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The Day Of The Triffids [Part 1 of 2] 1957 The Day Of The Triffids [Part 1 of 2] 1957
The Day of the Triffids is a 6 part radio show based on a 1951 novel by John Wyndham. The show was produced for the BBC by Peter Watts and stars Patrick Barr as Bill Mason, Monica Gray as Josella Playton and Gabriel Blunt as Susan. The Day of the Triffids as reproduced for the BBC in 1968 by John Powell starred Gary Watson and Barbara Sheney. A B grade movie was also made of the book in 1962. Although the movie was bad the radio adaptation of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Blair Of The Mounties - 2 Episodes (01-31-38) and (02-07-38) 2 Ep. "Fire Valley" (Aired January 31, 1938) and "Murder In Long Cooley" (Aired February 7, 1938) and
Blair of the Mounties is the story of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police -- a fictional series based on the work of the Northwest Mounted Police before the World War I. It was a fifteen minute weekly serial heard every Monday for 36 weeks beginning January 31st, 1938 and running through the 3rd of October of 1938. It may have been on the air as early as 1935, although there’s no actua ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Rocky Jordan - The Map Of Murder (07-03-49)The Map Of Murder (Aired July 3, 1949)
Rocky Jordan was a radio series about an American restaurateur in Cairo who each week became involved in some kind of mystery or adventure. The show was broadcast on CBS from October 31st 1948 to September 10th 1950. and then again from June 27th 1951 to August 22nd 1951. The character of Rocky Jordan had been introduced to listeners in a similar show called A Man Named Jordan that was broadcast in 1945 but set in Istanbul rather than Cairo. The two l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Adventures Of The Falcon - The Case Of The Sweet Swindle (06-13-51)The Case Of The Sweet Swindle (Aired June 13, 1951)
The Falcon radio series premiered on the American Blue Network in April 1943 and continued on the air till around September 1952. The introduction to the show began with "The Adventures of the Falcon." Then continuing with a ringing phone call to the Falcon, also known as Michael Waring, from a woman in which her voice is never heard. He would reply to her and another adventure would follow. Waring was snappy and sarcastic with the incomp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Damon Runyon Theater - All Horse Players Die Broke (05-08-49)All Horse Players Die Broke (05-08-49)
The Damon Runyon Theater was a 52 show series that was syndicated across the USA beginning in early 1949. Damon Runyon was a gifted sports writer in New York City as well as being a great journalist and great short story writer. His stories were humorous ones, written in the "dem" and "dose" vernacular of the city's loveable and not so loveable characters of Broadway, the prize ring and the underworld. His most famous collection of short stories, Guys ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Father Brown Mysteries - The Arrow Of Heaven (10-12-86)The Arrow Of Heaven (Aired October 12, 1986)
Father Brown's abilities are also considerably shaped by his experience as a priest and confessor. In "The Blue Cross", when asked by Flambeau, who has been masquerading as a priest, how he knew of all sorts of criminal "horrors," he responds: "Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?" He also states a reason why he knew Flambeau was not a priest: "You ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Pat Novak For Hire - Geranium Plant (05-14-49)Geranium Plant (Aired May 14, 1949)
Pat Novak for Hire was an old-time radio detective show which aired from 1946-1947 as a West Coast regional program and in 1949 as a nationwide program for ABC. The regional version originally starred Jack Webb in the title role, with scripts by his roommate Richard L. Breen. When Webb and Breen moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles to work on an extremely similar nationwide series, Johnny Modero, for the Mutual network, Webb was replaced by Ben Morris ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Richard Diamond Private Detective - Wrong Laundry Number (09-06-50) Wrong Laundry Number (Aired September 6, 1950)
In 1945, Dick Powell portrayed Phillip Marlowe in the movie "Murder My Sweet" based on Raymond Chandler's novel "Farewell My Lovely". This was a radical departure in character for Mr. Powell from a Hollywood song and dance man to a hard-boiled detective. On June 11,1945, the Lux Radio Theater brought "Murder My Sweet" to radio, again with Dick Powell in the lead. These two performances prompted his selection for the part of Richard Rogue, in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Roy Rogers Show" - Range War (11-06-52)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Roy Rogers Show" - Range War (Aired November 6, 1952)
