Moonlight Audio Theatre

Project Audion presents a special Christmas audio drama recorded before a live audience at the Grapevine (TX) Public Library on December 14, 2025 as part of "Christmas On The Air." This half hour recreates a "A Christmas Carol" as it was traditionally heard on on the radio networks in the days before television. For nearly two decades spread across across the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, actor Lionel Barrymore definitively portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge for eager American radio listeners. We recreated his 1949 production with a full cast, right down to Tiny Tim, plus music and live sound effects. It's the voices of Christmas past, here as your Christmas present. Kim Titus Mitch Carr Reg Platt Susan Platt Brian Hoffman Gary Layton Sheela Bailey A. J. Glendenning Pierce Morgan Chase Morgan Produced and directed by Larry Groebe

SIX-GUN SANTA CLAUS, A Jake Dimes Christmas Number

Western detective Jake Dimes returns for a third holiday adventure! At a family gathering in Celestial City, Jake and his sidekick Briar Buck tell the "one hundred percent true" tale of a youngster, living a hardscrabble existence in a small Arizona town, who gets a new lease on life through the kindness of a circus performer. Aside from the main story, two members of the family reveal some important news! Enjoy this new offering from the Narada Radio Company, and Happy Holidays to all of our listeners!

With the voice talents of:

Dana Gonsalves as JAKE DIMES

Victoria Fancki as CHRIS GREENSLATE DIMES

Austin Beach as BRIAR BUCK

Nancy Bueler as MOLLY SUTCLIFFE BUCK

Joe Stofko as FRED GREENSLATE

Glenn Hascall as SLIM SUTCLIFFE and

Debby Gonzales Ramirez as LUPE; with

Nick Wommack as TODD

Alan Clower as NEVADA

Andy Hartson-Bowyer as ACE GARLAND

Paul J. Patterson as COLONEL BRAGG

Mel Rose as FREDERICA "RICKY" DIMES

Additional voices by Pete Lutz

Cannonball Kelly as YOUR ANNOUNCER

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Adapted, produced and directed by Pete Lutz, from a short story by Lee E. Wells.

The Jake Dimes Theme was composed by Pete Lutz, arranged and performed by Dr. Ross Bernhardt.

Music passages came from "The Winter's Passed" by Wayne Barlow; other music from the public domain with the exception of certain stings by Edward Champion.

SOLE TWIN AUDIO Presents Suspense: "Back for Christmas"

In this re-creation of John Collier's "Back for Christmas", an episode of the classic Suspense radio series, a henpecked professor of Botany decides he has had enough of his nagging wife and decides to end her life in a quite unusual way.

CAST:

Jerry Kokich as Herbert Mel Rose as Hermione Alexa Chipman as Marion Pete Lutz as Sinclair/Steward Sharon Grunwald as Mrs. Hewitt Rachel Pulliam as Clerk Crew: Directed and Produced by Rachel Pulliam Composer: Ross Bernhardt, David Krause (Suspense theme)

PROJECT AUDION 76: The Bob Hope Pepsodent Show

Bob Hope was one of the 20th century's greatest and most famous entertainers: in vaudeville and movies, and especially his radio (and later TV) comedies, so often performed in front of appreciative US servicemen, kept America smiling for better than six decades. He became an icon of American humor, and it is a special challenge indeed to bring the Hope style back to life. But now Project Audion premieres a "new" 1940s-era Bob Hope radio show -- thanks to the pen of former Hope writer Robert L. Mills, the vocal wizardry of Bill Johnson, and Project Audion's versatile voice actors.

In this new Christmas creation, Bob's guest star is Lana Turner, who joins him to spoof the classic movie "Double Indemnity." It's a show guaranteed to make you smile!

Our Cast:

Bill Johnson in Nevada

Stephanie Johnson in Virginia

Les Marsden in California

Jacob Palka In Illinois

Bethany Baldwin in South Carolina

Dane Allred in Utah

The show was written by Bob Mills in California and produced and directed by Larry Groebe from Texas

THE TABLE ROUND Chap. 6 - Badon Hill

IN PEACE AND WAR HE WAS RENOWNED

AND GOOD KING ARTHUR WAS HIS NAME

ALL CHRISTENDOM WHERE MORTALS LIVED

WAS SPREAD WIDE HIS DEATHLESS FAME

OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS Episode 55: The Great Gildersleeve (S5 Holiday Special)

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 55, and as we continue Season 5, we present Paul's pick, an installment of the NBC comedy series, The Great Gildersleeve, from 12/24/44. Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards!

As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria:

1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.")

2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection?

So with this in mind, we four bring you, as our fifty-fifth number (but 6th official episode of S5), this episode of The Great Gildersleeve, from Christmas Eve, 1944. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it!

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Next Time: It's Pete's pick again, and he'll bring us, for our 1st number of 2026, special guest programmer (and fellow OTR podcaster) John Tefteller, who will be sharing an episode of You Bet Your Life, starring Groucho Marx. Join us then, won't you?

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio's "Adventures of Superman" featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo!

Herbert Calkins is determined to prove that Clark Kent is Superman and has decided to stick to Kent like glue, even at an event where Superman is supposed to make a speech! How can Superman and Clark Kent be at the same place at the same time? Plus, in today's Important Message, the Bat-Supers Club has all kinds of cool perks! Just wait until you hear some of what's included in the membership kit!

Part 5 of "The Super Sleuth" was originally broadcast on July 26, 1946!

A VERY SPECIAL HOLIDAY GREETING to you, our listeners, from us, the various creators in the Moonlight Audio family!

2025 was a very good year for us at Moonlight: new ownership by Pete Lutz and Andy Hartson-Bowyer, but doing our best to maintain the legacy of high quality established by founder David Farquhar. In the past six months, we have brought you on average 20 different productions per month, all from different creators, many of whom you'll hear on this message.

So please listen to their greetings, and keep listening to the wonderful variety of shows that will keep coming; and watch us grow as we bring even more variety, and create new productions exclusive to Moonlight! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Season's Greetings, from all of us here at Moonlight Audio Theatre!

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in.

WELCOME TO MUTANT COUNTY Episode 8

"Changelings, Squidtuplets, and Ra – Oh my!" was written and performed by Michael P. Thiessen and Peter Church. Special thanks to Cassie Garbutt and Esther Koepnick for the WLFC studio jingle.