The Man With The Scarlet Satchel (Aired March 6, 1942)
"Dark Fantasy," radio's weirdest thriller series, heard late in the evenings over Station WIBA, was bom in a Chinese tea room late on the stormy night of Nov. 3, 1941 while Scott Bishop, father of hundreds of mystery novels, stories, and radio scripts, sat drinking an iced, spiced tea concoction of his own invention, with Radio Production Man John I. Prosser in a haunt known as Yung Si Fu's. The darkly psychological conversation centered around mystery tales, with frequent references to Poe, DeQuincy, Blake, Coleridge and other masters of the craft. Bishop's mind kept turning on the subject after he went home, so he sat down and wrote a 30-minute script called "The Man Who Came Back." Next day Prosser and Bishop read the tale over in the cold light of morning, decided it was good, got a dramatic cast together, made a recording and submitted it, still hot off the infernal griddle, to the NBC-Red network program department. Eleven days later "Dark Fantasy" had its premiere. Show Notes From The Digital Deli. THIS EPISODE: March 6, 1942. Program #16. NBC network, WKY, Oklahoma City origination. "The Man With The Scarlet Satchel". Sustaining. The story of an aged millionaire who receives a child's set of modeling clay as a practical joke, but who turns the gift into a incredible and weird instrument of destruction. Scott Bishop (writer), Ben Morris, Fred Wayne, Georgiana Cook, Muir Hite, Tom Paxton (announcer). 24:37. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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