This Wednesday overnight, May 21 into 22 from 12 to 2 am in THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, it's the third show at our new day and time! Later for Jimmy Dore! I am here!

We have a final episode of LIGHTS OUT by Arch Oboler, another THIS IS MY BEST with Orson Welles, and yet another lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD from May 23, 1975 from the Piletic Collection "53 Year Old Corpse." The program is heard on WBAI-NY 99.5 FM and on the stream at wbai.org.

THIS IS MY BEST from CBS on April 10, 1945 #31 "Master of Ballantrae" by Robert Louis Stevenson for Cresta Blanca. Two brothers of the estate of Ballantrae in the year 1745, during a time of war. One brother goes to war, the other remains at home to become the "Master of Ballantrae." Orson announces that next week's program will feature (in his opinion) the finest actress in all the world, Rita Hayworth. Producer, host and performer Orson Welles, with Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Alan Napier, adapted by Robert Tallman, music by Bernard Katz, announcer Verne Smith.


LIGHTS OUT from CBS on June 01, 1943 #35 "The Ugliest Man In The World" for Ironized Yeast, Energine Shoe White. The story of the ugliest man in the world...and his girlfriend. The story is also known as "Mr. Freak. Written and hosted by Arch Oboler, with Raymond Edward Johnson, Ann Shephard, announcer Frank Martin.

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A lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD from WOR-NY on Friday May 23, 1975

"53 Year Old Corpse" from the Piletic Collection.

TV mythology, TV Drama, closet corpse, old time news.

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