{"podcast":{"title":"Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark","slug":"retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269","podcast_index_feed_id":6785269,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5907415/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://weirddarkness.com/retroradio","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/619f577d320244612f9ba132d595c7a9.jpg","author":"Darren Marlar","episode_count":754,"summary":"Welcome to Retro Radio: Old Time Radio In The Dark! Here I bring you shows from the Golden Age of Radio in the darker genre. I’ll have classic radio of the macabre and horror, mysteries and crime, and even some dark science fiction. 5-hour marathons posted seven days per week with a variety of shows included each day!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T02:19:39.853160+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269"},"episode":{"title":"He Gave His Eyes to the Man Who Sent Him to Die | #RetroRadio","slug":"he-gave-his-eyes-to-the-man-who-sent-him-to-die-retroradio","published_at":"2026-06-28T01:49:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269/he-gave-his-eyes-to-the-man-who-sent-him-to-die-retroradio","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269","url":"https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0700","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72723903/wdrr0700.mp3","summary":"A drifter set to die in the gas chamber for a murder he didn't commit offers one last gift to the man who framed him — never imagining what that gift might carry. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Second Sight” (February 27, 1978) ***WD 00:46:14.838 = Origin of Superstition, “Three On A Match” (December 16, 1932) ***WD 01:00:44.894 = Pat Novak For Hire, “Don’t Tell Hilda” (February 27, 1949) 01:29:14.739 = Peril, “Darkness Within” (1953) ***WD (LQ) 01:58:15.099 = Mystery Playhouse, “Death is a Joker” (May 25, 1941) ***WD 02:28:27.475 = Price of Fear, “Meeting In Athens” (July 07, 1973) ***WD 02:55:48.036 = Ellery Queen, “Number Thirty-One” (September 07, 1947) ***WD 03:24:14.186 = Quiet Please, “If I Should Die Before I Wake” (February 27, 1949) 03:53:27.551 = Radio City Playhouse, “The Wind” (October 30, 1949) ***WD 04:22:21.175 = Sam Spade, “Death of Dr. Denhoff Caper” (August 09, 1946) ***WD 04:51:19.818 = Show Close (ADU) = Air Date Unknown (LQ) = Low Quality ***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing. This episode of #RetroRadio — Old Time Radio in the Dark, hosted by Darren Marlar at WeirdDarkness.com, runs ten classic mystery, crime, and horror broadcasts back to back, from a condemned man who donates his eyes to the very person who framed him to Ray Bradbury's tale of a living, intelligen…","meta_description":"A drifter set to die in the gas chamber for a murder he didn't commit offers one last gift to the man who framed him — never imagining what that gift migh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":17570,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269/episodes/he-gave-his-eyes-to-the-man-who-sent-him-to-die-retroradio/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269/he-gave-his-eyes-to-the-man-who-sent-him-to-die-retroradio.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}