Howard da Silva

Howard da Silva (born Howard Silverblatt, May 4, 1909 – February 16, 1986) was an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio. He was cast in dozens of productions on the New York stage, appeared in more than two dozen television programs, and acted in more than fifty feature films. Adept at both drama and musicals on the stage, he originated the role of Jud Fry in the original 1943 run of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, and also portrayed the prosecuting attorney in the 1957 stage production of Compulsion. Da Silva was nominated for a 1960 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in Fiorello!, a musical about New York City mayor LaGuardia.^[1] In 1961, da Silva directed Purlie Victorious, by Ossie Davis.

Howard da Silva
Howard da Silva in Unconquered (1947)
Born	Howard Silverblatt (1909-05-04)May 4, 1909 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Died	February 16, 1986(1986-02-16) (aged 76) Ossining, New York, U.S.
Occupations	Actor singer
Years active	1930–1984
Spouses	Evelyn Horowitz ​ ​ (m. 1930, divorced)​ Jane Taylor ​ ​ (m. 1941; div. 1948)​ Marjorie Nelson ​ ​ (m. 1950; div. 1961)​ Nancy Nutter ​ (m. 1961)​
Children	5
Signature

Many of his early feature films were of the noir genre in which he often played villains, such as Eddie Harwood in The Blue Dahlia and the sadistic Captain Francis Thompson in Two Years Before the Mast (both 1946). Da Silva's characterization of historic figures are among some of his most notable work: he was Lincoln's brawling friend Jack Armstrong in both play (1939) and film (1940) versions of Abe Lincoln in Illinois written by Robert Sherwood; Benjamin Franklin in the 1969–1972 stage musical 1776 and a reprisal of the role for the 1972 film version of the production; Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in The Missiles of October (1974); Franklin D. Roosevelt in The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); and Louis B. Mayer in Mommie Dearest (1981).

Da Silva's American television character work included the defense attorney representing the robot in The Outer Limits episode "I, Robot" (1964), and district attorney Anthony Cleese in For the People (1965). For his performance as Eddie in the Great Performances production of Verna: USO Girl (1978), the actor received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special.^[2]

In the 1970s, da Silva appeared in 26 episodes of the radio series, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

Early life

Da Silva was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Bertha (née Sen) and Benjamin Silverblatt, a dress cutter. His parents were both Yiddish-speaking Jews born in Russia. His mother was a women's-rights activist.^[3] Before beginning his acting career on the stage, he was employed as a steelworker.

Da Silva was a graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and studied acting with Eva Le Gallienne beginning in 1928 at the Civic Repertory Theatre.^[3] He changed his surname to the Portuguese Da Silva (the name is sometimes misspelled Howard De Silva).^[4]

Career

 

Marc Blitzstein, Howard Da Silva and Olive Stanton in the Mercury Theatre production of The Cradle Will Rock (1938)

Da Silva appeared in a number of Broadway musicals, including the role of Larry Foreman in the legendary first production of Marc Blitzstein's musical, The Cradle Will Rock (1938).^[5] Later, he costarred in the original 1943 stage production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, playing the role of the psychopathic Jud Fry. He was the easygoing Ben Marino who opposed Tammany Hall in the Pulitzer winning musical Fiorello!.

 

Da Silva and other cast members of 1776 with Richard Nixon following a performance of the Tony Award-winning musical in the East Room of the White House (1971)

In 1969, da Silva originated the role of Benjamin Franklin in the musical 1776. Four days before the show opened on Broadway, he suffered a minor heart attack but refused to seek medical assistance because he wanted to make sure critics saw his performance. After the four official critic performances were over, the cast left to go to the cast party and da Silva went to the hospital and immediately took a leave of absence from the production.^[6] While da Silva recuperated, his understudy, Rex Everhart, took over the role^[7] and performed on the cast recording. Da Silva was able to reprise his role in the 1972 film version and appeared on that soundtrack album.

