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Written and directed by celebrated author Wyllis Cooper, the widely acclaimed old time radio program Quiet, Please was first aired on June 8, 1947 over the Mutual Broadcasting System. In this period, several similarly themed anthologies graced the American airwaves. However, it was this series that garnered notoriety during the golden age of radio and was lauded as an innovative and creative work of genius by both critics and academics alike. In fact, Professor Richard J. Hand from Glamorgan University praised Quiet, Please as an “extraordinary body of work,” and its writer Cooper as “one of the greatest authors of horror radio.” Quiet, Please was a mish mash of several literary genres, with supernatural encounters gaining the most prominence. Tales of the absurd were narrated by Ernest Chappell, who portrayed most of the series lead characters. His talent in fleshing out the gristly and morbid narratives paved the way for this old radio show to gain popularity among its listeners. One of the most notable episodes in the anthology is “The Thing on the Fourble Board,” which tells the story of a roughneck oil driller who unearths an ancient and horrific creature during a routine dig. Chappell breathes such life into each tale and transports the listener into a surreal world where monsters and alien beings exist outside the imagination. Immerse yourself in the world Cooper created by listening to Quiet Please today! Click here to read more about Quiet Please

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
06.08.1947	nothing behind the door	At the top of Mt. Wilson, a small and empty house is mysteriously being guard by a barbed wire fence...
10.20.1947	pavanne the girl with the flaxen hair
06.15.1947	quiet please (002) i've been looking for you	+ Program #2. "I Have Been Looking For You". A sad love story about a couple who finally found eac...
06.22.1947	quiet please (003) we were here first	+ Program #3. "We Were Here First". A story of giants and giant killers. Excellent radio! + "Do ...
06.29.1947	quiet please (004) the ticket taker	+ Program #4. "The Ticket Taker". A gang of Chicago mobsters comes up against, "The Ticket Taker."...
07.20.1947	quiet please (005) cornelia	+ Program #5. "Cornelia". A high school romance goes sour. Very, very, sour.
07.27.1947	quiet please (006) i remember tomorrow	+ Program #6. "I Remember Tomorrow". A gang of criminals hires an alcoholic physicist to build a t...
08.03.1947	quiet please (007) inquest	+ "Inquest". Mr. Ross tells the story of his relations with his sister Eileen...to an unsympatheti...
08.10.1947	quiet please (008) bring me to life	+ "Bring Me To Life". A script writer for "Quiet Please" has a typewriter that types by itself! Wh...
09.10.1947	quiet please (014) how are you, pal	+ "How Are You, Pal?". A man has just returned from prison, not as a convict, but as a worker!
09.22.1947	quiet please (016) be a good dog, darling
10.06.1947	quiet please (018) not enough time	+ "Not Enough Time". A time-travel adventure fifty years into the past...to 1897. The traveler mee...
10.13.1947	quiet please (019) camera obscura	+ "Camera Obscura". A killer sees his victim return again and again in a "camera obscura," a fiend...
10.27.1947	quiet please (021) don't tell me about halloween	+ Program #19. "Don't Tell Me About Halloween". It's hard to be married to a witch, but it's even ...
11.03.1947	quiet please (022) take me out to the graveyard	+ Program #20. "Take Me Out To The Graveyard". A cab driver gets a fare who wants a one-way trip o...
11.10.1947	quiet please (023) three	+ "Three". A good story about a man haunted by the number, "three." + I think that I have an obs...
11.17.1947	quiet please (024) kill me again	+ "Kill Me Again". The story of a man who sold his soul...and made a profit on it! Never try to ge...
11.24.1947	quiet please (025) in memory of bernadine	+ "In Memory Of Bernadine". A guy's life is helped along by the girl who was always there. The las...
12.01.1947	quiet please (026) come in, eddie	+ "Come In, Eddie". A good ghost story as "Eddie" returns from the dead for a visit with the two g...
12.08.1947	quiet please (027) some people don't die	+ "Some People Don't Die". An excellent story about the strange race of the living dead atop an is...
12.15.1947	quiet please (028) little fellow	+ "Little Fellow". A circus midget is given "The Scarab Of Cleopatra," and the three wishes that g...
12.29.1947	quiet please (030) rain on new year's eve	+ "Rain On New Year's Eve". The writer of a horror movie gets in the last word. Possibly dated Dec...
01.05.1948	quiet please (031) little visitor	+ Mutual net, WOR, New York aircheck. "Little Visitor". A locksmith with amnesia meets a strange li...
01.12.1948	quiet please (032) the room where ghosts live	+ "The Room Where The Ghosts Lived". A dying man tells a ghost story to his doctor. He tells how h...
01.19.1948	quiet please (033) baker's dozen	+ "Baker's Dozen". A good story about the thirteenth juror in a murder trial, and why nobody pays ...

