Friday, December 11, 2009

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Crime Club "Fear Came First" (03-13-47)


Fear Came First (Aired March 13, 1947)


Crime club was a Mutual Network murder and mystery series, a product of the Doubleday Crime Book Club imprints found weekly in bookstores everywhere. The telephone rings"Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club. I'm the Librarian. Murder Rents A Room? Yes, we have that Crime Club story for you.Come right over. (The organist in the shadowed corner of the Crime Club library shivers the ivories) The doorbell tones sullenly"And you are here. Good. Take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on this shelf." (The organist hits the scary chord) "Let's look at it under the reading lamp." The Librarian, played by Raymond E. Johnson, begins reading the tale. Veteran Willis Cooper (Lights Out, Quiet Please) did some of the scripts from the Crime Club books.


THIS EPISODE:

March 13, 1947. Mutual network. "Fear Came First". Sustaining. 10:00 P. M. Four women fight over an inheritance in a deserted house. Two murders have just been committed. Roger Bower (producer, director), Sydney Smith, Helen Shields, Grace Copen, Irene Hubbard, Cameron Prud'Homme, Vera Kelsey (author), Stedman Coles (adaptor). 28:48.

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