CBS Radio Mystery Theater ~ The Guillotine 1013

A young medical student meets the love of his life as while waiting out the war. His naive ideals take a beating as he witnesses the brutality of the French Revolution first-hand.
Air Dates: First Run - September 17, 1979
Repeat - December 28, 1979
Actors:
Paul Hecht
Bryna Raeburn
Don Scardino
Writer: Elspeth Eric
Washington Irving Story ~ en.wikipedia.o...

[@louishennick6883]

I was 13 years old when I listened to this story on my transistor radio late at night when everyone else was asleep. The end scared me so much I had to turn the lights back on and read three Mad magazines cover to cover to calm myself to sleep

[@ChillySunshine]

5:45 If you want to skip the beginning commercials and go right to The Mystery Theater.

[@PhilNY15]

To be honest, I love it when there is the news and commercials. Makes me feel like I am listening to the radio in 1979. Great upload!

[@brendadow7574]

ChillySunshine . . thank you . . ❤️

[@michaeladamo1188]

I sometimes just want to hear the news

[@robertjosephkleist2004]

No way! I gotta find out what President Carter plans to do about the hostages in Iran.

[@kaybowkett7931]

Thank you

[@pambell9773]

Thankyou again, for putting these up for everyone! Your the best!

[@carlesq.]

Thanks for sharing

[@riverbilly64]

12 November 2024 - Listening from Central Kentucky, at 2:30am. My insomnia cure. Love Irving. He is truly my favorite American author. The Molly Pitcher commercial was quite appropriate.

[@seattlestunna]

10:18

[@donnaallen2207]

Great channel. Thanks for all the videos, it better than anything on TV now. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas everyone.

[@jeffwarren6906]

Happy Easter to you Miss Donna ..

[@donnaallen2207]

@@jeffwarren6906 Happy Easter to you as well Jeff. 🐇🐣

[@DeadtotheBone]

This is an NBC affiliate station running a CBS show. You don't see that today.

[@ocpunk4024]

Thank you :)

[@Mi-yc3oy]

love the classics, thanks :)

[@ChillySunshine]

You are very welcome.

[@sanguinelynx]

I liked hearing the news, it takes me back to when I first heard it. Good times, in spite of the world issues.

[@ChillySunshine]

Washington Irving Story ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving

[@christosvoskresye]

Washington Irving's story in some sense foreshadows the climax a bit more clearly. "He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until, like Swedenborg, he had an ideal world of his own around him. He took up a notion, I do not know from what cause, that there was an evil influence hanging over him; an evil genius or spirit seeking to ensnare him and ensure his perdition." In the radio version, the idea that he had been trapped and damned by some evil spirit seems to come from nowhere -- though it perhaps seems more deserved in the radio version, since in that version he dabbled more explicitly in occult literature.

[@trinaholman4083]

Thanks Chilly! *hugs*

[@ChillySunshine]

You're welcome Trina!

[@musgrovebarry]

trains in france 1790's?

[@Levitaz4236]

I love this Gottfried guy, he is like me, he is like everyone in modern society. Except now people work 10 hours a day,7 days a week at starbucks or walmart going "do you have extra points card" "do you have extra points cards" zombie robots ghouls of monotonous work. On top of that we are in an internet age and on top of that we are in a pandemic where people wont have social contact. Generation Gottfried.

[@jerryjohnson8485]

Robespierres rivers of blood, as bad, if not a worse butcher than the"nobleity"!

[@robertflores7819]

I suppose this is the beginning of the urban legend of the bride that won't remove the ribbon around her neck.

[@Levitaz4236]

If this guy just had like a good job working in the sun 4 hours a day, and a gym membership, and went for a few bike rides, I think he would have been alright. But people go after what they feel rather than what they know is right. A bike ride can give a person freedom, and the absence a weight on their soul. But that same person will follow their emotional feelings and do what immediately seems right (go to work, watch the news, read a book,etc) for a instant gratification, thinking it's for the best but its really just a pointless waste of time. But wont get off their asses and go for a bike ride with the faith that it will benefit their over all being in the long run, thus not being pointless. I bet you the swedish philosopher he was reading didn't gain connection to the spiritual universe by becoming a "literature ghoul". He probably found that connection while riding a bicycle, scanadanavians love bicycles.

[@jasonhurd4379]

Your prosaic, shallow, one-dimensional analysis of the causes of and remedies for depression and ennui were definitively refuted by Theodor Adorno in Minima Moralia, his most accessible work. You would do well to study it before you are lost forever.

[@christosvoskresye]

The moral of the story is, of course, "Wait until you're married. That way you can be sure your beloved is not undead."

[@eddieconsuegra1356]

This was a nice gloomy/morbid episode for the 1979 end of year Holiday Season!