Episode 328: A Night to Forget

This week, we’re presenting one of our B Sides of the Mysterious Old Radio, an example of the sort of bonus content we make available to our supporters on Patreon! Each B Side is a companion piece to an episode presented as part of our usual podcast. In this case we’re listening to “A Night to Forget” from Quiet Please as a supplement to our previous installment, “The Coffin in Studio B,” from Lights Out! Wyllis Cooper wrote this script roughly 15 years after its predecessor on Lights Out. The story features the star of a popular radio series who suffers from surreal nightmarish experiences that he fears might lead to his own death. Where is the boundry between his reality and his dreams? How does this differ from Cooper’s version of this ideas created for Lights Out? What if a version of this story were produced for The Flintstones? Listen for yourself and find out!
0:00 Introduction
2:17 A Night to Forget
31:23 Post-Show Chat

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Though I far prefer "Quiet Please" to "Lights Out", even though it's an unfair comparison as the latter's famed original run does not exist, I think "The Coffin on Studio B" is far better as a pence of drama, has better apprehension towards the finale and all of its meta elements land beautifully. I will say that while Coffin is an example of a far better than average "Lights Out" ep that "A Night to Forget" is simply just another ep of "Quiet Please", such is the quality of the latter.