THE UNBELIEVABLE
[RADIO-SERIES]
Cited in Broadcasting ((March 15, 1937): “National Lead Co., New York (Dutch Boy white lead), is
starting on March 15 a 17-week test campaign in six markets, using a quarter-hour dramatic
program, The Unbelievable, dealing with phenomena that are strange and weird but nevertheless
true, transcribed by WBS.”
Variety: “Using transcribed dramatization of series of yarns about odd facts, discs will be heard
twice weekly over WCFH, Portland, Me., KRFT, Des Moines, WISN, Milwaukee, WBNS,
Columbus, WFBL, Syracuse, and WHP, Harrisburg, Pa.”
The show’s scriptwriting team of Dunn and Stringer followed up for the same company with The
Secret City, a mystery-adventure serial “based on the Atlanteen myth...”
ORIGINATION: Mertens & Price Inc., Los Angeles (electrical transcriptions).
DURATION: March 15-July 7, 1937.
PERSONNEL: Winifred Dunn (scriptwriter), Roderick Ainsworth Mays (director), Sparks Stringer
(scriptwriter).
SPONSOR: National Lead Co. (Dutch Boy Paints).
EXTANT RECORDINGS: None.
THE UNINVITED
[NOVEL; MOTION-PICTURE]
Ray Milland starred in…
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November 7, 1949 “The Uninvited”
[OTTAWA CITIZEN: “…Ray Milland will star in the radio adaptation of his
screen… ‘The Uninvited,’ a blend of the everyday with the inexplicable
has been described as ‘a ghost picture as creepy as a rattlesnake ranch.’
In the first scene, composer Rick Fitzgerald and his sister are sitting in a
vacant house on the Devonshire coast, wondering whether to buy it.
While they talk, some roses they have brought along suddenly shrivel.
The Fitzgeralds decide to move in, and soon find themselves caught in
the spectral crossfire of a pair of feuding nether-worldlings…”]