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The Ape Song (Aired March 31, 1947)
The Murder at Midnight series was a thirty-minute broadcast featuring tales of the supernatural. The actors included Mercedes McCambridge and Lawson Zerbe and the show was narrated using the spooky, creepy voice of Raymond Morgan and always opened using the same gripping signature; “the witching hour, when night is darkest, our fears are the strongest, our strength at its lowest ebb… Midnight! … when graves gape open and death strikes!” THIS EPISODE: March 31, 1947. Mutual network origination, syndicated. "The Ape Song". Commercials added locally. A big game hunter uses a captured ape to kill his wife. He then starts turning into an ape! The first broadcast of the series on Mutual. Raymond Edward Johnson, Brad Barker (as the ape), Alfred Shirley, Ruth Yorke, Anton M. Leader (director), Louis G. Cowan (producer). 26:55. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.