{
  "title": "ABC MYSTERY TIME—“MYSTERY CLASSICS”",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "A conglomeration of shows appeared under this heading between 1953 and 1958. A series of\n“Mystery Classics,” running on Thursday evenings, emphasized the weird and the supernatural.",
  "origination": "WABC, New York City, New York (ABC)",
  "duration": "May 3, 1956-September 30, 1957.",
  "personnel": "Clark Andrews (producer), Martin Andrews (producer), Robert A. Arthur (producer), Eleanor\nBeeson (scriptwriter), Hector Chevigny (scriptwriter), Ronald Dawson (producer), Don Dowd (host), Robert\nFoster (scriptwriter), Katherine Green (scriptwriter), Joseph Greene (scriptwriter), C. M. Roach\n(scriptwriter), Howard Rodman (scriptwriter), John Roeburt (scriptwriter), Joseph Ruscoll (scriptwriter),\nSidney Slon (scriptwriter), Leonard St. Clair (scriptwriter), Ian Thorne (scriptwriter), John West\n(scriptwriter).\nGUEST STARS (Theatre Royal re-runs): Robert Donat, Sir Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Sir Ralph\nRichardson, Orson Welles.\nCASTS: Peggy Allenby, Ed Begley, Ralph Bell, Frank Butler, Roger de Koven, Ivor Francis, Richard Janover,\nWilliam Johnstone, Connie Lembcke, Ann Loring, Ian Martin, et al.",
  "extant_recordings": "“Half an Hour” (8/2/56), “Death Walked In,” “Four Fatal Jugglers,” “Four Time Loser,”\n“Murder in Haste,” “My Adventure in Norfolk,” “No One Will Ever Know,” “The Overcoat,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray,”\n“Success Story,” “The Suicide Club,” “The Tale.”",
  "chronology": "ABC MYSTERY TIME—“MYSTERY CLASSICS” (WABC, NEW YORK)\n[Thursday—7:30-7:55 PM]\nMay 3, 1956\n“The Queen of Spades”\nMay 10, 1956\n“The Judgment”\nMay 17, 1956\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nMay 24, 1956\n“Markheim”\n[“…Sir Laurence Olivier stars as a man who murders for money, then\nrepents…”]\nMay 31, 1956\nJune 7, 1956\n“The Suicide Club”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\nJune 14, 1956\nJune 21, 1956\nJune 28, 1956\nJuly 5, 1956\nJuly 12, 1956\nJuly 19, 1956\nJuly 26, 1956\nAugust 2, 1956\n“Half an Hour”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\nAugust 9, 1956\nAugust 16, 1956\n“The Sire de Maltroit’s Door”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\nAugust 30, 1956\n“The Killing at Lafayette Place”\nSeptember 6, 1956\nSeptember 13, 1956\nSeptember 20, 1956\nSeptember 27, 1956\nOctober 4, 1956\nOctober 11, 1956\nOctober 18, 1956\nOctober 25, 1956\nNovember 1, 1956\nNovember 8, 1956\nNovember 15, 1956\nNovember 22, 1956\n“The Fall of the House of Usher”\nNovember 29, 1956\nDecember 6, 1956\nDecember 13, 1956\nDecember 20, 1956\nDecember 27, 1956\nJanuary 3, 1957\nJanuary 10, 1957\nJanuary 17, 1957\nJanuary 24, 1957\nJanuary 31, 1957\nFebruary 7, 1957\nFebruary 14, 1957\nFebruary 21, 1957\nFebruary 28, 1957\nMarch 7, 1957\n“The Ivory Elephant”\n[“…concerns strange fate of a group of ivory hunters in a remote part of\nAfrica who have found treasure in an elephant burial ground…”]\nMarch 14, 1957\n“Hunting Trip”\n[“…Two former college friends and rivals in love go on a hunting trip…”]\nMarch 21, 1957\n“Suspicion”\n[“…concerns a jealous wife who makes a fateful error on her twentieth\nwedding anniversary…”]\nMarch 28, 1957\n“The Locomotive Ghost”\n[“…Two robbers wreck a miners’ payroll