BOXCARS711 OVERNIGHT WESTERN "FRONTIER GENTLEMAN" - BIG SAM FOR GOVERNOR (AIRED MARCH 16, 1958) Frontier Gentleman was a radio Western series heard on CBS from February 2 to November 16, 1958. W...
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FRED THE BOARDER - WITH OZZIE & HARRIET (AIRED JUNE 15, 1947) The show that became Town Hall Tonight was the longest-running hour-long comedy-based show in classic radio history. In 1940, Allen ...
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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 s...
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MOVIE The Flamingos Live On Stage (1959) - "I Only Have Eyes For You" VIDEO This article is about the doo-wop group. The Flamingos The Flamingos in 1957. From left to right: Tommy Hunt, Pa...
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Flash Gordon is the protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by, and created to compete w...
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HELP WANTED FEMALE (AIRED JANUARY 8, 1948) The First Nighter Program was a long-running radio anthology comedy-drama series broadcast from 1930 to 1953. The host was Mr. First Nighter (Charles P...
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FIBBER CUTS DOWN JESSE JAMES TREE (AIRED JANUARY 17, 1950) The program struggled in the ratings until 1940, when it became a national sensation. Within three years, it was the top-rated program ...
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WELL THE TREE (AIRED FEBRUARY 28, 1988) Fear On Four is the British Broadcasting Corporation's continuation of a tradition of horror shows dating back to 1943. Back then, the BBC offered APPOI...
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Dumb Luck (Aired September 22, 1957) The FBI in Peace and War was a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewis Collins' book, The FBI in Peace and War. The idea for the show came from Louis P...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-04-06T19_26_07-07_00
Each episode of Favorite Story featured an adaptation of a story selected by a celebrity — purportedly his or her favorite story. The celebrities came from various fields: actors, directors, ba...
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THE MISSING SALESMAN (AIRED MAY 3, 1951) 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, t...
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The Actor & The Alibi (Aired November 2, 1986) When we consider the question of clerics and mysteries, the first figure most of us think of is G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown. The first Father ...
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Murder Shows A Phantom Face (Aired April 7, 1955) "There he goes across the street into the drugstore, steps on the scale, height: 6 feet, weight: 290 pounds, fortune: Danger. Who isit? THE FAT ...
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Each program was preceded by the familiar announcement: “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of”—a quote from Alfred, Lord Tennyson. And always worked in somewhere befo...
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2 EPISODES FROM 1946 "MURDERED MAESTRO" AND "STAIRWAY SLAYING" Having instilled a sense of foreboding in the listener, the script would launch into the dramatic exposition necessary to frame the...
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The Winthrop Murder Case (Aired September 14, 1950) A 30-minute crime drama starring Dan Duryea as Lou Dana, a tough police lieutenant with a tendency to beat information out of suspects. Dana's...
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The Silver Scarab (Aired June 19, 1947) THE MAN CALLED X started over Radio with the 1944 CBS Summer replacement run for Lux Radio Theatre, comprising a total of eight episodes. The only circula...
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THE MIDNIGHT HORSEMAN (AIRED DECEMBER 11, 1961) The series arose out of an improptu competition between The Far East Network and The Armed Forces Network-Germany. Both networks sent 15 ips audit...
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PANIC IN THE STREETS (AIRED MARCH 5, 1951) Broadcasting from New York, the series premiered at 2:30pm, October 14, 1934, on the NBC Blue Network with a production of Seventh Heaven starring Miri...
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The Third Man (The Lives of Harry Lime) was a old-time radio adventure series that ran in 1951 and 1952. It was based on the 1949 film of the same name. Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime, a perpet...
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The Lineup is a realistic police drama that gives radio audiences a look behind the scenes at police headquarters. Bill Johnstone plays Lt. Ben Guthrie, a quiet, calm-as-a-cupcake cucumber. Josep...
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THE BALL AKA: PARIS MACABRE (AIRED MARCH 9, 1943) Lights Out was created in Chicago by writer Wyllis Cooper in 1934, and the first series of shows (each 15 minutes long) ran on a local NBC stati...
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JOSHUA MASTERS (AIRED APRIL 10, 1952) Mercedes McCambridge star as lawyer in Defense Attorney in defending the defenseless. She was born in Joliet, Illinois, the daughter of Irish American Catho...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-03-22T17_34_04-07_00
DEATH VALLEY DAYS is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the pr...
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Who's on First? is a vaudeville comedy routine made most famous by Abbott and Costello. In Abbott and Costello's version, the premise of the routine is that Abbott is identifying the players on a...
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MILE HIGH MURDERS (AIRED APRIL 11, 1950) The show was at the top of the list among programs that had developed the technique of sound effects to a fine art. Each program was written with the sou...
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"A Ten Dollar Bill" (Aired August 5, 1945) Dark Venture was a grim kind of thriller where the listener got inside the twisted head of the murderer and heard his thoughts. It was not supernatural...
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Men Call Me Mad (Aired December 19, 1941) Dark Fantasy was a short series with tales of the weird, adventures of the supernatural, created for you by Scott Bishop. The series aired as a horror d...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-03-18T19_26_13-07_00
DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT - INTERCEPT DR. KORVEL (AIRED DECEMBER 30, 1950) This thirty-minute international spy adventure featured Steve Mitchell (Brian Donlevy), and investigator of crimes in exotic...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-03-17T20_37_09-07_00
PHONY PHOTOGRAPHER CASE (1956) *THE EXACT DATE IS UNKNOWN. Danger With Granger arrived too late in the Golden Age of Radio to have any real impact on the listening public. Mutual aired this show...
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PICK THE WINNER (AIRED MARCH 20, 1949) Broadcast from January to December 1949, "The Damon Runyon Theater" dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories for radio. Damon Runyon (October 4, 1884 – De...
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The Menace From The Deep (Aired May 27, 1974) Dad's Army" was a long running British comedy series created and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. The idea of a series came to Jimmy Perry wh...
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SOLID SENDER (AIRED JULY 26, 1947) Curtain Time had two separate runs on radio. The fist run was sponsored by General Mills from 1937 to 1939 and the second aired from 1945 to 1950, sponsored b...
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OPERATION PAYROLL (AIRED FEBRUARY 28, 1951) 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. I...
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CONEY ISLAND NOCTURNE (AIRED JULY 10, 1947) The Crime Club began life in 1928 with the publication of The Desert Moon Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan, and ceased publication in 1991. In the inter...
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The Axe And The Droot Family (Aired August 10, 1953) 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...
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THE HOT SPOT (AIRED AUGUST 31, 1954) Crime and Peter Chambers, stared Dane Clark as a hard-hitting private eye that worked well the with police department. His counter part at the NYPD was Lt Pa...
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Man In The Lift (Aired October 5, 1964) The Creaking Door stands on its own as a unique, well-produced, engaging supernatural thriller series on its own merit. The etymology of the name, The Cre...
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THE ESTHER PHILLIPS CASE (AIRED AUGUST 2, 1953) NBC 30 minutes Sunday at 9:30PM.Cast Paul Frees, James Edwards, Jester Hairston, Jay Loughlin, Jonathan Hole, Mady Norman, Don Brinkley (writer), ...
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Eddie - aka Exclusive Story (Aired November 13, 1947) The Clock, is an Australian radio show, a dramatic thirty-minute suspense and mystery series. It was written by Lawrence Klee and narrated b...
