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Columbia Workshop- "Slim" 3/2/46
Classic Dramas achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its
initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading
international popular entertainment.
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Published on: 2008-05-14 04:11:00
BLONDIE - Not many cartoon strips from the 30's are still popular, but Blondie is one of the few. Still widely read today, Blondie was also made into movies and of course, radio. Her beau, soon to be husband, Dagwood and her were an unlikely match. Dagwood actually came from
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Published on: 2008-05-14 03:30:00
Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator is one of the few detective radio series that had separate versions of it broadcast from both coasts. Even the spelling changed over the years. It was first "Barry Crane" and then "Barrie Craig". NBC produced it in New York from 1951 to 1954 and then
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Published on: 2008-05-14 00:39:00
Casey, Crime Photographer - The adventures of Casey, crack photographer for The Morning Express, were told in this series, which moved to television after a highly successful run on radio in the 1940’s. Casey hung out at the Blue Note Café, where the music was provided by the Tony Mottola
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Published on: 2008-05-13 13:57:00
Cloak & Dagger - "Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission for the United States, knowing in advance you may never return alive?" Cloak and Dagger first aired over the NBC network on May 7, 1950. It had a short run through the Summer on Sundays, changing to Fridays
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Published on: 2008-05-13 03:30:00
The Bickersons - This old time radio series from the 1940s was an extremely popular situation comedy performed by Don Ameche and Frances Langford as battling spouses, John and Blanche Bickerson. Other actors portrayed the parts in later years with Lew Parker ("That Girl") joining Langford and the non-stop petty
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Published on: 2008-05-12 23:27:00
Crime Does Not Pay was an anthology radio crime drama series based on MGM's short film series. The films began in 1935 with Crime Does Not Pay: Buried Loot. For the most part, actors who appeared in B-films were featured, but occasionally, one of MGM's major stars would make an
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Published on: 2008-05-12 16:31:00
The Song of Songs 12/20/37
Lux Radio Theater, one of the genuine classic radio anthology series
(NBC Blue Network (1934-1935); CBS (1935-1955), adapted first Broadway
stage works, and then (especially) films to hour-long live radio
presentations. It quickly became the most popular dramatic anthology
series on radio, running more than twenty years. The program always
began
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Published on: 2008-05-12 04:00:00
Inspector Thorne - Another radio detective from the pen of Frank and Ann Hummert was Inspector Thorne. The series was short-lived and also had two stars portraying the lead. The first was Karl Weber and the second was Staats Cotsworth.By the 1940's, Frank and Ann Hummert controlled four and a
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Published on: 2008-05-12 03:30:00
Lux Radio Theater, one of the genuine classic radio anthology series (NBC Blue Network (1934-1935); CBS (1935-1954); NBC (1954-1955)) adapted first Broadway stage works, and then (especially) films to hour-long live radio presentations. It quickly became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, running more than twenty years. The
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Published on: 2008-05-11 22:46:00
THE HALLS OF IVY - Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume starred in the Halls of Ivy, a very well-written, superbly acted radio program that was full of warmth and wit. The show aired from 1950 to 1952 on NBC and is not often mentioned when old-time radio programs
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Published on: 2008-05-11 16:04:00
Suspect: Steve MosbyKnown Aliases: The Notorious B.O.M. (Boring Old Me)Occupation: AuthorLast known location: Somewhere in Leeds (that's in the U.K. for you non-Brits)Listen in as Steve talks about his take on serial killers in The 50/50 Killer,
the influence of science fiction on his writing, and his thoughts about
research.
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Published on: 2008-05-11 03:36:00
Crime Club was a Mutual Network murder and mystery series, a product of the Doubleday Crime Book Club imprints found weekly in bookstores everywhere. The telephone rings"Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club. I'm the Librarian. Murder Rents A Room? Yes, we have
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Published on: 2008-05-11 02:39:00
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater (or CBSRMT) was an ambitious and sustained attempt to revive the great drama of old-time radio in the 1970s. Created by Himan Brown (who had by then become a radio legend due to his work on Inner Sanctum Mysteries and other shows dating back to
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Published on: 2008-05-10 15:24:00
The Chicago Theater Of The Air was a rather unique program that was created in 1940, during a time when operas and dramas were popular. The show attempted to add a degree of high culture to American entertainment. The operas were translated into English. A few examples of high end
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Published on: 2008-05-10 00:59:00
The Life of Riley, with William Bendix in the title role, was a popular radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film and continued as a long-running television series during the 1950s. The show began as a proposed Groucho Marx radio series, The
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Published on: 2008-05-09 15:10:00
Trapped Behind The Line 9/28/35
Published on: 2008-05-09 04:00:00
But I Wouldn't Want To Die There 4 of 5 1/17/74
The
Zero Hour was a 1973-74 radio broadcast hosted by Rod Serling. The Zero
Hour featured well known actors and actresses. The stories were
exciting and action-packed and will keep you on the edge of you seat,
as we approach the Zero Hour.
Published on: 2008-05-09 03:08:00
These were stories written by well-known science fiction authors dramatised by very high quality actors. It was a thirty-minute adult science fiction drama series with 45 episodes being broadcast before it was later revived as X Minus One. The shows were narrated by Norman Rose, perfecting the combination between authoritative
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Published on: 2008-05-09 00:33:00
Nightwatch - January 7, 1954. CBS network. Audition program. Real police recordings, no actors are used. Car 54 and police reporter Donn Reed answer the first all, a Code 2 alert that a burglary is taking place. A woman is pushed in the bathroom by an alcoholic young man wearing
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Published on: 2008-05-08 21:09:00
Arch Oboler's Plays was a radio drama series written, produced and directed by Arch Oboler. Minus a sponsor, it ran for one year, airing Saturday evenings on NBC from March 25, 1939 to March 23, 1940 and revived five years later on Mutual for a sustaining summer run from April
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Published on: 2008-05-08 15:01:00
Diary of Fate is a mystery and horror program where “Fate” narrates and always wins by the end of the story. These are great suspense filled stories about average people who are subject to the mysteries of their ‘Fate’. In This episode, March 9, 1948. Program #13. Finley syndication. "The
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Published on: 2008-05-08 03:30:00
Agatha Christie Radio Mysteries presents Nemesis 3 of 5Miss Marple's wealthy friend, Mr.Rafiel dies. He has left a clause in
his will that if Miss Marple can solve a "certain crime" for him she
will receive 20,000 pounds. He also states that the "code word" is
Nemesis. Miss Marple could use the money,
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Published on: 2008-05-08 03:13:00
BEYOND MIDNIGHT - Let us journey “into the land that lies beyond midnight,” into a world of ghost hunters, men going mad, and DEATH DEATH DEATH! Written by the masterful Michael McCabe, these well-done South African radio shows will capture your attention and keep you up listening to them well
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Published on: 2008-05-07 23:50:00
CBS Radio Workshop - April 13, 1956. CBS network. "Jacob's Hands". Sustaining. A good story about a farm hand who discovers he has the power to heal. Aldous Huxley (author), Christopher Isherwood (author), Hans Conried, Harry Bartell, Helen Kleeb, Herb Butterfield, Janet Stewart, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Parley Baer, Vic
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Published on: 2008-05-07 15:40:00
In this episode, bestselling author HEATHER GRAHAM reads to us from her book THE DEATH DEALER!
Genevieve O'Brien knows all about nightmares. She survived for two months as the prisoner of a deranged killer. Now a new menace is stalking the streets of New York.The media are buzzing about the Poe
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Published on: 2008-05-07 14:08:00
Columbia Workshop- "Anniversary" 2/9/46
Classic Dramas achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its
initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading
international popular entertainment.
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Published on: 2008-05-07 04:11:00
Gunsmoke - Some listeners (such as old time radio expert John Dunning) have argued that the radio version of Gunsmoke was far more realistic than the television program. Episodes were aimed at adults, and featured some of the most explicit content of the day: there were violent crimes and scalpings,
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Published on: 2008-05-07 02:08:00
The Jack Benny Program - Benny had been only a minor vaudeville performer, but he became a national figure with The Jack Benny Program, a weekly radio show which ran from 1932 to 1948 on NBC and from 1949 to 1955 on CBS, and was consistently among the most highly
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Published on: 2008-05-06 23:30:00
Amos 'n' Andy creators Gosden and Correll were white actors familiar with minstrel traditions. They met in Durham, North Carolina in 1920, and by the fall of 1925, they were performing nightly song-and-patter routines on the Chicago Tribune's station WGN. Since the Tribune syndicated Sidney Smith's popular comic strip The
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Published on: 2008-05-06 17:50:00
Mystery Theatre
presents Harry Lime Starring Orson Wells in The Golden Fleece 10/12/51
Published on: 2008-05-06 03:39:00
Tuska cited Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940) and Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941) as the best of the Bellamy-Lindsay pairings. "The influence of The Thin Man series was apparent in reverse", Tuska noted about Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery. "Ellery and Nikki are unmarried but obviously in love with each other.
