A sound snip of that routine is at this site. Have fun searching!
Starter of this subject: Nancy
Last post in this subject: 1/11/2005
Messages in this subject: 9
| Nancy | 1/11/2005 9 replies |
| I need your help identifying a radio show and a specific episode. While living in Chicago in the 90s, I listened to Chuck Schaden's Saturday afternoon OTR show, "Those Were The Days". One afternoon he played a creepy program, the name I can't recall, and the episode was about a man who was turned inside out. The sound affects made my skin crawl, no pun intended. When the man was turned inside out it sounded like a wet rubber glove being peeled off a hand. I've searched and searched but to no avail. I know it would help if I knew what program it was on, but I just don't remember. Can you help me? Thanks! |
| Lou | 1/12/2005 5 replies |
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Series name was "Lights Out"
Episode escapes me ... |
| Gene Shirley | 1/12/2005 4 replies |
| It was also done as part of Arch Obler's commercial recording "Drop Dead." The segment was called "The Dark." |
| Nancy | 1/13/2005 3 replies |
| Thanks for all your help. I have two purchased collections of Lights Out but that episode was not included. |
| Ted Hering | 1/14/2005 2 replies |
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I would suspect your local station played the LP version, made around 1960, rather than the original 1930s transcription.
Another well-known track from this LP is "Chicken Heart." Bill Cosby even based a comedy routine around this play. Anybody have any idea who played the Peter Lorre sound-alike on this album? ("I like to eat brains!")
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| Lou | 1/14/2005 0 replies |
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Bill Cosby even based a comedy routine around this play.
A sound snip of that routine is at this site. Have fun searching!
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| Walt | 3/19/2005 0 replies |
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Yes, I believe that was Peter Lorre. He died in 1964 so he would have been able to make the record. If it wasn't (I'll check the album when I get home), my guess then would be Paul Frees. He sounds more like Lorre that Peter himself! Check out the Spike Jones rendition of "My Old Flame"
To my knowledge, the Lights Out episode "The Dark" and "Chicken Heart" do not exist, lost to the "analogs" of time. The only existing versions are from the record album "Drop Dead" from the 60's. |
| jim isham | 1/12/2005 0 replies |
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| jim isham | 1/12/2005 0 replies |
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It was from December 29, 1937. I did an Advanced Search on Google and found several references to that episode of Lights Out as being one of the scariest episodes people said they had ever heard.
I found a couple of web sites that were selling it as part of a Lights Out CD on MP3. One of the sites said that episode was incomplete. |
| SCOTT LAW | 4/12/2005 0 replies |
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Nany-you can get 'The Dark'(DROPDEAD version) on the LIGHTS OUT comp from http://www.otrcat.com
I have found those sellers who say 'The Dark' is incomplete are selling the DROPDEAD version, and maybe assuming it's only half a show due to it's short length. on the download sites, DROP DEAD is retitled CHALLENGE IN HORROR. don't know if that is Lorre in the "I like to eat brains" segment(tho it sounds more like a forced Lorre) but Obler did do a show titled 'Exercise in Horror' with Lorre in 1945: 05-24-45 7 "An Exercise in Horror" Peter Lorre, yes AKA: "A Pecular Comedy" Bruce Elliott, Theodore Von Eltz, Will Wright, Bill Christy, George Sorel, Frances Pasco, Victor Rodman, Harry Lang, Frank Martin, Winifred Wolfe, Lisa Goan, Jane Morgan, Bill Shaw.
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