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[Sep. 24th, 2007|05:51 pm] |
 
 When Inspector William Brent, for the first time in his career, does not get his man, it plagues his every thought. He knows who committed the crime, but he never found enough evidence to tie him to it. Thus, a man gets away with murder. After several years in law enforcement, Inspector Brent retires, though he keeps in touch with the man who got away. He finally discovers a diabolical way to goad his suspect into a confession by inviting both the suspect to dinner - and the man's victim.
Here are three Suspense productions of the Rupert Croft-Cooke play. According to the Martin Grams, Jr., guide, the first and second feature Hans Conried, Donald Crisp, John Loder and Ian Wolfe; the third features Hans Conried and James Mason.
Listen to Suspense - Banquo's Chair (6/1/43)
(9.76 mb; 28:27 min.) Listen to Suspense - Banquo's Chair (8/3/44)
(13.5 mb; 29:40 min.) Listen to Suspense - Banquo's Chair (3/9/50)
(13.6 mb; 29:53 min.) In addition to the three Suspense episodes, here is the Sleep No More version as well, coupled with Guy de Maupassant's "The Coward".
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[Jun. 13th, 2007|08:57 pm] |
 
 This Twins Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the WMUK drama series comprised of X Minus One scripts.This week we have Ernest Kinoy's "Real Gone" (known to Future Tense listeners as "Really Heavy"). A down and out artist suddenly seems to have turned the art world on its ear with these tiny, paperweight-sized sculptures in plastic. As amazing as they are, the secret behind their creation is far more amazing... The Future Tense episode has an extra story tacked on the end - Richard Matheson's "Third From The Sun". You might remember the Twilight Zone episode - when a world is threatened by war, a man working on an interplanetary spacecraft smuggles his family and his neighbors aboard to escape. Unfortunately, this version pales in comparison to the Twilight Zone episode.
Listen to X Minus One - Real Gone
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Listen to Future Tense - Real Heavy & Third From The Sun
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[Jun. 6th, 2007|09:31 pm] |
 This Twins Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the WMUK drama series comprised of X Minus One scripts.This week we have "Protection" by Robert Sheckley. A man is saved from being hit by a truck by a voice that, according to the voice, is an invisible creature called a validusian derg. When the validusian derg expresses an interest in holding a conversation, he's understandably dubious until he learns his invisible friend can see future accidents before they happen and can save the intended victim by warning them. Sounds great, doesn't it? However, it merely makes our friend a paranoid wreck...
Listen to X Minus One - Protection
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Listen to Future Tense - Protection
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[May. 20th, 2007|08:51 pm] |
 This Quadruplets Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the WMUK drama series comprised of X Minus One scripts.For three episodes (one Dimension X and two X Minus Ones), the Ray Bradbury classic "Zero Hour" was coupled with another Bradbury classic, "There Will Come Soft Rains". That is, until WMUK offered their Future Tense version. Here we find only "Zero Hour". Why is this such a travesty? It's not, really, I just got used to hearing them back-to-back, that's all. When bombs obliterate the occupants of advanced housing designed to take care of the residents' every need, the house keeps going as though nothing happened in "There Will Come Soft Rains". Parents everywhere notice their kids playing a silly game called Invasion in "Zero Hour". They're just being silly kids, right?
Right?
Listen to Dimension X - Zero Hour/There Will Come Soft Rains
(4.96 mb; 28:56 min.) Listen to X Minus One - Zero Hour/There Will Come Soft Rains (#26)
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Listen to X Minus One - Zero Hour/There Will Come Soft Rains (#78)
(6.58 mb; 28:46 min.) Listen to Future Tense - Zero Hour
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[Mar. 18th, 2007|11:26 pm] |
 
