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Quiet, Please presents “I Have Been Looking for You,” episode 2 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on June 15, 1947. This Mutual Broadcasting System drama was written, produced, and directed by Wyllis Cooper and stars Ernest Chappell and Claudia Morgan.

In this intimate, melancholy supernatural romance, a man and woman who do not know one another’s names recall a lifetime of distant voices, dreams, chance glimpses, and near-misses. Their memories stretch from childhood through wartime and into postwar New York City, where crowded streets seem to keep drawing them toward an elusive connection.

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
01:00 Original Broadcast
30:46 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Rain on New Year’s Eve,” episode 30 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on December 29, 1947. Written and directed by series creator Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Ernest Chappell, with Muriel Kirkland and Pat O’Malley.

On a rain-soaked California New Year’s Eve, an exhausted screenwriter and his secretary struggle to keep up with a demanding director’s constant rewrites on a low-budget horror film. As the pressure of the studio grind builds, the picture’s eerie monster begins to haunt the edges of a darkly comic 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
25:18 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “A Ribbon of Lincoln Green,” episode 11 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast August 30, 1947. This local archival recording features a story written and directed by Wyllis Cooper.

As Allied forces withdraw toward Dunkirk in May 1940, American Captain Robert “Bobbie” Hood of Britain’s King’s Royal Rifle Corps recounts desperate fighting amid the shattered ruins of Calais. Ernest Chappell stars in this wartime fantasy, where battlefield confusion and echoes of the Robin Hood legend 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
00:44 Original Broadcast
29:34 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Let the Lilies Consider,” episode 55 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on June 28, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, it stars Ernest Chappell as the troubled James Roderick.

Questioned about his wife’s disappearance, Roderick recounts his unusual devotion to flowers—and the enormous lily growing in his garden. As a police statement becomes increasingly uneasy, this eerie domestic mystery explores the possibility that plant life may have feelings of its own.

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
24:14 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Light the Lamp for Me,” originally broadcast on September 26, 1948. This is episode 67 of the classic ABC radio series, written and directed by Wyllis Cooper and featuring Ernest Chappell.

Historical writer Manfred discovers an ancient bronze lamp at California’s San Fernando Mission—and its unsettling rules open a path to other times. A moody, reflective fantasy of history, memory, and possibility, the episode also features Pat O’Malley and Kathleen Niday.

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
00:47 Original Broadcast
30:05 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “The Evening and the Morning,” originally broadcast on November 14, 1948. This archival recording is episode 74 of Wyllis Cooper’s celebrated suspense series.

At a cemetery following a funeral, a condemned man and his escort begin a tense, haunting journey shaped by grief, memory, and an unsettling superstition about flowers taken from graves. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, the episode features Ernest Chappell and reworks elements from Cooper’s earlier Lights Out! drama, Reunion After Death.

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
28:14 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Kill Me Again,” episode 24 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on November 17, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, this sustaining broadcast stars Ernest Chappell as hard-up writer Joe Davis, with James Monks as the businesslike Mr. Hellman.

When Joe is offered an extraordinary bargain, he finds himself dealing with contracts, temptation, and a highly experienced businessman whose interests extend well beyond the ordinary world. A darkly comic supernatural tale in the Faustian tradition, it also features Peggy Stanley and 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
00:51 Original Broadcast
24:51 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Summer Goodbye,” episode 84 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on January 23, 1949.

In late-summer Southern California, Noel and Madeleine race through the dry canyon country toward an isolated hideout known as Shangri-La, carrying stolen money and mounting fear. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this rain-haunted suspense story features Ernest Chappell and Cathleen Cordell.

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
00:40 Original Broadcast
29:39 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Take Me Out to the Graveyard,” episode 22 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on November 3, 1947. This early Mutual Broadcasting System installment was written and directed by series creator Wyllis Cooper and stars Ernest Chappell as cabdriver Julius Peterson.

Julius recounts a disturbing run of nighttime fares from passengers who all want the same destination: the graveyard. As the requests grow more unsettling, an ordinary city cab route becomes a tense journey into fate and the supernatural.

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
00:42 Original Broadcast
25:17 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Three Thousand Words,” episode 62 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on August 23, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the drama stars Ernest Chappell with Anne Seymour, Don Briggs, Kathleen Deday, and Lon Clark.

On a snowy winter night, Hubert and Virginia’s lucrative spiritualist scheme takes an unexpected turn when Hubert’s hard-pressed brother Monk arrives with a talent for woodworking. In a house devoted to fraudulent séances, the partners find new ways to persuade grieving clients—but mounting pressure tests their uneasy arrangement.

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
22:22 Closing

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