Decoder Ring Theatre
528 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 579 ratingsDecoder Ring Theatre presents new stories and characters inspired by the classic broadcasts of the Golden Age of Radio. The crimebusting exploits of The Red Panda - Canada's Greatest Superhero! The mystery of that hardest-boiled of detectives, Black Jack Justice... all this and more in full-length, full-cast recordings.
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Red Panda Adventures (109) - The Ghost
October 01, 2014 15:12 - 27 minutes - 12.7 MBPeace and prosperity has been restored, and the nation's fighting men are finding their roles in the Toronto of tomorrow. But it isn't as easy for some as it is for others. Some choose a vocation of crime, some long to cover it and one seems to have become... a Ghost.
Black Jack Justice (61) - The Rat Trap
September 01, 2014 11:12 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MBSometimes the problems that bring people to the grey-green doors of the mighty world headquarters of Justice and Dixon are not as big as they might imagine. Sometimes they are simple people, befuddled by a problem outside of their experience, and assuming a degree of complexity that does not otherwise exist. Those are good days. This isnt one of them.
MTST 06 - The Learning Curve or the Rise of Francis.
August 15, 2014 00:12 - 28 minutes - 12.8 MBDecoder Ring Theatre is proud to present Mark Time Show Time, a Showcase series celebrating scripts originally written for live performance by Great Northern Audio, in conjunction with the awards ceremony of the Mark Time and Ogle Awards. This Week: The Learning Curve or the Rise of Francis What does it take to jump-start an economy? Why, consumers! So what do politicians do to jump-start an economy? They create millions of new consumers by emancipating creatures and monsters, real and ...
Red Panda Adventures (108) - The Gadget
July 31, 2014 19:51 - 33 minutes - 38.4 MBA new world is about to be born. But before it can be born... something will have to die, at the hands of The Gadget.
MTST 05 - Dialogue With Martian Trombone
July 14, 2014 17:00 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MBDecoder Ring Theatre is proud to present Mark Time Show Time, a Showcase series celebrating scripts originally written for live performance by Great Northern Audio, in conjunction with the awards ceremony of the Mark Time and Ogle Awards. This Week: Dialogue With Martian Trombone The Ramon Raquello Orchestra was supposed to get their big break that night in 1938, on Orson Welles' Mercury Theater show, but they kept getting cut off. The rest of that program became famous. Still is....
Red Panda Adventures (107) - VE Day
July 01, 2014 09:40 - 27 minutes - 32 MBVE Day - Victory In Europe! A momentous day for history, and a time long-remembered by the free peoples of the world, emerging from the shadows of our darkest hour. But from the margins of this red-letter day come a brace of tales untold. New foes, old friends and more as the Radiogram News Picture Corporation presents: VE Day!
MTST 04 - Jewels of the 11th Generation
June 15, 2014 01:07 - 30 minutes - 14 MBDecoder Ring Theatre is proud to present Mark Time Show Time, a Showcase series celebrating scripts originally written for live performance by Great Northern Audio, in conjunction with the awards ceremony of the Mark Time and Ogle Awards. This Week: Jewels of the 11th Generation Treasure hunters board a 300-year-old generation starship - The Professor Irwin Corey - in search of legendary jewels. As usual, they find pirates, adventures, adorable children and plenty of squeaky toys....
Red Panda Adventures (106) - The Brood
May 31, 2014 22:23 - 29 minutes - 33.7 MBThe war may be in its dying days, but the deadly secrets of one of the Red Panda's greatest enemies are still on the table. If they should fall into the wrong hands, the peace that is won may be a fate even worse than the war itself. The Terrific Twosome of Toronto will run a terrifying race against time into the depth of the Amazon jungle to find... The Brood.
MTST (03) - The Saving of the World
May 15, 2014 17:53 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MBDecoder Ring Theatre is proud to present Mark Time Show Time, a Showcase series celebrating scripts originally written for live performance by Great Northern Audio, in conjunction with the awards ceremony of the Mark Time and Ogle Awards. This Week: The Saving of the World The rogue comet, Skippy, is headed right for Big City. The mayor is looking for a Super Hero to save the city. Most of them seem to be busy, or indisposed at the moment. Super Pal is discussed, but doesn't seem to be t...
Red Panda Adventures (105) The Unknown Soldier
May 01, 2014 15:45 - 31 minutes - 35.7 MBA world at war is a chaotic thing, but the prospect of peace does little to solve it. The enemy of my enemy may be my friend, but what if that friend is one of the world's most vile monsters? What will those friendships mean to the future? And will they spell certain doom for... The Unknown Soldier?
MTST (02) - The Velveteen Submission
April 14, 2014 18:14 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MBDecoder Ring Theatre is proud to present Mark Time Show Time, a Showcase series celebrating scripts originally written for live performance by Great Northern Audio, in conjunction with the awards ceremony of the Mark Time and Ogle Awards. This Week: The Velveteen Submission The classic boy-meets-girl-meets-her Space Pirate father-meets... well, everyone else on an doomed Interstellar Lighthouse. Doomed? Yes, the lighthouse is about to be obliterated by an approaching space cruiser unless s...
Red Panda Adventures (104) - Reign of the Rocketmen
March 31, 2014 17:32 - 26 minutes - 30.2 MBTerror rules the skies as a swarm of rocket-clad pirates descend upon Toronto, pulling a string of impossible crimes like a pack of murderous magpies. Can the Red Panda and the Flying Squirrel free the air from these villainous vultures, or is the city destined to fall to the… Reign of the Rocketmen?
MTST (01) - Peter Galaxy, Interstellar Envoy
March 14, 2014 14:22 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MBDecoder Ring Theatre is proud to present Mark Time Show Time, a Showcase series celebrating scripts originally written for live performance by Great Northern Audio, in conjunction with the awards ceremony of the Mark Time and Ogle Awards. This Week: Peter Galaxy, Interstellar Envoy They used to be big stars on the radio, Peter Galaxy and his sidekick, Dr, Simon. Now they're just two retired actors playing cards on the front porch and riding herd over their grandchildren. But can these two ...
Red Panda Adventures (103) - The Conquering Hero
February 28, 2014 15:03 - 24 minutes - 27.7 MBSome heroes wear masks, some work shrouded in mystery and menace and others still fight the good fight against the armies of darkness. And others... others get rotated home and sent out on the Bond Drive. But even they still have a role to play, and events set the Red Panda and the Flying Squirrel in motion on the word of... The Conquering Hero!
Black Jack Justice (60) - The Learner's Permit
February 14, 2014 16:04 - 26 minutes - 30.4 MBThey say that a little learning is a dangerous thing, my friends, but in all fairness, they don't usually mean the life-and-limb variety. But when a would-be writer of hard-boiled fiction hires a certain team of his and hers private detectives to help his prose ring true, he had better drink deep or think twice about the whole "Pierian spring" business.
Red Panda Adventures (102) - Empire of Death
January 31, 2014 17:28 - 27 minutes - 31.9 MBThe long game of Professor Zombie's forces is about to burst forth upon Toronto with a terrible fury. With the ranks of his allies diminished by the war, can even the Red Panda cheat death on a scale this massive? Can the city's masked marvels prevent the fall, or is the city doomed to become the capital of an... Empire of Death?
Black Jack Justice (59) - The Big Time
January 14, 2014 23:04 - 29 minutes - 34.3 MBThere are many days when the life of a private detective is not nearly as interesting as you might imagine. The clock ticks, the sun makes its way resolutely across the sky and not much else happens. And on other days, the door bursts open and opportunity strides in, reeking of after-shave and waving an action-packed expense account about like he owned the place. And when that happens, best buckle up, friends, 'cause this is The Big Time!
Red Panda Adventures (101) - The Chimera Protocol
December 31, 2013 21:29 - 36 minutes - 41.7 MBProfessor Zombie's all-out war on the city continues to rage, and if Toronto's masked protectors are to have a chance of defeating her, they must begin to understand what has brought about the change in one of their oldest foes. But when the veil is lifted on some of the darkest secrets of the Allied war effort, will even the Red Panda be able to solve... The Chimera Protocol?
