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 Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Today we are featuring Jimmy Stewart in an episode of Suspense that was only recently discovered in its entirety thanks to collector Randy Riddle. "The Rescue" stars James Stewart in a story about a man who witnesses a distressed woman threatening to jump from a hotel ledge. He becomes entangled in a dangerous plot involving a deceptive doctor and a potential murder. It’s a Stewart performance reminiscent of Stewart’s great Hitchcock films of this period.
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Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
We are back to Jimmy Stewart appearances on popular comedy radio programs. Believe it or not, in 1947 Stewart was a guest on "It Pays to Be Ignorant," a show we have featured on this podcast on a somewhat regular basis. The show features host, Tom Howard, and a panel of “experts” (really vaudevillian baggy-pants comedians) who answer absurd questions in kind. Kate Smith pinch hits for Lulu McConnell on this one. Stewart sounds a little like he was handed the script cold, but it’s fun to hear him totter amidst the utter chaos of this show.
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Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
This week we continue with radio shows featuring the work of the legendary actor, Jimmy Stewart. The story recounts Pilot Tom Greer's transformation from an isolationist college student to a military enlistee after meeting a refugee. The play highlights themes of American identity, sacrifice, and the moral imperative to fight against tyranny during World War II, and shows a transformation in Oboler’s own work, from leaning isolationist in the late 1930s to a sharp pro-war turn when the United States entered the war.
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Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
We are kicking off the month of March featuring one of our favorite vintage Hollywood actors on radio, Jimmy Stewart. Stewart was prolific on radio, with numerous appearances on almost every major A-list program. We are beginning with Jimmy Stewart as guest on the popular comedy, "The Charlie McCarthy Show." The episode features Edgar Bergen, his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy, and Ray Noble, Anita Gordon, and Mortimer Snerd. This episode features Charlie's mock resignation from radio, a political campaign where Charlie runs for president of his club, and Stewart serves as Charlie's campaign manager.
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Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
We end this series of 10 More Great Adventure Stories with an extraordinary adventure about Danny Carlin (played by Paul Richards) and his obsessive quest to steal a large ruby called "The Heart of Kali" from a temple in India. His pursuit leads him to murder, but upon finally reaching the idol he falls into a trap. This was the finale episode of the series “Escape,” with a fitting epitaph by William Conrad as US Marshal Matt Dillon.
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Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
Today we are bringing you a new find; a “lost” episode of Duffy's Tavern from November 23, 1945. This is the Armed Forces Radio Service version. That means, because the Armed Forces did not allow advertising on their stations, the commercials were edited out and music filler put in to round the program out to a half-hour. Because of the difference in network and government practices, many missing radio shows only survive thanks to the work of AFRS. In this “lost” episode, Duffy’s is struggling, leading Archie (Ed Gardner) to concoct a contest in which patrons must write why they like eating at the tavern, with a $5 prize for the winner. The episode features characters such as Eddie (Eddie Green), Miss Duffy (Sandra Gould), Officer Clancy (Arthur Q. Bryan), and Finnegan (Charlie Cantor).
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Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
We are heading toward the end of our current series dedicated to radio dramas of adventure. Despite its rather non-descript title, today's story is a race against time to locate a bomb planted aboard a train carrying a defecting nuclear scientist. It stars voice over legend William Conrad, and is from near the end of the series, Escape. Regardless of severely reduced budgets on radio in 1953, as all the money was moving to television, this is a high-caliber production that once again showed the amazing innovative work being done on radio at that time.
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Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Today in our on-going series of new transfers, we did a February 6, 1947 episode of the Abbott and Costello show sponsored by Camel cigarettes. This episode can be found in collector circles, but this new digital transfer, despite surface noise, should prove valuable. The episode includes their signature fast-paced comedic style and their classic "dying" at a dry cleaning plant.
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Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Our series of adventure shows turns from the series Escape today to look at its big brother series, Suspense. Suspense rarely did straight up adventure stories, but this 1948 radio broadcast of "Hitch-Hike Poker" featuring Gregory Peck as an ex-GI hitchhiker, in a wild tale that begins innocently enough playing license plate poker with a seemingly charming travelling companion. But soon, things go off-the-rails, as sinister plots emerge.
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Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Today's episode features a new transfer we did of a missing September 2, 1945 episode of The Charlie McCarthy Show, starring ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy. The episode includes guest appearances by Carmen Miranda and Keenan Wynn, and features a humorous skit about the then-novelty of television.
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