Shocktober 1999

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Halloween OTR Shows

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You should get the Horror font for this page. If you have Windows 95 or later, it goes in the "c:\windows/fonts" directory.The word Horror will change once you install the font and refresh/reload the page. As I countdown to Halloween below, each day is also in the Horror Font. There are ALOT of scary Old Time Radio Shows that are perfect for Halloween. There are SO many that you couldn't possibly listen to half on them in one night, let alone ALL of them! So what I decided to do is take my list of OTR shows and pick out 2 Scary ones to listen to for each weeknight, and 4 to listen to for Saturday and 4 for Sunday, culminating on Halloween, when I'll listen to several. I decided to share my playlist online.

The limitations are that the shows in my collection won't neccessarily be the shows in your collection. That and I ONLY have about 2,000 shows in my collection altogether. Feel free to e-mail me about shows that I should try to get for next year, and other scary shows that you like that I don't have on my list. I would be happy to put your playlists on my site too.

I did another list for Christmas OTR Shows. Feel free to send in suggestions for either the Halloween List or The Christmas List.




Friday, October 1

Unexpected: Silver Fox: 1949
Unexpected: Horoscope: 1950's
Unsolved Mysteries: Mystery of the Marie Celeste: 1936
Unsolved Mysteries: Rue Morgue Murders: 1936

Four 15 Minute Shows to start the month off. Lyle Talbot stars in Silver Fox.

Saturday, October 2

Forecast: The Lodger:
Suspense: Burning Court (Premiere Episode): June 17, 1942
Suspense: Wet Saturday: June 24, 1942
Suspense: Weekend Special- Death: June 24, 1954

Forecast is the Pilot episode of Suspense.

Sunday, October 3

Witch's Tale: Graveyard Masion (Part 1 of 2): 1930's
Witch's Tale: Graveyard Masion (Part 2 of 2): 1930's
Unsolved Mysteries: Mystery of the Zombie: 1936
Unsolved Mysteries: The Witch Doctor: 1936
Macabra: Final Resting Place (First Episode): November 13, 1961
Macabra: Weekend: November 20, 1961

Witch's Tale and Unsolved Mysteries are 15 minute shows. Macabra was a show made by The Armed Forces Radio Network.

Monday, October 4

Inner Sanctum: Musical Score: May 29, 1945
Inner Sanctum: Ghosts Always Get The Last Laugh: September 23, 1946

These two episodes of Inner Sanctum were some of the first OTR shows that I ever heard. They're great stories, but The Lipton Tea commercials almost spoil the mood!

Tuesday, October 5

The Strange Doctor Weird: The Secret Room: February 13, 1945
The Strange Doctor Weird: The Man Who Knew Everything: March 20, 1945
The Mysterious Traveler: The Man Who Knew Everything: October 9, 1951

The Strange Dr. Weird and Mysterious Traveler both starred Maruice Tarplin and were done by the same people. The MT episode of The Man Who Knew Everything is a longer version of the Dr. Weird version.

Wednesday, October 6

Hermit's Cave: Notebook on Murder
Hermit's Cave: The Story Without End

Ghost stories, weird stories, and murders too! The Hermit knows of them all. Turn out your lights, turn them out. Listen while The Hermit tells you the story...

Thursday, October 7

Lights Out: Until Dead: February 2, 1943
Lights Out: The Little People: July 27, 1943

Lights Out is my favorite Scary OTR series.

Friday, October 8

The Shadow: The Werewolf of Hamilton Mansion: January 5, 1947
The Shadow: The Terrible Legend of Crownshield Castle: December 28, 1947

Who knows what evil lurks in the heart's of men? The Shadow knows!

Saturday, October 9

Mercury Summer Theater: The Hitchhiker: June 21, 1946
Murder Clinic: Scrap of Lace: September 22, 1942
Mystery In The Air: Queen of Spades: September 16, 1947
Price of Fear: The Cat's Cradle

Queen of Spades is a short story by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (try saying THAT three times fast!), Price of Fear stars Vincent Price. The Hitchhiker was written by Lucille Fletcher.

Sunday, October 10

Lights Out: Spider: May 18, 1943
Lights Out: Lord Marley's Guest: September 7, 1943
Lights Out: Darrell Hall's Thoughts: March 23, 1938
Lights Out: Come To The Bank: November 17, 1942

I picked out four more episodes of Lights Out. It is later than you think. Turn out your lights. Wyliss Cooper originated Lights Out and he left the show in the very capable hands of Arch Oboler.

Monday, October 11

Quiet Please: Whence Came You: February 16, 1948
Quiet Please: If I Should Wake Before I Die: February 27, 1949

Wyliss Cooper went on to create Quiet Please.

Tuesday, October 12

Weird Circle: Fall Of The House Of Usher (First Episode)
Weird Circle: House And The Brain

Fall of The House of Usher is (of course) based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe.

Wednesday, October 13

House Of Mystery: A Gift From The Dead: August 3, 1947
Murder At Midnight: The Island of the Dead: August 8, 1947

House of Mystery is a kids show, and features Post Corn Toasties as a sponsor. These were two of the first OTR shows that I ever heard.

Thursday, October 14

Mysterious Traveler: No One On The Line: September 1, 1946
Inner Sanctum: The Wailing Wall: November 12, 1945

Wailing Wall stars Boris Karloff, so you know right then that it's scary.

Friday, October 15

The Shadow: Death Shows The Way: December 3, 1939
The Shadow: The Living Head: February 10, 1946

The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay! The Shadow knows.

