Tag: Classic Radio

NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Saint

The Saint: The Problem of the Peculiar Payoff (EP4986)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery:

Simon Templar survives an attempted hit by a small-time hood named Augie and traces the job back to a nervous swindler named Ronald Stanton. But when a murder complicates matters, the Saint finds himself caught between a blackmail scheme, a disappearing secretary, and a beautiful receptionist who may know more than she admits.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 9, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starred: Vincent Price as Simon Templar

Also featuring Frances Robinson, Arthur Q. Bryan, Ted de Corsia, and Donald Woods. Announcer: Don Stanley. Music composed and conducted by Von Dexter. Directed by Helen Mack. Written by Jerome Epstein.

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ABC, Counterspy, OTR Detective, Podcast

Counterspy: The Case of the Murmured Millions (A0092)

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Today’s Adventure

A smooth-talking con man pitches a powerful crime boss on a new kind of protection racket—one built not on violence, but on rumors capable of destroying major corporations. When businesses begin collapsing under whispered accusations and public panic, Counterspy chief David Harding races to expose the mastermind behind the scheme before more companies are ruined.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 11, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Mandel Kramer as Peters

Also featuring Rosa Rio. Directed by William M. Sweets.

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Great Scenes from Great Plays: The Farmer Takes a Wife (AWR0296)

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Welcome to another summer miniseries on The Amazing World of Radio! This time around, we’re featuring actors who played memorable killers on Columbo and revisiting their work from the Golden Age of Radio.

Our first featured performer is Eddie Albert, who appeared in the Season One Columbo episode “Dead Weight” as Major General Martin Hollister. Before television audiences knew him as a military legend with deadly secrets, Albert starred in this moving adaptation of The Farmer Takes a Wife from Great Scenes from Great Plays.

Originally broadcast on January 14, 1949, this radio drama captures a vanished chapter of American life along the Erie Canal, as changing times threaten an entire way of living. Co-starring Albert’s wife Margo, the play explores love, loyalty, and the painful challenge of embracing change in a rapidly modernizing world.

Then, after the drama, we take a deep dive into the Columbo episode “Dead Weight,” examining Eddie Albert’s nuanced performance, the production troubles behind the scenes, and the fascinating emotional undercurrents that make the episode more compelling than its reputation suggests.

In This Episode

  • The origins of the “Columbo’s Killers in Old Time Radio” summer series
  • Inspiration from Shauna’s Watching It For Days YouTube channel
  • Eddie Albert stars in The Farmer Takes a Wife
  • Life and culture along the Erie Canal in 1835
  • Themes of change, progress, and stability in postwar America
  • Eddie Albert’s performance and career reflections
  • A discussion of the Columbo episode “Dead Weight”
  • Production problems during Season One of Columbo
  • Character analysis of Major General Martin Hollister
  • Suzanne Pleshette’s role as Helen Stewart
  • Why “Dead Weight” works better as a character study than a traditional Columbo mystery

Featured Cast

  • Eddie Albert
  • Margo
  • Walter Hampden
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Peter Falk

Series Information

Program: Great Scenes from Great Plays
Episode: “The Farmer Takes a Wife”
Original Broadcast: January 14, 1949

Listen for more entries in our “Columbo’s Killers in Old Time Radio” series throughout the summer.

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