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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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Screen Guild Theater "The Little Foxes" (8-06-45)
October 25, 2007 03:37 - 29 minutes - 6.78 MBThe ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons nÃe Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who lives in Chicago and suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife an...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Adventures Of Sam Spade "The Prodigal Panda Caper" (12-29-50)
October 24, 2007 23:27 - 30 minutes - 6.94 MBAdventures of Sam Spade â 1946-1951 Sam Spade was a tough private investigator. Each case was unfolded as a report dictated to his secretary, Effie, who was always flustered and secretly in love with him. He always quoted his license number and referred to each investigation as a âcaperâ. Each report was dated with the actual airdate. CAST: Howard Duff, Steve Dunne, Lurene Tuttle, John McIntire, William Conrad, Cathy and Elliot Lewis, June Havoc, Joseph Kearns, Jerry Hausner, Elliott Reid, ...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Zero Hour "Desperate Witness" (12-10-73) Show 1 of 5
October 24, 2007 14:57 - 29 minutes - 6.86 MBZero Hour - Desperate Witness (Aired December 10, 1973) Show 1 of A 5 Part Series The Zero Hour was a 1973-74 radio broadcast hosted by Rod Serling. The Zero Hour featured well known actors and actresses. The stories were exciting and action-packed and will keep you on the edge of you seat, as we approach the Zero Hour. The 5-part series was syndicated by Mutual and the programs were allowed to be aired when convenient. Therefore, broadcast dates vary around the country. This section of th...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod -The Silent Men "Souvenirs Of War" (12-23-51)
October 24, 2007 03:29 - 29 minutes - 6.8 MBDramatic Intrigue 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 to introduce to you stories of the Silent Men, the special agents of federal law-enforcement who silently, and for little material reward, daily risk their lives to protect the lives of all of us. Their tradition is long and proud, yet to guard our welfare and our liberties, they must remain nameless..." Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - My Friend Irma "Irma's Inheritance" (4-05-48)
October 23, 2007 23:13 - 30 minutes - 6.9 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...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Whitehall 1212 "Electric Torch" (9-28-52)
October 23, 2007 13:13 - 29 minutes - 6.86 MBWhitehall 1212 is a crime drama featuring cases from New Scotland Yard's "Black Museum". Unlike the show starring Orson Welles, however, this series was done with the official support of The Yard and tries to downplay the sensational aspects of thes cases and highlight the rigorous police work that went into solving them. THIS EPISODE: Whitehall 1212. September 28, 1952. NBC net. Sustaining. The last show of the series. An electric torch is in the "Black Museum" because it made an excellent ...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Lone Ranger "A Horse Changes Brands" (3-26-41)
October 23, 2007 03:38 - 27 minutes - 6.3 MBThe Lone Ranger was a long-running early radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle, and developed by writer Fran Striker. The titular character is a masked cowboy in the American Old West, who gallops about righting injustices, usually with the aid of a clever and laconic American Indian called Tonto, and his horse Silver. He would famously say "Heigh-ho Silver, away!" to get the horse to gallop.
Boxcars711 Old Time Rado Pod - The Shadow "Poison Death" (1-30-38)
October 22, 2007 23:13 - 29 minutes - 6.72 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...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Milton Berle Show "Salute To Automobile Industry" (9-23-47)
October 22, 2007 14:34 - 29 minutes - 6.77 MBMr. Television In 1948, NBC decided to bring Texaco Star Theater from radio to television, with Berle as one of the show's four rotating hosts. For the fall season, NBC named Berle the permanent host. His highly visual, sometimes outrageous vaudeville style proved ideal for the burgeoning new medium. Berle and Texaco owned Tuesday nights for the next several years, reaching the number one slot in the Nielsen ratings and keeping it, with as much as an 80% share of the recorded viewing audience...
