Cloak & Dagger On the Air

Cloak & Dagger On the Air Stays Home returns with an episode titled "The 32nd of December," a 1958 radio play by Morris Lee Green and William Walker and adapted for our show by Pete Fernbaugh. Sam Adcock is in deep. His gambling debts have racked up, and he now owes the mob $1,000, due in full at midnight on December 31st...or else. But when a certain Madam Muse sells him a mysterious old watch that controls time, Sam is certain the New Year will be the start of something big. Starring The Wayward Saints: Bethany Fernbaugh, Pete Fernbaugh, Noah Hilton, Ralph Parissi, and Karissa Martin, with Micah Underwood as Your Announcer. Produced and directed by Pete Fernbaugh. Auld Lang Syne arranged and performed by Karissa Martin. Sound effects by The Holy Foley Molies. A Future Past Production. 

Cloak & Dagger On the Air wraps up its Christmas celebration with "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" by Norman Corwin. When the denizens of hell reach a consensus on the threat posed by Christmas, they elect Emperor Nero to invade Santa's workshop and murder the jolly old saint. However, Nero isn't prepared for Father Christmas' steadfast devotion to finding the good in all humanity, even genocidal tyrants. Starring The Wayward Saints: Rob DeSantis, Bethany Fernbaugh, Pete Fernbaugh, David Gaudio, Robert Gaudio, Brandon Gilmore, Noah Hilton, Odessa Hores, Nancy Longo, Karissa Martin, Ralph Parissi, and Micah Underwood, with a score arranged and performed by classical musician Roberta Fedoush and violinist Shaun Hancher. Sound management by Shayne Merideth. Sound effects by The Holy Foley Molies. Produced and directed by Pete Fernbaugh. A Future Past Production.

For Christmas Day, Cloak & Dagger On the Air is pleased to present "Mr. Trimble's Turnabout Christmas," a quirky little tale by Bob Arthur and David Kogan about a rather dour man named Timothy T. Trimble, who somehow wins the Christmas Spirits Goodness Award for 1947. And thanks to Benny, the 18-inch Santa-clad spirit who presents him with the award, Mr. Trimble is about to have the Christmas of his wildest dreams. Starring The Wayward Saints: Chris Carter, Bethany Fernbaugh, Pete Fernbaugh, Noah Hilton, Karissa Martin, Ralph Parissi, and Terri Perry, with a score arranged and performed by Karissa Martin and sound effects by The Holy Foley Molies. Produced and directed by Pete Fernbaugh. A Future Past Production. Tomorrow, our final offering of the season: The Plot to Overthrow Christmas!

Cloak & Dagger On the Air continues its Christmas celebration with a special tale for Christmas Eve: "The Night Before Christmas," a 1953 radio play by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. It's Christmas Eve, and Kathy is eagerly awaiting her parents return home from Paris, but as the day wears on and reports of a missing plane surface in the news, the family housekeeper, Miss Buffy, struggles with how to tell Kathy that her parents may never come home again. Starring The Wayward Saints: Chris Carter, Rob DeSantis, Bethany Fernbaugh, Pete Fernbaugh, Noah Hilton, Emily Hores, Odessa Hores, Tyler Hores, Nancy Longo, Karissa Martin, and in her debut performance with Cloak & Dagger, Kelly Salatino. Our choir, the Traditionally Arranged Carolers, was conducted by Bethany Fernbaugh; Lakin Weaver composed and performed our score; Shayne Merideth managed our sound; and The Holy Foley Molies created our sound effects. Produced and directed by Pete Fernbaugh. A Future Past Production. Tomorrow: "Mr. Trimble's Turnabout Christmas."

Cloak & Dagger On the Air continues its Christmas celebration with a brand-new episode of Daphne Doolittle, The Dame with the Private Eye. This time, our deductive and occasionally inductive detective solves "The Case of the Satanic Santa." When the Parking Lot Valley Mall Santa reveals himself to be from the noxious netherworld and takes her reliable assistant Stinky Pink hostage, Daphne must summon all of her pluck and spunk to drive St. CinderKlaws back into the ghastly abyss of ghoulish Gehenna. Starring The Wayward Saints: Chris Carter, Bethany Fernbaugh, Pete Fernbaugh, Noah Hilton, Karissa Martin, Ralph Parissi, and Terri Perry, with an original score composed and performed by Lakin Weaver and sound effects by the Holy Foley Molies with an assist from the vast archives of YouTube. Our Hellish soundscape was created by Michael Ghelfi whose tremendous work can be found here. A Future Past Production. Written, produced, and directed by Pete Fernbaugh. Tomorrow: The Night Before Christmas. 

