Back in the late 70s I use to lay in my room at my parents house and listen to this program every Friday night I loved it. Now my folks are gone and the house is now mine and I’m back in the same room listening again. I’m 63 years old and I truly love the nostalgia of it all.
I'm 54 only competition was the Dodgers and Ram games when were hunting central Nevada 70-90 s radio was still only contact to outside world when were in the mountains good entertainment for young and older alike nice 👍 throwback in time Mama and Papa been gone made for good memories always...
The past can be a very comfortable place to be, we know it is safe. I’m 72 and feel like most of the others who have written here. I’m the oldest of eight, and had to get a part-time job when I was 14, worked after school for 30 hrs/wk. I feel like I grew up in a golden age. Wish I could go back just for a few hours………it was wonderful.
My father was the oldest of eight and grew up through the depression. Like you, he was working at a very young age to help support the family. God bless you my friend. Have a great day and a wonderful life.
@@patrickoneill8707 Thank you so much, and very kind of you ! Though I’ve had my share of hard things in life, that is part of life. I have so many wonderful memories growing up in a large family, and it is those that help shore up any of those that fell a little short. There were times I had wished I wasn’t the oldest, but it didn’t take me long to see it was a better position!! However, there was a lot that fell on the shoulders of the “oldest” child, and I’m sure your father felt that too. However, I feel I was better prepared to make it through tougher times because I had already learned many coping skills and had become a more self-sufficient person. You and I were shown by example and guided by the love of our elders. Like most others back then, we experienced “rights of passage” that helped us understand our path to maturity, ensuring a better and richer outcome for all, and taught us how to deal with our responsibilities in life. With these skills, we were better prepared to cope with the harsher realities of life. I feel very badly for the many generations since your father’s, yours and mine that seem unable to grasp certain social and practical skills in life, and lack the ability of knowing how to live a well fulfilled and enjoyable daily life. But I really believe that a lot of that is because we no longer have “rights of passage” - they really are a missing link in the lives of everyone today. I could go on, but I won’t trouble you with that ! Thank you so much for your reply - a little thing perhaps, but you really made my day 🙏🫠 P.S. Robert Heinlein believed heavily in these rights passage - and seems to have expressed his characters knowing about them and talking about them. ☺
@@patrickoneill8707 Thank you, and the same to you ! Unfortunately, the world and how we live in it has changed so much in what seems such a short time. We don’t have “rights of passage” anymore. Earlier generations grew up with that: your father’s generation, mine, and sounds like you may have experienced it from your father, as well. It is something that gave us an understanding of how to act towards others, learning what our responsibilities in life were and how to handle them. Those of us who did have it learned through specific social engagement with others, such as boy and Girl Scouts, after school clubs, that sort of thing. Parents took an interest in their children, and wanted them to learn how to interact with others, but its importance was greater. Doing so through group activities taught us how to deal with life socially. Young boys and girls felt included, and slowly learned how to deal with everyday things in life, growing our ability to handle situations. We learned how to cope, how to put things into perspective. That doesn’t happen enough anymore. Anyway, that’s my take ! I have noticed that I am hearing more and more from people out of the blue, having read my responses somewhere, and contacting me very much like you, talking about similar things - because of my age group, I think, and that is lovely! It’s nice to know older people still can be interesting ! I am now 74, and as an example, this is how I choose to use my time. I garden hard, 4-5 hrs every day. I grow most of our vegetables, and herbs, for the two of us. I’ve planted potatoes which should give us about 100#, carrots, onions, lettuces, tomatoes I will can, herbs I will dry for the winter, garlic leeks, etc. That is all container gardening. My husband built me a “dirt box” that holds 500# of soil. Every year I use that much soil and at the end of season I remove it all from the containers and return it to the box. We have about a third of an acre our house sits on. My hyped and has back problems, so I do all the garden and yard work. I laid 40 bags of mulch so far this year, and because we have so much clay in the soil I plant in containers. But we have been here 25 years, and I have planted trees, lilac bushes, hydrangeas, etc. To do so meant digging up the clay. In one three hour weekend day I dug up 486 pounds of clay. I know because it had to be taken to a special place and they weigh it to charge you. I’m only telling you these things because I feel that if I hadn’t grown up in the period I did, I wouldn’t be enjoying my life so much now. I cook all our food from scratch, make soups for the freezer, still make our bread and desserts, and I still read my paper books. I only spend a short time on the internet, and I don’t Facebook or anything else on it. Nothing is perfect though. I’ve had cancer three times : breast, kidney and skin cancer. But I’m still here - I have a zest for life - for me there aren’t enough hours in the day! My husband is building us a library for our over 450 books, using one of our bedrooms. I have been married for 42 years to my soulmate, and am hoping I get to spend more with him. It isn’t easy, all the work, but it gives me so much enjoyment and it really pleases my husband. In my early years I worked in a hospital as a nurse. I still try to help others. That’s because of “rights of passage” - that’s how important they are! Sorry to write so much, but thank you for replying, and hope you have a wonderful rest of your life ! I just know your father is proud of you, wherever he is !! 🙏❤🫠☺
@@patrickoneill8707 ( Sorry for adding this, I just thought it might provide more clarification). Though by the age of eight, I was put more in charge of helping my two sisters and one brother by that time, with four more to come, I did realize I went from a child to a secondary mother. Nevertheless, I was happy to accept that responsibility from my parents, because the “rights of passage” I went through helped me understand my role in the social context of life skills and their importance in society. It indicated to me that my place in the family was secured, and they were proud of me. I was only too happy to help out, and I felt more at ease in the role I was cast into. Thank you again for your comment !🙏🫠 I wish you the peace we often find as we grow older, and lose our parents - especially if we lived a very lovey relationship with our parents, and I did ! Enjoy the rest of your life in a way most reflective of who you are and what you enjoy. You may surprise yourself !🙏🫠
I'm 66 on the 24th December and I miss those days of gentle times. I have a 40 yo son and I've told him all about it because I wanted him to know it wasn't like today.
When I was in elementary school in the 70s my Dad would tune this in on the am radio it was always scary to hear the opening of the creaking door. These cool old radio programs bring back so many memories. Thank You for bringing them back
This program debuted on my 10th birthday. Like you, my dad tuned in on our transistor radio and I listened with him in my brother. Great memories to be sure. And you are right about that creaking door!
I’m wow Eleven as of yesterday! And I have been subscribed to ChillySunshine for years! I love EVERYTHING about the 70s and watch nothing but MeTV. The music was wonderful, the people were happy, and life was just great! Sometimes I just get ecstatic listening to E.G Marshal’s stories. Thank you for blessing us, ChillySunshine!
@@beckygarcia4416 I wish I had known about them in the 70s and 80s or even the sixties when I was a child! I think I could have learned quite a bit from them not to mention being entertained.
I listened on WHAM 1180 am out of Rochester, New York! The show came on at 10 PM - I had to turn the volume down, so as not to disturb my parents or older sister. I didn't have a transistor radio (with an earphone), so I listened on an old Zenith table radio. To this day, I love radio drama! My father was a child of the Depression, and back then the radio was people's primary source of news and entertainment. Kudos to the people who have digitized these radio shows and preserved them for future generations to enjoy!
When I was in high school in the 70s, my friends and I would drive around at night in the rain and listen to these shows and sometimes we would go into the very old cemetery and our imaginations would go wild! Thank you!
My friends and I would love those rainy nights and set in the room with a Coleman lantern(battery) and listen to spooky stories as the rain made the background! lots of fun!
Quantum Bob It costs too damned much! And the cost goes up all the time. I’ve got DVD’s of my favorite movies and I can find more things that I like on UA-cam! Merry 🎄 Christmas!!
It's amazing to hear E.G. speculate on how the 2000's would possibly be back then, when we are listening to this program while we are actually living in the 21st century.
@@wowzers0_070 EG Marshall might be dismayed about events if you were still alive but I think he's seen more whores than what's been going on lately. He would have survived both World War I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Great Depression. If you look back in history you will see that every generation has the horrific times. It is when you are living in the times, that it seems worse. 😊
Back 1976/77 when I would drive from southern Michigan to the upper penninsula about every other weekend for almost a year an a half I would listen to this. It sure ate up the miles. Too bad CBS still doesn't do this.
I still love The Waltons and Mayberry RFD all those good old shows. Also found in Chicago Pacific Garden mission. They play Unshackled true life stories. I think you would enjoy it
he quoted from the King James Bible. Dr. Gene Kim talks about Genesis and Giants on the Earth and what's in the center of the Earth. Only this is all true.
producers of this got a message across and every single program. There's always a part of the truth that they tell. Somebody knew something about what was actually going on with the world. It might have been the first conspiracy theory people. You know certain things you can't just say. Like the Beatles had a message through their music. The producer of this episode has been dead but a lot of what he is saying is going on. Why is that? There's a video out called the deeps. Very interesting kind of scary
Holy crap... I've been trying to find this forever! My brother and I used to listen to this back in the 70s but I could not remember the name of the program. Once I heard that theme I recognized it immediately!!!
I remember being a little girl, probably age 10, in 1976, or 77 in Philadelphia, pa, and my dad putting these on the radio in my room at night when I would go to bed. I'll forever be attached to these wonderful memories. There is nothing on TV these days that compares to these great stories.
When I was in the United States Marine Corps I would listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the way home for the weekend.... from Camp LeJeune North Carolina to Charleston, West Virginia, back Sep75 to Oct77
@@patrickoneill8707 I made my post on this three years ago and at the time, my dad was sick and getting worse rapidly. One of last great tributes to him was putting these stories on at night wirh my tablet and bluetooth so he could sleep listening to them. Sadly, my dad passed this past December 26, 2023. His 85 th birthday is this Monday, August 5, 2024. Im tearing up typing this. I will forever be grateful for him. (Yes we are probably the same age - Im a 1966r but will be 35 again in December).🤫
I remember being a kid in the 70s Hiding a little Radio under my pillow listing to Mystery. Im so happy i can listen to them now thank u so much for sharing with all of us.
I was 13 when this first aired. My parents loved going for rides in the car. We used to listen to shows like this on the radio. I sure miss those rides.
This used to air at 11:00 p.m. in my city. I listened on a clock radio every weeknight. The music and E.G. Marshall's voice bring back such good memories.
Himan Brown tryed to bring them back in 1999 and really did not have any luck. look him up on the web he was a very intresting man and the shows that he did.
Listening to radio requires imagination and an ability to connect to a story line. Video/TV does not. That is why TV won out and radio has devolved into what it is.
BBC Radio Four broadcasts radio plays every day and these can be listened to online. A lot of them are not much good in my opinion, and heavily influenced by PC culture, but there are still occasional gems to be found.
Just came across this. Love it. I’d stay up way past my bedtime to listen to these at my grandmas house. Like so many others, I too had a little pocket radio. Just a simple 5transistor am Realistic. But that’s all I needed. In St.Louis, it was KMOX, 1120. Listened for years. Thanks for posting this. 📻👍🙂‼️
Thank you for posting these. When I was a little girl my grandmother and I used to listen to these when I stayed with her. She would put a little transistor am radio under her pillow and we would go to sleep listening to these stories. Thank you for a wonderful piece of comfort from my childhood!
I did the same thing in Boarding school. My Dad (Who is now 83 (2018) used to buy Cassetes Tapes with shoes on them at one time he had hundreds of them, I found Digital copies of them all over the workld and now have about 7000 hours of shows. at one time there was a server at nasa that hosted all of the CBSRMT Shows. and everyoine started to get all the shows/ it is sad that there are no 100% good copy's opf all the old shows. (I have all the shows on 10 DVD's (Mp4) that i bought many years ago.
Cool memory. I too, used to listen at my grandma’s house. I had a little pocket radio (like most kids back then). I would stay up listening to it until the end. Loved them.
When I was stationed at Camp LeJeune North Carolina I would listen to these great radio shows on the way home for the weekend to Charleston, West Virginia.That was back in Sep75 to Oct77. I usually picked up WCHS radio station around Bluefield, West Virginia when I would get on the West Virginia Turnpike.
Back in high school in the 70s I made an AM radio from a radio shack kit. Had it on a stand next to my bed and would lay in bed listening to this show before I went to sleep. It was on from 10 to 11. My father began collecting old radio shows in the 70s and he recorded every one of these. Now I listen to this and all the old radio shows from the 40s and 50s whenever I am driving or working in my shop. I have turned into my father which is not a bad thing. Lots of great memories.
Cold, dark nights...time to pull the bedclothes over you with ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: ua-cam.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/v-deo.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on UA-cam.
That is an awesome memory. I love that you said you turned into your dad and that's not a bad thing My dad got us in a science mail order club and we received a different project every month. One time it was a radio project. I had to make a radio just like you did. These debuted on my 10th birthday January 6th 1974 and I listened to them all the way through the run when they finished on December 31, 982
@@Mina-ok5qm This reminded me of a long gone era. I mentioned listening to this on our families council stereo as I followed your suggestion to post on facebook. It was bigger than a loveseat and that was a big chunk of real estate in a home back then. Today? The same amount of stereo would fit on a coaster and some sandwich sized speakers.
@@Damaged262 My parents had a stereo like that too - a huge elegant claw-footed piece of wooden furniture about 6 ft long. Weighed about as much as a Volkswagen.
@@madmextupapa those radio broadcasts were incredibly descriptive. Radio had a hay day long before TV but sadly "video killed the radio star" as the song goes. They helped me pass long night hours creating images for my advertising classes in art school. Things were created by hand back then. Not so much today. Personally I think craftsmanship was better back in the day. Today its all about instant gratification. I'm glad I was born in 1960. Kids today have too many choices . Its mind boggling. Love from Arizona.
and the funny thing is my dads got me inot his in the laste 70's before CBSRMT there was X minus one and Dimensiuon X alot of old shows were produced and direct by the same person that did CBSRMT. does anyone know that name?
