Quiet Please - 88 Mp3 Downloads Available
Quiet, Please! was an old-time radio fantasy and horror program created by Wyllis Cooper, also known for creating Lights Out. Ernest Chappell was the show's announcer and lead actor. 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 only a very few of them repeats.
Earning relatively little notice during its initial run, Quiet, Please! has since been praised as one of the finest efforts of the golden age of American radio drama. Professor Richard J. Hand of the University of Glamorgan (author of probably the most detailed critical analysis of the series) argues that with Quiet, Please, Cooper and Chappell "created works of astonishing originality"; he further describes the program as an "extraordinary body of work", which established Cooper "as one of the greatest authors of horror radio." Similarly, radio historian Ron Lackmann declares that the episodes "were exceptionally well written and outstandingly acted", while John Dunning describes the show as "a potent series bristling with rich imagination."
Available Episodes
| Episode Title | Broadcast Date | File Size |
|---|---|---|
| Nothing Behind the Door | Jun 08, 1947 | 3.37 MB |
| I Have Been Looking For You | Jun 15, 1947 | 3.41 MB |
| We Were Here First | Jun 22, 1947 | 3.35 MB |
| The Ticket Taker | Jun 29, 1947 | 3.39 MB |
| Cornelia | Jul 20, 1947 | 3.48 MB |
| I Remember Tomorrow | Jul 27, 1947 | 3.34 MB |
| Bring Me to Life | Aug 10, 1947 | 3.36 MB |
| The Little Morning | May 15, 1949 | 3.25 MB |
| The Oldest Man in the World | May 22, 1949 | 3.27 MB |
| Tanglefoot | Jun 04, 1949 | 3.28 MB |
| Pavaner | Jun 18, 1949 | 3.52 MB |
| How Are You, Pal? | Sep 10, 1947 | 3.49 MB |
| Camera Obscura | Oct 13, 1947 | 2.73 MB |
| The Girl With the Flaxen Hair | Oct 20, 1947 | 3.52 MB |
| Take Me Out to the Graveyard | Nov 03, 1947 | 2.81 MB |
| Three | Nov 10, 1947 | 2.76 MB |
| In Memory of Bernadine | Nov 24, 1947 | 2.75 MB |
| Come In, Eddie | Dec 01, 1947 | 2.72 MB |
| Little Fellow | Dec 15, 1947 | 2.75 MB |
| Berlin, 1945 | Dec 22, 1947 | 3.38 MB |
| Little Visitor | Jan 05, 1948 | 2.84 MB |
| The room where the ghosts live | Jan 12, 1948 | 2.78 MB |
| Green Light | Jan 26, 1948 | 2.74 MB |
| The Third Man's Story | Sep 06, 1948 | 6.05 MB |
| Presto Change-O I'm Sure | Aug 16, 1948 | 6.04 MB |
| Whence Came You? | Feb 16, 1948 | 3.37 MB |
| Sketch For A Screen Play | Mar 01, 1948 | 3.36 MB |
| Never Send to Know | Mar 08, 1948 | 3.29 MB |
| A Night to Forget | Mar 22, 1948 | 3.35 MB |
| Quiet, Please | Mar 29, 1948 | 3.40 MB |
| I Always Marry Juliet | Apr 05, 1948 | 3.12 MB |
| Twelve to Five | Apr 12, 1948 | 3.41 MB |
| Clarissa | Apr 19, 1948 | 3.34 MB |
| Thirteen And Eight | Apr 26, 1948 | 3.19 MB |