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One of the scariest shows that I have ever heard is "The Shadow People" from The Hall Of Fantasy. Listen with the lights out! Wyllis Cooper had written /Lights Out/ before Arch Oboler took it over. Later, in, I believe, the 40s (somebody correct me) Cooper revived his craft with the series /Quiet Please/. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.

Fred

The imagination of the listener adds a personal touch to the suspense. The mind of each individual listener contributes to the story in a manner that's unique to that listener, adding an intensity to the experience that enhances what the writers and actors created. They say that in all art forms, the difference between good and great is not what's included, but what's left out, for the viewer/listener to provide, drawing the audience into a relationship with the art. OTR and books provide room for the listener/reader to participate in the story. Sadly, most of today's movie and TV presents 100% of the audio and visual to the audience, leaving no room for the imagination of the audience to participate. This is why I love OTR and books more than modern-day TV and movies!

Sally

I think the horror shows that are really successful use good writing relying on the imagination (brain painting) plus aspects of audio medium that are unique, like sound fx - Oboler's short "The Dark" comes to mind. I think someone should tell a radio version of the film "Insidious" - that story has a lot going for it conversion-wise.

Edward

I used to listen to "Quiet Please" before going to sleep. Was it the late hour I listened to episodes or my age, but they were difficult to track. They seemed surreal to me. However, what I could understand the programs were unlike what I heard before and well crafted.

Scott

It's a great show that seems to exist only in low-quality episodes.

Micheal

love that 'quiet please' episode 'the thing on the forble board'.

Watson

^^^That's an OTR classic!

Tim

One of the scariest shows that I have ever heard is "The Shadow People" from The Hall Of Fantasy. Listen with the lights out!

Edward

Scott

My fav OTR show period

Jeff

Quiet please is one of the best if not the best.. Only problem is finding good quality recordings of this show.

Armand

My favorite love it.

Jodi

Quiet Please is my all-time favorite program.

David

love Quiet Please

Armand

Great episode

Armand

Liked it!! And the audio quality is surprisingly very good!

Daniel

Great episode!

David

I love "Quiet Please." I think it's the forerunner of "The Twilight Zone."

Shelley

Quiet Please is my favorite OTR series

David

I really like "Quiet Please."

Susan

Sounds good

Debra

I've heard several episodes of this show and what imprresses me is that each episode is completely different to all the others.

Michael

This dark fantasy radio series featured Ernest Chappell as host and star. It was created, written and directed by a master of horror, Wyllis Cooper. It was broadcast on Mutual and ABC from 1947 to 1949.

QUIET PLEASE

Listening to Quiet Please (“There Are Shadows Here”) and the perfume Russian Leather is repeatedly referenced. Never heard of it, so I went online. It’s a MAN’S cologne, first marketed in the 1960s. Quiet Please may have used it as a takeoff on the English Leather we’re familiar with, first marketed in 1949 (it may have been in articles in 1948, when the show was written). There IS an English Leather cologne for men, by Creed, first sold in 1791, by royal decree. Maybe Wyllis Cooper had heard of the Creed cologne and riffed on it.

Maggy