Old Time Radio - THE ULTIMATE INNER SANCTUM 2CD Start Price USD 13.30 Current Price USD 13.30 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, September 01, 2008 End Time Monday, September 08, 2008 Location Chandler, Arizona See more about 'Old Time Radio - THE ULTIMATE INNER SANCTUM 2CD' Description We now have hundreds of programs and Thousands of episodes . This Time...... OLD TIME RADIO PRESENTS! "THE ULTIMATE INNER SANCTUM" 2 DISC SET 163 programs, over 80 hours of enjoyment An Early Christmas Present! Purchase any 5 listings and receive "ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS" Free!! ****** Some of these programs were recorded in the early 1930's and 1940's so the sound may not be state of the art that we know today. That is part of the charm of these programs in that what you are hearing is the same thing that people heard when they tuned into these programs. These programs are a part of our country history known as "The Golden Age of Radio". A great number of episodes of these programs have been lost, never to be reproduced, and we do not want to see any more programs disappear. Please join us in perserving this portion of Americana so is doesn't disappear completely. Thank you for looking. Happy Bidding. ****** You may be able to find MP3 discs for less and we could offer ours for less also if we were to cut costs. We could write the title of the program on the disc but we prefer to have a picture lable with the title of the program printed on it; We could put the CD in a paper or plastic sleeve but, again, we prefer to use a quality, sturdy plastic jewel case for each Cd.; we also prefer to use a picture for the jewel case along with a booklet listing the episodes on the CD. We enjoy what we do and we appreciate the friends we have made here on Ebay over the years and we pride ourselves on offering quality products so that is what we will keep producing. During a period from 1941 to 1952, which spanned the golden era of classic radio, this macabre anthology series invited listeners each week to pass through its famous opening creaking door into a world which provided a unique mixture of horror with the darkest of comedy. In its own era, Inner Sanctum was perhaps the quintessential radio program, using sound to produce effects which wove a spell unique to the medium. In a larger sense, the show's peculiar combination of chills and chuckles has influenced the American horror genre ever since and has found expression in everything from EC Comics in the 1950s to the self-referential works of Stephen King and Wes Craven in the 1990s. A listener today who has the nerve to step through the Inner Sanctum doorway (being careful not to bump into that corpse "just hanging around over there") will discover a world both historically distant and entertainingly familiar. Presiding over this dark world of sound was the show's famous host, Raymond. Played most notably by Raymond Edward Johnson (1941-1945), Raymond was the source of much of the program's black humor as he ushered listeners in and out of the creaking door with a series of ghoulish puns ("Quiet now--no 'coffin.' We have 'grave' matters to uncover") and doubtful morals ("Careful the next time you ask your wife to 'pass' the knife. She may do it--right through you. Good Niiiiiight!") The tradition of the sardonic host to horror would find equally memorable expression years later in American popular culture in figures such as the Cryptkeeper in EC Comics and Rod Serling in television's The Twilight Zone, but the stories introduced by Raymond were unique in their ability to arouse and exploit audience fears of the supernatural before ultimately providing a "realistic" explanation. As