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# | Title | Summary | Aired |
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1 | Nothing Behind the Door | An astronomer says a mysterious house has nothing in it. | 1947-06-08 |
2 | I Have Been Looking For You | A man and a woman look for eachother their entire lives. | 1947-06-15 |
3 | We Were Here First | Tiny beings fight an unending war against giants. | 1947-06-22 |
4 | The Ticket Taker | A man tries to avoid eventually meeting the ticket taker. | 1947-06-29 |
5 | Cornelia | Gordon tells the story of his wife, and of the woman he always loved. | 1947-07-20 |
6 | I Remember Tomorrow | A man explains how he's about to be killed yesterday. | 1947-07-27 |
7 | Inquest | Surrealistic inquest with strange people and a visible radio audience. | 1947-08-03 |
8 | Bring Me to Life | An author in search of ideas has a character come to life in his typewriter. | 1947-08-10 |
9 | A Mile High and a Mile Deep | A mile deep in the mines below Butte Montana, something or someone lurks. | 1947-08-18 |
10 | Mirror Mirror on the Wall | Oliver's reflection takes on a life of its' own. | 1947-08-24 |
11 | A Ribbon of Lincoln Green | An American in the British army tells his WWII story. | 1947-08-31 |
12 | Retreat At Dunkerque | Repeat of 8/31/1947. | 1947-09-03 |
13 | Three Sides To A Story | Three narrators collaborate on a story of their conflict. | 1947-09-07 |
14 | How Are You, Pal? | Strange reunion with an old friend. | 1947-09-10 |
15 | The Big Box | A trucker tells the story of his friend Cavanagh, now missing after an accident. | 1947-09-15 |
16 | Be a Good Dog, Darling | An encyclopedia salesman tells a story about his wife. | 1947-09-22 |
17 | The Low Road | A Scottish story. | 1947-09-29 |
18 | Not Enough Time | Time travel and romance. | 1947-10-06 |
19 | Camera Obscura | A murderer explains why he wishes he hadn't gotten away with it. | 1947-10-13 |
20 | The Girl With the Flaxen Hair | Andrew searches for a little girl he's heard but hasn't seen. | 1947-10-20 |
21 | Don't Tell Me About Halloween | Once a year, for centuries, a man has to spend a day with his wife. | 1947-10-27 |
22 | Take Me Out to the Graveyard | A number of people ask a taxi driver to go take them to the graveyard. | 1947-11-03 |
23 | Three | Sebastian tells how he became obsessed with the number three. | 1947-11-10 |
24 | Kill Me Again | Mr. Davis sells his soul for a million dollars, and then dies within seconds. | 1947-11-17 |
25 | In Memory of Bernadine | A man remebers the woman who meant everything to him. | 1947-11-24 |
26 | Come In, Eddie | Two people suspect there's a ghost in the house with them. | 1947-12-01 |
27 | Some People Don't Die | An expert on prehistoric cliff-dwellers tells his strange story. | 1947-12-08 |
28 | Little Fellow | A little person gets three wishes. | 1947-12-15 |
29 | Berlin, 1945 | Soldiers celebrate Christmas, plan, and welcome a strange wandering man. | 1947-12-22 |
30 | Rain On New Year's Eve | Writer merges with the monster in his film. | 1947-12-29 |
31 | Little Visitor | Man with no memory of his childhood is haunted by a young boy. | 1948-01-05 |
32 | The Room Where the Ghosts Live | A dying man tells of the ghosts he is about to join. | 1948-01-12 |
33 | Baker's Dozen | The 13th juror isn't visible to most of the people in the courtroom. | 1948-01-19 |
34 | Green Light | Railroad man tells story of losing his leg. | 1948-01-26 |
35 | The Pathetic Fallacy | A computer gives wrong answers when it feels upset. | 1948-02-02 |
36 | A Red and White Guideon | A soldier from long ago tells of his comrades and the guideon they fought for. | 1948-02-09 |
37 | Whence Came You? | An ancient Egyptian tomb contains terrifying secrets. | 1948-02-16 |
38 | Wear the Dead Man's Coat | An old bum murders to get a coat, but then he finds it has unintended consequences. | 1948-02-23 |