When I was 9 or 10, (1974), I was up late because my dad took me to a St. Louis Blues hockey game and in his car, he kept the radio tuned to KMOX, and this came on (around 11 pm) and I asked him what it was and he said, "Oh, they've started doing this. They're trying to show people what radio was like before television. It's kind of silly." But I was fascinated! After bedtime, I'd turn it on in my room on low volume and I listened faithfully for about 3 or 4 years. I remember often hearing the familiar voice of Fred Gwynne of TV's The Munsters. Mercedes McCainbridge was a very frequent guest voice. A few future stars, like Mandy Patinkin did them. This was the only scripted, acted Radio show in America after the 1950s and hardly anyone listened to it.
The music used for this program was stock music that was often used in television shows from the CBS network . I remember the first time I heard some of it on Perry Mason. I listened to this show 4 - 5 nights a week if I remember correctly..... a big part of my childhood..... great memories 😌
Back in the early 80's when my husband and I were on vacation in utah we would bed down in the van and listen to Mystery Theater. Fun times, fun times. No really they were.
Used to ride along with dad in his Rambler, taking my cousin back to 29 Palms Marine Base. We would listen to these shows. Back then life was so easy, being 10 years old.
I use to listen on the radio as a kid growing up in Houston. My uncles introduced my brother and I to the show. We would listen to the show during the summer months at our grandparents house. At home, we would have the radio on in our bedrooms; my room, my brother's room and my parent's room. The sound of the creaking door would resonate through in a dark settled home. It set the mood. Great memories. Rest in peace Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa.
There was also a short-lived radio series of Twilight Zone Radio Dramas ( c.2002) which was hosted by Stacy Keach, Jr. His & James father, Stacy, Sr. was one of the director's on Tales of the Texas Rangers.
@@terrymccoy8950 I have heard "Tales Of The Texas Rangers," starring Joel McCray om YESTERDAY USA on my computer, also "The Six Shooter," starring Jimmy Steward, The Alice Faye & Phil Harris show & many others.
Funny how E.G. mentions life in the 21st century in his opening. Saying how some will see it and "the rest of us" can only speculate about how different it will be. It's hard now to imagine life without all our toys and gadgets, and how much HAS changed since these shows aired.
taclas1 and he lived through quite a century. i was only around for the second half. there’s a lot to be missed, but much to enjoy now. it’s weird to live with a mind in two such different places. does that always happen to older people? mmm? :) ☃️
I remember when I had just come home for my first leave from the Corp I was trying to find something on TV and started listening 🎧 to something like this. Thank You So Very Much For Bringing This Back
Used to listen to these laying across the backseat in Mom and Dad's car on the way back home from visiting relatives. We went often and it was a long drive, so I've heard lots of these... but so long ago that they all are new again. Thanks ChillySunshine and.... pleasant....dreams?
Autoplay on. Charger in phone. Last joint smouldering in the ashtray, dog snuggled up behind my knees and the rain outside pattering down. perfect. Goodnight.
Captivating radio in the early 1970s. It was so much fun to listen to. Who needed tv when you had these most vivid stories by word. An art never better: radio !
Cold, dark nights...time to pull the bedclothes over you with ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: ua-cam.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/v-deo.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on UA-cam.
What's absolutely brilliant is all of "us" who listen to these terrific shows all have the 21st century trappings and here we all are listening to stories written 40+yrs ago, doesn't that say something about the longevity of these wonderful tales and sadly how little (sometimes) the stories of our time lack the thrill and impact of these historic and exciting stories!!! Of course there are great writers now but nothing like these thought provoking stories that never (in our opinion) grow old!! As a footnote I also listen to X minus 1, Suspense, The Whistler, Box 13, Johnny Dollar, Vincent Price-Fear and I may have missed a classic here oops Dragnet!!!! These shows if listened to by most kids of today they would dismiss them out of hand for X-box and the likes but it's not their fault as my 14 yr old daughter is sadly one of the said kids!!
How about.....THE SHADOW! and the Scarlet Pimpernel, and of course, Inner Sanctum, Ripley's Believe It or Not! Suspense, Escape, The Mysterious Traveler. But the number one all-time radio drama favorite (of mine) because by big brother set me up big time....Mercury Theater - War of the Worlds! 3o years after that broadcast, it still scared the crap out of me.
@@davidk4940 hi thanx for ur reply sorry I'm 3 months late but I only listened to the original broadcast of wotw with Orson Welles and ur right it's such a fantastic story but how Orson presented it as tho it were really happening is truly historic and just think how people reacted to it shit they must have thought it was the end of the world!!!
@@simonmcgrath4112 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast sparked fear, panic 80 years ago in America, Orlando By ROGER SIMMONS ORLANDO SENTINEL | OCT 30, 2018 AT 8:25 AM “Hysteria among radio listeners throughout the nation and actual panicky evacuations from sections of the New York metropolitan area resulted from a too-realistic radio broadcast last night describing a fictitious and devastating visitation of strange men from Mars,” the Associated Press reported. “Excited and weeping persons across all of the country swamped newspaper and police switchboards with the question: ‘It is true?’” www.orlandosentinel.com/features/gone-viral/os-ae-war-of-the-worlds-radio-anniversary-20181030-story.html
Me and my old crippled dad would go every night to pick up my mom at 11pm from her work at a nursing home. We loved listening to these stories and Paul Harvey's,,The rest of the story,, I was so young but we loved it, and i think i was the only 8 to 9 yr old to like elevator music. I still love em all today even though I'm the grand parent now. RIP daddy.
I love old time radio theatre / shows . They are captivating without moving pictures . Must have been great to come home , flip the radio on and listen to your fav shows 👍
I bought a 1934 Packard-Bell radio when I was a kid in 1974 from our lovely old neighbor lady for 3 bucks and used to listen to this radio show at night and pretend I was a kid in the 30's!
I would listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the way home from Camp LeJeune NC to Charleston, WEST Virginia; for the weekend, way back in Sep75 to Oct77. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant
I used to get in trouble in the 70's for sneaking a radio to bed and listening to this show under the covers. Cool to listen to E.G. Marshall and these chilling radio plays once again!
Many a lonely night I listened to each one of these stories while on guard duty. For at least one hour every night I was not bored to death. Never missed the broadcast. Was devastated when my radio station stopped broadcasting them.
What a throwback to my teens. My sister and I would lay in our beds listening to our radios in our rooms and would talk about the episodes the next day, especially the creepy ones.
Back in the late 70’s me and 4 best friends would ride around in the countryside on Saturday night listening to the shows and couldn’t wait til next weekend😁
This would come on at precisely 8:06 pm, and God help anyone who interfered with the radio or being all set in place when E.G. Marshall came on. Not one peep! If we were in the car when it happened to come on, everyone had to shut up and not talk over it (fortunately most everyone agreed), then once we got home, I’d wait for a commercial break to run into the house to catch the rest of it. Couldn’t miss a single second of it. RMT was a serious deal. Thanks for the upload:)
I used to be a janitor at an elementary school...I worked the swing shift and used to listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater while cleaning...it made the job more tolerable.
I LOVE ALL of these Stories. I grew up listening to radio.. and the scarry "Squeeking Door" later, I found the ones you are playing.. Now, later on in my life, I find them again.. Always so peaceful to listen to .
I got a transistor radio from my grandma for Christmas in the mid 1970s, when my mom and dad made me go to my bedroom upstairs I would turn it down low and listen to mystery theater every night they came on. Loved them, brings back memories.
I'm so happy I've found these. Houston 740am played these at 9pm. My father used to make me turn the lights off at 9 but I'd always sneak my radio under my cover hoping not to get caught. Those were great times and the golden years of America. I'm glad I grew up back then instead of now.
@@johnbrown1960 :) I think we were happier as kids in those days. Technology is wonderful and useful but it comes with some cost. Kids today are so stressed out keeping up with the Joneses.
My grandmother use to listen to radio at night it use to make her go to sleep. I could never understand as a kid . Now I do ! I use it all the time and without the commercials it’s just perfect. Thank you. 😊
I don't know of any US radio that does this type of thing anymore. I remember I used to lay in bed and fall asleep listening to the CBS radio mystery theater. There were some really fantastic stories. I don't know why they don't do these types of shows anymore....probably the cost. But...... Get the BBC app for your phone and then tune into BBC 4 extra. It features 24/7 of radio dramas.....history, SciFi, mystery, thrillers, horror, audio books, etc. The broadcasts are from 1950's upto present day
Chilly thanx for posting these old time radio shows. It’s Coronavirus quarantine time and literally my brain needs an escape. This offers up so much imagination, I have the best dreams after I listen. I don’t think u posted these thinking you’d be doing a public service...
"We drove ourselves from the garden when it was always possible to return, up until now. Now it looks as though we may have planted seeds in the dead soil of a lost world. A world that may have to go on, if it goes on, without us." Incredibly prophetic words.
There was a time when I was down and nearly out. CBS RMT broadcasts were my only source of entertainment. I always loved dramatic radio before, during, and after those trying times. Still my favorite form of entertainment.
Back in the late 70s I use to lay in my room at my parents house and listen to this program every Friday night I loved it. Now my folks are gone and the house is now mine and I’m back in the same room listening again. I’m 63 years old and I truly love the nostalgia of it all.
So glad you can enjoy these stories, it really is comforting
You don’t realise how fast time has flown by
I did the same thing and now at 64 I get to listen to them again.
I'm 54 only competition was the Dodgers and Ram games when were hunting central Nevada 70-90 s radio was still only contact to outside world when were in the mountains good entertainment for young and older alike nice 👍 throwback in time Mama and Papa been gone made for good memories always...
I'm 65 and have the same story. Where did our lives go?
The past can be a very comfortable place to be, we know it is safe. I’m 72 and feel like most of the others who have written here. I’m the oldest of eight, and had to get a part-time job when I was 14, worked after school for 30 hrs/wk. I feel like I grew up in a golden age. Wish I could go back just for a few hours………it was wonderful.
My father was the oldest of eight and grew up through the depression.
Like you, he was working at a very young age to help support the family.
God bless you my friend. Have a great day and a wonderful life.
@@patrickoneill8707 Thank you so much, and very kind of you ! Though I’ve had my share of hard things in life, that is part of life. I have so many wonderful memories growing up in a large family, and it is those that help shore up any of those that fell a little short. There were times I had wished I wasn’t the oldest, but it didn’t take me long to see it was a better position!! However, there was a lot that fell on the shoulders of the “oldest” child, and I’m sure your father felt that too. However, I feel I was better prepared to make it through tougher times because I had already learned many coping skills and had become a more self-sufficient person. You and I were shown by example and guided by the love of our elders. Like most others back then, we experienced “rights of passage” that helped us understand our path to maturity, ensuring a better and richer outcome for all, and taught us how to deal with our responsibilities in life. With these skills, we were better prepared to cope with the harsher realities of life. I feel very badly for the many generations since your father’s, yours and mine that seem unable to grasp certain social and practical skills in life, and lack the ability of knowing how to live a well fulfilled and enjoyable daily life. But I really believe that a lot of that is because we no longer have “rights of passage” - they really are a missing link in the lives of everyone today. I could go on, but I won’t trouble you with that ! Thank you so much for your reply - a little thing perhaps, but you really made my day 🙏🫠
P.S. Robert Heinlein believed heavily in these rights passage - and seems to have expressed his characters knowing about them and talking about them. ☺
@@patrickoneill8707 Thank you, and the same to you ! Unfortunately, the world and how we live in it has changed so much in what seems such a short time. We don’t have “rights of passage” anymore. Earlier generations grew up with that: your father’s generation, mine, and sounds like you may have experienced it from your father, as well. It is something that gave us an understanding of how to act towards others, learning what our responsibilities in life were and how to handle them. Those of us who did have it learned through specific social engagement with others, such as boy and Girl Scouts, after school clubs, that sort of thing. Parents took an interest in their children, and wanted them to learn how to interact with others, but its importance was greater. Doing so through group activities taught us how to deal with life socially. Young boys and girls felt included, and slowly learned how to deal with everyday things in life, growing our ability to handle situations. We learned how to cope, how to put things into perspective. That doesn’t happen enough anymore. Anyway, that’s my take ! I have noticed that I am hearing more and more from people out of the blue, having read my responses somewhere, and contacting me very much like you, talking about similar things - because of my age group, I think, and that is lovely! It’s nice to know older people still can be interesting ! I am now 74, and as an example, this is how I choose to use my time. I garden hard, 4-5 hrs every day. I grow most of our vegetables, and herbs, for the two of us. I’ve planted potatoes which should give us about 100#, carrots, onions, lettuces, tomatoes I will can, herbs I will dry for the winter, garlic leeks, etc. That is all container gardening. My husband built me a “dirt box” that holds 500# of soil. Every year I use that much soil and at the end of season I remove it all from the containers and return it to the box. We have about a third of an acre our house sits on. My hyped and has back problems, so I do all the garden and yard work. I laid 40 bags of mulch so far this year, and because we have so much clay in the soil I plant in containers. But we have been here 25 years, and I have planted trees, lilac bushes, hydrangeas, etc. To do so meant digging up the clay. In one three hour weekend day I dug up 486 pounds of clay. I know because it had to be taken to a special place and they weigh it to charge you. I’m only telling you these things because I feel that if I hadn’t grown up in the period I did, I wouldn’t be enjoying my life so much now. I cook all our food from scratch, make soups for the freezer, still make our bread and desserts, and I still read my paper books. I only spend a short time on the internet, and I don’t Facebook or anything else on it. Nothing is perfect though. I’ve had cancer three times : breast, kidney and skin cancer. But I’m still here - I have a zest for life - for me there aren’t enough hours in the day! My husband is building us a library for our over 450 books, using one of our bedrooms. I have been married for 42 years to my soulmate, and am hoping I get to spend more with him. It isn’t easy, all the work, but it gives me so much enjoyment and it really pleases my husband. In my early years I worked in a hospital as a nurse. I still try to help others. That’s because of “rights of passage” - that’s how important they are! Sorry to write so much, but thank you for replying, and hope you have a wonderful rest of your life ! I just know your father is proud of you, wherever he is !! 🙏❤🫠☺
@@patrickoneill8707 ( Sorry for adding this, I just thought it might provide more clarification). Though by the age of eight, I was put more in charge of helping my two sisters and one brother by that time, with four more to come, I did realize I went from a child to a secondary mother. Nevertheless, I was happy to accept that responsibility from my parents, because the “rights of passage” I went through helped me understand my role in the social context of life skills and their importance in society. It indicated to me that my place in the family was secured, and they were proud of me. I was only too happy to help out, and I felt more at ease in the role I was cast into. Thank you again for your comment !🙏🫠 I wish you the peace we often find as we grow older, and lose our parents - especially if we lived a very lovey relationship with our parents, and I did ! Enjoy the rest of your life in a way most reflective of who you are and what you enjoy. You may surprise yourself !🙏🫠
I'm 66 on the 24th December and I miss those days of gentle times. I have a 40 yo son and I've told him all about it because I wanted him to know it wasn't like today.
