Boxcars711 Old Time Radio
2,257 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 74 ratingsBoxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Offers the best of Old Time Radio, Oldies, Easy Listening and Talk. Broadcasting from the heart of Germantown, on WPNM radio, and over the Shoutcast Network, host Bob Camardella mixes his vast collection of entertainment, with news and events from the ole neighborhood reunion groups of Germantown, Phila., Pa., Where The Oldies Are Still Young
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Crime Does Not Pay "A Piece Of Rope" (12-05-49) - Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee Two
February 03, 2008 02:27 - 26 minutes - 5.96 MBCrime 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 appearance. The radio series aired in New York on WMGM (October 10, 1949-October 10, 1951) and then moved to the Mutual network (January 7-December 22, 1952). Actors included Bela Lugosi, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Joh...
The CBS Radio Workshop "Light Ship" (4-28-57) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
February 02, 2008 23:54 - 24 minutes - 5.63 MBThe CBS Radio Workshop Broadcast from 1936 through to 1947 with just an occasional break. Revived again from January 1956 to September 1957 as CBS Radio Workshop with pretty much the same format. Broadcast from 1936 through to 1947 with just an occasional break. Revived again from January 1956 to September 1957 as CBS Radio Workshop with pretty much the same format. This was drama with a difference. Columbia Workshop was not everybodyâs cup of tea and in terms of audience popularity it was a...
Arch Oboler's Plays "The Cliff" (4-29-39) - Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee One
February 02, 2008 13:42 - 29 minutes - 6.69 MBArch Oboler (December 7, 1909 - March 19, 1987) was a Chicago-born scriptwriter, novelist, producer and director who was active in films, radio and television. boler generated much attention for his radio scripts, and his work in radio remains the outstanding period of his career. Although some noted a tendency for gruesomeness, he received praise as one of broadcasting's top talents, and he is regarded today as one of the innovators of old time radio. Arch Oboler's Plays was a radio drama s...
The Crime Club "Death Swims At Midnight" (8-28-47) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
February 02, 2008 04:52 - 30 minutes - 6.94 MBCrime 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 that Crime Club story for you.Come right over. (The organist in the shadowed corner of the Crime Club library shivers the ivories) The doorbell tones suddenly"And you are here. Good. Take the easy chair...
Night Beat "The Man Who Claimed To Be Dead" (3-20-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
February 01, 2008 23:57 - 30 minutes - 6.87 MBBroadcast on NBC, Nightbeat ran from 1949 to 1952 and starred Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, a tough and streetwise reporter who worked the nightbeat for the Chicago Star looking for human interest stories. He met an assortment of people, most of them with a problem, many of them scared, and sometimes he was able to help them, sometimes he wasnât. It is generally regarded as a âqualityâ show and it stands up extremely well. Frank Lovejoy (1914-1962) isnât remembered today, but he was a powerfu...
Nightwatch "Juvenile Burglar" (5-03-54) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
February 01, 2008 16:05 - 24 minutes - 5.64 MBBefore the recent "Reality TV" glut, there was "Reality Radio" and Night Watch was there. This show is a straight crime documentary with no music, sound effects, or actors. Police reporter Don Reid rode in a prowl car on the night shift with officers from the Culver City, California police department. While wearing a hidden microphone, he captures the sounds and voices of real life drama. From the worried child to the hardened criminal, their stories come through loud and clear. The na...
The Jack Benny Program "The Drive-In" (10-24-54) - Boxcars711 OId Time Radio Pod
February 01, 2008 04:33 - 28 minutes - 6.42 MBJack 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 rated programs during most of that run. With Canada Dry Ginger Ale as a sponsor, Benny came to radio on The Canada Dry Program, beginning May 2, 1932, on the NBC Blue Network and continuing there for six months until October 26, moving the show to CBS o...
Mr. President "Andrew Jackson" (9-08-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
February 01, 2008 00:12 - 30 minutes - 6.92 MBMr. President ran on the ABC Radio Network from June of 1947 until September of 1953 and starred Edward Arnold and Betty Lou Gerson. Each week, Arnold would play the part of a different President of the United States in historical dramas based on real events - some familiar, many little-known and largely untold. The unique aspect of the show was that the identity of the President being portrayed would not be revealed until the end of the program - a guessing game that often challenged the mos...
