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Quiet, Please presents “How Are You, Pal?,” episode 14 of the series, originally broadcast on September 10, 1947. Written, produced, and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, it stars Ernest Chappell as Dane.

In this unusually intimate radio mystery, Dane speaks directly to an unseen old friend—and to the audience—asking listeners to write down three words before revisiting memories of friendship, romance, and growing unease. The story uses its on-air setting to build suspense, with Pat O’Malley, Vicki Vola, and Charme Allen also featured.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
31:42 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “I Have Been Looking for You,” episode 2 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast June 15, 1947. This local archival recording comes from Wyllis Cooper’s intimate Mutual Broadcasting System fantasy series.

A man and a woman describe an uncanny lifelong sense that they have been searching for one another, drawn by a familiar voice and a presence just beyond reach. Written, produced, and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the story stars Ernest Chappell and Claudia Morgan in a romantic supernatural tale of longing, memory, and fate.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:35 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Symphony in D Minor,” episode 65 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on September 13, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System production features Ernest Chappell.

Ray visits Johannes, a blind psychologist, intending to pursue his own interests involving Johannes’s wife, Carol. But a tense conversation about hypnosis, free will, and an unusual sound device turns into an unsettling psychological contest. The episode also weaves in the Quiet, Please theme, drawn from César Franck’s Symphony in D Minor.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
25:13 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Good Ghost,” episode 71 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on October 24, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, this archival installment stars Ernest Chappell as Gus, with Murray Forbes, Ruth Lass, and Arthur Kohl.

In nighttime Chicago, Gus is suddenly confronted with the strange realities of life after death. As he remains bound to the city, old rivalries, Ada, and the ominous Rollo draw him into a darkly comic and uneasy supernatural tale.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
30:15 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “How Beautiful Upon the Mountain,” episode 48 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on May 3, 1948.

In this supernatural mountain tale by writer-director Wyllis Cooper, climber Hugh Brant recalls an Everest expedition with Oxford scholar John Chandos. Beginning in Darjeeling and ascending through wind, ice, crevices, and thin air, their journey confronts the era’s haunting sense of Everest as an unconquered and perhaps unknowable presence. Ernest Chappell stars, with Roy Irving.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:55 Original Broadcast
30:18 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Nothing Behind the Door,” episode 1 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on June 8, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System premiere stars Ernest Chappell as Ross.

During a visit to California’s Mount Wilson Observatory, Ross and two friends become fascinated by a small, fenced-off corrugated-iron building near the great telescope. Its locked door, forbidding warning sign, and the astronomer’s insistence that there is nothing inside turn an ordinary night beneath the stars into an unsettling mystery.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
29:51 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “We Were Here First,” episode 3 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on June 22, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the episode stars Ernest Chappell.

An elderly, unseen narrator shares a chilling account of a long struggle against the human “giants” from the perspective of a tiny, ancient people. Moving from New Jersey to wartime China, Cooper’s darkly imaginative tale explores survival, extermination, and the dangers of a world shaped by modern weapons.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:53 Original Broadcast
30:10 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Thirteen and Eight,” originally broadcast on April 26, 1948. This archival recording is identified as episode 47 of the series.

Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this supernatural newsroom tale follows news photographer Rocco, played by Ernest Chappell. Used to people crowding into his shots for a chance to appear in print, Rocco encounters a particularly persistent “lens louse”—one whose appearances create an unsettling problem when the film is developed. Originally heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System, the episode also features Murray Forbes and J. Pat O’Malley.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
29:59 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Cornelia,” episode 5 of the classic Quiet, Please radio anthology, originally broadcast on July 20, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the drama stars Ernest Chappell as Gordon, with Anne Seymour as Cornelia and Peggy Stanley as Barbara.

In a small town remembered from the distance of adulthood, Gordon tells Alan about the years when he and Barbara seemed inseparable—until the arrival of the captivating Cornelia changed the course of their lives. A supernatural-tinged romantic drama of memory, longing, and obsession.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
31:10 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “A Night to Forget,” episode 42 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast March 22, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, it stars Ernest Chappell as John H.

A radio performer is shaken by a nightmare that leads him to Studio Fifteen, a place with an unsettling, morgue-like atmosphere. As broadcast time nears, details from the dream begin to feel uncomfortably real in this self-referential tale of supernatural radio suspense.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
29:54 Closing

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