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In tonight’s Spooktacular tale, a couple is house hunting when they encounter a property with a very strange picture hanging on the wall. This painting looks far, far too real.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater: The House on Chimney Pot Lane as it aired on Newsradio 78 WBBM Chicago on April 28th, 1978.
On tonight’s episode of the Spooktacular, a couple return from a European trip to learn the house they’ve rented out while they’ve been gone has been used for witchcraft and rituals dedicated to the devil. Oh, and their tenant has died under mysterious circumstances.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater – The Church of Hell as it aired on Newsradio 78 WBBM Chicago on February 17th, 1978.
In tonight’s edition of the Spooktacular, a well off widower accepts his son’s advice to combat loneliness by adopting a cat. There’s far more to this cat than meets the eye though.
This episode features a great performance from Fred Gwynne. For some that name might not ring a bell but, for all of the films and TV shows Gwynne appeared in over the years – including his role as the set upon judge in My Cousin Vinny – most people remember him from his role as Herman Munster in the 1960s television series The Munsters.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater – The Therapeutic Cat as it aired on Newsradio 78 WBBM Chicago on November 7th, 1977.
On tonight’s episode of the Spooktacular, a meteorite lands in a farm field and when the farmer investigates the crash finds what’s landed is far more than simply a rock from space. And this object contains a surprise inside too.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater – The Meteroite as it aired on Newsradio 78 WBBM Chicago on February 8th, 1977.
On tonight’s episode of the Spooktacular, a man finds a quarter in his pocket. Oh, lucky day! The quarter is dated ten years into the future. Oh… Not so lucky day as our protagonist begins to be plagued with visions of the future. A future in which he murders his wife.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to The Aurora Group as it aired on CBS Radio Mystery Theater by way of Newsradio 78 WBBM Chicago on February 8th, 1977.
On tonight’s episode of the Spooktacular, a tale of gothic horror as a family living in the Bavarian wilderness of the Hartz Mountains is stalked by a mysterious creature?
Turn out the lights and give a listen to The White Wolf as it aired on Newsradio 780 AM WBBM Chicago January 26th, 1977.
Tonight’s tale is as star studded an episode of the Radio Mystery Theater we’re likely to encounter. While the show drew from actors from the golden age of radio drama, CBS daytime television, the New York here we’ll hear a trio of actors – who while not household names these days – were rather well know back when this aired: Tony Roberts, Morgan Fairchild, and Frances Sternhagen.
In this story a couple traveling across the Northeast on a camping trip see a UFO in New Hampshire and things get weird quick.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to The Colony as it aired on Newsradio 78 WBBM Chicago on November 9th, 1976.
Tonight, I bring you another CBSRMT adaptation – the 1898 short story “The Story of the Yand Manor House” by E. & H. Heron – as our protagonist is a 19th century ghost buster who investigates supernatural occurrences. A deadly poltergeist haunts an old mansion and our private eye is on the trail but will our intrepid investigator survive the encounter?
Turn out the lights and give a listen to The Ghostly Private Eye as it aired on Newsradio 78 WBBM Chicago September 27, 1976.
Tonight’s episode puts an interesting spin on the concept of invisibility. In this tale, a pair of scientists are working on a serum, for the military, which will turn a person invisible. Of course, we know what happens when mere mortals meddle with the forces of nature.
We’ll catch the commercial breaks once again but no news before or after CBSRMT. Funny enough, I did recognize the news reader’s voice so we don’t need any idents to determine the radio station.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to I Thought I Saw a Shadow as it aired on Newsradio 780 AM WBBM Chicago March 10th, 1976.
Tonight, a time traveler finds himself flung into the year 2076. A future where criminals are sentenced by censors to …show biz! That’s right, there are no paid actors and actresses in the year 2076 and no special effects for war movies, cop shows, or any other violent entertainment. You see, show biz is a death sentence.
Funny enough, we don’t have news either before or after the episode so that means we don’t have a station ident but there are some local commercials during the break which reveal the radio station which aired this episode.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to There’s No Business Like… as it aired on Newsradio 78 AM WBBM Chicago January 19th, 1976.
Turn out the lights and set off for Waverly mansion in The Warning on The Weird Circle as it aired on December 17th, 1944.
In Leiningen Versus the Ants, William Conrad isn't only providing narration for Escape! but also pulling double duty as the titular hero.
Get ready for scares aplenty with The Thing on the Fourble Board on Quiet Please as it aired August 9th, 1948.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Agnes Moorehead, on Suspense as it aired May 25th, 1943.
Switch off the lights and give a listen to Don't Tell Me About Halloween from Quiet Please as it aired on October 27th, 1947.
Tonight brings another first time offering for the Spooktacular with the Suspense episode August Heat from 1945.
Turn out the lights and listen to Death is the Visitor from The Mysterious Traveler as it aired August 18th, 1946.
Tonight we'll hear the premiere episode of the extremely short 1947 revival of Light Out, Death Robbery starring Boris Karloff.
Tonight's story comes from The Martian Chronicles. It's Mars is Heaven as it aired on Dimension X July 7th, 1950.