Radio Mystery Theater Stay Out of Dutchmans Woods Episode 0363

Original Airdate: October 16, 1975

Episode 0363 "Stay Out of Dutchman's Woods"

Written by Fielden Farrington, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

I have the lunch all packed and I'm ready to take you on a picnic in the woods. There's a beautiful little glade deep in the forest. Birds singing. That wonderful clean aroma of fresh growth mixed with leaf mold and last year's pine needles. The cool touch of grass to your bare feet if you care to take your shoes off. Doesn't sound very mysterious? Doesn't frighten you? Well, stay with us. It will.

I think you'll agree there's nothing more delightful than that first day of vacation. You've shut off all your cares. Your freedom is still new and exhilarating. Your inevitable return to workaday things is too far in the future to dampen your high spirits. Of course, vacations, like other pleasant seeming prospects, may take unpredictable turns. You just can't look more than a few seconds into the future without facing an uncertainty. Ronnie and Peg Andrews have driven all day to get to their chosen vacation spot in the Maine Northwoods.

In spite of an innkeepers' warning, the young couple vacationing in Maine decide to go off on a picnic in Dutchman's Woods, a place were men, and only men, get mysteriously lost. But the husband insists and becomes lost and eventually he stumbles across an old castle and enchantress and siren. Is he doomed to become one more of her victims??

Starring: Paul Hecht, Jada Rowland, Mary Jane Higby, Santos Ortega, Joan Loring