Old Time Radio Dramas

Dark Fantasy was an American old-time radio show featuring horror and suspense stories. It had a short run of 31 episodes, debuting on November 14, 1941 and ending on June 19, 1942. Its writer was Scott Bishop, also known for his work on The Mysterious Traveler. It originated from station WKY in Oklahoma City, and was heard Friday nights on NBC stations. The stories were quite imaginative for their day but evidently failed to find an appreciative audience.

1 – The Man Who Came Back  aired 11/14/41
3 – The Thing from the Sea aired 11/28/41
4 – The Demon Tree aired 12/5/41
5 – Men Call Me Mad aired 12/19/41

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Old Time Radio Dramas

The Strange Dr. Weird is a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945.

Sponsored by Adams Hats, the drama is notable in part because it was a sister series to The Mysterious Travel, both in theme and its narrator.   Maurice Tarplin, who was also the creepy voice of The Mysterious Traveler. Many of the scripts were condensed 15-minute versions of scripts originally broadcast on.

To the accompaniment of an organ’s spooky strains, Tarplin introduced each episode:

Good evening. Come in, won’t you? Why, what’s the matter? You seem a bit nervous. Perhaps the cemetery outside this house has upset you. But there are things far worse than cemeteries. For instance…

The closing line never changed:

Perhaps you’ll drop in on me again soon. I’m always home. Just look for the house on the other side of the cemetery… the house of Dr Weird!

Play List

1) The House Where Death Lives

Aired 44-11-07

2) Summoning of Chandor – A mystic has the power to summon the dead.

Aired 44-11-14

3) Journey into the Unknown – A mad scientist is accidentally turned into an ape.

Aired 44-11-21

4) Murder Comes Home

Aired 44-11-28

Old Time Radio Dramas

Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story.

Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, however, radio drama lost some of its popularity, and in some countries, has never regained large audiences.

However, recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors and museums.

Listen to such favorites as Inner Sanctum, The Creaking Door, Lights Out, Quiet Please, and many more.

All shows are available under Public Domain