Brando Classic Old Time Radio Podcast

Father Knows Best and Lights Out tied this week so we will feature 2 episodes of each Classic Old Time Radio Programs. We will first play for you 2 Halloween Themed episodes of Father Knows Best followed by Murder Castle and a special presentation of Cat Wife. Enjoy and Have a great weekend!!!!

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This week’s winner is Jack Benny!! We hope you enjoy the 4 broadcasts and Have a wonderful Weekend!!

Hello and welcome again to the Friday 4 pack brought to you by Brando Classic old time radio. Today is Friday, September 29th 2017. This week’s winner is The Secrets of Scotland Yard. The show is hosted by successful writer, director, and Actor Clive Brook. The show also features many famous actors as well. When the show first aired in 1949, there was a huge fascination with true crime stories. With numerous magazines that filled the newsstands. The Secrets of Scotland Yard is a true crime story radio program. Today we’re going to feature 5 episodes for you since some of these are a bit on the short side. The last one you’re going to hear, Is The Bone From of Voicebox. This is the show that spun the next series of true crime stories, The Black Museum, Which was narrated by Orson Welles. We hope you enjoy the shows and Thank you again for your support of Brando Classic Old Time Radio.

Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as “the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories.” It premiered as G-Men, sponsored by Chevrolet, on July 20, 1935. After the title was changed to Gang Busters on January 15, 1936, the show had a 21-year run through November 20, 1957.

This Week’s Winner is H.G. Wells Classic The War of the Worlds performed by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air. This show was originally aired on Halloween night, 1938 and boy did it frighten a lot of folks. Below you can watch the PBS American Experience episode outlining all the horror that took place after it’s airing along with some insight as to what Orson Welles was really thinking. A Very Good Watch.

A character known only as the Whistler has been the host and narrator of the stories, which focused on crime and destiny. He commented directly taunting the personalities, innocent or guilty. The stories followed a formula in which a detail from the criminal stupidity typically got them caught in the ace. A gloomy ending was a feature of each episode.

The Adventures of Frank Race ran for 43 episodes starting in 1949. The title role was played by Tom Collins for the first 22 shows and then Paul Dubov took over the lead spot of Frank Race. Tony Barnett played Frank’s sidekick Mark Donovan. Frank, like Johnny Dollar, was an insurance investigator, but unlike Johnny, Frank’s assignments were worldwide.

Dan Holiday was an author who wrote mystery novels. To get ideas for his novels he placed advertisements in a newspaper saying “Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything, Box 13.” The ads always brought fun adventures of all kinds: from racketeer’s victim to psychotic killer looking for fun. Most of the episodes were based on Dan Holiday replying to a letter he received at Box 13. We hope you enjoy the 4 episodes we’ve chosen for you and thank you for choosing Brando Classic Old Time Radio.

The Couple Next Door was a similar Peg Lynch radio series which aired on CBS Radio during the waning days of network radio, (December 30, 1957 – November 25, 1960) with Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce as the married couple. Essentially, it reprised Ethel and Albert, but the new name was necessitated because Lynch had long since lost the rights to the original title. The CBS iteration was named “Best Daytime Radio Program” for 1959 by The National Association for Better Radio and Television.

In the summer of 1949, MGM reunited Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore to record the radio series, The Story of Dr. Kildare, which used the concept and characters of the earlier Young Dr. Kildare story and did not include any of the young doctors who had replaced Kildare in the later films featuring Dr. Gillespie. By this time, Ayres had returned to public favor after serving in WWII as a medical corpsman. Episodes were scripted by James Moser, Jean Holloway, Les Crutchfield, E. Jack Newman, John Michael Hayes, Joel Murcott, and others. The supporting cast included Ted Osborne as hospital administrator Dr. Carew, Eleanor Audley as receptionist Molly Byrd, Jane Webb as nurse Mary Lamont, and Virginia Gregg as nurse Evangeline Parker, labeled “Nosy Parker” by Gillespie. In addition, many prominent West Coast radio actors made recurring appearances, including Raymond Burr, William Conrad, Stacy Harris, Lurene Tuttle, Barton Yarborough, and Jack Webb.

Vincent Price as Simon Templar in the Saint

The Bob Hope Show

Dan Holiday was an author who wrote mystery novels. To get ideas for his novels he placed advertisements in a newspaper saying “Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything, Box 13.” The ads always brought fun adventures of all kinds: from racketeer’s victim to psychotic killer looking for fun. Most of the episodes were based on Dan Holiday replying to a letter he received at Box 13. We hope you enjoy the 4 episodes we’ve chosen for you and thank you for choosing Brando Classic Old Time Radio.

Following the success of the 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel The Third Man, Orson Welles brings Harry Lime to Radio. The old time radio series is a “prequel” to the film, and depicts the many misadventures of con-artist Lime in a somewhat lighter tone than the character’s villainy in the film.