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Quiet, Please | Old Time Radio

Quiet, Please | Old Time Radio

By: Old Time Retro Radio
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Summary
 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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Episodes
  • Quiet, Please - "Whence Came You?" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please - "Whence Came You?" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
    11 Nov 2026
    Quiet, Please presents “Whence Came You?,” episode 37 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on February 16, 1948. This local archival recording features an original script written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, with Ernest Chappell as archaeologist Austin and Murray Forbes as his newspaperman friend, Abe Feldman.

    Returning to Cairo from Jerusalem, Austin learns that an enigmatic woman has been seeking him. Soon he and Abe travel to a remote excavation, where a long-sealed tomb beneath layers of ancient cities raises unsettling questions tied to Egypt’s distant 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
    00:53 Original Broadcast
    30:09 Closing

    Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio
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    30 min
  • Quiet, Please - "Let the Lilies Consider" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please - "Let the Lilies Consider" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
    10 Nov 2026
    Quiet, Please presents “Let the Lilies Consider,” episode 55 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast June 28, 1948. This Mutual Broadcasting System drama was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper.

    When police question James Roderick about his wife’s disappearance, his account leads to the extraordinary devotion he has given his garden of lilies—and to the tensions those flowers have created at home. Ernest Chappell stars as Roderick, with Kathleen Cordell as Gretchen and James Boles as the Police Lieutenant.

    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
    00:45 Original Broadcast
    24:13 Closing

    Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio
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    24 min
  • Quiet, Please - "Symphony in D Minor" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Quiet, Please - "Symphony in D Minor" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
    9 Nov 2026
    Quiet, Please presents “Symphony in D Minor,” episode 65 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on September 13, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama features Ernest Chappell, Charita Bauer, James Van Dyk, and Pat O’Malley.

    A hard-edged visitor spends an uneasy evening with Johannes, a blind psychologist, and Johannes’s wife, Carol. A debate over hypnosis, willpower, and perception becomes an intimate psychological confrontation, underscored by César Franck’s Symphony in D Minor—the source of the series’ familiar theme. This was Quiet, Please’s final Mutual broadcast before its move to ABC.

    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
    00:42 Original Broadcast
    25:09 Closing

    Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio
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    25 min
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