episodes of Quiet Please

Quiet Please creator Wyllis Cooper

Quiet Please creator Wyllis Cooper

Quiet, Please is one of those brilliant shows that was ideal for radio... horror stories that demand to be listened to late at night, in the dark. Often very simple -- sometimes only two voices -- the shows build to their horrifying climaxes bit by bit. All the episodes are believed to be in the public domain.

Quiet, Please was first broadcast by on June 8, 1947 by the Mutual Broadcasting System, and its last episode ran on June 25, 1949, by ABC. A total of 106 shows were broadcast, with few repeats. The shows were written by the show's creator Wyllis Cooper, and Ernest Chappell was the everyman lead actor who didn't play a continuing character but appeared in every episode.


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Jun 08 1947 #1: Nothing Behind The Door
Jun 15 1947 #2: I've Been Looking For You
Jun 22 1947 #3 We Were Here First
Jun 29 1947 #4 The Ticket Taker
Aug 03 1947 #7: Inquest
Aug 10 1947 #8: Bring Me to Life
Aug 17 1947 #9: A Mile High and a Mile Deep
Aug 24 1947 #10: Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Aug 31 1947 #11: A Ribbon of Lincoln Green
Sep 07 1947 #12: Three Sides to a Story
Sep 17 1947 #14: The Big Box
Sep 24 1947 #15: Be A Good Dog, Darling
Oct 01 1947 #16: The Low Road
Oct 06 1947 #17: Not Enough Time
Oct 13 1947 #18: Camera Obscura
Oct 20 1947 #19 The Girl With the Flaxen Hair/ La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
Oct 27 1947 #20: Don't Tell Me about Halloween
Nov 03 1947 #21 Take Me Out to the Graveyard
Nov 10 1947 #22 Three
Nov 17 1947 #23: Kill Me Again
Dec 22 1947 #28 Berlin,1945
Dec 29 1947 #29: Rain on New Year's Eve
Feb 02 1948 #34: The Pathetic Fallacy
Feb 09 1948 #35: A Red and White Guidon
Feb 16 1948 #36: Whence Came You?
Mar 15 1948 #40: Meeting at Ticonderoga
Mar 22 1948 #41: A Night to Forget
Apr 12 1948 #44: Twelve to Five
Apr 19 1948 #45: Clarissa
May 31 1948 #51: Below Fifth Avenue
Jun 07 1948 #52: One Hundred Thousand Diameters
Jun 28 1948 #54: Let the Lillies Consider
Jul 26 1948 #57: The Man Who Stole a Planet
Aug 09 1948 #59: The Thing on the Fourble Board
Aug 16 1948 #60: Presto Change-o, I'm Sure
Aug 30 1948 #62: Motive
Sep 18 1948 #65 Anonymous
Sep 26 1948 #66 Light the Lamp for Me
Oct 10 1948 #68: Beezer's Cellar
Oct 17 1948 #69: And Jeannie Dreams of Me
Oct 24 1948 #70 Good Ghost
Oct 31 1948 #71 Calling All Souls
Nov 07 1948 #72: Adam and the Darkest Day
Nov 14 1948 #73 The Evening and The Morning
Nov 28 1948 #75 My Son John
Dec 05 1948 #76: Very Unimportant Person
Dec 12 1948 #77: Rede Me This Riddle
Dec 19 1948 #78: The Gothic Tale
Jan 16 1949 #82: Is This Murder?
Jan 23 1949 #83: Summer, Goodbye
Jan 30 1949 #84: Northern Lights
Feb 06 1949 #85: Tap the Heat, Bogdan
Feb 13 1949 #86: Valentine
Feb 20 1949 #87: Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
Feb 27 1949 #88: If I Should Wake Before I Die
Mar 06 1949 #89: The Man Who Knew Everything
Mar 13 1949 #90: Dark Rosaleen
Mar 27 1949 #92: A Time to be Born, and A Time to Die
Apr 03 1949 #93: The Venetian Blind Man
Apr 17 1949 #95: Shadow of the Wings
Apr 24 1949 #96: The Vale of Glencoe
May 05 1949 #98: Other Side of the Stars
May 28 1949 #101: In The House Where I Was Born
Jun 25 1949 #105: Quiet, Please!
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