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  • Quiet, Please - "Nothing Behind the Door" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

    Quiet, Please - "Nothing Behind the Door" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
    2026/10/07
    Quiet, Please presents “Nothing Behind the Door,” episode 1 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on June 8, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System premiere stars Ernest Chappell as Ross.

    During a visit to California’s Mount Wilson Observatory, Ross and two friends become fascinated by a small, fenced-off corrugated-iron building near the great telescope. Its locked door, forbidding warning sign, and the astronomer’s insistence that there is nothing inside turn an ordinary night beneath the stars into an unsettling mystery.

    Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:44 Original Broadcast
    29:51 Closing

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    30 分
  • Quiet, Please - "We Were Here First" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

    Quiet, Please - "We Were Here First" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
    2026/10/06
    Quiet, Please presents “We Were Here First,” episode 3 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on June 22, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the episode stars Ernest Chappell.

    An elderly, unseen narrator shares a chilling account of a long struggle against the human “giants” from the perspective of a tiny, ancient people. Moving from New Jersey to wartime China, Cooper’s darkly imaginative tale explores survival, extermination, and the dangers of a world shaped by modern weapons.

    Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:53 Original Broadcast
    30:10 Closing

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  • Quiet, Please - "Thirteen and Eight" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please - "Thirteen and Eight" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
    2026/10/05
    Quiet, Please presents “Thirteen and Eight,” originally broadcast on April 26, 1948. This archival recording is identified as episode 47 of the series.

    Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this supernatural newsroom tale follows news photographer Rocco, played by Ernest Chappell. Used to people crowding into his shots for a chance to appear in print, Rocco encounters a particularly persistent “lens louse”—one whose appearances create an unsettling problem when the film is developed. Originally heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System, the episode also features Murray Forbes and J. Pat O’Malley.

    Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:44 Original Broadcast
    29:59 Closing

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    30 分
  • Quiet, Please - "Cornelia" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

    Quiet, Please - "Cornelia" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
    2026/10/04
    Quiet, Please presents “Cornelia,” episode 5 of the classic Quiet, Please radio anthology, originally broadcast on July 20, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the drama stars Ernest Chappell as Gordon, with Anne Seymour as Cornelia and Peggy Stanley as Barbara.

    In a small town remembered from the distance of adulthood, Gordon tells Alan about the years when he and Barbara seemed inseparable—until the arrival of the captivating Cornelia changed the course of their lives. A supernatural-tinged romantic drama of memory, longing, and obsession.

    Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:43 Original Broadcast
    31:10 Closing

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    31 分
  • Quiet, Please - "A Night to Forget" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please - "A Night to Forget" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
    2026/10/03
    Quiet, Please presents “A Night to Forget,” episode 42 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast March 22, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, it stars Ernest Chappell as John H.

    A radio performer is shaken by a nightmare that leads him to Studio Fifteen, a place with an unsettling, morgue-like atmosphere. As broadcast time nears, details from the dream begin to feel uncomfortably real in this self-referential tale of supernatural radio suspense.

    Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:48 Original Broadcast
    29:54 Closing

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  • Quiet, Please - "Portrait of a Character" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

    Quiet, Please - "Portrait of a Character" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
    2026/10/02
    Quiet, Please presents “Portrait of a Character,” episode 82 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on ABC Radio Network on January 9, 1949. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the drama features Ernest Chappell, Athena Lorde, and Charles Egleston.

    A talkative trumpet player brings his battered horn to an instrument-repair shop and passes the wait by recounting an unsettling story involving his employer and a mysterious couple. As his account unfolds, this eerie fantasy explores wrongdoing, watchfulness, and judgment.

    Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:48 Original Broadcast
    31:43 Closing

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    32 分
  • Quiet, Please - "Whence Came You?" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please - "Whence Came You?" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
    2026/10/01
    Quiet, Please presents “Whence Came You?,” episode 37 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on February 16, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the Mutual Broadcasting System drama features Ernest Chappell as archaeologist Austin.

    Returning to Cairo from Jerusalem, Austin learns that a mysterious woman has been seeking him. Joined by his newspaper-reporter friend Abe Feldman, he follows a troubling trail from the city’s nocturnal streets to a remote Egyptian excavation, where ancient ruins and an uneasy past begin to converge.

    Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:49 Original Broadcast
    29:57 Closing

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  • Quiet, Please - "I Remember Tomorrow" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

    Quiet, Please - "I Remember Tomorrow" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
    2026/09/30
    Quiet, Please presents “I Remember Tomorrow,” episode 6 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast July 27, 1947. In this early science-fiction drama by writer-director Wyllis Cooper, Ernest Chappell stars as Dr. Garrett Faber, a physicist with unsettling ideas about time.

    Faber urgently addresses the listener with a warning about three dangerous men and a device that can look one day into the future. As criminal ambition closes in, the limits—and consequences—of knowing tomorrow become the heart of this tense first-person mystery.

    Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:46 Original Broadcast
    29:55 Closing

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    30 分