Click on a title to read one of the short story adaptations.
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| Clarissa | Old man and daughter live in an ancient house. |
| In The House Where I Was Born | Memories of the house, war, people. Memorial Day program. |
| Valentine | Young lovers seperated for months are reunited the day before Valentine's Day. |
| Dark Rosaleen | After the death of his love, a man is taken to a strange place. |
| The Room Where the Stars Live | Aliens invade, but nobody notices. Sequel to The Other Side of the Stars. |
| The Living Death | A moment in the life of a man facing death. |
| The Swap | The offer is a million dollars and the body you always wanted. Where's the catch? |
Click on an episode's title to read the script. Only episodes that have scripts available are listed here.
| # | Title | Summary | Aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 55 | Let the Lilies Consider | A man's wife is jealous of how much the flowers love him. | 1948-06-28 |
| 58 | The Man Who Stole a Planet | Archeologist finds the Earth in an ancient Myan pyramid. | 1948-07-26 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 99 | The Other Side of the Stars | Aliens from Alpha Centauri. Continues thoughts from Nothing Behind the Door. | 1949-05-08 |
| 102 | In the House Where I Was Born | Repeat of 5/24/1948. | 1949-05-28 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |