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| 1948-05-03 |
048 How Beautiful Upon |
| This story recounts the attempts made by man to conquer Mt. Everest. It tells the unsuccessful attempts of Irvine and Leigh Mallory in 1924, up to the successful stories of Edmond Hillary in 1953, and Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler in 1978. The characters of the story explain their mix feelings of weariness and euphoria as they reach the summit of what is known to be as a beautiful bride wearing a deadly veil of clouds. |
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| 1948-05-10 |
049 There Are Shadows Here |
| Shadow represents a state of mystery, the unknown, the uncertainty, and most of all fear. Woody realizes that a woman is looking for him but he is unable to figure out who she is or what she wants from him. All that his friends ever see from the woman is only sort of a shadow. Woody then plays a waiting game to discover the true intentions of the mysterious person. |
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| 1948-05-17 |
050 Gem Of Purest Ray |
| Dr. Moraitas is charged with multiple counts of murder and is about to be tried and likely executed for his acts. He keeps on speaking that his work is not yet done and that he must kill more people who are the agents of Atlantis. This justification obliterates the line between reality and fantasy as the story lets the audience examine on what goes inside the mind of a murderer. |
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| 1948-05-24 |
051 House Where I Was Born |
| A dead man reflects on the life he used to have by going back once a year to the house where he was born. He recalls his youth, his family, and the long hours that they have spend together on what seems like just yesterday. Even the smallest of things means a lot for him as he takes a trip back to memory lane. This artistic masterpiece lets the audience feel the value of living and the lessons that we must learn from the dead. |
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| 1948-06-14 |
054 Not Responsible After 30 Years |
| You have a conversation with a man who has just been released from prison after serving three years for stealing a watch. He tells you that he stole his own watch from the skeleton of a roman soldier who is 1500 years old. He also exposes to you his plan of going back 30 years from now in order to steal again his watch. It recounts on how he and his friend discover the ability to go back in time. |
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| 1948-06-28 |
055 Let The Lilies Consider |
| James is suspected of killing his own wife and burying her under an especially tall lilie in the garden. He denies the accusation and tells that he and his wife always have an argument regarding his love of flowers. Could it be that these lilies came to life and killed her wife? Or is it just a desperate attempt of a man to escape his crime? This story showcases the finest creativity of Wyllis Cooper by taking something that seems impossible and twisting it in order to appear rational. |
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| 1948-07-05 |
056 Wahine Tahiti |
| Wahine Tahiti is the goddess and protector of the women tribe of Tahiti. She grants the prayers of her followers in such a way that they end up regretting for asking. In 1788, an English ship arrives at the coast of their island and Wahine Tahiti forecasts doom for everyone except for an individual who she won't yet identify. |
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| 1948-07-16 |
057 As Long As I Live |
| From what seems like an ordinary case of a relative trying to stay with another relative's house, this story has supernatural forces involve. A man can't seem to figure out why her wife, who works as a medium, doesn't get along with his 97 year old uncle. His uncle says that his wife has "the evil eye". Could it be a premonition of darker things to come? |
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| 1948-07-26 |
058 Man Who Stole A Planet |
| The fate of the planet hangs in balance as an archeologist discovers the greatest treasure the world has ever known. Modern science establishes itself as a superpower in changing the course of the planet, but the discovery of that artifact threatens its supremacy. Can humanity save itself from the danger of such power possess by a single person? |
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| 1948-08-02 |
059 Its Later Than You Think |
| People often attach extraordinary significance to their watches by controlling its time in accordance to their preference. Lindsay Bradley receives a gold watch as a token of appreciation from the army, but he soon discovers that he can control time by setting his watch back and forth. This astonishing discovery frightens the young officer and decides to use its power only in his times of need. With the help of his watch, he will soon find out that the war has taken something very dear from him. |
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| 1948-08-09 |
060 Thing On The Fourble Board |
| Oil drilling creates the deepest holes inside the Earth in order to exhume rocks dating back millions of years. Together they form overlapping layers of dirt and rocks, covering something down there, deep in the past. It is only a matter of time before the excavators brought it up on the surface. |
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| 1948-08-16 |
061 Presto Changeo Im Sure |
| From what looks like a toy magic wand, a man has successfully made an elephant disappear. "Presto change-o, disappear!" is all it takes for him to make something vanish or change things into anything else. All those that disappear have to go somewhere and the strange thing is they have to go back. Eventually you have to deal with them, but are they still the same harmless creatures from before? |
