The Magic Tile: Inner Sanctum Mysteries (August 10, 1952)

“The Magic Tile” is an episode of Inner Sanctum Mysteries, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 10, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Catherine Bryan returns to her late father's house after a bitter quarrel with her mother Laura and stepfather Mark Weldon. She is desperate to learn how her father, Dr. Bryan, died ten years earlier. Given a painted Chinese tile, she claims to see a visitor from the past, a man named Dennis D'Amour, who says he was there the night of the killing. Catherine confronts Mark and her mother with this account, and the household tensions rise sharply as a storm breaks over the house. The episode is an Inner Sanctum Mysteries broadcast, first aired on August 10, 1952.

The living room of Dr. Bryan's house in a storm, with a guest cottage nearby, during the present day, ten years after Dr. Bryan's death.

Characters: Catherine Bryan, Laura, Mark Weldon, Dennis D'Amour, Dr. Bryan

Listen for: Catherine's struggle with the Chinese tile and the arrival of the visitor claiming to be Dennis D'Amour.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.