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.
Quiet, Please - "Very Unimportant Person" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Quiet, Please presents “Very Unimportant Person,” episode 77 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on December 5, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, the drama features Ernest Chappell, with Nancy Sheridan, James Monks, and Frank Thomas.
In the immediate shadow of the atomic age, Tom and Ruth flee north from the Washington area in an Air Force airplane as catastrophe unfolds below. Searching the radio for signs of survivors, they confront an increasingly unsettling journey through a darkened, uncertain world.
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
00:38 Original Broadcast
30:14 Closing
Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio (https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio)
10 Oct 2026
Quiet, Please - "Symphony in D Minor" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
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 production features Ernest Chappell.
Ray visits Johannes, a blind psychologist, intending to pursue his own interests involving Johannes’s wife, Carol. But a tense conversation about hypnosis, free will, and an unusual sound device turns into an unsettling psychological contest. The episode also weaves in the Quiet, Please theme, drawn from César Franck’s Symphony in D Minor.
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
00:46 Original Broadcast
25:13 Closing
Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio (https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio)
8 Oct 2026
Quiet, Please - "How Beautiful Upon the Mountain" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Quiet, Please presents “How Beautiful Upon the Mountain,” episode 48 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on May 3, 1948.
In this supernatural mountain tale by writer-director Wyllis Cooper, climber Hugh Brant recalls an Everest expedition with Oxford scholar John Chandos. Beginning in Darjeeling and ascending through wind, ice, crevices, and thin air, their journey confronts the era’s haunting sense of Everest as an unconquered and perhaps unknowable presence. Ernest Chappell stars, with Roy Irving.
Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.
Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:55 Original Broadcast
30:18 Closing
Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio (https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio)
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