Macabre - "Weekend" (11-20-61)

Weekend (Aired November 20, 1961)

INTRO: Bob Plays Bobby Caldwell "Heart Of Mine" (1989)

The series arose out of an improptu competition between The Far East Network and The Armed Forces Network-Germany. Both networks sent 15 ips audition tapes to the AFRTS Headquarters in Los Angeles and FEN Tokyo won the 'competition'. The AFRTS transcribed and distributed the Macabre series on October 4, 1961-- a month before FEN Tokyo recorded a ninth episode of Macabre for Christmas Day, titled Of Frankincense and Myrrh. FEN Launches Macabre on the lucky 13th of November 1961. Launched, appropriately enough on the 13th of November, 1961, the series ran for nine weeks, including a special Christmas Day broadcast, "Of Frankincense and Myrrh," and ending on January 8, 1962 with "Edge of Evil." Note that in the article in the 'Provenances' sidebar below mentions a run of eight weeks. That's apparently the tenuous provenance upon which most of the misinformation about the true run of Macabre has been based for the past forty years. Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group and The Digital Deli.

THIS EPISODE:

November 20, 1961. Program #2. AFRTS-FEN origination. "Weekend". A weekend on a mysterious island with a mad doctor who is experimenting with a deadly drug. John Buey, Walt Sheldon, Bob Eddy, Hiroshi Ono (technical supervisor), Shirley Ashey, William Verdier, Milton Radmilovich, Al Lepage (announcer). 27:14. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.