“A writer staying at a widow’s house finds himself the unwitting vehicle for her dead husband to reach back from the grave.”

About the Series:
This series was written by Michael McCabe and was produced in South Africa. It was a replacement for another series McCabe produced, called SF68. That series adapted famous Sci-fi stories to radio, and it seems to have been the place where McCabe honed his craft. The subject matter to Beyond Midnight was more horror oriented, including madness, murder, and supernatural sleuths! What survives today doesn’t involve a horror host per se, but a few include framing narration (by someone involved in the plot) while others just start up the story with no announcer or lead-in whatsoever. So it’s possible the regular host or announcer was left off (edited out) of the recordings. The host– if there was one– may have only been heard by those who listened to this series when it first aired. It’s another radio mystery we may never know for sure, but we’re lucky to at least have some of the recordings! There are 43 known episodes, of which the recordings of 27 have survived. Other logs indicate 107 episodes were made, of which only eight are unknown or not available. The logged air dates suggest the series ran an extra year as well, into 1970.

I know you have several other episodes on your site and thank you for sharing them!

There’s every possibility this one was mislabeled.

Thank you Jim for posting one. They are awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, and the Suspense story was also very good.

Thanks, I think, for this story on Friday evening. Now I need something a little more pleasant.

Both “Believe It or Not” storied were lots of fun. I especially like the image of the old guy buried in a chair with his favorite game board. I think that is proper.

Thanks very much, and as we approached the turn to 2012, bless you and all in the coming year, and may you prosper.

It is a crazy earthly world.

Happy holidays to all.

Thank you Jim.

Thank you Jim and best wishes for the holiday. I give thanks to Relic Radio and all your effort and success.

Sunny

I am a great fan of Case Closed and a subscriber on ITunes. I have listened to nearly all the shows available except for the very oldest ones. I can’t seem to get any of the programs older than about No. 70 to download. Perhaps there is some trick to it or I am doing something wrong!

Thanks.
Dennis

Yes, rubbut – not to be confused with ‘row butt’ which is a nautical term the Captain may be familiar with. In a Piratical sense that is.

Thanks Jim for a fun Halloween, and do check out Dick’s Halloween presentations from the forum, another plum for Halloween. You are the greatest!

That’s him on the left. That was the only pic I could find.

Jim, you don’t have any pictures of Lou, do you? I just always wondered what he looked like… I’m guessing he might have looked a little like H.P. Lovecraft. I’ve used Google to try to find him but I only get pictures of the Lewis guy who wrote or produced Crime Classics.

An interesting side note: in Dark Passage her name was Mage Raff. In the early 90′s cult movie “A Gun, A Car, A Blonde”, the sleazy slimy sister with black hair was named Mage as a tribute to that movie.

Thanks for posting it and I hope msny listen and enjoy.

S

Thank you, as always, for these good stories. you never cease to amaze me the stories you present that I haven’t heard. It is very refreshing to get a new story, to me, that is.

Thank you very much.

I’ll see what I can do…