| How Beautiful Upon the Mountain | May 03, 1948 | 3.36 MB |
| There Are Shadows Here | May 10, 1948 | 3.36 MB |
| Gem of Purest Ray | May 17, 1948 | 3.34 MB |
| In the House Where I Was Born | May 24, 1948 | 3.29 MB |
| Not Responsible After 30 Years | Jun 14, 1948 | 3.38 MB |
| Let the Lilies Consider | Jun 28, 1948 | 2.80 MB |
| Wahine Tahiti | Jul 05, 1948 | 2.81 MB |
| As Long As I Live | Jul 19, 1948 | 2.82 MB |
| The Man Who Stole a Planet | Jul 26, 1948 | 2.77 MB |
| It's Later Than You Think | Aug 02, 1948 | 2.80 MB |
| The Thing on the Fourble Board | Aug 09, 1948 | 2.83 MB |
| 3000 Words | Aug 23, 1948 | 2.47 MB |
| Symphony in D Minor | Sep 13, 1948 | 2.79 MB |
| Anonymous | Sep 19, 1948 | 3.36 MB |
| Meet John Smith, John | Oct 03, 1948 | 3.30 MB |
| And Jeannie Dreams of Me | Oct 17, 1948 | 3.38 MB |
| Good Ghost | Oct 24, 1948 | 3.42 MB |
| Calling All Souls | Oct 31, 1948 | 3.27 MB |
| Adam and the Darkest Day | Nov 07, 1948 | 3.31 MB |
| The Evening and the Morning | Nov 14, 1948 | 3.38 MB |
| One for the Book | Nov 21, 1948 | 3.38 MB |
| My Son, John | Nov 28, 1948 | 3.20 MB |
| Very Unimportant Person - The World Comes To An End | Dec 05, 1948 | 3.39 MB |
| The Time of the Big Snow | Jan 02, 1949 | 3.37 MB |
| Portrait of a Character | Jan 09, 1949 | 3.38 MB |
| Is This Murder | Jan 16, 1949 | 3.28 MB |
| Summer Goodbye | Jan 23, 1949 | 3.32 MB |
| Northern Lights | Jan 30, 1949 | 3.31 MB |
| Tap the Heat, Bogdan | Feb 06, 1949 | 3.38 MB |
| Valentine | Feb 13, 1949 | 3.32 MB |
| Where Do You Get Your Ideas? | Feb 20, 1949 | 2.86 MB |
| If I Should Wake Before I Die | Feb 27, 1949 | 3.29 MB |
| The Man Who Knew Everything | Mar 06, 1949 | 3.22 MB |
| Dark Rosaleen | Mar 13, 1049 | 3.25 MB |
| The Smell of High Wines | Mar 20, 1949 | 3.09 MB |
| A Time to be Born and a Time to Die | Mar 27, 1949 | 3.14 MB |
| Dialogue for a Tragedy | Apr 10, 1949 | 3.43 MB |
| The Shadow of the Wings | Apr 17, 1949 | 3.39 MB |
| Dark Gray Magic | May 01, 1949 | 3.36 MB |
| The Other Side of the Stars | May 08, 1949 | 3.38 MB |
| Baker's Dozen | Jan 19, 1948 | 2.78 MB |
| Don't Tell Me About Halloween | Oct 27, 1947 | 2.84 MB |
| Inquest | Aug 03, 1947 | 6.59 MB |
| Be a Good Dog, Darling | Sep 22, 1947 | 3.42 MB |
| Not Enough Time | Oct 06, 1947 | 6.76 MB |
| Kill Me Again | Nov 17, 1947 | 5.46 MB |
| Some People Don't Die | Dec 08, 1947 | 5.61 MB |
| Rain On New Year's Eve | Dec 29, 1947 | 4.21 MB |
| The Pathetic Fallacy | Feb 02, 1948 | 6.61 MB |
| A Red and White Guideon | Feb 09, 1948 | 6.77 MB |
| Wear the Dead Man's Coat | Feb 23, 1948 | 6.68 MB |
| Light the Lamp for Me | Sep 26, 1948 | 6.13 MB |
| The Veil of Glen Cove | Apr 24, 1949 | 6.15 MB |
| The Hat the Bed and John J. Catherine | Jun 11, 1949 | 7.18 MB |