Sam Dann (Writer)

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(05-23-1931 - 05-08-2013) Age 82

Before writing 311 scripts for CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Sam Dann wrote for short films and TV anthology programs.

A Rainbow Soldier in WWII, Sam Dann was also taught visual and dramatic writing at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

He appeared in the following 438 episodes of Radio Mystery Theater
Date Episode Title Plot
01/08/1974 0003 The Bullet An accident kills a man but he is made to return to Earth to trade places with the fated victim.
01/12/1974 0007 I Warn You Three Times A daring attempt to clear their car windows during a snowstorm leads to the mysterious disappearance of a woman's husband. The reasons turn out to be increasingly intriguing.
01/14/1974 0009 Death Rides a Stallion An old flame torments a playboy after her death in a horse riding accident.
01/17/1974 0012 You Can Die Again A husband believes himself culpable for the murder of his wife. He is also convinced of his affair with another woman. But he simply can't persuade a police officer to believe either.
01/29/1974 0024 The Man Who Heard Voices Can euthanasia ever be completely willed by the sufferer? A well-respected lawyer's life is disrupted by the voice of his wife whom he had killed in mercy and threatens the affair he had started after his wife took sick
02/03/1974 0029 The Sign of the Beast An arrogant archaeologist disregards tribal customs and extends praise. But her motives are less than honourable and involves robbing old tribal artifacts. But what she forgets to count in is divine retribution.
02/10/1974 0035 Dead Man's Mountain An architect with a strange passion to create a cursed mountain. Any who attempt to climb it lose their beloved
02/12/1974 0036 A Dream of Death Reincarnation beliefs of a college professor are accompanied by the dread of having broken an ancient agreement
02/22/1974 0044 The Horla Maupassant's classic story about a man obsessed and terrorized by a presence that engulfs him. He is also convinced of a dreadful evil concealed in a ship anchored at the harbour.
03/05/1974 0051 A Long Time to Die The grass is never greener on the other side and swapping lives is a dangerous practice. Unfortunately, a criminologist and an American Indian discover this too late as their swapped circumstances threaten to engulf them. One needs to depose before a tribal council and the other must do it in front of the Congress.
03/13/1974 0056 A Little Night Murder All promises should not be kept. A serial killer stalks town women to fulfill his childhood promise to kill them.
03/25/1974 0062 The Diary of a Madman This namesake of the famous Nikolai Gogol story deals with the confession of a magistrate to multiple arbitrary homicides.
04/01/1974 0066 The Black Cat A hasty marriage for wealth is rued by a man who finds both his wife and her cat repulsive. He is slowly convinced by the cat that he will kill his wife.
04/15/1974 0074 Only the Dead Remember

Two decades is a small time for Korean war veterans as they come together to plot the murder of a fellow prisoner of war who foiled their escape attempt from a POW camp.
04/18/1974 0077 A Portrait of Death A man suddenly achieves the power to become a great painter. But all his subjects seem to meet their ends quite as suddenly. His step brother starts to worry as the man plans to paint his wife in his next session.
04/30/1974 0083 The Venus d'Ile Venus has always been a tricky, tempestuous goddess for those who are aware of mythology. An unlucky gambler consents to a marriage for wealth and carelessly places the wedding ring on a Venus statuette. The situation turns tricky when the goddess comes to life and asks for his heart or his life.
05/09/1974 0089 A Tiny Drop of Poison A charming politician hides her dark part as a hippie radical and a murderer. But her game seems up as her husband is allocated the responsibility of cracking the case.
05/15/1974 0092 The Forever Man A luckless man is offered every material comfort in the world through free cars, houses and monetary wealth by a millionaire. The latter only wants to swap their souls in exchange so he can regain his youth.
05/21/1974 0095 The Longest Knife A mother makes a promise to avenge her son who has been murdered by a third world dictator.
05/27/1974 0097 Mirror for Murder A bored wife is tired of her menagerie chores and her husband's job priorities. She starts to believe her mirror reflection and plans to reclaim her self.
06/03/1974 0100 To Kill with Confidence While traveling across the country, a couple of newlyweds are forced to stop at a nearby town due to engine trouble. The wife makes a quick visit to the local stores to grab lunch and comes back to find that both her husband and the repair shop have mysteriously vanished.
06/04/1974 0101 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge To escape an appointment with the gallows at Owl Creek Bridge, a confederate spy embarks on a dangerous journey through hostile territory in order to reach Dixie.
06/06/1974 0102 Deadly Darling Dolores A conspiracy to destroy all animal life on the planet is exposed by a scientist.
06/17/1974 0106 Three Times Dead A store-keeper shows his gratitude to the police officer that saves them by giving his wife a magical figurine able to grant three boons.
06/27/1974 0111 Yesterday's Murder Determined to change her fate, a woman is granted the chance to go back in time to set her life in order.
07/08/1974 0115 Too Many Women Can Kill You An ambitious maid blackmails her employer after witnessing him murder his wife. The man is plagued by the women in his life when even the spirit of his deceased spouse begins to torment him at night.
07/22/1974 0121 The Deadly Process In order to save his job and further his career, an unskilled engineer pilfers the secret to a revolutionary process from an old friend. Now he must lie, cheat and bribe his way through life in a desperate bid to keep his new-found status.
07/31/1974 0125 The Only Blood After refusing to pay blood money to the local mafia, an immigrant shoe-maker becomes the target of their ire. Angered by their misdeeds, the man hatches a plot for revenge. Meanwhile, the mob leader is torn between business and his daughter's love.
08/05/1974 0127 I Thought You Were Dead After murdering her husband and partner, an authoress begins to get phone calls from her deceased spouse. She is tormented by his reminders about who possesses the real talent between them.
08/20/1974 0136 A Preview of Death A young woman and her husband own a resort that has a working cable car. Her brother, an upright engineer suspects that the cable might not be safe. He then dreams of a beautiful girl perishing in a cable car crash.
08/26/1974 0139 The Deadliest Favor A guy is running away from the police and takes shelter in a friend's house. The friend is a novelist and lives with his wife. But from the moment the fugitive appears, problems creep up between the couple.
10/03/1974 0156 The Golden Blood of the Sun After migrating to Florida, a timeshare salesman runs into a series of mishaps. Believing him to be cursed, his boss sends him to Mexico City where he subsequently discovers that he is the incarnation of an ancient Aztec prince.
10/07/1974 0157 Sister of Death A young woman who recently wed buys a portrait at a public sale. It is the portrait of her husband's former wife, who was murdered during a burglary.
10/14/1974 0160 A Scaffold for Two After his plane crashes in a secluded island, a lawyer learns that the locals employ their own judicial code. He is forced to take part in their farce of a system that ignores legal conventions.
10/24/1974 0165 A Cage for Augie Karo A seasoned thief discovers a way to pull off the perfect crime while in jail. A fellow prisoner hands him a special chemical that will allow him to sleep for centuries. But has he calculated how the world around him will change with the passage of time?
11/12/1974 0173 I Must Kill Edna A hardened middle-aged man marries a wealthy lady for pragmatic reasons. When he falls in love with a young girl at the same time, he conspires to kill his wife using her obsession with rattlesnakes, .
11/14/1974 0174 The Thirty-Sixth Man A storekeeper is selected to be the next 'Lahmed Vovnik'. This is a notion rooted within the more mystical beliefs of Hebrew legends declaring that there are only 36 people who are fit to inhabit this world. The devil sets out to influence this Thirty Sixth Man.
11/28/1974 0180 The Aaron Burr Murder Case In a re-enactment of a famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. The actor portraying Hamilton is killed by when his partner's gun fires real bullets instead of blanks. The police investigate and soon find that all evidence point towards the real Aaron Burr as the perpetrator of the crime.
12/04/1974 0182 A Bride for Death An unlucky poet finds love and affection in the form of his melancholic neighbor awaiting her fiance\'s return from war. Now the intriguing question is - which war?
12/12/1974 0186 Is the Lady Dead? An extremely wealthy man marries a woman on the spur of a moment. His wife dies soon after the marriage, and this affects him in such a way that he becomes obsessed with the desire toreclaim her from the grave. His behavior distresses his family and longtime butler.
12/30/1974 0193 The Golem A man tries to aid an elderly Jew and his granddaughter evade the Nazis tailing them. The old man begins to resurrect a mythical being from old Hebrew legend to save them.
01/05/1975 0196 The Many Names of Death A trust officer in a bank hires a sexy secretary. She charms him to take a few rash steps and walk the wilder side of things. The ride may turn out more bumpy for him than he expected.
01/16/1975 0206 A Death of Kings A genius but modest scientist takes in a student. He ends up losing his wife to him, his skills and aptitudes too.
01/20/1975 0208 The Precious Killer A prominent figure in a European faction is charged with sedition and soon comes to realize that the cause he championed only brought about oppression. His desire to step aside to make way for change is thwarted by all around treachery.
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.
01/28/1975 0214 Windandingo After accidentally shooting a prize bull, an inexperienced and bungling soldier is sent home. Soon after he arrives, his home is taken over by General Burgoyne and he is able to aid his country in the end by invoking the spirit of Indian justice.
01/30/1975 0215 The Night of the Wolf A very old Indian garment stirs great violence among the patrons of a museum. An investigator delves deeper into the situation, making himself a vulnerable target to the curse.