When I was in elementary school in the 70s my Dad would tune this in on the am radio it was always scary to hear the opening of the creaking door. These cool old radio programs bring back so many memories. Thank You for bringing them back
This program debuted on my 10th birthday. Like you, my dad tuned in on our transistor radio and I listened with him in my brother.
Great memories to be sure. And you are right about that creaking door!
My dad brought these radio theater show to me to help me sleep.
The best part of these audio programs you can enjoy with your eyes closed. In fact it is more vivid with your eyes closed.
That's true. They are so relaxing 😅
That’s because we have terrific imaginations - at least people over at least 60 do ( I’m 74). 🙏🫠
I’m wow
Eleven as of yesterday! And I have been subscribed to ChillySunshine for years! I love EVERYTHING about the 70s and watch nothing but MeTV. The music was wonderful, the people were happy, and life was just great! Sometimes I just get ecstatic listening to E.G Marshal’s stories. Thank you for blessing us, ChillySunshine!
My Dad used to tape these
(remember cassettes?)
and send them to me while I was in the service. Great memories.
I still listen to cassets from Don Nesbitt
T/Y for serving our country when you were young.
I remember cassettes - They were the dispensers for the shiny festive streamers that used to decorate roadsides all across the land.
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service, sir.
I've gotten so tired of trying to find something on TV that's worth watching... I'm thrilled to find these stories... awesome..
Michael Johnson I know what you mean! I usually just stick with UA-cam.
So true. I am captivated and I am only one minute in
TV "programming " is over, turned them off years ago.
Michael Johnson I used to listen to them when they were on the radio.
@@beckygarcia4416 I wish I had known about them in the 70s and 80s or even the sixties when I was a child! I think I could have learned quite a bit from them not to mention being entertained.
I listened on WHAM 1180 am out of Rochester, New York! The show came on at 10 PM - I had to turn the volume down, so as not to disturb my parents or older sister. I didn't have a transistor radio (with an earphone), so I listened on an old Zenith table radio.
To this day, I love radio drama! My father was a child of the Depression, and back then the radio was people's primary source of news and entertainment. Kudos to the people who have digitized these radio shows and preserved them for future generations to enjoy!
When I was in high school in the 70s, my friends and I would drive around at night in the rain and listen to these shows and sometimes we would go into the very old cemetery and our imaginations would go wild! Thank you!
My friends and I would love those rainy nights and set in the room with a Coleman lantern(battery) and listen to spooky stories as the rain made the background! lots of fun!
Sounds like fun
Those times are not forgotten but sadly missed my freind.
We did that too !! Driving around at night in the snow snorting coke and listening to am radio
I did the same, man. Your post brought back some good ass memories!😃
I don’t watch TV anymore...I’d much rather use my imagination! I LOVE going to sleep listening to books like this...it makes for GREAT dreams!
I haven't used cable, satellite or antenna TV for 8 years.
I do the same, listen as I go to sleep!😃
Quantum Bob
It costs too damned much! And the cost goes up all the time. I’ve got DVD’s of my favorite movies and I can find more things that I like on UA-cam!
Merry 🎄 Christmas!!
@@pam1574 .............. Hence the Ending Quote.............. Until Next Time.............. Pleasant............... Dreams?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Edwin Bitsoe
😊 Exactly!! Sweet dreams...
and Merry Christmas to u!!
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Today 11-28 -2020 listening to these is much better for my husband and I to listen to,we love them . Better that TV
Yes 💙🧡💜🌺🦀🦞♦️🍂⛸🀄🌷🥀🦋💗
It's amazing to hear E.G. speculate on how the 2000's would possibly be back then, when we are listening to this program while we are actually living in the 21st century.
Even they couldn't imagine the horrors that we deal with nowadays.
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EG Marshall might be dismayed about events if you were still alive but I think he's seen more whores than what's been going on lately. He would have survived both World War I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Great Depression.
If you look back in history you will see that every generation has the horrific times.
It is when you are living in the times, that it seems worse. 😊
People wouldn't have put up with things happening today.
These gems help me fall asleep today just like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.
Back 1976/77 when I would drive from southern Michigan to the upper penninsula about every other weekend for almost a year an a half I would listen to this. It sure ate up the miles. Too bad CBS still doesn't do this.
CBS may very well re-introduce this program. Of course today it would be strictly to extol the benefits of transexualism for children.
What a wonderful time when a family would listen to radio stories back when the world made sense.
I still love The Waltons and Mayberry RFD all those good old shows. Also found in Chicago Pacific Garden mission. They play Unshackled true life stories. I think you would enjoy it
also Chuck Missler transhumanism and Dr. Gene Kim what's going on in the world
he quoted from the King James Bible. Dr. Gene Kim talks about Genesis and Giants on the Earth and what's in the center of the Earth. Only this is all true.
producers of this got a message across and every single program. There's always a part of the truth that they tell. Somebody knew something about what was actually going on with the world. It might have been the first conspiracy theory people. You know certain things you can't just say. Like the Beatles had a message through their music. The producer of this episode has been dead but a lot of what he is saying is going on. Why is that?
There's a video out called the deeps. Very interesting kind of scary
'Back when the world made sense.' You mean back when the world was in a nuclear standoff?
Grew up listening to these. What a blast from the past!Thank you for posting them. Fond memories of my childhood and my parents, whom I miss dearly.
I was 10 to 18 in the 8 years this series aired on radio. It was great from 1974 to 1982 and is still great now. Thanks so much!
That is sad.
Holy crap... I've been trying to find this forever! My brother and I used to listen to this back in the 70s but I could not remember the name of the program. Once I heard that theme I recognized it immediately!!!
so Glad 4 you this is a Treasure
Anyone who misses these great stories is missing history at its best.
