Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Unexpected "2 Episodes" From 1948

"Horoscope" (Aired June 13, 1948) and "Eavesdropper" (Aired June 20, 1948


The fifteen minute format lends itself to quickly drawn weird stories, with a twist ending, so that the listener gets a sudden shock, like all good scary tales should deliver. The trick is to make the "unexpected" something the listen doesn't expect. Excellent actors like Barry Sullivan, Lurene Tuttle and Virginia Gregg, who played Helen Asher in The Adventures of Richard Diamond, make the quickie a little less abrupt. Director Frank Danzig kept the show, for the most part, on the highroad to thrilling, like Suspense, Lights Out, or Quiet Please that came before The Unexpected.

TWO EPISODES:

June 13, 1948. Program #109. Hamilton Whitney syndication. "Horoscope". Music fill for local commercial insert. The horoscope of a woman shows that she's destined to commit murder. The date is approximate. Frank Burt (writer), Frank Danzig (director), Marjorie Riordan, Robert Libbott (writer). 15:19.

June 20, 1948. Program #110. Hamilton Whitney syndication. "Eavesdropper". Music fill for local commercial insert. An American is involved in a planned revolution is El Hondas. The date is approximate. Barry Sullivan, Frank Burt (writer), Frank Danzig (director), Robert Libbott (writer). 15:03.

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