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 Jan 18, 2024
Thursday Jan 18, 2024
This week we are revisiting a classic radio story, "Three Skeleton Key." We did this one early in our podcast, which starred Vincent Price. Today as part of our series dedicated to "Escape," researcher Keith Scott has brought "Three Skeleton Key" starring Elliott Reid, the first time this story was done on radio in 1948. It's the story of three men trapped in a lighthouse by a mischief of rats.
The Vincent Price version of "Three Skeleton Key": https://goodolddaysofradio.podbean.com/e/episode-11-top-10-horror-three-skeleton-key/
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Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
In the days of vintage entertainment from the vaudeville era all the way into the 1950s, some of the highest ranking entertainers were comedy husband and wife teams that were married in real life. Perhaps the most famous of these teams was "George and Gracie." Today we are looking at this famous comedy team and listening to a broadcast from the late '40s that tackled an extravagant fashion trend of the day -- the mink coat.
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Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Keeping with the theme of trains from last week, radio researcher Keith Scott has brought a fast-moving, two-fisted thriller, written by Graham Greene and staring one of the great actors of radio, William Conrad. Conrad was used regularly on Escape, and his powerful voice became one of the signatures of the series.
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Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
If you like stupid jokes and bizarre off-the-wall parodies of long forgotten radio shows and personalities, Henry Morgan was a unique gem from the Golden Age of Entertainment. In this episode, he kids everything from his own looks, to Hollywood columnists, to daytime radio serials. Everything that should've broken the medium. Even if you have no clue what he is riffing on, we think this strange radio comedy is one of the funniest and most entertaining shows ever produced.
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Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
It's the late 1800s, and a special ordered train has vanished without a trace somewhere between Liverpool and London. So begins the strange mystery yarn by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle told in the entertaining tradition of Doyle, that makes Sherlock Holmes still endure today. Join John and our special guest Keith Scott for this second delving into the great radio series," Escape!"
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Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Happy 2024! Well, we all seem to be here with everything still intact, so to usher in this New Year, we are once again bringing you a great variety show from the Golden Age of Hollywood. This was an expensive show, with only the top movie stars of the day, and in this wild episode Dick Powell gives Lou Costello a singing lesson, and George Raft shows up for a feely sketch, among others. Abbott and Costello have everyone rolling on the floor, and the actors and announcers can barely get out their lines!
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Thursday Dec 28, 2023
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
This week we invited back our friend, radio researcher Keith Scott. Keith graciously agreed to be with us for a new series of 10 episodes about one of his favorite series, "Escape." It was an extraordinary show from late in radio, and Keith has selected 10 unusual Escape episodes to represent the series, starting with Rudyard Kipling's "Drums of the Fore and Aft." It's a character-centered story of two young boys and courage on the battlefield.
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Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
This week for fans of the Marx Brothers we produced two offerings. For the podcast, it's a variety show episode of Command Performance, with Spencer Tracy as master of ceremonies, and popular entertainers of the time (including Victor Borge doing his famous phonetic punctuation routine), and Groucho Marx in a "John and Mary Thorndyke" sketch with Barbara Stanwyck. We also filmed an exclusive for our Youtube channel, a full episode of a You Bet Your Life radio script.
Here's that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnPPgHIILgM
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Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
It's the last stop on our Christmas list, and for our big winter spectacular, what better than a grand, whopping, two-hour Christmas blockbuster, packed with more top entertainers of vintage Hollywood than you can shake a reindeer at? This fun holiday sleigh ride features Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Herbert Marshall, Jimmy Durante, Jerry Colonna, Johnny Mercer, Judy Garland, Ed Gardner, Frances Langford, Kay Kyser, Frank Sinatra, Mel Blanc, The Robert Mitchell Boys Choir, Cass Daley, Harry Truman, and more!
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Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
This is the last episode before our big Christmas extravaganza, and it's a fun one. First, Bing and Jimmy are back for one final trip to the store, and then George Burns and Gracie Allen present their Christmas fairytale at the North Pole, with the famous character actress Edna May Oliver playing the Wicked Witch. Those familiar with the Burns and Allen TV show will find this one a curiosity, as it is an example of the husband and wife comedy team shortly before they reinvented their program into the more recognizable sitcom format.
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