39 | Sketch For a Screenplay | Children grow up, fight in WWII. | 1948-03-01 |
40 | Never Send to Know | A ghost convinces a detective to find its murderer. | 1948-03-08 |
41 | Meeting at Ticonderoga | The story of Duncan Campbell of Scotland. | 1948-03-15 |
42 | A Night to Forget | John H. has visions that lead him to believe he's about to die. | 1948-03-22 |
43 | Quiet, Please | A Martian tells the story of how his species destroyed itself. | 1948-03-29 |
44 | I Always Marry Juliet | An actor in need of work tells of marrying women who played Juliet to his Romeo. | 1948-04-05 |
45 | 12 to 5 | A DJ gets news from a half hour in the future. | 1948-04-12 |
46 | Clarissa | Old man and daughter live in an ancient house. | 1948-04-19 |
47 | Thirteen And Eight | A man sees someone who no one else can see. | 1948-04-26 |
48 | How Beautiful Upon the Mountain | Climbers see Everest first as a goddess, then as a bride. | 1948-05-03 |
49 | There Are Shadows Here | A woman who no one ever sees seeks Woody. | 1948-05-10 |
50 | Gem of Purest Ray | A murderer says the people he killed were from Atlantis. | 1948-05-17 |
51 | In The House Where I Was Born | Memories of the house, war, people. Memorial Day program. | 1948-05-24 |
52 | Below 5th Avenue | Discover the unbelievable truth behind road construction. | 1948-05-31 |
53 | One Hundred Thousand Diameters | Microscopic life forms are enlarged to a human scale. | 1948-06-07 |
54 | Not Responsible After Thirty Years | Man tells why he stole his watch back from a skeleton. | 1948-06-14 |
55 | Let the Lilies Consider | A man's wife is jealous of how much the flowers love him. | 1948-06-28 |
56 | Vahine Tahiti | A version of Mutiny on the Bounty. | 1948-07-05 |
57 | As Long As I Live | A man finds that his wife has the "evil eye." | 1948-07-19 |
58 | The Man Who Stole a Planet | Archeologist finds the Earth in an ancient Myan pyramid. | 1948-07-26 |
59 | It's Later Than You Think | Soldier's watch can change time within 12 hour period. | 1948-08-02 |
60 | The Thing on the Fourble Board | An invisible creature escapes from deep within the Earth. | 1948-08-09 |
61 | Presto Change-O, I'm Sure | Someone learns how to make things disappear. | 1948-08-16 |
62 | Three Thousand Words | A dwarf, a ventriloquist and wife, and their exploits and infighting. | 1948-08-23 |
63 | Motive | A tale of a broken marriage in NYC. | 1948-08-30 |
64 | The Third Man's Story | A long dead man tells how his jealousy of his brother brought suffering to the world. | 1948-09-06 |
65 | Symphony in D Minor | Series theme music is used by a hypnotist. | 1948-09-13 |
66 | Anonymous | A politician gets a call from a lady saying she hopes he drops dead. | 1948-09-19 |
67 | Light the Lamp for Me | An old lamp allows time travel. | 1948-09-26 |
68 | Meet John Smith, John | Two John Smiths live parallel lives 10 years apart. | 1948-10-03 |
69 | Beezer's Cellar | Criminals plan to store stolen money in a supposedly haunted cellar. | 1948-10-10 |
70 | And Jeannie Dreams of Me | Dreams of a perfect woman alternate with a more painful reality. | 1948-10-17 |
71 | Good Ghost | A ghost tries to help the person who murdered him. | 1948-10-24 |
72 | Calling All Souls | An innocent man condemned to death pleads for help from the murdered. | 1948-10-31 |
73 | Adam and the Darkest Day | A nuclear disaster kills all but three people. | 1948-11-07 |
74 | The Evening and the Morning | A man kills the woman he loves, for an unusual reason. | 1948-11-14 |
75 | One For the Book | A pilot flies so fast that he ends up before he started. | 1948-11-21 |
76 | My Son, John | A man calls his dead son back to him. | 1948-11-28 |
77 | Very Unimportant Person | The world comes to an end. | 1948-12-05 |
78 | Rede Me This Riddle | Three kings meet far from home. | 1948-12-12 |
79 | The Gothic Tale | A supernatural love story on the California coast. | 1948-12-19 |
80 | Berlin, 1945 | Repeat of 12/22/1947. Christmas story. | 1948-12-26 |
81 | The Time of the Big Snow | Kids become lost in a snow storm. | 1949-01-02 |
82 | Portrait of a Character | Observations of people who lead immoral lives. | 1949-01-09 |
83 | Is This Murder? | Man who's made a mechanical body looks for a brain that won't be evil. | 1949-01-16 |
84 | Summer Goodbye | Man and wife escaping police notice that all the hitchhikers by the road look identical. | 1949-01-23 |
85 | Northern Lights | Caterpillars and the aurora team up to conquer the world. | 1949-01-30 |
86 | Tap the Heat, Bogdan | A steel worker tells how he murdered a man. | 1949-02-06 |
87 | Valentine | Young lovers seperated for months are reunited the day before Valentine's Day. | 1949-02-13 |
88 | Where Do You Get Your Ideas? | A drunk asks Wyllis Cooper where he gets his ideas. | 1949-02-20 |
89 | If I Should Wake Before I Die | A scientist fails to see the harm his work is doing. | 1949-02-27 |
90 | The Man Who Knew Everything | A man who knows everything explains that you're in danger. | 1949-03-06 |
91 | Dark Rosaleen | After the death of his love, a man is taken to a strange place. | 1949-03-13 |
92 | The Smell of High Wines | The smell of high wines takes on predictive importance. | 1949-03-20 |
93 | A Time to be Born and a Time to Die | A life, full of mistakes and missed oppurtunities, is lived. | 1949-03-27 |
94 | The Venetian Blind Man | The man who knew everything returns. | 1949-04-03 |
95 | Dialogue For a Tragedy | A man sits in a room talking to the person who is pointing a gun at his head. | 1949-04-10 |
96 | Shadow of the Wings | Death tells stories to a little girl who is ill. | 1949-04-17 |
97 | The Vale of Glencoe | A Scottish story in Southern California. | 1949-04-24 |
98 | Dark Gray Magic | A demon tries to teach a man how to be evil. | 1949-05-01 |
99 | The Other Side of the Stars | Aliens from Alpha Centauri. Continues thoughts from Nothing Behind the Door. | 1949-05-08 |
100 | The Little Morning | A hitchhiker tells of how he's going to see dead fiance. | 1949-05-15 |
101 | The Oldest Man in the World | A husband and wife and friend seek shelter in an ancient cave. | 1949-05-22 |
102 | In the House Where I Was Born | Repeat of 5/24/1948. | 1949-05-28 |
103 | Tanglefoot | Giant flies. | 1949-06-04 |
104 | The Hat, the Bed, and John J. Catherine | A failed actor gets drunk and dreams of a dark room. | 1949-06-11 |
105 | Pavane | Repeat of 10/20/1947, with new title. | 1949-06-18 |
106 | Quiet, Please | Repeat of 3/29/1948 | 1949-06-25 |
Quiet Please in the 21st century — new episodes created for this website.
# | Title | Summary | Aired |
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107 | The Room Where the Stars Live | Aliens invade, but nobody notices. Sequel to The Other Side of the Stars. | 2021-01-16 |
108 | Mail Call | A dead man receives an unusual amount of mail. | 2021-01-24 |
109 | Fire and Shadow | An eclectic group gathers around a fireplace during a storm. | 2021-02-22 |
110 | The Future of History | A time machine from the past may end the future. | 2021-06-30 |
111 | Transit | A homeless man tells the story of a strange group of people in a metal box. | 2021-07-24 |
112 | Final Rehearsal | The rehearsal for "The Hat, the Bed, and John J. Catherine" goes poorly. | 2021-07-24 |
113 | The Living Death | A moment in the life of a man facing death. | 2021-12-04 |
114 | The Swap | The offer is a million dollars and the body you always wanted. Where's the catch? | 2022-02-21 |
115 | Interviews in the Afterlife | A reporter interviews God and the devil. | 2022-04-29 |
116 | The Man Who Doesn't Know Everything | The man who knew everything returns to face a new challenge. | 2022-05-11 |