This is part 4 of a 4 part series. If you would like to listen, please start at episode 9 and continue on. Normal episodes of The Time Machine will resume on tomorrow with a plan to revisit a certain holiday I missed earlier this week. So sit back, relax, and please enjoy episodes 16-20 of I Love a Mystery's The Fear That Creeps Like a CatIf you're enjoying or not enjoying this content, or just have comments, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. Also if you could rate and subscribe that would be great! If you'd like to go above and beyond, support the podcast here (https://anchor.fm/drpsdailytimemachine/support) to further improve audio quality and collect some special recordings on some unique formats to share with you all. The first supporter will get a special one of a kind archive of certain episodes of their choice on minidisc, cassette, or CD with custom artwork. I'll try to work out some unique benefits or physical gifts/giveaways down the road if we continue to find success. 

This is part 3 of a 4 part series. If you would like to listen, please start at episode 9 and continue on. Normal episodes of The Time Machine will resume on Friday. So sit back, relax, and please enjoy episodes 11-15 of I Love a Mystery's The Fear That Creeps Like a Cat

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For the next four days on the time machine we are going to do something a little different. After a lot of positive feedback on the nightly serial Your’s Truly Johnny Dollar, I have decided to pick another serial for this week. I Love A Mystery created by Carlton Morse is considered by many to be the greatest adventure serial of all time and ran on and off from 1939 to 1952. A major difference between the two, is while YTJD ran in five episode blocks, basically one hour of total content, I Love a Mystery had a variety of lengths. In this particular tale, it will stretch over 20 total episodes which I have carefully edited down to four, one hourish long episodes.

When I was just ten, in the year 2003, my dad showed me a website called R U Sitting Comfortably? After browsing and browsing for hours, I finally found this show I Love a Mystery and this particular series of episodes. This was the very first old time radio that I ever listened to and sparked a lifetime love for the genre. R U Sitting Comfortably is still online by the way, so shout out to Ned Norris, the owner of the site for hosting OTR for more than 20 years now. Not a sponsor.

The great tragedy of many of the radio dramas written by Carlton Morse have been lost to time. Currently, only two complete series, The Thing that Cries in the Night, and Bury Your Dead, Arizona have been found. Today’s series, Fear That Creeps Like a Cat, the precursor to The Thing that Cries in the Night, are all recreations by OTR historian Jim Harmon who knew Carlton Morse in the ‘60s. The fact about this remake though, is that if I hadn’t told you that fact, you may have never known. The real question remains though, where did all the recordings of I Love a Mystery go? Even Carlton Morse himself has no idea. Someone has to have the original electrical transcription discs, and there are several theories from a hoarding millionaire, to simply laying around, unrecognized.

So join me, on a 20 part story with our main characters Jack Packard, Doc Long, and Reggie York who travel the world in search of action and adventure. Although there may be a reference or two to a previous episode or caper early on, the show quickly settles into its own self contained story. I’m sure you’ll be instantly hooked by the engaging personalities of the characters, just like I was in 2003. So sit back, relax, and turn back the clock what would have been 72 years, to October 3rd, 1949 and I Love a Mystery’s, The Fear that Creeps Like A Cat.

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Today we turn back the clock 75 years to The House in Cypress Canyon from Suspense. After the positive feedback I received about last week's “The Thing on the Forble Board”, I’ve decided to make Friday a day for more horror and suspense themed episodes. So it seems like an easy pick to jump to one of the most popular shows, perfectly named “Suspense.” Subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills”, almost 1000 episodes of the show were broadcast during its run from its audition program in 1940, all the way to 1962.

The show had several successes throughout the years, featuring famous actors such as Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, Humphry Bogart, Judy Garland, and Cary Grant just to name a few. Several adaptations for TV were produced including “The Hitch Hiker” which is featured on Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.

This particular episode was during the shows 1944 to 1947 run with Roma Wines as the title sponsor. Thats R-O-M-A, ROMA wines in case you were wondering.

We meet a man who’s renting some recently refinished homes, previously abandoned in Cypress Canyon. While he is looking through one of these homes he finds some writings. And that’s odd, this house has been abandoned for years, and yet this looks new. Hmmm… Strange… Well try to relax, sit back, maybe even turn down the lights? Well either way, I’m sure what you are about to hear will put you in Suspense.

Today’s episode will take us back 74 years to one of the all time classics of old time radio. Dragnet is a show that needs no introduction. Its impact spanned from a 1949 radio premier, all the way to a 2003 TV remake, Dragnet found incredible success in the late 40s and 50s, becoming one of radio and TVs biggest shows.

Most episodes take place in LA, where creator Jack Webb spent a long time trying to convince the LAPD to give him his endorsement to receive original case files. Each episode starts with the classic line that all the stories are true but “only the names are changed – to protect the innocent.” Webb’s goal for the show was to “realistically depict police officers in a broadcast series, without the forced melodrama heard in the numerous private-detective serials then common in radio programming.” This perspective no doubt originated from his starring role on the short lived “Pat Novak for Hire” which we will get to in future episodes. Webb went on several night patrols, attended police academy courses, all to help bring as much realism to the show as possible.

