Murder At Midnight

Show Information based on John Dunning's book "On The Air"

Mystery-horror drama. (1946-1947).

Murder at Midnight offered tales of "the witching hour, when night is darkest, our fears the strongest, our strength at its lowest ebb...Midnight! . . . when graves gape open and death strikes!"

The creepy voice of the opening signature (MURRR~DERRR-A-A-AT MIIDNIIGHT!) belonged to Raymond Morgan, a Long Island minister who gave up the cloth for the excitement of radio.

CAST:

New York actors including Elspeth Eric, Mercedes McCambridge, Berry Kroeger, Betty Caine,

Carl Frank, Barry Hopkins, Lawson Zerbe, Charlotte Holland, etc.

NARRATOR: Raymond Morgan.

MUSIC: Charles Paul, with a creepy score on organ.

PRODUCER: Louis G. Cowan.

DIRECTOR: Anton M. Leader.

WRITERS: Robert Newman, Joseph Ruscoll, Max Ehrlich, William Morwood, etc.

BROADCAST HISTORY:

1946, 30m, transcribed syndication; heard on WJZ, New York Sept. 16, 1946-Sept. 8, 1947.