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Quiet, Please presents “The Pathetic Fallacy,” episode 35 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on February 2, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, it stars Ernest Chappell as Mr. Quinn, with Charita Bauer and Michael Fitzmaurice. At a laboratory press demonstration, Quinn unveils a vast electronic calculating machine he insists is only a tool. When its baffling behavior draws scrutiny from reporters Alice King and Sandy Burns, the story becomes a light, imaginative fantasy about intelligence, emotion, and the risks of seeing too much humanity in a machine. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:45 Original Broadcast 29:45 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Green Light,” episode 34 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast January 26, 1948 on the Mutual Broadcasting System. This sustained, unsponsored drama was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper. While waiting for a westbound train, former railroad telegrapher Phil Connors recalls a disturbing night at a small lumber-town depot. With Addie Dorsey nearby, an unexpected train and an unsettling signal challenge both Phil’s professional judgment and his hopes for the future. Ernest Chappell stars as Phil, with Anne Seymour as Addie Dorsey. 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 24:41 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Summer Goodbye,” episode 84 of the series, originally broadcast on January 23, 1949. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, it stars Ernest Chappell as Noel and Cathleen Cordell as Madeleine. In late-summer Southern California, a desperate couple races through the San Fernando Valley and into the isolated roads of Las Virgenes Canyon, hoping to reach a secluded refuge before the law catches up with them. Along the way, an unsettling stranger seems to be waiting around every bend in this crime-and-supernatural suspense tale. 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 00:47 Original Broadcast 29:46 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “It’s Later Than You Think,” episode 59 of Wyllis Cooper’s atmospheric anthology series, originally broadcast on August 2, 1948. Ernest Chappell stars in this Mutual Broadcasting System sustaining program. In 1944, as Lindsay Bradley prepares for military service, his company gives him a gold watch as a farewell gift. He soon learns the watch may hold an extraordinary power: the ability to shift time within a twelve-hour span—turning a simple keepsake into an unsettling responsibility. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:51 Original Broadcast 25:19 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “The Thing on the Fourble Board,” episode 60 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on August 9, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Ernest Chappell as Porky. At a remote oil derrick, roughneck Porky recalls a troubling shutdown shift after a core sample from deep underground brings unease to the rig. Set amid the pipe racks and elevated fourble board of an isolated drilling operation, this celebrated suspense tale makes vivid use of its oil-field setting. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:42 Original Broadcast 30:25 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Northern Lights,” episode 85 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on January 30, 1949. This sustained ABC drama was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper. In a winter laboratory, Paul McGilligat and his assistant Norman test an experimental device for temporal displacement. When a simple trial produces unsettling results amid unusually vivid aurora borealis outside, their investigation leads into eerie science-fiction territory. Ernest Chappell stars as McGilligat, with Dan Sutter as Norman. 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 29:48 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Camera Obscura,” episode 19 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on October 13, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, it stars Ernest Chappell as Si, with Charita Bauer as the Girl. In Santa Monica, a chance encounter between Si and an anxious waitress leads to the eerie Camera Obscura in Palisades Park, where a living panorama of the waterfront begins to suggest more than either of them expects. Cooper turns the real seaside attraction’s darkened interior and strange projected view into an unsettling setting for 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 00:53 Original Broadcast 24:37 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Don’t Tell Me About Halloween,” episode 21 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast October 27, 1947. Written, produced, and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Ernest Chappell as Craig, with Charita Bauer as Candace. On Halloween eve, a university historian prepares for an unsettling encounter tied to a cold night long ago on Salem’s former gallows hill. At an isolated cottage, Craig confronts the strange rules surrounding a possessive visitor whose return may make escape impossible. 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 00:52 Original Broadcast 25:33 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “As Long as I Live,” episode 57 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on July 19, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the drama features Ernest Chappell. James recalls an unsettling time in a modest house on Chicago’s West Side, where his wife Georgie’s work as a professional medium and the presence of his 97-year-old great-uncle Lars draw him into an old mystery with roots in Sweden. Skepticism about séances and psychic gifts gives way to an atmosphere of mounting unease in this tale of the spirit business. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:52 Original Broadcast 25:26 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “One for the Book,” episode 75 of the classic radio anthology, originally broadcast on November 21, 1948. Written, produced, and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the ABC broadcast features series lead Ernest Chappell. During 1937 Army Air Corps maneuvers near Muroc Dry Lake, science-fiction-minded Sergeant Max Westlake and his skeptical friend Bill Carent debate the limits of aviation and time. When an unexplained nighttime incident interrupts the desert routine, Westlake’s later recollection becomes an unsettling military 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 00:47 Original Broadcast 30:18 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Bring Me to Life,” episode 8 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on August 10, 1947. This Mutual Broadcasting System sustaining-program episode was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper and stars Ernest Chappell with Helen Marcy. A deadline-pressed writer and his wife, Ruth, are unsettled when his typewriter begins adding messages of its own. As they follow its strange prompt to create a new character, fiction and reality begin to feel dangerously close in this self-referential supernatural fantasy. 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 00:39 Original Broadcast 30:03 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “A Red and White Guideon,” episode 36 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on February 9, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama features Ernest Chappell. Veteran cavalryman Noah Wellman recalls A Troop of the Seventh Cavalry in 1875 and the red-and-white guidon that came to embody comradeship, memory, and duty. With frontier camp life, bugle calls, and cavalry tradition, the story follows the lingering burden carried by a soldier who cannot forget his troop’s flag. 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 29:53 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Clarissa,” episode 46 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on April 19, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Ernest Chappell as Jesse, with Bruno Wick and Peggy Stanley. A young writer rents an inexpensive room in an isolated, deteriorating house, where its secretive longtime owner and the distant sound of an unseen daughter’s singing create an atmosphere of growing unease. Cold rooms, creaking stairs, and a closed door upstairs deepen the 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 00:38 Original Broadcast 30:48 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “In Memory of Bernadine,” episode 25 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast November 24, 1947. This local archival recording preserves Wyllis Cooper’s intimate radio drama for the Mutual Broadcasting System. On a long postwar journey home, an unnamed man reflects on Bernadine, the woman he loves, and the memories that have shaped him. Ernest Chappell stars as the narrator, with Nancy Sheridan as Bernadine and Melville Ruick as Harry Foster, in a restrained, bittersweet wartime story written and directed by Cooper. 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 00:45 Original Broadcast 24:48 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Light the Lamp for Me,” episode 67 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on September 26, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, the episode stars Ernest Chappell. Historical writer Manfred, celebrated for the vivid detail of his books, discovers an ancient bronze oil lamp hidden within the walls of California’s San Fernando Mission. Its mysterious power offers an extraordinary connection to the past—but one governed by unsettling rules. Pat O’Malley, Floyd Buckley, and Kathleen Niday co-star. 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 00:42 Original Broadcast 30:00 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “The Third Man’s Story,” originally broadcast September 6, 1948. This is episode 64 of Wyllis Cooper’s classic radio series. In a remote, fertile valley, a reflective narrator recalls a youthful act of folly amid family labor, pride, favor, and faith. This Genesis-inspired reimagining of Cain and Abel was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper and stars Ernest Chappell, Lon Clark, Arthur Kohl, and Alice Reinheart. It was the final Quiet, Please broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System. 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 00:41 Original Broadcast 22:37 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “A Ribbon of Lincoln Green,” episode 11 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast August 30, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the drama stars Ernest Chappell as Captain Hood. During the May 1940 retreat toward Dunkirk, an American officer serving with Britain’s King’s Royal Rifle Corps becomes separated from his unit amid the ruined streets of Calais. In a wartime memory where blackout, bombardment, and legend begin to overlap, he encounters echoes of Robin Hood’s world, including Alan-a-Dale and Maid Marian. 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 00:50 Original Broadcast 29:32 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Very Unimportant Person,” episode 77 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on December 5, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, the drama features Ernest Chappell, with Nancy Sheridan, James Monks, and Frank Thomas. In the immediate shadow of the atomic age, Tom and Ruth flee north from the Washington area in an Air Force airplane as catastrophe unfolds below. Searching the radio for signs of survivors, they confront an increasingly unsettling journey through a darkened, uncertain world. 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 00:38 Original Broadcast 30:14 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Kill Me Again,” episode 24 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast November 17, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System sustaining broadcast stars Ernest Chappell as hard-up writer Joe Davis, with James Monks as the unsettlingly businesslike Mr. Hellman. When Joe casually offers to sell his soul for a million dollars, Mr. Hellman arrives with cash and a bill of sale in triplicate. What follows is a darkly comic supernatural tale of contracts, technicalities, and the unnerving fine print of an impossible bargain. 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 24:36 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Quiet, Please presents “Gem of Purest Ray,” episode 50 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on May 17, 1948. Written and directed by Willis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the drama features Ernest Chappell. A detective-sergeant’s questioning of Dr. Eleftherios Moraitis opens onto a strange account of a deep-sea expedition, a custom diving bell, and a mysterious jewel linked to the legend of Atlantis. What begins as a police interrogation becomes an unsettling voyage into ocean depths and buried knowledge. 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 00:41 Original Broadcast 29:54 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio