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 Dec 26, 2024
Thursday Dec 26, 2024
We’re beginning another tribute to today, with “10 More Great Adventure Stories.” These are stories of imagination and escapism, and thus are perfect for radio drama. Our first is a wild story that fits all of these criteria: "The Boiling Sea," about a cargo ship trapped in the crater of a newly forming volcano in the Pacific. It’s a story of survival, escape, and a great tale of cruel nature vs. man's ingenuity.
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Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
This is the finale of our annual time-traveling expedition to Christmas Past. And we are closing it out with a huge radio extravaganza. The 1945 Christmas Day radio broadcast sponsored by the Elgin Watch Company. This two-hour show features numerous big-name celebrities, including Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and Red Skelton. The broadcast also has a real sense of relief, as America officially entered the post-war era. It includes a segment dedicated to veterans, highlighting their contributions and the importance of supporting their reintegration into civilian life, and reflected the joy of the post-war Christmas season.
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Thursday Dec 19, 2024
Thursday Dec 19, 2024
We are time traveling again, and it’s back to Christmas Eve of 1945 today, to listen to a lesser known A-tier radio program. "Names on the Land," features Frank Morgan as a train conductor on a fictional journey across America. The show uses the alphabet to highlight the origins of various town names, weaving together anecdotes and historical accounts, as a celebration of the land and humor of the American people. Sponsored by the DuPont Company, the program emphasizes the company's slogan, "Better things for better living through chemistry," while connecting the themes of homecoming and peace following World War II.
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Tuesday Dec 17, 2024
Tuesday Dec 17, 2024
Most remember Mel Blanc as “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” most notably the beloved cartoon character Bugs Bunny. But of course he played almost all of the most remembered voices in the Leon Schlesinger cartoons, as well as having a prolific career on radio. In 1946-’47 Blanc had his own sitcom, a vehicle to show off his tremendous comic character talents. The show is not at all remembered today, but it is fun to listen to. We are bringing you the Christmas episode, Mel's Christmas Eve scramble to find a gift for his girlfriend while simultaneously agreeing to play Santa Claus for a neighbor's son.
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Thursday Dec 12, 2024
Thursday Dec 12, 2024
We're jumping into our little time-sleigh today to zip back to a couple of days before Christmas 1949, when the series "Suspense" presented comedian Eddie Cantor in an amusing little story about a couple of button-down accountants who get rooked into betting some of the company's funds on a racehorse. This is a sharp departure from Suspense's usual tense thriller format, as they did occasionally depending on the guest or a holiday. This one is all light-hearted Christmas fun.
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Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
Tuesday Dec 10, 2024
We are back to Christmas comedy today with one of radio's most popular couples, George Burns and Gracie Allen. Their special guests in this Christmas episode are Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, as Gracie uses some backhanded manipulation to get Charles to be Santa Claus in an amateur theatre production. Also, we are doing a Baby Snooks skit about Snooks getting caught raiding the Christmas gifts. It's a double-bill of merry mayhem.
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Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Today we are pausing briefly to observe Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. There were a whole lot of shows with great WWII themes, and a few times a year we have a chance to feature one of them. This one is from The Cavalcade of America war years. Normally this series dramatized events from American history or historical figures. But for a while after the US entered the war, they did mostly action-packed stories revolving around the war, designed to boost morale. This is one such show, and it is a beautifully written piece starring the film actor Ralph Bellamy.
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Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
It's December, and that means we are officially plunging into our Christmas bag of goodies. This year we will be featuring popular shows of the era, including some dramas. We are starting out with one of the best traditions on radio (and later TV), the Jack Benny shopping episode. For 2024, we are featuring the 1948 version of this Christmas classic. So come with us back in time when folks still did all of their Christmas shopping at the department store... and this one is a little crazy.
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Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving! We are celebrating with a program that is a little lighter than last year's offering. It's a Thanksgiving program from Edgar Bergen, 1945. Edgar Bergen was radio's ventriloquist, and his lead act was the puppet Charlie McCarthy. This was before ventriloquist dummies became the subject of horror movies. The guest in this show is 7-year-old Margaret O'Brien, and they do a very silly retelling of The Courtship of Miles Standish. Gather your kids and your parents. This one's a great one for just about everyone.
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Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
We are ending our month-long tribute to Vincent Price with a zany comedy. It was a successful movie from 1950, adapted for radio here in 1951, about an intellectual named Beauregard Bottomly (played by Ronald Colman), who goes toe-to-toe with the slimy president of a soap company, Burnbridge Waters (Vincent Price), set on a background of radio/TV quiz programs. The humor, just like the film, is hit-or-miss, but it's a big radio adaptation, with many names (Audrey Totter, Barbara Britton), and Art Linkletter even reprises his role in the film.
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