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THE BRENNER PASS STORY (AIRED JUNE 4, 1950) "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 ...
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The Chase and Sanborn Hour was the umbrella title for a series of US comedy and variety shows, sponsored by Chase and Sanborn Coffee, usually airing Sundays on NBC from 8pm to 9pm during the year...
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MILLION DOLLAR HUNT (AIRED JUNE 29, 1952) NBC first envisioned The Chase as a new Television feature. This was not uncommon during the later 1940s and early 1950s. Several Radio features strad...
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"THE HANNIGAN BROTHERS" 02-24-44 AND "THE GREAT DOG KING" 03-02-44 Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Gre...
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Challenge Of Space - Ten Miles To The Moon (Aired July 7, 1969) On 1 May 1950, the first commercial radio station in South Africa, Springbok Radio took to the airwaves broadcasting in both Engli...
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YOUNG MAN AXELBROD (AIRED SEPTEMBER 22, 1957) The CBS Radio Workshop aired from January 27, 1956 through September 22, 1957 and was a revival of the prestigious Columbia Workshop from the 1930s ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-02-29T08_10_48-08_00
LITTLE GREEN DEATH (AIRED MARCH 18, 1977) The late E.G. Marshall hosted the program every year but the final one, when actress Tammy Grimes took overA host of prominent actors from radio and scr...
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AN IDEAL COUPLE (AIRED JUNE 18, 1953) After working together for years on such shows as Suspense, and Sam Spade, Cathy and Elliot Lewis created On Stage in 1953. Two of the busiest people on the...
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UNLUCKY NUMBERS (AIRED JUNE 15, 1950) Casey, whose first name was never revealed, was the major crime photographer at the fictional Morning Express newspaper. With the help of reporter Ann Willi...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-02-26T17_30_29-08_00
THE DERRINGER SOCIETY (AIRED JULY 08, 1946) In The Casebook of Gregory Hood the spokesperson was initially the legendary and versatile Radio talent, Harry Bartell. The incorporation of a sponsor...
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Most of the scripts very cleverly portrayed every right way--or wrong way--to approach a range of legal matters that might concievably affect any American. After resolving the script one way or t...
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THE LADY WAS LETHAL (4 EPISODES COMPLETE) 1950 *THE EXACT DATE IS UNKNOWN. Carter Brown Mysteries is an old time radio show using the characters from the prolific mystery writer Carter Brown. Th...
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Dillon takes away the gun of Andy Travis after he kills a man in self defense, figuring no one will challenge an unarmed man to a gunfight. Director Charles Marquis Warren Writers John Meston...
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The Eric Spalding Concert (Aired January 13, 1950) Candy Matson, in its various guises, was one of the ground-breaking lady detective anthologies from The Golden Age of Radio. Locally produced o...
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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (AIRED JANUARY 13, 1939) The Campbell Playhouse's third season was delayed for a week over some CBS/Campbell kerfuffle about the alleged fifth column theme of the proposed o...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-02-20T22_31_10-08_00
DETECTIVES ARE NOT ALWAYS RIGHT (AIRED DECEMBER 11, 1955) This is an Australian radio production of the classic MGM science fiction movie, Forbidden Planet. The production uses all the original ...
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Six Shots At Midnight (Aired November 6, 1934) Calling All Cars was one of radio’s earliest cop shows, dramatizing stories and introduced by officers from the Los Angeles and other police depa...
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BURNS AND ALLEN were an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen.Burns wrote most of the material, and played the straight man. Allen played a silly, addleheaded ...
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BONCO SQUAD - THE CASE OF THE BOOKWORM (04-15-50) "THE CASE OF THE BOOKWORM" (AIRED APRIL 20, 1950) The Bunco Squad were from authentic cases drawn from the police files of the nation, featuring...
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HELP WANTED (AIRED AUGUST 13, 1945) The Bulldog Drummond stories followed Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, D.S.O., M.C., a wealthy former WWI officer of the fictional Loamshire Regiment, who, af...
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THE CHARLES CRANDALL MURDER CASE (AIRED MAY 12, 1951) 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 origi...
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INTRO: BOB CAMARDELLA REMEMBERS NAT & NATALIE COLE "UNFORGETABLE" (1991) THE PHILANTHROPIST (AIRED JANUARY 30, 1949) Alan Ladd's early portrayals of Dan Holiday did tend to be a bit pat, somew...
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Death Wish (Aired October 1, 1947) While investigating mysteries, Blackie invaribly encountered harebrained Police Inspector Farraday (Maurice Tarplin) and always solved the mystery to Farraday'...
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Deadly Merchandise (Aired March 26, 1951) Bold Venture is a 1951-1952 syndicated radio series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Morton Fine and David Friedkin scripted the taped series...
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FILLING OUT INCOME TAX WITH GUEST JANE RUSSELL (AIRED MARCH 4, 1953) After five years on the Vaudeville circuit, by his own account Hope was surprised and humbled when he and his partner Grace L...
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The Blue Beetle - "Dancing Ghosts Of Rocky Hill 2 Pts. COMPLETE" (08-21-41) The exploits of Dan Garrett, a rookie patrolman who, by wearing bullet-proof blue chain mail, transformed himself into...
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"MRS. ALDRICH' S ANTIQUE CHAIRS" (AIRED JANUARY 17, 1949) The Aldrich Family was launched in its own series as a summer replacement program for Jack Benny in NBC's Sunday night lineup, July 2, 1...
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The cast of characters is fairly large, but they are easy to keep separate, since each of them is quite distinctive. This is an especially important feature in a murder mystery that depends on ke...
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The Stolen Pearl Necklace (Aired October 4, 1946) The Alan Young Show was a radio and television series presented in diverse formats over a nine-year period and starring Canadian-English actor A...
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Agatha Christie Presents Hercule Poirot "Evil Under The Sun" Part 3 of 5 The centerpiece of the movie, the murder mystery itself, is interesting, and kept me guessing right up to the very end. O...
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Evil Under the Sun is a classic AGATHA CHRISTIE MURDER MYSTERY, featuring the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov). In this instance, Poirot is on a working holiday, as he is p...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-01-31T17_35_18-08_00
The Radio Program Blood Test (Aired February 19, 1947) In 1940, Henry Morgan was offered a daily 15-minute series on Mutual Broadcasting System's flagship station, WOR. This show was a 15-minute...
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Unidentified Body (Aired July 28, 1945) The Haunting Hour is a work-in-progress collection within the holdings of many serious Radio Collectors. From the meager available productions currently i...
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THE HAROLD PEARY SHOW - INCOME TAX TIME (AIRED MARCH 14, 1951) Honest Harold Hemp lived with his mother and nephew and did a radio homemaker's program. The series received undeserved negative ra...
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The Blackboard Jungle (Aired November 23, 1955) Tony Hancock starred as an exaggerated version of his own character, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-01-27T21_13_13-08_00
The Halls of Ivy - "The Gangster's Son" (Aired January 20, 1950) The Halls of Ivy was an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1950-1952. It was created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Qu...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-01-26T19_19_31-08_00
THE CAMPING TRIP (AIRED JUNE 29, 1949) Blondie is an American comic strip created by Murat Bernard "Chic" Young. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the strip has been published in newspaper...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-01-25T19_45_11-08_00
THE BRASS BUTTON (AIRED MAY 10, 1953) Noted Crime Reporter Percy Hoskins of London's Daily Express was integral to the development of both Whitehall 1212 and Secrets of Scotland Yard. To that en...
