78 - The Wishing Stone (with Original News & Commercials) - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2012
- 78 - The Wishing Stone (with Original News & Commercials) - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Story begins at 6:20
Original air date April 22, 1974 (Repeated: July 12, 1974)
Directed by: Himan Brown, Written by: Ian Martin
Starring Clarice Blackburn, William Prince, Anne Costello, Jack Grimes, Robert Dryden 
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I don't know about any one else, but I didn't skip to the story, I love hearing things that were going on back when I was just 7. Thanks for the uploads with original commercials.
I was a couple of decades older but I love it too. Like you, I don't click on the timestamp - I let it play.
Love these old commercials from
1974 I remember hearing this on
Saturday night at 11.00pm
When I was 10 years old after the Carol Burnett show love this
I was in elementary school when this program started. I remember listening in at night on a crackly old am radio. We were a big family in a small house. It was nice to be able to get away from my siblings and their constant squabbling over what to watch on TV and slip away and enjoy something that only I and a couple of friends in school were aware of. We would discuss the episodes the next day at school. I continued to listen all the way through my school years. Every episode is high quality and still holds up today.
For all you youngsters: Imagine being 21 (as I was in small-town Oklahoma) when this episode was created and aired. Then imagine having had years of actual experience in radio with (or, incredibly, inside) a tiny home-town station. These low-power stations no longer exist, but they were very Internet-like; local radio-station info was the best/fastest quality of any source, so folks wisely listened in homes and cars, and non-local news/programming was cleverly transmitted over phone lines... since no other lines existed. One could trust that big national stories would interrupt local programs. The point: I knew that this CBS radio theater series was real literature, real art, and really doomed to fail because of a sadly changing audience that could neither listen to nor deeply imagine/read a simple story without being shown pictures, as is the case of infants. This was the fruit of declining education. If you enjoy this tale, or written stories/novels, you almost certainly owe thanks to an unusual mentor...and you are blessed. Your enhanced between-the-ears computer will make your life better past the day you die.
Thank you for for helping me reflect on my wonderful Mentor who has passed. You are absolutely right as 9 out of 10 people do not have the patience to sit with themselves and listen to a great story and create theater of the Mind from it.
Well said! Huzzah!
I listened to these every night as an older child, teen, and reruns as an adult. I clearly remember when they stopped playing and put on old radio shows.
So I listened and loved them too but not with the love of “mystery theatre”
When I moved out of range of these beloved radio shows, I truly mourned and always trolled the radio for them with little success. My nights were never the same as I was going to sleep with them since childhood. Books on tape came and I rejoiced, but always longed inside for my mystery theater shows. When the internet came out I looked long and hard and finally found some podcasts with the old time radio shows but no Mystery Theatre sigh. Now alas thanks to you and others I have finally come full circle and yours with the commercials are the best.
For that I thank you!
BTW I am so jealous of your past in the still glory of radio! ❤️
Listening in 2021. I was 18 when this aired. Also in small town Oklahoma. Ponca city in the very northern section right in the center. Ever knew these existed in the 70s but I love listening now 🤗❤️
@tonycrowYT is absolutely right: The original picture screen is the one on the back of our eyelids, the mind's eye. The first stories adults heard were told and passed down by (usually illiterate) village storytellers and illustrated only by the mind's eye, each individual listener creating her/his unique pictures of the action.
Disney set out to claim ownership of children's imaginations and scored its first win when America's children started uniformly picturing Snow White as the girl who looked and dressed exactly like the girl created in the studio for the world's first feature-length cartoon.
And now visual imagination is an industry where it once consisted of a boundless treasure trove of intimate personal images produced by the creative power of the mind's eye. Oh, we still possess that image-making faculty - but in the overwhelming majority of us it's partly or mostly stunted by the entertainment industry's crippling strategy to make us dependent on its art and marketing professionals to do our imagining for us.
I loved these shows as a kid! Every Thursday night I would run to the radio to make sure I didn't miss a second! Thanks for putting these on youtube. And I agree with MzSunnyJeep...listening to the news reports and commercials is a great walk down memory lane.
Good night 💤😴🌉 all from Kennewick Wa
This comment is for Mystery Theater and whomever would like
Read it.
And yes when I complete it the comment it will definitely show my age.
I apologize for the length all of this comment it's just well,
, if you could bare through it please read it.
You see, growing up I remember hearing these stories daily.My mom and my Aunt Joan would listen to them having coffee in the kitchen.
Now I'm talkin all the way back in the early 1970s our kitchen was kind of crazy looking we had an orange countertop with a matching orange refrigerator. Believe it or not that was the actual style that was in then.