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were well known as advocates for adoption and as founders and operators of children's charities. They adopted several children. Both were outspoken Christians. In Apple Valley, California, where they made their home, numerous streets and highways as well as civic buildings have been named after them in recognition of their efforts on behalf of homeless and handicapped children ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dad's Army - Time On My Hands (02-18-75)Time On My Hands (Aired February 18, 1975)
In May 1940, Sir Anthony Eden makes his historic speech calling for men under and over the age of active service in the armed forces to form a local defence corps. In Walmington, the Local Bank manager George Mainwaring set's up the town's Local Defence Volunteers,with the assistance of his Bank Clerk, Arthur Wilson and the Local Butcher, Jack Jones. The LDV later become known as the Home Guard or affectionately (to the TV audience) "Dad's Army" a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Hall Of Fantasy - The Temple Of Huizilipochle (06-29-53)The Temple Of Huizilipochle (Aired June 29, 1953)
There were four series under the Hall Of Fantasy banner, all produced by Richard Thorne. The first Hall Of Fantasy originated from radio station KALL in Salt Lake City, Utah. Richard Thorne and Carl Greyson were announcers for the station and produced the rather barebones shows, possibly late in 1946 and into 1947. The series consisted of 26 shows. Broadcast dates for the shows are not known. The shows were written or adapted by Robert Ols ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Your's Truly Johnny Dollar - The Johnson Payroll Matter (09-21-58)The Johnson Payroll Matter (09-21-58)
The guest stars and supporting casts were always first rate, attracting the best radio actors in both Los Angeles and New York. Pat McCracken was played by several actors – most frequently, by Larry Dobkin. Particularly noteworthy was the work of Virginia Gregg, who played many roles, including Johnny's girlfriend Betty Lewis. Harry Bartell was also a frequent guest, who did many of the Spanish dialect roles when Johnny went to a Latin American count ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The American Trail - Dispatch From New York (02-10-53)Dispatch From New York (Aired February 10, 1953)
From Louis and Clarke to the great ol' California Gold Rush, America has had the great fortune of experiencing a plethora of awesome triumphs of the human spirit. Just gazing upon good Old Glory, one could just feel the patriotism, hard work and sacrifice that early Americans experienced in order to lay the foundation for their future children and for a Nation that will forever been known as the "Land of Opportunity." The American Trail tell ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Murder At Midnight - Ace Of Death (10-12-46)Ace Of Death (Aired October 12, 1946)
The Murder at Midnight series was a thirty-minute broadcast featuring tales of the supernatural. The actors included Mercedes McCambridge and Lawson Zerbe and the show was narrated using the spooky, creepy voice of Raymond Morgan and always opened using the same gripping signature; “the witching hour, when night is darkest, our fears are the strongest, our strength at its lowest ebb… Midnight! … when graves gape open and death strikes!”. The sh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Adventures Of Nero Wolf - The Case Of The Deadly Sellout (01-05-51)The Case Of The Deadly Sellout (Aired January 5, 1951)
Nero Wolf is a fictional detective created by American author Rex Stout in the 1930s and featured in dozens of novels and novellas.In the stories, Wolfe is one of the most famous private detectives in the United States. He weighs about 285 pounds and is 5'11" tall. He raises orchids in a rooftop greenhouse in his New York City brownstone on West 35th Street, helped by his live-in gardener Theodore Horstmann. Wolf drinks beer throughout ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Arch Oboler's Plays - Strange Morning (04-05-45)Strange Morning (Aired April 5, 1945)
Oboler sold his first radio scripts while still in high school during the 1920s and rose to fame when he began scripting the NBC horror anthology Lights Out in 1936. He later found notoriety with his script contribution to the 12 December 1937 edition of The Chase and Sanborn Hour. In Oboler's sketch, host Don Ameche and guest Mae West portrayed a slightly bawdy Adam and Eve, satirizing the Biblical tale of the Garden of Eden. On the surface, the sketc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Fort Laramie" - Stage Coach Stop (04-15-56)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Fort Laramie" - Stage Coach Stop (Aired April 15, 1956)
