Don Scardino (Actor)

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(02-17-1949 - ) Age 75
He appeared in the following 26 episodes of Radio Mystery Theater
Date Episode Title Plot
03/12/1974 0055 A Sacrifice in Blood An archaeologist might come to regret their decision when they adopt a boy found in an ancient, infamous Aztec place of worship.
04/17/1974 0076 The Horror Within A young man turns religious after the death of his beloved and seeks the power to forestall pain and suffering in the future. As time heals his grief, his desire to wield his powers grow aided by a swaying faith.
04/25/1975 0263 Till Death Do Us Join Set in old Prussia, this is a truly Gothic tale of romance between an art student and his professor's niece. Fate intervenes when her hand is sold off in marriage with a local wealthy man. But one life isn't enough for eternal lovers, is it?
06/05/1975 0286 The Plastic Man A reprobate philanderer gets entangled with a married woman. He is unfortunately ignorant about the fact that her husband is a talented parapsychologist with immense telekinetic destructive powers.
09/04/1975 0338 The Special Undertaking In order to discover the identity of their new home's invisible resident, a country doctor and his young wife look to an antique music box for clues.
10/07/1975 0359 Who Made Me? Years into the future, every person is evaluated and given a rank in society according to their abilities and intellectual capacity. A first ranked airman is disturbed when his son desires to lower his station because of frivolous and trivial reasons.
11/05/1975 0374 The Edge of the Scalpel A surgeon is faced with a moral dilemma when he is forced to perform a complicated operation on the husband of the woman he loves.
11/27/1975 0386 The Dead, Dead Ringer An ex-cop finds work as a messenger for local mobster. When he delivers the message, he is surprised to walk into a murder. The woman has a smoking gun in her hand, and a body on the floor. When he sees that he is a dead ringer for the woman's dead husband, he suspects that something fishy is going on.
12/17/1975 0397 The Eleventh Hour After reading an interesting personal ad in the local paper, a businessman tries to connect with the advertiser. When they finally meet, the woman reveals she is a creature from another galaxy that can solve his problems for the sum of one million dollars.
03/11/1976 0446 Pandora Years into the future, a perfect society is born-- a society without fear, hate and all other negative emotions. Pandora seeks to inflict her sorrow on others and Mara's obsessive love for Willis and their baby threatens to destroy Paradise. This leads to Mara being sentenced to death, but at the last moment she is sent to the past where she begins to appreciate the life she had.
03/22/1977 0621 The Imposter
A woman, with the ghostly assistance of an actor long gone is inspired to write a full-length play  despite having no theatrical experience whatsoever.  When she tries to take full credit for the story, the real author\'s spirit asserts himself and demands that her name be pulled from the marquee. On opening night, the woman reveals the identity of the true writer of the successful show.


06/17/1977 0667 Two Motives for Murder A young broker thinks he's in trouble when $100,000 in bonds entrusted to him comes up missing. But his troubles really begin when his boss invites him out on his yacht to discuss the matter.
07/28/1977 0690 The Secret of Laurels In this gothic sealed-room murder mystery, a man is convicted of killing his best friend. His son sets out to prove him innocent, suspecting that it was his father's widow who did it.
09/13/1977 0708 The Way to Dusty Death A strange story of hatred set in the back woods, where a baron would rather let a dead man's body get decomposed in the open, unattended by any ritual or funeral. When the deceased man's daughters fail to reason with him, the baron's son steps in to plead with him.
11/03/1977 0734 Land of the Living Dead In their journey to a distant village tucked away in the interiors of Brazil, two scientists find themselves stranded at an airport in a mysterious village. A village filled with an ancient people with their strange customs and rituals.
01/20/1978 0768 The Enchanted Child A young boy has the strange gift of killing people at will with the force of his thoughts. When anyone speaks positively about dying when he is about, the person under discussion invariably ends up dead. His parents get curious after the second death and get afraid that they might be next in line.
02/02/1978 0775 Don't Look Back A legendary country singer falls for the charm of a plain girl from a small town he met at a remote service station. But she does not dare reciprocate out of fear for his manager who might even murder her to get her out of the way.
03/23/1978 0803 The Judas Kiss A misogynistic clairvoyant witnesses a woman murdering her boyfriend and subsequently, her husband.
05/29/1978 0841 The Rich Ostrich An ostrich from a local circus makes off with a sizable diamond from an Arab delegate leading to a delicious farcical tale.
09/10/1979 1011 The Odyssey Of Laura Collins After undergoing hypnotism to cure her severe melancholia, a woman suddenly falls into a coma and finds her spirit wandering the streets of New York, even as her mother is beside herself with grief.
09/17/1979 1013 The Guillotine A young medical student meets the love of his life as while waiting out the war. His naive ideals take a beating as he witnesses the brutality of the French Revolution first-hand.
03/25/1981 1176 The Ghost-Grey Bat After swapping homes with a couple from Austria for a year in order for the college professor to finish his book in peace, the two young New Yorkers move into the home. Before long encounter the terrifying guardian of the Austrian home and discover its gruesome secret.
12/23/1981 1270 The Head of a Pin A silicon chip engineer discovers the design flaw that caused a commuter plane to explode. He takes his findings to the government despite the possible repercussions to their business. He turns up dead a few days later and his wife suspects that he was murdered by his business partner- who also happens to be her brother!
02/03/1982 1285 The Mysterious Slumber Set in the 18th century, Mary Reynolds awakens from a coma with amnesia and exhibits a total reinvention of character, much to the surprise of her family.
02/24/1982 1294 Invaders from Atlantis After finally gaining control of the major cities, the alien invaders send their agent to the small town of Parson's Corner. Once there, Mr. Gordon gains the cooperation of the townsfolk, and falls in love with Katherine, the local schoolteacher along the way.
04/19/1982 1317 Shelter The threat of nuclear war forces a group of people to take refuge in the bomb shelter of their neighbor. As tension rises, the shelter's owner spreads ill will amongst the camp's members.


2 Responses to Scardino Don

He was great. Always played the young guy. A convincing actor. Loved his performance in The Plastic Man.

Greg

Yeah, Don was great. About his always playing the young guy. Since he was 25 years old when he started mystery theater in 1974, Don was typecast. Since there were many older male actor veterans on the show, the producer seems to have only offered Don the young guy parts.

D.C.


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