Earnest Chappel was the host and main character for Quiet Please. The cast was usually just one or two other people. The sound effects were often obscure. The music was usually a combination of an organ and sometimes, piano. Although the resources may seem meager when listed here, the results were amazing and memorible. Chappel would tell his tales in first person, usually in flashback form. And what tales they were! The writer/ director was Wyllis Cooper, the same genius who created Lights Out years before and moved to Hollywood to try his hand as a film script writer. He left his old show to Arch Olober, who went on to become famous with the series while Cooper toiled away in obscurity writing screenplays.  In 1947, he returned to his radio roots to produce Quiet Please. Chappel was the perfect choice for the weekly lead. There was nothing special about his voice. Although he had been a successful quiz show host on Are You A Genius?, he didn't exaggerate or project like many other actors of the time did. In fact, that's one of the noticeable differences about this series. Nobody sounds like they are acting at all, they just sound like regular people caught up in very unusual or terrifying situations.  Cooper insisted on actors sounding natural, and along with his detailed dialog and surreal narratives, he proved what a remarkable medium radio could be on a small budget.  After all, Cooper and Chappel did what they did without a large staff or famous actors to accomplish their feat. Instead, all they had was the imagination of one person and the acting talent of another.