“Judas Kiss: The Traveling Clairvoyant of Tipton Mountain” — A hermit who claims he can watch distant events from inside a hollow pine tree becomes convinced the woman renting the cabin above his is a murderer — and only he knows what she's done.
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00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Judas Kiss” (March 23, 1978) ***WD
00:45:48.210 = Tales From The Tomb, “Spirit Calling” (1960s)
00:50:20.385 = Two Thousand Plus, “World’s Apart” (November 29, 1950) ***WD
01:19:02.978 = The Unexpected, “Heat Wave” (1947-1948)
01:31:11.637 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Indian Fakir” (February 17, 1944) ***WD
01:44:47.860 = Dark Venture, “Elizabeth Is Frightened” (July 22, 1947)
02:14:43.934 = The Weird Circle, “Haunted Hotel” (May 13, 1945)
02:42:15.220 = The Whistler, “Murder Will Shout” (March 19, 1945)
03:11:41.385 = Strange Wills, “Emily” (August 31, 1946)
03:41:20.826 = Witch’s Tale, “Statue of Thor” (May 22, 1933)
04:04:13.136 = X Minus One, “Honeymoon In Hell” (December 26, 1956)
04:33:07.327 = ABC Mystery Time, “Murder In Haste” (1957) ***WD
04:56:48.877 = Strange Adventure, “Death Rides The Carousel” (1945) ***WD
05:00:05.724 = Show Close
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(LQ) = Low Quality
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https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0712Weird Darkness presents Retro Radio, a night of classic dark radio drama spanning three decades of murder, madness, and the supernatural.
- It opens with the CBS Radio Mystery Theater's "The Judas Kiss," in which Oscar Absecker, a solitary handyman living on a dying mountain outside the village of Tipton, believes a big black dog barks three times whenever someone dies — and believes he can watch distant events unfold by standing inside a lightning-struck, hollow pine tree. When Deputy Luke Marbury rents the cabin above his to a woman named Enid Grant, Oscar becomes convinced that she is destroying the much younger man who joins her there, and his visions show him one killing after another. Fred Gwynne stars, with E.G. Marshall hosting.
- From there comes "Spirit Calling" from Tales From The Tomb, a short piece about a nine-year-old girl named Amy, alone in the house during a violent summer storm after her uncle Stanley's death, and the telephone call that comes through on a dead line.
- Next is Two Thousand Plus and "World's Apart," in which rocket engineer Jim Granger talks his way onto Flight 17, the first crewed voyage to Neptune, only for the spaceship Phoenix to be dragged off course by an uncharted comet. Crippled and lost, the ship limps to a landing at a place called Green Valley, where Commander Dijkstra can hear heartbeats across a room, the milk is green, and gravity does not behave the way it should.
- The Unexpected follows with "Heat Wave," starring Barry Sullivan as Whitey Malone, a fugitive sweating out a 110-degree heat wave in a fifth-floor garret while the police close in — and burning to settle accounts with the woman he thinks tipped them off.
- Then Unsolved Mysteries brings "Indian Fakir," a story told at the United Services Club in Simla, where a colonel recounts what happened when his young English bride, alone in their Bangalore...