Da Silva did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club, located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut, with the Group Theatre (New York) formed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg in the 1930s and early 1940s.^[8][9]

Da Silva appeared in over 60 motion pictures. Some of his memorable roles include a leading mutineer in The Sea Wolf (1941), Ray Milland's bartender in The Lost Weekend (1945), and the half-blind criminal "Chicamaw 'One-Eye' Mobley" in They Live by Night (1949). He also released an album on Monitor Records (MP 595) of political songs and ballads entitled Politics and Poker.^[10]

Da Silva returned to the stage, and he was nominated for the 1960 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as "Ben Marino" in Fiorello! (1959). After being blacklisted, da Silva and Nelson left Los Angeles for New York to perform in The World of Sholom Aleichem.^[11]

Da Silva was nominated for the British BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor for his performance as Dr. Swinford in David and Lisa (1962).^[12] Da Silva portrayed Soviet Premier Khrushchev in the television docudrama The Missiles of October (1974). He won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special for his role as Eddie in Verna: U.S.O. Girl (1978) with Sissy Spacek.

Da Silva's TV guest appearances, after the era in which blacklisting was strongest, include such programs as The Outer Limits, Ben Casey, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Fugitive, Gentle Ben, Mannix, Love, American Style, Kung Fu, and Archie Bunker's Place.

Da Silva also played President Franklin D. Roosevelt in The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977), Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer in Mommie Dearest (1981), and American statesman Benjamin Franklin in both 1776 (1972) and a documentary depicting the life of Ben Franklin shown at Franklin's house in Philadelphia. He appeared in two different film adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. In the 1949 production with Alan Ladd as Gatsby, da Silva played garage owner George Wilson; in the 1974 film with Robert Redford, da Silva was Meyer Wolfsheim, the flamboyant gambler with the interesting cufflinks. In his final appearance on screen, da Silva played a New York photographer fascinated with the reclusive Greta Garbo in the film Garbo Talks (1984), directed by Sidney Lumet.

He also did voice acting in 26 episodes of the popular 1974–82 radio thriller series CBS Radio Mystery Theater (between July 1974 and February 1977).^[13] In 1978, he recorded linking narration for episodes of the British television program Doctor Who broadcast in the United States.

Blacklisting

Da Silva became one of hundreds of artists blacklisted in the entertainment industry during the House Committee on Unamerican Activities investigation into alleged Communist influence in the industry. Following his March 1951 testimony in which he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights,^[14] his lead performance in the completed feature film Slaughter Trail was re-shot with actor Brian Donlevy.^[15] Da Silva continued to find work on the New York stage, but did not work in feature films again until 1961 when he appeared in David and Lisa (a BAFTA-nominated performance).^[12][16] He was eventually cleared of any charges in 1960,^[17] but not before his career in television had also stalled, with no work between 1951 and 1959 when he appeared in The Play of the Week. The brief respite was followed by another television career void until his appearance in a 1963 episode of The Defenders. That was the beginning of the end of da Silva's blacklist, and the show's producer Herb Brodkin paired da Silva with William Shatner when he created the television series For the People.^[18]

Personal life and death

Da Silva's first wife was Evelyn Horowitz. They were married on August 13, 1930, in Manhattan, New York City.^[19]

His second wife was stage actress Jane Louise Taylor, born in 1913 in New York.^[20] They were married in January 1941 in Yuma, Arizona, and had one son.^[21][22] They were divorced on July 28, 1948 in Los Angeles, California.^[23]

His third wife was actress Marjorie Nelson; they were married on August 19, 1950, in Hollywood, California.^[24][25] Da Silva and Nelson had two daughters and were divorced on May 9, 1961, in Juárez, Mexico.^[26]

His fourth wife was Nancy Nutter; they were married in May or June 1961 in Greenwich, England.^[27]

Da Silva died of lymphoma, aged 76, in Ossining, New York.^[3]

