Abominable Snowman, The

An expedition into the Himalayas to search for the legendary Yeti finds more than it bargained for. Stars William Conrad.

Action

Following a stroke, a wealthy financier decides to climb an unassailable glacier in the Swiss Alps.

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Adaptive Ultimate, The

A life-enhancing serum gives a dying woman incredible powers, and an insatiable lust for power.

Adversary, The

An island haven for crooks, swindlers, smugglers and other nogoodniks receives a visit from 'Honest John Weatherby' , a merchant captain who is eager to demonstrate just how honest a fellow he really is. Maybe a little too eager...

Affair at Mandrake

A British officer is assigned to Mandrake to head military research on rockets; but a German POW has escaped from a nearby prison camp and may have an idea of what's going on at Mandrake.

Ambassador of Poker, The

A gentlemanly poker shark from Virginia seeks to swindle a Chinese warlord out of a precious relic.

Ancient Sorceries

A man stays the night at a remote Welsh village where the residents insist they know him even though he could swear he had never been there before. Starring Paul Frees.

Back for Christmas

A man's wife drives him too far and has had control of him for too long, so he starts to make plans...

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Beau Geste

The classic story of three English brothers who join the Foreign Legion for adventure, and instead end up running afoul of a sadistic sergeant and defending a patch of nowhere against Berber hordes.

Benscelina and the Fisherman

A fishing trip to the back country of Ireland leads a vacationer into a dangerous love triangle wisha beautiful Gypsy girl.

Big Sponge, The    *LOST*

Bird of Paradise, The

A fortune seeker after a source of rare bird skins in the South Seas instead stumbles on a remote island whose only inhabitants are a beautiful girl and her rather violent boyfriend, who is as jealous of his privacy as he is of her.

Birds, The

A story of the day when all the birds in the world decided the planet would be better off without humans in it. Adapted by Alfred Hitchcock for a film of the same name.

A version of this story was also produced for the Lux Radio Theatre.

Blood Waters

A diver becomes enmeshed with a gang of treasure hunters in the Amazon.

See also: "The Footprint" (Escape).

Bloodbath

Five men trek deep into the steaming jungles of the Amazon to verify a uranium find that could make them all billionaires - and escalate the nuclear arms race. They each vow to share in the profits, but what sense of morality can you expect from me willing to endanger the human race for their own personal welfare? Starring Vincent Price.

Blue Hotel, The    *LOST*

Blue Wall, The    *LOST*

Boiling Sea, The

A ship becomes trapped when a volcano rises out of the ocean around them, encircling them in a ring of rock and burning magma.

Border Town

A down on his luck actor comes across a stash of counterfeit money and decides to go across the border to Mexico to spend it. Starring Jack Webb.

Brute, The

The story of a family with a sailing tradition and their encounter with a beautiful but murderous ship.

Bullet for Mr Smith, A

An American Secret Service agent in France undertakes a mission to 'remove' an elusive mystery assassin known only as 'Mr. Smith'.

Carnival in Vienna

Casting the Runes

Edward Dunning, Britain's leading authority on Medieval life, writes a scathing review of a crackpot occultist's paper on ancient curses. In turn, he is given 3 months to live. He is not laughing now.

See also "This Will Kill You" (CBS Radio Mystery Theater).

Cave, The

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Classified Secret

A spy traveling cross-country by bus exchanges military and government secrets with foreign agents.

A version of this story was produced for Suspense.

Clear for Action

A swashbuckler a la Hornblower - an early 19th century naval frigate is ordered into the Caribbean to deal with a French privateer preying on American merchantmen.

Command

A look into the lives of US cavalry troopers on a search and rescue mission into hostile Sioux territory.

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense. See also "Massacre at Little Big Horn" (Suspense).

Confession

Released from a wartime hospital in London, a lonely Canadian soldier - seeking a little female companionship - gets lost in the fog and drawn into murderous goings-on.

Confidential Agent

Conquerors' Isle

A WWII bomber crew in the Pacific is forced down and find themselves on a remote island populated by an advanced race of mutants planning to take over the world.

Another version was produced for Sleep No More.

Conquest

A gripping account of a mountain climber's obsession to be the first man to reach the top of Mt. Everest.

Country of the Blind, The

An adventurer discovers a strange valley in remotest South America whose inhabitants have evolved without sight. When he falls in love with a local girl, the locals want to make him blind too.

Versions of this story also appeared on Suspense, Favorite Story (as "Strange Valley"), and SIX times on the BBC.

Coward, The

The lone survivor of a plane crash in the Caribbean seeks to return to the crash site to retrieve a fortune. VERY similar to the episode "Gringo".

Crossing Paris

A timid man most smuggle illicit cargo across Nazi occupied Paris with a loudmouthed madman as company.

Danger at Matecumbe

A man desperate for work accepts a job posing as a controversial author.

Dangerous Man    *LOST*

Dark Wall, The

A man must take his schizophrenic wife across the high Pyrenees to get her to the hospital, but her delusions persuade the locals on the way that he is a threat to her life.

Dead of Night

A down-on-his-luck ventriloquist has a falling out with his dummy, whom he is convinced wants to dump him for bigger and better things. Based on a movie of the same name, this is the pilot episode of Escape, initially aired under the same title for a prospective series called Out of This World.

Based on the story "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" in the British Horror Anthology movie "Dead of Night", 1945.

Derelict, The

The survivors of a sunken ship happen across a drifting derelict, but when they discover gold aboard, they find a far greater menace than being adrift at sea.

Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The

A student invites a friend to come to the secret estate of his amoral family whose fortune is based on a huge diamond. The family goes to extreme lengths to protect their privacy.

Diary of a Madman

A squad of German soldiers fleeing defeat in North Africa follow a megalomaniacal officer obsessed with carving out a kingdom of their own in the remote interior of the continent. But first they must cross the cruelest place on Earth - the furnace of the Sahara.

Dream of Armageddon

A man is tormented by persistent dreams of living another life, one in a dark future where he is a political leader unable to prevent the onslaught of global war.

Another version appeared on 2000x (as "A Dream of Armageddon").

Drums of the Fore and Aft, The

Two incorrigible fife and drum boys serving in the British Army on the Afghan frontier hunger for their first taste of combat, despite the reputation of their regiment for cowardice.

Earth Abides

After a plague has wiped out the bulk of humanity, a small community of survivors struggle to rebuild civilization, but the same old problems of greed and violence stand in the way. This episode was done in 2 parts.

Earth Men, The

The first Earthmen to reach Mars are greeted not as interplanetary ambassadors, but as lunatics. From Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles series.

See the full listing of Martian Chronicles stories under Ray Bradbury on the Famous Authors on Radio page.

El Guitarrero

Partial episode directed by Anthony Ellis and written by E. Jack Newman about a love hate triangle in Mexico. Interrupted by prisoner exchange info/news break in. The dialogue has the soft, sweltering heat of Mexican days, and the languid beauty... of Mexican nights. As a guitareo plays a game of life and death... with a poet.

Elementals

Eager to prove his theory that love is an illusion, a man offers a couple a small fortune if they agree to his trial by ordeal.

Another version of this story was produced for the series Author's Playhouse.

Evening Primrose

A poet decides that he's had it with the real world and will go live secretly in a department store. But he gets a bit of a shock when he finds a small colony of people who have been living there for some time already.

Eye of Evil

A story with similarities to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. A representative of a historical research society is sent into the depths of the Burmese jungle to locate a fellow researcher who has seemingly gone mad. However, someone seems to have put the 'evil eye' on his expedition.

See also "The Power of Hammer" (Escape)

Fall of the House of Usher, The

Edgar Allen Poe's morbid tale of a man descending into madness over a family curse.

Versions of this story also appeared on CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, NBC Presents: Short Story, and The Weird Circle.

Faraway Island, The

Figure a Dame

On a train to Calcutta, the embittered bodyguard of a wealthy widow murders her for the fabulous emerald he thinks will change his life. But... figure a dame.

Finger of Doom

When a young man's fiancee disappears while dropping off a parcel for her boss, he can't convince anyone that she even exists, let alone help him find out what has happened to her.

Another version appeared as "I Won't Take A Minute" on Suspense.