Boxcars711 Weekend Matinee Special - Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes "The Speckled Band" (10-01-43)
October 21, 2007 23:14 - 29 minutes - 6.74 MBThroughout the early 1940's on American Radio, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce performed as Holmes and Watson, respectively, in several series of canonical and original Sherlock Holmes stories. When Rathbone finally departed the role before the 1947 season, Tom Conway played Sherlock Holmes opposite Nigel Bruce for one season. After a change of networks, there were two more pairings: John Stanley as Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Watson in 1947-1948 and John Stanley and Ian Martin in 1948-1949. ...
Boxcars711 Sunday Matinee - CBS Radio Mystery Theater "Afraid To Live Afraid To Die" (4-23-75)
October 21, 2007 14:06 - 43 minutes - 10 MBThe CBS Radio Mystery Theater was an ambitious effort by veteran radio producer Himan Brown to revive interest in American radio drama. Every night from 1974 to 1982, host E. G. Marshall (later Tammy Grimes) ushered listeners through a creaking door -- similar to the one Brown used on Inner Sanctum decades earlier -- for an hour of âthe fear you can hear.â 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 ass...
Boxcars711 Weekend Matinee Special - Adventures In Research "2 Episodes (1943)"
October 21, 2007 03:42 - 28 minutes - 6.62 MB"Yesterday's Secret Weapon" (3-09-43) and "The King Of Ice" (2-16-43) A wonderfully informative old time radio series can be found in Adventures In Research. With tales that are not only wonderfully dramatic, but at the same time extremely interesting and entertaining. Adventures In Research offers the listener accounts in American scientific research history. You will be enthralled, as will your children. Best of all, in regards to providing a great educational tool for children, the episod...
Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee - CBS Radio Mystery Theater "Murder To Perfection" (9-30-74)
October 20, 2007 16:42 - 52 minutes - 12 MBAs you walk through the creaking door you enter into another world, the world of imagination. This world is inside you, a part of you, and you take this journey alone. Each person hears and then sees with his or her mind's eye the events portrayed within these dramas. All of us interprets what they hear differently. The images we see is unique to ourselves. A voice becomes a person, living, breathing they come alive. They take on a physical form and characteristics that we assign to them. The...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Gunsmoke "Big Tom" (3-01-59)
October 20, 2007 04:23 - 24 minutes - 5.51 MBThe radio show first aired on April 26, 1952 and ran until June 18, 1961 on the CBS radio network. The series starred William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, and Parley Baer as Deputy Chester Proudfoot. Doc's first name and Chester's last name were changed for the television program. Gunsmoke was notable for its critically acclaimed cast and writing, and is commonly regarded as THE true adult western and one of the finest old ...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Hop Harrigan "Wailing Witches From 1947" (Episodes 1-3-5)
October 20, 2007 01:03 - 41 minutes - 9.55 MBHop Harrigan first appeared in All American Comics #1 created by Jon Blummer (Fighting Yank, Little Boy Blue) as one of the first successful aviation heroes in comic history (Hop appeared after Tailspin Tommy, Barney Baxter, Connie Kurridge and others). Hop Harrigan was technically not a true superhero (as he had no costume or special powers) though he did meet the Justice Society of America in All American Comics #8 and he did eventually become a superhero from All American Comics #25 (April...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - I Deal In Crime "The William A Davis Case" (4-15-46)
October 19, 2007 16:49 - 28 minutes - 6.46 MBI 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 his many PI radio series (heâs best known, of course, for his role as Martin Kane), Gargan played Ross Dolan, described as a veteran detective who returned to his sleuthing job after his WW II service as a sailor. Or as Dolan puts it, âa hitch in Uncle Sugarâs Navy.â
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Real McCoys "A Question Of Discipline" (10-31-57)
October 19, 2007 02:25 - 21 minutes - 4.95 MBA Question Of Discipline adapted for radio aired on October 31, 1957. The Real McCoys was a situation comedy that aired on the ABC network from 1957 through 1962. It aired for one more season on CBS before its end in 1963. The series revolved around the lives of a mountain family who originally hailed from West Virginia. The McCoys moved to California where they became dirt farmers. The family consisted of Grampa Amos McCoy, the head of the family played by Walter Brennan, his grandson Luke...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Escape "Figure A Dame" (12-20-49)
