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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of Fort Laramie. Featuring vocal talent by Raymond Burr.
Fort Laramie was a CBS Radio Western series starring Raymond Burr. It originally aired Sunday afternoons from January 22–October 28, 1956, at 5:30 pm ET. Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century. The 41 episodes starred Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of the cavalry. One year later, Burr became a television star in his defining role as Perry Mason. Talk about some fascinating radio and television history... huh?
Originally airing 6/24/1956, get ready for another western adventure in "The Loving Cup," with Captain Lee Quince!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of Night Beat. Featuring vocal talent by Frank Lovejoy.
In this series, Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, a reporter who covered the night beat for the Chicago Star, encountering criminals, eccentrics, and troubled souls. On each episode, listeners were invited to join Stone as he "searches through the city for the strange stories waiting for him in the darkness." Most episodes leaned towards suspense, crime and thriller themes, but Night Beat also featured occasional humorous or sentimental stories. Each episode ended with Stone at his desk as he finished typing a news story based on his latest exploits, and shouting for the copy boy to deliver his story to an editor.
Originally airing 9/4/1952, gather around for "The Bomb on Flight 63," with Randy Stone!
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Join host, Carl Amari, as we gallop into this week's episode of The Cavalcade of America. Featuring narration by Van Johnson.
Did you know that Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds? The series was intended to improve DuPont's public image after World War I. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
Originally airing 12/30/1952 gather around for "Billy the Kid," in the week's episode of The Cavalcade of America!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of I Was A Communist for the FBI. Featuring narration by Dana Andrews.
Did you know that The radio version of I Was a Communist for the FBI consisted of 78 episodes syndicated by the Frederick W. Ziv Company to more than 600 stations, including KNX in Los Angeles, California, with original episodes running from March 30, 1952, to September 20, 1953? The program was made without the cooperation of the FBI. However, real-life undercover agent Matt Cvetic detailed his stories and was portrayed by Dana Andrews. The show also had a budget of $12,000 per week, a very high cost to produce a radio show at the time.
Originally airing 6/7/1953, come one, come all, for "Fifteen Minutes to Murder," from I Was A Communist for the FBI!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of Philo Vance, Detective. Featuring vocal talent by Jackson Beck.
Originally appearing as a fictional amateur detective featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s, the radio adventures of Detective Philo Vance were first broadcast to listeners across the airwaves in 1945. Did you know that three radio drama series were created with Philo Vance as the title character? The first series, broadcast by NBC, starred José Ferrer. A summer replacement series in 1946 starred John Emery as Vance, and the best-known series (and the one of which most episodes survived) ran from 1948 to 1950 in Frederick Ziv syndication and starred Jackson Beck.
Originally airing 1/1/1949, gather around for this week's episode in "The Magic Murder Case," with Philo Vance!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of Murder By Experts. Hosted by John Dickson Carr.
In 1949, Mutual Radio brought Murder By Experts to its airwaves. Each week on Murder By Experts, listeners were treated to a crime story selected by an expert, typically a detective story author. Though these authors usually had little involvement in each episode's script and rather used their name as an endorsement, proclaimed mystery author John Dickson Carr came on to become the series host. As the series popularity amongst listeners of the period soared to further cement its legacy, Murder By Experts has since gone on to be recognized as one of the pinnacle radio mystery series of the era.
Originally airing 8/8/1949, gather around for this week's episode of "The Dark Island," on Murder By Experts!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe. Featuring vocal talent by Sydney Greenstreet.
Starring Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout's fictional armchair detective, Nero Wolfe. The series was based on Stout's principal characters but not his stories, airing from October 20, 1950 to April 27, 1951, on NBC, it is regarded as the series that is most responsible for popularizing Nero Wolfe on radio. The series had gained recognition through associating each episode with a notable fictional mystery author. However, these authors typically had little say in the series scripts that were associated with their name. Regardless, The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe rose to prominence through the guided efforts of famed author and series host, John Dickson Carr.
Originally airing 2/2/1951, get ready for this week's new adventure in "The Case of the Vanishing Shells," with Nero Wolfe!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of The Life of Riley. Featuring vocal talent by William Bendix.
Did you know that The Life of Riley initially aired on the Blue Network (later known as ABC) from January 16, 1944, to July 8, 1945, before moving over to NBC, where it was broadcast from September 8, 1945, to June 29, 1951? Irving Brecher pitched the radio series for friend Groucho Marx under the title The Flotsam Family, but the sponsor balked at what would have been essentially a straight head-of-household role for Marx. Brecher then saw William Bendix as a taxicab company owner in Hal Roach's The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942), leading him to giving the leading role as Chester A. Riley to Bendix. The iconic situation comedy series was an immediate success, leading to numerous adaptions through film and television, including William Bendix's reprisal of the role throughout numerous iterations of the series.
