Category: Mystery Special

EP0500s: Lux Radio Theater: To the Ends of the Earth

Dick Powell

Narcotics Commissioner Michael Barrows (Dick Powell) witnesses a Japanese sea captain throwing 100 slaves overboard to cover up a narcotics ring. Barrows is determined to get justice and sets out on a globe trotting adventure to break the ring and capture the murderous captain.

Original Air Date: May 23, 1949

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EP0450s: WW2 Special: Suspense: Menace in Wax and You Were Wonderful

Lena Horne

This Suspense doublebill features two episodes of CBS’ signature anthology series.

First, a reporter is summoned to a wax museum and finds a code that could spell trouble for a war plant in Great Britain.

Original Air Date: November 17, 1942

Then, the great Lena Horne plays a talented singer who finds herself embroiled in intrigue in Brazil and employed by rough characters with hidden motives.

Original Air Date: November 9, 1944

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EP0400s: Screen Director’s Playhouse: D.O.A.

Edmond O'Brien

A man (Edmund O’Brien) is poisoned and spends his last days trying to find the man who murdered him.

Original Air Date: June 21, 1951

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EP0350s: Screen Guild Theatre: The Mask of Demetrios

Peter Lorre

A mystery writer (Peter Lorre) tries to unravel the truth about Demetrios, an international criminal of legendary proportion. In the course of this search, he garners the interest of another mystery man (Sidney Greenstreet).

Original Air Date: April 16, 1945

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EP0300s: Mercury Theatre on the Air: The Man Who Was Thursday

Orson Welles

In G.K. Chesterton’s classic, Gabriel Syme (Orson Welles) is a police detective infiltrating the anarchist counsel of Europe.

Original Air Date: September 5, 1938

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EP0271: Lux Radio Theater: After the Thin Man

William Powell

Returning from investigating the “Thin Man” case, Nick Charles again hopes to retire, but finds himself drawn into another mystery when his wife’s cousin is approved of murdering her no good husband.

Original Air Date: June 17, 1940

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EP0266: Lux Radio Theater: The Thin Man

William Powell

Nick Charles, a retired private detective is drawn back to detection with the insistence of his wife, Nora, when a former client is suspected of several murders.

Original Air Date: June 8, 1936

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