167 - The Black Room (with Original News & Commercials) - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
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- 167 - The Black Room (with Original News & Commercials) - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
News starts at 51:44
Original air date October 29, 1974 (Repeated: December 21, 1974, January 10, 1978)
Directed by: Himan Brown, Written by: Elspeth Eric
Hosted by E.G. Marshall
Starring Larry Haines, George Petrie, Peter Collins
The actor that's currently in the darkroom his acting is unexplainably fantastic going through the psychological changes that he's experiencing he's adapting to continue a conversation with a little mouse just to keep his own sanity. When the mouse left he was ultimately all alone and that's when the decline started to happen.. And now he just doesn't care...
This play is exceptionally good, and thank you for display because
I am immensely enjoying it
The only way to fall asleep. Good night 💤😴🌉 all from Kennewick Wa
I forget which episode we were listening to, but it had news before the actual show. My mom came in during the middle of the broadcast and started going off because she thought it was a live broadcast! I calmly told her that was a really old show and the broadcast was on Watergate. Lol, wonderful morning, amazing show, thanks for uploading these!!
Thank you so much for that
Broadcast from 1975 about
President Nixon in the hospital
And president ford i love hearing those old radio broadcasts at the end of this radio mystery theatre
Brodcast it makes me feel im back in 1975 again I was 10 years old
When this broadcast hit the airwaves
I love these old radio shows , acting is good ,sound effect everything is great thnx ,p.s. and they also teach you life values.. .
Thanks for keeping these updated. Much better than listening to the radio!
I love this show and when the commercials are left in its even better. those are some classic commercials and a time capsule for the ears.
James Hendrickson my thoughts exactly
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Hearing Pearl Bailey 's voice was just so amazing. Wow!!!
I've been listening to these with rapt attention since I was about 9 or 10, primarily toward the end of the 1970s. This is perhaps the best episode I've heard. It is certainly the most meaningful. Elspeth Eric, the author, deserved a Peabody for this. Looking her up, I see that this story was included in the paperback anthology of three "CBS Radio Mystery Theater" stories published by Popular Press.
This is definitely one of my favorites! So creepy while you're trying to sleep
When I was buying these on cassette I always looked for ones that had the news at the beginning or end. I actually had a knee jerk reaction when the former President bulletin came on. Thinking G.W. Bush had a problem.
Thanks for another hour of entertainment!
I'm right there with you fiona, this is the most chilling episode I have yet encountered. I think it's the reality of it that makes it so disturbing. Toward the end I was fantasizing about our protagonist somehow clawing his way through the wall where the mouse hole was and escaping into the light. Or perhaps strangling Mr. K to death and hunting down Mr. Z and knocking him unconscious. Mr. Z awakes locked in the black room to find his only companion to be the cooling corpse of Mr. K. I'm glad that the writers didn't indulge in such lurid fantasy. As is it retains an aura of mystery.
That was one of the most disturbing episodes of this show I have heard. I loved it. Thank you for posting.
Great images to go with story, as always!
loved this show when i was a kid and love these posts!
Great episode. One we'll all never forget. I love these.
Great stuff. It was a good story. But the news moments at the end of the show really were fascinating. Thanks for sharing these. :)
Thanks for sharing. Excellent program.
Excellent! Bravo!
Glad to see this still being enjoyed GBU
Beware of unused refrigerators!
I have been In the dark room for 15 years but can control it, even though this year I am hitting 30 years old
I want more with news and commercials.
Love these old 1970s radio commercials
I hate the millennium
With God there is always hope
This was a most excellent episode on a scale of 1-10 this one rates a 9.6. Unfortunately there is a little Distortion in the tape. Particularly noticeable during the musical sessions
At one point,,, he had no idea and neither did I or anyone else that listen to display had no idea he was ever going to get out of the black room. During the play When the two men were talking as he was in The Black Room they gave no intentions that he was going to be released.
And now they have the gall to ask him to speak in front of the membership,, now yes I would speak in front of the membership and then file charges against them for what they did to him unless she was home of the entire plan beforehand. And if that was so we were not informed that.. I wonder if he's going to talk about his friend the mouse the little tiny companion that he had in the dark..
The writer of this play was extremely creative,,, putting man in a pitch-black dark room and the sit on the floor and entirely little rodent it's saved him from losing his sanity this was an exceptionally different kind play...... Let's see what he has to say to the membership of this club I'll probably psychological doctors ? Or will he just reach over and ring the guy's neck for what he put him through ? And then just snap and lose his sanity ?
We will just have to wait and see ?
Well let's get back to the play and then we will find out !!!
Oh before I forget thank you for this very strange play !!!
reminds me of a low key 1984 torture scene. (the one at the end.)
Im a bit dissappionted
I wanted to hear him give a speach
And find out more about this club
Mr Z was telling him about it left so many unanswered questions
Yea cool stuff thxs.
How does he go to bathroom?
GOOD STORY!
This episode was very disturbing! How cruel can you get??? Even the Nazis didn't do anything like this to their victims of at less I never heard that they did! Would have like to see those creeps brought to justice for what they did to him!
George Herman? I think he meant George Foreman.
😂 I caught that too
That's an interesting question in the beginning by EG Marshall.....Where Do YOU LIVE?
Scotland! ;)
I’d weaponize those mice and send them forth upon mine own captors. Simple.
I just woke up from a nightmare about my mother strangling me (the last story was about possession) only to switch over to this story which I've also had nightmares about.
He's lucky to have a rat! ...mouse, this is much better than my nightmares, there are other beings, food, walls, a floor, and the possibility of getting out.
Extremely disturbing
The advertising council was as radically progressive back then as they are today..Donate to the college, (indoctrination center), of your choice because young minds, 17-25 are very malleable..
Get some help that's insane.
Nixon's blood clot news near end