The Mysterious Traveler - "They Who Sleep" (01-06-45)

They Who Sleep (Aired January 6, 1945)

The Mysterious Traveler spawned several similar thriller genre programs such as The Strange Dr. Wierd (1945), The Sealed Book (1945), Dark Venture (1946), Murder By Experts (1949), and The Teller of Tales (1950). The thriller genre was not new to Radio in the 1940s. The Witch's Tale had aired from 1931 to 1938 over The Mutual Broadcasting System and WOR. CBS had tried--and failed at--their own The Witching Hour for three months in 1932. Oklahoma Radio station WKY had successfully aired their own Dark Fantasy (1941) anthology of thrillers, which was immediately picked up by NBC for a national run. But clearly, The Mutual system and WOR appear to have acquired the inside track for the thriller genre for almost two decades during The Golden Age of Radio.

THIS EPISODE:
 
January 6, 1945. Program #55. Mutual network. "They Who Sleep". Sustaining. How to transfer one man's soul into another man's body: your sister Rose is dead? Maurice Tarplin (as "The Traveler"), Henry Sylvern (organist), Phillip Clarke, Gertrude Warner, Jock MacGregor (director), Helen Claire, Robert A. Arthur (writer), David Kogan (writer). 27:08. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.