Dark Fantasy

Dark Fantasy was a short drama anthology series from Oklahoma City radio station WKY, broadcast in 1941 and 1942 on the NBC network. It specialised in supernatural, horror and weird fiction, with the odd SF tale thrown in every now and again. It was created and written by Scott Bishop (who also worked on The Mysterious Traveler series) and ran for around thirty half-hour episodes.
Episode 1: The Man Who Came Back
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​A murder victim returns from the dead to avenge his death.

​First broadcast: 14 November 1941.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Muir Hite, Eugene Frances, Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Fred Wayne, Murillo Schofield.
Episode 2: The Thing From The Sea

​During a voyage to New Zealand, the crew of a yacht encounter two ancient, bodysnatching spirits from a lost continent.

First broadcast: 28 November 1941.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Eugene Frances, Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Fred Wayne, Georgiana Cook, Daryl McAllister.
Episode 3: The Demon Tree

​A group of tourists enter an English forest and encounter a moving tree - the murderous 'strangling oak'.

First broadcast: 5 December 1941.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Murillo Schofield, Garland Moss, Eleanor Naylor Caughron.
Episode 4: Men Call Me Mad

​A scientist visits a sub-atomic world existing in a single moonbeam.
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​First broadcast: 19 December 1941.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Fred Wayne, Murillo Schofield, Muir Hite, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Daryl McAllister.
Episode 5: Resolution 1841

​A woman sees a 100 year old resolution come true when she and her friends visit her old family home for the new year celebrations.
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​First broadcast: 2 January 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Charles Carshon, Minnie Jo Curtis.
Episode 6: The Curse of The Neanderthal

​An archaeologist falls foul of a curse when he moves the bones of a neanderthal man to a museum.

​First broadcast: 9 January 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Murillo Schofield, Fred Wayne, Daryl McAllister.
Episode 7: Debt From The Past

​A young woman applies for a job in an office where everything seems to be stuck thirty years in the past.

​First broadcast: 16 January 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Jane Wyatt, Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Muir Hite.
Episode 8: The Headless Dead

​A visitor to the Tower of London has a ghostly encounter.

​First broadcast: 23 January 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Fred Wayne, Garland Moss, Murillo Schofield.
Episode 9: Death Is A Savage Deity

​A young woman discovers her aunt is practicing voodoo black magic.

​First broadcast: 30 January 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Unknown.
Episode 10: The Sea Phantom
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​A ghostly, skeletal figure directs a treasure hunting expedition to the location of a ghost ship.

​First broadcast: 6 February 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Fred Wayne, Muir Hite, Garland Moss.
Episode 11: W Is For Werewolf

​A man visits his friend's island home where he experiences strange, lycanthropic goings on.

​First broadcast: 13 February 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Don Stoltz, Garland Moss, Fred Wayne, Ben Morris.
Episode 12: A Delicate Case of Murder

​A spiritualist medium gets her revenge on her cheating husband from beyond the grave.

First broadcast: 20 February 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Georgiana Cook, Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Muir Hite, Fred Wayne.
Episode 13: Spawn of The Sub-Human

​A mad scientist creates an opera-singing, intelligent gorilla!

​First broadcast: 27 February 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Garland Moss, Muir Hite.
Episode 14: The Man With The Scarlet Satchel

A murdered millionaire wreaks his revenge from beyond the grave, using modelling clay and a scarlet satchel.

​First broadcast: 6 March 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Fred Wayne, Georgiana Cook, Muir Hite.
Episode 15: Superstition Be Hanged

Three circus performers suffer the same grisly fate when they refuse to heed the instruction of a fortune teller to always wear a white feather.

​First broadcast: 13 March 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Garland Moss, Murillo Schofield, Ben Morris, Erme Rae.
Episode 16: Pennsylvania Turnpike

A hitch-hiking spirit finally gets his revenge on his murderer after a one hundred and eighty year search.

​First broadcast: 20 March 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Fred Wayne, Muir Hite.
Episode 17: Convoy For Atlantis
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​A pair of seafarers are transported to Atlantis.
Note: The first couple of minutes of this episode is fairly poor audio quality.

​First broadcast: 27 March 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Murillo Schofield, Garland Moss.
Episode 18: The Edge of The Shadow

​A farmer's dream of murder and a terrible plane crash comes true.

​First broadcast: 10 April 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Muir Hite, Georgiana Cook, Ben Morris.
Episode 19: The Cup of Gold
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​A golf champion is murdered by a reincarnated alien.

​First broadcast: 8 May 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Muir Hite, George Anday, Eleanor Naylor Caughron.
Episode 20: Dead Hands Reaching

A voice from beyond the grave tries to save a man from destroying his life.

​First broadcast: 22 May 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Muir Hite, Georgiana Cook, Daryl McAllister.
Episode 21: Rendezvous With Satan

​Satan gives a man 24 hours to do good or be condemned to Hell.

​First broadcast: 29 May 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Bloyce Wright, Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Fred Wayne, Muir Hite, Georgiana Cook.
Episode 22: I Am Your Brother

​A surgeon preserves the brain of a superhuman from the future.

​First broadcast: 5 June 1942.
Original Story by Scott Bishop.
​Cast: Ben Morris, Bloyce Wright, Muir Hite.