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
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
During the golden age of comedy, an audience favorite was entertainers that roasted one another. Perhaps the most famous of these "feuds" was between Fred Allen and Jack Benny, who started accidently by hurtling sideways barbs at one another on their popular radio shows, and developed into an all-out, but good-natured insult-fest. Fred Allen's parody of radio quiz shows "King For A Day" many consider the culmination of this feud. Today we are bringing you one of the essential comedy shows of radio "King For A Day."
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Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Joseph Cotten had a diverse leading man career in the movies. On radio he played some characters that made Uncle Charlie from Hitchcock's "Shadow of the Doubt" look innocent in comparison. In this Suspense story, he plays twins, one of which murders the other and disposes of the body in suitcases. He has one problem, however... getting rid of that pesky head.
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Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Today we are bringing you the 9th show of a series. Of a "brand new" radio series. Stan Freberg is back with his cast of cartoon voices in an amusing comedy/variety show featuring a visit with the abominable snowman, "Crossington Washing the Delaware," and the "Honeyearthers."
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Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Dashiell Hammett, the author of "The Maltese Falcon," wrote another famous novel, "The Glass Key." It's a murder mystery that revolves around the seedy world of corrupt politicians, crime syndicates, and grift. Today in our journey through "radio noir" we are bringing you Orson Welles's nuanced adaptation of the story. Although it has all the hallmarks of noir, including murky motives and startling bursts of violence, don't expect a mile-a-minute, action-packed juvenile pulp adventure here. What it does have is underplayed performances, interesting character relationships, and a more cerebral crime noir.
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Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
We started a quest through Jack Benny's 1946-47 season, which is a period where Jack had established a strong cast of characters and his writing team hit a stride that would carry him into his best loved comedy. This week, Jack and Mary have just seen "It's A Wonderful Life," and he is joined by the director Frank Capra, and Victor Moore as Jack's guardian angel, in a little fantasy of their own.
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Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
In the 1940s, a new film making style surged into popularity that featured light and shadow crime dramas that looked dirty, gritty, and violent. "Film noir" featured hard-boiled anti-heroes who were often driven by animalistic, morally ambivalent motives, and met with a grim end. At the same time, radio explored these same areas, so this week we are going to be starting a dark journey through... "radio noir"!
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Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
It's the final pick in our brief series examining the diverse work of radio writer/director Arch Oboler. We've explored just about every type of script Oboler did, from fantasy, horror, drama, comedy, and pulp. Today we are going back to 1938, when Arch Oboler wrote a comedy sketch for a primetime radio variety show that infamously caused such a fervor, it almost destroyed hundreds of network radio stations. John takes a fresh look at the show that got Mae West banned from radio, to see if it's as scandalous today as it was 85 years ago.
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Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
We continue to explore the innovative work of radio writer/director Arch Oboler. This series would not be complete without an Oboler fantasy play. The oddly named story "The Word" appeared on Lights Out!, but it was not as Oboler points out at the beginning a horror story. It's about a man and a woman visiting the Empire State Building when everyone in the world suddenly and inexplicably vanishes.
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Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Tommy Cook is back with us this week. Tommy is just turning 93 years old, and his memories of working with Arch Oboler as a child actor are still extremely vivid. Today we also hear Tommy at age 15 performing in a humorous, light-hearted Oboler script about a boy corresponding with a Chinese "pen pal."
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Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
This show was so unbelievably campy and weird, we almost didn't do it. Arch Oboler wrote the script for this episode of the legendary radio series, "The Shadow," and Orson Welles was the star, along with Agnes Moorhead. With the powerhouse of talent involved, it's a radio misfire that is fascinating to listen to on so many levels.
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