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Quiet, Please presents “Portrait of a Character,” episode 82 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on ABC Radio Network on January 9, 1949. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the drama features Ernest Chappell, Athena Lorde, and Charles Egleston.

A talkative trumpet player brings his battered horn to an instrument-repair shop and passes the wait by recounting an unsettling story involving his employer and a mysterious couple. As his account unfolds, this eerie fantasy explores wrongdoing, watchfulness, and judgment.

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
31:43 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Whence Came You?,” episode 37 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on February 16, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the Mutual Broadcasting System drama features Ernest Chappell as archaeologist Austin.

Returning to Cairo from Jerusalem, Austin learns that a mysterious woman has been seeking him. Joined by his newspaper-reporter friend Abe Feldman, he follows a troubling trail from the city’s nocturnal streets to a remote Egyptian excavation, where ancient ruins and an uneasy past begin to converge.

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
29:57 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “I Remember Tomorrow,” episode 6 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast July 27, 1947. In this early science-fiction drama by writer-director Wyllis Cooper, Ernest Chappell stars as Dr. Garrett Faber, a physicist with unsettling ideas about time.

Faber urgently addresses the listener with a warning about three dangerous men and a device that can look one day into the future. As criminal ambition closes in, the limits—and consequences—of knowing tomorrow become the heart of this tense first-person 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
00:46 Original Broadcast
29:55 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Beezer’s Cellar,” episode 69 of the classic radio drama series, originally broadcast on October 10, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this ABC-era production stars Ernest Chappell, Lotte Stavisky, and Warren Stevens.

Traveling with stolen money, Stanley, Marlene, and Pete hear a troubling roadside tale about an abandoned cellar beyond a cemetery. Seeking a secluded place to hide their loot, they venture into the rural darkness, where old rumors, strange sounds, and the legend of Six-Fingered Beezer heighten the tension.

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
00:39 Original Broadcast
29:56 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?,” episode 88 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on February 20, 1949. Written and directed by series creator Wyllis Cooper, this ABC sustaining broadcast features Ernest Chappell, Kathleen Niday, and Frank Thomas.

Near closing time at a neighborhood bar, an increasingly insistent patron corners a writer of fantastic radio dramas with a deceptively simple question: where does he get his ideas? The result is a darkly comic, self-referential fantasy that playfully blurs the boundaries between storytelling, performance, and reality.

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
00:45 Original Broadcast
27:53 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “The Ticket Taker,” episode 4 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on June 29, 1947. Written and directed by series creator Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Ernest Chappell as Ernie, with Floyd Buckley as the mysterious Ticket Taker.

On a sweltering Chicago night, three men attempting to flee after a killing encounter a gaunt old man who seems to wait along the city’s transit routes. As Ernie recounts the events, the stranger’s quiet demand for a ticket becomes increasingly impossible to ignore.

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
00:48 Original Broadcast
30:15 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Not Enough Time,” episode 18 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast October 6, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the episode stars Ernest Chappell.

Garage mechanic Walter McCoy explains why he destroyed the time machine he spent four years building. Transported from 1947 Pekin, Illinois, to the same area fifty years earlier, Walter faces a mounting race against time amid a vividly realized 1897 small-town setting. Nancy Sheridan and Donald Briggs co-star.

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
00:46 Original Broadcast
28:57 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Inquest,” episode 7 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on August 3, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the drama stars Ernest Chappell as William Ross.

Ross faces a coroner and an oddly assembled jury to account for a violent family incident involving his sister Eileen and her husband, Arthur. As he recounts old resentments, financial strain, and mounting tensions, the inquest takes on an increasingly unsettling atmosphere. James Van Dyk co-stars as the Coroner.

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
00:53 Original Broadcast
29:43 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “The Room Where the Ghosts Live,” episode 32 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on January 12, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this early Mutual Broadcasting System installment stars Ernest Chappell as Lawrence, with Claudia Morgan and James Van Dyke.

Snowbound in an old house without working utilities, a gravely wounded man tells his skeptical doctor of strange nighttime sounds, an impossible door, and the unsettling history concealed within the walls. A tense, intimate supernatural tale told in Quiet, Please’s distinctive first-person style.

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
00:37 Original Broadcast
24:49 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Quiet, Please,” episode 43 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast March 29, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the episode features Ernest Chappell.

In this somber science-fiction parable, a Martian survivor recalls the world Mars once was and reflects on the beliefs and conflicts that placed it in peril. Through memories of Tor, Morna, and the war-minded Krogh, the story weighs hatred, war, and the fragile value of peace.

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
00:33 Original Broadcast
30:16 Closing

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