MURDER AT MIDNIGHT
[RADIO-SERIES]
[Beaver Valley Times, January 17, 1947—“Radio in Review” by John Crosby] “Speaking of
mystery stuff, there’s a transcribed program called ‘Murder at Midnight’ heard in New York on
WJZ, Monday nights and widely distributed in other cities. Two things troubled me the other
night about ‘Murder at Midnight.’ First, it came on at 10:30 p. m., not midnight—second, there
wasn’t a murder in the thing. Apart from that, it’s an apt title.
“The name of this particular episode was ‘The House That Time Forgot’ and a very nice little
horror story it was. I readily accepted the premise of this story which involved a young couple
stepping seven years backward in time the moment they crossed the threshold of the house.
However, my credulity was severely strained at another point. The young couple was just on the
verge of purchasing the house when the real estate agent warned them there were several strange
things the matter with it.
“‘I just thought it was fair to tell you about it before you bought it,’ said the real estate agent.
“Now wait a minute, fellow. Fantasy is all right in its place but let’s keep it within reasonable
limits.”
CASTS: Alan Hewitt, Charlotte Holland.
MURDER AT MIDNIGHT (LOUIS G. COWAN INC. TRANSCRIPTION DISC SERIES)
April 19, 1946 [EP. 1] “The Dead Hand”
[OTTAWA CITIZEN: “…These stories will not be of the ‘shocker’ type but
will employ stories with plenty of suspense. The first one is the story of a
fictional world famous pianist who loses a hand in an auto accident. He
becomes obsessed with the notion that the doctor has purposely ruined
his life. The process of acquiring a new hand we will not reveal here.
Suffice is [sic] to say the story is a subtle analysis of the workings of a
man’s mind under desperate circumstances…”]
SCRIPT: Robert Newman.
CAST: Betty Caine, Carl Frank, Barry Hopkins, Lawson Zerbe.
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[EP. 2] “The Man Who Was Death”
SCRIPT: Robert Newman.
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[EP. 3] “The Secret of XR-3”
SCRIPT: Max Ehrlich.
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[EP. 4] “Wherever I Go”
SCRIPT: William Morwood.
[EP. 5] “Trigger Man”
SCRIPT: Max Ehrlich.
[EP. 6] “Death’s Goblet”
SCRIPT: Sigmund Miller.
[EP. 7] “The Heavy Death”
SCRIPT: Robert Newman.
[EP. 8] “Nightmare”
[CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE: “…Joseph Ruscoll, the master writer of radio
suspense stories, has authored the eerie ‘Nightmare’ drama… An all-star
radio cast will enact the story of a weird dream that foretold every facet of
an amazing murder…”]
SCRIPT: Joseph Ruscoll.
[EP. 9] “The Dead Come Back”
SCRIPT: William Morwood.
[EP. 10] “Terror Out of Space”
[LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM: “…tells what happens following a radar
contact with the moon…”]
SCRIPT: Robert Newman.
[EP. 11] “The Creeper”
SCRIPT: Joseph Ruscoll.
CAST: Ann Shepherd, et al.
[EP. 12] “The Man Who Died Yesterday”
SCRIPT: William Morwood.
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[EP. 17] “The Ace of Death”
[WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL: “…based on ‘The Suicide Club’…”]
SCRIPT: Max Ehrlich.
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[EP. 23] “The Line Is Dead”
[PORTSMOUTH TIMES: “…Having been buried alive and rescued, a man
fearing it will happen again has a phone installed in his grave… The man,
after a bitter quarrel with his wife, dies of a heart attack. The wife, alone
in her home, cuts off every bell in the house except the one from her
husband’s grave. Br-r-r!...”]
SCRIPT: Bafe Blau.
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[EP. 28] “The Black Curtain”
[CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE: “…It’s a tense story of a man whose conscience
led him to murder the only doctor who could have saved his life…”]
[PANAMA CITY NEWS-HERALD: “…the story of how a Doctor is murdered
by an ailing man whose salvation is the murdered medico…”]
SCRIPT: Max Ehrlich.
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[EP. 39] “The Dark Cellar”
SCRIPT: Max Ehrlich.
[EP. 40] “Murder Is Not Enough”
SCRIPT: Bafe Blau.
[EP. 41] “The Face of the Dragon”
SCRIPT: Jack Bordun.
[EP. 42] “The Man Who Died Again”
SCRIPT: Robert Newman.
[EP. 43] “City Morgue”
SCRIPT: Winifred Wolfe.
[EP. 44] “Terror”
[PANAMA CITY NEWS-HERALD: “…a tale of how a note, coupled with
conscience, entangles him [sic] in his own murder…”]
SCRIPT: Joseph Ruscoll.
[EP. 45] “The Corridor of Doom”
SCRIPT: Robert Newman.
[OG-NOTE: Newman’s script was originally written for Inner Sanctum, on which it was
broadcast on October ??, 1945, with Boris Karloff in the lead role.]
[EP. 46] “Appointment”
SCRIPT: Winifred Wolfe.
[EP. 47] “Glory Train”
SCRIPT: Robert Newman.
[EP. 48] “A Week Ago Wednesday”
SCRIPT: Winifred Wolfe.
[EP. 49] “The Living Dead”
SCRIPT: Robert Newman.
[EP. 50] “The Face”
SCRIPT: Paul Monash.