October 18, 2007 21:46 - 29 minutes - 6.76 MBESCAPE opened with the gripping voice of William Conrad booming out over the airwaves: "Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you - ESCAPE!". Moussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain", the show's theme, assisted Conrad in creating the right opening atmosphere. (The actual series of questions used in the opening varied from week to week, frequently to match the goings-on of the times.) Over its long run, narriators included...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - You Bet Your Life "Secret Word Is HAND" (1-02-52)
October 18, 2007 14:09 - 30 minutes - 6.9 MBTHE SECRET WORD IS "HAND" Groucho Marx matches wits with the American public in four episodes of this classic game show. Starting on the radio in 1947, You Bet Your Life made its television debut in 1950 and aired for 11 years with Groucho as host and emcee. Sponsored rather conspicuously by the Dodge DeSoto car manufacturers, the show featured two contestants working as a team to answer questions for cash prizes. Another mainstay of these question and answer segments was the paper mache duc...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Author's Playhouse "At Midnight On The 31st Of March" (3-31-43)
October 18, 2007 02:14 - 28 minutes - 6.56 MBAuthorâs Playhouse - Famous stories by celebrated authors: among them, Elementals (Stephen Vincent Benet), The Piano (William Saroyan), and The Snow Goose (Paul Gallico).March 5, 1941 till June 4, 1945, NBC; Blue Network until mid-October 1941, then the Red Network. Many briefly held 30m timeslots, including Sundays at 11:30, 1941-42; Wednesdays at 11:30, 1942-44; Mondays at 11:30, 1944-45. Sponsor was Philip Morris, 1942-43. Cast: John Hodiak, Fern Persons, Arthur Kohl, Laurette Fillb...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Danger With Granger "The FBI And The Scientist" (1957)
October 17, 2007 21:00 - 24 minutes - 5.59 MBDanger With Granger arrived too late in the Golden Age of Radio to have any real impact on the listening public. Mutual aired this show, starting in 1956, on Monday nights at 8:30 pm. It was a half hour show that featured a private eye in New York City, STEVE GRANGER. His two primary companions were Cal Hendrix, a reporter who served as an all-purpose source of criminal info, and Jake Rankin, a police detective with whom he had a grudging rivalry. The writing on the show seemed to incorporate...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Favorite Story "Ben-Hur" (9-04-48)
October 17, 2007 12:23 - 28 minutes - 6.52 MBFAVORITE STORY aired from September 1947 through December of 1949 hosted by Ronald Colman. This is an excellent dramatic series of great stories from classic literature brought to radio. It's popularity was so high and with such well done stories, it was rebroadcasted for many years. THIS EPISODE: Ben-Hur is a 1959 epic film directed by William Wyler, and is the most popular live-action version of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880). It premiered at Loews Theater in New...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Columbia Workshop "Private Throgg" (5-29-39)
October 17, 2007 02:47 - 28 minutes - 6.47 MBBroadcast 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 always noted that it was never a strong contender for the title âRadios Top Rated Drama Seriesâ and yet it was always considered to be the drama program that led the way in radio standards. Columbia...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Our Miss Brooks "Foreign Teachers" (2-07-54)
October 16, 2007 23:29 - 25 minutes - 5.89 MBOur Miss Brooks, an American situation comedy, began as a radio hit in 1948 and migrated to television in 1952, becoming one of the earlier hits of the so-called Golden Age of Television, and making a star out of Eve Arden (1908-1990) as comely, wisecracking, but humane high school English teacher Connie Brooks. The show hooked around Connie's daily relationships with Madison High School students, colleagues, and pompous principal Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), not to mention favourite student...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Hallmark Playhouse "Mrs Parkington" (10-21-48)
October 16, 2007 14:47 - 27 minutes - 6.29 MBSeries Description: THE HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE was heard over CBS stations Thursday evenings. This drama anthology of 30-minute shows was sponsored by, of course, Hallmark Greeting Cards. It was preceded by the RADIO READER'S DIGEST, which ran from September 13, 1942 thorugh June 3, 1948. Hallmark sponsored the RADIO READER'S DIGEST from January 13, 1946 to it's end. On Feb. 8, 1953, the series name and format was changed. It was now called THE HALLMARK HALL OF FAME and presented biographal sketc...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Blair Of The Mounties "2 Episodes From 1938" (4-18-38 and 4-25-38)
