Dark Fantasy: Old-Time Radio Suspense and Mystery

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Old-time radio suspense and mystery from 1941–1942: Dark Fantasy. Free, complete episodes, restored audio, no modern ads. Dark Fantasy: 27 episodes, in the order they first aired. A new episode every week. From Stupid Potato: 60 free 24/7 channels of classic radio and vintage TV, and 186 podcasts, at stupidpotato.com.

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  1. 4d ago

    Dark Fantasy: Men Call Me Mad (1941)

    Doctor Charles Terhune, a scientist, shows his friends Doctor West and Doctor Smith a film of a world existing within a moonbeam. He plans to shrink himself with a radium capsule and enter that world. Shrinking successfully, Terhune meets Princess Elena, daughter of King Landelaire, who explains that her people are dying of a plague their doctors cannot treat. Terhune offers his medical knowledge. This Dark Fantasy episode, broadcast on the National Broadcasting Company in 1941, is written by Scott Bishop, with Ben Morris as Terhune and Eleanor Naylor Corrin as Princess Elena. With Doctor Charles Terhune, Doctor West, Doctor Smith, Princess Elena, King Landelaire. Listen for: The moment Terhune shrinks and enters the moonbeam world, and his first meeting with Princess Elena First aired on December 19, 1941. Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast. Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: Dark Fantasy on Stupid Potato, every episode so far and the episode guide. Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 186 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  2. Oct 21

    Dark Fantasy: Demon Tree (1941)

    Dark Fantasy presents Demon Tree, first broadcast on December 5, 1941. Humphreys, Crane, Danvers and Clara, a group of travelers waiting at an inn for a stage to take them away, decide to walk into the forest behind the inn. The night clerk has told them of a strange old legend about the forest, and when they find a towering tree, strange sensations and a sudden chill and darkness close in around them. Crane wanders off alone, and the others begin to fear that the forest itself is working against them. With Humphreys, Crane, Danvers, Clara, Clarence. Listen for: The old newspaper clipping about the witch of Barlow Forest and the tree that moves about the forest First aired on December 5, 1941. Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast. Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: Dark Fantasy on Stupid Potato, every episode so far and the episode guide. Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 186 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  3. Oct 21

    Dark Fantasy: The Thing from the Sea (1941)

    Judith Johnston, a film actress, sails with her fiancé Philip Hayward, her father the director, and a crew aboard Hayward's yacht the Dolphin. Their journey in the Pacific turns strange when the motors refuse to start and a man no one recognises steers the boat with no wind. Johnston dreams of a sea woman who claims her mind must enter Judith's body, and the yacht is swept toward an emerging land. The part of the story heard here ends with the party facing the mysterious figure at the helm. With Judith Johnston, Philip Hayward, Johnston, Ned, Captain Webb, Lana, Boul. Listen for: The eerie steering of the yacht by an unknown man, and Judith's dream of the sea woman First aired on November 28, 1941. Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast. Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: Dark Fantasy on Stupid Potato, every episode so far and the episode guide. Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 186 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  4. Oct 21

    Dark Fantasy: The Man Who Came Back (1941)

    Keith Grange has been acquitted of killing Philip Blake, whom he shot in self-defense after a quarrel over Sylvia, Blake's wife. Grange, now living in a new home, is troubled by the feeling that Blake is not truly gone. Sylvia becomes frightened when a ring she gave Blake turns up as a gift to her. Grange's guests arrive at a masquerade ball, and a figure in black keeps watching Sylvia. Grange confronts a strange presence in his study. The episode is part of the Dark Fantasy series, first broadcast on November 14, 1941, with Ben Morris as Keith Grange and Eleanor Audley as Sylvia. The story continues as Grange and Sylvia struggle with the unexplained events around them. With Keith Grange, Philip Blake, Sylvia, Casey, Captain Sullivan, Dorothy. Listen for: The sound of Blake's piano melody playing in Grange's study with no one seated at the instrument First aired on November 14, 1941. Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast. Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: Dark Fantasy on Stupid Potato, every episode so far and the episode guide. Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 186 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

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Old-time radio suspense and mystery from 1941–1942: Dark Fantasy. Free, complete episodes, restored audio, no modern ads. Dark Fantasy: 27 episodes, in the order they first aired. A new episode every week. From Stupid Potato: 60 free 24/7 channels of classic radio and vintage TV, and 186 podcasts, at stupidpotato.com.

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