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bbra	Scary Episode of The Shadow	Lead	[-]
Jun 8 12 1:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	From my perspective, radio shows are rarely scary. I enjoy them, but scared? Hardly. There's one exception that sticks in my mind, years after I heard the show on the radio. It was an episode of The Shadow, called, I believe, The Gibbering Things. It involved Lamont Cranston being trapped in a locked chamber filled with creatures that make insane sounds and rend their victims to bits. Gibbering is a very good description of the noise they made. I don't know if the episode is available out there on one of the OTR sites, but give it a listen if you find it.
The Batman of Gotham		#1	[-]
Jun 8 12 3:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Check it out: http://retro-otr.com/2010/09/the-shadow-430926-the-gibbering-thing/ - GJS
bbra		#2	[-]
Jun 29 12 12:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thank you for the link. Great source. And, No! They're not monkeys!
Green Hornet.movieserialmess...		#3	[-]
Aug 2 12 10:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I found the episode called THE CREEPER to be pretty scary too. I listened to it late at night when I was trying to sleep (having something playing in the background helps me sleep. I have no idea why). Bad decision. I didn't get too much sleep that night!
LCranston		#4	[-]
Aug 24 12 5:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Can anyone shed light on why, out of 600+ episodes that were made, over 400 are "lost?" How could such a huge amount disappear like this? So many other long-running shows - SUSPENSE, JACK BENNY, SUPERMAN, LONE RANGER - have the majority of their episodes in circulation. I have yet to hear all the existing ones, but I still don't understand how many are MIA. Deep water is dark and restful and full of peace.
Green Hornet.movieserialmess...		#5	[-]
Aug 24 12 8:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Radio transcription discs are fragile, and many ended up smashed. Many were also just thrown out at a point, just like silent films. The people involved saw no commercial future for them, so they just junked 'em.
Wich2		#6	[-]
Aug 24 12 9:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Depending on the series, sometimes transcriptions were not even made. And sometimes if they were, only the sponsor got copies - and they may still molder in some closet, if not pitched to make room.
LCranston		#7	[-]
Aug 28 12 12:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	But I still find this amazing - HUNDREDS of shows are missing. In other series there will be scattered episodes, or sometimes a one-season show was never saved to begin with. I just can't think of another decades-long show that has so many years that haven't been found. Deep water is dark and restful and full of peace.
Green Hornet.movieserialmess...		#8	[-]
Aug 28 12 1:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	How about the GREEN HORNET radio show? It ran for a similar length of time, and even fewer of the shows survive. (About 160 shows, vs. the 250 or so SHADOW shows that still survive.) It's really a game of chance as far as what survives and what doesn't. Just depends on what gets found.
LCranston		#9	[-]
Aug 29 12 1:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wow, I didn't know that (haven't added GH to my listening rotation yet - should get around to that). The thing is, even if someone handed me every single episode, there's little chance of me listening to them all - if I was alive at the time I probably wouldn't have listened to 25 years straight. But I guess it's just the idea of them being lost bugs me. Deep water is dark and restful and full of peace.
The Batman of Gotham		#10	[-]
Aug 29 12 2:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Deep water is dark and restful and full of peace..." - GJS
Green Hornet.movieserialmess...		#11	[-]
Aug 29 12 2:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	LCranston wrote: The thing is, even if someone handed me every single episode, there's little chance of me listening to them all. But I guess it's just the idea of them being lost bugs me. I know what you mean. I may not want to listen to every episode of The Shadow (I haven't even listened to all the ones I have), but the idea of not being able to...
Wich2		#12	[-]
Aug 29 12 8:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gents, in the case of many of these episodes, there are much better uses of a half hour's time.
LCranston		#13	[-]
Aug 30 12 1:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wich2 wrote: Gents, in the case of many of these episodes, there are much better uses of a half hour's time. Only in hindsight. I wouldn't have known how much I liked ESCAPE'S "Three Skeleton Key" or QUIET PLEASE'S "Thing on the Fourble Board," or many episodes of JACK BENNY, GREAT GILDERSLEEVE or SUSPENSE unless I took a chance. I have a job that sometimes requires a bit of computer tedium. I listen to OTR during these stretches, as I sometimes do when I have to prune a tree or clean out the car. If we all could know for sure what would be a stinker ahead of time, I would never have gone to see PROMETHEUS - how many OTRs could I have listened to in that time! Deep water is dark and restful and full of peace.
Wich2		#14	[-]
Aug 30 12 2:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, sure that's true! No one has to convince this guy how good radio drama is, believe me. But when you hear enough, you find that it was JUST like TV: 5% great, 10% good, 55% "eh", and 30% sh*t.
Green Hornet.movieserialmess...		#15	[-]
Aug 30 12 3:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That is correct. But there are some series that are pretty much idiot proof. HALL OF FANTASY comes to mind, along with the Orson Welles SHADOW episodes. The other Shadows, with the exception of the first year's worth of Bill Johnstone episodes, I could take or leave. Also I have yet to hear a bad GREEN HORNET.
Wich2		#16	[-]
Aug 30 12 6:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My "Idiot Proof" list would contain things like: - The Mercury Theater on the Air/ Campbell Playhouse - Suspense - Quiet, Please - Gunsmoke - Dragnet - Fort Laramie Of the semi-juvenile adventures series, my faves (which is not the same thing as saying, "they're all gold" -The Lone Ranger - Superman I find the (largely later Mercury!) cast of the Welles Shadow to be better than later; but some of the scripts are every bit as goony, and Orson does pretty silly work as Lamont (hey, the man often hadn't even touched the script until airtime!) -Craig

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