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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell. Quiet, Please for today is called Calling All Souls. I tell you what happened last Halloween. Or all souls, or all hallows, or whatever you call it in your part of the country. I bet you can't guess where I was. Well, I was a couple of places. But where I started, I was sitting in a tight little room in a…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

E

Ernest Chappell

K

Kermit Murdock

M

Mary Patton

R

Ralph Schoolman

Network›

A

ABC net

Network

A great ghost story about a condemned killer who gets a unique chance to talk to his victims before he's executed. Excellent writing and music.

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Ep 69 · Sunday, October 10, 1948 · 29:15

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Ep 46 · Monday, April 19, 1948 · 29:11

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Ep 70 · Sunday, October 17, 1948 · 29:16

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Ep 97 · Sunday, April 24, 1949 · 29:55

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Ep 75 · Sunday, November 21, 1948 · 29:31

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Ninety-seven-year-old Uncle Lars has had a stroke. A man's wife, who happens to be a spiritualist, decides to help bring back Lars' wife!

Ep 57 · Monday, July 19, 1948 · 24:41

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Quiet, Please, Episode 72

Calling All Souls

Sunday, October 31, 1948 · 28:35

Quiet, Please, Episode 72

Calling All Souls

Sunday, October 31, 1948 · 28:35

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Ep 29 · Tuesday, May 22, 1945 · 13:37

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A radio performer starts experiencing what it's like to be dead. The script is similar to the "Lights Out" story, "Coffin In Studio B" (also written by Wyllis Cooper). See cat. #

Ep 42 · Monday, March 22, 1948 · 29:07

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Pavanne of the Girl with the Flaxen Hair

A man is visited by Joan, a little girl who arrives in the dark when he plays the piano. Who is she? You'd better not ask! A good story! Wyllis Cooper announces that next week'

Ep 105 · Saturday, June 18, 1949 · 30:45

That night in history

Headlines

  • 1948 — A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.
  • 1948 — Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; afterwards, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
  • 1948 — Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania.
  • 1948 — Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.

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