and now I'm starting one called
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darryl-tahirali — 9 years ago(October 28, 2016 11:58 AM)
Thank you for the tip on archive.org. I'll have to check it out!
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 9 years ago(October 28, 2016 08:51 PM)
Two more faves which I want to hear tonight:
From
The Inner Sanctum:
The Voice on the Wire
From
The Weird Circle:
A Terrible Night
.this one takes place in the Canadian wilderness. I get such a kick out of this radio play.Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen = -
MsELLERYqueen2 — 9 years ago(December 01, 2016 11:33 PM)
Four from the Suspense series, three of which I've already heard
The Doctor Prescribed Death
:
-written by J. Donald Wilson
-starring Bela Lugosi
I've heard this radio play a few times. It's terrific. A professor of psychology (Lugosi) has a theory about murder/death and he decides to put theory into practice. He convinces a suicidal jilted woman he meets at random to murder a particular individual instead of murdering herself. After that, wellI'll let listeners find out for themselves what happens.
Bela Lugosi sure had a good voice for radio! He was perfect for the part - getting a woman to do what he wanted her to do. Lugosi sure had that power.
Statement of Employee Henry Wilson
:
-written by John Shaw
-starring Gene Lockhart
This is an inverted murder mystery which I've heard before. A man kills his co-worker and he (like others) is questioned by the police. Eventually, things backfire on him
Good story for those who like inverted murder mysteries.
The After-Dinner Story
:
-written by Cornell Woolrich
-starring Otto Kruger
I have heard this one before. If memory serves me right (or maybe I should just look back on the thread), it's one of the few Cornell Woolrich stories which isn't predictable. An accident - or maybe it's murder - takes place in a broken-down elevator. Some time later, someone has reason to seek revenge.
Want Ad
:
-starring Robert Cummings
This is the first time I've ever heard this delightful radio play. It's about a crook who has found an evil way of making money. Let's just say that he gets what's coming to himin such a clever way! Of all the inverted mysteries I've come across, this one has probably one of the best endings. Highly recommended for the ending alone.
I don't recall the announcer telling us who wrote this gem.Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen = -
binapiraeus — 9 years ago(December 09, 2016 07:30 AM)
Thanks a lot for those brilliant reviews! They must be great, all of them, and they're not really among those that are still famous today - that shows HOW many great mysteries that great "Suspense" series produced!
Being a huge fan of Bela's, I'd love to hear "The Doctor Prescribed Death"; it sounds like JUST the sort of thing for him And "Wanted Ad", which I'd never heard of (well, few people remember "Saboteur" star Robert Cummings at all today), must have a really memorable ending - but no one knows who wrote it
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 9 years ago(December 09, 2016 10:04 PM)
Maybe they mentioned the author of
Want Ad
during the show, but I must have missed it.
Both of those radio plays (
Want Ad, The Doctor Prescribed Death
) are well worth hearing. I hope that you can find them somewhere outside of archive.org, if your government won't allow you on archive.org.
Speaking of Bela Lugosi, I recently saw a terrific film called
The Human Monster
(1939, starring Bela). He sure does a good job of playing an evil SOB in that movie! No spoilers thereit's obvious from the start that he isn't a nice person in this horror flick.
I was also quite touched by the 1930s whodunit (movie, not radio play)
The Murder Man
, starring Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Robert Barrat, and Virginia Bruce. Great performances all-around, especially from Spencer Tracy in the last 15 minutes or so.Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen = -
MsELLERYqueen2 — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 09:59 PM)
I keep thinking about
Want Ad
, the radio play from the Suspense series which I loved so much. What a brilliant story! I really really recommend this to other folks.Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen = -
tjwh2015 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 01:49 PM)
I sometimes listen to classic radio shows OTR on "Those Old Radio Shows" in Alberta. The show goes by another name in the States but the name escapes me at the moment. It runs most of the week from 11 PM to 1 AM.
I did a search for TORS on Google and found a site devoted to classic radio. They offer thousands of shows to listen to online, download or order on CD.
Old Time Radio Downloads has lots of titles under the following genres: Adventure, Comedy, Commercials, Crime, Drama, Gossip, Historical, Kids, Quiz, Sci Fi, Soap, Opera, Sports, Thriller, Variety, Western and WWII. It also includes some Radio Scripts, mostly for Dragnet. Right now, I'm listening to the Dan Garrett/Blue Beetle radio series.
http://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/
That site links to a download/ordering site that also plays a few old shows online and for free download per day:
https://www.otrcat.com/
Their collection of old audio goes back to 1910.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 02:30 PM)
You're from Alberta? Me too! I live in Edmonton, and I'm definitely a fan of mystery radio plays, mostly from the
Suspense
series. I've never heard of "Those Old Radio Shows". Thanks for the heads up!Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen = -
tjwh2015 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 04:59 PM)
You're welcome. I'm in Red Deer but grew up in Edmonton.
They're on 630 CHED most nights from 11 PM to 1 AM, unless the Oilers or Eskimos play late. Joined in progress in those cases if the post game shows end before 1. It's also on 770 CHQR in Calgary in those cases. It's also carried on other Corus Radio Network stations across Canada so you can listen online. -
MsELLERYqueen2 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 05:07 PM)
Thanks for the info! I wasn't sure which radio station you were talking about, so thanks for letting me know.
I had absolutely no idea that our radio stations are capable of airing something other than sports news (Oilers, Eskies), the song "Drift Away" from the early seventies, country music (when they aren't playing "Drift Away"), and reports that there are car accidents on the Quesnell Bridge and the Yellowhead Trail.
Good to know that they're mixing it up a bit!
A lot of radio plays are available on archive.org, too.
By the way, I've driven through Red Deer a number of times on my way to Calgary. We used to go a lot when I was a kid, to visit relatives. I'm amazed at how much Gasoline Alley has expanded! I remember the days (the eighties) when it consisted of something like two gas stations and three restaurants or whatever. Now it's practically a small town. I heard that they're doing a lot of construction thereJim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen = -
tjwh2015 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 06:32 PM)
I moved here in 2011 after living in Grande Prairie for 10 years. I don't get into Edmonton too much these days but I keep track of the goings on up there. Hopefully, I can see how downtown is progressing.
I'm sorry that you didn't know about TORS. It's been on for at least 20 years. It came sometime after CHED switched from its short lived AM rock format (after its previous bubble gum pop era) to its current news/talk format, in 1993, and a bunch of the personalities from CJCA moved over as CJCA went off the air for a while.
I first heard an old radio show when I was on the bus late one night going into Vancouver in the late 80s. I'm pretty sure it was a Vancouver station and not a Washington State one. So, I'm not sure if the program actually started elsewhere before coming to Edmonton. -
MsELLERYqueen2 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 08:59 PM)
I remember when CHED had the "bubblegum pop" reputation. I was a kid then (in the eighties) and a lot of other kids really liked listening to CHED. I never liked 80s music, so I stayed away from it.
The only time I listened to the radio a lot was in the late 90s, when the CTV radio station played oldies all the time. Thanks to that radio station, I found out about Bobby Curtola, about The Beau-Marks, and I learned that singer Jack Scott released more than one song! Those singers are still favourites of mine to this very day.
Downtown Edmonton progressing? I really don't think of any part of Edmonton as progressing. Seems like any changes which are made to the city just make the traffic tie-ups worse and worse.Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen = -
tjwh2015 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 05:03 PM)
Here's the US version of the show:
http://www.whenradiowas.com/
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 05:09 PM)
Thanks again for the links!
Here are the
Suspense
episodes on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Suspense_SinglesJim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen = -
MsELLERYqueen2 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 11:42 PM)
By the way, here's a radio play you might enjoy. It's from
The Weird Circle
, # 22 on the list (
A Terrible Night
). It's about two fellows who get lost in the Canadian wilderness, and.well, see for yourself.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Weird_Circle_SinglesJim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen =