0380 - The Moonlighter (11/17/1975)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Howard DaSilva; Joan Lovejoy; Bob Kaliban; Robert Dryden.

* Needing extra cash to help satiate his wife's extravagant tastes, Stanley Morrison learns from his buddy of a way they can double their incomes.

Defects: Background noise.

0379 - The Money Makers (11/14/1975)

Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Ralph Bell; Bryna Raeburn; William Redfield; Jack Grimes.

Two counterfeiters set up their secret operation in an abandoned house, unaware that it's inhabited by a ghost.

0378 - Home is Where the Ghost Is (11/13/1975)

Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Gordon Gould; Patricia Elliott; William Redfield; Gilbert Mack.

Dr. Ramsey Joslin is haunted by the ghost of his late wife, Emily, who advises him to be careful in dealing with a defecting Russian scientist.

0377 - Party Girl (11/11/1975)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Mason Adams; Russell Horton; Evie Juster; Earl Hammond; Dan Ocko.

A Congressman and gubernatorial candidate tries to cover up the suicide of a prostitute he had a tryst with.

0376 - The Public Avenger (11/10/1975)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Arnold Stang; Marian Haley; Robert Dryden; Leon Janney; Himan Brown (uncredited).

A business executive's assistant is alarmed when it's theorized that a mild-mannered colleague may be the vigilante who's been murdering several well-known criminals.

CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as an unnamed dry cleaner at the end of act 1 and beginning of act 2.

0375 - Killing Valley (11/7/1975)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Kim Hunter; Joan Shay; Ian Martin; William Redfield.

* Polly Preston returns to the small town she grew up in to write a tell-all exposé about the powerful people who ostracized her parents years earlier.

Defects: Muffled audio on and off.

0374 - The Edge of the Scalpel (11/5/1975)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Teri Keane; Gordon Gould; Don Scardino; Robert Kaliban; Joan Shay.

Dr. Kirk Malcolm faces a dilemma: Perform a complicated yet life-saving surgical procedure on the husband of the nurse he loves.

0373 - The Mortgage (11/3/1975)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Larry Haines; Marian Seldes; Robert Dryden; Russell Horton; Robert Maxwell.

A college professor becomes deeply worried when his picture appears in the newspaper for his doing a good deed: It may lead to his being activated as a Russian double agent, disrupting his happily placid life.

0372 - It's Hell to Pay the Piper (10/31/1975)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Sir Walter Scott.

Cast: Ian Martin; Arnold Moss; Bryna Raeburn; Court Benson; Guy Sorel.

A poor Scottish farmer pays his rent but fails to get a receipt from his feudal landlord, who later dies. Then the landlord's son demands that the farmer clear his debt.

0371 - Triptych for a Witch (10/30/1975)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Margaret Hamilton; Kristoffer Tabori; Evie Juster; Gilbert Mack; Himan Brown (uncredited).

A witch masquerades as the kindly, recently widowed great aunt of a newlywed couple, and moves in to their home along with a pair of peculiarly behaving pets.

CBSRMT Trivia: Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz") stars in her only Mystery Theater episode. She plays...a witch, of course.

Himan Brown is uncredited as Jake in act 1.

0370 - Ghost Powder (10/29/1975)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Michael Wager; Marian Seldes; Court Benson; Bryna Raeburn; Guy Sorel.

As his political rivalry with Thomas Jefferson grows, John Adams has another matter on his plate: The French chateau he and wife Abigail have moved into is haunted.

0369 - The Storm Breeder (10/28/1975)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by William Austin.

Cast: Michael Tolan; Fred Gwynne; Ann Pitoniak; Arnold Moss; Ian Martin.

A young judge aims to give rest to a lost soul who, with his young daughter, has been cursed to forever wander New England in search of a home while a dark storm cloud follows.

0368 - A Living Corpse (10/27/1975)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Robert Dryden; Kirk Peterson; Patricia Elliott.

Professor Amadeus Valdemar, an expert on hypnosis who's dying of consumption, talks Dr. Craig Nugent into hypnotizing him to forestall the Grim Reaper.

0367 - The Summer People (10/24/1975)

Written by Bob Juhren. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Tony Roberts; Jennifer Harmon; Grace Matthews; Leon Janney; William Redfield.

* Seeking a place to pursue their artistic crafts during the summer, Jane and Mike Slater discover Granville, a town the couple learn is difficult to leave.

0366 - The Sealed Room Murder (10/23/1975)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by M. D. Post.

Cast: Howard DaSilva; Fred Gwynne; Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin; Earl Hammond.

A sheriff and a judge take on the onerous task of solving the murder of the county's most repulsive resident.

0365 - Million Dollar Murder (10/21/1975)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Mandel Kramer; Patricia Elliott; Catherine Byers; Robert Dryden; Nat Polen.

Facing a liquidation of his furniture company's assets, Dick Nelson is offered $1 million by a wealthy woman, provided he kill a close friend.

0364 - Never in This World (10/20/1975)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Alexander Scourby; Lori March; Ian Martin; Marian Seldes.

When David Campbell discovers the ruins of an old church, he's drawn into challenging an ancient Gaelic curse.

0363 - Stay Out of Dutchman's Woods (10/16/1975)

Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Paul Hecht; Jada Rowland; Santos Ortega; Joan Loring; Mary Jane Higby.

After a newlywed couple honeymooning in Maine become lost and separated in the Dutchman's woods, the husband comes under the enticement of a spirit.

0362 - The Kiss of Death (10/15/1975)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Cast: Kirk Peterson; Patsy Bruder; Arnold Moss; Bryna Raeburn; Gilbert Mack.

Despite the warnings of his mentors, an aspiring doctor in Padua, Italy falls in love with the daughter of the town's crackpot physician.

0361 - The Last Lesson (10/13/1975)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Fred Gwynne; Marian Haley; Leon Janney; Dan Ocko.

Threatened with death unless he pays off his monetary debts, compulsive gambler Clarence Porter marries the plain yet wealthy Penny Meadows.