{
  "title": "CREEPS BY NIGHT",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "“This is Boris Karloff, joining with you once again for another exploration into the unknown\ndarkness of the human mind.”\nAfter the BLUE network lost Inner Sanctum Mysteries to CBS in the fall of 1943, they developed\nthis replacement series and lured Boris Karloff away from his guest slots on Sanctum to be the\npermanent host and star. Actually, they didn’t have to do much luring. Karloff was now back in\nHollywood after three years of performing Arsenic and Old Lace on Broadway and on the road. So\nhis association with the New York-originated Sanctum was, for the time being, effectively ended.\nKarloff was introduced as “?????,” although on one broadcast a tongue-tied announcer referred\nto him as “the mastery of mystery.”\n[NOTE: is that Lurene Tuttle and Harry Bartell in “The Hunt.”??]\n[Winnipeg Free Press, June 12, 1944] “A new series of stories, taken from the book, The World’s\nFinest Mystery Stories, edited by Dashiell Hammett… guest stars will include Bela Lugosi, Peter\nLorre, Laird Cregar and Raymond Massey.”\n[Variety] “New York origination resulted in dropping Karloff and replacing him with ‘Dr. X,’\nprogram’s annotator whose identity is unknown even to other members of the cast. ‘Dr. X’\ngimmick is obvious attempt to build up audience interest in a narrator who has little or no public\nappeal when appearing under his own name.”\n[Program information]",
  "origination": "WGN, Chicago, Illinois.",
  "duration": "September 23, 1938 (pilot episode on Curtain Time), September 30-December 16,\n1938 (first series), February 24-July 7, 1939 (second series), October 6, 1940-March 30, 1941\n(third series).",
  "personnel": "Robert M. Lee (scriptwriter), Donald Spatz (scriptwriter—pilot episode on\nCurtain Time), Blair Walliser (scriptwriter, producer, director).\nCASTS: Ken Griffin (hero), Alice Hill (heroine), Irene Leben (Sonia), Donna Reade (Maida\nTravers), Hugh Studebaker (Peter Quill).",
  "extant_recordings": "None.\n[Program log]\nCURTAIN TIME (WGN, CHICAGO)\n[Friday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nSeptember 23, 1938\n“Kovar the Wizard”\n[“…a weird thirty minute drama written by Donald Spatz, will be\npresented on the W-G-N and Mutual dramatic show Curtain Time from\nW-G-N’s audience studio… Hugh Studebaker will be starred with\nMargery Hannon appearing opposite him. Blair Walliser will direct the\nprogram…”]\nTHE CRIMSON WIZARD (WGN, CHICAGO)\n[Friday—8:00-8:30 PM]\nSeptember 30, 1938\n“The Crimson Wizard”\nOctober 7, 1938\n“Murder in the Dark”\nOctober 14, 1938\n“Drama at Sea”\nOctober 21, 1938\n“Atlantic Flight”\nOctober 28, 1938\n“Radio Warning”\nNovember 4, 1938\n“Peter Quill Escapes”\nNovember 11, 1938\n“Thunder Over London”\nNovember 18, 1938\n“Escape from the Reds”\nNovember 25, 1938\n“Mobilization”\nDecember 2, 1938\n“Armada of Death”\nDecember 9, 1938\n“Armageddon”\nDecember 16, 1938\n“Veil of Mystery”\nPETER QUILL, THE CRIMSON WIZARD (WGN, CHICAGO)\n[Friday—8:00-8:30 PM]\nFebruary 24, 1939\n“The Return of Peter Quill”\nMarch 3, 1939\n“The Red Circle’s Cruel Trap”\nMarch 10, 1939\n“The Red Circle Grasps for 10 Billion Dollars”\nMarch 17, 1939\n“The Red Ghost of Washington”\nMarch 24, 1939\n“Red Dawn Over Panama”\nMarch 31, 1939\n“Red Rain of Death”\nApril 7, 1939\n“Under the Red Mask”\nApril 14, 1939\n“The Red House of Terror”\nApril 21, 1939\n“The Captain Conquers Death”\nApril 28, 1939\n“The Riddle of the Red Imposter”\nMay 5, 1939\n“Detour to Doom”\nMay 12, 1939\n“The Revenge of the Red Circle”\nMay 19, 1939\n“The Isle of Terror”\nMay 26, 1939\n“Attack and Counter-Attack”\nJune 2, 1939\n“The Phantom Ship”\n[“…a new exciting episode in the eerie locale of Scarab Island, off the\nAtlantic seaboard…”]\nJune 9, 1939\n“The Spy School”\nJune 16, 1939\n“Caught in the Catacombs”\nJune 23, 1939\n“The Devil’s Work”\nJune 30, 1939\n“The Red Sunset”\nJuly 7, 1939\n“Deep Sea Death”\nPETER QUILL (WGN, CHICAGO)\n[Sunday—3:00-3:30 PM]\nOctober 6, 1940 “The Thing That Couldn’t Happen”\nOctober 13, 1940\nOctober 20, 1940\n“The Child Giants”\nOctober 27, 1940\n“The Phantom of the Navy”\nNovember 3, 1940\n“The Creeping Plague”\nNovember 10, 1940\nNovember 17, 1940\n“Flight Without Wings”\nNovember 24, 1940\n“The Red Devil of Catamount Ridge”\nDecember 1, 1940\n“Sigma Ray”\nDecember 15, 1940\n“The Frozen Terror”\nDecember 22, 1940\n“The River of Flame”\nDecember 29, 1940\nJanuary 5, 1941\n“A Night of Terror”\nJanuary 12, 1941\n“The Case of the Convivial Corpse”\nJanuary 19, 1941\n“Devil’s Magic”\nJanuary 26, 1941\n“Death After Dark”\nFebruary 2, 1941\nFebruary 9, 1941\n“An Eye for an Eye”\nFebruary 16, 1941\nFebruary 23, 1941\nMarch 2, 1941\nMarch 9, 1941\n“All Roads Lead to Madness”\nMarch 16, 1941\n“Life After Life”\nMarch 23, 1941\nMarch 30, 1941",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "PERIODICALS: Atlanta Constiution, Miami Herald, New York Herald Tribune, Hollywood\nCitizen-News.",
  "gallery": "WARNING!\nPersons suffering from heart trouble and those\nwhose blood has a tendency to curdle and hair\nto uncurl under the stress of great excitement\nare urged NOT to listen to\nBoris Karloff\nin \"Creeps By Night\"\nTONIGHT at 9:30\n—and Every Tuesday Night\nThe station disclaim!, all responsibility for th«\nhealth of rhosa^ho insist on hearing thii thriller\nIT'S A BLUE NETWORK PROGRAM\nTHE CRIME IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE\n[RADIO-SERIAL]\nCited in the 1938-39 edition of Variety Radio Directory; no further information is known.\n[Program information]",
  "images": []
}