October 16, 2007 05:36 - 24 minutes - 5.62 MBTWO EPISODES: "The Train Wreckers Mystery" (4-18-38) and "The Case Of Leftenant Ralston" (4-25-38) Blair of the Mounties is the story of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police -- a fictional series based on the work of the Northwest Mounted Police before the World War I. It was a fifteen minute weekly serial heard every Monday for 36 weeks beginning January 31st, 1938 and running through the 3rd of October of 1938. It may have been on the air as early as 1935, although thereâs no actual proof o...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Sears Radio Theater "Flight of the Starbird" (3-30-79)
October 15, 2007 23:50 - 36 minutes - 8.32 MBThe series premiered on Monday 02/05/79 and offered a different genre each weekday night. Each genre was hosted by a different celebrity. The program was produced on Paramount's Stage F in Hollywood. These first 130 programs were broadcast over a six month period and then rebroadcast over the following six months. From 02/14/80 to 12/19/81 this series was heard again, this time over Mutual, as The Mutual Radio Theater. This was clearly one of the last big attempts to produce radio progra...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Dangerous Assignment "Pirate Loot" (4-10-54)
October 15, 2007 12:35 - 30 minutes - 6.98 MBStarring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Dangerous Assignment is a product of the Cold War, with mystery and intrigue cropping up across the globe. Mitchell, an agent for an unnamed U.S. goverment agency, is dispatched to some exotic, faraway place at the beginning of each episode. Herb Butterfield was the Commissioner, a taskmaster shrouded in secrecy who served up the situations that Mitchell seems never to refuse. The Commissioner's secretary is played by Betty Moran. She actually seems t...
Boxcars711 Sunday Matinee - Campbell Playhouse "The Citadel" (1-21-40)
October 14, 2007 16:39 - 55 minutes - 12.7 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...
Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee - The Lux Radio Theater "Batchelor & The Bobby Soxer" (6-13-49)
October 13, 2007 19:41 - 1 hour - 14 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 ...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Rocky Fortune "Boarding House Double Cross" (3-30-54)
October 13, 2007 03:49 - 24 minutes - 5.62 MB"Rocky Fortune" about a wanderer that took odd jobs to support himself and never stayed in one place too long. He almost always seemed to meet beautiful women along with trouble. Sinatra was good and was proving to Hollywood that he could do serious work. When casting began for the movie "From Here To Eternity", Frank campaigned tirelessly for a part and because of that and a good word put in for him by Gardner, who he was now separated from, he won a part that would mark his return to Hollyw...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Miss Marple "450 From Paddington" (11-04-57)
October 13, 2007 00:13 - 1 hour - 20.4 MBElspeth McGillicuddy has come down from Scotland to visit her old friend, Jane Marple. On the way, she sees a woman strangled in a passing train. Only Miss Marple believes her story, and soon sets about solving the mystery. The first task is to ascertain where the body could have been hidden. Comparison of the facts of the murder with the train timetable and the local geography lead to the grounds of Rutherford Hall as the only possible location. Miss Marple calls upon an acquaintance, Lucy E...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - CBS Radio Mystery Theater "The House On Chimney Pot La" (3-28-78)
October 12, 2007 13:25 - 42 minutes - 9.76 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...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Challenge Of The Yukon "2 Episodes From 1943"
October 12, 2007 02:25 - 29 minutes - 6.84 MBTwo Episodes: "King Spots Murder" (11-25-43) "Eleventh Hour" (12-16-43) Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet). The series was first heard on February 3, 1938. Under the title Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, it later transferred to television. The program was an adventure series about Sergeant William Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they fought evil...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Diary Of Fate "John Carthage Entry" (3-02-48)
October 11, 2007 22:19 - 27 minutes - 6.35 MBDiary of Fate is a mystery and horror program where âFateâ narrates and always wins by the end of the story. These are great suspense filled stories about average people who are subject to the mysteries of their âFateâ. In This episode, March 16, 1948. Program #14. Finley syndication. "Joe Mattock". Commercials added locally. Book 63, page 397. A truck driver and his beautiful hitch-hiker commit murder to get their hands on $100,000, kept in a little black bag. The date is subject to correcti...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Tom Corbett Space Cadet - "Asteroid Of Danger" COMPLETE (3-04-52)
