CBS Radio Mystery Theater Press Release: Feb 17, 1976

February 17, 1976

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The CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER has a treat for those who miss “Gunsmoke” and the other  Westerns that once were a prime staple of network television on Monday nights when it presents a rousing story of the Old West, Moday, March 1. As explained by  MYSTERY THEATER  host E.G. Marshall: “ A surprising number of listener letters have asked us for a Western. So here it is, back to the frontier life of the 1860s when, west of the Mississippi, the horse was still man’s best means of locomotion. A noble animal, the horse, and particularly in those days, a good deal better than many a man who rode them.”

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Morgan Fairchild, who stars as Jennifer Phillips in the daytime serial, “Search for Tomorrow,” on the CBS Television Network, will make her radio acting debut on the  CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER , Friday, March 5. On the broadcast, titled “The Infernal Triangle,” Ms. Fairchild plays the leading role, a bride-to-be with the same surname, Ann Fairchild, who vows to murder her older, more beautiful sister if her sister doesn’t keep her hand off her husband-to-be.
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The  CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER, which has already presented more than 50 adaptations of classic thrillers by great writers of the past, has scheduled three more for early in March. They are “Afterward” by Edith Wharton (Tuesday, March 2), “The Monk and the Hangman” by Ambrose Bierce (Thursday, March 4) and “The iQueen of Spades” by Aleksander Sergeevich Pushkin (Monday, March 8 ).