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Quiet, Please presents “Sketch for a Screenplay,” episode 39 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on March 1, 1948. Written and directed by series creator Wyllis Cooper, the Mutual Broadcasting System drama features Ernest Chappell.

A Hollywood screenwriter imagines pitching a new story drawn from his childhood at a French château, where friendships with Paul and Madeline linger into memory. Moving between Hollywood, youthful recollection, and wartime France, this layered drama explores the distance between romantic invention and lived experience.

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
30:01 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Little Visitor,” episode 31 of the series, originally broadcast January 5, 1948. This Mutual Broadcasting System drama was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper and stars Ernest Chappell as locksmith Ulysses Smith.

Working late in his shop, Ulysses—whose memories before a 1928 train wreck have vanished—encounters an unsettling young boy who seems unusually familiar with locks and with fragments of Ulysses’s forgotten past. A quiet, eerie story of identity, memory, and the things that refuse to stay buried.

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
25:30 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “In Memory of Bernadine,” episode 25 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, originally broadcast November 24, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, it stars Ernest Chappell as the narrator, with Nancy Sheridan as Bernadine.

A man returning home after the war reflects on Bernadine, the woman he loves, and the memories that sustained him. Told in the series’ intimate first-person style, this is a restrained, nostalgic romantic drama shaped by a homeward journey and wartime recollections.

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
24:37 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “The Man Who Stole a Planet,” episode 58 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on July 26, 1948. This Wyllis Cooper original was written and directed by Cooper and stars Ernest Chappell as Norman, with Hilde Palmer as his wife, Liz.

After returning from a Mexican expedition, wealthy amateur archaeologist Norman brings home an astonishing artifact from a hidden Maya temple: a tiny, intricately detailed model of Earth. What begins as an extraordinary discovery soon takes on an ominous atmosphere in this darkly playful blend of archaeological adventure, supernatural menace, and speculative fantasy.

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
00:49 Original Broadcast
25:03 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Is This Murder?,” episode 83 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on January 16, 1949. This local archival recording comes from the ABC anthology written and directed by Wyllis Cooper.

An inventor of artificial limbs calls a lawyer to his darkened home with a disturbing question about the meaning of murder. As the inventor recounts the troubling ambitions of his assistant, the drama explores prosthetics, mechanical life, and the moral shadows of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Ernest Chappell stars, with Dan O’Herlihy and Joyce Gordon.

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
29:27 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “How Are You, Pal?,” episode 14 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast September 10, 1947. This Mutual Broadcasting System drama was written, produced, and directed by Wyllis Cooper and features Ernest Chappell as Dane.

Newly returned to New York, Dane speaks directly to an old friend over the radio, revisiting their shared youth, an old romance, and the uneasy memories between them. As his intimate account unfolds, hints about the years he has been away give the reunion an increasingly tense edge.

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
31:49 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Green Light,” episode 34 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast January 26, 1948.

While waiting for a train to California, former railroad telegrapher Phil Conners recalls a lonely night shift at a small lumber-town depot decades earlier. An unexpected train, uneasy signals, and the darkness beyond the tracks turn a familiar railroad routine into an unsettling mystery. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the episode stars Ernest Chappell as Phil Conners, with Anne Seymour as Addy Dorsey.

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
24:34 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Never Send to Know,” episode 40 of Wyllis Cooper’s Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System on March 8, 1948.

Private detective Kramer receives an extraordinary client: a ghost with money to spend, but no memory of his own name or death. Drawn into a supernatural murder inquiry built from fragmentary clues, Kramer follows a shadowy trail in this noir-tinged mystery starring Ernest Chappell.

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
00:38 Original Broadcast
29:21 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Gem of Purest Ray,” episode 50 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on May 17, 1948. Written by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the episode stars Ernest Chappell as Dr. Moraitis.

Questioned by Sergeant Papus after a series of killings, Dr. Moraitis recounts an obsession with old charts pointing toward Atlantis—and a deep-sea expedition undertaken with his assistant, Betty Chase. What begins as a police confession becomes an eerie tale of unfathomed waters, lost civilizations, and dangerous knowledge.

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
29:57 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “The Pathetic Fallacy,” episode 35 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on February 2, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the episode stars Ernest Chappell with Charita Bauer, Michael Fitzmaurice, and Vicki Vola.

During a press demonstration of a vast electronic calculator, technician Mr. Quinn insists that the room-filling machine is only a mechanical tool. But when its answers begin to raise troubling questions, reporters Alice King and Sandy Burns follow a light, speculative fantasy about technology, intelligence, and an increasingly personal public embarrassment.

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
29:54 Closing

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