October 11, 2007 13:30 - 47 minutes - 10.8 MBTom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett â Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, coloring books, punch-out books and View-Master reels in the 1950s. The stories followed the adventures of Tom Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the elite Solar Guard. The action takes place at the Academy in classrooms and bunkroom, aboard their training ship the rocket cru...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Saint "The Corpse Said Ouch" (8-06-50)
October 11, 2007 01:55 - 29 minutes - 6.81 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 hin...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Hancocks Half Hour "Back From Holiday" (10-14-56)
October 10, 2007 22:45 - 30 minutes - 7.03 MBHancock's Half-Hour is the yardstick against which all subsequent British sitcoms have been measured, the vast majority failing to size up to its extremely high standards. Based on his famous radio show of the same name, the TV run consolidated Tony Hancock's standing as Britain's leading comic of the day, the entertainer providing ample proof that his wonderfully flexible face could be as expressive as his dextrous radio voice. Tony Hancock was at the height of his powers during the late 195...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Bold Venture "Black Tie Affair" (9-17-51)
October 10, 2007 18:15 - 29 minutes - 6.72 MBThe Hollywood husband and wife team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall set sail for adventure in the Bold Venture radio series in early 1951. There were well over 400 stations that aired the program. Since thiswas syndicated * the starting date varied from station to station but Mar 26, 1951 was the official date of the first show. Humphrey Bogart portrayed Slate Shannon, owner of a rundown Havana hotel, Shannon's Place. The action took place on land as well aboard Slate's boat, The Bold Ve...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Cloak And Dagger "Over Ground Railroad" (9-08-50)
October 10, 2007 03:17 - 30 minutes - 6.92 MB"Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission for the United States, knowing in advance you may never return alive?" Cloak and Dagger first aired over the NBC network on May 7, 1950. It had a short run through the Summer on Sundays, changing to Fridays 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 As...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Adventures of Superman "Pillar Of Fire At Graves" (3-Episodes From 1940)
October 09, 2007 23:16 - 34 minutes - 7.82 MBAdventures of Superman â 1938-1951 This juvenile adventure series was first broadcast on Mutual in 1940 with Clayton (Bud) Collyer starring as Superman/Clark Kent. It first began as a fifteen-minute show but later, in 1949, it moved to ABC as a thirty-minute Saturday show with Michael Fitzmaurice as Superman. At the end of its thirteen-year run it had totalled over 1600 episodes. The opening for the show was one of radioâs best, setting the stage for those flights into fantasy with a cascade...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Ellery Queen Master Detective "The Flying Needle" (8-06-39)
October 09, 2007 15:33 - 25 minutes - 5.83 MBTuska cited Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940) and Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941) as the best of the Bellamy-Lindsay pairings. "The influence of The Thin Man series was apparent in reverse", Tuska noted about Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery. "Ellery and Nikki are unmarried but obviously in love with each other. Probably the biggest mystery... is how Ellery ever gets a book written. Not only is Nikki attractive and perfectly willing to show off her figure", Tuska wrote, "but she a...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Lights Out "Revolt Of The Worms" (10-13-42)
October 09, 2007 02:04 - 21 minutes - 5.03 MBLights Out was an American old-time radio program featuring "tales of the supernatural and the supernormal." It was immensely popular, and was one of the first horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. In its heydey, Lights Out rivalled the popularity of those shows. Lights Out ran through several series and networks, from January 1, 1934 to August 6, 1947. The principal sponsor was Ironized Yeast. Most episodes were broadcast at midnight. Lights Out then made the transition to t...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - It's a Crime Mr Collins "Lost Film" (1956)
October 08, 2007 16:23 - 25 minutes - 5.79 MBIt's A Crime Mr. Collins. 1956. Mutual net origination, syndicated. "The Lost Film". Commercials added locally. A vacation in New York leads to a mysterious traffic homicide and the kidnapping of Mrs. Collins! The date is approximate. Mandel Kramer, Gail Collins, Richard Denning. 26:07.
