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Herbert Marshall had the lead role of agent Ken Thurston/"Mr. X" who took on dangerous cases in a variety of exotic locations. Leon Belasco played Mr. X's comedic sidekick, Pegon Zellschmidt, who always turned up in remote parts of the world because he had a "cousin" there. Pegon would annoy and help Mr. X. Wendell Niles was the announcer from 1947 to 1948. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra supplied the background music. The series was created by Jay Richard Kennedy who later adapted The Man Called X as a 39 episode syndicated television series (1956-57) starring Barry Sullivan as Thurston for Ziv ...

Exploring the Legacy of 'Alien Worlds': A Pioneer of Science Fiction RadioIn the late 1970s, a groundbreaking radio show captured the imaginations of science fiction enthusiasts with its innovative approach to storytelling. 'Alien Worlds' was a syndicated radio show that brought together a blend of captivating narratives, realistic sound effects, and high production values, setting a new standard for audio drama.Created by Lee Hansen, 'Alien Worlds' aired 26 half-hour episodes from 1978 to 1980. The show was ahead of its time, utilizing a documentary style of dialogue that immersed listeners ...

Casey, Crime Photographer was a popular radio show that aired from 1943 to 1955 on CBS. The show was based on the character of Jack "Flashgun" Casey, a crime photographer for the fictional newspaper The Morning Express, created by novelist George Harmon Coxe.Casey, Crime Photographer radio show posterThe show followed Casey as he solved crimes alongside his reporter friend, Ann Williams, and his other friends at their favorite hangout, the Blue Note Cafe. The Blue Note was also a jazz club, and the show often featured musical performances from the Archie Bleyer Orchestra and the Teddy Wilson ...

50 Shows.Some of the best shows ever produced. Titles like 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Around the World in 80 Days, Casablanca, Grapes of Wrath, Gulliver's Travels, Red Badge of Courage, Snow White, The Time Machine, Wuthering Heights and many more.Listen to our radio station Old Time Radio https://link.radioking.com/otradioListen to other Shows at My Classic Radio https://www.myclassicradio.net/Remember that times have changed, and some shows might not reflect the standards of today’s politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily ...

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio drama series that aired from 1946 to 1947. It starred John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Dr. Watson. The show was sponsored by Kreml Hair Products and was broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).The show was a continuation of the earlier radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. However, the Stanley and Shirley version took a more lighthearted approach to the material, and the characters were more modernized.The show was well-received by audiences, and it ran ...

The Alan Young Show is an American radio and television series presented in diverse formats over a nine-year period and starring British-Canadian-American actor Alan Young. The series began on NBC Radio as a summer replacement situation comedy in 1944, featuring vocalist Bea Wain. It then moved to ABC Radio with Jean Gillespie portraying Young's girlfriend Betty. The program was next broadcast by NBC for a 1946-47 run and was off in 1948. When it returned to NBC in 1949, Louise Erickson played Betty and Jim Backus was heard as snobbish playboy Hubert Updike III, a character he later adapted as...

Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal, to track them down.

X minus one was effectively the return of Dimension X, and although the opening sequence was revamped and the announcer became Fred Collins, the stories were still as bizarre and intriguing as its predecessor. The first X minus one shows used scripts from Dimension X, but soon created new shows, employing the talents of many great sci–fi authors, including staff writers Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, Asimov, Bradbury and Heinlein.From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future, adventures in which you'll live...

The Six Shooter is a United States western old-time radio program starring James Stewart as a gunfighter. It was created by Frank Burt, who also wrote many of the episodes, and lasted only one season of thirty-nine episodes on NBC (Sept. 20, 1953–June 24, 1954). Initially, it was broadcast on Sundays at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time, through October 11. Then it was heard at 8:30 p.m. for three weeks. Finally, on November 8, 1953, through March 21, 1954, it was broadcast Sundays at 8 p.m. Beginning April 1, 1954, through the final episode it was on Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. One old-time radio directory...

The Casebook of Gregory Hood was a **radio detective program** that aired from **1946 to 1950** on different networks and with different actors playing the main character¹. Gregory Hood was an **importer** in San Francisco who solved crimes related to his business, often with the help of his friend and lawyer Sandy Taylor. The show was created by Denis Green and Anthony Boucher, who also wrote for The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes¹. The show was inspired by a real-life importer named Richard Gump, who sometimes appeared on the show. The show also featured real people, places and ...

Title: Carter Brown MysteriesDescription: A crime detection thriller series produced by Grace Gibson Radio Production and first broadcast in 1957.Genre: Mystery, dramaAudience: AdultsRunning time: 30 minutesBroadcast network: Mutual Broadcasting SystemCreators: Alan Geoffrey Yates, Grace GibsonStars: John Dehner, William ConradThe show was based on the novels of Carter Brown, a pseudonym for several Australian authors of detective fiction. The stories featured private investigator John Carter, who solved crimes in the American Southwest. The show was well-received by listeners and ran for 10 ...

In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of the Philip Marlowe radio series, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a "Philip Marlowe of the Old West". Robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task.Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created an audition script called "Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye" based on one of their Michael Shayne radio scripts, "The Case of the Crooked Wheel" from the summer of 1948. ...

"... A series of true stories of the unceasing search for enemy spies in War Time, based on the memoirs of Lieutenant Oreste Cornel Pinto of the Allied Counter-Intelligence service ..."Oreste Pinto was a Dutch Intelligence Officer whom General Eisenhower called "the greatest living expert in security." The radio program, Spy Catcher, was based on Pinto's work in the Allied Counterintelligence Service. Each episode has Pinto interrogating a political refugee or seeming Allied Serviceman. Using all the psychological and verbal tricks at his command, Pinto tries to prove that the subject is a ...

The Aldrich Family, a popular radio teenage situation comedy (July 2, 1939 – April 19, 1953), was also presented in films, television and comic books. In the radio series' well-remembered weekly opening exchange, awkward teen Henry's mother called, "Hen-reeeeeeeeeeeee! Hen-ree Al-drich!", and he responded with a breaking adolescent voice, "Com-ing, Mother!"Listen to our radio station Old Time radio https://link.radioking.com/otradioListen to other Shows at My Classic Radio https://www.myclassicradio.net/Patreon Entertainment Radio | Broadcasting Classic Radio Shows | PatreonRemember that ...

The Legacy of 'The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Radio ShowThe golden age of radio brought forth an era of storytelling that captivated the imagination of listeners worldwide. Among the most celebrated of these programs was 'The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.' This classic radio show, which aired from 1939 to 1950, brought the adventures of the world's most famous detective and his loyal friend Dr. Watson to life through the airwaves.The show initially starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, a pairing that became iconic for their portrayal of the ...

The Avengers was most certainly not a household name in South Africa prior to the radio series. With no national television service until 1976, the mechanism simply was not present in the country to show television programmes to mass audiences. While many other countries revelled in the filmed adventures of John Steed and co., South Africa was not equipped to join in the fun. The series took Britain by storm and also made a major impression in the American markets, being that greatest of rarities, a British series given a network transmission slot. However, as a filmed series (rather than a ...

Easy Aces was a popular American radio comedy show that ran from 1930 to 1945. The show was created and written by Goodman Ace and starred Goodman and his wife, Jane. The show was known for its low-key humor and its use of everyday situations to create comedy.The show was originally broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System, but it later moved to the CBS Radio Network. It was one of the most popular radio shows of its time, and it was syndicated in over 100 cities.The show was broadcast live from New York City, and it featured a simple format. Goodman and Jane would sit in a living room ...

The Creaking Door was an old-time radio series of horror and suspense shows originating in South Africa. The series was first aired in 1964-65. The stories are thrillers in the Inner Sanctum vein, and generally thought of favorably by most fans of OTR. It was sponsored by State Express 555 (pronounced "State Express Three Fives") cigarettes, a British American Tobacco product. One episode, "Face to Face"—about a planned first landing on the moon—refers to "Cape Kennedy" as the launch site, placing the broadcast between 1964 (when Cape Canaveral was renamed Cape Kennedy) and 1969 (the ...

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

Candy Matson is a radio program on NBC West Coast that aired from June 29, 1949, to May 20, 1951. It centred on Candy Matson, a female private investigator with a wry sense of humour and a penthouse on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. The program was notable for having a striking female character "without a trace of squeamishness" as well as a veiled gay character in Candy's best friend Rembrandt Watson, voiced by Jack Thomas. Candy's love interest was police detective Ray Mallard, voiced by Henry Leff. The announcer was Dudley Manlove. Actors frequently heard in minor roles were Helen Kleeb, ...