The door had been open for only one night. On January 7, 1974, CBS Radio Mystery Theater stepped through it—and into the supernatural.
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CBS Radio Mystery Theater #2 — The Return of the Moresbys
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Written by Henry Slesar and starring Patrick O’Neal and Marian Seldes, The Return of the Moresbys begins with murder—but soon becomes something stranger. Is a dead woman somehow returning to exact revenge? Or is a guilty man being pursued by something even harder to escape: his own conscience?
Tonight we explore the performances, Himan Brown’s production, the wonderfully suggestive power of sound, and the story’s uneasy territory between guilt, coincidence, madness, and the supernatural.
And we ask a larger question: only two nights into its remarkable run, what was CBS Radio Mystery Theater already telling us about the strange world behind that creaking door?
The Mystery Theater Companion: A Nightly Journey Through CBS Radio Mystery Theater travels through the series in original broadcast order—one episode at a time, one night at a time.
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