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NIGHTMARE HOUSE (AIRED JANUARY 11, 1949) The stories were well written and directed by William N. Robson as well as McGill. The skill of this group shows in making the series very good radio. Th...
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Beyond Midnight - ""The Tangled Way" (1950) This series was written by Michael McCabe and was produced in South Africa. It was a replacement for another series McCabe produced, called SF68. Th...
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"Night Must Fall" (Aired December 21, 1952) Listeners get a taste of plays from the Broadway stage in this anthology series. The featured works were from authors as talented and varied as Tennes...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-01-21T06_36_50-08_00
INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Peabo Bryson "Unconditional Love" (1999) MURDER BY ERROR (AIRED JULY 13, 1954) Like Sam Spade, Craig narrated his stories, in addition to being the leading character...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-01-19T18_38_50-08_00
CHARLIE' S COLLEGE REUNION (AIRED JANUARY 1, 1942) Barrel of Fun was a comedy musical that ran from 1941 to 1942 and stars Charlie Ruggles who is a comedian and quick wit who loves to make endle...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-01-18T08_08_03-08_00
The Ghost Murders (Aired December 27, 1945) The Avenger is a fictional character whose original adventures appeared from 1939 to 1942 in The Avenger magazine, published by Street and Smith Publi...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2024-01-16T18_11_26-08_00
W.P.N.M - Oldies Broadcast 106-333 01-13-24-FINALE_STEREO Bob Camardella Plays Two Hours of Oldies from his hometown in Historic Germantown, Pa. This show is a repeat from 2010 and remastered in...
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THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER (AIRED JULY 14, 1944) Author's Playhouse was an anthology radio drama series, created by Wynn Wright, that aired on the NBC Blue Network from March 5, 1941 until October ...
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LIPTON TALENT SCOUTS (05-15-50) Godfrey's morning show was supplemented by a primetime variety show, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts broadcasting from the CBS Studio Building at 49 East 52nd Stre...
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Mr. Andrews Wallpaper Adventure (Aired July 17, 1948) His earlier life is revealed in the "Little Archie" stories when he had a dog named Spotty. Archie is a typical small-town teenager. Generou...
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CRAZY TOWN (AIRED MAY 20, 1939) 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 ...
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They All Confessed (Aired April 1, 1954) Very few writers have managed to combine the hard boiled detective novel and comedy. Jonathan Latimer succeeded with Bill Crane and Craig Rice did it wit...
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THE ROUGHNECKS WILL (AIRED SEPTEMBER 25, 1949) The Adventures of Frank Race was a syndicated show, out of Bruce Ells Productions in Hollywood, and began airing on radio in the spring of 1949. A ...
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The Front Page Story (Aired November 13, 1948) The Adventures of Frank Merriwell first ran on NBC radio from March 26 to June 22, 1934 as a 15-minute serial airing three times a week at 5:30pm. ...
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The Honeymooners first was featured on Cavalcade of Stars on October 5, 1951, with Carney in a guest appearance as a cop (Norton did not appear until a few episodes later) and character actress P...
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Death Stalks The Shadow (Aired October 9, 1938) One of the most popular radio shows in history debuted in August 1930 when "The Shadow" went on the air. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts ...
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Gold Fever (Aired August 7, 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 broadca...
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Alfred Hitchcock Presents) Season 7 Episode 39 Writers Robert Bloch Produced by Joan Harrison and Alfred Hitchcock "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is a seventh-sea...
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SQUEEZE PLAY (AIRED SEPTEMBER 3, 1952) I Was a Communist for the FBI was an American espionage thriller radio series with 78 episodes syndicated by Ziv to more than 600 stations in 1952-54. Made...
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Adventures Of Rin Tin Tin" (The Ambassador Aired November 13, 1955) The character of Rin Tin Tin had appeared in several movies and radio serials since 1922. On...
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THE STOLEN PURSE (AIRED MAY 22, 1949) Richard Diamond, Private Detective was a radio show starring Dick Powell which aired from 1949 to 1953, first on NBC, then ABC and finally on CBS. The title...
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INTRO: BOB CAMARDELLA PLAYS RON STEWART "AULD LANG SYNE" The Raleigh Cigarette Program Starring Red Skelton Bells and Resolutions (Aired 01-01-46) After appearances on The Rudy Vallee Show in 1...
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"FLASHBACK: MIKE MEETS ARCHIE" (1971) All in the Family is often regarded in the United States as one of the greatest television series in history. Following a lackluster first season, the show ...
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THE PRICE OF SUGAR (AIRED FEBRUARY 26, 1950) No Radio novice, Glenn Ford had not yet appeared in his own recurring dramatic Radio showcase. Christopher London gave millions of Glenn Ford fans an...
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CORPUS DELICTI (AIRED FEBRUARY 1, 1953) NBC first envisioned The Chase as a new Television feature. This was not uncommon during the later 1940s and early 1950s. Several Radio features straddled...
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THE ROMANTIC ENGINEER (1946) *THE EXACT DATE IS UNKNOWN. CHARLIE CHAN is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1923. Biggers conceived of the benevolent and hero...
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CHALLENGE OF SPACE - TEN MILES TO THE MOON (AIRED JULY 7, 1969) On 1 May 1950, the first commercial radio station in South Africa, Springbok Radio took to the airwaves broadcasting in both Engli...
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CBS NEWS' THE WORLD TODAY spawned numerous excellent news specials and regular broadcasts over the legendary history of the CBS Radio News Bureau. The hands-down standouts from CBS' Radio News ...
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INTRO: Bob Camardella Presents Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain (11-30-1835 to 04-21-1910) ROUGHING IT (AIRED OCTOBER 5, 1956) The CBS Radio Workshop aired from January 27, 1956 through September ...
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THE SLICK AND THE DEAD (AIRED JANUARY 23, 1976) 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...
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Broadway Is My Beat - Nick Norman Santa Claus aka: Santa Takes A Powder (Aired December 24, 1949) Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. W...
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"OOO BABY BABY" is a song written by Smokey Robinson and Pete Moore. It is a classic 1965 hit single by The Miracles for the Tamla (Motown) label. The song has inspired numerous other cover versi...
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Christmas Shopping (Aired December 19, 1946) Sponsors included Anchor-Hocking glass, Toni home permanet, Toni Creme Shampoo and Philip Morris cigarettes. Richard Carlyle and John Gibson portr...
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CHRISTMAS PROGRAM (AIRED DECEMBER 18, 1947) 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, whic...
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CHRISTMAS PRESENT (AIRED DECEMBER 17, 1944) Beginning October 4, 1949, the show was adapted for television for the DuMont Television Network, but Bendix's film contracts prevented him from appea...
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PART TWO George Bailey has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. He has always longed to travel but never had the opportunity in order to prevent rich skinflint...
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INTRO: BOB CAMARDELLA PLAYS ANDY WILLIAMS "ITS THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR (1963) Let George Do It was a radio drama series produced by Owen and Pauline Vinson from 1946 to 1954. It star...
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BOB CAMARDELLA PLAYS "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE IS A 1946" PART ONE OF TWO It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The ...
