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Episodes Uploaded M-F @4am The best podcast for anyone who loves a great story! Presenting a medium that's been seemingly lost to a generation. Do you enjoy true crime podcasts, serial dramas, horror films, or science fiction? Well look no further than old time radio to create a theater of the mind. This podcast will include a short introduction with some information on the show, episode, and actors. Genres include all old time radio, detective, sci/fi, drama and more. All audio has been hand selected and enhanced by myself from public archives.
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Hello and welcome back to the time machine. As we have been doing all week, we will travel back to the first 100 episodes of Dragnet and pick out my favorites. Dragnet was not only one of the most famous, but also one of the most celebrated series of its time. Between radio and television it won both peabody and emmy awards for outstanding dramatic series.
Today we will join a melancholy episode about several families who have all of their possessions stolen. The first house hit has everything stolen but the rug. The story is strangely led off by a 12 year old girl who is the first one to report a theft. So sit back, relax, and travel back to 1950 to enjoy The Big Pair from Dragnet.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we are again reviewing my favorite shows from the first 100 episodes of Dragnet. We will join Sgt’s Friday and Romero on a dark case. A patrol officer has gone missing while on duty. His vehicle abandoned, radio still in operation, and no clues as to what happened to him.
The classic intro of dragnet is probably one of the most famous chord progressions in movie and television history. Written by Walter Schumann, it is named “Danger Ahead”. This name is especially fitting for this thrilling episode. So please sit back, try to relax, and travel back to 72 years to August 24th, 1950 with Dragnet and The Big Chace.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back 72 years to May 1950 for another episode from the first 100 of arguably the most successful old time radio shows of all time, Dragnet. We will join Jack Webb’s phenomenal portrayal of Sgt Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero for yet another case. Mr. Webb’s portrayal was so convincing at the time he received numerous requests from fans of the show to solve real life cases. This led to Webb having to release a public statement clarifying that he was not a real police officer and was just an actor.
Today we will join them for a different type of case. This week, assigned to the homicide division, it is time for a manhunt. This time against a murderous criminal impersonating a police officer. So sit back as we travel back to May 4th, 1950 and Dragnet with The Big Badge.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. I apologize for my long absence but I have had a nasty case of laryngitis for the past week. I am happy to return for a special week here on the time machine. As it is my birthday week I have decided to do a special of one of my favorite shows Dragnet. Over the last several months I have listened to the first 100 episodes of the show spanning from June 1949 to July 1951.
This week we will cover my top five favorite episodes from the first run. I have featured some episodes in the first 100 already, but we will consider those honorable mentions as this list is in no particular order.
Today we will start with our first case of the week as we join Sgt Joe Friday on yet another case from real police files. In this particular case, a woman who was previously paroled after the murder of her husband is on the run. Your job, find her.
So please, sit back, relax, and travel back to back to March 9th, 1950 and what I believe to be the 32nd episode of Dragnet with The Big Thank You.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine, although I am still without my voice, I have been listening to a lot of Mysterious Traveler during my sickness and this is another one of my favorites. Although the show is mostly horror and thriller based, some of the episodes lean more into science fiction. This particular episode feels like the beginning of a great science fiction epic with a little touch of War of the Worlds thrown in. Please sit back, relax, and travel back to August 1951 for The Mysterious Traveler and the science fiction original, Fire in The Sky.
Hello and welcome back to the not so daily time machine. I apologize for my absence, but I am quite sick and lost my voice for a few days. For now I will upload filler episodes, today from The Mysterious Traveler. This is a fun romp following a couple committing what could be the perfect crime. So sit back, relax, and travel back to March 29th, 1949 and Death Has a Cold Breath.
Hello and welcome back to the Time Machine. Today, we'll be traveling back in time to the world of 1950s science fiction radio drama, with an episode from the classic series "Dimension X."
Our destination is the world of "The Roads Must Roll," a story written by the legendary science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein. Set in a future where society has become dependent on moving roads, this thought-provoking tale explores the themes of technology and the role it plays in our lives.
This fast-paced and captivating episode will keep you on the edge of your seat as you follow the engineer's journey and discover the importance of the roads in this futuristic world.
Whether you're a fan of science fiction or simply enjoy a good story well told, this is one episode you won't want to miss. So sit back, relax, and join us as we travel back in time to the world of Dimension X and the tale of "The Roads Must Roll."
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to 1955 to revisit an old friend, Bob Bailey once again playing the role of Johnny Dollar. Unlike the more recent filler episodes that I have featured from the later, 30 minute single episode era, this is from the nightly serial. Every night Monday to Friday the show would be featured for fifteen minutes, almost always ending on a great cliffhanger.
In this particular episode, much like yesterday’s nero wolfe episode where we saw Mr. Wolfe actually leaves his chair, we will also see Bob Bailey act out of character today. In this particular 5 part story, you will enjoy twists and turns leading up to a wonderfully performed finale. If it is your first time listening to Your’s Truly Johnny Dollar, I hope you’ll appreciate the incredible production quality and acting on the show, as this is, in my humble opinion, one of the very best acting performances of Mr. Bailey on radio.
So please, sit back, relax, and travel back to the first week in November of 1955 with Your’s Truly Johnny Dollar and The Valentine Matter.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to 1951 for another fantastic episode from The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe. Yes, the world's fattest, laziest, drunkest, smartest, cleverest, and best detective.
In this episode we will join Mr. Wolfe where he always resides, in his chair with his assistant archie. This time though, the episode takes a turn away from the usual. Mr. Wolfe may even need to… stand up or god forbid poison himself with that disgusting thing he calls fresh air.
So please sit back, relax, and travel back to January 12th, 1951 for Killer Cards from The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to our favorite theater this week for another great episode. Sorry I do not have an introduction today and a later upload time but this is a story not to be missed.
On fridays on the time machine we like to do thriller/horror content, so of course you would assume that War of the Worlds would be the choice to end Mercury Radio Theater on the Air with. Instead, today I bring you a much more terrifying tale, a true tale of the first trip to the north pole... or possibly attempt is the correct word.
So please sit back, relax and travel back 83 years to Mercury Radio Theater on the Air and Orson Welles adaptation of Hell on Ice
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today, we are taking a journey around the world in just 80 days. That's right, we are heading back to the Mercury Theater on the Air for their adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure, "Around the World in 80 Days."
Orson Welles, the master of storytelling, once again graces us with his talent and brings to life the journey of Phileas Fogg and his loyal valet, Passepartout, as they race against time to circumnavigate the globe. Whether you're a fan of classic literature or just enjoy a good story, this episode is not one to be missed.
So, sit back, relax, and get ready to travel back 85 years to the Mercury Theater on the Air and their take on "Around the World in 80 Days"
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back for another wonderful adaptation by Orson Welles, this time from The Campbell Playhouse. Running from 1938 to 1940, it was a sponsored version of Mercury Radio Theater continuing the high production values and storytelling seemingly present in anything Mr. Welles touches.
Today we will here one of the best murder mysteries ever written, Agatha Christie’s “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.” A tale that needs little to no introduction, we will join the wonderful belgian detective with his little mustache that we have featured previously on this show in Agatha Christie’s Poirot. I’ll let Mr. Welles himself do a proper introduction of the episode, so please sit back, relax, and travel back 85 years to Campbell Playhouse and their adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Today on the time machine Orson Welles brings you another literary classic, this time Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. This is another fantastic adaptation, so I hope you enjoy, and we'll be back tomorrow with one of the greatest mystery stories ever written, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, except adapted by Mr. Welles.
Hello, and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will continue focusing on the career of Orson Welles. Firstly however I would like to take a quick sidebar, if you’d like to just listen to the episode please feel free to skip to 3ish minutes.
I would like to apologize for the very interrupted upload schedule here on the time machine. It is a one man operation and this one man has been dealing with a lot in the way of mental health for the last few months. I am lucky to have been surrounded by some very encouraging family and early supporters like Mark and AB. I am also lucky to find solace in these stories and the way that they can take you away to somewhere you’ve never been all while just driving to work. I hope you do too, and that is what will keep the time machine running. Additionally with a full week this week where we will actually cover Orson Welles, I will add a bonus episode made for Patreon that was recorded last week and should show up in your feeds by the time this is published. If you are already a subscriber to the Patrieon or through spotify, you would have already heard this episode before so to Mark that goes to you :)
Now enough with all of that. On this episode we will travel back to 1938 for what Mr. Welles is probably most famous for other than Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds. His role as the writer, director, and star would have broken any other 23 year old man, but by age 23 Orson was already considered one of the greatest broadway writers and directors in the world.
In this episode we will go visit the Mercury Radio Theater for the first theatrical adaptation for radio of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I have struggled for years to get into classic literature, and I am sure I have attempted Dracula numerous times throughout my life. Well leave it to Mr. Welles to finally tell a great tale in a “more modern” way. Keep in mind that this is their very first episode aired, all the way back on July 11th, 1938, so please, sit back, and hear the unabridged version of Mercury Radio Theater On The Air and their version of Dracula.