02/14/1975 0223 The Shadow of the Past A doctor and his wife escape the clutches of the Nazi death camps and illegitimately migrate to the US. Later, the doctor recognizes one of the camp guards among his patients and kills him to exact his revenge. But he must cover up the act as an intelligent investigator probes the case.
02/18/1975 0225 Love Me And Die A young woman has recently married, but is plagued by her ex-husband's ghost. He died in an accident while rock climbing and he is determined to pass on a message to her present husband.
02/20/1975 0226 Must Hope Perish A senator who is running for president believes that the country's leading dissident is trying to get his point across through poetry despite never having been formally introduced.
02/21/1975 0227 The Weavers of Death An investigator looks into the death of an old flame during a robbery at a mini-mart. He soon uncovers a more sinister plot.
03/17/1975 0240 Every Blossom Dies A young lady is murdered and the investigator leading the case becomes the main suspect. His boss is unwilling to believe the facts and his wife dismisses the evidence against him, one of them being a note from the victim herself.
03/18/1975 0241 It's Murder, Mr. Lincoln A tale set in Abraham Lincoln's early years getting a case where the man is charged of murder and no one else dares to defend him. Lincoln is advised to move slowly, but he charges head on.
03/26/1975 0245 Death Is a Dream A girl has a dream about her brother being murdered. She starts to wreak revenge on the murderer even though it's unclear whether the murder actually took place.
03/31/1975 0248 Killer of the Year A promising CEO meets the new town librarian. He knows her to be a former murder convict he had previously had a crush on. But that can't stop him from falling for her again.
04/01/1975 0249 The Killer Inside The mundane life of a regular citizen is stirred up after she transports a package to Europe at the special request of her beloved. She finds herself caught up in an international mystery.
04/03/1975 0250 The Garrison of the Dead A hustler is hanged for killing a reporter who wrote about him. After death, he is offered a second chance at life where his cherished dream of being a writer might be granted. But does he want it anymore?
04/07/1975 0252 The Benjamin Franklin Murder Case Ben Franklin is the hero in this case of an assassination in a Philadelphia mansion in 1750.
04/18/1975 0259 A Challenge for the Dead Police officer Johnny Gordon pursues his namesake criminal for the young priest. But his wife starts cheating on him with the criminal and he is resolved with a vengeance to track him down.
05/02/1975 0267 The Final Witness An average Joe becomes the accidental witness to the murder of a friend. But his nerves fail him in the witness stand and the murderer is acquitted. Soon after his friend starts paying visits much to his horror and only extreme steps will appease his spirit.
05/05/1975 0268 The Paradise of the Devil A night guard is killed and his daughter promises her small inheritance to the person who finds the killer. But the inheritance isn't as meagre an amount as she imagined.
05/09/1975 0271 The Voices of Death A radio equipment production unit executive finds an ancient crystal set designed by him at a yard sale. But when he operates it, it broadcasts the conversation of a man and a woman debating over the destiny of mankind. The woman begs for a single extra day granted to people and the executive resolves to go out and persuade people to see the error in their ways.
05/29/1975 0282 Just One More Day On his last day on the beat, an old cop has premonitions of his own death in a shoot-out. On the very last day of duty, an aged police officer has the foreboding of his own death in a shooting match.
06/06/1975 0287 The Transformer After making a careless remark to an old war buddy, a salesman's immediate supervisor turns up dead. Apparently, his friend is a professional hit man who merely helped get rid of the boss hindering his progress. The police come knocking on his door when they realize he has a motive for murder.
06/10/1975 0289 The Queen of Darkness A washed out actress is hired to masquerade as the queen of a remote country. She wonders if this is a one shot deal.
06/16/1975 0292 The Smile of Deceit A woman finds herself living with a strange tribe after marrying a rich and eccentric college professor. She is forced to participate in a bizarre ritual to appease the natives when she is accused of an extra-marital indiscretion.
06/20/1975 0295 Can You Trust Your Husband? In an attempt to disprove the drug trafficking charges against her husband, a wife investigates on her own. She soon becomes tormented with misgivings upon learning that she did not know husband as well as she previously believed.
06/27/1975 0299 The Rape of the Maia A notorious gambler turns up dead and all evidence point towards a famous couturier. In order to get an acquittal, his lawyer must do battle with a wily bookie.
07/02/1975 0301 Come Back with Me A hard up businessman goes back in time to his favorite hangout to relive his glory days. He encounters old friends at the bar and learn that they share an unusual similarity.
07/08/1975 0305 The Triangle Five days after a commercial airline vanished into the Bermuda Triangle, a sole survivor is found. She then recounts her adventure in a lost world within the mysterious void.
07/14/1975 0308 Snake in the Grass After discovering a new kind of clover, a female scientist magnanimously allows her colleague to take credit for the find. When he turns up dead, all evidence point to her. When she is accused of his murder, a smitten detective works to prove her innocence.
07/16/1975 0309 Goodbye, Karl Erich After taking in a shell-shocked casualty of war, a German doctor teaches the young orphan to speak again and face the horrors he experienced during World War I head on. The boy soon becomes confident and grows up to be a Nazi terrorist.
07/18/1975 0311 The Spots of the Leopard After exposing a ring of organized crime within the company he was employed with, a dock worker and his wife are placed under the witness protection program to safeguard their lives. Unable to adapt to her new circumstances, his wife vainly tries to return to the life she left behind.
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.
07/28/1975 0316 The Lady Is a Jinx After falling for a woman with an unusual past, a police detective learns of the strange deaths that befell her previous lovers when the sister of her most recent victim requests his assistance in seeking justice for her brother.
08/05/1975 0321 Hung Jury A mediocre accountant leading a double life is romantically entangled with a prostitute and knee-deep in gambling debt outside his normal world. When the bookies come knocking at his door, his real life is threatened. He comes across the solution to his problems when he is asked to serve jury duty for a crime he actually committed!
08/11/1975 0324 Age Cannot Wither Her An elderly man returns to shore alone after taking his young wife on a sailing trip. He spins a fantastic tale about a fountain of youth when the local sheriff questions his wife's disappearance.
08/25/1975 0332 Person to Be Notified After landing a position at the remote island home of an eccentric author, a woman begins to suspect his manservant's actions and sets out to expose him. Concerned for welfare, the man who sent her to the island goes after her.
09/05/1975 0339 Sleepwalker Desperate to end her husband's miserable life, a woman starts to plot his demise in her slumber.
09/08/1975 0340 The Other Life A neglected housewife finds herself deep in debt when she turns to racehorse gambling to stave off her loneliness. At the same time, her husband manages to further his political career at the expense of his wife's happiness.
09/10/1975 0341 The Ideas Of March A wife desperately attempts to get her husband to cancel his business trip when she foresees his death in a vision.
09/15/1975 0344 The Little Old Lady Killer A female cop must work hard to convince her male partners that the vigilante wanted for the death of several animal abusers is actually an elderly woman.
09/18/1975 0346 The Coffin with the Golden Nails Determined to start anew, the secret police chief of a Third World country undergoes cosmetic surgery to alter his visage. When he unwittingly falls for a woman he previously tortured, the peaceful life he built for himself is threatened.
09/22/1975 0348 Solid Gold Soldiers During the civil unrest, two double agents working against the Confederacy engage in a battle of wits despite playing for the same team. In a game of deception and betrayal, they both work towards obtaining one million dollars of the enemy's gold.
09/23/1975 0349 The Headless Hessian On the eve of their battle at Trenton, George Washington's troops are spooked and later assisted by a decapitated ghost.
09/24/1975 0350 The Angels of Devil's Mountain Due to severe chest pains, a traveling sales agent is forced to make a stopover at a remote village. He is astounded to learn that he is apparently the incarnation of the town's most revered war hero.
09/25/1975 0351 The Black Whale After learning how to read, a bondsman in Antebellum Texas dreams of being free. However, death is the fate of anyone who attempts to liberate him.
09/27/1975 0353 The Thomas Jefferson Defense In order to exonerate him being indicted for murder, Thomas Jefferson must defend an Indian chief from the county sheriff and the narrow viewpoint of the prevailing time.
09/28/1975 0354 The Other Self A factory with an exemplary track record catches the attention of a psychologist. After several encounters with the man, she discovers that his fixation with the battle of Shiloh during the Civil War is what allows him to focus on the most tedious of tasks.
10/01/1975 0356 Primrose Path A modern take on the infamous abduction of Patty Hearst. The heir of a multi-media news conglomerate is taken hostage by a terrorist group. The kidnapped Mellon soon becomes a willing member of the very group that took him captive.
10/07/1975 0359 Who Made Me? Years into the future, every person is evaluated and given a rank in society according to their abilities and intellectual capacity. A first ranked airman is disturbed when his son desires to lower his station because of frivolous and trivial reasons.
10/13/1975 0361 The Last Lesson In order to pay off his huge debts, a compulsive gambler shackles himself to a plain but extremely wealthy woman. Things don't go according to plan when she makes him work for his money and he must kiss his lazy and idle days goodbye.
10/21/1975 0365 Million Dollar Murder A struggling businessman discovers his true nature and that of the people close to him when a rich woman asks him to dispose of someone for the sum of one million dollars.
10/29/1975 0370 Ghost Powder

