Legendary radio collector John Tefteller presents the best of mystery, comedy, horror, and adventure stories, produced by the greatest writers, directors, composers, and stars.
Episodes
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
As our "Top 10 Escape" series nears a close, Keith Scott has returned with an interesting adventure yarn from late in the run all about explorers competing to be the first to reach the top of Mount Everest. This exciting story of tough men vs. nature follows a fictional expedition to the top, and is a fascinating combination of truth and lore, just two years before Edmond Hillary would make the first recorded ascent in 1953.
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Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Husband and wife comedy teams on radio continues, and we are looking at the East Coast counterpart of Jack Benny and his wife Mary Livingstone today. Fred Allen was the comedian, and his beautiful wife Portland Hoffa participated as a foil. Nonetheless, she was with Fred from the early days of vaudeville and always exchanged lines with him in his opening monologue in her distinctive “ditzy” vocal mannerisms, which became a true original from radio’s early days.
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Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
During its significant run, the radio series "Escape," much more than its big brother series "Suspense," often put an emphasis on great English adventure literature. Sometimes it drifted into the area of pulp, but Escape more often adapted stories that were considered classics of the genre by celebrated authors. Such is the case with "Journey Into Fear" which is a fast-moving twisty thriller novel by Eric Ambler from 1940. Keith Scott joins us once again to discuss this story.
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Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Well, it's Jack Benny's birthday again, which is, if you are at all familiar with popular vintage comedy entertainment, on Valentine's Day. As such we are bringing you not only Jack Benny, but a Jack Benny episode from 1947 all about his birthday party. Joining the festivities are two of Jack's favorites on the show, Violinist Isaac Stern, and Ronald and Benita Colman. Another great comedy show!
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Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Today's episode is one of the all-time great stories of drawn out tension, and is an excellent example of the power of the spoken word and the great unsung radio actors of the 1950s. The story is "Poison" by Roald Dahl. Jack Webb (best known for his portrayal of Joe Friday on "Dragnet") and William Conrad ("Cannon" on the 1971 TV series) are Americans in India, one of whom is trapped in bed with a deadly snake.
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Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
We are paying a visit to Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard today, one of the most famous married in real life husband and wife comedy teams on 1950s television. They started in radio, and like many entertainer couples had achieved a certain fame before marriage. The family sitcom that would eventually star themselves and their two real-life sons would far eclipse their earlier careers. This episode takes on the topic of who is better at things: men or women?
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Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Our series of Top 10 episodes from the "Escape" radio series continues today with a wild adventure in the chaos and madness of Mardis Gras in 1950s New Orleans. A man attempting to sleep through the ruckus of the celebration gets his hands on a Gideons bible that happens to have some secret coded messages inside, and now he's being pursued by a mafia ring. Keith Scott joins us to discuss this original Escape story.
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Jim and Marion Jordan, also known as Fibber McGee and Molly, is the next husband and wife comedy team that we are looking at today. Although they made some movies, McGee and Molly were most famous on the radio, and built their own world of zany characters who were constantly dropping in at their house at "79 Wistful Vista." Today Fibber has created an invention that he believes will change the aviation industry forever.
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Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
A few weeks ago in Keith Scott's series of "Top 10 Escape" we presented the mystery of a vanishing train. Today we have another baffling vanishing mystery. The story is about a woman and her mother attending the Paris Exhibition of 1889, when the mother suddenly disappears under mysterious circumstances, and everyone seems to deny she ever existed. This is not the same story as Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes," though Hitchcock would later televise this story in 1965 as "Into Thin air."
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Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Another popular husband and wife comedy team that were married in real life was Phil Harris and Alice Faye. Regular listeners to the podcast will be familiar with this show, because it's one of the funniest that still holds up today. By the time of its broadcast Alice Faye had been out of show business quite awhile, and Phil Harris, was at the height of his fame thanks to his long time situation on the Jack Benny Show.
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