Episodi

  • Quiet, Please - "A Ribbon of Lincoln Green" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

    Quiet, Please - "A Ribbon of Lincoln Green" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
    Oct 18 2026
    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

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    30 min
  • Quiet, Please - "Very Unimportant Person" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please - "Very Unimportant Person" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
    Oct 17 2026
    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

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    30 min
  • Quiet, Please - "Kill Me Again" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

    Quiet, Please - "Kill Me Again" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
    Oct 16 2026
    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

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    25 min
  • Quiet, Please - "Gem of Purest Ray" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please - "Gem of Purest Ray" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
    Oct 14 2026
    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

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    30 min
  • Quiet, Please - "Never Send to Know" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please - "Never Send to Know" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
    Oct 13 2026
    Quiet, Please presents “Never Send to Know,” episode 40 of the series, originally broadcast on March 8, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, this unusual supernatural mystery stars Ernest Chappell as private investigator Mr. Kramer.

    Kramer has little use for hard-boiled detective conventions—until an unlikely client arrives: a ghost who wants his own murder solved. With money to pay but only fragments of memory to offer, the dead man sets Kramer on a strange and unsettling investigation. Edgar Stehli and Nancy Sheridan also appear.

    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
    29:21 Closing

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    30 min
  • Quiet, Please - "How Are You, Pal?" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

    Quiet, Please - "How Are You, Pal?" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
    Oct 12 2026
    Quiet, Please presents “How Are You, Pal?,” episode 14 of the series, originally broadcast on September 10, 1947. Written, produced, and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, it stars Ernest Chappell as Dane.

    In this unusually intimate radio mystery, Dane speaks directly to an unseen old friend—and to the audience—asking listeners to write down three words before revisiting memories of friendship, romance, and growing unease. The story uses its on-air setting to build suspense, with Pat O’Malley, Vicki Vola, and Charme Allen also featured.

    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
    31:42 Closing

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    32 min
  • Quiet, Please - "I Have Been Looking for You" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

    Quiet, Please - "I Have Been Looking for You" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
    Oct 11 2026
    Quiet, Please presents “I Have Been Looking for You,” episode 2 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast June 15, 1947. This local archival recording comes from Wyllis Cooper’s intimate Mutual Broadcasting System fantasy series.

    A man and a woman describe an uncanny lifelong sense that they have been searching for one another, drawn by a familiar voice and a presence just beyond reach. Written, produced, and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the story stars Ernest Chappell and Claudia Morgan in a romantic supernatural tale of longing, memory, and fate.

    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
    30:35 Closing

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    31 min
  • Quiet, Please - "Symphony in D Minor" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please - "Symphony in D Minor" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
    Oct 10 2026
    Quiet, Please presents “Symphony in D Minor,” episode 65 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on September 13, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System production features Ernest Chappell.

    Ray visits Johannes, a blind psychologist, intending to pursue his own interests involving Johannes’s wife, Carol. But a tense conversation about hypnosis, free will, and an unusual sound device turns into an unsettling psychological contest. The episode also weaves in the Quiet, Please theme, drawn from César Franck’s Symphony in D Minor.

    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
    25:13 Closing

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    25 min