Mollé Mystery Theatre

was primarily a murder mystery anthology but did air episodes with supernatural elements. It aired on different networks with different names. Mollé Mystery Theatre (aka: NBC Mystery Theatre; NBC, 1943-1948), CBS Mystery Theatre (CBS, 1948-1951), Inspector Hearthstone of The Death Squad (CBS, 1951-1952).

Sources used to create my own log and double-check titles, dates and cast members: Digital Deli Too, RadioGOLDINdex, Nightkey's OTR Errors and Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

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Adventure of the Fallen Angels, The

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
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Available for Listening Booth: Y
Story by: Percival Wilde

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Alibi for Murder

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
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Story by: Martin Ryerson

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Angel Face

Year: 1945; 1946
Duration: 30 min
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Story by: Walter Wilson

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Beckoning Fair One, The

Year: 1945
Duration: 30 min
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Story by: Oliver Onions, 1911

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Betrayer, The

Year: 1948
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt

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Bottle Imp, The

Year: 1944
Duration: 30 min
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Story by: Robert Louis Stevenson

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Challenge to the Listener

Year: 1947
Duration: 30 min
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Story by: Judson P. Philips (as Hugh Pentecost)

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Close Shave

Year: 1948
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Fred Maytho

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Comic Strip Murder, The

Year: 1944
Duration: 30 min
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Story by: Fred Maytho

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Corpus Delicti

Year: 1947
Duration: 30 min
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Creeper, The

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Joseph Ruscoll

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Crime to Fit the Punishment, A

Year: 1944
Duration: 30 min
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Criminal at Large

aka: "The Case of the Frightened Lady"
Year: 1944
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Edgar Wallace, 1933

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Deadline at Dawn

Year: 1945
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)

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Death Goes Shopping

Year: 1947
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Roy Grandy

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Death Is Caused, A

Year: 1945
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Cornell Woolrich

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Death Talks out of Turn

Year: 1944
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Richard P. Powell

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Death Wears a Mask

Year: 1947
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt

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Doctor and the Lunatic, The

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Richard Connell

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Eleventh Juror, The

Year: 1945
Duration: 30 min
Genre: Murder
Available for Listening Booth: Y
Story by: Vincent Starrett

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Female of the Species

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Irene Winston

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Fifty Candles

Year: 1944
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Earl Derr Biggers, 1921

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Follow That Cab

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Sidney Slon and Larry Sloane ??

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Four Fatal Jugglers, The

Year: 1947
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Paul Monash

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Further Adventures of Kenny Andrews, The

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Joseph Ruscoll

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Ghost with the Gun, The

Year: 1945
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Antony Boucher

On Halloween, a murderer is shot to death by what seems to be a young trick-or-treater in a ghost costume.

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Nothing supernatural, just a straightforward whodunit by one of radio's top mystery writers. But the detective is bland and the puzzle plot isn't very engaging. The most interesting thing is the wartime setting: one of the suspects is a female factory worker and another is Gino the Italian dwarf who's involved in the black market! --- Anonymous

Gioconda Smile, The

Year: 1945
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
Available for Listening Booth: Y
Story by: Aldous Huxley

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Goodbye, Darling

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Hank Warner

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Hands of Mr Ottermole, The

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Thomas Burke

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Kenny 'Angles' and the Queen of Diamonds

Year: 1947
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Joseph Ruscoll

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Killer, Come Back to Me

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre: Murder
Available for Listening Booth: Y
Story by: Ray Bradbury

With Richard Widmark.

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Ladies in Retirement

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Reginald Denham and Edward Percy

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Lady in the Morgue

aka: "The Lady in the Morgue"
Year: 1945
Duration: 30 min
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Story by: Jonathan Latimer, 1936

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Last Night

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)

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Leg Man

Year: 1945
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)

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Letter, The

Year: 1944
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: William Somerset Maugham

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Make No Mistake

Year: 1948
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt

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Man in the Velvet Hat, The

Year: 1944
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Jerome Prince and Hal Prince

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Murder in the City Hall

aka: "Spanish Blood"
Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre: Murder
Available for Listening Booth: Y
Story by: Raymond Chandler

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Murder without Crime

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: J. Lee Thompson and Jack DeLeon

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Night Must Fall

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Emlyn Williams

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Nightmare

Year: 1944
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)

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Not Quite Perfect

Year: 1945
Duration: 30 min
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Now You See Her, Now You Don't

Year: 1947
Duration: 30 min
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2nd half only.

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Radio Patrol

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Leslie T. White

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Red Wine

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Lawrence G. Blochman

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Rival Dummy, The

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Ben Hecht

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Solo Performance

Year: 194
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: George Fass and Gertrude Fass

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St Louis Lady

aka: "St Louis Woman"
Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Irene Winston

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Talk Them to Death

aka: "Murder under the Big-Top"
Year: 1947
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Walter Brown Newman

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Triangle of Death

Year: 1947; 1948
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Joseph Ruscoll

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Two Men in a Furnished Room

Year: 1946; 1947
Duration: 30 min
Genre: Murder Mystery
Available for Listening Booth: Y
Story by: Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)

Two strangers rent a furnished room together because of a housing shortage: Carr—world-weary and bitter toward women—and Dixon—affable and pleasant, but with a steady girl. After a few months, Dixon asks Carr if he'll step-out for the evening so he can be alone with Estelle. Carr agrees, but with bad grace. When Carr returns, he finds that Estelle has already left... but she never returns home!

With John Payne (Red Carr).

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Nothing supernatural here, just a straight-forward, hard-boiled, murder mystery with a few unexpected twists. John Payne (who starred in "Miracle on 34th Street") does a great job as the cynical roommate, Red Carr. The other parts are all minor. Good pacing. Good dialogue. [7/10] --- zM

Witness for the Prosecution

Year: 1946
Duration: 30 min
Genre: Crime
Available for Listening Booth: Y
Story by: Agatha Christie

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Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

Year: 1945
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
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Story by: Robert Bloch

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Zelma's Boy

Year: 1947
Duration: 30 min
Genre:
Available for Listening Booth: Y
Story by: Sanford Schlesinger

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