He Built a New Planet and Called Himself God | “A God Named Smith” #RetroRadio

A child prodigy with the power to build worlds sets out to become humanity's god — but even a genius who can create a planet cannot control the people who live on it. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0596

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A God Named Smith” (June 02, 1977) ***WD
00:46:15.088 = Everyman Theater, “This Precious Freedom” (October 04, 1940) ***WD
01:13:30.876 = Exploring Tomorrow, “The Mutants” (March 26, 1958) ***WD (LQ)
01:31:25.222 = Faces In The Window, “Black Cat” (November 22, 1952) ***WD
01:55:05.244 = Dark Fantasy, “Sea Phantom” (February 06, 1942)
02:19:08.639 = Fear on 4, “Hairy Hand of Dartmoor” (1988-1992)
02:46:37.714 = 5 Minute Mysteries, “Clue In The Hand” (1947-1950)
02:51:38.723 = Future Tense, “Cold Equation” (May 08, 1974) ***WD
03:15:02.972 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “Black Stockings & Broken Mirrors” (April 08, 1992)
03:58:43.198 = Guests of Doom, “Programs 11 & 12” (1930s) ***WD
04:24:25.909 = The Hall of Fantasy, “Man-Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947)
04:50:43.138 = 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.
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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