Season One
July 4th, 1980 - June 5th, 1981


#1  Love and the Lonely One Detailed
Writer(s): John Graham Air Date: 7/4/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Elva Mai Hoover, Jay Bowen, John Stocker, Mignon Elkins, Graham Haley
Commercial Synopsis: As a lark, a pair of medical students steal the corpse of an old lady from an anatomy lab, but they soon discover that the joke's on them.  (NPR)

#2  The Monkey's Paw
 (by W.W. Jacobs)
Detailed
Writer(s): Len Peterson Air Date: 7/11/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Ruth Springford, Eric House, Chris Wiggins, Michael Wincott, Graham Haley
Commercial Synopsis: A British Army Sergeant-Major returns from years of service in India with more than just the usual military yarns.  (NPR)

#3  Welcome to Homerville Detailed
Writer(s): Don Dickinson & Allan Guttman Air Date: 7/18/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Neil Dainard, James D. (Jimmy) Morris, John Stocker, Frank Perry, Robert Christie, Corinne Langston, Marian Waldman, Elva Mai Hoover, Ron Hartman, Arch McDonnell, Budd Knapp, Gordon Thomson, Lynne Deragon
Commercial Synopsis: A trucker, traveling a lonely highway, hears a mysterious female on his radio who says she is waiting for him in Homerville. Unnerved, he tells his CB buddies who warn him not to go there because danger lies ahead. But the seductive voice keeps luring him on.  (NPR)

#4  Hands Off Detailed
Writer(s): John Graham Air Date: 7/25/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Colin Fox, Jennifer Browne, Marian Waldman, Murray Westgate, Ruth Springford, Ken James
Commercial Synopsis: A scientist experimenting with hostility in animals accidentally spills some of the chemical he's using on his hand. Immediately, his wife flies into a rage and try as he might, he cannot wash the chemical off. After a series of hostile reactions, he's forced to take desperate measures.  (NPR)

#5  The Telltale Heart
 (by Edgar Allen Poe)
Detailed
Writer(s): Len Peterson Air Date: 8/1/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Richard Monette, Frank Perry, Sean Mulcahy, Sandy Webster
Commercial Synopsis: There's more than poetic justice when a New England farmer mistakenly hires a psychotic killer out of the goodness of his heart.  (NPR)

#6  Late Special Detailed
Writer(s): Clint Bomphray Air Date: 8/8/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Terry Tweed, Chris Wiggins, David Hughes, Trisha Allen, Judy Sinclair, Richard Donat, Frank Perry
Commercial Synopsis: A car crash during a late season blizzard strands a young woman in an abandoned train station, where she meets a mysterious stranger who obliges her to make a singularly existential choice.  (NPR)

#7  Future Fear Detailed
Writer(s): John Graham Air Date: 8/15/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Frank Perry, Aileen Seaton, Neil Munro, Jeannie Elias, John Stocker, Elva Mai Hoover
Commercial Synopsis: The couple sees limitless opportunities for wealth and happiness when their television begins to show them the future. Their anticipation shortly turns to sickening horror and a terrible resolve when the visions of the future turn hideous and bloody.  (DHPA)

#8  How Did You Get My Name? Detailed
Writer(s): Don Dickinson & Allan Guttman Air Date: 8/22/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Gordon Thomson, John Stocker, August Schellenberg, David Hughes, Sandy Webster, Robin McCulloch, Don Mason
Commercial Synopsis: Jim Brent is whiling away his time in a mental hospital in Europe until his old chum, Larry, tracks him down and brings him home to Canada. But when Jim finds out just what Larry has been up to in his absence, he may wish he was back in a straight-jacket.  (N25)

#9  The Body Snatchers
 (by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Detailed
Writer(s): Frank W. McEnaney Air Date: 8/29/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Neil Munro, Graham Haley, Robert Christie, Richard Donat, Sean Mulcahy, Wendy Thatcher, Michael Wincott, Eric House
Commercial Synopsis: An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic by Frank W . McEnaney, set in Edinburgh, 1828, where the infamous Burke and Hare are providing suspiciously fresh corpses to the local medical school.  (NPR)

#10  The Willoughby Obsession Detailed
Writer(s): George R. Robertson Air Date: 9/5/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Neil Dainard, Budd Knapp, Alan Scarfe, John Stocker, Lynne Deragon, Terry Vollum
Commercial Synopsis: A new play by George R. Robertson about the mysterious life and death of Charles Willoughby, the famous solicitor for the kingpins of the underworld.  (NPR)

#11  No Admittance/No Exit Detailed
Writer(s): Don Bailey & Milo Ringham Air Date: 9/12/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Hugh Webster, Deirdre Flannigan, Robert Christie, Robert Haley, Mary Pirie
Commercial Synopsis: Welcome to the brave new world of the Future Clinic, where computers decide patients' treatment options on the basis of their contribution to society.  (NPR)

#12  WIND CHILL Detailed
Writer(s): David McCaughna Air Date: 9/19/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Elva Mai Hoover, Robert Haley, Hadley Kay, Aileen Seaton
Commercial Synopsis: A city girl's car breaks down in the country in the dead of winter, and chilling events start to occur in the cabin of the mysterious young man who offers her a place to stay for the night.   (NPR)

#13  The Repossession Detailed
Writer(s): Arthur Samuels Air Date: 9/26/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: John Stocker, Mary Pirie, Chris Wiggins, Neil Dainard, Jon Granik, Maggie Morris, Amanda O'Leary, David Stein
Commercial Synopsis: In a bizarre focus on the theme of sibling rivalry, Samuels examines the potential for a psychic and symbiotic relationship between a man and the malevolent ghost of his Siamese twin brother, who died when they were separated by an operation thirty-years ago.  (NPR)

#14  The Stone Ship
 (by William Hope Hodgson)
Detailed
Writer(s): Len Peterson Air Date: 10/3/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Chris Wiggins, Arch McDonnell, Eric House, Graham Haley
Commercial Synopsis: Twenty days out of London, and well into the tropics, the crew of an old windjammer the Alfred Jessop sails in to the last resting place of a ghostly ship of solid stone. A story about the rocky graveyard of the sea and its petrifying effect on a tough old captain and crew.  (NPR)

#15  Special Services Detailed
Writer(s): Martin Kinch Air Date: 10/10/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Paul Mills
Featuring: Linda Sorenson, Budd Knapp, Colin Fox, Marian Waldman, Gordon Thomson, Grant Roll
Commercial Synopsis: The premise is an elite hospital which provides organ transplants for its wealthy and powerful patients, and its donors aren't always the willing kind.  (NPR)

#16  Buried Alive Detailed
Writer(s): John Graham Air Date: 10/17/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Paul Mills
Featuring: Don Franks, Lally Cadeau, John Stocker, Frank Perry
Commercial Synopsis: The Magnificent Santini enters a deep trance, is declared dead, the insurance company pays - and he splits the money with his wife. It's a great plan, if she digs him up after the funeral. Santini's been down there for a while and nothing's happened. Maybe she's got ideas of her own.   (DHPA)

#17  Last Visit Detailed
Writer(s): Ray Will Air Date: 10/24/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Frank Perry, Nonnie Griffin, Gerard Parkes
Commercial Synopsis: The Newfoundland coast and a couple in a car in the fog late at night combine to create some terrifying circumstances in this bizarre play, especially when the couple meets a recurring stranger.  (NPR)

#18  Ringing the Changes
 (by Robert Aickman)
Detailed
Writer(s): P. Norman Cherrie Air Date: 10/31/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Douglas Campbell, Nicky Guadagni, Ruth Springford, Sandy Webster, Graham Haley, Eric House
Commercial Synopsis: An older man with a beautiful young wife is honeymooning in a seaside town on the very night when the dead are annually raised from their graves by the ringing of the town's church bells.  (NPR)

#19  The Devil's Backbone Detailed
Writer(s): Silver Donald Cameron Air Date: 11/7/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Paul Mills
Featuring: Neil Munro, Linda Sorenson, Neil Dainard, Hugh Webster
Commercial Synopsis: Beneath the fog and the gray-blue waves lies a field of gold ingots-guarded by something huge, dark and deadly. A few people are willing to risk it.  (DHPA)

