Shocktober 2000

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Halloween OTR Shows Year 2000 Edition

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You should get the Horror font for this page. If you have Windows 95 or later, it goes in the 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 A LOT 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.

Christmas OTR Shows are also plentiful, so look for a similar list at my website in mid-November. I'll probably start listening to Christmas shows right after Thanskgiving (so I can listen to one episode of The Cinnamon Bear every day between Thanksgiving and Christmas). Feel free to send in suggestions for either the Halloween List or The Christmas List.




Sunday, October 1

The Shadow: The League of Terror: January 9, 1938
The Shadow: Sabotage: January 16, 1938
The Shadow: Society of the Living Dead: January 23, 1938
The Shadow: Poison Death: January 30, 1938

Four episodes of The Shadow from four consecutive weeks.

Monday, October 2

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. Lyle Talbot stars in Silver Fox.

Tuesday, October 3

Weird Circle: The Fall of the House of Usher
Weird Circle: The House and the Brain
Fall of The House of Usher is (of course) based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe.

Wednesday, October 4

Witch's Tale: Graveyard Mansion: Part 1 of 2: 1930's
Witch's Tale: Graveyard Mansion: Part 2 of 2: 1930's

Thursday, October 5

The Whistler: Return Engagement: March 10, 1948
The Whistler: What Makes A Murderer?: April 7, 1948

Friday, October 6

Mysterious Traveler: Visting Corpse: Augyst 10, 1948
Mysterious Traveler: Vacation From Life: September 7, 1947

Saturday, October 7

Adventures By Morse: A Coffin For The Lady: Part 1 of 3: March 18, 1944
Adventures By Morse: A Coffin For The Lady: Part 2 of 3: March 25, 1944
Adventures By Morse: A Coffin For The Lady: Part 3 of 3: April 1, 1944
I Love Adventure: The China Coast Incident: April 25, 1948

Sunday, October 8

Suspense: Hitchhiker: September 2, 1942
Suspense: I Had An Alibi: January 4, 1945
Suspense: The Kettler Method
Susepnse: The Palmer Method

I Had an Alibi is one of my favorite episodes of Suspense. The Hitchhiker stars Orson Welles and was written by Lucille Fletcher.

Monday, October 9

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.

Tuesday, October 10

Unsolved Mysteries: Houdini: 1930's
Unsolved Mysteries: Mystery of the Zombie: 1936
Unsolved Mysteries: Witch Doctor: 1936
Unsolved Mysteries: Bandit Priest: 1936

Four 15 minute episodes of Unsolved Mysteries.

Wednesday, October 11

Weird Circle: Curse of the Mantle
Weird Circle: Knightsbridge Mystery

Thursday, October 12

Suspense: The Most Dangerous Game: September 21, 1943
Suspense: The Hunting Trip: September 12, 1946

The Most Dangerous Game is a really great story, and The Hunting Trip stars Vincent Price.

Friday, 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.
(Can you believe there's a Friday the 13th in October?)

Saturday, October 14

Forecast: The Lodger: July 27, 1940
Suspense: Burning Court (Premiere Episode): June 17, 1942
Suspense: Wet Saturday: June 24, 1942
Suspense: Sorry, Wrong Number

Four Tales WELL Caluclated to keep me in.... Suspense! Forecast is the Pilot episode of Suspense.

Sunday, October 15

The Shadow: The Destroyer: March 25, 1945
The Shadow: The Little Man Who Wasn't There: April 8, 1945

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

Monday, October 16

Suspense: Pit and the Pendelum: November 28, 1947
Suspense: The 10 Grand: June 22, 1944

Tuesday, October 17

The Whistler: Retribution (Premiere Episode) May 16, 1942
The Whistler: Shruken Head: June 13, 1942

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).

Wednesday, October 18

Lights Out: Spider: May 18, 1943
Lights Out: Revolt Of The Worms: October 13, 1942
A spider as big as a Dog or an army of giant worms? Which is worse?

