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(3836, '0041', 'episode', 'R. Spectre', '', 'I live in North Dakota. It gets cold up here in the winter; 40 below (not counting wind chill) happens regularly . . . that''s the temperature when mercury turns to a solid and the street lights don''t come on. And I, like other native NoDaks, have been stranded in more than one blizzard.\r\n\r\nUsually I''d do what our couple do in this story; knock on the door, call out loudy and try to find a way to keep warm in a strange house. Unlike the folks in this tale, if/when the owner shows up, I ask for an ID. If the owner is a psychology professor, I off him or her right away. Why take a chance? We all know, we NoDaks anyway, that psych professors in an isolated cabin in a blizzard are pure trouble. You''re money ahead in the game if you just grab the axe right away and get to work. Sociology professors are no better; I recommend the chainsaw that''s usually in the woodshed out back. Political Science professors are bearable, but not if the blizzard lasts more than a day; use your own discretion.\r\n\r\nAnyway that''s how we do things up here. I teach theatre, so I''m delightful company to the stranded wayward travellers who bang on my door. We sometimes say, "40 below keeps the riff-raff out." And we''d like to keep it that way.', '2013-01-30 16:06:06', 1, 'decae09f7a0eca443d2cf5fe48ca5f45', '112.200.13.156'),
(3838, '0041', 'episode', 'Jill Brenda D.', '', 'You are very funny fellow Morton Miller, but I am clever one. So darned clever that I had this one figured out early. Not that I didn''t enjoy the ride, but why would a man who killed an entire family want to cover up a single murder in a stranger''s kitchen? My biggest question throughout was what kind of animal it would be that spilled so much blood. Of all the wild animals that sneak into kitchens and therefore must be hacked to death I would expect a racoon first, and then maybe a deer. Actually bears seem to do this sort of thing quite a bit -at least the tv news makes it seem so- but then we would would not expect a bear to lose to a psychology professor -unless the bear was only a Jungian dream archetype- and so undermine the credibility of the story. ', '2013-01-30 16:06:06', 1, 'c467f33750237bff2278057301d2dbb3', '112.200.13.156'),
(3839, '0041', 'episode', 'Nadz Q.', '', 'I''ll have to listen again, but wasn''t it a bobcat?', '2013-01-30 16:06:07', 1, '140d1d341e1300201651a12db9b3da9e', '112.200.13.156'),
(3840, '0041', 'episode', 'Chris Tinder', '', 'I liked this episode heard it upon it''s original airing, it was a Monday evening on the West Coast and I remember this because my father was receiving an award that evening and my brother and I had a babysitter so we were able to stay up late on a school night.\r\n\r\nOh and my birthday was the following Friday and I was looking around in the closets for my presents between commercials lol.', '2013-01-30 16:06:08', 1, 'f3aa07d164ab7545535645cb533245bb', '112.200.13.156'),
(3841, '0041', 'episode', 'Joe S.', '', 'Leon Janney''s character should have been sued for the way he manipulated Helen and Jim! What if one of them had had a heart condition? Or were already unbalanced to begin with?\r\nOn the other hand, this tale would have been really dull if he''d identified himself up front and then the next 2 acts dealt with a conventional marriage counseling session. Still, great sound effects, you really felt a storm was raging outside and could appreciate the "cabin fever" (to an unusual extreme) our main characters must have been experiencing.\r\n\r\nOn an entirely different note, I liked Greg''s reminiscences of what he was doing the first time he heard this. It''s fun to think back to what we were all doing when we first experienced these tales. And, it''s amazing how vivid our memories of the circumstances that were occuring--when these first aired--are.\r\n\r\nFun tale with an "interesting" twist!', '2013-01-30 16:06:09', 1, '9f256f9443798437a2ea0da8f1fbbcb7', '112.200.13.156'),
(3842, '0956', 'episode', 'Linder', '', 'Have always really enjoyed this one. Once in a while, there are some fun "non-supernatural" episodes that are just as good as any of the other RMT''s out there. This is one of those.\r\n\r\nJacques Futrell''s works were used in some of my favorite RMTs ("The Great Brain", "Murder on the Space Shuttle" (Another Gordon Heath episode) and "Revenge Is Not Sweet").\r\n\r\nSpeaking of Gordon Heath, he turns in a marvelous performance in this episode. He was one of the best on RMT. His characters always sound confident, but never condescending--no easy feat!\r\n\r\nIt was fun to listen to each step Dr. March took in devising his escape plan and try to guess what shape that plan would take. This had a very "Arthur Conan Doyle--Feel" to it. Has anyone read anything by Futrelle? How different are the originals from the RMT adaptations? It''s great that there was a vehicle like RMT to introduce works that would have otherwise remained much more obscure.\r\n\r\nAnother Great Choice!', '2013-01-30 16:06:10', 1, '08a5c99783d5a9256b11cd260f2dcd3e', '112.200.13.156'),
(3844, '0956', 'episode', 'Earl Jacobs', '', 'Yes, very much a Doyle-type story! A fun romp all around. And really it plays fair with the clues and the mystery/detective genre . . . we are given most of the information we need, but it would be a rare person indeed who could figure out this tale before the ending is revealed.', '2013-01-30 16:06:22', 1, 'bae03fcdcb522ad6d7cb9525e469c637', '112.200.13.156'),
(3845, '0080', 'episode', 'Rod', '', 'RMT listeners,\r\n\r\nIt''s a very interesting in that the late RMT playwright (and author of some of the best ones, IMO) / actor Ian Martin took the original Guy de Maupassant short story and infused it with two key elements of the tale of Robin Hood...not men in tights robbing from a corrupt government to give to the poor, but rather with the subplot within that story of the head of said government Prince John vs. his absent brother King Richard the Lion-hearted, who was trying to return to England from a war (vs. Salahdin the great(?), a middle eastern, muslim king).\r\n\r\nObviously, brothers King Richard and Prince John aren''t in this tale, but Sir John Rowell and (apparently) his twin brother Richard are.\r\n\r\nThe music is great - the recurring, haunting, unnerving 8-note background music at the 5:00 minute mark is perfectly placed throughout the show, with my favorite RMT music closer at the end of the 3rd act.\r\n\r\nEnjoy... ', '2013-01-30 16:06:23', 1, 'a02b8cea84eeb73da06e37af626d0a84', '112.200.13.156'),
(3846, '0080', 'episode', 'Russel D.', '', 'This is definately one of the best ever!\r\n\r\nAlexander Scourby and Guy Sorel turn in first-rate performances! The interplay between these two characters makes this episode a cut above the rest. So, does the nightmarish image of dozens of crawling hands in Donnet\\''s dreams. The third act exemplifies why radio drama should be experienced in total darkness!\r\n\r\nThe music is stupendous in this broadcast! The right music just carries a scene and invokes the right atmosphere-- and Himan Brown seems to always know what to use and when.&nbsp;<br>', '2013-03-14 23:07:57', 1, '431d974ca647ee7efc38a63f4e87f532', '112.200.13.156'),
(5248, '0649', 'episode', 'Jercs Soltes', '', 'I always try to let people know my biases up front. That makes it easier for people to use my evaluation system.\r\n\r\nI love that seventies "gateway to hell" stuff. I also love a good haunted house story. If you don''t like them, you''re not going to like Hickory, Dickory, Doom.\r\n\r\nI''m less into the spy stories and mysteries. While I try to dismiss my own prejudices when I evaluate, they are mine and I own them. They no doubt creep into my evaluations. Many of you probably like Ian Martin a lot more than I do.\r\n\r\nYou''re right, I don''t like Elspeth Eric.\r\n\r\nHowever, I love a good debate. I''ve thoroughly enjoyed this one.', '2013-03-14 23:16:31', 1, '53c25e9e6d937df3a715d4072088e751', '112.200.20.61'),
(3847, '0080', 'episode', 'M. Bond', '', 'Yes, this is an enthralling episode. Once begun, it\\''s hard to stop listening. Indeed, I brought up the original short story on the Internet afterwards and glanced through it, and it felt to me like a synopsis of the radio script. Thumbs up (if you\\''ll pardon the expression) for a fine adaptation indeed.\r\n\r\nAnd doesn\\''t E.G. Marshall relish his signing-off piece for this story! ', '2013-01-30 16:06:25', 1, 'bfb88d90997045fc7076b3fb0782a04f', '112.200.13.156'),
(3848, '0080', 'episode', 'Aljohn', '', 'Yes, nice one! Been a favorite of mine for quite some time. Don\\''t invite people into your house that you meet accidentally while hunting, unless you don\\''t mind having them post secret letters for your deranged spouse.\r\n\r\nMy gigantic brother once sent me one of his severed hands . . . it was either the right one or else the left one I\\''m sure . . . and I tossed it deftly into the vat of hyrochloric acid that I keep by the front door. No problems; I\\''m still here. So you all might consider getting some of this stuff, before the postman comes around again.<br>', '2013-03-14 23:08:03', 1, 'dae6fc0320876bbc231c661dee47c9f5', '112.200.13.156'),
(3849, '0497', 'episode', 'Nico M.', '', 'Not bad...\r\n\r\n- There\\''s a recurring cello-and-percussion(-and if played long enough: woodwinds, an electric organ?) music bed in this, first heard at the 8:09 mark and always when Dryden\\''s character is thinking, that\\''s well done in that it conveys multiple moods - first sadness and reflection on the past (the cellos) then a slight, unnerving hint of mystery (the percussive tones made by a slowly-pounded xylophone-like instrument) then an element of expectation, good or bad, for the future (when the woodwinds and/or keyboard begin to play).\r\n\r\nA few other music beds were like this when they were allowed to play for a longer amount of time than 5 seconds...it would be interesting to have heard the full compositions for many of the CBS/CBS RMT fine background music tracks.\r\n\r\n- I didn\\''t quite get the connection...Dryden\\''s character\\''s son is so godly (or at least spiritual) at show\\''s beginning but in the third act he\\''s portrayed as callous and hard. Did I miss Dryden speaking about his son\\''s conversion and what triggered it?\r\n\r\n- Most importantly, this was an interesting recurring theme at the RMT - mercy with justice, mercy with justice.\r\n\r\nOne could argue that it was shown to a degree on an RMT episode earlier in the summer: \\"The ghosts of yesterday\\" - Teri Keane played an individual who\\''d certainly been through intense hardship and seen her and/or her family\\''s earthly lives ruined by another, only to finally confront that \\"other\\" in a situation where she could bring life (and mercy) or death.\r\n\r\nHowever, I can\\''t recall that she ever vowed to kill her tormentor as Dryden\\''s character did - with that in mind I\\''d recommend to my RMT friends two other episodes with the same \\"Blood Red Roses\\" theme:\r\n\r\n1. \\"Killer\\''s Appointment\\", with Marian Seldes (and I think William Redfield), and;\r\n\r\n2. \\"The only blood\\", Jack Grimes and others. This latter show may be my all-time \\"morality without the supernatural\\" tale on the RMT. <br>', '2013-03-03 21:27:24', 1, '6904d54f63d0b583cee0b5a3688778dd', '112.200.13.156'),
(3850, '0318', 'episode', 'Abiog', '', 'Great selection. Carmilla is one of my top five RMT''s. M.M. delivers a great performance. I was intrigued by the erotic subtext to the story. If there is a better RMT vampire story, I would love to hear it.', '2013-01-30 16:06:33', 1, '6f8bff258edbc6a504acc4a2605d260e', '112.200.13.156'),
(3851, '0318', 'episode', 'Sally Tapan', '', 'Quote:\r\n"If there is a better RMT vampire story, I would love to hear it."\r\nto be honest... there''s really not one that''s better than this.\r\n\r\nyou could try the classic 740205 - Dracula, which is a fine\r\nepisode and has a good encode; or try Elspeth Eric''s,\r\n740425 - Sunrise to Sunset which is not a high quality\r\nencode and not the best show.\r\n\r\njust saying, is all!', '2013-01-30 16:06:34', 1, 'ee6b942dafbd9e84380967eb763a6af6', '112.200.13.156'),
(3852, '0318', 'episode', 'Jones', '', 'I loved this show. As with other episodes, I am amazed that this made it on the air, considering the semi-erotic undertones.&nbsp;<br>', '2013-02-28 15:50:23', 1, 'e0ec823f634be658d243d35b4edff926', '112.200.13.156'),
(3854, '0318', 'episode', 'Chuck Felices', '', 'When I said, if there is a better vampire episode, I would love to hear it, I meant it as a complement to this episode; it would be hard to top. One thing I loved about the show, is that it is a different kind of vampire story and both the main characters are women. RMT was willing to push the envelope in the 70s (I am thinking here of the erotic overtones). I listened to the show as a kid and loved then; and love it now. This may be my all time favorite RMT.', '2013-01-30 16:06:36', 1, 'f605d2c71d17f6920c52f4b72baf2bd9', '112.200.13.156'),
(3855, '0318', 'episode', 'Karla', '', 'Quote:\r\nI loved this show. As with other episodes, I am amazed that this made it on the air, considering the semi-erotic undertones.\r\n\r\nI agree for the time it aired this was not often talked about. It was a quite good, but left me wondering who was the woman that dropped her off and there was no mention of Carmilla not appearing in the day but maybe they do not follow that mythos.', '2013-01-30 16:06:37', 1, '865fdb0e007ab3ccf9bf53bdec070944', '112.200.13.156'),
(3856, '0318', 'episode', 'Erik Lensherr', '', 'Quote:\r\nI agree for the time it aired this was not often talked about. It was a quite good, but left me wondering who was the woman that dropped her off and there was no mention of Carmilla not appearing in the day but maybe they do not follow that mythos.\r\n\r\nHmm. Now that you mention it - who WAS the woman who kept dropping her off? ', '2013-01-30 16:06:38', 1, '376c2539a722dc3d68b2f1c31105a316', '112.200.13.156'),
(3857, '0318', 'episode', 'Mary Grace', '', 'Maybe the woman is still out there......somewhere. I assumed she was some sort of human protector for the vampire. ', '2013-01-30 16:06:39', 1, '65274e0b661607bb0fd2972a27cf8a07', '112.200.13.156'),
(3858, '0318', 'episode', 'Marianne', '', 'Yes....I loved this episode. It tested the limits in its time with many erotic scenes. I never heard this one so it was a treat. Thank you.', '2013-01-30 16:06:40', 1, '247e03f789c903a6d7d0486c8dbd981f', '112.200.13.156'),
(3859, '0318', 'episode', 'Mike B.', '', 'As I''ve posted previously, Mercendes McCambrige is completely unconvincing in the lead role of Carmilla just as she is in any other in which we''re supposed to accept her as young, pretty, or underweight. Anyone who has seen her in much older TV and film productions (particularly when she guest starred on BONANZA in the early 1960s) know that she was middle-aged, average-looking, and a bit hefty. So I''m among those radio (or in this case Mp3) listeners not fooled by storylines trying to physically pass familiar-looking actors off in ways other than we know them to appear.\r\n\r\nMercedes had a raspy voice by the 1960s, and by the 70s when she did CBSRMT in several episodes it was even more ingratiating. Sorry if I''m coming off as harsh, but I think her friendship with Himan Brown is the only reason she appeared on the Mystery Theater so many times.\r\n\r\nThat''s the main reason why I didn''t like this particular episode. I just can''t accept her in the role, and I didn''t care much for the story either. But since I heard "Carmilla" like any other episode of this show, that''s the reason I didn''t listen to the remake that Sears Radio Theater presented early in 1979. ', '2013-01-30 16:06:41', 1, 'd4c3090a48d79eb7c8427337f0e9e0ab', '112.200.13.156'),
(3860, '0318', 'episode', 'Mr. Sayson', '', 'You should see the movie version THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (Hammer Films). I''m amazed they got it on the screen in 1970.', '2013-01-30 16:06:42', 1, 'd4ec3378418a86bf349d899d798e63a3', '112.200.13.156'),
(3861, '1119', 'episode', 'Rey Christian S.', '', 'Great episode. One I taped off the radio when I was very young. Very "Twilight Zonish". The atmosphere during the scene in the playground is especially chilling. So, is the feeling you get as our protaganists first try to drive to Dry Lake-- only to keep ending up at "Old Indian Rock". Like a bad dream where you keep running in circles and your frustration just keeps mounting.\r\n\r\nFred Gwynne and Bob Dryden make a great duo. You really get a sense they''re old friends which would do anything for each other. And you mourn for Boggs over the loss of his buddy at the end of the tale. And your imagination kicks into overtime as you try to imagine just what that other dimension is like. Probably very much like ours, but just slightly off-kilter-- where you would realize something was odd, but wouldn''t quite be able to put your finger on it. (Like the fact no one had grown older in 40 some years!!!)\r\n\r\nVery well written and well executed by a talented cast! Great Choice!!!!', '2013-01-30 16:06:43', 1, 'f7e5c07e68c30bbf3c2c695a232f787e', '112.200.13.156'),
(3862, '1119', 'episode', 'J. Pelo', '', 'This was a new one for me, first time I had heard it. I kept expecting Rod Serling to pop out and start explaining what was happening. The acting was superb. The more I hear Gwynne the more I realise how talented he really was. Like many others have mentioned, I once associated him mostly with Herman Munster. That association has faded and now I appreciate him in any role. Furthermore, I love Bryna Raeburn in any role. I''ve never heard her in an unconvincing role.\r\n\r\nIt was an interesting (questionable?) concept when it was mentioned "no matter which dimension you''re in, there''s only so much space". I hardly think that the difference of the few people from this town would make much difference, but it makes for an interesting story. No more details... I don''t want to spoil the plot.', '2013-01-30 16:06:44', 1, '4954798e05797937d6b5235896150f36', '112.200.13.156'),
(3863, '1119', 'episode', 'L. Buns', '', 'I always prefer the supernatural/weird RMT''s and this falls squarely in that category. This episode had an off beat quality to it that I liked. Very enjoyable and, as another poster pointed out, Twilight Zone-ish. Good selection. ', '2013-01-30 16:06:45', 1, '500b847c51be52a266e101564dbccafc', '112.200.13.156'),
(3864, '0945', 'episode', 'Pia H.', '', 'I liked this one, and the way it alternated between being ominous and tender.\r\n\r\nIn the key sequence in surgery there was a chilling sound effect that wasn\\''t used that frequently in the RMT...it was music (flutes? plus some type of percussive instrument or electronic keyboard) that was an SFX rather than a melody.&nbsp;<br>', '2013-03-02 22:18:49', 1, '3eaa1f30b003ffe0a9b06c570861b8b8', '112.200.13.156'),
(4660, '0158', 'episode', 'Champ', 'mwaiterxbox@live.com', 'Great episode', '2013-03-03 15:54:51', 1, 'dc91d7f292bc4464e60221c4a7ba6406', '24.19.213.241'),
(3865, '0945', 'episode', 'Arvin', '', 'Yeah, kinda really different perspective here. Good show, especially when you think the lead character is going to die, then he is yanked back into reality.', '2013-01-30 16:06:46', 1, '4d475dafb20d201f2793d59c49a9b51c', '112.200.13.156'),
(3866, '0945', 'episode', 'L. Baker', '', 'I thought this show was very good and had a lot of interesting qualities! ', '2013-01-30 16:06:47', 1, 'ef3e02ef57df072e45e89095628f0186', '112.200.13.156'),
(3867, '0945', 'episode', 'Emil', '', 'This one makes some of the best use of the RMT music "library" ever! It''s fun watching DVDs of "The Twilight Zone" (which I''ve been purchasing from time to time) and hear music which I recognize from RMT. Yeah, the music used during the "return to reality" and also to great effect in "The Vampire Plant" is downright creepy. (Try listening to it in complete darkness!) One of the strongest aspects of RMT is its'' musical scores-- which add an incredible amount of intensity to the stories.\r\n\r\nLarry Haines is First-Rate in this. His voice just exudes angst, pain and nervousness. He instantly creates a deeply sympathetic character in whatever script he tackles.\r\n\r\nThis episode just draws you in, from one twist to another. It introduces one odd circumstance after another, and then, quite cleverly explains it in a completely plausible manner.\r\n\r\nReally enjoyed this one!', '2013-01-30 16:06:48', 1, '05cb2d240e55b759b4811f535925da4a', '112.200.13.156'),
(3868, '0945', 'episode', 'Lukater', '', 'The lead actor was the best part of the episode. His voice is one of the richest used by RMT. I was surprised by the ending. ', '2013-01-30 16:06:49', 1, '536aa8cd8c586f1cb54de85c934a59fc', '112.200.13.156'),
(3869, '0759', 'episode', 'Alfred H.', '', 'I\\''m not trying to get out of line here. This is an EXCELLENT show. It\\''s not something you\\''d want to do often...only when there are two RMT shows that were unusually close in content and/or structure.\r\n\r\nIn this case, I\\''d like to suggest a parallel RMT as a \\"doubleheader\\" for this week: \\"The Memory Killers\\" (I believe the program number is 122975), starring Ralph Bell, Nat Polen, Robert Dryden and a lady whose name I can\\''t recall unfortunately.\r\n\r\nIn some ways \\"The Memory Killers\\" is a mirror image to \\"The Ghosts of Yesterday\\"...in other ways it\\''s counterpoint to it. Both had the RMT\\''s \\"A\\" list of actors, and both had a very significant similar theme.\r\n\r\nThere are also some significant differences, though...not the least of which were that, I believe, \\"The Memory Killers\\" was written by Sam Dann...husband of Victoria Dann who wrote this play. It\\''s interesting to see how two married, talented playwrights think alike, and differently. I\\''ll give my thoughts on this episode when time allows. <br>', '2013-03-03 21:13:35', 1, '3f6a3d0bf3f0107c78e9d07a4875281c', '112.200.13.156'),
(3870, '0759', 'episode', 'Rick', '', 'It''s done! Thank you, thank you for the suggestion. What fun!', '2013-01-30 16:06:50', 1, 'ed794186c694757ff2b3631652dcb946', '112.200.13.156'),
(3871, '0759', 'episode', 'Mr. King', '', 'Here''s a "stream-of-consciousness" style comparison of the two based on previous listens. Not trying at all to demean these episodes as IMO they''re well written and well performed:\r\n\r\nMAIN PLOTLINE:\r\n\r\nGHOSTS OF YESTERDAY: An American woman who as a little girl was the lone survivor of a Belgian village flattened by the Nazis to set an example finds herself in the position of possibly confronting the commanding officer of that action, a man who may be her husband''s future business partner.\r\nMEMORY KILLERS: An American public relations executive, also a WWII USAF officer veteran who was shot down over Germany and imprisoned by the Nazis, semi-reluctantly takes a job helping a German automaker which is a client of his firm (can you say "Fahrvergnugen" (sic?)). While working for the family-run auto business he falls in love with a fraulein who is an executive with the firm, but comes to believe that her brother, also an exec, may have been the CO of the stockade in which he was imprisoned (and where many of his fellow officers died).\r\n\r\nPLOT DEVELOPMENT:\r\n\r\nGHOSTS OF YESTERDAY: We get the impending storyline telegraphed from the beginning (in a scene which reminds me a bit of the initial confrontation in the Dustin Hoffman movie Marathon Man, albeit with a survivor).\r\nMEMORY KILLERS: Slow developing, but once the initial plot twist "hits" it gets progressively more interesting.\r\n\r\nTHE "GHOSTS"\r\n\r\nGHOSTS OF YESTERDAY: Leon Janney, as another victim of the Nazis who alerts Teri Keane''s character of the possible danger, says words which reverberate in her memory.\r\nMEMORY KILLERS: Nat Polen, as a fellow officer who essentially dies in Bell''s arms after being "all busted up inside" by Nazi torture, implores Bell to kill the Nazi CO to avenge his and their colleagues'' death.\r\n\r\nBEST LINES REPEATED AT LEAST TWICE IN A ROW:\r\n\r\nGHOSTS OF YESTERDAY:\r\n\r\n"Love you." (Russel Horton as the husband).\r\n"Love you." (Teri Keane as the wife).\r\n\r\nMEMORY KILLERS:\r\n\r\n"Did I...ever...kill...anyone? Did I...ever...kill...anyone?" (Ralph Bell''s character.)\r\n\r\nBEST CBSRMT MUSIC BEDS:\r\n\r\nGHOSTS OF YESTERDAY: Can''t remember but I''m sure there were some...after all, this is the CBSRMT.\r\nMEMORY KILLERS: The brass-dominated music bed which begins to be played immediately when Ralph Bell starts saying the words above. It seems to me I recall a similar such music bed in the always-excellent The Adventures Of Jonny Quest from the 60s. This is followed by a four-note, mysterious repeating score when Robert Dryden says the very same phrase.\r\n\r\nCHARACTER DEVELOPMENT:\r\n\r\nGHOSTS OF YESTERDAY: Ms. Keane plays a woman who sounds like a country club, bordering-on-prejudiced-against-those-beneath-her ( as the Nazis took to the extreme form) suburban wife married to an up and coming executive, and plays it well for a 1 hour radio drama, IMO.\r\nMEMORY KILLERS: Mr. Bell adequately conveys an apparently middle-aged widower who visits Germany and is pleasantly surprised to find a thriving, post-reconstruction country which isn''t "gray" anymore as it was after the war.\r\n\r\nARE THE ENDINGS DIFFERENT?\r\n\r\nThink I''m gonna divulge that? ">) ', '2013-01-30 16:06:51', 1, 'b2a4d8023cc5b36c123e9c93985d6456', '112.200.13.156'),
(3872, '0404', 'episode', 'Willmon Paciolco', '', 'When the protagonist wavers about exacting vengeance, I was reminded of Hamlet and his father''s ghost. We are left wondering whether or not the American would have acted if his hand had not been forced by the ex-SS officer.\r\n\r\nGhosts of Yesterday was good but I think it faltered a bit under the weight of its anti-death penalty message. It seemed as if the writer wanted to have it both ways; the death penalty is immoral but life in prison is a worse fate anyway for the criminal. I think that is something of a cop-out. If prison is preferred by the criminal over death, is it still better to opt for incarceration? The writer avoids the question by having the Nazi seek death. That struck me as too contrived.\r\n\r\nI was actually beginning to think the Nazi was a victim of mistaken identity; it would have been interesting if she had shot him only to find out later that he was not the SS officer.\r\n\r\nAnyone remember the Barney Miller episode about the toy dealer who was an ex-Nazi? ', '2013-01-30 16:06:52', 1, 'a30b4abce7c726c69c667c4c9b6aad12', '112.200.13.156'),
(3873, '0404', 'episode', 'J. Roberts', '', 'I really enjoyed this one. Nazi war criminals were a real issue in the 70''s, with some people even believing Hitler was still alive. Ralph Bell''s character seemed rather reluctant to seek vengance against the man who might have killed his wartime buddys. After all, if he lets sleeping dogs lie he has a lot to gain: He loves the man''s sister and their business venture is going very well. While I know what I would have done in that situation, I was very annoyed by the ghost of his "buddy" who seemed more fired up for retribution than his living comrade. At first I thought the voice of his dead friend was merely Ralph Bell''s conscience, but this agitated ghost hammers the point home until we realize he is probably the real deal. It was almost funny listening to him pressure his living friend with the kind of vehemence usually reserved for those who need assistance with some pressing financial difficulty. It occurred to me that some dead people really need to get a life! ', '2013-01-30 16:06:53', 1, '1b82db3f88148d8db729e68f8ce6989a', '112.200.13.156'),
(3874, '1334', 'episode', 'Patrick R.', '', 'Unschooled in the Game, I had never heard of the "Muzio gambit".\r\nWikipedia explains:\r\n\r\nIn the Muzio Gambit (like the similar Hamppe-Muzio gambit in a Vienna game), "white gives up a piece in the hope of establishing a powerful attack against the black kingside."\r\n\r\nThe Muzio Gambit serves a metaphor for our protagonist''s battle to reveal the truth behind the sinister Mr. Chessman''s manipulations.\r\n\r\nFrom a discussion at chess.com:\r\n\r\n    "The Muzio, while not really refuted, has lost much of its punch in this age of computers where defensive lines seem to appear magically out of nowhere. But it''s quite a playable and exciting opening .... ... White gives up a full piece (two pieces in the Double Muzio) for tempo, development and an attack. Once you have invested that material, you crossed the Rubicon. You can not back down for a single move." ... "Of course, one must be tempermentally suited to play such an opening; it''s not for everyone."', '2013-01-30 16:06:53', 1, 'fb704bd3cce3c82fde312eebd245a697', '112.200.13.156'),
(3875, '1334', 'episode', 'Mikhail T.', '', 'I thought this was a good mystery, with a nice creative twist at the end. Fred Gwynne is always great to have for a character as he always seems to do a fine job, no matter what the part. At one point I couldn\\''t help but to picture Herman Munster playing chess with someone on a NYC street.', '2013-01-30 16:06:54', 1, '359338832a53ce7ee08bc9a29144583b', '112.200.13.156'),
(3876, '1334', 'episode', 'M. Rocas', '', 'Quote:\r\nI thought this was a good mystery, with a nice creative twist at the end. Fred Gwynne is always great to have for a character as he always seems to do a fine job, no matter what the part. At one point I couldn''t help but to picture Herman Munster playing chess with someone on a NYC street.\r\n\r\nFred is one of my favorite voices on radio...esp. CBSRMT. Very vivid episode... ', '2013-01-30 16:06:55', 1, '3b969ed0f6a39ca935b9ab5cda3bd2d7', '112.200.13.156'),
(3877, '1334', 'episode', 'Jaeson', '', 'The material for this story didn''t support the full three acts. I find that RTMT stumbles when it does espionage/spy stories. At first, I thought the story was going to involve something along the lines of a game that would involve a player losing their soul. ', '2013-01-30 16:06:56', 1, '925bb69817c09a33e27169e25a3b9d9a', '112.200.13.156'),
(3878, '1334', 'episode', 'J. Gibbs', '', 'Another good one that wouldn''t really work in this non-cold war time. But, I agree it did kinda drag a bit.', '2013-01-30 16:06:57', 1, '8e57b776391b7bb24e1a020e0dfec803', '112.200.13.156'),
(3879, '0092', 'episode', 'Nelson', '', 'An enjoyable episode which includes a good performance by the older actor who portrayed the would be body snatcher. He delivers a very funny line when he tells the younger character that he wants his body. in the final analysis, things probably worked out for the best as the younger guy was basically a punk.\r\n\r\nWhat exactly did he expect the police officer to do at the end? ', '2013-01-30 16:06:58', 1, 'f960c17614c2502efb0990ea58174302', '112.200.13.156'),
(3880, '0092', 'episode', 'Shiela L.', '', 'Kinda predictable, but enjoyable nonetheless!', '2013-01-30 16:06:58', 1, '57df2b987faf9f186addcb414df68133', '112.200.13.156'),
(3881, '0092', 'episode', 'Vince', '', 'This one suffers from having an unsympathetic punk as the victim. Maybe Sam Dann didn''t want anyone nice to get hurt, but it definitely hurts the story''s emotional impact. Also, Paul Hecht seems a little miscast. His role should have gone to Bob Kaliban, Jack Grimes or Russell Horton, each of them great at playing young punks. ', '2013-01-30 16:06:59', 1, '9a4415c0d138b57c5ec548d523d1f2dc', '112.200.13.156'),
(3882, '0092', 'episode', 'Gary', '', 'Quote:\r\nThis one suffers from having an unsympathetic punk as the victim. Maybe Sam Dann didn\\''t want anyone nice to get hurt, but it definitely hurts the story\\''s emotional impact. Also, Paul Hecht seems a little miscast. His role should have gone to Bob Kaliban, Jack Grimes or Russell Horton, each of them great at playing young punks.\r\n\r\nActually, Mr. Hecht played an even slimier punk in another great RMT episode \\"The man who asked for yesterday\\".\r\n\r\n- I love the stock cuban(?) music used when Hecht\\''s character is in his apartment and Janney\\''s character turns on the stereo. This was used elsewhere as well, usually as background music in a bar / restaurant scene, so it was nice to hear this at a louder level.\r\n\r\n- This was the very first episode I ever heard, and I remember listening to it curled up in the back seat of my Dad\\''s Volkswagen bug on the way to visit our family in Illinois. (Sadly, unbeknownst to us he had cancer and died 9 months later. I didn\\''t know what this program was at the time being young, and didn\\''t \\"discover\\" the RMT until four years later, so I never got to listen to other episodes with He and my Mom.) ', '2013-03-27 15:26:34', 1, 'd6c7c6dae01b302f5d3eeaea131e7683', '112.200.13.156'),
(3883, '0598', 'episode', 'Alyssa Parks', '', 'Entertaining episode. Tony Roberts played such a dull-witted fellow; I am not sure I would want him for a doctor without his wife coaching him along. ', '2013-01-30 16:07:01', 1, '45a5018a1f3cc32b4d1eb2c57bcbf056', '112.200.13.156'),
(3884, '0824', 'episode', 'Nick B.', '', 'I\\''ll try and say more in a moment but...\r\n\r\nSome shows have too much plot for too little time.\r\n\r\nOthers aren\\''t developed enough for the time they have.\r\n\r\nTHIS show, IMO, is masterfully written. I don\\''t know why exactly, but I felt like I heard a little movie fitted, not shoehorned, into a 1 hour program. Some people wondered what happened to the previous owners of the house. I think we were given just the right amount of information for a program like this. We expect the unexpected.\r\n\r\nThat being said, this is a program which, IMO, could not be remade under today\\''s p.c. climate. Can you imagine having a CBS program where a \\"native\\" with a \\"bushy head\\" (from Africa) would be portrayed as any type of negative presence?\r\n\r\nAlso, this program is in keeping with one of the great (and quite correct) RMT traditions...\\"evil spirits\\" and \\"magic\\" of any kind were almost always put in a negative connotation, and properly so. This episode takes it a step further with the cavalier treatment \\"Jim and Marian Sage\\" give the possibility that their house is, well, \\"haunted\\" by evil spirits? (Is that the right term given the way this story unfolds?)\r\n\r\nOne more thing...the RMT\\''s Teri Keane (and forgive me for having said this before) sounds so much like the original Saturday Night Live comedienne Jane Curtin, a very talented actress in her own right. I thought Ms. Keane and Marian Seldes indeed sounded like two best friends in this particular program. ', '2013-01-30 16:07:02', 1, 'cba030a709a7d95ff8a4cf5730c95752', '112.200.13.156'),
(3885, '0824', 'episode', 'Lady Crystal Palafox', '', 'I too very much enjoyed this episode. The imagery evoked by the mural on the wall was great, the sound effects effective, and it had an unexpected happy ending. Very nice! ', '2013-01-30 16:07:02', 1, '7c95ab58199b30b9363efb0754a82a86', '112.200.13.156'),
(3886, '0824', 'episode', 'Mr. Bakula', '', 'This episode goes to show just why radio plays work. Good use of SFX to create mood and tention.... Well done indeed!', '2013-01-30 16:07:03', 1, '54333a5ccee7dac6f843c69f97439072', '112.200.13.156'),
(3887, '0824', 'episode', 'J. Armenal', '', 'This one is just a real fun radio episode. Just the right mix of suspense and the supernatural. The setting really works. You can almost feel the chill of the ice storm and the steamy oppresive air of the jungle. Great sound effects and good use of the RMT music \\"library\\". Love the music they use as they \\"fade-out\\" at the end of Act One.\r\n\r\nThere are certain aspects that wouldn\\''t wash in today\\''s politically correct atmosphere.\r\n\r\nStill, one of those episodes that\\''s enjoyable to listen to with the lights out...<br>', '2013-03-14 23:09:28', 1, '39f0b46360e692fa1c9ed4d647544c03', '112.200.13.156'),
(3888, '0824', 'episode', 'N. Largado', '', 'This episode goes to show just why radio plays work. Good use of SFX to create mood and tention.... Well done indeed!', '2013-01-30 16:07:05', 1, '84bd7a9a92a14ad45bb6f534396c074e', '112.200.13.156'),
(3889, '0824', 'episode', 'Reginald', '', 'This episode displays RMT at its finest. As a previous poster mentioned, the story fits the length of the show perfectly. I would not call this episode a haunted house episode but then again something mysterious happened to the prior owner and it obviously did not involve the mural as that was introduced by the characters in this episode. It was a nice touch to refer to black magic being practiced by previous tenants which gives us just enough in the way of a possible explanation without getting too specific. My favorite part is when the women stumble upon the poor telephone repairman. I hope he received overtime pay.\r\n\r\nOn a scale of 1-10, I would rate this show a 10.', '2013-01-30 16:07:06', 1, 'c2b2cfdac907a6dee913b4fb17a1ff75', '112.200.13.156'),
(3890, '0824', 'episode', 'Dwight', '', 'Quote:\r\nThis episode goes to show just why radio plays work. Good use of SFX to create mood and tention.... Well done indeed!\r\n\r\nand Hy got all this done, post production, etc...all in a single day. ambitious and well done indeed. ', '2013-01-30 16:07:06', 1, '7e2fbf145cf20e306ac9327e6fc5e66f', '112.200.13.156'),
(3891, '0824', 'episode', 'Dex', '', 'Quite a contrast to the lame Orient Express one I listened to last night. This one had everything. It is amazing the visuals that the dialogue instills in the mind...right down to the pygmees with warpaint, stretched out earlobes and big bones through the hair..(I kind of got creative) The plot was good and well presented. How''d they explain the return of the guy from Ma-Bell with a spear wound, no less, to the police?\r\n\r\nI used to see things in the walls when I was in college, but that was usually because of a late night out with my frat bros......(or was it??????) This episode made for a very enjoyable listening experience.', '2013-01-30 16:07:07', 1, '5022206b74575846751c84cd1d370143', '112.200.13.156'),
(3892, '0824', 'episode', 'Siegfred', '', 'I agree with the statements above. Freaking GREAT episode! I too was basically spellbound during the entire show. Great one!', '2013-01-30 16:07:08', 1, 'd7e342d1227d49f4deb118c9a7e0121d', '112.200.13.156'),
(3893, '0789', 'episode', 'K. Lachama', '', 'Surprised no one''s commented on this show yet.\r\n\r\nIt''s got a bit of a different ending than I was expecting, but that wasn''t bad...it called attention to the guy wrongly imprisoned and (apparently) what a good person he was.\r\n\r\n1974 was a vintage year for the RMT. So, IMO, was 1978, the year this program was made.\r\n\r\nI liked it when Earl Hammond talked in his "country" voice. He was a very talented vocal/voiceover actor. ', '2013-01-30 16:07:09', 1, '23a0fc3c541f1917318699c5b90f5144', '112.200.13.156'),
(3894, '0789', 'episode', 'Manny O.', '', 'This show has a lot of what I really like in a good RMT show. Some of my favourite story lines involve getting what you wish for and then regretting that it came true, or those where a character thinks he has gotten away with something only to find, through a turn of events, that his own deed which he was so proud of unexpectedly comes back to haunt him.\r\n\r\nI, too, enjoyed that twang in Earl Hammonds voice.', '2013-01-30 16:07:10', 1, 'cfbae322110060181681cc699378e5a9', '112.200.13.156'),
(3895, '0789', 'episode', 'Xander', '', 'Its all been said here. Again, a nice choice for episode of the week.There was another episode with the same title.', '2013-01-30 16:07:11', 1, '2d8b5cf19e03781e8f3c0157f37136b1', '112.200.13.156'),
(3896, '0733', 'episode', 'Mica', '', 'I haven''t logged on in while, so I''m a bit behind in my listening to episodes. I wish I had picked a different one to listen to. Maybe its just because it is real late and I''m tired, but really didn''t like this episode. It was rather anti-climatic for me. I had not heard this one before, so I can now list it as one more for the logbook, but it is very doubtful I will ever listen to this one again. I don''t mean to be negative, however. I am extremely grateful to those who post the stories for us to listen to. This one was just not my cup of tea, that''s all. Others may enjoy it.', '2013-01-30 16:07:12', 1, 'd93bcfab05d918d4486a65e584ec821f', '112.200.13.156'),
(3897, '0733', 'episode', 'E. Debeterbo', '', 'Heh heh, sign of the times episode. It was a nice, neat episode reminding me of how the Iron Curtain dominated the landscape back then.', '2013-01-30 16:07:12', 1, 'cf57c837cf54b3adf9ccc7dca819bc34', '112.200.13.156'),
(3898, '0040', 'episode', 'Bobby C.', '', 'This one keeps you guessing. The script builds the tension positively wonderfully. The sound effects are top notch for radio. Janny gives one of his strongest performances, keeping us in suspense as we try to figure out if he\\''s a good guy or bad. Lois Smith did just a few episodes, but she gave her all in this one.\r\n\r\nThis was the second time I listened to this show. The first time was right after listening to the god-awful \\"The Walking Corpse\\". What a nice surprise this episode was.\r\n\r\nThis was a ready-made story for the radio. It doesn\\''t get much better than this! <br>', '2013-04-09 15:01:07', 1, '6311cf0d8b879685d4363eb52932bea7', '112.200.13.156'),
(3899, '0040', 'episode', 'Ross Antonel', '', 'This show is one of my favorite programs, though it''s been awhile since I listened to and I''ll have to listen again. I say it''s one of my favorites because I don''t have a great memory yet this one stuck with me. My initial observations include great acting, good dramatic theme and excellent sound effects. The bickering between the husband and wife while trapped in a snowstorm was well done and the "b" story of a killer on the loose built the drama. From the onset, we knew that our characters were going to meet the killer and the drama created by the bloody kitchen added to the effect. I don''t recall if the blood was ever explained. As for the third wheel, he took his life in his hands by letting these people think he was the killer and he probably deserved a malpractice suit. ', '2013-01-30 16:07:14', 1, 'd64b6f7b63c1c88a546c3ec337d5873b', '112.200.13.156'),
(5767, '0264', 'writer', 'AZ Mountain Geek', 'tgs1@frontier.com', 'Some Alfred Bester trivia... \r\n\r\nAuthor and Babylon 5 creator J.M. Strazinski paid tribute to Bester by naming his evil psi-cop character after him.  Al Bester was played by Walter Koenig (Star Trek\\''s Chekov).  ', '2013-04-10 06:43:09', 1, '94899d610cb68aeee468c8c6bec252dc', '70.100.41.15'),
(4373, '0200', 'episode', 'Mike', '', 'When Anthony told Constance that she shouldn''t smile like that at Earnest, her response, "But..... I didn''t smile" did give me a few goose bumps. Also, when Anthony said their was only a pair of pliers there I quickly realized what they were used for .... Yuk.\r\n\r\nI agree that the sentimental journey is the best part of these shows.', '2013-02-27 20:08:22', 1, '7f24da97e743b5069ad7dc315c2b8a3e', '112.200.20.61'),
(3901, '0040', 'episode', 'R. Allan', '', 'I remember listening to this earlier this summer and was appauled at the behaviour of the psychologist, and how the couple just laughed it off. Geez... these days it''d be the basis for a HUGE lawsuit. I haven''t listened to it since then but I do remember the ''rich'' environment and having stronger than usual mental images no doubt due to the sound effects and descriptive dialogue.\r\n\r\nAs far as the snow goes, I can imagine some pretty intense storms from having lived in the far north in remote fly-in reservations for 5 years and travelling throughout the far north for 3 more years after that in tiny planes.\r\n\r\nThe coldest I have ever experienced with the wind chill factor was -86C, about -122F :xmas: (I think it was something like -46C with 70km/h winds... or -50F with 45mph for those of you still dealing with imperial units - threw off the imperialist monarchy but kept the units of measure... go figure)\r\n\r\nanyway - a fun episode, will make sure to pay attention to the sound effects when I listen to it again. ', '2013-03-27 15:00:18', 1, '2845dde494c978470b59caece0ff65e1', '112.200.13.156'),
(3902, '0040', 'episode', 'Manalo', '', 'What a great episode! I have to admit I really was surprised by the twist at the end. I am usually better at seeing things like that coming! For some reason I didn''t pick up on the fact that there was no dead body in the kitchen despite all the blood and the ax. I must improve my listening skills!\r\n\r\nThe bickering between the couple at the beginning of the story was a little too realistic for me! Also, the acting of the psychologist as the killer was very believable. I had a good laugh when said he liked Beethoven''s 10th Symphony! Of course we know that there isn''t a 10th symphony but that is what makes the psychologist so believable as the killer! I think he went a bit too far but then this story would not have had us on the edge of our seat if he hadn''t.\r\n\r\nI''d also like to point out that we never do find out about the real killer... or perhaps we did? Could the psychologist have been the real killer afterall? ', '2013-01-30 16:07:17', 1, 'ade836875304456e68e596a695975d5f', '112.200.13.156'),
(3903, '0040', 'episode', 'Lens', '', 'I listened to this episode on a warm evening, so about 11:00 I headed out back to the deck and popped in the CD. After the first five minutes I was jumping at every sound I heard. It brought back a flood of memories, of listening to CBSRMT, around the campfire during the many camping trips my family took.\r\n\r\nI thought that George Lopes(sp?) did a very nice job of writing very realistic dialogue of a marriage in trouble. I wonder what was going on in his life at the time he wrote this .\r\nLike when they met the killer for the first time they are both obviously terrified but the wife still makes a point of telling Jake that “We started back too late thanks to my husband.â€ Even though she is very scared she&nbsp;doesn\\''t&nbsp;miss the chance to stick it to her husband.\r\n\r\nThe blood in the kitchen really helped drive home the thought that Jake was the killer .\r\n\r\nLois Smith was outstanding. The only other CBSRMT credit I can find is for The Sign of the Beast, which had aired 2 weeks earlier. I think it’s a shame that Himan did not sign her to more episodes. She has numerous screen and stage credits, includingâ€ Twister\\" (1996), in which she played Helen Hunt\\''s aunt.\r\n\r\nI must admit, I had figured out what was really going on near the end of the 2nd act. I think many years of reading thrillers and watching shows like Alfred Hitchcock and Twilight Zone has made it more difficult for me to be fooled by “surprise endingsâ€. <br>', '2013-04-09 15:01:42', 1, 'c33c4591726d19093820d8190101843b', '112.200.13.156'),
(3904, '0040', 'episode', 'Jerri', '', 'So, was the blood in the kitchen explained? I can''t recall and I haven''t gone back to listen yet. BTW, great suggestion. ', '2013-01-30 16:07:18', 1, '36e0fbbcdc476886ab935c2764d70593', '112.200.13.156'),
(3905, '0040', 'episode', 'Ed Beringer', '', 'The blood was from a bobcat that the professor surprised in the kitchen. ', '2013-01-30 16:07:19', 1, '8cbb6a862cd3f5dfa3a66b07838ddf0d', '112.200.13.156'),
(5784, '0457', 'episode', 'Phillilp', 'phillip.merritt@gmail.com', 'One of the better episodes I''ve listened to. Strong script and performances. Good sound quality.', '2013-04-12 19:04:16', 1, '4145ea29b4b5a08a53f85c0e89fd42d1', '71.241.58.138'),
(5774, '0224', 'episode', 'Phillilp', 'phillip.merritt@gmail.com', 'I enjoyed this one a lot. It had a lot more going on than the typical episode, with good performances.', '2013-04-10 20:48:00', 1, 'f184006cabb7e35afda2c440b1d07e90', '71.241.58.138'),
(5830, '0691', 'episode', 'misty', 'yvonyapo@gmail.com', 'Im glad the son Tom pursued his dream with the help of a loan & that his father became aware of it. And in the end karma served well', '2013-04-22 07:51:47', 1, '8caad67fe8bda9ec7ffcf21cef42ccf4', '70.211.7.46'),
(5776, '0078', 'episode', 'Wisconsin', '', '4 stars... Good listen, I enjoyed the ending.  Has commercials.', '2013-04-11 14:02:17', 1, 'e344ac7cbcbe899cf723474e1c4aaf8f', '66.84.141.3'),
(5779, '0428', 'episode', 'Phillip', 'phillip.merritt@gmail.com', 'Goofy, but fun. The sound quality is not great.', '2013-04-11 18:14:07', 1, 'b60ae9fb6865c71cb9359fba87169c85', '71.241.58.138'),
(5780, '0081', 'episode', 'Wisconsin', '', '3 stars.... 4 star acting, 2 star story.  If not for the acting I probably would have turned it off.  Has commercials.', '2013-04-11 18:12:54', 1, 'a50eb5d26f9b55f234d82d37919d410c', '66.84.141.3'),
(5783, '0276', 'episode', 'Doug', '', 'One of my favorites, I enjoyed the twist at the end...made the story all the more dramatically ironic...', '2013-04-12 05:58:34', 1, '669426fca9f70b35429908692804750b', '64.136.211.54'),
(3907, '0040', 'episode', 'Ronnie H.', '', 'Great to see you! I don\\''t have a pic of Larry Haines but I also noted the WABC station on my version of the program. I\\''m I crazy or is/was WABC an ABC affiliate? If so, did they really play CBS programs? ', '2013-01-30 16:08:09', 1, 'c3eafaa381f12cbd98a959e3430c7c06', '112.200.13.156');