Upon finding that their home in France is haunted, John and Abigail Adams attempt to discover what type of spirit they must deal with. Meanwhile, his budding competition with presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson flourishes.
11/03/1975 0373 The Mortgage When he is featured in the local broadsheet and lauded as a good Samaritan, a sleeper agent is troubled by the thought that he may be called to duty; thereby disrupting his quiet life.
11/07/1975 0375 Killing Valley In order to exact revenge against the people that ruined her father's life, a famous writer goes back to the place of her birth to dig up dirt on the town and its people. As she goes along, she is surprised to discover things that she never knew about her parents.
11/10/1975 0376 The Public Avenger An executive assistant harbors a sneaking suspicion that her mild-mannered colleague is actually a vigilante possessing super powers in disguise.
11/11/1975 0377 Party Girl An aggressive young public servant aiming to become the state's next governor must cover up the suicide of a prostitute he was involved with before it ruins his political aspirations.
11/17/1975 0380 The Moonlighter When a friend tells him of an opportunity to double his income, a man with an extremely extravagant wife jumps at the offer. The problem is, he must give up a piece of his soul in exchange.
11/20/1975 0382 The Lamps of the Devil After coming home from doing service during the Civil War, a group of whalers discover that petroleum has replaced whale oil. One man struggles to fight against his fate.
11/24/1975 0384 The Serpent's Tooth An art dealer tries to help out a talented but half crazy artist. He later finds out he did history a disservice. After trying to assist an eccentric but gifted artist, an art dealer later discovers that he did history a disservice by actually doing so.
11/28/1975 0387 The Frammis A magical piece of glass that possesses a power to affect people travels through a fictional kingdom. The diamond-like shard is only as worthless as you perceive it to be.
12/05/1975 0391 Pharaoh's Daughter After murdering a taxi cab driver, a cruel woman and her lover use a hapless drunkard as the fall guy for their crime.
12/08/1975 0392 How Quiet the Night After learning that his former flame is pregnant with his child, a man resorts to violence in order to safeguard his current betrothal. Before long, he begins being haunted by his deceased lover's ghost.
12/09/1975 0393 Stitch in Time Despite being estranged for over nine years, a billionaire welcomes his 19-year old niece into his home. His secretary is wary of the girl and her suspicions are soon proven right.
12/11/1975 0394 You Can Change Your Life A former game show contestant obsessively stalks the three women who served as judges during his stint as a participant in a media program.
12/12/1975 0395 Marry for Murder Despite having different agendas, a pair of sisters engage the services of the same private detective to look into the affairs of the same man.
12/17/1975 0397 The Eleventh Hour After reading an interesting personal ad in the local paper, a businessman tries to connect with the advertiser. When they finally meet, the woman reveals she is a creature from another galaxy that can solve his problems for the sum of one million dollars.
12/18/1975 0398 Fireball When strange things start happening around the newly hired blacksmith, a military contractor's wife begins to suspect that he is the incarnation of the fire god, Vulcan. Her husband is inclined to believe her when he is suddenly crippled by a freak accident.
12/23/1975 0401 The Murder Market Being engaged to a penny-pinching fiancee is tiresome and dull. The young lady is eager to accept a new and exciting career which unexpectedly leads to homicide!
12/29/1975 0404 The Memory Killers In order for the company to survive, an advertising executive works hard to land a major account. However, he is haunted by ghosts from the past who revealed a disturbing tale-- that the head of their corporation is the same Nazi prison guard that tortured them to death.
01/05/1976 0408 Tom Sawyer, Detective All grown up and a successful lawyer, Tom Sawyer is now faced with his most difficult case. He must get an acquittal for his Uncle Silas who has been charged with homicide.
01/06/1976 0409 Is He Living or Is He Dead? To increase the worth of their works a trio of artists plan the perfect con-- the catch is, someone has to die.
01/07/1976 0410 The Russian Passport While traveling through Europe a young man meets an eccentric American. Chaos ensues when a scam goes awry and earns them a conviction in a Russian court and a one-way ticket to Siberia.
01/08/1976 0411 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court In an attempt to free himself, a Nineteenth Century factory owner exploits his knowledge of history when he wakes up from a fight in Camelot and finds himself placed under arrest by none other than the legendary King Arthur.
01/09/1976 0412 The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg A small town news man tells the story of how an enigmatic stranger seduced the town's incorruptible officials with the false glitter of easy cash.
01/10/1976 0413 The Stolen White Elephant The sacred white elephant of Queen Victoria has gone missing and it's up to Inspector Blunt of the New York City police to solve the case. Following a lead, a force of one hundred men storm Barge Criswell's home only to discover that the main suspect is dead-- and that he has been dead for the last fifteen years!
01/11/1976 0414 The Mysterious Stranger When you meet an angel named Satan who promises to grant your every desire, you learn that it's not always good to get everything you wish for.
01/14/1976 0416 The Elixer of Death Seeking refuge from the noise of the city, a doctor moves to the country for a quieter life. His new-found peace is shattered when he discovers that the lynch pin that holds the village's economy together is a strange drink-- a drink whose ingredients could prove fatal.
01/19/1976 0418 There's No Business Like In the year 2076, crimes against society are punishable by community service-- in show business. A time traveler moves forward in time and discovers a future where the business is anything but entertaining; and where stunts and special effects often lead to death.
02/02/1976 0424 First Prize -- Death Despite being co-director of the Sociological Advisory Institute and a celebrated sociologist in his own right, time and again John Desmond is overlooked and the Parkhurst Medal awarded to his colleagues. When Mr. Strickland approaches John with an intriguing proposition-- the next Parkhurst Medal it seems almost surreal. However, the offer comes with a heavy price. Now, it is up to John to make a decision.
02/05/1976 0426 The Children of Death In a time where men and women have been segregated to live alone, a deadly game is born. A game wherein they must hunt each other down to win the ultimate prize-- a chance at procreation.
02/27/1976 0439 Half a Life What do you get when you mix bar, a handsome stranger, and a lonely middle-aged woman? True love? Or is it just another recipe for disaster?
03/08/1976 0444 The Queen of Spades Intent on the pursuit of a secret gambling technique from a wealthy countess, he accidentally kills her. Now she's back to seek vengeance on the Russian soldier that caused her untimely demise.
03/11/1976 0446 Pandora Years into the future, a perfect society is born-- a society without fear, hate and all other negative emotions. Pandora seeks to inflict her sorrow on others and Mara's obsessive love for Willis and their baby threatens to destroy Paradise. This leads to Mara being sentenced to death, but at the last moment she is sent to the past where she begins to appreciate the life she had.
03/15/1976 0448 The Aliens Two secret agents from opposing nations are drawn to each other by something called psychic communication-- a classified project both their governments are developing. Fearing for mankind's future, they work together to try and stop the dangerous experiments that are intricately linked to the possible destruction of the world.
03/25/1976 0455 The Transformation of Joebee Confessing to a last prank is seems to be too good to be true, when a perennial joker announces he has mended his ways. Could this be true or is it perhaps the biggest hoax of the century?
03/29/1976 0457 The Saxon Curse A fortune teller foretells that he will carry out the perfect crime in order to safeguard his betrothed. Armed with that knowledge, the haughty nobleman picks his target.
04/01/1976 0460 The White Ghost With the accidental demise of his mistress, a successful entrepreneur's world slowly falls apart as her vengeful ghost refuses to give him peace.
04/07/1976 0464 The Paradise Cafe In a desperate bid to exorcise the demons of his past, a mafia boss makes a shocking confession to his psychiatrist. Confronting his inner self, he narrates his attempted rape and subsequent slaying of an innocent girl.
04/12/1976 0467 The Safe Judge When the son of the city's most fearsome gangsters pulls strings to get his son of drug possession charges, an upstanding judge finds his reputation on the line and he himself becomes a victim of blackmail.
05/03/1976 0479 The Cornstarch Killer Discovering that she can bring down the wrath of God upon anyone who approaches her with impure intentions is a major inconvenience to a landlord who is growing increasingly wary of his boarder-- and just as enchanted.
05/10/1976 0481 The Ghost of San Juan Hill Chaos ensues with the resurrection from the dead of the bride's deceased husband who had supposedly perished in the Spanish-American War.
05/17/1976 0483 Blind Witness When a blind woman unknowingly experiences the killing of an innocent pharmacist, she begins her life on the run. It's a race against time to save her from the shooter as the police scour the city for their main witness.
05/27/1976 0486 Demon Lover When a college professor becomes the object of a colleague's obsessive love, he is terrified for his life. What they both don't know is that her passion is fueled by a strange amulet from the goddess Isis. As time moves forward, he must discover the source of her insanity before it's too late.
06/03/1976 0488 Blue Justice A restless ghost seeks justice from an assistant prosecutor who knowingly convicted him and sentenced him to death. The unearthing of two blue ribbons takes them to the path of the truth.
06/14/1976 0491 The Unthinkable When his wife lands a job and starts moving up the corporate ladder, an unemployed engineer's ego takes a beating. He takes matters into his own hands and finds gratification in robbing a bank-- and not just any bank but the place where she works.
06/17/1976 0492 Pension Plan On the eve of retirement, a purchasing manager discovers he is penniless and that an entire life of being honest and straightforward has brought him no reward. His values are tested when he realizes that living by his principles were all for naught.
06/28/1976 0495 Forty-Five Minutes to Murder Inconsistencies in the official statement given by a businessman regarding his wife's murder move a brilliant defense attorney to scrutinize it further. All evidence point towards foul play and the answers he seeks can be found in poison.
07/12/1976 0497 Blood Red Roses When his son is brutally murdered by the mafia, a father's beliefs are shaken. He meets the mastermind behind the crime and falls deeper into confusion and the Boss' love for Red Roses is the key to their salvation.
07/22/1976 0500 The Men with the Magic Fingers A turn-of the-century tale of romance and tragedy where a circus owner sculpts a fortune teller out of wax and falls in love with his own creation. Held captive in his world of make-believe, his poor wife has no other recourse but to question his sanity.
07/29/1976 0502 Shotgun Wedding Charlie, a man of about 30, is invited by his co-worker, Gus, to meet his daughter. Gus feels that Charlie will fall instantly in love with Elaine. When Charlie meets her, he does fall in love with her. Then things begin to get strange. Charlie goes back to visit his beloved, but he finds the house and its occupants gone.
08/05/1976 0504 Lovers and Killers A young lothario is on trial for killing a woman's husband when he catches them together after an evening at a singles bar. A reluctant juror must make up his mind about the suspect's guilt based on a number of criterea.
08/09/1976 0505 Overnight to Freedom During WWII an American POW from a German prison camp and with the help of some friendly advice, makes his attempt at escaping across Germany into occupied France. There, he tries to make contact with the French Underground. But who can he trust?
08/19/1976 0508 The Golden People Richard Paradon has it all, looks, brains, charm, talent, and the ability to make money -- or should I say the ability to bilk women out of theirs. Then he meets a woman he falls in love with at first sight. Can he put his past behind him to treat this woman right? She did promise to never leave him -- even in death!
08/30/1976 0511 The Night Shift Eddie O'Brian hates going to work driving a bus 9 hours a day until he gets a new bus, #2792. He becomes very protective of it and soon cares more for it than his wife Margie.
09/07/1976 0514 Killer's Helper Martin Edward (Marty) Caraway, a young up and coming stock broker is recruited by his boss's wife, Margaret, to kill his boss, John Masters, and take his place by her side and at the head of the firm. But is he falling into the same trap his boss fell into?
09/14/1976 0518 Journey to Jerusalem A man longs to be young again so he can live his life differently. A strange woman says she can make it happen.
09/17/1976 0520 To Whom it May Concern Mysteriously avoiding death from a gunshot wound, a woman discovers that everyone she loves is killed as a kind of curse.
09/23/1976 0523 Don't Play with Matches Fire Chief Delbert Cassarole is the toast of the town because fires are almost non-existent because of his prevention methods. But the citizens of his sleepy little town don't know his dark secret about how he spends Friday nights. Delbert Casserole is a man with strange hobbies: Lying, murder, arson -- and on Friday nights, he goes to town.
09/24/1976 0524 Queen of the Deadly Night A young Jewish woman of the Dark Ages seeks a rumored kingdom with the intention of becoming its queen. Before she can be queen, she must pass a test.
10/04/1976 0529 The Midas Touch A con man swindles a bank president repeatedly in this farce set on the eve of the Great Depression.
10/05/1976 0530 Private Stock A police detective argues with the ghost of his dead wife as he is confronted with the fact that his daughter is guilty of murder.
10/11/1976 0533 My Wife Doesn't Understand Me A research scientist, unhappy with his marriage, finds solace in the arms of his new secretary. But she has more than love on her mind.
10/12/1976 0534 The God Killer A typist is accused of murdering the author for whom she works. She insists that the murderer was a character from a novel fighting for his survival.
10/18/1976 0537 Killer's Appointment A young woman takes the rap and goes to prison for her boyfriend who rips off his employer. When he abandons her while she is in prison, she plots her revenge.
10/19/1976 0538 The Mission of Atropos A detective follows the clues left by a corrupt industrialist using an illegal and deadly chemical.
10/22/1976 0540 Somebody Stop Me! A cop who is so ugly he can't get a date kills women who turn him down.
10/30/1976 0544 Witches' Sabbath Witches celebrating their holy day, witches conspire to kill a man with murderous intentions.
11/05/1976 0547 The Secret Chamber Thomas Tatum Tattersaul, a realtor, tells the story of Felicity Hargrave who, after losing her lover in war, disappeared only to reappear as a ghost. This is the story of how and why the Hargrave House, a colonial that dates back to the Revolution, is no longer haunted.
11/11/1976 0550 Strike Force Dr. Orville Sanderson Jr. was brought up by his step-father Bob Watson. His mother, Andrea, was married to Bob after Orville's father went missing during the war. When a man possibly having know Orville Sr. turns up in the morgue, Orville Jr. begins to question everything he believes about his real father.
11/23/1976 0553 The Awakening A police detective investigates the murder of a psychiatrist. His only clue is a tape of the murderer consulting with his psychiatrist just before the murder.
11/26/1976 0555 Blood Will Tell His mother who is keeping a terrible secret from him; a 40-year old man discovers the truth on how his dad died at work.
11/29/1976 0556 The Man Who Couldn't Get Arrested Problems begin when two parallel realities collide: One in which the stock broker murdered his wife and one where his wife is alive