Thursday, October 19

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.

Friday, October 20

The Curse of Dracula: Part 1 of 2: October 29, 1998
The Curse of Dracula: Part 2 of 2: October 29, 1998

Saturday, October 21

Devil and Mr. O: Alley Cat: 1970's
Devil and Mr. O: The Hole: 1970's
Drop Dead: Drop Dead
Lights Out: The Author and the Thing

Devil and Mr. O was a "Lights Out" Revival in the 1970's. Drop Dead is from a record made in the 1960's of several short stories based on Lights Out plays, and The Author and The Thing was the last show in the series (until it was brought back)

Sunday, October 22

Lights Out: Visitor From Hades: July 13, 1943
Lights Out: Come To The Bank: November 17, 1942
Lights Out: The Archer: April 13, 1943
Lights Out: The Little People: July 27, 1943

This is a Lights Out Weekend.

Monday, October 23

Suspense: Donovan's Brain: (Part 1 Of 2): May 18, 1944
Suspense: Donovan's Brain: (Part 2 Of 2): May 25, 1944

Tuesday, October 24

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!

Wednesday, October 25

Lights Out: The Ugliest Man In The World: June 1, 1943
Lights Out: Poltergiest: October 20, 1942

The Ugliest Man In The World starts off with a man with a gun to his head. The Poltergiest is a REALLY scary story. Wyliss Cooper created Lights Out and he left the show in the VERY capable hands of Arch Oboler.

Thursday, October 26

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. The shows are getting scarier as Halloween gets closer!

Friday, October 27

Escape: Leinnegan Vs. The Ants: August 4, 1949
Escape: Three Skeleton Key: March 17, 1950

An Army of Ants or an Army of Rats? Which is worse?

Saturday, October 28

Mercury Theatre Of The Air: Dracula (First Episode): July 11, 1938
Favorite Story: Frankenstein: December 13, 1947
Lights Out: Darrell Hall's Thoughts: March 23, 1938

Sunday, October 29

War of The Worlds: 50 Year Anniversary Recreation: October 30, 1988
War of the Worlds: 1995 Recreation: October 31, 1995

Monday, October 30

Mercury Theatre on The Air: War of the Worlds: October 30, 1938

Isn't is obvious that I would pick War of the Worlds, 62 years after it was first aired?

Tuesday, 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 will not have time to listen to on Halloween Day. It's Sunday and I'll be at Work and School from probably 8 AM to 6 PM so I'll only have 4 hours at most to listen to OTR!

Inner Sanctum: The Wailing Wall: November 12, 1945
Inner Sanctum: Musical Score: May 29, 1945
Inner Sanctum: Ghosts Always Get The Last Laugh: September 26, 1946
The Strange Dr. Weird: The Secret Room: February 13, 1945
The Strange Dr. Weird: The Man Who Knew Everything: March 20, 1945
The Mysterious Traveler: The Man Who Knew Everything: October 9, 1951
The Mysterious Traveler: No One On The Line: September 1, 1946
The Mysterious Traveler: Locomotive Ghost: July 6, 1947
The Mysterious Traveler: Death Writes A Letter: May 18, 1948
The Mysterious Traveler: Behind The Locked Door
The Mysterious Traveler: Death Comes to Aldolph Hitler
Macabra: Final Resting Place: November 13, 1961
Macabra: Weekend: November 20, 1961
Hermit's Cave: Notebook on Murder
Hermit's Cave: The Story Without End
Escape: Snake Doctor: August 18, 1949
Lights Out: Scoop: December 8, 1942
Lights Out: The Coffin In Studio B: July 13, 1946
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: I Won't Take A Minute: December 6, 1945
Suspense: The Screaming Woman: November 28, 1948
X Minus One: The Parade: May 1, 1955
X Minus One: Universe: May 15, 1955
The Shadow: Death Shows The Way: December 3, 1939
The Shadow: The Living Head: February 10, 1946










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