Acting credits

Stage

Opening date	Closing date	Title	Role	Theatre	Notes	Refs
Apr 21, 1930	May 1930	Romeo and Juliet	Apothecary	Civic Repertory Theatre		^[28]
Oct 6, 1930	unknown	The Green Cockatoo	Scaevola	Civic Repertory Theatre	Written in 1899 by Arthur Schnitzler as Der grüne Kakadu	^[29]
Oct 6, 1930	Nov 1930	Romeo and Juliet	Apothecary	Civic Repertory Theatre		^[30]
Oct 20, 1930	Nov 1930	Siegfried	Mr. Patchkoffer, Schumann	Civic Repertory Theatre	Written by Jean Giraudoux; adaptation by Philip Carr	^[31]
Dec 1, 1930	Jan 1931	Alison's House	Hodges	Civic Repertory Theatre	Written by Susan Glaspell	^[32]
Jan 26, 1931	Mar 1931	Camille	Guest	Civic Repertory Theatre	Written by Alexandre Dumas, fils; translation by Henriette Metcalf	^[33]
May 11, 1931	May 31, 1931	Alison's House	Hodges	Ritz Theatre	Written by Susan Glaspell	^[34]
Oct 26, 1932	Oct 1932	Liliom	Wolf Beifeld	Civic Repertory Theatre	Written by Ferenc Molnár; adaptation by Benjamin Glazer	^[35]
Nov 14, 1932	Nov 1932	Dear Jane	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Civic Repertory Theatre	Written by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley	^[36]
Dec 12, 1932	Dec 1933	Alice in Wonderland	Cook, White Knight	Civic Repertory Theatre	Based on the Lewis Carroll books; written by Florida Friebus and Eva Le Gallienne	^[37]
March 6, 1933	April 1933	The Cherry Orchard	Stationmaster	New Amsterdam Theatre	Written by Anton Chekhov; translation by Constance Garnett	^[38]
Dec 10, 1934	Mar 1935	Sailors of Cattaro	Sepp Kriz	Civic Repertory Theatre	From the 1930 German work Die Matrosen von Cattaro by Friedrich Wolf; translation by Keen Wallis; adaptation by Michael Blankfort	^[39]
Mar 20, 1935	June 1935	Black Pitt	Hansy McCulloh	Civic Repertory Theatre	Written by Albert Maltz	^[40]
Nov 4, 1937	June 1938	Golden Boy	Lewis	Belasco Theatre	Written by Clifford Odets	^[41]
Jan 3, 1938	April 1938	The Cradle Will Rock	Larry Foreman	Windsor Theatre	Written by Marc Blitzstein	^[5]^[42]
Feb 19, 1938	May 1938	Casey Jones	Old Man	Fulton Theatre	Written by Robert Ardrey	^[43]
Oct 15, 1938	Dec 1939	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Jack Armstrong	Plymouth Theatre	Written by Robert E. Sherwood	^[44]
Nov 2, 1939	Nov 4, 1939	Summer Night	Speed	St. James Theatre	Written by Benjamin Glazer and Vicki Baum	^[45]
Jan 22, 1940	Apr 13, 1940	Two On An Island	The Sightseeing Guide	Broadhurst Theatre	Written by Elmer Rice	^[46]
Jan 22, May 31, 1943	May 29, 1948	Oklahoma!	Jud Fry	St. James Theatre	Written by Rodgers and Hammerstein	^[47]^[48]
April 9, 1946		Shootin' Star	Saloon proprietor, sheriff	Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia	Written by Walter Hart and Louis Jacobs	^[49]
Dec 26, 1947	Feb 7, 1948	The Cradle Will Rock	(directed)	Mansfield Theatre, Broadway Theatre	Written by Marc Blitzstein	^[5]^[50]
Oct 18, 1950	Oct 28, 1950	Burning Bright	Friend Ed	Broadhurst Theatre	Written by John Steinbeck	^[51]
Nov 23, 1954	Jan 2, 1955	Sandhog	(produced)	Phoenix Theatre	Written by Earl Robinson and Waldo Salt, based on St. Columbia and the River by Theodore Dreiser. Rachel Productions was owned by da Silva and Arnold Perl.	^[52]
Nov 4, 1956	Nov 25, 1956	Diary of a Scoundrel	Neel Fedoseitch Mamaev	Phoenix Theatre	Written by Alexander Ostrovsky; adapted by Rodney Ackland	^[53]
Oct 24, 1957	Feb 22, 1958	Compulsion	Horn The Prosecuting Attorney	Ambassador Theatre	Based on the 1956 Meyer Levin novel of the same name; later produced as the 1959 film Compulsion.	^[54]
Nov 23, 1959	Oct 28, 1961	Fiorello!	Ben Marino	Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway Theatre	Based on the book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott; da Silva nominated for 1960 Tony Award Best Featured Actor in a Musical	^[55]^[56]
Sept 28, 1961	May 13, 1962	Purlie Victorious	(directed)	Cort Theatre, Longacre Theatre	Written by Ossie Davis	^[57]^[58]
Jan 10, 1962	Mar 10, 1962	Romulus	Ottaker	Music Box Theatre	Written by Friedrich Duerrenmatt; adapted by Gore Vidal	^[59]
Dec 12, 1962	Dec 15, 1962	In the Counting House	Max Hartman	Biltmore Theater	Written by Leslie Weiner	^[60]
Feb 28, 1963	Jul 10, 1963	Dear Me, The Sky is Falling	Paul Hirsch	Music Box Theatre	Written by Leonard Spigelgass, based on the book by Gertrude Berg and James Yaffe	^[61]
Oct 14, 1963	Oct 19, 1963	The Advocate	(directed)	ANTA Playhouse	Written by Robert Noah	^[62]
Nov 8, 1964	Jan 7, 1965	The Cradle Will Rock	(directed)	Theatre Four	Written by Marc Blitzstein	^[5]^[63]
Nov 10, 1965	Apr 16, 1966	The Zulu and the Zayda	(writer)	Cort Theatre	Original story by Dan Jacobson; book adaptation by Howard da Silva and Felix Leon	^[64]^[65]
Dec 06, 1966	Dec 31, 1966	My Sweet Charlie	(directed)	Longacre Theatre	Written by David Westheimer	^[66]
May 5, 1966	May 29, 1966	Galileo Galilei	(guest directed)	Goodman Theater	Written by Bertolt Brecht Featuring Morris Carnovsky	^[67]
Jul 06, 1967	Nov 12, 1967	The Unknown Soldier and His Wife	Archbishop	Vivian Beaumont Theater, George Abbott Theater	Written by Peter Ustinov	^[68]
Mar 16, 1969	Feb 13, 1972	1776	Benjamin Franklin	46th Street Theatre, St. James Theatre, Majestic Theatre	Based on a book by Peter Stone; adapted by Sherman Edwards	^[69]^[70]
Feb 11, 1982	Feb 28, 1982	The World of Sholom Aleichem	(conceived)	Rialto Theatre	Conceived by Howard da Silva and Arnold Perl; written by Perl.	^[71]^[72]

