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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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-14 03:30:00
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| RSSBarry 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-14 00:39:00
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Best of Old Time Radio presents Adventures of the Sea Hound, Wrestling Match Over 1/25/44
Published on: 2008-05-13 15:39:00
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| RSSCasey, 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-13 13:57:00
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| RSSCloak & 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-13 03:30:00
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| RSSThe 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-12 23:27:00
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| RSSCrime 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-12 16:31:00
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| RSSInspector 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-12 03:30:00
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| RSSLux 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-11 22:46:00
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| RSSTHE 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-11 16:04:00
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| RSSCrime 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-11 02:39:00
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| RSSThe 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-10 15:24:00
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| RSSThe 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-10 00:59:00
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| RSSThe 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-09 15:10:00
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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
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| RSSThese 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-09 00:33:00
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| RSSNightwatch - 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-08 21:09:00
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| RSSArch 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-08 15:01:00
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| RSSDiary 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-08 03:30:00
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| RSSBEYOND 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-07 23:50:00
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| RSSCBS 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-07 15:40:00
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| RSSGunsmoke - 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, ...
Published on: 2008-05-07 02:08:00
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| RSSThe 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-06 23:30:00
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| RSSAmos '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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-06 17:50:00
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Yay for my first podcast! The Sacred Nugget is a pagan seeker's podcast, discussing all of the craziness and hilarity that ensues along a seeker's path.Damn it's good to be a pagan!For more info visit:http://www.sacrednugget.comorEmail me at haideelux@gmail.comThe Intro music is "Disconnect The Dots" by Of Montreal, brought to you ...
Published on: 2008-05-06 03:42:00
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| RSSTuska 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. ...
Published on: 2008-05-06 01:56:00
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| RSSAcademy 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-05 23:14:00
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| RSSThe 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, ...
Published on: 2008-05-05 12:42:00
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| RSSEscape 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-05 00:29:00
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| RSSThe 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: ...
Published on: 2008-05-04 19:14:00
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| RSSBroadway 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-04 12:14:00
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| RSSDragnet 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-04 01:32:00
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| RSSMr. 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-03 21:23:00
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| RSSThe 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-02 16:10:00
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| RSSBut 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
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| RSSThe 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-02 03:30:00
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Published on: 2008-05-02 00:00:00
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| RSSAlthough 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. ...
Published on: 2008-05-01 23:53:00
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| RSSBurns 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 ...
Published on: 2008-05-01 15:18:00
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| RSSMAYOR 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
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| RSSCONFESSIONNBC 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 ...
Published on: 2008-04-30 21:09:00
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| RSSBy 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 ...
Published on: 2008-04-30 15:10:00
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| RSSThe 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 ...
Published on: 2008-04-30 00:55:00
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| RSSCrime 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 ...
Published on: 2008-04-29 22:42:00
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| RSSVICTORY 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 ...
Published on: 2008-04-29 16:06:00
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| RSSHoratio 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 ...
Published on: 2008-04-29 02:18:00
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| RSSHonest 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 ...
Published on: 2008-04-28 21:26:00
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| RSSMr. 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 ...
Published on: 2008-04-28 14:12:00
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| RSSArchie 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 ...
Published on: 2008-04-28 03:30:00
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| RSSHancock's Half-Hour is the yardstick against which all subsequent British sitcoms have been measured, the vast majority failing to size up to its extremely high standards. Based on his famous radio show of the same name, the TV run consolidated Tony Hancock's standing as Britain's leading comic of the day, ...
Published on: 2008-04-27 20:34:00
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| RSSThe Ford Theater aired 1947 - 1949. It was broadcast on NBC until October 8, 1948 then moved to CBS. It was hosted by Howard Lindsay. The show tried to use good but not to famous radio performers. Producer George Zachary, first producer, attempting to use popular radio stars instead ...
Published on: 2008-04-27 12:53:00
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| RSSBox 13 - 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 ...
Published on: 2008-04-27 02:24:00
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| RSSSpy Catcher - (BBC) 1960-1961. A series of true stories in the unceasing search for enemy spys in wartime. Based on the memoirs of Lt. Col. Oreste Pinto of Allied Counterintelligence Services. The shows were extremly popular during the golden age of radio.THIS EPISODE:The Infernal Triangle - In May 1945 ...
Published on: 2008-04-26 21:21:00
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| RSSBut I Wouldn't Want To Die There 2 of 5 1/15/74
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: 2008-04-26 16:04:00
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| RSSGroucho Marx matches wits with the American public in four episodes of this classic game show. Starting on the radio in 1947, You Bet Your Life made its television debut in 1950 and aired for 11 years with Groucho as host and emcee. Sponsored rather conspicuously by the Dodge DeSoto ...
Published on: 2008-04-26 12:03:00
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| RSS2000 AD (2000 Plus) is known as the first of the network science fiction shows, although it ran on Mutual just a month prior to the introduction of the landmark series, Dimension X. It was a half hour of science fiction wonder in an exciting package. The stories have a ...
Published on: 2008-04-26 01:30:00
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| RSSSherlock Holmes detective stories appeared on radio for more than 25 years, with a long list of performers playing the parts of Holmes and Dr Watson. FIRST BROADCAST: October 20th 1930 LAST BROADCAST: September 4th 1956. The stories were written by Edith Meiser, a self-confessed Holmes addict. These were so ...
Published on: 2008-04-25 23:28:00
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| RSSThe Adventures Of Philip Marlowe - The first portrayal of Phillip Marlowe on the radio was by Dick Powell, when he played Raymond Chandler's detective on the Lux Radio Theater on June 11, 1945. This was a radio adaptation of the 1944 movie, from RKO, in which Mr. Powell played ...
Published on: 2008-04-25 20:59:00
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| RSSBut I Wouldn't Want To Die There 1 of 5 1/14/74
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: 2008-04-25 15:57:00
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| RSSThe Chase is an exciting Old Time Radio series in which every episode contains, well, a chase. Tales, highly melodramatic and often improbable, of people on the run. The concept of "hunter and hunted" was built into the signatures. with the lone bugle of a fox hunt, the braying of ...
Published on: 2008-04-25 13:27:00
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| RSS21ST PRECINCT was one of the realistic police drama series of the early- to mid-1950's that were aired in the wake of DRAGNET. Hard-boiled private detective series that often portrayed police as inept or incompetent were losing favor. NBC's DRAGNET had proven that a realistic police show could attract and ...
Published on: 2008-04-25 02:09:00
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| RSSAdventures In ResearchEpisode 9 "The Immigrant Inventor" (3-30-43)Episode 10 "Dirty Hands" (4-06-43)A wonderfully informative old time radio series can be found in Adventures In Research. With tales that are not only wonderfully dramatic, but at the same time extremely interesting and entertaining. Adventures In Research offers the listener accounts in ...
Published on: 2008-04-24 23:27:00