 This Triplets Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the WMUK drama series comprised of X Minus One scripts.I know you undoubtedly think you'd be diametrically opposed to an invasion from Mars, but think about some of the garbage you've bought into over the years. Pet rocks? Parachute pants? Beverly Hills 90210? American Idol? People in general will buy into anything that's sold to them the right way. It's all in the marketing. So what if the imminent Martian invasion began with a Macy's-style parade? According to the Dimension X episode, The Parade, you'd simply love it - until it was too late! Well, you never know. Anything is possible during National Wheaties Week. ...
Listen to Dimension X - The Parade
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Listen to X Minus One - The Parade
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Listen to Future Tense - The Parade
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[Jan. 21st, 2007|12:32 pm] |
 I would have sworn I had scads and oodles of different versions of this delightful tale, but I found only three. In lieu of the continued absence of the BBC tale The Hex, I decided to go ahead and post them.
If you've seen Night Of The Demon or Curse Of The Demon (one great movie with two titles), you've seen a decent retelling of this tale by M. R. James. One of our adaptations is from the series Escape, one from a curious collection of classic horror tales with a wrap-around story called, not surprisingly, Classics Of Horror, and the third was brought to my attention by Astronaut Walt - it's the CBS Radio Mystery Theater version, and in true CBSRMT fashion, the characters' names are different, the story differs a bit and the title was changed as well ("This Will Kill You").
Dr. Karswell is an egotistical, vindictive man. When he's displeased, he curses the person who's displeased him, casting the runes upon them, and they're found torn to bits. When Mr. Dunning writes a review lambasting his book on witchcraft, Dunning discovers what it's like to be on the receiving end of Karswell's ire...
Listen to Escape - Casting The Runes
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Listen to Classics Of Horror - Casting The Runes
(6.67 mb; 29:05 min.) Listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater - This Will Kill You
(9.06 mb; 39:37 min.) By the way, if anyone has the complete Classics Of Horror series and would like to donate it for mass redistribution, I'd be very grateful.
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[Nov. 12th, 2006|08:54 pm] |
 Life would certainly be easier if we didn't have to work for what we had, if our every need was provided for us. John Collier imagined the one place that could provide us this level of luxury for little effort would be a department store. Life could be free and easy, like it was for Stephen, Peter, Roger and Francine in Romero's Dawn Of The Dead.
Collier's short story, Evening Primrose, imagines just that. A poet, disenfranchised with society, decides he'll withdraw from the rest of the world and live in Bracy's Giant Emporium, a massive, well-stocked department store. He thinks he's alone in this consumer wonderland, but when he dodges the night watchman one evening, he stumbles upon another tenant in Bracy's, who introduces him to dozens who live there as well. Unfortunately he finds everything isn't as rosy as he imagined it...
British writer John Collier was a renowned author of short stories and considered a luminary by authors like Ray Bradbury and Neil Gaiman. His stories, most of them published in the New Yorker, were often featured on Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He also contributed to the screenplay for The African Queen.
Listen to Escape - Evening Primrose
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Listen to the BBC reading of Evening Primrose
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The party's in full swing, but when someone steals the host's painfully expensive ring, she decides to give the culprit a break and switch off the lights, giving them time to return the ring without repercussion...
The Princey family is thrown into chaos when Millicent murders the object of her affection. Mr. Princey won't have his daughter swinging from a noose, so he opts to try to frame a family friend for the murder...
This Triplets Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the 
This Quadruplets Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the 
This Quadruplets Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the 
This Quadruplets Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the 
This Quadruplets Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the 
This Quadruplets Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the 
This Quadruplets Of Terror marks a series of duplicate dramas featuring Dimension X, X Minus One and Future Tense, the 
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This triplet comes from the pen of Poe... I give you three versions of Poe's "The Oblong Box".
The papers are filled with stories about the Creeper, a serial killer who prefers redheads. The case has the police stumped, but they're certain of a few details - the killer is focused on redheads in one particular apartment block. The killer could be anybody, and the speculation could drive a woman crazy...
As any self-respecting zombie can tell you, there's nothing like a good meal to sate the soul, and there's nothing like human flesh to make a great meal. People - it's what's for dinner!