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CHRISTMAS DAY (AIRED DECEMBER 25, 1946) During the 1930s, as vaudeville went into decline owing to increased competition from radio and the movies, Willock and Carson sought work in Hollywood,...
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INTRO: BOB CAMARDELLA REMEMBERS THE CLEFTONES "HEART & SOUL" (1961) In SANTA CLAUS IS NO SAINT (12-24-50), the 'Robin Hood Of Modern Crime' forgoes bow and quiver to don whiskers and a red suit,...
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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 to September 3, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. After a long run on radio, the show was b...
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the...
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A Terrible Night (Aired January 23, 1944) "The Weird Circle" was produced in New York City by the National Broadcasting Company, under the auspices of its Radio-Recording Division. Though best k...
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The Whistler - "Next Year Is Mine" (Aired December 23, 1946) Xmas The Whistler was one of radio's most popular mystery dramas, with a 13-year run from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. If i...
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DEATH COMES AT MIDNIGHT (AIRED OCTOBER 18, 1942) The Whistler was one of radio's most popular mystery dramas, with a 13-year run from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. If it now seems to ha...
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The Heathrow Affair (Aired December 23, 1951) The stories were true in every respect except that the names were changed to protect the innocent, as they say. The Whitehall 1212 series boasted th...
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Wild Bill Hickock" - The Phantom Rustlers (Aired February 11, 1953) Wild Bill Hickock was quick with his fists and a quip, but Jingles (dear god that nickname) got ...
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RAT IN A TRAP (AIRED MAY 16, 1932) The Witch's Tale was a horror-fantasy radio series which aired from 1931 to 1938 on WOR and Mutual and in syndication. The program was created, written and dir...
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CHAIN OF COMMAND (AIRED NOVEMBER 21, 1956) X Minus One was an NBC science fiction series that was an extension, or revival, of NBC's earlier science fiction series, Dimension X. which ran from A...
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"A Favor You Can’t Refuse" (Starring William Shatner) Aired May 31, 1974 The Zero Hour (aka Hollywood Radio Theater) was a 1973-74 radio drama anthology series hosted by Rod Serling. With tale...
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The Abbott and Costello Show mixed comedy with musical interludes (usually, by singers such as Connie Haines, Marilyn Maxwell, the Delta Rhythm Boys, Skinnay Ennis, and the Les Baxter Singers). R...
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You Bet Your Life is an American quiz show that aired on both radio and television. The most well-known version was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant Georg...
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The Trial Of Marie Antoinette (Aired October 17, 1948) You Are There is an American historical educational television and radio series broadcast over the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks. r...
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(STUART PALMER) THE MAN WHO WROTE HIMSELF TO DEATH - (AIRED MARCH 21, 1950) Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar attracted some of the best writers in Hollywood, including Jack Johnstone, E. Jack Neuman (...
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"A Christmas Carol" - 1951 (Alastair Sim) (2015) Re Broadcast MOVIE - A Christmas Carol - 1951 (Alastair Sim) - VIDEO Scrooge, released as A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN THE UNITED STATES, is a 1951 film...
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THE AMERICAN SCHOOL (AIRED MAY 7, 1947) One early sponsor had been Adler Shoe Stores, which came close to canceling its account after Morgan started making references to "Old Man Adler" on the a...
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A CLAPPER FOR THE BELL (02-09-70) Sponsored by Carling Black Label Beer, this series examined man’s early ventures into space. The space race of the 1950’s and 1960’s spawned this series...
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Hear It Now - "Edward R. Murrow" (Aired January 12, 1951) Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began in 1950 and was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Fred Friendly. It ran ...
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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Overnight Western Hawk Larabee was CBS' first attempt at an adult Western, predating Gunsmoke by six years but never achieving the heights of its illustrious su...
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Homicide House (Aired June 30, 1945) Haunting Hour "Homicide House" (06-30-45) The Haunting Hour is a work-in-progress collection within the holdings of many serious Radio Collectors. From the...
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The series received undeserved negative ratings and general negative comments as there were just too many similarities between the two series. Also, the series was without a sponsor, although som...
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Tony Hancock starred as an exaggerated version of his own character, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. Sid James played a criminally-inclined co...
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THE FIGHTING MED STUDENT (AIRED MAY 24, 1950) The Halls of Ivy featured Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small, Midwestern Ivy College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British...
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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME is an anthology program on American television and radio. It has had a historically long run, beginning on TV in 1951. From 1954 onward, all of their productions have been s...
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The Castle Of Lavoka (Aired March 29, 1954) Originally a local series out of Utah that found its way on to the airwaves sporadically from 1947 to 1952, this anthology was picked up for national ...
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BOXCARS711 OVERNIGHT WESTERN "GUNSMOKE" - DOC HOLIDAY (AIRED JULY 19, 1952) The radio show first aired on April 26, 1952 and ran until June 18, 1961 on the CBS radio network. The series starred ...
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A Question Of Time (Aired March 2, 1946) The Green Hornet fought crime with his high-powered car, the Black Beauty. He also utilized a gun that fired knockout gas instead of bullets. His fists a...
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BOXCARS711 OVERNIGHT WESTERN "THE ROY ROGERS SHOW" - THE RENE EIGAN CASE (AIRED APRIL 11, 1952) Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer...
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Leila's Returning (Aired September 19, 1943) The Great Gildersleeve (1941–1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built a...
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GRANBY BITES THE LOVE BUG (AIRED JULY 24, 1950) Broadcast History: July 3 - August 21, 1950, CBS. 30m, Mondays at 9:30. Cast: Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as John and Martha Granby, ex-bank t...
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The Ghost Goes West (Aired August 21, 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 Th...
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The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater was a 1977 anthology radio drama series with Tom Bosley as host. Himan Brown, already producing the CBS Radio Mystery Theater for the network, added this...
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GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER - STATE FAIR (AIRED SEPTEMBER 10, 1953) General Electric Theater featured a mix of romance, comedy, adventure, tragedy, fantasy and variety music. Occupying the Sunday e...
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Gangbusters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premiered as G-Men, sponsored by Chevrolet, on July ...
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BOXCARS711 OVERNIGHT WESTERN "FRONTIER TOWN" - TROUBLE RIDES THE RAILS (AIRED MAY 8, 1953) Chandler's characterization of Chad Remington is forceful, dynamic and melodramatic and runs for the fi...
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THEATER ROYAL - "THE ASPERN PAPERS" (05-23-54) Harry Alan Towers produced and directed the show for his Towers of London company for international syndication, at the time in Europe, South Afric...
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The series originated on radio in the 1940s as Theater Guild on the Air. Organized in 1919 to improve the quality of American theater, the Theatre Guild first experimented with radio productions ...
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THE LAST LAND RUSH (AIRED OCTOBER 6, 1964) Theater Five probably came a bit late in ABC's Radio History to really contribute to the body of Golden Age Radio drama, but better late than never. So...
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Two Little Puncture Wounds (1958) *The Exact Date Is Unknown The old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, refers to a period of radio programming in the United State...
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MARTIANS NEVER DIE (AIRED MARCH 12, 1953) The 1950's saw both the twilight of the Golden Age of Radio and the birth of the science fiction radio series.. Science fiction was not new to radio bef...
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Tales Of The Texas Rangers" The Ice Man (Aired March 2, 1952) Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on th...
