{
  "title": "DARK DESTINY",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "”The lives of some are doomed from the beginning. There are souls born beneath dark stars who\nmust travel by strange and terrible roads to meet their destinies. THIS is the tale of one of\nthese…”\nThis 1942 series is the earliest venture into the supernatural by the writing team of Robert Arthur\nand David Kogan, who later collaborated on The Mysterious Traveler, The Sealed Book and The\nStrange Doctor Weird. The two young men had met the year before in a writing class and, as their\nfriendship grew, decided to form a partnership as radio writers and packagers, who would bring\nseries deals to the networks but retain control over them (similar to the business model of Inner\nSanctum creator Himan Brown).\nThe director of the series was veteran producer Jack Johnstone, whose flair for the fantastic had\nbeen demonstrated in previous series like Buck Rogers and Who Knows?\n[Press release—OCTOBER 4, 1942—Ogden Standard Examiner—“Ethel Clark’s Radio Flashes”]\n“Stories of the occult, of fate and destiny, of the mystic supernatural, will march in somber and\nweird procession through Mutual microphones when ‘Dark Destiny,’ a new chiller series makes its\ndebut soon. ‘Dark Destiny’ will present stories based on the premise that: ‘There are lives\nforedoomed from the beginning. There are souls born beneath dark stars who must travel by\nstrange and terrible roads to meet their destinies.’ Jack Johnstone, noted for his use of unusual\nvoice and sound effects, will produce and direct the series. ‘Dark Destiny’ will replace Morton\nGould’s ‘Music for America.’”\nMany of the episodes were rebroadcast in the years to come on the scripting duo’s longest-\nrunning series, The Mysterious Traveler. In 1952 Arthur and Kogan revived Dark Destiny as a\nshort-lived television series for WOR-TV. It ran for four weeks, using revamped Traveler scripts—\n“Bury Her Deep” (March 17), “Murder by Proxy” (March 24), “Dig Your Own Grave” (March 31),\nand “The Music Box” (April 7).",
  "origination": "WOR, New York (MBS).",
  "duration": "August 26-October 7, 1942 (Wednesday series), October 17-November 21, 1942 (Saturday\nseries), November 26, 1942-March 11, 1943 (Thursday series).",
  "personnel": "Robert Arthur (scriptwriter), Jack Johnstone (producer), David Kogan (scriptwriter).\nCASTS: Alfred Shirley, et al.",
  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "DARK DESTINY (WOR, NEW YORK)\n[Wednesday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nAugust 26, 1942\n“It Is Later Than You Think”\nSeptember 2, 1942\n“The Curse of the Tomb”\n[VARIETY?: “…A blind bodyguard will accompany an English archeologist\ninto an ancient mausoleum, the idea being that only the sightless man\nhas ears sensitive enough to hear supernatural voices cursing the savant\nfor disturbing the entombed sleep of dead kings…”]\nSeptember 23, 1942\n“The Man Who Couldn’t Die”\nSeptember 30, 1942\n“Escape into the Night”\nOctober 7, 1942\n“The Knives of Death”\n[Saturday—8:00-8:30 PM]\nOctober 17, 1942\n“Murderer at Large”\nOctober 24, 1942\n“The Bell of Life”\nOctober 31, 1942\n“Masquerade”\nEXTANT RECORDING\nNovember 7, 1942\n“Till Death Do Us Part”\nNovember 14, 1942\n“The Dynasty of Death”\nNovember 21, 1942\n“No Escape”\n[Thursday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nNovember 26, 1942\n“Full Fathom Fifty”\nDecember 3, 1942\n“Extra! Extra!”\nDecember 10, 1942\n“Mortal Clay”\nDECEMBER 13, 1942:\n[Ogden Standard-Examiner—“Ethel Clark’s Radio Flashes”]\n“‘Dark Destiny,’ horror story series produced and directed by Jack Johnstone,\nhas replaced Tom Howard’s ‘It Pays to Be Ignorant’ on Thursday nights.”\nDecember 17, 1942\n“They Who Sleep”\nDecember 24, 1942\n“No One on the Line”\nDecember 31, 1942\n“It Is Later Than You Think”\nJanuary 7, 1943\n“Murder Goes Free”\nJanuary 14, 1943\n“The Whisper of Death”\nJanuary 21, 1943\n“The House of Cain”\nJanuary 28, 1943\n“If You Believe”\nFebruary 4, 1943\n“Horror by Night”\nFebruary 11, 1943\n“Five Miles Down”\nFebruary 18, 1943\n“Death Won’t Wait”\nFebruary 25, 1943\n“The Cat from Hell”\nMarch 4, 1943\n“Flight to Safety”\nMarch 11, 1943\n“The Hand with Claws”",
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  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}