A sacrifice for a god in old Hawaii. The fem The recording might be fr A young British archeologist becomes tra Home thriller the witchs tale. Spoiler : the witches tale is cool especaily at bed time when you wake up forgetting you have the show on and that laugh freaks you out. Spoiler : All of the existing programs of this series featuring "Old Nancy, the witch of Salem," who cackled her way through the horror tales penned by Alonzo Deen Cole. Old Nancy was played by first by Adelaide Fitz-Allen, then following her death due to pneumonia at age 79 in , thirteen year old Miriam Wolfe became Nancy she died in Nancy, and her black cat Satan opened a show like this Now draw up to the fire an' gaze into the embers Then the drums came up, the witch faded and the story begins!
For syndication, the shows were recorded live during broadcast and distributed to other stations. The recordings were destroyed by Cole in , so few episodes survive. The episodes were collected by collectors in the s, but their recordings of these episodes leaves a lot to be desired, and mostly the episodes are in poorer sound than I wish to have, or pass on to new collectors of OTR, but until 'maybe' a day comes that a batch of transcriptions are found, we do have these.
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Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. Later in the show's run, the role was taken by Martha Wentworth. The Witch's Tale was sometimes forced and obvious, but the good New York radio actors, ably directed by Roger Bower, transcended the occasional clunky scripting to be generally quite bold and horrifically enjoyable.
The classical music used as interludes for commercials adds some class and charm to the preternatural proceedings. The scripts would sometimes use famous horror tales, such as Frankenstein or the Flying Dutchman. The show enjoyed popularity both the New York regional and Mutual national runs.
As a sidelight, a version of the show is included in this compilation. But real fans would scream that they don't hold a candle to Old Nancy!
When she started her spiel to Satan's bawling one wonders who did the cat role - the mood was right for another fright! Old Nancy was certainly the horror hostess with the mostess in those days. Why, today, she'd be crowing about being ", I be today, Brian Verified Purchase.
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