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FOUR HOURS TO KILL (AIRED JANUARY 12, 1950) Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1942 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subt...
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STUDIO ONE - THE THIRTY NINE STEPS (AIRED MARCH 23, 1948) Studio One received Emmy nominations every year from 1950 to 1958. The series staged some notable and memorable teleplays among its 466 ...
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5 Stars from Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod "Where The Oldies Are Still Young" Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Presents Sir. Basil Rathbone in "EUROPE CONFIDENTIAL". Rathbone's most famous role w...
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Hopalong Cassidy" - Hoppy And The Iron Horse (Aired September 24, 1950) Hopalong Cassidy is a cowboy hero, created in 1904 by Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a serie...
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MR. BRADLEY'S HEART (AIRED NOVEMBER 17, 1950) The character was invented by the author Frederick Schiller Faust (aka Max Brand). The character began in the film series as a medical intern; after...
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The Light (1953) *The Exact Date Is Unknown. This show, from the early 1950s, is a good example of the true story style of delivery made popular in radio's classic crime shows Gangbusters and Mr...
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GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY (AIRED AUGUST 4, 1957) Stanley Victor Freberg (born August 7, 1926 in Los Angeles) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, puppeteer an...
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Keeping A Promise (Aired September 13, 1961) Spy Catcher was based on the memoirs of Lt. Col. Oreste Pinto, a Dutch intelligence agent who worked for the Allied Counterintelligence Services in E...
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THE RED DEMON OF VENUS (AIRED MAY 29, 1954) The success of the TV show spawned a radio version, which ran for 129 episodes from October 1952 to March 1955. The same cast of actors performed on b...
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THREE O'CLOCK (AIRED DECEMBER 12, 1956) Sleep No More was Nelson's Olmsted's contribution to The Golden Age of Radio's rich tradition of broadcasting compelling and stirring supernatural and sus...
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BOXCARS711 OVERNIGHT WESTERN "THE SIX SHOOTER" - MYRA BARKER (AIRED JUNE 24, 1954) The Six Shooter brought James Stewart to the NBC microphone on September 20, 1953, in a fine series of folksy W...
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The Mayor Of The Town - Bob Hope Visits (03-21-43) Bob Hope Visits (Aired March 21. 1943) An NBC offering. Aired on Sundays from 7:00PM to 7:30PM, starring Lional Barrymore and Agnes Moorehead. ...
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BOB HOPE VISITS (AIRED MARCH 21. 1943) 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 annou...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-09-19T05_11_55-07_00
THE SEVENTH VICTIM (AIRED MAY 20, 1974) Future Tense was the title given to two short series of shows that aired at various times in 1974 through 1976 on WMUK, college radio station of Western M...
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Gentleman" A Horse For Kendall (Aired September 14, 1958) 1958's Frontier Gentleman wasn't a ground-breaking adult western. That ground had been pulverized...
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TILL WE MEET AGAIN (AIRED MARCH 25, 1945) Matinee Theater represented a serious attempt by CBS to provide quality dramatic programming for its Sunday afternoon listeners. A continuation of the s...
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SPECIAL GUEST IS DANNY THOMAS (AIRED NOVEMBER 9, 1951) On July 25, 1946, Jerry began a show business partnership with Dean Martin, an association that would soon skyrocket both to fame. It start...
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Murdered Maestro and Stairway Stairway Slaying (1946) Having instilled a sense of foreboding in the listener, the script would launch into the dramatic exposition necessary to frame the ensuing ...
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Show & Episode Notes From OTRCAT.com Ride along on the case with the Man from Homicide. Lieutenant Lou Dana is that man, and he's got "a dirty dangerous job that doesn't end until the killer is ...
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RHYTHM OF DEATH (AIRED DECEMBER 30, 1950) Starring Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston, a private operative, with Han Conried as Egon Zellschmidt in this first incarnation of Ken Thurston's nemesis...
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THE LADY FROM BRAZIL (AIRED OCTOBER 19, 1949) After Jack Webb's departure from Jeff Regan, Investigator the demand for the series remained high, but it wasn't until October 1949 that CBS regroup...
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THE SHADOW PEOPLE (AIRED SEPTEMBER 21, 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 ...
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53157. Gunsmoke. March 13, 1954. CBS network. "Confederate Money". Sponsored by: Sustaining. Neil Butler is fired by his boss Fate Ender when Lee Shin comes to town. Fate is bushwacked and wounde...
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This original series was created by FEN's assistant director for production, William Verdier. Parts are filled locally, mainly by FEN staff members supplemented by local talent from various org...
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Double Indemnity (Aired October 30, 1950) In October of 1934, "LUX RADIO THEATER" debuted in New York on NBC's Blue radio network. Presenting audio versions of popular Broadway plays, the show f...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-08-28T18_34_29-07_00
Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Lone Ranger" - TUNNEL TO TROUBLE (AIRED MARCH 22, 1954) Tonto was played throughout the run by actor John Todd (although there were a few isolated occasions when...
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THE HARD WAY (AIRED JUNE 27, 1952) The Third Man (The Lives of Harry Lime) was a old-time radio adventure series that ran in 1951 and 1952. It was based on the 1949 film of the same name. Orson ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-08-24T16_15_45-07_00
SINGER'S HUSBAND KILLED (AIRED JULY 1, 1952) Bill Johnstone gives his usual solid performance as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie of the San Francisco Police Department. He's aided for the first year of t...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-08-22T21_09_35-07_00
MURDER IN THE SCRIPT DEPARTMENT (AIRED MAY 11, 1943) After a successful tryout in New York City, the series was picked up by NBC in April 1935 and broadcast nationally, usually late at night and...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-08-21T06_44_37-07_00
THE TROLLEY TRANSFER (AIRED SEPTEMBER 26, 1950) 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 ...
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RILEY THE FOOTBALL HERO (AIRED NOVEMBER 23, 1946) The first Life of Riley radio show was a summer replacement show heard on CBS from April 12, 1941 to September 6, 1941. The CBS program starred ...
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Human Nature (Aired September 15, 1952) Let George Do It was a radio drama series produced by Owen and Pauline Vinson from 1946 to 1954. It starred Bob Bailey as detective-for-hire George Valent...
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CARGO UNKNOWN (AIRED JULY 12, 1949) First broadcast in 1949, John Steele, Adventurer was a thriller/drama that wasn't considered a major force in the world of radio although it is considered to ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-08-15T05_19_36-07_00
Too Many Mrs. Rogers (Aired October 9, 1948) Jeff Regan, Investigator was one of the three detective shows Jack Webb did before Dragnet (see also Pat Novak For Hire and Johnny Modero: Pier 23). ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-08-13T19_31_37-07_00
Special Guests Are George Burns & Gracie Allen (Aired April 11, 1937) Mary Livingstone as his wisecracking and not especially deferential female friend (not quite his girlfriend, since Benny wou...
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It's a Crime, Mr. Collins was a half-hour mystery/adventure radio program broadcast weekly from August, 1956 to February, 1957 by Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States that was a "flagr...
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WHAT IS A SWIMMING POOL (AIRED NOVEMBER 3, 1944) It Pays to Be Ignorant was a radio comedy show which maintained its popularity during a nine-year run on three networks for such sponsors as Phil...
