The Golden Age of Radio
Summary: Relive classic radio shows from some of the most popular radio programs of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Before streaming video, television and computers the only form of entertainment was the radio and most of the shows back then were the inspiration of the television shows and movies we have today. This podcast is all about bringing those classic radios shows from the past to the modern listener of today.
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Podcasts:
Suspense: "Actor’s Blood" from 1944 starring Fredric March. A very well-written murder story with a touch of ghost and a pinch of madness.
Quiet Please: "The Thing on the Fourble Board" from 1948 starring Ernest Chappell. A creature from beneath the earth climbs up an oil well pipe to the surface.
From 1947, it's Mystery in the Air: "Beyond Good and Evil" starring Peter Lorre. An escaped convict kills a minister and takes his place in a small town while planning a bank robbery.
The Molle’ Mystery Theatre: "Female of the Species" from 6/7/46 starring Lizabeth Scott. A scheming beauty parlor owner is slowly poisoning her lover's wife, and then decides to speed up her murder.
Lights Out!: "The Battle of the Magicians" from 7/27/46 starring Everett Clark. Written and Directed by Wyllis Cooper. Mr. Saladin says that he can bring back the dead.
Inner Sanctum Mysteries: "The Shadow of Death" from 10/2/45 starring Richard Widmark. Death seems to follow Howard everywhere he goes. Howard dreams...people die. Howard is a homicidal maniac.
The Hall of Fantasy: "Death in the Bayous" from 3/9/47 starring Richard Thorne. A new bride returns to her friend's old mansion down South on her honeymoon and finds quicksand, murder, and madness.
Escape: "The Second Class Passenger" from 1/7/48 starring Harry Bartell. A good adventure yarn about an ordinary tourist on a cruise ship who finds a beautiful woman, murder and flight in the back alleys of Mozambique.
Crime Classics: "Blackbeard’s 14th Wife and Why She Was No Good For Him" from 11/11/53 starring Lou Merrill. The true story of the famous pirate who gets what’s coming to him thanks to his wife.
The Black Museum: "A Lady’s Shoe" from 1952 starring Orson Welles. Elizabeth Marlowe marries a gent, who is soon revealed as a fortune hunter...and a murderer!
Escape: "Earth Abides Pt. 2" from 11/12/50 starring John Dehner. The concluding 30 minutes to the classic George Steward story.
Escape: “Earth Abides Pt. 1” from 11/5/50 starring John Dehner. The famous story about the end of “The Age of Man” and the beginning of, “The Age of the Rat” told in two 30 minutes parts.
Escape: "The Time Machine" from 5/9/48 starring Jeff Corey. The classic sci-fi story by H.G. Wells about two adventurers in the year 100,080 in the land of the Morlocks.
Hollywood Star Playhouse: "The Tenth Planet" from 9/7/52 starring Joseph Cotten. A man's brother has been taken to another planet, to help the Earth recover after its invasion and conquest.
X Minus One: "The Old Die Rich" from 9/12/57 starring Guy Repp. Old people are starving to death with thousands of dollars in their pockets. Why?