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Other cast members	Notes	Refs.
1935	Once in a Blue Moon		Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur	Jimmy Savo	Uncredited	^[73]
1938	Marie Antoinette	Toulon	W. S. Van Dyke	Norma Shearer, John Barrymore	Uncredited
1940	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Jack Armstrong	John Cromwell	Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon		^[74]
	I'm Still Alive	Red Garvey	Irving Reis	Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes		^[75]
1941	The Dog in the Orchard	Foster	Jean Negulesco	Barbara Pepper	Short film
	The Sea Wolf	Harrison	Michael Curtiz	Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield		^[76]
	Strange Alibi	Monson	D. Ross Lederman	Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry		^[77]
	Sergeant York	Lem	Howard Hawks	Gary Cooper		^[78]
	Bad Men of Missouri	Greg Bilson	Ray Enright	Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman		^[79]
	Three Sons o' Guns	Radio announcer	Benjamin Stoloff	Wayne Morris	Uncredited
	Navy Blues	Petty Officer	Lloyd Bacon	Ann Sheridan, Jack Oakie, Martha Raye, Jack Haley	Uncredited	^[80]
	Nine Lives Are Not Enough	J.B. Murray – City Editor	A. Edward Sutherland	Ronald Reagan		^[81]
	Blues in the Night	Sam Paryas	Anatole Litvak	Richard Whorf, Priscilla Lane, Betty Field		^[82]
	At the Stroke of Twelve	Angie the Ox	Jean Negulesco	Craig Stevens	Short film
	Steel Against the Sky	Bugs Little	A. Edward Sutherland	Alexis Smith, Lloyd Nolan		^[83]
1942	Wild Bill Hickok Rides	Ringo	Ray Enright	Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot		^[84]
	Bullet Scars	Frank Dillon	D. Ross Lederman	Regis Toomey		^[85]
	Juke Girl	Cully	Curtis Bernhardt	Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan		^[86]
	The Big Shot	Sandor	Lewis Seiler	Humphrey Bogart		^[87]
	The Omaha Trail	Ben Santley	Edward Buzzell	James Craig		^[88]
	Reunion in France	Anton Stregel	Jules Dassin	Joan Crawford, John Wayne		^[89]
	Native Land	Jim	Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand	Paul Robeson	Documentary	^[90]
1943	Keeper of the Flame	Jason Rickards	George Cukor	Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn		^[91]
	Tonight We Raid Calais	Sgt. Block	John Brahm	Lee J. Cobb, Beulah Bondi		^[92]
1945	Duffy's Tavern	Tough guy	Hal Walker	Ed Gardner, Bing Crosby		^[93]
	The Lost Weekend	Nat	Billy Wilder	Ray Milland		^[94]
1946	The Blue Dahlia	Eddie Harwood	George Marshall	Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake		^[95]
	Two Years Before the Mast	Captain Francis A. Thompson	John Farrow	Brian Donlevy, Barry Fitzgerald		^[96]
1947	Blaze of Noon	Mike Gafferty	John Farrow	Anne Baxter, William Holden		^[97]
	Variety Girl	Himself	George Marshall	DeForest Kelley, Olga San Juan		^[98]
	Unconquered	Martin Garth	Cecil B. DeMille	Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard		^[99]
1948	They Live by Night	Chickamaw	Nicholas Ray	Farley Granger		^[100]
1949	The Great Gatsby	Wilson	Elliott Nugent	Alan Ladd		^[101]
	Border Incident	Owen Parkson	Anthony Mann	Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy		^[102]
1950	The Underworld Story	Carl Durham	Cy Endfield	Dan Duryea, Gale Storm		^[103]
	Wyoming Mail	Cavanaugh	Reginald LeBorg	Stephen McNally		^[104]
