The Vampire Plant by The CBS Radio Mystery Theater

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week's Strange Tales features The Vampire Plant, the February 20, 1980, episode of The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Listen to more from The CBS Radio Mystery Theater https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales783.mp3 Download StrangeTales783 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales

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0:00.0	Strange Tales
0:02.0	RELES
0:03.0	Relicradio.
0:20.0	Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.
0:26.2	Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.
0:35.1	Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.
1:01.0	Well, Welcome back to Strange Tales. Thanks for joining me this Sunday.
1:11.0	We're going to hear from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater this week, series that debuted in 1974, with 1,399 original episodes.
1:16.4	It aired until 1982 and was hosted by E.G. Marshall for all but its final year.
1:20.0	Our story today is from February 20, 1980.
1:22.0	It's the vampire plant. Music The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents...
1:40.3	The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents... Presents.
1:58.5	Come in.
2:02.7	Welcome. I'm E.G. Marshall.
2:06.2	A popular theme for stories throughout the centuries is the one that concerns the worm who turned.
2:10.4	We can all identify with him.
2:12.5	For many of us during our lives have had to bite our lips
2:15.1	and accept the cards faked out us to one degree or another.
2:19.5	But Hubbard Quint had made such a career of groveling that when he finally turned,
2:24.8	his revenge was so horrendous that...
2:27.9	But then, after all, that's today's story, and you can hear it for yourselves.
2:32.4	Do you know, Mr. Bell, a plant like this you can talk to,
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