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| 1948-08-23 |
062 3000 Words |
| A ventriloquist couple scams people by making it appear that they are making contact with their deceased relatives. Their racket achieves its perfection when the man's brother comes along into their house and uses his woodworking skills to create fake ghosts. But it seems that the brother is getting a bigger portion of the money, making the couple to conspire against him. |
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| 1948-09-06 |
064 The Third Mans Story |
| Two brothers are the exact opposite of each other - the elder brother is hard working and is the pride of their family as the provider of food, while the younger brother is very lazy and lacks effort in life. Sacrificing their best crops has been a tradition to them as a sign of respect to the creator. Luck finally favors the younger brother and he uses this opportunity to gloat over his good fortune and proudly makes a huge sacrifice. This mistake triggers a chain of catastrophes that changed the course of humanity forever. |
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| 1948-09-06 |
064 The Third Mans Story |
| Two brothers are the exact opposite of each other - the elder brother is hard working and is the pride of their family as the provider of food, while the younger brother is very lazy and lacks effort in life. Sacrificing their best crops has been a tradition to them as a sign of respect to the creator. Luck finally favors the younger brother and he uses this opportunity to gloat over his good fortune and proudly makes a huge sacrifice. This mistake triggers a chain of catastrophes that changed the course of humanity forever. |
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| 1948-09-13 |
065 Symphony In D Minor |
| "Symphony in D" is the most famous piece of Cesar Franck, and a short segment of it serves as the theme music for Quiet, Please. Ray, the main character of the story, stays as a guest in the house of a blind psychologist with the intent of stealing the man's wife. They had a heated argument about hypnosis and the psychologist proves his point by hypnotizing Ray. The emotional quality of the music plays back and forth throughout the course of the story. |
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| 1948-09-19 |
066 Anonymous |
| The psychological trauma of receiving a death threat from an anonymous person can change someone's life forever. This experience occurs to a politician when he receives a phone call from a woman with this simple message: "I hope you drop dead." Later, the man receives the same message, his doctor then advises him that he will eventually die if he doesn't calm down. |
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| 1948-09-26 |
067 Light The Lamp For Me |
| An old man reveals his secret on how he was able to come up with such detailed descriptions of the California missions that dates back 150 years. He exposes the power of an ancient bronze lamp that grants its users the ability to go back to the past as many times as they want, but on the other hand they can only make one trip to the future. It is still a question mark for him on what knowledge he will retrieve from the future in order to help this present world. |
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| 1948-10-03 |
068 Meet John Smith, John |
| John Smith loves the snow so much that he wishes to be in the snow when he dies. Suddenly, his whole world takes a sharp turn when he meets a beggar in the snow who has the same name as him. Later on he finds out that they have so much in common in their pasts. This troubles John deeply and he is now desperate to change his future. |
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| 1948-10-10 |
069 Beezers Cellar |
| Justice has its own unique way of dealing with evil people. It could sometimes take the form of evil itself like using an old haunted cellar to punish a trio of young criminals. They are planning to hide the stolen $82,000, but the moment they enter the cellar, the old broken walls suddenly become new, trapping them inside forever. |
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| 1948-10-17 |
070 And Jeannie Dreams Of Me |
| Dreams and reality are interconnected realms that cannot be separated from one another. Troy, the dreamer, experiences the same dream over and over again where he is being lured by woman inside the house but it has no keys. This pleasant dream becomes a frustration because of his eagerness to meet the person on the other side of the door. Can a dream takeover his reality the moment he sees the person? |
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| 1948-10-24 |
071 Good Ghost |
| The ghost of a newly dead person wanders around the town to look for his murderer. Unlike any other ghost, this one doesn't want revenge. He just simply wants to ask why the person killed him. To make things more bizarre he even tries to help his murderer, but it is going to be a challenge for him. |
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| 1948-10-31 |
072 Calling All Souls |
| Louis is sentenced to death and is about to get executed on all souls eve. His lawyer can no longer save him because all the evidences point to him. The only way for him to save his soul is to become a soul and ask the murdered people to testify for him. In this mysterious night, when the boundary between the living and the dead becomes narrower, can a soul accomplishes his goal and at the same time make it back to his original body? |
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| 1948-11-07 |
073 Adam And The Darkest Day |
