WYLLIS COOPER COLLECTIONOLD TIME RADIO - 2 CD - 136 mp3 - Total Playtime: 64:17:39Wyllis Oswald Cooper (January 26, 1899 - June 22, 1955) was an American writer and producer.He is best remembered for creating and writing the old time radio programs Lights Out (1934–1947) and Quiet, Please (1947–1949)Born Willis Oswald Cooper in Pekin, Illinois, he attended Pekin High School, graduating in 1916. He soon joined the U.S. Cavalry where, achieving the rank of Sergeant, he spent time on the Mexican border. In 1917, he became a part of the Signal Corps and was sent to France during World War I. While in France he was gassed at the Meuse-Argonne Offensive 1 at the Wayback Machine (archived October 27, 2009). He remained on active duty until 1919 when he left to become an advertising writer, though he maintained his reserve status.By the late 1920s he was writing advertising copy in Chicago and entered radio, writing scripts for the 1929-1931 NBC radio program The Empire Builders. He later worked as continuity editor of CBS Chicago and, in 1933, left to take the same position at NBC Chicago. In 1934 he created his best known dramatic series, a late night horror radio program called Lights Out, which he also directed. Airing at midnight, the program quickly earned a reputation for its gory deaths and sound effects.The show would prove to be a long-term success, but in 1936, Cooper capitalized on the fame of Lights Out and resigned from NBC, moving to Hollywood, California, where he worked as a screenwriter for various film studios. He wrote the screenplay for the 1939 film Son of Frankenstein (which introduced the character of "Ygor") and contributed to a few of the Mr. Moto films. At the same time, he continued to provide radio scripts for various series including Hollywood Hotel.Arch Oboler, who took over the writing of Lights Out when Cooper left, would suggest that Cooper was the first person to create a unique form of radio drama, writing, "Radio drama (as distinguished from theatre plays boiled down to kilocycle size) began at midnight, in the middle thirties, on one of the upper floors of Chicago's Merchandise Mart. The pappy was a rotund writer by the name of Willys (sic) Cooper."By 1940, Cooper moved to New York City where he changed his name from “Willis” to “Wyllis” in order "to please his wife's numerological inclinations". He continued to make his living writing radio scripts for various network programs including The Campbell Playhouse, the sponsored successor of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre.During World War II, he was made a consultant to the Secretary of War and produced, directed and wrote The Army Hour, a weekly news and variety propaganda series.In 1944, Cooper joined the radio department of New York's Compton Advertising, Inc. In 1947, he created what was arguably his finest radio effort, Quiet, Please, which began over the Mutual Broadcasting System network but which later moved to ABC.He also wrote and directed a crime anthology for NBC called Whitehall 1212 that debuted on November 18, 1951. Hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, fictional curator of the Black Museum at Scotland Yard, it featured an allegedly all-British cast and told stories inspired by artifacts held by the famous London crime museum. Cooper's show competed