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The Strange Dr Weird

Networks
Mutual (as its archives name them)
Heard
1944–1945
Episodes
29

THE STRANGE DR. WEIRD

More about it

The Strange Dr. Weird was a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945. Sponsored by Adam Hats, the drama is notable in part because it was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler, both in theme and its narrator, Maurice Tarplin, who was also the creepy voice of the Mysterious Traveler. Many of the scripts were condensed 15 minute versions of scripts originally broadcast on The Mysterious Traveler. To the accompaniment of an organ. Spooky, strange Tarplin introduced each episode: Adam's Hats presents The Strange Dr. Weird. "Good evening. Come in, won't you? Why, what's the matter? You seem a bit nervous." The closing line never changed: "Perhaps you'll drop in on me again soon? I'm always home. Just look for the house on the other side of the cemetery...the house of Dr. Weird!" The 29 episodes were produced and directed by Jock MacGregor and written by Robert A. Arthur, who also scripted for The Mysterious Traveler. From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Note" Section below for more information on the OTRR.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. The House Where Death Lived

    · No. 1 · 14 min

  2. The Summoning of Chandor

    · No. 2 · 13 min

  3. Journey into the Unknown

    · No. 3 · 12 min

  4. Death in the Everglades

    · No. 4 · 13 min

  5. Murder Comes Home

    · No. 5 · 12 min

  6. The Man Who Talked with Death

    · No. 6 · 12 min

  7. The White Pearls of Freedom

    · No. 7 · 12 min

  8. Stand-In for Death

    · No. 8 · 12 min

  9. The Tiger Cat

    · No. 9 · 11 min

  10. Murder Ship

    · No. 10 · 11 min

  11. Beauty and the Beast

    · No. 11 · 12 min

  12. Survival of the Fittest

    · No. 12 · 12 min

  13. The Man Who Lived Twice

    · No. 13 · 12 min

  14. The Dark Wings of Death

    · No. 14 · 15 min

  15. The Secret Room

    · No. 15 · 12 min

  16. The Knife of Death

    · No. 16 · 12 min

  17. Murder Will Out

    · No. 17 · 13 min

  18. The Voice of Death

    · No. 18 · 12 min

  19. The Two Faces of Death

    · No. 19 · 12 min

  20. The Man Who Knew Everything

    · No. 20 · 12 min

  21. He Woke up Dead

    · No. 21 · 12 min

  22. The Devil's Caverns

    · No. 22 · 12 min

  23. When Killers Meet

    · No. 23 · 13 min

  24. Dead Man's Paradise

    · No. 24 · 12 min

  25. The Ghost Ship

    · No. 25 · 12 min

  26. The Man Who Played Dead

    · No. 26 · 12 min

  27. Murder, One Million BC

    · No. 27 · 14 min

  28. Picture of a Killer

    · No. 28 · 12 min

  29. Revenge from the Grave

    · No. 29 · 14 min

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. The Strange Dr Weird - Single Episodes

    Old Time Radio Researchers · Old Time Radio Researchers Group · 29 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-ND 3.0: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

1 more set holds only episodes played here from a set above.

A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.

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