Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Broadway Is My Beat "Laura Burton" (11-03-50)

Laura Burton (Aired November 3, 1950)


Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With music by Robert Stringer, the show originated from New York during its first three months on the air, with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover. John Dietz directed for producer Lester Gottlieb. Beginning with the July 7, 1949 episode, the series was broadcast from Hollywood with producer Elliott Lewis directing a new cast in scripts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. The opening theme of "I'll Take Manhattan" introduced Detective Danny Clover (now played by Larry Thor), a hardened New York City cop who worked homicide "from Times Square to Columbus Circle -- the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world."
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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Alan Young Show "Gold Fish" (3-20-45)

Gold Fish (Aired March 20, 1945)<.B>


By age 13, Young had become a radio performer, and by age 17, he was writing and performing in his own radio show for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The show was broadcast in the U.S. and led to an invitation to New York in 1944, as a summer replacement for Eddie Cantor, which resulted in Young getting his own radio show, orininally broadcast from New York and later from Hollywood. While initially gaining success on his "Alan Young Radio Show," Young's popularity waned as he lost control over his show's scripts and radio was being replaced by television. When his radio show was cancelled in 1947, Young decided to put together a comedy act and tour the U.S. theater circuit, playing such houses as the Chicago Theatre, the Fox in Detroit, and the Strand on Broadway.
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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Clock "The Hunter & The Hunted" (12-22-46)

The Hunter & The Hunted (Aired December 22, 1946))


The Clock. November 17, 1946. Syndicated, WRVR-FM, New York aircheck. "The Millionaire". Participating sponsors. A story about a man with all the money in the world. WRVR rebroadcast date: August 17, 1973. The story is also known as "All The Money In The World" and also "Joey." The date above is the date of subsequent broadcast on ABC. Lawrence Klee (writer), Harp McGuire ("The Clock"), Joe McCormick, Ken Wayne, Frank Waters, Georgie Sterling, Pat Martin, Grant Taylor, John Saul (director), Grace Gibson (producer). 1/2 hour.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod -Duffy's Tavern "Archie Gets Tax Advice From Colonel Stoopnagle" (3-07-44)

Archie Gets Tax Advice From Colonel Stoopnagle (Aired March 7, 1944)


Duffy's Tavern, an American radio situation comedy (CBS, 1941-1942; NBC-Blue Network, 1942-1944; NBC, 1944-1952), often featured top-name stage and film guest stars but always hooked those around the misadventures, get-rich-quick-scheming, and romantic missteps of the title establishment's malaprop-prone, metaphor-mixing manager, Archie, played by the writer/actor who created the show, Ed Gardner.


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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Screen Guild Theater "Tell It To The Judge" (11-03-50)

Tell It to the Judge (Aired November 2, 1950) starring Rosalind Russell and Robert Cummings.


Author: Liza-19 from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
"This is absolutely my favorite film of Robert Cummings. He's hysterical and lovable in every scene he is in. Bob plays a lawyer who is newly divorced from Rosalind Russell, and is determined to win her back. She on the other hand is determined to become a federal judge and wants nothing to do with him. A typical setup for the divorce-remorse films that came along in the 40s."


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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Abbott & Costello Show - Opening A Gas Station (11-29-45)

Opening A Gas Station (Aired November 29, 1945)


Abbott & Costello were one of the greatest comedy teams in the history of show business. They mastered the straightman/clown relationship, creating a magical chemistry that would take them from the burlesque stage to radio, to broadway, to film...and finally, to television.





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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Philo Vance "Masters Murder Case" (5-03-49)

Masters Murder Case (Aired May 3, 1949)


Philo Vance was a fictional American detective created by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s who appeared in 12 novels. Although largely forgotten today, for a few years he was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He was considered America's most popular fictional detective of the 1920s and 1930s Films about Vance were made from the late 1920s to the late '40s, and among the several actors who played him on the screen were William Powell and Basil Rathbone. Vance was portrayed as being a super-dandy, super-intellectual, and super-man-about-town in Manhattan.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Suspense "The Black Shawl" (7-27-44)

The Black Shawl (Aired July 27, 1944)


Suspense was one of the premier programs of the Golden Age of Radio (aka old-time radio), and advertised itself as "radio's outstanding theater of thrills." It was heard in one form or another from 1942 through 1962. There were approximately 945 episodes broadcast during its long run, over 900 of which are extant in mostly high-quality recordings. Suspense went through several major phases, characterized by different hosts, sponsors and director/producers. There were a few rules which were followed for all but a handful of episodes: Protagonists were usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation. Evildoers must be punished in the end.
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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The The Haunting Hour "Lonesome Corpse" (July-1949)

The Lonesome Corpse (July-1949) *Exact Date Unknown


The shows are classic chills from the old school, with creepy organ, overwrought women and over the top men. Perhaps not the highest of melodrama, but obsessively workmanlike. After all, they might have known they were a skeleton staff toiling relentlessly without a ghost of a chance of fame. Thanks to transcription, these unknowns are still with us. John Dunning, succinctly states in "On the Air, The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio," "There were no credits, so casts and production crews are unknown."


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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Falcon "Murder Is A Bad Bluff" (11-01-48)

Murder Is A Bad Bluff (Aired November 1, 1948)


The Falcon. November 1, 1948. Mutual net. "Murder Is A Bad Bluff". Sustaining. A woman suspects that her fiance is hiding something. What does he do for a living? Hint: he robs jewelry stores and winds up dead! Les Tremayne, Drexel Drake (crator), Milton Kaye (organ), Joe DeSantis, Bernard L. Schubert (producer), Richard Lewis (director). 29:39.




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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - X Minus One "Real Gone" (2-27-57)

Real Gone (February 27, 1957)


X MINUS ONE was an NBC science fiction series that was an extension, or revival, of NBC's earlier science fiction series, DIMENSION X. which ran from Apr. 8, 1950 through Sept. 29, 1951. Both are remembered for bringing really first rate science fiction to the air. The first X MINUS ONE shows used scripts from DIMENSION X, but soon created new shows from storied from the pages of Galaxy Magazine. A total of 125 programs were broadcast, some repeats or remakes, until the last show of Jan. 9, 1958. There was a one-program revival attempt in 1973, shown at the end of the log.
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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The The Clitheroe Kid "The Evils Of Tomato Juice" (5-02-60)

The Evils Of Tomato Juice (Aired May 2, 1960)


The Clitheroe Kid was James Robertson Clitheroe, Jimmy Clitheroe to most, who by some strange coincidence did come from the town of that name without having to change his family name! At his full height he was 4ft 3in, and played the naughty schoolboy from 1958 to 1972. Although plausable from a distance, he was not really able to pass himself off as a youngster close up, so a TV career did not really take off too well, but at the peak of his fame the radio show was raking in about 10 million listeners, although by the end this had dropped to a tenth of that figure.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Rocky Fortune "Prize Fight Setup" (12-29-53)

Prize Fight Setup (Aired December 29, 1953)


In the days prior to From Here To Eternity, Frank Sinatra's popularity was waning and this private eye show was an attempt to remedy that. In it, Frank played ROCKY FORTUNE, a "footloose and fancy-free young man," frequently unemployed, who took numerous, adventurous odd jobs. It was a relatively undistinguished series; definitely a "B grade" radio series, saved by Sinatra's charm and a tongue-in-cheek approach.



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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Flywheel Shyster & Flywheel "One-Round Gombatz The Boxer" (Remake 6-30-90)

1932 Marx Brothers - Flywheel Shyster & Flywheel (remaked 1990)


Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel was a radio comedy that aired from 1932 through 1933 and on the NBC Blue network. The show starred two of the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, partners in a small time law firm The original series title was Beagle, Shyster, Beagle, but were forced to change when an actual law firm called in part Beagle complained. The shows included material that the brothers later used in their films. Despite the fame of the stars, the show was short lived and the scripts and recordings were thought lost. However, a researcher discovered that all but one of the series' scripts were stored in the Library of Congress. The found copies were printed in a book and were later performed with Marx Brothers impersonators on BBC radio.
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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Unexpected - "2 Episodes (4-25-48 and 5-23-48)"

"Solid Citizen" (4-25-48) and "Revenge" (5-23-48)


Weird stories that have a “twist” ending. The listener gets a sudden shock, as this time of program should intend to deliver. Actors included Barry Sullivan, Lurene Tuttle and Virginia Gregg, who played Helen Asher in the Richard Diamond detectve series. Director is Frank Danzig.





