Another journey into the realm of the strange and terrified.

I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.

So settle back.

Get a good grip on your nerves.

Where are we going? You'll find out when we get there.

All right, everybody, welcome back to the podcast. So glad that you are tuning in today.

And it's really exciting because we get into a brand new program that we have not aired yet on the podcast. And so the play today is from a

program called Quiet Please. Quiet Please was a radio fantasy and horror program created by Willis Cooper. And remember,

he's the one that also created Lights Out. Ernest Chapel was the show's announcer and lead actor.

It debuted June 8th of 1947 on the mutual broadcasting system, and its last

episode was broadcast on June 25th of 1949 on ABC. A total of 106 shows were broadcast.

Even though it earned relatively little notice during its initial run,

Quiet Pleas has since been praised as one of the finest efforts of the golden age of American radio drama. For many years, the majority of the

show's episodes were feared lost, with only 12 episodes in general circulation among collectors.

In the late 1980s, though, more than 80 episodes were discovered and that comprised the majority of the series

run even though most of the recordings are of somewhat poor sound quality which i really try to help

with that is still awesome to have most of these episodes with us today.

Now, this is very interesting, in my opinion. The fact that any episodes of quiet pleas

survived in general circulation might well be due to Ernest Chapel's own efforts.

He wrote to Willis Cooper's widow, Emily, in 1966, to report that he owned copies of all but 11 episodes on transcription discs and had copied them all to real to real tape.

Stating that he would happily copy any episodes for Emily, he further wrote that,

quote, it took a lot of hours to make the tape transfers, but I got a big thrill out of hearing

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