Scott's Old Time Radio

Original Airdate: January 22, 1974 Episode 0017 "A Very Old Man" Original Story by Elspeth Eric, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall Our story is about a very old man. Living just outside a tiny village. A very old man. whose long life has been lived close to the soil and close to the people he loved. People still living and people long dead. Look long and carefully at the face of a tiny...

Original Airdate: January 25, 1974 Episode 0020 "Speak of The Devil" Written by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Make yourself comfortable, for there are ill winds blowing outside. This is a tale of a titanic struggle between two colossal forces, one natural, the other supernatural. The prize, a girl's soul. And in the clash, as fire and water mix, there is the very devil to...

Original Airdate: January 24, 1974 Episode 0019 "Deadly Honeymoon" Written by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall The story you are about to hear is a love story, but a love story which begins at the point where many love stories end. It begins after the wedding march has been played. After the vows of love and fidelity exchanged, it begins on the honeymoon in a strange and...

Original Airdate: January 23, 1974 Episode 0018 "And Nothing but the Truth" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Of all the great killers of history, perhaps the deadliest and most terrifying is the automobile. Nero, Attila the Hun, Lorenzo de' Medici, Bluebeard. Even artillery fire and the ultimate, the atom bomb, at least have a purpose, a reason, a rationale....

Original Airdate: January 21, 1974 Episode 0016 "Dead For a Dollar" Original Story by Murray Burnett, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall Vengeance is traditionally supposed to be the province of the Lord. But too often individuals decide that they will take it upon themselves to mete out punishment to those who may richly deserve it. The results are almost always devastating as witnessed...

Original Airdate: January 20, 1974 Episode 0013 "The Chinaman Button" Original Story by Henry Sleasar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall The story you're about to hear might be called a morality play. It's a story whichhas a question you can ask yourself. What is your price tag for killing a man? If you think you don't have one, listen to the story of Walter Van Haas and the Chinaman Bu...

Original Airdate: January 19, 1974 Episode 0014 "The Girl Who Found Things" Original Story by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall In the next 52 minutes, you'll hear a story about a girl with a most unusual talent. A talent for finding lost dolls? Or dead bodies? You may not be glad you met Iris Lloyd, but we don't think you'll forget her. It begins serenely enough in the pl...

Original Airdate: January 18, 1974 Episode 0013 "A Ring of Roses" Original Story by S.J. Wilson, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall Our tale is a blood-freezing story inspired by a nursery rhyme, a sweet, simple song. Ring a ring of roses, a pocketful of poses. Achoo! Achoo! We all fall down. It sounds young and innocent, doesn't it? But it is very old and very sinister. For the ring-a-r...

Original Airdate: January 17, 1974 Episode 0012 "You Can Die Again" Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall It used to be that only the mystics believed you could go back and relive your life. But didn't so eminent a scientist as Albert Einstein say that the past, the present, and the future are all intermingled somehow? Then why should we question a gentleman name...

Episode Date: March 22, 1949 Molly is making a dress and needless to say Fibber is very curious and tries to talk her out of it. When it is time to start pinning the dress Molly asks Fibber to get her Dressform. Fibber sheepishly tells her the dressform is all chopped up from his using the dummy for knife throwing practice. So much to Fibber's chagrin she decides to use him as her dress dummy inst...

Episode Date: February 12, 1946 Molly is tired of Fibber wearing the same old suit everyday. So Molly invites a new tailor in town, Mr Gusset over to measure him up. Needless to say Fibber objects until Mr Gusset starts complimenting Fibber into agreeing. Fibber and Molly get shocked by the price he is charging, but after some arguing, Mr Gusset tells Fibber If he can send 10 customers his way he...

Original Airdate: January 16, 1974 Episode 0011 "Accounts Receivable" Original Story by Sidney Sloan, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall I have an unusual story about a father and son. You know, it is said that love and hate are two sides of the same coin. If this is so,Phil, the son, never believed it. His hatred blinded him to the extent that he lost all humanity and compassion for his...

Original Airdate: January 15, 1974 Episode 0010 "The Resident" Original Story by Elsbeth Eric, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall What is the nature of danger? Is it a clear threat to our safety? Or is it a murky product of our imagination? What is safety? Do we ever really possess it? Isn't there always danger? Our tale is about a little old lady who ran from danger. and was pursued by...

Original Airdate: January 14, 1974 Episode 0009 "Death Rides a Stallion" Original Story by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall For the next 52 minutes, I will be your trainer I say trainer because we are concerned with a horse a remarkable powerful stallion who not only runs but who thinks and what does he think about? You know a spine-tingling tail. He will think most about reven...

Original Airdate: January 13, 1974 Episode 0008 "Cold Storage" Original Story by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall I am a man normally filled with the milk of human kindness, but prepared, I'm afraid, to curdle your blood with a tale not of life and death, but rather death and life. I offer you one small comfort. It could hardly happen today. But in the last century, on the...

Original Airdate: January 12, 1974 Episode 0007 "I Warn You Three Times" Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall I Warn You Three Times is a tale of Witches who are young and beautiful and who even fall in love. When one man discovers that his wife is a witch he tells a newspaper that he is going to kill her. What do you think about witches? Not the bony hags and a...

Original Airdate: January 11, 1974 Episode 0006 "Honeymoon With Death" Original Story by George Lowther, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall A psychiatrist once said that the human brain is like a spider's web. Together all the strands are strong. But taken one by one, each can easily be broken and the web destroyed. There are countless cases of human brains broken and smashed in just thi...

Original Airdate: January 10, 1974 Episode 0005 "No Hiding Place" Original Story by Sidney Sloan, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall Our story deals with fate. Some call it luck. Whatever it is, it works in the strangest ways to reward us or defeat us. Fate walked into Charles Powell's life in the person of Clint Libitz. Everything looked right to Charles Powell that crisp September morn...

Original Airdate: January 09, 1974 Episode 0004 "Lost Dog" Written by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host EG Marshall A petty thug torments his wife who is afraid of dogs by buying a doberman and trying to make her live with it. She has different ideas. Welcome to the world of mystery. To the world of terrifying imagination. The story you are about to hear is called Lost Dog. Yes, a dog st...

Original Airdate: January 8, 1974 Episode 0003 "The Bullet" Written by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host EG Marshall Gerry was a young man of twenty when he fought in the war and now ten years later he is receiving visits from a friend of his who died in the war. He cannot explain it but it feels so real. Gerry believes that there’s a bullet and it’s designed especially for you and if it’s y...

Original Airdate: Jun 17, 1952 Guest: Jane Russell From Camp Roberts San Miguel, California

Original Airdate: January 02, 1945 Guest: The Andrews Sisters From Yuma Army Airfield Yuma, Arizona

Original Airdate: August 22, 1975 Episode 0331 "Terror In The Air" Written by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: EG Marshall Flight 113, Trans Ways Airlines took off from Miami, a sleek DC9, four engine jet, bound for Seattle, Washington with one set-down at Kansas City. The bulk of the manifest was a large charter of meat packers returning from a convention, to be dropped off at Kansas Ci...

Original Airdate: March 25, 1981 Episode 1176 "The Ghost Grey Bat" Written by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall Ever read this sort of advertisement in the real estate section of the newspaper or their personal columns of a magazine? Young Austrian couple, no children, no pets, would like to exchange their gemütlich alpine chalet for New York apartment two to three months. P...

Episode Date: April 17, 1947 Lou gets a telegram from Joe DiMaggio. Joe is ill and wants Lou to takes his place on the New York Yankees. The boys go to a sporting goods store to get Lou baseball equipment. Lou wants to know know who is on the team and Bud Obliges. Famous "Who's On First" routine. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star with other cast members including Michael Roy, Skinnay Ennis, Marilyn...