12/02/1976 0558 How to Kill Rudy A man discovers that his favorite detective novels predict true crimes. Then he finds a book about his future. The novel tells of how his boss and his wife plan to kill him so they can marry. He takes steps to pre-empt them.
12/07/1976 0561 Enough Rope A scam artist is about to be hanged by a group of men he has swindled in a land deal when his guardian angel shows up to save him. He agrees to go on the straight and narrow if she'll help him pull off the master scam.
12/14/1976 0565 The Smoking Pistol When a cop's son is murdered and a suspect is found holding a smoking gun, he figures it's an open and shut case. But when the suspect's mother appeals to him to investigate further, doubts arise in his mind.
12/17/1976 0567 A Quiet Evening at Home A woman goes to a train station to meet her lover so they can leave their spouses. But when she witnesses a murder, her lover leaves her and she fears testifying because her husband will find out.
12/23/1976 0570 Double Zero A private investigator working an adultery case stumbles on a murder. Five $20 bills with two zeroes written on them provide the clues.
12/28/1976 0573 The Artist A wealthy industrialist falls for a married knife throwing performer. He worries that her husband will find out and deliberately hit her with a knife.
12/31/1976 0575 Tomorrow's Murder A stressed sales manager gets more stressed when he finds his tombstone in the cemetary with a date of death a year in the future.
01/03/1977 0576 Whose Little Girl Are You? A manic-depressive tennis star falls into a pill-induced suicidal stupor. In a daze, she recounts the series of unfortunate events that propelled and reduced her to such a pitiful state.
01/10/1977 0580 Two Renegades
At the turn of the century, a case of mistaken identity lands a professional con man at the forefront of the Panamanian army.  His failure as a General becomes apparent with his lack of skills and Panama’s enemies learn to take advantage of his weakness.
01/11/1977 0581 The Passing of Black Eagle
As a drunk, he is an easy going beggar, but when he is not drinking, he is the criminal known as \"Black Eagle\" -- destined to rob a locomotive! 
01/12/1977 0582 Tobin's Palm
In order to discover the whereabouts of his absent-minded and missing girlfriend, Tobin visits an eccentric occultist to have his palm read. What he learns from the fortune-teller soon sends him on a wild goose chase, much to the amusement of his friend.
01/13/1977 0583 Don't Die Without Me
The mysterious case of two suicides in the early 20th century piques the interest of a reporter and prompts him to investigate into their deaths. He soon discovers that the one thing that links the incidents together is that the women drew their last breath in the exact same room in a seedy boarding house in Manhattan.
01/14/1977 0584 A Departmental Case
A retired gunfighter sheds his insurance clerk persona in order to track down an alleged wife-beating bank robber and bring him to justice. The ex-vigilante becomes conflicted when a New York reporter discovers that the deceased was actually not that different from her killer.
01/15/1977 0585 Cherchez la Femme
With the intention of making an investment, the owner of a French Quarter restaurant entrusted the sum of $10,000 to a long-time friend and customer. When an unexpected twist of fate resulted in the man’s death, the restaurateur is forced to hire a private eye to track down her money. The search takes him through the shadier side of New Orleans and all the way to New York City, only to find that what he was searching for had been underneath his nose all along.
01/16/1977 0586 Jimmy Valentine's Gamble
A professional thief goes on the straight and narrow after finally tiring of a life on the run. However, an unexpected crisis surfaces in his life and he must exercise his old skills to perform one last heist.
01/19/1977 0588 The Woman in Red
An unlikely thief steals a famous painting. The person who made off with the masterpiece has highly specific and long term plans for the art piece.
01/24/1977 0590 License to Kill Billy (Chappie) Chapman is a huge 6-foot 260-pound player is cut from the football squad because he lacks the killer instinct. When his wife is seriously injured in an auto accident and the medical bills start piling up, Chappie asks the coach for another chance. The coach renames him \'The Chopper,\' and tells him to go out on the field and destroy his opponents. Unfortunately, Chappie takes his coaches words literally to heart.
01/28/1977 0592 My Fair Lady-Killer
A series of deaths involving loose and promiscuous women lead a police detective to believe that the crimes are perpetrated by a serial killer. After narrowing the list of suspects, he is disturbed by the fact that the evidence points to the one person who does not fit the criminal profile supplied by the experts.
01/31/1977 0593 A Casual Affair
When a traveling salesman becomes entangled with a beautiful and mysterious lady, he becomes caught up in their casual affair. What he fails to realize is that his partner is more than what she appears to be and his life ends up in grave and terrible danger.
02/04/1977 0595 The Ripple Effect
In an attempt to recover several scandalous love letters from a bitter ex-mistress, a politician unwittingly sets off a chain of events that threaten to ruin his life, and the lives of those around him.
02/08/1977 0597 The Aurora Group
A man\'s problems begin after finding a quarter in his new suit dated nearly ten years into the future. After his discovery, he becomes plagued by visions of a future in which he murders his wife and becomes desperate when other objects from beyond begin appearing in his presence.
02/15/1977 0601 The Star Killers The world\'s top nuclear researcher is either an insane murderess or a gullible innocent. The truth becomes clear when she is forced to recount the story of her marriage to a supposed alien to her therapist; and how she was later convicted for her husband\'s death.
02/28/1977 0608 The Light that Failed In order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a painter and war correspondent does everything in his power to amass a fortune. When he scorns a woman he considers beneath his station, his carefully laid plans fall apart.
03/11/1977 0615 Till Death Do Us Part A plain and middle-aged spinster becomes romantically entangled with her married boss. Unfortunately for her, her lover has made a promise to never leave his wife as long as they both live. His mistress hatches a plot to get rid of the wife so she can claim her man.
03/18/1977 0619 Little Green Death
In order to defend the proprietor of a small-town book shop charged with a crime he cannot remember, his best friend hires a hot shot lawyer to defend him. Things become complicated when the accused starts to doubt himself and begins to believe that he is actually guilty.
03/29/1977 0625 The Coldest Killer Completely enamored with her husband\'s business partner, a faithless wife and her lover scheme to dispatch the two hindrances to their affair: her nosy mother-in-law and her husband himself. 
03/31/1977 0626 Death Is Blue After discovering that his unattractive sister has managed to snare a handsome man as her fiance, he hires a private detective to look into the man\'s background. He is firmly convinced that the scoundrel is merely after her money.
04/07/1977 0630 The High Priest A swindler tries to convince an art appraiser to declare his counterfeit painting to be real and worth millions.
04/15/1977 0635 Borderline Case A young girl, whose father is the town sheriff, becomes clairvoyant while gazing into a smoky-gray pearl worn by an old woman. She learns the terrible history of the valuable pearl and foresees the murder of the famous jewel's owner. Then she helps her father solve the crime.
04/19/1977 0637 The Book of Abaca The captain and the engineer of a doomed oil freighter become the victims of the contents of the ship\'s log when the freighter\'s owner decides he wants the book for himself.
04/28/1977 0642 The Second Chance Lady A door-to-door cosmetics sales lady unwittingly stumbles into the lair of a hold-up guy. She outwits them to stay alive.
05/03/1977 0645 The Luck Sisters This is the story of twin sister residents of a mining town. One always brings good fortune, the other nothing but bad luck. When the residents have a chance to all get rich, the bringer of bad luck should start feeling very nervous.
05/05/1977 0646 Reunion Fever Most of the attendees of a class reunion end up sick with many of them dying. One member of the class gets a letter offering to sell him the remedy for the mysterious virus for $10,000.
05/20/1977 0651 Wine, Women, and Murder A mild-mannered book seller travels to Germany for a poetry festival and is framed for murder. His only hope is an assistant secretary consulate who is only mildly interested in his case.
05/24/1977 0653 Transmutation, Inc. A small time hustler is forced into a moral dilemna where he must choose good or evil when he is confronted by the Devil himself.
05/27/1977 0655 Guilty Secret A Senator finds himself in the middle of a presidential race with a terrible secret he must conceal. He is sure that people know of an indiscretion from his past and will use it against him.
06/03/1977 0659 The Two-Dollar Murders A man tries to cover up an affair and murder by killing a cop who writes him a parking ticket. The unlikliest of clues and the unlikliest of witnesses gives him away.
06/06/1977 0660 The Blood Red Wine A man wonders out of a storm into a couple's house and dies of a heart attack. He is carrying with him $250,000 stolen money. Do they keep it or give it back despite the fact that nobody knows they have it?
06/16/1977 0666 Little Lucy's Lethal Libation Womens Lib runs amok. An advertising executive suspects that women plan to take over the world when his female boss assigns him to an account with an overbearing female client who shuns publicity.
06/24/1977 0671 Fan Mail An overly obsessed fan is angry when her favorite soap opera character is killed off, believing it to be real. Meanwhile, the actors live out a real-life soap opera.
06/27/1977 0672 Come, Fill My Cup A train conductor recounts how a regular poker game on commuter train 4321 turned into murder by poison.
07/08/1977 0679 The Gift Rita Holland and Walter Powers accomplish a murder they have been planning for some time. They go to Rita's apartment and after she turns up the hi-fi to its loudest pitch, Walter shoots her husband, Dennis. Their explanation to the police is that Dennis was killed by a burglar trying to steal his valuable coin collection. The police begin a routine investigation, so routine that Walter, subject to hallucinations, starts believing they know he's guilty.
07/15/1977 0683 The Kingdom Below A wealthy American financier and his wife travel to Europe to help their daughter find a husband with the aristocracy. The daughter soon falls in love, but not with a man of whom her father approves.
07/18/1977 0684 The Bisara of Pooree A British soldier buys a small, mysterious jewelry box that brings him bad luck. His luck doesn't change when the box is stolen. To get the girl of his desire, he must steal it back.
08/10/1977 0693 Case Closed An engineer holds up a bank and takes a teller hostage. His demands are unusual. As the standoff continues, he learns a lot about himself from his hostage.
08/12/1977 0694 For Want of a Nail A woman's plane is forced to land in a North Dakota town that just happens to be the home of the biggest customer of the company her husband owns. But when she decides to see the factory, she finds out the Audley Company doesn't exist.
08/19/1977 0697 The Instrument A writer keeps an incompetent agent because the agent had saved him from drowning years before. Just when he's getting ready to fire him, he finds himself in need of his agent's services again... and again....
08/29/1977 0701 To Be a Rose A psychotic murderer kept incarcerated in a mental asylum recounts the days of him being a sensitive poet and how he fell in love. But his beloved broke his heart and drove him over the edge.
09/02/1977 0703 Olive Darling and Morton Dear A stress-relieving journey into nature might prove fatal for a diffident accountant who ends up sharing a room with a self-proclaimed writer who can be a deadly robber in reality.
09/12/1977 0707 First Childhood An intelligent but whimsical aged lady must prove herself capable in mind as detractors try to take away her house and livelihood. But they might be up for a surprise.
09/19/1977 0711 The Wind and the Flame A blackmailer pesters a rich businessman through phone calls. But it is the maid who answers his calls most of the time and she begins to suspect her employer's past? But is she blameless herself?
09/22/1977 0713 The Plan The whims of a wealthy woman leads to the demise of her favourite maid and she is wracked with guilt.
09/26/1977 0715 The Guy de Maupassant Murders The sensational tale of a serial murderer is followed by a judge and his attendant. The killer seems to exclusively choose young women as his victims and leaves tantalizing notes next to their corpses. The erudite attendant tries to trace the style of writing that seems oddly familiar to her but the judge keeps aloof.
09/27/1977 0716 The Wintering Place An aged widower forces himself sexually onto a female scientist and later murders her. Now he is haunted by her ghost who also calls upon the ghost of his wife to make him confess his actions.
10/03/1977 0719 Mother Knows Best A cash strapped former college football idol and an opportunist juvenile delinquent try to borrow from the football player's wealthy uncle. But the uncle ends up murdered and everyone suspects the footballer, including his mother. But her own uneasy conscience over his neglected childhood forces her to look for the real culprit.
10/14/1977 0724 The People of Sissora A man spots another at a restaurant dinner and pins him down as the ultimate threat to mankind. It transpires that they are both from a different planet!
10/25/1977 0729 Just to Keep Busy A betrothed man strives to win the affection of his friend's secretary. When she finds out his double game, she takes the extreme step and he becomes the suspect.
11/04/1977 0735 The Final Judgement A classic tale from the legendary fables of King Solomon. Three merchants go to Solomon to get his counsel as to which of them is unscrupulous. Solomon uses his sagacity and devices a unique strategy to get at the truth.
11/11/1977 0739 We Meet Again The murderer recently apprehended by her husband turns out to be the wife's old flame. She is convinced of the man's innocence and feels guilty for having ditched him. She decides to take the investigation into her own hands along with a bit of help from her husband.
11/18/1977 0743 A Grain of Salt An enchanting Irish folk tale is repeated in America as a young Irish lady asks an Irish cop to help find her lost purse that contains an enchanted salt shaker. She also recounts how her father acquired the shaker from the ancient Old Man of the Stone back at home.
11/25/1977 0746 Indian Giver A rich old woman's estate is haunted by an Indian ghost who drives away all her guests and domestic help. She engages the services of an easy-going private eye to help her solve the problem.
12/02/1977 0749 Neatness Counts An investigator ends up with the unfortunate duty of solving the murder mystery about a man so universally panned that each and every person he knew in his lifetime could be a suspect.
12/07/1977 0751 Fire and Ice A tiff between a father and daughter on the choice of her suitor leads to an extremely taxing expedition for both the chosen candidates selected by the two. But the results throw even them into surprise!
12/09/1977 0752 This Time Around A man struggles to survive in his career and marriage. But his mind seems ridden with visions of an apocalyptic battle as a medieval knight. Later, Sir Kenneth overruns his mind completely.
12/19/1977 0756 Brothers of the Angle Mrs. Buttwheezer is the rich heroine of this tale of undying love. She believes her deceased husband will return from his grave to keep her company. A bunch of swindlers decide to take advantage of this using the old man's love for poetry and fishing and claim to get messages from him to win her trust.
12/21/1977 0757 The Big Ten-Cent Hustle An autobiographical sketch narrated by a minty new Mercury dime.
01/02/1978 0762 Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater Peter Perkins is a loser. He is sidelined at work and pestered at home. He seeks refuge in daydreams where he isn't criticized by any, but such is his capacity for losing that even they turn against him and he starts to lose control over reality and illusion. However, it is the change in his real life that makes this story intriguing.
01/16/1978 0765 In Another Place A rich young couple believe they they have gotten away with a crime executed faultlessly, but the police chief knows better although he doesn't have evidence.
01/24/1978 0770 The Ranee of Rajputana

