A murder of necessity is caused by blackmail when an eavesdropper gets involved.

Murder of Necessity

House of Masks

The Debt

girl and fiance argue about carnival - goes in, watches show about murderers - displays about their deeds. is told to wait, as she has questions - he does not return, leaving her alone with likenesses of murderers. forced to find way out.

This Way Out

The story of a hunted criminal who loses his nerve.

Strange for a Killer

A taut mystery based on an incident in the life of entertainer Joe E. Lewis.

Merryman's Murder

Doctor Anonymous

Santa Fe Flight

Tale of a house painter whose homicidal designs on a rich client are complicated by an old romance.

High Street

Mystery set against a chamber of horrors in a traveling circus.

The Fifth Dummy

A documentary based on the activities of the voice of Radio Free Europe and its impact on the people behind the Iron Curtain. The story is based on the passengers and crew of the train that recently passed thru from Czechoslovakia to the American zone. General Lucius D. Clay, national chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, is a special guest on the program.

The Train from Czechoslovakia

Court Day

Moonfleet (1)

Moonfleet (2)

Postal inspector Winters has infiltrated a criminal gang and their big plan is about to go down. A postal employee drops a $120,000 in bonds out a back window to Winters waiting in an alley. Needing time to switch the real bonds with phonies, he makes up a story about being robbed and knocked unconscious. The boss, Cruze is not amused and gives Winters two hours to find the bonds and bring them back, or be rubbed out.

Frisco Payoff

With the cryptic words "Mikki Knows" from the lips of her dying father, a young socialite hunts down the murderer of her parent.

Mikki

Mrs. Collins arrives at the train station in town after a long stay with her mother. Despite the storm that's raging, her husband being away, and, she learns, a killer on the loose, she's determined to get back to her isolated house. Once home, the phone goes dead, the lights go out, and she realizes she's not alone.

The Man Without a Face

Mediation in Mexico

The dock workers who load nitroglycerin onto freighters at Pier 17 are on edge. A recent explosion at the harbor killed four men and the FBI believes it was sabotage by an insider. Dave Delaney and his foreman, with their eyes peeled for trouble, have decided the new guy is really a G-man working on the case. The true saboteur initially goes unnoticed.

Pier 17

The Lonely Place

The story of a murder in a cabin in the Yukon territory.

Routine Patrol

The story of death and terror which springs from a sports scandal on a college campus.

Flare Week

Scientists Bob and Muriel Torres honeymoon in rural Florida. Despite being warned that a professor and his son had gotten lost in the nearby swamp and were never seen again, Muriel goes exploring alone. With night approaching, she stumbles upon a shack inhabited by a blind former explorer. Muriel's fear escalates when the doctor shows off the two shrunken heads he made himself; he learned the skill directly from jungle natives.

The Spider

A supposedly fake medium is hired to a conduct a séance so Sir Alington, a psychiatrist, can observe a patient under stress. She warns the doctor, Clair and her husband Jack to avoid their homes because they are in danger. Her premonition turns out to be true because of insanity, murder, and secret loves.

The Red Signal

The mayor of a French town reveals the identities of underground members, he says, to save the country from destruction by the invading Nazis. Having been moved to a neutral country, he's quickly kidnapped by allies and carried to the home of an English gentlemen to be executed as a traitor.

Death Drum

An Austrian intelligence chief, his debasement and eventual self-destruction, are set in motion by an act of betrayal and blackmail.

Betrayal in Vienna

American medical missionaries Dr. Paul Morgan and his wife are told to leave China as the Communists advance on the city. When he refuses, a Communist general kills his own wife who's under the doctor's care, then charges Morgan with murder and sentences him to death. The surgeon's execution is unexpectedly postponed when he's ordered to perform an emergency operation.

North of Shanghai

The story of a woman's brush with death when she undersold the emotion of fear.

Summer Night

Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along. As they approach the spot of the two unsolved crimes, the behavior of Mrs. Haley's passenger becomes unsettling.

Night Drive

The story opens in Germany, where a young girl loses face with Herr Goebels and enlists into the espionage service of the Japanese and sets herself up in Hawaii.

Day of Infamy

Johnny, a professional assassin with a hair-trigger temper, is sent by his boss to Havana to do a job. His target is his former mentor, Barney Moyer, the man who taught him everything he knows about killing. That's why the intended victim knows Johnny will spend three days watching him and move in for the kill on the fourth; Barney anticipates Johnny's every move.

Four Days to Kill

A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2)

A criminal uses a rare doll store as the front for his diamond smuggling racket. A detective stars snooping around after a man carrying a doll is shot in the subway and the murderer steals the doll's arm. The mobster gets wise to the cop, and to an inside job being pulled by people he trusts.

Black Panther

Frenzy, fire and death are the results of an attempt to separate an old man from his fortune.

Night of Evil

Ex-con Georgie Lennox has been tormented his entire life by Leo Whaley who's now out and moving in on his punch-board racket. Finally pushed too far, he shoots Leo to death. Knowing he'll be the prime suspect when Leo doesn't check in with his parole officer, Georgie goes in search of an airtight alibi. Desperate, he turns to the wife he'd walked out on earlier. Despite her cooperation, Georgie is undone by a delivery boy bringing a giant sucker from Leo.

Alibi Me

In 1880 France, a wealthy woman's determined her husband, becomes a success. After paying to the have him named the minister of justice, in exchange, he writes her a note guaranteeing the job. Only the notes's disappears, and she must find the letter and save the government.

The Letter

A drama based on the revolutionary activities that preceded the founding of the Chinese Republic.

The Mandarin Murders

A policeman searches for the killer of a young woman.

Fingers of Fear

Tale about a greedy killer trapped by social ambition and the lure of an inheritance.

Hunted Down

A young drifter is robbed by two other hobos after hopping off a train. Making his way to a country store, he's offered refuge from the rain by the young woman and her father who run the business. During the night the store is robbed and the old man is murdered. The drifter's first instinct is to run, but he quickly figures out who the real murderers are.

Anna, a delicate and unstable young woman, despises having her life controlled by her older, practical sister. The sister is ready sign the papers to have Anna committed after she hires a mysterious young poet to be the gardener and plies him with cash. Billy has a history of being involved with young women who suddenly die.

Tale is of a will-o'-the-wisp jewel thief whose area of operations is a Mediterranean resort. Six suspects are involved before the thief is captured.

Phantom of the Riviera

Story of counterespionage behind Chinese Communist lines in Korea.

Night of Reckoning

A serial killer is murdering the dance hall girls.

Fifty Beautiful Girls

Dr. Ted Larson's engagement to head nurse Randi Sloan is getting under the skin of Dr. David Bonnell, her ex-lover and current roommate of Ted. When a box of candy arrives one morning, supposedly from Randi, David and a neighbor kid try a piece and both become extremely sick from arsenic poisoning. Accusations of attempted murder fly between the members of the love triangle as each accuses the other of poisoning the candy.

For the Love of Randi

Kelly Davis, the unscrupulous creator of "Sally Forth" comic books, announces she's retiring the character. This move puts her resentful staff of cartoonists out of work. She offers Webb the chance to write the stories for her "new idea"--an idea she's stealing from him. Kelly is found dead the next morning, and Webb is the obvious suspect.

The Crooked Frame

A freighter bound for New Orleans for a cargo delivery encounters a great risk of spoiled fruit.

Death Cargo

A former high-school basketball star, now broke and reduced to committing small-time hold-ups, kills an old man. With the police after him, he hides out in the apartment of a lonely woman who once had a crush on him in his high-school days.

Remember Me

Eva, a wealthy middle-aged woman, marries a man she barely knows and moves into his family estate, a dark, run-down mansion on the Massachusetts coast. She learns James was recently engaged to a young woman, but he dismisses it as an unimportant mistake. Investigating noises in the cellar, she finds the corpse of a young woman, half-buried in the coal pile.

Her Last Adventure

A female secret agent operating in 1952 Budapest is preoccupied with her upcoming marriage. In her thoughtlessness, she loses a valuable document resulting in her life being in jeopardy.

Woman in Love

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.

Murder of Necessity

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