	Tripoli	Capt. Demetrios	Will Price	Maureen O'Hara		^[105]
	Three Husbands	Dan McCabe	Irving Reis	Eve Arden		^[106]
1951	Fourteen Hours	Deputy Police Chief Moskar	Henry Hathaway	Richard Basehart		^[107]
	Slaughter Trail	Capt. Dempster	Irving Allen	Gig Young, Virginia Grey	his footage reshot w/ different actor	^[15]
	M	Inspector Carney	Joseph Losey	David Wayne		^[108]
1962	David and Lisa	Dr. Alan Swinford	Frank Perry	Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin		^[109]
1964	The Outrage	Prospector	Martin Ritt	Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom		^[110]
	Hamlet	Claudius	Bruce Minnix, Joseph Papp	Michael Alaimo		^[111]
1966	Nevada Smith	Warden	Henry Hathaway	Steve McQueen		^[112]
1972	1776	Dr. Benjamin Franklin (PA)	Peter H. Hunt	William Daniels, Blythe Danner, Ken Howard		^[113]
1974	The Great Gatsby	Meyer Wolfsheim	Jack Clayton	Robert Redford, Mia Farrow		^[114]
1975	I'm a Stranger Here Myself	Narrator	David Halpern	John Houseman		^[115]
1976	Hollywood on Trial	Himself	David Helpern	Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner Jr., Walter Bernstein		^[116]
1977	The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Larry Cohen	Broderick Crawford, Celeste Holm, José Ferrer		^[117]
1981	Mommie Dearest	Louis B. Mayer	Frank Perry	Faye Dunaway		^[118]
1984	Garbo Talks	Angelo Dokakis	Sidney Lumet	Greta Garbo, Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver		^[119]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Refs.
1950	The Silver Theatre		My Heart's in the Highlands	^[120]
1951	The Bigelow Theatre		My Heart's in the Highlands
1959	The Play of the Week	Dupont-Dufour Sr.	Thieves Carnival
1963	The Defenders	Peter Cole	The Bagman
	East Side/West Side	Wallace Mapes	I Believe E Except After C	^[121]
	The Doctors and the Nurses	Dr. McClendon	Disaster Call
1964	The Defenders	Arnold Fermuller	The Man Who
	The Outer Limits	Thurman Cutler	I, Robot	^[122]
1965	For the People	Anthony Celese	13 episodes	^[123]
	Ben Casey	Ulysses Pagoras	The Day They Stole Country General
	Ben Casey	Cantor Nathan Birmbaum	A Nightingale Named Nathan	^[124]
1966	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Captain Basil Calhoun	The Foreign Legion Affair	^[125]
	The Loner	Gonzales	To Hang a Dead Man
	The Fugitive	Pete Dawes	Death is the Door Prize	^[126]
1967	N.Y.P.D.	Dimitchik	Old Gangsters Never Die
	Gentle Ben	Phillip Garrett	Battle of Wedlow Woods	^[127]
1968	Mannix	Aram Karmalis	You Can Get Killed Out There
1972	Keep the Faith	Rabbi Mossman	TV film	^[128]
1973	Love, American Style	Doctor Wazanskyi	Love and the End of the Line
	Kung Fu	Otto Schultz	The Hoots
1974	Smile Jenny, You're Dead	Lt. Humphrey Kenner	TV film	^[111]
	The Missiles of October	Nikita Khrushchev	TV film	^[111]
1976	The American Parade	William M Tweed	Stop, Thief!	^[129]
1977	Insight	Arnstein – Violinist	Arnstein's Miracle
1978	When the Boat Comes In	Host	American broadcast
	Great Performances	Eddie	Verna:USO Girl	^[111]
1980	Power	Jack Eisenstadt	TV film	^[111]
	The Greatest Man in the World	Conklin	TV film	^[130]
1983	Archie Bunker's Place	Abe Rabinowitz	The Promotion	^[131]
	Masquerade	General Breznin	Pilot	^[132]
1984	American Playhouse	Critic	The Cafeteria	^[133]

