Category: Amazing World of Radio

Feed for the Amazing World of Radio podcast.

AWR0103: Escape: Poison (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A man’s bigoted friend is trapped in bed with a deadly snake, and the only one who can help is a doctor from India.

Original Air Date: July 28, 1950

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AWR0102: Guest Star: By Mere Coincidence and Hour of St. Francis: Welcome Home, Soldier (Jack Webb Centennial)

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In “Mere Coincidence,” a salesman ends up with someone else’s luggage and then learns the hard way that the owner is a Soviet Agent. Original Air Date:June 21, 1953

In “Welcome Home, Soldier,” Jack Webb reads an open letter to a quadruple amputee veteran of the Korean War. Original Air Date: June 17, 1951

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AWR0101: Guest Star: Road to Yesterday and the Gift of Life (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A woman (Bonita Granville )reflects on her life after death in “The Road to Yesterday”

In “the Gift of Life,” a taxi driver (Jack Webb) tries to help a widowed new mother (Jane Wyatt) and give her some difficult news.

Original Air Dates: November 29, 1948 and February 27, 1949

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AWR0100: The Whistler: The Perfect Alibi (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A private eye falls for a beautiful woman with thousands of dollars in gambling debts and a rich uncle.

Original Air Date: June 12, 1949

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AWR0099: Suspense: You Take Ballistics (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A police lieutenant is convinced a local hood (Jack Webb) has committed murder but doesn’t know how he can prove it.

Original Air Date: March 13, 1947

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AWR0098: Are These Our Children: Edith Hayes (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A teenage girl drops out of school and falls into a car theft ring.

Original Air Date: November 17, 1946

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AWR0097: Three for Adventure: Roundhouse Rosie and the Siamese Cats (Jack Webb Centennial)

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Three Adventurers (played by Jack Webb, Elliot Lewis, and Barton Yarborough) arrive in New Orleans to locate a valuable black opal.

Audition Date: 1949

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AWR0096: Escape: Border Town (Jack Webb Centennial)

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An actor on a bus to Hollywood has $15,000 in counterfeit money planted in his coat and a trip to Mexico to get rid of it leads to dangerous adventures.

Original Air Date: December 13, 1949

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AWR0095: Escape: A Shipment of Mute Fate (Jack Webb Centennial)

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The world’s most deadly snake escapes aboard a cruise liner.

Original Date: October 15, 1947
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AWR0094: Escape: Operation Fleur De Lys (Jack Webb Centennial)

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Two OSS Agents (Jack Webb and Elliot Lewis) parachute into occupied France to organize resistance to the Nazis to support the Allied invasion. However, their efforts are threatened by a leak.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1947

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AWR0093: One Out of Seven (Jack Webb Centennial)

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Jack Webb hosts and performs the roles of all news figures in a news and commentary program in two episodes.

First, a profile of segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi. Second, a commentary on incidents of racial, ethic, and religious bigotry occurring around Brotherhood Week.

Original Air Dates: February 6 and 27, 1946

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AWR0092: The Jack Webb Show (Jack Webb Centennial)

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From San Francisco, Jack Webb stars in a sketch comedy show, hosting and playing a variety of parts including Razor Master, Private Detective.

Original Air Date: April 10, 1946
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AWR0091: George Washington, American

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Orson Welles stars in a play honoring George Washington’s 209th Birthday.

Original Air Date: February 22, 1941

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AWR0090: Prudential Family Hour of Star: The Lullaby of Christmas

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The story of an orphaned, nonverbal special needs child living on the streets of Bethlehem and a Christmas miracle.

Original Air Date: December 19, 1948
Also includes a one minute Christmas episode of Ripley’s Believe it or Not.

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AWR0089: Suspense: The Cave

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Two young boys encounter a world of pirates, danger, and adventure in a cave on Christmas.

Original Air Date: December 20, 1955

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