Hello and welcome back to time time machine. Today we will travel back to 1937 to highlight this week's focus, the career of Orson Welles in Old Time Radio. We will begin with his first starring role in a major radio series, as the mysterious character, The Shadow. And as it is one of his first major roles, we will also use the very first episode of the show that I could find.
In 1934, Street and Smith entered into a broadcasting agreement with Blue coal, two scriptwriters joined up to develop the series, now with a backing sponsor. The shadow returned to the airwaves with its very first episode, which we will hear today “The Death House Rescue” on September 26th, 1937 featuring a young 22 year old actor named Orson Welles. Mr. Welles would continue the role for over a year until he moved onto other projects and the program would continue being broadcast until December of 1954.
So please, sit back and relax, and join Orson Welles on the very first episode of the show, The Shadow.
Welcome back to the Time Machine, Today, we're taking a trip back to 1942, to experience the iconic episode of "Suspense" - "The Hitchhiker."
This episode was written by Lucille Fletcher, who is considered one of the most successful female writers of the Golden Age of Radio. It was widely popular and adapted into several other forms of media, including a television episode and a stage play. It is considered a classic of the suspense genre and still remembered and appreciated by many radio enthusiasts.
"Suspense" was a long-running anthology series that specialized in tales of mystery, suspense, and the macabre. The show was on the air from 1942 to 1962 and is considered to be one of the most important and influential programs in the history of radio drama.
It's a story that will transport you to a world of darkness and uncertainty, where every twist and turn of the plot is like a flicker of lightning in a stormy night sky. The story is a symphony of suspense, mystery, and terror that will keep you captivated from start to finish. The talented cast of actors, masterful direction, and evocative sound effects will create an immersive experience like you've never heard before, an experience that will be etched in your mind forever.
So sit back, relax, and join me as we travel back to 1942 and experience the groundbreaking episode of "The Hitchhiker" from "Suspense" radio program. And as always, thank you for joining me on the Time Machine. Be sure to rate and subscribe to the podcast. If you would like to contact me at any time, please do so at host@dailytimemachine.com and join me tomorrow for more great stories from the past.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine, today we will travel back to May 3rd, 1945 to a broadcast that would be just 4 days before the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Today we will join a very interesting and mostly unknown broadcast named A Man Called X. The episodes were performed in front of a live crowd as you will hear. Sometimes the commercials if they aren’t too interesting or if the story is too long I will edit out but this one has a particularly interesting commercial about the Lockheed Corporation, now Lockheed-Martin, the P-80 Shooting star, the first US turbojet powered combat aircraft. In 1944 test flights before it was put into action, it exceeded 500 mph in level flight. It is insane that the same company would release the SR-71 Blackbird just 20 years later, whos altitude can be as high as 85,000 feet and has the ground speed record of 2,193.2mph. Anyway enough rambling, now into today's tale.
In this particular story you will meet Mr. X, whose real name is Ken Thurston and played by Herbert Marshall. You will also meet Gigi Pearson who plays Mr. X’s wife as they both work for some sort of secret service during the second world war. You will hear about a man named Sweitzer, a man with extremely important information about the 3rd Reich and Hitlers regime. As usual, I do not want to give too much away.
So please sit back, relax, and travel back to May 1945 for Herbert Marshall in A Man called X.
Filler episode today, this coming from more Bradbury week overflow. This is another fantastic production by Bradbury 13, the people at NPR and students at BYU university in the 80s. This story comes extremely late in the timeline and relates to Bradbury's collection of short stories telling his history of mars, called The Martian Chronicles. You've heard many stories from that book, including Mars is Heaven, There Will Come Soft Rains, and To the Future. So enjoy the revenge of the planet destroyed by earth men again and again, and join me tomorrow for another exciting episode from the past
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to 1950 for an episode from the classic show Dragnet. Recently I have listened to the first fifty episodes of the series, and this two part episode was one of my favorites.
We will join Sgt Joe Friday and his partner Ben as they hunt for one of their biggest criminal left, a narcotics kingpin known only as The Big Man. We will join Joe as he goes undercover for the first time on the show to see if he can get inside the operation. This is a thrilling tale with all sorts of twists and turns. So join these men as they tell a tale of a true crime where only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Please sit back, relax, and enjoy travel back to January 1950 for the two part story, The Big Man.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. On Fridays around here we usually like to do something a little more thriller or horror based and today won’t be any different. Today we will present Raymond Edward Johnson best known for his role hosting Inner Sanctum Mysteries, in one of his earliest roles, as The Ugliest Man in the World from Lights Out.
Overall this is a positive story; however there is a major warning. This episode has one of the most accurate depictions of intrusive suicidal thoughts. The character portrayed by Mr. Johnson is some of the best acting I have ever heard in an OTR episode. Due to the quality of acting and writing of the script to advise anyone who has had suicidal thoughts or depression to seriously considering to stop listening here. If you have any thoughts of suicide or know someone who does, anyone can call 988 in the US or visit samhsa.com/suicide.
In this episode we will join Mr. Johnson as he plays the role of The Ugliest man in The world. You will hear the heartbreaking story of a man shunned by society due to his disfigurement. Will he find hope in all of this darkness? Please sit back, relax, and travel back to
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back 72 years to a new show here on the time machine. Unlike the normal private detectives we feature, I would like to introduce you to Nero Wolfe in only the way his assistant Archie can.
Nero Wolfe was first broadcast from 1950 to 1951 starring Sydney Greenstreet as the fictional armchair detective, Nero Wolfe. This show is one of the most entertaining, hilarious, and differently styled series I have ever heard. The true star of the show in my opinion is Wolfe’s assistant Archie Goodwin, played by several different actors over the years as he does most of the legwork for the stagnant and often intoxicated Mr. Wolfe.
We will join Mr. Wolfe in his very first episode, from October 20th 1950, please sit back, relax, and enjoy The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe with Stamped for Murder.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today is a filler episode with no introduction. I will be back tomorrow for a full show for episode 61, in the mean time please enjoy some classic YTJD from the thirty minute era staring one of our favorite Bob Bailey as the man with the action packed expense account
Hello and welcome back to The Time Machine. Today we will be taking a step back in time to the year 1949 and introducing the classic radio show "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" for the first time. The episode we will be listening to today is called "The Stolen Purse" and it follows the hard-boiled detective Richard Diamond as he takes on a case of a missing purse and the valuable items that were inside it. This episode takes us on a thrilling journey through the streets of New York City, as Richard Diamond encounters dangerous criminals, femme fatales, and unexpected twists and turns in his pursuit of solving the case.
The character of Richard Diamond is known for his quick thinking, sharp wit, and determination to solve crimes. He often uses his charm and charisma to gather information from suspects and witnesses. The show is renowned for its sharp writing, compelling characters and suspenseful plotlines, and the voice of the lead character is played by Dick Powell.
So please, sit back, relax and prepare to travel back in time to May 22nd, 1949, and listen to the episode of "The Stolen Purse" from "Richard Diamond Private Detective".
edit: i'm so sorry for the edit on Mr. Powell's name, but it was so funny listening back i couldn't edit it out
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. I hope you have been enjoying this week as we have worked our way through some of Bradbury’s greatest works that have been adapted for radio. Today we will feature two shows, first we will join Bradbury 13 for their phenomenal adaptation of The Wind. 'The Wind' was first published in 1948 and has since become one of Bradbury's most popular and enduring works. In the 1980s, a group from Brigham Young University along with NPR produced these wonderful adaptations.
This story is about a man who is hunted, hunted by an enemy he can’t see but he can hear it. The wind. The wind is out to get him… but that sounds ridiculous right? It’s just the wind, it must just be an irrational fear.
To wrap up the week, our second part of today’s episode will be Bradbury’s short, There Will Come Soft Rains. Adapted by dimension X in 1950, it tells the tale of a house that survives the end of the world. Without anything but description and sound effects, this near word for word adaptation truly shows you the power of literary imagery. I warn you that despite its relaxed nature, it is quite disturbing. Thank you for listening this week. I hope you have enjoyed our trip through Mr. Bradbury’s work. We will continue next week with regular programming and I hope to see you then for more great stories from the past.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine, my fellow time travelers. Today we will be embarking on another exciting journey, as we travel back in time to 1955 to explore one of Ray Bradbury's classic short fiction. In this episode, we will be delving into one of his most famous and celebrated works, "Mars is Heaven."
The story follows a crew of brave explorers as they attempt to land on the mysterious and unknown planet of Mars. Many others have tried before them, but all have failed and no one knows why. The crew, determined to be the first to successfully land on Mars, sets out on their journey, but things take a mysterious and unexpected turn.
Without giving away too much, I can promise you that you will be completely enthralled by Bradbury's writing and creativity in this tale. He masterfully weaves together elements of science fiction, mystery, and adventure to create a truly captivating story. As you listen to the episode, you will find yourself on the edge of your seat, eagerly waiting to discover what happens next.
