From the early days of the classic era of audio drama, Project Audion recreates a unique ghost-story/murder-mystery taken from a radio drama which is now so forgotten that it, too, might well be a ghost. But in the early 1930s "Eno Crime Clues" was a major radio hit, following the adventures of detective Spencer Dean (known as "The Manhunter") and his partner, Dan Cassidy. Our lost script from 1936 took the show in a new direction. You know how Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" made such an impact by making the story sound like a genuine on-the-spot broadcast? Well, he wasn't the first. This Crime Clues episode tried the same trick over two years earlier, using a real location, the show's genuine announcer and director, and a remote broadcast which -- well, you'll just have to listen...

Our cast:

TOM KONKLE in California
PAUL ARBISI in Illinois
HOLLY ADAMS in NY
DOUGLAS HERMAN in California
PAUL PATTERSON in Georgia
DAVID RIES also in Georgia
KEN RANEY in Texas
PAUL KOVIT in New York
and LARRY GROEBE, directing from Texas

Gunsmoke! The show that created the "adult western" drama genre...the show that moved westerns from the kid-centered "Lone Ranger" into darker, more mature themes... the show that ran for 10 years and nearly 500 radio episodes, and 20 years and 600 more chapters on television. A handful of Gunsmoke audio recordings have been lost for seven decades, but Project Audion now recreates one of those missing episodes - in fact, Gunsmoke's second-ever show from May 3, 1952.

Listen to our-country cast bring back Marshall Matt Dillon, Doc Adams, Chester and others in this live Zoom recording of the dark drama titled "Ben Thompson."

Denny Thompson, Colorado
Glenn Hascall, Kansas
Norman Cline, Kentucky
Kim Titus, Texas
Jane Beverley, New Jersey
Pete Fernbaugh, West Virginia
Duane Noch, New Jersey
Caleb Fisher, Virginia
Production supervised by Larry Groebe, Texas

You know Jimmy Durante, even if you think you don't -- the fellow was so famous for so many decades that just a caricature of his face was once enough to elicit a smile. His outsized "Schnozz" matched the outsized personality from the 1920s through the 1970s. Even today his catchphrases and songs endure. You can hear Durante singing in the "Joker" movie of 2019, imitated in the "Lion King," in Warner Bros cartoons, and every year in beloved animated Christmas specials.

In this Audion Original, Pete Lutz revisits this unique talent, imagining a brand-new late-1940s episode of the Jimmy Durante Comedy Caravan with his on-air partner (and future TV host) Garry Moore, plus guest stars Sydney Greenstreet and Rose Marie. It's a half-hour of the kind of variety show that radio once did so often and so well. "Everyone wants ta' get inta de act!" and here they do, for a marvelous half-hour of mirth and music with:

Pete Lutz, in Texas, as Jimmy Durante
Bob Beaumont, in California, as Garry Moore
Scott McKinley, in New Jersey, as Sidney Greenstreet
Jessica Matthews, in Texas, as Rose Marie
Laura Mirsky in New Jersey, as Vera Vague
Sheree Whichard, in New York, as Florence Halop
Trevor Rines, in Ontario Canada, as Candy Candido
Andy Hartson-Bowyer, in Virginia, as Verne Smith