Boxcars711 Sunday Matinee - CBS Radio Mystery Theater "Lamps Of The Devil" (11-20-75)
October 07, 2007 16:18 - 42 minutes - 9.68 MBAs you walk through the creaking door you enter into another world, the world of imagination. This world is inside you, a part of you, and you take this journey alone. Each person hears and then sees with his or her mind's eye the events portrayed within these dramas. All of us interprets what they hear differently. The images we see is unique to ourselves. A voice becomes a person, living, breathing they come alive. They take on a physical form and characteristics that we assign to them. The...
Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee - Gary Cooper In The Plainsman (1936)
October 06, 2007 22:57 - 1 hour - 25.2 MBThe Plainsman is a 1936 Western movie directed by Cecil B. DeMille that presents a highly fictionalized account of the adventures and relationships between Wild Bill Hickok (Gary Cooper), Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), Buffalo Bill Cody and General George Custer, with a gun-runner named Lattimer (Charles Bickford) as the main villain. The film is notorious for mixing timelines and even has on opening scene with Abraham Lincoln setting the stage for Hickock's adventures. Anthony Quinn has a came...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Sealed Book "Design For Death" (6-03-45)
October 06, 2007 02:25 - 29 minutes - 6.71 MBThe Sealed Book starred Philip Clarke as the keeper of the book, a croaking, cackling hermit, with knowledge of the black arts, who in each show unlocked the great padlock that kept the sealed book safe from prying eyes. There was a spook story each week with tales of secrets and mysteries of mankind through the ages. This MUTUAL network entry in the horror and mystery genre was far from the best remembered, such as Suspense, Quiet Please, and Inner Sanctum. The Sealed Book begins with a clas...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Dimension X "The Green Hills Of Earth" (12-24-50)
October 06, 2007 02:21 - 26 minutes - 5.96 MBDimension X was an NBC radio program broadcast on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951. The first 13 episodes were broadcast live, and the remainder were pre-recorded. Fred Wiehe and Edward King were the directors, and Norman Rose was heard as both announcer and narrator. Preceded by Mutual's 2000 Plus (1950-52), Dimension X was not the first adult science fiction series on radio, but the acquisition of previously published stories immediately gave it a st...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Burns & Allen "Hit By A Club" (11-24-42)
October 05, 2007 17:02 - 28 minutes - 6.62 MBBy the early 40s, Burns decided that their act needed a change. He decided that the audience knew Gracies and his reactions well enough that it would be possible to play off them, and create situations something like screwball comedy, but with the Burns and Allen touch. Jack Benny and Burns and Allen worked much the same way with their comedy. Vaudevilles snappy patter and give and take jokes, good even if the audience didnt know you, could be developed into running gags and put-downs based o...
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Man Called X "Terror Across The Nation" (4-28-51)
October 05, 2007 01:16 - 23 minutes - 5.43 MBThe Man Called X was an espionage radio drama which aired on CBS and NBC from July 10, 1944 to May 20, 1952. Herbert Marshall had the lead role of Intelligence Agent Ken Thurston who took on dangerous cases in a variety of exotic locations. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra supplied the background music. Cast: Leon Belasco as Pagan Seldchmidt ANNOUNCER: Wendell Niles DIRECTOR: Jack Johnstone.MUSIC: Johnny Green. CBS FRIGIDAIRE - GENERAL MOTORS Thursdays 10:30 - 11:00 pm