train and are haunted by one of\ntheir victims…”]\nApril 4, 1957\n[“…the story of a mentalist who plots to control a man and force him to\nkill an unfaithful wife…”]\nApril 11, 1957\n\"Til Death Do Us Part”\n[“…A couple learns their honeymoon literally means…”]\nApril 18, 1957\n“The Upper Berth” (F. Marion Crawford)\n[“…A combined mystery and ghost story begins in a ship’s stateroom…”]\nApril 25, 1957\n“Death Takes First Prize”\n[“…A street photographer takes a picture of a tenement girl who is later\nkilled…”]\nMay 2, 1957\n“Death Rides the Storm”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\n[“…A dead woman comes back from the grave to prevent her husband’s\nremarrying…”]\nMay 9, 1957\n“The Third Grace”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\n[“…Bret Morrison, the original ‘Shadow’ on radio, is cast as an\nunscrupulous art dealer…”]\nMay 16, 1957\n“Shadow of Danger”\n[“…a young man fights for his sanity in a hospital where he suspects a\nweird plot against his life…”]\nMay 23, 1957\n“Ski Master”\n[“…An heiress-hunting ski expert is confronted by his pre-war wife…”]\nMay 30, 1957\n“The Tell-Tale Heart”\n[“…the gripping story of a man’s conscience and his doom…”]\nJune 6, 1957\n“I’ll Dance on Your Grave”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\n[“…A fickle girl dancer and the ruthless agent ‘eliminate’ the girl’s\nhusband-partner…”]\nJune 13, 1957\nJune 20, 1957\n[Monday—7:30-8:00 PM]\nJune 24, 1957\nJuly 1, 1957\nJuly 8, 1957\nJuly 15, 1957\nJuly 22, 1957\nJuly 29, 1957\nAugust 5, 1957\n“The Cask of Amontillado”\nAugust 12, 1957\n“The Horla”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\nAugust 19, 1957\n“The Cask of Amontillado”\nAugust 26, 1957\nSeptember 2, 1957\nSeptember 9, 1957\n“The Lily Pond”\n[“…About an elderly lady who fights town officials and health\nauthorities…”]\nSeptember 16, 1957\n“The Black Cat”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\n[“…Hector Chevigny’s adaptation of a story about a man obsessed by\naelurophobia.”\nSeptember 23, 1957\n“Can Such Things Be?”\n[“…adapted by C. M. Roach from a story by Robert W. Chambers. The\nghost of a French soldier turned traitor in the British-Breton war of 1760\nreturns to haunt the descendant of the woman who caused his death…”]\nSeptember 30, 1957\n“The Upper Berth”\n[“…ghost story set aboard a passenger liner…”]\nMYSTERY TIME (AFRTS DISC SERIES)\nSeptember 27, 1957\n[44] “Death Rides the Storm”\nOctober 4, 1957\n[45] “The Sire de Maletroit’s Door”\nOctober 11, 1957\n[46] “The Third Grace”\nOctober 18, 1957\n[47]\nOctober 25, 1957\n[48]\nNovember 1, 1957\n[49]\nNovember 8, 1957\n[50] “I’ll Dance on Your Grave”\nNovember 15, 1957\n[51] “They’ll Never Believe Me”\nNovember 22, 1957\n[52]\nNovember 29, 1957\n[53]\nDecember 6, 1957\n[54]\nDecember 13, 1957\n[55]\nDecember 20, 1957\n[56]\nDecember 27, 1957\n[57]\nJanuary 3, 1958\n[58] “Collector’s Items”\nJanuary 10, 1958\n[59] “The Horla”\nJanuary 17, 1958\n[60]\nJanuary 24, 1958\n[61]\nJanuary 31, 1958\n[62] “The Mysterious Mansion”\nTitles without dates:\n“Death by Proxy”\n“Death Walked In”\n“Four Fatal Jugglers”\n“Four Time Loser”\n“Murder in Haste”\n“My Adventure in Norfolk”\n“No One Will Ever Know”\n“The Overcoat”\n“The Picture of Dorian Gray”\n“Success Story”\n“The Tale”",
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