Old Time radio

[likethebeer]

Father Knows Best "A French Teacher" 12/07/50

Father keeps getting stuck reading out a mathematical word problem & has repeated it about 23 times. He gets annoyed at his children b/c he says they're driving him crazy... the repetition of this same tired joke is driving me crazy.

Well, and their oldest daughter, Betty, has a huge crush on her high school French teacher. Only Father doesn't realize the man she has a crush on is the teacher. So he has invited him over for dinner.

I didn't realize that Father fought in the War (although I really should have realized that). And he was stationed in Europe & did a pretty good picking up French. And it's just Old Time Radio but I'm happy to know I can understand the (poor) French being attempted by Betty. Her teacher is 35 and, "he's old enough to be your father!" Betty's 17. Things moved fast in the old times.

CBS Radio Workshop: "The Day the Roof Fell In" 12/02/56

Pete's a do-it-yourself kind of guy. I think he's trying to work on his house. I know too much: I know pretty much everything he's talking about.... I've been in my job for a heck of a long time I can say that much.

Part of the problem, we're told, is that people don't have enough things to do because life is too easy.

Philip Marlowe: "The Kid on the Corner" 12/03/49

"I call anybody 'baby' when they're as cute as you."

"Carol's not dead," Marlowe says to the old-lady-neighbor who doesn't like Carol.
Deadpan: "Well... I'm glad to hear it," she replies.
"Yeah, I can hear that."

Escape "This Side of Nowhere" 12/03/50

Oldest story in the Old Time Radio

Pilot to his (former) female passenger after they've spent about 4 days together:
"Just you and me."
"You sure about that?"
"Don't you... know that by now?"

Oh boy: the male & female protagonists are stuck in a village in South America with creepy people who have stolen a suitcase with close to a million dollars off of the female and are looking to steal her ring.

Then they went into the desert, she got bitten by a snake, died; and he luckily got picked up several days later and made it out. So ends Escape. And I was just thinking there wasn't a lot of turmoil in this episode, right before all that "plane crashing in the Latin American jungle & they were picked up by the iffy villagers & walking into the desert" came on.

Lights Out: "The Scoop" 12/08/42

Looks like another jerky boss is going to get his comeuppance. And it seems to involve a dead man and a mausoleum.

yup - the man who killed himself in the very beginning of the episode, because he'd been unceremoniously fired from a job he loved - came back from the dead to kill the boss. Ooh - & the boss has stuck himself into a crypt trying to hide. Suffocation by dying in a crypt is about the most unpleasant thing to imagine (well, that & drowning). The next day, the folks at the newspaper get a note that the boss killed the night before through suffocation in the family crypt. The note was written on human skin & in the handwriting of the man who killed himself.

Comments

Creepy

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

Interesting assortment of creepy tales...

Re: Creepy

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Lights Out was suitably creepy. Not enough to interrupt my sleep, I'm happy to say.