Black Jack Justice (58) - Home for the Holidays
December 15, 2013 02:23 - 23 minutes - 26.4 MBIs it still a Christmas Card if it comes gift-wrapped in noir and hard-boiled as a three-hour egg? Yeah, we think so too. Pour yourself an egg nog and see if Jack and Trixie make it... Home for the Holidays!
Red Panda Adventures (100) - Naughty and Nice
November 30, 2013 13:23 - 34 minutes - 39.6 MBThe masked protectors of Toronto celebrate 100 episodes as only they can - fighting to thwart a plot of unimaginable horror! But with Professor Zombie's rage reaching a fevered pitch, it may take the unlikeliest of team-ups to save both the city and Christmas at the same time!
Black Jack Justice (57) - The Cheshire Cat
November 14, 2013 20:04 - 29 minutes - 33.4 MBA man may smile and smile and be a villain... and then disappear, leaving nothing behind but the memory of that smile. Which might not be a problem, unless his confirmation of your paper-thin story were all that stood between you and stylish prison stripes.
Red Panda Adventures (99) - Knight's Gambit
October 31, 2013 15:46 - 32 minutes - 36.8 MBAs Professor Zombie's scorched earth campaign against the city rages, the Red Panda fights an uphill battle to save his city from willfully choosing its own destruction. Will our heroes discover the dark secret behind this terrible plot in time, or will they lose the... Knight's Gambit?
Black Jack Justice (56) - Death and Taxes
October 14, 2013 19:45 - 27 minutes - 31.7 MBThere are only two things that are certain in this life, my friends. One is that very little is as it appears, an observation which includes but is not limited to the itemized list of expenses for which you have recently been charged. The other certainty is that it will cost you the princely sum of thirty-nine, ninety-five a day to discover item "A". Oh yeah, also Death and Taxes.
Red Panda Adventures (98) - The Locked Room
September 30, 2013 17:25 - 29 minutes - 34.2 MBA daring crime, striking at the very heart of public trust... is it a page from the playbook of a foe thought long gone? If so, what about the lone witness, who is not quite as he seems? The horrifying truth to one of the most sinister mysteries of the Red Panda's career may lay within... The Locked Room
Black Jack Justice (55) - Home Fires
September 15, 2013 00:07 - 32 minutes - 36.8 MBA little lost lamb in the big, bad city is hardly a new theme for our intrepid investigators. But with a couple of hundred pounds of strapping small-town lawman distracting the heck out of the Girl Detective, it looks like it's down to Ol' Square-Jaw to keep the Home Fires burning.
Red Panda Adventures (97) - The Phantom
August 30, 2013 15:51 - 27 minutes - 32 MBAs the tides of war begin to shift in favor of the Allies, all is far from quiet on the Home Front. A new boss of bosses has taken control of the city and declared war upon the Red Panda and his allies! Can this mysterious menace be found and foiled? How can even the Terrific Twosome of Toronto hope to battle... The Phantom?
Crogan Adventures 06 - The Devil's Grotto
August 14, 2013 16:55 - 34 minutes - 16 MBDavid Crogan - smuggler, trader and all-around Lothario - must do battle with one of the ocean's most terrifying creatures! Remember, look for the Crogan graphic novels at a bookstore near you, and visit www.croganadventures.com !
Red Panda Adventures (96) - The End of the Beginning
July 31, 2013 16:58 - 33 minutes - 38.4 MBThe waiting is almost over at last. The preperations have been made, the plans laid, and the allied nations stand ready to strike a blow for freedom on a scale never before seen in human history. One piece remains on the chessboard that can doom it all, and only one man has the power to stand against it. But will it take everything he has and more to stop Hitler's God of War and bring about The End of the Beginning?
Crogan Adventures 05 - Incomplete Sentences
July 15, 2013 00:45 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MBA tale of mystery and intrigue in the desert sands as Legionnaire Peter Crogan sets out to solve the puzzle of his friend's sudden and suspicious death.
