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Quiet Please

(4,25 Sterne; 20 Bewertungen)

Quiet, Please! was an old-time radio fantasy and horror program created by Wyllis Cooper

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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Chapters

Nothing Behind the Door

29:24

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29:38

We Were Here First

29:08

The Ticket Taker

29:26

Cornelia

30:27

I Remember Tomorrow

29:01

Inquest

28:41

Bring Me to Life

29:16

How Are You, Pal

31:01

Be a Good Dog, Darling

9:59

Not Enough Time

28:19

Camera Obscura

23:51

Pavanne, the Girl with the Flaxen Hair

22:49

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24:47

Take Me out to the Graveyard

24:28

Three

24:08

Kill Me Again

24:00

In Memory of Bernadine

24:02

Come In, Eddie

23:46

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24:33

Little Fellow

23:54

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24:32

Little Visitor

24:40

The Room Where Ghosts Live

24:11

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24:16

Green Light

23:51

The Pathetic Fallacy

29:15

A Red and White Guidon

29:04

Whence Came You

29:26

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29:11

Sketch for a Screenplay

29:11

Never Send to Know

28:35

A Night to Forget

29:06

Quiet Please

29:43

I Always Marry Juliet

27:18

Twelve to Five

29:50

Clarissa

29:11

13 and 8

27:50

How Beautiful upon the Mountain

29:23

There Are Shadows Here

29:14

Gem of Purest Ray

29:04

In the House Where I Was Born

28:38

Not Responsible After 30 Years

30:12

Let the Lillies Consider

24:11

Wahine Tahiti

24:17

As Long as I Live

24:41

The Man Who Stole a Planet

24:14

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24:28

The Thing on the Fourble Board

29:42

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26:51

3000 Words

21:36

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21:53

Symphony in Minor

24:16

Anonymous

30:39

Light the Lamp for Me

29:18

Meet John Smith, John

28:51

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29:15

And Jeannie Dreams of Me

29:15

Good Ghost

29:28

Calling All Souls

28:35

Adam and the Darkest Day

29:11

The Evening and the Morning

27:30

One for the Book

29:31

My Son John

28:00

Very Unimportant Person

29:44

Berlin, 1945

29:34

The Time of the Big Snow

28:14

Portrait of a Character

29:22

Is This Murder

28:41

Summer Good-Bye

29:07

Northern Lights

29:32

Tap the Heat, Bogdan

27:39

Valentine

28:59

Where Do You Get Your Ideas

26:02

If I Should Wake Before I Die

29:29

The Man Who Knew Everything

28:06

Dark Rosaleen

28:41

The Smell of High Wines

26:59

A Time to Be Born, and a Time to Die

27:27

Dialogue for a Tragedy

29:57

Shadow of the Wings

29:47

The Vail of Glen Cove

29:54

Dark Grey Magic

29:11

Other Side of the Stars

30:07

The Little Morning

28:26

The Oldest Man in the World

28:36

In the House Where I Was Born

27:42

Tanglefoot

28:38

The Hat, the Bed, and John J Catherine

27:52

Pavanne of the Girl with the Flaxen Hair

30:44

Quiet Please

29:52

Bewertungen

Takes me back

(5 Sterne)

It is well worth listening, if you love old horror. Radios version of Night Gallery compared to Twilight Zone, maybe not THE best but still really good.

Two points/corrections

(4 Sterne)

First, the presence of the Peter Lorre reading of Cask of Amontillado is the giveaway that this upload of The Thing on The Fourble Board is copied from a '70s LP put out by The Radiola Company of Croton On Hudson, NY. Contrary to what someone else here states, no one passed it off as part of the show -- no intent to pad programming or con anyone was intended. Rather, it was part of Radiola's ongoing effort, while they were around, to give buyers as much value for their money as possible. (That The Thing on the Fourble Board is far and away the cleanest transfer here should -- should -- silence all carping about it.) Second, although there are people who habitually mangle sound files, then upload them to this site as if they were purest gold, this is not the case in this particular instance. The reason there is exactly one clean and crisp Quiet Please sound file here is because it was lifted off an LP that had a very rare, superior sound source. The sound quality of existing Quite Please shows, the entire series, has always been very low fi. Even wikipedia mentions that most shows have sub-par sound. I can attest that when I bought tapes of the show during the '70s, they already sounded as if they had been recorded off a distant radio station, with a thicket of static, fading, audio ghosting and interference in the foreground. One might say the tradition continues. No one has screwed up these transfers any time recently. This site's usual suspects cannot be blamed in this case, love to blame them though I do too. Most importantly, thanks to the uploader for sharing these. I understand that you aren't some inept kid wrecking pristine sound files with a dirty needle. By posting what you have, you're doing a hell of a lot more than the erstwhile perpetual critic wannabes.

Peter Lorre piece identified

(5 Sterne)

That Peter Lorre reading of Poe's "Cask of Amontillado" at the end of the Quiet, Please episode "The Thing On The Fourble Board" is from the NBC program The Big Show of 1952-03-09, available here: http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_The_Big_Show_Singles. It's a sad fact that some traders/sellers of OTR padded their episodes to make them appear more complete. At least in this case the padding was something worth hearing; too often it was an unrelated edited-in commercial, a few minutes of silence, or the last few minutes of the program repeated.

Lowest possible audio quality

(3 Sterne)

It is the fault only of the boy who transferred the discs to tape - but these recordings are the worst quality of any OTR show that I know. For me, the quality of the scripts is not quite good enough to compensate for that disastrous sound quality. As you listen - IF you listen - then try to imagine how potentially good the whole series might have been of the disgruntled student had stopped to clean the needle or one of the records just ONCE.

About "Quiet Please"

(5 Sterne)

This, simply put, is a REALLY GOOD series. Yes, it's unfortunate that the best recordings have been lost ( or hoarded ) but if you can ignore the scratches and the like, the story telling is as if you are being told directly. With excellent writing by Willis Cooper and a huanting theme, you need to listen to every episode. I have.

Nostalgia Ventures cleaned up versions.......

(3 Sterne)

Radio Archives out of Spokane, Washington is offering downloads of Quite Please for sale through Nostalgia Ventures. They supposedly have been" reasonably" cleaned up through Nostalgia Ventures. I haven't heard the Nostalgia Ventures downloads of Quiet Please, but would assume they have been cleaned up much better than what is available here.

A Notably Haunting Episode

(5 Sterne)

As a kid, I was mesmerized by the Quiet, Please offering, "Northern Lights". With the show's thematic repetition of Cesar Franck's "Symphony in D Minor" running throughout the performance, I never viewed caterpillars in the same light again. And, in passing, thanks very much for creating this great site for keeping OTR ongoing.

Lovecraft Reference

(3 Sterne)

Ep. 47 "The Man Who stole a Planet" makes ref. to "all that HP Lovecraft stuff." Otherwise show not as good as Lights Out (pure horror) or Inner Sanctum (gleeful wickedness). QP is too slow paced, relies too much on silliness and many episodes just have one person retelling the story.