Michael Shayne Private Detective "The Case Of Anthony Carrell" (7-15-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 31, 2008 14:59 - 26 minutes - 6.05 MBMichael Shayne was a fictional sleuth created by Brett Halliday (a pen name for author Davis Dresser) who was first initiated into the fraternity for detectives in the 1939 novel "Dividend of Death". Dresser based the character on a âtall and rangyâ brawler who once saved his life during a braw in a Mexican cantina. The Shayne character would go on to appear in 69 novels, plus a long-running mystery magazineâand in 1941, was brought to the silver screen in Paramountâs Michael Shayne, Private ...
Inheritance "Flight To Nowhere" (5-16-54) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 31, 2008 03:56 - 30 minutes - 6.94 MBInheritance. May 16, 1954. Program #6. NBC net. "Flight To Nowhere". Sustaining. Not auditioned. 4:30 P. M. The program is produced in co-operation with The American Legion. After the drama, the National Vice Commander of The American Legion, North Carolina, Thomas Byrd is the speaker. Albert McCleary (producer, director), John Wald (announcer), Robert Armbruster (composer, conductor), Thomas Byrd, Milt Kahn (writer), Whitfield Connor, John Dehner, Sam Edwards, Joe Cranston, Frank Gerstle, An...
You Are There "Columbus Discovers America" (7-28-47) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 30, 2008 23:17 - 28 minutes - 6.49 MBYOU ARE THERE Aired: November 1939 to May 1940, CBS Blue Network A Dramatic Historical Recreation Imagine if CBS radio news existed when the Bastille was stormed in 1789, or if radio reporters were stationed in Ford Theater as Lincoln was assassinated, or again at the Battle of Gettysburg? Indeed, such was the premise behind the CBS series, You Are There. Audiences witnessed history through the present-tense accounts of newsmen allegedly witnessing historical events transpiring before the...
A Case For Dr Morelle "Poisoned Air" (1950-Episode10) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 30, 2008 14:51 - 28 minutes - 6.63 MB'The man you love to hate!', psychoanalyst-detective and male chauvinist pig, whose detection powers were dazzling, but whose treatment of females, especially his fluttery secretary Miss Frayle, verged on the abominable. Written by author Ernest Dudley, Morelle was overbearing, sarcastic, patronising, contemptuous, cruel and unusually vindictive, Morelle was nevertheless doted upon by millions of listeners to his adventures on the radio in the 1940s and 1950s. The first radio Morelle was pla...
The Clock "The Return Of The Vanished Wife" (1958) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 30, 2008 04:37 - 24 minutes - 5.52 MBThe Clock, Imported from Austrailia, was a dramatic thirty-minute suspense and mystery series. It was written by Lawrence Klee and was first broadcast in November 1946. The story always began the same; âSunrise and sunset, promise and fulfilment, birth and death â the whole drama of life is written in the sands of timeâ. This is a great series where the main theme seems to be Retribution. Stories as told by Father Time. First Broadcast November 3rd 1946 Last Broadcast May 23rd 1948
Black Museum - Double Feature (1951 and 1952) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 30, 2008 00:07 - 52 minutes - 12.1 MBOrson Welles hosted and narrated the shows. Mr. Welles opened each show slightly differently but followed a standard format. For example, the show, "The Bathtub", open as follows:"This is Orson Welles speaking from London." (Big Ben starts chiming in the background). "The Black Museum, repository of death... Here, in this grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homocide, where everyday objects, a piece of wire, a chemist's flask, a silver shilling, all...
Encore Theater - Magnificent Obsession (6-04-46) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 29, 2008 14:40 - 30 minutes - 7.08 MBENCORE THEATER was a 1946 Summer replacement series, sponsored by Schenley Labs, Inc. All shows had a medical theme, some concerned medical research, some covered personal stories of people in the medical field but all based on true stories. Schenley Labs, Inc. was the sponsor for the series. The shows aired Tuesday evenings from 9:30 to 10:00 PM over CBS affiliated stations. Members of the cast were typically well-known radio or screen actors, such as Lurene Tuttle, Eric Snowden, Gerald Mohr...
Flash Gordon "2 Episodes (7-13-35) and (10-12-35)" - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 29, 2008 04:15 - 30 minutes - 7.04 MBToday's Show: "The Antidote" (7-13-35) and "Its Finally Over" (10-12-35) FIRST BROADCAST: April 1935 LAST BROADCAST: February 1936 CAST: Gale Gordon, Maurice Franklin, Bruno Wick, James Meighan PRODUCER: Himan Brown This science-fiction adventure originally began as a comic strip. Flash Gordon had saved the world by firing a rocket at the planet Mongo which was on a collision course with earth. He had crashlanded on Mongo which was a planet packed with villains and baddies featuring lots ...
The General Electric Theater "Old Man's Bride" (10-01-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 28, 2008 23:41 - 29 minutes - 6.86 MBThe first two seasons of General Electric Theater established the half-hour anthology format of adaptations of popular plays, short stories, novels, magazine fiction and motion pictures. "The Eye of the Beholder," for example, a Hitchcock-like telefilm thriller starring Richard Conte and Martha Vickers, dramatized an artist's relationship with his model from differing, sometimes disturbing psychological perspectives. The addition of Ronald Reagan as program host commencing the third season 26...
My Friend Irma "Jane's New Boyfriend" (3-08-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 28, 2008 14:18 - 29 minutes - 6.84 MBThis hit radio series with Marie Wilson ran on CBS Radio from April 11, 1947 to August 23, 1954. The TV version, seen on CBS from January 8, 1952 until June 25, 1954, was the first series telecast from the CBS Television City facility in Hollywood. The movie My Friend Irma (1949) starred Marie Wilson and Diana Lynn but is mainly remembered today for introducing Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis to moviegoers, resulting in even more screen time for Martin and Lewis in the sequel, My Friend Irma Goes...
NBC University Theater "At Heavens Gate" (1-22-50) - Boxcars711 Sunday Matinuee Three
January 28, 2008 04:45 - 1 hour - 13.9 MBNBC University Theater is an unusual series that focused on reenacting novels by great authors for college classes. Many accredited American universities such as Washington State College, University of Louisville, and University of Tulsa, used this dramatic series as a supplement to correspondent college courses. The series' creators made study guides to accompany the courses. Students studying great literature by Steinbeck, Faulkner, Hemingway, Huxley, and many others listened to these shows...
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater "Secret Chamber" (11-5-76) - Boxcars711 Sunday Matinee Two
January 27, 2008 22:24 - 41 minutes - 9.57 MBThe 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 the 1930s), and aired on affiliate stations across the CBS Radio network, the series began its long run on January 6, 1974. The final episode ran on December 31, 1982. The show was broadcast nightly and ran for one hour, i...
The Martian Chronicles "Off Season" (1950) - Boxcars711 Sunday Matinee One
January 27, 2008 15:34 - 21 minutes - 4.92 MBRay Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (1950) The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing Bradbury stories originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines. For publication, the stories were loosely woven togeth...
Aliens In The Mind "Island Genesis" (1-02-77) - Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee Three
January 27, 2008 04:33 - 28 minutes - 6.61 MBAliens in the Mind started life as an outline for Doctor Who. Although not commissioned for the show Robert Holmes was asked to develop the idea for Radio 4 however work commitments meant that the scripts were ultimately written by Rene Bascilico based on Holmes' original idea. Unlike the Doctor Who 'talking books' and stable-mate 'The Quatermass Memoirs' which are also due for release on July 3rd this is a full blown sci-fi radio drama starring kings of horror Vincent Price and Peter Cushing...
Cloak & Dagger "Black Radio" (8-27-50) - Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee Two
January 26, 2008 23:23 - 29 minutes - 6.83 MBCloak 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 after its Summer run. The last show aired Oct. 22, 1950. This is the story of the WWII special governmental agency, the OSS, or Office of Strategic Services. Its mission was to develop and maintain spy networks throughout Europe and into Asia, while giving aid to underground partisan groups and developing espionage activities for Allied forces overseas.The sh...
Screen Directors Playhouse "Waterloo Bridge" (9-28-51) - Boxcars711 Saturday Martinee One
January 26, 2008 14:56 - 59 minutes - 13.7 MBThe Screen Director's Playhouse. From 01/09/49 to 09/28/51 this series was greatly enjoyed by the radio listening audience. It opened as NBC Theater and was also known as The Screen Directorâs Guild and The Screen Directorâs Assignment. But most people remember it simply as Screen Directorâs Playhouse. THIS EPISODE: WATERLOO BRIDGE is perhaps best described as one of a number of films "with an English accent" that played to American sympathies for England in the years when England largely s...
