{
  "title": "THE HALL OF FANTASY",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "“…where the veil of time is lifted and the supernatural reigns as king…”\nAmong the titles broadcast during the early run of the series on WGN…",
  "origination": "WGN, Chicago, Illinois (MBS).",
  "duration": "December 10, 1949-February 25, 1952 (first series), August 22-September 26, 1952\n(second series), January 5-September 28, 1953 (third series).\n[NOTE: Between the second and third series, episodes of The Hall of Fantasy appear to have run\nsporadically in the fall of 1952 on a Mutual multi-series program entitled Parade of Mysteries.]",
  "personnel": "Bob Cline (sound effects), Wayne Dickinson (sound effects), Lloyd Knight (sound\neffects), Leroy Olliger (director), Glenn Ransom (director), Richard Thorne (scriptwriter,\nproducer), Harold Turner (organist).\nCASTS: Jim Ameche, Muriel Bremner, Maurice Copeland, Harry Elders, Carl Greyson, Doris\nGrundy, Richard Gulla, Jerry Kaufherr, Eloise Kummer, Bob McKee, Arthur Peterson, Sam Siegel,\nRichard Thorne.",
  "extant_recordings": "“The Castle of Lavoca” (8/22/52; #26), “The Shadow People”\n(9/5/52; #10),  “Steps That Follow Me” (9/19/52; #4—retitled “He Who Follows Me”), “The\nHangman’s Rope” (1/5/53; #21), “The Cask of Amontillado” (1/19/53; #14), “The Black Figurine\nof Death” (1/26/53; #13), “The Silver Flask” (2/2/53; #11), “The Dance of the Devil Dolls”\n(2/9/53; #1), “The Masks of Ashor” (3/9/53; #8), “The Night the Fog Came” (3/23/53; #12), “The\nBeast with Red Eyes” (3/30/53), “The Return from Death” (4/6/53; #3), “The Demon of the\nNight” (4/13/53), “Out of the Sky” (4/20/53), “The Wild Huntsman” (4/27/53; #17), “The Idol of\nCrom Croc” (5/4/53), “The Crawling Thing” (5/18/53; #7), “The Twisting Weeds of Death”\n(5/25/53; #18), “The Tell-Tale Heart” (6/1/53; #6), “The Hand of Botar” (6/8/53; #23), “The\nJewels of Kali” (6/15/53; #25), “The Marquise of Death” (6/22/53; #15), “The Temple of\nHuitzilopochtli” (6/29/53; #5), “The Man in Black” (7/6/53; #16), “The Treasure of Kublai Khan”\n(7/20/53; #20), “The Automaton” (7/27/53; #19), “The Golden Bracelet of Amoniris” (8/3/53;\n#22), “The Man from Second Earth” (8/10/53), “Stone’s Revenge” (8/17/53; #24), “The Sea\nPhantom” (8/24/53; #2), “The Diamonds of Death” (8/31/53; #9).\n[OG-NOTE: 26 episodes from this series were re-released in the 1970s with new openings and closings. Most of the\nextant recordings listed above have the 1970s-version intros and outros. The 26 are listed with the 1970s series\nnumbering following the original broadcast date.]\nEloise Kummer\nTHE HALL OF FANTASY\n[Saturday—2:30-3:00 PM]\nDecember 10, 1949\n“The Cask of Amontillado”\nDecember 17, 1949\n“The Passing Seconds”\nDecember 24, 1949\n“Markheim”\nJanuary 7, 1950\n“The Man Who Returned”\nJanuary 14, 1950\n“The Tell-Tale Heart”\nJanuary 21, 1950\n“The Curse of Amoaton”\nJanuary 28, 1950\n“It Lives by Night”\nFeb. 4, 1950\n“The Painting in the Cellar”\nFeb. 11, 1950\n“The Black Cat”\nFeb 18, 1950\nFeb. 25, 1950\n“Death Is Close By”\nMar. 4, 1950\n“The Thing in the House”\nMar. 11, 1950\n“He Who Follows Me”\nMar. 18, 1950\n“The Beast with Red Eyes”\nMar. 25, 1950\n“You Shall Be Avenged”\nApril 1, 1950\n“The River of the Moon”\nApril 8, 1950\n“Creatures in the Darkness”\nApril 15, 1950\n“The Gold Bug”\nApril 22, 1950 “Eyes in the Dark”\nApril 29, 1950 “The Woman Who Lived Again”\n[Monday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nMay 1, 1950\n“The Cask of Amontillado”\nMay 8, 1950\n“The Passing Seconds”\nMay 15, 1950\n“Spirit of the Dead”\nMay 22, 1950\nMay 29, 1950\n“The Dream Woman”\nJune 5, 1950\n“The Tell-Tale