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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 tonight is called The Oldest Man in the World. It was bitter cold up there in the uplands, the foothills of the Pyrenees, twenty thousand years ago. The great sheet of glacial ice had slid down from the polar ice cap, only the mountain peaks arose above it. There were reindeer in southern…

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Cast›

A

Albert Buhrman

D

Don Briggs

E

Ernest Chappell

N

Nancy Sheridan

Network›

A

ABC net

Network

A good story about a visit to the home of a caveman, a real caveman!

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An evil dwarf and his crippled brother, who both happen to be ventriloquists, are running a phony seance racket.

Ep 62 · Monday, August 23, 1948 · 21:36

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The skeleton of a solder who was in a Roman legion is found in Britain. It was buried in 410 A.D., wearing a wrist watch! A good story of time travel to Roman-occupied England.

Ep 54 · Monday, June 14, 1948 · 30:12

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Whence Came You

An excellent horror story about a strange native woman in the lobby of Shepherd's Hotel in Cairo, and a newly discovered tomb in the Egyptian desert. Great radio!

Ep 37 · Monday, February 16, 1948 · 29:27

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It's Later Then You Think

A draftee's strange watch acts like a time travel machine, but isn't much help with Sergeant Kilroy! A possible back-of-the-hand to Arch Oboler, who used, "It is later than you th

Ep 59 · Monday, August 2, 1948 · 24:28

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If I Should Wake Before I Die

An excellent story about the future in which a patriotic scientist destroys the Moon, kills off most of the Earth, and has bigger plans for the future! A well-written tale of astr

Ep 89 · Sunday, February 27, 1949 · 29:29

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Never Send to Know

A private eye is hired by a ghost to find out who killed him! A good story!

Ep 40 · Monday, March 8, 1948 · 28:35

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Quiet, Please, Episode 101

The Oldest Man in the World

Saturday, May 21, 1949 · 28:36

Quiet, Please, Episode 101

The Oldest Man in the World

Saturday, May 21, 1949 · 28:36

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

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The Hat, the Bed, and John J Catherine

Every actor knows that a hat left on a bed is a sure sign of death!

Ep 104 · Saturday, June 11, 1949 · 27:53

That night in history

Headlines

  • 1949 — In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
  • 1949 — Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.

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