Quiet Please

                                               

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First show date: 06/08/1947

Last show date: 25/06/1949

Number of shows: 106 (17 lost)

 

     

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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" (Hand, 145); he further describes the program as an "extraordinary body of work" (Hand, 158), which established Cooper "as one of the greatest auteurs of horror radio." (Hand, 161) Similarly, radio historian Ron Lackmann declares that the episodes "were exceptionally well written and outstandingly acted" (Lackmann, 226), while John Dunning describes the show as "a potent series bristling with rich imagination." (Dunning, 559)

 

 

episodes

 

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1 "Nothing Behind the Door"

 

1947-06-08

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2 "I Have Been Looking For You"

 

1947-06-15

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3 "We Were Here First"

 

1947-06-22

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4 "The Ticket Taker"

 

1947-06-29

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5 "Cornelia"

 

1947-07-20

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6 "I Remember Tomorrow"

 

1947-07-27

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7 "Inquest"

 

1947-08-03

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8 "Bring Me to Life"

 

1947-08-10

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9 "A Mile High and a Mile Deep"

 

1947-08-18

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10 "Mirror, Mirror On the Wall"

 

1947-08-24

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11 "A Ribbon of Lincoln Green"

 

1947-08-31

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12 "Retreat At Dunkerque"

 

1947-09-03

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13 "Three Sides To A Story"

 

1947-09-07

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14 "How Are You, Pal?"

 

1947-09-10

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15 "The Big Box"

 

1947-09-15

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16 "Be a Good Dog, Darling"

 

1947-09-22

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17 "The Low Road"

 

1947-09-29

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18 "Not Enough Time"

 

1947-10-06

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19 "Camera Obscura"

 

1947-10-13

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20 "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair"

 

1947-10-20

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21 "Don't Tell Me About Halloween"

 

1947-10-27

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22 "Take Me Out to the Graveyard"

 

1947-11-03

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23 "Three"

 

1947-11-10

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24 "Kill Me Again"

 

1947-11-17

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25 "In Memory of Bernadine"

 

1947-11-24

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26 "Come In, Eddie"

 

1947-12-01

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27 "Some People Don't Die"

 

1947-12-08

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28 "Little Fellow"

 

1947-12-15

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29 "Berlin, 1945"

 

1947-12-22

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30 "Rain On New Year's Eve"

 

1947-12-29

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31 "Little Visitor"

 

1948-01-05

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32 "The Room Where the Ghosts Live"

 

1948-01-12

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33 "Baker's Dozen"

 

1948-01-19

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34 "Green Light"

 

1948-01-26

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35 "The Pathetic Fallacy"

 

1948-02-02

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36 "A Red and White Guideon"

 

1948-02-09

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37 "Whence Came You?"

 

1948-02-16

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38 "Wear the Dead Man's Coat"

 

1948-02-23

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39 "Sketch For a Screenplay"

 

1948-03-01

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40 "Never Send to Know"

 

1948-03-08

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41 "Meeting at Ticonderoga"

 

1948-03-15

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42 "A Night to Forget"

 

1948-03-22

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43 "Quiet, Please"

 

1948-03-29

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44 "I Always Marry Juliet"

 

1948-04-05

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45 "12 to 5"

 

1948-04-12

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46 "Clarissa"

 

1948-04-19

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47 "Thirteen And Eight"

 

1948-04-26

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48 "How Beautiful Upon the Mountain"

 

1948-05-03

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49 "There Are Shadows Here"

 

1948-05-10

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50 "Gem of Purest Ray"

 

1948-05-17

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51 "In The House Where I Was Born"

 

1948-05-24

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52 "Below 5th Avenue"

 

1948-05-31

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53 "100,000 Diameters"

 

1948-06-07

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54 "Not Responsible After Thirty Years"

 

1948-06-14

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55 "Let the Lilies Consider"

 

1948-06-28

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56 "Wahine Tahiti"

 

1948-07-05

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57 "As Long As I Live"

 

1948-07-19

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58 "The Man Who Stole a Planet"

 

1948-07-26

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59 "It's Later Than You Think"

 

1948-08-02

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60 "The Thing on the Fourble Board"

 

1948-08-09

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61 "Presto Change-O, I'm Sure"

 

1948-08-16

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62 "3000 Words"

 

1948-08-23

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63 "Motive"

 

1948-08-30

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64 "The Third Man's Story"

 

1948-09-06

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65 "Symphony in D Minor"

 

1948-09-13

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66 "Anonymous"

 

1948-09-19

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67 "Light the Lamp for Me"

 

1948-09-26

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68 "Meet John Smith, John"

 

1948-10-03

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69 "Beezer's Cellar"

 

1948-10-10

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70 "And Jeannie Dreams of Me"

 

1948-10-17

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71 "Good Ghost"

 

1948-10-24

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72 "Calling All Souls"

 

1948-10-31

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73 "Adam and the Darkest Day"

 

1948-11-07

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74 "The Evening and the Morning"

 

1948-11-14

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75 "One For the Book"

 

1948-11-21

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76 "My Son, John"

 

1948-11-28

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77 "Very Unimportant Person"

 

1948-12-05

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78 "Read Me This Riddle"

 

1948-12-12

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79 "Gothic Tale"

 

1948-12-19

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80 "Berlin, 1945"

 

1948-12-26

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81 "The Time of the Big Snow"

 

1949-01-02

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82 "Portrait of a Character"

 

1949-01-09

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83 "Is This Murder?"

 

1949-01-16

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84 "Summer Goodbye"

 

1949-01-23

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85 "Northern Lights"

 

1949-01-30

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86 "Tap the Heat, Bogdan"

 

1949-02-06

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87 "Valentine"

 

1949-02-13

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88 "Where Do You Get Your Ideas?"

 

1949-02-20

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89 "If I Should Wake Before I Die"

 

1949-02-27

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90 "The Man Who Knew Everything"

 

1949-03-06

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91 "Dark Rosaleen"

 

1049-03-13

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92 "The Smell of High Wines"

 

1949-03-20

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93 "A Time to be Born and a Time to Die"

 

1949-03-27

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94 "The Venetian Blind Man"

 

1949-04-03

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95 "Dialogue For a Tragedy"

 

1949-04-10

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96 "Shadow of the Wings"

 

1949-04-17

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97 The Veil of Glen Cove

 

1949-04-24

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98 "Dark Gray Magic"

 

1949-05-01

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99 "The Other Side of the Stars"

 

1949-05-08

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100 "The Little Morning"

 

1949-05-15

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101 "The Oldest Man in the World"

 

1949-05-22

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102 "In the House Where I Was Born"

 

1949-05-28

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103 "Tanglefoot"

 

1949-06-04

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104 "The Hat, the Bed, and John J. Catherine"

 

1949-06-11

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105 "Pavane"

 

1949-06-18

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106 "Quiet, Please"

 

1949-06-25

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