Boxcars711 Old Time Radio

Feared by criminals and dreaded by policemen the world over, the notorious Simon Templarâbetter known as The Saintâwages a one-man war on "the Ungodly." Whether in Rome, Paris, New York, or the English countryside, the so-called Robin Hood of modern crime may not go out looking for trouble, but you can bet that trouble will always come looking for him. The Case Of The Perfect Crime (7-30-50) The Corpse Said Ouch (8-6-50)

The Sealed Book The Sealed Book starred Philip Clarke as the keeper of the book, a croaking, cackling hermit, with knowledge of the black arts, who in each show unlocked the great padlock that kept the sealed book safe from prying eyes. There was a spook story each week with tales of secrets and mysteries of mankind through the ages.

Welcome to day two of our two day spotlight on Richard Diamond. Today, two episodes from 1951. The Dark Blue Serge Suit (2-9-51) and The Gray Man (2-16-51). I want to take a moment to thank everyone for your votes at Podcast Alley. Last Month my rating reached 300 (in a world of 14000 podcasts). That's "Super Good" and a result of your efforts. Please continue your support this month of June. Click on the PODCAST ALLEY icon link found on the right side of this page, it only takes a minute. Again, thanks ALL, for your support and kind words.

Richard Diamond, Private Detective proved to be the perfect radio vehicle for actor-singer Dick Powell, combining his tough-guy image, showcased in the 1944 film ÃïïMurder, My SweetÃïï and the 1945-46 radio series ÃïïRogueÃïïs Gallery,Ãïï with his tremendous talent for a song, as all those 1930s Warner Brothers/Fox musicals will bear out. The detective series, created by an aspiring screenwriter named Blake Edwards, featured a hard-boiled detective who rarely took himself too seriously; Edwards, the future director of the ÃïïPink PantherÃïï film series, conceived the Diamond character as an ex-cop who had decided to hang out his own shingle in the investigation business.

A June 2006 Oldies Broadcast (HOUR 2 of 2) Edited 'Shoutcast' Radio Network Presentation.

Vic and Sade, created and written by Paul Rhymer, had a 14-year run and was the most popular radio series of its kind, reaching 7,000,000 listeners in 1943, according to Time Magazine. For the majority of its span on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in 15-minute episodes without a continuing storyline. The central characters, known as "radio's home folks" and "the most lovable folks in radio," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook (Art Van Harvey), his wife Sade (Bernadine Flynn) and their adopted son Rush (Bill Idelson). The three lived on Virginia Avenue in "the small house halfway up in the next block."

The Whistler was one of radio's most popular mystery dramas, with a thirteen-year run from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. If it now seems to have been influenced explicitly by The Shadow, The Whistler was no less popular or credible with its listeners, the writing was first class for its genre, and it added a slightly macabre element of humour that sometimes went missing in The Shadow's longer-lived crime stories. 

Boston Blackie was a character introduced by Jack Boyle who was featured in a series of mystery films during the silent movie era and in the 1940s. The character appeared in stories in the Redbook and Cosmopolitan magazines. He first appeared in book form in "Boston Blackie", published in 1919. In 1944 a Boston Blackie radio show was played by NBC as a replacement. The series was changed, with Richard Kollomar taking the lead role, and over 200 episodes were made between 1944 and 1950. Today, listen to The Baseball Player Murder (4-16-46) and Undersea Murder From (10-1-46)

The Black Museum Series  is based on Scotland YardÃ??s Black Museum (aka Crime Museum) in London, where crime artifacts are stored. This is the largest and oldest museum of its type. Although it is not open to the public, we can get a glimpse of what lays inside through this show. Each program is based on a real crime story and an object from that museum. The show was a reenactment of a homicide in which each item was a key piece of evidence, and as enacted mainly from the police inspector in the case. The episodes describe how they arrived at clues, the step by step gathering of evidence, the unglamorous waiting and watching, until the police finally zero in on the culprit. To Read more about the Black Museum, visit http://www.met.police.uk/history/crime_museum.htm  

Heart of Darkness From May15, 1949 - Day 2 of our 2 day spotlight on the NBC University Theater. In HEART OF DARKNESS,  Author Joseph Conrad's most existential hero, Marlow, is the commander of a riverboat looking for ivory to trade in the Belgian Congo. His journey into the heart of the Congo is both a thrilling adventure and a symbolic excursion into the depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the mysterious and corrupted Kurtz, who dies proclaiming the "horror" of what he found in the Congo, is the novel's defining moment, when Marlow recognizes his kinship with Kurtz's corruption. This insight enables Marlow to retreat from Kurtz's world and return to England. Kurtz, in his attempts to reconcile his noble ideas with his greed, can't survive.  

