Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Let George Do It "Murder For Two" (03-19-51)

Murder For Two (Aired March 19, 1951)


Let George Do It is about a detective with one foot firmly planted in the tough-guy detective genre, and the other in the romance-denied working relationship romantic field. For George Valentine, detective work was job #1. To his secretary, Virginia Brooks, it was a developing relationship. Radio's competing Adventures of Sam Spade featured banters between Spade and his stenographer Effie in similar manner. The constant patter between George and "Brooksie" sounds a great deal like an old time radio version of much-later TV series like "Hart to Hart," "Moonlighting" and "Remington Steele." Bob Bailey played George Valentine as a detective handy man, who got his jobs from responses to a newspaper ad. Part-time detective and writer Dan Holiday in Box 13 also used the premise. It pays to advertise! The shows follow the usual formats of crime caper shows, with toughs, mysterious rendezvous and people who aren't who they say they are.

THIS EPISODE:

March 19, 1951. Mutual-Don Lee network. "Murder For two". Sustaining. Mrs. Ruth Jennings has been murdered. Lou Jennings is suspected of the killing...and he doesn't seem to be very upset by the suspicions. Bob Bailey, Bud Hiestand (announcer), Eddie Dunstedter (composer, conductor), Don Clark (director, writer), Howard McNear, Ken Christy, Virginia Gregg, Michael Ann Barrett, Jack Kruschen, Tony Barrett. 29:52.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Avenger "The Eyes Of Shiva" (06-29-45)

The Eyes Of Shiva (Aired June 29, 1945)


The Avenger is an Old Time Radio show aired by the South African Broadcasting System in the 1940s. It featured a biochemist crime-fighter by the name of Jim Brandon. Mr. Brandon had two inventions which assisted him in the fight against crime. Mr. Brandon was able to pick up telpathic thought flashes and had a diffusion capsule which allowed him to become invisible. SYNDICATED by:Charles Michelson WRITTER: Walter Gibson STARS: James Monks, Dick Janiver as the invisible Jim Brandon WITH: James LaCurto.

THIS EPISODE:

November 15, 1945. Program #4. Michelson syndication. "The Eyes Of Shiva". Commercials added locally. Charles Michelson (producer), Walter Gibson (writer), Ruth Braun (writer), Gilbert Braun (writer). 1/2 hour.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Weird Circle "Feast Of The Red Gauntlet" (Ep27) 1944

Feast Of The Red Gauntlet (Ep27) 1944


THE WEIRD CIRCLE was a syndicated series that was heard on Mutual stations November, 1943 through October, 1947 and very briefly in September/October of 1947 on ABC. The show presented 30 minute tales of horror, frequently inspired by classic horror or ghost stories, frequently done by French authors. It opened with the sound of the surf and the chant-like opening, "In this cave by the restless sea, we are met to call from out of past, stories strange and weird. Bell keeper, toll the bell, so that all may know that we are gathered again in the Weird Circle". Very little is known about this series. Neither Dunnings OTR Encyclopedia nor the many OTR log sites carry any information about the sponsors, actors, or production crew associated with The Weird Circle. All that can be said is this. The Weird Circle strived to bring the listener on a new, horrific adventure every week. Often taking its stories from popular fiction, Fall of the House of Usher and Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for instance, the series promised top of the line dramatic tetnsion each and every week. The Weird Circle is classic OTR horror in every sense of the word, and remains one of the most listened to series created during the golden age of radio.

THIS EPISODE:

1945. Program #27. NBC syndication. "The Feast Of Red Gauntlet". Commercials added locally. A good ghost story in the Scottish Highlands and a dinner with the dead. The date is approximate. Walter Scott. 26:00.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Jack Benny Program "Last Night At The Kern Theater" (05-10-53)

Last Night At The Kern Theater (Aired May 10, 1953)


Benny had been only a minor vaudeville performer, but he became a national figure with The Jack Benny Program, a weekly radio show which ran from 1932 to 1948 on NBC and from 1949 to 1955 on CBS, and was consistently among the most highly rated programs during most of that run. With Canada Dry Ginger Ale as a sponsor, Benny came to radio on The Canada Dry Program, beginning May 2, 1932, on the NBC Blue Network and continuing there for six months until October 26, moving the show to CBS on October 30. With Ted Weems leading the band, Benny stayed on CBS until January 26, 1933. Arriving at NBC on March 17, Benny did The Chevrolet Program until April 1, 1934. He continued with sponsors General Tires, Jell-O and Grape Nuts. Lucky Strike was the radio sponsor from 1944 to the mid-1950s. The show returned to CBS on January 2, 1949, as part of CBS president William S. Paley's notorious "raid" of NBC talent in 1948-49. There it stayed for the remainder of its radio run, which ended on May 22, 1955. CBS aired reruns of old radio episodes from 1956 to 1958 as The Best of Benny.