Doctor Who

Howard da Silva provided linking narration for North American broadcasts of Doctor Who, providing continuity announcements for episodes from season 12 through season 15, ostensibly to help North American audiences get acclimatized to the nature of serial storytelling, which was then uncommon on non-soap-operatic television in the United States and Canada. His narration accompanied the earliest runs of Doctor Who as broadcast on American PBS stations and Canadian broadcasters like TVOntario during the 1970s and early 1980s. Typically, after Doctor Who had been run on a station for a while, the linking narration was removed as unnecessary.^[134] Nevertheless, the announcements were so familiar a part of some viewers' experience of Doctor Who that they became a standard extra feature on BBC DVD releases of early Tom Baker serials.^[135]

Radio

From 1974 to 1977, da Silva was a regular player on CBS Radio Mystery Theater.^[136]

Year	Date	Title	Ep. No.
1974	July 31	"The Only Blood"	125
	Dec 5	"The Body Snatchers"	183
	Dec 24	"A Very Private Miracle"	191
1975	Jan 14	"Faith and the Faker"	205
	Feb 14	"The Shadow of the Past"	223
	Mar 20	"The Doppelganger"	242
	Apr 18	"A Challenge for the Dead"	259
	May 8	"Taken for Granite"	270
	June 6	"The Transformer"	287
	July 2	"Come Back with Me"	301
	Aug 5	"Hung Jury"	321
	Aug 19	"Welcome for a Dead Man"	329
	Sept 18	"The Coffin with the Golden Nails"	346
	Sept 28	"The Other Self "	354
	Oct 23	"The Sealed Room Murder"	366
	Nov 17	"The Moonlighter"	380
	Nov 28	"The Frammis"	387
	Dec 15	"Burn, Witch, Burn"	396
1976	Jan 19	"There's No Business Like"	418
	Feb 19	"Goodbye, Benjamin Flack"	434
	Apr 24	"The Prince of Evil"	475
	Aug 30	"The Night Shift"	511
	Oct 22	"Somebody Help Me!"	540
	Dec 14	"The Smoking Pistol"	565
1977	Jan 4	"This Breed Is Doomed"	577
	Feb 25	"Legend of Phoenix Hill"	607

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