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(3908, '0040', 'episode', 'Arnold Ruff', '', 'The WABC recordings are from the 1989-1990 revival. They are an ABC station. They are usually higher quality recordings than normal.\r\n\r\nWOR was not a CBS Radio affiliate either. They just called it "Mystery Theater" ', '2013-01-30 16:08:36', 1, '8aee3e69a7e6c2fd5818397383b75fd1', '112.200.13.156'),
(3909, '0040', 'episode', 'Jadelson', '', 'I wouldn''t be surprised if this is the same guy and here''s an interesting fact:...according to his bio his birth name was "Larry Hecht". Wonder if he''s related to Paul?', '2013-01-30 16:08:37', 1, 'baf15443b16751c7683594e3f951b5f7', '112.200.13.156'),
(3910, '0040', 'episode', 'Adie B.', '', 'This show featured some very good dialogue from all three characters. The way people actually talk to one another. I especially enjoyed the more biting remarks on the part of Jake, a genuinely quirky villain. In fact, I kindof wish he had in fact turned out to be a deranged killer, so quirky that in the end he just lets them go because they have proven they have a reason to live. I also wonder about the family in the valley -- unless it was a bobcat that did them in too, then somebody better figure out who did and catch ''em quick! And straight from that era: "women''s lib", and "whoever lives here, is really a BRAIN!" (*wince* at memories of teen angst). Another good show. ', '2013-01-30 16:08:38', 1, 'ed7e7402d4b6105b02c103a43214af6a', '112.200.13.156'),
(3911, '0040', 'episode', 'T. Lancaster', '', 'I was suprised to see a station use another \\"vendors\\" wares. Being from a small town, I assumed all stations that broadcast the CBSRMT were CBS affiliates!\r\n\r\nDnagle, I also felt the the program could have been complete had the psychologist actually been the culprit. I like the twist but I think the horror plot was working fine. ', '2013-01-30 16:08:39', 1, '4a5956297b9c40e7857eb242e6a71bcb', '112.200.13.156'),
(3912, '0040', 'episode', 'Troy', '', 'This is a fun program to listen to. My attention never wandered. I was never confused by what was happening nor did I get the (3) characters confused. These points are important to me as sometimes too many characters and I lose \\"who\\''s who.\\"\r\n\r\nWell, it is somewhat not to be believed if you want to look at it seriously. I do not believe that a person would do what the professor did - not in real life. But hey, this is radio drama so the rules are out the window.\r\n\r\nSince I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun, the professor would have had a major problem had he tried his trick on me, and without a gun, when it comes to the poker incident, he would have not had a chance to have awakened from that.\r\n\r\nWhoa, I am taking this too seriously. That obviously means that this was a well acted program that got my attention.\r\n\r\nThat\\''s what makes CBSRMT so good and this is an excellent example of a great program. <br>', '2013-04-09 15:02:17', 1, '000f6e9ca2c46ea26435f996088de26b', '112.200.13.156'),
(3913, '0040', 'episode', 'D. Montrees', '', 'Definitely one of my favorites. I have listened to it a lot of times, and never get tired of this one. The first time I heard it, it threw me bitg time, where these usually do not. And yes, the writing was great IMO between the husband/wife. I have seen relationships just like that, people taking verbal shots at each other no matter what the situation.\r\n\r\nThe acting was pretty good. Sometimes I think the wife''s voice/portrayal is a bit "cardboardish," But I only came to that conclusion after listening to it a bunch of times.\r\n\r\nAnyway, great pick!', '2013-01-30 16:08:34', 1, '51f61ef0b5d9c60d6fc0181a1e7fe748', '112.200.13.156'),
(3914, '0040', 'episode', 'M. Monteros', '', 'I liked this show a lot, I listened to it the last time maybe two years ago so it was somewhat fresh. I think that the characters where well acted and the story was well written. Not wanting to ruin the ending yet wanting to comment on it from the perspective of "what the heck was that guy thinking he could have been killed" comes to mind. But then again we would not have a mystery if it was any different. Thats my sorted comments for now. ', '2013-01-30 16:08:33', 1, '2a1d4acf2f199cd92c99acdb8beb9699', '112.200.13.156'),
(3915, '0040', 'episode', 'David R.', '', 'I have been listening to the shows in order and just so happened to reach this show when it was the show of the week - go figure.\r\nThis is one of my favorites so far (out of the 41 I''ve heard) because it was one of the more believable and suspenseful episodes. The actors did a great job with their tones and conveying their fear and desperateness.\r\nWas the trigger on the gun really broke or was saying it was enough to make them give up on the idea of using the gun? I rate this one a 4.', '2013-01-30 16:08:32', 1, 'a33d18b6077d73bd3e0cb1316f0d8003', '112.200.13.156'),
(3916, '0040', 'episode', 'Lanie', '', 'LOVED the plot and the supspense-filled ending...I SWEAR I thought I had it figured out, then I didn''t, then I did again...wow!\r\n\r\nThis was one of the episodes I listened to while driving the CD''s to my dad''s. And the cougar? That was insane! Great acting, wonderful dialogue, and perfect sound effects.', '2013-03-27 15:26:39', 1, 'b96961a10f6868c268f5427a5da2967a', '112.200.13.156'),
(3931, '0426', 'episode', 'A.J. Bordey', '', 'This one was OK. Plot ending was similar to TWZ "The Man in The Cave". But it caught me a bit by surprise I guess. ', '2013-02-13 17:35:40', 1, '6da29352910ab1ae28ecb7e064f1bb3e', '112.200.13.156'),
(3932, '0426', 'episode', 'Mr. Summers', '', 'Perhaps I would have enjoyed this one more, had I not listened to it at 3 AM. I never became fully interested in the story, and I''m not sure it would have made much difference no matter what time I listened to it. It was okay. It just wasn''t a thriller to me.', '2013-01-30 17:16:02', 1, 'd9c3f00402c7a479a658abaac03c144e', '112.200.13.156'),
(3919, '0040', 'episode', 'Nathan Panambers', '', 'good suspense and twist ending. the acting was top notch and believible. hey, where''s the spell check on this thing? anyway, i was surprised at the end but that quickly turned to indignation, ther i go again. i thought that doctor was in for some legal problems. ', '2013-01-30 16:08:35', 1, 'd452b8dc98ed5f35538ab18a8058ac29', '112.200.13.156'),
(3920, '0040', 'episode', 'K. Lipat', '', 'I remember the episode fondly. Leon Janey does a great job acting out the psycho. However, I do remember thinking the premise that he is doing a psychological study farfetched. Still enjoyed it though........Until Next Time ', '2013-01-30 16:08:40', 1, '5ab7c0ffdc1954e062a7b3bbc2c7a9db', '112.200.13.156'),
(3921, '0040', 'episode', 'Melanie Jane', '', 'I didn''t really like this episode. I was listening to it with 3 others I was trying to get to like CRMT. It didn''t work too well. The dialogue with the wife being a "woman''s lib" type didn''t help. Attitudes have changed, in the most part, toward women since the mid-1970''s. It was rough to hear the silly remarks toward the wife. And the way the husband was so whipped was tough to hear too.\r\nAnd, unlike usually, I figured out the twist after the first set of questions the psychologist threw at the couple about their life together. That made the twist at the end no twist for me. I wish I hadn''t figured it out! Next time I will try to not figure out the ending!', '2013-01-30 16:08:41', 1, 'faf7bd1018855d9cec4d1a765ceab86c', '112.200.13.156'),
(3922, '0040', 'episode', 'Tom', '', 'While the \\"twist\\" ending was a bit to chew on, the ongoing terror and suspense was fantastic.\r\n\r\nNow I\\''m going to read what everyone else had to say about this one.... <br>', '2013-03-03 21:39:06', 1, 'd0a9592ad94e11b5d2d4fe6dd00a2d9c', '112.200.13.156'),
(4665, '0255', 'episode', 'timturk', 'tremonttim@hotmail.com', 'I enjoyed Twilight Zone''s "A Stop At Willoughby" more than this. At least in that, once the main character, Mr. Williams, gets off the train, he ends up getting off at his dream town, even though in reality, he died. When Mr. Fryburger (amusing name) tries to get off the train at his dream stop, we have no indication that he ended up in his personal heaven, he''s just dead. A fair story, well acted as usual, but disappointing.  ', '2013-03-05 15:16:32', 1, '06b23f1d8cb54712d3398823f8b02078', '98.253.181.187'),
(3924, '0426', 'episode', 'K. Bagalacsa', '', 'This one was OK. Plot ending was similar to TWZ "The Man in The Cave". But it caught me a bit by surprise I guess. ', '2013-01-30 16:08:22', 1, 'f5d5be0fce5476b4bcb99bd4ab0e9d8b', '112.200.13.156'),
(3925, '0426', 'episode', 'Carl Chambers', '', 'Perhaps I would have enjoyed this one more, had I not listened to it at 3 AM. I never became fully interested in the story, and I\\''m not sure it would have made much difference no matter what time I listened to it. It was okay. It just wasn\\''t a thriller to me.', '2013-01-30 16:08:20', 1, 'e2cd713221edb49350b7dea0fc32f13a', '112.200.13.156'),
(3926, '0426', 'episode', 'Danny M.', '', 'this one was okay. not bad, but not the best. i think the first time i listened to it, i was impressed because i didn''t know what to expect. i marked it off in my archive as being a good show. Upon listening again, i realized how cornball the acting came off (too stiff and robotic) and that this potentially rich tale left a lot to be desired. i enjoyed it very much, but not sure if i''d be willing to sit through it again. ', '2013-01-30 16:08:19', 1, '2d2895c6ec78ec1cc89d5ef2697f481c', '112.200.13.156'),
(3927, '0426', 'episode', 'A. Lambert', '', 'I agree that this one was OK. Not great, not terrible. I agree that not every show has to be great to be enjoyed. It seems that the mediocre shows are often the ones that deal with the political issues of the day so they can provide insight as to what was on peoples minds at the time the show was written. I am also amazed at how shows that seemed great to me at one time seem cheesy when I listen to them now. Some of my favorites of my teenage years are really pretty bad when I listen to them today. &nbsp;I did enjoy this one even if it\\''s not one of my favorites.<br><br>', '2013-03-14 23:06:15', 1, '67367dc55d31cf953d140a4ea8f61fd7', '112.200.13.156'),
(3928, '0426', 'episode', 'Julius Abot', '', 'It was ok.\r\n\r\nI found it to be somewhat predictable.\r\n\r\nMany of my favorites are not predictable, or have a twist that I did not see coming.\r\n\r\nI really enjoy Sci Fi, and enjoy some of the CBSRMT episodes that dive into that genre.\r\n\r\nKeep them coming, and I will comment as I listen.\r\n\r\nI like the polling section. ', '2013-01-30 16:08:17', 1, 'c161c76613b8fdcd655563e8be095a48', '112.200.13.156'),
(3929, '0426', 'episode', 'Sherwin C.', '', 'Sorry to reanimate this old thread, but maybe it should''ve been\r\nnoted that this episode was the basis of Mr. Dann''s 1979 novel\r\n"The Third Body", according to the Wikipedia CBSRMT page.', '2013-01-30 16:08:16', 1, '09d65a99a573eb578e28e840360c17a1', '112.200.13.156'),
(3930, '0035', 'actor', 'Larry Zimmerman', 'harmonicool@hotmail.com', 'why did she die so young? (age 39) Did she commit suicide?\r\nalso; why is there no picture or biographical information on Sam Dann, who wrote\r\nseveral episodes of CBSRMT that she appeared in?', '2013-01-30 16:08:15', 1, '4dcd377ab873eba27c3e1200a5860feb', '208.102.8.94'),
(3933, '1041', 'episode', 'Revo', '', 'This is another Elspeth Eric psycho-drama, and (IMO) although I don\\''t think it\\''s the primary theme a secondary facet of this show is (suggested) homosexuality.\r\n\r\nThe late, great, out-of-the-closet Gordon Heath (who we lost too early to AIDS) plays a man living in an elegant house only with a male servant (played by Robert Dryden) whom he befriended in San Francisco.\r\n\r\nIt isn\\''t the first overt or covert reference to that subject in the RMT:\r\n\r\n- \\"Picture of Dorian Gray\\" very overtly dealt with the subject without directly mentioning it. (I wonder if Oscar Wilde, who himself struggled with same-sex attraction, could even market that novel were he in today\\''s politically correct climate. Actually, his novels, like \\"Dorian Gray\\" were frequently about morality and the consequences of immorality.)\r\n\r\n- \\"The Secret Sharer\\", where the newly-minted captain of a ship about to sail (played by Norman Rose) finds a naked young man swimming next to his boat (played by Mandel Kramer, who by this time in his career didn\\''t sound that young) and keeps him in his cabin, taking pains to let no one know the young stowaway is there. Based on a short story written by Joseph \\"Heart of darkness\\" Conrad.\r\n\r\n- \\"The sinister shadow\\", where a single, lonely woman finds companionship in a bar with a woman who appears to be her exact double. (This might also have been an Eric play). The woman\\''s domineering, mean mother, who\\''s been trying to get her daughter to date men, gets angry and seems to intimate that she\\''s a lesbian. <br>', '2013-03-03 21:37:23', 1, 'e319e07c8233d69af60a97dfe4bd45fa', '112.200.13.156'),
(3934, '1041', 'episode', 'B. Pontillas', '', 'I know I\\''ve mentioned it before, but this is my all-time favorite episode! I\\''m prejudiced, though, \\''cause this was the first episode I ever taped off the radio. It was Christmas night 1979, I was 12 years old and I\\''d just received my first tape recorder, which I had been asking for-- for almost a year--with the express idea of taping RMT.\r\n\r\nThis episode has such a creepy atmosphere...the House--\\"High over the Pacific\\"--with no electricity and at the top of a treacherous winding road. And first-rate acting by Bob Dryden and Gordon Heath (his performance is right up there with his portrayal of the professor in \\"The Dominant Personality\\"). Heath\\''s slow, methodical depiction of a character we come to realize isn\\''t just eccentric, but downright insane (the monologue where he describes the sea\\''s relentess and slow, but ultimately victorious triumph over the rocks, paints a picture of something akin to Chinese water torture and reveals to us his own slow descent into madness) and even homicidal(if passively-- after all, he steers his two \\"friends\\" down a path he knows will prove fatal) is chilling.\r\n\r\nAnd the dialogue! (Talk about living up to E.G.\\''s invtation to join him in an \\"Adventure in the Macabre!)\r\n\r\nChalmers: (after his guests have \\"departed\\") \\"Now I\\''ll have to have that railing repaired.\\"\r\n\r\nChalmers: \\"They left... Thay left right in the middle of luncheon.\\"\r\n\r\nAND....\r\nJenson: \\"Mr. Blaine and Mr. Whitehead....I hope they left on good terms with each other.\\" Chalmers: \\"I can\\''t really say that they did.\\"\r\n\r\nThis episode operates on so many different levels....A Bizarre love triangle or is that square or (counting Jenson) a pentagon?........A horrifying plan of deception, manipulation and revenge (and revenge for what? Because they never sent him any Christmas cards? Of course, this man is quite mad!)....and the supernatural overtures of a \\"talking\\" painting. I think it\\''s absolutely clever-- how we never get to hear the painting speak ourselves or for that matter (And I know it\\''s radio) \\"see\\" the painting. None of the scenes take place in the bedroom. Like Evelyn, the painting is kept \\"Off-Camera\\". This would have worked as a great stage play (In a very minimialist approach-- like \\"Rope\\").\r\n\r\nI know some of Elspeth Eric\\''s scripts aren\\''t the greatest, but this one is absolutely superb. Especially, the fact the ending is left entirely for the listener to decide what happens next........\r\n\r\nOne final note (I can hear the cheers!) being only twelve when I first heard this-- I completely missed any homosexual aspects in this tale. They\\''re definately there.....though Chalmers description of his painting-- leads me to believe that\\''s his one, true love. Also, was it because Evelyn was the only woman for him (And he obviously wanted nothing to do with her) that he shunned all women from then on...or was he just never interested in the female species from the very beginning? <br>', '2013-03-14 23:13:37', 1, '608d81d8b61c5e2c09bd2094af3c179d', '112.200.13.156'),
(3935, '1041', 'episode', 'Trevor', '', 'If indeed the latter element is something Ms. Eric originally meant to include, she was "spot on" in that even the self-proclaimed "gayest of the gay" can fall madly in love with the opposite sex (there are a lot of examples out there, but for one in particular google "Bob and Rose", a short-lived but critically acclaimed BBC show created by Russel Davies based on a real-life story of a good friend of his) and I agree...she may indeed have been his true love.\r\n\r\nInteresting, strange title for this episode in that I''ve not yet figured out what it means... ', '2013-02-13 17:35:42', 1, '62ee59f17b5a0f4217548326962311ce', '112.200.13.156'),
(3936, '1041', 'episode', 'R. Elipsac', '', 'I''ve always intepreted the title to mean--just what it says-- "Death Is a Woman (In the form of Evelyn and/or the painting)". Certainly, their obsession and jealousies of Evelyn led to the demise of two of the central characters. And, what happened to Gregory Chalmers? Was he ever prosecuted? Thus, also, "dying" (at least figuratively --with the loss of freedom and the life he had known-- by being sent to prison) at the hands of a woman. Certainly, the authorities would have eventually investigated the disapperance of Blaine and Whitehead and the trail led right back to Chalmers. Did he try to pin it on Evelyn? What happened to Evelyn? Did Chalmers try to end her obsession of him permanently? Perhaps, Jenson, who certainly began to suspect what had really happened at luncheon --when he saw the broken railing-- was resourceful enough to cover up everyhting. ("That Jenson..... he can do anything!")\r\n\r\nAnother question I have-- was Evelyn an innocent in all this? Was she just as heart-broken as the others-- loving the one person she could never have? Or, did she lead Blaine and Whitehead on-- knowing, eventually, somewhere, sometime there''d be a fatal confrontation between the two? Did she instigate the whole reunion, with Chalmers as her puppet?\r\n\r\nI''m also curious to know what other listeners think about the painting. Did it really have supernatural powers? Or, was it all auto suggestion? Did the characters just hear what their own insecurities and obsessions led them to hear? Or was the painting some kind of demi-goddess "Entity" --seeking sacrificies? Where did the painting come from? And, where is it now?\r\n\r\nJust some more food for thought.', '2013-02-13 17:35:44', 1, 'f18ed14b51a87d080b0eb0b17b4dd803', '112.200.13.156'),
(3937, '1041', 'episode', 'Hector T.', '', '\\"The cult of germination has always been\r\nassociated with the cult of the dead. ...\r\nIn most popular representations,\r\ndeath is a woman ....\\"\r\n\r\n    -- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)\r\n\r\n[See also Karl S. Guthke, The Gender of Death:\r\nA Cultural History in Art and Literature (1999),\r\nfor examples of female representations of death\r\nin mythology and folklore of various cultures.]\r\n\r\n\r\n(Death is a Woman was also the US title of a\r\n1966 British film, not related to our story.)', '2013-02-13 17:35:44', 1, 'b19d45a93eeaeb65d4720dacbfa3a3af', '112.200.13.156'),
(3938, '1041', 'episode', 'R. Ray', '', 'That''s interesting to know. I wonder if that''s what Elspeth Eric was quoting? It certainly fits the motif of the story!', '2013-02-13 17:35:49', 1, 'aa90ebfa1d6369e72e4b2b5d8955435a', '112.200.13.156'),
(3939, '1041', 'episode', 'Red Real', '', 'The script for this episode was well crafted and taut. No fat, with good pacing. Having never heard this particular episode, I was very curious where it was all leading. The fact that the painting seemed to state the same words to everyone led me to believe it was not auto-suggestion as I would expect different individuals to "hear" different words, if the message was emanating from their own subconscious.\r\n\r\nI enjoyed that fact that this show is open to interpretation in several ways; was the painting actually talking? Why did the host want to kill his guests? What was the sequel to this story?\r\n\r\nRMT at its best. The only thing the show lacked was a werewolf. ', '2013-02-13 17:35:50', 1, 'a8bb99ca841e1028c6b3d5b7e78bc851', '112.200.13.156'),
(3940, '0068', 'episode', 'Redentor', '', 'This was classic CBSRMT. A simple supernatural premise that then explores how those all too common human frailties, greed, avarice, and narcisism work to defeat the protagonists ambitions. ', '2013-02-13 17:35:51', 1, '66586ad5bb5ee3ea60e6338274ba5547', '112.200.13.156'),
(3941, '0068', 'episode', 'Justin', '', 'This is one of my favorite episodes. I liked the performance of the man/entity seeking to reclaim the camera. A fun show. ', '2013-02-13 17:35:52', 1, 'ba587d1590e485c5d00b629c3027365e', '112.200.13.156'),
(3942, '0068', 'episode', 'Ike', '', 'I also really enjoyed this episode.\r\n\r\nGreat premise, good acting. Found it interesting that they never followed up on the future murder The heiress was suppose to commit. Perhaps Lisa (Johnny''s girlfriend) would some day try to prevent it.\r\n\r\nLove the character Nick Scarlet and the line: "It''s interesting that I find it much more difficult to do a good deed than an evil one". William Redfield does a great job bringing this character to life.\r\n\r\nAnother question. Who were the two thugs who beat Lisa up, looking for the camera, working for? Perhaps the heiress?', '2013-02-13 17:35:52', 1, 'a00b2ae4bc381138d61674e0892e992a', '112.200.13.156'),
(3944, '0068', 'episode', 'Lindt', '', 'I\\''ve always liked the premise of meeting the devil (or one of his minions....)\r\n\r\nGood show. ', '2013-02-13 17:35:48', 1, 'b42706c8ae7b65b4a07660b96a84d0e5', '112.200.13.156'),
(3945, '0331', 'episode', 'Justin', 'justin.pinkley@gmail.com', 'This is one of the better episodes of Mystery Theater. A doctor delivers a baby and lands a plane with the help of air traffic control. But who *is* air traffic control?', '2013-02-13 17:35:53', 1, '5d504ab3c6c6c234df526da17b5314c0', '50.96.25.57'),
(3946, '0761', 'episode', 'M. Cabochan', '', 'Absolutely love this episode! First heard it when I was 11 years old in the summer of ''78 and it stayed with me for 30+ years ''til I managed to get a copy of my own a few years back.\r\n\r\nThe mood and atmosphere were first-rate. You could really visualize the men moving through the darkened, eerie rooms of the ancient "modern" house. The whole second act was as spooky as I remembered as a kid.\r\n\r\nThe pacing is also excellent. The listener is just as frantic as Michael Wager (an excellent performance) to get back to the house and find the ninth volume before it''s too late and yet we all know --it will be. What was the major catastrophe we needed to avoid?\r\n\r\nQuestion. How do other listeners interpret the ending? When the house collapses, as it''s exposed to the fresh air, do John Perk and the Professor get out alive? Or are they killed in the house''s collapse? When, I was little, one of the reasons this episode so haunted me was I assumed our protagonist was killed. What do all of you think? Whenever I listen to this one now (which is quite often) I go back and forth about the last scene.\r\n\r\nAfter "Death Is a Woman" and "The Judge''s House" I would say this is my favorite RMT. The unanswered questions at the end just make it even more entertaining. The stories that leave you guessing (and thinking) long after the final curtain has come down are the ones that really fire the imagination.\r\n\r\nOn a side note: during a previous discussion of this show, someone mentioned the "Quiet, Please" episode "The Thing on the Fourbleboard"-- I''m so grateful they did! I stayed up to listen and record a copy of it when it was on a old time radio station @ 6 months ago-- because of their recommendation. If any of you ever get a chance to hear this tale--DO!!!!!!!!!! It is, without a doubt, one of the creepiest, shivers down the spine, radio dramas you''ll ever experience.', '2013-02-13 17:35:54', 1, '0c5f4d273282925a4e36a544c5437212', '112.200.13.156'),
(3947, '0761', 'episode', 'Cecille', '', 'Great selection. "The Ninth Volume" remains one of my favorite RMT''s; it combines a fun, interesting story with good performances. I love the performance by the actor who portrayed Sharkey (or whatever his name was) who lied when asked to confirm the scientist''s claims about the modern dwelling below the earth. I laughed when Sharkey said he didn''t recognize half of the names the geologist read out as authors of various books in the library.\r\n\r\nAs for the ending, I took it to mean that the two scientists died after the house disintegrated; I don''t see how they could have escaped, but I hope I am wrong!\r\n\r\nThis episode occurred in the far flung future of....1998. I guess that means the end is near.', '2013-02-13 17:36:01', 1, 'b5cb47e4c80bfa46085448477845a5b0', '112.200.13.156'),
(3948, '0321', 'episode', 'Pammy Pam', '', 'Howard Da Silva was great in this, as always! He just has a great voice for radio. He instantly draws you in to any story. This tale certainly takes some interesting and varied twists and turns. From a rather mundane tale of infidelity, to an intriguing premise of "What If". What if you served on a jury for a crime you actually committed?\r\nIt was interesting how Da Silva''s character kept trying to take what he saw as the "High" road. Cheating on his wife was okay, but telling her--horrors! Suicide was all right, as long as it benefited his family. Murder (though technically, it was self-defense) was justified since it was a nazi war criminal ( which was a twist which I doubt anyone saw coming!) Since the death was acceptable-- no one need pay for the crime. The ending seemed a little rushed and I''m not sure the author really made the last twist as believable as the others-- that all of a sudden Pollard wanted credit so badly for the avenging of Warsaw that he publically confessed to the crime. Still a very enjoyable tale.\r\nThe part about a criminal serving on a jury was reminiscent of a "Suspense" tale "Circumstantial Terror" in which Ronald Reagan is falsely accused of murdering a shop keeper and finds the real killer serving on his jury to decide his guilt or innocence.', '2013-02-13 17:36:02', 1, 'cb762cdaa7f80fe0ab17e3c7e0f72e0c', '112.200.13.156'),
(3949, '0321', 'episode', 'Jeff Scarr', '', 'This is a great show! Howard\\''s voice is cool and his delivery is smooth. The only thing I don\\''t like about this one is that there really isn\\''t any transition from when he\\''s feeling guilty to wanting to take all the credit. There\\''s no build up.\r\nApart from that, It\\''s a good one. Keeps you wondering what\\''s this guy goning to do next. ', '2013-02-13 17:36:03', 1, '2dda3b4a57b843038c7c1a707b18c84d', '112.200.13.156'),
(3950, '0132', 'episode', 'Philip A.', '', 'The voice of the alien entity (or whatever "he" was) sounded like a female to me. Was Harry played by the comedian Jerry Stiller, Ben''s father?\r\n\r\nI wonder how many RMT episodes have featured wishes that caused unforseen consequences.\r\n\r\nOverall, a good episode that combined classic RMT elements (wishes gone awry, aliens, open ended conclusion and corpses). ', '2013-01-30 22:06:22', 1, 'ecd2e6b35173e520b1cfed71f5aaf6ad', '112.200.13.156'),
(3951, '0132', 'episode', 'Liz', '', 'I don\\''t know how many episodes have featured wishes that resulted in unforeseen consequences but there certainly are a few. For me, that element is one of the best defining classic RMT elements. I always enjoy the ones where our subjects get what they wish for and then regret it.', '2013-02-13 17:36:03', 1, 'a8964c6276eec778e9632d56e1e5ff1b', '112.200.13.156'),
(3952, '0132', 'episode', 'Dwight', '', 'This episode had an interesting premise, but I felt it never really went anywhere. Maybe, it would have been more interesting had it featured more earth-shattering events (Like the island wiped out early in the story). Definately, had a "Monkey''s Paw" feel to it, though. ("Careful what you wish for"...etc.)\r\n\r\nOne other problem is-- trying to visualize Jerry Stiller as anything other than "Frank Castanza". Of course, this was done way before "Seinfeld", but I kept waiting for him to start yelling at his wife or going on about "Festivis".\r\n\r\nJust my opinion.', '2013-02-13 17:36:04', 1, '9e78477e3c9d4f1ab9227c459b714f8a', '112.200.13.156'),
(4844, '0280', 'episode', 'Jesse', '', 'I''d not heard this one, and at the end it leaves no doubt, again, what apparently some of (in this case, Ian Martin and possibly E.G.) the RMT folks thought about witchcraft.\r\n\r\nThis one had the earmarks of a program with an ending like "The real printer''s devil" (which also featured Jada Rowland, as this one did) or "The summer people", but I always thought the heroine (or at least one could call her "the nice girl") in this story wasn''t going to meet a similar fate. Glad scriptwriter Martin didn''t disappoint.', '2013-03-06 21:53:06', 1, 'c047b693907e70b93d40006e412ffc9a', '112.200.20.61'),
(3954, '0185', 'actor', 'James Reyome', 'hikethegizz@gmail.com', 'The picture you have for Peter Collins is wonderful...but it''s not correct. That is Peter Collins the Formula One driver, and he died in an accident in the German Grand Prix 1958. I believe you''re looking for Peter C. Collins, who was a well-known character actor on Broadway, TV and in film. He passed away in 2004.', '2013-02-13 17:36:49', 1, 'b34c2965309c40348e40ae76b50d4d94', '67.90.156.162'),
(3955, '0713', 'episode', 'drj', 'ravengal44646@gmail.com', 'I was o.k. with this one until the ending.  The last statements of the wealthy woman led me to think that she learned no real lesson, and her husband came to her rescue, yet again.', '2013-02-13 17:36:50', 1, 'c260758ca1fbe9b10cfae09dc82112d0', '155.188.183.16'),
(3956, '0130', 'actor', 'jock123', 'doyle.simon@gmail.com', 'I don’t think you picture is the right Robert Maxwell - that’s the disgraced British publishing baron Robert Maxwell.', '2013-03-27 15:36:42', 1, 'ce70067ec1be23b6703f3af22d206675', '109.155.29.218'),
(3957, '0015', 'episode', 'Thomas', 'thomas9@dslextreme.com', 'The ending didn''t make sense, unless the "boy scout" is a complete fool. As far as he knew, the man with the Chinaman Button belonged to an organization of criminal assassins. Not the sort of group you want to screw out of their 50%. What did this "boy scout" think would happen when the actual killers didn''t get their share of the money? They''d track him down. It''d be easy to do.', '2013-02-13 17:36:52', 1, 'f295b6c5e815e86c2c467bff28a5d134', '71.165.54.6'),
(3958, '0134', 'episode', 'Bill', 'whdawson@gmail.com', 'As soon as I began listening to this episode I knew I''d "seen" it somewhere before, and was even remembering the scenes evinced by the radio drama.  A little Google and a little IMDB soon revealed the source, which is: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season 1, Episode 6, Final Vow (25 Oct. 1962). Everything old is new again.  What a delectable twist. Thank you, Mr. Slesar.', '2013-02-02 14:50:36', 1, 'a768e55ef0d4ff294c5f830a3e2b9b24', '108.32.107.141'),
(3959, '1188', 'episode', 'Justin', 'justin.pinkley@gmail.com', 'This is a great episode! Supernatural elements and a very compelling storyline really keep the interest! Five stars!', '2013-02-13 17:37:00', 1, '1bd19378214e5c141df8f4ca246bd24d', '50.96.25.57'),
(3960, '0343', 'episode', 'Russell', '', 'The music is mystifying and Casey Kasem did a good job. However, after listening to this episode, the storyline reminds me of that SOUTH PARK episode called "Dead Celebrities" from 2009. Listen to this CBSRMT episode first, then watch the show and you''ll know what I mean.', '2013-02-13 17:37:02', 1, '4c59ee2429b87930d1eff5f292b6a4c5', '64.136.212.123'),
(3961, '0954', 'episode', 'Tyson Swanson', 'Tpciswanson@bellsouth.net', 'I remember listening to this very episode when I was a kid living in Arlington Heights IL back in the late ''70''s. I would stay up late and listen on WLS AM 890 out of Chicago.  I was fascinated with radio and especially with Mystery Theater. ', '2013-02-03 17:03:07', 1, 'f8892bd34880aa36bd839c991aa037c8', '208.97.44.249'),
(3963, '1277', 'episode', 'Chris', '', 'I have been enjoying these episodes. It brings me back to when I was growing up I never missed an episode and since then I have missed listening them . I was happy to discover I can listen to these episodes again as it is equally exciting each and everytime I listen to them . Thank you ', '2013-02-04 18:54:43', 1, '49d427004ec4c5d34fc1d7a9ea680670', '64.136.212.123'),
(3964, '0100', 'episode', 'chad brown', 'chadvienna@hotmail.com', 'The third act made absolutely no sense whatsoever, which made act one and two a big waste of time. I have no idea why anyone would praise this episode. D. Perdue is absolutely correct. \r\n\r\nI listened to parts again and again and can not put it together. If the voice acting and production were not so compelling, it would have a been a complete waste of time listening.\r\nIts a shame.\r\n\r\n ', '2013-02-13 17:37:02', 1, 'dadb65b1091dfb44b8ec906c7c23282e', '93.74.236.35'),
(3965, '0100', 'episode', 'chad brown', 'chadvienna@hotmail.com', 'The third act made absolutely no sense whatsoever, which made act one and two a big waste of time. I have no idea why anyone would praise this episode. D. Perdue is absolutely correct. \r\n\r\nI listened to parts again and again and can not put it together. If the voice acting and production were not so compelling, it would have a been a complete waste of time listening.\r\nIts a shame.\r\n\r\n ', '2013-02-05 17:46:19', 1, '3862208be1a3b774484fd679c976968b', '93.74.236.35'),
(3966, '0644', 'episode', 'Cindy', '', 'Not what you''d expect but enjoyable nevertheless.', '2013-02-13 17:36:24', 1, 'e9b58a4984a61f3a6426c4f173b44f57', '112.200.13.156'),
(3967, '0644', 'episode', 'Mica', '', 'HA! Government in action. Too funny - good one.', '2013-02-13 17:36:26', 1, '12c989296ec7fd0b070851d57a17d59a', '112.200.13.156'),
(3968, '0697', 'episode', 'Von Zuriel', '', 'This episode really left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand I found the idea of one man repeatedly unknowingly saving the life of another to be interesting. But on the other hand I thought that taking 45 minutes to set up what would have been an interesting place to start a story was too long.', '2013-02-13 17:36:29', 1, '00946cbdeab4a87a39ef839f3753d937', '112.200.13.156'),
(3969, '0697', 'episode', 'Stan', '', ' I enjoyed this episode, the relationship between author and agent was done well and I like the actor who portrayed the writer.', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, '2f73d39340e47c94845e0c09c1460d63', '112.200.13.156'),
(3970, '0697', 'episode', 'Willmon', '', 'I thought this was a really nice change-of-pace tale. Sort of an inconclusive ending to be sure . . . as if that was uncommon in RMT stories!\r\n\r\nBut I thought the plot was very inventive and interesting. To be sure, as a previous listener noted, 45 minutes might seem a long time to tell and retell the same occurance. But again, I thought it was intriguing and cool.\r\n\r\nThe question(s) of fate, predestiny, and so on are raised quite well. I was hoping for a climax or an explanation, but I can live without it. In fact, writing these comments on Show of the Week episdoes is keeping me alive. For whatever strange reason, I can''t die as long as I listen to RMT and write comments on RMT . . . who''d a'' thought?\r\n', '2013-02-13 17:37:02', 1, '60f46a259cb2b6b009d71d5266d8bfef', '112.200.13.156'),
(3971, '0697', 'episode', 'Lanier', '', 'An odd story to be sure, but different. I liked it I suppose, but it did kinda drag at some points. I expected that the man was a "real" Warlock, and he was being saved for some special deviant purpose in the future.\r\n\r\nOh well!', '2013-02-13 17:36:48', 1, '7759cf29cc24f987ef3d42ea4616a732', '112.200.13.156'),
(3972, '0697', 'episode', 'Dino', '', 'This one seemed kind of "new agey" to me in terms of its message (a departure from so many RMT episodes) but it was still interesting. ', '2013-02-13 17:36:45', 1, 'a900b5195e557cab1ad80ba48a274079', '112.200.13.156'),
(3973, '0334', 'episode', 'Matt', '', 'Norman Rose and a werewolf; you can''t ask for more in an RMT episode. Rose is my favorite RMT actor and this is one of his best roles. I like Rose as the take charge guy who knows what to do and why. It would have been entertaining to have heard Dr. Carter, psychic detective, involved in other episodes of RTM. I would have liked to heard Dr. Carter take on vampires or ghosts.\r\n\r\nI cannot blame the father for wanting to shoot the werewolf. If a werewolf was approaching your daughter, what would you do?\r\n\r\nI am only aware of one other RMT that dealt with a werewolf; in the other episode, a man marries a woman who turns out to be a werewolf. Is anyone aware of any other RMT werewolf plots? ', '2013-02-13 17:36:46', 1, '8af70ed21cdd280a025cd087b3e6769c', '112.200.13.156'),
(3974, '1302', 'episode', 'John Armenal', '', 'Jeez this is a strange story. A weird journey that kept me listening all the way through . . . but in retrospect I don''t think I''d actually call it interesting!\r\n\r\nAnd that''s weird in itself.\r\n\r\nIt seems to ring a bell with some half forgotten story I''ve heard somewhere before. Is it lifted from one of the ancient Greek tales perhaps? The story of a bitter miserly uncle (Midas?) and the betrayal murder of a younger man . . . that really does seem familiar.\r\n\r\nSpoiler here. The resurection of the young man at the end . . . that really beggers belief. Unconsious, buried in soil, until a flooding river revives and saves him!!?? Not the sort of thing that happens every day. Why not have him recover from a multiple stabbing, gunshots, and poisoning at the same time as well?', '2013-02-13 17:36:47', 1, 'b02d920102ef5eca4ce2d0cba3d5708c', '112.200.13.156'),
(3975, '1302', 'episode', 'Gaston', '', 'I am betting the same writer wrote this and "The Raft" - similar plotline at one point. The resolve was way too fast after a slow buildup throughout the story.', '2013-02-13 17:36:38', 1, 'd6f1ac815649bdcb71672a257ae91406', '112.200.13.156'),
(3976, '1302', 'episode', 'Reese', '', 'A decent episode but the story wasn''t quite rich enough to fill 45 minutes. This is an example of a show that would''ve been better in 2 acts than three. And the ending did seem a bit rushed which is odd given that they had to much time to work with and I thought the pace was slow throughout most of the show. ', '2013-02-13 17:36:39', 1, '87b54cb4a92755a27be51323b9cbff64', '112.200.13.156'),
(3977, '1302', 'episode', 'Sammy', '', 'I had no trouble staying interested, but found the payoff poor and unbelievable.', '2013-02-13 17:36:32', 1, 'dfdc40e5dacf3212a1bffcd1f85b30e8', '112.200.13.156'),
(3982, '0001', 'episode', 'Kimberly', '', 'One of my favorite episodes. Big fan of Agnes Morehead. Trivia question: How many episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater did Miss Morehead perform in?', '2013-02-06 16:07:17', 1, 'd37225d298f1cbd82ca262350e35141a', '64.136.212.123'),
(3983, '0001', 'episode', 'Russell', '', 'Only 2 episodes. Ep.0001-The Old Ones Are Hard To Kill & Ep.0021-The Ring Of Truth\r\n\r\nNow if you were talking about Suspense, that would be a different kettle of fish.  The Suspense radio play that she is well known for is, \\"Sorry, Wrong Number.\\"', '2013-02-13 17:36:40', 1, '9e59a060787e5a802f6189decf4d7691', '64.136.212.123'),
(3984, '0001', 'episode', 'Kimberly', '', 'Listening to this episode and Stewart''s reaction to Mrs. Camby''s cooking, I''m curious about her chicken and dumpling recipe.', '2013-02-06 16:11:39', 1, '7a9b11635595f19ec5574e0ea5df9542', '64.136.212.123'),
(3980, '0291', 'episode', 'Franco', '', 'An odd sort of story, but nothing "too" out of the ordinary. Just heard this one recently too.', '2013-02-13 17:35:14', 1, '607936126f3eade2f56ab0ba7457d13d', '112.200.13.156'),
(3981, '0291', 'episode', 'Jeff', '', 'This is an interesting program. It is unique and the stairway is the kind of hook that gets me interested. As for the ending, it clearly does not go in the direction that you think it will, but it also doesn''t take the kind of 90 degree turn that I hate when what happens at the end doesn''t make sense with everything else that you have heard. A "straightforward story with a dash of skeletons thrown in." I pictured the uncle looking like Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction. I encourage people to listen to this program and make their own conclusions about what happened at the end. ', '2013-02-13 17:35:16', 1, '8f2b34a3663f2bbbd83e3be92152476f', '64.136.212.123'),
(3985, '0304', 'episode', 'Hayley', 'hayleycarlton@aol.com', 'For once a story from Elspeth Eric that isn''t dreary. This had an interesting premise. Am I the only one who thinks that Kenny needs to move out of his mother''s house? ', '2013-02-13 17:35:17', 1, '1df8f232174284b76d06816783f164f4', '216.180.167.121'),
(3986, '0100', 'episode', 'Hayley', 'hayleycarlton@aol.com', 'Chad, it actually makes perfect sense.  The first two acts were simply what the wife wanted the police to think. She wanted to play the part of the wronged wife to deflect blame from her.  ', '2013-02-13 17:35:22', 1, '074cdf5394731dc29a8e0251a7d19c7f', '216.180.167.121'),
(3987, '0645', 'episode', 'G. Gonzales', '', 'This story might explain why I''m still a bachelor. Although I''ve never dated sisters, I have dated best friends. However they were both bad luck. Perhaps if they''d had gold in possession I might have been moved to more radical actions.\r\n\r\nA nice example in this story how ignorant superstition can sound plausible when told with a straight face. A nice, horrible example. And unfortunately the example given of the scientific method is woefully mangled and incomplete. Still I accept it all in the spirit of RMT.\r\n\r\nWitch burning is out of fashion at present. But not irrational witch hunts. (Of course in this tale the witch[s] are real.) So the well-meaning murderers get their comupance and we are left with a truly mixed ending, as in many of the RMT canon. Ah, for the good old days .', '2013-02-13 17:36:40', 1, '19448185fa4bcf52b8e7e46b91d262eb', '112.200.13.156'),
(3988, '0645', 'episode', 'Max', '', 'I enjoyed the use of a reporter as narrator. Plausability was a problem; I find it hard to believe that in a town of 99 not one good person would stand up to the murderous plot. Didn''t Janice have any friends? The ending was telegraphed as well whenthey determined to use dynamite to kill her. ', '2013-02-13 17:36:41', 1, 'cc8086b470a4cdf444b858ee6704cdee', '112.200.13.156'),
(3989, '0645', 'episode', 'Chandler', '', 'This story was kind of dull. The ending twist came out of nowhere and really surprised me. It wasn''t one of my favorites, but it did have Fred Gwynne which is always a plus in my book.', '2013-02-13 17:36:42', 1, '24e172883aca7bd44058bdfb51eed841', '112.200.13.156'),
(3990, '1295', 'episode', 'Aileen', '', 'I liked this because Fred Gwynne is probably my favorite Mystery Theater voice actor. I figured it out about half way through, but I''m sure most everyone else did also.\r\n\r\nI really never got why the Fred Gwynne character couldn''t pass the detective test when he knew the answers and helped his friend prepare. I kind of got the impression he didn''t fit in as a detective, but that really wasn''t made clear. Overall, though, it was a good story. ', '2013-02-13 17:36:43', 1, 'ba9b436e653abc1f9660752008a78ede', '112.200.13.156'),
(3991, '0278', 'episode', 'Homer', '', 'Emmmmmmmmmmmmmm well no oscars tonight and in my opinion a pretty predictable story....which never really got going.....Leaving the end open is a twist .\r\nOption A - he gets away with it or\r\nOption B - he gets caught......\r\nEntertainment value i would give it a 2 and RMT suspense a 2 again.....\r\nBest quote of the show what when the shopkeeper mentioned he would rather be the sherrif when the sherrif got the snow shoes out of the vehicle.....I suppose I am maybe over critical but thats my view on it.........Bring em on! ', '2013-02-13 17:36:43', 1, 'c666422223d44950456ce222683aa93c', '112.200.13.156'),
(4834, '0143', 'episode', 'Liz', '', 'Well friends, this episode has to go down as one of the weirdest ones I have ever listened to. I loved the image of the little bug in the jar. The first time I heard the imp scream I thought, "Well, here''s one episode I won''t listen to when I''m going to sleep at night!" I enjoyed the plot and the whole notion of how one passed the imp on to someone else.', '2013-03-06 21:40:50', 1, '19a397749a0bf924876454d99616687e', '112.200.20.61'),
(3993, '0278', 'episode', 'Wilson', '', 'you''re very welcome, Draegerman! i found a resource which i could host from, though the links may expire after a period of time.\r\n\r\nas for this show, i really got into in the beginning. it gave me some good creeps and jitters as it moved along, but once the plot was revealed, i soon lost a concerned interest.\r\n\r\ni did enjoy that there were sort of two dramas at play here. one with the couple trying to just get where they were going, and then the other when they got there.\r\n\r\nit''s not a bad tale, but not a terribly gripping one either. i gave it a 2.8 overall. solid performances and production, but the tale just never really peaked for me. ', '2013-02-13 17:37:02', 1, '472a7bf3f18993a10f19ef7dfdfeb904', '112.200.13.156'),
(3995, '0278', 'episode', 'Nathan Panambers', '', 'It''s interesting to see that no one was overly-impressed by this program because it had me in its grasp.\r\n\r\nIt is my humble opinion that this is one of the best episodes ever.\r\n\r\nThe setup is really what had me interested from the outset.\r\n\r\nE.G. Marshall''s words about summer cabins at the beginning were the perfect stage-setter. Listen to them carefully if you are going to listen to this program.\r\n\r\nThen, the unexpected late night visit about someone apparently in the cabin some miles away caused the feeling of mystery and suspense for me.\r\n\r\nI really liked this program.\r\n\r\nAs for the ending, was an ending necessary? The real ending occurred before the end of the program now didn''t it?', '2013-02-13 17:35:36', 1, 'de546995cd62cd274b6445789fb9f569', '112.200.13.156'),
(3996, '0278', 'episode', 'Patti', '', 'I liked this program also. It as very interesting how their indiscretion was played out. It was as if the cabin walls could talk. What a chilling way to find out your husband was a murderer. ', '2013-02-13 17:35:36', 1, '901fc628bfc52adb27f9c1e98258d6a3', '112.200.13.156'),
(3997, '1054', 'episode', 'Nuki B.', '', 'Eh, uh - OK I guess. Not really one to write home about, but OK Science Fiction I guess. Someone was messing with an old synthesizer for some of the sound effects.', '2013-02-13 17:35:37', 1, 'cdf60193a90a88d77ec3d6cfd23e727c', '112.200.13.156'),
(3998, '1054', 'episode', 'Jake', '', 'Well, it\\''s not a horror show. That\\''s for sure. But I\\''m a bit of a science fiction fan and I enjoy shows that make statements about the future. Especially when you are in the future looking back on them. Is this show a prediction? I don\\''t think so. It paints something of a caricature of \\''political correctness.\\'' ', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, 'f801687f93817dc959f20a3f1f9c7a92', '112.200.13.156'),
(3999, '0057', 'episode', 'Lewis', '', 'RMT featured several adaptations of Poe''s stories and for my money this is the best. It is very creepy; the music and sound effects are used to good effect. My favorite part of the episode, is when the story is related of how the mother was buried alive. Spooky stuff. Nice selection! ', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, 'c48b28a0fec928737675d151ed18d86e', '112.200.13.156'),
(4000, '0057', 'episode', 'Mack', '', 'a very enjoyable choice! it was fun to revisit this one.\r\nthanks wadenjulie and Boo-radley! ', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, 'd24b3a05de99f07704c03851c5d57a4f', '112.200.13.156'),
(4001, '0057', 'episode', 'Jercs', '', 'I really enjoyed this one. i always listen in the dark, it makes it that much more enjoyable. thank you . ', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, 'd81c70b658162f4e8375a59308d1d5f6', '112.200.13.156'),
(4002, '0057', 'episode', 'Jomar P.', '', 'Thanks for digging this one from the archives. I remember this as one of the very first I ever heard..then again..It WAS in the first season. I guess I was in 5th grade when this first played. My brother was off to college and I finally got to move into his room in the dark, damp basement (muah hahaha) I listened as often as I could in the darkness of my room, before going to sleep. Great episode and great memories. Not quite as good as I remember it as a kid, but still a great rendition of House of Usher.', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, 'aa063c70de475d7a1bf60bba680c603f', '112.200.13.156'),
