Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

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This song is based on the title story from the Retro Radio episode, “Flying Saucers” Three Thousand Years of Operatives Walking Among Us" from May 7, 2026: https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0652/

A New Mexico missile chief and his secretary discover the flying saucers over White Sands aren't curious neighbors — they're a recall notice from something that has been parked on the dark side of the moon for three thousand years, and it has come for them.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Sea Nymph” (October 05, 1977) ***WD
00:45:37.293 = Tales Of The Frightened, “Dr. Harvey Cushing” (1957) ***WD
00:49:57.029 = The Creaking Door, “Imposter” (July 20, 1964) ***WD
01:16:50.797 = The Saint, “Missing Angel” (July 08, 1951) ***WD
01:45:36.247 = Theater Five, “A Brand New Life” (November 12, 1964) ***WD
02:05:44.156 = 2000 Plus, “Flying Saucers” (August 23, 1950) ***WD
02:34:51.114 = The Unexpected, “Counterfeit” (October 10, 1948) ***WD
02:46:34.747 = Unsolved Mysteries, “The Witch Doctor” (1936) ***WD
03:01:30.997 = Dark Venture, “Chase” (August 03, 1946) ***WD (LQ)
03:29:50.533 = Weird Circle, “Goblet” (April 01, 1945)
03:57:06.111 = The Whistler, “Murder On Paper” (January 29, 1945) ***WD
04:28:30.820 = Witch’s Tale, “Boa Goddess” (May 21, 1931) ***WD (LQ)
04:53:37.621 = Show Close

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In late-1800s Paris, an eighteen-year-old artist's model named Trilby suffers from headaches no doctor can touch. The cure, when it finally arrives, comes from the eyes of a strange musician named Svengali — and her friends are convinced she should never have let him near her.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Mystery Theater, “Trilby” (September 30, 1977)
00:47:17.842 = Radio City Playhouse, “Mother” (September 11, 1949)
01:17:06.447 = Max Haines Mystery, “Arthur Gusy” (Mid 1940’s)
01:40:56.965 = The Sealed Book, “Escape By Death” (April 15, 1945) ***WD (LQ)
02:11:50.125 = The Shadow, “The Man Who Lived Twice” (February 09, 1941)
02:35:04.740 = Sleep No More, “Death of Oliver” and “Fishhead” (December 26, 1956) ***WD
03:04:24.816 = BBC Spinechillers, “Cupboard Beneath The Stairs” (April 2006)
03:18:28.728 = Strange Wills, “Treasure To Starboard” (July 13, 1946)
03:48:08.450 = Strange, “Captain Robinson” (1955)
04:01:53.644 = Suspense, “Suspicion” (April 03, 1948)
05:00:47.763 = Show Close

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A deckhand has just put his captain over the rail in ten fathoms of empty gulf and called it an accident. He thinks the worst is behind him, but he never accounted for the captain’s dog.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Solitary” (September 29, 1977) ***WD
00:45:58.396 = CBC Nightfall, “Walter’s Dog” (April 01, 1983) ***WD
01:15:07.573 = Obsession, “The Silver Cord” (December 18, 1950) ***WD
01:38:20.761 = Origin of Superstition, “Lose Baby’s First Pair” (1935) ***WD
01:52:39.682 = Pat Novak For Hire, “Mysterious Set of Books” (August 10, 1947) ***WD
02:21:26.963 = Peril, “Wheelchair” (June 14, 1947) ***WD (LQ)
02:45:54.810 = Mystery Playhouse, “Adventure of Fallen Angels” (June 14, 1946) ***WD
03:10:54.656 = Philip Morris Playhouse, “Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse” (September 18, 1951)
03:40:22.498 = Price of Fear, “Family Album” (June 13, 1983) ***WD
04:07:31.598 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Foul Tip” (July 15, 1944) ***WD
04:34:28.750 = Quiet Please, “Summer Goodbye” (January 23, 1949) (LQ)
05:03:20.329 = Show Close

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The dead girl from Frank Baring's woods comes back every night with the same request, and he's running out of ways to refuse her.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Wintering Place” (September 27, 1977)
00:45:49.645 = Tonight At Nine-Thirty, “Black Market Murders” (March 16, 1945)
01:15:18.993 = Mystery In The Air, “Queen of Spades” (September 11, 1947)
01:42:18.316 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Alibi For Murder” (March 22, 1946)
02:11:55.779 = Mr. Keen, “The Moonless Night” (January 06, 1944)
02:41:42.870 = Murder at Midnight, “The Line Is Dead” (April 07, 1947)
03:08:09.496 = Black Museum, “Length of Sash Cord” (September 02, 1952) ***WD
03:31:35.718 = Mysterious Traveler, “Christmas Story” (December 25, 1951)
04:00:12.369 = Mystery House, “Nothing But Proof” (January 27, 1946) ***WD
04:23:00.581 = Night Beat, “Otto, Music Man – aka Old Baldy” (June 15, 1951) ***WD
04:51:18.305 = Show Close

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When an airline president comes to the investigator Saladin after a black magician's extortion threat brings down one of his planes in mid-flight, the two old enemies meet again across a battlefield of stolen corpses, radio waves, and a cockpit where the pilot is already dead.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Guy De Maupassant Murders” (September 26,1977)
00:46:24.618 = The Key, “Bank Robbery” (1956)
01:10:49.539 = Lights Out, “Battle of the Magicians” (July 27, 1946)
01:40:35.719 = Macabre, “The Avenger” (December 18, 1961) ***WD
02:09:24.535 = Philip Marlowe, “Covered Bridge” (January 14, 1950)
02:38:54.225 = Ranger Bill, “Abominable Snowman” (1957)
03:07:55.179 = The Black Mass, “Judgment” (November 16, 1970) ***WD
03:32:03.065 = Michael Shayne, “Haunted House” (April 09, 1945) ***WD
04:01:34.428 = Beyond Midnight, “The Man Who Sold His Soul” (June 20, 1969) ***WD
04:32:38.046 = MindWebs, “Apple” (September 02, 1979)
04:58:16.689 = Show Close
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(LQ) = Low Quality
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When Elaine begins seeing a hulking shape that only appears in darkness and dissolves the instant a light comes on, an aging scholar of the supernatural warns her fiancé that something ancient has marked her — and is methodically removing everyone standing between it and her.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Burning Whirlwind” (September 23, 1977)
00:45:38.236 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “History Of A Mug” (August 09, 1945) ***WD
01:14:43.988 = Hall of Fantasy, “The Shadow People” (September 21, 1953) ***WD
01:39:00.254 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “Mists of Memory” (May 22, 1982)
02:05:59.803 = The Haunting Hour, “Old Old Man” (April 07, 1945) ***WD
02:30:49.195 = Hermit’s Cave, “It Happened On Sunday” (1940) ***WD
02:54:04.404 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Death is 1 3” (December 31, 1947)
03:21:36.414 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Elusive Emerald” (December 14, 1946)
03:50:53.749 = The House of Mystery, “The Ghost Who Forgot Halloween” (October 27, 1945) ***WD
04:22:15.259 = Incredible But True, “Heads Up” (1950-1951)
04:25:51.553 = Inner Sanctum, “Death Across The Board” (June 06, 1943) ***WD
04:54:26.682 = Show Close

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A filling station on a lonesome stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, an old man paying with colonial gold, a red-haired traveler asking directions to a town nobody has heard of, and a hitchhiker who has been waiting a hundred and eighty years for a ride.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Plan” (September 22, 1977)
00:45:54.201 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “White Pearls of Terror” (December 19, 1944) ***WD
00:57:33.290 = The Eleventh Hour, “Agent” (1941-1946)
01:19:17.165 = Escape, “When The Man Comes, Follow Him” (April 09, 1949)
01:48:43.375 = Murder By Experts, “Dig Your Own Grave” (August 15, 1949)
02:18:39.103 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Cold Equations (The Stowaway)” (April 30, 1958) ***WD
02:36:18.577 = Faces In The Window, “Lightning Rod Man” (January 17, 1953) ***WD (LQ)
02:59:58.903 = Dark Fantasy, “Pennsylvania Turnpike” (March 20, 1942)
03:26:58.808 = BBC Fear on 4, “Green and Pleasant” (1990)
03:55:36.858 = Future Tense, “The Old Die Rich” (May 21, 1974) ***WD
04:24:30.858 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “The Boat Hook” (April 15, 1992)
05:07:58.359 = Show Close

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A radiation-scarred inventor has built a submarine that burrows through solid bedrock, parked it beneath the city, and aimed its torpedoes at the fault line — and the planets are sliding into position to help him pull the trigger.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Tunnel Man” (September 20, 1977)
00:45:40.665 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” (January 1968) ***WD
01:14:57.979 = Chet Chetter’s Tales From The Morgue, “Elmer Meets Death” (1990-1992) ***WD
01:43:03.330 = The Clock, “The Hunter and the Hunted” (November 22, 1955) ***WD
02:09:06.215 = Creeps By Night, “The Final Reckoning” (July 12, 1944) ***WD
02:37:03.067 = The Crime Club, “Sentence of Death” (October 09, 1947) ***WD
03:05:59.992 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Case of the Counterfeit $10 Bills” (December 22, 1946) ***WD
03:31:06.412 = The Devil and Mr. O, “No Escape” (November 19, 1971) ***WD
03:56:48.974 = Diary of Fate, “Trina Crowley” (March 09, 1948) ***WD
04:25:17.920 = Dimension X, “Beyond Infinity” (July 21, 1950) ***WD
04:54:28.084 = Show Close

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A dollar at a dusty curio shop buys a mummified foot — and the thirty-century-old princess who comes with it.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Wind And The Flame
00:46:57.579 = The Weird Circle, “Possessive Dead” (March 25, 1945)
01:14:18.931 = The Whistler, “Seascape” (January 22, 1945)
01:42:56.945 = Witch’s Tale, “Altar of Hate” (November 08, 1933) ***WD
02:08:42.316 = X Minus One, “Pictures Don’t Lie” (October 24, 1956)
02:36:06.053 = The Zero Hour, “The Violation” (May 10, 1974) ***WD
02:53:37.216 = ABC Mystery Time, “Suicide Club” (June 07, 1956) ***WD (LQ)
03:15:19.752 = Strange Adventure, “A Matter of Salvage” (1945)
03:18:35.175 = Appointment With Fear, “Speaking Clock” (April 13, 1944)
03:45:58.687 = BBC Radio 4/7 Ghost Story, “Lost Hearts” (December 28, 2007)
04:00:13.483 = Beyond The Green Door, “Dillingsworth Diamond Corp” (1966) ***WD
04:04:21.110 = The Black Book, “Vagabond Murder” (March 02, 1952) ***WD
04:18:50.973 = The Avenger, “The Subway Ghost” (March 07, 1946)
04:48:49.580 = Box 13, “Diamond In The Sky” (November 21, 1948) ***WD
05:15:38.566 = Show Close

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(LQ) = Low Quality
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