THIS EPISODE:

From San Francisco at the Kern Theater. The cast discusses their time in San Francisco, on this, the last of three consecutive shows from the city. United States mints are used as a running gag in this episode, as is Don Wilson's "I carry a lot of weight in this town" bit. Rochester calls from Sausilito, doing nothing, the "main industry" there. The cimmaron roll bit is referenced. "Your Mother and Mine" - Dennis Day; "Chinatown, My Chinatown" - The Sportsmen Quartet. Special Guest: Lt. Governer Goodwin Knight.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Calling All Cars "Moving Picture Murder" (12-18-34)

Moving Picture Murder (Aired December 18, 1934)


Calling All Cars was one of radio’s earliest cop shows, dramatizing true crime stories and introduced by officers from the Los Angeles and other police departments. The narrator of the program was speech professor Charles Frederick Lindsley, and the only other regular voice heard on the program week after week belonged to that of Sergeant Jesse Rosenquist of the L.A.P.D., whose name and voice were so unusually distinctive that he was retained for the show’s entire run. None of the actors on the show ever received on-air credit, but among the talent OTR fans can hear the likes of Elvia Allman, Jackson Beck, Charles Bickford, John Gibson, Richard LeGrand and Hanley Stafford, just to name a few.

THIS EPISODE:

December 18, 1934. Program #56. CBS Pacific network (Don Lee net). "The Moving Picture Murder". Sponsored by: Rio Grande Oil. A hold-up and murder has taken place in San Diego. The system cue has been deleted. Not auditioned. William N. Robson (writer, producer), Charles Frederick Lindsley (narrator). 30:35.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - X Minus One - Double Feature "To The Future" (12-14-55) "Time and Time Again" (01-11-56)

Double Feature "To The Future" (Aired December 14, 1955) "Time and Time Again" (Aired January 11, 1956)


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.

TODAY’S SHOW:

December 14, 1955. NBC network origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "To The Future". A trip two hundred years into the past...to 1955! William Welch (producer), Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), Daniel Sutter (director), Fred Collins (announcer), Alexander Scourby, Mercer McLeod, Joe DeSantis, Guy Sorel, Al Collins, Stan Early, Ray Bradbury (author), Teri Keane. 1/2 hour.

January 11, 1956. NBC network. "Time and Time Again". Sustaining. A soldier from the future (1975) is hit by a bomb during World War III and sent thirty years back into the past. Clarke Gordon, Ernest Kinoy (writer), Fred Collins (announcer), H. Beam Piper (author), Herm Dinken, Jack Grimes, James Dukas, Joe DeSantis, Joseph Bell, Peter Fernandez, Richard Hamilton. 28:52.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - That Hammer Guy (Mike Hammer) "Faye Durando" (1953)

Faye Durando (1953)


Mickey Spillane wrote violent, sex-filled tales that epitomized the hard-boiled detective genre of tough guys, fist fights and sultry dames. That Hammer Guy was a detective drama well inside the hard-boiled tradition. This was the rough and rugged series that hit hard and fast and it was unlike some other shows, such as, "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" or "Richard Diamond" that where more upbeat with humor and sly wit. Mike Hammer believes in justice, rough justice... his justice. The show didn't have a long run, only from January 6, 1953 and until October 5, 1953. Much tamer than the novels (it was radio after all) the show petered out with the advent of TV and the general fading of radio's golden age.

THIS EPISODE:

1953. Mutual net. Commercials deleted. Mike bumbs into Faye Dorado in Grand Central Terminal...literally. They're both traveling on "The Chief," along with murder. The date is approximate. Larry Haines, Mickey Spillane (creator). 23:25.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Falcon "The Case Of The Practical Joker" (02-25-51)

The Case Of The Practical Joker (Aired February 25, 1951)


This hard boiled spy drama began as an RKO Radio Pictures theatrical serial in the 1940s, went on radio in 1945, and then came to TV ten years later in this Syndicated series produced for distribution by NBC Films; Charles McGraw had been in many motion pictures before and after including "The Killers", "Spartacus" and "Cimarron"; in this series he played the title role of a man whose real name was supposedly Mike Waring, an American agent whose code name was "Falcon"; Later Charles McGraw starred in a short lived TV version of "Casablanca" (1955 - 1956) in the character of Rick; He also had a role on the detective drama "Staccato" (1959) Actor McGraw (whose birth name was Charles Butters) met an unfortunate death in real life when he fell through a shower glass door in 1980 at his home in Studio City, CA.

THIS EPISODE:

February 25, 1951. NBC network. "The Case Of The Practical Choker". Sponsored by: Kraft Cheese Spreads. Red Davis has been murdered. Chuck Morgan had been bragging that he's going to kill Morgan. Mrs. Davis remarries only twelve hours after Red's deat! This is a case for Mike Waring...The Falcon! Les Damon, Ed Herlihy (announcer), Eugene Wang (writer), Ann Williams (a drama student at Sarah Lawrence College), Drexel Drake (creator), Arlo (music), Bernard L. Schubert (producer), Richard Lewis (director), Ken Lynch. 29:30.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - CBS Radio Mystery Theater "The Hands Of Mrs. Mallory" (08-19-74)

The Hands Of Mrs. Mallory (Aired August 19, 1974)


The CBS Radio Mystery Theater (or CBSRMT) was an ambitious and sustained attempt to revive the great drama of old-time radio in the 1970s. Created by Himan Brown (who had by then become a radio legend due to his work on Inner Sanctum Mysteries and other shows dating back to the 1930s), and aired on affiliate stations across the CBS Radio network, the series began its long run on January 6, 1974. The final episode ran on December 31, 1982. The show was broadcast nightly and ran for one hour, including commercials. Typically, a week consisted of three to four new episodes, with the remainder of the week filled out with reruns. There were a total of 1399 original episodes broadcast. The total number of broadcasts, including reruns, was 2969. The late E.G. Marshall hosted the program every year but the final one, when actress Tammy Grimes took over. Each episode began with the ominous sound of a creaking door, slowly opening to invite listeners in for the evening's adventure. At the end of each show, the door would swing shut, with Marshall signing off, "Until next time, pleasant...dreams?"

THIS EPISODE:

August 19, 1974. Program #135. CBS network. "The Hands Of Mrs. Mallory". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. There is a brief loss of audio during two public service announcements. E. G. Marshall (host), Henry Slesar (writer), Celeste Holm, Patricia Elliot, Evie Juster, Arnold Moss, Leon Janney. 52 minutes.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - 21st Precinct "The Cure" (02-24-54)

The Cure (Aired February 24, 1954)


21ST PRECINCT was one of the realistic police drama series of the early- to mid-1950's that were aired in the wake of DRAGNET. In 1953 CBS decided to use New York City as the backdrop for their own half-hour police series and focus on the day-to-day operation of a single police precinct. Actual cases were used as the basis for stories. The Precinct Captain acted as the narrator for the series.The official title of the series according to the series scripts and the CBS series promotional materials was 21ST PRECINCT and not TWENTY-FIRST PRECINCT or TWENTY FIRST PRECINCT which appears in many Old-Time Radio books. In 1953 CBS decided to use New York City as the backdrop for their own half-hour police series and focus on the day-to-day operations of a single police precinct. Actual cases would be used as the basis for stories. It was mentioned in each episode's closing by the announcer that, "Twenty-firstPrecinct is presented with the official cooperation of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association an organization of more than 20,000 members of the Police Department, City of New York."

THIS EPISODE:

February 24, 1954. CBS network origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Pop" is caught sleeping in a hallway, but he refuses to reveal his name! He's really John W. Lofield, seventy-eight years old, and he doesnt want to return home! Everett Sloane, John Ives (producer), Stanley Niss (writer, director). 30:29.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Devil And Mr O "Vacation With Death" (11-26-71)

Vacation With Death (Aired November 26, 1971)


With its premiere on the nationwide NBC hookup in 1935, Lights Out was billed "the ultimate in horror." Never had such sounds been heard on the air. Heads rolled, bones were crushed, people fell from great heights and splattered wetly on pavement. There were garrotings, choking, heads split by cleavers, and, to a critic at Radio Guide, "the most monstrous of all sounds, human flesh being eaten." Few shows had ever combined the talents of actors and imaginative writers so well with the graphic art of the sound technician. Wyllis Cooper, who created, wrote, and produced it, was then a 36-year-old staffer in Chicago's NBC Studios. Cooper created his horror "by raiding the larder." For the purposed of Lights Out sound effects, people were what they ate. The sound of a butcher knife rending a piece of uncooked pork was, when accompanied by shrieks and screams, the essence of murder to a listener alone at midnight. Real bones were broken - spareribs snapped with a pipe wrench. Bacon in a frypan gave a vivid impression of a body just electrocuted. And the cannibalism effect was actually a zealous actor. Gurgling and smacking his lips as he slurped up a bowl of spaghetti. Cabbages sounded like human heads when chopped open with a cleaver, and carrots had the pleasant resonance of fingers being lopped off. Arch Oboler's celebrated tale of a man turned inside-out by a demonic fog was accomplished by soaking a rubber glove in water and stripping it off at the microphone while a berry basket was curshed at the same instant. The listener saw none of this. The listener saw carnage and death. Oboler's shows are well represented -- this series of Lights Out was syndicated in The Devil and Mr. O offerings of 1970 - 73.

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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Gentleman" The Lost Mine (03-02-58)

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Gentleman" The Lost Mine (Aired March 2, 1958)


Frontier Gentleman was a radio Western series heard on CBS from February 2 to November 16, 1958. Written and directed by Antony Ellis, it followed the adventures of J.B. Kendall (John Dehner), a London Times reporter, as he roamed the Western United States, encountering various outlaws and well-known historical figures, such as Jesse James and Calamity Jane. Written and directed by Antony Ellis, it followed the adventures of journalist Kendall as he roamed the Western United States in search of stories for the Times. Along the way, he encountered various fictional drifters and outlaws in addition to well-known historical figures, such as Jesse James, Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok. Music for the series was by Wilbur Hatch and Jerry Goldsmith, who also supplied the opening trumpet theme. The announcers were Dan Cubberly, Johnny Jacobs, Bud Sewell and John Wald. Supporting cast: Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Stacy Harris, Johnny Jacobs, Joseph Kearns, Jack Kruschen, Jack Moyles, Jeanette Nolan, Vic Perrin and Barney Phillips.

THIS EPISODE:

March 2, 1958. CBS network. "The Lost Mine". Sustaining. The story of Shorthorn Tom, an old prospector with a large nugget and the location of the mine from which it came! The public service announcements are partially deleted. The program is also known as "Gold Colic." John Dehner, Joseph Kearns, Virginia Gregg, Herb Ellis, Antony Ellis (writer, producer, director), Don Diamond, Wilbur Hatch (composer, director), John Wald (announcer). 24:32.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Fibber McGee & Molly "Hole In One" (05-15-51)

Hole In One (Aired May 15, 1951)


Fibber McGee and Molly premiered in 1935. The program struggled in the ratings until 1940, when it became a national sensation. Within three years, it was the top-rated program in America. Few radio shows were more beloved than Fibber McGee and Molly. The program’s lovable characters included Mayor LaTrivia, Doc Gamble, Mrs. Uppington, Wallace Wimple, Alice Darling, Gildersleeve, Beulah, Myrt, and the Old Timer. 79 Wistful Vista was one of America’s most famous addresses and Molly’s warning to Fibber not to open the hall closet door (and his subsequent decision to do it) created one of radio’s best remembered running gags that audiences expected each week. Jim Jordan (Fibber) was born on a farm on November 16, 1896, near Peoria, Illinois. Marian Driscoll (Molly), a coal miner’s daughter, was born in Peoria on November 15, 1898. After years of hardship and touring in obscurity on the small-time show biz circuit, they arrived in Chicago in 1924, where they eventually performed on thousands of shows and developed 145 different voices and characters. Broadcast to the nation from WMAQ/Chicago, the show entertained America until March 1956, and continued on NBC’s Monitor until 1959. Jim Jordan died on April 1, 1988. Marian Jordan died on April 7, 1961. Fibber McGee and Molly was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. First Broadcast date April 16, 1935. Last Broadcast date September 6, 1959.

THIS EPISODE:

May 15, 1951. NBC network. Sponsored by: Pet Milk. It's that time of year again and Fibber has brought his golf clubs down from the attic. Molly gets a hole in one! Not auditioned. Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Harlow Wilcox, Billy Mills and His Orchestra, The King's Men, Don Quinn (writer), Phil Leslie (writer), Max Hutto (director), Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon, Arthur Q. Bryan, Richard LeGrand, Bob Bruce. 29:15.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Lux Radio Theater "Kiss Of Death" (01-12-48)

Kiss Of Death (Aired January 12, 1948)


Lux Radio Theater strove to feature as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance to do the show. It was when sponsor Lever Brothers (who made Lux soap and detergent) moved the show from New York to Hollywood in 1936 that it eased back from adapting stage shows and toward adaptations of films. The first Lux film adaptation was The Legionnaire and the Lady, with Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable, based on the film Morocco. That was followed by a Lux adaptation of The Thin Man, featuring the movie's stars, Myrna Loy and William Powell.

THIS EPISODE:

January 12, 1948. CBS network. "Kiss Of Death". Sponsored by: Lux, Pepsodent. A good cops-and-robbers story about a gangster-gone-straight turning stoolie to protect his little girls. Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Victor Mature, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Alan Reed, William Johnstone, Robert Griffin, Carole Sue Leeds, Norma Jean Nilsson, Jeff Chandler (doubles: billed as "Ira Grossel"), Julian Petruzzi (doubles), Marie Windsor, Edwin Cooper (doubles), Gwen Delano, Edward Marr, Ed Emerson, , Tyler McVey (doubles), Joseph Bell (doubles), Dorothy Lovett (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Randy Stuart (intermission guest), Ben Hecht (screenwriter), Charles Lederer (screenwriter), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 1 hour.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Ports Of Call "Central Africa" (1936)

Central Africa (1936)


Ports Of Call - An obscure series from 1935 or 1936 in which each episode deals with a voyage to a different country where events of that country's history are dramatized. They each begin with the low moan of a tramp steamer's whistle and the announcement of the series title, followed by a musical interlude.

THIS EPISODE:

1936. Transco syndication. "Central Africa". Music fill for local commercial insert. A visit to Sierra Leone, the fall of Carthage. The Portuguese establish gold mines in the interior, with disastrous effects. Stanley travels to meet Dr. Livingstone. The identity of the syndicator is subject to correction. . 28:55.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Life Of Riley "Junior Quits School" (09-22-45)

Junior Quits School (Aired Spetember 22, 1945)


The Life of Riley, with William Bendix in the title role, was a popular radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film and continued as a long-running television series during the 1950s. The show began as a proposed Groucho Marx radio series, The Flotsam Family, but the sponsor balked at what would have been essentially a straight head-of-household role for the comedian. Then producer Irving Brecher saw Bendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in the movie The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942). The Flotsam Family was reworked with Bendix cast as blundering Chester A. Riley, riveter at a California aircraft plant, and his frequent exclamation of indignation---"What a revoltin' development this is!"---became one of the most famous catch phrases of the 1940s. The radio series also benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby "Digger" O'Dell (John Brown), "the friendly undertaker."Beginning October 4, 1949, the show was adapted for television for the DuMont Television Network, but Bendix's film contracts prevented him from appearing in the role. Instead, Jackie Gleason starred along with Rosemary DeCamp as wife Peg, Gloria Winters as daughter Barbara (Babs), Lanny Rees as son Chester Jr. (Junior), and Sid Tomack as Gillis, Riley's manipulative best buddy and next-door neighbor. John Brown returned as the morbid counseling undertaker Digby (Digger) O'Dell ("Well, I guess I'll be... shoveling off"; "Business is a little dead tonight"). Television's first Life of Riley won television's first Emmy (for "Best Film Made For and Shown on Television"). However, it came to an end on March 28, 1950 because of low ratings and because Gleason left the show, thinking he could find a better showcase for his unique abilities. Groucho Marx received a credit for "story."

THIS EPISODE:

September 22, 1945. NBC network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. AFRS replacing Danny Kaye #30. When Junior decides to quit school, Riley uses psychology, but Junior decides to get a job anyway. William Bendix, John Brown, Scotty Beckett, Ken Carpenter (announcer), Irving Brecher (producer), Paula Winslowe, Don Bernard (director), Carmen Cavallaro and His Orchestra (music fill), Lou Coslowe (music), Alan Lipscott (writer), Ashmead Scott (writer), Reuben Ship (writer). 29:12.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Diary Of Fate "Keith Raymond" (07-06-48)

Keith Raymond (Aired July 6, 1948)


Diary of Fate is a mystery and horror program where “Fate” narrates and always wins by the end of the story. These are great suspense filled stories about average people who are subject to the mysteries of their ‘Fate’.

THIS EPISODE:

July 6, 1948. Program #30. Finley syndication. "Keith Raymond". Commercials added locally. Book 31, page 512. Not auditioned. An actor's insatiable ambition leads him to evil. The date is subject to correction. Lurene Tuttle, Lawrence Dobkin, Herb Lytton, George Neise, Ray Ehrlenborn, Hal Sawyer, Clay Sanders, Larry Finley (producer). 26:37.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - NBC University Theater "Mrs Dalloway" (04-02-50)

Mrs Dalloway (Aired April 2, 1950)


NBC THEATER was truly one well loved program. Beyond just its educational value, the combination of great stories... quality acting... and first class production made these shows wonderful entertainment. They are truly great radio AND a highly accessible way to introduce YOUR kids to great American Literature! The “Worlds Great Novels” came to radio in 1944 as NBC began offering adaptations of some of the great works of literature. NBC moved the show to Hollywood in 1948 and renamed the show to NBC University Theater on the Air. Actual college credits could be earned in combination with the Broadcasts. If you don’t have the time to read some of the classics here is your Chance to listen to them.

THIS EPISODE:

April 2, 1950. NBC network. "Mrs. Dalloway". Sustaining. A difficult story made nearly incomprehensible for the ear. British social relations, madness and suicide. The thoughts of the characters are mixed with the dialogue. Andrew C. Love (director), Bruce Payne, Charles Davis, Clarice A. Ross (adaptor), Constance Cavendish, Don Stanley (announcer), Doris Lloyd, Elizabeth Harrower, Gerald Cleveland, Katherine Anne Porter (intermission commentator), Leonard Mudie, Marion Richman, Monty Margetts, Ramsay Hill, Robin Hughes, Virginia McDowell, Virginia Woolfe (author). 59:32.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Cloak & Dagger "Delay On Route" (10-06-50)

Delay On Route (Aired October 6, 1950)


"Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission for the United States, knowing in advance you may never return alive?" Cloak and Dagger first aired over the NBC network on May 7, 1950. It had a short run through the Summer on Sundays, changing to Fridays after its Summer run. The last show aired Oct. 22, 1950. This is the story of the WWII special governmental agency, the OSS, or Office of Strategic Services. Its mission was to develop and maintain spy networks throughout Europe and into Asia, while giving aid to underground partisan groups and developing espionage activities for Allied forces overseas.The show is based on the book of the same name by Lt. Col. Corey Ford and Major Alastair MacBain (who were associated with the OSS from its early days.) The dramas are not Hollywood-style, in that they sometimes end with plans foiled or leading characters dead.

THIS EPISODE:

October 6, 1950. NBC network. "Delay On Route". Sustaining. 8:00 P. M. An O. S. S. agent is sent to Italy to help the Partisans wipe out the remaining Fascists. The agent is forced to help a Fascist scientist escape from the country with plans for a new submarine, and an aerial torpedo. The final promotional announcement and system cue have been deleted. Max Russell (sound effects), Sherman Marks (director, supervisor), Arnold Moss, Ken Field (writer), Jon Gart (music director), Al Fanelli (sound effets), Don Abbott (engineer), Corey Ford (creator), Alistair MacBain (creator), Louis G. Cowan (producer), Alfred Hollander (producer), Grant Richards, Luis Van Rooten. 29:18.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Story Of Dr. Kildare "A. Morgan" (12-08-50)

A. Morgan (Aired December 8, 1950)


Dr. James Kildare was a fictional character, the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, a 1960s television series of the same name and a comic book based on the TV show. The character was invented by the author Frederick Schiller Faust (aka Max Brand). The character began in the film series as a medical intern; after becoming a doctor he was mentored by an older physician, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. After the first ten films, the series eliminated the character of Kildare and focused instead on Gillespie.

THIS EPISODE:

December 8, 1950. Program #46. WMGM, New York-Mutual network origination, MGM syndication. Commercials added locally. The wife of an auto accident victim refuses to allow an operation to save his life. Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore. 1/2 hour.

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