Just discovered these today! They are outta-sight on so many levels. Nice to see some of the old players. I notice that anything sci-fi writers can conceive will eventually be in general use with the march of time.

The host explaining how to hack an inhaler to get high...priceless!🤣🤣🤣

Wow! This is quite a treasure. I'm glad I discovered this show! Who knows what other treasures from T. V's golden age I can find.

8:06. In the 50s and early 60s EVERYTIME you turned on any sci-fi device in a lab, space ship-controls, space ship takeoffs, space ship landings, weaponry, ray guns, time machines, vehicle on another planet, space helmet, transporter etc. they ALL made this same sound. I guess the studios had a "stock sci-fi equipment sound" tape that everybody used.

"Anyhow she's dead" LOL

Loved this show and, let's face it, Roald Dahl was one unusual man. Clearly genius filled his veins--and benzedrine-infested arteries!

Hush-Hush, Episode aired 23 June 1961. Philip Coolidge as Professor Ernest Lydecker; Roald Dahl, Host; Rosemary Murphy as Bernice Lydecker; Woodrow Parfrey as William Rogers; Mary Cushman as Margaret Ainsley; Barry Newman, Police Officer; John F. Hamilton, Janitor; Frank Shuster, Self - commercial promotion for TV show Holiday Lodge; Johnny Wayne, Self - commercial promotion for TV show Holiday Lodge.

I just heard the most amazing thing I've ever heard in the film industry. The organization regulating American TV in the 50s and 60s made it illegal for a bad guy to win at the end of the play. I realized that's why every alfred hitchcock play has the bad guy winning at the end in some irony but then in the last minute alfred comes back to tell you he or she didn't get away with their evil deeds and were properly punished.

Lobotomy with sound.

Wow, that machine turned his wife into June Cleaver! Or a Stepford Wife. Too bad he hadn't invented ear plugs!

So awful to see these boys knowing what their father put them though. I avoid watching any Crosby because of that.

Hush-Hush, Episode aired 23 June 1961. Philip Coolidge as Professor Ernest Lydecker; Roald Dahl, Host; Rosemary Murphy as Bernice Lydecker; Woodrow Parfrey as William Rogers; Mary Cushman as Margaret Ainsley; Barry Newman, Police Officer; John F. Hamilton, Janitor; Frank Shuster, Self-commercial promotion for TV show Holiday Lodge; Johnny Wayne, Self-commercial promotion for TV show Holiday Lodge; Charles Collingwood, Self-announcer introducing Lindsay, Dennis and Phil Crosby for a Person to Person promotion.

This episode trod on the same territory explored in "Hangover Square, "starring Laird Cregar, and the Thriller episode "The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell," broadcast one month earlier.

Roald wrote James and the Giant Peach and he was married to Patrica Neal.

😄 poor Cupie Doll

10:42 you must be a fairly good actress to change emotions. Well, did she pull it off? Anyone?

Hey, that's Petrocelli !

How I wish I can watch the same Anthology mystery horror shows that my Grandfather watched ... I crave ... 1958 "Target" series , 1950 "Trapped" and 1961"Great Ghost Tales" .... even my father got to enjoy a few of them 👌🏻

great to see all these! Do you have Soft Focus, Button Button, The Down Car or The Sisters?

Soap opera.

"It was so DAMN" frustrating" (9:18), says Rosemary Murphy, which wouldn't have been allowed on TV in 1961. You have to assume it was a slip which there was no time to correct.

This one almost felt like a comedy that didn't quite recognize that it was a comedy. And does every other episode have a nagging wife?

This is much more scarier than the crap we get from Hollywood nowadays, and the poor quality black & white makes it even scareier and more eerie

I wonder why all the wife's in this series are domineering, pushy, overbearing brow beaters and the men spineless, passive and wimpy

Omg Benzedrine in brandy lol

I noticed a very young Barry Newman. Alas, the bizarre behavior of the women in this series.

The wives on these episodes are unbearable. Don’t understand how these people end up together in the first place.

13:54- "HOLIDAY LODGE" was Jack Benny's 1961 summer replacement (and produced by his "J&M Productions" outfit). Canadian comics Wayne & Shuster, famous for appearing on "THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW" more often than any other performers, co-starred on this series. Believe me, this promo was a LOT funnier than the mediocre scripts they slogged through on "HOLIDAY LODGE". And they never did another American sitcom....................

Loving Roald Dahl. So cool, so wickedly funny. And of course those snippets at the front of Der Bingle's first family..it was a nightmare for all of them. "Daddy Dearest". Dixie Lee drank herself to death and Bing was a tyrant, so unlike that "White Christmas' guy. Two of his sons killed themselves years later. I don't wonder...and hey, that is Charles Collingwood!!

I wish you could lose the commercial for Person to Person at the beginning.

Could have done without the gratuitous pet demise scene. ☹

Dahl is creepy as hell. But hes a fraud. I don't know how he got away with saying he wrote 1/2 these plays when he's not listed with writing credits and rko had already established 1/2 of these with alfred hitchcock and were properly credited to the original writers. Ip in britian must have sucked at the time.