scientist plans to keep Mr. Donovan's brain alive in a jar...not such a good idea! The story is concluded the following week. The script was subsequently produced on "Suspense" on February 7, 1948. + 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.

Suspense "The Abc Murders" May 18, 1943

A meek little man appears to be a homicidal maniac. A British chiller with a surprise ending. + When the time for the closing bell rang in the public library Alexander Bonaparte Custer started, picked up his battered briefcase with the almost fated initials ABC, closed the book he had been reading and shuffled over to the librarian's desk. A wonderfully mysterious start to a story by Agatha Christie.

"Blind Witness" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - May 17, 1976

When a blind woman unknowingly experiences the killing of an innocent pharmacist, she begins her life on the run. It's a race against time to save her from the shooter as the police scour the city for their main witness.

Richard Diamond Private Detective "The Ralph Chase Case" (May 15, 1949)

Ralph Chase hires Diamond about a problem with his step-daughter, but gangster Murray Lang takes a shot at him first. Chase's two step-children both hate him. Dick Powell sings, "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm." Chris and Elizabeth didn’t like their stepfather Ralph Chase who was their legal guardian and executer of their estates after their mother died. They didn’t like him handling their money. Ralph Chase was afraid that his twenty-year-old stepdaughter was going to get herself in some serious trouble by marrying Murray Lang whom he felt was only after her money. When she marries her mother’s Will rules that Ralph Chase as executer turns over half the estate to Elizabeth. Her brother Chris had always been irresponsible and his mother ruled that he would not get his money until he was 35 but this only made him hate his stepfather who had raised both kids and felt that they were spoilt brats.

"The Secret Sharer" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - May 13, 1976

A modern take on Joseph Conrad's tale of a fugitive and his alter ego-- and the ship captain who harbors them.