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THE DARK CIGARETTE MURDER CASE (AIRED AUGUST 31, 1951) Inspector Thorne was a short-lived Crime drama anthology that NBC rolled out under the Hummert franchise. Anne and Frank Hummert were two o...
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THE CORPSE LAUGHS LAST (AIRED AUGUST 17, 1952) Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC’s Blue Network in January 1941. Inner Sanctum M...
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WHO KILLED FRANCES BAUMHOLD ? (AIRED JUNE 7, 1936) In the Name of the Law was a True Crime radio show from 1936. It says "In the name of the law, we bring you another of the thrilling stories in...
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RHAPSODY IN RED (AIRED JUNE 19, 1953) Throughout most of the 1940's, Matt Cvetic worked as a volunteer undercover agent for the FBI, infiltrating the Communist Party in Pittsburgh. In 1949, his ...
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I LOVE ADVENTURE "THE FINISHING SCHOOL KIDNAPPING" (AIRED MAY 30, 1948) Episode 6 in this Carlton Morse series. Reggie York, and Jack Packard are back in London for their next assignment from th...
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Laura Shields Case (Aired January 21, 1946) I Deal in Crime ran for almost two years on ABC network radio and starred the very capable radio and Hollywood actor, William Gargan. In this, one of ...
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Have Gun Will Travel" Winchester Quarantine (Aired February 22, 1959) The show followed the adventures of Paladin, a gentleman-turned-gunfighter (played by Richard ...
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THE ARROW OF HEAVEN (AIRED OCTOBER 12, 1986) Father Brown is a short, stumpy Catholic priest, "formerly of Cobhole in Essex, and now working in London," with shapeless clothes and a large umbrel...
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MURDER SHOWS A CARD (1952) *THE EXACT DATE IS UNKNOWN. The series was created by Dashall Hammott and was first heard on the ABC network Jan. 21, 1946. J. Scott Smart fit the part of the Fat Man ...
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FAMILY THEATER - LONELY ROAD (STARRING GREGORY PECK) AIRED MAY 15, 1947 Each program was preceded by the familiar announcement: “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of”�...
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THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE (09-14-52) This hard boiled spy drama began as an RKO Radio Pictures theatrical serial in the 1940s, went on radio in 1945, and then came to TV ten years later in this Synd...
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The First Baby In Space (Aired June 18, 1958) Exploring Tomorrow was hosted by John Campbell, the editor of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine, and later, Analog Magazine. He was also a science...
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The Match (Aired May 16, 1948) 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 spon...
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DEATH IS NO ACCIDENT (1973) *THE EXACT DATE IS UNKNOWN. The Epic Casebook (1957–1985) - "... in which Inspector Carr investigates ..." - The highly successful detective series, starring Hugh R...
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AIRED JUNE 18, 1946. CBS NETWORK. "YELLOWJACK" ENCORE THEATER was a 1946 Summer replacement series, sponsored by Schenley Labs, Inc. All shows had a medical theme, some concerned medical researc...
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THE MESSAGE IN RED (AIRED NOVEMBER 7, 1945) Tuska cited Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940) and Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941) as the best of the Bellamy-Lindsay pairings. "The influe...
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SPECIAL GUEST IS LINDA DARNELL (AIRED JANUARY 19, 1945) Duffy's Tavern, an American radio situation comedy (CBS, 1941-1942; NBC-Blue Network, 1942-1944; NBC, 1944-1952), often featured top-name ...
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THE BIG CONVERTIBLE (AIRED JUNE 28, 1955) Dragnet was a long running radio and television police procedural drama, about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Frida...
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Dr. Christian is a long-running radio series with Jean Hersholt in the title role. It aired on CBS Radio from November 7, 1937, to January 6, 1954. In 1956, the series was adapted for television ...
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NIGHTFALL (AIRED SEPTEMBER 29, 1951) Dimension X was first heard on NBC April 8, 1950, and ran until September 29, 1951. Strange that so little good science fiction came out of radio; they seem ...
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PICTURES DON'T LIE (AIRED OCTOBER 24, 1956) X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a rev...
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FOUR FINGERS AND A THUMB (AIRED OCTOBER 19, 1937) John Dunning in his "On the Air, The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio," relates the odd tale of getting the replacement for the original Nancy, Ad...
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Wild Bill Hickock" Ghost Town Gold (Aired September 2, 1951) Wild Bill Hickock was quick with his fists and a quip, but Jingles (dear god that nickname) got all his...
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THE HEATHROW AFFAIR (AIRED DECEMBER 23, 1951) The stories were true in every respect except that the names were changed to protect the innocent, as they say. The Whitehall 1212 series boasted th...
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A QUIET SUNDAY (AIRED JUNE 10, 1946) The Whistler was one of radio's most popular mystery dramas, with a 13-year run from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. If it now seems to have been infl...
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The Woman On Ice (Aired September 9, 1951) The Whisperer, relentless crime-fighter against organized crime, or 'The Syndicate.' Galt used his legal contacts and knowledge of the Law to burrow de...
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THE WEIRD CIRCLE - THE GHOST'S TOUCH (AIRED SEPTEMBER 17, 1944) "The Weird Circle" was produced in New York City by the National Broadcasting Company, under the auspices of its Radio-Recording D...
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The Trouble With Tanya (Aired January 7, 1964) Walk Softly Peter Troy, Detective Drama, Aired on Springbok Radio from 10 December 1963 to 21 February 1964. This series was produced in the Durban...
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BOXCARS711 OVERNIGHT WESTERN "FRONTIER GENTLEMAN" - THE CLAIM JUMPERS (AIRED MARCH 9, 1958) Television was already in reruns of the twenty to thirty western adventures that proliferated on TV du...
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Television and radio pioneer Jack Par has been called the most imitated personality in broadcasting. He virtually created the late-night talk show format as the host of The Tonight Show , one of ...
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BUILDING MATERIALS (AIRED NOVEMBER 20, 1946) During the 1930s, as vaudeville went into decline owing to increased competition from radio and the movies, Willock and Carson sought work in Hollywo...
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The Jack Benny Show "Day Of Infamy" Aired December 7, 1941 The "Day of Infamy" speech, sometimes referred to as just "The Infamy speech", was delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd preside...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-30T20_10_59-07_00
PANDORA'S BOXER (AIRED MARCH 24, 1964) Walk Softly, Peter Troy Detective Drama Aired on Springbok Radio from 10 December 1963 to 21 February 1964. This series was produced in the Durban Studios ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-29T22_18_55-07_00
First heard on Mutual featuring Elliott Lewis, who as Leonard Maltin writes in "The Great American Broadcast, "…wore every hat imaginable-actor, producer, and director-also penned a good number...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-28T19_18_36-07_00
THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER (AIRED APRIL 5, 1985) The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) began airing a fascinating range of classic, mystery, comedy, documentary, and supernatural drama th...
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IN THE GROOVE (AIRED NOVEMBER 4, 1985) Vanishing Point is the title of a science fiction anthology series that ran on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio from 1984 until 1986, although the...
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THE UNEXPECTED - 2 EPISODES (8-22-48) AND (8-29-48) The fifteen minute format lends itself to quickly drawn weird stories, with a twist ending, so that the listener gets a sudden shock, like all...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-24T01_09_41-07_00
NUMBER 12 LOOKS JUST LIKE YOU (AIRED JANUARY 24, 1964) AUDIO ONLY Throughout the 1950s, Rod Serling had established himself as one of the hottest names in television, equally famous for his succ...
