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Radio's Horror Theater

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In1970Season 4Episode 7
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The setup

Orson Welles narrates an old-time radio horror drama, and the studio's sound-effects man ends up living through every word of it.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

In a radio studio, Orson Welles stands at the microphone and solemnly reads a horror tale about a professor working late in his study. The sound-effects man beside him starts out rattling bottles and props on cue, but as soon as the story's monster bursts through the door, a real creature in a scaly suit comes after him instead. Each line Welles reads is enacted on the hapless technician, who is throttled, wrestled and flung around the studio and finally dragged off through the door, while Welles keeps reading from his script and calmly signs off the episode.

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Highly quotable.

Welcome to Radio's Horror Theater.

But the professor's bullets seemed to have no effect on the indestructible monstrosity.

And so the door closes on another episode of Horror Theater.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The sketch plays on Welles's famous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast and aired in Laugh-In's 1970 Halloween special.

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Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:00

    Narrator

    Welcome to Radio's Horror Theater.

  2. 00:05

    Narrator

    Professor Froklik was working late in his study when suddenly the door opened. Looking up, the professor saw a hideous monster and let out a scream of horror.

  3. 00:17

    Narrator

    Before Professor Froklik could move, the monster grabbed him by the throat. A terrible struggle ensued. The professors, pleased for help, were to no avail.

  4. 00:28

    Narrator

    Then he managed to break free of the hideous monster's grip long enough to open his desk drawer, where he removed his revolver and fired six shots into the beast.

  5. 00:45

    Narrator

    But the professor's bullets seemed to have no effect on the indestructible monstrosity, as it carried the helpless scientist off to that strange place that only monsters know.

  6. 01:01

    Narrator

    and so the door closes on another episode of Horror Theater.

  7. 01:10

    Narrator ?

    Nice work, Harry.

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