Tag: Vincent Price

Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery:

A mysterious woman arrives at Simon Templar’s apartment claiming that ruthless pursuers are after her life and begging for his help. Before long, The Saint finds himself caught between rival groups hunting a seemingly worthless whiskey glass that may hold the key to exposing a notorious fugitive from the Second World War.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 16, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar

Also featuring Sammy Hill, Lou Merrill, Gil Stratton Jr., Charlie Lung, Ed Max, and Ted de Corsia

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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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The Saint: A Real Gone Guy (EP4981)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery:

Simon investigates the murder of a band leader.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 2, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Vivie Janis; William Johnstone

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The Saint: The Sinister Sneeze (EP4971)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery:

At the request of a sneezing woman on a bus, Simon tries to protect a very bad boxer who finds himself an unexpected favorite in his fight against a much better boxer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 11, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Lawrence Dobkin as Louie; Peter Leeds; Sandra Gould; Barney Phillips

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The Saint: The Cake that Killed (EP4966)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery:

Simon gets a cake at a bakery from a woman in distress and finds himself caught up in a case of larceny and murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 8, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Betty Lou Gerson; Peter Leeds; Dan O’Herlihy; Larry Dobkin; Theodore von Eltz

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The Saint: The Case of the Blonde Who Lost Her Head (EP4961)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery:

The Saint encounters a blonde woman who claims to have lost her memory and is mixed up in a murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 13, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar

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The Saint: The Case of the Unhappy Homicide (EP4956)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery:

A meek man asks Simon to prove that he murdered his business partner.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 6, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Betty Lou Gerson; Stanley Farrar; Ted Osborne; Lawrence Dobkin; Tom Brown

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The Saint: Greed Causes Murder (EP4941)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery:

The Saint becomes inovlved when everyone wants to buy an old junker of a car from an elderly man.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 14, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar,Lurene Tuttle, Dan O’Herlihy, Tony Barrett, Barney Phillips, Fred Howard,]

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The Saint: The Saint Goes Underground (EP4936)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery: The Saint makes an emergency landing in a small town and finds people immediately threatening him to get him to leave town.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 31, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Harry Bartell; Tony Barrett; Barney Phillips; Colleen Collins; Fred Howard

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The Saint: Mr. Important (EP4931)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery:

A treasury agent, a childhood friend of Simon Templar, is shot to death.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 15, 1947

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Jeff Chandler

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The Saint: Baseball Murder (Encore) (EP4711)

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Vincent Price

The father of a hot pitching prospect calls The Saint in to protect his son from gamblers.

Original Air Date: September 3, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar

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Favorite Story: Mister Shakespeare (AWR0255)

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Batman Villains of Old Time Radio

We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week, we look at Vincent Price, who played the recurring Batman villain Egghead in seasons two and three of Batman (1966).

We begin by featuring an episode of Favorite Story.

William Shakespeare is brought forward to the 1940s to write Hollywood pictures.

Original Air Date: January 14, 1947

Starring: Vincent Price as “Will” Shakespeare; Betsy Blair; Chilius; William Conrad

After the drama, I talk about the season two two-parter “An Egg Grows in Gotham” and “The Yegg Foes in Gotham” from 1966.

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Hollywood Star Time: Hot Spot (EP4352s)

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Today’s Mystery:

Based on the movie I Wake Up Screaming, a Broadway promoter is suspected of murdering an up-and-coming actress, by a dogged police officer who always gets his man.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Frankie Christopher; Vincent Price as Ed Cornell; Lurene Tuttle; Gloria Blondell; Theodore Von Elt; Harry Bartell; David Ellis; Elliott Reid

My review of I Wake Up Screaming

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