Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

A trapeze flyer chasing a somersault no one has ever landed shares a drink with a circus fire eater who calls himself Lou Cipher, and walks away believing a bargain has been struck.

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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 Quadruple” (June 28, 1978) ***WD
00:45:39.406 = Witch’s Tale, “Tourists Accommodated” (March 03, 1938) ***WD(LQ)
01:09:36.259 = X Minus One, “Open Warfare” (January 23, 1957) ***WD
01:30:53.254 = Zero Hour, ‘Death Is The Puppeteer” (May 24, 1974) ***WD
01:48:16.561 = ABC Mystery Time, “Success Story” (1957) ***WD(LQ)
02:12:17.632 = Appointment With Fear, “The Clock Strikes Eight” (May 18, 1944) ***WD
02:41:04.353 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Truth” (January 13, 1940) ***WD
03:09:34.283 = Barry Craig, “The Case of the Naughty Necklace” (November 28, 1951)
03:37:22.883 = BBC Radio 4, “The Murders In The Rue Morgue” (January 22, 2000)
04:33:33.619 = Night Beat, “Pay Up Or Die” (May 01, 1952) ***WD
05:01:46.546 = Show Close

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Jim Harker kills a traffic constable on a fog-blind road at midnight and drives away without reporting it, and from that night forward every trip down that same stretch of road brings the sound of a police siren only he can hear.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Lady Bluebeard” (June 26, 1978) ***WD
00:46:20.038 = The Creaking Door, “Death On The Road” (December 07, 1964) ***WD
01:15:09.868 = The Saint, “Conley Silver Mine” (July 31, 1949) ***WD
01:39:33.865 = Theater 1030, “The Pedestrian” (1968-1971) ***WD
02:05:17.574 = 2000 Plus, “The Other Man” (June 07, 1950) ***WD
02:35:51.037 = The Unexpected, “ The Necklace” (1947-1948)
02:47:49.587 = Columbia Workshop, “Carmilla” (July 28, 1940) (LQ)
03:17:15.893 = Dark Venture, “Ten Dollar Bill” (August 14, 1945)
03:46:13.757 = The Weird Circle, “Fall of the House of Usher” (1943)
04:13:26.305 = The Whistler, “Masters Tree” (April 30, 1945)
04:42:57.851 = Strange Wills, “So Deep Stream” (September 28, 1946)
05:12:41.544 = Show Close

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(LQ) = Low Quality
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In a fog-bound London mansion emptied of its furniture and its servants, a young man lives alone beneath a wax-sealed black door at the top of the stairs that his father's instructions forbid him to open until his twenty-first birthday.

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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 Black Door” (June 23, 1978) ***WD
00:46:40.716 = Hollywood Mystery Time, “Murder By Coincidence” (August 19, 1945) ***WD
01:16:35.766 = Sam Spade, “The Bail Bond Caper” (June 27, 1948) ***WD
01:48:13.618 = The Sealed Book, “I’ll Die Laughing” (May 27, 1945)
02:17:42.604 = The Shadow, “The Juggernaut” (December 26, 1943) ***WD
02:46:11.413 = Sleep No More, “Passengers To Bali” (April 10, 1957) ***WD
03:13:40.831 = BBC Spine Chillers’ Fresh Blood, “Absolute Silence” (March 28, 2006)
03:27:38.003 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “The Bogey Man Will Get You” (October 01, 1945) ***WD
03:42:10.420 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Two Faces of Death” (March 13, 1945) ***WD
03:54:15.205 = Suspense, “Marvelous Barastro” (April 13, 1944)
04:23:48.161 = Tales of Tomorrow, “The Other Now” (January 22, 1953)
04:53:42.470 = Incredible But True, “Mr. Watt’s Awakening” (1950-1951)
04:57:14.439 = Show Close

