This is Orson Welles Month for the Seeing Ear Theater. Everyone must stop in here and listen to “The Hitchhiker”. Orson Welles can creep me out so damned much. I also recommend “Dracula” and “Donovan’s Brain”, but those are longer and not as well calculated to make you sit in rapt attention as you listen.
I really like pretty much any episode of “Suspense”, but this is either the best or the second best episode I’ve ever heard. The first may well have been one about an woman who was bed-ridden, and she overhears a plot to murder someone. She gradually comes to realize that it was her that the killers were hired to kill, and she gets more and more frantic as she tries to convince the police and operator. I’ll go ahead and spoil it, and tell you that she does get killed.
Anyways, I don’t think this will be on that site for too much longer, so everyone has to go and give it a listen. It’s half an hour of your life, and you can do other things as you hear it, but I want to hear other people’s feedback on this. Hope everyone else is as chilled as I was.
I just wanted to make it more clear that the ending I gave away was not to the show that I advised you to listen to. I know that I sort of said that in the last post, but it’s a little ambiguous. Carry on.
If this trips your trigger you should really check out CBS Radio Mystery Theater, hosted by E. G. Marshall. There also used to be a really good site (downloads of nearly every episode) at this site but it’s been (apparently temporarily) shut down.
I used to curl up DEEP into bed listening to that damn door creak every Wednesday night. The sound effects were particularly effective on blizzardy nights - when the wind whistled through the trees and made the power lines hum and …
Ok. I’m turning on all the lights in the apartment now - and it’s still daylight :eek:
I’m probably “dating” myself here (yeah–the only typing of dating I get), but I used to love this show. Listened to it every night when my parents monitored my tv usage–hell, even after I could watch all the TV I wanted.
The show was well produced and very entertaining. Not all were scary, but I recall a few that scared the shit out of me. :eek:
This show is one of a handful of things that I wax nostalgic about.