Flood on the Goodwins

A salvage crew helping to rescue ships in the English Channel during the war inadvertently takes on a Nazi saboteur.

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Follower, The

Returning home from abroad, a husband discovers his wife's ex-lover dead on the floor and his wife missing, apparently fled to Mexico.

Footprint, The

An expedition to recover treasure from a remote temple in the Mexican desert runs afoul of a fanatical cult.

See also: "Plunder of the Sun", "Blood Waters", "The Golden Snake" (Escape), "The Temple of Huitzilpochtle" (Hall of Fantasy), and "Toltec's Tomb" (Miscellaneous Shows)

Fortune of Vargas, The

A man learns from a former Mexican revolutionary the location of a stolen gold shipment that was buried in the desert many years ago. It's no big surprise when others take an interest in his little expedition.

Four Went Home

With the Allied forces closing in, a group of American POWs plot an escape from a German prison camp, fearing their captors may execute them before they can be liberated.

Fourth Man, The

Three escaped convicts adrift on a raft in the South Seas are rapidly running out of water and tolerance for each other - but their biggest concern is over the fourth man on the raft, a native islander who is as oblivious of them as he is of thirst.

Fugitive, The

A French convict escapes his prison and makes his way towards Spain, pursued by the only man he considers his intellectual equal - the chief of police.

Funeral Fires

A hard-nosed doctor sent to battle plague in Malaya must also contend with the theft of his serum and a murder.

Game, The

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

General Died at Dawn, The

A broke American gets involved with embezzling funds from a brutal rebel Chinese general.

Gladiator, The

A champion heavyweight boxer is kidnapped by a wealthy man with a fixation on ancient Rome . The wealthy man owns an island off the African coast set up to recreate his ideal. Right down to the gladiator arena. Stars William Conrad.

Golden Snake, The

A down and out pilot is tempted by money and a beautiful woman to fly an archaeologist deep into the Yucatan in search of a sacred Mayan temple, despite native threats, and the disappearance of two previous expeditions.

See also: "Plunder of the Sun", "Blood Waters" (Escape), "The Temple of Huitzilpochtle" (Hall of Fantasy), and "Toltec's Tomb" (Miscellaneous Shows)

Good Thing, A

Great Impersonation, The

One the eve of WW II, a Nazi agent assumes the identity of a captured English lord, but runs afoul of not only his doppelganger's past, but his own.

Green Splotches

Ignoring warnings not to enter the Valley of the Infernal River, a scientific expedition encounters a superior alien life form doing some specimen-collecting of their own. Adapted from a T.S. Stribling story. Stars William Conrad, Paul Frees, Ted de Corsia, Jay Novello.

Gringo

An American boat skipper agrees to help a Mexican adventurer and his gold-digging girlfriend retrieve a fortune from a plane that crashed offshore on the lip of an active underwater volcano. The story was later rewritten slightly for the episode "The Coward".

Grove of Ashtaroth, The

Transfixed by an enigmatic tropical grotto in the middle of the African savannah, an Englishman buys the land and settles there. Is it just the hypnotic beauty of the place that captivates him, or does the grove have a more sinister hold on him?

Habit

A sour, crotchety old sea captain, who does not take kindly to snide remarks about his rusty relic of a ship, risks his crew to prove his critics wrong.

He who Rides the Tiger

A man seeking to save Chinese art treasures from the advancing Japanese army during World War II awakens in a small Chinese village with amnesia years after the war.

Heart of Kali, The

How Love Came to Professor Guildea

A minister befriends a psychiatrist who despises all forms of human compassion and attachment, yet becomes convinced some invisible lurking 'thing' is in love with him.

Versions of this story also appeared on CBS Radio Mystery Theater (as "Shadow of Love"), Escape , Radio City Playhouse, and The Vanishing Point.

See also "The Thing in the Hall" (Theatre 10:30)

I Saw Myself Running

Susan falls asleep and meets a woman trapped in her nightmarish dream world.

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Incident in Quito

An archaeologist who in Ecuador seeks to make his reputation by getting rare shrunken heads, and begins the long road... to losing his own.