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Published on: 2008-05-06 01:56:00
Academy Award Theater - 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
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Published on: 2008-05-05 23:14:00
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,
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Published on: 2008-05-05 12:42:00
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
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Published on: 2008-05-05 00:29:00
The Boston Blackie radio series, also starring Morris, began June 23, 1944, on NBC as a summer replacement for The Amos 'n' Andy Show. Sponsored by Rinso, the series continued until September 15 of that year. Unlike the concurrent films, Blackie had a steady romantic interest in the radio show:
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Published on: 2008-05-04 19:14:00
Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With music by Robert Stringer, the show originated from New York during its first three months on the air, with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover. John Dietz directed
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Published on: 2008-05-04 12:14:00
Dragnet was a long-running radio and television police procedural drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet
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Published on: 2008-05-04 01:32:00
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of network radio's longest running detectives, although listening to it now would hardly explain why. This kind, elderly, boring sleuth, in company with his bumbling assistant, Mike Clancy, was on the airwaves from 1937 to 1955, logging nearly 20 years of fighting
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Published on: 2008-05-03 21:23:00
Chapter 11 Harbor PursuitChester Gould's jut-jawed plainclothesman Dick Tracy first came to
the screen in this 15-chapter Republic serial. Ralph Byrd stars as
Tracy, a role which both brought him fame and typecast him for life.
For the purposes of cliffhanging suspense, the Republic writing staff
altered the Tracy "mythos" as set forth in
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Published on: 2008-05-03 03:28:00
A sudden rash of petty crime is spreading like wildfire, bleeding the city white a few dollars at a time. Is it really possible that these robberies are being carried out by an army of children? What elemental force could possibly have driven these innocents into a life of crime?
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Published on: 2008-05-03 00:00:00
The Creaking Door was an old-time radio series of horror and suspense shows originating in South Africa. There are at present anywhere from 34-37 extant episodes in MP3 circulation, yet no currently available program logs for the series indicate the year of the series' broadcast (though it was likely sometime
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Published on: 2008-05-02 16:10:00
But I Wouldn't Want To Die There 3 of 5 1/16/74
The
Zero Hour was a 1973-74 radio broadcast hosted by Rod Serling. The Zero
Hour featured well known actors and actresses. The stories were
exciting and action-packed and will keep you on the edge of you seat,
as we approach the Zero Hour.
Published on: 2008-05-02 04:06:00
Pit Of Peril And Death 9/21/35
Published on: 2008-05-02 04:00:00
The Planet ManEpisode7 "Kidnapping Order" Episode8 "Bill & Jane Need Help" and Episode9 "Hoping For A Miracle"This is the fascinating story of Dantro, The Planet Man, troubleshooter for the League of Planets organization, the law enforcement body for peace and justice in the celestial world - whose headquarters and center
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Published on: 2008-05-02 03:30:00
Chapter 10 The Gold ShipDick Tacy came to
the screen in this 15-chapter Republic serial. Ralph Byrd stars as
Tracy, a role which both brought him fame and typecast him for life.
For the purposes of cliffhanging suspense, the Republic writing staff
altered the Tracy "mythos" as set forth in Gould's daily comic strip.
As
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Published on: 2008-05-02 03:23:00
Although Molle Mystery Theatre was initially sponsored by Molle Shaving Cream, other sponsors (such as Bayer Aspirin, Ironized Yeast, Phillips Milk of Magnesia) also sponsored the program. Sometimes, when it was not sponsored by Molle, the program was called "Mystery Theater". The show was first heard on NBC, on 9/7/43.
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Published on: 2008-05-01 23:53:00
Burns and Allen are one of the most beloved couple in old time radio. They got started, like many of the greats of old time radio, in vaudeville, which is really just the touring popular entertainment in America prior to movies. Gracie was the sparkplug of the act, always the
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Published on: 2008-05-01 15:18:00
Agatha Christie Radio Mysteries presents Nemesis 2 of 5Miss Marple's wealthy friend, Mr.Rafiel dies. He has left a clause in
his will that if Miss Marple can solve a "certain crime" for him she
will receive 20,000 pounds. He also states that the "code word" is
Nemesis. Miss Marple could use the money,
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Published on: 2008-05-01 13:12:00
Chapter 9 The Stratosphere AdventureChester Gould's jut-jawed plainclothesman Dick Tracy first came to
the screen in this 15-chapter Republic serial. Ralph Byrd stars as
Tracy, a role which both brought him fame and typecast him for life.