Originally airing 11/08/1947, get ready to laugh until you cry in "Anniversary Party," with Chester A. Riley!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a special radio re-broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater. Featuring narration by Humphrey Bogart.
First broadcast from 1939 until 1952, The Screen Guild Theater was a radio anthology series that featured leading Hollywood stars as they performed adaptations of popular motion pictures. Originating on CBS Radio, it aired under several different titles including The Gulf Screen Guild Show, The Gulf Screen Guild Theater, The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater and The Camel Screen Guild Players. Fees that would ordinarily have been paid to the stars and studios were instead donated to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, and were used for the construction and maintenance of the Motion Picture Country House for retired actors.
Originally airing 9/20/1943, join us for this week's adventure in "The Maltese Falcon," with Humphrey Bogart!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of The Man Called X. Featuring narration by Herbert Marshall.
An espionage radio drama which premiered July 10, 1944 on CBS, Herbert Marshall had the lead role of Ken Thurston, an American Intelligence Agent. The series was an immediate favorite amongst its audience, as The Man Called X took listeners on nail-biting adventures that often took place in some of the world's most exotic locations. From tracking hot diamonds in Argentina to recovering a cholera virus in Guatemala, The Man Called X serves up perfect listening for anyone who loves a good spy adventure!
Originally airing 2/24/1951, gather around for this week's spy adventure in "A Tiny Bit of Microfilm," with Agent Ken Thurston!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of Dimension X. Featuring narration by Norman Rose and Joseph Julian.
Initially conceived as an NBC radio program, Dimension X was an original science fiction series that was broadcast mostly on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951. Fred Wiehe and Edward King were the series directors, and Norman Rose was heard as both announcer and narrator, famously opening the show with: "Adventures in time and space... told [or transcribed] in future tense...". Each episode, listeners nationwide were eager to sit around as these various tales of science fiction unraveled, coming from some of the greatest minds that the genre has ever seen, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Originally airing 6/3/1950, get ready for a journey beyond space and time with "The Embassy," on Dimension X!
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The Film Detective is honored to welcome April Clemmer to this month's edition of The Film Detective Focus; a special monthly segment where we dive into a selected topic and explore what is upcoming.
April Clemmer is a Hollywood historian, best known as the creator of the Old Hollywood Walking Tour. Her vision is to preserve the stories and style of the Classic Hollywood era by creating experiences that enable others to relive the glamorous past of Hollywood’s iconic places and personalities. April, an avid reader, became fascinated with classic Hollywood while reading biographies of classic film stars. After moving to Hollywood she continued exploring the city’s rich history and interesting locations. Her depth of knowledge led to being hired for research projects, one of which became the Old Hollywood Walking Tour. She also served as a research consultant on the web series "Hollywood Trades."
In Hollywood? Join April on her Weekly Tours: Saturdays at 11 AM
Private tours are available by appointment. To inquire, please email [email protected]
If you would like to follow April on social media, find her on Instagram @aprilshollywood
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of Casey, Crime Photographer. Featuring narration by Staats Cotsworth and Jan Miner.
For those who could not get enough of B-movie murder mysteries, Casey, Crime Photographer was the true radio equivalent. The series employed similar plot devices, such as the suspect about to reveal important information, ultimately to be shot and killed by the guilty party. Loose ends, disappearing corpses, a lack of clues, and too many suspects were the hallmarks of this show. Jack "Flashgun" Casey was played by Staats Cotsworth, a top-notch photo journalist for the fictional "Morning Express", who used his keen eye for detail to solve tough cases. Often recounting his assignments at the "Blue Note Cafe", a cozy-jazz bar in a great city populated by murderers, kidnapped victims, and ex-cons framed for crimes they didn't commit; listeners were treated to wonderful tales of detective adventure, as Casey tells them to his friends at the bar.
Originally airing 1/29/1948, gather around the radio for this week's episode of "The Piggy Banker Robbery," with Jack Casey!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of Broadway is My Beat. Featuring narration by Larry Thor.
Running on CBS Radio from February 27, 1949 to August 1st, 1950, Broadway is My Beat introduced listeners to Detective Danny Clover, a hard-boiled New York City cop who worked in the homicide unit. With a jurisdiction from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the series listeners were treated to various tales of crime and murder straight from the gaudiest, most violent, and the most lonesome mile in the world. Originally portrayed by Anthony Ross for the first three months of its airing, the role of Detective Danny Clover then transitioned to radio icon Larry Thor. Although the series went relatively under-the-radar amongst other series at the time, it had done a wonderful job tapping into the darker side of radio detective adventures.
