I I rate this episode ★★★★☆ for GOOD. This Fantasy-Mystery, written by Ian Martin, is good as his other bewitching tale: #0280-WITCHES' ALMANAC. The difference is that this particular horror story had what E.G. Marshall use to say, "The fear…you can hear." The storyline was great, but I found 3 things that were puzzling. ONE: When the Witch dies (SPOILER ALERT), none of the characters asked what's going to happen to her 63 cats. TWO: Why is the Witch named Sarah Taylor? It's a good name, but a better name for this particular Witch would be "Cathica" because it fits perfectly for someone who transforms into a cat and/or raises dozens of felines. And THREE: the Lawyer's fiancé in this story says it's Halloween & there's a Full Moon. SPECIAL NOTE: When this episode first aired on Halloween 1976, there was no Full Moon. The closest time the Full Moon appeared during the week of Halloween, was on October 30th, 1974 when CBSRMT aired #0143-THE IMP IN THE BOTTLE. This episode, #0545-THE QUEEN OF CATS aired again for Halloween 1978, when the New Moon appeared…but I digress. Anyway, the sound effects of the howling wind, guns firing, the cats, doors, rotary phone ringing, the Witch's ghastly transformation, beeping noises from the hospital, and the footsteps in the woods were suitable. But I think they overdid the sounds of the cats in ACT-1, it was too much of it. The music, though, had fantastic horrifying tunes that were hair-raising, goose bumping, bone-chilling in every scene! The music that was playing during the Witch's narrations would make your blood run cold, just like the music in ACT-3 from #1245-THE JUDGE'S HOUSE. In our Host's Prologue, E.G. Marshall brings up the info on October 31st & the history of Halloween. In ACT-1, he discusses shapeshifting studies. I loved his narration at the end of the Act when he said, "The nightmare has only begun. The fabric of it still in the weaving. The terror and disaster and agony not yet stitched into the tapestry." Now THAT is an eye-opening narration! In ACT-2, he brings up to speed that there's a halloween figure of monstrous and terrifying evil: Sarah Taylor the Witch. Later, he points out the musings of our main villain, which is very informative. In ACT-3, after discussing Peter Pan's Tinker Bell, he asks, "Do we believe as profoundly in the spirits of darkness and terror and total destruction?" That's a mystery we have to solve on our own. At the end of this gruesome tale for Halloween, E.G. Marshall quotes the line from the Wizard of OZ: "Ding, dong, the Witch is dead." In his Epilogue, not only he talked about the lawyer who survived in this tale, but points out that Halloween is a time of thrills & chills, but it's also a time to rejoice (All Saints' Day). Great work, E.G. Marshall. And great work to our cast: Tammy Grimes (as Sarah Taylor: the Witch), Joe Silver (as the Sheriff), Jack Grimes (as Tony Readick: the Lawyer), and Betsy Beard (as Carrie Chisolm: Tony's fiancé). Bravo to Joe Silver, Jack Grimes, and Betsy Beard, but I'd give a round of applause to Tammy Grimes who played her part WICKEDLY! Listen to her wicked narrations, but also listen at the 36-minute mark when Tammy Grimes & Jack Grimes kiss. Her voice fit the part perfectly as if she really was a sorceress that could transform into a cat. This is the type of villain that you could love to hate, but also a villain that you would want to understand and put yourself into her shoes and see how she's the hero in her dark world. This is one of the best witch stories I've heard from CBSRMT and I recommend it to everyone to listen to for the week of Halloween. Until next time…pleasant dreams. =0>