Mr. Davis sells his soul for a million dollars, and then dies within seconds. Never try to get the better of “Mr. Hellman!”

An interesting story.

Quiet Please – Kill Me Again

Ernest Chappell, Gene Paratzo (music), James Monks, Pat O’Malley, Peggy Stanley, Wyllis Cooper (writer, director).

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Every culture has a number that comes up everywhere and seems to have a special importance to the culture. For example, for the Navajo the number is four. For western Europe and for the modern cultures in the Americas derived from western Europe, the number is three.

Three. It’s a number that comes up everywhere. Counting down 3…2…1. The third time’s the charm. Various references are everywhere. Someone whispers something in Sebastian’s ear: “Three.” From then on, a series of events happen involving the number three. Sebastian comes to dread every encounter with the number. He sees it everywhere!

The third floor. Three men in the office. Three o’clock. And most importantly and most frighteningly: “Last 3 days.”

Quiet Please – Three

Cameron Prud’Homme, Ernest Chappell, Gene Paratzo (music), Kermit Murdock, Les Tremayne (narrator), Vinton Hayworth, Wyllis Cooper (writer, director).

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A taxi driver relates the story of people getting into his cab and asking to go to the graveyard. These people don’t care which graveyard, they just want any graveyard. The people also have the curious habit of dropping dead in the cab.

The driver, noticing the trend, becomes more and more nervous and upset. He resolves never to take anyone to the graveyard. Yet, fate will not be cheated.

Quiet Please – Take Me Out to the Graveyard

Don Briggs, Ed Latimer, Ernest Chappell, Evie Juster, Gene Paratzo (music), Wyllis Cooper (writer, director).

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A man married to a witch has to see her once a year – halloween. Each year he dreads the day, because he knows she’ll find out about what he’s been doing the other 364 days. When he’s unfaithful, she uses her powers to punish him and his lovers.

One of the benefits he gets is immortality. Is it worth it? Even when he only has to spend one day a year with her, would he want to live forever?

Quiet Please – Don’t Tell Me About Halloween

Charita Bauer, Ernest Chappell, Gene Paratzo (music), Jim Boles, Wyllis Cooper (writer, director).

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Andrew has been in France for about eight months, working a postwar job. He’s been living in the home of his ancestors, built in 1341. Andrew and his friend Achmed have spent many hours in that house debating theology and philosophy. The concept of fatalism is something on which they disagree, with Achmed believing that life is a script being acted out and Andrew believing that individuals have some control to change things.

There’s a piece of music by Ravel called Pavane pour une Infante Défunte. Translated to English, it’s Pavane for a Dead Princess. Andrew often sits at the ancient piano playing the song. One night while he’s playing it, a little girl enters the room. He asks her who she is, and she says she’s the princess, and that she came because she could hear her song being played.

Pavane is a story of both hope and sadness, exploring dreams and fears. Is life predetermined, or are there important choices to be made? Is it possible for things to be predetermined and yet for there to be choices at the same time? If life is in fact all scripted, do you really want to know what’s on the next page?

This is another of the more difficult episodes of Quiet Please to track down!

Quiet Please – The Girl With the Flaxen Hair

Charita Bauer, Ernest Chappell, Gene Paratzo (music), Wyllis Cooper (writer, director).

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The camera obscura was invented thousands of years ago, and mainly used to aid artists. It projects an image of the world through a small hole and onto a larger surface in a dark room. The image is an exact moving replica, in color, of what’s outside the room. The largest camera obscura in the world is located near the pier in Santa Monica.

Cy is a murderer. He recently killed a man who he vaguely knew. After the murder he feels no regret. He’s pleasantly surprised to discover that the man he killed had $200 on him. A few days later, Cy is talking to the man’s fiancee and learns that she had loaned him $200 on the night he was killed. The woman assumes he’d run out on her with the money, and Cy is happy to let her continue with that assumption and advises her not to contact the police.

Camera Obscura is at once horrifying and philosophical. As a symbolic study of human fears, it demonstrates the insecurity of life and especially of the mind of a person who knows they’ve done something wrong. The camera obscura is a reflection of a deeper reality, of subconscious realizations. In it is the reality of the mind, where people see in the duplicated moving image of the world what they know is true but have been trying to hide from themselves.

This is one of the more difficult episodes of Quiet Please to track down!

Quiet Please – Camera Obscura

Charita Bauer, Ernest Chappell, Gene Paratzo (music), Wyllis Cooper (writer, director).

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The beginning of this episode may be hard to make out, but you’ll hear your instructions. You’ll be told to write down three things: “yes,” “yours,” and “mine.” Simply write those three things down on a piece of paper, keep the paper next to you, sit back, and listen to your pal as he tells you a story.

Your pal remembers the old days when the two of you got along so well. He also remembers the troubles and conflicts that developed. For a long time you never saw each other, but several times he learned of things you said about him.

If you don’t remember your old friend at first, just listen a while. He’ll jog your memory and you’ll figure out who he is. More likely you’ll know him first thing, though, considering what you did to him not very long ago…

Quiet Please – How Are You, Pal

Ernest Chappell, Gene Paratzo (music), Wyllis Cooper (writer, director).

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A script writer for “Quiet Please” has a typewriter that types by itself, and whatever is typed (“it was a stormy night”) comes to pass (crash of thunder!).

Quiet Please – Bring Me to Life

Wyllis Cooper (writer, director), Ernest Chappell (“the man who spoke to you”), Helen Marcy, Walter Black, Walter Bryan, Gene Paratzo (composer, conductor).

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