#20  The Blood Countess, Part 1: Blood Red
 (Based on the legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory)
Detailed
Writer(s): Ray Canale Air Date: 11/14/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Kate Reid, Ruth Springford, Elva Mai Hoover, Alan Scarfe, Robert Christie, John Stocker, Frank Perry, Hugh Webster, Mary Pirie, Nicky Guadagni
Commercial Synopsis: The most horrifying vampire of all. The most depraved ritual ever. A Transylvanian countess who bathed in the blood of virgins to keep herself young. She lived… and her name was Elizabeth Bathory.  (DHPA)

#21  The Blood Countess, Part 2: Blood Blue
 (Based on the legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory)
Detailed
Writer(s): Ray Canale Air Date: 11/21/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Kate Reid, Neil Munro, Douglas Campbell, Ruth Springford, Elva Mai Hoover, Colin Fox, John Stocker, Nicky Guadagni
Commercial Synopsis: The most horrifying vampire of all. The most depraved ritual ever. A Transylvanian countess who bathed in the blood of virgins to keep herself young. She lived… and her name was Elizabeth Bathory.  (DHPA)

#22  Deadly Developments Detailed
Writer(s): Arlene Ezrin Air Date: 10/24/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: John Stocker, Gordon Thomson, Budd Knapp, Sandy Webster, Linda Sorenson, Elva Mai Hoover, Nicky Guadagni, Colin Fox, Arch McDonnell
Commercial Synopsis: The discovery of a mysterious old German camera starts a bizarre series of events in this contemporary story focusing on the world of fashion photography.  (NPR)

#23  Where Does the News Come From? Detailed
Writer(s): James D. Morris Air Date: 12/5/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: August Schellenberg, Peggy Mahon, David Calderisi, John Stocker, Elva Mai Hoover, Frank Perry, Trish Allen
Commercial Synopsis: A foreign correspondent returns home to take the national TV news anchorman's slot, and discovers some mysterious events which somehow never end up on the air.  (NPR)

#24  Where Do We Go From Here? Detailed
Writer(s): Max Ferguson Air Date: 12/12/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Neil Munro, Colin Fox , Michael Wincott, Arch McDonnell, Grant Roll, David Calderisi, Mary Pirie, John Stocker, Corinne Langston, Gordon Thomson
Commercial Synopsis: We learn more than we wanted to know about morticians and their scruples after a not-quite fatal car crash.  (NPR)

#25  On Christmas Day in the Morning
 (by Margery Allingham)
Detailed
Writer(s): Don Dickinson, Allan Guttman Air Date: 12/19/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Sandy Webster, Colin Fox, Arch McDonnell, Sandra Scott, Robert Haley, Elva Mai Hoover, Michael Wincott, John Stocker
Commercial Synopsis: The sudden death of the local mail carrier on Christmas morning presents a newly-retired judge with a bizarre mystery: how could the carrier have delivered mail to an elderly lady after he was dead?  (N25)

#26  The Appetite of Mr. Lucraft
 (by Sir Walter Besant & James Rice)
Detailed
Writer(s): P. Norman Cherrie Air Date: 12/26/1980
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Graham Haley, Douglas Campbell, Nicky Guadagni, Leslie Yo, Abbot Anderson, Robert Christie, John Peters, Maureen Fitzgerald
Commercial Synopsis: As a special holiday treat for listeners who are watching their waistlines, a story about a mysterious and corporeal stranger who agrees to purchase Mr. Lucraft's appetite. Gluttons should avoid this one at all costs.  (NPR)

#27  The Guest of Honour
 (by Peter S. Beagle)
Detailed
Writer(s): Len Peterson Air Date: 1/2/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Moya Fenwick, Graham Haley, Nicky Guadagni, Tony van Bridge, Lynne Deragon, Mary Pirie, Neil Dainard, Eric House
Commercial Synopsis: In England, circa 1765, Lady Neville decides to invite the Ultimate Guest--Lady Death--to her Grand Ball.  (NPR)

#28  A Short Wave Good-Bye Detailed
Writer(s): George R. Robertson Air Date: 1/9/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Arch McDonnell, Maxine Miller, Budd Knapp, John Stocker, Elva Mai Hoover
Commercial Synopsis: A ham radio enthusiast accidentally discovers how to pick up transmissions from the future, and notices that they are becoming increasingly closer to the present.  (NPR)

