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Watson visits Holmes at Christmas time and finds him contemplating a battered old hat, brought to him by the commissionaire Peterson after it and a Christmas goose had been dropped by a man in a scuffle with some street ruffians. Peterson takes the goose home to eat it, but comes back later with a precious blue carbuncle. His wife had found it in the bird's crop. Holmes cannot resist a good mystery, and he and Watson set out across the city to determine exactly how the stolen jewel wound up in a goose's crop.

A special episode narrated solely by Sherlock himself. Holmes tells the tale of Mr. James M. Dodd who came to see Holmes about a missing friend, Godfrey Emsworth. After years together in the service, Emsworth is wounded and disappears. After trying to track him down, Dodd eventually finds his friend but he is now a ghostly pale shell of his former friend......but why?

Captain Peter Carey is found harpooned to a wall. He was a most unpleasant man, especially when he was drunk. He had a reputation for being violent, even having been prosecuted once for assaulting the local vicar. His daughter is actually glad that he is dead. She and her mother have endured years of abuse from the old whaler and sealer, who moreover had some remarkably peculiar habits. He did not sleep in the family house, but in an outhouse that he built some distance from the house, and which he decorated to look like a sailor’s cabin on a ship. This is where he was found harpooned. No footprints or other physical evidence are to be found at the scene...

A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder of Streatham makes a loan of 50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves the Beryl Coronet — one of the most valuable public possessions in existence — as security. Holder feels that he must not leave this rare and precious piece of jewellery in his personal safe at the bank, and so he takes it home with him to lock it up there. He is awoken in the night by a noise, enters his dressing room, and is horrified to see his son Arthur with the coronet in his hands, apparently trying to bend it...

“The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is an incredible powerful and suspense story; told of all fears of a young father coming to light as his life swings in and out of reality. Peyton Farquhar is being hanged at Owl Creek Bridge in Northern Alabama. The sergeant steps off of the plank keeping Peyton aloft and the story goes back in time to tell about Peyton and his family. All of the characters are the same but some of the aspects are slightly different or even completely opposite...

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Tonight, Suspense brings you a repeat performance of one of the most controversial plays ever presented over your radio. It is called "Zero Hour" by Ray Bradbury. Starring Miss Iza Ashdown, here is tonight's Suspense play, "Zero Hour." Original Airdate: April 5th, 1955

A scientist in Europe has invented a machine that will shrink objects to the size of atoms and beyond.

Reinaction of the famous movie. Is a woman haunted by the spirit of her dead aunt? Or is it something far worse? Stars Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.

13 drops of blood is all it takes to make the dead return to life in a spooky old castle on Friday the 13th.

The classic! Complete with flying monkeys, witches, freaky forrest, and, of course, the Wizard.

A chef creates a fantastic new dish, live octopus. Unfortunately, revenge is on the dessert menu. Starring and hosted by Vincent Price.