Himan Brown a další. Produkce a režie Himan Brown.
Účinkují Raymond Edward Johnson, Paul McGrath, Berry Kroeger, Mary Bennett, Bela Lugosi, Mary Astor, Helen Hayes, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Claude Rains, Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Orson Welles, Santos Ortega, Larry Haines, Ted Osborne, Luis van Rooten, Stefan Schnabel, Ralph Bell, Mercedes McCambridgeová, Berry Kroeger, Arnold Moss, Leon Janney, Myron McCormick, Mason Adams, Richard Widmark, Everett Sloane, Burgess Meredith, Agnes Moorehead, Ken Lynch, Anne Seymour a další.
Natočeno 1941-1952 ( ). Premiéra 1. dílu 7. 1. 1941, 526. dílu 5. 10. 1952.
Pozn.: Podle rozhlasového seriálu v letech 1943-1945 vytvořila společnost Universal také filmový cyklus: Calling Dr. Death (1943), Weird Woman (1944), Dead Man’s Eyes (1944), The Frozen Ghost (1945), Strange Confession (1945) and Pillow of Death (1945).
Lit.: anonym: Inner Sanctum Mystery. In Wikipedia, b. d. (encyklopedické heslo). – Cit.: (…) Inner Sanctum Mystery, also known as Inner Sanctum, is a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952. It was created by producer Himan Brown and was based on the imprint given to the mystery novels of Simon & Schuster. In all, 526 episodes were broadcast.
Simon & Schuster series
In 1930, the first title was published in Simon & Schuster’s „Inner Sanctum“ mystery series: I Am Jonathan Scrivener by Claude Houghton. Although the imprint „Inner Sanctum“ also included serious drama (published with blue covers) and romance (published with red covers), for the most part it was associated with mysteries (published in green covers). Lee Wright was the editor of the series, and over the years she introduced such authors as Craig Rice, Gypsy Rose Lee, Patrick Quentin, Thomas Sterling and Anthony Boucher.
Horror hosts
On January 7, 1941, the Inner Sanctum radio program premiered, the name licensed by Simon & Schuster on condition that at the end of each broadcast the announcer would promote the latest book title published in the series. The anthology series featured stories of mystery, terror and suspense, and its tongue-in-cheek introductions were in sharp contrast to shows like Suspense and The Whistler. The early 1940s programs opened with Raymond Edward Johnson introducing himself as „Your host, Raymond“ in a mockingly sardonic voice. A spooky melodramatic organ score (played by Lew White) punctuated Raymond’s many morbid jokes and playful puns. Raymond’s closing was an elongated „Pleasant dreeeeaams, hmmmmm?“ His tongue-in-cheek style and ghoulish relish of his own tales became the standard for many such horror narrators to follow, such as Maurice Tarplin (on The Mysterious Traveler).
When Johnson left the series in May 1945 to serve in the Army, he was replaced by Paul McGrath, who did not keep the „Raymond“ name and was known only as „Your Host“ or „Mr. Host“. (Berry Kroeger had substituted earlier for a total of four episodes.) McGrath was a Broadway actor who turned to radio for a regular income. Beginning in 1945, Lipton Tea sponsored the series, pairing first Raymond and then McGrath with cheery commercial spokeswoman Mary Bennett (aka the „Tea Lady“), whose blithesome pitches for Lipton Tea contrasted sharply with the macabre themes of the stories. She primly chided the host for his trademark dark humor and creepy manner. (…)