{
  "title": "GHOST STORIES",
  "category": "",
  "article": "Cited in Canadian National Theatre on the Air, 1925-1961; no further information is known.\nWalter Winchell enthused: “ABC’s ‘Ghost Stories’ knows how to apply ice to the spine.\nImaginative scripting.”",
  "origination": "CBL, Toronto, Ontario (CBC Trans-Canada Network).",
  "duration": "July 8-September 30, 1951.\n[NOTE: Recordings of the series were re-broadcast in the United States over ABC from July 16 to\n???.]",
  "personnel": "Alan Rossiter King (scriptwriter), Esse W. Ljungh (producer).\nCAST: Paxley ?????, et al.",
  "extant_recordings": "None.\n[NOTE: Five of the stories from this series are available from re-broadcasts in the 1960s and\n1970s on the CBC anthology programs Theatre 10:30 and Mystery Theater. The five are “Ghost\nTown Hermit,” “The Hitch Hiker,” “The Thing in the Hall,” “The Kitchen Table,” and “The\nVanishing Man.”]\nGHOST STORIES (CBL, TORONTO—CBC)\n[Sunday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nJuly 8, 1951\n“The Ghost Town Hermit”\n[CCBS BIBLIOGRAPHY: “…Reporter and friend visit ghost town and\nwitness the eerie revenge of a dance hall belle on a hermit who once\nkilled his brother and her lover…”]\nJuly 15, 1951\n“Count Magnus” (by M. R.\nJames)\nJuly 22, 1951\n“The Ghost of the Black\nFingers”\n[“…In a Cornish village, the ghost of\na dead sea captain lures to their\ndeath the descendants of those who\nlured his ship to the rocks…”]\n(CCBS Bibliography)\nJuly 29, 1951\n“Rhapsody for a Lost Love”\n[“…Workman with talent at the\npiano dies, prompting heiress to\nbecome dedicated patron of\npianists…”] (CCBS Bibliography)\nAug. 5, 1951\n“The Reluctant Phantoms”\n[“…Committee of the Festival of\nBritain searching for an authentic\nhaunted house is unimpressed until\nvillagers assist the friendly\nphantoms…”] (CCBS Bibliography)\nAug. 12, 1951\n“The Hitch Hiker”\n[“…After a number of unsuccessful\nrides the ghost of a hitchhiker is\npicked up by the motorist who killed\nhim and provokes his death in\nrevenge…”] (CCBS Bibliography)\nAug. 19, 1951\n“The Cape Horn Pilot” (by\nJacland Marmur)\nAug. 26, 1951\n“The Thing in the Hall” (by\nE. F. Benson)\nSep. 2, 1951\n“The De Noville Coach”\n[“…During the Depression,\nunemployed Canadian inherits an\nestate in France, but his luck changes\nagain and he is killed by a phantom\ncoach…”] (CCBS Bibliography)\nSep. 9, 1951\n“The Executioner of Caverley”\n[“…Skeptical man passes night in\nhouse haunted by ghost of beheaded\ngirl and axe falls, relieving him of his\ndoubts—and his head…”] (CCBS\nBibliography)\nSep. 16, 1951\n“The Kitchen Table”\nSep. 23, 1951\n“The Vanishing Man”\n[“…Writer who has lost his ideals\ncatches glimpses of a man he knows\nbut can’t identify, the ghost of his\nformer self; when they meet, he\ndies…”] (CCBS Bibliography)\nSep. 30, 1951\n“The Torment of Mabel\nFossick”\n[“…Woman who often provoked\nlaughter due to her clumsiness dies\nand returns to haunt the man who\nalways laughed the loudest…”]\n(CCBS Bibliography)\nGHOST STORIES (ABC)\n[Monday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nJuly 16, 1951\n“The Ghost Town Hermit”\nJuly 23, 1951\nJuly 30, 1951\n“Count Magnus”\nAug. 6, 1951\nAug. 13, 1951\nAug. 20, 1951\nAug. 27, 1951\n“The Kitchen Table”\nSources for log information:",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}