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Speciality of the House: Sbirro's has no menu, no sign and no interest in new customers, and the handful of men who eat there have taken a solemn oath never to speak of the one dish that keeps them coming back.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Matter of Faith” (June 21, 1978) ***WD
00:45:51.326 = Obsession, “Ebb Tide” (October 01, 1951) ***WD
01:14:46.759 = Origin of Superstition, “Black Cat” (1935) ***WD
01:28:25.308 = Pat Novak For Hire, “Father Leahy Joe Feldman” (April 02, 1949)
01:57:11.365 = Peril, “Mask of Hate” (1953) ***WD
02:21:19.624 = Mystery Playhouse, “Letter” (December 26, 1944) ***WD(LQ)
02:43:57.936 = Philip Morris Playhouse, “Four Hours to Kill” (May 13, 1949) ***WD(LQ)
03:12:47.766 = The Price of Fear, “Speciality Of The House” (April 13, 1974) ***WD
03:41:18.848 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “One Diamond” (May 06, 1948)
04:10:28.639 = Quiet Please, “Dialogue For A Tragedy” (April 10, 1949) ***WD
04:40:22.415 = Radio City Playhouse, “Sibling” (December 11, 1949) ***WD
05:08:43.222 = Show Close

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(LQ) = Low Quality
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Harry and Sarah Kemp paid ten thousand dollars for a ten-month-old baby and never once asked what they were buying.

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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 Unholy Miracle” (June 16, 1978) ***WD
00:45:19.298 = MindWebs, “The Show Must Go On” (April 09, 1983)
01:08:33.906 = Dark Destiny, “Masquerade” (October 31, 1942) ***WD (LQ)
01:36:44.100 = Mystery In The Air, “Crime And Punishment” (September 25, 1947) ***WD
02:02:12.536 = Molle Mystery Theater, “St. Louis Lady” (August 23, 1946)
02:31:53.304 = Mr Keen, “The Frightened Child” (November 16, 1944) ***WD
03:01:30.283 = Murder at Midnight, “The Line is Dead” (May 22, 1950) ***WD
03:27:36.848 = The Black Museum, “The Trunk” (1952) ***WD (LQ)
03:51:48.450 = Mysterious Traveler, “House of Death “(January 30, 1944) ***WD
04:19:27.772 = CBC Nightfall, “Late Special” (August 08, 1980) ***WD
04:45:45.237 = It’s Murder, “Picture Wire Murder” (August 10, 1944)
05:00:24.414 = Show Close

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(LQ) = Low Quality
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“Sub-Basement”: Down in the black tunnels beneath the store, the doors have sealed shut, the watchman is lying with his throat torn open, and whatever did it is dragging itself toward them through the dark — blind, patient, and hungry after a wait of ten thousand years.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Alias Mr. Aladdin” (June 12, 1978) ***WD
00:45:00.815 = Jeff Regan, “The Man In The Door” (August 28, 1948)
01:15:53.217 = The Key, “One Hundreds Fifty Thousand Dollars Embezzled” (1956) ***WD
01:40:41.805 = Lights Out, “Sub-Basement” (August 24, 1943) ***WD
02:09:56.858 = Macabre, “Edge of Evil” (January 08, 1962) ***WD
02:39:56.460 = Philip Marlowe, “Sword of Cebu” (March 28, 1950)
03:09:26.831 = Blackstone The Magician, “Ghost That Wasn’t” (November 28, 1948) ***WD
03:22:07.674 = The Black Mass, “A Predicament” / “Tell-Tale Heart” (June 20, 1954) ***WD
03:51:06.861 = Michael Shayne, “Investment In An Invention” (June 18, 1945)
04:20:43.109 = Beyond Midnight, “The House, aka The Visits” (June 27, 1969) (LQ)
04:49:34.636 = Tales of the Frightened, “Story of Wood” (December 18, 1957)
04:53:54.293 = Tales From The Tomb, “Ghost of a Vampire” (1960s)
04:59:20.864 = Show Close

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(LQ) = Low Quality
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There is a man not yet sixty with the face of someone eighty, who sleeps only by daylight and spends every night awake with a buckhorn knife within his reach, ever since a woman came to him in a dream.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Long Way From Home” (June 09, 1978) ***WD
00:45:43.568 = Theater Five, “A Little Knowledge” (November 25, 1964)
01:09:03.546 = Big Town, “Fatal Joke” (March 01, 1949) ***WD
01:38:29.576 = Harry Lime, “Operation Music Box” (October 05, 1951)
02:03:50.732 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “The Dream Woman” (July 19, 1980) ***WD
02:31:08.192 = The Haunting Hour, “Uptown Express” (June 17, 1945)
02:55:58.095 = Hermit’s Cave, “Notebook On Murder” (September 15, 1940)
03:20:26.062 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “King Murdered” (1945-1950) ***WD
03:44:39.315 = Sherlock Holmes, “Queue For Murder” (March 04, 1947) ***WD
04:14:18.238 = Mystery House, “Murder Hires a Hall” (June 07, 1946) ***WD
04:38:24.888 = Inner Sanctum, “Death In Depths” (February 06, 1945)
05:08:02.259 = Show Close