Fort Laramie had one of the strongest supporting casts in radio history: John Dehner, Sam Edwards, Virginia Gregg, Barney Phillips, Larry Dobkin, Ben Wright, Jeanette Nolan, and Harry Bartell. Most of them were also working regularly on Gunsmoke. And while Bill Conrad ("Matt Dillon") and Georgia Ellis ("Miss Kitty") never got to Fort Laramie, Parley Baer ("Chester") and Howard McNear ("Doc Adams") did. T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Great Gildersleeve - Number Of Beans Contest (06-18-52) Number Of Beans Contest (Aired June 18, 1952)
Premiering on NBC on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGee's Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
David Harding Counterspy - Arrogant Arsonist (09-06-49)Arrogant Arsonist (Aired September 6, 1949)
David Harding Counterspy was an espionage drama radio series that aired on ABC and Mutual from May 18, 1942 to November 29, 1957. David Harding (Don MacLaughlin) was the chief of the United States Counterspies, a unit engaged during World War II in counterespionage against Japan's Black Dragon and Germany's Gestapo. With spies still lurking in the post-war years, the adventures continued apace well after World War II ended. The early plots on Cou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Mysterious Traveler - The Man Who Vanished (07-06-48)The Man Who Vanished (Aired July 6, 1948)
The Mysterious Traveler was an anthology radio series, a magazine and a comic book. All three featured stories which ran the gamut from fantasy and science fiction to straight crime dramas of mystery and suspense. Written and directed by Robert Arthur and David Kogan, the radio series was sponsored by Adams Hats. It began on the Mutual Broadcasting System, December 5, 1943, continuing in many different timeslots until September 16, 1952. The lonely ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Gentleman" - Holiday (11-09-58)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Gentleman" - Holiday (Aired November 9, 1958)
1958's Frontier Gentleman wasn't a ground-breaking adult western. That ground had been pulverized both in Radio and Television six years earlier. But Frontier Gentleman's perspective on the rough and tumble Montana and Wyoming Territories of the 1870s was a fascinating twist on the--by then--formulaic adult western. The premise has J.B. Kendall, a cashiered British Cavalry officer who spent most of his mi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Box 13 - 2 Episodes From 1949 (05-22-49) and (06-19-49)"Death Is No Joke" (05-22-49) and "Killer At Large (06-19-49)
The premise of the program was that Dan Holiday was an author who wrote mystery novels. To get ideas for his novels he placed an advertisement in a newspaper saying "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything, Box 13." The ads always brought fun adventures of all kinds: from racketeer's victim to psychotic killer looking for fun. Most of the episodes were based on Dan Holiday replying to a letter he received at Box 13. He w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Martin & Lewis Show - John Garfield (05-22-49)John Garfield (Aired May 22, 1949)
An NBC radio series commenced in 1949; it lasted until 1953. On October 3, 1948, the team made their television debut on the NBC live television variety show Welcome Aboard sponsored by Admiral, manufacturers of TV sets. In 1949, Martin and Lewis were signed by Paramount producer Hal Wallis as comedy relief for the film My Friend Irma. Martin was thrilled to be out of New York City, a place he had developed a lifelong hatred for. He liked the fact that Ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Clock - Dr. Carters Experiment (02-23-47)Dr. Carters Experiment (Aired February 23, 1947)
The Clock, is an Australian radio show, a dramatic thirty-minute suspense and mystery series. It was written by Lawrence Klee and narrated by "The Clock." First Broadcast in the United States was in November, 1946. It was syndicated by Grace Gibson syndication. At the time of production, the Australian accent, we now know and love, originating from the Irish and Cockney accents, was rather frowned upon by non other than Australians. The show ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
My Favorite Husband - Liz Has Her Fortune Told (09-10-48)Liz Has Her Fortune Told (Aired September 10, 1948)
