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The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "The Count of Monte Cristo" (August 29, 1938

Suspense "The Kings Birthday" August 28, 1943

A touch of voodoo in Nazi occupied Denmark? The program has a surprise ending. + Dolores Costello appears in a story of the day (1943) played against the background of the new order in Europe, a story of an oppressed people who used strange and effective methods in dealing with their oppressors and traitors…

Richard Diamond Private Detective "The Eddie Garrett Case" (August 27, 1949)

Seventeen-year-old Eddie Garrett seems to be following in his brother's footsteps...right to the electric chair! After the case, Dick Powell sings, "Where Are You?" + Diamond receives a call from Lieutenant Walter Levinson. A prisoner, Bill Garrett, who is in the nearby prison has asked as his last request that Diamond visit him before he goes to the electric chair at eight o'clock that evening. The guy that he shot had a wife and two kids, so Diamond is not too keen on going to see someone who he himself despises. Garrett has a young brother called Eddie. He wants Diamond to try and get Eddie back on the right tracks, a pretty impossible task!

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" - August 26, 1976

As 1899 comes to a close, in the Bowery section of lower Manhattan, George comes to the realization that he can alter events by just willing it to be so. Everything he wishes for comes true. But his power leads to hubris and he goes too far. Will he be able to reverse the course he has set for the world?

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Train Stops" - August 23, 1976

The train used to stop at the small town of Dandridge. Now the town doctor relates a story about two strangers who only himself and his daughter have met. She tells her father that she has fallen in love with a man who stops in town daily on the 5:16 train. No one else has seen him and he continues to stop in, even when the train doesn't.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "The Affairs of Anatol" (August 22, 1938)

Suspense "Sorry Wrong Number 2nd" August 21, 1943

An invalid woman battles the frustrations of the telephone system after she overhears a plot to murder someone. The program is hosted by "The Man In Black." The story was previously produced on "Suspense" on May 25, 1943. The story was subsequently produced on "Suspense" on 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.

Richard Diamond Private Detective "Tom Cook Accused Of Murder" (August 20, 1949)

A young girl is run over in Central Park and young Tom Cook is accused of murdering her. A gangland rub-out takes place at the same time! Dick Powell sings, "There's Yes, Yes In Your Eyes." + It all started in Central Park Tom Cook was on his way to meet the girl he loved Jean Cooper when he ran her over and killed her. Distressed he cried that someone had pushed her in front of his car. Tom Cook Was held on a manslaughter charge for her killing and his father believing him to be innocent contacts Richard Diamond to investigate.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Golden People" - August 19, 1976

Richard Paradon has it all, looks, brains, charm, talent, and the ability to make money -- or should I say the ability to bilk women out of theirs. Then he meets a woman he falls in love with at first sight. Can he put his past behind him to treat this woman right? She did promise to never leave him -- even in death!

Suspense "The Cave Of Ali Baba" August 19, 1942

An adventure of Lord Peter Whimsey, the gentleman crime buster. A secret voice-operated vault helps him to break up a masked society of crime. The story is based on, "The Adventurous Exploit Of The Cave Of Ali Baba (written in 1928). + In a grim and narrow house in Lambeth a man sits eating kippers and reading the daily paper. He has just finished eating and is sipping his coffee when a slight noise at the front door catches his ear. Swiftly, too swiftly for a quiet little man, he springs up and dashes through to the small hallway and flings open the door. There is no-one in sight. And, as if he knew what he would find, he shuts the door and turns to the hat-stand in the hall. An envelope has been placed there.