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Program: Hall of Fantasy
Episode: Perfect Script
Original Airdate: 02/13/1947
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Episode Summary:
Anyone can write a perfect script with the proper inspiration. In this case, the inspiration is horror!
“The Perfect Script” is a (fictional) radio show that produces the best stories, really top notch. Oddly each writer only writes one script, the newest writer, Peter Shenk is about to discover just what has happened to the other writers. The producer takes him to a secluded beach house, with a deluded housekeeper, a missing husband, enough drugs to keep Shenk incapacitated, and a very strange, very strong, and very simple man. You see, the perfect horror script can be written by anyone when they are facing death!
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Program Summary:
“Welcome to the Hall of Fantasy. Welcome to the series of radio dramas dedicated to the supernatural, the unusual, and the unknown. Come with me my friends, we shall descend into the world of the unknown and forbidden. Down to the depths where the veil of time is lifted and the supernatural is supreme. Come with me.”
The Hall of Fantasy was a one season show produced and written by Richards Thorne, who also played some of the roles. Like many horror shows, Hall of Fantasy went for the twist “twilight zoneish” ending. In general, the twist at the end didn't work out for the hero. Eloise Kummer played many of the female leads and the music was by Harold Turner, Leroy Olliger directed the series. It aired in 1953 on Mutual.
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