A copper figurine of the Indian "Queen of Thieves" traps an deceitful, mischievous stockbroker in a dangerous but prosperous career.  A robber and then tries to get him to commit a murder. When he tries to step back, his good fortune evaporates and an investor asks for her money back. But she aids him in executing another crime that might cover all his previous misdemeanours.
01/27/1978 0772 The Defectors A married senator is blackmailed by a spy who managed to take a photograph of the senator in an embarrassing position with another woman. The spy forces him to propose a legislation that might hurt the interests of the U.S. But the senator decides to fight back as he only lacks in moral, but not patriotic fervor.
02/02/1978 0775 Don't Look Back A legendary country singer falls for the charm of a plain girl from a small town he met at a remote service station. But she does not dare reciprocate out of fear for his manager who might even murder her to get her out of the way.
02/06/1978 0777 The Talking Women An unscrupulous man decides to see the error in his ways. He becomes attentive to his wife, stops cheating on her with his mistress and even stops billing his company for unnecessary visits. But is he too late? As his mistress winds up dead in New York, a blackmailer appears in the troubled scene.
02/10/1978 0780 Reflected Terror A quote from a Borges story says \"Mirrors and copulation are abominable as they increase the number of men\". The mysterious mirror takes a whole new form of terror in this Gothic tale of guilt and madness told by a young girl who enters into the service of a lord who will not allow mirrors in his manor. They force him to look at the face he once murdered - that of his wife.
02/13/1978 0781 Night Eyes A horse-tender winds up killed after he finds out that a slow horse has been replaced by a similar looking one. But miraculous coincidences reveal the plan and forces the owner's wife to search for the facts.
03/02/1978 0791 You Tell Me Your Dream A professional attempt to help a rich man with his constant dreams about death turns unpleasant for a psychiatrist as she starts having them too. Her co-workers are not helping either.
03/07/1978 0794 The Red Scarf Trouble brews between an adulterous couple as the woman ditches her paramour for murdering her husband. But he isn't about to let her go scot-free.
03/13/1978 0797 The Wheel of Life An ex-soldier runs into a former colleague he believed dead in Vietnam. Now the friend is an influential leader of an upcoming political movement and asks him to participate. He finds out that his friend's stupendous ascent was fated by the cosmos.
03/17/1978 0800 Identified Flying Objects Bizarre comedy where a broke alien is picked up for breaking traffic rules and his space vehicle is confiscated. But luck favours him finally as a young woman from Earth falls for him and lends him the required paltry fine amount. They then set off an a journey to his homeland in the stars to live happily ever after.
03/24/1978 0804 Wise Child A kindly couple come across an abandoned toddler at a hotel after a heavy storm and adopt it. But the baby never seems to grow older...
03/31/1978 0808 Shark Bait An incorrigible gambler lays a diabolic plan to clear his debts by taking his bookie's aid to kill his own brother and aunt to get hold of their wealth.
04/03/1978 0809 Fortune's Favorite An elderly unmarried woman smells deceit when she is receives random invitations for free holidays paid for by a rich sponsor.
04/10/1978 0813 Childish Laughter A scientist finds himself isolated in a remote house after damaging his car in an accident in order to save a young girl. He finds himself trapped by his own memories and the haunting laughter of a young girl.
04/18/1978 0818 Uncle Louis A young police investigator attempts to gather proof against a known mobster and falls for a lady witness during it. The irate mobster discovers a secret from his past.
04/27/1978 0823 The Queen of Palmyra A private eye chases an enigmatic woman who is a self-declared messiah and the reincarnation of a queen of ancient Rome. She is acquainted with a financier whose young nephew takes her to be on a con job.
05/01/1978 0825 A Drink with Dionysius A nuclear weapon poetically named after the Greek god of wine falls into the hands of a small-time robber and swindler. He tries to sell it to an offshore client.
05/09/1978 0830 Room 418 A suave man talks his way into renting a reserved room at a fully-booked hotel. But problems creep up when the rightful owner unexpectedly turns up in the night.
05/16/1978 0834 Girl Talk Two former schoolmates compare their present lives many years later. One has chosen to be a homemaker while another deals with bureaucratic politics in her capacity as a Senator. Even through the process of taking stock, one of them plans a murder.
05/19/1978 0836 The Hundred Dollar Difference A down-on-his-luck gambler enlists the help of his girlfriend to kill his wealthy aunt and get hold of her fortunes. Unfortunately, when he appears at the scene, he finds that the job has already been carried out for him.
05/26/1978 0840 Arctic Encounter A peculiar energy drain in an Arctic region forces two American and Russian fighter planes and their crew to crash consequently. The survivors are left to encounter a new, strange world.
06/06/1978 0846 Miracle in Sharon City An industrious mayor becomes a hero when he manages to get a leading chemical company to set up a manufacturing unit in his small town. But an encounter with an ex-chemist at the company reveals facts about the product(s) that leaves him having serious doubts.
06/14/1978 0850 Charlie, the Actor Reverence gives way to fury and intrigue as a police officer ordered to protect the king of an obscure country finds him to be an escaped criminal from his former place of residence.
06/26/1978 0855 Lady Bluebeard An insurance agent is sent to check on the widow beneficiary of six aged husbands, with all the marriages culminating under two years. Can he prove her culpability in murder while fearing to be her next victim at the same time?
07/05/1978 0859 My Kingdom for a Horse The strange tale of a gambler and the conversations he has with his horse companion.
07/13/1978 0863 The Village of Fools A delightful farce in which a man is sent on a task to find the hamlet of Helm. But on his arrival, he is given the duties of a magistrate and given the mission to save the moon. E.G. was delighted to present this comedy and the actors.
07/20/1978 0867 The Further You Go, the Less You Know A spiritual guru persuades a professional deceiver to believe that he really is the reborn DaVinci and gets him to paint a modern Mona Lisa.
07/24/1978 0869 Close Shave A professional deceiver dupes a lonely rich man to marry the empress of a South American country that does not exist. His blackjack dealing girlfriend dons the role of the empress.
07/25/1978 0870 The Stranger Inside A blue-blooded lady is forced on a journey of self-discovery and culpability when her step-daughter ends up murdered. The police investigator helps her on her way.
07/31/1978 0873 The Vanishing Point A thrilling Holocaust-based narrative about a visiting physics professor in Germany on the search for an aged German physicist who had been known for his work on an anti-matter device. Only he is impeded by accidentally coming across a scheme to restore the Nazis with a mysterious weapon - the anti-matter device!
08/04/1978 0875 The Avenging Ghost of Kitty Morgan A woman takes a terrible vow to haunt the residence she made for her cheating beloved and all his sons and grandsons. In a couple of generations, she comes across the perfect chance to get the ultimate revenge.
08/18/1978 0881 Our Own Jailer A malcontent businessman ends up in the magical city of Xanadu where he is permitted to follow his passions. But did he kill someone to reach there? A young attorney investigates.
08/30/1978 0886 The Biggest Fish in the World A delightful farce centered around a woman who tries to enlist the help of the police to save her husband who has been accidentally swallowed by a whale at an amusement park. But an animal rights enthusiast impedes this rescue effort.
09/08/1978 0890 Ignorant Armies A timid mama's boy gets himself into trouble for fibs he told a young girl during military service. He must lie his way through again to get out of the situation.
09/18/1978 0894 It's Hard to Be Rich An affluent writer moves into an inexpensive apartment in order to write in peace. But his dreams are shattered by the blaring piano music from the nest door flat. But this isn't a story about a petty neighbourly quarrel - since the next door apartment is non-existent.
09/22/1978 0896 The Conversion Factor A mathematics thriller. A thrilling solution beyond mathematics. Are we talking about metaphysics here? A physicist is in dire need for the last element in his search for a new paradigm of mathematics - a conversion factor. The answer is apparently hidden with a waitress in a truck stop restaurant
09/25/1978 0897 A Table for Two A blackguard threatens a restaurant manager to keep check on her clients so he can rob their homes while they enjoy dinner.
10/02/1978 0900 The Forever Alley A law-enforcement investigator tries to shame his bowling obsessed brother-in-law into paying heed to his family. But he is as yet unaware that the man is prepared to take his obsession to far greater heights. One day, the brother-in-law vanishes in a bowling alley and the investigator discovers that he might still be there - but in an alternate plane of consciousness.
10/13/1978 0905 How Much Land Does a Man Need? An Indian chief offers the deal of a lifetime to a greedy aristocrat in Colonial America. For the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, he can purchase the expanse of land he can travel around in one day.
10/23/1978 0909 The Lazarus Syndrome A company aggressively starts retrenching the older employees in their roster in order to reinvent the organization into a young and edgy business. Fearing for his job, a fifty-year old manager starts acting youthful despite his doctor and wife's warnings not to overtax his already ailing heart.
11/06/1978 0914 Hit and Run When a professional accident victim unexpectedly perishes after jumping in front of an oncoming car, his hired witness adds extortion to his list of transgressions when he blackmails the senator involved in the crime.
11/17/1978 0919 The Favor of Women In the year 3039, Earth has long since depleted its natural resources and must import all requirements from other places. When the planet that provides them with Selco- the main source of the Earth's energy abruptly cancels all shipments, an astronaut is sent to initiate talks with the planet's queen.
11/22/1978 0921 The Grey Slapper In this play about the prevalent corruption in society, a former student tries to save his teacher turned politician from selling his soul. At the same time, a nosy reporter throws sparks a scandal that the two are in a relationship. In the midst of the chaos, the media continues to search for a gray-clad woman that unexpectedly slapped a prominent politician.
12/01/1978 0925 Squaring The Triangle After unwittingly spending time with the wife of one of his employees when he is stranded in a remote airport due to a snowstorm, he falls for her. Praying for his death, the CEO sends her husband on a dangerous assignment.
12/04/1978 0926 The Serpent of Saris The god of athletics, Saris, exacts punishment on a pugilist. A retired police officer steps in to save him when another boxer's life is in danger.
12/15/1978 0931 The Search for Myra A wealthy industrialist seeks psychiatric counseling when he begins calling his wife, as well as his secretary by a strange name. Together, they delve deep into his conscience to discover who this \"Myra\" person really is.
12/20/1978 0933 It Has to Be True When his gun and clothes are found in the apartment of the deceased, a traveling salesman is imprisoned for the death of a woman he has never met. He pleads innocence but the evidence against him is overwhelming.
12/25/1978 0935 If I Can't Have You The threat of the secret police keep a duo of rivals in check as they compete for the affections of a woman in this complex love triangle.
01/04/1979 0939 The Look In order to further himself as a potential president-elect, a senator uses a sub-committee on organized crime to further things along. Things take a turn for the worse when the investigation moves too close to home.
01/19/1979 0947 Side Effects When a scientist stumbles upon their new drug's lethal side effects, he tells the company's CEO of his findings. Fearing that the disclosure could bankrupt his company, he kills the scientist in order to silence him.
01/22/1979 0948 Let the Buyer Beware At an estate sale, Marcie picks up an antique table and discovers a secret drawer that contains an unmarked pistol. She sets out to find the table's history and unwittingly stumbles upon a murder scheme.
01/24/1979 0949 The Burning Bough A woman is convinced that her son's life is tied to the existence of single tree bough in this ancient myth come to life. However, her son's misdeeds bring her despair; and like the Greek goddess of decades past, will she have the resolve to cast the branch into the fire and end his life?
03/05/1979 0959 The Fall of Gentryville When an entire mountain town vanishes from a map, a reporter is dispatched to uncover the mystery. There she discovers the village's sole survivor and she narrates a chilling and terrible tale.
03/12/1979 0961 All the Time in the World A professional swindler experiencing a losing streak believes he has unraveled the mystery of immortality, he later comes to realize that it is not as wonderful as he imagined.
03/14/1979 0962 The Love God A spirited and opinionated woman alienates her intended with her brash and outspoken ways so she prays to the Indian god of love to remedy the situation.
03/28/1979 0966 Waste Paper During an investigation into the brutal killing of a cleaning woman in a commercial complex, a lady detective discovers that the deceased was actually living a double-life.
04/18/1979 0972 The Golden Girl With orders to assassinate a pseudo-political and religious leader, a woman from another planet is sent back in time to accomplish her mission on Earth.
04/25/1979 0974 Letter of Love, Letter of Death A police detective puts his career on the line in order to prove the innocence of the rival of a murdered theatrical producer when he is accused of the crime.
05/09/1979 0978 The Hole in the Sky Forced to take on a job smuggling contraband, an ace pilot must take a short-cut through a dangerous wormhole to get to his destination on schedule.
05/14/1979 0979 Virtue Is Its Own Reward In a battle to win the soul of a real estate investor, an angel and demon take on earthly bodies. The succubus seduces him in the form of his secretary, while the angel charms him as his headstrong corporate lawyer.
05/21/1979 0981 Help Wanted A series of serial killings of lonely old women piques the interest of a police detective after his elderly aunt tips him off on the suspicious actions of the local grocer.
05/30/1979 0984 A Curious Experience To save himself from punishment, a young soldier enlisted in Union Army names his co-conspirators when he is accused of being a double agent.
06/04/1979 0985 Willy and Dilly A clueless broker falls in love with the very woman who has set out to bamboozle him and relieve him of his money!
06/20/1979 0990 The Spaces on the Wall An art broker hires a private investigator to look into the case of an associate that fell victim to vicious a scam.
06/27/1979 0992 The Giuseppe Verdi Autobus While on vacation in Italy, a widow falls for a vacationing widower from L.A. Problems arise when she discovers that he has not been honest with her as she packs his belongings in preparation for their trip back to the U.S.
07/09/1979 0995 Smile at a Homely Girl Marriage to a paranoid and possessive shrew makes life hell for a local businessman. When the woman is murdered, accounts of her jealous ravings make him the prime suspect in the crime, but he finds an ally in the strangest of places.
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.
08/01/1979 1002 The Goddess Caper While traveling in Europe, Twain encounters a woman who implores the famous author to assist in obtaining the release of her husband from a mental institution. He was committed for claiming that he had been the sculpturer of an ancient and revered piece of art.