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(LQ) = Low Quality
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“Death Spell” – A wealthy man swears his beautiful wife is quietly working a spell to kill him, every doctor insists he's in perfect health, and the struggling artist who moves onto his estate is about to learn what a person's own belief can do to 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, “Death Spell” (June 08, 1978) ***WD
00:44:39.155 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Case of Darkened Face” (September 22, 1946) ***WD
01:09:46.058 = The Devil And Mr. O, “Chest” (January 28, 1972)
01:38:01.666 = Diary of Fate, “John Haynes” (July 13, 1948) ***WD
02:04:38.792 = Dimension X, “And The Moon Be Still As Bright” (September 29, 1950) ***WD
02:34:03.364 = The Eleventh Hour, “Death And Understanding” (ADU)
02:58:52.083 = Escape, “Night In Havana” (October 22, 1949)
03:27:44.423 = Everyman Theater, ‘This Precious Freedom” (October 04, 1940) ***WD
03:55:00.211 = Exploring Tomorrow, “The Gift” (February 08, 1958)
04:13:23.936 = Dark Fantasy, “Sleeping Death” (June 12, 1942) ***WD
04:29:07.558 = BBC Fear on 4, “Dead Man’s Boots” (February 01, 1991)
04:58:16.638 = Show Close

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(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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“The Kitchen Table” – A young couple pays a suspiciously low price for a neglected old farmhouse and lovingly begins restoring the home’s long-buried kitchen — never guessing that the house has been waiting a very long time for someone willing to listen to what it needs to say.

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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 Undying Heart” (June 05, 1978)
00:45:25.646 = The Black Book, “On Schedule” (February 17, 1952) ***WD
00:59:54.814 = Front Page Drama, “Ghost of the Catacombs” (September 28, 1933) ***WD
01:14:48.366 = Box 13, “The Philanthropist” (January 30, 1949)
01:41:26.286 = Calling All Cars, “The Smashed Windshield” (February 07, 1934) ***WD
02:10:53.679 = Casey, Crime Photographer, “Duke of Skid Row” (September 19, 1946)
02:40:09.682 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Kitchen Table” (May 26, 1967) ***WD
03:06:10.931 = Chet Chetter’s, “Peace To The Frifalites” (1989)
03:33:38.814 = The Clock, “The Double Cross” (June 24, 1956)
03:57:42.053 = The Crime Club, “Epitaph For Lydia” (May 01, 1947) ***WD
04:26:56.841 = Crime Classics, “Final Day of General Ketchum, How He Died” (July 27, 1953)
04:55:59.262 = Calling All Detectives, “Jerry Stumbles Into a Pickpocket Convention” (July 09, 1948) ***Wda
05:01:40.662 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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“The Speaking Clock”: In a Bond Street antique shop where a hundred clocks tick out of time and one of them speaks with a dead man's voice.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Diamond Cut Diamond” (June 02, 1978) ***WD
00:44:33.474 = X-Minus-One, “The Girls From Earth” (June 16, 1957)
01:06:50.118 = Zero Hour, “There’s a Man in 211” (May 23, 1945) ***WD
01:24:07.577 = ABC Mystery Time, “Picture of Dorian Gray” (1957) ***WD (LQ)
01:48:07.812 = Appointment With Fear, “The Speaking Clock” (April 13, 1944)
02:15:31.324 = Arch Oboler’s Play, “Nobody Died” (December 16, 1939)
02:43:13.809 = Barry Craig, “Murder In Wax” (November 21, 1951)
03:11:18.272 = BBC Radio 4, Radio 7, Ghost Story, “The Ghost Train” (January 24, 1988)
04:36:25.323 = Night Beat, “Gusher James” (March 07, 1952)
05:05:29.865 = Show Close


(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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