Tag: audiodrama

Charlie Chan: The Case of the Romantic Engineer (EP4812)

Today’s Mystery:

A woman believes her husband has been kidnapped, but instead of a ransom note, she’s being sent money.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950 or 1951

Originating from Sydney

Starring: William Rees as Charlie Chan; Rodney Jacobs

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Cloak and Dagger: Swastika on the Windmill (A0020)

Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent goes behind enemy lines into occupied Holland to stay at his uncle’s house.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 30, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne; Lester Fletcher; Harvey Hayes; Jared Burke; Gordon Stern; Francois Grimar; Basil Langton; Patricia Courtleigh; Beulah Garrick; Victor Chapin

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Cloak and Dagger: The Trap

Today’s Adventure:

A cartoonist in the OSS goes undercover in a German-occupied French village ahead of an American advance.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 9, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Virginia Payne; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Stefan Schnabel; Jerry Jarrett; Ralph Bell; Lotte Stavisky; Everett Sloan

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Cloak and Dagger: The Eyes of Buddha (A0014)

Today’s Adventure:

An OSS agent goes to Siam.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 2, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Everett Sloane; Ralph Bell; Berry Kroeger; Raymond Edward Johnson; Eileen Heckart; Martin Balsam; Grant Richards; Jerry Jarrett; Karl Webber

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This is My Best: The Master of Ballantrae (AWR0283)

Amazing World of Radio

Today’s Story: The eldest of two brothers is presumed dead in war and the youngest marries his sweetheart and iherits the estate. Conflict comes when the older brother returns determined to reclaim what had been his.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1945

Starring Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Alan Napier

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Cloak and Dagger: The Brenner Pass Story (A0006)

Today’s Adventure:

An OSS agent undertakes a secret mission to blow up a highway in Italy to block the escape of the Germans.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 4, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Boris Aplon; Hester Sondergaard; Berry Kroeger; Virginia Payne; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Joseph Julian; Everett Sloan

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Your Playhouse of Favorites: The Suicide Club (AWR0282)

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A bored crown prince, looking for excitement, joins a club of men who want to end their lives.

Original Air Date: Sometime between 1947 and 1949

Originating in New York

Starring: Dwight Reese and Walter Vaughn

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World’s Great Novels: Kidnapped, Part Three (AWR0278)

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David Balfour escapes the sea only to find himself a victim of circumstance who is running for his life and wanted for murdering a King’s Agent.

Original Broadcast Date: May 14, 1948

Originating in Chicago

Starring: Phil Fine as David Balfour, Larry Alexander as Alan Brechk Stewart,

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World’s Great Novels: Kidnapped, Part One (AWR0276)

Amazing World of Radio

Today’s Story:

David Balfour’s father has died and left him a letter of introduction to his uncle in the Scottish lowlands. He finds his uncle an odd man with a bad reputation who hides many secrets.

Original Air Date: April 30, 1948

Originating from Chicago

Starring: Phil Fine as David Balfour; Sherman Marks; Jess Pugh; Marvin Peisner; Arthur Peterson; Cornelius Pevuls, Hilda Graham, Howard Hall

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Favorite Story: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (AWR0273)

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The classic story of a mild-mannered scientist who turned into the beastly Edward Hyde.

Original Air Date: October 15, 1946

Starring: William Conrad as Dr.Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde

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The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Resurrection (AWR0272)

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Today’s Story: The story of the events after the Crucifixion of Jesus leading up to Easter.

Original Air Date: April 6, 1947

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Mathew Slade, Private Investigator: Pattern for a Frame (EP4630)

Today’s Mystery:

Mathew finds himself accused of murder while working with a Congressman on a corruption probe of a racketeer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 11, 1964

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: William Wintersole as Mathew Slade; Sylvia Walden as Jonesy; Norman Belkin as Sergeant Sid Dinelli; Karl Swenson as Lieutenant Flagg

Aired as Starlight Mystery Theater. Also known as Matthew Slade, Private Investigator.

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Mr. and Mrs. North: Dime a Dance (EP4620)

Joseph Curtain and Alice Frost

Today’s Mystery:

A dancer at a dance hall gets Pam to come to her apartment by claiming that Jerry was in love with her.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 7, 1950

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Lights Out: Three Men (AWR0264)

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Today’s story:

At the end of the war, three officers from different countries find themselves as the wise men.

Original Broadcast Date: December 22, 1937

Originating in Chicago

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Heatherstone Players Matter (EP4513)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in to protect a Shakespearean actor and producer who is hated by everyone in a Shakespearean radio festival he’s putting on.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 14, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Lawrence Dobkin; Richard Crenna; Sam Edwards; Frank Gerstle; Herb Vigran; Hans Conried

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