Month: April 2020

AWR0108: Doris Day Show with Guest Kirk Douglas (Kirk Douglas Celebration)

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Kirk Douglas makes a guest appearance on the Doris Day Show.

Original Air Date: November 25, 1952

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EP3107: Man Called X: Into Berlin

George Raft

The Man Called X heads to Berlin to ensure that a Nazi isn’t able to escape justice before the allies arrive.

Original Air Date: March 3, 1945

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AWR0107: Screen Director’s Playhouse: Champion (Kirk Douglas Celebration)

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The story of a young boxer’s (Kirk Douglas) rise from obscurity to becoming a boxing champion.

Original Air Date: March 17, 1950

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EP3106: It’s a Crime, Mr. Collins: The Red Hot Mama

Greg and Gail have to spend six weeks in a castle in Florida to protect a widow from her nephew who will get her inheritance if she dies within six weeks.

Original Air Date: October 28, 1957

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AWR0106: Academy Award Theater: Stranger in My House (Kirk Douglas Celebration)

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A psychiatrist falls in love with his patient and moves her in with his family leading to serious problems.

Original Air Date: October 2, 1946

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AWR0105: Suspense: The Story of Markham’s Death (Kirk Douglas Celebration)

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A mystery writer with writer’s block discovers a lost Edgar Allan Poe manuscript while visiting London and decides to rewrite it to bring back his career.

Original Air Date: October 2, 1947

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EP3105: Box 13: The Dowager and Dan Holiday

A wealthy elderly woman asks Dan to pretend to be her fiancee so she can protect her grandson from marrying a gold digger.

Original Air Date: March 12, 1948

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EP3104s: The Whistler: Danger is a Beautiful Blonde (Jack Webb Centennial)

An engineer is picked up by a beautiful woman and finds himself in the middle of a murder.

Original Air Date: May 8, 1949

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EP3104: Dragnet: The Big Fraud (Jack Webb Centennial)

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate when two impersonate police offers and shake down a visiting businessman.

Original Air Date: October 27, 1953

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Audio Drama Review: Black Jack Justice, Season Seven

Season Seven of Black Jack Justice finds the show very well settled in to its successful formula as Jack and Trixie continue to solve crimes in a post-War unnamed American city.

The season avoids some of the fancy experimental episodes from previous seasons and really plays to its strengths. That means well-crafted mysteries and clever wordplay. The closest this season gets to any sort of emotional depth is in the episode, “The Score” when an old war buddy of Jack’s tries to draft him to rob a Nazi war criminal to exact revenge.

All of Season 7 is great listening. If I had to pick a favorite, I’d choose the fifth episode, “A Simple Case of Black and White” which finds Trixie and Jack working for a pro bowler trying to connect with his child. The plot is intricate with a surprising solution. There are characters named (of course) Black and White. That plays out to really good effect.

Overall, if you’re looking for fun diverting mysteries that illustrate how a radio detective show should be done, you’ll enjoy Season 7 of Black Jack Justice.

Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0

The entire Seventh Season of Black Jack Justice is available for free download on their website.

EP3103: Pete Kelly’s Blues: Gus Trudeau (Jack Webb Centennial)

Jack Webb

An old friend of Kelly’s is suspected of murdering a local Kansas City mobster.

Original Air Date: July 4, 1951

Bonus Audio from the Howard Miller Show from August 8, 1955

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EP3102: Dragnet: Production 7 (aka. The Attempted City Hall Bombing) (Jack Webb Centennial)

Jack Webb

Friday and Romero are called in to stop a man who claims to have a bomb and is threatening to blow up city hall unless his brother is released.

Original Air Date: July 21, 1949

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EP3101: Jeff Regan: The Man in the Door (Jack Webb Centennial)

Jack Webb

The Lyon sends Regan down to get a potential client to sign a contract. The client falls dead at Regan’s feet before he can sign it.

Original Air Date: August 28, 1948

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AWR0104: The Short Career of Dexter Coles (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A writer sells out to a corrupt political machine boss in order to give a better life to his daughter.

Original Air Date: February 8, 1950

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