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Mystery in the Air

8 episodes · 1947 · NBC · Thriller

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In the summer of 1947 Peter Lorre starred in this NBC series of classic tales of terror, from Poe, Maupassant and Pushkin to the Jack the Ripper story The Lodger, sponsored by Camel cigarettes and Prince Albert tobacco. Harry Morgan, still billed as Henry Morgan, was in many of the casts.

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Episodes

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1947

• The Marvelous Barastro August 7, 1947 · NBC · 26 min
  A circus magician and his blind wife, and her final horror.
• The Lodger August 14, 1947 · NBC · 25 min
  Peter Lorre and Agnes Moorehead in the classic tale of a lodger who may be Jack the Ripper.
• The Horla August 21, 1947 · NBC · 25 min
  Maupassant's tale of a Frenchman tormented by an invisible being.
• Beyond Good and Evil August 28, 1947 · NBC · 29 min
  An escaped convict kills a minister and takes his place in a small town while he plans a bank robbery.
• The Mask of Medusa September 4, 1947 · NBC · 29 min
  Forty-seven murderers stand frozen in a wax museum, their minds still alive, and waiting for revenge.
• The Queen of Spades September 11, 1947 · NBC · 27 min
  Pushkin's story of a Russian officer who will kill for the secret of three cards that can't lose.
• The Black Cat September 18, 1947 · NBC · 26 min
  Poe's tale of a man who murders his wife and walls her up, and the cat that gives him away. A news bulletin about a Gulf hurricane comes first.
• Crime and Punishment September 25, 1947 · NBC · 26 min
  Dostoevsky's novel in half an hour. The last show of the series.