Heck, I Remember Life Before Television

@TwiddlerofThumbs Radio drama required the use of one's own imagination. If a scary monster was approaching, you'd picture it as your own version of the scariest monster; scary shows were scarier ("Lights out for Mystery Theatre"). You could sit in the dark and put your imagination to work more freely than television allows. Likewise, because your own imagination was involved, you could put yourself into the drama more easily than when you can see everything on a screen. I always liked to imagine riding right next to the Lone Ranger and Tanto, or going along on all those adventures in I Love A Mystery. But I wasn't pretty enough to imagine I was one of, say, Charlie's Angels. Television puts you outside the action. Radio draws you in.

@greenmountaingal you are absolutely spot on. I like listening to old radio shows for theses reasons. And, more so, reading books, listening to books. I don't like having being placed before me, what it is that I am supposed to imagine during the telling of a story.