I remember being a little girl, probably age 10, in 1976, or 77 in Philadelphia, pa, and my dad putting these on the radio in my room at night when I would go to bed. I'll forever be attached to these wonderful memories. There is nothing on TV these days that compares to these great stories.
When I was in the United States Marine Corps I would listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the way home for the weekend.... from Camp LeJeune North Carolina to Charleston, West Virginia, back Sep75 to Oct77
These debuted on my 10th birthday January 6th 1974.
So I am roughly the same age as you. And you are right, what amazing memories.
@@patrickoneill8707 I made my post on this three years ago and at the time, my dad was sick and getting worse rapidly. One of last great tributes to him was putting these stories on at night wirh my tablet and bluetooth so he could sleep listening to them. Sadly, my dad passed this past December 26, 2023. His 85 th birthday is this Monday, August 5, 2024. Im tearing up typing this. I will forever be grateful for him. (Yes we are probably the same age - Im a 1966r but will be 35 again in December).🤫
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I remember being a kid in the 70s Hiding a little Radio under my pillow listing to Mystery. Im so happy i can listen to them now thank u so much for sharing with all of us.
I was 13 when this first aired. My parents loved going for rides in the car. We used to listen to shows like this on the radio. I sure miss those rides.
Used to sneak my transistor radio in bed as kid an listened to these every week night. Intro and closing used to freak me the flip out. Ah good times
Morgan Walker
Ikr??? 😆
I love the old radio commercials they play during intermission. Brings back memories.
Me too!! For many years!!
Yea,..I took my little round red and white "satellite" crystal radio to bed and listen to these stories.
Me too! Exactly the same!
Takes me back to a time when both tv and radio were both good. I cut my cable about 3 years ago and honestly don't miss it.
This used to air at 11:00 p.m. in my city. I listened on a clock radio every weeknight. The music and E.G. Marshall's voice bring back such good memories.
Why don't we have these types of programs any more? this sparks the imagination.
Vincent Von Black ... I know! in the quest to make things better we left behind some real treasures!🙁
Himan Brown tryed to bring them back in 1999 and really did not have any luck. look him up on the web he was a very intresting man and the shows that he did.
Listening to radio requires imagination and an ability to connect to a story line. Video/TV does not.
That is why TV won out and radio has devolved into what it is.
David E Thompson try bbc radio, they have them
BBC Radio Four broadcasts radio plays every day and these can be listened to online. A lot of them are not much good in my opinion, and heavily influenced by PC culture, but there are still occasional gems to be found.
I'm 60 when I was 12 I stayed at the camp listened to these with my farther he is gone now, I'll go soon enough but love these memories!!!
Man, I miss the 20th century so much.
Great channel. Thank you.
We never could have imagined the weirdness that would be the 21st!
Just came across this.
Love it. I’d stay up way past my bedtime to listen to these at my grandmas house. Like so many others, I too had a little pocket radio. Just a simple 5transistor am Realistic. But that’s all I needed. In St.Louis, it was KMOX, 1120.
Listened for years.
Thanks for posting this.
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Thank you for posting these. When I was a little girl my grandmother and I used to listen to these when I stayed with her. She would put a little transistor am radio under her pillow and we would go to sleep listening to these stories. Thank you for a wonderful piece of comfort from my childhood!
+Ruth Erbach You're Most Welcome!
I did the same thing in Boarding school. My Dad (Who is now 83 (2018) used to buy Cassetes Tapes with shoes on them at one time he had hundreds of them, I found Digital copies of them all over the workld and now have about 7000 hours of shows. at one time there was a server at nasa that hosted all of the CBSRMT Shows. and everyoine started to get all the shows/ it is sad that there are no 100% good copy's opf all the old shows. (I have all the shows on 10 DVD's (Mp4) that i bought many years ago.
I do this now!! Same idea different technology,
R.I.P. Ruth Erbach :(
Cool memory.
I too, used to listen at my grandma’s house.
I had a little pocket radio (like most kids back then).
I would stay up listening to it until the end. Loved them.
I also used to listen to these in bed at night when a kid in the 70s. Glad I thought to look this up. Thank you.
I used to listen to these in the 70's when I was in high school. Reminds me of my parent's old house. Great memories. Thank you.
I love hearing these great radio shows when I'm on the road. I drive a big truck n drive long hours. Hearing these shows makes time go by better
When I was stationed at Camp LeJeune North Carolina I would listen to these great radio shows on the way home for the weekend to Charleston, West Virginia.That was back in Sep75 to Oct77. I usually picked up WCHS radio station around Bluefield, West Virginia when I would get on the West Virginia Turnpike.
I grew up listening to these shows. Now I appreciate the production value.
"We'll have to guess what the world will be like in the 2000's" it's like being a time traveler listening to these great radio plays
Back in high school in the 70s I made an AM radio from a radio shack kit. Had it on a stand next to my bed and would lay in bed listening to this show before I went to sleep. It was on from 10 to 11. My father began collecting old radio shows in the 70s and he recorded every one of these. Now I listen to this and all the old radio shows from the 40s and 50s whenever I am driving or working in my shop. I have turned into my father which is not a bad thing. Lots of great memories.
Cold, dark nights...time to pull the bedclothes over you with ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: ua-cam.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/v-deo.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on UA-cam.
That is an awesome memory. I love that you said you turned into your dad and that's not a bad thing
My dad got us in a science mail order club and we received a different project every month. One time it was a radio project. I had to make a radio just like you did.
These debuted on my 10th birthday January 6th 1974 and I listened to them all the way through the run when they finished on December 31, 982
I remember listening to these driving home from my part time job while in college. That ‘creaking door’ gets me every time!
I used to listen to this on the radio when I was 12-15 im 52 now and still enjoy the stories! Thank you!!
whoever you are, ChillySunshine, thank you for uploading these little gems, greetings from Bruges!
Just the right thing during a Quarantine- 2020.
Keep sharing to FB. We need to spread something fun during these times.
@@Mina-ok5qm This reminded me of a long gone era. I mentioned listening to this on our families council stereo as I followed your suggestion to post on facebook. It was bigger than a loveseat and that was a big chunk of real estate in a home back then. Today? The same amount of stereo would fit on a coaster and some sandwich sized speakers.
They also have old-time radio shows of all sorts. I'm Gunsmoke to Unshackled
@@Damaged262 My parents had a stereo like that too - a huge elegant claw-footed piece of wooden furniture about 6 ft long. Weighed about as much as a Volkswagen.
What happened?
Old radio programs are excellent.
I'm so glad that I found this. I used to listen as a kid in the 70's before sleeping. I loved these! Brings back some great memories.
I’m 60 yrs now. Used to listen to this using a pillow speaker because it aired after hours!! 👁
Carlos Magana I haven’t thought about pillow speakers in years.
Ahh yes, 1960, it was a very good year. Happy belated birthday Carlos.
@@danthomas6587 you are very kind. Now 61 yrs young. These were so eerie and awesome. Took me to another place. You?
