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One of the earliest horror series ever aired, Witch’s Tale was the most-loved radio program by New York kids during its time, which is from 1931 to 1938. The show’s host was known as “Old Nancy, the witch of Salem,” (played by Adelaide Fitz-Allen) along with his cat called Satan. It featured stories such as The Flying Dutchman, and the very popular Frankenstein.

Due to its popularity, The Witch’s Tale was attempted to be adapted into a television series. However, despite the efforts to do so, it did not happen. Nevertheless, this series is one of the most remembered. Click here to read more about Witchs Tale, The

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Please enjoy these 38 old time radio episodes:

Air Date	Title	Synopsis
03.03.1938	tourists accomodated
N/A	to share and share alike a	+ "Share and Share Alike". Old Nancy is 111 years old today. The story was also heard on "The Witc...
N/A	the wonderful bottle	+ "The Wonderful Bottle". 9:00 P. M. The famous story of the wish-granting-but-evil bottle and how...
N/A	the were wolf	+ . "The Were-Wolf". Music fill for local commercial insert. The script was first heard on WOR on Ju...
03.29.1938	the wedding gift	+ "The Wedding Gift". 10:30 P.M. Old Nancy is 109 years old today. This program may also be an Ar...
02.24.1938	the violin	+ "The Violin". Old Nancy's 108 years old. A dying Italian curses an English family. This is an Au...
01.13.1938	the truth of death	+ "The Altar Of Hate". 10:30 P. M. A story set in Nantes, France, during "The Reign Of Terror." Th...
01.22.1937	the suicide	+ "The Suicide". 10:00 P. M. Old Nancy is 103 years old today. The script was previously used on "...
05.22.1933	the statue of thor	+ Artransa syndication. "The Statue Of Thor". Music fill for local commercial insert. Old Nancy is 1...
N/A	the spirits of the lake	+ "The Spirits Of The Lake". Music fill for local commercial insert. Old Nancy is 117 years old toda...
09.07.1934	the puzzle	+ MacQuarrie (Australian) syndication. "The Puzzle". Old Nancy is 117 years old today. A man in a ...
05.08.1936	the priest of sekhet	+ "The Priest Of Sekhet". Old Nancy is 104 years old today. A young British archeologist becomes tra...
12.07.1937	the power of lucifer
08.25.1936	the mannekin
08.27.1935	the knife of sacrifice	+ "The Knife Of Sacrifice". 9:00 P. M. Old Nancy is 107 years old today. The recording might be fr...
08.14.1935	the king shark god	+"The King Shark God". Old Nancy's 108 years old today. A sacrifice for a god in old Hawaii. The fem...
N/A	the house of the bridegroom	+ "The House Of The Bridegroom". Old Nancy is 122 years old today. The story was broadcast on "The ...
12.18.1933	the haunted crossroads	+ Artransa syndication. "The Haunted Crossroads". Old Nancy is 122 years old today. An invisible wo...
N/A	the hairy monster	+ "The (Hairy) Monster". Music fill for local commercial insert. A woman inherits a large mansion, g...
01.20.1938	the firing squad	+ "Firing Squad". Old Nancy is 107 years old today. The story was first broadcast in the United St...
N/A	the entomologist	+ QUALITY NOTICE: Very old recording and very crackly. This is a tale set in Africa of an entomolog...
01.13.1938	the devils number	+ "The Devil's Number". Old Nancy is 103 years old today. The dead come back to life on Friday th...
06.13.1935	the devil mask	+ "The Devil Mask". Old Nancy is 113 years old today. The script was used on "The Witch's Tale" on...
02.19.1937	the devil doctor	+ "The Devil Doctor". Old Nancy is 116 years old today. This Australian production uses a script h...
N/A	the confession	+ "The Confession". Sponsored by: Kruschen Salt (weight reducer). 9:30 P. M. A Catholic priest is su...

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the witches tale is cool especaily at bed time when you wake up forgetting you have the show on and that laugh freaks you out.

Armand

All of the existing programs of this series featuring "Old Nancy, the witch of Salem," who cackled her way through the horror tales penned by Alonzo Deen Cole. Old Nancy was played by first by Adelaide Fitz-Allen, then following her death due to pneumonia at age 79 in 1935, thirteen year old Miriam Wolfe became Nancy (she died in 2000). Nancy, and her black cat Satan opened a show like this..."douse all lights! Now draw up to the fire an' gaze into the embers......gaaaaze into 'em deep!..an' soon ye'll be across the seas, in th' jungle land of Africa...hear that chantin' and them savage drums?...Then the drums came up, the witch faded and the story begins! The series was broadcast by CBS and WOR-Mutual from 1932 to 1938. For syndication, the shows were recorded live during broadcast and distributed to other stations. The recordings were destroyed by Cole in 1961, so few episodes survive. The episodes were collected by collectors in the 1950s, but their recordings of these episodes leaves a lot to be desired, and mostly the episodes are in poorer sound than I wish to have, or pass on to new collectors of OTR, but until 'maybe' a day comes that a batch of transcriptions are found, we do have these.

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