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Roberta Maxwell (Actor)
(1942
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)
Age 82
Roberta Maxwell was the youngest apprentice actress at the Stratford, Ontario Canada, Shakespearean Festival. She has extensive Broadway experience.
She appeared in the following 47 episodes of Radio Mystery Theater
| Date | Episode | Title | Plot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/02/1975 | 0195 | The Reluctant Killer | A professional football player becomes disillusioned with the brutality of the game and leaves. But his wife and her mother accuse him of domestic violence and send him to prison. He comes back to avenge the injustice. |
| 01/09/1975 | 0200 | Berenice | A young man falls in love with his young sister-in-law while his wife lies on her deathbed. The last distressing smile of his wife taunts him day and night, and he goes crazy when he sees the same smile on his new beloved. |
| 01/12/1975 | 0203 | The Cask of Amontillado | A young lady is forced to sleep with her husband's greedy and lecherous backer to avert a fiancial disaster. In order to avenge this dishonor, the man extends an irresistible invitation to him. |
| 01/24/1975 | 0211 | The Flowers of Death | Dionysus, a god in Greek mythology appears in modern times and charms a young lady living in a suburb. Her husband brings his boss home so he can evaluate them for a promotion. Apart from this, the neighborhood is buzzing about her special talent with flowers. |
| 02/17/1975 | 0224 | The Death Wish | A young man asks his friend's son over to visit with him and his family. But the boy turns out to possess wicked powers. |
| 02/28/1975 | 0231 | An Identical Murder | Two identical twin brothers are in love with the same woman, but she cares for just one. One brother dies in an accident, and she is doubtful as to which one of the brothers it was. |
| 03/14/1975 | 0239 | The Cezar Curse | A man visits a Spanish aristocratic family and falls in love with a woman whose picture hangs on the wall. The woman was wicked in life but it bothers him little as he falls for her daughter who bears an evil curse. |
| 04/25/1975 | 0263 | Till Death Do Us Join | Set in old Prussia, this is a truly Gothic tale of romance between an art student and his professor's niece. Fate intervenes when her hand is sold off in marriage with a local wealthy man. But one life isn't enough for eternal lovers, is it? |
| 07/22/1975 | 0313 | The Poisoned Pen | When a group of people suddenly perish under after getting a strange missive, the thing that ties their circumstances together is that they each ridiculed a two-bit actress. |
| 01/06/1977 | 0578 | The Man from Ultra | Solo Nakeela, an interstellar traveller who cannot know love, accidentally ruins the mind of the great Jeffrey Hale, a talented but fragile young artist. Can he help the young genius regain his sanity in time? |
| 03/14/1977 | 0616 | Look Backward Sometimes | A tennis pro plans to flee to Europe after fighting with her husband. Enroute, the plane crashes and she finds that her judge of character serves her well as she and the survivors struggle to survive. |
| 04/12/1977 | 0633 | Man-Sized in Marble | Americans on an extended working holiday find that one of them is a part of local prophecy and legend. The woman is linked to a blasphemous act in a cursed church. |
| 04/29/1977 | 0643 | Wuthering Heights | The prodigal son returns to the family homestead bent on siezing control from the relatives that treated him poorly as a youth. |
| 05/26/1977 | 0654 | The Countess | A French countess recounts her brief attraction to a Spanish prisoner of war and her marriage to a brutal French dignitary. |
| 07/05/1977 | 0677 | Hexed | A newlywed is sure that her husband's manservant is trying to put a hex on her because he resents her upsetting the household. She tries to convince her husband to sell their Carribean plantation and move. He wants to stay and solve the mystery. |
| 07/21/1977 | 0686 | Rendezvous with Death | A football player with incurable cancer goes mountain climbing and meets a mysterious woman. She provides him love and comfort, but no one else knows she exists. |
| 12/28/1977 | 0760 | The Missouri Kid | Based on a real-life incident, this is the true tale of the investigation of the murder of a Pinkerton detective by his brother and another detective as they strive to bring the responsible bank robbers to court. |
| 02/17/1978 | 0784 | The Church of Hell | A nasty surprise awaits a couple as they return from their blissful holiday to find their tenant and caretaker killed by supernatural forces. They must fight the forces of Satan to save their home and hearth. |
| 06/12/1978 | 0849 | Alias Mr. Aladdin | A scheming woman and her incapable paramour repeatedly attempt to find out her deceased husband's money stash as his best friend tries to impede them. |
| 06/30/1978 | 0857 | The Good Times Express | A snow storm in the middle of June forces a tradesman to abandon his flight and catch a train. But he finds himself amid weird fellow travellers journeying to strange places. |
| 12/27/1978 | 0936 | No Way Out | An elderly man becomes obsessed with the number 2172 when it repeatedly appears in random patterns during the course of his life. Despite the protests of his nephew's girlfriend of the figure's significance in numerology, his nephew brushes his theories aside. |
| 01/26/1979 | 0950 | The Dominant Personality | After their wedding, a city waitress moves to the wilderness to live with her loner husband. A series of murders take place on the nearby property and all clues point to her man. |
| 04/11/1979 | 0970 | The Charnel House | To discover the truth about her father's death, a young woman becomes a staff member in the rest home in which he resided. There she uncovers a horrifying and gruesome secret. |
| 05/28/1979 | 0983 | The Outsider | After missing his train stop, a man finds himself in a cursed town stuck in 1949; and the townsfolk see him as the messiah who will set them free. |
| 07/30/1979 | 1001 | Relax and Enjoy It | An anti-capitalist Latvian faction kidnaps a wealthy businessman in order to gain $10 million in ransom money. In order to liberate himself from their grasp, he must outwit the revolutionaries and turn them against one another. |
| 12/05/1979 | 1036 | Appointment at Sarajevo | The sordid past of Archduke Ferdinand and 1914 attempt on his life are narrated by a doctor in this recounting of the history of World War I. |
| 04/16/1980 | 1077 | The Face in the Coffin | In a visit to the funeral home to pay their respects to a deceased family member, a young couple unwittingly discover the body of a federal judge in charge of a huge trial for a suspect in an organized crime case. Soon, they are pursued by the felons and must take flight. |
| 05/05/1980 | 1082 | The Inner Eye | In an attempt to save his life, a young woman uses the power of post-cognition to follow the actions of her itinerant lover after she calls ends their relationship. |
| 05/26/1980 | 1088 | Phantom World | Two British castaways sentenced to hang for treason find love, and a deranged Frenchman on a remote island! |
| 05/28/1980 | 1089 | The Bluff | In a high stakes game of blind man's bluff, a retired police detective uses himself as bait to lure out the man who blinded him to exact revenge for ruining his life. |
| 06/11/1980 | 1093 | Legacy of Guilt | After moving an antique piece down from the attic, a pregnant woman becomes plagued with ghostly visits. Soon, the spectre reveals a horrifying tale about the house's previous owner's and implores the woman to help her recover her lost child. |
| 02/09/1981 | 1157 | Transplant | When a local surgeon performs open heart surgery on their husbands, a group of wives are disturbed by the changes in they begin to manifest. Problems crop up when they look into the mystery. |
| 04/22/1981 | 1188 | The Terrifying Gift | After wandering into the den of a fortune teller, she is surprised by the woman's claims that she is her long lost granddaughter. With her dying breath the mystic gives her the ability to predict the future. She soon comes to realize that the gift comes with a heavy price. |
| 05/25/1981 | 1202 | The Innocent Face | After falling head-over-heels in love with a smooth-talking professional con man after moving to California, a plain Jane from Arkansas unknowingly smuggles diamonds across the border for him. |
| 06/10/1981 | 1209 | Second Look at Murder | The death of Lizzie Borden becomes the main focus of a Boston journalist's attentions as she seeks to recreate the events around them. |
| 06/17/1981 | 1212 | The Final Step | In order to avenge her family, a holocaust survivor stalks the doctor responsible for their deaths in a concentration camp in Auschwitz. |
| 07/20/1981 | 1223 | The Eye of the Idol | After losing his wealth as well as his lover after suffering terribly bad luck, a compulsive gambler receives a secret charm from his guardian angel. With the Eye of the Idol, the man is graced with an impressive winning streak but is disturbed by the hollowness of his victories. |
| 07/27/1981 | 1226 | The Silver Medal | A woman revisits the icy slope where she lost her husband years before during their honeymoon. |
| 08/05/1981 | 1230 | The Orphaned Heart | A drunk-driving accident causes a woman to lose the use of her limbs. Her fiance is guilt-stricken and decides to push through with their wedding. Determined to set things right, his paraplegic wife concocts the perfect plan to set him free from their sham marriage. |
| 08/10/1981 | 1232 | Hostage to Terror | In order to ensure the safety of her husband, a woman must smuggle a bomb into Israel in cooperation with the terrorists that took them hostage. |
| 09/14/1981 | 1242 | Flower of Evil | A mail-order-bride learns is met by a father and son tandem. When it is revealed that she is to be married to the grizzled old prospector instead of his strapping young son, chaos ensues. |
| 10/16/1981 | 1251 | J'Accuse | After being accused of treason, a French officer is exiled to Devil 's Island despite his professed innocence. An ambitious reporter exposes the story and spearheads a national campaign to liberate him. |
| 11/06/1981 | 1257 | The Rescue | A Jewish fugitive escapes Vichy France in a beat-up aircraft together with a crippled flight instructor. |
| 06/14/1982 | 1338 | The Woman Who Wanted to Live | A young blonde witnesses the escape of a convicted felon from a maximum-security prison and the brutal slaying of a guard. When the killer attempts to silence her, she manages to convince him to take her along as a companion instead. |
| 06/25/1982 | 1343 | Don't Kill Me | In order to marry her husband's wealthy compatriot, a woman allows her elderly husband to die from sickness. The man comes back to haunt her. |
| 07/05/1982 | 1347 | The Romance of Mary Oates | After finally finding the man of her dreams, a 40-year old spinster discovers that she has gotten more than she bargained for in her new lover. |
| 07/27/1982 | 1355 | Adolph and Eva | The beautiful Eva Braun recounts the last days in her life with the feared and hated Adolf Hitler. |
4 Responses to Maxwell Roberta
Roberta Maxwell has a Beautiful, Wonderful Voice and is a Great Radio Actress! She is in some of my favorite CBS Radio Mystery Theater Episodes, Such as "Man Sized Marble", and "The Innocent Face" and "Silver Medal" and "The Woman who Wanted to Live" and "Cezar Curse" and "Romance of Mary Oates"- You are Great, Roberta Maxwell!!!
Lori