Dark Fantasy - "Debt Of The Past" (01-16-42)

Debt Of The Past (Aired January 16, 1942)

WKY, Oklahoma City had been a highly respected and equally highly sophisticated Radio operator for over eight years by the time this series first aired, so it was no great leap for NBC to take the gamble in taking the series nationwide. NBC-Red and it's flagship station, WEAF, indeed began airing Dark Fantasy in New York simultaneously with the broadcasts airing out of WKY, Oklahoma City. WKY's talented writer, Scott Bishop, was responsible for all of the scripts. Indeed, the scripts were so chilling that both WKY and NBC felt obliged to air the program well after 1940s children had fallen soundly asleep. NBC-Red picked up Scott Bishop's Dark Fantasy series, from November 21, 1941 forward. In 1943, NBC sustained Bishop's Strange Dr. Karnac series. Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group.

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January 16, 1942. Program #9. NBC network, WKY, Oklahoma City origination. "Debt Of The Past". Sustaining."A strange and weird adventure, laid in modern America with the flavor of the nineteenth century. The story of a businessman who was almost too honest, who found a method of paying a long-standing debt of honor, although thirty years in his grave." Scott Bishop (writer), Tom Paxton (announcer), Jane Wyatt (guest), Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Corin, Muir Hite. 27:17. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.