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A PACKAGE IN TANGIERS (AIRED JUNE 25, 1950) The role played by Ilona Massey, a Hungarian-born actress, was created in her likeness, which included her sultry voice and her heavy accent. As a gov...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-21T22_58_19-07_00
TODAY'S SHOW: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. June 10, 1952. ABC net, WJZ, New York aircheck. "Satellite Of Death". Sponsored by: Kellogg's Pep, Kellogg's Raisin Bran. A gang is trying to take over R...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-20T22_04_01-07_00
Secret Of Terror Castle (1950) *The Exact Date Is Unknown The Three Investigators was an American juvenile detective book series first published as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators....
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THE VANISHING WITNESS (AIRED AUGUST 18, 1950) This Is Your FBI was a radio crime drama which aired in the United States on ABC from April 6, 1945 to January 30, 1953. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover g...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-18T23_48_27-07_00
THE WINSLOW BOY (AIRED NOVEMBER 21, 1948) The Theatrical Society in U.S.A. is termed as Theatre Guild. Founded in New York City in 1918 by Lawrence Langner (1890-1962) and others, the group prop...
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JUMP JUMP (AIRED AUGUST 12, 1964) Theater Five was ABC's attempt to revive radio drama during the early 1960s. The series name was derived from its time slot, 5:00 PM. Running Monday through Fri...
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The Monkey's Paw (1968)*The Exact Date Is Unknown. The old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, refers to a period of radio programming in the United States lasting ...
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THE OLD DIE RICH (AIRED MARCH 26, 1953) The host of the show was Raymond Edward Johnson, of Inner Sanctum fame. Mr. Johnson handled Tales Of Tomorrow openings in a similar fashion to Inner Sanct...
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Tales Of The Texas Rangers" - Joy Ride (05-27-51) Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC rad...
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THREE BLIND MICE (AIRED JANUARY 30, 1947) Suspense was actually spawned from another series called Forecast. The 1940 horror show was entitled Suspense and it was based on the Marie Belloc Lownd...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-12T20_26_51-07_00
THUNDER ROCK (AIRED SEPTEMBER 2, 1947) Studio One received Emmy nominations every year from 1950 to 1958. The series staged some notable and memorable teleplays among its 466 episodes. Some crea...
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SHOW OF AUGUST 21, 1951 The show made it's debut on CBS radio in 1947. Strike it rich was on CBS's primetime schedule July 4, 1951 through January 12, 1955. There were two attempts to revive the...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-10T21_49_29-07_00
Two Episodes "Murder One Million B.C." (05-08-45) and "Revenge From The Grave" (05-23-45) The Strange Dr. Weird is a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945. Sponsored by Adam Hats, ...
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THE INVESTIGATION OF DR. ROBERT LANE (AIRED APRIL 2, 1951) The character was invented by the author Frederick Schiller Faust (aka Max Brand). The character began in the film series as a medical ...
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MATHEW SLADE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR Mathew Slade: Private Investigator was a featured, half-hour mystery presentation by The Pacifica Players of Pacifica Radio of Berkeley, California and the Paci...
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Spy Ring In June (1952) *The Exact Date Is Unknown. This show, from the early 1950s, is a good example of the true story style of delivery made popular in radio's classic crime shows Gangbusters...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-07T23_38_21-07_00
THE GOOD HUMOR MAN (AIRED SEPTEMBER 1, 1957) Freberg was employed as a voice actor in animation shortly after graduating from Alhambra High School. He began at Warner Brothers in 1944 by getting...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-06-07T06_45_22-07_00
NEVER SAY DIE (AIRED NOVEMBER 15, 1960) The series was last aired on Australian television in Adelaide on September 21, 1976, but has been re-run several times since. Famous antipodean actor Rus...
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The Search For Asteroid X (Aired December 13, 1952) The success of the TV show spawned a radio version, which ran for 129 episodes from October 1952 to March 1955. The same cast of actors perfor...
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Wax Work" and "Man & The Snake" (Aired January 9, 1957) Nelson Olmsted was a national treasure. Over a broadcasting career of thirty-five years, Olmsted's soothing, reassuring, and highly versat...
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BOXCARS711 OVERNIGHT WESTERN "THE SIX SHOOTER" - GENERAL GUILFORD'S WIDOW (AIRED APRIL 8, 1954) Though The Six Shooter wasn't the first popular adult western to air over Radio, a case can be m...
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MURDER UNLIMITED (AIRED MARCH 9, 1941) The Silver Theater was by far International Silver's most ambitious undertaking, but this must be tempered by the fact that International Silver was a $20,...
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SILENT MEN - LITTLE WHITE LIES (01-13-52) FIRST BROADCAST: October 14, 1951 -- LAST BROADCAST: May 28, 1952 NBC, 30 min. "This is Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.... In a moment, it will be my pleasure t...
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THE HARLEY STREET MURDERS (AIRED MARCH 3, 1947) According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession and he spent t...
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THE BLIND BEGGAR DIES (AIRED MARCH 9, 1941) The Shadow featured radio's foremost crimefighter and was the highest-rated daytime series for many years. A man of mystery who was "never seen, only ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-31T19_12_06-07_00
MURDER WITHOUT MOTIVE (AIRED OCTOBER 19, 1953) The Secrets of Scotland Yard was an independent production of the Towers of London syndicate in England for world wide distribution. Each week, an ...
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Munsey's Mob (Aired May 24, 1979) The Sears Radio Theater Series premiered on Monday 02/05/79 and offered a different genre each weekday night. Each genre was hosted by a different celebrity. Th...
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THE ACCUSING CORPSE (AIRED APRIL 29, 1945) With The Sealed Book, each epsisode opened with the sound of the great gong, followed by Philip Clarke's observation that the Keeper of The Book had on...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-29T19_00_04-07_00
The Uninvited (Aired November 18, 1949) Screen Director's Playhouse is a popular radio anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio...
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Screen Guild Players" - The Ox-Bow Incident (Aired September 18, 1944) The theatrical society in U.S.A. is termed as Theatre Guild. Founded in New York City in 1918...
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SEARCH FOR A KILLER (AIRED JULY 2, 1950) The Saint first appeared in Radio in 1940 over Radio Athlone in Ireland. Radio Athlone's powerful transmitters broadcast The Saint throught the United Ki...
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Roy Rogers Show" - The Lee Burlough Gang (Aired March 14, 1952) Roy Rogers was born to Andrew ("Andy") and Mattie (Womack) Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his famil...
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THE STAR OF SAVOY (AIRED JUNE 23, 1946) The gimmick in Rogue's Gallery was the presence of an alter ego, "Eugor," who arrived in the middle of the show to give Rogue enough information for his f...
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VARLACHI (AIRED JULY 31, 1949) Rocky Jordan, was a weekly 30 minute series took place in Cairo - "the gateway to the ancient East where adventure and intrigue unfold against the backdrop of anti...
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Catskills Cover-Up (Aired February 9, 1954) There is frequently a beautiful woman involved, some good girls, some bad. Rocky's a tough guy who stays just inside of the law but we get an occasion...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-25T20_56_46-07_00
THE PETE ROCCO CASE (AIRED OCTOBER 4, 1950) Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC in 1949. Diamond was a slick, sophisticated detective, with a sharp tongue for folks who needed it. Dia...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-25T15_49_17-07_00
DEADEYE TRADES IN HIS HORSE (AIRED SEPTEMBER 17, 1948) Skelton married Edna Marie Stillwell (b.1906 - d.1982), a joke writer, business manager, and former usher at Kansas City's old Pantage Thea...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-24T16_10_05-07_00
The New Doctor (Aired March 27, 1958) A happy-go-lucking West Virginia mountain family picks up stakes and moves to a ranch in California's San Fernando Valley. Center of the action, and undispu...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-24T04_19_26-07_00
DEBT OF HONOR (AIRED MAY 27, 1948) The Hallmark Radio Reader's Digest is an enjoyable compilation of classics of literature and romance made for radio broadcast in the 1940's. The shows were s...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-23T07_56_15-07_00
Hit & Run (Aired August 14, 1948) The Radio City Playhouse was a half-hour of drama, sometimes comedy, often very exciting and suspenseful. The cast were made up of New York veterans of radio ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-22T14_57_13-07_00
BRING ME TO LIFE (AIRED AUGUST 10, 1947) Quiet, Please! was an old-time radio fantasy and horror program created by Wyllis Cooper, also known for creating Lights Out. Ernest Chappell was the sho...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-21T08_03_11-07_00
PURSUIT - (INSPECTOR PETER BLACK) - PURSUIT OF THE ASIATIC KILLER (AIRED MARCH 11, 1952) PURSUIT (CBS 1949 - 1952) was a detective series that presented the cases of the fictional Scotland Yard ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-20T20_48_01-07_00
HIDDEN THOUGHTS IN A FEMININE MIND (AIRED JULY 4, 1951) "The Secret Files of Rex Saunders." Heard every Wednesday night at 7:30, this thriller is typical of radio mystery shows. However, it has ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-20T07_49_38-07_00
Is Anybody There (Aired July 4, 1974) Recorded in every corner of the world when first broadcast over the BBC's World Service, The Price of Fear soon became one of the most widely recorded offer...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-19T19_33_11-07_00
PLANET MAN - 3 EPISODES FROM 1950 Produced in about 1950 by Palladium Radio Productions, "The Planet Man" is the golly-gee-whillikers saga of Dantro, an intergalactic troubleshooter for an org...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-18T19_15_41-07_00
FATAL AUCTION (AIRED JUNE 26, 1947) Johnny Modero, Pier 23 is an outstanding old time radio detective and drama series. Playing the part of Johnny Modero is the great Jack Webb. It was aired on ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-18T09_01_56-07_00
The Hurdy-Gurdy Murder Case (Aired May 24, 1949) Philo Vance was the detective creation of S. S. Van Dine first published in the mid 1920s. Vance, in the original books, is an intellectual so hi...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-17T09_16_35-07_00
FOUR HOURS TO KILL (AIRED MAY 13, 1949) The first CBS season of Philip Morris Playhouse On Broadway showcased some of the more popular Broadway plays of the era, as well as the talents of some o...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-16T15_39_13-07_00
SPECIAL GUEST IS FRANK SINATRA (AIRED FEBRUARY 9, 1946) Silvers started entertaining at age 11, when he would sing in theaters when the projector broke down (a common occurrence in those days). ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-15T17_40_14-07_00
THE FIRST SHOW FOR REXALL (AIRED OCTOBER 3, 1948) As both Phil and Alice were known singers, there were two musical numbers in each show, and they were always for real, except some of Phil's, wh...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-14T18_09_31-07_00
DUTCH COURTNEY AIRED FEBRUARY 20, 1951 Pete Kelly was a musician, a cornet player who headed his own jazz combo, "Pete Kelly's Big Seven." They worked at 417 Cherry Street, a speakeasy run by Ge...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-14T04_02_20-07_00
FATHER LEAHY (AIRED APRIL 2, 1949) The rapid, staccato dialogue between Webb & Raymond Burr is typical of harboiled fiction and is often humorous. Pat uses the time to try to solve the case. He ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-13T15_55_20-07_00
The Matchmaker (Aired October 24, 1948) As the series progressed and the boys grew up, storylines involving various characters were introduced. Many of the series storylines were taken from the ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-13T07_25_00-07_00
GOING SKIING (AKA-SKIS IN THE CLASSROOM) AIRED FEBRUARY 25, 1951 Our Miss Brooks, an American situation comedy, began as a radio hit in 1948 and migrated to television in 1952, becoming one of t...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-12T17_04_09-07_00
THE NERVOUS WRECK (AIRED APRIL 22, 1945) The Old Gold Comedy Theater was an NBC series that aired for the single 1944-1945 season, Sundays 10:30 - 11:00 pm. It was hosted by comedy star Harold L...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-12T03_50_15-07_00
Official Detective - Drunken Murder Suspect (11-01-56) (Aired November 29, 1956) A Police Melodrama that ran on air 1-19-47 thru 3-7-57 . Mutual network. Many weekly timeslots. Presented in ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-11T18_04_50-07_00
BOY GO HOME (AIRED JULY 31, 1954) Before the "Reality TV", there was "Reality Radio" and Night Watch was there. This show is a straight crime documentary with no music, sound effects, or actors....
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-11T04_39_09-07_00
THE JOGGER (AIRED APRIL 16, 1982) Nightfall is a radio drama series produced and aired by CBC Radio from July 1980 to June 1983. While primarily a supernatural/horror series, Nightfall featured ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-10T16_28_53-07_00
THE MAN WHO CLAIMED TO BE DEAD (AIRED MARCH 20, 1950) Broadcast on NBC, Nightbeat ran from 1949 to 1952 and starred Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, a tough and streetwise reporter who worked the n...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-10T04_31_48-07_00
The Witness Saw Nothing (Aired February 24, 1946) Nick Carter, Master Detective - Nick Carter is the name of a popular fictional detective who first appeared in in a dime novel entitled "The Old...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-09T14_03_25-07_00
The Killer Cards (Aired January 12, 1951) Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective created by American author Rex Stout in the 1930s and featured in dozens of novels and novellas.In the stories, Wolf...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-09T04_00_07-07_00
THE PICKWICK PAPERS (CHARLES DICKENS) AIRED MARCH 13, 1949 University Theater is an unusual series that focused on reenacting novels by great authors for college classes. Many accredited America...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-08T18_22_50-07_00
BEYOND GOOD & EVIL - AIRED AUGUST 28, 1947 Cut from the cloth of tales woven by the imaginations of some of the most famous authors in history, Mystery In the Air was a Summer series consisting ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-08T03_10_46-07_00
A KILLING IN THE MARKET (AIRED MAY 31, 1946) Rick Kabrich was the host who replaced "The Count" on Mystery Playhouse in the summer of 1987. He was originally a listener who happened to call the ...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-07T09_10_34-07_00
THE GOOD DIE YOUNG (AIRED FEBRUARY 27, 1944) The team of Robert Arthur, Jr., David Kogan, producer/director Sherman 'Jock' MacGregor, and actor Maurice Tarplin was a very successful one for both...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-06T18_59_56-07_00
A TRIP TO CONEY ISLAND (AIRED JUNE 7, 1948) My Friend Irma, created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard, was a top-rated, long-run radio situation comedy, so popular in the late 1940s that its...
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2023-05-06T06_13_23-07_00