(4004, '0057', 'episode', 'Horace', '', 'Probably the best adaptation by RMT of a Poe story. Certainly the most faithful. In fact the opening monologue is directly lifted from the opening passage.\r\n\r\nAnother great use of sound effects, especially the howling wind-- it just chills you to the bone, especially, as already alluded to, during the sequence describing the premature burial of the mother.\r\n\r\nAnd, Arnold Moss does an oustanding job of conveying a man on the brink of madness. What a fantastic voice!\r\n\r\nThis could easily be one of RMT''s top ten!', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, '5a9960d39440c771ef8056d408b85441', '112.200.13.156');
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(4005, '0057', 'episode', 'Almero B.', '', 'Very nice adaptation! I also like "Bernice", which is nearly as creepy.\r\n\r\nTwo Poe adaptations I don''t really go for are "Pit and Pendulum" and "Telltale Heart". They go so far from the original tale as to be almost unrecognizable.\r\n\r\nBut I do like this one . . . and the use of sound effects during EG''s outro . . . don''t recall if they ever did that in any other show .', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, '54efa5442b36fbc02f98d1577092edac', '112.200.13.156'),
(4006, '0087', 'episode', 'Benjamin K.', '', 'On one hand I preferred the ESCAPE version of The Suicide Club, since it faithfully adapted Stevenson''s story.\r\n\r\nMystery Theater was of course longer and had more time for character development, I heard both versions last fall. ', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, '6b6dc7607e501b1a684c5cb2b7fab293', '112.200.13.156'),
(4008, '0087', 'episode', 'Gaspar Jr.', '', 'Nice - with a \\"happy\\" ending.\r\n\r\nHeh heh, it did keep me guessing!', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, 'f528198ae9604a74857498d070553615', '112.200.13.156'),
(4009, '0087', 'episode', 'Sammie', '', 'Been awhile since I''ve been here . . . I missed it!\r\n\r\nSomeone once said, "Suicide is the sincerest form of self criticism."\r\n\r\nStrange tale . . . not bad but not a favorite for me.', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, 'bbc26968e6a5dcb9b39b0c65802425aa', '112.200.13.156'),
(4010, '0704', 'episode', 'Proculo', '', 'I thought this was a fun episode. Sort of silly, though. Methinks Hitler''s soul has been in the company of Lucifer for the past 62 years. But none-the-less, I guess I will nix the idea of buying a parrot anytime soon.', '2013-02-13 17:37:19', 1, 'cce2b66b6c29e81972655f6cba524424', '112.200.13.156'),
(4011, '0704', 'episode', 'Caren Juan', '', 'i loved it! one of the better ones in my humble opinion. ', '2013-02-13 17:34:08', 1, 'faa212e35930b04abb5ffe925accb465', '112.200.13.156'),
(4013, '0704', 'episode', 'Carlos', '', 'This episode reminded me of the story in which a couple is lured to spend a weekend with a couple that fatten them up in order to eat them. I like the idea of characters being placed in a mysterious situation in which the purposes of the villains are not immediately clear. Yes the introduction of Hitler was a crazy plot twist and I am still wondering why he didn''t speak German (maybe they have English lessons in Hell?) but I enjoyed this episode. It threw me that the "spriit birds", even though their possessing souls were evil, apparently thought resurrecting Hitler was too much. ', '2013-02-13 17:37:19', 1, '7c4e9889a1188d5c1631068d8cd26819', '112.200.13.156'),
(4014, '0704', 'episode', 'Bill', '', 'Thought it was interesting. Nice plot twists. Thought the cop at the end knowing the name of the deceased (Burt) was kind of hokey. Most likely wouldn''t have had that info. If he did he most likely wouldn''t have given it to the people at the house. But then again, it was the 70s.', '2013-02-13 17:37:19', 1, 'd70a85d973e9335fd3dfca67f8e2ce9a', '112.200.13.156'),
(4015, '0704', 'episode', 'A.J. Bordey', '', 'it was pretty hoky in several places. Nevertheless an enjoyable episode. ', '2013-02-13 17:34:15', 1, 'f662b7418beb168c7e4c5bfd673df790', '112.200.13.156'),
(4016, '0704', 'episode', 'Drew', '', 'Quote:\r\nThought it was interesting. Nice plot twists. Thought the cop at the end knowing the name of the deceased (Burt) was kind of hokey. Most likely wouldn''t have had that info. If he did he most likely wouldn''t have given it to the people at the house. But then again, it was the 70s.\r\n\r\nCBS Radio Mystery Theater is one of the very few series from a progressively modera era (the 1970s and early 1980s) which I''m sure we''ve all noticed sometimes resembles a radio or TV show from the 1950s & early 1960s due to corny dialog, stereotypical character portrayals, and the same music heard on countless CBS series from that era. ', '2013-02-13 17:34:19', 1, '2fa64d7b3633eccc35ac8bb8849b47f8', '112.200.13.156'),
(4017, '0704', 'episode', 'P. Chambers', '', 'Above average.\r\nI liked the show, why would the "evil" birds have an issue with Hitler?\r\n\r\nStill an enjoyable episode. ', '2013-02-13 17:34:20', 1, 'b3ef621ea4fe7df3b4ca5a07527104b7', '112.200.13.156'),
(4018, '0704', 'episode', 'Nemia Howard', '', 'Now it''s exactly 1 month later from when this topic was started, so I''m up to September 1977 and this morning I heard "The Waiting Room".\r\n\r\nThis was one of the dumber plots, but I''ve heard worse from this series.\r\nThe demonic birds were obviously not real birds but demons in bird form.\r\nMarian Seldes and Russell Horton using the young couple and Burt Thomas to complete their satanic ritual to bring back Adolph Hitler in itself was recycling an idea better executed in an earlier Mystery Theater episode in which Hitler is revived by a group of German scientists plotting to start a Fourth Reich in modern times. He spoke English too, so we really can''t fault the writers for typically going that route.\r\nI almost commented on this in my "Executive Decision" topic, until I remembered this thread.', '2013-02-13 17:34:22', 1, '71ed69ba68daec626a16222529478036', '112.200.13.156'),
(4019, '0959', 'episode', 'Martha', '', 'This one is one of the best!\r\n\r\nStephen King visited this type of strange little town so many times so effectively. Sam Dann is just as effective.\r\n\r\nOddly enough, it is believable. It is amazing how seemingly incorruptable people can be corrupted by money. Dann explores the essence of human nature and found it wanting.\r\n\r\nFor those of you who have not yet listened, Get to it. This one''s great! ', '2013-02-13 17:34:24', 1, '1ec53724bb1b59028c022b0530f7d263', '112.200.13.156'),
(4020, '0959', 'episode', 'Chavis Chemalli', '', 'WOW.\r\n\r\nI downloaded this program last year and never listened to it.\r\n\r\nI won''t preach here. All I''ll note is:\r\n\r\n- E.G. says at the beginning another little known proverb: "There''s no bigger insult to the devil than a virtuous woman." I don''t know where this saying came from, but what American network program would ever open a program like this today?\r\n\r\n- The reporter at one point refers to a book "which should be the cornerstone for every one of us - the Bible."\r\n\r\nThe morality of this entire series, even with its flaws, could be stunning. It makes me long for the day when we can hear something like this once again on American air waves. The question is: Will we (the people) be receptive to messages like this as we were from 1974-82? Could a program like the RMT last that long in today''s culture? Or will it be as well-received as the reporter''s story was to "Gomez" in his newsroom?\r\n\r\nMy gut feeling is: "if not today, someday it will."\r\n\r\nThanks for this selection. ', '2013-02-13 17:34:39', 1, '79ebbce525df905d023e944f2526fec4', '112.200.13.156'),
(4095, '0158', 'episode', 'Jeremy Bushong', '', 'WOW! Didn''t see that ending coming! Great show!!!!!!\r\n\r\nI thought I recognized the lead male''s voice. Being a M*A*S*H fan, it was "Col. Bloodworth" from season six.\r\n\r\nThat voice really remained in my memory from watching MASH so much. Another RMT surprise!', '2013-02-08 03:23:07', 1, 'a559b2a8213b5fa6c454276442473e4f', '112.200.13.156'),
(4096, '0158', 'episode', 'Lela', '', 'The ending of this one took me by surprise, too. I like those that twist just when you think you have it figured out.\r\n\r\nYou have a great ear to recognise Bloodworth''s voice. I, too, watched MASH every night back in the seventies and eighties but his voice completely slipped past me in this show.', '2013-02-13 17:37:19', 1, '2fb71467a498f54a07cef0a248f42664', '112.200.13.156'),
(4097, '0158', 'episode', 'Grace Anne Saure', '', 'Within the first few minutes I suspected Mary because she was so anxious to take over the duty of administering the tonic that I thought the episode was pretty much given way before it even started so I didn’t enjoy it was much. Sure Margaret was made to look like suspect but she was so obvious that if it was her it wouldn’t have been a mystery which only left the first suspect.\r\n\r\nNina Foch has been doing mysteries sine the 1940s I am sure that she and Hieman Brown were well aquatinted. Interestingly, her first movie debut was Bela Lugoi’s "The Return of the Vampire" in 1944. She has found regular employment in TV episodes including the recent CSI series last year. Charles Aidman not only played Colonel Victor Bloodworth in MASH but I remember him as the host of the Twilight Zone after Rod Sterling died. ', '2013-02-08 03:23:09', 1, '79530fc7b546eddd277b33c993ab7c54', '112.200.13.156'),
(4022, '0959', 'episode', 'Arnold Rubio', '', 'Great program! I hadn''t heard this play before so this was a pleasant surprise. The acting was terrific, though Jenny''s voice sounded a bit "chipmunkish", and I enjoyed the fact that this story was presented as the labors of a freelance writer. I noted that the Devil was a real world traveler because he used one salutation in French (Au Revoir) and another in Italtian (Caio) - nice touch! I gave this program a 5. ', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, '3dd8b5f932c958939692d7c9704142a5', '112.200.13.156'),
(4023, '0959', 'episode', 'J.V.C. Armenal', '', 'I think he also said to say (in German) \\\\\\"Auf wiedersehen\\\\\\". Nice touch by the scriptwriter.\r\n\r\nI also wondered if the woman\\\\\\''s name, instead of \\\\\\"Jenny\\\\\\" was \\\\\\"Ginny\\\\\\", as in short for \\\\\\"Virginia\\\\\\", which is another element describing what Satan was so interested in. ', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, '0ec1ac47504ad5622ee4ec5a0bbaaccf', '112.200.13.156'),
(4024, '0959', 'episode', 'Mo', '', 'You\\''re absolutely right. And the \\"Virginia\\" comment took me about three reads before it sunk in! Great observation!!!!! ', '2013-02-13 17:37:18', 1, '9df6db6b572e95b3ffef88c0db70172d', '112.200.13.156'),
(4025, '0959', 'episode', 'Jadelson', '', 'Numbers 16:30-34, that for those who''ve heard it I believe "The fall of Gentryville" is partially based around. (And, like the CBSRMT show, you''ve got to read/see the whole context of "the fall" to realize why it occurred.) ', '2013-02-13 17:38:13', 1, '53886133a75c55e7481d9f0ebe7f0035', '112.200.13.156'),
(4026, '0367', 'episode', 'Alex V.', '', 'This was an enjoyable episode. It had a Stephen King feel to it, for me. I was also reminded of a show I saw at the Drive-In as a kid called Motel Hell, where the guests were fattened up and later served up as entre''s. The production was presented in such a way that one easily pictures it in the mind''s eye. Nice choice for this weeks episode. I suppose over the age of 23, the meat is a little tough and chewy.', '2013-02-13 17:38:14', 1, '540ab018ddb0674f1d9ee3cd0e9e458e', '112.200.13.156'),
(4027, '0367', 'episode', 'Daddy Norms', '', 'I recently reviewed this program.\r\n\r\nThis is one of those "defining episodes" that really showcases what CBSRMT was (is).\r\n\r\nThere are certain episodes that you would want to let a person listen to if you were trying to show them what CBSRMT is all about - the kind of mystery, suspense, and terror that filled the airwaves when this show was on the air.\r\n\r\nWith 1399 programs, not all of them are going to be memorable but we''ve seen on these website many times where someone is trying to identify a program that they heard 30 years ago and are looking for it because the details have stuck in their head all these years.\r\n\r\nThis program is one of those.\r\n\r\nSometimes I can zero in on a detail or two in a program that really adds to the experience for me.\r\n\r\nIn this program what was particularly interesting to me was the few moments of dialog about the road to the town; They see the small sign and then look to the left and see only ruts through a field.\r\n\r\nIs that the road?\r\n\r\nAs a listener, at once I am interested based on this.\r\n\r\nWhat is down that road? Why is it only a path?\r\n\r\nI love it. That kind of stuff is what makes it for me.\r\n\r\nAnd the ending - what other kind of ending could there be for a program like this? Would it have been better if the cops showed up and saved everyone?\r\n\r\nOf course not.', '2013-06-19 22:58:32', 1, '717c98d43afe790c1c28742d6cf4e5f1', '112.200.13.156'),
(4028, '0367', 'episode', 'Ronelle B.', '', 'Yeah, I''ve never heard that one before! GREAT EPISODE!\r\n\r\nLike Charlie says, this would be a good example to play for someone who has never heard the show before. Fantastic.', '2013-02-13 17:38:16', 1, 'f66af3ddda3478a9107ff293e64f6ae7', '112.200.13.156'),
(4029, '0367', 'episode', 'D. Clarence', '', 'One of the Best\r\nI would echo the above comments about this episode being one of the shows I would play for someone who has never heard the series. It is fun and the \\"bad\\" ending helps make it memorable. This show represents RMT at its best; and I never really caught that part about the rutted path. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:40', 1, 'a5ec0f401b9fae36fe99142037c3677e', '112.200.13.156'),
(4030, '0367', 'episode', 'Robbie', '', 'I love this episode. I agree about the ending. There are a few shows where the ending is unsatisfying in my opinion, but this one is perfect.\r\n\r\nOne of the many great ones!', '2013-02-13 17:38:41', 1, '045bb8e63a817ec40f5eed3e4908dec0', '112.200.13.156'),
(4031, '0367', 'episode', 'Joshua', '', 'perhaps the most maddening (but it still perhaps made the program "work" even more) part about this...we never fully got the connection how the guests who disappeared helped the villagers perpetuate their youth, or at least their earthly life.\r\n\r\nThis is also the only RMT episode I recall involving a pro basketball player. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:42', 1, '294119a5e52c27ba448b8a5ec9a07fe4', '112.200.13.156'),
(4032, '0151', 'episode', 'Rhoneil Nater', '', 'I love these types of RMT''s. You''re never really sure what''s going on ''til the very end. Creepy image at the end-- his wife stuffed in the closet, strangled with the pearl necklace.\r\n\r\nNorman Rose is one of the best. He always draws you into one of his stories--making it very easy for you to sympathize with his characters ( even when he''s the villain). He can really sound insane when it''s called for--great example when he calls down to his (He thinks) dead wife, noting how uncomfortable the rocks she''s landed on must be.\r\n\r\nI also love the dialog with the old man, asking when the man that was being mourned had died and the answer being that it may not have happened yet-- an eerie premonition of things to come.\r\n\r\nAnd Arnold Moss, not just a great performer, but an excellent writer. Many of his scripts made very entertaining thrillers.\r\n\r\nOne of my favorites!', '2013-02-13 17:38:50', 1, '1bd305e8bf9f7cc685d5c8a65a4b7d97', '112.200.13.156'),
(4033, '0151', 'episode', 'Danny M.', '', 'Quote:\r\nAnd Arnold Moss, not just a great performer, but an excellent writer. Many of his scripts made very entertaining thrillers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI didn''t think much of Arnold Moss when I saw him play a goateed professor in a 1965 episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , but The CBS Radio Mystery Theater is the only other place I''ve heard his name. It sort of revived Moss'' career in his old age. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:51', 1, '85c429d13d3d581355b96a38777a1b74', '112.200.13.156'),
(4034, '0151', 'episode', 'Gerry G.', '', 'I love Norman Rose. At what point did he kill his wife? Good story, I liked how the letter ended up describing the main character''s shaky mental state, when at first it seemed as if it might have been referring to an infidelity on the part of the wife. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:52', 1, '9779abaff8647c9935ffa21ddd9f6cfa', '112.200.13.156'),
(4035, '0151', 'episode', 'T. Langley', '', 'Arnold Moss also played "Kodus the Executioner" in the original Star Trek series episode "The Conscience of the King". One of the better one''s -- dealing with madness, murder and betrayal.\r\n\r\nI''ve never had a chance to see any "Man from U.N.C.L.E." episodes. That''s interesting to know.\r\n\r\nSome of Moss'' more entertaining performances on RMT (I think) include:\r\n\r\nThe Fall of the House of Usher\r\nThe Canterville Ghost\r\nThe Damned Thing\r\nA Pair of Green Eyes\r\nOcean of Emptiness (Mainly for his writing--he really only has a\r\nCameo)\r\nThe Long,Long Sleep (Entirely for his writing)\r\nThe Ice Palace\r\nAnd, of course, this episode which he wrote.', '2013-02-13 17:38:53', 1, 'ff27cd8c944b4e865a0ec584842d4abe', '112.200.13.156'),
(4202, '0763', 'episode', 'Mack', '', 'I thought the ending was easy to guess pretty early on. the give away I thought was the remark about being having a claim to the money.', '2013-02-13 22:00:33', 1, '8c539bece6496d673e82c51e1b4a7f3c', '112.200.39.181'),
(4038, '0151', 'episode', 'Ross Antonel', '', 'Quote:\r\nArnold Moss also played "Kodus the Executioner" in the original Star Trek series episode "The Conscience of the King". One of the better one''s -- dealing with madness, murder and betrayal.\r\nI saw that years ago, but I don''t remember it because with Star Trek when I used to watch them...it was just once each.\r\n\r\nQuote:\r\nI''ve never had a chance to see any "Man from U.N.C.L.E." episodes. That''s interesting to know.\r\nMoss was also in a Girl from U.N.C.L.E. episode too, but he played a different character. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:54', 1, 'd12b41f0cec5c802f2e5ca51788795a6', '112.200.13.156'),
(4039, '0151', 'episode', 'Grace Edwards', '', 'Yeah, I knew the title was familiar! Haven''t heard this one in years. Pretty good episode. I am guessing he killed his wife while she was in the bed, with the string of pearls.\r\n\r\nDefinitely a bit different and kinda creepy - especially adding the birds in there. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:55', 1, '2a2f2799737441ff7d875f12ddc9fbec', '112.200.13.156'),
(4040, '0151', 'episode', 'Joe Jacobo P.', '', 'I really enjoyed this one.\r\n\r\nThe twists were fun.\r\n\r\nThe birds were definately creepy.', '2013-02-13 17:38:46', 1, '3898052dd9f0fc2de60526c26324e7f6', '112.200.13.156'),
(4041, '0151', 'episode', 'Tom A.', '', 'This show was excellent:\r\n\r\n- Ian Martin and Norman Rose were gems.\r\n\r\n- Robert Kaliban, the opthamalogist and would-be young paramour of Rose''s wife, was always enjoyable, too. He later did voices for childrens'' programs.\r\n\r\n- I love the Indian (?) chants/panpipes one heard while Martin''s character was ostensibly doing incantations around the campfire. Those same chants were used in the EXCELLENT RMT show "The house on Chimney Pot Lane".\r\n\r\n- The birds were unnerving. So was that shrill whining inside Rose''s head.\r\n\r\n- Like so many of the RMT''s characters but even more so, Rose was a humanized villain. I''m not even sure you could call him a villain...he really seemed to love his wife. The only thing against him (if you say it that way) was the age discrepancy between them. He really couldn''t help his condition (and actually it was worse that he was never informed of it until too late, but that was before cell phones, e-mail, text messaging, etc.).\r\n\r\nGreat choice. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:47', 1, '0a3ebd1ed0468923dc7dcef46c9ad686', '112.200.13.156'),
(4042, '0461', 'episode', 'Chip Mueller', '', 'Decent show! I liked the commercials here most of all. A lot of ones I haven''t heard since I was a kid. Anyway, I guess "The Perfect Crime" does exist.\r\n\r\nNice twist at the end.', '2013-02-13 17:38:48', 1, 'bdd6c34bb03a47fa892fa2a3947fbb33', '112.200.13.156'),
(4043, '0461', 'episode', 'Isabella', '', 'Interesting show. At first I thought the listener was being geared toward sympathy toward the husband, considering her mockery and laughter at his anger when he was told of her infidelity. I was surprised at the end. I was expecting his vanity to cause him to make a critical error causing him to be "found out". His admission was something I didn''t expect, given his mission of revenge.\r\nI enjoyed the show, it held my interest. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:49', 1, '35e9e55a7a4c98fbf849272502cd9130', '112.200.13.156'),
(4044, '0343', 'episode', 'B. Pontillas', '', 'This was a poor episode, I thought, but still sort of interesting in a variety of ways. The story is painfully obvious almost from the beginning, and yet it''s not until the end of Act 2 that a character finally announces what every listener in the land must have realized a half an hour before--that they''re all dead, and en route to hell. Act 3, then, becomes a bunch of heavy moralizing about each person''s past --complete with Casey Kasem, the voice of America''s Top 40, playing not one but two roles!--until the deus ex machina ending arrives, magically offering everyone a second chance. (By the way, there was a thread a while back about religiously-themed RMTs--I don''t know if this one was listed, but it certainly should have been.)\r\n\r\nStill, I did find this interesting. Structurally it''s very unusual. There are no scene breaks at all; the entire tale takes place in real time (or "hell time," maybe). But what struck me most was the fact that, if I hadn''t heard differently in the opening credits, I would have sworn we were listening to the writing not of Ian Martin but of Arch Oboler, the OTR giant behind LIGHTS OUT, ARCH OBOLER''S PLAYS and many other series. In fact, in general outline it''s not unlike an Oboler play called "Special to Hollywood," in which a group of people are trapped in a plane suspended in midair (Bette Davis starred in the original production). Anyway, the style here is very much like his, and he must have been in the back of Ian Martin''s mind as he wrote this play.\r\n\r\nNaturally nowadays no one can listen to a play about people trapped in an airplane without thinking of 9/11 (especially if you''ve just seen the movie UNITED 93), but that doesn''t make this utterly inert piece any more dramatically compelling. I''ve long been very interested in Arch Oboler, so this show managed to hold my attention; but in terms of drama it''s dull, obvious, and wa-a-a-y too long. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:56', 1, 'c611f2cc16cb76cb7b5831b81a7d5fb1', '112.200.13.156'),
(4045, '0343', 'episode', 'Ingrid', '', 'I think CC said it all and said it best. The only thing I could add is that it did touch interestingly on some adult themes, in the sense of, what is it that adults can feel guilty about? I found that a little surprising for RMT.\r\n\r\nOther than that I agree that it was tough to keep myself in suspense when I figured out the outcome five minutes into the play.', '2013-02-13 17:38:57', 1, '20ae48344ee2c3d5ed11832b6032502e', '112.200.13.156'),
(4046, '0343', 'episode', 'Vince', '', 'i try to imagine the writers of 1975, fresh off the heels of the fabulous television and radio writing of the 1960s, trying to maintain fresh, new ideas and experimenting with different and alternative plot styles.\r\n\r\ni applaud this episode for trying to rally in the human condition and centering around a very rare topic of the times: guilt.\r\n\r\nin a time when crime dramas and thrillers were the genres of choice for most writers, Ian Martin - perhaps influenced by Oboler, perhaps not - decided to take an almost Elspeth Eric approach to a cliché scenario of a group of people trapped.\r\n\r\nIt''s possibly a traditional, thematic twisting of The Tempest, Swiss Family Robinson, or even Hitchcock''s, Lifeboat, and for Martin to have explored the role of guilt within the characters, i thought, was done well, especially in the sense of experimentation.\r\n\r\nWhile the program was obvious and predictable right from the start, i truly enjoyed the way the events unfolded. there are some terrific, small details which enhance the immersion, like the knife, the prostitute''s eveningware, the business card, the smoking, and even the seat belts and seat belt signs. The concentration on character development within a 48 minute program was, i thought, quite tight. The rhythm and pace of the show was also worth noting. I felt there was enough about this program to make a fair study of human emotion, despite not being the most original setting for it.\r\n\r\ni gave it a "good" rating overall, but for me personally, it was more in line with "very good" and i enjoyed the program.\r\n\r\njust a few thoughts.', '2013-02-13 17:38:58', 1, 'c9d2c5009afdf4e14b27939016760a16', '112.200.13.156'),
(4047, '0343', 'episode', 'Jessie', '', 'My only question is if they take the second chance are they to wake up in the condition they were in when they were killed? The punk survives a bullit thru the heart and goes on trial for killing a cop.(Remember there was no death penalty in 1975).Talk about a near death expierience. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:59', 1, '4df1b5f6880d30ee830821806949bc5d', '112.200.13.156'),
(4048, '0343', 'episode', 'Arem G.', '', 'for me, that was the beauty of the show. i can only agree that the bulk of the show was full of droll cliché, but the whole take on guilt and morality and, indeed, the idea of a "second chance" was very intriguing. i thought about it for some time after listening. my assumption is that the people go back right to the moment when they were killed. from there, they had to make their ammends, one way or another - for better or for worse.\r\n\r\nanyhow, just saying is all. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:00', 1, 'be4ceeead483750cffd6f87cc28457e4', '112.200.13.156'),
(4049, '0343', 'episode', 'L. Roberts', '', 'Actually, this is an episode that I''m quite fond of it, whatever its faults.', '2013-02-13 17:39:00', 1, 'c9437d5eba13a1ca54f31da320761f9b', '112.200.13.156'),
(4050, '0343', 'episode', 'Mace Z.', '', 'This episode was OK. It reminded me a little of a Stephen King story that I read a long time ago called, "The Langoliers". I guess just because both stories took place on a plane. I had a hard time staying focused on this storyline but it was strange to hear Casey Kasem''s voice in the story! The general message was an intriguing one...it kind of makes you consider the question, "What will I be doing when I die?" ', '2013-02-13 17:39:01', 1, '372cb76ae154ca759c154b9b4574607e', '112.200.13.156'),
(4051, '0343', 'episode', 'Lex A.', '', 'Quote:\r\nI had a hard time staying focused on this storyline but it was strange to hear Casey Kasem''s voice in the story!\r\n\r\nIt would have been fun to hear E. G. Marshall on an "outro" for this episode saying: "A woman listener wrote me recently and she said, ''Dear E.G....'' " ', '2013-02-13 17:39:02', 1, 'dac85976627e13c14fa21faf6b1c9326', '112.200.13.156'),
(4053, '0343', 'episode', 'Lyndon B.', '', 'Good show. Kinda cliche, but I still like that one. ', '2013-02-13 17:34:45', 1, 'e2059aa13eae6cce480144b98ee8eb56', '112.200.13.156'),
(4054, '0343', 'episode', 'Cherry C.', '', 'Quote:\r\nThis episode was OK. It reminded me a little of a Stephen King story that I read a long time ago called, "The Langoliers". I guess just because both stories took place on a plane. I had a hard time staying focused on this storyline but it was strange to hear Casey Kasem''s voice in the story! The general message was an intriguing one...it kind of makes you consider the question, "What will I be doing when I die?"\r\n\r\nNothing original to say here. JWeb wrote what I was thinking throughout listening to this episode. This was rather twilight zone-esque, I thought. I, also, was reminded of "The Langoliers" for some odd reason; perhaps because I just watched the movie version, last Christmas. As far as Kasem, I kept picturing Shaggy from Scooby-Doo sitting on the plane..which made it rather comical. As for what I''m gonna do when I die, I haven''t decided yet.', '2013-02-13 17:39:03', 1, '5389dc020eccef9f2abf79c180f54bfc', '112.200.13.156'),
(4055, '0343', 'episode', 'Jules E.', '', 'Indeed it was predictable.\r\n\r\n\r\nI found myself going through the archives looking for Casey Kassem episodes. He has done voices for so much!\r\n\r\nSuch a recognizable voice, kind of like one of my personal favorites, Fred Gwynne! ', '2013-02-13 17:39:03', 1, 'f97e235e67f4ee31eef8c0cd37f46095', '112.200.13.156'),
(4056, '0343', 'episode', 'Jorie Acob', '', 'I guess I am one of the rare people that don''t care much for Casey Kasem but I am probably in the minority there.\r\n\r\nBut, I listened to this episode the other day myself and it was a good one.\r\n\r\nThe ending was not what I expected it to be. Kind of a bubblegum ending for an otherwise riveting plot.', '2013-02-13 17:39:04', 1, '403b43dc670e30b62712eeeacb839f63', '112.200.13.156'),
(4057, '0958', 'episode', 'Jody M.', '', 'Nice one! Just a good old spook fest like we expect to get from RMT. The encode starts out a little shaky, but not bad all in all.\r\n\r\nThis is one I remember from when it originally aired. I especially like the "pressing against the glass" scene . . . this is what radio does best. Our imaginations supply the crypt, the tree, the mansion, and everything else you need. Pretty good supporting sound effects as well.\r\n\r\nSo I put this in the top third of programs; that''s as detailed as I''m willing to go. Either I don''t like the show (a third), I''m impartial to the show (a third), or I really enjoy listening to the show . . . the top third. Of course I do have my five or ten favorites as well .', '2013-02-13 17:39:05', 1, '1a76b95b8deb83fd05edd14e35b8baad', '112.200.13.156'),
(4203, '0763', 'episode', 'Luella Cooper', '', 'I thought it was a very ordinary episode and i think that is why there is little response coming back in. Not really much to work with here - no thought-provoking scenes, bad casting, superior story line. Just a ordinary episode. Sorry I couldn''t get motivated by this story.', '2013-02-13 18:14:57', 1, '52ce7ce84a588961b006ed4029514eaa', '112.200.39.181'),
(4059, '0958', 'episode', 'Howard', '', 'This was a great show, thanks for posting it Scotsman. I agree that it was very atmospheric, particularly those shadows stalking around outside in the dark, brrrr! ', '2013-02-13 17:39:06', 1, 'f31a847acdaec5c56e20fadc423f4257', '112.200.13.156'),
(4060, '0958', 'episode', 'Adrian', '', 'This particular show is a fine example of just why I fell in love with the CBS RMT as a young boy thirtyyears ago. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:19', 1, '65c1a47a7f6971c4822ac4503504a02f', '112.200.13.156'),
(4061, '0958', 'episode', 'John Looney', '', 'A very good show with alot of chills. I love the episodes tried to scare the listener. This episode was made to listen in the dark. There is just no other way. Great selection!!! ', '2013-02-13 17:39:19', 1, 'd4507a10a922a157901ba8d4b389b364', '112.200.13.156'),
(4062, '0958', 'episode', 'A. Tords', '', 'This is one of the creepier RMT''s. I enjoyed it a lot. I always tend to enjoy episodes that involve the supernatural.\r\n', '2013-02-13 17:39:18', 1, '7f2316e3893cb26591d7ceb6122a5af8', '112.200.13.156'),
(4063, '0958', 'episode', 'B. Mars', '', 'Thanks for the post Scotsman. I''m a fan of Innersanctum Mysteries and am fairly new to listening to CBSRMT but this shows how great a newer production can be. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:18', 1, '4e5543f989f554e80254bff5aecde4f5', '112.200.13.156'),
(4064, '0958', 'episode', 'Johannsen Esmeralda', '', 'One of the best.\r\n\r\nGreat pacing as it slowly works to its chilling conclusion-- adding one layer of suspense on top of another.\r\n\r\nStrong performances by two of my favorite regulars-- Fred Gwynne and Court Benson. And Kristopher Tabori-- always very reliable. He always seems able to create a sympathetic character we quickly bond with. Even when he''s a smarmy villian (in "Two of A Kind" for example).\r\n\r\nThis one really exemplifies what great radio drama can and is--as it instantly draws you into its bizarre and frightening story.\r\n\r\nGreat Choice!\r\n', '2013-02-13 17:39:17', 1, '54743797b2af71e74ba2103c717a4439', '112.200.13.156'),
(4065, '0958', 'episode', 'Floyd', '', 'I agree, Fred Gwynne is also one of my favorites on cbsrmt. We should do a marathon of his best shows sometime. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:08', 1, '533e12affcc057451176d3e522c734c9', '112.200.13.156'),
(4066, '0958', 'episode', 'Jeff Lee Oliver', '', 'Quote:\r\nI agree, Fred Gwynne is also one of my favorites on cbsrmt. We should do a marathon of his best shows sometime.\r\nI could not agree more!!!\r\n\r\nI love Gwynne''s voice and would love a marathon of his episodes! ', '2013-02-13 17:39:09', 1, 'db2a1dd8ae3aad651592a475a221a66d', '112.200.13.156'),
(4067, '0402', 'episode', 'Dan Lemuel J.', '', 'We enjoyed listening to this episode on Christmas eve with all the family gathered \\''round. My brother\\''s kids thought this was a show from \\"before TV.\\" The story was a familiar one, though, and everyone enjoyed it. I hope you did too. I like this version the best of any I\\''ve ever heard. E.G. Marshall was superb, as were all the cast. No second rate performances.\r\n\r\nPleasant dreams...<br>', '2013-03-25 00:18:00', 1, '591deed0b66680a64a7e6c60da2c2e42', '112.200.13.156'),
(4068, '0402', 'episode', 'Jhacy', '', 'Listened to this one about 6 times over the holidays. I like it more and more with repeated listenings. Only gripe I have with their adaptation: When Scrooge is with the ghost of Xmas past, they visit the deathbed of a person she says is his Aunt who raised him. They then mention that she had one son--his nephew, Fred. In the book, of course, this person is not his aunt--it''s his sister, Fern. Obviously, his Aunt''s son would be his cousin, not his nephew. Why the change/screw-up?\r\n', '2013-02-13 17:39:10', 1, '196a384307c7b82364c5f5ac0cefdbeb', '112.200.13.156'),
(4069, '0405', 'episode', 'Quincy', '', 'Love this episode! Very creepy.\r\n\r\nAnother wonderfully executed production-- you really \\"feel\\" the locale and \\"smell\\'' that unmistakable order of straw.\r\n\r\nThe slowly building mystery of why the protaganists are losing weight and the true source of the \\"little squeaks\\" in the wall are perfectly paced and built upon.\r\n\r\nRMT at its best-- a supernatural horror with a truly frightening ending.\r\n\r\nAlso, I love E.G.\\''s \\"cute\\" little observation at the end. \\"I do hope somebody remembers to feed poor Tiger-- he hasn\\''t had a thing-- since Roy! \\" hee hee hee\r\n', '2013-02-13 17:37:27', 1, '86fb47a1d0629981d3ca3c5435480be2', '112.200.13.156'),
(4070, '0405', 'episode', 'Jai Rabin', '', 'YEAH! Man, that one had me guessing all the way! A great show!!', '2013-02-13 17:37:19', 1, '78fb2f04b33813504284319b50d9cb73', '112.200.13.156'),
(4071, '0405', 'episode', 'Wilma D.', '', 'This was one of my favorite RMT''s. The ending was well executed and actually surprised me as I didn''t think the bad guys would win. I love RMT in general but I particularly enjoy the episodes that deal with the supernatural. ', '2013-02-13 17:37:28', 1, 'ee01edabe8b41a2208b192708986812f', '112.200.13.156'),
(4072, '0405', 'episode', 'Al Dominic', '', 'While listening, you could feel the race against time. Although Mrs. Sagamore won the battle, you would think that Roys friend would win the war, but I really enjoyed that she was planning on making him her Louis XIII and adding him to her collection!\r\n\r\nGood show!', '2013-02-13 17:37:25', 1, 'e86763cad797b8a17175bf6f76a6dd90', '112.200.13.156'),
(4073, '0405', 'episode', 'Albert Martin', '', 'Really a scary story that keeps your attention the whole way. Too bad they didnt get out of the cottage in time! ', '2013-02-13 17:37:20', 1, '520e83af0c03dc3fa1ab08b7b359a74a', '112.200.13.156'),
(4074, '0405', 'episode', 'Stewart', '', 'Very well done.\r\n\r\nI enjoyed this one thouroughly!\r\nReply With Quote', '2013-02-13 17:37:20', 1, 'cb62426987c3fa6b5e13f272a5ff3ecc', '112.200.13.156'),
(4075, '0405', 'episode', 'Stewart', '', 'Very well done.\r\n\r\nI enjoyed this one thouroughly!', '2013-02-13 17:37:23', 1, '26627b4d517e3ad71332762f9eb8c79e', '112.200.13.156'),
(4076, '0484', 'episode', 'Glenn M.', '', 'Pretty good show. I want to say it was written to symbolize some social issues - using Science fiction to get the point across - kinda like Rod Serling did in many episodes of TWZ.', '2013-02-13 17:37:29', 1, 'de9c756acefb8fcb38ca87ba0f9129d4', '112.200.13.156'),
(4077, '0484', 'episode', 'Ruth Claire', '', 'Good episode!\r\n\r\nI have written before about my love for Sci Fi.\r\nThis is like that.\r\n\r\nOne of the better ones. ', '2013-02-13 17:37:29', 1, 'b9d69fd4b3e25b008f545287b78b22db', '112.200.13.156'),
(4078, '0329', 'episode', 'Elyssa', '', 'Wow. kind of a drag of an ending, but just I suppose. I didn''t clue in on that one until the end.', '2013-02-13 17:37:30', 1, 'a4c38e22a21efe9ced32c0ef9974c811', '112.200.13.156'),
(4079, '0329', 'episode', 'Theodore M.', '', 'I thought this was a fine episode with a nice low key approach that really captured my attention. My credulity is often stretched with Mystery Theater but no so with this one. I assume that was Howard Desilva playing the \\''dead man\\'' and he had a wonderful weariness in his voice that captured his character wonderfully.\r\n\r\nAnd many kudos for the surprise ending. I gave a quick \\''darn that\\''s slick\\'' followed by a \\''eeeuw that\\''s sick.\\'' ', '2013-02-13 17:37:31', 1, '163e998aa5895e50a3975a3e5fd25bd6', '112.200.13.156'),
(4080, '0329', 'episode', 'Neil', '', 'I liked this episode, kind of a slower paced episode that many but good. I do think that this is an example of an episode that would have been better if it had been shortened. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:11', 1, 'c548a844e8bc912710c30e90fd177d01', '112.200.13.156'),
(4081, '0329', 'episode', 'Jesty', '', 'A decent episode. Howard Da Silva is another voice actor I enjoyed when listening to these as a kid. He definently lended a weariness to the characters voice. I also said a big eeewwwww after the surprise ending.', '2013-02-13 17:39:12', 1, '79de181b8691f5aec0f03daa18f0aed3', '112.200.13.156'),
(4082, '0329', 'episode', 'Soren', '', 'That WAS a weird (though still RMT-worthy) ending, but daSilva did well in this one. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:13', 1, '66a042eca12a436f7872c8a7956b5700', '112.200.13.156'),
(4083, '0445', 'episode', 'G-Pat', '', 'Interesting show. I was bored in the beginning thinking it was just a play on the invisible man storyline. Then when His shadow disappeared it grabbed my attention. I was so engrossed I couldn''t believe how fast it went. I did however think the ending was a little anti climatic,but a very enjoyable story just the same. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:14', 1, '79a4d73e29c4de053a10bbed33824c91', '112.200.13.156'),
(4084, '0445', 'episode', 'Francis R.', '', 'I loved this episode; the fact that the scientist did not turn invisible surprised me and made it more interesting. From start to finish, I was hooked. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:14', 1, '41826100d3acbc094f8b56c1f63b7c43', '112.200.13.156'),
(4085, '0445', 'episode', 'Jennifer J.', '', 'A few random thoughts on this one:\r\n\r\n- Throughout the media I\\''ve known in my life, there have been some fun shows regarding invisibility, and shadows, and experiments gone awry. I\\''m thinking of the episode of \\"Josie and the ¤¤¤¤¤cats\\" (in outer space?) where the leopardskin girls use some kind of \\"scientific\\" method to turn invisible. Josie and Valerie only have parts of them (arms, legs) turn invisible, while Melody the drummer only turns transparent.\r\n\r\nThen there\\''s Tony \\"Monk\\" Shalhoub in the X-files episode \\"Soft light\\", who gets the equivalent of a billion-watt x-ray which burns his shadow into a laboratory wall. Shalhoub\\''s character is doomed to wandering the earth staying away from people, because his shadow\\''s been altered to a degree that if it comes in contact with a human that person will vaporize into the floor.\r\n\r\n- Joan Shay was a good actress with a nice voice. Lloyd Battista is a good actor with a nice voice. However, sometimes the RMT actors went from actors in a play to almost play acting, and two of the most frequent culprits put said \\"play acting\\" voices on display in this episode, Shay with her \\"frumpy old woman\\" voice, Battista with his \\"hoarse Irish cop\\" impersonation. Both are on display here.\r\n\r\n(And even in his regular voice Battista gave a slightly wooden performance in this one. At least it seemed so to me, but every actor\\''s going to have an off day when you\\''re in a production that had over 1,000 episodes!)\r\n\r\n- The late Nat Polen, on the other hand, gave (IMO) his best \\"scientific voice\\" performance. (He was frequently called upon to play a scientist in the RMT, in plays such as \\"The breaking point\\" and the somewhat doofy \\"Deadly, darling Delores\\".) I\\''m not a fan of Hallowe\\''en, but when trick or treaters come this is one of the plays I\\''ll fire up on my computer with the speakers up. It\\''s just fun.\r\n\r\n- \\"Just don\\''t expect me to put out an all points bulletin on your shadow.\\" - Cute little line from Battista as the hoarse Irish cop. <br>', '2013-03-03 21:38:30', 1, '5b96fd10de726884a8b4ee2396de7f92', '112.200.13.156'),
(4086, '0445', 'episode', 'Kurt', '', 'It was indeed interesting that in this story the \\"invisibility\\" theme sort of, well, vanished. When I read the summary of the episode in the Payton/Grams book on CBSRMT, I thought what I was about to hear might be a rewrite of a very fun, if forgotten, film of the 1940s called INVISIBLE AGENT---the 4th, I believe, in Universal\\''s \\"Invisible Man\\" series. But no, this went in another direction entirely. I thought the shadow could have done more killing---what\\''s the fun of a murderous shadow if it doesn\\''t kill a *lot* of people, and gruesomely?---but still, it was a fun show. &nbsp;I found it odd that Bob Juhren, the writer, would name his main character \\"John Gilbert,\\" which was the name of one of the biggest movie stars of the silent era---as a man of Juhren\\''s age must surely have known. I\\''m probably the only person on the face of the planet who would be distracted by this---Gilbert, the *real* Gilbert, is almost completely forgotten---but it pulled me out of the story every time they said his name! (This might be because one of my books is about John Gilbert....the real one, not the shadow-man.)&nbsp;<br>', '2013-03-14 23:09:01', 1, '905af04d4f79b45680d7905324ed4eec', '112.200.13.156'),
(4087, '0445', 'episode', 'Marlon Botics', '', 'I liked this story. It was a little slow at the start. Sometimes the love aspect of a story bores me a bit. It really picks up when the shadow starts acting on its own. I only have 70 stories saved on my computer and this happens to be one of them. A good choice and a very good encode.\r\nScary stuff when the Dr. is in the lab. A very good part for turning out the lights and listening. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:29', 1, 'e262ad3dee22c5f9bc556964df118a85', '112.200.13.156'),
(4088, '0445', 'episode', 'Remi G.', '', 'Lloyd Battista''s Irish cop voice is the most annoying voice in the entire series. Battista was a decent actor -- except when he was doing that voice.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, CBSRMT had lost its most powerful voices by 1979 in Leon Janny and Howard DaSilva. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:30', 1, '34d42ee5ea589ac424cb28c2262d9bf2', '112.200.13.156'),
(4089, '0445', 'episode', 'Tristan', '', 'A very good encode copy of a very good show. The serum that doesn''t quite do the trick for the scientists is probably similar to a brand of cognac I favor. I swear I turn invisible when I drink it . . . at least I can tell you with certainty that I don''t recall ever seeing my own shadow when drinking it. Don''t recall much of anything all told.\r\nMakes you think about the old Peter Pan story doesn''t it? I mean what the heck is her shadow up to when it''s not attached to her? Okay that''s a bit off the wall, but many children''s stories have a dark side as well. But I''m not really serious about Peter . . .\r\nGonna go find that elixer now . . . ', '2013-02-13 17:39:31', 1, '1188b74caeffbd31bb63680e62db537a', '112.200.13.156'),
(4090, '0445', 'episode', 'Agape', '', 'Gang, this has been fun to read. You may have come up with yet another inspiration for an RMT script!\r\n\r\nThe 1982 season was CONSPICUOUS without the voice (and writing talent) of the late, departed-the-year-earlier Ian Martin.\r\n\r\nNorman Rose was a strong voice (when he wasn''t getting feminized by 1982-era scripts). ', '2013-02-13 17:39:31', 1, '1db5f9f47b1bbbede46641c75717d8f8', '112.200.13.156'),
(4091, '0445', 'episode', 'Dudley', '', 'some terrific feedback for this program! it''s great to see!\r\n\r\ni really enjoyed this program myself. i was surprised i''d never heard it before.\r\n\r\ndefinitely schlocky, yet definitely fun!', '2013-02-13 17:39:32', 1, 'd17193c10c30bd1dbec98fba44e78476', '112.200.13.156'),
(4092, '0445', 'episode', 'Hector T.', '', 'Okay, wasn\\''t the best line,\r\nShadows don\\''t kill, people kill... ', '2013-02-13 17:38:07', 1, '7f049c0dbca1f6fe906371043a7111fe', '112.200.13.156'),
(4093, '0445', 'episode', 'Dwarde Malcolm', '', '(waking a year-old thread)\r\n\r\nQuote:\r\n... The late Nat Polen, on the other hand, gave (IMO) his best "scientific voice" performance. (He was frequently called upon to play a scientist in the RMT, in plays such as "The breaking point" and the somewhat doofy "Deadly, darling Delores".)\r\nPolen''s birthday was yesterday, June 14 (noted among the\r\nOTR birthdays catalogued in the "Premiering Today" sections\r\nof Jeff Kallman''s "Easy Ace" OTR blog).\r\n\r\nI decided to try a Polen episode or two. Having just finished\r\n"... I Saw a Shadow", I agree his performance is a highlight of\r\nthat episode. I''ll try "Breaking Point" next.\r\n\r\nAt the time of this post, "Breaking Point" is available from another site.\r\n\r\nPolen was in a total of 38 RMT episodes. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:33', 1, 'c5a8b556f0b2070b66c5a4190dd591f8', '112.200.13.156'),
(4094, '0959', 'episode', 'Rick', '', ' Wow, what a grabber. I gave this show a high 4 for the overall show but certain aspects of this show are unprecedented in my listening, most of all the sheer human anguish Jenny goes through at the end. Initially I didn''t buy the notion of the town just sinking because of a geographic phenomenon. But then I remembered, that was the premise the show opened with -- that many people confuse the limit of their perspective with the limit of all reality. There have been many instances in history of people and governments coming up with much more improbable explanations for things they refuse to acknowledge (I was just reading about the assassination of JFK the other day ...)', '2013-02-08 00:51:40', 1, '25965147b8952969785af4cba404e37f', '64.136.212.123'),
(4098, '0158', 'episode', 'Janine', '', 'The writers did a good job of pacing the episode, I thought it had a \\"tight\\" feel to it. I actually began to think at one point that the husband may be conspiring with Mary to drive his wife nuts with the letters causing excessive fear. ', '2013-02-08 03:23:15', 1, '02a7112a561a440b307d5ca892353998', '112.200.13.156'),
(4099, '0158', 'episode', 'Jarred', '', 'This one has a good little twist ending. Somewhat reminiscent of the Suspense episode "Sorry, Wrong Number". -- an invalid knowing that a murder plot is being hatched against her and has no way out. The Suspense episode ends much more tragically.\r\n\r\nCharles Aidman has a great voice for radio. It''s too bad they didn''t utilize him more on RMT. I, too remember him from M*A*S*H. He also guest starred in the episode "The Zombie" on the original "Night Stalker" as a corrupt police chief.\r\n\r\nFun little "Murder" mystery!', '2013-02-08 03:23:17', 1, 'a7b9940fcfcef09237bf65a158b21e6f', '112.200.13.156'),
(4100, '0158', 'episode', 'Elen', '', 'That''s so interesting that you mentioned ''Sorry, Wrong Number''. That is exactly the show that came to my mind when I listened to this one. I suppose that is why I liked it because ''Wrong Number'' with Agnes Moorehead is probably my favourite radio drama of all time. I, too, thought that the poor woman was being driven crazy by the unknown.', '2013-02-08 03:23:20', 1, '349e09a9c6fe13e8f3361f5894712eee', '112.200.13.156'),
