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Please. The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet, Please for tonight is called The Thing on the Purple Board. Me, I'm a roughneck. Well, I was a roughneck, I mean, twenty years ago, a little too old, too slow now. Besides, I got a dollar now, I don't have to be a roughneck, you see. Married, got a nice home. Have to meet my wife. Hey, Mike! Her name's Maxine, but she likes…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

C

Cecile Roy

E

Ernest Chappell

P

Pat O'Malley

Network›

M

Mutual net

Network

A creature from beneath the earth climbs up an oil well pipe to the surface. The story was subsequently produced on "Audion Theatre" on October 13, 1990 (see cat. #64147).

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The Thing on the Fourble Board

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