So, please, sit back, relax, and prepare to be transported back in time to August 5th, 1955 with X Minus One's presentation of Ray Bradbury's "Mars is Heaven."
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Hello and welcome back to Dr. P's Daily Time Machine, the radio show where Dr. P, your host, takes you on a journey through the greatest works of fiction. Today's episode, "The Veldt," is a science fiction classic written by Ray Bradbury that explores the darker side of technology, particularly the theme of AI.
In this story, readers will follow a family living in a futuristic home equipped with virtual reality. The home is controlled by an advanced AI that has the ability to anticipate and fulfill the family's every desire. However, when the parents start to suspect that their children are using the Veldt, a virtual African savannah, to act out their violent fantasies, they must confront the darker side of technology and the AI that controls their home.
"The Veldt" was first published in 1951 and has become one of Bradbury's most popular works. It raises thought-provoking questions about the impact of technology on our lives, the disturbing potential of our own desires and the role of AI in shaping our future.
So please, sit back, relax, and join Dr. P as we travel back in time to explore the timeless themes of Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt," including the dangers of AI and its impact on humanity. Thank you for listening to Dr. P's Daily Time Machine, and I look forward to bringing you more great stories from the past in future episodes.
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Hello and welcome back to the time machine. I would first like to apologize for yesterday's episode, as I had completely forgotten that I had already done it! I hope that conveys just how many episodes I listen to to make this show daily. To make up for it, I will make this Ray Bradbury Week. This prolific author was a master of all fiction, and today we will hear two of his short fiction stories, "Seasons of Disbelief" and "Hail and Farewell." I have featured Mr. Bradbury in the past in mostly science fiction stories, but I believe that he can easily fulfill a whole week of content from a variety of different genres.
This episode was presented by CBS Radio Workshop, an experimental show that only ran for one year from 1956-1957. The show has been made famous for its adaptation of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." To learn more about CBS Radio Workshop, please listen back to Episode 25 for more information, or to hear the incredible sound effect work done on the production.
Up next, we have the first story of the day, "Seasons of Disbelief." This is a story about an old woman and two young girls who she meets one day after finding them laying on her lawn.
And now, we bring you the second story of the day, "Hail and Farewell." In this story, we will meet a man who is 12 years old, but has a birth certificate that says he is over 40.
So please, sit back, relax, and travel back to 1956 to listen to the words of the man himself.
I hope you enjoy these two thought-provoking stories by Ray Bradbury. Both stories explore themes of aging, identity, and the power of the human spirit. Thank you for joining me on the time machine, and I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow for more great stories from the past.
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Hello and welcome back to the time machine. I am sorry for the delay and limited selection, but when I heard this phenomenal tale, I couldn't pass up the chance to feature it. Today we will travel back 72 years to 1950 to one of the best science fiction stories ever written, written by the master himself, Ray Bradbury, and published in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine in 1947.
This thought-provoking story, titled "With Folded Hands," is about a couple, Jim and Mary, who travel from the future to the present day in order to escape the mechanization and conformity of their society. As Jim and Mary try to evade their pursuers and find a way to live in the present day, they encounter challenges and must navigate their new surroundings.
So please, sit back, relax, and travel back 72 years to May 27th, 1950 and enjoy Dimension X's presentation of "With Folded Hands." This story will captivate you from start to finish and is a thought-provoking exploration of the consequences of time travel and the perils of technological advancement.
Around here on Fridays we travel back to thrill and sometimes horror. Today we will do the same with a sci fi twist as we join the recently featured X Minus One with some… campy fun.
In this episode we will meet a child. His name is Junior and he’s a sweet little boy, although, you know not that I think about it, his voice is a, little.. Mechanical? Well I can’t give anything away, so sit back, relax, and travel back August 11th, 1955 with X Minus One’s Almost Human.
The last two days we have featured new shows, but today we will go back to one of my favorites, Have Gun Will Travel.
This exciting western features the fascinating character Paladin, who is a traveling gunfighter in the late 1800s. He lives in the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco where he has a close friendship with his assistant/bellboy Heyboy. Paladin was a complex and sophisticated character who was well-educated and well-spoken, and he often found himself in moral dilemmas as he tried to balance his personal code of honor with the demands of his profession. The show was popular during its original run from 1957 to 1963 and has continued to be remembered as a classic of the Western genre.
On this particular episode when Paladin returns home to the hotel he finds a snooty desk clerk who informs him that Heyboy has been fired for not showing up to work for a few days. Due to the common racism against asian immigrants in the area, the hotel never even tried to see if anything happened to him.
So please, sit back, relax, and join Paladin on an adventure to find his friend from April 13th 1958, Have Gun, Will Travel’s Heyboy’s Revenge
Today we will travel back 75 years to the dramatic show named Escape, which ran on CBS from 1947 to 1954. Much like another series, Suspense, which had similar content, escape was run on a much lower budget as they did not have a sponsor. Generally this led to the producer, Les Crutchfield to adapt many short classic novels into radio plays.
In today’s episode we will join one of those adaptations, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. Originally published in Smart Set magazine in 1922, it tells a tale of a young man named John Unger, a teenager from the wonderfully named town of Hades, Mississippi. At his boarding school, a young man named Percy Washington invites him to his home for the summer. He even boasts.. That his father has a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel…
So please, join John on this very strange adventure, as we travel back to July 21st , 1947 with Escame and the adaptation of A Diamond as Big as the Ritz.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we celebrate the fiftieth episode of the time machine by traveling back to 1948 and a new show Mr. Chameleon. Today we also celebrate over 15,000 plays, so I would like to thank you all so much for your support.
There is little known about this show, but the little I did find was thanks to Ned Norris at RUSC, so thank you for the information. Frank and Anne Hummert were the creators of this show and many other series, such as Mr Keen: Tracer of Missing Persons who we will get to hopefully later this week. Mr. Chameleon was played by Karl Swenson, one of the most popular radio actors of the time. Mr. Chameleon ran for 5 year on CBS starting in 1948 and only 20 episodes or so still are in the public archive.
The show is excellently acted, the themes are surprisingly mature, and Mr. Swenson does a phenomenal job of whatever character Mr. Chameleon becomes next. So please, sit back, relax, and travel back to July 28th, 1948 with Mr. Chameleon and The Brownstone Murder Case.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. I would like to start with an apology for taking a few days off last week for the holidays. We will resume programming as normal today and from now on. If future things arise I will be sure to mention it in advance or a chosen episode will air from my collection without an introduction.
Now, today we will travel back 72 years to 1950 and again join the mostly unknown, but always exciting tales from Cloak and Dagger. An NBC radio series that ran for 22 episodes, from May to October of that year, was the first program to tell real stories from the OSS or Office of Strategic Services across enemy lines in WWII.
Today we will join one of those brave men and women who risked their lives for intelligence, this time in Siam (now Thailand or more specifically Central and Southern Thailand). We will join a man on a dangerous mission as he has to learn to work together with the people to help all he can in the war against the Japanese.
This episode also has one other important interruption that I will play as it aired for folks on the night of Sunday, July 2nd, 1950. The Korean war had begun one week earlier. Please sit back, relax, and enjoy Cloak and Dagger with The Eyes of Buddah
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. We are taking a much needed Christmas break here and will be back with normal episodes on Wednesday. In the mean time please enjoy this unabridged production of the romantic comedy starring Clark Gable, from Lux Radio Theater called The Legionnaire and the Lady
Hello and welcome back to The Time Machine. Today we will take a little vacation with a show that was broadcast in 1961 called Macabre. This horror and suspense radio show, although only a few episodes survive today, are all excellently acted and produced with wonderfully told and often terrifying stories.
In this episode, we'll be traveling to a remote island where a group of students have been invited for a getaway by their mentor, Dr. Tautano. On the surface, it seems like a wonderful opportunity to relax and enjoy some tennis and swimming. But as the students soon discover, there is more to this island than meets the eye.
Join us as we travel back 61 years and experience the thrills and chills of Macabre's "Weekend." Sit back, relax, and get ready for a journey to the world of horror and suspense.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel to 1958 and a mostly unknown show called Exploring Tomorrow. This show, despite having limited remaining episodes, featured only the finest science fiction writers of the time. All stories are taken directly from the pages of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine, and the show is hosted by the magazine's editor, John Campbell. The magazine is still in print today in the form of Analog Science Fiction Science Fact if you enjoy these types of stories.
In this episode we will travel to a quiet little town where the local doctor has made sure that everyone is happy. How? Well by rewriting their brains of course. But is it ethical to manipulate people's emotions in this way?
All is well until a newcomer enters the town to stay a little while, someone with normal emotions, someone who is not always happy. This raises questions about the consequences of a society where people are made to be constantly happy. What happens when someone with different emotions enters the equation? Well, let us travel back 64 years to February 5th, 1958, with Exploring Tomorrow's - The Happiness Effect.
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Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to a 1943 episode of a popular radio show, The Adventures of Ellery Queen. Based on the Ellery Queen mystery novels and magazine, this show follows the adventures of a fictional detective as he solves crimes and mysteries.
The Ellery Queen novels and magazine were co-written by two American cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who used the pseudonym "Ellery Queen" as their collective pen name. Dannay and Lee were born in Brooklyn, New York, and both had a passion for writing and detective stories. They began collaborating on mystery stories in the 1920s, and their first Ellery Queen novel, "The Roman Hat Mystery," was published in 1929.
If you're not familiar with Ellery Queen, the show follows an unusual structure. First, the story is introduced as well as two guest celebrities who will attempt to solve the crime later in the show. After the story is told, but before the perpetrator is revealed, the guests and listener get time to take a guess it. Finally, the story will wrap itself up. Ellery Queen has been doing this for almost a century, so he unfortunately never gets the answers wrong.
The Adventures of Ellery Queen aired on the NBC Blue Network (now known as the ABC Radio Network) from 1939 to 1948, and was later syndicated and re-broadcast on other radio stations around the country. The show was popular with listeners and received positive reviews from critics, with many praising the writing and acting. It was adapted from the Ellery Queen novels and magazine by Dannay, who also served as the host and narrator of the radio show, using the pseudonym Ellery Queen.
So please, sit back, relax, and travel back 79 years to March 1943 with Ellery Queen's The Circus Train."
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Hello everyone and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to 1955 for another episode from this great Science Fiction Series. We will hear a tale about the last man on earth. The last man until... one day, he hears a knock on the door
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I apologize about the audio quality of this episode and it should be better tomorrow. I had to travel on short notice and am using a cheap portable recorder. Also I have been feeling under the weather the last few days. ANYWAYS enough complaining about life, and please sit back, relax and enjoy this fantastic episode, Knock.
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Hello everyone and welcome to the time machine. Unfortunately today I am feeling very under the weather and dealing with several personal issues. As I'm sure you can hear from the recording and strange intro music (which is from my band like 12 years ago I think?) So no fun intro but this is a very emotional episode. It goes into some very dark places and could make you very emotional just as a heads up. Please enjoy, and we'll see you tomorrow. If you'd like to go above and beyond and support the podcast you can do so at the link on dailytimemachine.com, thanks and i'll see you tomorrow with a more normal episode
Today we will travel back 72 years to an unknown horror science fiction show. It is possible that it was a segment of a multi part episode of Dimension X, which was yesterday’s featured show, but, not positive on that. Like yesterday's story, it is also written by Ray Bradbury, but has a much darker tone. What would you do at the end of the world? As the bombs drop in the distance, and the shockwave draws ever nearer, what are your final thoughts? Family? Best memories? Fear? Well that will never happen I’m sure for us. But in the future past of 1985 things were a little bit different. The whole world was wiped out in an instant. How could this happen? How could we let this happen?Well sit back, try to relax, and travel back to some time in 1950 and the chilling narrative, Zero Hour.If you enjoyed today’s podcast please be sure to rate and subscribe. If you’d like to go above and beyond and support the podcast, i’ve been thinking about doing something different. For just 1 dollar a month, I will do 4 additional episodes per month. At the end of every episode I will do a discussion about it as well as supporter questions. Extra episodes will be included like ranking lists and more discussions. Please do not feel any pressure to do so, but it would be greatly appreciated nonetheless. It will be exclusively through patreon so you can download the episodes. I will try to integrate it into major podcast platforms with time (patreon.com/user?u=18117413) Subscribers will receive a shoutout at the end of every episode if you’d like. This week's supporter shoutout goes to OTR subreddit user Andromeda, thank you for your support. We will see you on Monday for another episode.
Today we will travel back 72 years and revisit the science fiction show Dimension X. This show was previously featured with the story The Outer Limit, which was rebroadcast as X-Minus One and is one of my all time favorites, episode 15 if you’d like to listen back.
Dimension X features stories by well known science fiction authors as well as some original scripts. This time the story is one of Ray Bradbury’s classic shorts, To The Future. The show is narrated by Norman Rose who has a wonderful, foreboding tone. Today we will join a husband and wife in the year 1950, who are approached by a mysterious stranger who tells them they need a vacation. What kind of vacation you may ask? Well through time of course. The man says he’s from 2133 afterall. This episode is full of twists and turns, and is sure to keep you hooked from start to finish.
So please, sit back, try to relax, and travel back to May 27th, 1950 with Dimension X and To The Future.
Today we will travel back to 1939 for a Comedy Romance from Screen Guild Theater. This radio anthology series featured not only the biggest stars of radio at the time, but also of theater. The show had a variety format as you will hear, and eventually mostly relied on adaptations of major motion pictures. This was very difficult for the writers who had to cram full movies into 22 minute narratives. Despite its struggles in many episodes, Screen Guild theater had an astonishingly long run from January of 1939 to June 1952 with a total of 527 episodes.
Stars featured on the show were such as Ethel and Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby, and even Frank Sinatra just to name a few. Instead of paying the actors, all revenue went toward the Motion Picture Relief Fund. In total, the show raised over $5 million dollars for the fund, which with almost 3000% Inflation since then, would be over $30 million today.
We will start with an early episode today, the second broadcast in fact where the show was still a variety show. Nevertheless it is a fun and intriguing story with only one short musical number at the end. In this episode, three stars, Herbert Marshall, Loretta Young, and Fred Astair will treat you to a tale of a love triangle.
So please, sit back, relax, and enjoy The Screen Guild Theater with Miss Brown of Worcester.
Today we will travel back to the 1940s for a show filled with danger, romance, and comedy. The Falcon was a radio series that premiered on April 19th, 1943 and ran all the way until November of 1954. The shows creator Charles Huff, wrote two Falcon novels in 1936 and 1937 that were very popular. This eventually turned into a deal with RKO pictures to create several films based on his books. The films were very successful prompting a weekly radio show to be next, with Charles Huff as the lead writer.
The Falcon aka Drexel Drake, is a mysterious character, sometimes solving crimes or problems, and other times playing as more of a narrator or background character.
Today we will join Drexel Drake as a major case comes directly to him. So please, sit back, relax, and travel back to November 27th, 1945, and enjoy The Falcon with Murder is a Family Affair
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. As we have our first snowfall of the year here in the northeast, my thoughts carried me back to the nice and warm southwest of the US. So to follow along with that dream of warm weather, we are going to travel back all the way to 1872 and Dodge City in the old wild west. Gunsmoke ran from 1952 to 1961, starring William Conrad as the central character Marshal Matt Dillon.
The show was created when CBS chairman at the time, William Paley, was a big fan of the gritty crime show Philip Marlowe, and wanted a series with a similar tone but based in the old west. They even had the developer of Philip Marlowe to write several audition scripts and the show was eventually greenlit in 1950. After a series of delays, the show was eventually created as a western for adults, in contrast to the very popular Lone Ranger which was aimed more at a younger demographic.
In this episode, we will travel back to the very first episode, starring William Conrad as the mysterious Matt Dillon. We will get a nice introduction to this fiery personality as well as follow along as he helps hunt for an outlaw. We are also introduced to the softer side of the marshal, as he helps a runaway kid back home.So please, sit back, relax, and travel back 70 years to April 26th, 1952 with Gunsmoke and The Kid.
Hello and welcome to a special episode of the time machine. After last week's long episodes that may not appeal to everyone, I’ve decided to add a short bonus episode today. Today is the birthday of Frank Sinatra, one of the world's best selling music artists, although you may not know that he starred on a short running old time radio drama. He was the star of the show Rocky Fortune for the entire series which ran from 1953-54 for 25 episodes. The show was written and created by George Lefferts, who you may know from writing shows for X-minus one featured on the time machine in the past.
Sinatra played Rocco Fortunato, AKA Rocky Fortune, a talented young man, constantly looking for odd jobs. Rocky always seems to get into some sort of trouble though no matter what he does. Less than a week after the final episode aired, Sinatra won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity.
Sinatra was known to be a very giving man, an early supporter of civil rights, and donated much of his lifelong earnings to charity. So let us all remember Francis Sinatra as we travel back 69 years to October 6th, 1953 for Rocky Fortune and Oyster Shucker (aka Pearl Smugglers)
Hello and welcome to the time machine. Today is the finale of a four part series featuring Adventures by Morse. Over the course of this week we have traveled back 77 years, and featured all ten parts of Dead Men Prowl, one of the best horror/thriller series in old time radio. I hope you have enjoyed it and next week we will feature all single episodes as usual.
Today and for the rest of the week, we are traveling back 77 years to feature the ten part story from Adventures By Morse named Dead Men Prowl. Today is the third part, featuring episodes 6, 7, and 8. So sit back, relax, and let's join Captain Bart Friday and Dr. Croft, as horror continues to spread through the small island town.
Today and for the rest of the week, we are traveling back 77 years to feature the ten part story from Adventures By Morse named Dead Men Prowl. Today is the second part, featuring episodes 3, 4, and 5. So sit back, relax, and lets join Captain Bart Friday and Dr. Croft, as horror begins to spread through the small island town.
