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Quiet, Please | Old Time Radio brings you haunting mystery, supernatural drama, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy from the golden age of radio. Enter eerie stories of strange encounters, impossible events, troubled characters, and the unsettling unknown. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Created by Wyllis Cooper and starring Ernest Chappell, Quiet, Please became one of radio’s most distinctive and atmospheric anthology series, known for intelligent writing and haunting storytelling. Rediscover classic old time radio horror, supernatural stories, mystery, suspense, psychological drama, dark fantasy, and vintage radio.

  1. 8h ago

    Quiet, Please - "Three Thousand Words" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please presents “Three Thousand Words,” episode 62 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on August 23, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the drama stars Ernest Chappell with Anne Seymour, Don Briggs, Kathleen Deday, and Lon Clark. On a snowy winter night, Hubert and Virginia’s lucrative spiritualist scheme takes an unexpected turn when Hubert’s hard-pressed brother Monk arrives with a talent for woodworking. In a house devoted to fraudulent séances, the partners find new ways to persuade grieving clients—but mounting pressure tests their uneasy arrangement. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:46 Original Broadcast 22:22 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

    Quiet, Please - "Three Thousand Words" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

  2. 1d ago

    Quiet, Please - "Northern Lights" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

    Quiet, Please presents “Northern Lights,” episode 85 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on January 30, 1949. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the ABC drama features Ernest Chappell as Paul, with Dan Sutter as his laboratory assistant, Norman. In a winter laboratory, Paul and Norman test an experimental device meant to displace objects through time. When a routine trial produces an unnervingly cold result—and an unexpected visitor appears as the aurora borealis burns outside—their scientific investigation takes on an eerie, otherworldly atmosphere. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:49 Original Broadcast 29:51 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

    Quiet, Please - "Northern Lights" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

  3. 2d ago

    Quiet, Please - "Nothing Behind the Door" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

    Quiet, Please presents “Nothing Behind the Door,” episode 1 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on June 8, 1947. This local archival recording preserves the series premiere, written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System. Ross recalls a trip to Mount Wilson Observatory with two Cleveland associates, where a fenced-off corrugated-iron building, a locked door, and an astronomer’s unsettling insistence that it contains “nothing” spark their curiosity. Ernest Chappell stars as Ross, alongside Morton Thompson, Pat O’Malley, and James Van Dyk. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:47 Original Broadcast 29:54 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

    Quiet, Please - "Nothing Behind the Door" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

  4. 3d ago

    Quiet, Please - "Good Ghost" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please presents “Good Ghost,” episode 71 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on October 24, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, the episode features Ernest Chappell as Gus. In 1948 Chicago, Gus wakes to find himself in an alarming new state and sets out through the city to seek answers. His good-natured efforts to help the people caught up in his predicament make for a darkly comic, increasingly uneasy supernatural story. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:39 Original Broadcast 30:08 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

    Quiet, Please - "Good Ghost" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

  5. 4d ago

    Quiet, Please - "Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

    Quiet, Please presents “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?,” episode 88 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on February 20, 1949. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, this sustaining broadcast is preserved here from a local archival recording. Near closing time in a quiet bar, an insistent radio fan corners a reserved writer of fantastic stories with one persistent question: where do you get your ideas? Ernest Chappell stars as the increasingly tipsy Basil Gitlitz in this darkly comic, self-aware fantasy, with Kathleen Niday and Charles Egleston also featured. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:41 Original Broadcast 27:49 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

    Quiet, Please - "Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

  6. 5d ago

    Quiet, Please - "Come In, Eddie" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

    Quiet, Please presents “Come In, Eddie,” episode 26 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast December 1, 1947. Written, directed, and produced by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Ernest Chappell as Arnold and Les Tremayne as Jim Paxton. Late at night in the former home of Arnold’s deceased friend Eddie, Arnold and Jim Paxton share drinks by the fire while an old secret presses closer. As their conversation grows uneasy, strange signs suggest that Eddie’s presence may not be entirely in the past. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:50 Original Broadcast 24:30 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

    Quiet, Please - "Come In, Eddie" (Old Time Radio, 1947)

  7. 6d ago

    Quiet, Please - "Portrait of a Character" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

    Quiet, Please presents “Portrait of a Character,” episode 82 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on January 9, 1949. Written and directed by series creator Wyllis Cooper, this ABC-era drama features Ernest Chappell, Athena Lord, and Charles Eggleston. A talkative trumpet player brings his battered horn to an instrument-repair shop and waits for it to be fixed. As he talks, he recounts his growing concern over a man and woman whose disregard for his employer’s rules is met with an unsettling patience. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:44 Original Broadcast 31:39 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

    Quiet, Please - "Portrait of a Character" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

  8. Aug 23

    Quiet, Please - "My Son, John" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please presents “My Son, John,” episode 76 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on November 28, 1948. Written and directed by series creator Wyllis Cooper for ABC, the drama stars Ernest Chappell as the father, with Warren Stevens and Cathleen Cordell. A lonely father, shattered by the loss of his only son in the Army, seeks help from a woman who claims knowledge of forces beyond ordinary understanding. This somber tale of grief, devotion, and dangerous hope unfolds largely in the shadows of the father’s home. Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:36 Original Broadcast 30:22 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

    Quiet, Please - "My Son, John" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
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Quiet, Please | Old Time Radio brings you haunting mystery, supernatural drama, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy from the golden age of radio. Enter eerie stories of strange encounters, impossible events, troubled characters, and the unsettling unknown. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Created by Wyllis Cooper and starring Ernest Chappell, Quiet, Please became one of radio’s most distinctive and atmospheric anthology series, known for intelligent writing and haunting storytelling. Rediscover classic old time radio horror, supernatural stories, mystery, suspense, psychological drama, dark fantasy, and vintage radio.

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