Invader, The

A milquetoast husband hounded by his wife for his obsession with his ham radio hobby, makes contact with an alien spacecraft on its way to Earth.

Very similar to "Pictures Don't Lie" on X Minus One.

Island, The

Okinawa, 1945 - Two American soldiers on patrol behind enemy lines encounter a beautiful girl who tells them of the island she came from, the idyllic paradise one of them has always dreamed of finding and will do anything to reach.

Jetsam

An alien disregards protocols and contacts

Jimmy Goggles, The God

Sailors from a sunken South Seas cargo ship who return to salvage the wreck run afoul of restless natives. Their only saving grace may be their deep sea diving outfit, which the natives take for a god.

John Jock Todd

A longshoreman who takes a job on a river wharf in the steaming jungles of West Africa finds himself the target of a sadistic dock boss.

Journey into Fear

A British engineer working for the Turkish government becomes a target for enemy agents and is forced to flee the country on board a ship bound for Athens. However, someone aboard is still out to kill him...

Judgment Day at Crippled Deer

The Klondike is the setting for this tale of murder and revenge when a close knit group of friends seek frontier justice against the killer of a missing companion.

Killer Mine, The

An army deserter is blackmailed into accepting the dangerous job of blasting open an old mine beneath the sea bed off the coast of Cornwall, to flood it as an underground conduit for a band of smugglers.

King of Owanatu, The

Two fortune hunters after black pearls find a mother lode on a remote Pacific island, one ruled over by a hermitical tyrant with an arsenal and an army of natives to back up his power.

Leiningen Versus the Ants

An iron-willed South American plantation owner is determined to prevent a plague of army ants from overrunning his land.

Versions of this story appeared on Suspense, Mystery in the Air; also as "The Naked Jungle" (based on the movie of the same name) on Lux Radio Theatre.

Letter from Jason

An alcoholic makes a deal with his uncle to kill a man in exchange for future financial support for his family once he commits suicide.

Lily and the Colonel

A young British Officer stationed in East Africa is befriended by a bigoted, high-handed retired colonel who becomes the target of insurgent Mau-Maus.

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Log, The

Upon hearing that his old boat is to be sold for scrap, an ex- submarine captain hires his old crew and steals the ship from under the noses of its owners, intending to lead a life of modern-day piracy on the high seas.

Log of the Evening Star, The

Lost Special, The

A 40-ton locomotive disappears off the face of the earth on a section of single track between Liverpool and Manchester. Ben Wright plays the Scotland Yard snoop.

Loup Garou, The

The simple-minded locals of a remote Louisiana bayou community suspect a newcomer of lycanthropy when a child is found brutally murdered.

Macao

Another version appeared on the CBS series Romance as "Red Angel".

Man from Tomorrow, The

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Man Who Could Work Miracles, The

George Fotheringay has discovered the secret to performing miracles - all he has to do is ask and it is done. the only thing he can't seem to control are the consequences.

Other versions were produced for the CBS Radio Mystery Theater and the BBC

Man Who Liked Dickens, The

Versions of this story were also produced for Suspense and The Vanishing Point.

Man Who Stole the Bible, The

A New Orleans hotel guest snatches a bible from his room and finds himself the target of some very desperate and dangerous people. Story by John and Gwen Bagni.

Two versions were produced for Escape and one version for Suspense.

Man Who Won the War, The

A WWI ship's captain's unsupported claim that he stopped a German invasion must wait many years for the truth behind his fantastic story to finally surface.

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Man Who Would be King, The

Hungry for adventure, two soldiers venture beyond British India's NorthWest Frontier in the hopes of founding their own private kingdom.

A version of this story appeared on Suspense.

Man with the Steel Teeth, The

A correspondent in Moscow imprisoned and accused of espionage escapes from a Soviet prison and flees his pursuers toward the Iron Curtain.

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Maracas

The first mate of a Caribbean tramp freighter discovers that the ship is carrying a Pandora's Box of rifles, and gets himself entangled with gunrunners, betrayal, murder, and drunken revolutionaries.

Mars is Heaven!

The first explorers to land on Mars discover - Earth, and an idyllic Midwest town populated by their long lost relatives. Story by Ray Bradbury; part of his Martian Chronicles series.

Versions of this story also appeared on Dimension X, X Minus One, and ABC Radio Workshop ("Think"). See the full listing of Martian Chronicles stories under Ray Bradbury on the Famous Authors on Radio page.

Match, The

A Mountie and his prisoner must cross a frozen Canadian wilderness without food or warm clothing when a fire destroys their supplies. But it is the prisoner who has the upper hand, for only he knows the location of a cabin they might reach before they freeze to death.

Matter of Conscience, A

Dutch officials in colonial Bali are faced with a sudden uprising when a trio of English tourists defile a native temple and steal off with the high priest's daughter.

Misfortune's Isle

In the Philippines in 1790, an American merchant decides to try raiding the lair of headhunter pirates that look like easy pickings. However, on his way, just about everything that could go wrong does so. Starring Paul Frees.

Most Dangerous Game, The

Classic tale of a world renowned hunter who gets shipwrecked on an island owned by a madman who shares his passion for the hunt, except that he hunts only the most dangerous of game - human beings.

Versions of this story also appeared on Suspense, The Chase, and Arch Oboler's Plays.

Night in Havana

A small time Cuban thug has decided to go straight, but gets involved in one last deal.

Night of the Guns

Two American smugglers in Haiti are confused by the natives' demands for their merchandise.

Nightmare in the Sun    *LOST*

North of Polaris

The first expedition to another planet discovers a world in ruins, where the dominant surviving life form are insatiable hordes of giant hungry rats.

Notebook, The

Two prospectors in the Old West run afoul of a desperate and murderous claim jumper.

Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An

A Confederate saboteur hanged from a bridge by Union troops gets a reprieve when the rope snaps; can he evade the enemy's pursuit and reach home?

Versions of this story also appeared on Suspense and CBS Radio Mystery Theater. See also "Present Tense".

One-Eighth Apache    *LOST*

Open Boat, The

A straight-up survival tale of four men in a small dory lost in an ocean which is not identified.

Operation Fleur-de-Lys

A commando raid into Nazi-occupied France is endangered by the feelings one of the commandos develops for a girl in French resistance - a girl whose loyalties are suspect.

Ordinary Man, An

Orient Express

A man offers to help out a lady and what happens? He finds himself embroiled in a covert operation to smuggle a freedom fighter out of his native country, of course.

See also "The Train from Obisfelde" (Escape).

Outstation, The

A remote outpost in British Malaya is the crucible for the only two Englishmen assigned there, both of whom hate one another with every fiber of their being.

Outer Limit, The

A test pilot in an experimental high altitude aircraft disappears from radar, only to return safely ten hours after he should have run out of fuel. He can't explain, but brings a grim warning back with him.

A very popular story among radio producers, versions of this episode also appeared on Dimension X, X Minus One, Beyond Tomorrow, and two versions for Suspense.

Pagosa    *LOST*

Another version was produced for the CBS series Romance.

Papa Benjamin

A small-time jazz band leader uses a voodoo song melody to make it to the big times, but can he escape the voodoo curse that comes with it?

Pass to Berlin

After an American soldier stationed in occupied Berlin inadvertently murders a German fraulein, he finds himself the victim of blackmail from a pair of stage show mind-readers.

Passenger to Bali, A

As the good ship Roundabout readies for departure from Shanghai to Bali, a stranger approaches Captain English and asks for passage. The stranger claims to be a Dutch missionary bringing Bibles and religion to the natives; he presents his passport, character references, and offers a healthy 'fee' to alleviate any misgivings the captain might have. The captain agrees... but once underway soon regrets his decision.

Versions were produced for Escape, Mercury Theatre on the Air, Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air and Sleep No More.

Pistol, The

A frontier tale of a man who sets out to seek revenge on the claim jumpers who murdered his brother.

Plunder of the Sun

A man escorting an old archaeologist who possesses an Incan manuscript detailing the location of a cache of Inca gold ends up in a mess of double-cross, triple-cross, and quadruple-cross. Starring Paul Frees.

Poison

An American engineer on contract in India has his excessive bigotry tested to the limit when he wakes to find a deadly snake in his bed and must rely on a native doctor to save him.

With Jack Webb and William Conrad.

Pollock and the Porrah Man

An English colonist in Africa desecrates a native holy site. Naturally, the local witch doctor hexes him something nasty.

A version of this story was done for a series called Dark Ventures.

Port Royal

An ex-merchant seaman turned violent hood browbeats his way into a place amongst a diving expedition to the Caribbean to retrieve treasure from a city that had sunk in an earthquake centuries before.

Suggested by events in the book I Dive For Treasure (1942) by Lt Harry E. Rieseberg.

Power of Hammer, The

A thinly disguised take on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - a safari guide is recruited by Belgian authorities to lead an expedition into the deep Congo to arrest a megalomaniac who has made himself the master of a fanatical native tribe.

See also "Eye of Evil" (Escape)

Present Tense

A condemned murderer on his way to death row for killing his wife is granted a reprieve by fate when the train he is on derails and he escapes to find the man who framed him. Stars Vincent Price.

Another version of this story (also with Price) appeared on Suspense. See also "An Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge."

Pressure

A hard luck, unpopular sub captain seeks to redeem his reputation by taking on a Japanese aircraft carrier and its escort of destroyers single-handed.

Price of the Head, The

A violent alcoholic beach bum in the South Seas is continually rescued from dire straits by his native companion - but what possible reason could he have for going to all the trouble?

Primitive, The    *LOST*

Red Forest, The

After tracking down and killing a man for framing him, a murderer flees the remote cabin and inadvertently starts a raging forest fire, which local authorities draft him into helping to quench.

Red Mark, The

Gritty tale of conflict between prisoners and a villainous trustee/executioner over the trustee's intended wife, set on the French penal colony of New Caledonia.

Red Wine

A detective arriving in the jungles of Borneo to investigate a murder narrows down the list of suspects to three. He has a four hour window to figure out which one of them is guilty and take them back to justice. The real question here is who is more clever, the detective or the murderer?

Return, The

A world-weary adventurer longs for what he believes cannot exist : a place without strife or conflict or suffering - until he is clubbed in an alley and wakes to find himself in an island paradise where all his dream come true.

Rim of Terror, The

A young woman in a Bentley convertible befriends a hitchhiker who's trying to escape his life as a spy and be a regular American. Unfortunately, the sinister "left arm" keeps trying to pull him back. Hans Conreid plays the unwilling spy.

Ring of Thoth, The

A scholar engaged in research at the Egyptology wing of the British Museum encounters a mysterious stranger who relates a bizarre tale of love, betrayal and a terrible fate that reaches back to a time before the Pyramids.

Robert of Huntington

The Sheriff of Nottingham dispatches an assassin into Sherwood Forest to rid himself of the pesky Robin Hood.

Rough Shoot, A

Scaring off what he thinks are poachers from a neighbor's field, a man accidentally kills one and soon finds himself embroiled with former high-ranking Nazis.

Roulette

A wet-behind-the-ears English college student is seduced by a beautiful woman into taking her to Turkey via train in exchange for $50,000; sounds like easy money, if it weren't for the killers who are after her.

Run of the Yellow Mail, The    *LOST*

Running Man, The

Lucky in love, unlucky at cards describes the lot of a plantation owner in Honduras, but the tables turn when his wandering eye incurs the jealous wrath of a local voodoo priestess.

S.S. San Pedro

After taking on an unusual passenger, a ship starts experiencing a bizarre string of inexplicable and escalating troubles.

A version of this story was done for Columbia Workshop.

Scarlet Plague, The

An inexplicable and lightning-quick plague sweeps across the world, killing its victims within an hour of the first symptoms. Civilization rapidly begins to disintegrate.

See also "Earth Abides" (Escape).

Second-Class Passenger, The

A cruise passenger who bemoans the lack of excitement in his life gets more than he wishes for when he gets himself lost in the shadowed alleys of a Mozambique port.

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Second Shot, The

Lieutenant Daumier, a young officer in Napoleon's Grande Armee sports an obsession with fighting pistol duels, which brings him into mortal conflict with an experienced senior officer—who just happens to be engaged to Daumier's former lover.

See also "The Shot" by Alexander Pushkin.

Seeds of Greed

A besotted, ex-Navy drifter is hired by a Chinese treasure hunter to retrieve a cache of pearls from a sunken ship off the coast of Borneo.

Serenade for a Cobra

A rough 'n ready unemployed pilot in India accepts a job offer to smuggle undesirables out of China, but runs afoul of an Indian manservant who plots his untimely demise. Starring Charles McGraw.

Seven Hours to Freedom

Two mackerel fishermen are sea-jacked by a group of desperate and murderous criminals.

Shanghai Document, The

Seeking passage from the interior of China to Shanghai, an American journalist manages to get aboard a crowded river steamer, but finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and violence over the whereabouts of the mysterious Shanghai Document, and the obligatory beautiful woman who seems to be at the center of it all.

Shark Bait

A fishing boat skipper in Nicaragua is hijacked by gunrunners to a deadly rendezvous with rebels from neighbouring Honduras.

She

A classic story about two explorer's search for a lost city in the jungles of East Africa and their discovery of the secret of immortality.

Shipment of Mute Fate, A

A trapper connives the captain of a passenger ship into allowing the transport of a bushmaster - the world's deadliest snake - with predictable consequences.

Two versions of this story were also produced for Suspense.

Silent Horror, The

A jilted lover seeks escape and forgetfulness among the primitive tribes of New Guinea, but he must first deal with a local chief who is convinced he has come to overthrow him.

Sire de Maletroit's Door, The

A young man is lured into a trap by a noble bent on taking action against him for his advances toward the noble's niece. But does the sire have the right man?

A version of this story also appeared on an Australian series, Playhouse of World Famous Authors, and on CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

Sleeping Draught, A

A 19th century prison hulk delivering convicts to the penal colony of Australia is endangered when the desperate prisoners decide to stage a revolt.

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense. See also "Typhoon" (Escape).

Snake Doctor

A wily old hermit in the Ozarks, feared by the locals for his affinity with snakes, incurs the murderous enmity of a backwoods hunter who thinks his wife is having an affair with the 'snake doctor'.

Something for Nothing

A drifter witnesses a woman leap from a car just before it careens off a cliff, and sees an opportunity to indulge in a little honest blackmail. Bad idea...

Source of Irritation, A

A crusty English farmer is abducted by a German flyer, who is under the impression he is one of their agents, and taken to Nazi Germany. Later rescued by the British, he is then sentenced to death for spying on behalf of the Nazis.

Study in Wax, A

Two men trapped for the winter at a remote research station in the Arctic Circle must contend against each other as well as the elements.

Another version of this story also appeared on Suspense. See also "Weather Station Four" (Nightfall).

Sundown

A farmhand takes exception when a notorious gunslinger commandeers his horse and rides the animal to death. He vows revenge at any cost.

Sure Thing, The

A doctor, responding to a distress call from a sailing yacht in the Caribbean, becomes embroiled in a deadly game of betrayal, greed and murder.

Taboo

Peter and Kyra Vaughan meet Shiravieff while vacationing at Zweibergen, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains, during the Summer of 1926. Three local men have vanished during the past week and the townspeople are convinced a werewolf is responsible. Vaughan and Shiravieff take turns acting as bait to lure the werewolf out so the other can kill it.

Target, The

An insurance investigator on the trail of a con man in Chile gets caught in his target's web of betrayal, deceit and murder.

Thirteenth Truck, The

WW II desert commandos on a mission to locate, penetrate and destroy a secret German airfield in North Africa.

See also "Operation Fleur-de-Lys" (Escape).

This Side of Nowhere

A pilot takes an interest in a beautiful woman during a layover, only to have her hijack him to fly her to a remote location in northern Mexico to evade the law.

Three Good Witnesses

A mild-mannered geological surveyor on a train from Istanbul to Cairo helps out a woman and soon finds himself embroiled with wartime spies. Stars Jack Webb.

Three Skeleton Key

Three men are besieged in a lighthouse when a ship wrecks on the shoal and releases a horde of starving rats.

Other versions of this story were produced for Sleep No More and Suspense (x2). Also, a version was created for an independently produced series called The Grip of Terror.

Time Machine, The

A classic story of a man who travels into the distant future and discovers a Utopia of idle leisure which hides a terrible secret.

Versions of this story also appeared on Favorite Story, the BBC, Seeing Ear Theatre, and Alien Voices.

Tooth for Paul Revere, A

A man with a toothache seeks help for his ailment and in so doing ignites the American Revolution.

Train from Oebisfelde

An spy assigned to escort a defecting nuclear scientist on a train across the Iron Curtain discovers that there is an enemy agent aboard carrying a bomb with which he will blow up the train should it reach its destination.

See also "The Orient Express" (Escape).

Tramp, The

A version of this story was also produced for Suspense.

Transport to Terror    *LOST*

Another version was produced for the CBS series Romance.

Treasure, Incorporated

A Carribean island serves as the backdrop for an unhappy couple who go into business with a third man and find out that a paradise retreat isn't all that it is cracked up to be. Their plan is to have a resort getaway and seed it with old "treasure" for guests to find, but a resident hermit acts as the proverbial fly in the ointment, hoping to dissuade progress and the onset of civilization.

Two and Two Make Four

A merchant sailor recovering from a head wound in Calais suffers a blackout after which he finds himself in England and the target of an unknown enemy out to kill him.

Two Came Back

A man gets sucked into a treasure-hunting scheme by an old war buddy whose life he once saved and his buddy's unfaithful vixen of a wife. The hunt takes them to remotest New Guinea, but jungle fever and headhunters soon turn out to be the least of his worries.

Two if by Sea

A British journalist must try to arrange the escape from Russia of his Soviet ballerina wife.

Typhoon

An old tramp steamer in the South Seas faces a triple threat—a shipload of angry migrant workers, an impending typhoon, and a captain who refuses to heed warnings.

See also "A Sleeping Draught" (Escape).

Untouchable, The

Two men on a business trip to India find their venture disrupted when one, a germophobe, becomes convinced he has contracted leprosy from a street beggar.

Up Periscope!

Just prior to WW II, an American ex-submarine captain accepts a commission from the Chinese government to repair an old sub and take it into action against Japanese convoys supplying their war in China.

See also "Pressure" (Escape).

Vanishing Lady, The

In a pre-war Paris hotel, an Englishwoman returning home from India with her daughter is struck by a sudden critical illness. The daughter rushes off to fill the doctor's prescription, but upon returning finds her mother gone and the hotel denying she was ever there.

Vessel of Wrath, The

On a remote South Seas island, a besotted miscreant and womanizer meets his match in the prudish stalwart daughter of the local pastor.

Violent Night

An American plantation owner in a banana republic becomes the prey in a deadly manhunt when a petty thug he once humiliated resurfaces as the leader of a successful revolution and now seeks revenge.

Voyages of Sinbad, The

Sinbad the sailor relates one of his adventures from his youth, when he took a wife in a distant land, and fell victim to a unique form of native barbarism when she dies of a sudden illness.

When the Man Comes, Follow Him

A mobster's bodyguard narrates the story of a blind gangster who, following the cryptic clues of his dying brother, goes hunting treasure.

Wild Jack Rhett

Red Mesa, a lawless western town, turns to a hired professional killer for peace.

Wild Oranges

Yellow Wake

A ruthless treasure hunter murders a whaling ship's first mate to get his hands on the man's treasure map, then usurps his post as part of a plan to seize the vessel and then the treasure buried in the Panamanian jungle.

Young Man with the Cream Tarts, The

Classic story of two thrill seekers in Victorian London get more than they bargained for when they join a secret society and find themselves unwilling members of a suicide club. The first of three tales that make up the story cycle called "The Suicide Club".

Versions of this story appeared on CBS Radio Mystery Theater and ABC Mystery Time as "The Suicide Club".

Zero Hour

Neighborhood children invent a new game called 'Invasion' - or is it just a game?

Versions of this story also appeared on Future Tense, Adventure Theater, Suspense (3 versions), X Minus One, The Mysterious Traveler, and Dimension X.

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