The show started to cause controversies in the early ‘50s, when the LAPD tried to intervene into how they were portrayed on the show. No doubt due to Webb’s signature nature of sticking to the facts over everything else, issues such as racial segregation in the LAPD, and certain police brutality events are still covered to their chagrin.

This particular episode, we will join Jack Webb as the ever stoic Sergeant Joe Friday, as some “quick trigger gun men” have come into town. The name acts exactly as described, men committing robberies with a quick trigger finger and a body count to match. This episode is from the show's first month on air, as shown by the lack of sponsors, and tells a rather gruesome tale. So sit back, relax, and turn back the clock 74 years to June 24th, 1949, and Dragnet’s: Quick Trigger Gun Men.

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Today’s journey will take us back to 1955 and one of the first old time radio shows I ever listened to. Your’s Truly Johnny Dollar, which had several different hosts over the years, found its most successful format in a nightly serial starring Bob Bailey. As a serialized show, each story was told over five, fifteen minute nightly episodes which I have combined into one long story for today’s show. This format was instituted by writer and director Jack Johnstone.

The life of an insurance investigator doesn’t sound all that interesting; however, that is not the case with the man with “the action packed expense account”. Each tale is told from Johnny's perspective, as he tells his account of events, and tallies his expenses to send back to whichever agency has hired him.

Each episode of YTJD as it is commonly referred to, starts with a phone call from an insurance adjuster, calling to Johnny to investigate an unusual claim. These can range from fraud, missing people, suspicious deaths, or in this case, something much simpler.

A poor old newspaper salesman recently passed and left behind all he had to a young girl who had helped him one day when she was just 11 years old. Now Johnny gets a call to find this woman and deliver this special check to her. The tale starts in Hartford, CT where Johnny receives yet another phone call. So please, sit back, relax, and turn back the clock 66 years to November 14th, 1955 and Your’s Truly Johnny Dollar with The Broderick Matter.

Today's journey will take us back to New York City almost 75 years ago. Following the topic of missing husbands and worried wives, we will listen to an early episode of Broadway is My Beat starring Anthony Ross as Detective Danny Clover, a hardened homicide cop who works “from Times Square to Columbus Circle”.

New York City can be stressful for people, especially coming from the country. The big crowds, the loud noises, heavy traffic. Now imagine how that would feel 75 years ago, maybe your first time ever in a big city. Now we will meet a couple just like that who come into the city, check into their hotel, the husband goes out for a moment and doesn’t return. You’d think the worst wouldn’t you? It’s New York after all and anything can happen at any time. Kidnapped? Murdered? Just relax, you're here to have a good time after all.

Broadway is My Beat ran from 1949-1954 on CBS, and Anthony Ross only played the main role for the first three months of the show. We’ll join Detective Danny Clover on an interesting case of theft and possibly even homicide?

So sit back, relax, turn down the lights, and travel back 73 years to March 6th 1949, with Broadway is my Beat’s: The Andrew Jenkins Case.

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Today’s journey will take us back to the late 1800s and the wild west. After ending last week on a heavy note, we will start this week with an excellent episode of the show “Have Gun - Will Travel”. This episode is from a late era of radio, wherein some shows were broadcast on both television and radio. The radio series of this show actually debut more than a year after the televised version.

We will join the main character Paladin, played by John Dehner, in San Francisco as he runs into a man in the Carlton Hotel where he makes his home. On this particular journey, Paladin will go after a dangerous escaped outlaw who has already killed several men. Before I give away too much of the story it would help to understand the backstory of the man Paladin. He is a wandering gunfighter, always in search of adventure, and willing to do most jobs required of him for the right price. Paladin may be one of the most interesting and peculiar characters, with the most impressive resume of anyone in history. He is quoted as having the following skills

So sit back, relax, close your eyes, and travel back 63 years to December 11th, 1958 and lets join this most interesting of men Paladin in Have Gun Will Travel’s: The Outlaw.

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Tonight's journey will start with a man telling a tale of an experience he had on an oil rig in the 1930s. Oil drilling is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, so imagine what it was like almost 100 years ago, in the dead of night, isolated with only a couple of men working the crew?

This tale comes from the depths of the archive, an episode of Quiet Please from 1948. The show ran from 1947 to 1949 and has a history of inspiring famous authors, impressing history and literature professors, and horrifying listeners. Hosted by Ernest Chappel who occasionally starred in the show himself, he creates an impressive introduction and sense of dread on the listener.

Although the episode starts off a bit tedious, the slow build and factual nature of the main character end up adding to the experience. Nevertheless I won’t bore you any more. So sit back, maybe turn off the lights… are you alone? Why not have a few drinks? Take a nap even? Well, let's turn back 74 years to August 9th, 1948, and The Thing on the Fourble Board, but shhhh, Quiet, please.