(4101, '1371', 'episode', 'Lady Crystal Palafox', '', 'Well, I''m still waiting for a triplets show.\r\n\r\nThis tale is suitably creepy and mysterious. The story, like a great many RMT stories and horror stories in general, relies on the prevailing western concept of the nature of the soul. Again for me, this often weakens the structure of a tale. Would a billion Hindus or a billion Buddhists get a kick from this story? I don''t know.\r\n\r\nThe acting was good, supporting roles good, and we identify easily enough our Nancy Drew -- Hardy Boys sleuths. Too bad the cosmos is so arranged that dead folks have just as many travails as the living. Bureaucracy, don''t ya hate it? But at least mom and pop are together again at the end so we can all drink a toast to that.\r\n\r\nSorry about my cavelier and wise-crack remarks. But sometimes it''s all I can come up with.', '2013-02-08 03:23:23', 1, '1775be51dc4827d0134640e2d279f900', '112.200.13.156');
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(4102, '1371', 'episode', 'J. Lechter', '', 'this show has such gothic appeal about it. i love the little details of this program, like the church bell, the light wind, and especially the footsteps throughout the show. small details that define and forge a landscape that doesn\\''t exist. it\\''s fantastic.\r\n\r\nstorywise, i suppose this program might graze in the realm of cliché these days, because we\\''ve seen it so many times, but i enjoyed the fresh take on the whole brother and sister uncovering the mystery about dear ol\\'' dad. performances, especially Norman Rose, were solid. production was just terrific. and the story was good - perhaps not the best, but it was bizarre enough to hold me right until the end.\r\n\r\nhowever, like many RMT shows, the ending seems to come too quick and i often find myself listening to silence after the program, waiting for something more to happen, which of course, never does.\r\n\r\nthe thing i enjoyed about this show also, was that it wasn\\''t predictable. i mean, as events unfolded, they made natural sense, which gives the illusion of being predictable, but i think that is because the writing was so good and the performances so tight. it\\''s easy to take these elements for granted in a good RMT show.\r\n\r\nanyhow, i\\''ll be on the watch for a triplets show just for Mr. Miller! it was good to hear this one again. peace! ', '2013-02-08 03:23:27', 1, '53332e61f84b1b24b4069672529d78dc', '112.200.13.156'),
(4103, '1371', 'episode', 'Jamie R.', '', 'I thoroughly enjoyed this program. It was especially gratifying to hear such a well-wrought tale come so late in the history of the series--often those early-80s Tammy Grimes episodes are unfairly dismissed, I think. Certainly the batting average of the show *was* lower by that point, but it\\''s nice to be reminded that there were gems in every season of RMT.\r\n\r\nI did wonder a bit why Norman Rose and all the rest of the older people in the cast spoke in approximately Hungarian accents, while the two young protagonists sounded as if they\\''d come off the beach at Malibu with sand still in their bathing suits. Maybe the kids learned their American accents at Budapest University?\r\n\r\nYou know, on another point, I have been unable to trace the source for this episode. I have never heard of Franz Monar (neither has Google). Are we sure of the spelling of the writer\\''s name? I would love to track down the original story if I could.\r\n\r\nNice choice overall. And I look forward to the triplets show.... ', '2013-02-08 03:23:38', 1, '858cca6daeaffb1ddae119738fee58fc', '112.200.13.156'),
(4104, '1371', 'episode', 'Jonel', '', 'I enjoyed listening to this episode, about the 5th one I''ve heard now since more than 20 years ago.\r\n\r\nI admit I was waiting for the wife to come back through the French doors, but just the same, the whole episode kept my attention. I too wondered about the grown childrens'' accents (or lack of accents).\r\n\r\nThanks for selecting and I look forward to the next, triplets or no triplets!', '2013-02-13 17:39:34', 1, 'e33b66ed43b1d9f897c5e7fe2936d871', '112.200.13.156'),
(4105, '1371', 'episode', 'Julius Abot', '', 'There actually was one RMT show where triplets were mentioned...it was one of the RMT''s anti-gambling shows (in this era that seems so quaint, yet so satisfying to know that they did so), one which featured Paul Hecht as an out-of-control horse bettor who was on the brink of losing his wife and everything else.\r\n\r\nIt''s got a happy ending (even though it seemed a bit unlikely)...if only I could remember which one it is... ', '2013-02-13 17:39:26', 1, '401aafb321eda23e8a394371132d1535', '112.200.13.156'),
(4106, '1371', 'episode', 'W. Ryan', '', 'is that program called You Bet Your Life?\r\n\r\nthat\\''s the only one i can recall. it\\''s from 1977, if that helps. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:35', 1, '6efe17c04fcf06fdbd3180221053c723', '112.200.13.156'),
(4107, '1371', 'episode', 'Nelson', '', 'I believe that''s it (with Morgan Fairchild as Hecht''s wife). Thanks!\r\n\r\nIt''s not like an RMT "twins" episode (the triplets are incidental and far from being the center of the plot) but...at least they''re in there. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:25', 1, 'a19ce063268b238bc245db8252ed582a', '112.200.13.156'),
(4108, '1371', 'episode', 'Milliecent J.', '', 'I have listened to this one since I recorded it off the air. A real good story, but one of the things that nagged at me a lot throughout the years was back in that time period, were women even allowed to study in universities? Wasn\\\\\\''t it commonplace back then for women to be housewives, nurses etc.?\r\n\r\nMaybe I think too much.', '2013-02-13 17:39:36', 1, 'b46aa6c7a3d73d719a1949c34d545f5c', '112.200.13.156'),
(4109, '0467', 'episode', 'Richard Wagner', 'rrwagner@icloud.com', 'Oops! This is the wrong episode.', '2013-02-13 17:39:24', 1, 'c51b4c6774c1d073ca475d2de15cf65f', '24.150.107.216'),
(4110, '1371', 'episode', 'D.A.', '', 'Quote:\r\n... such a well-wrought tale ...\r\n\r\n... I have been unable to trace the source for this episode.\r\nI have never heard of Franz Monar (neither has Google).\r\nAre we sure of the spelling of the writer''s name? ...\r\nBingo. That spelling is wrong. It''s Ferenc Molnár.\r\nThe Americanized form is Franz Molnar.\r\n\r\nIn the episode intro, TG pronounces the name Ferenc.\r\n(In the book mentioned below, it is spelled Ferencz.)\r\n\r\nQuote:\r\nI would love to track down the original story if I could.\r\nYou are in luck! Gutenberg.org has it.\r\n\r\nThe story is titled "The Living Death".\r\nThe story is different from the RMT episode, but\r\nyou will recognize the characters of the Professor and the General.\r\n\r\nSince this is an anthology of stories by various authors,\r\nyou''ll need to use your browser''s Find function\r\nto search down the file to find "Molnar".\r\nSearch for it twice to find the story.\r\n\r\nAt this time Gutenberg has only the plain-text version\r\nof this file (no nicely formatted HTML or PDF version).\r\nThis is the only Molnar story in this volume, and\r\napparently the only Molnar story available at Gutenberg.\r\n\r\nAs TG said in the Act 3 intro, "this tale ... goes back\r\ngenerations. It has inspired many versions, and in fact\r\nwas told to [TG] as his own invention by [her] grandfather."', '2013-03-27 15:36:55', 1, 'f22d4a1167bad3170857ea5a1947957c', '112.200.13.156'),
(4111, '1102', 'episode', 'Guillermo Christian B. M.', '', 'I did not like the Holmes episodes of CBSRMT. I''ve never been a Sherlock Holmes fan. I didn''t care for Kevin McCarthey''s work either.\r\n\r\nI was disappointed in this episode when I listened to it. I love haunted house stories and especially enjoy haunted castle stories. When I found out that this was a pseudo-Holmes story, it left me flat.\r\n\r\nOddly enough, I enjoyed Doyle''s non-Holmes story. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:38', 1, '3877417180bd4e4ab4d6adeadfa6ed71', '112.200.13.156'),
(4112, '1102', 'episode', 'Shermay G.', '', 'This would not be a favorite episode for me either. I was never a Holmes fan in anyway.. however I like the other poster I had to listen a couple times to try and gather the twists and turns or maybe I am just not getting it all ? &nbsp;I get that the&nbsp;Gillette&nbsp;guy died years before and all that but still did not get the point at the end of going the other way out?\r\n\r\nAnyways Thanks for the download and the comments...<br>', '2013-03-24 23:46:51', 1, 'ae50a2abceabc371ac9389247716fd5a', '112.200.13.156'),
(4113, '1102', 'episode', 'Chuck D.C.', '', 'Bah, it ain''t that bad. I haven''t heard it in a while.\r\n\r\nAnother one I need to listen too.', '2013-02-13 17:39:22', 1, '9af38628f6f103f98a5d37c6cb36ac1a', '112.200.13.156'),
(4114, '1102', 'episode', 'Jeruel', '', 'I can take or leave this one. Not a big on the Holmes genre on CBSRMT. I would, however like to go tour that castle, as EG Marshall suggests. It sounds really interesting. ', '2013-02-13 17:39:38', 1, '3ec39dafa6dfa099217c51da8b9f2b51', '112.200.13.156'),
(4115, '0565', 'episode', 'C. Waymer', '', 'Sounds like this one was written for good ole'' Fred Gwynne. Still a good show.\r\n\r\nFWIW - I researched "Cheers" Steakhouse. It is now Simply Pasta That is for those WOR broadcasts with the old commercial.', '2013-02-13 17:39:39', 1, 'a72dcb42cb668406c88cb4eb93c069ae', '112.200.13.156'),
(4116, '0565', 'episode', 'Debbie', '', 'a terrific choice and i agree that this was a good whodunnit!\r\n\r\nthank you,', '2013-02-13 17:38:02', 1, 'f8769be5db6ef1250829ddd4a8f34d5c', '112.200.13.156'),
(4117, '0565', 'episode', 'Mickey', '', 'One aspect of this show I found unbelievable was the change in Harry''s mind from George Mason was the killer to he wasn''t and they should be looking for a woman.\r\n\r\nRemember George''s mother was convinced that her son did not commit the murder because her son told her he did not do it. Then Harry went back a second time to talk with George. George was being a smart-aleck but said he heard ''light footsteps, like a dame with heels''. Once Harry heard that, he was convinced George was not the killer and the show progressed along those lines.\r\n\r\nMy thoughts are if you have a punk in custody for killing a police officer, he will say just about anything to save his neck. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:01', 1, 'c3a40dc89ce7e354407fcdf5cee16e13', '112.200.13.156'),
(4118, '0565', 'episode', 'Petite L.', '', 'howard dasilva and fred gwynne have two of the best radio voices I''ve ever heard. thank you very much for this episode. ', '2013-02-13 17:38:00', 1, 'e27306e2bc2756d3daf21d77118dbbb9', '112.200.13.156'),
(4120, '1319', 'episode', 'Romy Jones', '', 'Tammy has a very different style than E.G. Marshall, much less ominous yet still mysterious behind the veil. I enjoyed the show - the acting was excellent as usual, although the setting was more contemporary than most CBSRMT plots. ', '2013-02-13 17:37:59', 1, 'bc26dbfab5810d98be7982d53b45201e', '112.200.13.156'),
(4121, '1319', 'episode', 'K. Bagalacsa', '', 'Your description of Tammy vs. E.G. is right on and I agree. I listened to her nightly in 1982 and really came to appreciate her voice and her style. She certainly isn''t better than E.G., just different, but in a mysterious way. The plots in many of the later shows were more contemporary than the earlier ones. I guess just showing the changing times since the shows were largely written by the same writers through the whole series, i.e. Sam Dann, Roy Windsor, Elspeth Eric, Bob Juhren, G.F. Lewis, James Agate Jr.\r\n\r\nFor this particular episode, if I should critique, it was too predictable. Too much was given away in the intro so you knew what was going to happen. The acting and sound effects, though, really paint a vivid picture in my mind. My relatives have a cabin in the Rocky mountains of Northern New Mexico and as a youth we visited frequently. There is a lake or pond visible from the front porch and at night it was sometimes ominous (and very cold) outside. So this episode reminds me very much of our trips to NM in the late 1970s and early 1980s, right at the time I was listening to Mystery Theatre every night. ', '2013-02-13 17:37:58', 1, '9e8ba89756239aeafbbdb732add85a2d', '112.200.13.156'),
(4122, '1319', 'episode', 'Mr. Strothers', '', 'Yeah, that was a good one. I too heard a lot of the TG RMTs. Goo dstuff.', '2013-02-13 17:37:42', 1, '0dea0c8c18122ba30a6ad0006cb7b0fb', '112.200.13.156'),
(4123, '0214', 'writer', 'Anonymous', 'Noemail@thistime.com', 'That photo is of a real estate agent with the name Victoria Dann -- not of the author of CBSRMT scripts.  ', '2013-02-13 17:37:46', 1, '18891d769a4e9f5f5d3459ac71262429', '76.173.97.195'),
(4124, '0022', 'episode', 'D Peterson', 'david.peterson@cooperindustries.com', 'I was 13 or 14 when I stumbled across the CBSRMT late at night, in bed, with my transistor radio and one of those stupid, chintzy, white earpieces they used to have. This was the first episode I ever heard and I was enthralled. I''m so excited that this web site exists and I will definatly make a donation to keep it up and running.', '2013-02-08 21:02:41', 1, 'a9c69f42cb71bd823c57ad4dbb07aad2', '199.255.204.2'),
(4125, '0104', 'actor', 'William from Baltimore ', '', 'I always looked forward to McCarthy''s turns as the Great Detective .... totally agree with earlier commentor.', '2013-02-08 23:11:00', 1, 'e7ffe7dbc8ef4a5d430347337c6a4fa2', '65.244.99.5'),
(4126, '0006', 'actor', 'William from Baltimore', 'bpatalon@oxfordclub.com', 'Marian Seldes is one of my favorite guest stars on CBSRMT. Her voice is entrancing and her immense talent quite evident. What\\''s interesting is that she\\''s currently viewed as one of the legendary stage actresses of our time, and is revered for both her talent and her work ethic. I had the honor of corresponding with her, through a friend and her daughter, a few years ago, and found her (and her very kind daughter) to be a delightful person. When someone as accomplished as that continues to be a kind and classy person, they deserve a respect level that\\''s difficult to eclipse. If there were a CBSRMT Hall of Fame, Marian Seldes would be a charter member.', '2013-02-08 23:11:03', 1, '347ade2d4fe440c8d5e1a88059940d7f', '65.244.99.5'),
(4130, '0015', 'episode', 'Cathy', '', 'Anyone know the name of the movie that has a similar theme as the Chinaman Button', '2013-02-09 17:30:23', 1, 'f1cd7357e11ad912005795b275dcffb3', '64.136.212.123'),
(4128, '0001', 'episode', 'Larry', '', 'Enjoyed this episode.  Agnes Moorehead one of my favorites also. I like the way it was done at the end you didnt know if Stewart or Mrs Camby went down the stairs. \r\n\r\nAgnes Moorehead did a superb job and its an amusing mystery story. However, Leon Janney''s character; Stuart Winfield; coughed too much in ACT 3. Other than that, it was a splendid Pilot episode for CBSRMT. Check this episode out, everyone! \r\n\r\nVery Suspenseful.', '2013-02-09 15:47:08', 1, '2c9d3db7ed89160e1d1309b4f2760035', '64.136.212.123'),
(4129, '0001', 'episode', 'Kimberly', '', 'I''ve heard other people complain about the coughing, but I marveled over the fact that he (Janney)could actually make himself sound so sick. ', '2013-02-09 17:30:21', 1, '319afd62805c464e70f4f265b2e963fa', '64.136.212.123'),
(4131, '0015', 'episode', 'Chris', '', 'That was one of my favorites!  It is "The Box" starring Cameron Diaz and Frank Langella.\r\n\r\nI remember when the movie came out and I recognized it right away just from the ad.   I also loved ''A Choice of Witnesses''. Great irony and twist. I plan to watch ''The Box'' tonight!', '2013-02-09 17:30:25', 1, 'ae9095e62ff73ffe96d66ecbed98aca0', '64.136.212.123'),
(4132, '0142', 'episode', 'DAVY JOE', 'davidjoshuas@yahoo.com', 'This was a fantastic episode which had very good ending. It reminded me of a morbid game I used to play as a teen--you know, the \\"if you could marry anybody who would it be, if you had to spend eternity in a city, what would it be, if you could kill somebody, who would it be???\\" \r\n\r\nIn this episode, it proves that no matter what, your sins find you out. And even if you plan the perfect murder, it will sooner or later come out in the wash. 5 stars.', '2013-02-09 20:02:15', 1, 'edbf9819859fcd2a855db6ed603dbff6', '66.177.154.200'),
(4133, '0015', 'episode', 'Timothy', '', '"Button, Button" (Playboy, 1970) is a short story by Richard Matheson. It''s been on the Twilight Zone and several radio shows. The CBSRMT version is one of the better efforts. The movie version, "The Box," stinks. If you read the short, you''ll see that trying to get a movie out of that story needs more padding than a 97-pound weakling doing Santa Claus.\r\n\r\nMatheson said he got original idea for the story from passage 1.6.2 of ''Genius of Christianity'' (1802) by François-René de Chateaubriand, in which the authors asks the reader what he would do if he could get rich by killing a mandarin in China solely by force of will. This likely explains the CBSRMT episode title.\r\n', '2013-02-09 21:18:10', 1, '9a89ca2e19434cd01eceda73e05740ac', '64.136.212.123'),
(4136, '0889', 'episode', 'Dixon', 'dixonhayes@aol.com', 'I taped the 1979 repeat broadcast and still have it, complete with its commercials and static squeals.  It''s my favorite of all the ones I heard during the series'' first run.  I liked its dry humor.', '2013-02-10 23:12:34', 1, '12d2544d825bc00c268312541fbcde06', '98.83.73.122'),
(4135, '0001', 'episode', 'Dixon', 'dixonhayes@aol.com', 'What a great way to premiere a mystery show on CBS Radio, with the First Lady of "Suspense" herself.  And she did a great job.', '2013-02-10 20:27:06', 1, '161d4f5a2ffca062eb20e5a92a97ca30', '98.83.73.122'),
(4137, '0001', 'episode', 'Russell', '', 'Enjoyed this episode for the mystery! I must say I will be on the lookout for those symptoms around birds ', '2013-02-11 05:06:18', 1, '8e021e7e2d9b3a7d0d462f2febd80feb', '64.136.212.123'),
(4138, '1283', 'episode', 'Michael', '', 'Nice little historical thriller, somewhat in the style of the stuff that Imagination Theatre does nowadays.', '2013-02-13 17:37:39', 1, 'd7ca2283053d08ceb4db527c107f3964', '64.136.212.123'),
(4139, '0915', 'episode', 'Hayley', 'hayleycarlton@aol.com', 'Creepy story.  Didn''t like the ending. Well acted, though.', '2013-02-11 22:17:15', 1, '1acc17949d5085369c66f6dd3e8ddd63', '216.180.167.121'),
(4140, '0549', 'episode', 'Hayley', 'hayleycarlton@aol.com', 'Very good mystery.  This is the second RMT show I''ve heard in a day in which a main character fails to heed the sage advice to run. In this case, it works out, though.', '2013-02-12 20:14:09', 1, 'ef2267415da20b327a503aad966d4956', '216.180.167.121'),
(4141, '1375', 'episode', 'Throckmorton', 'couponstephen@gmail.com', 'This is a lesson learned about how once you post something on the internet, it\\''s out there forever. This is a recording I made back in \\''82 and posted to a CBSRMT sharing site in 2000. Funny to find it here years later. I know it\\''s my old tape cassette because of the breaks in the recoding, especially in the beginning, where after the commercial break, Tammy Grimes takes up with \\"... despise it or adore it, you cannot ignore it.\\" I screwed up pausing the tape during the commercials. :)', '2013-02-13 17:37:57', 1, 'bf84da8f89f9ec1e56d51a2cab87217a', '165.201.95.51'),
(4142, '1333', 'episode', 'Perry', ' Zippopy@gmail.com', 'The face of an angel was taken by the plague only to live forever in the hearts of all men. :]', '2013-02-13 17:25:17', 1, '6fbbbf3551ad477af9148ddb99aef03e', '74.5.161.31'),
(4143, '0210', 'episode', 'James Brian F.', '', 'Norman Rose is my favorite RMT cast member.', '2013-02-13 17:25:21', 1, '3272e5fc356dd25480b19ea119d42686', '112.200.39.181'),
(4144, '0210', 'episode', 'Jake', '', 'This is a good example of RMT at its best.\r\nA fun little ghost story.\r\n\r\nThe setting is perfectly executed. The mental image of the remote, hidden-away village is perfectly conveyed.\r\n\r\nAnd strong performances by two of RMT''s best--Norman Rose and Court Benson. I know some people have said they''re not crazy with Court Benson, but I''ve always enjoyed his performances -- from Dr. Watson (Several times), to an Indian servant ("The Love God") to a psychiatrist ("Fallen Angel") and everything in between. I think he is very accessible.\r\n\r\nThe ending is also a fine example of typical RMT. Quick, twist ending with eerie overtones-- just enought to send a shiver or two down the spine.\r\n\r\nHope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! ', '2013-02-13 17:25:27', 1, '5224d7f27b1da5acae6aad9b338dfd2a', '112.200.39.181'),
(4145, '0210', 'episode', 'Ross Antonel', '', 'Alright. Nice one! Very interesting ending with the graveyard bit.', '2013-02-13 17:25:32', 1, 'b7ff8a5bd3f87e5d749bfcd3250b66a2', '112.200.39.181'),
(4146, '0868', 'episode', 'T. Withdrow', '', 'I enjoyed this episode. The evil sister came across as suitably reprehensible. I wonder how many evil sibling episodes there have been in RMT. I seem to remember twin brothers, who both turned out to be bad apples.', '2013-02-13 17:25:37', 1, '78cdb3c3c51ca6c95f1ec198de86a7c2', '112.200.39.181'),
(4148, '0868', 'episode', 'Patrick Shavers', '', 'This episode was not rated very highly but I enjoyed it more than some others that are rated higher. It''s interesting how the hateful sister''s arrogance and selfishness led to her demise. It''s hard to not feel like she "got what was coming to her." Didn''t you cheer for the first sister at the end?', '2013-02-13 17:25:47', 1, '6591bc41444300a9e6e1e69911a40d82', '112.200.39.181'),
(4149, '0868', 'episode', 'Castor T.', '', 'I was happy to see revenge served.', '2013-02-13 17:25:52', 1, '56b412cd0b8124afff1a772b005044bf', '112.200.39.181'),
(4150, '0868', 'episode', 'Nancy', '', 'Wow, I rememberd this one from its original airing, although my memory of it was so vague I thought perhaps I dreamt it. Maybe I fell asleep while it was on the first time around. I couldn''t help but wonder what the sister saw when she opened the wardrobe. Just invisible hands, or maybe a horrible rotting face? That''s the power of radio right there.', '2013-02-13 17:25:58', 1, '16bd45d2cf9343d64f2a883294d93648', '112.200.39.181'),
(4198, '0025', 'episode', 'George', '', 'This one is definately creepy. Especially, the ending. Had a "Rosemary''s Baby" feel to it, don''t you think? (Actually "Rosemary''s Baby" which is a rather fun little horror movie, would have made a good RMT episode when you think of it). I''ve often thought about how much better certain movies would have been had they been done as radio dramas. Imagine "The Shining" or "The Excorcist" as radio features (Mercedes McCambridge provided the voice of the demon in "The Excorcist", afterall). One''s imagination can always create a more fearful "world" than any amount of special effects can provide. That''s why, I''ve always enjoyed the first "Blair Witch Project". You''re right about this episode being reminiscent of "BlacK Widow". This one has more chilling overtures ,though, I think. The voice of the child calling from the back room to his mother (And then, especially at the end) and the mental image conjured up by the crow''s cawking. Can you imagine sleeping with that in your bedroom? Invokes a little Edgar Allan Poe ( "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door"). e mental image conjured up by the crow''s cawking. Can you imagine sleeping with that in your bedroom? Invokes a little Edgar Allan Poe ( "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door"). ', '2013-02-13 17:29:30', 1, 'c4df78e60b2fe23136e838890d513580', '64.136.212.123'),
(4153, '0848', 'episode', 'Mr. Campbell', '', 'This is one of my all-time favorites and one that stuck with me through the years after hearing it when I was a kid.', '2013-02-13 17:26:12', 1, '519b5729287ac67e7de8a89a5034686b', '112.200.39.181'),
(4154, '0848', 'episode', 'Stan', '', 'It reminds me of the Ken Burns documentary on the Civil War; in the final episode, it shows newsreel footage of veterans of the battle of Gettysburg meeting in 1933 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the event. I am 38 so to me the Civil War seems like ancient history; so it is kind of odd to think that my grandparents were alive at the same time as some civil war veterans.', '2013-02-13 17:26:19', 1, '31abf7b4d5276acc33c4f13d7f7d172e', '112.200.39.181'),
(4199, '0265', 'episode', 'Elen', '', 'I found it funny that grown men involved in illicit, almost mafia style, activities and capable of murder were so deathly afraid of a small spider. Their comments at the sight of the spider were quite humorous. I did especially appreciate the interesting surprise revealed at the end of the show. I wondered how she could be keeping a Black Widow spider in a bottle and how the spider knew exactly who to bite. A very interesting ending indeed. Too bad she didn''t heed the warning to be "very, very careful when the bottle is open." As impossible as this story is it makes for a very good movie in your mind and it is one of my favorites of the series.', '2013-02-13 17:29:17', 1, 'bc6f56eea6aed9ec7967f5bda53d5743', '64.136.212.123'),
(4156, '0025', 'episode', 'Ruth Claire A.', '', 'This episode was one of the creepier RMT''s. I particularly liked the actress who portrayed Mother Love. She had a spooky delivery of her lines. Do you think she ML let the other woman raise the child? Or for that matter, would the mother have wanted to raise that....thing.', '2013-02-13 17:28:12', 1, '97d4a733b4c096262072ca0ca0e7cf13', '112.200.39.181'),
(4157, '0025', 'episode', 'Jeremy Bushong', '', 'Yeah, good one.\r\n\r\nNice and scary.', '2013-02-13 17:27:18', 1, '312f50ee1246343558a12c6eb6b1c478', '112.200.39.181'),
(4158, '0265', 'episode', 'Guy named Kang', '', 'Oh, man...where to start?\r\n\r\nWe like to deconstruct RMT shows frequently by saying "This or that is unrealistic" and there''s room for such criticism in this episode as well.\r\n\r\nBut I won''t.\r\n\r\n- We could point out how female black widows are very sluggish (I''ve turned over more than one piece of wood just to find one frozen there in place, unlike other spider species which can move like canned lightning). They''re also noticeable, but hardly large enough to inspire the terror the one in this RMT seemed to among the bad guys (I loved the choice of RMT actors Jackson Beck and Dan "Return of the Moresby''s" Ocko for the villains).\r\n\r\nTherefore, it''s kind of plausible and highly fun to envision in the RMT''s theatre of the mind that the black widow spider in this episode was at least as big as an american tarantula...it''d be cooler if she was as big as this theraphosa blondi of the northern amazon.\r\n\r\n- Speaking of "cool", how cool is this? The (very conservative, in many ways) RMT has a plot about union (leadership) thugs who take out a "clean" up-and-comer in leadership, whose wife takes revenge by means of witchcraft. (Not that I like witchcraft, but the plot was just so RMT good.)\r\n\r\n- Heddy Galen as the widow, IMO, sounded like a lady who sounded more like a matron of a local bridge club, or a Pi Beta Phi alumni group, than the wife of a union shop steward but that''s just me. Her voice still "worked" in that role.\r\n\r\n- And while I don''t want to make fun of the dying (even the bad guys), I still got a bit of a kick out of how Beck ("GET AN AMBULANCE-HIIIIIIIIII") and Ocko (sounded a bit like Yogi Bear when he said "Get it away") played their character''s final moments.\r\n\r\n- I love an RMT musical "double dip", when they play one closing "sounder" then another, different one right after it, as they did at the end of Act III right before E.G.''s words.\r\n\r\n- And for some reason I also got a kick out of when the policeman (played also by Beck) was trying to justify his actions to Robert Dryden''s detective character, and the latter said "I ought to have your BADGE for this". I love plain talk in the middle of an episode of the supernatural.\r\n\r\nI LOVED this episode. Wonderful choice!!!!', '2013-02-13 17:27:25', 1, '0c6289eef7ceb9ba447f0381ac473c5e', '112.200.39.181'),
(4160, '0265', 'episode', 'Jimmy D.', '', 'Nice choice. I LOVED the ending to this episode. I was totally fooled and had no idea she was transforming into a spider until the end. I liked the daughter too.\r\n\r\nIt was kind of interesting that she was actually a good person (in my view anyway) and yet she perished. A lot of times, writers seem to automatically assume that killing is always bad but in my view the widow (no pun intended) was fully justified. A fun story.', '2013-02-13 17:28:16', 1, '4d7a7d730a978f9197eb4295e47090dc', '112.200.39.181'),
(4161, '0265', 'episode', 'Jerome Juggs', '', 'I hope there were others who listened who didn''t have time to comment. The ending of this show really shows the creativity in the minds of our story writers. Listen again next week!', '2013-02-13 17:28:26', 1, 'cc463bc3d7d6d61db7d9a302b7fbb9bb', '112.200.39.181'),
(4162, '0265', 'episode', 'Brian Pontillas', '', 'A good RMT episode. Not great, but good. Fun little revenge story with a supernatural twist.\r\n\r\nI agree it''s rather amusing to hear these tough "gangster" types quivering with fear from an "itsy-bitsy spider", But then again, I''ve seen grown adults "freak-out" at the mere sight of an arachnid. It''s a very typical phobia, which helps elevate this tale.\r\n\r\nThe ending is very typical of RMT. Quick, to-the-point-- with quite the twist.\r\n\r\nA fun listen at any rate.', '2013-02-13 17:28:31', 1, '53c2d193678893842c5ef144f240981e', '112.200.39.181'),
(4201, '0202', 'episode', 'Mica', '', '"The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of the weaker RMT Poe adaptations, but it''s still wonderfully creative and enjoyable. I think the basic problem here is that this script would have worked better without any reference to the Poe story at all; it really isn''t needed--feels tossed-in, really, with those occasional references to the clock etc.--and without it, the script might have come to a more logical and satisfying conclusion. But then again, the whole story is pretty illogical. In Poe''s original, the narrator is quite mad right from the start, and obsessed with the old man and his "vulture eye." In the adaptation we have a man who is perfectly rational, yet seems to crumble with unbelievable ease. It''s never clear why he is so incredibly passive, even in the face of his daughter''s death (which itself isn''t terribly believable). And surely everybody knows that you can''t just plant human corpses in a field, like trees! This is clearly not very well thought-out in script terms. Still, a lot of good menacing atmosphere, and a terrific, if one-dimensional, villain. ', '2013-02-13 17:37:55', 1, '4bfc5db5376e14561fdf46228c9760d9', '64.136.212.123'),
(4164, '0929', 'episode', 'Jerby', '', 'Thanks for the episode - the plot itself wasn''t all that intricate, but the diary reader character really creeped me out. And New Orleans is always a great setting for this kind of thing.', '2013-02-13 17:29:37', 1, 'ed828f742565a4aeeedf5a338b261940', '112.200.39.181'),
(4165, '0929', 'episode', 'Ms. Vasquez', '', 'This was the first time I heard this one. It builds tension throughout the show and keeps you on the edge wondering what gruesome detail is going to be revealed next. The person reading the diary was a novel idea which added to the suspense, especially at the end. Not in my top list of favorites but still a suspenseful episode.', '2013-02-13 17:29:42', 1, '81d487d78aca306e9fbe5b55850dfaf4', '112.200.39.181'),
(4166, '0929', 'episode', 'Charles', '', 'The diary reader sounds very much like John Lithgow. Could it be?', '2013-02-13 17:29:47', 1, '1d509e25af0de59b85cc1017391974e4', '112.200.39.181'),
(4167, '0929', 'episode', 'J.R. Enobay', '', 'This ranks in the top five of all time. . .maybe even the top three.\r\n\r\nAnd imagine, Elspeth Eric wrote it.', '2013-02-13 17:29:53', 1, '9733cc902cef065455a33188b5da6d08', '112.200.39.181'),
(4169, '0929', 'episode', 'R. Tull', '', 'I don''t want to butt in on a personal feud - but what''s the deal on Elsbeth Eric? Is she considered to be either a genius, or a hack, with no middle ground?\r\n\r\nIs this some classic fault line between fans of CBSRMT?\r\n\r\nJust trying to get a lay of the land, here . . .', '2013-02-13 17:30:16', 1, 'a6c30aaadab346e8faafc9edfd1b1a29', '112.200.39.181'),
(4170, '0929', 'episode', 'Jack Cassidy', '', 'No feud here, just a bit of fun. Elspeth Eric often delved into\r\nareas of over the top melodrama. the kind that make you roll\r\nyour eyes and look at your watch.\r\n\r\nher writing is often geared toward a character\\''s pychological\r\nmisgivings and she tends to let the story wander while the lead\r\ncharacter is caught in self discovery or redemption.\r\n\r\ni usually enjoy all the work done on with the RMT, but i have to\r\nsay that over the past several years i\\''ve come to agree with the\r\nway others feel about Eric\\''s work. and for the record, she did\r\na boatload of work for the RMT, both in writing and starring in.<br>', '2013-03-25 21:44:10', 1, '0f3fbbb00dc93a5a9a94787219d74340', '112.200.39.181'),
(4171, '0929', 'episode', 'Ces', '', 'I knew I heard this one. I just didn''t remember the story. I have been listening to around three or four RMT''s every night an this was one of the ones that I did hear. On my way to work I was listening to this episode again and I loved it. I kept on thinking back to the movie Soylent Green....anyone remember that one? "Soylent Green is people!!!" Another part that reminded me of a movie is when the shoes were going after the main character. The noise that the shoes made reminded me of the noise that was used in Evil Dead 2 when the hand came to life and tried to choke the main character. Pretty funny stuff. Great episode.....it was very good throughout.', '2013-02-13 17:30:32', 1, 'a4fe0f4c129fffacaad224d03475e4b7', '112.200.39.181'),
(4172, '0929', 'episode', 'Elliot', '', 'No Robo, believe it or not it''s Robert Dryden playing both parts, or actually three in this episode. That really attests to his acting ability! Ha ha.\r\nEvery time I hear him do the lines "You have to admire his injinuity in disposing of the body...Oh Thay you Do" and "Isn''t it Maaarvoluis! Isn''t it Devyyne" I just crack up laughing...almost as much as I laugh about the snarling slippers. He sounds alot like Charles Nelson Riely having a bad hair day...\r\n\r\nYet as funny as it is in spots, it IS one of the more grisly tales of the series. Alot of times you have to take these episodes in the times they were written to get the full impact. Just like Henry Slesar''s "The Slave" from the 1975 Season really pusing the barriers of sex and violence, at least for a 1975 audience.\r\n\r\nOk. I have to say this, I really DO like some of Elspeth Eric''s tales. You''ve got to give her credit for being able to write as well as she did coming from being an actress. Yes, some of her plots lack focus but somehow for me that adds to the magic. Sort of like hearing a conversation between people you don''t know and letting your own mind sketch in the other details.', '2013-02-13 17:30:43', 1, 'e0c54191d90be5795e177cc9de563f39', '112.200.39.181'),
(4173, '0929', 'episode', 'Dixie Lacuesta', '', 'In defense of Elspeth Eric, I must say she does have a good flair for dialogue, even if her stories are a bit too ......introverted? for many fans. I heard one not too long ago called, I think, "Walkers on the Wind," and it was very well done within its limitations. It had the feel of a well performed piece of chamber music. Though the story was nothing very special in any particular way it came off very well due to the apt use of background music and a really stunning performance by John Beal. He really made it come alive. Still, it is very much in keeping with Eric''s other output. But try it anyway just to hear Beal.', '2013-02-13 17:30:52', 1, '886215cbfd990ec499f9b5983d42fd81', '112.200.39.181'),
(4174, '0022', 'episode', 'Mr. Weller', '', 'IMO, one of my favorite, FAVORITE all-time RMT shows.\r\n\r\nAnd it is, indeed, beneath the eerie clock stuff, a well-done chronicle of the affects of addiction.', '2013-02-13 17:30:56', 1, '6f55812833212233dba25873b0c16ce4', '112.200.39.181'),
(4175, '0022', 'episode', 'John Byron C.', '', 'Is it only a coincidence that I''m bidding on an old clock on Ebay this week?\r\n\r\nNot to even attempt a deconstruction, but here we have a plot device that is often used on RMT. What starts as a smaller crime or sin excalates into larger and larger ones. As an addict needs more and more of his/her drug to achieve the same high. It''s the Dr. Jekyl-Mr. Hyde progression.\r\n\r\nCBSRMT does something similar setting forth the moral of the story in its demon-haunted tales. A blackmailer slowly increases the payments demanded on the victim, and in this story, the clock demands more blood at more frequent intervals.\r\n\r\nTo put it in hypothetical terms, say that one week I break into an old-time radio theatre fan''s house and steal all his/her money. The next week I might feel the need to break into 3 or 4 houses owned by radio mystery theatre fans. This escalation continues, the violence increases, perhaps by logrithetic proportions, and all too soon nukes are raining down around the planet.\r\n\r\nAs I''ve said before, I hate it when that happens.', '2013-02-13 17:31:03', 1, '56f27c7b90dbc8c7628efdb3d671f830', '112.200.39.181'),
(4176, '0022', 'episode', 'A. Nolasc', '', 'I think Bryna is the "Lego" of CBSRMT. They just hand her a script and whatever story it is, weird, scary, stupid or good like this one, she just take''s in to stride and performs great.', '2013-02-13 17:31:08', 1, '2a46afa4af7dcaa5a09df198f2fb4044', '112.200.39.181'),
(4177, '0022', 'episode', 'Kiel', '', 'I enjoyed the weird idea behind this one- a vampire clock- cool!', '2013-02-13 17:31:12', 1, 'b20f0a57647f3ae707b5ad44c04defe0', '112.200.39.181'),
(4178, '0022', 'episode', 'Leslie', '', 'A classic episode. One of my true favs of the mystery theater. I remember listening to this one at work and I just loved the ending. \\"Once around is enough for all of us\\".<br>', '2013-03-14 23:06:25', 1, 'cd44447b556b849eaed09210448f5120', '112.200.39.181'),
(4179, '0022', 'episode', 'Larry Peeps', '', 'The main character in the story was well crafted; he seemed amiable enough but turned out to be something of a villain. A top notch RMT.', '2013-02-13 17:31:26', 1, 'b5791df50da4d98ebcda24f4a928713d', '112.200.39.181'),
(4180, '0143', 'episode', 'Rommel', '', 'I love this episode!! I just listened to this one last week and enjoyed it. Lots of coins in the wolrd worth less than a cent. Interesting episode with great voice acting. A great choice...thanks Miles and Fizz for making it possible.', '2013-02-13 17:31:31', 1, '99797416193635f1e00e37f386cd3127', '112.200.39.181'),
(4181, '0143', 'episode', 'R. Allen', '', 'GREAT choice for an encore!\r\n\r\n- The music in this is classic 1974 RMT at its best...a lot of it was used in another Ian Martin ''74 script, "The hand", an RMT timeless classic.\r\n\r\n- A few amusing lines from this one:\r\n\r\n*"Abracadabra, right on the bed, 250,000 in fifties and hundreds like...POW!"\r\n\r\n*"I''ll just take my shirt off and let the sun shine on my ''manly chest''."\r\n\r\n* (Prior to the "Abracadabra" line) "I should pay a visit to my local psychiatrist but just in case black magic hasn''t gone out of style..."\r\n\r\n- William Redfield was an RMT actor we lost early to leukemia...seemingly WAY too early, even before the RMT stopped production. This is one of my all-time favorite performances of his.\r\n\r\n- I wonder what it would have been like had Martin''s voice as the "imp" been different. Sounds like a big menacing "genie" type, but his voice for the character was, well, a bit wimpy. Or maybe it was that way to suggest that even with his power he was completely under the un-loving control of another being, with no hope whatsoever...\r\n\r\n- Interesting how ANYTHING connected with magic in the RMT was almost always ultimately linked with Satan. Witches, incantations, imps in bottles...everything!', '2013-02-13 17:31:39', 1, 'd39e92ad14a23c4d0d604277c9bad813', '112.200.39.181'),
(4182, '0143', 'episode', 'Rick', '', 'Yes indeed. Another fun show! There is a better encode out there . . . I downloaded it several years ago. This one fades almost to silence at least 3 different times. The chugging-beer commercial sounds strange to us today as well.\r\n\r\nI liked the twists on the old moral about avarice. Love of money . . . is a bad thing, don\\''cha know. There\\''s the ever present connection to satan. But in this tale, any malevolent spirit from world mythology would fit the bill. Just so long as it\\''s evil and has supernatural abilities. And there\\''s a couple hundred long-dead gods who could play that role.\r\n\r\nSo . . . old and rare coins that are worth less than a penny. But if they\\''re old and rare . . . aren\\''t they worth more than a penny, no matter what the face-value of the coin is? Suppose the stock market took a dive and the exchange rate flucuated madly about the time the bottle was being sold to another party? Would it be necessary to be reading the tickertape continually in order to ensure the value of the coin(s) being exchanged? I ask you . . .\r\n\r\nI do like E.G.\\''s final little kicker . . . and it does fit the story . . . that the smaller the amount paid for the bottle, the quicker that person\\''s life came to an end. Nice little tidbit.<br>', '2013-03-14 23:13:10', 1, '0f345413abeee7bd30099ffadb9718a9', '112.200.39.181'),
(4183, '0143', 'episode', 'Ruth Claire A.', '', 'Could be...but then there was the reference by Redfield''s character when he asked Felicia to marry him: "Let me ask you in front of God and everyone else..."\r\n\r\nPretty much every other major religion apart from Christianity, Judaism and Islam has plural "gods" (or none at all), so it seemed to me this was another in a line of RMTs with this reference. Flawed as a few points of the theology were, this is still a fun play.', '2013-02-13 17:31:52', 1, '153be6e4050f1a905e0245f81a056a1b', '112.200.39.181'),
(4184, '0143', 'episode', 'John Mina', '', 'great feedback comments on this one! i enjoyed reading your\r\nthoughts, so thanks for that!\r\n\r\ni really enjoyed this one. what i found comical was when he\r\ntells the girl about his bottle and the imp and the money and\r\nhe wants to earn his own money, and she immediately says,\r\n"sell the bottle to me!"\r\n\r\nit''s one of those cases where despite all the evidence that\r\nthere is a ghost in the cupcakes, there''s always one chump\r\nwho laughs and takes a bite anyway. in this case, the girl wants\r\nthe bottle, despite his warnings. just kind of funny to me.\r\n\r\na great show. again, really enjoyed it! thanks Miles!', '2013-02-13 17:32:00', 1, 'e4cc5384e1fc1ec519ace771b1d73e25', '112.200.39.181'),
(4185, '0143', 'episode', 'Paul', '', 'Loved the show. Was the foreign love interest patterned on Aristotle Onassis (foreign playboy, shipping magnate)? This would have been about the right time frame, would it not?\r\n\r\nAnd speaking of shipping - that had to be the worst recruiting ad for the U.S. Navy that I ever heard. No wonder enlistment was down in ''74 . . .', '2013-02-13 17:32:06', 1, '0aa242d50979f60ae485d626937a30dd', '112.200.39.181'),
(4186, '0143', 'episode', 'Bob', '', 'One last thing about this episode. Ian Martin has written episodes dealing with (in a supernatural way) the subject of addiction before, i.e. the VERY fine "Time and again".\r\n\r\nGambling''s an addiction, as the RMT stated many times before, and it reared its ugly head here in this episode.\r\n\r\nHowever, there''s also a parallel Martin seemed to draw in this episode with the deceased uncle at the beginning, who may not have been a gambler.\r\n\r\nEver seen studies on those who won big money in the lottery, how they still have problems even after their "jackpot"?\r\n\r\nI don''t know how to describe the parallel, but it was interesting that the uncle, even though he was able to alway come up with enormous amounts of cash (and we know how) was essentially broke at the end of his life. I guess this was Martin''s way of communicating that easy money doesn''t guarantee being rich.', '2013-02-13 17:32:14', 1, '0755bc05ac040b06008c856d9a56f5d6', '112.200.39.181'),
(4187, '0202', 'episode', 'Pete', '', 'I think I hate the old guy in this episode more than any other RMT villain. He was dripping with evil. The only question was why he wasn''t bumped off earlier. Didn''t he also play a twisted codger who has a fortune in gold and won''t give any to his poor nephew?\r\n\r\nThis is an interesting adaptation of the Poe classic but not as good as "Berenice" or "The Oblong Box".', '2013-02-13 17:32:18', 1, 'e1e176661e666cc16e7655e900c79b21', '112.200.39.181'),
(4188, '0202', 'episode', 'Caren', '', 'I love any episode with Fred Gwynne in it. He just has a great voice for radio. I just love those happy endings.... driven to madness in a completely different world. Love this stuff!!!', '2013-02-13 17:32:24', 1, '92f011455b5a2d4ad890258610fdd795', '112.200.39.181'),
(4204, '0265', 'episode', 'Roland', '', 'I loved the ending of this show. The voice acting was top notch. I\\''m scared of spiders and I\\''m a big guy. A hate those ugly things. What a potion! A very good story which just happened to be one of the very first RMT that I remember.', '2013-02-13 18:07:29', 1, 'e162ffcfc5d2f8313a2a490d50647835', '64.136.212.123'),
(4206, '0100', 'episode', 'chad brown', 'chadvienna@hotmail.com', 'Hi Hayley,\r\n\r\nI actually did understand that. The question is, what did she do? If she set up her husband then what did she get out of it? What proof did the police have so quickly in such a complicated matter? And where was the husband while they looked for him? How can they prove she did anything wrong that warrants a 10 year sentence.   \r\n\r\nThe thing just didnt tie together at all. It full of holes.\r\n\r\nBut I love the production and acting....', '2013-02-13 18:15:07', 1, '5f7f52608e314559083befe8c0650e2c', '93.74.236.35'),
(4207, '0763', 'episode', 'Charles', '', 'It was a VERY positive show on the role of adoption, and more importantly, on the role of the environment (READ: \\"Good parenting\\") vs. genetics in raising adopted kids (or bio ones). (NOTE: For an RMT show that handles this subject in a far different way, and with a much stronger plot twist with Sam Dann at the writer\\''s helm, listen to 761126(?) \\"Blood will tell\\" with Mason Adams and Bryna Raeburn.)\r\n\r\nNot that I\\''d want any adopted child to hate the \\"bio\\" parents which gave them up, but I appreciated the way Hecht\\''s parents (never heard from in the show) were portrayed, and their son\\''s viewpoint of them. It\\''s the difference between being a sperm/egg donor and being a true Dad/Mom. I honestly was intrigued by Hecht\\''s character\\''s reaction as he confronted his \\"bio\\" father.<br>', '2013-03-03 21:41:51', 1, 'f4061c7c5fb0b811d29848b8b205b77c', '112.200.39.181'),
(4190, '0202', 'episode', 'Joshua', '', 'I hate to admit it but this was not one of my favorites. Seemed to lack realism to the extreme. I failed to see why they were "forced" to stay. Particularly after the death of their daughter. Well actually through the whole thing. It makes no sense that these people would endure this. Even if there was a logical reason to stay they would have shoved the old man on his rump and gone about their business. Who was rationing out the food? The old man? Again a quick shove and you get all the food you need. Lastly the ease at which the old man gets Gwynns character to go back to work after all that had happened was not effective for me at all. With all that said I still enjoyed listening to it. Just wouldn''t choose this one as a favorite.', '2013-02-13 17:33:07', 1, '6c6d3d66c6f0d5015fd978e0e4c4ba43', '112.200.39.181'),
(4191, '0202', 'episode', 'Steven', '', 'yeah, the scary and thriller episodes are the best. however,\r\nin all the shows there really are a limited number of scare-your-\r\nsocks-off shows.\r\n\r\nin fact, i believe Himan Brown, the producer, had on his one-\r\nsheet an item called Number of Socks To Be Scared Off\r\nwhich he would rate similarly to how we vote on each episode.\r\n\r\ni could be wrong, of course.', '2013-02-13 17:33:13', 1, '16be9a2a5aac6bc0db976c667ad2d636', '112.200.39.181'),
(4192, '0202', 'episode', 'Lamont', '', 'I thought it was a good tale . . . in an ugly and revolting kind of way! That is, the abuse was "real" in its way and causes us to throughly hate the villian and root for his demise.\r\n\r\nBut Poe? Really, not at all. In fact the only way anyone would or could connect this to Poe . . . is because E.G. and Himen tell us it is. That, and the little intro thingy about the narrator''s being mad and a couple of allusions to his acute hearing. I wonder . . . if this tale might have been "pre-written" as it were . . . already in the can . . . and if Himen might have asked George Lowther to adapt for the special Poe week. ??? That would explain it in my book . . .', '2013-02-13 17:33:24', 1, 'fe2351ee0badd5c0eb890207d03d7c74', '112.200.39.181'),
(4193, '0435', 'episode', 'James Baird', '', 'A couple of things:\r\n\r\n1. What''s a "double Gibson"? (That''s what Moss'' character orders at movie''s beginning.)\r\n\r\n2. For some reason this episode''s always confused me a bit at the ending...maybe it will be clearer to all of you.\r\n\r\n3. Moss, a Shakespearean actor, has times when his training shines through. He also (at times) has his "Homer Simpson" moments when he sounds like he''s saying his own version of "dohhhhh..."\r\n\r\nIn this episode it comes when Hammond''s psychiatrist character has got Moss''s character on the couch and is asking him who he really is. Moss answers something like: "I''m no WHEAAA..."\r\n\r\n(There''s an RMT episode called "The d*mned thing", based on an Ambrose Bierce tale, where Moss plays a man killed by a creature and multiple people have to give their testimony at a legal hearing as to what they believe happened. As they relate their stories Moss makes his unique "Dohhhh..." sounds over and over, and it''s almost unintentionally hilarious.)\r\n\r\nMoss was a GREAT talent regardless...one of the RMT''s finest who was there from beginning to end for them.', '2013-02-13 17:33:29', 1, 'fcfc4a230335cea837a46be90d7439a8', '112.200.39.181');
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(4194, '0435', 'episode', 'Lorry Jane A.', '', 'a Gibson is (aka a dry martini):\r\n\r\n• ice\r\n• 2-1/2 measures of gin\r\n• 1-1/2 teaspoons dry vermouth\r\n• 2 cocktail onions\r\n\r\na double Gibson is double gin, double vermouth.', '2013-02-13 17:33:34', 1, '490fc6a87cf92b12c423d6f57bc298ae', '112.200.39.181'),
(4195, '0435', 'episode', 'Jules', '', 'One more thing on \\"the bloody legend\\"...it\\''s a Milt Wissoff and not an Elspeth Eric play. Yet there\\''s a bit of \\"psychological study\\" at work in this one as well, obviously. (Weak father/domineering mother/affectations on only son.)', '2013-02-13 17:33:39', 1, '1d5c017bfeeb691d9a69df33dab1872e', '112.200.39.181'),
(4197, '0435', 'episode', 'Mr. Tate', '', 'just finished listening to this one. I seem to like tales where there is a killer on the loose and there is nothing anybody could do to stop the killing. This story ended without an explaination of what was coming out of the storm. I guess it is left up to the listener. I look at the ending as an unfinshed story by design or the unability to write a good enough ending to tie into the story. I''m going to say it''s by design.', '2013-02-13 17:37:52', 1, 'c40f793912016c3884c0792368b50e06', '112.200.39.181'),
(4208, '0763', 'episode', 'Timothy Day', '', 'Unfortunately that''s all it had going for it. Well almost anyway. I enjoyed listening as usual. This one comes across to me as run of the mill. Which for Mystery theater isn''t all that bad anyway. I didn''t have a problem with the acting or production in any way. Just an average story.', '2013-03-27 15:33:55', 1, '6feba4350cd03b6bf493f23268648f92', '112.200.39.181'),
(4210, '0763', 'episode', 'Chuck', '', 'One other thing it had going for it...a high-quality preview to "The Laughing Maiden", an EXCELLENT RMT episode whose version floating around leaves something to be desired.', '2013-02-13 22:00:42', 1, '456ff6fa4d14c3f2f2794b70dad9144f', '112.200.39.181'),
(4211, '0763', 'episode', 'Aaron', '', 'I liked this episode. Sorry, but there\\''s something to be said about getting into the passenger\\''s seat and knowing where the driver is taking you. No big scary surprises, but rather a pleasant twist in the story line.\r\n\r\nI found the adoption angle to be interesting too. Kind of a nice touch. Is it me, or does RMT sometimes try and slip in those same values as the old Saturday morning specials?', '2013-02-13 18:16:27', 1, '25f6924c8daf03b633e857022fef5164', '112.200.39.181'),
(4214, '0763', 'episode', 'Dee', '', 'I really enjoyed the CBS RMT adaptation\\''s of the O. Henry\\''s stories such as Tobin\\''s Palm, Two Renegades, Cherchez La Femme. I also think that the scariest episode I remember was \\"The Ghost With a Knife.\\" ', '2013-02-13 18:20:41', 1, '4a890705d46dd136481e6c9cbc86cb00', '64.136.212.123'),
(4216, '0536', 'episode', 'Julius', '', 'This episode was not one of my favs. I kept on wanting the old man to die. Is that bad of me? Well anyway, I thought that the episode really dragged on and could have done well if we were given more time in the past. I think it took forever to for the poison to take hold.....either way, I wanted more time in the past to see what changes, if any, would take place. It sounds like Morgan is going to start again on the better side of things. I always enjoy episodes that end in sadness and despare. But then again that''s just me.', '2013-02-13 18:20:45', 1, '4e11652141adbd345dfebb8f20a13cfa', '112.200.39.181'),
(4213, '0763', 'episode', 'Sally', '', 'I liked it too. Just a fun caper with a nice wind up at the end.', '2013-02-13 18:20:39', 1, '8ff100265a4d50c8284ce49846c439b2', '112.200.39.181'),
(4217, '0536', 'episode', 'Paula Louise', '', 'I know part of the fun of reviewing are the varying viewpoints. The ending caught me a bit by surprise although it started being telegraphed a few minutes away. I actually liked how this went.\r\n\r\nFrankly, if you want another RMT program where Norman Rose plays a brilliant man who finds a way to \\"go back in time\\" to when he meets his wife (while his future ends in a different fashion than this one) within a program that is indeed more melancholy, I\\''d go for \\"The movie makers\\" with Rose, Marian Seldes, Russell Horton and Earl Hammond. Seriously, at times \\"A point in time\\" felt a bit like \\"The movie makers\\".\r\n\r\n- Although it may have involved a bit of overacting, I still LOVED Rose\\''s character\\''s dialogue with Ralph \\"The interrogator\\" Bell around the 18:00 mark. I don\\''t necessarily love the words but got a kick out of the delivery when Rose said: \\"Colonel, you are...a JACKASS!\\" at 20:27.\r\n\r\n- We hear about how one of the talents of certain great singers is that they can \\"hit\\" multiple octaves.\r\n\r\nI think the same could be said of actors who can do young, mature and elderly characters, and one of those actors was the late, talented Evie Juster. (I STILL have never found a picture of her.)\r\n\r\nShe was called upon to do multiple \\"octaves\\" for the RMT: little kids, college-age women, ingenues and frequently, old ladies, the latter of which she could often do well.\r\n\r\nSometimes, though, in her elderly voice she\\''d say lines that would crack me up, and for some reason at 15:12 in this program when she said \\"\\''Old lady\\'', Hmmm?\\"...that was one of them.\r\n\r\nGod rest your soul, Ms. Juster.\r\n\r\n- Some nice RMT music bits on this one:\r\n\r\n-- One of said \\"bits\\" I most remember from originally listening to the RMT is the sinister \\"WHAAWWWWWW\\" of muted trombones and/or trumpets at 20:37.\r\n\r\n-- It\\''s said that the young, still lithe enough though now matronly Marian Seldes started her career as a dancer.\r\n\r\nI\\''d pay money to go back to \\"a point in time\\" and watch her do ballet to the simultaneously slightly ominous yet very dreamlike music at the 24:47 mark, E.G.\\''s second act outtro...I honestly would have loved to see the young dancer Ms. Seldes put her whole body in motion to that performance, given how she seems to have an affinity for the \\"mysterious\\".\r\n\r\n-- At the 39:23 mark...the orchestral piece (I won\\''t give away what\\''s happening in the RMT show).\r\n\r\nI downloaded a very good original Twilight Zone show episode entitled: \\"And when the sky was opened\\" (and, as we do here, totally disagreed with the reviewer of that show to whose page I linked...it was an excellent episode, IMO)...at one point, two of the main characters are in a bar.\r\n\r\nWhat\\''s playing?\r\n\r\nThat same orchestral piece.\r\n\r\nIt\\''s always a treat watching an old TWZ and saying: \\"Hey, (as an RMT reviewer) I\\''m still hearing that music today!\\"<br>', '2013-03-03 21:42:21', 1, '7912511cd65bde9186e830a756b2892e', '112.200.39.181'),
(4218, '0536', 'episode', 'Julius', '', 'Maybe I was a bit harsh. I liked the story but it really wasn\\''t my cup of tea. I just wanted something more to happen during the course of the show. The ending didn\\''t really do anything for me because I felt it was uneventful. I also appreciate your great indept reviews of all the shows Paula.', '2013-02-13 18:38:44', 1, '63433212b69fe532818e83491114831b', '112.200.39.181'),
(4219, '0536', 'episode', 'Bumble', '', 'This is one of the few that I really didn\\''t care for. Particularly the way it ended. Simply having a brutal tyrant meet a certain individual would not necessarily mean that he would change his ways. A very shallow assumption. Not one of my favorites.', '2013-02-27 18:33:34', 1, '80c7bc806b5d14e78d24887d78ca9fad', '112.200.39.181'),
(4220, '0536', 'episode', 'Norge T.', '', 'I was looking for more depth in the story. I wanted to hear the horrors of this man''s rulings, the lost love story, or even what life in the future/past was like and how it was changed.\r\n\r\nI did like the ending. How sweet a brother was to risk his life to give his sister a bit of happiness (okay, and maybe to change the outcome of the city''s future too)', '2013-02-27 18:33:35', 1, 'b4171366a259ae23f2600f58262350df', '112.200.39.181'),
(4222, '1189', 'episode', 'Jones P.', '', 'A few thoughts...not as long-winded this time.\r\n\r\n- One of if not the best Mandel Kramer performances, IMO. He was best known on the small screen, I think, for his 20 year role as Police Chief Bill Marceau on the old \\"Edge of night\\" series (where he acted alongside a LOT of future TV stars).\r\n\r\nKramer seemed to play the role of detective fairly well...I remember him doing so on a former episode, \\"The raft\\".\r\n\r\nEarl Hammond and Marian Seldes did well in this three-person play, too. The RMT\\''s \\"A-team\\" was in on this one, including scriptwriter Sam Dann.\r\n\r\n- It\\''s hard for me not to comment on the CBS RMT/Twilight Zone music library as it was so well done.\r\n\r\nOne thing that I remember far more of on the RMT than TWZ is \\"dream sequence\\" music...usually involving a Fender Rhodes or acoustic piano over a sustained string and/or woodwind music bed.\r\n\r\nThere were at least four such \\"dream sequence\\" music beds that I recall and probably more that I don\\''t...one was used at the end of the second act (right at the end of the \\"clothing incident\\") on l\\"Star Sapphire\\". One was used extensively during Ian Martin\\''s narration of the wonderful \\"Secret chamber\\". And one of the \\"four\\" is used frequently in this episode several times (one right after Kramer\\''s character has used the silencer). This bed\\''s been used frequently in the RMT, and it never gets old to me. MAN, I\\''d love to have met some of those CBS composers.\r\n\r\n- This episode is far from being as controversial as \\"Star Sapphire\\" but...\r\n\r\nIn these days of political correctness, how frequently do we hear of an ostensibly communist man of questionable sexuality in an apparent \\"Brokeback Mountain\\" style (as defined by Hollywood) marriage who plays a bad guy?\r\n\r\nIt\\''s almost as if, IMO, \\"Star Sapphire\\" would have been a provocative play in its day of first airing, but \\"The long, blue line\\" might be more controversial today.\r\n\r\n- Finally, I\\''m sure there\\''ve been TV shows and movies where a policeman/detective son has had to arrest his policeman/detective father...I just can\\''t remember any whatsoever right now. I thought this was handled quite well, which leads me to...\r\n\r\n- Any of you \\"X-files\\" watchers (former or current in rerun) out there remember an episode entitled \\"Travelers\\", with Fox Mulder\\''s TV Dad making an appearance?\r\n\r\nRemember that hideous creature that was in that episode, that had been planted by the government (of course) in some innocent guy, who when the creature inside him was hungry would corner his victims (one of them his loving, supportive wife) whereupon the thing would pop out of his mouth and do unmentionable things to the victim?\r\n\r\nRemember how when Mulder\\''s father finally corralled the guy, he did the thing a good law enforcement officer would do to protect other innocent people. He...let...him...go?!?!? (I remember in narration that Mulder, Sr. said that by doing so he hoped the \\"truth would eventually come out\\" or some such rubbish.)\r\n\r\nI first saw that episode in rerun about the time I first heard RMT\\''s \\"The long, blue line\\".\r\n\r\nThe difference in values, and generations, between the RMT and the X-files couldn\\''t have been more stark.<br>', '2013-03-15 17:58:22', 1, '5c61ab8cb3c385333c2ded5e3f4acaef', '112.200.39.181'),
(4223, '1189', 'episode', 'Willmon Ryan', '', 'I liked the episode a lot.\r\n\r\nI''ll echo the above comments - a t.v. episode that portrayed a 50''s-era actor as being a Communist agent, would draw so much heat, that it would unfortunately never make it on-air.', '2013-02-27 18:33:36', 1, '811c8f9a8440e4f3dfe950eb8e1daf16', '112.200.39.181'),
(4224, '1189', 'episode', 'Debbie Lawson', '', 'And this isn''t even a "whodunit", much less a scary mystery show (though it has it moments of suspense (of sorts), I guess, at the very end.)\r\n\r\nIt''s a good old-fashioned morality tale, the kind that pretty much only the RMT did within its radio theatre genre.\r\n\r\nIt''s funny...last night we had a suspected prowler at our business (where I frequently work by myself without any worry) and I called in the police...two officers arrived with a german shepherd. They weren''t able to find anyone in there so maybe it was a false alarm. But I was sure glad they were there.\r\n\r\nAnd I''m also reminded of an early 70s era bumper sticker I saw in my hometown of Springfield, MO: "If you don''t like the pigs, next time you''re in trouble call a hippie."\r\n\r\nBoth instances cited above would mesh well in a montage with "The long, blue line".', '2013-02-27 18:33:37', 1, '32ea1a4b109cdee1c28276e984005c62', '112.200.39.181'),
(4225, '1189', 'episode', 'John Byron C.', '', 'I liked this episode. Though the accent of the main character was so bad I almost didn''t notice he had one. lol', '2013-02-27 18:33:38', 1, 'c4c2f6f8beaf3ad0d2f5cb3cfea38fc1', '112.200.39.181'),
(4226, '1189', 'episode', 'J. Scarr', '', 'I thought this episode could have been better. I was a little boared half way through and found myself drifting a bit. The ending was a bit anti-climatic. I thought all along that the sone would take that course of action and that the father would have the respose he did in return. I''m trying not to give the ending away. But like I said, I didn''t find it too difficult to figure out.', '2013-02-27 18:33:42', 1, '19e63790dbf3eb0fafe96fca93da6674', '112.200.39.181'),
(4227, '1189', 'episode', 'Joshua', '', 'A good show, well acted and produced, but I find it difficult to comment on. There doesn''t seem to be much to say. It''s straight-forward, unambiguous, and all the loose threads are tied up.\r\n\r\nNot sure why the ailing, dying spouse had to die for ten years before she died. A detail that did surprise me was . . . the murder is done to prevent the spouse from learning of the infidelity, but she knows of it all the while, which makes the crime even more evil and useless.\r\n\r\nBeen moving across the country . . . hope to contribute more regularly now . . . now that I''m in North Dakota!!', '2013-02-27 18:33:43', 1, '5b5c198443357323d2a75aee1655bdf9', '112.200.39.181'),
(4229, '0183', 'episode', 'T. Sean', '', 'I enjoyed the episode but was disappointed that Wolf wasn''t made to pay for his crime. Has anyone read the original story? I am curious as to how it differs from the adaptation.\r\n\r\nEarlier tonight, I watched the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers (with Leondard Nimoy). Does anyone know if there was ever an RMT episode that had a similar story?\r\n\r\nThe preview at the end of this episode sounded like an interesting episode. Does anyone know what the next episode was and if it was good? The preview sounds like it involves some sort of monster.', '2013-02-27 18:33:44', 1, '8ea57c64e6c0508f6bd93faefc1902df', '112.200.39.181'),
(4230, '0183', 'episode', 'Steve Jusko', '', 'I liked this episode for alot of reasons....but the main reason is that I love unhappy endings. Not every story could or should end in death, but I seem to like stories that are not tied up in such a nice bow. When I originally heard the title, I thought it would be like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But I liked this story because it well could have happened. And who knows .....it might have.\r\nCardsFan--I am currently listening to the episodes around this time period....I''ll let you know if I come upon the episode in the preview.', '2013-02-27 18:33:45', 1, 'a702216a677e311da602e48df1465738', '112.200.39.181'),
(4231, '0183', 'episode', 'J.C. Perds', '', 'I enjoyed the episode but was disappointed that Wolf wasn\\''t made to pay for his crime. Has anyone read the original story? I am curious as to how it differs from the adaptation.\r\n\r\nEarlier tonight, I watched the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers (with Leondard Nimoy). Does anyone know if there was ever an RMT episode that had a similar story?\r\n\r\nThe preview at the end of this episode sounded like an interesting episode. Does anyone know what the next episode was and if it was good? The preview sounds like it involves some sort of monster.', '2013-02-27 18:33:45', 1, '33388f2f9497f73a487ce9724520943d', '112.200.39.181'),
(4232, '0183', 'episode', 'Ritch', '', 'This was an interesting episode, one that held me from beginning to end. There were a couple of strikes against it, though, at least to my taste.\r\n\r\nFirst, I\\''ve never cared for Howard Da Silva, who seemed to give exactly the same performance in every show he was in (it doesn\\''t help that he fails to even attempt an accent here, instead sounding glaringly American). And in terms of my own enjoyment, I actually found this script strangely tame, given the shocking gruesomeness of the Robert Louis Stevenson original--Stevenson\\''s climax, in particular, is far more memorable than what RMT offers here. &nbsp; &nbsp;It\\''s well worth reading (and it\\''s not very long).\r\n\r\nOne of the interesting points in this adaptation is the fact that there is no romance, or romantic triangle, in Stevenson\\''s story; Ian Martin appears to have built this up from an event which happens early on in the original, in which a woman of seemingly easy virtue named Jane Galbraith becomes a victim. Actually, by changing this around, Martin (certainly accidentally) made the RMT version resemble rather closely an episode of Rod Serling\\''s NIGHT GALLERY called \\"Deliveries in the Rear,\\" which had been broadcast a couple of years before and which features the exact same kicker at the end. (Serling\\''s script, by the way, though not credited as an adaptation of the Stevenson story, probably ought to be.) The Serling influence on RMT has been often discussed here, and I suspect that we have another, sort of back-door (or delivery in the rear?) example of it in this episode.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Stevenson story had earlier been adapted, and very well indeed, as one of the better films of Boris Karloff, also called THE BODY SNATCHER (1945, directed by Robert Wise). This film is well worth searching out (it\\''s on DVD). It does a tremendous job with Stevenon\\''s ghastly, and very different, climax.\r\n\r\nNot a bad episode at all, but this one could have been stronger in both acting and writing.<br>', '2013-03-14 23:14:37', 1, 'aef0495269ee88308e5717a545157969', '112.200.39.181'),
(4233, '0183', 'episode', 'Mr. Greene', '', 'Perhaps if I learned how to read better I''d find the download link sooner! Sorry about that; I guess I was in the habit of clicking on a non-title sort of link.\r\n\r\nA pretty grizzly story, in a good CBSRMT sort of way. I''m going to check out the Stevenson original since it comes highly recommended.\r\n\r\nSo, was this standard practice in the 19th century? Did most/all medical students need to practice body procurement as well? While I''d thought that the practice was wide-spread, I didn''t think that it was overly common amongst the students themselves.\r\n\r\nAn unconnected thought here: I''ve read that following WWI, that scientists made the first large strides in understanding the physical structure and purposes of the human brain . . . by studying the soldiers who''d survived head injuries. Thousands of them; then corrolating their symptoms to the area of the brain that was injured. No dead bodies really needed; no vivisection; thank god for war!\r\n\r\nStevenson was a heck of a writer, eh? Does anyone know how many of his tales were adapted by RMT?', '2013-02-27 18:33:47', 1, '55b8192b931d65dd73c76983961249d9', '112.200.39.181'),
(4234, '0183', 'episode', 'Tom', '', 'Da Silva, is pretty much the go to guy when they just needed an actor for the program at the time. I am glad they didn''t go all stereotypical with someone like Fred Gwynne. Was Boris still alive at the time this was made? I thought they could have played up the revelation of the corpse''s identity a little better as well. Hey, all in all still not a bad version of the classic tale.', '2013-02-27 18:33:48', 1, 'c73a08522e46b9d10163ee78862e52d9', '112.200.39.181'),
(4235, '0183', 'episode', 'A. Kelley', '', 'Ditto on the above critique. I enjoyed the episode, but found it a bit static. Dasilva\\''s self-loathing also got a little repetitious. I saw the Boris Karloff movie a year or two ago on Turner Classics and was really blown away by his performance. Makes me sad that people think he was only Frankenstein. They showed it again just a couple of weeks ago. Don\\''t miss it when it comes \\''round again.', '2013-02-27 18:33:49', 1, '610a128614998a131ec1a9ee22319ae7', '112.200.39.181'),
(4236, '0183', 'episode', 'John Gallard', '', 'There are some very interesting points made in the discussion/review of this show. After listening, I agree that Boris Karloff would have been a great choice.\r\n\r\nI was also disappointed that Wolfe wasn''t made to suffer. The story creates Cameron Fergis (sp?) as a character who is an honorable decent man that has been tricked into doing dishonorable things. His attempts at clearing his conscience (i.e. warning Jeanne about what kind of man Wolfe is, leaving his "studies", has a conscience all these years concerning what he has played a part in, and again refusing to take money when he encounters Wolfe), make me believe that if he ever got the chance to meet Wolfe again, he would make him suffer in some way. At the very least, I was hoping Fergis would buy Wolfe a drink and slip in a little something. This is one of those episodes where the ending either makes or breaks the story.\r\n\r\nOn another point, I couldn''t feel bad about what happened to Jeanne. The way the story played out, I felt she was gold digging for whoever made the "Doctor" title first. If Cameron was supposed to be such an intelligent guy, I had a hard time swallowing the notion that he didn''t see this either.', '2013-02-27 18:33:50', 1, 'ee10ba61ca9133b6122ff26f801bbc16', '112.200.39.181'),
(4237, '0183', 'episode', 'L. Hoe', '', 'It is definitely an interesting episode. One must remember that much of what we call medicinal science was built upon the work done on cadavers, even stolen ones. Does the ends justifies the means? Does the welfare of future millions out-weigh the respect due the body of a dead individual?', '2013-02-27 18:33:51', 1, '43800c4c8cb42948261ccac5691683d7', '112.200.39.181'),
(4238, '0183', 'episode', 'Lheena A.', '', 'I also have to disagree with many of the posts about Howard daSilva. Though true his performances seem one-dimensional, when given the right story (\\"COME BACK WITH ME\\", \\"THE OTHER SELF\\", \\"THE NIGHT SHIFT\\", \\"THIS BREED IS DOOMED\\") his portrayal of world-weary (beaten-down) individuals are heart-felt. Remember, this is only his second CBS RMT episode that he appears in. I believe later the producers chose more wisely what character DaSilva should play.\r\n\r\nI love this adaptation of the Stevenson\\''s story and believe it is superior in spots, such as introducing the love interests. The writing is so magnificent that one hardly notices that all of Act One takes place in a single setting in real time. CBS RMT nearly always did a good job presenting the works of great authors (O. Henry and M. Twain).&nbsp;<br>', '2013-03-24 23:52:51', 1, '3c4adb03f2ec494324da201383a89c04', '112.200.39.181'),
(4239, '0183', 'episode', 'Mr. Baumann', '', 'I also like DaSilva a bit more than some of the others here. He isn''t the greatest but I have certainly enjoyed several of his performances. I had no problem with this one either. As for the story I thought it was entertaining. Not completely engrossing but enjoyable enough. I have listened to this story in various audio presentations (suspense, rmt, etc) so I was fairly familiar with the story. Thanks to Chris Conlin for the link to the original which I have never read. I am looking forward to reading it over the weekend. The discussion this (last?) week has been great. I have thoroughly enjoyed the input from everyone. I found mys42''s comment about not being able to feel sympathetic for Jeanne interesting. This one i actually listened to twice. Once when I was working and a bit distracted, after which I had the impression that his drinking and behavior as a result of what they were participating in had driven her away. Upon listening to it undistracted however, it was fairly clear that her shallow behavior in this regard (how easy it was for him to talk her into "changing her dance card" for example) was certainly going on before his drinking problem developed. I should never listen while distracted.', '2013-02-27 18:33:52', 1, 'd6e4be74c8578b78e9af101e2471e9cd', '112.200.39.181'),
(4240, '1076', 'episode', 'D. Orics', '', 'Ladies and gentlemen,\r\n\r\nThis episode hit home to me as my mother was adopted by a loving central Illinois farm family around 1935 (and I promise you that though they watched their money well and raised their kids well, they didn\\''t have much) from a catholic orphanage in circumstance much like Fred Gwynne and his wife (played by the wonderful Evie Juster) adopted the girl in the show (whose voice was also done by Ms. Juster...sometimes her \\"little child\\" voice could be grating (like Joan Shay\\''s \\"frumpy old woman\\" or Lloyd Battista\\''s \\"hoarse irish cop\\"), but unlike the latter two, there were times when her \\"child\\" voice was very well placed and utilized by the RMT producers writers).\r\n\r\nSomeone once posted about this show that they thought it would have been good to have an abuse hotline number mentioned by E.G. at show\\''s end (they weren\\''t doing that much then as I recall except around things like telethons). Adoption\\''s something one mustn\\''t rush into and must prayerfully consider, but I must say that this episode led me to prayerfully consider adoption for our family.<br>', '2013-03-14 23:11:38', 1, '996a0adbffc92bc8cf4e0e5dd01fa7c8', '112.200.39.181'),
(4241, '1076', 'episode', 'Phil', '', 'Here\\''s my thoughts on the episode:\r\n\r\n- One of Elspeth Eric\\''s best, though it still might have been even better. Once again, she liked to go into psychological studies, and that was particularly evident in the first act.\r\n\r\n- It was evidenced by E.G.\\''s comments at the intro to the same. (Makes me ask the question again: were E.G.\\''s intros/outros scripted or did he do them \\"off the cuff\\"?)\r\n\r\nHe mentions the need some people have for \\"power\\", which, from every psychological study I\\''ve seen or heard, in the end is what abuse of any kind is all about, child or otherwise. It\\''s the need to dominate someone.\r\n\r\n(And no, you didn\\''t ask but I\\''ll put my .02...I don\\''t believe child abusers/pedophiles are \\"born that way\\". I\\''ve heard the testimony of Bob Van Domelen (who, as an ephebophile, sexually molested post-pubescent boys including some of his students, spent time in a Wisconsin prison, and indeed is sorry and knows he DESERVED the punishment he got) on Dr. James Dobson\\''s \\"Focus on the family\\" program...in addition, a woman I know who is very much the gay activist (her daughter\\''s a lesbian) knows Mr. Van Domelen personally and quite much respects him. By contrast, lots of such activists discount and are even hostile to the message of people such as Mr. Van Domelen and his ministry.\r\n\r\nI think if one knows the truth in the case of most true child abusers you\\''ll hear variations of Mr. Van Domelen\\''s story over and over and over and over again.)\r\n\r\n- We never know the extent of the abuse of the girl.\r\n\r\nCourt Benson and Carol Teitel\\''s husband/wife characters talk about the former\\''s suspecting (or at least wondering) the worst, particularly after the bizarre incident with the clothing where he tried to show them his \\"power\\".\r\n\r\nWe know that, at best, she was abused hypnotically (if that\\''s a word).\r\n\r\n- A side note to abuse...note how Gwynne\\''s character\\''s crippled wife doesn\\''t seem to say anything (though she may have felt it) during the clothing incident, or any of the other incidents.\r\n\r\nA year and one half ago, my daughter, suffering from major depression, wanted to be and was hospitalized for two months. (She was 14 at the time.) One of the chief questions her counselors there were wondering was what her true relationship with me was - read: did I abuse her in any way.\r\n\r\nCan\\''t say that it was easy going through that, but IMO is was quite a necessary thing to ask.\r\n\r\nWhen my wife was able to convince the counselor that I truly never had (in fact, I\\''d have and still would give my life to protect my daughter from abuse of any kind) the counselor said words to the effect of \\"Good...you wouldn\\''t believe how many of the kids here have mothers who will not do anything about the men they\\''re married to who abuse their kids.\\"\r\n\r\nMs. Juster\\''s \\"wife\\" character\\''s behavior was the hallmark of such a woman...one who\\''s likely been hurt deeply emotionally, yet through her choices in response to that pain has not grown out of the internal state in which she was pushed into, who basically is saying (sorry to put it this way) \\"PLEASE DON\\''T LEAVE ME! I\\''ll do anything, anything, including letting you have your way with my/our kids, but PLEASE don\\''t leave me.\\"\r\n\r\nMs. Eric captured this perfectly.\r\n\r\n- The RMT had its share of episodes with things TV that I recall at the time generally wouldn\\''t touch. (And we were just getting into the cable age in a significant way around the time of \\"Star sapphire\\".) I wonder how much controversy, if any, this episode caused at the time.\r\n\r\n- GREAT performance by Fred Gwynne.\r\n\r\n- Finally, the music (what sounded like a combination of an electric organ interrupted by staccato marimba-sounding notes) used whenever Gwynne started using his ring on the girl was another RMT music bed that I always found interesting.\r\n\r\n- My favorite music in this episode, however, is the powerful piece at the very end of the third act...used as a finale for a TON of great RMTS. Very apt here.\r\n\r\n- One last thing about parents...isn\\''t it interesting Gwynne got that ring from his father (and no, most fathers aren\\''t bad men by any means, not the way so many of them are portrayed in today\\''s media).\r\n\r\nWas it used on Gwynne\\''s character when he was his adopted daughter\\''s age, or did he just watch his FATHER use it? We never knew and may never know that answer.\r\n\r\nWhew... (Steps off the soapbox...)<br>', '2013-03-14 23:12:53', 1, 'def3d0700f5a9ba54a9e98b20b335ca8', '112.200.39.181'),
(4242, '1076', 'episode', 'B. Myerrs', '', '3 last things and then I won''t comment on this thread any more.\r\n\r\n1. I consider myself an evangelical conservative Christian, and the way (ostensibly, given the content of the show) Christianity was treated could have been bad, but IMO ended up being quite good in this show.\r\n\r\nFred Gwynne''s character, a churchgoing man who seemed so kindly at show''s beginning, turned out to be quite evil. However, his fellow parishioners played by Benson and Teitel, who led a prayer group, seemed portrayed as quite genuine and quite favorably.\r\n\r\nI found myself hoping that THEY would give the girl the home she so desperately needed.\r\n\r\n2. Speaking of Christ, who in my experience is The One who gives we males the power to truly grow up and become men (different thread, different board, but I''ll be glad to share my testimony if anyone wants it)...\r\n\r\nI don''t want to get into a discussion of wars and why people get into them here.\r\n\r\nThat being said, look again at what I called "the clothing incident" within this "Star sapphire" RMT show. Look at Benson''s character and his actions during that entire part of the show from start to finish.\r\n\r\nWhat I''ve found in life, and what I think Ms. Eric perfectly epitomized through the actions of Benson''s character, was this: Sometimes, things get to the point where words don''t mean anything any more and where people will be killed (in one way or another) unless a man stands up and physically defends them and/or himself.\r\n\r\n3. (my last point, I promise)\r\n\r\nIt''s been awhile since I last heard "Star sapphire" so maybe my opinion will have changed. However, I complimented E.G. on his opening act "intro/outros".\r\n\r\nBy the "outros" of the third act, I found myself wondering why he was saying (IMO) such gobbledygook. It was as if the true meaning of the show seemed to fly over the head of he, Eric or whomever wrote those closing remarks.\r\n\r\nSo, were I to do the final statement to that third act, "piggybacking" on the first/second act outros, I''d say right as that great aforementioned "final music bed" was echoing through the speakers:\r\n\r\n"Power.\r\n\r\nIf it''s all that motivates a man he''ll never get enough of it, and never find an end of his need to dominate another.\r\n\r\nAnd where I think (Gwynne''s character) is going, he''s going to find out...forever...just what it''s like to be dominated by such a person.', '2013-02-27 18:33:55', 1, '56a0a5b44117b28cff4088f9d1c9e75b', '112.200.39.181'),
(4243, '1076', 'episode', 'Ritchelle Carmen', '', 'It''s been years since I listened to this show, but as I recall, it was quite dark.\r\n\r\nElspeth wrote a lot of sappy, new age crap. Most of what she wrote was sappy, new age crap. But when Elspeth got dark, like she did here and in "A Horror Story" she was among the best.', '2013-02-27 18:33:56', 1, 'ccaf453afa6c4c37b0b98650cb74b4b6', '112.200.39.181'),
(4244, '1076', 'episode', 'Franc N.', '', 'I certainly like \\"Star Sapphire\\" as well. It\\''s interesting that, for all the negativity aimed at Elspeth Eric on this board (some, but not all, deserved), her scripts often seem to evoke very strong emotional reactions. I once pitched her episode \\"The Train Stops\\". People disagreeing on the meaning of the story but all agreeing that she had dealt with some very heavy emotional material.\r\n\r\nSame with \\"Star Sapphire.\\" Personally I would nominate the scene in which the father gets the adopted daughter to disrobe as possibly the single most disturbing scene in the entire run of RMT (at least based on my listening to several hundred episodes).\r\n\r\nAs for Marshall\\''s outro, a couple of comments:\r\n\r\n1) I suspect that the reason the outro focused on the nature of hypnosis instead of the \\"power\\" theme is because that had already been thoroughly covered in his earlier comments...Something on the nature and limitations of hypnosis was therefore appropriate. After all, the whole story hinged on it.\r\n\r\n2) I think I posted this sometime before, but Marshall\\''s comments for all episodes were definitely scripted. They appear in the original RMT scripts right along with the dialogue and sound effects. In fact, anyone can see an authentic Bob Juhren RMT script right here: Personally I doubt Marshall or Grimes ever actually read or heard most of the shows. Marshall is known to have recorded his commentaries separate from the rest of the cast (this is revealed in the Payton/Grams RMT book); most likely he did them in bunches, when he had the time, perhaps at the CBS studios in Hollywood.\r\n\r\nAnyway, \\"Star Sapphire\\" is certainly one of the darkest and most disturbing of all RMTS. Great choice.<br><br>', '2013-03-14 23:11:14', 1, 'eb08ef003781f0d841f34d468f57d830', '112.200.39.181'),
(4245, '1076', 'episode', 'Crenshaw', '', 'I was too long winded.\r\n\r\nCan\\''t resist doing this as a trip down RMT \\"Memory Lane\\"...here are two of our more lengthy discussions apart from \\"Star sapphire\\", and they both involved daughters (real or created) who were trapped and doomed for one reason or another:\r\n\r\n\\"The train stops\\" (one of Ms. Eric\\''s \\"other\\" best episodes), which involved a daughter who almost seemed to will herself to death, and;\r\n\r\n\\"Life blood\\", a play off a former original Twilight Zone episode which involved a beautiful android who was in essence, the \\"daughter\\" of the scientist who created her, and who was (like Edna Farris in this episode) used and abused by him albeit in different ways.\r\n\r\n(One similarity between the \\"clothing incident\\" in this episode and the worst (for the android) scene in \\"Life blood\\" is that they were effectively \\"dehumanized\\" in both...during the moments the bad things were happening, neither said a word.)\r\n\r\nWe\\''re chivalrous here at cbsrmt.com...we HATE to see a lady in distress.<br><br>', '2013-03-15 17:59:01', 1, '55fa3d21193d48af71a3f0998aa70811', '112.200.39.181'),
(4246, '1076', 'episode', 'Ritz', '', 'I certainly like \\"Star Sapphire\\" as well. It\\''s interesting that, for all the negativity aimed at Elspeth Eric on this board (some, but not all, deserved), her scripts often seem to evoke very strong emotional reactions. I once pitched her episode \\"The Train Stops.\\" Same with \\"Star Sapphire.\\" Personally I would nominate the scene in which the father gets the adopted daughter to disrobe as possibly the single most disturbing scene in the entire run of RMT (at least based on my listening to several hundred episodes).\r\n\r\nAs for Marshall\\''s outro, a couple of comments:\r\n\r\n1) I suspect that the reason the outro focused on the nature of hypnosis instead of the \\"power\\" theme is because that had already been thoroughly covered in his earlier comments...Something on the nature and limitations of hypnosis was therefore appropriate. After all, the whole story hinged on it.\r\n\r\n2) I think I posted this sometime before, but Marshall\\''s comments for all episodes were definitely scripted. They appear in the original RMT scripts right along with the dialogue and sound effects. Personally I doubt Marshall or Grimes ever actually read or heard most of the shows. Marshall is known to have recorded his commentaries separate from the rest of the cast (this is revealed in the Payton/Grams RMT book); most likely he did them in bunches, when he had the time, perhaps at the CBS studios in Hollywood.\r\n\r\nAnyway, \\"Star Sapphire\\" is certainly one of the darkest and most disturbing of all RMTS. Great choice.<br><br>', '2013-03-14 23:12:37', 1, '3e9a5852f2e517b5a367c53eeae1a8fa', '112.200.39.181'),
(4247, '1076', 'episode', 'Caren', '', 'man, i haven''t read this much since Kindergarten!\r\n\r\nseriously!\r\n\r\nexcellent thoughts by all! thanks for such thoughtful and well-formed responses everyone! it makes my heart pump to read this kind of shizzle!\r\n\r\nagain, seriously!', '2013-02-27 18:33:59', 1, '0e990906d0cda327364635930790e5e0', '112.200.39.181'),
(4248, '1076', 'episode', 'Mr. Lachberry', '', 'This is the first CBSRMT episode that I''d heard since I was a kid, in the 70''s. Last night, for some reason, after not thinking about the show for 25 years, I had this odd desire to see if any broadcasts were available. I listened to this episode today, between patients.\r\n\r\nWow - I can''t believe that the disrobing thing made it on the airwaves in the 70''s. The whole episode is much darker, and creepier than my memories of CBSRMT.\r\n\r\nI''m looking forward to hearing more episodes, and comparing my childhood impressions with my adult impressions.', '2013-02-27 18:34:00', 1, '7066beb11cf89406297d2297924f77b1', '112.200.39.181'),
(4249, '1076', 'episode', 'K. Bagalacsa', '', 'I found this episode to be unique among RMT shows. The whole disrobing thing was pretty creepy, but I think that it was added as a diversion to the real motive that the father had in mind. I mean, once you realized that he really had the power to hypnotize the girl, then you''re thinking, " alright, what''s his agenda?" When the whole disrobe scene takes place, your thinking..."oh, that''s what he''s doing!" So when you get to the end of the show, his real agenda comes at you all of the sudden. I think that scene was nessecary to divert attention away from the obvious.', '2013-02-27 18:34:01', 1, '48d3b2c20bc4456a687eb81f64eb0f3d', '112.200.39.181'),
(4250, '1076', 'episode', 'Alvin B.', '', 'Indeed, I thought the same thing.\r\n\r\nAnd such is testament to the "creepiness" and power of the show and the talent of Elspeth Eric that we''re almost hoping that the only way he abused her is by training her to kill his wife. (Which brings us to...what would have happened afterward had he been successful?)', '2013-02-27 18:34:02', 1, '3bb3b6e1d79e08198617681c24bddb65', '112.200.39.181'),
(4251, '1076', 'episode', 'J. Blackaby', '', 'Well after all that has been posted already there isn''t much left to say. I very much enjoyed the show. It surprised me a little as my memory of mystery theater had no recollection of anything in the light of the undressing scene. Kudos to Fred Gwynne as usual. He is one of my favorite actors from the show.', '2013-02-27 18:34:02', 1, '3d8e5d64b09fc1f71ef26e12b7612dcc', '112.200.39.181'),
(4252, '1076', 'episode', 'Matt', '', 'I finally got to listen to this episode and I thought it really was one of the best. First off, Fred Gwynne turns in one of his usual great performances. He just had a voice for radio. He brings passion to this role and alot of others along the way.\r\nI thought the undressing scene was pretty powerful for radio for 25 years ago. I was shocked at how far it went. There are some episodes that stick out in my mind ....and this is one of them.\r\nI loved towards the end that the story started to come from the perspective of the couple that was looking on. Excellent episode.', '2013-02-27 18:34:03', 1, 'e4d9192f889f09ef810428a065d44acd', '112.200.39.181'),
(4253, '1076', 'episode', 'Gregory Hupp', '', 'A weird, weird show. Not sure I can really remember it though. Can anyone explain to me why, when the show was over, I found myself sitting naked with a 22 rifle in my lap? I hate it when that happens.', '2013-02-27 18:34:04', 1, 'd1d0daa81549c9648bf3075694866fc0', '112.200.39.181'),
(4254, '1076', 'episode', 'D. Lisbon', '', 'I''m going to start wearing a ring around the house.....maybe I can get my wife to do some cleaning around the house!!!', '2013-02-27 18:34:05', 1, 'bf4df89e27e7e0dfdfb6a1871a2d5cac', '112.200.39.181'),
(4255, '1142', 'episode', 'Jack Cassidy', '', 'Yeah, I recorded Sins of the Fathers off the original air-date. Been a less-listened to one of mine throughout the years, but it always struck a chord with me since I am adopted.', '2013-02-27 18:34:05', 1, '98536e1bb5a5d5babb694d9d68f3b458', '112.200.39.181'),
(4256, '1142', 'episode', 'Jeff Lindsey Oliver', '', 'Well, this Father''s Day double feature was certainly a cute idea. I just wish the episodes had been better!\r\n\r\n"Daddy''s Girls" is a totally run-of-the-mill Sam Dann murder story. He wrote dozens just like it for the series, and none of them stay in my memory for more than a few minutes after hearing them. Still, it''s a listenable story, as most of his were--just good enough for me not to reach for the "STOP" button well before the end (as I do for a certain percentage of RMTs--sometimes I know we''re in trouble within the first few minutes!).\r\n\r\n"Sins of the Fathers," meanwhile, is an interesting one, though pretty inert dramatically. It all boils down to a woman finding her father and discovering he doesn''t care about her existence. No surprise there, and that story could have been told in 10 or 15 minutes. Still, like Ross, the story struck some kind of chord in me (though I''m not adopted), probably because the emotional experience of the character is so common. Focusing an episode around an emotional experience rather than a mystery plot makes it unusual and, in its slight way, more compelling than the likes of "Daddy''s Girls." For me, at least.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the poll this week is a nice one. I suggest everybody take a look at it and vote.', '2013-02-27 18:34:06', 1, '558e82a63c9b59137013ef82a5bd8c36', '112.200.39.181'),
(4257, '0103', 'episode', 'Rodney J.', '', 'I have been listening at work and this episode stood out. Great voice acting in this one....and with a driving force of love to move this episode along. With every trade the tension builds.....how much would you trade to gain the love of someone you love?', '2013-02-27 18:34:07', 1, '57ef5f7b3dd03b5b43ba7343f3c39844', '112.200.39.181'),
(4258, '0103', 'episode', 'Stefano Baklers', '', 'It''s a favorite of mine, and I welcomed the chance to listen to it again.\r\n\r\nAs many people here already know, the original Henry Slesar short story (published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961) is best-known in its TWILIGHT ZONE incarnation, titled "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross." No one loves TWILIGHT ZONE more than myself, but "Salvadore Ross" is a lesser episode, and the RMT version is a marked improvement on it; the 3-act, 45-minute structure allows the story more room for development and for clearer establishment of motivations. (Ironically, the longer running time was generally a detriment to the program--anybody who has heard many episodes knows that RMT had a terrible tendency to pad for length. Here, though, it works just right.)\r\n\r\nThe only real problem with this otherwise wonderful show comes at the end--and its the same problem the original story and the TWILIGHT ZONE version had, too. We learn that the lady''s father is Mr. Compassionate, and yet he knowingly takes advantage of Salvadore Ross, accepting a large amount of money from a young man he believes to be insane. Look at it this way: If someone you believed to be mentally ill offered you a huge amount of cash in exchange for your compassion, and you accepted the deal, wouldn''t that pretty well prove that you lacked all compassion in the first place?\r\n\r\nSo, the ending is a bit forced. And yet this story is, for the most part, a great RMT.', '2013-02-27 18:34:08', 1, '0dacac574c7a0f44e93d6449d715df73', '112.200.39.181'),
(4259, '0103', 'episode', 'Mervin', '', 'good point on "Mr. Compassionate".\r\n\r\nIn fact, the way Mandel Kramer (always one of the RMT''s finest actors) played him, I never thought he sounded sensitive and/or compassionate, only disdainful.\r\n\r\nKramer as the "bum", however, made for some fun interplay:\r\n\r\nQuote:\r\nTONY ROBERTS/SALVATORE ROSS: "Hey, that''s a nice head of hair you got there, Pop."\r\n\r\nMANDEL KRAMER/THE BUM: "What are you, some kind of pansy or somethin''?"\r\nGRRRRRREAT SELECTION', '2013-02-27 18:34:09', 1, 'e7d5c2e805862e40df919c56d58d29b5', '112.200.39.181'),
(4260, '0103', 'episode', 'Harold', '', 'i agree fully. this was a sheer joy to hear again and glad it was tossed out there for us!\r\n\r\nperhaps i''m being too persnickety about it, but the one thing that intrigued me was that our "hero" was smart enough to figure out how to trade off the one-year-for-a-thousand-bucks. he didn''t strike me as a very advanced thinker and it''s easy enough to suspend disbelief and suppose he either had some amazing brainstorm or perhaps assistance from someone to come up with the idea, but in my opinion, Salvatore just wasn''t smart enough to come up with that schtick all on his own.\r\n\r\nThat was a great line and i''m glad you posted it. as soon as it was said, i cracked a smile. funny stuff!', '2013-02-27 18:34:10', 1, 'e35dd55d10e02193b94b012a73c9b04d', '112.200.39.181'),
(4261, '0103', 'episode', 'Neil Tull', '', 'The reason why I like this episode so much is because it does remind me of The Twilight Zone. Even the music at the end with E.G''s closing was very good stuff. "You have just heard the incredible rise and fall of Salvadore Ross,....it isn''t easy to make the right bargins in life.....sometimes we create our own devils the way Sal Ross did". Really good stuff.', '2013-02-27 18:34:10', 1, 'a1be6e6783d570cfadc4f6b30bbdc148', '112.200.39.181'),
(4262, '0597', 'episode', 'Glenn F.', '', 'All ways nice to play around with conspiracies. Fun for fiction; sad that so many folks are deluded in real life by similar obsessions. The proof that the conspiracy is real . . . is that they\\''ve covered up all the proof; that\\''s how good they are!! Always had a soft spot for tautalogies.\r\n\r\nKinda neat in that a strange paranormal force seems to reinforce the conspiracy. Strange coin, strange coffee stain, strange gray hair, etc.\r\n\r\nAnd we have a return to a knife murder, so must be happy again.\r\n\r\nI really hate to say this 3 out of 4 weeks, but I didn\\''t care too much for the show. So a guy in his thirties has to find another occupation; been that, done there. I managed it without turning lunatic along the way and butchering the neighbors.\r\n\r\nIn my younger days I was a devote\\'' of several screwball notions, most of them involved conspiracies of varying magnitude. You grow up . . . or you should anyway. Life is good and bad; big money probably does alot of things out of the public view that would disgust the average citizen; enjoy the wonder that the real factual universe can provide for you. This concludes Philosophy 101 for this afternoon; there will be a quiz when we next meet for class.<br>', '2013-03-06 21:33:17', 1, '3e21b8c4c9bc1d9fd8395d78b27e6a59', '112.200.39.181'),
(4263, '0597', 'episode', 'Redentor', '', 'Interesting story Idea. The ending seemed obvious. Overall it was okay.', '2013-02-23 18:43:12', 1, '01384a91027c0fa51617c15a6e32435c', '112.200.39.181');
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(4264, '0597', 'episode', 'Jercs Soltes', '', 'as with many of the psychological dramas, Sam Dann has chosen to present the listeners with an average guy who is being pushed to extreme comprehension of his world around him. simple, normal things like a quarter become larger than life. a subtle stain on a suit becomes a dweller iron that weighs his mind down like an anchor.\r\n\r\nand all the while, i kept wondering how i might react to these kinds of situations. once, a friend received a spoof newspaper that was dated 10 years in the future and had all sorts of ridiculous stories in it. but the odd thing about it was, that even though we knew it was a spoof paper, we both agreed that it would be kind of strange if any of the events came true.\r\n\r\nand while i agree that this was not the most inentive or freshly conceptual program we''ve had, i do stand by it as far as its attempt at provoking the listener to stay and learn. i listened to another show following this one and ended up turning it off because i found it too slow. but this one kept me interested.\r\n\r\nthe ending was indeed a little flat ended, but i was not disappointed by any means. i''d give this one a warm 3.8 out of 5 rating. always enjoyable!', '2013-02-27 18:34:12', 1, '9c574845f85d99fd3ede86349c4a65f0', '112.200.39.181'),
(4265, '0597', 'episode', 'L. Manzano', '', '" . . . a subtle stain on a suit becomes a dweller iron . . ."\r\n\r\nI don''t know what this means; enlighten me?', '2013-02-14 05:45:11', 1, '26e50bee0a7d6969622ddf5e5e841807', '112.200.39.181'),
(4266, '0597', 'episode', 'Jercs Soltes', '', 'simply that the lead character dwells on the stain and its origin so much that it''s heavy, like an iron or an anchor, that he nearly puts the beat-down on the tailor.\r\n\r\nsorry if my wording was fumbly!', '2013-02-14 05:45:13', 1, 'fc7b15a9114bc5f8852899cf8d465c32', '112.200.39.181'),
(4267, '0597', 'episode', 'Joanne N.', '', 'Well, all I have to say is, poor old Larry H. Does he ever get to play a sane man? I would have said this to any actress cast at the time, "If you are cast with Larry, you will die, and he''ll go nuts somewhere along the line.'' All in all, not my favorite Dann story but I still wanted to sit unitil the end. Thanks for the post.', '2013-02-14 05:46:06', 1, 'c72956d961555294478a0c69cec8a358', '112.200.39.181'),
(4268, '0597', 'episode', 'Cedrics', '', 'It does seem like Mr. Haines is either the poor, put upon husband (i.e. this episode or another fun one "Little Lucy''s Lethal Libation") or even when he''s seemingly more under control he''s still playing a criminal of some sort ("The solitary", "Dairy of a madman").\r\n\r\nIf you want a nice little show where Mr. Haines'' nervous mannerisms are on display yet lead to a happy ending, try his appearance as a plumber (I don''t think his character was named "Mario") on the RMT episode called "Golden Time".\r\n\r\nPredictable (to use the term above) but cute.\r\n\r\nWait a minute...what''s this coin on my desk? The date says "2008"? What the...?', '2013-02-14 05:45:20', 1, 'cdf398430963b7c1b9c7c1e9900514e3', '112.200.39.181'),
(4269, '0986', 'episode', 'J. Raynor', '', 'Strictly opinion here, of course, but I thought "The Pardon" to be extremely weak on all levels. In classic RMT-at-less-than-its-best style, the episode is impossibly padded; Act 1 could easily be completely dropped--the story should really start with the wife''s fear of her husband returning home, with a quick flashback explaining why he was in prison in the first place. As for her fear, it''s never sufficiently motivated; the fact that he popped off in anger at the trial just isn''t enough to carry the story for two more acts. The writer, Gerald Keane, seems to realize this, and so we get what at first appears to be the best scene in the play--the husband''s apparent frightening return, his obviously homicidal behavior--only to find that it''s all just a dream (possibly the hoariest bad-writing cliche of them all). Moreover, Act 3 includes as time filler a pointless diversion in which the characters at first believe the husband has been released, only to find out it was someone else.\r\n\r\nI never believed for a second that Larry Haines''s voice was that of a seriously injured coal miner, and no one else was very convincing, either. So, big trouble here on all fronts!\r\n\r\nI think Mr. Keane never really figured out what he wanted to do with this story. It''s one of those RMTs that has the inescapable feeling of a writer determinedly filling pages any way he can until he reaches the magic 45-minute mark--then handing it off to Himan Brown with nary a second glance.\r\n\r\nAt least it was nice to hear Mr. Brown''s voice as the bus station clerk. Other than that, I can''t think of anything to recommend "The Pardon."', '2013-02-14 05:45:24', 1, '4bef2537b7a10e6c0ed7adc042c79940', '112.200.39.181'),
(4271, '0986', 'episode', 'Keith Ryan', '', 'A simple story in which, if you have a mother in law that you don''t care for, you might have some fun with.\r\n\r\nLarry Haines does a good job playing characters that slowly go nuts. He''s pretty good in this one too. Carol is an okay actress and the guy playing the father is pretty lame really.\r\n\r\nIn Act 2 when it jumps forward in time quite a few years it kind of changes direction. Carol''s character gets kind of cliched. And the ending is almost like an ending to another story.\r\n\r\nNot one of the worst I''ve heard from CBSRMT but not one of the best either.', '2013-02-14 05:45:32', 1, 'f178ec941da6832f99b7ae7135d9abef', '112.200.39.181'),
(4272, '0986', 'episode', 'Lorry Jane A.', '', 'This show reminds me of that old joke of 2 cannibals sitting around the fire, one of them says, \\"I hate my mother-in law.\\" The other one says, \\"Then here, try the potatoes.\\"\r\nI\\''m sorry that was a bad joke, by mother-in law loved it though.', '2013-02-14 05:45:39', 1, 'a07088bfc89d0ef3b67ed71cc8fa04bb', '112.200.39.181'),
(4273, '0986', 'episode', 'Alex', '', 'To VWATSON . . . Thank You for the link to the show!!!!\r\n\r\nThis is kinda strange. I agree with all the earlier comments to a large degree. But I ended up liking the show, even if it was a bit padded, etc. And I\\''m a bachelor with no M.I.L. to identify with.\r\n\r\nBut the show held me, even if the ending seemed a little lackluster. I kept waiting for the missing \\"treasure\\" to show up . . . but I guess it never existed. The strange dream episode, the mistaken announcement of Jack\\''s death, the unaccounted guilt of the wife . . . well, it was effortless for me to stay with the story; not always the case with RMT.\r\n\r\nNot a favorite? Okay I agree, not a favorite. Not enough exotica to make it a truely memorable tale. Feel a bit sorry for Jack. Bad accident, wrongful conviction, deceased wife . . . I hate it when that stuff happens.<br>', '2013-03-06 21:32:53', 1, '40243e9e4edf303d0a1466e7f75b08a6', '112.200.39.181'),
(4274, '1027', 'episode', 'Dylan B.', '', 'This isn\\''t the RMT\\''s finest episode by any means. It\\''s not THAT scary, though unnerving enough. It is also somewhat formulaic.\r\n\r\nBut, IMO, it shows how prescient the RMT writers were.\r\n\r\nThis program apparently aired on November 5, 1979, the day after militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held hostages for about a year, right before Ronald Reagan was inaugurated president.\r\n\r\nIf this was indeed the first air date of the program, the RMT writers either put together this episode in a hurry or were spot on in their timing.\r\n\r\nOn an episode of \\"Nashville Star\\" a few weeks back the contestants performed original songs. In interviews with a songwriting duo, the professional songwriters said most successful people in their trade were married, had kids, and had experienced what life is all about. I think that, too, is what made so many of the RMT plays so successful, even if the subject matter was often ghosts, aliens from space, science fiction and ficticious crimes.\r\n\r\nThe writers had lived through world events. Prolific playwright Sam Dann had been in the 42nd Infantry Rainbow Division in WWII and had seen history, I don\\''t know what history Ian Martin had seen, but he wrote some of my favorite RMT plays (including the tremendous adaptation of Guy de Maupassant\\''s \\"The hand\\") and himself seemed to have a firm grip on reality.\r\n\r\nI try not to let myself voice my views that much, but in reality I\\''m politically and spiritually aligned pretty much with Drs. Jerry Falwell and James Dobson. I\\''d rather leave most discussions to other bulletin boards and just focus on good ole RMT shows here...but I\\''ve said before how much I appreciate the elements of Christianity woven into so many RMT plays (which would never even be considered in most CBS shows today, I\\''m guessing). These playwrights, for the most part, knew right from wrong.\r\n\r\nAnyhow, I\\''ve written way too long, so I\\''ll end with the ending words of Ian Martin\\''s \\"Saladin\\" character, followed by E.G.\\''s first act outro immediately thereafter (the latter\\''s third act outro and final outro were quite biting as well)*:\r\n\r\nQuote:\r\n\\"We will go visit the lady whom Allah has provided to give me sanctuary.\\"\r\n\r\n- \\"Saladin the butcher\\", after explaining to his brother how he\\''ll go and take a wealthy American woman and her niece hostage, take their money, commandeer their home and hold them until they\\''re no longer useful.\r\n\r\n\\"An intruder, his authority not only the gun but lack of any morals...a man who once when he was through with us and our usefulness was done would not hesitate to dispose of us as casually as a burnt out cigarette.\\"\r\n\r\nE. G. Marshall, at the end of the first segment.\r\n*BTW, I have a problem with Islam but not with many practitioners of it, some of whom are people I\\''d give my life for. I just have a problem, as did the writers of the show, with Islamic terrorists.<br>', '2013-03-03 21:43:20', 1, 'e95813576e4b357a3987f5074726e080', '112.200.39.181'),
(4275, '1027', 'episode', 'Jerby', '', 'As pointed out above, something of a formula plot and somewhat predictable.\r\n\r\nThe Islam connection is probably derived in general from the 1972 Olympics and the bombing that took place there . . . at least prior to the Embassy takeover in the late seventies, the Olympics was the episode most fresh in Western minds . . . aside from airliner hijackings, which seemed to be popular with non-Islamic folks as much as with Islamic ones.\r\n\r\nPerhaps a third (??) of RMT episodes deal with murderers or want-to-be-murderers and their victims. Since we''re talking about 1399 episodes I don''t think RMT was picking on any one group or one religion. A killer is a killer, when all is said and done. Oklahoma City should remain as a vivid reminder that terrorists come in many different colors and flavors.\r\n\r\nNow I''m depressed. Thanks for bumming me out with this downer of a show. My life is ruined.\r\n\r\nBut really, thanks again for the show. A good encode and good food-for-thought.', '2013-02-14 05:45:53', 1, '1617b4d631d09de2af62b8fedc97efc6', '112.200.39.181'),
(4276, '1027', 'episode', 'Joey Dona', '', 'An enjoyable but fairly routine woman-in-peril episode, I thought. How nice of the man to come to the rescue--and then marry her, as any decent hero must!\r\n\r\nFor me the terrorist connection, though certainly interesting when heard today, is really just window dressing. This story is standard 1950s-style fare--the evil invaders who take over a household was done again and again in that fearful era, from the movies SUDDENLY and THE DESPERATE HOURS to many, many TV dramas including ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS. Ian Martin simply updated it, as Morton Miller indicates, to include more contemporary villains.\r\n\r\nNot a bad episode at all, and an interesting historical curiosity.', '2013-02-14 05:45:56', 1, 'a4ff57c48b6b3d162d96ea8aa1202910', '112.200.39.181'),
(4277, '1027', 'episode', 'Matt', '', 'Thanks, guys...the story itself was standard fare but...I''m looking again at E.G.''s comments.\r\n\r\nI honestly can''t remember any show tackling terrorism, even with terrorists used as a mere plot device, like this in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. There HAD to be some, but I watched a lot of TV during that time and can''t remember any such program. (I think I remember some shows with Patty Hearst/Symbionese Liberation Army style villains, so that''s pretty close.)\r\n\r\nAnd I darn sure can''t remember any program up to today (especially up to today) that has passed judgment on terrorists like this one through Mr. Marshall''s multiple outro comments.', '2013-02-14 05:46:02', 1, '9f63201a7ae6c6e57379f41f5aeacfdd', '112.200.39.181'),
(4280, '0598', 'episode', 'Hayley', 'hayleycarlton@aol.com', '@ Alyssa you know what they say about the woman behind the man. Entertaining episode. Crime mystery, no supernatural elements.', '2013-02-14 16:40:25', 1, 'dcfe9483ce4086a2f56b8decd07bbf1d', '216.180.167.121'),
(4279, '0034', 'episode', 'Thomas', 'thomas9@dslextreme.com', 'That he took the young man home makes me wonder if the man confessing WAS the man in the cave? A split personality due to the guilt of partially eating his wife??<br>', '2013-02-23 18:43:25', 1, 'a5fb464ea805705843418bdf264ede27', '71.165.54.112'),
(4281, '0009', 'actor', 'Susan Jacobson', 'hest-lover@hotmail.com', 'I love Mystery Theater and I love Larry Haines\\'' voice. I\\''ve always loved his voice and tried to find out his name when I came across this website. He was an excellent actor and his voice could really express vulnerability which made him very likeable.', '2013-02-14 20:02:01', 1, 'bebd73e033b98680360a14de0330167f', '50.54.128.7'),
(4282, '1310', 'episode', 'Kim', '', 'CBS RMT is like visiting an old friend from childhood that you haven''t seen in yrs. They invite you into their home on a cold and snowy afternoon, and from the moment you step into the door, you are impressed with the homey atmosphere of the place. There is a nice fire going in the fireplace, and good smells are coming out of the kitchen. Your friend invites you to take off your shoes, and put on some slippers so you can be comfortable. At dinnertime, you notice that your friend remembered your favorite dishes and encourages you to not be shy and eat as much as you want. Over dinner you reminisce over the good old days. After dinner, your friend brings out scrap books, yearbooks, and other momentos. You are invited to sit in one of the big comfortable recliners in front of the fireplace while your friend brings in a big full pot of piping hot choclate on a tray with two coffee cups and saucers. Instead of reclining in your chairs, you and your friend thumb through photos, letters, comic books, magazines, scrapbooks, yearbooks, and other momentos that have all been placed on a small but roomy oak table that is situated between the recliners. You spend hrs. Laughing and trying to wipe away a few tears as well while recalling your childhood and how so much time has gone by. When it comes time to leave, you really don''t want to because seeing your friend took you back to your days in elementary through high school. You and your friend not only talked about friends, family and neighbors during your visit, but you even talked about the music during your childhood that was popular, the singers that performed them, and where were they now. You also talked about tv, tv shows, and fashion trends back in the seventies. You even laughed and helped each other remember the lyrics to hit songs and commercial jingles from the seventies. You even recalled some of the top newsmakers during the era such as the Watergate break in, and the Patty Hearst kidnapping. Upon leaving, ypur friend gives you several momentos to keep. You trade in your comfortable slippers for your regular shoes, and you put on your winter coat, gloves, and scarf to venture back out into freezing temperatures to face the real world, but before you go, your friend tells you that they thoroughly enjoyed your visit and they don''t hesitate to invite you back. Please don''t become a stranger, you''re always welcome to come back. You know that your friend means it when they invite you back, and you know that you will come back because your friend has always been more like family, and seeing them again took you back in time to some of the best days of your life.', '2013-02-16 04:10:54', 1, 'e291dfe98dda1e2af48dd5be1d954f24', '64.136.212.123'),
(4283, '0290', 'episode', 'Hayley', 'hayleycarlton@aol.com', 'Story about a greedy son and his kind father.  My late boyfriend''s son is like this son, so I can relate.  Drama, no supernatural elements.', '2013-02-16 03:10:39', 1, 'c992c97d1c8e7aff4b20ac3e6718421b', '216.180.167.121'),
(4284, '1283', 'episode', 'Russ', '', 'Nice little historical mystery story.  Earl Hammond''s voice was tremendous as Inspector Field and Paul Hecht did a nice job as Charles Dickens. It''s just that I wished it was a better mystery story like CBSRMT''s adaptations to the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''s Sherlock Holmes stories. But still, you should check this episode since it was E.G. Marshall''s final episode.', '2013-02-16 23:02:10', 1, 'e81984507d3f96edeca4157fd16ead1c', '64.136.212.123'),
(4285, '0001', 'episode', 'Jacob', '', 'Love Agnes Moorehead. I actually was watching her and Vincent Price in The Bat this morning.', '2013-02-16 23:07:01', 1, '828cee73381168636a7d6753787fe30e', '64.136.212.123'),
(4286, '0037', 'episode', 'Thomas', 'thomas9@dslextreme.com', 'The notion of an old skeleton with intact hands was potentially unnerving. It had the potential for X-Files type creeps. But every character was a cartoon caricature, which diluted the creepiness with silliness. ', '2013-02-17 15:39:36', 1, 'bf6ea2dfae32ee15abb656210874a5ff', '71.165.54.99'),
(4287, '0001', 'episode', 'Chris', '', 'Stuart sounded like the father from the Patty Duke show. (William Schallert) There were a few actors that had his sound. I do remember the excessive coughing too.. I really enjoyed it though.', '2013-02-17 16:14:52', 1, '55d5f8295e60b09ac8c6240b8e0889cf', '64.136.212.123'),
(4288, '0154', 'episode', 'Iago', '', 'This episode really creeped me out when I was 12!', '2013-02-18 23:18:48', 1, 'bc438b9b50457fb1f97e93804f2ba7af', '64.136.212.123'),
(4289, '0030', 'actor', 'Bill Rexford', 'rexfordfiles3@email.com', 'Do you like torture? Listen then to the painful overacting of the whining and weepy Joan Lorring as she barrels toward her trademark nervous breakdown. The Lorring OTR canon is just too much to bear -- endless volleys of hysterical histrionics a la  Moorehead''s  "Sorry, Wrong Number." Lorring''s crackly voice, ever poised for a good cry, seems stuck in that groove. Sorry, but I find Joan Lorring''s voice and style akin to a lifetime of fingernails screeching across a slate blackboard.  \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '2013-02-18 23:18:25', 1, 'f428b5ffe0b95396004775bc3f28f62b', '64.199.130.122'),
(4290, '0016', 'actor', 'Shawn', 'shawnishimoto@gmail.com', 'I have loved this show for so many years, and Robert\\''s voice definitely was a huge part of that.. A great ability to taylor his voice to whatever part it was he was playing.. And for a blind fan, as I am, this is quite awesome.', '2013-02-19 00:57:16', 1, '541943037831e4aef97bc71fa5aeca7a', '142.129.73.135'),
(4291, '0139', 'writer', 'Radio mike fan', 'Mkelly1us@yahoo.com', 'Wonderful writer for CBSRMT for both original and adapted material.   One of my favorites!', '2013-02-19 03:18:05', 1, '885466fffc201d16a974d8c31b62124b', '209.6.128.81'),
(4292, '0041', 'episode', 'Kimberly', '', 'This is the episode where a couple stumble onto an abandoned cabin and find blood all over the kitchen ... and an axe. CREEPY!\r\n\r\nAnother episode, "Return to Shadow Lake", where a couple get caught in a snowstorm driving out to their summer cabin is scary too. They make it to the cabin but scary stuff starts happening once they get there.', '2013-02-21 18:49:53', 1, 'd026ec5eea0c0878174c9c018de176d8', '64.136.212.123'),
(4293, '0660', 'episode', 'Eric', 'Ericf17980@aol.com', 'We done with an interesting twist at the end.', '2013-02-21 22:44:15', 1, '62f981f7d5203e3641b88b8d1dcf372d', '68.33.184.97'),
(4294, '0048', 'episode', 'Thomas', 'thomas9@dslextreme.com', 'Fun story, but yes, awfully illogical science. \r\n\r\nTo WHERE are the three astronauts hoping to escape? If they are on an alien planet, it''s likely that outside their prison, the atmosphere (and perhaps even gravity) are nothing like on earth. They''d most likely die if they did escape.\r\n\r\nEven if they survived, HOW did they plan to return to earth?\r\n\r\nAnd WHAT did the aliens expect to learn from observing the captured astronauts that they couldn''t learn simply by observing billions of Earthlings back on Earth?', '2013-02-22 16:09:34', 1, 'acb62640b0af9650cc97356f9de2e9ad', '71.165.54.107'),
(4295, '0437', 'episode', 'denise', 'ravengal44646@gmail.com', 'I have a love/hate relationship with Mercedes McCambridge as an actress, but she never fails to keep me riveted to my seat.  Good episode.', '2013-02-22 16:54:33', 1, 'bf380cb82b06a02a886493ec5258068a', '155.188.247.16'),
(4296, '1284', 'episode', 'Russ', '', '. Basically, this WW-I freedom fighter had military strategies prevented, got apprehended, and then hanged. Earl Hammond did a terrific job for playing the role with an Irish accent. However, this episode didn''t have much Mystery to it. But that''s just my opinion. Check this episode out since it''s Tammy Grimes'' 1st episode of hosting it', '2013-02-22 19:42:13', 1, 'e261d2437e42ca0c913e5182609e6bc5', '64.136.212.123'),
(4297, '0001', 'episode', 'Chris', '', 'One of my Favs! I suppose it is to some degree because it was number 1. Can you imagine hearing this the first time it aired? I would have been hooked right then! :) I rate this episode 4 out of 5 Birds! Thanks for choosing this one and everyone should listen!', '2013-02-27 18:34:13', 1, '54a5b1a60cf2213c6af420f56686b35b', '64.136.212.123'),
(4298, '0176', 'episode', 'Bruce', '', 'A carny plot against one of the worst fathers in the world.', '2013-02-23 18:41:02', 1, 'b11c5f354132f217fadfa7ee1ef8989e', '64.136.212.123'),
(4304, '0627', 'episode', 'John Mina', '', 'My first thought on hearing the show the first time was: "In reality, that bookie might not last too long in his business." But I look forward to hearing this one again... ', '2013-02-27 15:06:49', 1, '8bea1f100d5cbcf2e2de31eda8852fb1', '112.200.20.61'),
(4305, '0627', 'episode', 'Alfred', '', 'Thanks, good show.\r\n\r\nBeing a former addict, the excuses are all too familiar. ', '2013-02-27 18:34:14', 1, '73744372ddaa18b2052f08246b544c16', '112.200.20.61'),
(4306, '0627', 'episode', 'Trish', '', 'You just can''t win in this place, which just goes to show . . .\r\n\r\nIf you follow my word choice there.\r\n\r\nKind of a fun show. A real and believeable description of what personal addictions are like and how they can destroy lives. Of course we have a happy ending here as our main character decides to swear off of gambling. But . . . he also did that earlier in the tale, didn''t he?\r\n\r\nI''ve read that it is possible to make a living betting conservatively and consistantly at the races; a system similar to what our hero tries out. But I also read that it takes about 60-80 hours per week and doesn''t pay much better than minimum wage would pay for that much effort. Whatever . . .\r\n\r\nThat being said . . . quadruplets anyone?', '2013-02-27 18:34:14', 1, 'b0d4275f8a29ff57727a0c790f67e6ef', '112.200.20.61'),
(4307, '0461', 'episode', 'M.B.', '', 'Nice show and one I hadn''t heard before. And I like the twist at the end with the perp. coming forward. It''s real in the sense that . . . fact is stranger than fiction, and the improbable, considered a no-no in most drama . . . is in fact the sort of thing that does happen in real life.\r\n\r\nOne sorta logical oversight: why not show the ear-witness the play script of the show our heroine is rehearsing, and ask her if those are the words she heard? Of course they are the words, and that would be good courtroom stuff indeed. Of course it would sort of wreck the flow of our story.\r\n\r\nAs you may know, I work in theatre. And the events of this story are commonplace. We regularly kill each other off as the whim strikes us. Fresh blood we call it. It''s a dog eat dog world out there.', '2013-02-27 18:34:15', 1, '59c3d4377f6b0be7c688860b47e14652', '112.200.20.61'),
(4308, '0461', 'episode', 'Jason', '', 'I liked this show up until the end. I\\''m not going to spoil the ending but I find it hard to believe. The title is a good one ....talking about vanity. The acting was top notch....vanity takes over and this episode ends justifying its title. ', '2013-02-27 18:34:16', 1, 'c8d929aa590884567c7d404acdfca0aa', '112.200.20.61'),
(4309, '0461', 'episode', 'Joven', '', 'I also was quite engrossed right up to the end. Other than the end I''d give it a 10 out of 10. I loved it. The end was very abrubt and I thought highly unrealistic. Overall though I''d say a very enjoyable listen for sure. ', '2013-02-27 18:34:17', 1, 'eeae9ca9b1ad656033f1d3f72f705a05', '112.200.20.61'),
(4310, '0094', 'episode', 'Jamie B.', '', 'What an excellent selection! It is too often overlooked when there is a discussion of the all time great episodes.\r\n\r\nCeleste Holm was a veteran of Broadway and delivers a fine performance. Here we get Robert Dryden''s straight voice and he delivers one of his finest performances.\r\n\r\nListen to this one folks. You will not be disappointed. ', '2013-02-27 18:34:18', 1, 'a9be75df3dd29e217eba1380efab81e8', '112.200.20.61'),
(4311, '0094', 'episode', 'Nick', '', 'I remember listening to this one in the \\"old days\\", so yes, I do have my own cassette copy of the show. This is a pretty good encode of the show . . . and it\\''s amazing/amusing how my (our?) original views of the shows stays with us and stays the same over the years.\r\n\r\nI like this episode, with the proviso that I have with almost all of the supernatural tales. One must have an inkling of a doubt that ghosts cannot not exist . . . or perhaps more clearly, you have to at some subconscious level accept at least the small possibility that ghosts might exist. You must ressurect the fears you felt as a four year old, the monster under the bed, and that usually entails dismissing some part of one\\''s critical faculties. It\\''s like a pebble in my shoe. Of course, that\\''s the fun part of these shows as well!\r\n\r\nThe tale is almost a straight rip off of \\"The Monkey\\''s Paw\\" . . . mother wishing dead child back to life . . . multiple wishes used the same way, and so on. Sucking, flowing, vanishing cement is certainly an unusual preternatural device! A weird choce.\r\n\r\nI think the actors really excell at laying before us the tragedy of losing a child. It\\''s been said that the greatest horror in this life is for a parent to lose a child and RMT shows us this very well in this story.\r\n\r\nThe whole mental asylum subplot seems almost gratuitious, but works to turn a two act radio drama into one three acts long.\r\n\r\nBut I don\\''t really mean to sound negative on this one. All around thumbs up for the episode.&nbsp;<br>', '2013-03-06 23:12:22', 1, '90e0f3141101cf327e4750fce3ad4a45', '112.200.20.61'),
(4312, '0094', 'episode', 'J. Kid', '', 'The previous post correctly points out that this episode is basically "The Monkeys Paw" redone; I love that story and enjoyed this episode a lot. I prefer the creepier RMT episodes, particularly those with a supernatural element.\r\n\r\nThe voice of the dead daughter was suitably spooky. I found the minister''s rejection of the idea of the existence of a devil interesting. It reminded me of the famous Time magazine cover that asked if God was dead. ', '2013-02-27 18:34:19', 1, '08200288c7da411d95609f085f22d50f', '112.200.20.61'),
(4313, '0094', 'episode', 'Angie Dona', '', 'As a newbie to this site, I haven\\''t listened to most of the CBSRMT episodes and the show of the day helps me to figure out which episodes I should listen to first.\r\n\r\n2 down and 1398 to go.<br>', '2013-02-27 18:35:11', 1, 'b3f741bff1133754cedaf0b740e420bb', '112.200.20.61'),
(5682, '0080', 'episode', 'Kurt', '', 'Fun little pre-show fact...this episode is based upon Guy de Maupessant''s short story, but writer Ian Martin apparently borrowed two key element', '2013-03-27 14:37:20', 1, '0327c2b853e2e1d7610219eb4f983453', '64.136.212.123'),
(4315, '0094', 'episode', 'Ms. Palafox', '', 'This episode really creeps me out! Between the girl''s crying and the parents practically on the breaking point and that weird little guy that shows up...this is one episode I would not listen to alone...in the dark. ', '2013-02-27 18:35:12', 1, 'a40e48c2d69378828f82bc8348dc2c7a', '112.200.20.61'),
(4316, '0062', 'episode', 'Aian V.', '', 'This is the episode that got me "hooked" on CBSRMT for the second time.\r\n\r\nThanks for sharing this episode with the group.\r\n\r\nThis, like all my favorite shows, relies on fantasic narration to paint a great picure in the mind. ', '2013-02-27 18:35:13', 1, 'bdabe76c97e829de8aabb8e02da3b38b', '112.200.20.61'),
(4317, '0062', 'episode', 'Malcolm G.', '', 'I liked the voice performances by the actors. Distinct, believable, dramatic. The one thing I might change would be the ending. Did anyone else find it a little abrupt and almost too easy of a way out to end the show?', '2013-02-27 18:35:14', 1, '4df49bd4d0ee89a3618b55a417f455aa', '112.200.20.61'),
(4318, '0062', 'episode', 'R. Parks', '', 'This is a memorable episode, one I can definitely remember hearing the first time around back in the 1970''s. I also remember hearing de Maupassant''s The Horla which is also a good listen.', '2013-02-27 18:35:15', 1, '2a30525e3560bfba235d1417ab1ff5b3', '112.200.20.61'),
(4319, '0062', 'episode', 'Jen', '', 'just listened to this one tonight. while it didn\\''t really \\"scare\\" me, it certainly was very freaky. just hearing it from the narrative point gave me slight chills!\r\n\r\nthis was a top-notch show and one i am so happy i got to hear (it turns out it wasn\\''t in my collection).<br>', '2013-03-25 21:44:43', 1, '023b0b1c59fd44cdb015d2b862802bb6', '112.200.20.61'),
(4320, '0062', 'episode', 'F. Poe', '', 'just curious, also, did anyone else''s copy have audio blurps and hiccups?\r\n\r\ni''m hoping it was the file and not my ipod. yikes!', '2013-02-27 18:35:16', 1, '4fcfdd3ca07905d976834cc3cd042974', '112.200.20.61'),
(4321, '0062', 'episode', 'J.M.', '', 'Sorry, but for whatever reason I can''t download this file . . . "unexpected error occurred" . . . any thoughts or solutions on this?', '2013-02-27 18:35:17', 1, '1e8c0432910458c171d130bdb872b435', '112.200.20.61'),
(4322, '0062', 'episode', 'Jasper', '', 'I\\''m starting to wonder about that! A nice creepy show all around.\r\n\r\nAnd just enough versimilitude to make it work. A judge who murders; we read about similar things in the real world. A hospital intern who murders, for example.\r\n\r\nI like the way the final \\"wrong man\\", to use a Hitchcock type description, turns the tables on our villian by baiting him and increasing the pressure until he cracks. Nicely written.\r\n\r\nThe copy I downloaded also had jumps and skips in the thrid act. But not a bad encode otherwise.\r\n\r\nThe judge\\''s spouse seemed oddly calm, even during her most stressful moments. Weird. But a fun show all the same!', '2013-02-27 18:35:18', 1, '34b138ff7a06056c8249ae5e14cd2c9b', '112.200.20.61'),
(4323, '0062', 'episode', 'George', '', 'My copy has about two spots where it skips in the third act also. It''s not that bad at all though.\r\nTowards the end you can hear it skipping alot.....I thought my first copy of this episodes had no skips....but I erased it. I''m going to try and locate it now.', '2013-02-27 18:35:19', 1, '0984b302ea1d2dd7aee71aa6d0871089', '112.200.20.61'),
(4324, '0380', 'episode', 'Elliot', '', 'I figured out where this one was going in the second act. However, I did not know how it would end.\r\n\r\nThe story was well paced, with no extraneous dialogue or lilted subplots. There was a minor subplot (his money troubles and his over-spending wife) that fed the main plot nicely.\r\n\r\nHoward DaSilva was one of the finest performers on the show. His departure left a real hole that they were never able to fill. He and Leon Janny had the two most distinctive voices on the show.', '2013-02-27 18:35:20', 1, '0f616bfb6a6a224c15f6351bc1da0e97', '112.200.20.61'),
(4325, '0380', 'episode', 'J. J. P.', '', 'Decent story overall. As pure entertainment, it flowed well and was easy to listen to, although it was rather predictable. However, I did have a hard time getting past one point. After committing so many murders, they were able to cleanse their consciences by committing yet another murder? Even if it was their employer, it seems it would take more than that to rid their souls of the guilt. If it''s even possible to do after such a career.', '2013-02-27 18:35:21', 1, 'b39195025b860a35ab049574241491c6', '112.200.20.61'),
(4326, '0380', 'episode', 'Alan', '', 'This show is a good example of why I''ve taken up teaching. My old line of work was getting too troublesome. I wasn''t sleeping well anymore. Hearing bells, chimes, cash registers and the like when all around me claimed to hear nothing. Of course I do miss the tax-free status of my old occupation. These days I just kill time.', '2013-02-27 18:35:21', 1, 'b2d7b56dbacf6877f10503b9a5fb0590', '112.200.20.61'),
(4327, '0380', 'episode', 'James Baird', '', 'As you can see I am running a bit behind. I''m going to blame work. I thought this episode was excellent, right up to the end where it crashed and burned bad. The idea of a man sacrificing his morals for the sake of money is realistic and done well in this case. It was his sudden turn around that made no sense at all. His hearing the voices and seeing the faces came on suddenly when he was assigned to kill his friend. The end of the "torment" was also terribly unrealisticly quick. I mean the second they shoot the honcho? A terrible ending. I would still say it was worth listening to though. I was compelled to see what was going to happen next. Rmt is always fun like that.', '2013-03-27 15:34:01', 1, 'f87786a7a535de9746b3ec41a1fd2c1d', '112.200.20.61'),
(4328, '0326', 'episode', 'Steve', '', 'I am offering my reply and opinion on this show gratis, free of charge. Many people pay me for my&nbsp;valuable&nbsp;thoughts, sometimes as much as 80,000 bucks, but for the good folks on this website I give myself at no charge.\r\n\r\nA very nice quality encode, and a show that I knew from before. Not high drama, but good drama; a simple morality play, and it accomplishes what it sets out to do.\r\n\r\n\\"The best things in life are free,\\" is really quite true with perhaps only one exception. \\"When you\\''ve got your health you\\''ve got just about everything,\\" which is also very true. But it may be that sometimes attaining or regaining good health is not cheap; and that would be the point where these two truisms clash.\r\n\r\nAvarice is one of the seven deadly ones, as EG points out. And this tale takes that theme about as far as it can go. Greek tragedy was structured around good, heroic characters who each possessed a fatal flaw, analogous to one of the seven deadly sins in many cases. Think Midas in this regard. And when the Greek characters take a fall, they fall very hard indeed, as does the RMT character in this show.\r\n\r\nBut all in all this isn\\''t near the top of my favorite shows. Good certainly, but not great. Perhaps it seems a little talky, a little padded, a little lacking in action(s), and a little contrived. We can guess early on that someone will get their&nbsp;comeuppance&nbsp;by the end of the play. The way it actually does turn out is&nbsp;surprising, but in an arbitrary way; it feels like the writer could have written the last 5 minutes in five different ways, and those endings would have fit into the first 40 minutes just as well as the one we heard.\r\n\r\nIf the news update at the end of the show is accurate, then this copy was a taped rerun, since they talk about winter weather in Michigan, not generally found in the month of August.<br>', '2013-03-24 23:50:04', 1, 'f126b3e02e4a24cc51189557f84c34f2', '112.200.20.61'),
(4329, '0326', 'episode', 'Jake', '', 'Ouch! You got me! I try for a little levity now and then, and probably miss as often as I hit the mark. Since you brought it up, and the English language is important to you, \\" . . . would certainly valuable . . .\\" ???<br>', '2013-03-03 21:44:04', 1, '634eeb3061c8abcb8ca75e3b2389eccb', '112.200.20.61'),
(4330, '0326', 'episode', 'J. Kid', '', '"The way it actually does turn out is surpising, but in an arbitrary way; it feels like the writer could have written the last 5 minutes in five different ways, and those endings would have fit into the first 40 minutes just as well as the one we heard."\r\n\r\nMorton, that strikes me as an extremely astute remark. I feel pretty much as you do about this show, and so I haven''t really anything to add; but your comment strikes to the heart of why, for me, the ending fails. It''s that way with some of the lesser TWILIGHT ZONE episodes as well--the twist endings might indeed be unforeseen, but in a similarly random kind of way.\r\n\r\nThanks for articulating this point so well. ', '2013-02-27 18:35:25', 1, '80a05825d8e8e40b784c7edbdb93006a', '112.200.20.61'),
(4331, '0326', 'episode', 'Harold', '', 'I was also suprised by the ending, but I do love it when the storyteller messes with my mind!', '2013-02-27 18:35:26', 1, 'c7baa3eb6fd03f8daaf39e439d3bc281', '112.200.20.61'),
(4332, '0326', 'episode', 'E. Rod', '', 'i really enjoyed this one. it chugged along, pretending to be just another RMT show without much to offer. but by the third act, i was admittedly glued. the conclusion was terrific. i agree that the ending could have a multitude of alternates, but i like the one they chose.\r\n\r\ni enjoy these kinds of moral dilemmas. i mean "what would you have done?" it''s a difficult thing to imagine. i think the fear that the crooks might harm my family would give reason to just leave the money alone. of course, calling the police could only incite the crooks. taking it would be simply foolish, in my opinion. nothing in life is free.\r\n\r\na great choice and glad to see all the feedback it''s receiving!', '2013-02-27 18:35:26', 1, '4e1bb9c51c555b1dd05b5d6ad5356978', '112.200.20.61'),
(4333, '0326', 'episode', 'Jeff', '', 'Holy cow. I am sorry for my late-night sarcasm. You see the comeuppance was immediate in my flubbing of the next sentence.\r\n\r\nNow I\\''ll go back to listening to these great shows, and will restrain the schoolmarm tendency in me.\r\n\r\nThanks again everybody for the site, the shows, and the feedback.', '2013-02-27 18:35:27', 1, 'e1320c17abc879e4d3d692776ed4eed1', '112.200.20.61'),
(4334, '0326', 'episode', 'Jerby', '', 'The actor who played the main character is my favorite on CBRMT. I am always partial to episodes he appears in.\r\n\r\nThe ending threw me. I had begun to suspect Paul was somehow in league with the robbers. But he ends up a \\"vegetable\\". That is brutal.', '2013-02-27 18:35:28', 1, '6eed9a51b6aa9b131524d5149d4f0dee', '112.200.20.61'),
(4335, '0326', 'episode', 'L.J. Wright', '', 'I really liked this one! I have only been listening for a couple of months and I feel that this show stands out among many others for a couple of reasons. First ....the actor who played the main character was really good. Second....the tension was a slow build throughout. The ending had me guessing ....what I thought was that Paul had given his friend (the Doctor) a bag but not the bag with the money. So I was thinking that the DR. would die but Paul would still have the money in his basement. Great one!!!', '2013-02-27 18:35:29', 1, '0287899f165d645de4411df4a9cb460b', '112.200.20.61'),
(4336, '0090', 'episode', 'Jaron', '', 'I loved this episode, and the way the writers ratcheted up the tens\r\nion level. But I don''t understand why the killer referred to "the lieutenant" before the widow had mentioned anything about the police. Is that a plot hole or am I missing something?', '2013-02-27 18:35:29', 1, '0f1b86fcbab43e7981efd7025a219485', '112.200.20.61'),
(4337, '0090', 'episode', 'Agatha', '', 'A good story, though somewhat predictable. The crime reporter seems to be the most interesting and well-rounded character. The boarding house setting is well drawn out and makes a good backdrop for the story. I can almost see the rooms in my mind.\r\n\r\nBTW, Hitchcock did a film called, "The Lodger". Old black and white, the Ripper, etc. So I think ole'' George lifted a bit of this story from the movie . . .\r\n\r\nThe news clips that frame the story are as interesting as the tale itself. Though it''s kind of funny to hear a regional news fellow talk about "his own sources" in the national Watergate scandal. But again, we would hope that a RMT story would stand the test of time on its own merits; no news required.\r\n\r\nA good encode copy as well. But I guess I prefer the more imaginative tales; scifi or exotic locations or historical settings, etc. RMT did contemporary reality stories, such as this one, as well as any of the older series'' ever did. And I do like them as a change-up-pitch, so to speak. But all in all this isn''t a favorite story for me.\r\n\r\nNot that I''m complaining! Far from it!', '2013-02-27 18:35:30', 1, '8a9e2402e6bc8214a84b7a3b5bf7af1c', '112.200.20.61'),
(4338, '0090', 'episode', 'Reese', '', 'Interesting choice. This story seems to have floated around a bit. It is also the first story broadcast by "suspense" and the commentary of that particular suspense episode says that Hitchcock and the director chose it themselves. He also makes an appearance at the end of that broadcast. They refer to it as "one of our favorite stories" or something like that. Indicating that it was not a new story then either. I wonder how much of the "lifting" that we all can clearly see is homage. It would also be interesting to find out if this and perhaps some of the twilight zone episodes we have noticed were borrowed from by mystery theater were in the public domain. There is an eposide of the twilight zone where a lady is traveling cross country. She keeps seeing a man gesturing to her. In the end she is dead and this man is death trying to get her attention. This exact story is also one of the suspense episodes (incidentally starring orson wells). It seems the producers, directors, and writers of these shows passed around a few stories that were familiar to them all. I liked this episode though I admit it had more to do with seeing the updated version of a story I was familiar with as opposed to the actual story itself. Like most of the choices here, I liked this one.', '2013-02-27 18:35:31', 1, 'ab5b24844fdac705a3e0752e55c23d64', '112.200.20.61'),
(4339, '0090', 'episode', 'Dwarde M.', '', 'The TWILIGHT ZONE that you refer to is called \\"The Hitchiker,\\" and is indeed the same story that was done on radio by Welles--but that\\''s indicated in the TZ credits, and the original author, Lucille Fletcher, was paid the proper royalties. (She was interviewed on the topic at least once.) Despite the fact that RMT borrwed from Twighlight Zone constantly--as have an number of other shows.\r\n\r\nAs I said in the other post, the writing schedule was so hectic on RMT that it was probably inevitable that this would happen from time to time.<br>', '2013-02-27 18:36:27', 1, 'e8ea144800e6fa212c1df93a87f41deb', '112.200.20.61'),
(4340, '0090', 'episode', 'Jeff Lindsey Oliver', '', 'Excellent show. I especially liked how the author kept the suspicion jumping between Charlie, Adams, and Bowen. There were just enough subtle hints to keep you wondering which one was really going to be the ripper.', '2013-02-27 18:36:28', 1, 'ddb402827f42783cdf161fbf554f112d', '112.200.20.61'),
(4341, '0090', 'episode', 'Janice', '', 'Very good show. I had never seen the Hitchcock movie, so I was guessing up until the ending.', '2013-02-27 18:36:29', 1, '2ebb1e47cf98bc48aee1145dee215b08', '112.200.20.61'),
(4342, '0090', 'episode', 'Cameron', '', 'Actually, The Lodger started out as a novel written by a female author,Marie Belloc Lowndes, just prior to WW1. I just finished listening to the audiobook version in fact.\r\nThe novel is sort of a pioneer in the true crime thriller genre, and still holds your interest even after many years. The killer in the novel is known as the Avenger, but is clearly based on Jack The Ripper.\r\n\r\nHitchcock filmed it as a silent- and it has been remade two other times. The more famous one is the 1944 version with Laird Cregar.\r\nIIRC- and I''m not completely sure on this- the ending varies from version to version.', '2013-02-27 18:36:30', 1, '48cbf9be440ae3dd2d0afbce638c6608', '112.200.20.61'),
(4343, '0229', 'episode', 'Danny', '', 'Enjoyed the show.', '2013-02-27 18:36:30', 1, '698d401e7a761127cc18a0f7aac20427', '112.200.20.61'),
(4344, '0229', 'episode', 'Rex F.', '', 'Another one I remember from the old days . . . my cassette copy is in a box somewhere. The first couple of minutes of this download sounded a little funny, but a fine encode nonetheless.\r\n\r\nAnd good acting in a good show. One of the things I like about this episode is that it is left up to the listener to decide whether or not there is a supernatural element in the story. Certainly the characters think there is, but when all is said and done, natural causes and explanations can satisfy the logic of the tale.\r\n\r\nSomehow the death-row scenes seem especially vivid and well done. Those moments are the ones that form the sharpest pictures in my mind. The warden at home, etc. doesn''t seem as visually clear in my imagination.\r\n\r\nMonomania + a knife. This works. It''s never really explained why the warden succumbs to this prisoner''s psycho-jibe and not to any others''. I guess it might be supernatural. But the condemned man has a very strong personality; shades of Hanibal Lester.\r\n\r\nAnd love saves the day. A bit of the beauty and the beast in that, as with many classic stories of great love overcoming great evil.', '2013-02-27 18:36:31', 1, '36650b68ed17ea7c6a7282c6d5d7f59b', '112.200.20.61'),
(4345, '0229', 'episode', 'Brian Pontillas', '', 'I hate to point this out, but this is one of those RMTs that "borrows" just a little too much from its uncredited source material--which in this case is the short story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" by Robert Bloch (best known as the author of the novel PSYCHO). This episode is a simple extension of Bloch''s basic idea of Jack the Ripper''s spirit living on in a modern-day killer...the show even features a main character named Guy, just as the story does (though the last names are different). Bloch''s tale, from the 1940s, is well-known and widely anthologized; it was even done on TV in the early 1960s, on the Boris Karloff series THRILLER.\r\n\r\nI enjoyed the program in its way, I guess, but was really distracted by the obvious...well, I don''t want to say theft, but this is *clearly* Robert Bloch''s story.\r\n\r\nThen again, a whole thread could be devoted to the borrowings of the RMT--from TWILIGHT ZONE, from "The Monkey''s Paw" and other classic stories, from then-current movies. With such a crazed workload for the writers, some of this kind of thing was inevitable, I suppose.\r\n\r\nIt would be interesting to know if any writers ever complained about the show borrowing from their works....\r\n\r\nAn interesting choice, if not necessarily for the right reasons!', '2013-02-27 18:36:32', 1, '4a3c5fa545cc03d3e4dcb0d4ad5301e4', '112.200.20.61'),
(4346, '0116', 'episode', 'Richard', '', 'I''ll wait to comment save this...the RMT had more than one "twins" episode and some of them were kind of, er, different ("An identical murder" wasn''t bad, but somehow the ending felt just a bit "forced" (for lack of a better word), and while I''m not the brightest bulb in the chandelier I''ve never quite gotten the ending of "Two plus two equals death").\r\n\r\nTHIS episode, however, was penned by Ian Martin (still one of and perhaps my favorite RMT writer) and has the richest (IMO) character development one could ask for in a show this length. Again IMO this is the best "twins" episode the RMT ever produced (that I''ve yet heard).', '2013-02-27 18:36:33', 1, '316e182b3f424f15cbc0af652ea6a24e', '112.200.20.61');
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(4347, '0116', 'episode', 'A. Lipp', '', 'It\\''s funny how long it takes the police to get around to checking fingerprints in identical twins stories, whether radio, TV, or film. Especially when one is a member of the US armed forces, a vetern, entitled to benifits, etc.\r\n\r\nStraying a ways off-topic here, I\\''m also a fan of Columbo. A series that was/is delightful to watch for the interplay of characters, but . . . the writing and \\"logic\\" of the eventual solving of the crime was sometimes horribly flawed. Anyway, they had at least one episode on twins; \\"Double Shock\\" (Season 2), where the twins hate each other, as in our episode here, and together they plot the death of a wealthy relative, and provide each other with solid alibis. Of course they are exposed in the end . . .\r\n\r\nBack to our show. It does seem to stretch the imagination that a person in love can\\''t tell the difference between an imposter and the one she loves. No first-hand or even second-hand experience here, but I think that\\''s somewhat unlikely.\r\n\r\nIdentical twins aren\\''t too common yet aren\\''t extremely rare either. And here\\''s something weird. I\\''ve worked in theatre for some time at the college and community level, and run into 4 sets of identical twins in that regard. But in other avenues of my life I\\''ve never run into any; strange.\r\n\r\nThis story carries a couple of morals or messages that are simple enough for the listener to understand. But here\\''s a lesson that might be missed by some:\r\n\r\nWhen you murder your twin, and his/her ghost won\\''t leave you alone, and keeps saying to you, \\"Don\\''t worry about that letter,\\" or \\"Disregard that bill,\\" or \\"Ignore that ticking noise under your bed,\\" or \\"No way your medicine has been tampered with,\\" or \\"Bet the farm on Paper Chase in the 12th at Belmont,\\" . . . don\\''t believe it!!! Try to remember that a spirit that isn\\''t at rest in the afterworld probably is not in heaven . . . and if they\\''re not in heaven, where do you suppose they really are?? So the ghost advising you possibly has nefarious purposes of their own, though they may appear as friendly and helpful as Casper. If I believed everything my ghosts told me I wouldn\\''t be living the free and easy life of the upper-crust jet-setter that I so much enjoy, I can tell you that. So my general advice is to ignore all your ghosts; a word to the wise and a freebie from me to you.', '2013-02-27 18:36:34', 1, 'def008adcc0cee27f636caf856767659', '112.200.20.61'),
(4348, '0116', 'episode', 'Ruth Claire A.', '', 'I haven''t anything too bright to say about this episode--it was entertaining enough, I suppose, in a generic sort of way. One of my problems with "twin" stories of this nature is how unrealistically the twins have to act in order for the plot to work. I''ve known several sets of twins--in fact, I teach two identical-twin boys now--and my finding is that they almost always go out of their way to look as unlike each other as possible. Dramatic differences in hairstyles (and colors). Totally contrasting fashion senses. One might even get a tattoo. Twins rarely *like* being mistaken for each other--especially, I would imagine, when one''s twin is a ne''er-do-well, as in this tale.\r\n\r\nI did like the twist, however, regarding the "good" twin--turns out that nobody was much good here....\r\n\r\nListening to this story reminded me of something I''d forgotten for years: that when I was young my voice was exactly like my brother''s--on the phone, at least. When his girlfriends would call (he was the elder sibling) and I would answer, they would often start right in on a conversation, thinking I was my brother.\r\n\r\nI had a little fun with this a couple of times, but never took it to the kinds of extremes one can easily imagine!\r\n\r\n(By the way, as much as he wanted to, my brother was never able to turn the tables on me. I was too young to have begun dating yet, and by the time I started, my voice had changed and the fun was over. Thank goodness for adolescence!)\r\n\r\nI''ve long thought there is a kernel for a good short story in all this, but I''ve never figured out how it would work.\r\n\r\nBy the way, one of the original, and greatest, of all "dark twin" stories is "William Wilson," by, of course...Edgar Allan Poe.', '2013-02-27 18:36:35', 1, '1e44b01378eb59c42fdcd336a578a9a8', '112.200.20.61'),
(4349, '0116', 'episode', 'Joyce', '', 'There seem to be two schools of thoughts on twins...one the "Hollywood" type (the Discovery Channel, I think, had a special on twins talking about how alike they were, and in the promo spot for it they had two men saying something like\r\n\r\nTWIN 1: "We''re so alike that we..."\r\n\r\nTWIN 2: "...often finish each other''s sentences."\r\n\r\nAnd then there''s reality. For instance, to dredge up one last "Dorian Gray" reference, there''ve been several studies done of identical twins where at least one is gay. Well, back in Year 2 K there was a fellow named Dr. Kenneth Kendler who conducted what he seemed to say was the uber study on twins of this type. His results? He found if one twin was gay, the other had less than 1/3 of a chance to have same-sex attraction as well. If that doesn''t tell us something about the psyche of identical twins, nothing will.\r\n\r\nNow as these facts relate to the story...\r\n\r\nIan Martin uses both elements...that the twins are alike (indistinguishable to the naked eye/ear), yet they''re quite different (one''s quite successful, the other a loser), yet at the core, they''re alike (they''re murderers).\r\n\r\nWhat I loved about this was what Matthew Modine''s character (who wore the hat with "Born to kill" written on it, alongside a peace sign) in the movie "Full metal jacket" seemed to call the "duality of man".\r\n\r\nThese characters were flawed, and they gave into evil choices. Yet they were all humanized.\r\n\r\n1. The father (whom we never met)...described as "a crook" by the twin "Simon". E.G. said he plotted to control his sons lives from "beyond the grave" through his will. (Hope none of you has seen a family where one child is favored over another...unfortunately, I''ve seen it happen with a close relative, and the results are rarely if ever pleasant.)\r\n\r\nYet the "Dad" was obviously heartbroken about his wife''s death in childbirth.\r\n\r\n2. Simon...an abusive (often to women) man, callous, unscrupulous enough to commit murder of his own twin brother, yet who served our country in Viet Nam ending up as a POW there. (What other episode mentioned the Viet Nam war? I know "The wheel of life" did, and I''m pretty sure "The bullet" did as well.)\r\n\r\nMust show how easily I''m manipulated, but I actually felt sorry for him, even a little bit after his brother''s ghost showed up. (What was it he said to Steven? "Let me have my innings now?" He seemed quite eloquent for the ne''er-do-well he was, but probably others in his position are good with words, too.)\r\n\r\n3. Steven, who seem to try to be "the good son" (and I''m guessing he got his share of guff from their father...I think he even said as much) and who seemed to feel for his brother somewhat.\r\n\r\n...yet proved to be just as conniving, a drug runner (and God Himself only knows what else) to boot, and just as fratricidal as Simon.\r\n\r\nI thought it was a great mark of casting to use two of the RMT''s then "young studs" (Michael Tolin and Paul Hecht) as the voices of the twins. (If Joan Lovejoy had been able to hear their voices as we did, she''d have no difference telling them apart.) I honestly thought they brought these characters to life in a rich way making what could have been an otherwise formulaic RMT show come alive quite well.\r\n\r\n(BTW, I also love the music bed (which sounds like something I used to hear on the original "Jonny Quest" TV show from the 60s) used immediately after the car crash and during the ensuing "murder of Steven" segment.)\r\n\r\nBottom line: in retrospect, this may not have been so much of a "twins" story as it was a story of family members who, for lack of wisdom to stop making bad choices in their lives, end up destroying one another.', '2013-03-27 15:12:42', 1, 'dac924700578446d36a8fa1510182499', '112.200.20.61'),
(4350, '0116', 'episode', 'Justin', '', '(Just for fun) here''s an interesting article today about a "double-double", two sets of identical twins on the same basketball team at a town near where I grew up.', '2013-02-27 18:36:36', 1, '42c961d4b66083783383319fa96ccdee', '112.200.20.61'),
(4351, '0116', 'episode', 'Jones P.', '', 'HBO had one of their Cathouse documentaries the other night, where twin blondes came to work at the Cathouse and stir up the ol'' sandbox.\r\n\r\nnot that i watch that kind of thing, mind you.\r\n\r\numm... this was relevant, right? right?\r\n\r\nanyone?\r\n\r\nugh.', '2013-02-27 18:36:37', 1, '4c330a5de5cc4eddcb5dd7bbbdbeb824', '112.200.20.61'),
(4352, '0116', 'episode', 'Roland Abot', '', 'As an identical twin, I am intrigued by these\r\nstories, but I am also skeptical. Of course\r\nidentical twins don''t look the same to those\r\nwho know. But from experience I would agree\r\nthat they can be attracted to the same woman.\r\nAh, years ago now....\r\n\r\nBack to the story. I suspect that any sibs\r\ncan relate to the idea of favored sons and\r\ndisfavored ones. And that seems more important\r\nto the broadcast.', '2013-02-27 18:36:38', 1, '0af3954449f5bc14197b98b07c8c9659', '112.200.20.61'),
(4353, '0116', 'episode', 'Mr. Anderson', '', 'As always this episode was very entertaining. I thought it contained a bit more&nbsp;unreal-ism&nbsp;than usual. The fiance not knowing the difference was a stretch for example. Overall I enjoyed the show however. I was surprised a little at the exposition of the \\"good\\" brothers true colors. It added a little twist to the story as I had it pictured up to that point. Fun as usual. I really do love this show.<br>', '2013-03-24 23:54:12', 1, 'adee39d7891c2088af96b85f8696d007', '112.200.20.61'),
(4354, '0116', 'episode', 'Pete', '', 'This was the first "twins" episode I''ve heard and I was very pleased. I have to agree with the statement about trusting the ghost of the person you''ve just murdered - not a wise idea. Then again, Simon didn''t seem like a Mensa candidate and I enjoyed listening to him get what was coming to him.', '2013-02-27 18:36:40', 1, 'ac7f2426018aa460b8b8ac2f6413a137', '112.200.20.61'),
(4355, '0129', 'episode', 'Ritchelle Carmen', '', 'A fine show and a fine encode. The Nixon news at the beginning is a nice addition; some of us remember those days . . . some as children remember things and some as adults remember things. But if you''re 30 years old or younger you''re not part of that club.\r\n\r\nIt''s difficult or impossible for me to be objective about Dorian. It seems to be very well written and acted, but somehow it doesn''t have that magic "umph" for me. I''m pretty sure it''s my over-familiarity with the story. (As if I could say, "I was sure surprised when Hamlet died at the end of the play.")\r\n\r\nSo I think it''s a good or even great episode from RMT. But for me . . . not so much. Weird, because the RMT version of Jeckyl/Hyde still strikes me as very fresh and lively, and I''m probably equally familiar with that tale.\r\n\r\nOf course some/many of the scenes are very good; when the girlfriend dies, the struggle in the attic, and conversations with the butler.\r\n\r\nThe original moral of the tale holds up well; you sow what you reap, and what goes around comes around. Somewhat of a platitude but very accurate nonetheless. Something that each person of each generation has to learn anew.\r\n\r\nWell, time to get back to my painting. I''m doing a rendition of my dog hoping that this will forstall the ageing process in the beast. He does live a wild life, on the edge most of the time, so it''ll be interesting to check up on the condition of the work from time to time once it''s completed. No doubt he''ll store it in the attic of his doghouse.', '2013-02-27 18:36:40', 1, 'daedaa401e38e628d105f3530a9f514a', '112.200.20.61'),
(4356, '0129', 'episode', 'Arric', '', 'i completely understand you about it being a story you''re overly familiar with, though it really is a great RMT adaptation.\r\n\r\ni find, though i adore Norman Roses'' presence on the RMT, he can sometimes portray a personality type rather than a character, sort of the way Bogart did in film... you know it''s Bogart, he''s not different that he was in any of his other films, yet somehow it works. i feel the same way about Norman Rose. he could play Mr. Winkles from Scooby Doo and still maintain his Norman Roseness, yet still be a convincing Mr. Winkles.\r\n\r\ndoes that make any sense?\r\n\r\ni read Dorian Gray when i was a freshman in high school. i liked it, but it creeped me out. the image on the cover of the book - a decaying face - was gruesome, and that''s stayed with me. i read it again about three or four years ago, and the cover was much more romantic, yet the eyes of that old, decaying face were still in my mind. and so i found they were present once again while listening to this show.\r\n\r\nand lastly, yeah, I remember the Nixon era. what a lovely time. if you haven''t seen it, i highly recommend the lengthy film, NIXON, starring Anthony Hopkins... he''ll scare you more as Nixon than he did as Hannibal Lectur, for sure!!', '2013-02-27 18:36:41', 1, '40b4306f5c12520cf7534037e8760853', '112.200.20.61'),
(4357, '0129', 'episode', 'Agatha', '', 'Gang, in the age of the Web, and of Google that we live in, it''s so fascinating to be able to hear these plays 30+ years later and be able to look at them, their actors and their authors in a whole different way while appreciating the original play (and story).\r\n\r\nFirst, an interesting take on Wilde and "Dorian Gray" from a National Review writer a couple of years ago...\r\n\r\nQuote:\r\nIn this age of political correctness, in which people are so often recognized for how they identify themselves rather than for what they accomplish, Wilde''s renewed popularity in Hollywood and Manhattan is quite likely due largely to the fact that he was gay. But whatever the reason for the revival, if it leads more people to discover his works then it can only have a salutary effect on our greatly debased culture. For Wilde, in addition to being among the most witty and brilliant craftsmen of the English language since Shakespeare, was also the quintessential moralist.\r\n\r\nBoth in his plays and his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Wilde dispenses justice and moral judgment in true Victorian fashion. We know precisely who the villains are and who the decent folk, and we see them both get their just desserts — which is to say exactly what they''ve brought upon themselves as a direct consequence of their own actions.\r\n\r\nWilde respected social norms, the necessary standards of decent and indecent public behavior without which any society collapses into anarchy. An Ideal Husband (1895) concerns a thoroughly honest and respected government minister who refuses to be blackmailed for a mistake he made years ago, even though it potentially means his personal and professional ruin. In Dorian Gray, a young man''s portrait becomes increasingly disfigured while he remains youthful and handsome, indulging in every form of sin, but coming inevitably to a bad end.\r\n\r\nWilde assumed many poses in his life; he frequently remarked, for instance, that art existed merely for art''s sake, and that no artist should have "ethical sympathies." But his work belied such flippancies. Wilde said of Dorian Gray, "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." Indeed, it is only because Wilde recognized and approved of social norms and standards of conduct that he was able to detect and ridicule hypocrisy so well, most notably and hysterically in Earnest (1895).\r\n\r\n...Unfortunately, revisiting Wilde''s work is a reminder of just how far our modern culture has traveled down the road of self-celebration. The embarrassing and tiresome spectacle of gay camp is splashed across our film and television screens — and thus into our living rooms. To be a gay character (and increasingly, a heterosexual one) on television or in a movie nowadays is virtually an automatic license to be silly, irresponsible, selfish, flamboyant, and sexually promiscuous (this, of course, is a partial list).\r\n\r\nDisplaying such consequence-free behavior for the purpose of entertainment is not only lazy, but unhealthy and disrespectful of every social norm that has ever existed in Western civilization, and thus does a disservice to us all. Wilde would likely agree. However he behaved in his personal life, Oscar Wilde, to his great and lasting credit, recognized that engaging in private vice does not exempt one from the obligations of public virtue.', '2013-02-27 18:36:42', 1, 'dc24bc36c2a53428123cc9cc98e963c1', '112.200.20.61'),
(4358, '0129', 'episode', 'Leon Lynns Reynolds', '', 'Just a few "stream of consciousness" thoughts:\r\n\r\n- That RMT music is so haunting...I forget what time mark it is, but the unnerving (another CBS stock music used in "The twilight zone", I believe) sounder used when Gray and his painter friend (played by Rose) agree to go up in the attic to see the mutations in the painting sticks with me for some reason.\r\n\r\n- Rose was always wonderful...I loved when, right after that same music bed, he said: "MmmmMIL-DYEW must have gotten into the canvas..."\r\n\r\n- IMO, an underappreciated (and not frequently used) actor for the RMT was Roger de Koyven. (sic?)\r\n\r\nHe was good in this one as Lord Henry Wotten ("I might ALSO have added that the only way to overcome temptation is to fight it!") but my favorite performance of his is as the retired Stanford professor conducting dangerous experiments in mental telepathy in "The breaking point".\r\n\r\n- In the pre-politically correct (until, perhaps, the 1982 season) era of the RMT, it was interesting to see how the program handled homosexuality/lesbianism/transgender issues.\r\n\r\nNotable programs with this theme in varying degrees of prominence are:\r\n\r\n- Picture of Dorian Gray\r\n- The long blue line\r\n- The sinister shadow\r\n- The secret sharer\r\n- Death is a woman (with a notable role by the RMT''s Gordon Heath, who died of AIDS a decade or two ago)\r\n- Dressed to kill (the latter a farcical murder story, but interesting nonetheless)\r\n\r\nIt was also broached in\r\n\r\n-The cornstarch killer\r\n- Change of heart (interestingly, from 1982)\r\n\r\nI''m not trying to get into a discussion of same, but rather just how the RMT handled it. (Note in particular E.G. Marshall''s comments either at the end of "Dorian Gray''s" third act, the conclusion, or both.)\r\n\r\n- How often did Nick Pryor appear in the RMT? The only other thing I think I remember him in is as the ill-fated young husband from Nebraska in "Speak of the devil" (also from 1974.)', '2013-02-27 18:36:43', 1, '8a50128d376df2ea7732044c4afeec3a', '112.200.20.61'),
(4359, '0129', 'episode', 'Mr. Orange', '', 'I have to agree with Mr. Miller regarding the first 6 minutes on Nixon (including the bit with Dan Rather). That was certainly a nice touch, leaving it in.\r\n\r\nI remember the first time I read this story, which was shortly after first listening to this episode of RMT. Quite the opposite of my experience with the Oblong Box, where I was already familiar with the story before having listened to the RMT broadcast. I particularly like the change in Dorian Gray''s voice as the story progresses, as if his tortured, diseased soul is trying to break through the facade of his physical beauty. This episode was just as haunting to me today as it was some 30 years ago, and I feel equally inspired to pull the book down off the shelf again.\r\n\r\nGreat choice!', '2013-02-27 18:36:43', 1, '2719363602398624d56ead6a67eee785', '112.200.20.61'),
(4360, '0129', 'episode', 'F. Poe', '', 'some amazing powers of observation.', '2013-02-27 18:36:44', 1, '14a1c2805a3c79a4d85796f68413a6b4', '112.200.20.61'),
(4361, '0129', 'episode', 'Jack Cassidy', '', 'Regarding "Picture of Dorian Gray", it''s just interesting how the RMT 30 years ago treated certain subjects in the episodes I mentioned, especially in light of yesterday''s announced Oscar nominees for this year.\r\n\r\n(Can you imagine E.G. Marshall onstage making a presentation like\r\n\r\nQuote:\r\nE.G. MARSHALL: "...and this year''s nominees for ''Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song'' are...''It''s hard out here for a pimp'' from ''Hustle & flow'', performed by ''Djay'', written by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard..."\r\n\r\nSFX: Applause and cheers\r\n\r\nMUSIC: "North Memphis where I''m from, I''m 7th Street bound\r\nWhere niggaz all the time end up lost and never found\r\nMan these girls think we prove thangs, leave a big head\r\nThey come hopin every night, they don''t end up bein dead\r\nWait I got a snow bunny, and a black girl too\r\nYou pay the right price and they''ll both do you..."\r\n\r\n\r\nSFX: Applause and cheers\r\n\r\n\r\n(I''d be ready for him to do an "RMT third act outro" commentary after that one...) ', '2013-02-27 15:27:02', 1, '2951b5a9254003dd348aa3cf316d9c6b', '112.200.20.61'),
(4362, '0306', 'actor', 'Cota', 'zombipantz@gmail.com', 'I was pleasantly surprised this morning when i listened too Prisoner of the machines and heard john lithgow''s voice. It was a great serial and i cant wait to hear all of the episodes he did. ', '2013-02-27 16:55:40', 1, '81f0fcc82693b3b8f118206e1f31144d', '68.186.33.66'),
(4363, '0129', 'episode', 'Cletus', '', 'there''s a reason i refuse to watch silly award shows. if i want to see wealthy clowns, i''ll go to the circus and throw quarters.\r\n\r\nugh.', '2013-02-27 18:36:45', 1, '7c43da4e3a9b26559c7f4383d5e9a78e', '112.200.20.61'),
(4364, '0129', 'episode', 'Ace', '', 'I\\''m with you on the awards shows! As for this episode, I just thought it was a cool variation of an old story. The deal with the devil story. A story that has been done so many times. The twilight zone used it repeatedly. I didn\\''t read any political agenda into it. It was the deal with the devil story done very well. I just thought it was a great horror story. With excellent acting, directing etc. Just a great example of why I love mystery theater.&nbsp;<br>', '2013-03-24 23:53:02', 1, '315ad586732160144a9872ddc9e42196', '112.200.20.61'),
(4365, '0129', 'episode', 'Ross Antonel', '', 'I believe Oscar Wilde was one of the first to use it. I know Faust predates it, but I don\\''t know of any other Faustian storyes that predate Dorian Gray.', '2013-02-27 18:36:47', 1, '6505a6c7bd667859bdff7be3fe17c5e6', '112.200.20.61'),
(4366, '0129', 'episode', 'Jim R.', '', 'I don''t want to be the RMT''s "expert" on this matter, but at work I''m listening to (for the first time) a strange little Elspeth Eric piece entitled "Fallen Angel" from the 1975 season...add it to the episode list I compiled above.', '2013-02-27 18:36:47', 1, '8b8f5d50050959a10ae1c81e177f0d47', '112.200.20.61'),
(4367, '0200', 'episode', 'Aldo', '', '"Berenice": another winning EAP-RMT combination. Joan Banks has surely got one of the greatest evil laughs I have ever heard.\r\n\r\nA few tidbits that may be of interest:\r\n\r\n* The Poe story "Berenice" is quite short, and it''s worth reading as a comparison (well, obviously it''s worth reading on its own too).\r\n\r\n(An odd detail included in a footnote to the Society''s version of the text is that in Poe''s time the name "Berenice" was pronounced to rhyme with "very spicy." It took me a minute to wrap my tongue around that one.)\r\n\r\n* The RMT adaptation of the story interpolates elements of Poe''s stories "The Fall of the House of Usher" and, particularly, "Ligeia." I hardly need say that these tales are also worth reading.\r\n\r\n* The Payton/Grams guidebook to the CBSRMT includes this quote from the scriptwriter, George Lowthar:\r\n\r\n"Edgar Allan Poe was a genius. There''s no doubt about it. His language ranks among the most beautiful in the world, with its imagery, its color. The man holds you from the very first line until the very last. He was a storyteller, a master of prose. A dramatist must take the seed of his stories and fertilize it, at the same time retaining the poetic ambiance of Poe and the horror that is in his stories."\r\n\r\nThis episode represents some first-rate fertilizer by Mr. Lowthar.', '2013-02-27 18:36:48', 1, '3593498e2a93fbdfdc43201187e5c5ad', '112.200.20.61'),
(4368, '0200', 'episode', 'M. Barry', '', 'Well . . . I expected Chris to have a bit more to say on this rendition of a Poe classic. (Follow the "lighthouse" from last week''s tale to see why I say that.) Chris can blow us all out of the water when it comes to Poe.\r\n\r\nI reread the original short story. RMT has developed a tale which stands well on it''s own, but it differs greatly from the original.\r\n\r\nPoe has no dialogue; rather the story is an extended monologue. RMT adds several characters that don''t occur in the original; in fact most of the characters don''t appear in the original. Gone is the monomania; a tendency for psychological obsessions. Introduced is a second character who is haunted or possessed by a shrewish ex-wife. Also the protaganist''s best friend is wholly a RMT creation.\r\n\r\nThe RMT version feels a bit padded and stretched out . . . since you can read the original story in half the time it takes you to listen to this tale. I have to admit that the maniacal laughter of Bernice is chilling on the ear!\r\n\r\nDespite all the differences in the two stories, they do have many similarities as well. In fact the two tales have exactly 32 details in common. 32 perfect, flawless, unblemished, pearly-white, details. The horror of "the deed" when it is accomplished in act three carries all the horror of the original I think.\r\n\r\nNever go to a dentist. Don''t associate with dentists yourself. In fact, avoid all contact with people who like to talk with or about dentists. I mean, if you want to avoid this horror in your own life. That''s my plan anyway.\r\n\r\nAlso, discard all pliers from your toolbox. I reccomend burying them. And as above, avoid talking with or associating with people who have, use, or talk about pliers.\r\n\r\nI only say these things so that you may enjoy a happy life, unmarred by an episode such as the one Bernice endured.\r\n\r\nIn fact, be careful who you smile openly to; a happy grin may be safer than a hearty laugh in the long run.\r\n\r\nThank goodness that monomania is a relatively rare disorder.', '2013-02-27 18:36:49', 1, 'a67d27429b6450f468aee36b0fdc086c', '112.200.20.61'),
(4369, '0200', 'episode', 'Aldus', '', 'funny stuff. i enjoyed this one, though admittedly, it did a fine job of creeping me right out.\r\n\r\nnever listen to the RMT when you''re alone in your house and cleaning out the darkest part of your basement. it''s just not wise. ugh!!', '2013-02-27 18:36:50', 1, 'd4bd74cdec325731bffdc016600aa990', '112.200.20.61'),
(4370, '0200', 'episode', 'Gerry F.', '', 'Thank you so much for making the show available. I recently had my interest in old time radio renewed by my new Sirius Saleltie radio and its radio classic channel.\r\n\r\nI clearly remember my father taking us for rides around New York in the 1970''s so that we could listen. As soon as i heard the opening of CBS Mystery Theater i was transported back to my fathers car and 1974.\r\n\r\nIf i only knew then that my Father was creating memories that would still pull 30 years later. Thank You so very much.\r\n\r\nSirius by the way does not carry CBS mystery Theater.', '2013-02-27 18:40:28', 1, '2376b51e2603fea3b4b0499712e00dd2', '112.200.20.61'),
(4371, '0200', 'episode', 'Mr. Strothers', '', '\\"Berry Nice-y\\"?\r\n\r\nFascinating.', '2013-02-27 18:40:30', 1, '2737ff6f8f480996716ba38e8ac60961', '112.200.20.61'),
(4372, '0200', 'episode', 'Ruff', '', ' I liked this one very much. It did indeed creep me out when I was listening. An excellent production. Though I understand that it differs from the original, I really liked this story the way it was presented in rmt. I''ll be sure to read the original as it has been so highly recommended. Two notes on this particular encode. I liked the advertisement for the buick. 25 mpg on the highway and 16 in the city. lol. Also the announcer who is signing off the show for the local station at the very end is very much "into" his job.', '2013-02-27 18:47:59', 1, '6305c862ed6340920354c435f4ed81b0', '112.200.20.61'),
(4374, '0200', 'episode', 'C. Redfield', '', 'While I have not read the original story.. I thought this show was well done. The acting was well done. The sound quality is good on this encode... I get the willies when stories have dental things like this in them.... EWWWWW!!\r\nI also like the advertisements and on some of these shows the recordings include the news at the top of the hour... Watergate, Oil embargo, etc... more things change the more they stay the same. One of the early programs of rmt even had news commentary saying we only had best case 30 years of oil left.. 1974 plus 30??? hmmmm?', '2013-02-27 20:08:24', 1, 'e7e4fefe725552795f6d68a7937eacb7', '112.200.20.61'),
(4375, '0199', 'episode', 'Jesse R.', '', 'I can\\''t pretend to be objective about \\"The Oblong Box\\"--or, in fact, any of the episodes from the RMT Edgar Allan Poe Week. Poe was my first favorite writer, and I heard these shows not too long after I first read his collected stories (when I was 12 or 13). In general, I dislike Poe adaptations; usually they\\''re quite cheesy, and show little understanding of what makes Poe so effective as a storyteller (the 1960s Vincent Price Poe movies are classic examples, though I suppose I enjoy them in a way--their sheer corniness). But the RMT Poe Week is a shining exception. I loved them when I heard them in 1975, and I love them today. Some of the shows (including my favorite, \\"The Tell-Tale Heart\\") are really brilliantly creative, expanding and reimagining tales that only run a few pages into full-bodied, 45-minute radio plays that are still, somehow, Poe-esque.\r\n\r\nAn added delight for me in the case of \\"The Oblong Box\\" is the wonderful sound quality. About 15 years ago I bought a bunch of (bootlegged, no doubt) audio cassettes of RMT, including the Poe episodes; I still have them, and their sound quality, though audible, is as bad now as it was then. What a pleasure to hear this show in clear sound for the first time since I was a kid--I can actually hear all the dialogue in the big storm scene in Act 3!\r\n\r\nI suppose, objectively speaking, that this is really one of the lesser Poe RMT adaptations. The story is fairly obvious, and, as with so many RMTs, would probably have worked better in two acts. And yet the climax is memorably disgusting, and the exchange between the husband and wife as they watch seems to me to strike straight to what makes Poe\\''s work so memorable:\r\n\r\nWife: How gruesome!\r\nHusband: But beautiful...in a way.\r\n\r\nSo many of Poe\\''s stories (cf \\"The Fall of the House of Usher,\\" \\"Ligeia\\") could be described just this way. Gruesome...yet beautiful.\r\n\r\nI\\''m sorry for rambling, but I\\''ll say one more thing. It never occurred to me until I re-listened to \\"The Oblong Box\\" this afternoon that these RMT adaptations may have somehow played a role in my own professional development. They certainly proved to me that Poe *can* be adapted successfully, even brilliantly. And so maybe they were somehow in the back of my mind, unconsciously, when I put together POE\\''S LIGHTHOUSE, a collection of original stories I\\''ve edited which is due out in the next couple of months.\r\n\r\nNo doubt my mentioning this would be more appropriate in the Off the Air section, and I\\''ll post something there when the book is officially released.\r\n\r\nAs you\\''ll see, it\\''s an anthology of stories which adapt an unfinished fragment of an Edgar Allan Poe tale in two dozen different ways.\r\n\r\nA thousand pardons for the naked self-promotion here--I hope I haven\\''t offended anybody. I\\''ll shut up now. But I\\''m forever grateful for Poe, and for these Poe RMTs. They\\''re not just good episodes, they\\''re the best possible episodes! <br>', '2013-02-27 20:09:23', 1, '1e5e0ed1807aed24ae2b24f83cefb22d', '112.200.20.61'),
(4378, '0199', 'episode', 'Chris', '', 'I agree that this is a fine adaptation of the original. And a very good encode as well.\r\n\r\nI haven''t listened to the other Poe tales in a while, but I think there was one story that I didn''t much care for. That was the adaptation of "The Pit and the Pendulum". If I recall correctly, I thought the RMT strayed too far from the original in their version of the story, with detrimental results.\r\n\r\nI also like the Ambrose Beirce adaptations that RMT did. I thought they were quite faithful to the spirit of the original tales. I''m something of a Beirce fan . . . there are those who even rank his short-story horror tales as superior to Poe''s! I don''t think I can go quite that far. But Beirce in real life was just as intriguing a character as Poe was . . . and his death even more mysterious! To those unfamilair with his writings, I would also recommend Beirce''s very dark yet humorous tales; My Favorite Murder, An Imperfect Conflagration, etc. Kinda like "The Aadams Family" with the gore left in.\r\n\r\nStraying slightly off topic . . . to film adaptataions of classic horror. A decade or more ago we saw Hollywood release "definitive" films (denoted by incorporating the author''s name in the movie''s title) of . . . "Bram Stoker''s ''Dracula''" and also "Mary Shelley''s ''Frankenstein''". Big budgets and big actors. I liked the first half of both films (true to the original tales) and then was disappointed by the endings, which strayed significantly from the author''s stories. Granted that "Frankenstein" ended even more horribly than Shelley had written it . . . in fact I''ve only watched that film once . . . the ending was so disturbing.\r\n\r\nWell enough rambling. Until next time.', '2013-02-27 21:03:51', 1, '940e71acfd27c3b7768b6eff34e56c58', '112.200.20.61'),
(4379, '0199', 'episode', 'Raffy', '', 'Not to get too OT here but...remember what a fun actor Richard Mulligan could be?\r\n\r\nRemember his performance in the movie \\"Teachers\\" as an escaped lunatic who ended up being the one of the best substitute educators an inner-city high school could have?', '2013-02-27 21:03:45', 1, '89e17c6450d32be4fd2e6325f373bb8a', '112.200.20.61'),
(4380, '0199', 'episode', 'Alfred', '', 'Yes I do remember that film! Underrated, slightly flawed, but heart-warming and inspiring as well.\r\n\r\nI''d say more but an old friend of mine across the hall has a priceless painting in his room that he won''t show me. He''s gone for the moment, so I going to dash over there and have a peek at it while he''s gone.', '2013-02-27 21:03:48', 1, '2dec6977743f1c5bc1b1a7c91fe709fb', '112.200.20.61'),
(4381, '0199', 'episode', 'Shawn M.', '', 'just chiming in briefly here... i also thought this was a terrific episode, and agree that although not the strongest.\r\n\r\nA hundred thousand congrats on the book. if the words on the page don\\''t sell it alone, then that beautiful artwork surely will help! wow! good luck and i\\''m happy you mentioned it in this thread.\r\n\r\nas for Richard Mulligan, he was a great joy to watch in the US tv series, \\"Soap,\\" as well as in one of my favorite movies as a kid, \\"Scavenger Hunt.\\" he was very much like my best friend\\''s dad, so i always got a smile from him. i still recall when he passed away in 2000, i was actually sad about it. while most folks may not recognize him or his name, i always enjoyed his Emmy-winning level performance.<br>', '2013-03-03 21:45:15', 1, '9423631f349902d520b4853238e59945', '112.200.20.61'),
(4382, '0199', 'episode', 'B. Huab', '', 'I was a big fan of RMT in my childhood and only recently began searching the net for episodes and info about the show. Thank you for this great website.\r\n\r\nListening to \\"The Oblong Box\\" was a great joy for two reasons. First it was the first time hearing RMT in over 25 years and that alone made the episode top rate. Secondly, the story and acting was as good as I remembered. I remember hiding under my covers when I used to listen to the show and while the \\"fear\\" was not as pronounced now I do have to say that in the middle of the episode my phone rang and I just about jumped out of my chair .\r\n\r\nI enjoyed the suspense of the episode and was thinking \\"What was in that box?\\" and was kept wondering until the very end.\r\n\r\nRichard Mulligans did an excellent job. I remember him in the show \\"Empty Nest\\".<br><br>', '2013-03-24 23:51:15', 1, 'f42c0b212d30f28e881192043b96deba', '112.200.20.61'),
(4848, '0327', 'episode', 'Lantis', '', 'This is one of those rare RMT episodes that sort of grates me. The lead character is so self-centered, spoiled, and annoying (though very well acted) that my stretch to feel pity or sympathy for her was something I just couldn''t muster.\r\n\r\nIn one way, it was kind of nice to see a spoiled brat fall into this predicament, only in that it illustrated that sometimes bad things can happen to bad people.\r\n\r\nEven when she bore witness to her "true" reflection in the end, I still remained unmoved by the whole affair. And unfortunately, the Devil character was a bit too Lucky Charm''s Leprichaun for my taste, especially when he delivered the line "now I''ve got you in my power -- forevahh!"\r\n\r\nWhile the show itself was fairly well produced; it moved very quickly and seemed to take place in one spot, as though the lead character never really moved from the x-spot on the stage, despite the fact that the show did have different locations. The acting was top notch as usual and the writing, in my opinion was fair-to-good, but the tale itself just seemed to lack any real luster. I never felt any emotion for anyone. A tale of tainted players.\r\n\r\nI gave the show a 3.9 and would call it an "average" RMT episode.', '2013-03-06 21:55:17', 1, 'd1c683c62e6f614b1668c132cb172d59', '112.200.20.61'),
(4384, '0199', 'episode', 'Liz', '', 'I was going to place my vote in the pole but since I do not remember the shows from 25 years ago, and \\"The Oblong Box\\" is the only episode I have not listened to I cannot objectively vote, so.... I will wait until after listening to a few to do so.\r\n\r\nHowever, since I am not voting I can\\''t see what the votes are. Any chance of letting me know what the votes are? I am kind of curious what others thought of this episode, thanks.', '2013-02-27 21:04:14', 1, '22b3f1ddc5b3c3b50d7446c3cc6f3d2a', '112.200.20.61'),
(4386, '0199', 'episode', 'Manny B.', '', 'Well I certainly enjoyed this show. I was&nbsp;definitely&nbsp;hooked until the end. I was very curious to see how this was going to be wrapped up. Great performances all around and a solid script. I thought it was an example of what I really like about rmt in the first place. They are very skilled at creating suspense. Or at the very least&nbsp;curiosity. Thanks for the show and I am looking forward to next week\\''s episode. This in my humble opinion was a great example of rmt at it\\''s best.<br>', '2013-03-24 23:47:18', 1, '51d9d7dce9a2cf053bd5431c06f6085c', '112.200.20.61'),
(4387, '0199', 'episode', 'Arngrim', '', 'Thanks Alicia for the update , I did and gave it a 1. After 25 some odd years I still found that RMT could put me on the edge of seat. I am looking forward to listening to more, I need my dose of suspense.', '2013-03-03 16:44:24', 1, 'acd480dc422a9eaed6f136c0176d7057', '112.200.20.61'),
(4388, '0199', 'episode', 'Jorge', '', 'The Oblong Box was quite enjoyable to listen to. Edgar Allan Poe is a master storyteller, and i look forward to hearing more rmt shows based on his stories.', '2013-03-03 16:44:25', 1, 'cb4f622e3570fc0c8787a6b7adae9701', '112.200.20.61'),
(4389, '0199', 'episode', 'Luigi', '', 'Excellent RMT episode. I thought the story to be excellent and the sound quality exceptional. Not only the sound encode but the effects seemed well done to me as well..\r\nI enjoyed it very much... Can\\''t top much of the analysis that has allready been done!\r\n\r\nPS. thanks to this group for getting me reconnected to RMT! I am thouroughly enjoying the shows. I listen to I am guessing about 10 shows a week and I started from #1 and am going down the line... I also am listening to other otr... great stuff...\r\nHaving finished \\"Bradbury 13\\" recently I found this to be exceptionally well done!\r\n\r\nWell this may be a little off for this website.\r\nCheers<br><br>', '2013-03-24 23:52:21', 1, '673f5c61333704f68e7ae4758133c4bf', '112.200.20.61'),
(5688, '0596', 'episode', 'Dale haskell', 'dhdalehaskell1@gmail.com', 'One of Morgan Fairchild''s finest moments on CBSRMT!', '2013-03-30 02:07:45', 1, '0e166dfd5654053889b1139072993a80', '67.240.122.10'),
(4390, '0846', 'episode', 'Eddie A.', '', 'This was a very interesting, powerful episode--a story that, even though it''s ostensibly about "Amphoran" and how it might just turn everyone in town into "raving, bloody-thirsty killers," is really about people''s unwillingness to hear inconvenient (and unprofitable) truths, and the lengths they''ll go to in order to hide from those truths. The comparisons to situations today are pretty much inescapable. Think of any number of current politicians today on the environment, for instance, on global warming....\r\n\r\nI did feel that Sam Dann made a mistake in the third act by keeping open the question of whether Amphoran is actually dangerous. This, for me, undercuts the theme of the play, and leads to a somewhat frustrating and inconclusive ending. The focus here should be on the conflict between the townspeople, not on Amphoran itself, which is kind of a silly story device anyway.\r\n\r\nMy wife and I listened to this episode together, and at the same moment (near the end of Act 1), we both said: " ''An Enemy of the People''!" The credits in the show nowhere acknowledge this, but "Miracle in Sharon City" is an adaptation, or revision, or reimagining of Henrik Ibsen''s classic play "An Enemy of the People" (1883). In the Ibsen original, the controversy surrounds information that the town doctor, Thomas Stockmann, has received about the "Baths," the local natural springs which the mayor and town council wish to open to the public as an expensive health resort. The only problem, as Stockmann learns, is that the waters there are dangerously polluted, and will likely cause illness and even death for those who bathe in them. Dann works his story out somewhat differently, but the assembled properties of Ibsen''s play are all there: the physician (or pharmacist, anyway) main character standing against the town, the town meeting, the lab report, the brick being thrown through the hero''s window. So this play is really Ibsen, RMT-style! Which is not a criticism; I thoroughly enjoyed "Miracle in Sharon City."\r\n\r\nIf anyone''s interested, by the way, "An Enemy of the People" has been filmed a couple of times, once with Steve McQueen as Stockmann. (A terrific movie, but probably McQueen''s least-known--it''s not even on video, as far as I can tell. But TCM, the cable movie channel, has run it a couple of times in recent years. It''s well worth checking out.)\r\n\r\nGreat choice!', '2013-03-03 16:44:27', 1, '50d0318d2cb7e3384f1873806fa9356f', '112.200.20.61'),
(4391, '0846', 'episode', 'Kurt', '', 'I''m wondering, then, if as a dual inspiration for this 1978 script Dann took elements from not only "An enemy of the people" but also from a (now-minor cult status) movie which came out two years earlier entitled "Blue Sunshine".\r\n\r\nIn that flick (which in my college days at the University of Missouri was shown as a CBS evening movie a couple of times) a gentleman lost a friend who went on a murderous rampage and killed his family. (Back in the day they, praise God, didn''t show "CSI" style gore...but sound effects and careful editing made it just as gruesome).\r\n\r\nThe surviving friend started investigating, and found that a pattern was emerging...people would start becoming sensitive to loud noises, their eyes would start bugging, their hair would fall competely out, and they''d finally become (as I think John Beal''s RMT character described the Amphoran-enhanced people) "bloodthirsty killers". (As pictured above). Turns out there was a common thread...they''d all in their younger, stupider days dropped a form of LSD called "blue sunshine", which turned out to be the culprit.\r\n\r\nIf Dann used these two elements my hat''s off to him for making a dandy RMT out of it.\r\n\r\n(And I LOVED Beal''s character''s dream sequences, such as at the first new year''s eve party...no one was killing anyone, but he so wonderfully and uneasily conveyed that something wasn''t quite right, in his native Joplin, Missouri, folksy way.)', '2013-03-03 16:44:28', 1, 'f551d14f7f49c41e54a9d912b6b2d396', '112.200.20.61'),
(4392, '0846', 'episode', 'Nate Panambers', '', 'I''d never heard of "Blue Sunshine" until you mentioned it, but I''ve traced the inspiration for a number of RMTs to TV shows of the time, so I''m sure you''re right. With the constant demand for scripts, the main writers couldn''t be too choosy in terms of originality.\r\n\r\nSo: Plot device from "Blue Sunshine''; plot structure from "Enemy of the People."\r\n\r\nCase closed!', '2013-03-03 16:44:29', 1, '4d7874c97c754bd98572c72470190d16', '112.200.20.61'),
(4394, '0846', 'episode', 'Lar', '', 'And it\\''s surprising how well a tale like this stands up over the passage of time. As you pointed out above, similar issues are with us even today.\r\n\r\nI did feel like this one was padded a bit to fit the 45-minute length. How many times did we have to listen to our hero say, \\"I\\''ll wait for the lab tests\\"? More than enough I think.\r\n\r\nThanks again for a fun story . . .&nbsp;<br>', '2013-03-03 16:44:30', 1, 'a363e90ef3b9cdabc40d96279abd629b', '112.200.20.61'),
(5764, '1345', 'episode', 'kj', 'kennyjjohnson@gmail.com', 'i remember a cassette tape where my dad had recorded this off the radio in 1982.  :)', '2013-04-09 20:06:46', 1, '2966c9d450728d9e217f1a98039aecd7', '70.112.132.175'),
(4407, '1140', 'episode', 'Marc Watson', '', 'Well, it''s that time of year again when I listen to this episode and try once again to make sense of what the writer was thinking. This show always intrigues me but I wish I could get answers to some of my questions regarding the huge plotholes. I''ve written on this episode in other places on this site and over the years more and more of this story makes sense to me, but some things (like why the daughter has a phone conversation with the dad who later claims she never called) just don''t make sense.', '2013-02-27 21:48:35', 1, '7d96da870905bb1b1a863e55586826b8', '112.200.20.61'),
(4401, '0846', 'episode', 'Vlad', '', 'I enjoy most of the RMT shows and I did enjoy this one. I agree with the other person who was a little frustrated by him never actually making a decision but was made out to be whacko... Left me wanting an explanation... but as often times in this show that was the point perhaps. The recording was not that good I didn\\''t think...(I seem to remember that volume went down and then back up) I listen to many shows a week so I am relying on memeroy from the otehr day when I listened.', '2013-02-27 21:38:07', 1, '3e56c49be3868fc13b5f051eff3ce1be', '112.200.20.61'),
(4402, '1140', 'episode', 'E. Rod', '', 'I love this episode, even though it raises more questions than answers in its plot, which E.G. Marshall pretty much admits in the closing narration. It''s the perfect episode to listen to in the car as you are traveling somewhere to visit family for the holidays.', '2013-02-27 21:41:21', 1, '927a1c4ab8574cba5d04efb3e349d09d', '112.200.20.61'),
(4403, '1140', 'episode', 'Justin', '', 'I had never heard this tale before, and was surprised as it is such an obvious choice for this holiday.\r\n\r\nIronically, with all the hoo-ha in the US regarding the whole approach to this holiday season and what people are "supposed" to say rather than what people "do" say, the RMT didn''t have to worry about that at all even in 1980... it just wasn''t an issue (ie, Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays).\r\n\r\nAs for the show, I was very pleased. I was hoping it wasn''t going to be too much of a holiday show, and though the underlying theme was Christmas, it was more a pure RMT show, echoing the old Twilight Zones.\r\n\r\nThe story kept its pace nicely and I never lost interest. In fact, without being forceful, the story kept me guessing and wondering. Even in the end, I was totally surprised at the outcome. Not floored, mind you, just surprised... I didn''t expect it.\r\n\r\nI gave it a 5 for being so well done, and for being so on key with the season, despite giving in to an overdone theme. I really liked that it originally aired on Christmas day.', '2013-02-27 21:41:13', 1, 'b81fdafb9161f8fb971980d81093a3e4', '112.200.20.61');
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(4404, '1140', 'episode', 'Ramon R.', '', 'I enjoyed this episode until the end, which I felt was a serious cheat dramatically. \\"Raises more questions than it answers\\" is putting it very mildly...In fact, the episode answers no questions at all. Why did the old lady keep reappearing, and why did she have no memory of the couple each time? Why did she shoot at them? Why did the phone work once and not the second time? Why did she hear her father replying, but the father never seems to receive the call? Etc., etc., etc. This is an undercooked script, one that really needed to be sent back for revisions. But it has a nice flair throughout, and it certainly holds interest in its Twilight Zone-style way. The performances are solid. An enjoyable episode overall, but, for me, a frustrating one.', '2013-02-27 21:41:18', 1, '1f54d1e18324cac3c7a7603b412ad92a', '112.200.20.61'),
(4405, '1140', 'episode', 'Paula Louise', '', 'The music score throughout most of this episode, "A Holiday Visit", is the "Christmas-themed" music straight out of the CBS Music Library. It was used in several late 1950s/ early 1960s era CBS Radio and CBS-TV owned-and-produced dramatic programs.\r\n\r\nSUSPENSE: Out for Christmas (w/Raymond Burr), Dec.1958, CBS Radio\r\n\r\nHAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL: The Hanging Tree (both the Richard Boone CBS-TV edition and the John Dehner CBS Radio edition)\r\n\r\nRAWHIDE: The Twenty Five Santa Clauses (w/Ed Wynn), Dec.1961, CBS-TV\r\n\r\nseveral other earlier Christmas-themed episodes of CBS Radio Mystey Theater in the late 1970s\r\n\r\nSUSPENSE: Dog Star, Dec.1957, CBS Radio\r\n\r\nTWILIGHT ZONE: Night of the Meek (w/Art Carney), CBS-TV, Dec.1960; This 2nd season TZ episode was one of the six episodes from that season that was pre-taped at CBS Television City instead of being filmed at MGM. Unfortunately, the copy that Sci-Fi Channel shows of this particular taped episode is not a pure video-dub off the master, but rather comes from the 16-mm kinescope film.\r\n\r\nI can''t seem to think of any Christmas-themed episodes of GUNSMOKE from the late 1950s or early 1960s, either CBS Radio or CBS-TV, but if there are any, I would assume that it would have heavily used this "Christmas-themed music" from the CBS Music Library.\r\n\r\nAs far as I know, there was no Christmas-themed episode of PERRY MASON on CBS-TV during its nine-year run.\r\n\r\nI know that there were other misc. CBS Radio (and possibly CBS-TV) owned series which had Christmas-themed episodes from the late 1950s and early1960s which used this particular music score, and one that comes to mind is a late 1950s Christmas episode of CBS Radio''s "Whispering Streets" series.\r\n\r\nGeneral Mills CBS Radio Adventure Theater only had "new" episodes from Feb. thru July 1977, reruns from Aug.1977 thru Jan.1978. I don''t think that there was any Christmas-themed episode(s).\r\n\r\nMark J. Cuccia....\r\nThis is CBS, the Co-LUM-Bi-a Broadcasting System!', '2013-02-27 21:41:09', 1, '85c67ec5fd4488706604f35939308ed8', '112.200.20.61'),
(4406, '1140', 'episode', 'Ross Antonel', '', 'This was the FIRST episode I ever "officially" recorded. Kept me guessing the whole time. Still one of my favorites.\r\n\r\nIf you haven''t heard it before, GO FOR IT!', '2013-02-27 21:41:03', 1, 'd1590813ff9d1ca7c0a35377dcfa5f13', '112.200.20.61'),
(4408, '0840', 'episode', 'Chris', '', 'Thank you! I listend every night in ''73, ''74, ''75 and am enjoying them again now,just as much as I did then. Thank you very much!', '2013-02-27 22:21:11', 1, 'bb130c152cf484d8a8dc904f16342278', '64.136.212.123'),
(4409, '1140', 'episode', 'Louie', '', 'I think I agree with all the comments above. Lots of unresolved issues with the tale. No hint of angry family matters, but the girl hasn''t been home for a dozen years? The family diarama tries to kill them? Good thing there wasn''t a dog in her parent''s house who might have chewed on the pieces, or done something even more unspeakable. Dogs do, ya know.\r\n\r\nThis is why all good and loving folks torch their miniture Chirstmas villages annually. To prevent loved ones from slipping into parallel universes that just might kill them. I hate it when that happens. I also sometimes pour beer over my little towns and those of my friends; to spread the holiday cheer with those who might be interdimensionally captured in a blizzard of confusion.\r\n\r\nI don''t have the hotel thing, but I do have a public library in my village. That way marooned travelers can go to the stacks and read up on the subtleties of wormholes, timeloops, and interdimensional potholes. They could, I suppose, even listen to audio recordings of old radio shows (which my library most certainly does have) and perhaps gain some insight into their perdicament.\r\n\r\nMaybe it''s just replicas of European towns that have this power of mayhem over us. Could be. I think American replicas are more benign in this regard. Food for thought.\r\n\r\nBut all in all I enjoyed the tale. Not the greatest, but not bad either. Plus it has elicited quite a few comments from the listeners . . . perhaps that''s another way of judging the quality of the shows.\r\n\r\n(A good recording, but something like a quarter tone too low . . . I think all the voices were distorted ever so slightly.)\r\n\r\nThanks for a fun show and happy holidays to all!', '2013-03-03 16:44:31', 1, 'f32069d56b885a9fbef66fd2ac802986', '112.200.20.61'),
(4410, '1140', 'episode', 'James', '', 'I agree with the many of you... lots of questions left unanswered! The old lady?? who what why?? Fairly enjoyeable though and would indeed be a great one for traveling this time of year. I like the thought of it being a model Christmas village... like the twilight zone episode similiar to that storyline.\r\n"If there were an explanation for everything where would the magic in life be?" Indeed Mr Marshall.. Indeed!', '2013-03-03 16:44:32', 1, '4b789e266bbb7576ebf753e52f960561', '112.200.20.61'),
(4411, '1140', 'episode', 'Elwin J.P.', '', 'YEAH! Mine isn''t cut off. I have the original that I taped in ''80 on KFAB, Omaha.\r\n\r\nI am going to go play it now!!!', '2013-03-03 16:44:33', 1, '08a7a2e76cf7f4913152697251136bc1', '112.200.20.61'),
(4412, '1140', 'episode', 'Lanie', '', 'I love your response!\r\n\r\nSome quick thoughts:\r\n\r\n1) Why does this happen to these people? There\\''s no explanation for why they end up there or how they get out.\r\n2) The fact that the old lady is the last one in town is probably because, over the years, all the other people for the village have been lost or broken.\r\n3) The stars in the sky that suddenly&nbsp;disappear&nbsp;-- I\\''m&nbsp;assuming&nbsp;they are meant to be the tree lights which were turned off when her parents went to bed (Which begs the question: If they can see the tree lights, why don\\''t they notice that they are in a giant living room? &nbsp;4) The carol singing they hear? Perhaps the parents are playing a&nbsp;Christmas&nbsp;LP on their nifty stereo.\r\n5) The part that really bugs me: When they realize where they\\''ve been the whole time, the husband says \\"Well, we\\''d better stop talking about it.\\" What!? They aren\\''t going to tell the parents \\"Hey, we just spent the last 24 hours trapped in the model village under your Christmas tree\\" ?\r\nI still love the episode!<br><br>', '2013-03-24 23:47:59', 1, 'c277ef18f308dcc696d4d77b6f803cf2', '112.200.20.61'),
(4413, '0957', 'episode', 'Jean S.', '', 'This program centers on a young Pennsylvania couple who purchase an antique grandfather clock at a garage sale. The clock appears to be a bargain but when the couple take the clock home, they experience several odd things. After a visit from the woman''s mother, they contact a pyschic investigator who in turn brings his assistant into the fray. Soon, they learn the true demonic purpose of the clock.\r\n\r\nThis story is unusual in that we, the listeners, are hoping for a positive resolution to the devilish concepts that are presented but we never get the satisfaction. I think it''s safe to say that if I had heard this story as a young kid, I probably would have soiled myself and had a series of restless nights. This type of story, where the devil prevails, has always scared the hell out of me but the play is another excellent example of the RMT magic and serves to demonstrate why some of us were terrified when we eventually fell asleep. My minor criticisms center on the voices of Margaret/Leona and the hunchback man as these two actors seem to be trying a bit too hard and their voices don''t seem natural. That being said, this play is an excellent example of how the writer, Bob Juhren, painted a terrific picture without making the dialogue seem contrived. I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation but, again, I wonder if I would have been able to sleep as a kid.\r\n\r\nNow for an off the wall perspective intended to be lighthearted: I don''t remember what year the movie, "Ghostbusters", came out but it seems that there were a couple of references in this play that were similar. In both Ghostbusters and in this play, we had a reference to an ectoplasmic manifestation and secondly, the "Keymaster" concept in Ghostbusters seemed similar to the devil''s locksmith in this play. I admit this is a stretch but I thought I''d toss it out to the group for fun.', '2013-03-03 16:44:35', 1, 'bf0b67eacaaf6fe151c6781c6006df73', '112.200.20.61'),
(4414, '0957', 'episode', 'Arric', '', 'This was my first "re-listening" since I first heard it as a 12 year old late one night in 1979. I wished I''d have been patient and waited until I could assure I would not be interrupted. Nonetheless, it was as good as I remembered it.\r\n\r\nThis is what I used to listen to CBSRMT for. It was the memory of this very show, (along with "Out of Sight" and "A Long Way from Home") that kept the desire to hear the show again after all these years. This is my kind of show.\r\n\r\nThe show has an excellent script with no extraneous dialogue. The voice of the medium is perhaps a little overacted, but Tony Roberts and Patricia Elliot do a great job. The utter hopelesness of the end leaves its mark on you.\r\n\r\nI hope you all enjoyed it. It''s my favorite.', '2013-03-03 16:44:35', 1, 'ea929dbe628c927efb8023b5900f85b2', '112.200.20.61'),
(4415, '0957', 'episode', 'Lestat', '', 'The CBS Radio Mystery theater Presents:â€ Hickory, Dickory, Doomâ€ , written by Bob Juhren.\r\n\r\nThis is a delightful episode. It begins with an interesting story and maintains the drama and involvement throughout. The ending is a home run! There are elements and sustained confirmations to the story THAT MAKE THE STORY WHAT IT ULTIMITLY IS-DOOM. Doom exists in the real world, it is undesirable and avoided. Still, in reality it is a possible outcome: an ending that is undesired or dreaded. If doom is to have any meaning, to carry any weight, it must be substantial. If a story of doom always has a happy ending, then doom is nothing to be feared. That is not life. Things certainly don’t always work out. We are not in control of everything! Sometimes life has doom-ful elements that occur despite our best efforts. Doom is an inevitable progress towards an ending that favors the antagonist. What stature should the antagonist have if he never succeeds? What impact if doom does succeed! The success of doom substantiates its existence as an entity. Uniquely, this story lives up to a title involving doom. Our clock in this story may not know what time it is in the “realâ€ world the story takes place in, but its chime is ominous and prevalent. It is calling as a declaration of its eminence, its place in the story.( the role of doom in life?) Here, it is never silenced. Unlike so many other forms of entertainment, the CBSRMT allows a story to reach its inevitable conclusion that is supported throughout the episode. Or it surprises you! Who Knows. It doesn’t always turn out to be a happy ending. The unpredictability mirrors the reality and irony of life. This is one of the aspects that make this series great. I’m not looking for unhappy endings, per se. I am looking for a story that carries substance. The “substance “ is felt in its impact. The substance reveals itself when one considers and thinks of the story long after the CD has finished spinning. It leaves me as the listener that I’ve not only heard entertainment that is unique, but it is unique because it is relevancy. “Such things don’t happen, do theyâ€, asks E.G. We are left wondering. If every story ends up positive for the protagonist, or at least essentially positive with the antagonist popping his head up at the end to provide for a sequel (such as Freddy Kruger, Friday the 13th and the countless other rip-offs) then because we know it won’t end in doom, it is less suspenseful and therefore really a rip off! I love CBSRMT because the producer allows for multiple possible endings...thus we really don’t know how it will end till it does. In this episode, even though we like the characters, the course of the story goes on.\r\nKudos to CBSRMT.\r\n\r\nBesides the fulfillment of the title, the technical aspects of the story are good. The clock chimes ominously in the background at appropriate times. The chimes are nicely ominous. Himan Brown has an enjoyable appearance (enjoyable mostly because we know it is he who is acting) as Mr. Lum. The characters are likable. I thought Robert Dryden’s performance as the weird spirit lurking about the house and ultimately knocking on the door terrific. On a less than positive side, I am left wondering why a religious fellow, the clerical uncle who died and had possession of the clock, would leave it open to attainment without warning, A minor point to be sure, in a very entertaining episode. 10- Supernatural.....UNTIL NEXT TIME.', '2013-03-03 16:44:36', 1, 'c70d7434408d142769799bf543067e55', '112.200.20.61'),
(4416, '0957', 'episode', 'Juries Henry', '', 'I agree the medium was over done (MEDIUM WELL..)...and bordering on annoying. But, she had an&nbsp;ultimately&nbsp;small part. Funny too, how the male psychic was saying well into the second episode that he detects \\"no real evil\\" here. Boy was he wrong. UNTIL NEXT TIME <br>', '2013-03-24 23:48:12', 1, '361ec9c4113f0fb8e35429bd25a0b4da', '112.200.20.61'),
(4417, '0957', 'episode', 'Francelar', '', 'Okay, well, I just listened.\r\n\r\nI had not heard this one before. This "style" of program is not my type in general. It is a Twilight Zone type of story (which is my type) but the occultic spiritual world connection is not a big thing of interest to me.\r\n\r\nBuying the clock and knowing that there is going to be some type of problem with it - I like that part. Then things start to happen - still interesting. I like the fact that the clock does not chime but it is chiming - nice touch there to build interest. The mother-in-law arrives and I start to lose some interest - especially when the psychics (or whatever) show up. Now somewhat uninteresting until the guy comes to the door and steps into the clock. Now, I''m right back with it.\r\n\r\nIt''s all good now and I am interested in this ..... until the end! What the ... ? Well, what are we supposed to think of the end here? An unfinished (or perhaps really finished) end to this story.\r\n\r\nWell, a good job of writing and good acting in this one. The writer is being very creative. It''s just not completely up my alley but it was interesting and had I been listening in the middle of the night rather than on a sunny afternoon, this one might have given me a panic attack.\r\n\r\nNow to see what you all had to say about it... ', '2013-03-03 16:44:38', 1, 'd857e4e2e31c1963c9d1eaf21d4c7356', '112.200.20.61'),
(4418, '0957', 'episode', 'Jason', '', 'I am left wondering why a religious fellow, the clerical uncle who died and had possession of the clock, would leave it open to attainment without warning\r\n\r\nWould this be because the demon (or whatever it was) was in prison and the minister was not aware of nay problem with it? That''s what I assumed at least.', '2013-03-27 15:34:07', 1, '0b6b3ce4996e23153b978bd4db9e238c', '112.200.20.61'),
(4419, '0957', 'episode', 'M. Kadison', '', 'Hmmm. :idea: Then again, maybe our demon friend was aware that a man of the cloth owned the clock and was thus somehow inhibited. He sat in there waiting. :evil: The demon certainly was not inhibited by the psychic folks.....but then one of them thought it was a non malignant until it was too late. You indicated a confusion with the end. I think this time the bad guys win. Just that simple. A nice change to the usual, me thinks. .......UNTIL NEXT TIME', '2013-03-03 16:44:39', 1, 'fb8ce0d9f5d07b936d4149c9a19bb232', '112.200.20.61'),
(4420, '0957', 'episode', 'Caren J.', '', 'Yes, the bad guy did win that time. I was listening while I was doing some work and I thought \\"it can\\''t be over yet.\\"\r\n\r\nOh well, at least the program came back on the next night. &nbsp;It was a good program to listen to and I find myself thinking more about it after listening so it had \\"sticking power.\\"<br><br>', '2013-03-25 21:41:49', 1, '3f242c52d20cbb0c1069f08f2abb6471', '112.200.20.61'),
(4421, '0957', 'episode', 'Coulton', '', 'The good: (and there\\''s a lot of it)\r\n\r\n- At the end of the episode those chimes that are the same as my Dad\\''s (and your relative\\''s) clock ring...E.G. says \\"I see by the old clock in the corner that our time is up for now...\\"\r\n\r\n- Even when the actors do things that would be laughed out of modern day television (or even radio) programming, the RMT could make it work. Witness \\"Margaret Egan\\", the female medium that was brought in. It was obviously either Patricia Elliott or Joan Shea (each of whom was already playing other characters on the show) portraying her in an almost amusing faux-aristocratic clenched-jaw voice. Robert Dryden was also in the show, but he had to adapt a different voice as satan\\''s doorkeeper, the one who says \\"I mussszt seee the claaaack\\"... These adaptations would be crude by today\\''s standards, but in the mix of elements within the RMT, they work for me.\r\n\r\n- The music...ohhh, the music. I\\''ve posted before that I like the use of CBS\\'' stock spooky sounds in the RMT. This particular episode uses many of the same music interludes as what many think is the finest \\"Twilight Zone\\" episode ever produced - \\"To serve man\\" (itself with an equally disturbing ending). At the 28:52 mark right after Margaret talks about \\"the gate to hell\\" there\\''s an interlude I always enjoyed that was used effectively in two other of my \\"listening log\\" favorite episodes: \\"The laughing maiden\\" and \\"Yesterday\\''s giant\\". Good use of music beds in this one.\r\n\r\n- If ya\\''ll haven\\''t heard them, there are two episodes I\\''d recommend on related themes: \\"Time and again\\" (which features another weird clock) and \\"The house on chimney pot lane\\" (which features another house that has strange things happen to it after people bring something in, although this house was thought to be haunted prior to it\\")\r\n\r\n- Back to actors, I always enjoy the work of Robert Dryden (even when he\\''s asked to do things like he was here) and Tony Roberts, who was most effective at playing the \\"ordinary guy\\" type of hero quite often in the RMT.\r\n\r\nThe bad:\r\n\r\n- I don\\''t like the theology, though I won\\''t get into the arguments here. As I said before I\\''m a recovering addict, so these things are personal to me.\r\n\r\n- I do get bothered by the occasional \\"everyone loses\\" endings of certain RMT episodes. However, this comes with the genre...certain \\"Twilight Zone\\" episodes ended the same way.', '2013-06-19 23:08:49', 1, 'b096576dcaee4674b586dcf57154ce33', '112.200.20.61'),
(4422, '0957', 'episode', 'Mike C.', '', 'Texas- That''s interesting, as I too thought of the Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man". I also thought of a haunting, fatalistic episode, and a great one from the first Dimension X show, titled of all things, "The Outer Limit" Science fiction at it''s best. I won''t give away the story...give it a listen. UNTIL NEXT TIME\r\n\r\nPS...I still don''t have this quote thing figured out, despite Charlie''s efforts. Feel like a caveman. Uggg!', '2013-03-03 16:44:42', 1, '368c336b45c2ce071368d1ee79eb03a5', '112.200.20.61'),
(4423, '0957', 'episode', 'Iris Marie', '', 'In case anyone is still checking these posts ... I listened to Hickory Dickory Doom last week and it scared the bejabbers out of me. I have an apartment that creaks and groans at night in hot weather as it cools off... had to listen to that for a while after the show was done. Was just falling asleep when the church bell struck midnight several blocks away. Anyway this show goes right to my all-time list as well.<br>', '2013-03-25 00:18:11', 1, '4e5a7f124688ea6a787ea26e1ecc03ae', '112.200.20.61'),
(4424, '0957', 'episode', 'Leslie', '', 'You bet we''re checking! Great comments!', '2013-03-03 16:44:48', 1, '829424e71e0ad2cee674011bf6c46f2e', '112.200.20.61'),
(4425, '0957', 'episode', 'Jesty', '', 'I absolutely loved this episode! This&nbsp;definitely&nbsp;goes on my all-time favorite list.\r\n\r\nI\\''ve noticed through my own observations and the opinions of others just how many genres radio mystery theater represents. I loved this episode for exactly some of the same reasons other people didn\\''t care for it. But at the same time there have been episodes that I didn\\''t really care for that others loved.\r\n\r\nIsn\\''t it amazing that one program can cast such a wide net! From outer space, to the jungle, from historical fiction, to the occult, from murder and suspense to the realm of science. How amazing and brilliant. This show really deserves much more credit that it receives!<br>', '2013-03-25 21:42:08', 1, '231321d72d16d2922e52972d760e15ea', '112.200.20.61'),
(4426, '0957', 'episode', 'Erik Lensherr', '', 'Glad to see your post on this program. It had been awhile since I listened to it and re-reading the comments was a great deal of fun.', '2013-02-28 00:49:17', 1, 'c489337bd645b21efca0f0e6cfed4312', '112.200.20.61'),
(4427, '0957', 'episode', 'Linda', '', 'bang-on with the comments about the CBSRMT wide net... I just listened to a bunch of episodes that varied widely - it is quite remarkable how vivid the settings are in my imagination without the benefit of any visuals, just the dialogue, narration, and sound effects. And with so many episodes from which to select, there''s bound to be something for everyone!', '2013-03-03 16:44:49', 1, 'e39955fb226e2e9c45fce01a0f610b96', '112.200.20.61'),
(4428, '0957', 'episode', 'J. Riviera', '', 'I''m wondering if the strange little devil guy who shows up and goes inside the clock is related to the freaky little demon guy who shows up in "The Crack in the Wall" and enables a distraught couple to hear the cries of their dead child through the crack in the wall in their basements. Both episodes: freaky!!', '2013-03-03 16:44:50', 1, 'cd55b55c1a26429aea957b055a2620d9', '112.200.20.61'),
(4429, '0957', 'episode', 'Joker', '', 'I finally got to catch up to this one. I enjoyed it, though not as much as others. It was really well done, and I have to laugh because, when they decided to move the clock, I thought, "of course, it isn''t going to budge."\r\n\r\nSure enough, it wouldn''t budge. I found it to be a bit over the top for my personal taste, but really happy with it over all. A great choice, especially for the "mystery" part of Mystery Theater.\r\n\r\nThanks!!', '2013-03-03 16:44:51', 1, 'e397d216b735aa8dd72589f0222e1d38', '112.200.20.61'),
(4430, '0957', 'episode', 'Lindie', '', 'This is one of the first that I\\''d ever heard. And I found it gripping then. I still think it\\''s a strong tale dramatically told.\r\n\r\nThe distinctiveness of voices (on radio) is something that Brown understood very well. It doesn\\''t do to have actors sound like one another on the air; that way lies confusion.\r\n\r\nThe claaaack and the sound effects are played . . . to our total enjoyment!\r\n\r\nHere\\''s something a bit odd, from my point of view. So many of the RMT supernatural tales depend on an understanding (perhaps acceptance?) of biblical mythology; whether it be conventional or unconventional renderings of the ancient tales. Now I\\''m a pronounced skeptic, yet I still enjoy these dramatized fictions. Dracula, etc. But perhaps I would be open to paranormal tales based on Hindu or Buddhist themes as well. Go figure . . .\r\n\r\nThe dark ending --- we\\''re all doomed --- is fine, great even. So long as all the RMT episdoes don\\''t end that way . . . and certainly they don\\''t. The canon contains a nice mix of dark, light, and just plain confusing endings.<br>', '2013-03-03 16:45:43', 1, '382ee6839b4d157b96ea9b11346b0c2e', '112.200.20.61'),
(4431, '0957', 'episode', 'Volks Derrick M.', '', 'The horror and bizarre themes were always my favorites.\r\n\r\nThis show caught my attention because it took place in \\"southern Pennsylvania\\" which is where I listened to it back in the \\''70s (southwestern PA.)<br>', '2013-03-25 00:21:25', 1, '07b7544b14eceb578756a6fd21b8c094', '112.200.20.61'),
(5672, '0670', 'episode', 'Renee', 'renee.kelly@cox.net', 'Very well written. Worth listening to. 4 stars.', '2013-03-25 05:32:20', 1, '3b6478cae088447e9c98f62e86b25c0c', '70.178.163.118'),
(4432, '0429', 'episode', 'Jo Anne', '', 'Okay . . . fools charge in where angels --- you know the rest.\r\n\r\nI guess this was the top vote-getter; is that right? But I think I''ll have to take a minority position here and say I didn''t enjoy it as much as I''d hoped to.\r\n\r\nFirst, the audio quality was lacking. But by tweaking the bass way down and the midrange way up, I could squish it around so it became audibly intelligible.\r\n\r\nReally there are scarier and creepier episodes out there. It''s my own fault; I tried to vote about 4 minutes after the polls closed, so I have only myself to blame.\r\n\r\nGosh, is my sis dead or not; was she born a strange person or not; is she scaring the bejeezes out of people or not - - - well actually it''s a pretty good tale in that regard, so I''ll put it in the top half of the canon --- in the top 700 stories.\r\n\r\nBut as I said, there are (in my opinion) better Halloween tales out there. With a bit more physical action, with more interesting voices, a trickier plot, and so on.\r\n\r\nI''d say more but I have to go now; I hear my dead sister calling me from behind the mirror, beyond the grave. I guess I owe her something.', '2013-03-03 16:45:59', 1, 'a92bcf41397729d7ca1f2a4280b5ba1e', '112.200.20.61'),
(4433, '0429', 'episode', 'J. Lanier', '', 'to be honest, the blame should likely fall on me, morton.\r\n\r\nat the end of the poll, there were six shows - each with a single vote. my vote was the deciding one, and since i\\''d never heard this program before, i chose it. it sounded good and i was sold from Doublex\\''s description in the other thread. i almost chose Diary of a Madman, as that also had a good ring to it.\r\n\r\nalas, it comes down to a low participation count. i think had more users jumped in, we might have had a different result. who knows. sorry this was not the ideal episode, but, the good news is... there\\''s always next year!! There\\''s a whole band of folks listening, but who prefer not to participate. it\\''s their prerogative, of course, but it would be wonderful to hear from some occasionally.<br>', '2013-03-24 23:53:33', 1, 'ee39a18218ae004533899fd118efcf35', '112.200.20.61'),
(5689, '0597', 'episode', 'Dale haskell', 'dhdalehaskell1@gmail.com', 'I don''t feel the episode is as literal as Glenn F. does. For me,the conspiracy wasn''t simply a corporate manipulation or the difficulty in starting over but the displacement of a person from every aspect of their life - personal,professional,down to their moment in time. Reality is blurred for the character as is the sequence of events in his existence. i found it an interesting episode.', '2013-03-30 02:07:52', 1, '3f4c1ae8843d2ff19f5518a7d4308175', '67.240.122.10'),
(4434, '0429', 'episode', 'Ritz', '', 'Please know that I\\''m not actually complaining about this show, or any show for that matter. I mean, gosh . . . a free site where shows may be found, listened to, and discussed with other fans of RMT. How \\"tough\\" is that on me as a listener?\r\n\r\nSo I look at my duties as a free listener to give an honest, and hopefully slightly amusing, review of the occasional story. I\\''m not shooting at being&nbsp;provocative&nbsp;simply to be&nbsp;provocative. When you get down to it, the worst story of all the RMT stories ever done . . . is better than no story at all.<br>', '2013-03-24 23:53:47', 1, '8e5dbc9844610f8bda1f6808d92f5363', '112.200.20.61'),
(4435, '0429', 'episode', 'R. Benga', '', 'Hello-\r\n\r\nsince this is one of my personal favorites- one that I\\''ve pushed forward since I\\''ve joined this site- I feel obliged to comment and even defend it, or, at least explain why I like it so much. This is definitely one episode though, I\\''ll admit, that none of my many RMT fan friends like as much as I do-\r\n\r\na couple of notes first-\r\n\r\nas far as it being a good or bad choice for Halloween- well, a Halloween story should naturally have monsters in it, and the real monster in it is all too human. Still, it\\''s not often heard- and for that reason alone it deserves some attention\r\n\r\nyes, it is definitely of lesser audio quality, not a good encode at all- but that\\''s not the episode\\''s fault. Those who collected RMT in the last 10 years or show might remember this one as being one of the few \\"lost\\" episodes for a while. I did not get a copy until about 5 years ago, after several years of searching for it. Unfortunately this is the best we\\''ve got at this point.\r\n\r\nOK, why I like it so much-\r\n\r\nfor personal reasons this is the most vivid RMT memory of my youth. I heard the show on its repeat airing, which was in summer of 76 I believe. I can remember exactly where I was when I heard, the time of day (early evening) and who was with me when I heard it. I can remember I was in a cold sweat by the time it was over. Of course, I was only 9 at the time...\r\n\r\nbut in any case, this was the turning point for RMT for me- the one show I can point to which made me a fan for the rest of my life- and as such to me it is tremendously important.\r\n\r\nOK, to move away from the personal aspect, and to point toward other reasons why this show should be heard:\r\n\r\nthis is a Henry Slesar episode, who IMO, was one of the finest writers RMT employed. Read some of his murder mystery stories in Alfred Hitchcock anthology sometimes.\r\n\r\nthis is a ghost who is actually out there killing people, rather than merely scaring them\r\n\r\nI find the scene where the sister sees the other\\''s reflection, and the continual cry of \\"Heather...\\" to be both visually and mentally disturbing\r\n\r\nthe real horror in this episode, and one of the most dreadful horrors perpetrated in any RMT episode, does not come from the ghost, but rather, from the reason why she became one. I encounter the severely handicapped every day in my job, which is why the treatment of the handicapped sister just grabs me to the core- indeed her revenge is more than just.\r\n\r\nIn essence, this episode is what personally makes me a RMT fan, and brings me to this website, which I\\''ve always enjoyed so much. So I apologize if this episode did not strike the same chord with you as with me!<br><br>', '2013-03-24 23:49:13', 1, 'c32fdc9390e43a0b705e1c5bb51f890c', '112.200.20.61'),
(4436, '0429', 'episode', 'Patrick Shavers', '', 'In late on the voting sorry. It is the first show that I have heard since I was as child ... not very fair. At first, my chest tightend up at the sound of the door .. That was last night.\r\n\r\nOdd, I have some tears in my eyes right now. I gave it a fricken five. I was sooooo happy just to hear it. I do not think it mattered what it was. I have to thank you guys. The audio was ok for me as I have been listening to some stuff from the 30''s and 40''s and am not sure of what is the "bench mark".\r\n\r\nThank you again, I was just so happy to here the show. My wife looked at me and my big smile and my kids were so happy for me.', '2013-03-03 16:46:02', 1, '82a7471eb8e410e89b4722b2f746dc0e', '112.200.20.61'),
(4437, '0107', 'episode', 'Agnes', '', 'Thanks for this show!\r\n\r\nAs E.G says in his postscript remarks; he considers this adaptation closer to the Stevenson original than any of the film versions of the story.\r\n\r\nKevin McCarthy is at his best here, better than he is in the Sherlock Holmes episodes, in my opinion. His characterization is creepy and convincing. I think it''s a great 45 minute abridgement of the original.\r\n\r\nThere seem to be a few seconds missing in the middle of the show . . . perhaps a gap caused by flipping over a 60 minute cassette during the initial recording? Just a couple of lines when Jeckyll warns Utterson (?) to leave the room rather than witness the transformation.\r\n\r\nOut of all the adaptations of classic material that RMT did over the years, this one remains my favorite. You can almost smell London in the 1890''s!', '2013-03-03 16:46:03', 1, '8fb996d64995215afe8b839fe8a12b6c', '112.200.20.61'),
(4438, '0107', 'episode', 'Dave B.', '', 'as for this program, i\\''d heard it a while back, so it was great to revisit. for some reason, this website allows me to focus on a program with a deeper analysis and respect than just randomly listening.\r\n\r\nthis was a terrific program. it delivers on all levels and held my attention all the way through. some adaptations tend to border into the boring or forced, but this one was as fresh and exciting as any other RMT tale offered up.\r\n\r\nas a note, i recently watched the animated film, Treasure Planet, a futuristic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson\\''s Treasure Island.\r\n\r\nwhile mostly a kid\\''s movie, it was great fun and held true to the spirit of the original tale. a surprise in it was the name they chose for the ship they travelled in: RLS LEGEND, a homage to the original author.\r\n\r\nanyhow, thanks again Morton, for a fine choice.<br>', '2013-03-24 23:52:42', 1, 'af5622ac3502b23df9814680ed979b9a', '112.200.20.61'),
(4439, '1313', 'episode', 'Bert', '', 'This episode plays with the familiar "Is it real or is it a dream?" notion which has been used many times before (one notable example is TWILIGHT ZONE''s "Shadow Play"), but with the fresh twist of two dreamers instead of one. That''s a fascinating conceit, and holds the story quite well for most of its length--even if there are probably a couple more dream sequences than we really need, a product of the 45-minute length requirement that bedeviled so many RMT scripts.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, the threads of this otherwise suspenseful tale never really weave together, and we''re left with a frustratingly ambiguous ending in which, it seems to me, the story doesn''t end so much as it simply stops. Some may hear in this ending an appropriately dreamlike ambiguity; I just felt it was a dramatic cheat, leaving far too much unanswered.\r\n\r\nInterestingly, although this episode indicates "Mary Renwick" as the writer of this script (as does the CBSRMT Episode Guide by Payton & Grams), Tammy Grimes informs us at the beginning that the author is, in fact, RMT stalwart Bob Juhren. Juhren''s long career in radio went back to the golden age of OTR, with numerous scripts for series such as SUSPENSE, and he was certainly one of the more reliable writers in the RMT stable.\r\n\r\nMany people here probably already know this, but there is an *unproduced* Bob Juhren RMT script available for reading online. It''s quite effective in its spooky way, and of course loyal RMT listeners will be able to fill in the music cues and sound effects as they read. It''s fascinating to experience an RMT that might have been.', '2013-03-27 15:30:11', 1, 'c89e7169215684d41225c4a654940332', '112.200.20.61'),
(4440, '1313', 'episode', 'Lyle', '', 'oops! my bad on the Bob Juhren ownership! nice catch', '2013-03-03 16:46:05', 1, '768300d0ae24ce111965bdb00e8efd26', '112.200.20.61'),
(4441, '1313', 'episode', 'A. Powers', '', 'Ditto! That was neat.', '2013-03-03 16:46:06', 1, '2a5afacbc32744ee80d41bbb40293917', '112.200.20.61'),
(4442, '1313', 'episode', 'S. Jameson', '', 'I couldn\\''t believe when it simply ended like that. I thought I\\''d fallen asleep and missed something. It seemed to just keep chasing a tail and finally unraveled with no resolution.', '2013-03-03 16:46:07', 1, '6d23980b001b8631a8fe03523bc9207c', '112.200.20.61'),
(4443, '1313', 'episode', 'Letty', '', 'That was a really good episode. I''m fond of stories concerning dreams because the very nature of dreams is unpredictable. I had no idea what was going to happen next throughout the story. A few people have mentioned their dislike with the ambiguous ending, but I don''t have a problem with it at all. The uncertainty of the ending seems to echo the uncertainty that the two are experiencing on a regular basis. The show could do better at actually putting the audience in the character''s shoes. In my opinion, the show could have been better if the lines between reality and dreams were blurred sooner and with less clarity. I think the suggestion that dreams are reality and reality could be dreams at the end was very thought provoking. It made me re-listen to the story with a new perspective. The second evaluation, however, made me notice things that really don''t make sense in the story. I really don''t get the scene where the protagonist, his wife, and co-worker are getting rammed by the boat. If it is real life, how does this fit in with the rest of the story? It just seems very random.', '2013-03-03 16:46:08', 1, 'dbfeffbfd09be4af59ffbf2b4669b7ca', '112.200.20.61'),
(4444, '0717', 'episode', 'Geoff G.', '', 'This was a good one...some of the RMT''s a-list actors were on here. I remember getting into a spirited discussion on the first thread about this episode so I''m not sure what more to add, but it''s a good one.', '2013-03-27 15:12:50', 1, '5984dbb812183f96fc48e2b415b1eb01', '112.200.20.61'),
(4445, '0717', 'episode', 'Aaron', '', 'I''ve got a good one here. Still a decent story.', '2013-03-03 16:46:09', 1, 'ffcc4c7fb0d16c45cca0f93a8bc48219', '112.200.20.61'),
(4446, '0717', 'episode', 'Jared J.', '', 'What I liked most about this show (and why I recommended it) is how it delves into the human psyche and the interactions with it''s surroundings when one is placed under mental stress. Although this show touches on solitary confinement and the effects that it has on the individual, it doesn''t quite capture the essence for which it is intended.\r\n\r\nThe very nature of this form of punishment is to serve as a deterrent to prisoners so that they will learn to welcome their newfounded regimented environment and adhere to the rules that go with it.\r\n\r\nThis story does a good job of capturing the prisoner''s complete and utter loneliness that he suffers from as a result of his confinement and his desperate need to interact with others. You see him cling to the smallest of good deeds that one of the guards does for him (which he does out of sympathy, no doubt). And how he rebels against the other guard, who is not so good, and intentionally goes out of his way to try to make the prisoner''s surroundings as miserable as possible.', '2013-03-03 16:46:10', 1, 'cea7f2eec0f6a0ebc4a164c5a64f1c89', '112.200.20.61'),
(4447, '1104', 'episode', 'Willmon Ryan', '', 'Much of Sam Dann''s writing for RMT takes familiar plot elements and adds a new twist or perspective to them (or, in his lesser scripts, adds nothing at all). In the case of the entertaining "Ton of Gold," the listener can hardly help but think of THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (Bogart film or B. Traven novel)--the same desert setting, the same kind of greedy-people-turning-on-each-other plot. At a further remove, it''s also reminiscent of the great silent film GREED (and the novel on which it''s based, Frank Norris''s MCTEAGUE). But in general the story is of a piece with any number of "thieves fall out" tales (or, more specifically, "thieves fall out over a woman").\r\n\r\nBut this episode added the element of Joe Raincloud, who plays a very interesting role here. It''s obvious by the end that, whether or not the curse is real, Crazy Joe is something of a master at manipulating our evil characters'' emotions. Telling the tale from his perspective helped make the rather familiar story elements seem fresh--something Dann often does. Sam Dann was not the most original writer in the world, but he was often able to find ways to make old stories seem new.\r\n\r\nI do wish there had been some sort of final twist to this tale--the ultimate fate of the characters is telegraphed early on, and while it''s fun to follow the twists and turns near the end, everything does indeed end up where we all knew it would, which, at least for me, is slightly disappointing. Still, a very solid, thoroughly engrossing episode!', '2013-02-28 03:43:27', 1, '0a8daecb8a43215f490a9594e9730b37', '112.200.20.61'),
(4448, '1104', 'episode', 'Dick G.', '', 'Nice choice.\r\n\r\nGordon Gould didn''t usually play a bad guy, so this was an interesting twist for him as well.', '2013-02-28 03:08:34', 1, '3c4ef247a87adebdc2b4cd06f2ec4fa5', '112.200.20.61'),
(4449, '1104', 'episode', 'Fred Norton', '', 'Your comments are extremely astute. i hadn\\''t made note of the comparisons until you brought them up. very good...\r\n\r\ni enjoyed this one a lot. the Crazy Joe character reminds me of the locals in Vermont during foliage season, who depise tourists for trampling on their day-to-day to come see the leaves change, infest the local establishments to use the bathrooms, and spend zero dollars to aid the local economy. one fellow i know who resides there, refuses to give directions during this time of year.\r\n\r\ni didn\\''t find the show totally predictable, but was not surprised by the outcome at all. it was a fun ride, much like watching an episode of Columbo where you know what\\''s going to happen, but like you said, it\\''s fun to follow the twists and turns.\r\n\r\na great choice! thanks again!\r\n\r\ni gave this one a 4.4. terrific acting and an a good storyline. honestly, i don\\''t know how these writers came up with such a body of work in such short amounts of time. i think i take for granted how much effort went into these tales.', '2013-03-03 16:46:11', 1, '6a38448e3ed3bfecfea52ae617907dc7', '112.200.20.61'),
(4450, '1104', 'episode', 'Anna', '', 'I really enjoyed this episode. I knew what was going to eventually happen early on, but this seemed to work for the program to create tension. By the time the characters actually got to the cave, I was at the edge of my seat. Crazy Joe really is a unique character that certinally adds depth to an otherwise mediocore show. He is definately smarter than what he first seems to be. While not the best, \\"A Ton of Gold\\" is definately one of the better episodes I\\''ve heard.\r\n\r\nIs it just me, or did it seem like the first scene at the gas station is simular to some of the scenes from \\"A Tourist Trap\\"? I actually pictured the begining of \\"A Ton of Gold\\" as being set in the same town as \\"A Tourist Trap\\". I know that I\\''m really stretching this comparison, but I like to play with ideas and make episodes seem somehow to connect.', '2013-03-03 16:46:12', 1, 'b87f692928a6246500deb0fc2f11e1d8', '112.200.20.61'),
(4451, '1104', 'episode', 'Jercs', '', 'great comparison, i''ll have to check out A Tourist Trap again! glad to read your voice here... welcome! ', '2013-03-03 16:46:12', 1, '483f9e5a15bde4d82a174b9d196ac23a', '112.200.20.61'),
(4452, '1104', 'episode', 'M. Bartley', '', 'Yeah, I liked the "standard" treasure hunting theme mixed with the classic romantic triangle. Then throw in a hint of a supernatural curse flavored with a good deal of sardonic humor. Crazy Joe was a delightful touch, all in all.\r\n\r\nOver the years I''ve loaned out my original cassette recordings to my brother and other friends. They''ve enjoyed this story in particular, partly because of Crazy Joe.', '2013-03-03 16:46:13', 1, 'a041c06ffcad296e31495fdb70aac610', '112.200.20.61'),
(5674, '0029', 'episode', 'Mike', 'trash@sawyerhome.net', 'I agree, one of the more enjoyable episodes. Antagonist gets what''s coming to her, and although the plot development is pretty well telegraphed, it''s immensely satisfying watching it happen. The meat craving was a great touch--very disturbing. Love all the "don''t bite my head off" quips that I was sure were foreshadowings. I would have liked a different ending, but still a very strong story.', '2013-03-25 16:25:20', 1, '57fb914a61cb181a7f97c8d01791950b', '204.246.145.6'),
(5676, '0303', 'episode', 'Joseph Nicolosi', 'Jnicolosi97@gmail.com', 'Seeing how much reaction this episode got should tell you its worth a listen.  This was creepy without being and that is not easy to do.  I give it 9 out of 10', '2013-04-02 15:14:42', 1, '885ad807c64e3166643d149257e7f2a4', '75.135.70.101'),
(5677, '0676', 'episode', 'Kristin', 'harlowgoldblonde@hotmail.com', 'Corinne Orr played Carol and Ann Shepard played Carol''s mother.', '2013-04-02 15:14:45', 1, '8d3fa346499168930af394e700491892', '63.27.81.134'),
(5681, '0073', 'actor', 'Vicki Wood', 'msvick1966@yahoo.com', 'I really enjoy Suzanne\\''s voice acting and the episodes she did. I thought she was in \\"The Ideas of March\\" also (the one where the wife has a precognitive dream about her husband dying in a plane crash and tries to stop him from going on a business trip). I wish she had done more episodes as I really enjoy her voice.', '2013-03-26 19:36:47', 1, '11b0646382dcbdf66affef5ccd5c53b3', '68.63.241.95'),
(4456, '0987', 'episode', 'Eddie A.', '', '1. This episode, one of the "no one sees it but me" plotlines present in a few other RMT shows, seems to waver between some type of soap opera (partially told in the first person) and "Independence day".\r\n\r\n2. There''s something that happens in the third act of this episode I can''t remember ever hearing in any other RMT.\r\n\r\n3. Strange thing...this almost sounds like Ian Martin (the scriptwriter, who penned some dandies) was influenced a bit by Elspeth Eric on this one. It verges between slightly annoying to creepy.', '2013-03-03 16:46:30', 1, '31ad38d687eb4521a12d9659ab46c47b', '112.200.20.61'),
(4457, '0987', 'episode', 'Jadelson', '', 'I must say I appreciate the fully audible encode, even though it''s still one of the weaker-sounding episodes I''ve heard--rather slow and warbly.\r\n\r\nThis story was entertaining and, at least for a while, unpredictable. I''d thought it was heading into a straightforward middle-aged marriage crisis plot, but instead it became a "message from space" piece. Fairly amusing, though as science fiction, as usual with the RMT, it leaves a lot to be desired. (The aliens themselves are unbelievably stupid; if you want to warn heads of state etc., why not pop up on *their* TVs?)', '2013-03-03 16:46:31', 1, 'fb3524db15a81b8f25f9f4acfbc440d3', '112.200.20.61'),
(4458, '0987', 'episode', 'Harem', '', 'yeah, i thought the alien characters were pretty lame. why do writers/producers/directors of that era always make aliens seem like completely uptight, right wing pieces of lumber? even in the old 50''s and 60''s sci-fi movies, it''s the same thing. kinda cracks me up.\r\n\r\ni found this tale to be somewhat endearing. i felt bad for the lonesome wife. the show drew on my emotions and made contact, which is what works for me. it was a bit on the corny side, but it lured me in just enough to keep me listening. i give it a solid 4.0 rating.\r\n\r\njust curious, anyone here fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K)? it was probably one of the funniest, most original sci-fi programs to air. it''s out in collectors format on DVD (usually 4 or 5 episodes per volume), and i have two of them now. unbelievably fun!\r\n\r\nif you''re not familiar with MST3K, it''s a program where three cornball characters are forced to view really bad movies and they just sit there and make fun of the film. some of the stuff they say is just pure comic genius.\r\n\r\nanyhow... back to it. thanks for the pitch Kurt, i enjoyed this tale quite a bit!', '2013-03-03 16:46:32', 1, '041e05f210872b8a0619754f74e1895f', '112.200.20.61'),
(4459, '0987', 'episode', 'Justin', '', 'Yeah, I wondered how effective that episode could have been if the aliens (Hammond/Keane) had been a little bit scarier (like the ending of the play) and a little less hokey.', '2013-03-03 16:46:33', 1, '2cbea1ab500313f4f5db97a3b4b5fc20', '112.200.20.61'),
(4460, '0987', 'episode', 'Jonathan', '', 'What is the "something that happens in the third act" that you referred to in the first post?', '2013-03-03 16:46:33', 1, '44ff9d5babc98e6f147087ee26a16288', '112.200.20.61');
