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CBSRMT Episode Information
Title:
The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill
Plot:
An old lady rents a room to a sick boarder. She runs into problems with his strange deathbed confession.
Episode:
0001
Air Dates:
First Run - January 6, 1974
Repeat - March 1, 1974
Repeat - December 2, 1978
Actors:
DeKoven, Roger

Janney, Leon

Moorehead, Agnes

Writer:
Slesar, Henry
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9 Responses to Episode 0001


Agnes Moorehead is best known for portraying the disapproving mother-in-law Endora on "Bewitched." Crime drama, no supernatural element.

Andy, 2011-07-13 09:48:51

This is a great episode.

Mr Writing III, 2011-08-07 21:12:58

Love Agnes Moorehead. Really good episode.

Rose, 2011-10-31 09:27:34

I listened to these in 1980 or so when I was 15 or 16 on KNX1070 Los Angles in Mission Viejo, Califonia 30 plus years ago...

Brian, 2011-11-01 08:33:01

Not a bad story, but the coughing/hacking got irritating after a while.

Ron, 2011-11-02 18:57:19

The First Lady of Suspense. I wish she had lived, because she would have surely participated in at least a couple hundred episodes of CBSRMT over the course of its run.

MCLowe, 2011-11-27 17:17:38

Love this episode

Bruce, 2011-12-29 21:31:12

CBS-RMT's premiere episode starred Agnes Moorehead as a 77-year-old woman whose border, while dying of pneumonia, confesses to her that he killed a man rather than another one who was found guilty and imprisoned. She doesn't want to hear what he's saying and doesn't call the police because she doesn't want to get involved, but of course she tries to be a detective herself and gets wound up with all sorts of nefarious characters. Moorehead's character might be as annoying as the one she portrayed in "Sorry, Wrong Number," but I give her credit. She was only a month or so from dying herself when she did the role. An added bonus was a WDAF (Kansas City) newscast before the show in which there was some Watergate stuff and a sports report about the upcoming Super Bowl between the Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings. And man, was it cold in KC that night - below zero!

Tony, 2012-01-15 09:39:14

Probably not one of my favorite episodes. Agree that the coughing, while central to the story, was kind of hard to get through. The WDAF stuff was a nice bonus, as was the Himan Brown spot identifying this as the CBSRMT debut. I discovered these shows near the end of the run, so it's great to hear the early ones.

Jim, 2012-05-02 17:23:10

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