Cloak & Dagger On the Air's holiday celebration continues with "The House of the World," a 1933 radio play by Nila Mack and adapted by Pete Fernbaugh. When a refugee couple encounters a woman outside of the House of the World who calls herself Goodwill, they embark upon a journey to find the Christmas spirit within its insurmountable Walls of Selfishness, Greed, Poverty, and Intolerance. Starring The Wayward Saints: Rob DeSantis, Bethany Fernbaugh, David Gaudio, Robert Gaudio, Brandon Gilmore, Noah Hilton, Odessa Hores, Nancy Longo, Karissa Martin, Ralph Parissi, and Micah Underwood, with a score arranged and performed by classical musician Roberta Fedoush and violinist Shaun Hancher. Sound management by Shayne Merideth. Sound effects by The Holy Foley Molies. Produced and directed by Pete Fernbaugh. A Future Past Production. Tomorrow: Daphne Doolittle, The Dame with the Private Eye, in "The Case of the Satanic Santa."

Merry Christmas from all of us at Cloak & Dagger On the Air! As our gift to you, we're unwrapping a week of Christmas stories and skits, starting with today's present, "The Cave." It's based on a 1955 radio play by Antony Ellis and adapted for Cloak & Dagger On the Air by Pete Fernbaugh. It's Christmas Day when a young boy named Danny and his sister, Jenny, escape from their cheerless home into a mysterious cave. But this isn't your average creepy cave, for Danny and Jenny are about to discover a fantasy world of scurvy pirates who have taken a beautiful princess hostage. Starring The Wayward Saints: Chris Carter, Rob DeSantis, Bethany Fernbaugh, Noah Hilton, Emily Hores, Odessa Hores, Tyler Hores, Nancy Longo, and Karissa Martin. The score is composed and performed by Lakin Weaver, sound management by Shayne Merideth, and sound effects by The Holy Foley Molies. A Future Past Production. Tomorrow, our second present: "The House of the World."

And now: a second helping of Cloak & Dagger On the Air for your Thanksgiving celebration. This particular story, "The Screaming Woman" by Ray Bradbury and adapted for radio by Sylvia Richards and Pete Fernbaugh, was recorded during our first season. Starring The Wayward Saints: Chris Carter, Rob DeSantis, Bethany Fernbaugh, Pete Fernbaugh, Emily Hores, Karissa Martin, and Dave Zanieski. Music composed and performed by Lakin Weaver. Sound effects by The Holy Foley Molies. A Future Past Production. 

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our listeners! In celebration of the holiday, we bring you two helpings of Cloak & Dagger On the Air today. First up, we present Daphne Doolittle, the Dame with the Private Eye, in "The Case of the Thin-Witted, Tickle-Brained Thespian." How does Daphne get out of Thanksgiving dinner with her feckless family? Simple. By being brutally baked and carnivorously cannibalized in a prodigiously porky pumpkin pie. Starring The Wayward Saints: Bethany Fernbaugh and John E. Reilly with Chris Carter, Pete Fernbaugh, Noah Hilton, and Karissa Martin. Music composed and performed by Lakin Weaver. Sound effects by The Holy Foley Molies. Written, produced, and directed by Pete Fernbaugh. Later today: an adaptation by Sylvia Richards of Ray Bradbury's "The Screaming Woman." A Future Past Production. 

In honor of the 160th anniversary today of the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, Cloak & Dagger On the Air presents Act Three of "Abraham Lincoln" by John Drinkwater as adapted for radio by Orson Welles. Starring The Wayward Saints: Chris Carter, David Gaudio, Noah Hilton, Butch Maxwell, Evan Oslund, Ralph Parissi, John E. Reilly, and Tim Thompson, with Robert Gaudio as President Lincoln and Karissa Martin as your announcer. Produced and directed by Pete Fernbaugh. Music by the West Point Band and the United States Marine Band. A Future Past Production.