otherworldly as the universe of the Inner Sanctum sometimes seemed for most of the tale, events were always finally shown to be the result of a very human combination of folly and foible--of greed, ambition, and just plain bad luck. The show's self-imposed need to create situations which were as outlandish as possible and yet capable of such "rational" explanation in the final moments led to some of the most wildly improbable twists and turns imaginable, and it is this element which makes the series both memorable and campish simultaneously. It is also for this reason that the creative peak of the program is usually regarded as the early series of episodes performed by Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre and based upon classic works by Poe and Maupassant, skilled practitioners of the peculiar art of "realistic horror." In its unique mixture of horror and humor, classics and camp, the supernatural with the everyday, Inner Sanctum helped shape the face of popular horror in all media--even in its own time promoting a whole set of Inner Sanctum novels and occasional movies. And yet the series can also be fondly recalled today as a program which exploited the basic elements of radio perhaps more than any other show, taking an entire generation of listeners deep into the "inner sanctums" of their own imaginations. DISC 1 Death For Sale 01/07/1941 Mystery of the Howling Dog 02/11/1941 Fog 04/20/1941 Dead Freight 05/18/1941 Death is a Joker 05/25/1941 The Tell-Tale Heart 08/03/1941 The Death Ship 08/10/1941 Island of Death 12/07/1941 The Man From Yesterday 12/21/1941 Death Has Claws 12/28/1941 Dead Reckoning 01/18/1942 Study For Murder 05/03/1942 Terrible Vengeance 06/14/1942 Dead Man's Magic 08/23/1942 The Dead Walk at Night 09/20/1942 Black Sea Gull 03/07/1943 Death Across the Board 06/05/1943 The House Where Death Lived 06/06/1943 The Horla 08/01/1943 The Bog Oak Necklace 08/22/1943 The Death Laugh 01/08/1944 The Skull That Walked 04/15/1944 The Melody of Death 04/22/1944 The Silent Hands 05/13/1944 Death is a Joker 06/10/1944 Dead Man's Vengeance 10/07/1944 The Voice on the Wire 11/29/1944 The Color Blind Formula 12/06/1944 Desert Death 01/09/1945 Death is an Artist 01/23/1945 Death in the Depths 02/06/1945 No Coffin For the Dead 02/20/1945 The Lost Refrain 03/06/1945 Island of the Dead 03/13/1945 The Meek Die Slowly 04/03/1945 The Bog Oak Necklace 04/10/1945 The Judas Clock 04/17/1945 Song of the Slasher 04/24/1945 The Girl and the Gallows 05/01/1945 Dead to Rights 05/22/1945 The Black Art 05/15/1945 Musical Score 05/29/1945 Portrait of Death 06/12/1945 Dead Man's Debt 06/26/1945 Death Across the Board 06/05/1945 Dead Man's Holiday 06/19/1945 Dead Man's Deal 08/28/1945 The Murder Prophet 09/04/1945 The Last Story 09/11/1945 Terror by Night 09/18/1945 The Lonely Sleep 09/25/1945 The Shadow of Death 10/02/1945 Death by Scripture 10/09/1945 Till Death Do Us Part 10/16/1945 The Corridor of Doom 10/23/1945 The Wailing Wall 11/06/1945 The Man Who Couldn't Die 10/30/1945 The Dark Chamber 12/11/1945 The Undead 12/18/1945 The Creeping Wall 01/08/1946 The Edge of Death 01/15/1946 The Confession 01/22/1946 Blood of Cain 01/29/1946 Skeleton Bay 02/05/1946 The Man Who Couldn't Die 02/12/1946 I Walk in the Night 02/26/1946 Strands of Death 03/12/1946 Death is a Double Crosser 03/26/1946 Lady With a Plan 04/09/1946 Make Ready my Grave 04/23/1946 You Could Die Laughing 05/07/1946 Detour to Terror 05/21/1946 Eight Steps to Murder 06/04/1946 I Want to Report a Murder 06/18/1946 Spectre of the Rose 08/19/1946 Murder Comes at Midnight 09/09/1946 The Dead Laugh 09/23/1946 The Listener 10/07/1946 Death's Old Sweet Song 11/04/1946 No Rest For the Dead 11/25/1946 Death Pays the Frieght 01/06/1947 Death Bound 02/03/1947 The Ghost in the Garden 02/10/1947 The Corpse That Nobody Loved 03/03/1947 Don't Dance on my Grave 05/05/1947 Terror by Night 05/19/1947 Over my Dead Body 06/23/1947 Till Death do us Part 10/27/1947 Death Out of Mind 12/29/1947 Tempo in Blood 01/12/1948 The Doomed 01/26/1948 The Black Art 02/16/1948 The Magic Tile 03/08/1948 Lady Killer 03/29/1948 The Corpse Laughs Last 06/28/1948 Death Demon 07/05/1948 Murder Takes Honeymoon 07/26/1948 The Murder Ship 08/02/1948 House of Doom 08/09/1948 Death Rides a Riptide 09/06/1948 Hangman's Island 09/20/1948 Murder by Prophecy 09/27/1948 Death of a Doll 10/18/1948 Death Watch in Boston 11/15/1948 Cause of Death 12/06/1948 Murder Faces East 12/13/1948 Between Two Worlds 12/20/1948 DISC 2 Death on the Highway 06/06/1949 Corpse Without a Conscience 06/20/1949 Pattern For Fear 07/04/1949 Deadly Fare 07/18/1949 Dead Heat 08/15/1949 Mind Over Murder 08/22/1949 Death's Little Brother 08/29/1949 Murder Rides the Carousel 09/05/1949 The Vengeful Corpse 09/12/1949 Honeymoon With Death 09/19/1949 Lonely Sleep 09/25/1949 Catch a Killer 10/03/1949 The Devil's Workshop 10/10/1949 Image of Death 10/17/1949 Night is my Shroud 10/24/1949 A Corpse For Halloween 10/31/1949 Wish to Kill 11/14/1949 Beyond the Grave 12/19/1949 Killer at Large 01/09/1950 The Scream 01/16/1950 Hitchhiking Corpse 01/23/1950 Skeleton Bay 01/30/1950 The Corpse in the Parlor 03/20/1950 Murder Mansion 03/27/1950 Beneficiary Death 04/17/1950 Dead Man's Holiday 09/18/1950 Twice Dead 11/06/1950 Beyond the Grave 12/04/1950 Snow White Scarf 02/05/1951 The Smile of Death 02/19/1951 Man From the Grave 02/26/1951 Unforgiving Corpse 05/28/1951 A Corpse There Was 06/04/1951 Birdsong For a Murderer 06/22/1952 Terror by Night 06/29/1952 Death Pays the Freight 07/06/1952 Death For Sale 07/13/1952 The Listener 07/20/1952 The Murder Prophet 07/27/1952 Murder Off the Record 08/03/1952 The Magic Tile 08/10/1952 Corpse Laughs Last 08/17/1952 No Rest For the Dead 08/24/1952 Strange Passenger 08/31/1952 The Meek Die Slowly 09/07/1952 Till Death Do Us Part 09/14/1952 The Corpse Nobody Loved 09/21/1952 The Dead Walk at Night 09/28/1952 Death Pays the Freight 10/05/1952 Death is a Double Crosser ????????? Heart Flame ????????? The Corpse in the Taxi ????????? The Man From Yesterday ????????? The Onyx Eye ????????? The Waxwork ????????? The Weight Machine ????????? Twin Flames Rising ????????? Voice on the Wire ????????? The Judas Clock 04/17/1954   Before the days of video games, shopping malls, MTV, and the Internet, families used to sit in their living room each night to listen to radio shows such as Superman, Groucho Marx, The Avenger, Gunsmoke, Sherlock Homes, and many others. When TV become popular in the 1950's, most of these shows went off the air, but they now live on at websites such as this one and on weekly nostalgia radio broadcasts worldwide. These shows, which are in the Public Domain, are very difficult to find. After a title search of the Library of Congress Copyright records, no copyright exists on this material; therefore making these programs Public Domain. This material does not violate any copyright laws, and is in compliance with Ebay's policies regarding Public Domain material. The file format is MP3, which should be playable on any CD player which accepts the MP3 format; on any computer with an MP3 player such as Windows Media Player or the Mac equivalent; and any portable MP3 player. Also, we've found that many DVD players will play MP3 files. The individual episode files have been left accessible so that they can be transferred to portable devices for your convenience. 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