My Favorite Husband is the name of an American radio program and network television series. The original radio show, co-starring Lucille Ball, was the initial basis for what evolved into the groundbreaking TV sitcom I Love Lucy. The series was based on the 1940 novel Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, written by Isabel Scott Rorick, which had previously been adapted into the 1942 Paramount feature film Are Husbands Necessary?, co-starring Ray Milland an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Fibber McGee & Molly - Late Car Payment (10-21-47)Late Car Payment (Aired October 21, 1947)
Marian and Jim Jordan assumed the classic roles of Fibber McGee and Molly in the Merchandise Mart studios from the time of the show's inception in the spring of 1935 until their move to Southern California in the early months of 1939. The Jordans made their Chicago radio debut on WIBO and later moved on to WENR and WMAQ when the station was still owned by the Chicago Daily News. When NBC purchased WMAQ late 1931, the Jordans moved over to the Merch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tom Corbett Space Cadet - Atmosphere Of Death (Part 2 of 2) 03-20-52Atmosphere Of Death (Part 2 of 2) Aired March 20, 1952
Tom's career covered every media outlet of the 1950's, except the movies. There were eight hardback books published by Grosset and Dunlap from 1952 to 1956, fourteen comics published by Dell & Prize comics from 1952 to 1955, a daily and Sunday newspaper strip written by Paul S. Newman and drawn by Ray Bailey from September 1951 to September 1953 , a six month run of radio shows in 1952 and the TV series from Oct 1950 to 1956. The TV s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Suspense - The Mystery Of Marie Roget (02-07-60)The Mystery Of Marie Roget (Aired February 7, 1960)
Suspense was one of the premier programs of the Golden Age of Radio (aka old-time radio), and advertised itself as "radio's outstanding theater of thrills." It was heard in one form or another from 1942 through 1962. There were approximately 945 episodes broadcast during its long run, over 900 of which are extant in mostly high-quality recordings. Suspense went through several major phases, characterized by different hosts, sponsors and d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Boxcars711 Overnight Western "All Star Western Theater" - Alan Lane At Sundown (10-27-46)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "All Star Western Theater" - Alan Lane At Sundown (Aired October 27, 1946)
All Star Western Theater is an enjoyable series filled with the humor of guest stars such as Johnny Mack Brown and Smiley Burnett and in the tried and true format of The Roy Rogers Show. The words honest, sincere and un-assuming come to mind. Done live, All Star Western Theater gives the studio audience a good show, and the result is still a happy ride down memory lane. Riding out of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Globe Theater - The Distant Future (10-17-44)The Distant Future (Aired October 17, 1944)
The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) incorporated some thirty-plus exemplars from the This Is My Best canon into their own Frontline Theatre/Globe Theater syndicated transcriptions for service people overseas. For the Globe Theater run, Jimmy Wallington, Herbert Marshall, Jack Tierny and William Johnstone alternated as hosts of the denatured This Is My Best productions under the Globe Theater series designated H-5, the fifth such series to enter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tom Corbett Space Cadet - Atmosphere Of Death (Part 1 of 2) 03-18-52Atmosphere Of Death (Part 1 of 2) Aired March 18, 1952
Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, coloring books, punch-out books and View-Master reels in the 1950s. The stories followed the adventures of Tom Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the elite Solar Guard. The action takes place at the Academy in classr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dangerous Assignment - File 307 (08-20-49) File 307 (Aired August 20, 1949)
Dangerous Assignment stands as one of the most durable programs of its genre and era in the waning days of The Golden Age of Radio. Espionage or foreign intrigue dramas weren't particularly groundbreaking undertakings by the 1950s. Bulldog Drummond was the first of the more successful exemplars of Radio espionage and intrigue, running from 1941 to 1954, most often under the lead of the gifted character actor, George Coulouris. The Counterspy series had bee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Diary Of Fate - Joe Mattock (03-16-48)Joe Mattock (Aired March 16, 1948)
The twist with Diary of Fate was the total absence of pretense. The program jumps right to the 'source' of Man's ultimate destiny--Fate itself--in the form of the Guardian of the Diary of Fate. It is within the Diary of Fate, that every soul's fate is painstakingly chronicled by book and page number--or so we're very persuasively given to understand. Fate itself--in this instance, at least--is the great character actor Herbert Lytton, providing the forbod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Agatha Christie Presents Miss Marple - A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side (Part 2 of 2)A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side (Part 2 of 2) 1953
Miss Marple is able to solve difficult crimes not only because of her shrewd intelligence, but because St. Mary Mead, over her lifetime, has given her seemingly infinite examples of the negative side of human nature. No crime can arise without reminding Miss Marple of some parallel incident in the history of her time. Miss Marple's acquaintances are sometimes bored by her frequent analogies to people and events from St. Mary Mead, but ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Crime Does Not Pay - Horse Face (09-11-50)Horse Face (Aired September 11, 1950)
As must be immediately noticeable from the long list of movie actors heard in Crime Does Not Pay, this was not your everyday Golden Age Radio drama. Indeed, you might be forgiven if you fail to recognize more than a couple of Radio voice talents in the entire list. The Radio program was based on a very popular series of MGM Short Subjects they produced between 1935 and 1948 under the same name, Crime Does Not Pay. The Marcus Loew Booking Agency had own ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Life With Luigi - Luigi Leaves For California (01-09-53)Luigi Leaves For California (Aired January 9, 1953)
Life with Luigi was a radio comedy-drama series which began September 21, 1948 on CBS. The story concerned Italian immigrant Luigi Basco, and his experiences as an immigrant in Chicago. Many of the shows take place at the US citizenship classes that Luigi attends with other immigrants from different countries, as well as trying to fend off the repeated advances of the morbidly-obese daughter of his landlord/sponsor. Luigi was played by J. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Private Files Of Rex Saunders - Until Death Do Us Part (07-18-51)Until Death Do Us Part (Aired July 18, 1951)
Heard every Wednesday night at 7:30, this thriller is typical of radio mystery shows. However, it has one thing the others don't--that is a sauve Englishman by the name of Rex Harrison. Harrison turns in a better than average performance as a private detective. With the help of an assistant played by Leon Janey, the "dick" goes his way solving a new mystery each week. Impressing us most was the quiet manner in which Harrison plays his new role. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Agatha Christie Presents Miss Marple - A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side (Part 1 of 2)A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side (Part 1 of 2) 1953
Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels. Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who acts as an amateur detective, and lives in the village of St. Mary Mead. She is one of the most famous of Christie's characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen. Her first published appearance was in issue 350 of The Royal Magazine for December 1927 with th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Have Gun Will Travel" - A Matter Of Ethics (02-01-59)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Have Gun Will Travel" - A Matter Of Ethics (Aired February 1, 1959)
The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. Have Gun — Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series (several were written by Gene Roddenberry), of which 101 were directed by Andrew McLaglen and 19 were directed by the series star Richard Boone. The title was a catc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Escape - Mars Is Heaven (06-02-50)Mars Is Heaven (Aired June 2, 1950)
Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high adventure, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense, it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950. Despite these problems, Escape enthralled many listeners during its seven-year run. The series' well-remembered opening combined M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Green Lama - The Man Who Never Existed (06-05-49)The Man Who Never Existed (Aired June 5, 1949)
The Green Lama first appeared in a short novel entitled The Green Lama in the April 1940 issue of Double Detective magazine. The novel was written by Kendell Foster Crossen using the pseudonym of "Richard Foster". Writing in 1976, Crossen recalled that the character was created because the publishers of Double Detective, the Frank Munsey company, wanted a competitor for The Shadow which was published by their rivals Street & Smith. The charact ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ford Theater - Laura (05-30-48)Laura (Aired May 30, 1948)