Heart”\nJune 12, 1950\n“The Green Hand”\nJune 19, 1950\n“The Mechanical Brain”\nJune 26, 1950\nJuly 3, 1950\n“The Tomb of Carmilla”\nJuly 10, 1950\n“The Signalman”\nJuly 17, 1950\n“Sound in the Night”\nJuly 24, 1950\n“The Four Candles”\nJuly 31, 1950\nAug. 7, 1950\nAug. 14, 1950\nAug. 21, 1950\n“One of Us in This Room”\nAug. 28, 1950\n“The Knight’s Room”\nSep. 4, 1950\n“From Beyond Space”\nSep. 11, 1950\nSeptember 18, 1950\n“The Red Cloth”\nSeptember 25, 1950\n“No Death for Me”\n[“…a tale of a man’s search for immortality…”]\nOctober 2, 1950\n“One by One You Shall Die”\nOctober 9, 1950\n“Murder Follows Diamonds”\nOctober 16, 1950\n“He Who Defiles My Tomb”\nOctober 23, 1950\nOctober 30, 1950\n“The Eyes of Doom”\n[“…a Halloween night in a haunted house…”]\nNovember 13, 1950\n“The Crawling Thing”\nNovember 20, 1950\n“The Right Index Finger”\nNovember 27, 1950\n“Yellow Is the Color of Death”\nDec. 4, 1950\n“Death Walks with a Limp”\nDec. 11, 1950\n“The Man in Black”\nDec. 18, 1950\n“Footprints in the Snow”\nDec. 25, 1950\nJan. 1, 1951\n“The Gold Medallion”\nJan. 8, 1951\n“The Time Machine”\nJan. 15, 1951\n“The Dolls of Satan”\nJan. 22, 1951\n“The Moonpaw”\nJan. 29, 1951\n“The Wild Huntsman”\nFeb. 5, 1951\n“And Not the Hunter”\nFeb. 12, 1951\n“Strike Back in Anger”\nFeb. 19, 1951\n“The Room Upstairs”\nFeb. 26, 1951\n“The Night the Fog Came”\nMar. 5, 1951\n“Island of the Dead”\nMar. 12, 1951\n“And Death Was Here”\nMar. 19, 1951\n“There Is No Return”\nMar. 26, 1951\n“Death in the Night”\nApril 2, 1951\n“Death Has the Voice of Thunder”\nApril 9, 1951\n“Mirror of the Past”\nApril 16, 1951\n“A Game of Death”\nApril 23, 1951\n“The Hangman’s Rope”\nApril 30, 1951\n“The Dream Kingdom”\nMay 7, 1951\n“The Lost Valley”\nMay 14, 1951\n“To Attack and Destroy”\nMay 21, 1951\n“The Music of Death”\nMay 28, 1951\n“Until I Need Another”\nJune 4, 1951\n“The Blood Red Eyes of Durga”\nJune 11, 1951\n“The Visitor”\nJune 18, 1951\n“The Man Who Was Death”\nJune 25, 1951\n“And the Shadows Are Here”\nJuly 2, 1951\n“Cry in the Night”\nJuly 9, 1951\n“The Thing in the Picture”\nJuly 16, 1951\n“The Judas Coin”\nJuly 23, 1951\n“Iron Key to Terror”\nJuly 30, 1951\n“The Girl in the Storm”\nAug. 6, 1951\n“Fear Is a Fragile Mirror”\nAug. 13, 1951\n“The Black Plain”\nAug. 20, 1951\n“The Day That Time Ended”\nAug. 27, 1951\n“They Follow My Steps”\nSep. 3, 1951\n“The Twisted Mind”\nSep. 10, 1951\n“The Little Wax Image”\nSep. 17, 1951\n“He Who Lives by Night”\nSep. 24, 1951\n“The Face of Death”\nOct. 1, 1951\n“The Mask of Gold”\nOct. 8, 1951\n“The House of Fear”\nOct. 15, 1951\n“Judge of the Dead”\nOct. 22, 1951\n“The Fires of Hate”\nOct. 29, 1951\n“The Thing in the Fog”\nNov. 5, 1951\n“The Black Circle”\n[Monday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nNov. 12, 1951\n“So Soon You Die”\nNov. 19, 1951\n“The Dark Power”\nNov. 26, 1951\n“The Grey Killer”\nDec. 3, 1951\n“The Jade Dagger of Yu Chuan”\nDec. 10, 1951\n“Man with the Face of Death”\nDec. 17, 1951\n“The Castle of Lavoca”\nDec. 24, 1951\n“The Haunted Man”\nJan. 14, 1952\n“The Devil’s Hand”\nJan. 21, 1952\n“The Voice of the Wind”\nFeb. 4, 1952\n“The Man with the Cloak”\nFeb. 11, 1952\n“The Book of Thoth”\nFeb. 25, 1952\n“He Returned from Death”\n[Friday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nAugust 22, 1952\n“The Castle of Lavoca”\n[The Chicago Tribune announced as “The Legend of Drago”]\nAugust 29, 1952\n“The Brown Plague”\n[“…Two fishermen in the Wisconsin lake area are startled by a strange\nobject that lands on a nearby shore…”]\nSeptember 5, 1952\n“The Shadow People”\nSeptember 12, 1952\n“The Black Book of the Raven”\nSeptember 19, 1952\n“Steps That Follow