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Quiet, Please presents “Northern Lights,” episode 85 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on January 30, 1949. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the ABC drama features Ernest Chappell as Paul, with Dan Sutter as his laboratory assistant, Norman.

In a winter laboratory, Paul and Norman test an experimental device meant to displace objects through time. When a routine trial produces an unnervingly cold result—and an unexpected visitor appears as the aurora borealis burns outside—their scientific investigation takes on an eerie, otherworldly atmosphere.

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
29:51 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Nothing Behind the Door,” episode 1 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on June 8, 1947. This local archival recording preserves the series premiere, written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System.

Ross recalls a trip to Mount Wilson Observatory with two Cleveland associates, where a fenced-off corrugated-iron building, a locked door, and an astronomer’s unsettling insistence that it contains “nothing” spark their curiosity. Ernest Chappell stars as Ross, alongside Morton Thompson, Pat O’Malley, and James Van Dyk.

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
00:47 Original Broadcast
29:54 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, the episode features Ernest Chappell as Gus.

In 1948 Chicago, Gus wakes to find himself in an alarming new state and sets out through the city to seek answers. His good-natured efforts to help the people caught up in his predicament make for a darkly comic, increasingly uneasy supernatural story.

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
30:08 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?,” episode 88 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on February 20, 1949. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, this sustaining broadcast is preserved here from a local archival recording.

Near closing time in a quiet bar, an insistent radio fan corners a reserved writer of fantastic stories with one persistent question: where do you get your ideas? Ernest Chappell stars as the increasingly tipsy Basil Gitlitz in this darkly comic, self-aware fantasy, with Kathleen Niday and Charles Egleston 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
27:49 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Come In, Eddie,” episode 26 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast December 1, 1947. Written, directed, and produced by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Ernest Chappell as Arnold and Les Tremayne as Jim Paxton.

Late at night in the former home of Arnold’s deceased friend Eddie, Arnold and Jim Paxton share drinks by the fire while an old secret presses closer. As their conversation grows uneasy, strange signs suggest that Eddie’s presence may not be entirely in the past.

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
00:50 Original Broadcast
24:30 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Portrait of a Character,” episode 82 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on January 9, 1949. Written and directed by series creator Wyllis Cooper, this ABC-era drama features Ernest Chappell, Athena Lord, and Charles Eggleston.

A talkative trumpet player brings his battered horn to an instrument-repair shop and waits for it to be fixed. As he talks, he recounts his growing concern over a man and woman whose disregard for his employer’s rules is met with an unsettling patience.

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
00:44 Original Broadcast
31:39 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “My Son, John,” episode 76 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on November 28, 1948. Written and directed by series creator Wyllis Cooper for ABC, the drama stars Ernest Chappell as the father, with Warren Stevens and Cathleen Cordell.

A lonely father, shattered by the loss of his only son in the Army, seeks help from a woman who claims knowledge of forces beyond ordinary understanding. This somber tale of grief, devotion, and dangerous hope unfolds largely in the shadows of the father’s home.

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
00:36 Original Broadcast
30:22 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 Wyllis Cooper, the Mutual Broadcasting System drama features Ernest Chappell.

In sweltering Chicago, three underworld fugitives hide behind drawn shades with stolen money and mounting fear. As they arrange their separate escapes, a strange old man begins appearing at transit points, asking certain travelers for a ticket no one recalls carrying. Cooper turns a hard-boiled gangland setup into an unsettling tale of pursuit and dread.

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
30:20 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Camera Obscura,” episode 19 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on October 13, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Ernest Chappell and Charita Bauer.

In Santa Monica, a man named Si tells of a troubling secret tied to a missing man, a distraught young waitress, and the real camera obscura in Palisades Park. Within its darkened room, a lens and mirror project the living world outside—and perhaps bring the past uncomfortably close.

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
24:30 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Clarissa,” episode 46 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on April 19, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the drama stars Ernest Chappell as Jesse, with Bruno Wick and Peggy Stanley.

A young writer takes a cheap room in an isolated, decaying house, where its secretive longtime owner refuses to explain the faint sound of a child singing somewhere upstairs. As the cold, silent house and its guarded inhabitants deepen Jesse’s unease, his curiosity about the unseen Clarissa grows.

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
00:47 Original Broadcast
30:57 Closing

Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio