The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1953–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 70
- Genre
- horror
started as a local series out of Utah. It found its way onto the airwaves sporadically from 1947 to 1952. This anthology was picked up for national syndication by the Mutual network and broadcast from mid-52 through mid-53.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 5 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Perfect Script · 13 Feb 1947
- 2. Mark of Shame · 1 May 1947
- 3. The Steps that Follow Me · 19 Sep 1952
- 01
The Perfect Script
13 Feb 1947 · 26 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “470213ThePerfectScript”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
Mark of Shame
1 May 1947 · 27 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “470213ThePerfectScript”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
The Steps that Follow Me
19 Sep 1952 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “470213ThePerfectScript”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
The Dance of the Devil Dolls
9 Feb 1953 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “470213ThePerfectScript”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
Return From Death
6 Apr 1953 · 22 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “470213ThePerfectScript”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
Spectre of Denston Castle
11 May 1953 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 11 May 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 07
The Jewels Of Kali
15 Jun 1953 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 15 June 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
Treasure of Kublai Khan
20 Jul 1953 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 20 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1953–1954
Other series the network carried while The Hall of Fantasy was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Hall of Fantasy
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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