Tag: audiodrama

The Silent Men: The Big Kill and Night Beat: Ellen (Twice-Told Tale) (EP4925s)

Today’s 1st Mystery: An investigator for the Civil Aviation Administration gets a call warning of a bomb on a plane.

Original Radio Broadcast: February 3, 1952

Originating in Hollywood

Starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Today’s 2nd Mystery: Randy receives a tip that there’s a bomb on a plane to Denver.

Original Air Date: September 4, 1952

Originating in Hollywood

Starring Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone

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Counterspy: Industrial Spy Ring (A0068)

Today’s Adventure: A nazi agent murders his wife and sets David Harding on the trail of an espionage ring.

Original Radio Broadcast: December 14, 1942

Originating in New York

Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding

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Counterspy: The Case of the Gasoline Barge (A0066)

Today’s Adventure:

David Harding suspects the Axis is behind a ring making counterfeit gas coupons.

Original Radio Broadcast: November 2, 1945

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding

Popular Science article on the government censoring weather reports.

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Counterspy: The Case of the Loganberry Point Spy (A0064)

Today’s Adventure: A widow in a small town calls David Harding claiming to have caught a German spy.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 14, 1942

Originating in New York

Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Craig McDonnell

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Counterspy: Nazis from Mexico (A0062)

Today’s Adventure:

The Gestapo is bringing spies across the southern border, trying to start an international incident by dropping the body of a Mexican official onto the US side of the border.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 22, 1942

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding

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Tarzan and the Diamonds of Asher: Mistaken Identity, the Map, A Wolf Among the Sheep (A0053)

Today’s Adventure:

Tarzan is mistaken for a missing American archeologist by dangerous criminals who demand he tell them the location of the land of Asher and “the Father of Diamonds”.

Originating Radio Broadcast Date: May 14, 16, and 18, 1934

Originating from New York

Starring: Carlton Kadell as Tarzan

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Escape: Operation Fleur De Lys (Encore) (A0052)

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

Originating from Hollywood

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Campbell’s Playhouse: A Christmas Carol (AWR0291)

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Charles Dickens’ classic tale of Ebenezer’s life-changing encounter with three spirits on Christmas Eve.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1939

Narrated by Orson Welles

Starring: George Coulouris; Bea Benaderet; Ray Collins; Everett Sloane; Frank Readick

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The Whistler: Christmas Bonus (Encore) (A0046)

An ex-con is fired from his job at a department store where a string of burglaries totaling $10,000 have occurred, and decides to return to a life of crime.

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Screen Guild Theater: Christmas in Connecticut (AWR0289)

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Today’s Story:

A writer who has cast herself as America’s favorite homemaker in her columns faces ruin when her publisher and a war-hero sailor are set to visit her non-existent farm. She agrees to marry a long-time suitor and use his farm for a Christmas celebration. Complications ensue when she falls for the sailor.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 5, 1946

Starring: Jane Wyman; Ronald Reagan; Leon Belasco

Related: Revisionist History: A Very Terminator Christmas

Newspaper Heroes of the Air: Radio Christmas in Connecticut

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Cloak and Dagger: The Wine of Freedom (A0042)

Today’s Adventure:

An American OSS agent poses as a wine merchant in Germany to organize the country’s anti-Hitler elements into an effective resitance.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 15, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Mel Ferrer; Herbert Berghoff; Frances Robinson; Ralph Bell; Raymond Edward Johnson; Will McCure; Ian Martin; Karl Weber

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Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route (A0040)

Today’s Adventure:

In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Grant Richards; Arnold Moss; Luis Van Rooten

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Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route

Today’s Adventure:

In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring: Grant Richards; Arnold Moss; Luis Van Rooten

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lucky Four Matter (EP4850)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny goes to Colorado to investigate the death of a cantankerous old rancher.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 3, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Ken Christy; Vic Perrin; Lawrence Dobkin; Virginia Gregg; Will Wright; Shirley Mitchell

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Broadway’s My Beat: The Francesca Brown Murder Case (EP4848)

Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

A waitresss is strangled and knifed to death.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:June 2, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Lamont Johnson; Lou Merrill; Cathy Lewis; Herb Butterfield; Bea Benaderet

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