Quiet from Sponsors..
.It appears evident that Cooper and Chappell may have done "Quiet Please" mostly as a labor of love. The show never drew any
network sponsors, so it obviously wasn't making any money. It was what was known as a "sustainer", which basically meant that the network carried the show, but payed out of their own pocket to support it. So none of the cast, nor staff, could have been making much of an income for their work.Cooper possibly still scripting other shows (ie: "Crime Club"), and Chappell still worked on other networks, all concurrent to doing Quiet Please. As a matter of fact, after only the fourth episode (The Ticket Taker), Chappell's work on an opposing network ( ABC's the Big Story" ), interfered by being in the same time slot as Quiet Please, so they had to actually discontinue the QP series until another open time slot on Mutual could be secured to air the show.. Postponement was the only option to accompany Chappell's position.. So, in the closing comments of the 4th show on June 29, 1947, it was announced that Quiet Please would no longer be heard... Who could have guessed what would happen next..
Conceivably, the postponement of the series may have caused more of an disruption in the mysterious scheme of things than
initially anticipated, because the very next week, an shocking incident took place that still resonates today.. A flying saucer crashed in the farmlands of Roswell New Mexico. But seriously folks... Although the the notorious event has absolutely no relation to our story, it is a wonder that Cooper had not incorporated the Roswell crash into one of his scripts!
But all nonsense aside..
Quiet Please had ceased the airing of it's program, but, fortunately, it took only three weeks to find another time slot, after which Quiet Please promptly returned back on the air, resuming their weekly programing schedule as planned. 
So there they are, going out of their way, securing time to do it, for little money, to make the episodes happen every week... Obviously they must have enjoyed what they were doing.. If it wasn't a labor of love, then what was it? But of course, they must have expected a sponsor would eventually come in, and then there would be money to be made. But for some inexplicable reason that never happened.
For tonight's episode we play the fourth episode..
Episode #4. June 29, 1947
The Ticket Taker
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Original Air Date(s):
Sunday,June 29, 1947
3:30 PM MBS
Summary:
Three murdering crooks have repeating encounters with "the ticket taker", a mysterious man who keeps seemingly appearing from nowhere each time the men attempt to leave the town. One of them tries to avoid him entirely. But can the Ticket Taker be evaded?..
This episode is amongst the worst damaged ones of the series, This copy is my attempt to clean the roar of noise out of it,- involved heavy processing and a lot of manual second by second labor, Now the episode is listenable, but it's still very poor. Good story! Enjoy...
