THE BLACK CAT
[SHORT-STORY]
Edgar Allan Poe horror tale…
[CHRONOLOGY]
BE SQUARE TO YOUR MOTOR (WBBM, CHICAGO)
[Sunday—9:30-10:00 PM]
May 11, 1930 “The Black Cat”
PERSONNEL: David Owen (director).
CAST: Vinton Haworth, Betty McLean, David Owen, Irene Wicker.
KPO DRAMA GUILD—“EDGAR ALLAN POE SERIES” (KPO, SAN FRANCISCO)
[Monday—10:30-11:00 PM]
June 22, 1931 “The Black Cat”
THE KPRC DRAMATIC PLAYERS (KPRC, HOUSTON)
[Friday—11:30 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT]
November 23, 1934 “The Black Cat”
GEORGE EDWARDS SUNDAY PLAYS (2GB, SYDNEY)
[Sunday—
October 6, 1935 “The Black Cat”
SARA LANGMAN’S SUMMER SERIES (KFWB, HOLLYWOOD)
[Tuesday—8:00-8:30 PM]
June 30, 1936 “The Black Cat”
THE BLACK CHAPEL (KNX, HOLLYWOOD)
[Monday—11:45 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT]
April 12, 1937 “The Black Cat”
BLACK NIGHT (WBAP, FORT WORTH)
[Monday—11:00-11:30 PM]
December 20, 1937 “The Black Cat”
KFOR RADIO GUILD (KFOR, LINCOLN)
[Monday—9:30-10:00 PM]
November 21, 1938 “The Black Cat”
[“…The KFOR Radio Guild will present an adaptation of Poe’s murder
mystery… The production is in charge of James Fox and will be given in
an unusual style…”]
TALES FROM POE (WAIM, ANDERSON)
[Wednesday—9:00-9:15 PM]
February 15, 1939 “The Black Cat”
(DLS, BERLIN)
Circa 1939 “Die schwarze Katze”
SCRIPT: Peter Huchel.
PERSONNEL: Herbert C. Gunther (director).
HORROR, INC. (WJZ, NEW YORK)
[Tuesday—7:15-7:30 PM]
February 16, 1943 “The Black Cat”
MOLLE MYSTERY THEATRE (WEAF, NEW YORK)
[Tuesday—
November 16, 1943 “The Black Cat”
MYSTERY IN THE AIR (KFI, LOS ANGELES)
[Thursday—6:00-6:30 PM]
September 18, 1947 “The Black Cat”
STORY TIME (WOL, WASHINGTON)
[Monday-Friday—11:00-11:15 AM]
October 7, 1947 “The Black Cat”
RADIO WORKSHOP (WIBA, MADISON)
[Saturday—4:30-5:00 PM]
July 24, 1948 “The Black Cat”
[“…with Eugene Van Hekle, Carol Cowan, Robert Bloomer; music by
Jane Band, Francesca Schumacher, Larry Kelliher…”]
THE HALL OF FANTASY (WGN, CHICAGO)
[Saturday—2:30-3:00 PM]
February 11, 1950 “The Black Cat”
ABC MYSTERY TIME—“MYSTERY CLASSICS” (WABC, NEW YORK)
[Thursday—7:30-7:55 PM]
September 16, 1957 “The Black Cat”
[“…Hector Chevigny’s adaptation of a story about a man obsessed by
aelurophobia.”]
VANCOUVER THEATRE (VANCOUVER—CBC)
[Monday—
November 9, 1959 “The Black Cat and Mr. Valdemar”
SCRIPT: Ian Thorne.
PERSONNEL: Neil Sutherland (producer).
PLAYHOUSE OF WORLD FAMOUS AUTHORS (ARTRANSA, SYDNEY)
Circa 1960s “The Black Tom Cat”
(KPFA, BERKELEY)
[Friday—11:00-11:30 PM]
January 23, 1970 “Poe: The Black Cat”
[“…Richard Spore reads the Poe classic…”]
THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER (WRVR, NEW YORK—CBS)
[???day—10:07-11:00 PM]
April 1, 1974 “The Black Cat”
[“…Philip Sterling is determined to love his rich, ugly wife because if he
can’t, he knows he’s going to kill her for her money. He knows all of this
because when he looked into the eyes of his wife’s black cat, Pluto, he saw
himself in a courtroom being sentenced by the judge for the crime…”]
SCRIPT: Sam Dann.
PERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-director).
CAST: Robert Dryden (Fenris), Joe Di Santis (Bruce), Evelyn Juster (Gwen),
Norman Rose (Philip Sterling), Marian Seldes (Sylvia).
CHRISTOPHER LEE’S FIRESIDE TALES (RADIO 2, LONDON)
[Sunday—11:45 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT]
December 26, 2004 “The Black Cat”