Old Time Radio
2099
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2017 – Inner Sanctum Mysteries: ‘The Undead’
This episode focuses on a woman who constantly dreams her husband is a vampire. The Undead originally aired on December 18th, 1945.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2017 – Macabre: ‘Final Resting Place’
Airing on November 13th, 1961, a young groom accepts a carnival bet to remain buried in a grave for five days in Final Resting Place.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2017 – CBSRMT: ‘The Imp in the Bottle’
This is an interesting episode in which a young man is promised unimaginable wealth simply if he purchases an odd bottle from a dying relative.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2017 – Nightfall: ‘The Repossession’
In The Repossession - which aired on September 26th, 1980 - a conjoined twin begins having conversations with the spirit of his brother; a brother who died at birth.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2017 – X Minus One: ‘The Parade’
In George Lefferts' The Parade, an advertising agency exec is approached by a man looking to promote the upcoming Martian arrival on Earth.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2017 – Quiet, Please: ‘Dark Gray Magic’
Few radio shows could meld humor and horror in the way Quiet, Please could during it's relatively short run. Today's Spooktacular entry is certainly no exception.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2017 – Escape: ‘Abominable Snowman’
In Abominable Snowman (which originally aired on September 13th, 1953) a group of hunters are in the Himalayas on the trail of the mysterious and elusive yeti.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2017 – CBS Radio Mystery Theater: ‘A Horror Story’
It's very possible A Horror Story is the most grisly episode CBS Mystery Theater ever produced during the 1,399 episode run of the series.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Our Annual Old Time Radio Spooktacular Returns October 1st
It's that time of year once again and we're not talking about busting out colorful gourds and all things pumpkin spice.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – Quiet, Please: ‘Don’t Tell Me about Halloween’
We’re going to finish up the Spooktacular with a little more of a lighthearted tale. Well, as lighthearted as you can get when a man is plotting a possible murder that is… Once again I’ll turn to an episode of Quiet, Please for a spooky yarn to enjoy with your…
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – Mercury Theater on the Air: ‘War of the Worlds’
Mercury's War of the Worlds moves the original H.G. Wells tale from England to the United States but the results remain the same as humanity struggles to survive the Martian onslaught.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – NBC Presents Short Story: ‘The Lottery’
Tonight’s show features one of the most famous American short stories, Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery. Jackson was one of the finest authors of the macabre and her Haunting of Hill House is an all-time classic. For three years in the early 1950s NBC aired a prestige program aimed at bringing…
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – X Minus One: ‘Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitarium’
Let’s return to a science fiction show for tonight’s spooky tale. As far as SF in the Golden Age of Radio two shows normally come to mind, Dimension X and X Minus One. X Minus One (1955 to 1958) began as a reworking of Dimension X, which had only spent…
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – The Creaking Door: ‘I See Ghosts’
Tonight we’re going to go with something a bit out of the ordinary with an episode of The Creaking Door. Mostly people think of radio programs which aired in the U.S. or, on occasion, the U.K. when talking about old time radio. Obviously there were radio shows all across the…
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – CBS Mystery Theater: ‘Time and Again’
Tonight we’ll return again to CBS Mystery Theater with a pretty interesting tale dealing with time. Or, to be more exact, extra time and what one may do with an additional hour each and every day. In Time and Again, a clock repairman finds a mysterious time piece which magically…
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – Quiet, Please: ‘The Thing on the Fourbleboard’
Yes… I’ve shared this episode twice before when I included it in our 2012 Halloween show and then as a double dip of OTR fun last year but I’d be remiss if I didn’t include what might be the downright scariest show to hit the airwaves in the 1940s, if not…