The creaking door later became the signature for _Inner Sanctum Mysteries_, and is now employed as the introductory note for the _Radio Mystery Theater_, along with host E.G. Marshall's compelling greeting: "Come _in_." Himan Brown also created the sound of London's foghorns and Big Ben for _Bulldog Drummond_, the laugh of the fat Nero Wolfe, and the never-to-be-forgotten train that roared under Park Avenue into Grand Central Station. When the recording session get underway, Brown observes the performers through the thick glass of the control booth as they stand around a microphone, reading their line with animation. From time to time he stops the action and repeats parts of a scene. "It's all spliced together afterwards," he explains. In the late 1940s, Brown began to produce television dramas, such as _Lights Out_ and the _Chevy Mystery Show_. He built a large TV studio on West 26th Street for that purpose, which for many years he has leased to CBS for filming the soap opera _The Guiding Light_. For most of his career, Brown has been a resident of the Upper West Side. The father of two, he is married to Shirley Goodman, executive vice president of the Fashion Institute of Technology. He has long been involved in community affairs and charitable organizations, including the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the National Urban League and the National Conference of Social Work. Brown is constantly in demand as a public speaker, a fund-raiser, and a creator of multimedia presentations. His plans for 1980 include reviving the _Adventure Theater_, a children's radio with that he last did in 1977. "The best thing about radio drama," he joyfully concludes, "is that we can take you anywhere, unhampered by sets, production costs, locations, makeup, costumes, or memorizing lines, and make you believe everything we put on the air. ... The screen in your head is much bigger than the biggest giant screen ever made. It gives you an experience no other form of theatre can duplicate. It's the theatre of the mind." ******** FERRIS BUTLER Creator, writer and producer of _Waste Meat News_ 4-7-79 Every Saturday at 11:30 p.m., millions of Americans tune in to what is indisputably the boldest, the most innovative, and frequently the most tasteless comedy show on television -- NBC's _Saturday Night Live_. But for the 400,000 residents of Manhattan who have cable TV, there is another program -- also aired at 11:30, but on Sunday evening -- that is, in its own way, even more offbeat. Known as _Waste Meat News_, the half-hour satiric revue has been a regular feature of Channel D since April, 1976, when a young Westsider named Ferris Butler decided that he had the talent to write, direct, and produce his own comedy series, even without money and film equipment. Time has proven him right: last year, _TV World_ magazine discovered, in a poll of viewers, that _Waste Meat News_ is the most popular comedy program on cable, out of 150 public access shows.