“No! No! Stay where you are! Do not break the stillness of this moment! For this is a time of mystery, a
time when the imagination is free and moves swiftly. This is the Haunting Hour!”
A series which used horror trappings but had very little of genuine horror about it. “In ‘Haunting
Hour’,” notedVarietyreviewer Tomm., “the net’s recording division has made an attempt to
combine the supernatural and the straight crime program. Result is somewhat detrimental to
each treatment, but the show emerges as better than fair radio.”
NBC Recording, New York City, New York (electrical transcriptions).
Released in 1945 and 1946.
Bafe Blau (scriptwriter), Ben Brady (scriptwriter), Max Ehrlich (scriptwriter), Berry Kroeger
(host), Frank H. Olsen (scriptwriter), Rosa Rio (organist), Betty Ulius (scriptwriter), Edwin Wolfe
(scriptwriter), Bert Wood (producer).
Jackson Beck, Carl Eastman, Elspeth Eric, Michael Fitzmaurice, Max Fletcher, Betty Furness, Carl
Gruber, Robert Harris, Conseulo Lamboke, Kay Loring, Frank Lovejoy, Ian Martin, Liz Morgan, Eddie
Nugent, Jed Prouty, Florence Robinson, James Van Dyk, et al.
:Guy C. Fitz & Son (Jewelry Store—Optician; WHIZ, 1946), Jackson Furniture Co. (KPO, 1946),
Imperial Electric Co. (CKRC, 1951), et al.
house where an old couple act as
though it’s 100 years ago…”] GP
The Best Laid Plans”
but never gets a chance to carry it
out…”]
The Hands of Mr. Smith”
The Old, Old Men”
retirement home…”]
Ptolemy’s Grave”
purchases a sacred mummy and
finds out too late that it comes with a
deadly curse…”]
Script: Ben Brady
A Date in the Dark”
The Thought”
A Date with Destiny”
man who lived on borrowed time.”]
Out of the Night”
stranger who materializes out of a
nightmare…”] Script: Frank Oleson
The Way of the
Transgressor”
Ecclesiastes First
Chapter, Second Verse”
Murder Wears a Strange
Mask”
The Uptown Express”
on the subway, closes her eyes for a
moment, and wakes up five years
later to find herself married to a
murderer against whom her brother,
as district attorney candidate, is
trying to prove a case…”]
Unidentified Body”
Second Chance”
Revenge”
who plans revenge…”]
The People in the House”
York family will be described…”]
Occupation: Murder”
No Escape”
The Mystery of the
Southern Star”
Murder Is My Business”
The Cat Man”
The Devil’s Deep”
A Tale of Darkness”
in love with the 500-year-old ghost
of a blind girl…”] GP
Tapping on the Window”
Assignment: Death”
Pale Hands That Kill”
Destination Unknown”
The Two Mr. Brandts”
Till Murder Do Us Part”
The Dark Tower”
Numbers unknown:
“The Bird of Death”
“Breakdown”
[
“…story of a housekeeper’s attempts to drive a wealthy
woman insane…”] April 4, 1952, WTOP
“The Briefcase”
“The Case of the Lonesome
Corpse”
“A Corpse There Was”
(Research Fresno Bee, KFRE;
ran on October 13, 1945)
forthcoming murder after she
discovers her own tombstone…”]
“The Dead Strike Back”
“Death by Request”
“Double Threat”
“Dressed To Kill”
“Homicide House”
“If the Shoe Fits”
solves a case of blackmail and
murder from the muddy imprint of a
foot…”]
“Key to Murder”
adventure…”]
“The Labyrinth”
wed an American nurse during the
war. He comes to the states and finds
that she’s old enough to be his
mother…”] GP
doubted his identity in spite of what
the papers said…”]
“A Likely Murder Story”
(research KPO, Oakland—ran it
on October 26, 1946) SCRIPT: Alvin Voretz???
“No Hiding Place”
amnesiac girl is made to think that
she is another girl (who died)…”]GP
“Nocturne”
a piece of music…”]
“Out of Sight”
“The Perfect Crime”
“Reprieve to Death”
SCRIPT: Alvin Boretz.
“The Sinister Estate”
of strange events at her sinister
estate…”]
“The Sixth Button”
coat buttons must be accessible for
his relatives to collect, which forces
them to try to fish bis body out of the
river…”] GP
SCRIPT: Edward Adamson.
get a disagreeable surprise…”]
“The Skyscraper Mystery”
“Stand-in for Death”
a girl is drugged and made to think
she is another girl (who died)…”]GP
(53)
??? “A story of a writer and a dead
man’s revenge”
??? “A writer attempts to
reconstruct the perfect crime—
with disastrous results.”
Something done in Switzerland; cited in Radio Mysteres; nothing further is known.
Radio-Sottens, Lausanne.
May 13-June 17, 1950.
Geo H. Blanc (scriptwriter, director), Jean Rochereau (scriptwriter), Anne
Serdeau (scriptwriter).
None.
May 13, 1950“Le Confessionnal”
May 20, 1950“Offre d’emploi”
June 3, 1950“La Navire de la mort”
June 17, 1950“Indecision”
“Sur Radio Luxembourg, a la fin 1952, fut diffuse le Mercredi soir a une heure propice a ce type de
recits, une serie intitulee ‘Histoires fantastiques’ a propos de laquelle nous ne disposons que de
peu d’informations, en dehors de quelques resumes d’episodes (parus dans ‘Mon programme’).”
Radio Luxembourg.
September 17-December 3, 1952.
Rene Barjavel (scriptwriter), Roger Bourgeon (scriptwriter), Georges-Michel
Bovay (scriptwriter, director), Maurice Cazeneuve (director), Pierre Chambon (scriptwriter),
Pierre Henry (scriptwriter), Jacques Lafond (director), Jean Maurel (scriptwriter, director),
Andre Sallee (director),
CASTS: Francoise Adam, Lucien Blondeau, Bugette, Jacques Dynam, Huguette Faget, Gabriel
Gobin, Claire Guibert, Daniel Ivernel, Pierre Larquey, Jacques Mauclair, Nathalie Nerval, Cecile
Paroldi, Maurice Regamey, Jacques Serviere, Arlette Thomas, Andre Valmy.
None.
Sep. 17, 1952“L’Horloge a remonter le
temps”
Sep. 24, 1952“L’Homme en noir”
Oct. 1, 1952“L’Etrange requite”
Oct. 8, 1952“Le Manteau”
Oct. 15, 1952“La Mouette noire”
Oct. 22, 1952“Le Train fantome”
Oct. 29, 1952“La Mort d’une idwest ly”
Nov. 5, 1952“Le Regard vole”
Nov. 12, 1952“La Mine de la montagne
noire”
Nov. 19, 1952“Descente en ville”
Nov. 26, 1952“Une jolie petite gueule de
chat”
Dec. 3, 1952“Monsieur Charton”
“…una especie de cuentos de terror, una vez a la semana.”
EAJ-7, Madrid (Cadena SER).
Circa 1950s.
Antonio Calderon (director).
None.
Lucille Fletcher got her inspiration for this most famous of radio ghost stories…
John Dietz (director—1942, Suspense), Lucille Fletcher (scriptwriter), Orson
Welles (director—1941, 1946).
CAST [1941]: Ray Collins, Joseph Cotton, Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Adams), Orson Welles (Ronald
Adams).
CAST [1942, Suspense]: Orson Welles (Ronald Adams), et al.
CAST [1942, Phillip Morris]: Orson Welles (Ronald Adams), et al.
CAST [1946]: Orson Welles (Ronald Adams), et al.
All excerpt the Phillip Morris show.
Nov. ??, 1941“The Hitch-hiker”
??? ??, 1942“The Hitch-hiker”
??? ??, 1942“The Hitch-hiker”