The Great Gildersleeve "Eve's Mother Stays On" (6-18-44) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 26, 2008 04:42 - 29 minutes - 6.83 MBThe Great Gildersleeve 1941-1958 In 1941 Throckmorton P Gildersleeve spun off into his own radio program, becoming the first radio character to do so. He had originally appeared on Fibber McGee and Molly in 1937 and left to become the Water Commissioner of Summerfield and to raise his niece and nephew. The series had the same appeal as todays soaps because each episode was connected. Gildersleeves romances were often at the centre of it all. The best of the romances is the one with Leila R...
Curtain Time "Dishonest Ghost" (7-10-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 26, 2008 00:40 - 31 minutes - 7.14 MBCurtain Time, like First Nighter, presented romantic drama in a theater setting complete with the announcer shouting, âTickets please, thank youâ. The shows announcer was Harry Halcomb who was later known best for his appearances on the 60 minutes television show. Great scripts and superb acting, Curtain Time is truly an Old Time Radio Classic. Mutual Network, local KNX show sustained, heard Fridays 7:30 - 8:00 pm
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe "The Friend From Detroit" (3-5-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 25, 2008 14:30 - 29 minutes - 6.8 MBThe 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 the lead. Two years later, Van Heflin starred as Marlowe in a summer replacement series for the Bob Hope Show on NBC. This series ran for 13 shows. On September 26, 1948, Gerald Mohr became the third radio Marlowe, this time on CBS. It remained a CBS sh...
The Adventures Of Frank Merriwell "The Clue Of The Numbers" (10-19-46) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 25, 2008 04:39 - 31 minutes - 7.23 MBFrank Merriwell, the much-loved fictional hero of Street and Smith's Tip Top Weekly, was first introduced to readers on April 18, 1896. Merriwell was the creation of writer Burt L. Standish (real name: Gilbert Patten), and embodied a new type of dime novel hero, one who relied as much upon mental as physical prowess. The Yale-educated Merriwell possessed "a body like Tarzan's and a head like Einstein's," wrote one admiring writer, and thus represented "the perfect union of brain and brawn." F...
Mutual Radio Theater "Cash On The Barrelhead" (3-31-80) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 25, 2008 00:30 - 39 minutes - 9.11 MBFirst show: Mar 3, 1980 Original shows: 103 Last show: Dec 10, 1980 Number of programs aired including new and repeats: 210 Hosts: Lorne Greene, Andy Griffith, Vincent Price, Cicely Tyson, Leonard Nimoy In December 1979 the Mutual Broadcasting System acquired the Sears Radio Theater renaming it, the MUTUAL Radio Theater. It retained the same format as before with the same theme for different nights of the week. Lorne Greene remained host for Monday's Western night, Andy Griffith handled Tuesd...
NBC Short Story - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall Of The House Of Usher" (1958) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 24, 2008 14:09 - 27 minutes - 6.27 MBEDGAR ALLAN POE'S "FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER" The NBC Short Stories were very high quality productions. Authors ranger from Shelley to Bradbury to Edgar Allen Poe. In this episode, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, as like many of Poe's stories, does not use the typical, first person point of view where the protagonist tells a personal account of a crime that he or she has committed. Instead, the narrator is a character of whom we know very little, who acts like a participant/observer. It is ...
The Secrets Of Scotland Yard "Hunted Hunter" (1950) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 24, 2008 04:03 - 26 minutes - 6.16 MBThe Secrets of Scotland Yard was a successful crime drama series, initially airing internationally between 1949 and 1951. Selected episodes finally came to a US radio network for a brief run much later in 1957 over the Mutual Broadcasting System. The series boasted well over 100 episodes, one of which, "The Bone From A Voice Box", apparently served as the prototype for another well remembered Towers Of London dramatic series, The Black Museum. In both series, well known actors were employed a...
The Life Of Riley "Rileys Movie Premier" (3-04-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 24, 2008 00:18 - 28 minutes - 6.56 MBThe 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 Flotsam Family, but the sponsor balked at what would have been essentially a straight head-of-household role for the comedian. Then producer Irving Brecher saw Bendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in the ...
Bob Hope Show "Guest Judy Garland" (3-07-39) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 23, 2008 14:51 - 29 minutes - 6.7 MBBob Hope first appeared on television in 1932 during a test transmission from an experimental CBS studio in New York. His career in broadcasting spanned sixty-four years and included a long association with NBC. Hope made his network radio debut in 1937 on NBC. His first regular series for NBC Radio was the Woodbury Soap Hour. A year later The Pepsodent Radio Show Starring Bob Hope began, and would run through 1953. Hope did many specials for the NBC television network in the following decade...