NBC University Theater is an unusual series that focused on reenacting novels by great authors for college classes. Many accredited American universities such as Washington State College, University of Louisville, and University of Tulsa, used this dramatics series as a supplement to correspondent college courses.The series' creators made study guides to accompany the courses. Students studying great literature by Steinbeck, Faulkner, Hemingway, Huxley, and many others listened to these shows every week. It was an ambitious series that remained popular despite its academic and non-commercial appeal. The shows are high quality and will please many fans of great literature.

Sears Radio Theater - Old Bones From June 25, 1979 Clearly one of the last big attempts to produce radio programming, with many of radio's best talents, the way radio was heard in its "golden days. Despite budget and talent, it just wasn't to be. Enjoy Day Two of our spotlight on this great series.

Sears RadioTheater - An Honest Man (3-22-79) -STEREO The series premiered on Monday 02/05/79 and offered a different genre each weekday night.  Each genre was hosted by a different celebrity.  The program was produced on Paramount's Stage F in Hollywood.  These first 130 programs were broadcast over a six month period and then rebroadcast over the following six months.  From 02/14/80 to 12/19/81 this series was heard again, this time over Mutual, as The Mutual Radio Theater.  This was clearly one of the last big attempts to produce radio programming, with many of radio's best talents, the way radio was heard in its "golden days. Despite budget and talent, it just wasn"t to be.

The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Striker of Buffalo, New York. The basic premise is that a masked cowboy in the Old West gallops about righting injustices, usually with the aid of a clever and laconic American Indian called Tonto.

Dangerous Assignment - 2 Episodes From 1950 Dangerous Assignment first aired in 1949. Brian Donlevy played the lead as Steve Mitchell in this international spy series. Herb Butterfield played the Commissioner and Betty Moran was the Commissioner's secretary. The director was Bill Cairn and the writer for the series was Robert Ryf.

Philo Vance was a fictional American detective created by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s who appeared in 12 novels. Although largely forgotten today, for a few years he was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He was considered  America's most popular fictional detective of the 1920s and 1930s Films about Vance were made from the late 1920s to the late '40s, and among the several actors who played him on the screen were William Powell and Basil Rathbone. Vance was portrayed as being a super-dandy, super-intellectual, and super-man-about-town in Manhattan.

Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective created by American author Rex Stout in the 1930s and featured in dozens of novels and novellas.In the stories, Wolfe is one of the most famous private detectives in the United States. He weighs about 285 pounds and is 5'11" tall. He raises orchids in a rooftop greenhouse in his New York City brownstone on West 35th Street, helped by his live-in gardener Theodore Horstmann. Wolfe drinks beer throughout the day and is a gourmÃ?ÃÂ??und. He employs a live-in chef, Fritz Brenner. He is multilingual and brilliant, though apparently self-educated, and reading is his third passion after food and orchids. He works in an office in his house and almost never leaves home, even to pursue the detective work that finances his expensive lifestyle. Instead, his leg work is done by another live-in employee, Archie Goodwin. While both Wolfe and Goodwin are licensed detectives, Goodwin is more of the classic fictional gumshoe, tough, wise-cracking, and skirt-chasing. He tells the stories in a

Lux Radio Theater - The Razor's Edge From 10/18/48 Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929, is invited to live in Paris with her rich, social climbing, Uncle Elliot. During a sojurn there, Larry, having attained his goal, is reunited with Isabel. While slumming one night Larry, Isabel and company are shocked to discover Sophie, a friend from Chicago. Having lost her husband and child in a tragic accident, Sophie is living the low-life with the help of drugs an abusive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate her, but his efforts are sabotaged by Isabel who has tried in vain to reignite Larry's interest in her.

Philip Marlowe - Day 2 of 2 Double Feature Episodes (1948)  Philip Marlowe is perhaps the leading icon of the "hard-boiled" school of mystery writing. The fictional creation of author Raymond Chandler, Marlowe is a private detective, a smart and tough lone wolf with a sense of honor. He works mainly in Los Angeles (where Chandler himself had lived). In all Marlowe appears in seven complete novels by Chandler, beginning with The Big Sleep (published 1939) and ending with Playback (1958). Various TV and radio series also featured the Marlowe character, though they were not written by Chandler. A Marlowe novel left unfinished at Chandler's death, Poodle Springs, was finished by mystery writer Robert B. Parker and published in 1989.

Philip Marlowe was born in Santa Rosa, California, in that time out of time that allowed him to be 33 in 1933, 42 in 1953, and 43 1/2 in 1958. In many ways he was the very model of a perfect private investigator: a college graduate, 6 ft. 1/2 in. Tall and 199 Ib., with brown eyes and brown hair going gray, He liked liquor, women, and working alone. His independent detective agency was a shoestring operation which he ran from a pair of musty, scantily furnished rooms on the sixth floor of the Cahuenga Building in downtown Los Angeles. He was once employed as an investigator by Taggart Wilde, district attorney of Los Angeles, but was fired for insubordination