CBS Radio Mystery Theater

In a rigid futuristic society where human worth is assigned by intelligence scores, an elite airman is horrified when his son deliberately seeks demotion.

A phony fortune teller has genuine clairvoyant visions of a real murder, putting herself and her spouse in immediate danger from the armed killer.

An elderly schoolmaster delivers a moving final lecture to his devoted pupils in an occupied border town before authoritarian censors close his school.

In Padua to study medicine, Giovanni Guasconti meets and falls in love with Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Rappaccini, not knowing that she is under the spell of her father who has developed a flower that will kill anyone—except for her—who touches it. Later Giovanni inadvertently touches the flower and, though he doesn't die, becomes seriously ill. When he recovers, he finds that he too is now under the doctor's spell.

A young man and woman on vacation get lost in the Maine wilderness during a picnic. The woman finds her way back to safety, but the man meets a magical forest woman who casts spells on him.

After passing through a run-down cemetery, a man becomes possessed by the evil ghost haunting the graveyard.

A man having money troubles learns who he really is and what his friends are truly like after a wealthy lady offers him one million dollars to kill someone.

Angelus Doomdorf, a hostile and repugnant renegade from the Colonial wars who lives on a remote mountaintop with a young woman he constantly abuses, is found murdered by Judge Randolph and Sheriff Abner Gale. The two had to break through a door locked on the inside to get to Doomdorf's body. Once inside, they discover that the room's windows are also locked—on the inside. The question now facing them: How did the murderer manage to get out of the room?

When city-dwellers Jane and Mike Slater arrive in the peaceful village of Granville to spend the summer, they are puzzled by the ageless spirit and mannequin-like appearance of all the local inhabitants. Frightened by the mysterious disappearance of another summer visitor and their discovery of a Granville highway marker hidden in a barn, the young couple make a desperate attempt to get away. Neither of them, though, can figure out why each road they take leads them right back to the center of town.

Dr. Craig Nugent studies the secrets of death and life, but gets pulled into the dark world of Professor Amadeus Valdemar, a master hypnotist, as science battles against supernatural forces in their final showdown.

For some 20 years in the early 1800s, many who lived in the eastern United States met on the road an open carriage drawn by a fierce black horse, carrying a man and his young daughter who clung to him in terror. They called him the storm breeder because he was always pursued by an ominous black cloud. He told people he was trying to get back home to Boston, but was never able to find his way—until a New York judge determines to help him.

Recently settled in their French chateau, U.S. Ambassador John Adams and his wife Abigail become concerned about their servants, who keep hearing loud ghost-like noises far into the night. The Adams hire a witch named Madame Pinipesse to exorcise the alleged ghost. When the witch mysteriously dies, John is convinced that her death was caused by sheer fright. Perplexed, John and Abigail set out to find what had the power to literally scare the witch to death.

Joan Madden and her husband Walter receive an unexpected visit from Joan’s great aunt, Hester, recently widowed by a tragic fire. Although Walter senses something strange about Hester, he invites her to join them on a shore vacation. When Walter thinks he sees Hester’s pet cat change into the form of its mistress, he becomes convinced she is a witch. When he discovers that Hester has been collecting a rare type of poisonous seaweed, he suspects Joan’s life may be in danger.

When Halloween gets close, a Scottish bagpipe player must face his fears as a dead lord's ghost comes after him because he owes money for renting a horse. Steenie gets help from his friend Hutchin, who tells him stories about the lord and the old castle out on the wild land.

When he is featured in the local broadsheet and lauded as a good Samaritan, a sleeper agent is troubled by the thought that he may be called to duty; thereby disrupting his quiet life.

A doctor must make a tough choice when he has to do a dangerous surgery on the man married to the woman he cares about.

Polly Preston goes back to her hometown called Killing Valley, set on uncovering the real story about what her family did years ago. As she digs deeper, she uncovers terrible hidden truths and learns how complicated the bonds were that kept her family united. When she faces off with Josiah Killing, the powerful man who runs the town, she realizes that figuring out the truth matters more than getting even.

Because secretary Rose Ellenbogen cannot understand Stuart Haskins’ apathy toward the persistent harassment of their boss, she discusses his behavior pattern with her psychology professor. Rose is shocked when the professor theorizes that Haskins may be the killer who has baffled the authorities by assassinating only well-known criminals. Only when Haskins is unable to account for his whereabouts at the time another gangster is murdered does Rose begin to believe he may in fact be a public avenger.

An aggressive young public servant aiming to become the state's next governor must cover up the suicide of a prostitute he was involved with before it ruins his political aspirations.

Colleagues of Dr. Ramsey Joslin, who is working on a highly secret project that could destroy a civilization, became concerned about his sanity when he describes conversations with the ghost of his wife, Emily. Joslin has been asked by United States government agents to help Dr. Alexei Verdoga, a long-time Russian friend, defect to the U.S., but Emily’s ghost keeps telling her husband he should be careful what he says or does with the Russian scientist.

When a couple of counterfeiters set up their operation in an abandoned house, they are unaware that a spirit haunts the place. The wife of one of the criminals is placed in a bind when she learns of their illegal activities from the ghost.

A man's friend offers him a chance to make twice as much money, which sounds perfect since his wife spends everything they have. But there's a catch - he has to trade part of his soul to get it.

The first of CBS's new series of comedy-dramas, written by Paul Rhymer. Edgar is a meek bank clerk whose resemblance to a film of a bank robber plunges him into a nightmare of suspicion. In the end, with the help of a girl friend, he learns to fight back and accept himself.

After the Civil War, Noah Arkwright comes back to his small Massachusetts town to find everything has changed - his fiancée married someone else, whaling ships replaced by oil business, and nothing feels like home anymore. This touching story follows his fight to accept what he's lost and figure out what comes next.

After a fierce argument, a married couple shoot at each other with guns. The wife dies from a bullet wound to her back, leading to murder charges against both the husband and his helper.

An art dealer tries to help out a talented but half crazy artist. He later finds out he did history a disservice. After trying to assist an eccentric but gifted artist, an art dealer later discovers that he did history a disservice by actually doing so.

A car crash puts a present-day man in the hospital where he falls into a coma, but his soul gets sent back to the 1820s where it takes over the body of a ship captain.

An ex-cop finds work as a messenger for local mobster. When he delivers the message, he is surprised to walk into a murder. The woman has a smoking gun in her hand, and a body on the floor. When he sees that he is a dead ringer for the woman's dead husband, he suspects that something fishy is going on.

A mystical glass fragment with the ability to influence people moves across an imaginary realm. The crystal shard's value depends entirely on what you believe it to be worth.

Although Sgt. Gil Robey swears his victim pulled a gun first, investigators cannot find the weapon or any drugs at the scene of the raid. After his indictment, Robey and his pregnant wife are subjected to a series of threatening phone calls. One caller, who claims he can clear Robey of the murder charge, asks the policeman to meet him secretly. But instead of new evidence, he offers Robey $50,000 and a one-way trip to Mexico in his private plane.