Dad's Army "Sergeant Save My Boy" (3-04-75) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 23, 2008 05:19 - 29 minutes - 6.81 MBDadâs Army was a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The British Home Guard consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, usually owing to age, and as such the series starred several veterans of British film, television and stage, including Arthur Lowe (1915â82), John Le Mesurier (1912â83), Arnold Ridley (also a veteran playwright; 1896â1984)...
The Saint "A Schitzophrenic Psychiatrist" (9-18-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 23, 2008 01:24 - 24 minutes - 5.64 MBThe Saint â 1945-1951 There were at least 24 episodes broadcast of this series. It was a fascinating detective adventure series based on the books by Leslie Charteris. Edgar Barrier first played Simon Templar, aka The Saint, a debonair private detective in January 1945. He was then played by Brian Aherne in June 1945 and later Vincent Price from July 1947 up until May 1951. The Saint was said to have been like a modern day Robin Hood. He didnât care for justice and always helped victims hind...
Sherlock Holmes - 2 Episodes (2-24-47) and (3-10-47) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 22, 2008 14:03 - 1 hour - 15 MB"The Horseless Carriage" (2-24-47) "Affair Of The Ancient Egyptian Curse" (3-10-47) Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute ob...
Calling All Cars "Caliente Money Car Holdup" (1-10-34) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 22, 2008 05:19 - 30 minutes - 6.88 MBCalling All Cars. January 10, 1934. Program #7. CBS Pacific net (Don Lee net). "The Caliente Money Car Holdup". Sponsored by: Rio Grande Oil (free copy of "Calling All Car News"). "The robbers in this case were stupid. All criminals are stupid." The system cue has been deleted. Not auditioned. Charles Frederick Lindsley (narrator). 30:25.
Hercule Poirot "Murder Wears A Mask" (5-03-45) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 22, 2008 00:45 - 29 minutes - 6.83 MBHercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters: he appeared in 39 novels and 50 short stories. Poirot has been portrayed on screen, for films and TV, by various actors including Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and, most recently, and famously, David Suchet. His character was based on two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc ...
Crime Classics "Shockingly Peaceful Passing Of Thomas Bartlett" (6-22-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 21, 2008 21:00 - 27 minutes - 6.38 MBCrime 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 Lewis's personal interest in famous murder cases, and took a documentary-like approach to the subject, carefully recreating the facts, personages, and feel of the time period. Comparatively littl...
The Shadow "Firebug" (6-19-38) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 21, 2008 14:26 - 28 minutes - 6.62 MBOn July 31, 1930 a sinister voice came over the radio into American Homes. The voice of the Shadow appeared for the first time. In the beginning the Shadow was not a crime fighter. He was a mysterious narrator of mystery tales taken from the pages of Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. The publisher Street & Smith began to use radio as an advertising medium to promote their fiction publications. The Shadow was a perfectly creepy teller of tales promoting Street & Smith. This format con...
The Adventures By Maisie "Clothes Make The Woman" (1-19-50) - Boxcars711 Sunday Matinee Three
January 21, 2008 04:49 - 28 minutes - 6.61 MBMaisie, the first in 1939, was from the book "Dark Dame" by the writer Wilson Collison,who did decades of scripting for the silver screen along with Broadway plays and magazine fiction. From the first, MGM wanted Ann Sothern to play Maisie. She began in Hollywood as an extra in 1927. "Maisie and I were just together - I just understood her," Sothern, born Harriette Arlene Lake, said after several of the films made her a star. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Ann Sothern and Lucille Ball, like m...
The Philip Morris Playhouse "Four Hours To Kill" (5-13-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 21, 2008 01:26 - 29 minutes - 6.79 MBThe Philip Morris Playhouse was originally called "Johnny Presents" and named after the Philip Morris trademark, a bellhop by the name of Johnny Roventini. Johnny was discovered when an ad man for Philip Morris, spotted him in a popular New York Hotel. The thought occured that the new show could lead off with Johnny walking through the lobby yelling "Last Call For Philip Morris". The idea was an instant success and the tabacco company paid him $20000.00 a year for his participation. Guest sta...