#29  They Bite
 (by Antony Boucher)
Detailed
Writer(s): Len Peterson Air Date: 1/16/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: John Stocker, Rob Paley, David Calderisi, Ken James, Mavor Moore
Commercial Synopsis: "Something moved, something little and thin and brown as the earth. Too large for a rabbit, much too small for a man." Paleontologist and Vietnam veteran Hugh Blair is pitted against predatory desert shadows.  (NPR)

#30  Dark Side of the Mind Detailed
Writer(s): Max Ferguson Air Date: 1/23/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: John Douglas
Featuring: Wayne Robson, Patricia Collins, Denise Fergusson, Peter Dvorsky, Anne Butler, Mia Anderson, Larry Reynolds, Alan Rosenthal
Commercial Synopsis: An innocent couple live out of the country for a few years - so they don't know what their old friends have been up to, like serial killing and escaping from a prison for the criminally insane. Having Carl over for dinner was a bad idea.  (DHPA)

#31  Wildcats
 (by Christian Noak)
Detailed
Writer(s): Otto Lowy Air Date: 2/27/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Jane Mallet, Ruth Springford, Neil Dainard, Sandy Webster
Commercial Synopsis: When Julian's express train drops him off at a remote outpost by mistake, with no local service back to his own village until the next morning, his main problem is finding accommodations for the night. He is offered shelter at the Blue Trout Inn, a decrepit hotel run by two sisters with a penchant for administering morphine, and fighting - like wildcats.  (DHPA)

#32  The Room
 (by Michael McCabe)
Detailed
Writer(s): Graham Haley Air Date: 3/6/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Graham Haley, Moya Fenwick, Colin Fox, Chris Wiggins, John Stocker, Henry Ramer (as Luther Kranst)
Commercial Synopsis: Since Amanda Watts' husband Alfred died in the Chanceford mansion without the last rites twenty-two years ago, seven men have stayed in the Yellow Room alone overnight. All went mad - or died. Nevertheless, for an offer of 1000 English pounds, down-on-his-luck Ronald Todd is willing to give it a try.  (DHPA)

#33  Angel's Kiss Detailed
Writer(s): John Graham, George R. Robertson Air Date: 3/20/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Eva Mai Hoover, John Evans, John Stocker, Gordon Thomson, Neil Dainard, Mary Pirie, Sandy Webster, Gerard Parkes, Budd Knapp, Ken James, Richard Donat
Commercial Synopsis: The downtown disco and singles bar scene provides an ideal locale for the Devil to bargain for souls.  (NPR)

#34  The Book of Hell Detailed
Writer(s): Mavor Moore Air Date: 3/27/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Budd Knapp, Nonnie Griffin, Patrick Young, Lynne Deragon, Hugh Webster, Allen Doremus
Commercial Synopsis: A mysterious manuscript purporting to be a first person account of what it's like in Hell has the editors of a publishing house in an uproar.  (NPR)

#35  MKara
 (by Michael McCabe)
Detailed
Writer(s): Graham Haley Air Date: 4/3/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Chris Wiggins, Maya Anderson, Eric House, David Hendlin, Graham Haley, Henry Ramer (as Luther Kranst)
Commercial Synopsis: Mkara, an Ethiopian native, hunts down two British ivory hunters warning them of dire consequences should they harm the God of All Elephants, the Great Bull of El Haza.  (NPR)

#36  The Fatal Eggs
 (by Mikhail Bulgakov)
Detailed
Writer(s): Arthur Samuels Air Date: 4/17/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Douglas Campbell, Neil Dainard, David Calderisi, Nonnie Griffin, Marian Waldman, John Stocker, Arch McDonnell, Jon Granik
Commercial Synopsis: Satire and horror blend in this incredible tale of a research scientist who discovers that a mysterious red ray can accelerate organic growth, and his secret process falls into the hands of ambitious bureaucrats.  (NPR)

#37  Breaking Point Detailed
Writer(s): Max Ferguson Air Date: 5/1/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Jayne Eastwood, John Stocker, Ken James, David Hendlin, Frank Perry, David Calderisi
Commercial Synopsis: A little murder at the circus...and it's the best trick in the show.  (CBC)

#38  All-Nighter Detailed
Writer(s): Graham Pomeroy Air Date: 6/5/1981
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Elva Mai Hoover, Don Francks, Linda Sorenson, Ruth Springford, Budd Knapp
Commercial Synopsis: A 24-hour laundromat is the scene of a series of psychotic murders.  (NPR)

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