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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Dr. I.Q. The Mental Banker "West Point Question" (1-26-42)

West Point Question (Aired January 26, 1942) *VERY RARE


An extremely rare episode from a mid-thirties quiz show. The contestents were chosen from the studio audience and asked questions and given clues which were submitted by radio listeners. If they answered correctly, Doctor I. Q. would award them silver dollars. Incorrect answers won them a box of Doctor IQ candy bars (Mars, Inc., makers of Milky Way). The show originated from Shay's Buffalo Theater in Buffalo, New York. The host's name was Lew Valentine.


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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Adventures Of Sam Spade "The Bluebeard Caper" (8-08-48)

The Bluebeard Caper (Aired August 8, 1948)


The Adventures of Sam Spade was first heard on ABC July 12, 1946, as a Friday-night summer series. The show clicked at once, and went into a regular fall lineup on CBS September 29, 1946. From then until 1949, Sam Spade was a Sunday-night thriller for Wildroot Cream Oil, starring Howard Duff in the title role. With Duff's departure, NBC took the series, leaving it on Sunday for Wildroot and starring Stephen Dunne as Spade. This version lasted until 1951, the last year running as a Friday sustainer. Spade's appearance on the air marked an almost literal transition from Dashiell Hammett's 1930 crime classic, The Maltese Falcon, where he first appeared. Spade was a San Francisco detective, one of the most distinctive of the hardboiled school. His jump to radio was wrought by William Spier, who had already carved out a reputation as a master of mystery in his direction of another highly rated CBS thriller, Suspense.
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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Jack Benny Show "Last Broadcast From Old NBC Studio" (10-16-38)

Last Broadcast From Old NBC Studio (Aired October 16, 1938)


1932 - 1948: Radio
On March 29, 1932, Jack Benny appeared on a fifteen-minute radio program hosted by a Broadway columnist for The New York Daily News named Ed Sullivan. At least a portion of his monologue was provided by one of his vaudeville writers (and co-author of Chasing Rainbows), Al Boasberg. His first line was "This is Jack Benny talking. There will now be a slight pause while everyone says, 'Who cares?'"


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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Whistler "Lady With A Knife" (12-03-50)

Lady With A Knife (Aired December 3, 1950)


The show first broadcast its fantastic thirty-minute crime mystery series in May 1942 and did not finish until September 1948. There were more than 450 shows of murder and intrigue in all. Although it ran for 6 years it was broadcast for only one year on a national network. The show opened to the sound of footsteps and an eerie whistle, which went on throughout the introductory music. The Whistler always began the show with the opening lines; I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak…”
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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Damon Runyon Theater "The Bloodhounds Of Broadway" (7-17-49)

The Bloodhounds Of Broadway (Aired 7-17-49)


The Damon Runyon Theater was a 52 show series that was syndicated across the USA beginning in early 1949. Damon Runyon was a gifted sports writer in New York City as well as being a great journalist and great short story writer. His stories were humorous ones, written in the "dem" and "dose" vernacular of the city's loveable and not so loveable characters of Broadway, the prize ring and the underworld. His most famous collection of short stories, Guys and Dolls, was on Broadway and later made into a movie. Many of his stories were filmed including Sorrowful Jones, A Pocketful of Miracles, Lady for a Day, Blue Plate Special, The Lemon Drop Kid (twice) and Little Miss Marker (four times). In addition to this The Damon Runyon Theater was syndicated for television in the mid 1950s.
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