For the purposes of cliffhanging suspense, the Republic writing staff
altered the Tracy "mythos" as set forth
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Published on: 2008-05-01 10:16:00
MAYOR OF THE TOWN - An NBC offering. Aired on Sundays from 7:00PM to 7:30PM, starring Lional Barrymore and Agnes Moorehead. The creator and writer was Jean Holloway, the announcer Harlow Wilcox, music by Gordon Jenkins and sponsored by Rinso detergent.
Published on: 2008-05-01 00:54:00
CONFESSIONNBC 30 minutes Sunday at 9:30PM.Cast Paul Frees, virginia
Christine,Herb Butterfield, Parley Bear and other Hollywood radio
actors. Announcer John Wald. From: July 5, 1953 to September 13, 1954The Show had a texture and sound not unlike Dragnet, indeed the influence was realized throughout the show. These were true stories of Crime
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Published on: 2008-04-30 21:09:00
By the 1940's, Frank and Ann Hummert controlled four and a half hours of national weekday broadcast schedules. Their features reportedly spawned more that 5 million pieces of correspondence annually from steadfast fans. Simultaneously they brought in more than half of the national radio chain's advertising revenues generated during the
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Published on: 2008-04-30 15:10:00
The Black Museum - Opening in 1875, the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard is the oldest museum in the world purely for recording crime. The name Black Museum was coined in 1877 by a reporter from The Observer, a London newspaper, although the museum is still referred to as the
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Published on: 2008-04-30 00:55:00
Crime Classics was a U. S. radio docudrama which aired over CBS from June 15, 1953 to June 30, 1954. Created, produced, and directed by radio actor/director Elliott Lewis, the program was basically a historical true crime series, examining crimes, and especially murders, from the past. It grew out of
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Published on: 2008-04-29 22:42:00
VICTORY THEATER"Victory Theater" was the 1942 summer replacement series for "Lux Radio Theater" and was sponsored by the United States Government.THIS EPISODE:THE PHILADELPHIA STORYPhiladelphia heiress Tracy Lord throws out her playboy husband C.K. Dexter Haven shortly after their marriage. Two years later, Tracy is about to marry respectable George Kittredge
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Published on: 2008-04-29 16:06:00
Chapter 8 Battle in the CloudsChester Gould's jut-jawed plainclothesman Dick Tracy first came to
the screen in this 15-chapter Republic serial. Ralph Byrd stars as
Tracy, a role which both brought him fame and typecast him for life.
For the purposes of cliffhanging suspense, the Republic writing staff
altered the Tracy "mythos" as set
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Published on: 2008-04-29 03:01:00
Horatio HornblowerBased on the novels by C. S. Forester.1952-1953 SeriesBroadcast 1952; Transcribed in England for the BBC; aired in U.S. on CBS, then again on ABC in 1954 and Mutual in 1957. Starring Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower. a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The
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Published on: 2008-04-29 02:18:00
Honest Harold Hemp lived with his mother and nephew and did a radio homemaker's program. The series received undeserved negative ratings and general negative attitude of the critics. The HONEST HAROLD scripts were well crafted with well developed characters and had excellent acting and production values. Many people, including Harold
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Published on: 2008-04-28 21:26:00
Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of twenty-six Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture, and several different radio and television series. Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery
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Published on: 2008-04-28 14:12:00
Archie Andrews, created in 1941 by Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, a long-run radio series, a syndicated comic strip and animation -- The Archie Show, a Saturday morning cartoon television series by Filmation, plus Archie's Weird Mysteries.Archie on radioMontana's
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Published on: 2008-04-28 03:30:00
Chapter 7 The Ghost Town MysteryChester Gould's jut-jawed plainclothesman Dick Tracy first came to
the screen in this 15-chapter Republic serial. Ralph Byrd stars as
Tracy, a role which both brought him fame and typecast him for life.
For the purposes of cliffhanging suspense, the Republic writing staff
altered the Tracy "mythos" as set
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Published on: 2008-04-28 03:00:00