Molle Mystery Theatre — 1946
51 episodes broadcast in 1946.
January 4, 1946
The Blind Spot
January 11, 1946
Dime a Dance
Not a whodunit but a study in whether a murderess will get away with it.
A neighborhood "doll woman" crosses the mob, and the doctor investigating her falls under a deadly spell.
February 8, 1946
Comic Strip Murder
A cartoonist writes his unfaithful wife into his daily strip, and the town waits to see whether the drawn heroine survives -- a restaging of the 1944 story.
A former wartime bomb-disposal man, convinced his wife's love has died, is slowly unnerved by a ticking clock.
A struggling resort couple pin their hopes on $2,500 from a guest -- who then disappears.
March 1, 1946
Code Two
A San Francisco detective is sure one of three Americans at an Amazon rubber plantation is a killer in disguise -- but which one?
March 15, 1946
The Case of the Missing Mind
A killer's foolproof scheme depends on seeming to be somewhere else at the very moment of the murder.
A candidate for judge is murdered, and the commissioner strangely bars one lieutenant from the case, in another turn on Chandler's "Spanish Blood."
A charming, half-mad young man fascinates an English household -- Virginia Field stars in Emlyn Williams's classic thriller.
Two cabbies who fancy themselves detectives find a corpse and a chance to crack the case, played for laughs.
A surgeon who keeps a madman locked upstairs blames him for a string of art-destroying crimes.
A cozy evening by the radio is shattered when the telephone rings -- it is the ex-wife.
The luckless Kenny Andrews lands in one jam after another and winds up in an asylum.
A gun moll molds a young punk into a bank robber -- or his double -- in Ray Bradbury's hard-boiled tale, with Richard Widmark.
May 24, 1946
Goodbye, Darling
An unfaithful wife and her lover plot to kill her husband, who proves a step ahead of them.
Agatha Christie's courtroom classic, in which a wife's testimony carries a sting in its tail.
A beauty-shop proprietress, already dosing her rival with poison, resolves to bring the death on faster.
A cold, deadly woman called Lucky, a smooth cardsharp, and a desperate young man collide over a marked deck.
A Jack-the-Ripper-style strangler terrorizes 1890s London.
June 28, 1946
In the Balance
July 5, 1946
The Puzzle of the Persian Piggy Bank
July 12, 1946
Bury Me Dead
July 19, 1946
Wake for a Lady
July 26, 1946
Homicide, Unlimited
August 2, 1946
The Man Who Murdered in Public
August 9, 1946
Silent as the Grave
August 16, 1946
The Wine Glass
August 30, 1946
Nightmare
A man dreams he has killed, then wakes to fear the murder was real, while a hypnotist's hand shows behind the crime -- a restaging of the 1944 story.
September 6, 1946
Ebbtide
September 13, 1946
Now You See Her
September 20, 1946
Purgatory
Two strangers share a rented room in a housing crunch; when one man's girl vanishes after a private evening, suspicion festers.
October 4, 1946
The Perfect Crime
October 11, 1946
Black Alibi
October 25, 1946
Surprise Witness
Is the dummy alive, or the ventriloquist mad? -- Ben Hecht's tale of a jealous act.
November 8, 1946
Not Quite Perfect
November 15, 1946
I Drempt I Died
November 22, 1946
Goodbye, Goodbye
A dying man names a councilman as the one who ordered a killing, and one honest patrolman refuses to let an innocent hang.
December 6, 1946
Alias the Best Man
December 13, 1946
The Steak Dinner
A sweet-faced killer gets a shock when the victim she buried alive returns -- a restaging of the 1945 story.
December 27, 1946
Squeeze Play
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