@@madmextupapa those radio broadcasts were incredibly descriptive. Radio had a hay day long before TV but sadly "video killed the radio star" as the song goes. They helped me pass long night hours creating images for my advertising classes in art school. Things were created by hand back then. Not so much today. Personally I think craftsmanship was better back in the day. Today its all about instant gratification. I'm glad I was born in 1960. Kids today have too many choices . Its mind boggling. Love from Arizona.
I now listen to these after all these years...ahh the 70's freakin rocked! Now I listen to these when I go to bed..lol pretty kool...
These stories put me to sleep every night!
Same here..everything you said.
and the funny thing is my dads got me inot his in the laste 70's before CBSRMT there was X minus one and Dimensiuon X alot of old shows were produced and direct by the same person that did CBSRMT. does anyone know that name?
@@cloggersd Hiram Brown
@@CuteLesbo69 Himan
When I was 9 or 10, (1974), I was up late because my dad took me to a St. Louis Blues hockey game and in his car, he kept the radio tuned to KMOX, and this came on (around 11 pm) and I asked him what it was and he said, "Oh, they've started doing this. They're trying to show people what radio was like before television. It's kind of silly." But I was fascinated! After bedtime, I'd turn it on in my room on low volume and I listened faithfully for about 3 or 4 years. I remember often hearing the familiar voice of Fred Gwynne of TV's The Munsters. Mercedes McCainbridge was a very frequent guest voice. A few future stars, like Mandy Patinkin did them. This was the only scripted, acted Radio show in America after the 1950s and hardly anyone listened to it.
Great memory. I was 10 years old when they debuted and I listened for the entire run for 8 years with my father and brother.
No there was a radio series in the 1960s that's pretty enjoyable.. I forget the name at this particular moment
I'm 10 years old listening to the radio with my Dad again! Thank you!
The music used for this program was stock music that was often used in television shows from the CBS network . I remember the first time I heard some of it on Perry Mason. I listened to this show 4 - 5 nights a week if I remember correctly..... a big part of my childhood..... great memories 😌
Back in the early 80's when my husband and I were on vacation in utah we would bed down in the van and listen to Mystery Theater. Fun times, fun times. No really they were.
Used to ride along with dad in his Rambler, taking my cousin back to 29 Palms Marine Base. We would listen to these shows. Back then life was so easy, being 10 years old.
I remember a Am station would play these in our city in the 70's . Last of the times .
They playthese still on 105.9 in chicago. One night i got high in my car n this got my attention lol
I use to listen on the radio as a kid growing up in Houston. My uncles introduced my brother and I to the show. We would listen to the show during the summer months at our grandparents house. At home, we would have the radio on in our bedrooms; my room, my brother's room and my parent's room. The sound of the creaking door would resonate through in a dark settled home. It set the mood. Great memories.
Rest in peace Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa.
There was also a short-lived radio series of Twilight Zone Radio Dramas ( c.2002) which was hosted by Stacy Keach, Jr.
His & James father, Stacy, Sr. was one of the director's on Tales of the Texas Rangers.
@@terrymccoy8950 I have heard "Tales Of The Texas Rangers," starring Joel McCray om YESTERDAY USA on my computer, also "The Six Shooter," starring Jimmy Steward, The Alice Faye & Phil Harris show & many others.
10pm on 1180 WHAM in Rochester NY! I would listen religiously.
I.m from the UK..enjoying listening to these now
.2017!
Thank you so much for these terrific stories. Fabulous. Namaste
Funny how E.G. mentions life in the 21st century in his opening. Saying how some will see it and "the rest of us" can only speculate about how different it will be. It's hard now to imagine life without all our toys and gadgets, and how much HAS changed since these shows aired.
E G Marshall died in 1998...almost made it to the 21st Century...
taclas1 and he lived through quite a century. i was only around for the second half. there’s a lot to be missed, but much to enjoy now. it’s weird to live with a mind in two such different places. does that always happen to older people? mmm? :) ☃️
And musing interestingly, I've lived in the 20th and living in 21st...so I've seen two centuries. And I've lived in two millennia???!!!
Listen to the song the year 2525 on UA-cam. Yikes!
Nothing to enjoy now? There are literally millions of things to go out and enjoy in the world.
I remember when I had just come home for my first leave from the Corp I was trying to find something on TV and started listening 🎧 to something like this. Thank You So Very Much For Bringing This Back
Used to listen to these laying across the backseat in Mom and Dad's car on the way back home from visiting relatives. We went often and it was a long drive, so I've heard lots of these... but so long ago that they all are new again. Thanks ChillySunshine and.... pleasant....dreams?
I remember listening to this story on September 24, 1977. I was a security guard at a chemical plant in Kearny NJ.
Autoplay on. Charger in phone. Last joint smouldering in the ashtray, dog snuggled up behind my knees and the rain outside pattering down. perfect. Goodnight.
Don't get no better
@Veni Vidi Vici nasty
Sounds like a great night
Oh my God! Well, my wonderful dog is in the chair next to me. He's too big for my lap
Sounds great' enjoy...
Captivating radio in the early 1970s. It was so much fun to listen to. Who needed tv when you had these most vivid stories by word. An art never better: radio !
Oh wow! I loved these shows when I was growing up. Had forgotten about them until I stumbled upon this!
Cold, dark nights...time to pull the bedclothes over you with ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: ua-cam.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/v-deo.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on UA-cam.
What's absolutely brilliant is all of "us" who listen to these terrific shows all have the 21st century trappings and here we all are listening to stories written 40+yrs ago, doesn't that say something about the longevity of these wonderful tales and sadly how little (sometimes) the stories of our time lack the thrill and impact of these historic and exciting stories!!! Of course there are great writers now but nothing like these thought provoking stories that never (in our opinion) grow old!! As a footnote I also listen to X minus 1, Suspense, The Whistler, Box 13, Johnny Dollar, Vincent Price-Fear and I may have missed a classic here oops Dragnet!!!! These shows if listened to by most kids of today they would dismiss them out of hand for X-box and the likes but it's not their fault as my 14 yr old daughter is sadly one of the said kids!!
Yes, indeed.
How about.....THE SHADOW! and the Scarlet Pimpernel, and of course, Inner Sanctum, Ripley's Believe It or Not! Suspense, Escape, The Mysterious Traveler. But the number one all-time radio drama favorite (of mine) because by big brother set me up big time....Mercury Theater - War of the Worlds! 3o years after that broadcast, it still scared the crap out of me.
You just have to get on with the proper classic movies...like The Horn Blows at Midnight ;-)
@@davidk4940 hi thanx for ur reply sorry I'm 3 months late but I only listened to the original broadcast of wotw with Orson Welles and ur right it's such a fantastic story but how Orson presented it as tho it were really happening is truly historic and just think how people reacted to it shit they must have thought it was the end of the world!!!
@@simonmcgrath4112 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast sparked fear, panic 80 years ago in America, Orlando
By ROGER SIMMONS
ORLANDO SENTINEL |
OCT 30, 2018 AT 8:25 AM
“Hysteria among radio listeners throughout the nation and actual panicky evacuations from sections of the New York metropolitan area resulted from a too-realistic radio broadcast last night describing a fictitious and devastating visitation of strange men from Mars,” the Associated Press reported. “Excited and weeping persons across all of the country swamped newspaper and police switchboards with the question: ‘It is true?’”
www.orlandosentinel.com/features/gone-viral/os-ae-war-of-the-worlds-radio-anniversary-20181030-story.html
Me and my old crippled dad would go every night to pick up my mom at 11pm from her work at a nursing home. We loved listening to these stories and Paul Harvey's,,The rest of the story,, I was so young but we loved it, and i think i was the only 8 to 9 yr old to like elevator music. I still love em all today even though I'm the grand parent now. RIP daddy.
I love old time radio theatre / shows .
They are captivating without moving pictures . Must have been great to come home , flip the radio on and listen to your fav shows 👍
Listening to these plays in the 70's was a guilty pleasure a 10yr old staying up past midnight could ask for. Thanks for bringing back those memories
My mom and I road tripped from CT to the NJ shore most weekends. Loved listening to this show on each trip. Mom died 17 years ago, missing her :-)
I bought a 1934 Packard-Bell radio when I was a kid in 1974 from our lovely old neighbor lady for 3 bucks and used to listen to this radio show at night and pretend I was a kid in the 30's!
Heyy thanks! God bless you Martha Broyles!
But these were not broadcast in the 1930s .
Wow used to listen to these every Sunday evening on local CBS radio station.
I would listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the way home from Camp LeJeune NC to Charleston, WEST Virginia; for the weekend, way back in Sep75 to Oct77. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant
I used to get in trouble in the 70's for sneaking a radio to bed and listening to this show under the covers. Cool to listen to E.G. Marshall and these chilling radio plays once again!
I did the same exact thing 😅!
Back in the 1970's, I used to listen to Mysrery Theater on a.m. radio...I miss those days...
Thank you for bringing these stories to life and this is one of my top favorites!
I can listen to it again and again.
Such great memories of people, places, and times gone by listening to this! Thank you for sharing!
Wonderful stories!love to listen to them every night.500 channels and I still listen every day.
+franklin3376 ~ I hear ya.............All those channels and not a darn thing worth watching!
we lived in a differnet generatation. back when we all had imanganatatation.
I wonder what if tv hadn’t come along how much more of these might had been created
Many a lonely night I listened to each one of these stories while on guard duty. For at least one hour every night I was not bored to death. Never missed the broadcast. Was devastated when my radio station stopped broadcasting them.
What a throwback to my teens. My sister and I would lay in our beds listening to our radios in our rooms and would talk about the episodes the next day, especially the creepy ones.
This is when you had to use your mind for thinking about things and not your fingers 👍
Back in the late 70’s me and 4 best friends would ride around in the countryside on Saturday night listening to the shows and couldn’t wait til next weekend😁
This would come on at precisely 8:06 pm, and God help anyone who interfered with the radio or being all set in place when E.G. Marshall came on. Not one peep! If we were in the car when it happened to come on, everyone had to shut up and not talk over it (fortunately most everyone agreed), then once we got home, I’d wait for a commercial break to run into the house to catch the rest of it. Couldn’t miss a single second of it. RMT was a serious deal. Thanks for the upload:)
I listened to this with my dad on KMOX St Louis in the 1970s. Thanks for posting.
I remember listening to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater every night as a teenager, WRKO in Boston played it 6 nights per week, 10:00-11:00 pm.
Boy this brings back good memories listening to this every night before going to sleep.
Nice cover art. The sky is marvelous.
I used to be a janitor at an elementary school...I worked the swing shift and used to listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater while cleaning...it made the job more tolerable.
Thank you for posting these wonderfully well-done OTR dramas/mysteries - much enjoyed and appreciated!
I LOVE ALL of these Stories. I grew up listening to radio.. and the scarry "Squeeking Door" later, I found the ones you are playing.. Now, later on in my life, I find them again.. Always so peaceful to listen to .
Oh my, I loved this when I was in high school. I would turn off the lights, get into bed and turn on the radio.
This is so awesome, its like going back in time ,i love these stories at night while going to sleep
Finding Radio Dramas from early Welles’ Mercury Theatre to BBC dramas of today have to be in the top 5 things that have enriched my life for the best.
I got a transistor radio from my grandma for Christmas in the mid 1970s, when my mom and dad made me go to my bedroom upstairs I would turn it down low and listen to mystery theater every night they came on. Loved them, brings back memories.
Even as a young girl in the sixties I could not fathom living in the year 2000 but especially not 2020!
Right?? It’s weird!😁
Just imagine! NO ONE would have predicted the S--t hitting the fan in the way it has. This is just the tip of the ice berg!
I'm so happy I've found these. Houston 740am played these at 9pm. My father used to make me turn the lights off at 9 but I'd always sneak my radio under my cover hoping not to get caught. Those were great times and the golden years of America. I'm glad I grew up back then instead of now.
I did the same thing!
@@johnbrown1960 :) I think we were happier as kids in those days. Technology is wonderful and useful but it comes with some cost. Kids today are so stressed out keeping up with the Joneses.
Thank you for these GREAT radio shows, many, many more PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
My grandmother use to listen to radio at night it use to make her go to sleep. I could never understand as a kid . Now I do ! I use it all the time and without the commercials it’s just perfect. Thank you. 😊
I don't know of any US radio that does this type of thing anymore. I remember I used to lay in bed and fall asleep listening to the CBS radio mystery theater. There were some really fantastic stories. I don't know why they don't do these types of shows anymore....probably the cost. But......
Get the BBC app for your phone and then tune into BBC 4 extra. It features 24/7 of radio dramas.....history, SciFi, mystery, thrillers, horror, audio books, etc. The broadcasts are from 1950's upto present day
Chilly thanx for posting these old time radio shows. It’s Coronavirus quarantine time and literally my brain needs an escape. This offers up so much imagination, I have the best dreams after I listen. I don’t think u posted these thinking you’d be doing a public service...
I used to listen to this with my father. Great memories.
"... waaaay back in the year 1998..."
Indeed.
"We drove ourselves from the garden when it was always possible to return, up until now. Now it looks as though we may have planted seeds in the dead soil of a lost world. A world that may have to go on, if it goes on, without us." Incredibly prophetic words.
Dear Lord - you picked up the central part & it is truly so sad - there are still some of us who care 🌹
Not really.
Incredibly wrong
There was a time when I was down and nearly out. CBS RMT broadcasts were my only source of entertainment. I always loved dramatic radio before, during, and after those trying times. Still my favorite form of entertainment.
This is better than any movie.
i used to lay in my moms lap in the 70s and listen to this. now 45 year later sitting with my 9 year old son and im listening to this. wow. 😱
mr sunshine put a lot of light in many lives with these plays,got me out of a dark place ill say that much .
Very kind of you to say and that's great that the plays helped you so much.