Me”\nSeptember 26, 1952\n“The Crimson Hands of Kali”\n[Thursday—\nOctober 2, 1952\nKGO [Modesto Bee]\n[Friday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nOctober 10, 1952\n“The Shadow People”\n[Monday—7:30-8:00 PM]\nJanuary 5, 1953\n“The Hangman’s Rope”\nJanuary 12, 1953\n“The Day That Time Ended”\nJanuary 19, 1953\n“The Cask of Amontillado”\n[“…Edgar Allan Poe’s eerie tale of hate and revenge…”\nJanuary 26, 1953\n“The Black Figurine of Death”\nFebruary 2, 1953\n“The Silver Flask”\n[“…An unusual container ordered years ago by Chinese emperor Yu\nChuam from the sorcerer Chou Ming eventually makes its way to\nAmerica. Henry Stebbins obtains the cursed flask and becomes involve in\na game of death…”]\nFebruary 9, 1953\n“Dance of the Devil Dolls”\n[“…Voodoo’s strange use of dolls to transmit injury to marked persons is\nthe subject of the story…”]\nFebruary 16, 1953\n“The Mummy’s Scarab”\n[“…An archaeological expedition journeys to Egypt to find the tomb of\nAmmonra, one of the richest of Egyptian rulers…”]\nFebruary 23, 1953\n“The Stairway to Doom”\n[“…tale of four men who, believing in the legend of Atlantis, take the\n‘Stairway to Doom’…”]\nMarch 2, 1953\n“The Balaci Treasure”\nMarch 9, 1953\n“The Mask of Ashor”\n[“…Ancient mythology reveals that Ashor was the messenger between life\nand death. The story deals with the disappearance of the messenger’s\nmask…”]\nMarch 16, 1953\n“Saladin’s Mind”\n[“…A magician uses only the power of his mind and no mechanical effects\nto pursue his studies…”]\nMarch 23, 1953\n“The Night the Fog Came”\n[“…A new form of water life on the northwestern tip of Lake Superior is\ndiscovered…”]\nMarch 30, 1953\n“The Beast with Red Eyes”\nApril 6, 1953\n“The Return from Death”\n[“…Two scientists experiment with the natural laws of life and death, and\nterror results…”]\nApril 13, 1953\n“Demon of the Night”\n[“…Rafael Sebastian stretched out the arm of an animal for a handshake\nwith the sheriff and a newspaperman…”]\nApril 20, 1953\n“Out of the Sky”\n[“…Some unusual air accidents occur up and down the American\ncoastline…”]\nApril 27, 1953\n“The Wild Huntsman”\n[“…The old legend of the mad huntsman is part of many countries’\nfolklore. A group of people are taken to a forbidden hunting area to bag\nall the game they can, but are told to pay no attention to a wild\nhuntsman…”]\nMay 4, 1953\n“The Idol of Crom Croc”\n[“…A young couple find a map that leads them to a hidden village\noccupied by a sect practicing human sacrifices to appease the gods. The\ncouple learn that they are to be so honored…”]\nMay 11, 1953\n“The Specter of Denston Castle”\n[“…A young man is informed he’s heir to a large estate with the title of\nEarl of Harcourt, but when he arrives to claim his inheritance, he is\ngreeted by an apparition of a woman in white who tells him about the\nDenston curse…”]\nMay 18, 1953\n“The Crawling Thing”\nMay 25, 1953\n“The Twisting Weeds of Death”\n[“…A girl returns from the dead to avenge her own murder…”]\nJune 1, 1953\n“The Tell-Tale Heart”\nJune 8, 1953\n“The Hand of Botar”\n[“…A learned man so overly develops the capabilities of his right hand\nthat it appears to have intelligence of its own…”]\nJune 15, 1953\n“The Jewels of Kali”\n[“…A macabre tale of a grotesque four-armed body clawing the air and\nsearching the continents for four rubies…”]\nJune 22, 1953\n“The Marquise of Death”\nJune 29, 1953\n“The Man in Black”\nJuly 6, 1953\n“The Temple of Huitzilipochli”\nJuly 13, 1953\n“The Snow Monster”\n[“…An eerie ‘thing’ causes much damage up in snowy mountains…”]\nJuly 20, 1953\n“The Treasure of Kublai Khan”\nJuly 27, 1953\n“The Automaton”\n[“…a machine that looks and thinks like a man…”]\nAugust 3, 1953\n“The Golden Bracelet of Amoniris”\nAugust 10, 1953\n“The Man from Second Earth”\nAugust 17, 1953\n“Stone’s Revenge”\n[“…The eerie tale of a man who seeks and is refused refuge from a\nblizzard in the cabin of his enemy.”]