Introductory audio offers a brief review of Edgar Allan Poe's life and some of his writing influences... and introduces The Black Mass featuring two of Poe's short stories dramatized and edited back-to-back.

"The Perverse Imp" and "The Manuscript in a Bottle" are the "Two by Poe" on this track. This track will live in "Horror/Suspense" Playlist on this Soundcloud.com podcast.

Audio Introduction gives background on the show and introduces this episode. Starring Harry Einstein as Nick Parkurkakus, owner of the Greek restaurant known as Parky's. Excellent show. This episode and other episodes of "Meet Me At Parky's" live in the playlist "Comedy" on this Soundcloud.com podcast.

Intro audio gives background on this wildly popular series that ran for 23 years producing about 5000 episodes. The two actors Chester Lauck and Norris Goff were boyhood friends and developed the series around a town called Waters, AK... which the renamed Pine Ridge... and they were so talented that they played more than one character in many episodes... and the names of the characters are entertaining in themselves. You will enjoy this show and more episodes in the playlist "Lum 'N Abner" on this Soundcloud.com podcast.

The introductory audio portion of the track focuses on the voices heard in the series from the creepy opening to some of the actors who played roles in this and other radio series transferring their talents to television on motion pictures. In radio, voices, music, and sound effects combined to stimulate the imagination of every listener and there probably was not a single listener who had the same image of a character or an action that was taking place. That's what radio did ... it made us use our imagination! This track will reside in the playlist by the same name.... "Murder at Midnight"

John Dehner was radio's Paladin, Richard Boone was television's Paladin. Both versions were on the air for most of the same time... 1957-60 with the TV series lasting until 1963. It is interesting to note that the two actors played the character of Paladin very different from one another... and that is the only way John Dehner accepted the offer to play the role on radio. He wanted the freedom to create his own character and not to be a carbon copy the the Paladin that Richard Boone portrayed on television. This episode will live in the "Westerns" playlist on this soundcloud.com podcast.

Audio intro gives background on this episode of ESCAPE from 1953 with host, William Conrad. The setting is a Mexican cantina... a poet and El Guitarero play a game of life and death with one another... The show is interrupted by a CBS News Bulletin concerning a release of prisoners during the Korean War... This show features some excellent Spanish music played by Jose Barroso. Escape tracks are stored in "Horror/Suspense" Playlist on this Soundcloud.com podcast

The "Cugats" soon to become the "Coopers" because of a lawsuit threatened by band leader Xavier Cugat... that he did not want people to think the comedy was about his life... so the producers changed the name in 1949. A very popular sitcom producing 124 half-hour episodes on CBS radio and would morph into a television program in 1950 that would replace Richard Denning with Desi Arnaz (Lucille Ball's real-life husband) and renamed the show "I Love Lucy!" And the rest, as they say, is history. This episode will be living in the playlist "My Favorite Husband" on this Soundcloud.com podcast.

The Broadway and film hit "Guys and Dolls" (Photo - Jean Simmons and Marlon Brando) was based on Damon Runyon's short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" - narrated by John Brown (as Broadway)... this is a love story of a high class gambler named "Sky" who has fallen in love with a Missionary, Miss Sarah Brown... and he is doing everything he can to earn her approval. Intro gives background on the series and introduces the story. This episode of The Damon Runyon Theater lives in the Playlist on this Soundcloud.com podcast "Damon Runyon Theater"... This is the 11th episode in the series.

Two more back-to-back episodes from "Vic and Sade" - America's home folk "who live in the little house up on the next block". First story is "Too Many Faces in the Windows" from Dec. 1940 and the second show is "Beautiful, Beautiful Wallpaper" - January 15, 1941. More "Vic and Sade" episodes in the playlist "Vic and Sade"

Juvenile adventure serial broadcast from 1938-49. Stars David O'Brien. This was a syndicated series. Aired on WGN Chicago and then the Mutual Radio Network until 1942 when it went to NBC Blue Network (later to become ABC). When FCC broke up NBC Network... Captain Midnight went back to the Mutual Radio Network. The show was known for the imaginative use of exciting technological advancements to create narrative thrills that hopefully inspired the show's young audiences to dream of future technology. Series was based on a WW I aviator Captain Jim "Red" Albright, who was always sent on high-risk missions with instructions to return by the stroke of midnight. All Capt. Midnight episodes are in the "Captain Midnight" Playlist.