When I first heard the Quiet, Please episode "The Thing on the Fourble Board" I was doubly amazed; amazed that after so many years of listening to OTR there could still be a series I had never even heard of - and that the episode could be so good -- so scary!
I think most people who discover Wyllis Cooper's Quiet, Please enter via "The Thing on the Fourble Board." It's easily the best-known episode and that's probably why I haven't discussed it on this blog until now.
Ernest Chappell portrays "Porky," a roughneck working on an oil drill site in Wyoming. One night, Porky and his friend Billy discover something very odd among a recent drilling - a petrified finger. When the mud is removed from the finger, it vanishes from sight. And then the real terror begins.
"The Thing on the Fourble Board" aired on Quiet, Please on August 9, 1948. You can hear this episode at the Quiet Please website.
2 comments:
I have no idea what this episode is even about and I have listened to It at least ten times. I don't get what you think is so great about this episode. I love the crisp dialog of the episode.
But nobody on earth even knows what this episode means or is about. Is she an underwater alien? Is he evil and looking for meat for his underwater alien woman? Nobody knows and eh. Is he enticing the other guy by offering a pork chop? What is going on here?
You don't know.
You have encyclopedia knowledge of OTR but, you don't interact with your reader(s). This is an amazing blog in many ways but mostly you only want to post without engaging in dialog. I will keep reading it because you are a genius but there are other geniuses out there. I am so frustrated because you don't engage your reader. I am so tired of OTR fans touting these incredibly pro-USA OTR shows without compunction.
Corwin sucks in my opinion. So does Orson Welles. Arch Obloler is pathetically jingoistic and boring. Burn all of the Japanese and Germans; America rocks! And yet you are Canadian and a man of Christ and minister to the Portuguese-speaking peoples of Africa.
You seem to hate the CBC OTR shows and CBS Radio Master Theater appears to offend you. This is the greatest OTR show in the history of mankind. 5 to 7 days a week for 8 years! Well over a thousand episodes and many of them are fantastic and they are time vaults since they have embedded commercials and many of them have news before and after!
Show us something more instead of telling us that all of the great episodes are great. I love your blog and it's amazing but you are going to quit soon because nobody can publish indefinitely without readers. That being said, this is the best OTR blog on the internet and you appear to be a wonderful human being. I don't know. Take some chances and maybe ditch all of the posts where you tell us every single person involved in every single comic. I love and praise them all but nobody wants to scroll through all of that. Peace and blessings.
Hello Jane,
I hope you realize that the content of your post amounts to "don't talk about things you like - talk about things I like!"
My interest is not in US OTR, it's in OTR of the 1930s-1950s. The bulk of that is going to be US programming. I've only barely touched on radio programming from the 1960s-onward and I doubt I will touch on them much in the future. I've heard some Nightfall and Vanishing Point episodes that I like, but I'd rather spotlight radio from earlier decades.
Thank you for your criticisms.
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