| Chicago, what was once a lively city is now a barren wasteland, just like any other cities on Earth. Only three people are left in this city, and in the world: Adam, Doc and Emily. Will they persevere on the survival of the human race? Or maybe it's time for them to reflect on their race's mistakes and decide to throw in the towel. |
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| 1948-11-14 |
074 Evening And The Morning |
| Dean confesses to his captor, Mr. Thorpe, the reason why he has murdered a woman. He also explains why he must get a flower from the grave of the woman. The living tends to remember the dead in symbolic ways, for them this is more important instead of assuming what happens in the afterlife. But the most intriguing question is why does Dean need to remember his victim? |
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| 1948-11-21 |
075 One For The Book |
| As fast as his promotions in the army, Captain Max Westlake tells the story of the rapid advancements in technology. As a fan of science fiction magazines, he believes that there are no limitations on what the human mind can create. The truth of this statement remains to be disproven as planes go faster and the army technology becomes more complex. |
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| 1948-11-21 |
075 One For The Book |
| As fast as his promotions in the army, Captain Max Westlake tells the story of the rapid advancements in technology. As a fan of science fiction magazines, he believes that there are no limitations on what the human mind can create. The truth of this statement remains to be disproven as planes go faster and the army technology becomes more complex. |
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| 1948-11-28 |
076 My Son, John |
| After losing his son in World War II, a father desperately finds a way to bring back his only reason for living. He then seeks the help of a woman who has an experience with the occult. She warns the father about the danger of her method that he might lose his own life during the process. Knowing that he has nothing to lose, he summons the spirit of his son, but he has never imagined the outcome that follows. |
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| 1948-12-05 |
077 Very Unimportant Person |
| A series of nuclear explosions desolated all life form on Earth. A man and his wife are able to escape the destruction because they are in plane of a VIP. Soon they discover who this VIP person is, but now he is just a VUP, a very unimportant person. With humankind facing extinction, everyone now is a very unimportant person, and they need to prove their worth in order to get another chance. |
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| 1948-12-26 |
080 Berlin, 1945 |
| The war is over and all that remains of the once proud city of Berlin is just destruction. As American soldiers try to reflect on their experiences in the city, a stranger comes by to their camp. It seems that he doesn't have any recollections of his home, friends and even his own identity. After inviting the person to eat with them, the soldiers discover more about the true identity of their mysterious visitor. |
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| 1949-01-02 |
081 Time Of The Big Snow |
| The "Time of the Big Snow" departs a little from the usual Quiet, Please themes by incorporating a more positive and cheerful ending more suited for children. Kate and Ted recollect the experiences of their journey during a strong blizzard at the age of 7. While trying to find a house to shelter themselves from the blizzard, they recount the story of an old woman picking her geese in order for it to snow. |
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| 1949-01-09 |
082 Portrait Of A Character |
| A stranger enters the shop to get his horn fixed. He thinks he's going to play soon in a big event, because of something his boss said. He then rants about how the other people violates and disrespects the boss' rules and how his boss has done nothing about it. What is the personality of his boss to be able to tolerate such chaos? |
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| 1949-01-16 |
083 Is This Murder |
| Dan is the assistant of a person who makes artificial limbs. But for Dan, his fascination from such artificial body parts exceeds than that of his master. He spends countless of hours to complete a working body but he theorizes that he still needs a live functional brain for it to be alive. Is it murder to take a human brain and transfer it into mechanical body? |
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| 1949-01-23 |
084 Summer Goodbye |
| Nature has its own way of leveling things out, just like the repeating cycles of the seasons. A couple commits robbery and takes a detour away from the main road. They plan to stay in an abandoned house until the end of summer so that the rain can come and help them make a clean getaway. As they're driving along, they notice a hitchhiker, they try to ignore it but they keep on seeing the person over and over again. |
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| 1949-01-23 |
084 Summer Goodbye |
| Nature has its own way of leveling things out, just like the repeating cycles of the seasons. A couple commits robbery and takes a detour away from the main road. They plan to stay in an abandoned house until the end of summer so that the rain can come and help them make a clean getaway. As they're driving along, they notice a hitchhiker, they try to ignore it but they keep on seeing the person over and over again. |
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| 1949-01-30 |
085 Northern Lights |
| "Northern Lights" is one of the most horrifying episodes of Quiet, Please and Chappell's opening narration of the description of the aurora borealis is truly fascinating. This story focuses on the invention of two scientists that is able to move objects about in time. The only drawback is that the experiments always return freezing cold. Where do they end up for them to return in such a freezing condition? |
