The city was small and clean and comfortable. Seen from a train window it looked like many another American city but something new had been added to this one that could not be seen from a train window. It was Christopher Chance, young special prosecutor who’s been appointed by the governor to investigate corruption in the office of Anthony Pierce the district attorney.

 Duration: 28:55 

Starring: Sydney Smith, Charlotte Lawrence, Joseph Julian, Helen Shields, Larry Haines 

Broadcast Date: 19th June 1947

You get used to gunfire in Tombstone, usually you hear a single shot or at most two. One gunslinger goes back to the bar and the other goes to Boot hill but when you hear a whole fusillade of shots in the middle of the afternoon you think of the ok coral and head for cover. But the fury of gunshots that Luke and Wichita heard that afternoon were from a local cowhand Paige Webster and his shots were for happiness as he was going to be married to Selina Cordell. But his happiness didn’t last long when his cousin turned up in Tombstone. 

 Duration: 24:35

 Starring: Sam Buffington

 Broadcast Date: 16th March 1958

Four Went Home

Crossing Paris

A Bullet For Mr Smith

How Love Came to Prof. Guildea

Wild Oranges

Sundown

The Man from Tomorrow

Journey Into Fear

Ancient Sorceries

The Game

The Man Who Stole The Bible

Casting the Runes

A Tooth For Paul Revere

The Great Impersonation

Evening Primrose

Young Man with Cream Tarts

The Man Who Would Be King

Ambassador of Poker

Papa Benjamin

Funeral Fires

Command

Zero Hour

An Ordinary Man

Figure A Dame

Judgement Day At Crippled Deer

The Sure Thing

According to the insurance guys, an average joker like Rocky can expect to show up on the census for about 66 years before he shuffles off the old mortal coil. However, a friend of Rocky’s who knows a little about these things, says that in the case of certain unfortunate citizens, these statistics are not valid, and then he precedes to produce a fresh corpse to prove it. 

Duration: 23:48

 Starring: Frank Sinatra

 Broadcast Date: 9th March 1954

Dan Diamond has apparently resigned from his career of crime and is growing orchids at his home in Long Beach California. But right now he is in New York City and he just happens to have lifted $75,000 from a small but expensive jewellery store. 

Duration: 23:24 

Starring: Bob Bailey 

Broadcast Date: 14th February 1960

A Good And Faithful Servant

On the eve of his retirement, a long-time bank employee is locked overnight in the vault by robbers who make off with several thousands, and all of his col[1]leagues are sympathetic towards him for having under[1]gone this terrible experience. Little do they know that there were no robbers; this “good and faithful servant” has taken necessary steps to ensure that he will retire in comfort.

Duration: 29:19

Broadcast Date: 2nd June 1952

Murder in G-Flat

Hercules Remington hasn’t seen his wife since this morning. Remington is a piano tuner and was picked up by the police in Coney Island from where he called them with his story which began with a simple mix up with his bag of tools being mistakenly taken and a murdered man in Madison Square Garden.

Duration: 29:32

Broadcast Date: 5th April 1951

Plan X

Plan X tells of the strange disappearance of experimental rocket ship Y272B set in the year 2053 on planet Mars and stars Mr. Jack Benny

Duration: 30:00

Starring: Mary Jane Croft, Norma Varden, Howard McNear, William Conrad, John McIntire, Truda Marson, Jack Kruschen, Joseph Kearns

Broadcast Date:2nd February 1953

The Face is Familiar

In a dramatic appearance Jack Benny stars in this story of a successful bank robbery including the astounding history of the unhappy man who perpetrated the crime.

Duration: 28:26

Broadcast Date: 18th January 1954

Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time.

Silent Men, The - Souvenirs Of War

Secrets of Scotland Yard - Jean Pierre Vaquier The Dapper Frenchman aka Battalier

Screen Director Theater -  No Time for Love

Sexton Blake - No Trees for Peke

Story Behind the  Song, The - Maryland, My Maryland

Swing and Sway Time - First Song - That's My Weakness Now

Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis

Shirley Temple Time - Mister Ideal

Saint, The - Color Blind Murderer Aboard Ship

Sam Spade - The Wheel Of Life Caper

Six Shooter - Escape From Smoke Falls

Sealed Book - Murder Must be Paid For

Secret Agent K7 - Delivery of Papers

Sherlock Holmes - Second Stain (Baker St. Irregulars)

Salute to Britain - Guest - Jean Hersholt

Sealtest Variety Theater - Gene Kelly & Dennis Day

Shadow, The - Etched With Acid

Suspense – The Card Game

Showtime from Hollywood - First Song - When the Music Stops, Everyone Kiss Your Sweetheart

Spotlight Bands – Ozzie Nelson

Space Patrol - The Prisoner Of Pluto

Scarlet Queen, The Voyage of the - The Bubble Dancer And The Buccaneers

Strange - Deja Vu In France

Suspicion – Silk Thieves

Lord Peter Wimsey is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1973 and 1983, with a further adaptation of Gaudy Night mounted for BBC Audiobooks in 2005 to complete the full sequence of Sayers' novels, all starring Ian Carmichael in the title role.

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Inheritance was a joint production of the National Broadcasting Company and The American Legion and it's Auxliary. The timing of the production is significant. This was the height of the 'Red Scare' era, during which The American Legion of the era-- with the assistance of several powerful right wing Conservative senators and congressmen--orchestrated the notoriously infamous 'Red Channels' pamphlet which purported to 'out' alleged communist sympathizers in the name of 'national security.' The Red Channels pamphlets prompted the development of several informal--and entirely illegal--blacklists of the era, especially in the areas of union organizing efforts and The Arts. This was by no means a Government-sponsored or sanctioned activity. Rather it was a political and economic activity instigated by powerful Congressmen and Senators in the pockets of Anti-Union lobbyists and Defense Industrialists. That the Federal Government of the era was either too co-opted or too politically cowardly to discourage this practice remains a national disgrace. But the fact of the disgrace continues to color virtually every aspect of the history of the Performing Arts, Literary Arts and Fine Arts of the era.

 A cynic might characterize this series as a face-saving effort by the saner heads at The American Legion. Their connection to the infamous Red Channels pamplets had long been disclosed by the time the series aired. One might conjecture that both NBC and The Legion hoped to blunt the criticisms leveled at both organizations during this era. Given the almost non-existent promotion of the year long undertaking, the complete absence of detailed Radio listing information during its run, and the complete absence of any publicly announced connection between the broadcasts and their sponsors gives greater credence to this hypothesis. In fairness, these were also the waning years of Radio's influence; Television was--and would remain--the new novelty. Inheritance premieres over NBC Inheritance premiered on April 4th 1954. Airing for a total of fifty-seven installments, the production itself was extremely well-mounted--as might be expected of a year-long sustained network production. The huge, mostly West Coast casts comprised most of Radio's finest voice talent of the era.

 The music direction, while not particularly 'A'-List, was well-suited to the production. The productions were reasonably historically accurate--yet predictably jingoistic for the era. As with the Ladies Auxiliary to The Veterans of Foreign Wars-sponsored American Trail series of the previous year, functionaries of the respective supporting organizations would give a brief, topical message throughout the series. The opportunity to recite one's patriotic beliefs seems to have been a focal point of most of the 'post-script messages' of the series. As a 'message series' Inheritance may have slightly missed its mark--through no real fault of its own, but as a reasonably accurate anthology of patriotic historical vignettes the series holds up quite well. As one of the last 'vanity' productions of the era, the exceptional array of Golden Age Radio West Coast talent makes for a fascinating snapshot of the waning years of California's contribution to Radio's wealth of great actors.

 The writers that contributed to the series were also remarkable for their era. The writing staff included, among others, Ernest Kinoy, Karl Swenson, and George Lefferts. The appearance of two noteworthy science-fiction writers' contributions to an historical anthology series is interesting enough in itself, but the contribution of the 'Nancy Hanks' episode by Karl Swenson--as a writer--is just as interesting.