Originally airing 08/14/1950, gather around for this week's murder mystery in "The Mary Demming Murder Case," with Detective Danny Clover!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for an exciting re-broadcast of My Friend Irma. Featuring narration by Marie Wilson and Cathy Lewis.
Originating as a radio series created by writer-producer-director Cy Howard in 1947, My Friend Irma was a successful, long-running radio situation comedy that escalated into film, television, and even a comic strip helmed by none other than Marvel's Stan Lee. Dependable, level-headed Jane Stacy (Cathy Lewis) began each weekly radio program by narrating a misadventure of her innocent, bewildered roommate Irma (Marie Wilson), a scatterbrained stenographer from Minnesota. Immensely popular right from the series debut on CBS radio, My Friend Irma's legacy would go on to be cemented with the 1949 film of the same name, featuring both Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in early roles for their career.
Originally airing 11/22/1948, gather around for this classic radio situation comedy in "Wall Street Magazine Contest," with Irma Peterson!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of Box 13. Featuring vocal talent by Alan Ladd and Sylvia Picker.
First incepted in 1947, motion picture actor Alan Ladd created Mayfair Productions, a company that specialized in radio syndication. Mayfair developed several successful radio series including the Damon Runyon Theater and Box 13. Covering the exciting escapades of a newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist named Dan Holiday, the series was an immediate success running in various cities at different dates and times. In the series, Ladd starred as Holiday, with Sylvia Picker appearing as Holiday's scatterbrained secretary, Suzy. As a means to seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holiday ran a classified ad in the Star Times Newspaper where he formerly worked. Reading "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything – write Box 13, Star-Times," each week Holiday would receive a new letter to kick off an exciting adventure much to the amusement of series listeners.
Originally airing 08/22/1948, get ready for this week's adventure of "The First Letter," with Dan Holiday!
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Welcome to the July '22 edition of The Film Detective Focus, starring author/journalist Don Stradley and The Movie Loft host, Dana Hersey!
Join us for this month's special episode as Don and Dana discuss the highlighted features that are showing this month on The Film Detective. This month, The Film Detective shines the spotlight on Summer classics with Friday night Drive-In double features, birthday marathons celebrating icon actors Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers, and The Smartest Horse in the Movies, Trigger!
Serving up a perfect conversation for any connoisseur who has an affinity for classic cinema, be sure to gather around for this month's The Film Detective Focus!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a special radio re-broadcast of The Falcon. Featuring narration by Les Damon.
First created by Drexel Drake in 1936 for a series of novels, "The Falcon" was an alternate identity for freelance investigator and troubleshooter, Michael Waring. By 1941, the character could be seen for the first time on the silver screen by RKO Pictures, with George Sanders taking on the leading role. Two years later, The Falcon made his radio debut with Berry Kroeger taking on narration duties for this iconic detective. Like The Falcon films, the radio series plot mixed elements of danger, romance, and comedy in equal parts to entice listeners nationwide. Often focusing on cases that involved oppressed men and repressed women, The Falcon was a detective series that stood to be truly ahead of its time.
Originally airing 11/12/1950, prepare for yet another amazing radio detective adventure in "The Case of the Widow's Gorilla," with The Falcon!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Featuring vocal talent by Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard.
Considered to be one of America's longest running sitcoms, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet documented the life of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson as they raised their two sons, Ricky and David. The series was ultimately a huge television success, airing on ABC for a whopping 14 seasons, from October 3rd, 1952 to April 23rd, 1966. Though the television series is perhaps the most known iteration of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, the couple had originated the series over the airwaves. First appearing regularly on The Baker's Broadcast radio series from 1933 to 1938, one of Hollywood's most beloved couples were then prompted to build their own series based around their own family situation comedy, solidifying one of the greatest sitcom series to ever grace nationwide listeners.
Originally airing on 07/20/1950, prepare to laugh until you cry in "Five Dollars Too Much Change," with Ozzie and Harriet Nelson!
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Join host, Carl Amari, for a radio re-broadcast of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Featuring narration by the legendary Edmund O'Brien.
Originally conceived to be a smart, tough, and wisecracking detective who tossed silver-dollar tips to waiters and bellhops, Johnny Dollar was easily one of the Golden Age of Radio's most beloved detective characters. Fitting amongst the ranks of Richard Diamond, Sam Spade, and Phillip Marlowe, Johnny's character was known to purvey his own sense of the law when it came to handling his various cases. First voiced by Dick Powell in the audition show, he eventually withdrew from the role to pursue other detective series, with the leading duties of the character then going to talents Charles Russell, Edmond O'Brien, and John Lund.
Originally airing 07/20/1950, get ready for yet another exciting detective adventure in "The Henry J. Unger Matter," with Detective Johnny Dollar!
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