Attaboy Clarence

This week, Adam pays a musical tribute to an email, shares his joy at winning an award, tells you all about Mr Clifton Webb, old-fashioned bartenders, and sets a listener the "You have failed, Monk!" challenge...

Classic radio adverts, reviews of 'The Phantom Creeps' and 'It Happened Tomorrow', and a classic episode of 'You Bet Your Life', starring Groucho Marx.

Adam brings you more classic ads, news of the Christmas Special, and reviews of two superlative thrillers from the 1930's, as well as an offering from radio's outstanding theatre of thrills...

Episode 20: The Man Who Disappeared And with that, we arrived at Episode Roaring 20! IGNITE the flames of passion as Adam douses you in the passionate fumes of the sexiest advert ever produced! COOL thyself with the (snore) droning tones of (zzzz) an instant buzzkill… but try not to fall asleep on your keyboarddddddddddddmkgbjnkogyuhilp,;.l;.//; DELIGHT in this week’s animated Film Club choice, a riotous lampoon of Hollywood’s legends! FROWN at the dulcet tones of Humphrey (Hamfwey) as he regales you with the most recent songs of BBC Radio 2! JOLT into life as the Sexist Advertisement Klaxon reminds all lonely spinsters to keep themselves clean! CRINGE as a “reliable source” tells lies that would Pinocchio’s nose grow to the size of a vaulter’s pole. REJOICE in the fact that a largely forgotten Hollywood legend is being given his dues. ALSO, find out who has been triumphant in the piratical competition that will net its victor a trio of prizes!

Episode 19: Big Shots! In the final episode of Attaboy Clarence’s teens, we’re focusing on some classic action movies! THRILL to reviews of ‘The Mark of Zorro’, ‘Pimpernel Smith’, ‘The Roaring Twenties’ and ‘Captain Blood’! FROWN when you hear what’s the menu for the delightful people who’ve made Adam’s birthday dreams come true! RECOIL at the thought of Adam’s definition of Kreml Hair Tonic! WATCH the new Film Club choice; the most dazzling of all Agatha Christie screen adaptations! DISCOVER one of the most criminally overlooked Hollywood legends, a man who used every spare moment to take down the Nazis during World War II! WIN not one, but THREE prizes, and all it takes is a little imagination…! REVIEW The Attaboy Clarence Podcast at iTunes, Stitcher, or anywhere else you prefer, to gain Adam’s eternal, undying, and sometimes unwanted respect!

This week, we’re in the arms of the angels…. Movieland was obsessed with them in the 1940’s, so we take a closer look at three prime examples of the afterlife, as seen in the movies ‘A Matter Of Life And Death’, ‘The Bishop’s Wife’, and ‘Here Comes Mr Jordan’. We’ll hear an urbane reaction to the first Film Club choice, as well as details of the newest addition. Vintage adverts come in the form of Skelly Men, Golden Whistles and Pepsi Cola (“Quiet, Kay”) The radio play was just too hard to decide upon this week, which led Adam to make a drastic decision… …and REVEALED! The name and subject of the next special, due in just a few episodes time…

Welcome back, everyone! Forget your Ariana Grandes and your Miley Cyruseses, why didn’t the ‘Spry’ song ever permeate the national consciousness? Not only that, but it’s ‘Summer Money Time’, a time to be consistently interrupted. Adam deals out lashings of High-Octane 80’s-High-Fives to all the good folk who’ve been making his days lately, and the Sexist Advertisement Klaxon once again rears its politically incorrect head. What’s the most inappropriate radio show that a “Just Right Sweet” sugar coated treat could possibly be linked to? Join ‘The Attaboy Clarence Film Club’ and sound off, damn you. Plus, reviews of the nail-biting noir-thriller ‘The Woman In The Window’, the Cagney comedy ‘The Irish In Us’ (O’HARA), a horribly disappointing version of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’, and James Stewart’s first movie, ‘The Murder Man’. The radio play this week is an intriguing slice of mystery and drama, entitled ‘Libel’, from the Lux Radio Theatre, so turn the volume up, and settle back in for the just right sweet return of The Attaboy Clarence Podcast!

Sci-Fi Week! Four classic sci-fi films reviewed, an increasingly drunk Basil Rathbone and the full unedited version of Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of 'The War Of The Worlds'

Episode 14: Obsession

Episode 13: I Wish You Were Dead, Old Man

Classic movie reviews and old-time radio. This week, Adam delves into classic children's films and brings you a remarkable adaptation of (in his opinion) the best family movie ever

Adam presents 'The Five Greatest Hat Adverts From History', points you towards four Humphrey Bogart movies you may have missed, and presents a very special radio play, featuring Bogie in his most iconic role.

The most addictive advertisement ever made, the true story of a dreamer who became his own hero, reviews of 'The Doorway To Hell', 'Blonde Crazy', and 'The Canary Murder Case', as well as a grisly true-crime story from 'The Secrets Of Scotland Yard', and the winner of a classic Blu-Ray

Reviews of 'The Devil's Party', 'Footlight Parade' and 'Merrily We Go To Hell', which features the jaw-droppingly beautiful Sylvia Sidney, as well as details of a superb site for OTR fans, and how to win 'The Towering Inferno' on Bluray!

Reviews of 'Lucky Jordan', 'And Then There Were None', 'Charlie Chan In Egypt' and 'Bluebeard's Eighth Wife', with two episodes of The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce