Inner Sanctum The Man from Yesterday
Inner Sanctum. December 21, 1941. Blue Network. "The Man From Yesterday". Sponsored by: Carter's Little Liver Pills. A giant gorilla has been captured by a scientist. The gorilla remembers his captor from long ago...and is planning revenge! His captor remembers a previous meeting as well..a very, very long time ago! The story starts at nighttime in a jungle clearing, where the natives of Robert Rent's Museum party sway gently from side to side to the slow throb of their drums. A few hundred yards away, in the thick bush, a monstrous hump-backed shape drops silently from the trees and moves swiftly across the jungle floor. Suddenly the earth gives way under the dark crouching monster's feet. A deafening roar echoes throughout the still of the night. It's the prize that Robert Rent and his party has been waiting for ever since they arrived in Africa.
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The anthology series featured stories of mystery, terror and suspense, and its tongue-in-cheek introductions were in sharp contrast to shows like Suspense and The Whistler. The early 1940s programs opened with Raymond Edward Johnson introducing himself as, "Your host, Raymond," in a mocking sardonic voice. A spooky melodramatic organ score (played by Lew White) punctuated Raymond's many morbid jokes and playful puns. Raymond's closing was an elongated "Pleasant dreeeeaams, hmmmmm?" His tongue-in-cheek style and ghoulish relish of his own tales became the standard for many such horror narrators to follow, from fellow radio hosts like Ernest Chappell (on Wyllis Cooper's later series, Quiet, Please) and Maurice Tarplin (on The Mysterious Traveler).
