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0539 - To Hang by the Neck (10/21/1976)

Podcast: CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)
Published: May 24, 2026
Duration seconds: 2695
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0539 - To Hang by the Neck (10/21/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Marian Seldes; Bob Kaliban; Ann Pitoniak; Martha Greenhouse; Bill Griffis. With the Civil War concluded, Becky Pryor returns to a Texas ranch and, with a Northerner ranch hand's help, tries to determine if, one year earlier, friend Carrie Conway's death by hanging (on the eve of her wedding) was suicide or foul play.