Saturday, October 16

Suspense: The Hitchhiker: September 2, 1942
Suspense: I Had An Alibi: January 4, 1945
Suspense: The Most Dangerous Game: February 1, 1945
Suspense: The Hunting Trip: September 12, 1946

I Had an Alibi is one of my favorite episodes of Suspense. The Hitchhiker stars Orson Welles, The Most Dangerous Game is a really great story, and The Hunting Trip stars Vincent Price.

Sunday, October 17

The Whistler: Retribution (Premiere Episode) May 16, 1942
The Whistler: Shruken Head: June 13, 1942
The Whistler: Smart Boy: April 15, 1946
The Whistler: Smart Girl: September 4, 1949

I am The Whistler, and I know many things for I walk by night... Gale Gordon (of The Lucy Show fame was the Whistler for the very first episode).

Monday, October 18

Drop Dead: Drop Dead
Lights Out: Special To Hollywood: 1944

Drop Dead was an album by Arch Oboler. It features several short stories.


Tuesday, October 19

Mysterious Traveler: Death Writes A Letter: May 18, 1948
The Whistler: Letter From Cynthia: December 25, 1949
Okay, fine. Letter From Cynthia is actually a Christmas Story, but it's scary! Today's stories have to do with getting mail.

Wednesday, October 20

Night Owl Radio Mystery Theatre: Rattle Rattle: May 21, 1998
Night Owl Radio Mystery Theatre: Shopping For Murder: August 27, 1998
The Night Owl Radio Mystery Theatre is made by my friend Jim Sedgwick. See his website for more information.

Thursday, October 21

Escape: Leinnegan Vs. The Ants: August 4, 1949
Lights Out: Revolt Of The Worms: October 13, 1942
An army of ants or an army of giant worms? Which is worse?

Friday, October 22

Arch Oboler's Plays: Rocket From Manhattan: September 20, 1945
Dimension X: The Outer Limit (First Episode):
Two Science Fiction shows.

Saturday, October 23

Lights Out: The Ugliest Man In The World: June 1, 1943
Lights Out: The Archer: April 13, 1943
Lights Out: State Executioner: August 13, 1943
Lights Out: The Author And The Thing
Another Lights Out Marathon. The Ugliest Man In The World starts off with a man with a gun to his head.

Sunday, October 24

Suspense: Donovan's Brain: (Part 1 Of 2): May 18, 1944
Suspense: Donovan's Brain: (Part 2 Of 2): May 25, 1944
Suspense: On A Country Road: November 16, 1950
Suspense: The Signalman: March 23, 1953
Four Tales WELL Caluclated to keep me in.... Suspense!

Monday, October 25

Lights Out: Meteor Man: December 22, 1942
Lights Out: The Fast One: January 5, 1943
Did you ever stop to think what's inside a meteor? Or how it would be to be the fastest man alive? Listen to these two episodes of Lights Out.

Tuesday, October 26

Mysterious Traveler: Behind The Locked Door: 1947
Mysterious Traveler: Death Comes For Adolph Hitler: March 25, 1945
Behind The Locked Door is really cool. The shows are getting scarier as Halloween gets closer!

Wednesday, October 27

Mercury Theatre Of The Air: Dracula (First Episode): July 11, 1938
I just had to listen to Dracula!

Thursday, October 28

The Whistler: Escape From Skull Island
Escape: Conqueror's Isle: January 11, 1953
I wouldn't want to be shipwreacked on either of these two islands.

Friday, October 29

Lights Out: Poltergist: October 20, 1942
Lights Out: Devil's Due: April 26, 1939
Poltergist is REALLY scary, and Devil's Due freaks me out!

Saturday, October 30

Mercury Theatre on The Air: War of the Worlds: October 30, 1938
Favorite Story: Frankenstein:
Escape: Three Skeleton Key:

Isn't is obvious that I would pick War of the Worlds, 61 years after it was first aired?

Sunday, October 31

I've left off SO many good shows, nevermind the ones I don't even have. Below is a PARTIAL list of shows that I left off that I may or may not have time to listen to on Halloween Day. At least it's a Sunday so I won't have to worry about work or school (I hope!)

Devil and Mr. O: The Hole (Oxychloride X)
Devil and Mr. O: Alley Cat
Escape: Snake Doctor: August 18, 1949
Lights Out: Scoop: December 8, 1942
Lights Out: The Coffin In Studio B: July 13, 1946
Mysterious Traveler: Locomotive Ghost: July 6, 1947
Mysterious Traveler: Visting Corpse: Augyst 10, 1948
Mysterious Traveler: Vacation From Life: September 7, 1947
The Shadow: The Destroyer: March 25, 1945
The Shadow: The Little Man Who Wasn't There: April 8, 1945
Suspense: The Thing In The Window: January 27, 1949
Suspense: House In Cypress Canyon: December 5, 1946
Suspense: The Kettler Method: September 16, 1942
Suspense: I Won't Take A Minute: December 6, 1945
Suspense: The Screaming Woman: November 28, 1948
Unsolved Mysteries: Houdini: 1930's
War Of The Worlds: 50th Anniversary Recreation: October 30, 1988
War Of The Worlds: October 31, 1995
The Whistler: Return Engagement: March 10, 1948
The Whistler: What Makes A Murderer?: April 7, 1948
X Minus One: The Parade: May 1, 1955
X Minus One: Universe: May 15, 1955










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