08/29/1979 1008 Ninety Lives Suspicious of his motives, a brother does a background check on a supposed amnesia victim that his waitress sister has taken a fancy to.
09/19/1979 1014 You're Better Off Guilty When the body of a renowned actress is discovered by a plain and unexceptional stock broker, he finds himself at the center of the investigation. He feels strangely elated to be considered the prime suspect in the case.
09/26/1979 1016 The Eighth Day On his death bed, an old man promises to return from the grave should his good for nothing son-in-law mistreat his daughter. The son remembers his in-law's vow a little too late.
10/08/1979 1019 Wilhelmina Wilson When a young Olympic swimmer suddenly disappears while visiting the library, her distraught family believes it to be a kidnapping. To solve the case, they must look to the tales of Edgar Allen Poe that the victim was obsessed with.
10/17/1979 1022 Jerry, the Convincer Sucked into a drug smuggling business by a friend, a law-abiding citizen quickly succumbs to the thrill of danger- until he witnesses a brutal murder and wants out.
11/07/1979 1028 Davey Jerrold's Jacket A local scam artist attempts to swindle a young woman of her legacy. She tries to stake her claim on the entire western United States, banking on a treaty inked by her ancestors and a general in the year 1803. Her only proof is an old jacket in which the deed was written.
11/19/1979 1031 The God That Failed On the way home after visiting a third world country on a diplomatic mission, a U.S. senator is knocked unconscious during a plane crash. He wakes up in the midst of a primitive tribe willing to hail him as a god once he fulfills two requirements: to marry a local woman and perform a miracle.
11/21/1979 1032 By Word of Mouth The princess of a primitive Indian tribe becomes an outcast when she is treated by a young doctor. His soft heart is moved and he marries her. When she passes on due to her illness, he vows to liberate her people from the religion that keeps them chained to the ravages of disease.
11/28/1979 1034 The Philosopher's Stone A soft-hearted banker gives in and accepts a so-called \"philosopher\'s stone\" as collateral when a man hard-up on luck walks in to ask for a $100 loan. He then discovers something about himself in the process.
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.
12/10/1979 1037 If a Body The local sheriff becomes suspicious when a widow becomes the recipient of a huge inheritance after her husband is officially declared dead. He is unmoved by her claims that her husband vanished after walking into a field, and is certain that she is hiding something.
12/19/1979 1040 Shadow of a Lover An actor playing the role of a police detective in a drama series finds himself sucked into the delusional world of a woman hooked on romance films when she asks him to help her locate her missing husband. Things start to get sticky when the actor begins to confuse fantasy with reality.
12/31/1979 1043 The Thousand Pound Gorilla A husband begins to have paranoid episodes in which he believes that his wife is out to kill him. His panic attacks were brought about by a chance encounter with his wife's ex-husband at a golf outing; where the man claimed that his wife would murder him if he continued to stay with her!
01/14/1980 1050 The Better Half Despite having murdered her in a fit of envious rage, a young ad agency executive continues to receive advice from his brilliant and deceased wife.
01/23/1980 1053 The Forty-Four The local sheriff has been in love with a wealthy landowner for the longest time. When she confesses to the murder of her cousin over a dispute on the ownership of a certain property, ballistics reports on the weapon come back negative and he must find the true perpetrator of the crime in order to save her.
01/28/1980 1054 The God Machine The cycle of procreation and the institution of marriage is regulated by a master computer in the future. Surprisingly, a young couple over-ride the system and fall in love. They rebel against the machine that tries to separate them.
02/04/1980 1056 That's What Friends Are For A British officer stationed in India is plagued by a bag-pipe playing ghost. His licentious fiancee demands that he do something about it, and he soon discovers that the spirit was merely trying to warn him against his faithless bride-to-be.
02/11/1980 1058 Talk to Me In order to ease his loneliness, an elderly man makes an anonymous tip to a crime hot line just to have someone to talk to. When his actions end up setting an innocent youngster to take the fall for a murder, he must find a way to set him free.
02/13/1980 1059 Crime of Passion A defense lawyer suddenly begins doubting his wife's fidelity as he works on the case of a night watchman accused of killing his spouse for her faithlessness.
03/03/1980 1064 Laundry Money When he unwittingly becomes part of a money laundering scheme, an accountant falls victim to the murderous plot of his best friend and wife- who both plan on hastening his demise.
03/24/1980 1070 The Blue Tiger A determined D.A. hot on the pursuit of a seasoned killer responsible for the murder of a witness turns up dead. Finally free of his tail, the criminal moves on to his next mission- conning an elderly old woman into believing he is her long, lost son.
03/31/1980 1072 The End of the Rainbow Life becomes complicated for a lonesome housewife when she finds herself picked up by a handsome stranger at a singles bar and accompanies him to a nearby town infamous for heavy gambling.
04/07/1980 1074 Madame Sirocco In order to solve the mysterious disappearance the young daughter of a first-generation immigrant, the police department enlists the help of a noted psychic.
04/21/1980 1078 The Fourth Reason A wife enlists the aid of a politician in order to find her missing American husband. The congressman sees it as a tool to propel his campaign and takes advantage of the situation.
04/30/1980 1081 How Can I Ever Thank You In this bizarre tale of romance and mayhem, a fiction author narrates the tale of how he got even with his former protege and rival, as well his unfaithful wife without stooping to murder.
05/21/1980 1087 A Private Demon In order to protect his name, a college professor murders a student when he is presented with evidence that refutes his theories. A battle of wits ensues when the absent-minded professor is pitted against a police detective and his hired help in order to prove his innocence.
06/02/1980 1090 Let George Do It In order to exact revenge on her cheating spouse, an unhappy housewife seduces a traveling salesman and convinces him to murder her stockbroker husband.
06/09/1980 1092 That Magic Touch Christmas works a miracle for a beautiful divorcee and her cold and standoffish husband in a remote hunting lodge. Their plans to start anew are ruined when past hurts resurface.
06/18/1980 1095 In the Name of Love Immersed in her make-believe life, the high-powered president of a huge agency fancies herself as the mother of a renowned actress; and she enlists the aid of a wealthy client when her supposed daughter goes missing.
06/25/1980 1097 The Sweet Smell of Murder The wife of a charter boat captain works closely with a police investigator to prove her husband's innocence when he is caught red-handed with stolen wealth.
06/30/1980 1098 The Old Maid Murders When a middle-aged secretary unwittingly discovers that her boss is a double-agent passing on information to the enemy, her deep love for him forces her to protect him from his destructive tendencies.
07/07/1980 1100 Silent Partners On a business trip, a wealthy industrialist and his secretary are kidnapped. Their adventure begins when they escape their captors and make their way through the jungles of South America.
07/28/1980 1104 A Ton of Gold In an expedition to search for the lost Indian gold of an obscure tribe, an archaeologist and his team set off into the desert of New Mexico. Before long, they discover firsthand the horrors enveloping the cursed gold.
07/30/1980 1105 The Death Disk After being hired by a charitable institution, a woman is surprised when the offer is not only suddenly withdrawn, but she is accused of theft as well. In order to clear her name of a crime she did not commit, she seeks the aid of the local police. When they wash their hands off the case, she takes matters into her own hands and conducts her own investigation.
08/20/1980 1111 Kill Now, Pay Later In order to stop her son from marrying a poor woman, a controlling mother threatens to disinherit him. Instead of hindering their plans, the couple develops closer ties.
08/25/1980 1112 Poor Lester As a result of her pact with the god Zeus, a woman must work to revive the god's ancient religion in exchange for the reversal of a her request she made to take the place of her faithless and deceased husband.
09/03/1980 1115 Leave Well Enough Alone A marital counseling session with a couple he is acquainted with gives birth to the greatest story ever written by talented French novelist, Guy de Maupassant.
09/15/1980 1118 Number One A movie company is taken hostage by a Central American warlord while on location. They are faced with a moral dilemma when the commander demands a night with the director's wife in exchange of their liberty.
10/01/1980 1123 Hero's Welcome After living in paradise for years, an amnesiac castaway regains his memory and returns home to reclaim his life. He is disturbed to find out that the townsfolk are unhappy with his sudden appearance, and that his supposed death gained him a hero's reputation.
10/06/1980 1124 Second Sight In order to evade capture during an attempted robbery of a wealthy man, Arthur Dickson aka Fingers accidentally blinds the detective leading the task force. Dickson is later charged with murder when the millionaire turns up dead. The blind detective comes out of retirement to once again work on the case, this time he believes Dickson's claims of innocence and sets out to exonerate him.
10/13/1980 1126 Napoleon and the Queen of Sheba In order to turn him from a life of crime, two good witches provide their services to a small-time scam artist.
10/15/1980 1127 The Bright Golden Murders Believing that her husband was murdered after discovering a metallurgical secret that would shake the world market, she turns to his friend and the local police for help. Unknown to her, the scientist was actually having an affair with the cabaret singer girlfriend of a mobster- and was subsequently murdered when he discovered their liaison.
10/20/1980 1128 Honest Mistake The wife of an aging hit man nags him to retire after he is given an assignment to kill a timorous accountant. When the accountant's wife catches on after several threats to his life, she takes a look into his affairs to solve the mystery.
10/29/1980 1131 Bloodline Charged with the theft of $2 Million, a stockbroker recounts how he himself was a victim of a scam that resulted in the loss of his employer's money.
11/12/1980 1135 Natural Sugar When an actor turns up dead in the middle of a play, a police detective must sift through all the scenarios to find the killer.
11/19/1980 1137 The Iron Horse Being born under a lucky star as the seventh son of a seventh son, a charlatan and a hard-up dreamer become extremely wealthy after a chance encounter.
11/24/1980 1138 The Killer Instinct A series of strange deaths sparks the interest of a police detective, especially when he learns of the unusual circumstances behind each victim's demise, and the involvement of a smooth-talking salesman.
01/02/1981 1142 Sins of the Fathers A young reporter discovers that she was adopted while investigating a case of fraud and begins a search for the parents who seemingly abandoned her.
01/20/1981 1150 The Fountain Of Truth Behind Ponce de Leon's journey to discover the Fountain of Youth in Florida lies another treasure-hunting quest for lost, ancient gold.
01/27/1981 1152 Small Money A pro golfer finds himself murdering his wife when she begins to start earning more money than him. His ego takes a beating every time he remembers that he was the one who sparked her interest in the game in the first place!
02/06/1981 1156 Is Venice Drowning? In order to prove she is as capable as a man, a female engineer is sent to Venice to help find a solution to their problem. Her reputation takes a beating when she suggests they build a temple honoring a goddess in order to keep Venice from sinking.
02/11/1981 1158 The Shadow of a Killer The lines between reality and fantasy blur when an actor portraying a police detective on a television drama agrees to help a woman, investigate into the case of her missing husband.
02/16/1981 1160 Troubled Waters After his wife appeals to his old boss to give him another chance, an unemployed civil engineer gets a chance to redeem himself. However, he must take the boss's son along for the project as part of the deal. When the young man makes a play for the engineer's wife, trouble sets in.
02/25/1981 1164 A God Named Henry A huge storm causes Henry, a miserable salary man to get marooned on a remote island inhabited by a local tribe that teaches him how to be confident. Soon, the God-in-training returns to civilization as new and improved man.
03/04/1981 1167 Her Long Blonde Hair Obsessed with an unusual violin that he believes is strung with the hair of his murdered wife, a college professor will stop at nothing to reclaim it.
03/06/1981 1168 Heads You Love, Tails You Die When her father is murdered, his young daughter is raised as the adopted daughter of her rich uncle and grows up in luxury. When she falls in love with a smooth-talking real estate investor, her beloved uncle does a background check in order to keep her safe.
03/13/1981 1171 The Heel of Achilles In order to prove to his wife that the house is not plagued by spirits, a wealthy man agrees to spend the night there. Alone, he is visited by the phantoms of his past.
03/16/1981 1172 Maiden Ladies While performing the deed of a Good Samaritan, a young man is brutally slain while assisting a wealthy man with a flat tire. His aunt takes matters into her own hands when the local police refuse to pursue the case.
03/18/1981 1173 Pretty Polly In order to escape the good-natured meddling of his colleagues, a man spins animaginary romance. When his fake lover is found murdered, he discovers that he placed himself at the scene of the crime with his fictitious claims.
03/23/1981 1175 The First Day of Eternity In the pursuit of the source of eternal life, a cunning and perceptive industrialist attempts to buy it but takes home a valuable lesson instead.
03/27/1981 1177 Did I Say Murder? A firsthand account by an adulteress queen telling of the tragic life and death of England's most notorious king, King Henry VIII.
04/01/1981 1179 Down the Garden Path When Machiavelli influences a young man to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit, it starts him along a path that will ultimately lead him to becoming history's most devious and cunning statesman.
04/03/1981 1180 Somewhere Else A woman's dreams run parallel to her fantasies and she tells her psychologist of her visions of herself as a Viking maiden promised to wed a potbellied farmer- and the Nordic warrior in pursuit to rescue her.
04/06/1981 1181 The Gratitude of the Serpent When a young girl is sold to a Spanish conquistador bent on storming the Mayans, she is torn between her people and the master who has treated her more than fairly.
04/15/1981 1185 The Fatal $50,000 In order to look good in his boss' eyes, an employee of a real estate developer filches $50,000 and claims it as sales. After his misdemeanor is discovered, he commits suicide and this showers bad luck on the boss that drove him to it.
04/24/1981 1189 The Long Blue Line When a 10 year old homicide is resurrected, a fourth generation Irish cop is chosen to lead the investigation. As he closes in on the answers, he is disturbed to learn that his retired father is involved in the case.
04/27/1981 1190 Big Momma After finally obtaining celebrity status when his book is published, a young city planner discovers that it was all part of a bribe from his years as a city planner when he allowed the construction of a factory in his city.
05/08/1981 1195 Is the Doctor In? When a wounded mafia leader is brought to his office, a dermatologist is forced to perform surgery at gun point. After living through the ordeal, he discovers that the gangsters are the least of his concerns.
05/15/1981 1198 Cold Comfort Due to an act he committed during the Korean War, an optometrist is blackmailed into becoming a traitor to his country.
05/22/1981 1201 The Headhunters

In the future: Erna Stearns, a reactionary still chooses natural food and believes in normal relationships despite living in a period where people are modified to become model citizens by a computer. When her fiance suddenly calls off their engagement, she asks her father to look into the matter and they soon discover a terrifying government secret.
05/27/1981 1203 Little Richard A young man discovers how skewed the judicial system is when he is released from prison. After serving a sentence for forgery, his desire to turn a new leaf is resolute but the corruption rampant in his city makes it hard for him to do so.
06/05/1981 1207 Matched Pair for Murder For the sake of her lover, a young woman makes an appeal to a judge to rule for an acquittal on his case, when the man gets away with murder, he begins to regret being swayed by emotions.
06/12/1981 1210 When in Rome After becoming the ambassador of a small, European country at his wife's urging, wealth man discovers that all is not well in his new city.
07/01/1981 1215 The Fourth Bullet The memoirs of renowned composer, Hector Bellios tells narrates a strange tale of mischief, murder and mayhem involving a past lover, her mother- and the mystery of the four bullets that eventually claimed their lives.
07/06/1981 1217 My Good Name In the pursuit of becoming a famous couturier, a young artist gives up his passion only to be murdered by his greedy accountant. In order to seek justice for his friend, the police are aided by an investigative journalist.
07/08/1981 1218 Death and the Dreamer Antonio Meucci, an Italian candle-maker living in America encourages the revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi to return to Italy and liberate their homeland.
07/17/1981 1222 Pie in the Sky After picking up a strange gift as a result of a tobacco pipe mix-up, a young man gains the ability to foresee the future. In an attempt to use it in a get-rich-quick scheme, he accidentally transports himself and his wife to an alternate dimension.
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.
07/24/1981 1225 Once a Thief A young punk exacts revenge against the detective that had him arrested years before by having him fired. However, former cop turned security consultant has devised the perfect plan for payback.
07/31/1981 1228 A Penny for Your Thoughts A local reporter encounters a woman with a paranoid belief that her spouse is out to get her. When she digs deeper, the journalist discovers a strange tale involving a manipulative and mythical temptress.
08/17/1981 1234 The Thracian Lovers In defense of the homicide charges filed against him for the deaths of his wife and her lover, a delusional man claims that he is the reincarnation of ancient Greece's King Uranus of Thrace.
08/21/1981 1235 The Left Hand of God When a tale's character comes strangely alive and refuses to accept his fate, Sam Clemens is called in to assist a fellow writer whip his story into shape.
09/11/1981 1241 The Senior Prom After looking closely into the death of several women, the police discover that the common denominator that ties them together was their rejection of a prom date during high school.
09/18/1981 1243 The Land of Dreams After rebelling against a perfect society controlled by a computer, a young couple are forced to go into hiding in order to save their lives.
10/05/1981 1248 The Solid Gold Zarf A man is devastated when his years of loyalty toward his company are rewarded with an unexplained termination. When his wife must take on a job to make ends meet, his morale takes a further beating.
10/09/1981 1249 Sleeping Dogs What prize awaits a French officer who vows to train the weakest link in their unit, and turn him into a super soldier.
10/19/1981 1252 The Equalizer Deception and treachery abound in a third world country and a hired mercenary must deal with the nation's idiosyncrasies as he trains them for war.
10/23/1981 1253 The Most Necessary Evil Detective Lieutenant Crane investigates into the mysterious death of a man after his wife narrates the story of their suspicious rise in wealth and stature.
10/26/1981 1254 Daddy's Girls A sister starts doubting the story of her sibling and turns to the police in order to solve the mysterious death of her sister's editor right after she was fired
11/09/1981 1258 Golden Time In the midst of a routine house call, a plumber is taken hostage when he stumbles upon an on-going drug deal.
11/23/1981 1262 The Code In order to solve the murder of man who was killed three times over, a local sheriff enlists the aid of a carnival psychic.
11/27/1981 1263 Diana, the Huntress After discovering the affair between her doctor husband and his nurse, a devastated wife dreams up the perfect plan for revenge.
12/11/1981 1267 The Song of the Siren After having gone missing for eight days, a man is found in the desert seemingly healthy and miraculously weighing 125 pounds less than when he went in. A local journalist investigates the mystery.
12/23/1981 1270 The Head of a Pin A silicon chip engineer discovers the design flaw that caused a commuter plane to explode. He takes his findings to the government despite the possible repercussions to their business. He turns up dead a few days later and his wife suspects that he was murdered by his business partner- who also happens to be her brother!
01/04/1982 1273 The Acquisition After getting marooned on a mysterious island, a wealthy businessman discovers that his financial prowess is useless and cannot save him from becoming a slave to the island's inhabitants.
01/19/1982 1280 The Real World An idealistic lady detective sets out to seek justice for the death of an exotic dancer despite being told by her superiors that the perpetrators of the crime are untouchable.
01/21/1982 1281 Gate 27 After being deserted by his wife, a former investigator finds relief at the bottom of a liquor bottle. His life takes a turn for the better when he meets a young woman on the commuter train who reminds him of his worth. When she suddenly disappears, he begins to have visions that she is desperately calling for help and relies on his old abilities to find her.
02/01/1982 1284 The Good Ship Aud A graphic recounting of the life and death of Sir Roger Casement, who was sentenced to hang for his crimes against the British Crown.
02/08/1982 1287 Change of Heart Business magnate Roger Skipworth is rushed to the hospital for an open-heart surgery a few days after the end of his engagement. He recalls the parting words of his fiancée in which she likened him to a pig when he begins to exhibit swine-like tendencies after the heart valve replacement.
02/15/1982 1290 The Point 44 Connection An aging secretary is laid-off due to her age. Incensed by the discrimination, she challenges her boss to a duel and wins. An investigation takes place and the spirit of her long-deceased grandfather guides her in dealing with the local police.
02/22/1982 1293 Nickels and Dimes Undercover cop Ray Vance becomes so immersed living his life as the heir apparent to Big Joe's East Side organization that he begins to dread going back to the boring life of a police officer.
03/01/1982 1296 The Blue Sedan A young female cop undertakes to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a sleazy private investigator. Her only clue is a blue sedan spotted at the scene of the crime.
03/03/1982 1297 Death Star When she finds herself strangely lapsing into the memory of a 16th century woman, a high-powered business executive is incensed when she discovers that the local magazine stand man is the reincarnation of her past husband's executioner!
03/10/1982 1300 The Heart of Boadicea The sudden death of her husband robs a queen of her throne. She is urged to take up arms and seek vengeance by her people. However she must weigh out the consequences of her actions and choose a course that will safeguard the lives of her people.
03/17/1982 1303 Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too When a 60-year old furniture maker proclaims his intention to marry his assistant thirty years his junior, his friend and neighbor is alarmed. She must expose the woman's dastardly motives to save him from making a terrible mistake.
03/24/1982 1306 The Old Country While en route to sort out a problem in their firm's Russian branch, a strategic planner inadvertently travels back in time. He finds himself in his parent's birth village and uncovers the mystery shrouding their past.
03/31/1982 1309 I Am the Killer The head of obstetrics in a 19th century hospital works to discover the cause of the high fatality rate during labor despite their technological advancement compared to the local midwives.
04/07/1982 1312 Only a Woman The self-proclaimed daughter of the goddess Dagon recounts the tragic fate of several men who looked down on her.
04/12/1982 1314 His Fourth Wife An artist must make the decision of life when he is chosen to pain the fourth potential wife of the infamous King Henry VIII.
04/21/1982 1318 The Jataka After having been given several conflicting reasons by his servants for her mentor's mysterious absence, a young professor begins to suspect foul play.
05/05/1982 1324 Dreamers and Killers When her former lover becomes involved in several mishaps that nearly result in his untimely death, his ex-fiance becomes disturbed by how closely the accidents mirror her dreams!
05/07/1982 1325 The Wedding Present A duo of professional swindlers enlists the services of a hapless American painter in a plot to scam the king of a Balkan country. Determined to pull off the con of the century, the unlikely tag-team work together and in the process, learn that they share a great deal more in common than they realized.
05/14/1982 1328 The Hills of Arias In order to escape the rising dictatorship, a Central American revolution flees the country and starts a new life in America as a college professor. Despite being miles away, the revolutionist blood in him refuses to be silenced.
05/24/1982 1332 Your Desires, My Guilt A middle class couple learns that they have somehow obtained an ability that allows them to manifest whatever they desire. Their seemingly perfect life takes a turn for the worse when they start abusing their gift.
05/26/1982 1333 Why Is This Lady Smiling? In this fictional tale set in the year 1498, Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint the image of a silk merchant's wife. Playfully altering the woman's natural smile, he came up with a masterpiece that will eventually become an integral part of art history, the Mona Lisa.
05/31/1982 1335 Lady Macbeth at the Zoo After unwittingly learning about a murder plot involving a young couple and the man's uncle, Waldo is determined to put a stop to it. The only problem is that Waldo is a caged monkey and despite his best efforts, cannot do a single thing to save the victim.
06/02/1982 1336 Two Times Dead Based on a true story of the man who was framed for his own murder as told by a media reporter.
06/21/1982 1341 Universe Hollow In order to regain her lost credibility, Patricia Ellicott attempts to discredit the people of Universe Hollow when she is assigned to cover a U.F.O. sighting in the town. Phantoms in her past force her to take stock of her life and she must make a difficult choice.
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.
06/28/1982 1344 Escape to Prison Believing that her friends are part of a huge conspiracy, an executive turns to a local investigator to help her prove that her supposedly deceased husband is alive and well.
07/02/1982 1346 Bring Back My Body A psychologist attempts to balance out a woman with split personalities in order to save her from the vindictive rage of one of her personas.
07/09/1982 1349 Come Back Next Week In order to discover the man who ordered her husband's death, a woman makes a weekly visit to the state prison in order to talk with his killer. In the midst of her investigation, she learns about her husband's many secrets.
07/20/1982 1353 Formula Z -- The Protector The new wonder paint, Formula Z is the main ingredient in manufacturing the ink used in fingerprinting suspects and criminals. This becomes the focal point in a game of international intrigue and espionage.
08/03/1982 1357 Redhead In order to assuage his guilt over the death of an innocent woman whom he dropped off at the wrong stop, a bus driver uses his connections to catch the murderer.
08/17/1982 1361 Famous Last Words A young woman loses all credibility when she reports the discovery of a dead person outside a warehouse- only to have the body vanish when the police finally arrive.
08/31/1982 1365 How Do You Like Those Apples? A chance encounter with a psychic allows a cheating spouse to learn about his death. At the same time, his wife begins having strange visions of her husband's murder and tries to find the killer in order to stop him.
09/02/1982 1366 The Rim of Eternity In an attempt to regain his former stature in the media, a hard up reporter works to solve the murder of the town's most wanted criminals.
09/16/1982 1370 Two Sisters In order to gain an edge against her more popular sister and win the affections of the doctor they are both in love with, the shy sibling is convinced by their Indian servant to impersonate her more gregarious twin.
09/29/1982 1375 The Million Dollar Leg In order to recruit a kicker for a professional team, a college football coach must travel behind the Iron Curtain as a favor to an old teammate.
10/04/1982 1377 The Ninth Commandment In a strange turn of events, a wealthy woman falls for a man who tries to break into her house. When he is later arrested for homicide, he sacrifices his freedom for the sake of keeping her safe.
10/11/1982 1380 Tony's Market The evidence in a convenience store shooting is pieced together by looking into the chain of events in the lives of the killer and his victims before they ended up at the crime scene.
10/13/1982 1381 Fly Swatter Tired of their lives as petty thieves, a husband and wife team attempts to get regular jobs. Their search lands them in the employ of an eccentric couple that has a strange love for flies!
10/15/1982 1382 The Flash Point An engineering executive finds himself losing his memory from the trauma of being laid off. Just as he begins building a new life, the ghosts of his past resurface.
10/18/1982 1383 Desert Maiden In order to come up with a name for their latest fragrance, a middle-aged advertising agent seeks inspiration in the desert. He embarks on a journey of enlightenment when he bumps into a former lover in the sandy dunes.
10/25/1982 1386 Resident Killer Violence has been eradicated in the nature of man five hundred years into the future. The threat of alien invasion forces the government to reverse a formerly vicious man's programming and unleashes a brutal onslaught against the invaders.
11/11/1982 1392 The Twelfth Juror After murdering her married lover in a fit of jealous rage, a wealthy woman blackmails one of her employees into becoming her scapegoat. Her plans of getting away scot-free hit a snag when one of the jurors on the bench refuses to be bribed.
11/16/1982 1393 The Magic Dust A metallurgist stumbles upon a mysterious powder that inherently changes the structure of metal. His research leads him to his old college professor who warns him of the terrible secret shrouding the ancient dust. Despite severe warnings, industrialists seek to capitalize on the dangerous formula.
11/18/1982 1394 Diamond Dotty After killing the miscreants who murdered her husband in an attempt to hijack their diamond mine, a distraught woman confesses to the crime upon her arrival in a western frontier town.

22 Responses to Dann Sam

Sam Dann was one of the workhorse writers for Mystery Theater. His writing was consistently fantastic. A pleasure to listen to.

Davy Joe

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Sam, your tantilizing stories kept me up late nights,on the edge of my seat, even though I had school in the morning. Thank you for opening my imagination thru radio. You and the actors here on the RMT are truley talented and yet grossly unappreciated. If I could, I would give you an Oscar! Thanks a million!

Mark Cortino

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Did Sam Dann ever have a day off, get tired, or simply take a break? He seemed to write as if it were as simple as boiling an egg. I am very, very impressed.

Robert RJMGREEN@AOL.COM

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I really enjoy Sam Dann and his incredible contributions to RMT. Hours, days and years of entertainment. Thank You.

Craig

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According to the internets, Samuel H. Dann was born May 18, 1918, and died October 26, 2004, in Delray Beach, Florida, USA. He received a Writers Guild Award for his 1975 CBSRMT script, "Goodbye, Karl Erich."

Karen

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I just stumbled onto this site/forum/whatever in looking to see if Sam was still alive. Happy to see he hasn't passed. His stories will live on for generations. His radio writings are incomparable and I am so glad to have been alive to listen to them. I do hope he realizes that we appreciate his ingenious writings. Thank you for the many hours of entertainment, Sam!!!

Bob

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Sam Dann is a fabulously talented writers that contributed scripts to the Mystery Theater throughout its run.

Robert

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Sam Dann is my favorite writer.

Robert

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I love Sam Dann my favorite writer

Marsha

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My favorite one

Marsha

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I hope Sam is still able to appreciate our comments. I have a complete (I think) RMT collection and am always glad when I hear an episode was written by Sam Dann. All the writers were good, but Sam's writings were consistently among the best. You continue to entertain me with your brilliant works, Sam. Thank you!

Bob

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Sam the Man!! Just loved the stories he wrote for the mystery theater.may have been the number 1 writer for the show and well worth it.thanks for wonderful and shocking stories sam.

John

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As a devoted listener to CBS radio mystery theater, as often as not, I hear that Sam Dan wrote the script. I am trying to fathom how he could have been so prolific! According to the web notes, he wrote 311 scripts for CBS radio mystery theater, but apparently appeared in more than that. I was dismayed to find very little information about him when searching the web, and believe this major contributor to radio theater, as well as other media dramatic shows, deserves more recognition than he has gotten. I spent some time searching for an image of Sam Dann on Google images, and while, under his name, I found large numbers of images of other writers and actors on CBS radio mystery theater, there was not a single image of Sam Dann. Who can find an image of Sam Dann, or a more detailed biography?

David

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here is also another thing I've always been curious about. Is Victoria Dann, (one of the other CBSRMT writers/actors), related to Sam Dann?

Adam

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According to other threads on this site, she’s his daughter.

Martin L. Shoemaker

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I know! It's amazing to me that he was able to crank out so much stuff. He really was the best!

Bill

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For whatever reason, the only names I remember hearing more than once during the original run (besides Marshall’s) are Fred Gynne (who could forget Herman Munster) and Sam Dann. I think Dann’s alliterative sounding name stuck with me. I’m on hiatus from CBSRMT; initially, rediscovering the show was a blessing for my insomniac tendencies, but after hearing all 1,399 episodes about five times you start losing your mind. I remember reading somewhere that Dann turned a number of his shows into short story collections. I tend to think of Dann and Ian Martin as grinders—able to turn out lot’s of product, some of it pretty good, a lot of it awful. It’s pretty evident to me that Hi Brown could turn to either when he just had to have a script, but there were other writers who worked a lot harder to create a quality product.

Andrew

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Ian Martin was almost as prolific and he appeared regularly as a player too.

Bill

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He is in my heart

And you have been there before

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A Rainbow Soldier during WWII, Sam Dann was a teacher (teaching visual and dramatic writing as an adjunct professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University), a scriptwriter for various radio and TV anthology shows, a playright (he co-wrote the off-Broadway musical, "Tuscaloosa's Calling Me (But I'm Not Going)" which ran for 429 performances in 1975-76 at The Village Gate), and a novelist. According to Himan Brown, Sam's first love was radio, and he worked with Brown back in radio's early days. Sam reportedly wrote 311 episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater for Himan Brown. One of which, "Goodbye, Karl Erich," won BEST RADIO DRAMATIC SCRIPT at the 1975 Writers Guild of America Annual Script Awards, and was published as a novel ten years later. Another CBSRMT episode from Dann, "Children of Death," served as the basis for Dann's 1979 novel "The Third Body," published by Popular Library. Dann also served as editor for the 1998 book "Dachau 29 April 1945: The Rainbow Liberation Memoirs," which presents several eyewitness testimonials to the liberation of the notorious Nazi concentration camp.

Danny

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Samuel H Dann born 18 May 1918 died Delray Beach, Florida: 26 October 2004 A Rainbow Soldier during WWII, Sam Dann was a teacher (teaching visual and dramatic writing as an adjunct professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University), a scriptwriter for various radio and TV anthology shows, a playright (he co-wrote the off-Broadway musical, "Tuscaloosa's Calling Me (But I'm Not Going)" which ran for 429 performances in 1975-76 at The Village Gate), and a novelist. According to Himan Brown, Sam's first love was radio, and he worked with Brown back in radio's early days. Sam reportedly wrote 311 episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater for Himan Brown. One of which, "Goodbye, Karl Erich," won BEST RADIO DRAMATIC SCRIPT at the 1975 Writers Guild of America Annual Script Awards, and was published as a novel ten years later. Another CBSRMT episode from Dann, "Children of Death," served as the basis for Dann's 1979 novel "The Third Body," published by Popular Library. Dann also served as editor for the 1998 book "Dachau 29 April 1945: The Rainbow Liberation Memoirs," which presents several eyewitness testimonials to the liberation of the notorious Nazi concentration camp.

Dan

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His obituary from 2013: May 23, 1931 - May 8, 2013 Resident of Lafayette A beautiful man… called by some a creative genius. Stan Dann left this world as he lived, with a little paint on his shirt, his family and Sidney (his best dog ever) by his side. He hiked the hills surrounding his home and created art until almost the very end. Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Stan always said he'd had a perfect childhood. The times he spent playing on the Fraser River provided him the start for a lifelong love affair with hiking and the outdoors. Stan learned machine pattern making in the shop owned by his brother Art, where he picked up woodworking skills. At eighteen, he met the elegant Margaret Eaton and the two were married, each at age twenty-one. It was a lasting and mutual attraction. The two soon moved to Los Angeles where Stan attended and then graduated with honors from Art Center School of Design. They moved north to the Bay Area and settled in Lafayette. In the early Sixties, Stan had a brief stint as an art director and illustrator with advertising firm McCann Erickson in San Francisco. He then co-founded the 222 Design Group with friends Ed Diffenderfer and John Lichtenwalner. Stan carved a sign for their new venture and soon architects were calling for Stan Dann's wood graphics services. Thus began his own career in woodworking and Stan soon became a recognized figure in the California Craft Movement of the 1960's and 70's. His commercial signage, graphics, murals and doors, created in carved redwood, were widely sought after by prominent architects and designers and were featured in national publications. His carved decorative art was exhibited in such iconic venues as the Nut Tree in Vacaville. Ultimately, Stan Dann's creative energy led him into the world of fine art. As an artistic maverick, he began to use wood in a completely original manner in 1980. He sculpted and painted wood into bas-relief wall sculptures, transcending the medium. These were puzzle-like assemblages depicting both sophisticated and sometimes humorous renderings of street landscapes, household ephemera, machinery (machine-scapes), dimensional doodles and even the intimacy of worn shoes. Stan's favorite and ever- changing point of debate was how to apply the final finish to the sculpture. "I've finally got the finish figured out!" was his common refrain with those close to him. Among his triumphs were his solo exhibition at Allan Stone Gallery, New York; his inclusion in "Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design" at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; and "Stan Dann, a Ten Year Perspective" at Civic Arts, Walnut Creek. His artwork is in significant private and museum collections, including the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; "Tools as Art: the Hechinger Collection", Washington, D.C.; and the collection of Forrest L. Merrill, Berkeley. Art patrons and former gallery owners Barclay and Sharon Simpson were essential to his continued success with their enthusiastic support of his work throughout his fine art career. Work aside, Stan Dann was just about the most charming, hilarious and real person one could ever have the pleasure of knowing. He and his wife Margaret gave some wild parties over the years. Stan loved people, period. He simply was that kind of man. Stan also had a deep love for his son Vincent, who predeceased him, and his daughter Lynda, who follows in his creative footsteps. He also adored his son-in-law Jorge Rojas. He is survived as well by Margaret, his wife of 60 years. In Canada, survivors include his brother Art Dann and wife Lorraine, sister-in-law Eleanor Miller and husband Don, sister-in-law Donna Fowler, and Stan's many nieces and nephews. Lifelong friend John Pratt, who moved to California and shared many of Stan's big adventures, also survives him. Those who knew Stan will forever miss his tall lanky form, warm blue eyes, and loving smile. They will miss seeing him hike daily on Briones Ridge in Lafayette, dog by his side. They will perhaps even miss those endless political discussions with Stan at dinner parties. They will surely miss the way he lit up every room with his humor and presence. His art, so reflective of his personality, lives on.

Adam

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