ANNUAL HALLOWEEN SHOW

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, October 30, 1999

THE SHADOW (10-31-37) “The Three Ghosts” starring Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston with Agnes Moorehead as the lovely Margo Lane. A newlywed couple take a home in the country in a house inhabited by ghosts. Blue Coal, MBS. (29 min) Those Were The Days listeners have voted THE SHADOW one of the 20 Best Old Time Radio Shows of the 20th Century.

SUSPENSE (11-24-42) “The Body Snatchers.” In the early 1800s, medical students in En­gland were unable to obtain a sufficient num­ber of dead bodies to study, so they turned to “Resurrection Men” to provide the corpses they needed. Sustaining, CBS. (30 min)

LIFE OF RILEY (10-29-44) William Bendix stars as Chester A. Riley, up to his old tricks for Halloween, trying to prove to Junior that ghosts don’t exist. American Meat Institute, NBC. (30 min)

CRIME CLASSICS (12-2-53) “If a Body Needs a Body” features Lou Merrill as Thomas Hyland, “connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders.” He relates the story of Mr. Burke and Mr. Hare, who had a successful business providing cadavers for medical stu­dents in Scotland in 1826. Cast includes Jack Kruschen, Jay Novello, William Johnstone, Jeanette Nolan. Sustaining, CBS. (27 min)

INNER SANCTUM (1940s) “Return from the Grave.” In New England, an older woman hears the howling winds outside and the heavy footsteps of her dead husband, climbing the cellar stairs. Her nephew discovers his uncle’s body and accuses his aunt of murder. Cast includes Ralph Bell and Everett Sloan. AFRS rebroadcast. (23 min)

Today’s program will be presented on a spe­cial ghost-to-ghost network and, because this Halloween broadcast will be, once again, too scary to do alone, Chuck will be joined by Ken Alexander and the usual suspects.