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narfstar:
Nice thing about OTR is that most of it is PD and readily available free. My son was young when he got hooked on the Whistler and it remains his favorite. Since most of the single episode mysteries were similar the Whistler must have had some of the best writers. Most or all shows you knew who the guilty person was from the start but wondered how they would get caught.

josemas:

--- Quote from: narfstar on October 12, 2011, 01:37:15 PM ---Nice thing about OTR is that most of it is PD and readily available free. My son was young when he got hooked on the Whistler and it remains his favorite. Since most of the single episode mysteries were similar the Whistler must have had some of the best writers. Most or all shows you knew who the guilty person was from the start but wondered how they would get caught.

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I was reading a little about The Strange Dr. Weird after listening to that episode this morning and found out that it was something of a companion show to The Whistler and sometimes recycled scripts from The Whistler (albeit edited down from 30 minutes to fit the 15 minute format of the Dr. Weird show).

Best

Joe

Yoc:

--- Quote from: josemas on October 12, 2011, 06:54:27 AM ---Shows like Suspense, The Whistler, Quiet Please, Inner Sanctum, Weird Circle, The Witch's Tale, Creeps By Night, Lights Out, The Sealed Book, The Creaking Door, and this morning The Strange Dr. Weird.

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Ah yes, I've got a nice collection of most of these shows as well.  Quiet Please is hard to collect as they don't name the stories or anything and some were reused later in the run.  We should remember that EC horrors were very influenced by these OTR shows like The Witch's Tale.  When I first started listening to them I kept thinking 'wow, that was so much like an EC!'  :)

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