. My friend Jimmy Wallace and I would be sitting at our dining room table building car models, and we would hear the radio playing and my mom and Aunt Joan laughing and talking listening to these great old radio shows. But really what it makes it so much familiar it is those great old commercials I remember
too. It's really funny how they just stick in your memory, and you know it's like they were just yesterday...
They were so many good old memories, and what is even funnier about the whole thing when I got a little older I'd be playing the same play the same radio station building something down on my dad's workbench in the basement. And I would have a radio on the workbench and Jimmy and I would be doing something,, then going up the steps open up the basement door and my mom would be cleaning the kitchen, listening to this same damn play.
And decades later, I'm doing the same thing listening to these great on Mystery Theater plays.
So the point of this very long comment is bringing these plays back for people to listen to.
You have reignited so many great memories of my mom when I was young way before she got sick.
I can't thank you enough, because it brings back so many great memories of my mom that I love even to this day even though she is gone.
Then the years when I was a child, and my Best friend Jimmy that's no longer with us either.
Jimmy's death was a real tragedy he died before he was 16.
Well I'll try to leave this on a good note, Jimmy and I would sit on the floor and build all those car models. We would either be glued to the radio in suspense or laughing at a funny character in the play.
So once again and lastly thank you ever so much for reigniting these great old memories.!
Memories are forever. Thanks for sharing.
@Eddie Munster Thanks for the memories and now I'll ask you to bear with me in similar fashion.
In my late gradeschool years and early teens I was an avid listener of CBS radio shows including
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (my favorite),
Gunsmoke
Suspense
Indictment
The FBI in Peace and War
and others.
Those shows died one by one and seemingly the golden age of radio drama was over. Little did I know it wasn't going to come to full bloom until 1974 with CBSRMT.
It came and went without my realizing it even existed. I was in my mid-twenties when it came on the air and in my mid-thirties when its original run ended. My young life was very full during those years in terms of rewarding work, an engrossing music scene, a blessed love-life and a fulfilling voyage of self-discovery. So radio wasn't a big part of it anymore.
And of course RUclips didn't exist. Now, in the process of reclaiming my childhood radio days, hearing uploads of those old shows of the 1950s, I've discovered CBSRMT as well - and it's gradually taken over my listening. You're lucky to have had a childhood that included it. I'm lucky to have found it. Guess it's never too late for the good things, at least the ones that are uploadable.
Good story thank you😃
Loved the commercials what great memories! Thank you!
Thank you for the episodes.
Jack Grimes, who played the son had his start as a child actor in the 1930's on LET'S PRETEND over 40 years prior to this. His ever-youthful sounding voice allowed him to play adolescents in a number of 1970's CBSRMT episodes and other radio dramas for many years prior to this and still be totally believable. That's one of the things that made radio work. Your imagination created all the imagery.
MZSunnyJeep, I agree....really interesting to go way back and listen to the WHOLE show! The news is amazing to hear. I was four going on five!
I was in my mid-twenties to mid-thirties so the news bits really flash me back to where I was and what I was doing when those events were going down.
@@dontaylor7315 Yep, pretty cool.
Simple, yet cerebrally stimulating; with no visual but what the imagination conjures up. Whatta concept!!! Today's "entertainers" should take copious notes!
oil that door E.G...THANKS POSTER
NOooooo, never oil the door, it’s nostalgically perfect.
@@kmbpookyify its a lack of maintenance masterpiece...lol
........ until next time.......... Pleasant........ Dreams?!?!?!?!?
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MzSunnyJeep,
Absolutely! Love the news and ads.
Wow 20 cents for a pay phone call 📞
Just say no to drugs.
This was a good one! :)
She shoulda wished for dad to stop gambling
52:51 "Old Nick". According to google it's "A nickname for Satan".
Wait, what? Do people really need Google to find out what Old Nick means? In my childhood and right through my twenties or even forties it was a common figure of speech and everybody knew what it meant. I was born in the mid-20th century and I guess the language really has changed that much.
Just goes to show it's a living language, still fluid and morphing. I'm constantly aware that the English I speak today isn't the same as the way I expressed the same thoughts thirty or forty years ago.
@@dontaylor7315 I'm in my 40's and read a lot (novels) and never encountered "old nick". I'm living in the middle east, not in a Christian country, so maybe that's the reason. Maybe it's an American lingo.
@@niccolomedici4482 I bet it is. I'm pretty sure I only heard/read it used by Americans.
What? Wait.
10 minutes of adverts. I gave up!
Adverts were great
@@somchai9033, I think they're a great part of these shows. They, and the news bits are great little time capsules.
@@roberthanson579 I agree, especially the news.