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Each week, I'll host here an episode of the deliciously spooky CBS Radio Mystery Theater, narrated by E.G. Marshall.

On 16 February, 1974, Harvard College discovers asteroid #2039, Payne-Gaposchkin, dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the USSR, Ringo Starr released 'You're 16', The hit series 'Good Times' debuted on CBS TV, and Skylab 4's astronauts landed. Gold was at a record high of $161.31 an ounce in London, and Barbra Streisand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were", hit the airwaves. The US had no Vice-President. The DOW Jones Industrial average stood at a whopping 616 points.Richard Nixon was still President and the most popular songs an the radio were Billy Don't Be a Hero by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks, The Loco-motion by Grand Funk, and Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas. Bread cost $0.28 a loaf, a new car $4,440, a nice house in the suburbs $38,000, and gas was an 'inflated' $0.53 a gallon. The average US income was $14,711/year and the minimum wage was $2.00/hour. Best movie of the year was 'The Godfather, Part II'. On TV, shows such as Emergency, The Bob Newhart Show, and All in the Family reigned supreme. The hot games that day were the Sit N' Spin, the Rubik's Cube, and Connect Four.


Episode 39, broadcast on 16 February, 1974, is titled A Lady Never Loses Her Head.



Take a little trip back in time.
Pull the covers up around your ears.
And listen closely.

I hope when it's all over, you'll have....

Pleasant...dreams??


Witching Hour Archive
#1 - The Old Ones Are Hard To Kill
#2 - Return of the Moresbys
#3 - Bullet
#4 - Lost Dog
#5 - No Hiding Place
#6 - Honeymoon with Death
#7 - I Warn You Three Times
#8 - Cold Storage
#9 - Death Rides a Stallion
#10 - Resident
#11 - Accounts Receivable
#12 - You Can Die Again
#13 - Ring a Ring of Roses
#14 - Girl Who Found Things
#15 - Chinaman Button
#16 - Dead For a Dollar
#17 - A Very Old Man
#18 - And Nothing But the Truth
#19 - Deadly Honeymoon
#20 - Speak of the Devil
#21 - Ring of Truth
#22 - Time and Time Again
#23 - Three Women
#24 - The Man Who Heard Voices
#25 - Mother Love
#26 - The Man Who Asked for Yesterday
#27 - Dead Ringer
#28 - A Ghostly Game of Death
#29 - Sign of the Beast
#30 - Here Goes the Bride
#31 - Lady Was a Tiger
#32 - After the Verdict
#33 - Conspiracy to Defraud
#34 - Deadly Hour
#35 - Dead Man's Mountain
#36 - A Dream of Death
#37 - Dig Me Deadly
#38 - Under Grave Suspicion

This week's Witching Hour posted.

That's so cool! Kids these days don't know what they are missing. My best friend and I used to tune this in on a really crappy AM station on Saturday night when we were kids

Episode 29, 'Sign of the Beast', from 3 February, 1974, posted.

Episode 30, 'Here Goes the Bride', originally broadcast on 4 February, 1974, posted.

Episode 31, 'Lady was a Tiger', originally broadcast on 5 February, 1974, posted.

It's baaaaaaack.

Episode 32, 'After the Verdict', originally broadcast on 6 February, 1974, posted.

Boone

i don't know your source, nor if you have retrieved all of the original programs of CBSRMT--i think, repeat think, this source has all of the originals--if you still need some for a complete library try this:

IAGTP: CBS Radio Mystery Theater Series

it may also have other material that could be of interest to you


jerry

Thanks Jerry - pretty nifty little site there A lot of what he's got there, like 'The Shadow' was a little before my time (can't say that very often these days), but still cool to listen to. I've got every one of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater shows.

Episode 33, 'Conspiracy to Defraud', broadcast on 8 February, 1974, now posted.

Btw, if you aren't reading the first post narrative, and reliving the links posted there (accurate to the day these shows were originally broadcast), you're really missing out

Episode 34, 'Deadly Hour', broadcast on 9 February, 1974, now posted.

Episode 35, 'Dead Man's Mountain', broadcast on 10 February, 1974, now posted.

Episode 36, 'A Dream of Death', broadcast on 12 February, 1974, now posted.

Episode 37, 'Dig Me Deadly', broadcast on 13 February, 1974, now posted.

Episode 38, 'Under Grave Suspicion', broadcast on 14 February, 1974, now posted.