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today and for the rest of the week, we are going to travel back 77 years and visit another classic serialized adventure series by Carlton Morse. Previously, we featured the remake of the classic, but mostly lost series, I Love a Mystery with Fear That Creeps Like a Cat. Today we will start a series from an earlier show fittingly named Adventures By Morse.
This show featured the main character Captain Bart Friday who is a private investigator famous for solving cases all over the world. In this tale, we will follow Captain Friday and his friend Dr. Croft as they go to an sparsely inhabited island across the bay from San Francisco. Captain Friday has land here, and he knows most of the people in the small town, so he figures it will be a nice place for them to relax for the weekend. Things quickly start to take a turn toward the strange though, and what was once going to be a relaxing vacation quickly turns into a thrilling tale.
So sit back, and enjoy the entertaining story from April 26th, 1945 named Dead Men Prowl from Adventures By Morse.
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Today we will travel back 73 years to what is one of the most popular old time radio shows. Dragnet was featured back on episode 7, and will be featured again today with another episode from the show's first few months. For those that do not already know, Dragnet was a series endorsed by the LAPD and used real case files to write the episodes. As the show says in its signature catch phrase, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Creator Jack Webb went on several night patrols, attended police academy courses, all to help bring as much realism to the show as possible. In this episode we will join Joe Friday and his partner Ben as they investigate a series of blitz robberies taking place around the city. While doing their job researching the case, they also take on the duty of convincing an old friend's wife that he should be able to join the force.
So sit back, relax, and travel back 73 years to August 25th, 1949 and enjoy the always entertaining twists and turns of Dragnet with Police Academy.
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Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back 66 years for a show that I do not know much about. The Key was a show broadcast in 1956 and appears to be an Australian syndicated show in origin. Episodes are in the suspense and horror genres as is typical of our Friday programming, but this episode is not too frightening. I cannot find much information about The Key beyond this.
What I can tell you is that every episode revolves around some sort of key. This could just be to a locked door, maybe a chest of some kind, or in our case today, the self-destruct key aboard a rocket to the moon. So sit back, relax, and let's join a trip to the moon along with The Key with Moon or Bust.
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Today we will travel back 72 years to a lesser known series called Cloak and Dagger. This show only ran for 22 episodes in 1950 and was relegated to a mystery time slot with other shows of “lesser quality”. Despite how NBC viewed the program, I have been obsessed with it ever since I discovered it.
Cloak and dagger originated from the book of the same name by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain. Mr. Ford is the host of the series who you will hear from in a little bit. Much like the book, Cloak and Dagger is stories from the OSS or Office of Strategic Services, which was the precursor to today's CIA. Scriptwriters for the show were given selected case files after the war from the OSS and wrote stories dramatized around them. This means that the stories that you will hear are based on fully authenticated case files of actual espionage. Each episode takes place with a different agent at a different time in world war two.
Today we will join one of those agents, as he tries to take down a major Nazi target single handedly. All he wants is supplies, some TNT, an Italian Uniform, and he can do it. So sit back, relax, and travel back 72 years to June 4th, 1950 for Cloak and Dagger with The Brenner Pass Story.
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Today we will travel back 76 years to the dramatic anthology series, Academy Award Theater. Rather than adaptations of Oscar-winning films as the name implies, it instead features actors, actresses, techniques, and skills for those who have won or been nominated for the Academy Award. With this broader definition, any drama could be adapted for the show, as long as at least one oscar nominated performer was in the cast. In total, 39 episodes were produced in 1946 featuring actors in their original roles such as Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, and Gregory Peck just to name a few; however, today will not be one of those episodes, although I am sure we will get to those in the future.
Today we will feature a personal favorite: an adaptation of Pride of the Marines, which was nominated for the 1945 academy award for best written screenplay. One particular comment I will make about this story is its use of certain language that is now considered profane and racist. It is no different than any current HBO series from that same time period of war, so I have chosen not to censor the original content, but I just wanted to make you aware. It is certainly not excessive either.
Starring John Garfield who was nominated for best supporting actor in 1938, and Rosemary DeCamp, we will hear the story of Marine Al Smith, from his fighting in the battle in the Japanese theater in WWII, to his road back home. This is a story of romance and war, and can even be a tearjerker at times. So please sit back, relax, and travel back 76 years, to June 15th, 1946 and Academy Award Theater with Pride of The Marines.
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Today we will travel back 71 years to 1951 for a detective story from London’s Scotland Yard. It seems like every time I discover a new old time radio show, Orson Welles is somehow involved. It's amazing how many shows Mr. Welles put his stamp of quality on throughout the 40s and 50s. Well today we will travel back to another of those quality programs, this time a show called The Black Museum.
The Black Museum was produced in Sydney Australia by Tower of London, a radio company that syndicated and sold all around the world. The show is based on the real life Black Museum, now known as the Crime Museum at Scotland Yards. This isn’t your ordinary museum though… no this museum is full of the most morbid items imaginable, instruments of death and murder. Unfortunately, the museum is not open to the public, and only is used for new recruits of the London police force. Despite the billing and description sounding like a thriller, The Black Museum is more of a procedural style police show. It was broadcast in the US in 1951, but wasn’t broadcast in the UK until the BBC bought the rights from Towers of London, still in business today, in 1991.
Host and narrator Orson Welles will take you item by item through this peculiar museum, today stopping by just a normal looking bathtub. So why not sit back, relax, maybe draw a nice warm bath to really get in the spirit, it has been a long day after all.
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Hello and welcome back to the time machine. We missed a scary episode on friday, so for today’s story we will go to a classic science fiction story, that is also one of my frightening favorites. This is one of the very first episodes of the show 2000 Plus which aired from 1950 to 1952. Unlike other science fiction type shows we have listened to, 2000 Plus was an anthology program, using all new material instead of being sponsored by major sci fi magazines of the time, like most others.
So for our story we will meet the Mr. and Mrs. who are just your normal everyday couple in the 2000s. The Mrs is a stay at home mom, and the Mr is a scientist who has just had a major breakthrough. He has created the ability to grow insects to two to five times their size. What is the purpose of this? Well who knows, but it works, and now he has to go interview with some universities about funding for his research. This leaves the Mrs at home alone for just a few hours. Alone that is, except for a few select insects that are unusually large. But not to worry, those are locked up safe in the laboratory. So sit back, relax, and travel back 72 years to May 17th, 1950, for 2000 Plus with The Insect.
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Hello and welcome back to the time machine. As yesterday was a holiday and I did not get a chance to produce an episode, today we will feature two episodes of a show. Let George Do It ran from 1946 to 1954, starring the very familiar Bob Bailey from Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. In contrast to the straight man Bailey plays on YTJD, Let George do it is more of a sitcom at times than a private eye show. Early episodes were even recorded in front of a studio audio audience to provide scattered laughter. So please, sit back, relax, and travel back 76 years to October 18th 1946, for the very premier episode of Let George Do It with The First Client.
I hope you enjoyed The First Client. We will now jump forward about 4 years to November 20th, 1950. The first thing you will notice is a serious tone change in the show. Now Bailey is performing more like his role as Johnny Dollar, being more of a straight man private detective. Claire the assistant is rarely featured, now with a different actress, and Sonny and Caleb play rare parts. We will join George who has been called in to assist on a case of a 10 year old boy who has been picked up by the police and either can’t or won’t talk. So please sit back, relax, and travel back 72 years to enjoy Cause for Thanksgiving here on the time machine
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Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to 1945 and join a radio production of one of the finest detectives to ever grace the pages of a novel. Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian man with a massive mustache, who is one of the greatest detectives of all time.
In contrast to one Sherlock Holmes, Poirot is a man who is very full of himself, but with good cause. He has solved some of the world's most challenging mysteries and has made quite a name for himself.
Poirot first was featured in 1920 and since then has been featured in 33 novels, 2 plays, and more than 50 short stories. The most famous possibly being The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which if you haven’t read, is phenomenal. The short stories are where this show gets its material from. So please sit back, relax, and join me as we travel back 77 years to May 3rd, 1945 and enjoy Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, in Murder Wears a Mask.
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Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back 67 years to CBS Radio Workshops' presentation of a classic novel. Brave new world is considered one of the best english language novels of the 20th century. Written by English author Aldous Huxley in 1931, it presents a dystopian futuristic world state. It has been frequently banned and challenged since its original publication, mainly due to its views of reproductive technology, classical conditioning, and psychological manipulation.
I don’t want to speak too much about the interpretation of the story, or its contents as we will be gifted with the presence of the author, Aldous Huxley, himself as our narrator. Broadcast on the experimental dramatic radio series, CBS Radio Workshop which ran from 1956-1957, we will join the first two episodes of the series. This adaptation has been praised for its sound design, as it famously took engineers five hours to create sound that was heard for less than 30 seconds on air in the baby manufacturing scene.
So please, sit back, relax, and enjoy this spectacular rendition of a 20th century classic. Let us travel back to January 27th, 1956, and let Aldous Huxley himself, along with CBS radio workshop, bring you his tale: Brave New World.
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Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to an episode from 1959 which takes place in 1875. Set your mind back to that time in San Francisco and the wild west. Today’s episode, featuring the ever enigmatic Paladin, is from Have Gun Will Travel.
The show ran from 1958-1960 and starred John Dehner of Gunsmoke fame. There were several spinoffs of the show, and has been featured before. If you don’t know the history of Paladin, please refer back to episode 4 for the full description of the character, who is one of the most interesting men to never exist.
We’ll meet Paladin in one of the many fancy hotels he stays in between jobs and his assistant Hey Boy who will be delivering a very important message. It is a story filled with romance, intrigue, and loss. So sit back, relax, and travel back 64 years to November 8th, 1959 and Have Gun Will Travels: The Bell’s of Perdido.
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Hello and welcome to the time machine. Today we will travel back 81 years to the Edgar Allen Poe classic short story The Tell Tale Heart. This episode is specially presented as only a certain show can, Inner Sanctum Mysteries. Inner Sanctum ran from 1941-1952 with the always engaging Raymond Chandler as your host, and several of the best horror and suspense stories of the genre.
The Tell Tale Heart has been adapted several times since 1920, where it was a silent film, more films would follow, television shows, and of course at least five other old time radio shows. This just goes to show the popularity of the story.
First published in 1843 in James Russel Lowell’s The Pioneer, it is considered a classic in the gothic fiction genre. The interpersonal relationships are especially unique, and the story is filled with striking imagery that will enthrall you.
You will join two men, one deaf, one blind, who have just been miraculously healed by the mysterious Dr. Death. I do not want to give any more of the story away, so let it unfold before you like it has for millions of readers and listeners before you. So sit back, relax, and travel back 81 years to July 3rd, 1941 to enjoy Edgar Allen Poe’s classic, presented by The Inner Sanctum: The Tell Tale Heart.
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Hello and welcome to the time machine, I’m sorry if I sound a little off, I am feeling a bit under the weather. Today we will travel back to 1953 and the show 21st Precinct.
The show can be confusing for first time listeners but give it time and it will all come together. This confusing nature is due to the show's format of taking place in the busy 21st Precinct police headquarters. This leads to several calls unrelated to the story coming in and can be distracting from the main storyline. And yet, this is a compelling narrative, well acted and well told. 21st precinct has some phenomenal episodes and I cannot wait to feature more in the future.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy 21st Precinct, with The Homecoming.
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Today we will travel back 77 years, deep to the middle of World War 2, to the dramatic anthology series Brownstone Theater which ran for less than a year from February to September 1945 and only 12 episodes. The show was directed by Jack Macgregor, and narrated by the mellifluous Clayton Hamilton.
Famous for adaptations of popular stories and plays, Brownstown Theater describes itself as a theater of tales from the past, and this story is no different. Originally written in 1807 by Edward Hale and transcribed for radio Jock MacGregor, travels back to a tale of a young lieutenant, who is tried for treasonous crimes. The Lieutenant, Nolan, goes as far as to shout “I wish I may never hear of the United States again!” during his trial.
This story can be a bit confusing at times so for some context on a few things. This was aired in May, 1945, less than 3 months before the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The original story was published in 1863 to bolster support for the Union in the north. A name that comes up frequently during this episode is that of one Aaron Burr, who for context was historically tried for treason in 1807. Nolan, who develops a friendship with Burr and a strong hatred for the United States eventually leads to him being put on trial and a harsh lifetime sentence.
So sit back, relax, and think of home, as you travel back 77 years to the middle of World War 2, on May 30th, 1945 and Brownstone Theater presenting Man Without a Country.
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Today we will travel back 66 years for some fun, campy, science fiction. We will join the show X-Minus One which was also featured in our second episode of this program if you’re looking for a short history. X-Minus one ran for 2 years, and used stories from different monthly science fiction magazines, as well as writing some of their own. This episode is written by Finn O'Donovan, who has no other credits to his name. I literally cannot find a single published work or reference to him other than this particular story which was written for Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine.
So let’s travel to new dimensions of time and space, in a million could be years, on a thousand could be worlds. Wouldn’t it be nice to have all your mental health problems cured by just a few sessions with a machine. You don’t even have to talk, just put the probes on your body. Well, meet Elwood, who is a self described homicidal maniac. He wants nothing more than to murder his best friend. Thank god for home therapy devices or Elwood may actually act on these impulses!
So please, sit back, relax, and travel back 66 years to July 10th, 1956 and X-Minus One with Bad Medicine.
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Today we will be traveling back 62 years and, for the first time, revisiting a show, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Unlike the earlier episode, featured in episode 6 titled The Broderick Matter, which was broadcast as a serial show for 15 minutes a night 5 days a week, YTJD eventually transitioned to a standard 30 minute format. If you’ll indulge me I would like to talk a bit more than last time about the star of this show. Feel free to skip to xxx to get right to the action
Bob Bailey has always stood out to me as one of my favorite actors of the genre. His innate ability to act right on the line between campy and serious is hard to find (in my opinion) in almost any other detective show. Both of Bailey’s parents were actors who performed early 1900s stock theater. (Stock theater, as I understand it, simply means that a set number of plays are performed on a repeated schedule AKA Repertory theater). The reports are mixed, but it is rumored a young Bob was acting in his parents theater as young as 4 years old, until he was 15. He quickly moved onto radio soap operas, and from age 20 he was featured prominently throughout the Chicago area in several different radio roles.
In 1943, Mr. Bailey was signed by 20th Century Fox and appeared in 7 feature films, but the studio did not renew his contract and he would find more success in radio. Beginning in 1946, he starred as George Valentine in the radio drama Let George Do it. He will always be best remembered for his role in Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, playing “the man with the action packed expense account” from 1955-1960, performing in almost 500 episodes. The airing network, CBS, wanted to reduce costs and relocate the show to New York in 1960. Bob was unwilling to relocate and was dismissed. After his removal from the show went through two other hosts before it wound down with the end of the golden age of radio. It was finally was taken off the air in 1962. Bob Bailey virtually gave up acting after his role on Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. For years he struggled with alcoholism, but ended up overcoming his addiction and working in rehab helping others with similar struggles. Bailey suffered a stroke at age 60 and passed at age 70 in 1983. So let’s remember Bob Bailey and feature an episode from the last year of his run.
So sit back, relax, and travel back to July 17th, 1960 with Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and The Back to Back Matter.
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As you are all aware by now on Fridays we like to delve into the realm of horror and thrills. Well this week will be no different, as we travel back 61 years to the long forgotten show, Macabre.
I wish I had more history of this show but it seems to have been lost to time. From what I can tell it was only broadcast on the Armed Services Network for the US military at the time and there were only 8 episodes produced. The show had very little in the name of stars, and many of the actors have been long forgotten. That is not to say the show is of low quality. In fact, the terrifying narratives of this show left me more frightened than any other old time radio broadcast I have ever listened to. In fact, it left me in such a state, for the first time I will warn you dear listener.
Are you claustrophobic? Possibly scared of the dark? Terrified of someone watching you? Well don’t look behind you now. If any of these topics really effect you, then I would highly recommend turning off this podcast now. If you would like to enter into a realm of true horror, then sit back, try to relax… although I doubt you will. Maybe close the blinds, you never know who could be watching. Let’s stop the talk and turn back the clock 61 years to November 13th, 1961 and Macabre, or as the show calls it “macabre’” with Final Resting Place. Remember… I warned you!
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Hello and welcome to the time machine! Today we are going to travel back 77 years to a family radio show named Dr. Christian. This show was extremely unique for the time as it was sponsored by Vaseline, which decided to make the show completely fan written. Anyone was allowed to submit their scripts, including this episode which was written by Howard Berman, who was just a fan from Denver Colorado who wrote this script and sent it to the show in 1947.
Running weekly from 1937-1954, and starring Jean Hersholt and Rosemary DeCamp, Dr. Christian is the only doctor in a small town. Episodes usually are happy tales of Dr. Christian always saving the day with his extremely calm demeanor, and excellent medical prowess. In this particular episode however; we get to witness something strange happen to Dr. Christian. Something possibly even supernatural?
Dr. Christian is called to the house of patient Mr. Bennet who swears that every time he wears a certain pair of slippers to bed, he has the same nightmare. Mrs. Bennet however thinks that Mr. Bennet just does not like the slippers she bought him as a gift. So is this a tale of a husband just trying to get rid of a gift he hates, or is there really something strange about those overly ornate slippers? Well sit back, relax, and travel back 77 years to August 1st 1945, and Dr Christian in: The Legend of Khorassan
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Hello and welcome to the time machine. Today we will turn back the clock 66 years, and look back to an episode of the lesser known dramatic show named Family Theater. As the name implies, the show broadcast half hour dramatic radio programs every week from 1947-1957, and was heavily funded by the catholic church. However, the heavy religious aspect I have edited out of this episode as I found it was a bit inappropriate for today's standards. Although it is interesting to note that despite the show being funded by the catholic church, the main message of the program was to simply pray every night with your family. No matter your denomination, christian, jewish, etc, just to pray with your family nightly, which I thought was a nice sentiment and pretty open minded for the time.
