AmericanRadioHIstory.com

The DOT is missing from the link.

There are a lot of exciting things

for me over there.

I'll be back to talk about it.

Bruce

P.S. How were they able to do

this anyway?

Carl, I test drove the link button and it seems to work OK.  What happens when you click on the link button?

Clicking on it now it works fine.

Earlier when I tried it it sent me to a blank page, and up above in the address bar there was no DOT before the COM.

We'll call it a halloweenish event.

That site is a great resource . I recently spent quite a bit of time there looking for old clippings and information and such, on an old time radio program I got all enthused about (which is saying a lot, becuase I'm not really an OTR buff).. I'm currently putting together a website about the late 1940'S show called "Quiet Please". These 25 to 30 minute long programs would make some great late night programing, you ought to check it out. Check out my website dedicated to it (it's almost complete) http://www.quietplease.96.lt/

A simular site is

Thanks for that link.  They don't appear to have nearly as many scans as AmericanRadioHistory (at least in the radio section).  But then they appear to be more broad based, including film and television.

Most amazing web page Rich Powers! Thank you for piecing it all together and sharing.

This afternoon I'll schedule an episode of Quiet Please so I can catch up my OTR education. It's a show I heard of but never heard.

The Internet Archive has a few episodes available (archive.org) but searching "quiet please" also brings up a ton of audios containing the word "quiet."

I am adding a link to YOUR page on my part15 page under "Programs," it'll upload later today.

End 80 Radio is always beginning new ideas.

Internet archive has all 88 and a half of the existing episodes in circulation in varying conditions to listen to at https://archive.org/details/Quiet_Please

I've put about 15 of the episodes on at my site to demonstrate the diversity of the series -some of those are lower generation copies than what you normally find on the internet, so some of mine will sound better, though I still have downsampled them to low bit mp3s.

I still havent heard every episode, and hesitate to suggest any since it really depends on what kind of mood your in.. but if you want to hear a cute one, I liked the "Good Ghost" - A whimsical story about a ghost of a Chicago gangster who recruits the guy who murdered him to make sure his widowed girlfriend lives a happy life.
I liked this one from the start, and the jazz piano playing in the background set it off well. First 3 minutes scratch grooved, but ok. after that. http://boomp3.com/mp3/3jhkuy51j2k-quietplease-good-ghost

The most famous episode of the series is "The Thing on the Fourble Board", it has excellent audio quality -Two workers on an oil rig discover something strange brought up from a mile underground, and then something comes to get it back... http://boomp3.com/mp3/3jfpbh8kvr4-the-thing-on-the-fourble-board-1948

"One for the Book" https://archive.org/download/Quiet_Please/Quiet_Please_481121_075_One_for_the_Book.mp3   is the episode which Rod Serling had tried to contact Cooper about for rights to the script, becuase it is virtually identical to the Twighligt Zone episode "The Last Flight".. - By the way, it has a part that tickled me, where one guy ask the other if he can buy him a beer, to which the man says no, he's going to go on the front porch and read, to which his freind replies "Read?,.. why read when you can drink beer?"
But there's actually several episodes with stuff like that.

The first episode "Nothing Behind the Door" is good (to me), also like "Cornelia" depiste it's poor condition (I have a cleaned up version on my website), "Pavane" is kind of charming and memorable, "Rain on New Years Eve" is the one based on Coopers real-life experience during the time he wrote the screenplay to the movie "Son of Frankenstein", "Third Man Story" is a retelling of the story of Cain and Abel from a different angel, "Beezers Celler" is kind of entertaining... plenty more..

Thanks for the playlist, Rich Powers, I will listen first to the very shows you've described.

"Why read when you can drink beer" is a great line!

I sometimes drink beer and read at the same time, never reaching the end of the book.

I compared Rich Power's "Good Ghost" to the one at archive.org, Rich's is much better.

It will air tonight following the ALPB Meeting.

The ALPB Meeting last night ran later than usual and I missed "The Good Ghost" when Quiet Please aired on the station, so will re-schedule it for a time when I'm able to join the audience.

Somebody heard it, according to my server log, one person somewhere.

Well, whenever you get around to listening I hope you enjoy them.

Here's another I listened to the other night that I though was good. It's called "Oldest Man in the World" - A story about a Cro-Magnon Man.. a prehistoric man; a cave man... They say their kind eventually went extinct, vanishing entirely from existence..

<cite>"Lucas recalls a time when he and his friend Harry and Harry's wife were in France, in the foothills of the Pyénées. He remembers the cave they happened to come across, far off the beaten path, and the sudden storm that caused the three of them to seek shelter in the large cave..." -quietplease.org</cite>

This is rather dark episode, and not tounge-in-cheek like Good Ghost.
  http://www.quietplease.org/index.php?section=episode&id=101

I just heard it for the first time a couple nights ago.

Ok I'll quit mentioning episodes, but keep in mind, they're all different, some episodes which I personally don't care for, are the favorites of other people... and some of my favorites are low in the list for others. -- One thing is for sure though, ther'es a lot of diversity episode to episode.

I find it odd that radio histrians tend to suggest that it wasn't a very popular program at the time.. John Crosby, the most famous radio critic of all time was a big fan of this series, and wrote colums about it frequently, and it received numerous praised reveiws in various national magazines and papers. It aired on almsost every network MBS, ABC, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corperation), and the miltary's AFRB. During it's run, it also won a few national awards with college associations. If that's not popular in it's time, I don't know what is.

Ok, I'm getting totally carried away, so I'll shut it now. I hope some of you will find pleasure in it, and find spots to air some episodes during approprate times of your broadcast.

The path through radio history in the U.S. and even moreso in the first decades of TV heads straight away from higher intelligence.

I would class "Quiet Please" as a work of excellence, debunked exactly for its intelligence.

Another early example of smart radio was the work of Henry Morgan on his first shows, "Here's Morgan." Only of few of the really good original Morgan shows can be found on archive.org, as later his show was dumbed down so that the education resistant public would find it funny.

Henry Morgan showed up as guest on Johnny Carson, until he was banned from networks for being too outspoken, and was finally run out of the country into Canada by the IRS who tried to finish him off.

American Idle and sports church is what we've been reduced to.

But I won't go out on a limb by saying any of that.