Will The Real Quiet Please Producer Please Stand Up!.
In numerous entertainment publications of the time, Wyllis Cooper is usually credited as writer, director, and producer of Quiet Please.
However occasionally, publications would credit Ernest Chappell with the position of Producer.. But which one actually held the official position?..
Afew months prior to the series first going on the air, Cooper had drew up a contract which specified Chappell the producer, and a 50% partner in the Quiet Please rights.
"April 1, 1947 - Being the creator, writer and owner of a radio program tentivly called "Quiet please", I herewith assign you, as producer, 50% of my rights to this property..."
So then, this concludes that apparently Chappell was the producer.. Yet, doesn't it seem odd, that in the first episode on June 8, 1947, "Nothing Behind the Door", Chappell credits Cooper with the position??:
".. And now for a word about Quiet Please for next week, here is our writer producer. -- Bill?..."
Then again, almost 2 years later, in the Febuary 27, 1949 episode entitled "If I should Wake before I Die", Chappell again credits Cooper as the producer!:
"..Now, for a word about next week, if he can get through the door, here is our writer-producer, Wyllis Cooper..."
Come on guys! What's the story??
It seems we'll never know.
Episode #44.
12 to 5 aka: Twelve to Five
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Original Air Date(s):
Monday April 12, 1948
9:30 PM MBS, WOR
Summary:
Disc jockeys who work the graveyard shift, spinning records from "12 to 5," come under writer-director Wyllis Cooper's surveillance when he presents tonight's "Quiet Please" story over Mutual. Ernest Chappell is narrator-actor." - The Bradford Era (PA) April 12, 1948
Transcript (from quietlyyours)
