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, 1930The 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, 1931The 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, 1935The Black Cat

SARA LANGMAN’S SUMMER SERIES (KFWB, HOLLYWOOD)

[Tuesday—8:00-8:30 PM]

June 30, 1936The 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, 1938The 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 1939Die schwarze Katze

SCRIPT:

Peter Huchel.

PERSONNEL

: Herbert C. Gunther (director).

HORROR, INC. (WJZ, NEW YORK)
[Tuesday—7:15-7:30 PM]

February 16, 1943The Black Cat

MOLLE MYSTERY THEATRE (WEAF, NEW YORK)
[Tuesday—

November 16, 1943The Black Cat

MYSTERY IN THE AIR (KFI, LOS ANGELES)
[Thursday—6:00-6:30 PM]

September 18, 1947The Black Cat

STORY TIME (WOL, WASHINGTON)
[Monday-Friday—11:00-11:15 AM]

October 7, 1947The Black Cat

RADIO WORKSHOP (WIBA, MADISON)
[Saturday—4:30-5:00 PM]

July 24, 1948The 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, 1950The Black Cat

ABC MYSTERY TIME—“MYSTERY CLASSICS” (WABC, NEW YORK)

[Thursday—7:30-7:55 PM]

September 16, 1957The Black Cat

[“…Hector Chevigny’s adaptation of a story about a man obsessed by

aelurophobia.”]

VANCOUVER THEATRE (VANCOUVER—CBC)
[Monday—

November 9, 1959The Black Cat and Mr. Valdemar

SCRIPT:

Ian Thorne.

PERSONNEL:

Neil Sutherland (producer).

PLAYHOUSE OF WORLD FAMOUS AUTHORS (ARTRANSA, SYDNEY)

Circa 1960sThe Black Tom Cat

(KPFA, BERKELEY)
[Friday—11:00-11:30 PM]

January 23, 1970Poe: 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, 1974The 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, 2004The Black Cat