The Ford Theater, sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, presented hour long dramas first on NBC for one only season. The series moved to CBS for its second and last season. There were 39 NBC and 39 CBS hour- long shows (not verified). The show initially received an unfavorable review from the New York Times for poor script adaptation but was still highly rated for the actors' performance and overall production. The show was supposed to feature only original script ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Adventures Of The Saint - Author Of Murder (07-30-50)Author Of Murder (Aired July 30, 1950)
The Saint first came to radio in 1940, with American produced programs starting in 1945. While not the first actor to bring Templar to life over the air, it was surprisingly (at least to me) Vincent Price who played the role for the longest period, from 1947 until 1951. Knowing Price for his screen persona, it is odd at first to hear him doing this wise-cracking and lighthearted rogue. Some episodes in the Radio Spirit collection are almost slapstick, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Father Knows Best - Rainy Day Activity (03-25-54)Rainy Day Activity (Aired March 25, 1954)
Father Knows Best, a family comedy of the 1950s, is perhaps more important for what it has come to represent than for what it actually was. In essence, the series was one of a slew of middle-class family sitcoms in which moms were moms, kids were kids, and fathers knew best. Today, many critics view it, at best, as high camp fun, and, at worst, as part of what critic David Marc once labeled the "Aryan melodramas" of the 1950s and 1960s. The brainch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Academy Award Theater - The Watch On The Rhine (08-07-46)The Watch On The Rhine (Aired August 7, 1946)
The list of films and actors on Academy Award Theater is very impressive. Bette Davis begins the series in Jezebel, with Ginger Rogers following in Kitty Foyle, and then Paul Muni in The Life of Louis Pasteur. The Informer had to have Victor Mclaglen, and the Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet (this movie was his first major motion picutre role) plus Mary Astor for the hat trick. Suspicion starred Cary Grant with Ann Todd doing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Adventures Of Maisie - The Theatrical Agent (11-30-50)The Theatrical Agent (Aired November 30, 1950)
Maisie, the first in 1939, was from the book "Dark Dame" by the writer Wilson Collison,who did decades of scripting for the silver screen along with Broadway plays and magazine fiction. From the first, MGM wanted Ann Sothern to play Maisie. She began in Hollywood as an extra in 1927. "Maisie and I were just together - I just understood her," Sothern, born Harriette Arlene Lake, said after several of the films made her a star. Throughout the 19 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Adventures Of Ellery Queen - The Armchair Detective (03-27-46)The Armchair Detective (Aired March 27, 1946)
With Hugh Marlowe in the title role, Ellery Queen was introduced in The Adventures of Ellery Queen on CBS Radio on June 18, 1939, running until September 22, 1940. In 1942, the series moved to NBC Radio, airing until 1944. From 1945 to 1947, it was heard once again on CBS, returning to NBC in 1947 and then ABC Radio (1947-48). The premise was that a mystery would be dramatized but then interrupted when a panel of celebrities would attempt to so ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Crime Club - Mr. Smith's Hat (01-23-47)Mr. Smith's Hat (01-23-47)
The Crime Club was a series of 30-minute murder mystery stories adapted for radio by Stedman Coles or Wyllis Cooper from based on and featuring some of the stories from the Doubleday Crime Club books. Crime Club was broadcast by Mutual and produced and directed by Roger Bower. The post war stories were by various different authors and adapted for radio by among others Stedman Coles and Wyllis Cooper (writer of Lights Out and Quiet Please). The narrator played by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Casey Crime Photographer - Unlucky Numbers (06-15-50)Unlucky Numbers (Aired June 15, 1950)
Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask, under the watchful eyes of then-editor Joseph Shaw, Flashgun Casey was the originally fast-talking crime photographer, a big, hot-tempered Boston Mick with a gift for gab and a nose for trouble. No "artiste", Casey kept a bottle of hooch and a .38 in his desk drawer, and boasted of being able to put a "slug where he aimed" and having "two big fists he knew how to use". He appeared in several short storie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |