Genre Drama and suspense Country United States | Running time 30 minutes Language(s) English | |
Syndicates Mutual Broadcasting System
NBC Red network
ABC Blue Network Starring Gladys Thornton
Audrey Totter,
Chester Stratton
Eleanor Audley,
Arnold Moss,
Lawson Zerbe
Walter Vaughn
Regis Joyce
Fred Barron | ||
The Weird Circle was a syndicated radio drama series produced in New York and originally broadcast between 1943-1945.
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Production background
The series was a Ziv Production, produced at RCA's New York studios and licensed by the Mutual Broadcasting System, and later, NBC's Red network. It lasted two seasons, 39 shows each (78 total) consisting mostly of radio adaptations of classic horror stories from the pens of the world's best known and respected supernatural fiction authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens. The production values were modest and it featured very little music.
Standard opening
(SFX: Running water, perhaps a sea surf. Bell tolls)
Old Man: "In this cave by the restless sea, we are met to call from out of the past, stories strange and weird. Bell keeper, toll the bell, so that all may know that we are gathered again in The Weird Circle."
Alternate opening
Announcer: "Out of the past, phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale (episode title)."
Standard closing
Host: "From the time worn pages of the past, we have recalled, (episode title). Bell Keeper, toll the bell!
(SFX: Bell tolls)