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While not every episode is frightening, this series contains some of the most unsettling radio plays I've ever listened to. Nor is every episode a horror story; there are some clever satirical episodes as well.While I'm very glad to see these posted here, as I've apparently lost my other set of episodes, there are some mistakes in the naming of some of the files. For example, episode 11, Teenage Catalogue Model is missing, and the episode that is labeled "VP_841207_11_Teenage_Catalogue_Model" is another episode altogether. Hopefully someone (like the great OTR Researchers Group, whose ...

Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game. For more than 50 years, with a few exceptions, it was hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Following Parsons' death in 2020, Sue Perkins became the permanent host, starting with the 87th series. Just a Minute was first transmitted on Radio 4 on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003.The object of the game is for panellists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, "without hesitation, repetition or deviation". The comedy comes from attempts to keep within ...

I Love a Mystery is an American radio drama series that aired 1939–44, about three friends who ran a detective agency and traveled the world in search of adventure. Written by Carlton E. Morse, the program was the polar opposite of Morse's other success, the long-running One Man's Family.The central characters, Jack Packard, Doc Long, and Reggie York, met as mercenary soldiers fighting the Japanese in China. Later, they met again in San Francisco, where they decided to form the A-1 Detective Agency. Their motto was "No job too tough, no adventure too baffling". The agency served as a plot...

Each episode opens with an entry from the ship's log, such as: "Log entry, the ketch Scarlet Queen, Philip Karney, master. Position – three degrees, seven minutes north, 104 degrees, two minutes east. Wind, fresh to moderate; sky, fair..." with a similar closing: "Ship secured for the night. Signed, Philip Karney, master." Arriving at an exotic port of call, the captain and first mate would go ashore and immediately run into trouble with local authorities, agents of rival merchants, or desperate women in need of rescue.After some investigation and at least one good fight they would solve ...

The years of the great radio networks spanned from 1926 to 1962, with their heyday in the 1930s and ’40s. Millions of Americans would gather round the radio to laugh with Fred Allen or Jack Benny, follows the travails of soap opera heroines on Painted Dreams and The Romance of Helen Trent, or hide under the covers to escape the frightening stories on Lights Out and The Shadow.Capitalizing on the rising popularity of western swing in the 1940s, the Riders of the Purple Sage became staples on radio, appearing with the Andrews Sisters and on Roy Rogers’ weekly series.Fans of B-westerns ...

Michael Shayne is a generic title that can refer to any of three American old-time radio detective programs that were broadcast from 1944 to 1953, all based on the Michael Shayne character created by author Brett Halliday. Specific titles varied with different versions of the show. They included Michael Shayne, Private Detective, The New Adventures of Michael Shayne, and The Adventures of Michael Shayne.Shayne was the main character in each version of the program, Phyllis Knight, a combination of secretary, sidekick, and girlfriend for Shayne, was also featured in the first and third ...

Rocky Jordan was a radio series about an American restaurateur in Cairo who each week became involved in some kind of mystery or adventure. The show was broadcast on CBS from October 31, 1948, to September 10, 1950, and then again from June 27, 1951, to August 22, 1951. The character of Rocky Jordan had been introduced to listeners in a similar show called A Man Named Jordan that was broadcast from 1945 to 1947 on the CBS West Coast network, but set in Istanbul, rather than Cairo. In February 1951, it was announced CBS was in discussions to make a TV series based on the show starring ...

The Old Time Radio Researchers are excited to bring to you these little-known country and western programs. Pinto Pete and His Ranch Boys recorded 104 shows and Pinto Pete in Arizona an additional 78. References to the Ranch Boys are found as early as 1930, though they may have been on earlier. They broadcast over KTM those first few years, nearly every day and at various times.Jack Ross, a versatile actor and producer apparently served as Pinto Pete, with Joe "Curley" Bradley and Ken "Shorty" Carson rounding out the trio. All three had acted as stuntmen. They also appeared in a few movies...

There was a radio show called Thriller Playhouse that featured classic thrillers. There was also an American radio and TV series called Starring Boris Karloff that was similar to Thriller. ExplanationThriller PlayhouseA radio program that featured classic thrillers, including Murder in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe Starring Boris KarloffAn American radio and TV anthology series that aired on ABC in 1949 The show featured Boris Karloff as the host and occasional star The series adapted short stories of mystery and suspense

An alien archaeologist takes over a Scottish village surrounded by a radioactive cloud and devastationThe archaeologist examines the past lives of the village's inhabitants by "unpeeling" layers of timeCast: Gayanne Potter as Jill LoganSimon Tait as Dan CollinsJoanna Tope as Dr Beth GrangerSandy Neilson as Captain CairnsLesley Hart as Heather LoganStevie Hannan as Soldier/Pilot/JamieJohn Paul Hurley as the TechnicianWriter: Marty Ross wrote the program specifically for the BBC

Olmsted's appearances during the era of live television began in 1950 with The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre and Lights Out, followed by Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951). The Philco Television Playhouse (1951–52), Kraft Television Theatre (1951–52), Tales of Tomorrow (1952), Hallmark Hall of Fame (1952), Goodyear Television Playhouse (1953), Robert Montgomery Presents (1953–54), Studio One (1954–55), The Phil Silvers Show (1955-59) and NBC Sunday Showcase (1959).Nelson Olmsted narrated and acted in over 150 episodes of the Ohio Story television series. Image ...

Sounds Of Darkness. This series was the replacement series for the long running Australian imported series “Nightbeat”. The story centred around Lee Masters, the blind FBI detective that solved crime in its own unique style. The series was one of many directed and produced by Gerrie van Wyk and was an original idea developed between Gerrie and Brian O'Shaughnessy.

he Dam Busters is a 1954 Australian radio serial written by Morris West and produced by Gordon Grimsdale. It was based on the book The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill. West and Grimsdale also did radio adaptations of Brickhill's books The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky. West wrote these after relocating to Sydney from Melbourne following the end of his first marriage.A number of the cast had served in the airforce during World War Two.[5]The Sydney Daily Telegraph said "The wonder of this programme lies in the consistently true characterisation given by each performer."

Under Arrest was a fictional radio drama about crime and detection that aired in the 1940s. It was a summer replacement series for The Shadow in 1946 and 1947. What was it about?Under Arrest was a modern drama set in 1948. It starred Craig McDonnell as Police Captain John Drake. When did it air?Under Arrest aired in the 1940s, a year before the more well-known radio show Dragnet. Who starred in it?Under Arrest starred Craig McDonnell as Police Captain John Drake.