The Strange Dr. Weird — 1945
21 episodes broadcast in 1945.
A young professor's growth serum works beautifully on a caged rabbit, so he tries it on something with claws.
Two passengers plotting a robbery aboard a fogbound coastal liner end up sealed in an air pocket inside the sunken hull.
A beautiful young wife, her ugly old husband in a manor on the cliffs, and a man waiting outside in the dark -- one of them is a murderer.
Four men are lost in the Alaskan snow with the food gone, and they begin to work out which of them intends to last longest.
A man is executed for a murder he did not commit, and then handed a second life by way of a brain transplant.
A couple decide to kill a rich uncle for his money. The old man's pet raven has been listening, and it can talk.
Two Nazis at large in the Hudson Valley take refuge in a hidden room in a cellar when the police come to the door.
Jack the Ripper's knife surfaces in London during the Blitz, and whatever guided it is still attached.
A man with murder already in mind is warned by a teller of fortunes that he has one killing left in him.
In the Canadian snow country, a woman kills twice to move herself further up her family's will.
A swindler on the run passes his look-alike butler off as his own corpse, then discovers who the butler really was.
Narcotic cough drops leave a man knowing everything there is to know, and knowing everything turns out to be a sentence.
Two brothers pace a cliff above the Pacific, in a story of ghosts and what waits on the other side of dying.
Two nephews take their uncle caving in the New Mexico mountains meaning to leave him there. The caverns keep all three.
Two fugitives, each the most dangerous man he has ever met, take shelter in the same midwestern town.
Two killers run for the swamplands below New Orleans and find the quicksand rather less forgiving than the law.
Sailors stranded aboard a derelict vanish one at a time, without a sound and without a trace.
An escaped killer hides among the figures in an amusement-park waxworks -- the worst possible place he could have chosen.
A scientist carries his wife and his financial adviser back into prehistory in a time machine of his own building. Broadcast on V-E Day.
A bank robber sent to prison by a street photographer's snapshot comes out swearing revenge on the man who took it.
Renaldo the Great rises from his grave at every full moon to kill the men who sent him to his execution.
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