WBW Theater

Marsha and Bert had been sent a pair of gold masks by her uncle Harold from his travels in Istanbul. He said that although they were gold he had bought them cheaply from a trader who seemed very keen to get rid of them. He said that there was a story behind them and once he discovered it he would let them know. Marsha felt uneasy about them, as if they had eyes that followed you.

Starring: Harry Elders

Broadcast Date: March 9, 1953

Somewhere along the line of your life, you have met them. You - yes you - have come into contact with the shadow people. David, Brian and Elaine are in David's office one evening when they discuss the strange feelings that Elaine has been having, that she has been seeing someone, or something, that can't be seen in a lighted area. It had started around six weeks before...

Broadcast: September 5, 1952

We live in a world which borders at times, on the unreal. A world that cannot explain the various phenomena which seem to have neither beginning nor end. We sometimes get that subtle fleeting power of perception, a sharp feeling of danger, or that death is near. Mankind cannot explain this feeling of sixth sense, when we're faced with imminent and deadly peril, or what causes it...

Broadcast: July 6, 1953

In the diary of a dead man and his wife, the words he has written down tell a tale so fantastic it's almost impossible to believe. Bill and Helen Mason lived the last few months of their lives in dread fear of the slow steps that followed them...

Starring: Beth Caulder, Archie Hugely, Ken Jensen, Mike Larogo

Broadcast Date: March 11, 1950 

The story begins in the beautiful mountain region of Lake Mead, Arizona. A convertible car is speeding along a deserted road which winds through the mountains. The car slows down and turns into a dirt road. A few minutes later it comes to a stop before a small mountain lodge. Kathy Evans, an attractive girl in her early 20s, gets out of the car and runs up the steps to the front door. She knocks impatiently , looking about anxiously...

Starring: Maurice Tarplin, Lyle Sudrow, Robert Donley, Ann Sheppard

Broadcast Date: May 24, 1949

A weird tale about a roughneck an oil rig worker who was involved in some strange goings on twenty years earlier. Whilst drilling he and one of his colleagues came across some unexpected contents in the core of earth that had been drilled up from several thousand feet underground. Discovering an ornate gold ring amongst the rubble was odd enough, but this paled into insignificance when compared to what came along with it.

Broadcast Date: August 9, 1948

Austin was in Cairo on an archaeological dig. He was in his hotel room enjoying a drink when an old friend from Chicago turned up. Spirits up they decided to hit the town when his friend informed him that a beautiful woman who looked like Cleopatra was waiting for him downstairs. She was like no other lady he had ever seen but more like one who had descended from one of the marvelous life like paintings of the queens from the dynasties of 2000 years ago like he’d seen on the Egyptian tombs. He turned to approach her but in an instance she had vanished leaving only the smell of cinnamon and burr, the funeral spices of ancient Egyptian funerals…

Starring: Ernest Chappell

Broadcast Date: February 16, 1948

Escape to London in a world made strange and terrifying by the workings of an ancient barbaric curse. It is midnight and you are alone. Suddenly the room is plunged into darkness. You sit frozen with terror, because something is there behind you. Something you feared would come.

Broadcast Date: November 19, 1947

Tonight we escape to a lonely lighthouse off the steaming jungle coast of French Guyana, and a nightmare world of terror and violence...

Starring: Ben Wright, Paul Frees, Jay Novello

Broadcast Date: August 9. 1953

Ladies and Gentlemen, there are two kinds of stories, those you can take to bed with you and relax at ease and then there’s the other kind. Tonight’s story is the other kind. I still do not know if it was the shadow of the madness to which the author himself so tragically succumbed or if there really was a an evil summoning that could not be seen or described. Listen and decide for yourself.

Starring: Peter Lorre

Broadcast Date: August 21, 1947