with a similar program (hosted by Orson Welles), which ran on Mutual in 1952.As television became the dominant entertainment medium, Cooper experimented with various programs including a series he wrote and produced called Volume One.Cooper resided in Glen Gardner, New Jersey, and died in High Bridge, New Jersey on June 22, 1955.EPISODES LISTDisc 1Chamber Music Society 41 09 08 First Song Overture from Marriage of FigaroCloak and Dagger 50-07-30 (10) Swastika on the WindmillCrime Club 47-04-24 ep22 The Topaz FlowerLights Out 45-07-21 Reunion After DeathLights Out 45-08-25 Man In The MiddleLights Out 46-07-13 (002) The Coffin in Studio BLights Out 46-07-20 (003) Haunted CellLights Out 46-07-27 (004) Battle of the MagiciansLights Out 46-08-03 (005) Revenge of IndiaLights Out 46-08-10 (006) Ghost on the Newsreel NegativeLights Out 47-07-16 (002) Death RobberyWhitehall 1212 51-11-18 (01) The Blitz Murder CaseWhitehall 1212 51-12-02 (03) The Fonier CaseWhitehall 1212 51-12-09 (04) The Murder of Duncan FrazierWhitehall 1212 51-12-16 (05) The Man Who Murdered His WifeWhitehall 1212 51-12-23 (06) The Heathrow AffairWhitehall 1212 52-01-06 (07) The Murder of Charles BrooksWhitehall 1212 52-01-13 (08) Kashmere Is MurderedWhitehall 1212 52-01-20 (09) The Case of Donald SimmsWhitehall 1212 52-01-27 (10) The Murder of Little Philip AveryWhitehall 1212 52-02-03 (11) The Pete Williams CaseWhitehall 1212 52-02-10 (12) Case of Arthur FreemanWhitehall 1212 52-02-17 (13) Case of the Late Mrs HarveyWhitehall 1212 52-02-24 (14) Murder of Peter AmoryWhitehall 1212 52-03-02 (15) The Case of Air Cadet GordonWhitehall 1212 52-03-09 (16) Case of Dr Duncan AllenWhitehall 1212 52-03-16 (17) Case of Thomas ApplebeeWhitehall 1212 52-03-23 (18) Case of the Black Gladstone BagWhitehall 1212 52-03-30 (19) Murder of a Bloody BelgianWhitehall 1212 52-04-13 (20) Case of the Fatal BathWhitehall 1212 52-04-20 (21) Case of Mrs Minerva BannamonWhitehall 1212 52-04-27 (22) Case of Francesca NicholsonWhitehall 1212 52-05-04 (23) Case of William George GreenlyWhitehall 1212 52-05-11 (24) The Case of Margery TateWhitehall 1212 52-05-18 (25) The Case of Sydney WolfeWhitehall 1212 52-05-25 (26) The Case Of Maggie RalensonWhitehall 1212 52-06-01 (27) Case of Winfred HogWhitehall 1212 52-06-08 (28) Case of the Strange BondfireWhitehall 1212 52-06-15 (29) Case of the Homemade HandbagWhitehall 1212 52-06-22 (30) Murder of Mrs Ann BattersbyWhitehall 1212 52-06-29 (31) Case of the Weed EradicationWhitehall 1212 52-07-06 (32) Murder of Mr SweetWhitehall 1212 52-07-13 (33) The Tapir House MurderWhitehall 1212 52-07-20 (34) Case of the Unidentified WomanWhitehall 1212 52-07-27 (35) The Case Of The Magenta Blotting PadWhitehall 1212 52-08-03 (36) The Case of Nora BradyWhitehall 1212 52-08-10 (37) Case of the Missing ClarinetWhitehall 1212 52-08-17 (38) Case of Dugel HenryWhitehall 1212 52-08-24 (39) Murder of Lady Madge JohnsonWhitehall 1212 52-08-31 (40) Case of the Madden FamilyWhitehall 1212 52-09-07 (41) Case of the Eaton BrothersWhitehall 1212 52-09-14 (42) Case of the Winchester BottlesWhitehall 1212 52-09-21 (43) Case of the Inoperative WirelessWhitehall 1212 52-09-28 (44) The Case Of The Electric TorchDisc 2Quiet Please 47-06-15 (002) I've Been Looking for YouQuiet Please 47-06-22 (003) We Were Here FirstQuiet Please 47-06-29 (004) The Ticket TakerQuiet Please 47-07-20 (005) CorneliaQuiet Please 47-07-27 (006) I Remember TomorrowQuiet Please 47-08-03 (007) InquestQuiet Please 47-08-10 (008) Bring Me to LifeQuiet Please 47-09-10 (014) How Are You, PalQuiet Please 47-10-06 (018) Not Enough TimeQuiet Please 47-10-13 (019) Camera ObscuraQuiet Please 47-10-27 (021) Don't Tell Me About HalloweenQuiet Please 47-11-03 (022) Take Me out to the GraveyardQuiet Please 47-11-10 (023) ThreeQuiet Please 47-11-17 (024) Kill Me AgainQuiet Please 47-11-24 (025) In Memory of BernadineQuiet Please 47-12-01 (026) Come In, EddieQuiet Please 47-12-08 (027) Some People Don't DieQuiet Please 47-12-15 (028) Little FellowQuiet Please 47-12-29 (030) Rain on New Year's EveQuiet Please 48-01-05 (031) Little VisitorQuiet Please 48-01-12 (032) The Room Where Ghosts LiveQuiet Please 48-01-19 (033) Baker's DozenQuiet Please 48-01-26 (034) Green LightQuiet Please 48-02-02 (035) The Pathetic FallacyQuiet Please 48-02-09 (036) A Red and White GuidonQuiet Please 48-02-16 (037) Whence Came YouQuiet Please 48-02-23 (038) Wear the Dead Man's CoatQuiet Please 48-03-01 (039) Sketch for a ScreenplayQuiet Please 48-03-08 (040) Never Send to KnowQuiet Please 48-03-22 (042) A Night to ForgetQuiet Please 48-04-05 (044) I Always Marry JulietQuiet Please 48-04-12 (045) Twelve to FiveQuiet Please 48-04-19 (046) ClarissaQuiet Please 48-04-26 (047) 13 and 8Quiet Please 48-05-03 (048) How Beautiful Upon the MountainQuiet Please 48-05-10 (049) There Are Shadows HereQuiet Please 48-05-17 (050) Gem of Purest RayQuiet Please 48-05-24 (051) In the House Where I Was BornQuiet Please 48-06-14 (054) Not Responsible After 30 YearsQuiet Please 48-06-28 (055) Let the Lillies ConsiderQuiet Please 48-07-05 (056) Wahine TahitiQuiet Please 48-07-19 (057) As Long as I LiveQuiet Please 48-07-26 (058) The Man Who Stole a PlanetQuiet Please 48-08-02 (059) It's Later Then You ThinkQuiet Please 48-08-09 (060) The Thing on the Fourble BoardQuiet Please 48-08-16 (061) Presto-Change-O, I'm SureQuiet Please 48-08-23 (062) 3000 WordsQuiet Please 48-09-06 (064) The Third Man's StoryQuiet Please 48-09-13 (065) Symphony in MinorQuiet Please 48-09-19 (066) AnonymousQuiet Please 48-09-26 (067) Light the Lamp for MeQuiet Please 48-10-03 (068) Meet John Smith, JohnQuiet Please 48-10-10 (069) Beezer's CellarQuiet Please 48-10-17 (070) And Jeannie Dreams of MeQuiet Please 48-10-24 (071) Good GhostQuiet Please 48-10-31 (072) Calling All SoulsQuiet Please 48-11-07 (073) Adam and the Darkest DayQuiet Please 48-11-14 (074) The Evening and the MorningQuiet Please 48-11-21 (075) One for the BookQuiet Please 48-11-28 (076) My Son JohnQuiet Please 48-12-05 (077) Very Unimportant PersonQuiet Please 48-12-26 (080) Berlin, 1945Quiet Please 49-01-02 (081) The Time of the Big SnowQuiet Please 49-01-09 (082) Portrait of a CharacterQuiet Please 49-01-30 (085) Northern LightsQuiet Please 49-02-06 (086) Tap the Heat, BogdanQuiet Please 49-02-13 (087) ValentineQuiet Please 49-02-20 (088) Where Do You Get Your IdeasQuiet Please 49-02-27 (089) If I Should Wake Before I DieQuiet Please 49-03-06 (090) The Man Who Knew EverythingQuiet Please 49-03-13 (091) Dark RosaleenQuiet Please 49-03-20 (092) The Smell of High WinesQuiet Please 49-03-27 (093) A Time to Be Born, and a Time to DieQuiet Please 49-04-17 (096) Sh