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| 1949-02-06 |
086 Tap The Heat, Bogdan |
| Bogdan is an obnoxious and selfish person. One day, he gets upset with his boss because of a quarrel over a woman. He wants to make his boss pay so he schemes for his boss to fall inside a container of melted metal that he uses to make steel. Will he be successful on his revenge, or will fate interfere once again? |
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| 1949-02-13 |
087 Valentine |
| Abe has been away from his home for a very long time. He misses a lot of places in his town but most of all he misses Annie. He always tells himself that he will write back to her but he never did. It's now time for him to come home but he doesn't know how to face Annie because he did not write. In order to show that he hasn't forgotten her, he decides to buy her a valentine. But will this gift be enough to cover the emotion and memory that was taken for granted? |
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| 1949-02-20 |
088 Where Do You Get Your Ideas |
| Wyllis Cooper is drinking in a bar one night when a man named Basil interrupts him and tries to start a conversation. Being drunk, Basil tells him about the story of a woman who won't stay dead and also about the people on the moon who have four arms and two heads. During the course of their conversation, Basil found out that Cooper writes scripts for a radio, and asks the question everyone wants to ask: "Where do you get your ideas?" |
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| 1949-02-27 |
089 If I Should Wake Before I Die |
| He is the epitome of the word "mad scientist." This top scientist doesn't care whether his inventions have already vastly altered the world, all that he cares about is the vast amount of knowledge that he acquires in his research. What the world sees as a destructive weapon is nothing more but a mere scribble of equations for him. The world is starting to reach a crucial point when human knowledge has become dangerous and unwise. |
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| 1949-03-06 |
090 The Man Who Knew Everything |
| "Rather dreadful," that is what Charles W. Afternoon tells you about your future. It seems impossible to doubt him because he absolutely knows about everything - from answering any trivia questions up to giving out the combination to a bank vault. He describes to you the appearances of the three people that you need to look out for. A lot of questions are now playing in your head about the things that may happen to you. |
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| 1949-03-13 |
091 Dark Rosaleen |
| Wayne finds no more reason to continue living the moment the doctor told him the news that Elizabeth, his bride to be, is now dead. A man named Patrick stops Wayne from taking his own life and takes him to a strange island where a beautiful woman named "Dark Rosaleen" is residing. Can she mend this almost broken life and encourage him to go on? |
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| 1949-03-20 |
092 Smell Of High Wines |
| The smell of high wines always brings a strong sense of nostalgia to a significant event that happened to Eugene during his work in a distillery. Through the overwhelming scent of high wine he discovers the body of a dead person. The sound of the man's blood dripping onto the floor perfectly describes the saying "the sound of a man's life dripping away at 3 o'clock in the morning". It seems that our senses are unexplainably connected to the events of our life. |
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| 1949-03-27 |
093 Time To Be Born & A Time To Die |
| Life is just a cycle and throughout its course mistakes are made. A man starts his life as a determined person willing to do whatever it takes to reach his goal. Finally he is able to attain the highest position in the company but throughout the whole process he is no longer the same person from before. The man regrets being powerless against the flow of the events in his life and wishes to repeat his life all over again. |
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| 1949-04-10 |
095 Dialogue For A Tragedy |
| Roy sits in a room together with his killer who is pointing a gun at his head. Any moment now he knows that the man's finger will pull the trigger, ending his miserable life. Throughout the course of their conversation, Roy calls the man a thief, a liar, and a murderer. What series of events have brought these two individual to this point where Roy must need to die? |
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| 1949-04-17 |
096 The Shadow Of The Wings |
| A very sick little girl lies quietly on her bed, bravely contemplating on the possibility that she might not live long enough. She is being kept company by a mysterious figure but she can't distinguish the person because all that she sees is the man's shadow. Her story of her guardian frightens her mom but soon her mom realizes who that figure is. This is a very emotional episode that shows the narrow boundary between life and death. |
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| 1949-04-24 |
097 The Veil Of Glen Cove |
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| 1949-05-01 |
098 Dark Gray Magic |
| Meredith buys a second hand book about black magic out of curiosity. He accidentally summons a demon, named Boj, who is faced with the task of teaching him all the evil magic in the universe. But what could be a very irresistible offer turns out to be a pile of comedy as Meredith always blunders his spells. Being the funniest episode in the Quiet, Please series, it offers a very interesting view that demons need humans for them to acquire power. |
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