{"id":10460,"date":"2014-06-07T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=10460"},"modified":"2014-06-06T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T02:54:09","slug":"radio-show-review-incrediblebut-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/radio-show-review-incrediblebut-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Show Review: Incredible&#8230;But True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I&#8217;m going to take a look at the 1950s radio series\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/OTRR_Incredible_But_True_Singles\">Incredible But True<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While there was a fifteen minute version of the series <em>Incredible But True<\/em> that aired in the early 1950s, the version which survives today is the three minute syndicate program.<\/p>\n<p>The eighty existing programs focus on \u201ctrue\u201d stories of the strange, the unusual, and the unexplained, and there are some interesting ones with church organs playing without explanation, an Ambassador disappearing in the 19th in a public place with no explanation as to what happened, and weird phenomena and apparitions that couldn\u2019t be explained by science. It\u2019s all interesting stuff, but somewhat flawed.<\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes, the show will press for some bizarre explanation with no proof there\u2019s anything to explain. In one case, a woman disappeared in New York City and on the same day a swan appeared in a place where swans weren\u2019t normally seen. The suggested link: Perhaps, the woman was turned into a swan.<\/p>\n<p>And even those stories that don\u2019t suffer from such gargantuan leaps in reason suffer from the limit of a 3 minute story. We\u2019re often given a somewhat complex story and only one solution. Good programs on unexplained phenomena allow for multiple explanations, which really fuels listeners or viewer imagination.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, <em>Incredible but True<\/em> isn\u2019t bad if you\u2019re looking for three quick minutes of entertainment with some unusual stories, but the limits of the format often leave a less than satisfying result.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 2.5 out of 5.0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/OTRR_Incredible_But_True_Singles\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I&#8217;m going to take a look at the 1950s radio series\u00a0Incredible But True. While there was a fifteen minute version of the series Incredible But True that aired in the early 1950s, the version which survives today is the three minute syndicate program. 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