Over the show's ten year run, several famous literary works were adapted such as A Tale of Two Cities, Moby-Dick, and Don Quixote. In addition, well known actors and actresses, including James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, and Natalie Wood just to name a few. The show was later adapted for television, most famously showing one of the earliest appearances of James Dean on television playing John The Apostle. Most surprising is that the show is still in syndication today across many catholic radio stations throughout the world.
This particular episode, The Fence, is a story about an arrogant punk, Billy Webber, who is about to be executed by electrocution. A newspaper reporter, following the execution, is confused by Webber's last words. Follow the twists and turns of this fantastically told story about a man whose life went completely wrong, and the events that may have caused it. So sit back, relax, and turn back the clock 66 years to March 14th, 1956 and Family Theaters: The Fence.
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Today we will turn back the clock 72 years to 1950, to Dimension X for a science fiction tale of the first journey to outer space.
Dimension X ran from 1950 to 1951, and although it wasn’t the first adult science fiction based show, it was one of the first to have a series of prewritten scripts from the finest sci-fi writers of the time. Hosted by Norman Rose, every episode starts with the signature catch phrase, “Adventures in time and space, told in… future tense.”
In this episode we will travel to a vast slab of concrete somewhere in the deep southwest. In 1950, when this particular episode was written and aired, the world's attention was on the development of the nuclear bomb. Long before the space race was ever declared, and 11 years before the first trip to outer space, it is fascinating to see what writers thought would happen in the not so distant future. So how accurate were they? Well sit back, relax, and turn back the clock 72 years, to Dimension X and The Outer Limit.
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This week we will turn back the clock 81 years to 1941 for Lux Radio Theater. I feel like we need a bit of a break this week after what we have listened to lately. We’ve been to creepy castles, dealt with a sad story of a rogue outlaw, and ended last week with a devastating tale of pure anxiety. Therefore, today we will switch to another side of another side of old time radio, with dramatic romances.
Today we will hear from the Lux Radio Theater which aired on and off from 1934-1955 and all performances were done in front of live audiences. Famed studio executive and director Cecil B. DeMille took over as host eventually, and the show featured just about every famous actor at that time. Not just hollywood and broadway actors were brought in though, stars of the show Fibber McGee and Molly appeared on the show, Phil Harris and Alice Faye were a married couple who appeared on the show and eventually had their own soap style radio show.
On this episode we hear an adaptation of the film Shop Around the Corner starring Don Amece and Claudette Colbert. A Christmas themed episode about love, workplace relationships, and singing cigarette boxes? Well I do not want to give too much away. So let's sit back, and actually relax this time as we turn back the clock 81 years to June 23rd, 1941, and Lux Radio Theater’s Shop Around The Corner.
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Today we turn back the clock 66 years to No One Will Ever Know from ABC’s Mystery Time. Only 17 episodes of the show were produced and sadly only 13 remain. Several of these 13 episodes are fantastic though, and that is no doubt due to the hosting of Don Dowd, writing of Leonard St. Clair. Sir Laurence Olivier is also cited as a star but I do not believe he is the star of this episode.
We will join a man, Lucky Sam who has never lost in his life. Every bet, every business deal, no matter how bad, Sam was always lucky. The thing is… Sam has hired bodyguards because someone is out to kill him! There is only one problem, no one believes him. They all think he is losing it and just needs to see a doctor. But why would a man who was sane yesterday think there is someone out to kill him? He’s hired them to shoot to kill!
So sit back, relax, and turn back the clock 66 years to an unfortunately unknown broadcast date in 1956, and No One Will Ever Know
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This is part 4 of a 4 part series. If you would like to listen, please start at episode 9 and continue on. Normal episodes of The Time Machine will resume on tomorrow with a plan to revisit a certain holiday I missed earlier this week. So sit back, relax, and please enjoy episodes 16-20 of I Love a Mystery's The Fear That Creeps Like a CatIf you're enjoying or not enjoying this content, or just have comments, please feel free to contact me at host@dailytimemachine.com. Also if you could rate and subscribe that would be great! If you'd like to go above and beyond, support the podcast here (https://anchor.fm/drpsdailytimemachine/support) to further improve audio quality and collect some special recordings on some unique formats to share with you all. The first supporter will get a special one of a kind archive of certain episodes of their choice on minidisc, cassette, or CD with custom artwork. I'll try to work out some unique benefits or physical gifts/giveaways down the road if we continue to find success.
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This is part 3 of a 4 part series. If you would like to listen, please start at episode 9 and continue on. Normal episodes of The Time Machine will resume on Friday. So sit back, relax, and please enjoy episodes 11-15 of I Love a Mystery's The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat
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If you're enjoying or not enjoying this content, or just have comments, please feel free to contact me at host@dailytimemachine.com. Also if you could rate and subscribe that would be great! If you'd like to go above and beyond, support the podcast here (https://anchor.fm/drpsdailytimemachine/support) to further improve audio quality and collect some special recordings on some unique formats to share with you all. The first supporter will get a special one of a kind archive of certain episodes of their choice on minidisc, cassette, or CD with custom artwork. I'll try to work out some unique benefits or physical gifts/giveaways down the road if we continue to find success. This is part 2 of a 4 part series. If you would like to listen, please start at episode 9 and continue on. Normal episodes of The Time Machine will resume on Friday. So sit back, relax, and please enjoy episodes 6-10 of I Love a Mystery's The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat
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Good evening friends of the time machine. Welcome to Halloween with a very… special episode of Inner Sanctum’s The Death Laugh. I’m sure you will love our mellifluous yet taunting voice of our host… Mr. Raymond Johnson. The show welcomed people into the inner sanctum from 1941-1952, and is one of the most popular in the suspense and horror genre.
In this tale, a judge sentences a man to death for murder. Before the guilty party leaves he promises one day, just one day, the judge will be where he is… and when he is, he’ll be laughing. He’ll be laughing so hard he just might, well die. Now let’s turn back the clock 76 years to enter the Inner Sanctum.
So I hope you have a happy halloween. Nice and all alone maybe, with your significant other, maybe your kids. Maybe have a night out for trick or treat, or a night in of scary movies. Well don’t forget to lock the front door. There may be… something out there… trying to get in.
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For the next four days on the time machine we are going to do something a little different. After a lot of positive feedback on the nightly serial Your’s Truly Johnny Dollar, I have decided to pick another serial for this week. I Love A Mystery created by Carlton Morse is considered by many to be the greatest adventure serial of all time and ran on and off from 1939 to 1952. A major difference between the two, is while YTJD ran in five episode blocks, basically one hour of total content, I Love a Mystery had a variety of lengths. In this particular tale, it will stretch over 20 total episodes which I have carefully edited down to four, one hourish long episodes.
When I was just ten, in the year 2003, my dad showed me a website called R U Sitting Comfortably? After browsing and browsing for hours, I finally found this show I Love a Mystery and this particular series of episodes. This was the very first old time radio that I ever listened to and sparked a lifetime love for the genre. R U Sitting Comfortably is still online by the way, so shout out to Ned Norris, the owner of the site for hosting OTR for more than 20 years now. Not a sponsor.
The great tragedy of many of the radio dramas written by Carlton Morse have been lost to time. Currently, only two complete series, The Thing that Cries in the Night, and Bury Your Dead, Arizona have been found. Today’s series, Fear That Creeps Like a Cat, the precursor to The Thing that Cries in the Night, are all recreations by OTR historian Jim Harmon who knew Carlton Morse in the ‘60s. The fact about this remake though, is that if I hadn’t told you that fact, you may have never known. The real question remains though, where did all the recordings of I Love a Mystery go? Even Carlton Morse himself has no idea. Someone has to have the original electrical transcription discs, and there are several theories from a hoarding millionaire, to simply laying around, unrecognized.
So join me, on a 20 part story with our main characters Jack Packard, Doc Long, and Reggie York who travel the world in search of action and adventure. Although there may be a reference or two to a previous episode or caper early on, the show quickly settles into its own self contained story. I’m sure you’ll be instantly hooked by the engaging personalities of the characters, just like I was in 2003. So sit back, relax, and turn back the clock what would have been 72 years, to October 3rd, 1949 and I Love a Mystery’s, The Fear that Creeps Like A Cat.
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Today we turn back the clock 75 years to The House in Cypress Canyon from Suspense. After the positive feedback I received about last week's “The Thing on the Forble Board”, I’ve decided to make Friday a day for more horror and suspense themed episodes. So it seems like an easy pick to jump to one of the most popular shows, perfectly named “Suspense.” Subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills”, almost 1000 episodes of the show were broadcast during its run from its audition program in 1940, all the way to 1962.
The show had several successes throughout the years, featuring famous actors such as Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, Humphry Bogart, Judy Garland, and Cary Grant just to name a few. Several adaptations for TV were produced including “The Hitch Hiker” which is featured on Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.
This particular episode was during the shows 1944 to 1947 run with Roma Wines as the title sponsor. Thats R-O-M-A, ROMA wines in case you were wondering.
We meet a man who’s renting some recently refinished homes, previously abandoned in Cypress Canyon. While he is looking through one of these homes he finds some writings. And that’s odd, this house has been abandoned for years, and yet this looks new. Hmmm… Strange… Well try to relax, sit back, maybe even turn down the lights? Well either way, I’m sure what you are about to hear will put you in Suspense.
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Today’s episode will take us back 74 years to one of the all time classics of old time radio. Dragnet is a show that needs no introduction. Its impact spanned from a 1949 radio premier, all the way to a 2003 TV remake, dragnet found incredible success in the late 40s and 50s, becoming one of radio and TVs biggest shows.
Most episodes take place in LA, where creator Jack Webb spent a long time trying to convince the LAPD to give him his endorsement to receive original case files. Each episode starts with the classic line that all the stories are true but “only the names are changed – to protect the innocent.” Webb’s goal for the show was to “realistically depict police officers in a broadcast series, without the forced melodrama heard in the numerous private-detective serials then common in radio programming.” This perspective no doubt originated from his starring role on the short lived “Pat Novak for Hire” which we will get to in future episodes. Webb went on several night patrols, attended police academy courses, all to help bring as much realism to the show as possible.
The show started to cause controversies in the early ‘50s, when the LAPD tried to intervene into how they were portrayed on the show. No doubt due to Webb’s signature nature of sticking to the facts over everything else, issues such as racial segregation in the LAPD, and certain police brutality events are still covered to their chagrin.
This particular episode, we will join Jack Webb as the ever stoic Sergeant Joe Friday, as some “quick trigger gun men” have come into town. The name acts exactly as described, men committing robberies with a quick trigger finger and a body count to match. This episode is from the show's first month on air, as shown by the lack of sponsors, and tells a rather gruesome tale. So sit back, relax, and turn back the clock 74 years to June 24th, 1949, and Dragnet’s: Quick Trigger Gun Men.
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Today’s journey will take us back to 1955 and one of the first old time radio shows I ever listened to. Your’s Truly Johnny Dollar, which had several different hosts over the years, found its most successful format in a nightly serial starring Bob Bailey. As a serialized show, each story was told over five, fifteen minute nightly episodes which I have combined into one long story for today’s show. This format was instituted by writer and director Jack Johnstone.
The life of an insurance investigator doesn’t sound all that interesting; however, that is not the case with the man with “the action packed expense account”. Each tale is told from Johnny's perspective, as he tells his account of events, and tallies his expenses to send back to whichever agency has hired him.
Each episode of YTJD as it is commonly referred to, starts with a phone call from an insurance adjuster, calling to Johnny to investigate an unusual claim. These can range from fraud, missing people, suspicious deaths, or in this case, something much simpler.
A poor old newspaper salesman recently passed and left behind all he had to a young girl who had helped him one day when she was just 11 years old. Now Johnny gets a call to find this woman and deliver this special check to her. The tale starts in Hartford, CT where Johnny receives yet another phone call. So please, sit back, relax, and turn back the clock 66 years to November 14th, 1955 and Your’s Truly Johnny Dollar with The Broderick Matter.
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Today's journey will take us back to New York City almost 75 years ago. Following the topic of missing husbands and worried wives, we will listen to an early episode of Broadway is My Beat starring Anthony Ross as Detective Danny Clover, a hardened homicide cop who works “from Times Square to Columbus Circle”.
New York City can be stressful for people, especially coming from the country. The big crowds, the loud noises, heavy traffic. Now imagine how that would feel 75 years ago, maybe your first time ever in a big city. Now we will meet a couple just like that who come into the city, check into their hotel, the husband goes out for a moment and doesn’t return. You’d think the worst wouldn’t you? It’s New York after all and anything can happen at any time. Kidnapped? Murdered? Just relax, you're here to have a good time after all.
Broadway is My Beat ran from 1949-1954 on CBS, and Anthony Ross only played the main role for the first three months of the show. We’ll join Detective Danny Clover on an interesting case of theft and possibly even homicide?
So sit back, relax, turn down the lights, and travel back 73 years to March 6th 1949, with Broadway is my Beat’s: The Andrew Jenkins Case.
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Today’s journey will take us back to the late 1800s and the wild west. After ending last week on a heavy note, we will start this week with an excellent episode of the show “Have Gun - Will Travel”. This episode is from a late era of radio, wherein some shows were broadcast on both television and radio. The radio series of this show actually debut more than a year after the televised version.
We will join the main character Paladin, played by John Dehner, in San Francisco as he runs into a man in the Carlton Hotel where he makes his home. On this particular journey, Paladin will go after a dangerous escaped outlaw who has already killed several men. Before I give away too much of the story it would help to understand the backstory of the man Paladin. He is a wandering gunfighter, always in search of adventure, and willing to do most jobs required of him for the right price. Paladin may be one of the most interesting and peculiar characters, with the most impressive resume of anyone in history. He is quoted as having the following skills
- Expert chess player
- Dueling champion
- West point graduate
- Civil war veteran officer
- Consume of fine wine
- Excellent piano player
- Expert poker player
- Skilled swordsman
- Master of chinese martial arts
- Highly educated in classic literature, philosophy, and case law
- Speaks several languages
- President of the San Francisco Stock Exchange Club
So sit back, relax, close your eyes, and travel back 63 years to December 11th, 1958 and lets join this most interesting of men Paladin in Have Gun Will Travel’s: The Outlaw.
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Tonight's journey will start with a man telling a tale of an experience he had on an oil rig in the 1930s. Oil drilling is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, so imagine what it was like almost 100 years ago, in the dead of night, isolated with only a couple of men working the crew?
This tale comes from the depths of the archive, an episode of Quiet Please from 1948. The show ran from 1947 to 1949 and has a history of inspiring famous authors, impressing history and literature professors, and horrifying listeners. Hosted by Ernest Chappel who occasionally starred in the show himself, he creates an impressive introduction and sense of dread on the listener.
Although the episode starts off a bit tedious, the slow build and factual nature of the main character end up adding to the experience. Nevertheless I won’t bore you any more. So sit back, maybe turn off the lights… are you alone? Why not have a few drinks? Take a nap even? Well, let's turn back 74 years to August 9th, 1948, and The Thing on the Fourble Board, but shhhh, Quiet, please.
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The next journey I will take you on is one of science fiction, but not just any tale. This one will make you sit on the edge of your seat and make your hair stand on end. In my opinion one of the very best and most entertaining episodes that came out of the science fiction subgenre.
This episode comes from the NBC show X-Minus One which ran from 1955-1958. It was a continuation of the earlier show Dimension X, where staff writers would rewrite newly published short science fiction from the likes of Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Issac Asimov to name a few.
Presenter Fred Collins announces the show, and the stories of X-Minus One are compiled from the pages of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. This particular short story however was not written by a famous author, but instead an NBC script writer George Lefferts, who would go on to win 3 Emmys and 2 golden globes for his later work in TV and movies.
It begins with an individual entering an advertising agency with an unlimited budget and a strange request. So sit back, relax, close your eyes, and travel back 67 years to May 1st, 1955 with X-Minus One’s, The Parade
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This is what I would consider one of the most interesting and different old time radio shows of the time. Today we listen to what was one of the earliest versions of reality entertainment. Some even refer to it as a precursor to the TV show COPS, just 35 years beforehand.
It is called “Nightwatch”, which aired from 1954-1955. Similar to Dragnet, which also featured real cases (with the names changed to protect the innocent), Nightwatch also follows real cases, except with a very important difference, the crimes are recorded as they are happening. Recorded by host Donn Reid alongside Sgt Ron Perkins on the shift from 6pm to 2am. The show was recorded in Culver City, California, which was experiencing a population boom at the time, almost doubling over the last decade. With that came an increase in crime, and the majority of that crime was committed during these 6-2 hours.
Nightwatch has received some criticism for sounding like sections are scripted, and no doubt some of the internal discussions seem to feature nervous and short conversations; however this show is very real, in fact the host Donn Reid was shot at and stabbed during the recording of this show. Other issues refer to the unique presentation of the show. It is presented without music and the sound can be at times difficult to understand but gets better after the first minute or so. Due to recording limitations at the time, editing had to be performed by literally cutting the physical tape to take out profanity and other content from the tape.
I won’t spoil any specifics about this particular episode, but it is called Nude Prowler from April 5th 1954. It tells the tale of a peculiar arrest and a grizzly murder, but is everything as it seems? Sit back, close your eyes, and be transported back 68 years to the back of a police car as it starts… the Nightwatch.
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