Carl and Lisa present the radio episode The Adv. of Philip Marlowe 4/11/50 The Anniversary Gift

Carl plays Name That Tune, Is It Real Or Is It Ridiculous? and Learning the Lyrics and present radio episodes of Kraft Music Hall 10/7/48 w/ Al Jolson and Edward G. Robinson / Sam Spade 7/25/48 The Mad Scientist w/ Howard Duff / WhiteHall 1212 4/27/52 Case of Francesca Nichelson

Carl and Lisa play Beat the Host and presents the comedy/quiz series You Bet Your Life 2/7/55 Secret Word: Show w/ Groucho Marx

Carl plays Movie Jeopardy and presents the patriotic war drama Arch Oboler’s Plays 3/9/40 Johnny Got His Gun w/ James Cagney

Enjoy two free amateur detective episodes of Casey, Crime Photographer

A) 2/6/47 The Grey Kitten w/ Staats Cottsworth

B) 2/20/47 The Twenty-Minute Alibi w/ Staats Cottsworth

For those who could not get enough of B-movie murder-mysteries, Casey, Crime Photographer was the radio equivalent. It employed similar plot devices, such as the suspect about to reveal important information being shot and killed by the guilty party. Loose ends, disappearing corpses, a lack of clues, and too many suspects were the hallmarks of this popular show. Casey was a top-notch photojournalist for the fictional Morning Express often started his assignments at the Blue Note Café’, a cozy jazz bar in a great city populated by murderers, kidnap victims, and ex-cons framed for crimes they didn’t commit. The police were portrayed unsympathetically – always willing to wrap up the case after Casey had solved it for them. Assisting Casey was fellow reporter and female interest, the always charming Annie Williams. The character of Jack “Flashgun” Casey was the creation of George Harmon Coxe, and first appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask (in the radio series, his first name was never given). Alonzo Deen Cole, responsible for the eerie late-night horror program, The Witch’s Tale, wrote most of the radio scripts and many of his episodes featured elements of the supernatural. Casey, Crime Photographer inspired two motion pictures and a series of comic books. In 1951, the radio program made the transition to television with Darren McGavin in the lead. The video version lasted just one full season, McGavin later recalling the difficulty of adapting radio scripts for the visual medium. In 1954, the radio program came back on air for a further year and was a firm favorite with those fans who liked their mysteries laced with jazz music and their solutions fairly obvious.

Enjoy two free mystery episodes of Suspense

A) 4/11/46 The Name of the Beast w/ Vincent Price

B) 2/6/47 End of the Road w/ Glenn Ford

Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportion (Hitchcock was unable to avail himself for its radio run on CBS). Considered by many to be the best mystery/drama series of the golden age, Suspense was known as Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills and focused on climactic stories starring the biggest names in Hollywood. Early in the run, the episodes were hosted by “The Man in Black” who, from an omniscient perch, narrated stories of people thrown into dangerous or bizarre situations with plots that, at the very end, usually had an unseen twist or two. Suspense had the ability to stir your nerves and withhold solutions until the last possible moment. Hollywood’s finest actors jumped at the chance to appear on Suspense, including Cary Grant, James Stewart, Alan Ladd, Henry Fonda, Ronald Colman, Judy Garland, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Robert Montgomery, Bette Davis and Orson Welles. Agnes Moorehead was dubbed “The First Lady of Suspense” for having starred in more episodes than any other actor. Music for Suspense was by Bernard Herrmann (Lucille Fletcher’s husband from 1938-1948) and scripts were by John Dickson Carr, E. Jack Neuman, Robert Tallman, Mel Dinelli, Lucille Fletcher, James Poe, Ray Bradbury and many others. Running more than 20 years, Suspense aired nearly 1,000 radio broadcasts. It made the transition to television in 1949, but it was much better suited for radio, where thetheatre of the mind could run free.

Enjoy two free sci-fi episodes of Dimension X

A) 4/15/50 With Folded Hands w/ Peter Capell

B) 5/6/50 Knock w/ Arnold Moss

Hosted by Norman Rose, Dimension X was one of radio’s first adult science-fiction series and made its mark by adapting short stories by acknowledged masters in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Robert. A. Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and William Tenn. Scriptwriters, Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, who also contributed their own original material, adapted the stories. At the start of every broadcast, host Norman Rose promised us Adventures in time and space, told in future tense! You knew you were about to be transported from your everyday existence to somewhere completely different -- maybe even a distant planet. Radio was a fertile medium for science fiction. It was easy to visit other planets, interact with aliens or fly in a rocket ship simply by using your imagination. Dimension X debuted over NBC on April 8, 1950 accumulated some 50 episodes with its final broadcast on September 29, 1951. There was a five-month hiatus during the winter and spring of 1951.

Carl and Lisa present the radio episode The Burns & Allen Show 4/25/46 w/ George Burns and Gracie Allen

Carl and Lisa present two radio episodes of Stay Tuned For Terror from 1945 The Man Who Raised the Dead & Wine of the Wizard

Carl and Lisa present the radio episode The Humphrey Bogart Theater 8/17/49 Dead Man w/ Humphrey Bogart