\nAugust 24, 1953\n“The Sea Phantom”\n[“…No one ever saw the Sea Phantom, but all could hear her cries for\nhelp and see the ghost ship anchored in the bay, a skeleton lashed to the\nwheel…”]\nAugust 31, 1953\n“The Diamonds of Death”\n[“…A thief dies mysteriously and a stolen diamond gleams strangely…”]\nSeptember 7, 1953\n“The Room Beyond”\n[“…A man grows younger rather than older, and visitors to his abode\nalways vanish…”]\nSeptember 14, 1953\n“A Summons from Death”\nSeptember 21, 1953\n“Creatures in the Shadows”\nSeptember 28, 1953\n“The Night the Others Returned”\nHAUNTED\n[RADIO-SERIES]\nA mixture of new scripts and classic tales, including two by Algernon Blackwood…\nORIGINATION: World Service, London (BBC).\nDURATION: Circa 1979, 1984.\nPERSONNEL: Derek Hodinott (scriptwriter, producer, director), Patricia Mays (scriptwriter—\n“Keeping His Promise”).\nTHIRTY MINUTE THEATRE—“HAUNTED” (WORLD SERVICE)\n[Tuesday—6:15-6:45 PM]\nMarch 18, 1980\n“The Decoy”\n[ASHLEY: “England (Kent): a haunted house where the ghost takes on the\nform of the person about to die.”]\nCAST: George Baker (John), Peter Baldwin (Mr. Gower), Susan Jameson\n(Nancy), Peter Woodward (Harry).\nHAUNTED (WORLD SERVICE)\n[Monday—12:30-1:00 AM]\nSeptember 17, 1984\n“Keeping His Promise”\n[ASHLEY: “Haunted (#9)… Scotland (Edinburgh): ghost of a recently\ndeceased friend keeps an appointment.”\nCAST: Eric Deacon (Marriott), Nigel Graham (Policeman/Student), David Griffin\n(Green), Narissa Knights (Lady Field), Christopher Neame (Ambrose), Peter\nTuddenham (Lord Field).\nHAUNTED (BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA)\n[RADIO 4: “Prepare to have your spine tingled over the next three weeks as this World Service\ndrama series is broadcast for the first time in 30 years. A fine array of well-known authors and\nactors bring the stories to life.”\n[Monday—6:00-6:30 PM]\nFebruary 10, 2013\n“Little Girl Lost”\n[RADIO 4: “…After the death of her second husband, Mrs. Grove begins to\nworry her family by talking to him as if he’s still alive in Rosemary\nTimperley’s sinister tale…”]\nCAST: John Carson, Ruth Dunning (Mrs. Grove), et al.\n[Tuesday—6:00-6:30 PM]\nFebruary 11, 2013\n“Walk on the Water”\n[RADIO 4: “…Anna Cropper stars as Rachel whose imaginary friend has\nbeen with her since childhood in this salutary tale by Rosemary\nTimperley…”]\nCAST: Anna Cropper (Rachel), Ursula Howells, Jack May, et al.\n[Wednesday—6:00-6:30 PM]\nFebruary 12, 2013\n“The Dream Woman”\n[RADIO 4: “…After a disturbing dream, Isaac lives in constant fear of a\nwoman with a knife, but is she of [t]his earth? Charles Kay and Maureen\nO’Brien star in Wilkie Collins’ unsettling 19th century tale…”]\nCAST: Charles Kay (Isaac), Maureen O’Brien, et al.\n[Thursday—6:00-6:30 PM]\nFebruary 13, 2013\n“Listen to the Silence”\n[RADIO 4: “…Gwen Watford stars as Mary, a woman who’s terrified of\nsilence, but can she confront her fears from a strange voice claiming to be\nher grandfather? Patsy Rowlands also features in Rosemary Timperley’s\nchilling story…”]\nCAST: Patsy Rowlands, Gwen Watford (Mary).\n[Friday—6:00-6:30 PM]\nFebruary 14, 2013\n“The Judge’s House”\n[RADIO 4: “…When a young student hires an empty house, he learns the\ntruth about its former, murderous inhabitant. Nigel Havers and Nancy\nNevinson star in Bram Stoker’s atmospheric gothic story…”]",
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