From Amazon, This horror anthology TV series was broadcast on "live" television, meaning it was never filmed. The episodes are preserved courtesy of a method known as "kinescope" so don't expect superb prints. No one has superb prints. But . . . the picture and sound quality is as good as it gets and thank goodness someone put them out. This is the first of three box sets containing the SUSPENESE TV series, and they have NEVER been available on VHS or DVD before.
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the tv show is an extension of the radio program aired on cbs from the 40s to the 60s.
a lot of my favorite radio shows came from suspense.
if anyone's interested, i've got mp3s of the Dunwich Horror and two kick-ass Orson Welles shows, the Hitchhiker (the same story as the "going my way?" twilight zone episode) and Donovan's Brain.
One thing I like about I'mnotMarc is his love of old radio stuff, although I admit that's mostly because I don't have much of an interest myself. I sort of do in concept, if you get me.
He played me a short once about a slime or a mist or something that crawled up some guy starting with his feet and...what, did it turn him inside out? I forget. Anyway, the guy's alone and describes in detail how the thing is oozing up each part of him. Of course I get why they wrote it that way but it's kind of funny -- who'd actually say that out loud at a time like that?
yeah, that'd be arch obler. i never liked him much. sort of cool story ideas, like the one octo mentioned, but poor execution. his biggest problem was never figuring out a way around the whole show-don't-tell conundrum of radio.
i call it the "this gun will take care of you!" principle.
it also didn't help that he thought he was a freaking genius and self-jocked repeatedly in his pre-show monologues.
Self-jocked?
Marc, do you have satellite radio? There's one station that's just old radio shows 24 hours a day (e.g., The Shadow, Dick Tracy, etc), I love it. I too love stuff from the 40s. I'm currently in the midst of a film noir marathon. I watched The Dark Corner (starring Lucille Ball) last night, good stuff!
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