“No… No… stay where you are. Do not break the stillness of this moment. For this is a time of mystery. A time when imagination is free, and moves forward swiftly, silently…. This is — The Haunting Hour!” Such was the weekly introduction to The Haunting Hour (1944-46), accompanied by the obligatory spooky organ chords. …

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Favorite Story (1946-49) aired “The Arabian Nights” on November 15, 1947. The collected stories are from the seductive raconteur Sheherazade’s One Thousand and One Nights (aka in various English versions as The Arabian Nights, from its first translation in 1706), and come to us in the West primarily through Sir Richard Burton’s now accepted 1885 …

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