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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 Is This Murder? Thank you very much for coming to see me. I would have come to your office, but, I'm sorry, infirmities prevent my going out. That's why I have to have it so dark in here, too. I hope you won't mind. Thank you, do sit down. just put your coat on the chair t…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

D

Dan O'Herlihy

E

Ernest Chappell

J

Joyce Gordon

Network›

A

ABC net

Network

A story of brain transplant in the tradition of Frankenstein. Is this murder?

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Quiet, Please, Episode 83

Is This Murder

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Quiet, Please, Episode 83

Is This Murder

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