The Lux Radio Theater "Nobody Lives Forever" (11-17-47) - Boxcars711 Sunday Matinee Two
January 20, 2008 20:29 - 59 minutes - 13.6 MBLux Radio Theater strove to feature as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance to do the show. It was when sponsor Lever Brothers (who made Lux soap and detergent) moved the show from New York to Hollywood in 1936 that it eased back from adapting stage shows and toward adaptations of films. The first Lux film adaptation was The Legionnaire and the Lady, with Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable, based on the film ...
Richard Diamond Private Detective "Double Feature" From 1949 - Boxcars711 Sunday Matinee One
January 20, 2008 15:12 - 59 minutes - 13.6 MB"Charles Walsh" (7-09-49) and "Counterfeiting Ring" (10-15-49) Dick Powell was known as a song and dance man until his rebirth as a movie tough guy in Murder My Sweet, where he played Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. He then appeared in a string of crime and detective flicks, and eventually parlayed it into a successful radio show. Powell played RICHARD DIAMOND, "radio's singing gumshoe", an ex-OSS man turned New York City private detective who was tough when he needed to be, but tried to ...
The Campbell Playhouse "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" (2-11-40) - Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee Three
January 20, 2008 05:28 - 58 minutes - 13.5 MBThe Campbell Playhouse was a sponsored continuation of the Mercury Theater on the Air, a direct result of the instant publicity from the War of the Worlds panic. The switch occurred on December 9, 1938. In spite of using the same creative staff, the show had a different flavor under sponsorship, partially attributed to a guest star policy in place, which relegated the rest of the Mercury Players to supporting cast for Orson Welles and the Hollywood guest of the week. There was a growing schis...
Fort Laramie "Capture" (4-29-56) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 20, 2008 02:18 - 27 minutes - 6.36 MBThe Golden Age of Radio was ending, not with a whimper, but with a robust bang. Many of the best network and syndicated shows began in the 1950s, even though public interest and advertising dollars were switching to television, FORT LARAMIE was certainly one of the finest radio series, and were it not for GUNSMOKE, it could be termed the best adult Western program ever aired. FORT LARAMIE is a close relative of GUNSMOKE since it had the same producer-director, same writers, same sound effects...
The CBS Radio Workshop "Starboy" (7-27-56) - Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee Two
January 19, 2008 23:50 - 30 minutes - 6.96 MBThe CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental dramatic radio anthology series that aired on CBS from January 27, 1956, until September 22, 1957. Subtitled âradioâs distinguished series to manâs imagination,â it was a revival of the earlier Columbia Workshop, broadcast by CBS from 1936 to 1947, and it used some of the same writers and directors employed on the earlier series. The premiere broadcast was a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, introduced and narrated by Huxley. It...
CBS Radio Mystery Theater "Give The Devil His Due" (12-23-74) - Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee One
January 19, 2008 14:17 - 52 minutes - 12.1 MBA host of prominent actors from radio and screen performed on the series, including Agnes Moorehead, Joan Hackett, Mercedes McCambridge, Morey Amsterdam, Roy Thinnes, Keir Dullea, Fred Gwynne, Richard Crenna, Kim Hunter, Larry Haines, Morgan Fairchild, John Lithgow, and even a very young Sarah Jessica Parker. Actors were paid union scale at around $73.92 per show. Writers earned a flat rate of $350.00 per show. The production took place with assembly-line precision. Brown would meet with acto...
The Whistler "Man In A Corner" (4-1-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 19, 2008 04:51 - 29 minutes - 6.75 MBThe 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 influenced explicitly by The Shadow, The Whistler was no less popular or credible with its listeners, the writing was first class for its genre, and it added a slightly macabre element of humor that sometimes went missing in The Shadow's longer-lived crime stories. Writer-producer J. Donald Wilson established the tone of the show during its f...
Avenger "Melody Or Murder" (8-03-45) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
January 19, 2008 00:16 - 30 minutes - 6.99 MBThe Avenger is an Old Time Radio show aired by the South African Broadcasting System in the 1940s. It featured a biochemist crime-fighter by the name of Jim Brandon. Mr. Brandon had two inventions which assisted him in the fight against crime. Mr. Brandon was able to pick up telpathic thought flashes and had a diffusion capsule which allowed him to become invisible. SYNDICATED by : Charles Michelson. WRITTER: Walter Gibson STARS: James Monks, Dick Janiver as the invisible Jim Brandon WITH: J...