Audio is fairly clear. Maybe even good. Ernest Chapel goes into flashback, and tells about a special girl. Cornelia held a special place for Ernest. Then there’s Barbara, a romance…

Suspense and Horror – Retro Radio Podcast

Quiet Please – Cornelia. ep5, 470720

Tom Braiden lurks in the bushes, watching the luminous dial of his wristwatch. Is he trying to get back at his partner, John Warren, and keep all their gambling profits…

The Whistler – The Blind Bet. ep213, 460624

A long time married couple bicker over their tastes in television shows. Harry prefers science fiction shows for their escapist style, and detachment from reality. Florence prefers serials and soap…

CBS Radio Mystery Theater – Look Who’s Coming. 790611

Some people just seem to never get a break, and have nothing but bad luck. Jack is a middle aged man who has been forced to leave his coal mining…

CBS Radio Mystery Theater – The Pardon. 790606

Features Agnes Moorehead. A story of a woman who overheard a telephone conversation when lines get crossed. She hears plans for a murder. What should she do? The phone operators…

Suspense – Sorry Wrong Number (East Coast). ep43, 430525

Features Charles Laughton. A mild-mannered man and the initials ABC are the center of an organized set of murders. A story by Agatha Christie. A traveling salesman who has had…

Suspense – The ABC Murders (Charles Laughton). ep42, 430518

— Strange happenings in a London curio shop. A story of a man who commits murder, and gets away with it. A young lady goes to an antique shop where…

Suspense – Mister Markham Antique Dealer. ep41, 430511

A Naval officer finds himself in a remarkable predicament. The officer’s fiancee is worried as the plane is boarded. The plane is full of distinguished, and important gentlemen. The men…

Suspense – Death Flies Blind. ep40, 430504

The Devereaux family has made their wealth on a sugar plantation. After years of relying on promissory notes, the creditor comes to demand payment from the old man. The stress…

The Whistler – Last of the Devereaux. ep114, 440723

Hosted by Peter Lorrie as a feature of AFRS, Mystery Playhouse. A psychologist presents his idea for his next book, but the publisher sends him packing. There's no way he'll support the idea of using psychology to get someone to commit murder. On the street, the doctor intervenes when a woman is deciding to jump from a bridge. Talking her from the brink, and redirecting her confused emotions, he sets her on the path of murder. With no motive, she has no ties to the victim, and won't face reprocussions, right? Going back to the publisher, the doct gloats that his experiment has worked. Now

Whistler – The Doctor Prescribes Death. ep108, 440611

Two convicts in prison. One desiring to go straight, the other with a devious plan. Elsewhere on a dark and stormy night, a young couple need to seek shelter when their car breaks down. An old gas station attendant directs them to the only hotel around. The darkened building seems deserted. Have the young travellers lost their way? If the spooky old woman is enough to make the couple want to push the limits of their tired out engine a little further, her mentqally challenged son drives the creep factor higher. Should they just give up omn the creepy old woman and her mysterious double

The Whistler – Death Demands a Payment. ep83, 431219

Title: Neanderthal. A banker and a diplomat disagree on their politics, but the trouble at hand seems to be in getting their broken down car to start. As they motor through the ancient woods and hills, they are in the region of where cavemen lived, neanderthals. What can be known with certainty what the cave men looked like? After their car crashes, and goes off a cliff, Jeffery, Kay, and Claude find themselves banged up, but alive. The warm, sunny day now feels cold and wintery. Can they have somehow been transported through time and space to a strange land? People are spotted who look

Lights Out – Across the Gap. ep10, 360812

The newspaper had a special edition to get out, but the editor takes time to listen to the choir's sing Christmas carols in the next building. Johnny Hale is a prisoner who closes up the newspaper shop to talk to a guard, and an aging prisoner. Ed is an oldtimer on a life sentence, who almost seems content with the life that he has been dealt, paying for the crime he committed all those years ago. Johnny has only 6 months left, and is more of a hot head about the rules imposed on prisoners, and the infractions on privacy and liberties. Well duh... it's

Whistler – Next Year is Mine. ep239, 461223

Looking in on the Grover family, we find they are a family in need. Margot, and Lamont learn from the newsboy about the business loss, and the single father who is doing his best to provide for his family. Lamont goes his own way to pick up some last moment gifts, hiring a cab to act as his Santa's sleigh. Converging on the Grover home, Margot and Lamont lavish on the gifts, food, and peace on earth, as they help Spike get his Christmas tree. There's still a problem, dad is missing. Going to police headquarters, Lamont gets a search started. How are the kids

The Shadow – The Stockings Were Hung (MBS). 391224

Joe is a man who has fallen on hard times, and recently released from prison, he helps his brother Steve. While Steve works, Joe watches Timmy, and tells him about Santa coming. But how will such a fat man get down a chimney, when they don't even have a fireplace? Steve is a cop, and questions Joe about where he has been. There has been a robbery, and the captain puts the pressure on Steve to be sure his brother is clean. It could mean Steve's job if he's caught covering up for Joe. Without being able to explain circumstances, Joe goes to jail for

Whistler – Double-Cross. ep33, 421227

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