Red Panda Adventures (95) - Power Struggle
June 30, 2013 19:43 - 27 minutes - 31 MBWhen the poster boy for duality gone wrong returns with old scores to settle, the entire city is in his crosshairs! There's only one man who could stop him, and for once, he doesn't wear a bright red mask or leap off rooftops in the company of redheaded squirrels. Who will emerge victorious in this... Power Struggle?
Crogan Adventures 04 -The Island Lost To Time
June 14, 2013 10:54 - 30 minutes - 14.3 MBThe adventures through history continue with Chris Schweizer's Crogan Adventures! Circus performer Daniel Crogan and Captain Yatri of the tramp steamer Marietta find themselves on an island rumored to be home of giant, man-eating reptiles. Can they escape from The Island Lost To Time?
Red Panda Adventures (94) - The Rookie
May 31, 2013 16:24 - 23 minutes - 27.2 MBHe may be the most powerful man in any allied nation. So why has Mister Amazing been left on the sidelines for this long? Is there a terrible secret that has held him back, and can he overcome it to become a true hero at last? The Red Panda must find out as he trains... The Rookie.
Crogan Adventures 03 - The Kimberley Pit
May 14, 2013 19:16 - 32 minutes - 15.4 MBThe thrilling radio adaptation of Chris Schweizer's Eisner-nominated graphic novel series continues with The Kimberley Pit! Recovering from grievous injuries, diamond miner and ne'er-do-well Joseph Crogan must escort a trio of sisters across the dangerous African landscape to find their missing stepfather.
Red Panda Adventures (93) - The Doctor Is In
April 30, 2013 19:32 - 25 minutes - 29 MBIf the war has taught us anything to this point, it's that the Ratzis are not renown for their sportsmanship. But an inescapable deathtrap carved into the very living rock of a mountainside seems like overkill doesn't it? Even if your targets are masked heroes with more lives than a bag of cats. If the Red Panda and the Flying Squirrel are to have any hope of escape, it will be because The Doctor Is In!
Crogan Adventures 02 - Crogan's Prize
April 14, 2013 19:35 - 27 minutes - 12.7 MBMore radio adventures with Chris Schweizer's famous family! Amidst the spoils of battle, privateer Catfoot Crogan discovers something that will thrust him and his crew headfirst into the clutches of his most dangerous adversary.
Red Panda Adventures (92) - Two for One
April 01, 2013 00:15 - 28 minutes - 32.3 MBWhat could be better than a two-fisted avenger of justice in a smart suit and a nice hat? How about TWO two-fisted avengers of... well, you get the idea. But will even an all-star team-up be enough to stop a team of Nazi spoilsports from unleashing a climactic climate catastrophe? Find out when you get... Two For One!
Crogan Adventures 01 - The Heart of Mabel Cottonshot
March 14, 2013 18:09 - 27 minutes - 13 MBFrom the pages of the award-winning graphic novel series comes Chris Schweizer's The Crogan Adventures! Join us as we follow a line of heroes, villains, grifters and rogues - one extraordinary family's journey through history! This episode, gunfighter Pyjama Ben Crogan has stared down death and danger with a quick draw and a fine moustache... but he has never faced an opponent quite like The Heart of Mabel Cottonshot!
Red Panda Adventures (91) - The Lab Rats
February 28, 2013 19:17 - 26 minutes - 30.8 MBMuscle and brawn are all very well and good, but sooner or later, it always comes down to the big brains, doesn't it? With the fate of the massed Allied troops in England hanging in the balance, a motley crew of brilliant madmen are launched at Hitler's latest superweapon on a high-speed collision course with destiny! Will guns and bombs win this war, or will it be... The Lab Rats!
Black Jack Justice (54) - The Empty Desk
February 14, 2013 20:41 - 23 minutes - 8.2 MBThey say that familiarity breeds contempt, and history suggests that's pretty true. But what about a Girl Detective on her own in the big, bad city? What's the end result of that equation? When Trixie Dixon is ready to find out she can always ask The Empty Desk.
Red Panda Adventures (90) - The Honoured Dead
February 01, 2013 03:06 - 28 minutes - 32.2 MBAn artifact stolen in the nearly-forgotten past may hold a secret badly needed for the Allied war effort. With the help of an old friend, the Red Panda and the Flying Squirrel may have the key to unlock this puzzle, but first they must run the gauntlet of... The Honoured Dead!
Black Jack Justice (53) - The Late Mr Justice
January 14, 2013 21:23 - 25 minutes - 28.9 MBReally, if you think about it, we are all just waiting to die. From the moment of birth, in a perpetual holding pattern to shuffle off this mortal coil sooner or later. Most of the time it doesn't bear thinking about. But then the wait suddenly becomes a whole lot less theoretical than it used to be.
Red Panda Adventures (89) - The Lost Sheep
December 31, 2012 00:40 - 24 minutes - 8.51 MBThe tempest of war has carried many of the Red Panda's allies far from the field of his private war for justice. But even after so many years of seeing the best, boldest and brightest torn away, some wounds are impossible to bear. How far will the Flying Squirrel go to save... The Lost Sheep?
Black Jack Justice (52) - The More Things Change
December 14, 2012 18:11 - 24 minutes - 8.31 MBThere are certain immutable laws that govern the universe, and to put them to the test is a waste of time. To employ the firm of Justice and Dixon to do so on your behalf will cost you the sum of $39.99 a day and leave you sadder, but wiser, than you were when you came in the door.
Red Panda Adventures (88) - Last Flight of the Valkyrie
November 30, 2012 19:04 - 27 minutes - 9.49 MBThese days even the arrival of old friends almost always seems to mean trouble. They never seem to show up without news of some new doomsday menace, hurtling through the sky at terrible speed. Will the Red Panda and the Flying Squirrel catch The Last Flight of the Valkyrie?
Black Jack Justice (51) - Those Who Wait
November 15, 2012 00:20 - 23 minutes - 8.09 MBIt is said by some that good things come to those who wait. It’s an interesting idea, and like most interesting ideas, it’s sufficiently vague as to be effectively meaningless. We all wait, therefore we each see ourselves as the potential recipient of the aforementioned good things. And we find this good, so the adage becomes a truism. Thing is, as comforting as it is, it ain’t quite true.
Red Panda Adventures (87) - The Missing Links
October 31, 2012 19:18 - 30 minutes - 10.5 MBThe city is held in a grip of terror as ordinary men and women go missing in a series of freakish electrical storms. Is it an occult menace? A Nazi plot against the city? Or is there something even more bizzare behind the attack of... The Missing Links!
Black Jack Justice (50) - Two Is Too Many
October 15, 2012 00:03 - 24 minutes - 8.43 MBThey say that you can have too much of a good thing, my fiends, and that is certainly true. There are few things in the world so wonderful that custom cannot stale their infinite variety. And when it comes to the subject of Hawthornes... well, perhaps Two Is Too Many!
Red Panda Adventures (86) - Thirteen at Table
September 30, 2012 21:04 - 28 minutes - 9.87 MBAnd who, pray tell, decided that our man in the red mask was ideally suited to play den mother to the next generation of our nation's crime-fighters? Was it his impressive resume? His natural charm? Or the fact that there was nobody else left? In any case, bad luck is in the cards when there are... Thirteen at Table!
Black Jack Justice (49) Jawbone of an Asp
September 14, 2012 15:52 - 27 minutes - 9.6 MBThe unpredictable life of a private detective is a fine thing. But like all good things, it is at least partly an illusion. There are only so many reasons that a person knocks on the grey-green door that reads “Justice and Dixon, Private Investigations”, and they usually fall within a fairly limited range. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule.
Red Panda Adventures (85) - Blue Skies
August 31, 2012 15:53 - 31 minutes - 10.7 MBMen of vision cannot live their lives in the present, they must always think of the future. But how can the Terrific Twosome of Toronto fight a force out to "win the peace" while war still wages overseas? Will even the Red Panda be able to find... Blue Skies?