Sunday Showcase

We're back to Sunday Showcase's Mutual Presents as we introduce another favourite from the Mutual Broadcasting System, our spiritual forefather to the Mutual Audio Network- Welcome to "The Crime Club"! The Crime Club aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System as a half-hour weekly radio series, beginning on December 2, 1946 and continuing until October 16, 1947, a run of 47 episodes. It aired on Mondays at 8 p.m. through December and then on Thursdays at 10 p.m. It was also heard on Wednesdays and Sundays on some stations.

Each installment was introduced by the series host, The Librarian, portrayed by Barry Thomson and Raymond Edward Johnson (who was perhaps better known as the host of Inner Sanctum Mysteries). The series featured murder and mystery dramas, some of which had already been published by the Doubleday Crime Club. A new Crime Club book was made available to the public each week and distributed though local newsstands and bookstores.

Each show in the series began the same way. The telephone rings and the Librarian answers "Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club. I'm the Librarian. (name of the program)? Yes, we have that Crime Club story for you. Come right over. (The organist plays a creepy tune). The doorbell chimes. "Ah you're here. Good. Take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on this shelf." (The organist plays a scary chord). Here it is - (name of the program, the author and a very brief summary). "Let's look at it under the reading lamp." The Librarian begins reading the prologue for the tale, and another Crime Club offering begins.

This week we start things off with "Death Blew Out the Match" and "Mr. Smith's Hat"!

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A terrific premiere is here! A lost episode from one of the greatest audio dramas to come from Radio's Golden Age -- "Gunsmoke."  Gunsmoke is the show that single-handedly created the "adult western" series drama genre...the show that moved the genre from the kid-centered "Lone Ranger" into darker, more mature themes... the show that ran for 10 years and nearly 500 radio episodes, and 20 years and 600 more chapters on television. 

A handful of Gunsmoke audio recordings have been lost for seven decades, and Project Audion is recreating one of those missing episodes - in fact, Gunsmoke's second-ever show from May 3, 1952. Only the first seven minutes of the show survive as a recording, so this will be the first opportunity to hear this great early episode in 73 years! Tune in when our cross-country cast brings Marshall Matt Dillon, Doc Adams, Chester and others back to life in our live Zoom recording of Gunsmoke, a dark drama entitled "Ben Thompson."

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Finding a clue from their last episode, David seeks out the connective thread of "Alice Isn't Dead" from Welcome to Nightvale Presents and Joseph Fink. A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman. The Episode: "Part 1, Chapter 1: Omelet" leads Jack and David deeper into the mystery! They take a moment to release the new Mutual Audio Network website!

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Welcome to Sunday Showcase! As MONA provides the rundown of this week, Jack is busily working on the soft Beta release of the new Mutual website. Our trilogy is Sonic Society #869, Project Audion #74: Gunsmoke, and Mutual Presents- Crime Club #6.18!

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Summer's over and we're back with the Man of Steel in honour of the recent Superman movie. Saturday Story Circle presents our next grand Superman serial and it's a doozy! Join us for "The Adventure of the Counterfeit Money"!

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Jack is surprised by David in the opening episode of Season 21 as they discover a new mystery with a trilogy of "The Storage Papers" from Jeremy Enfinger. Episodes 1.00- A Cryptic Warning, 1.01- Baby Cries, and 102- A Conspicuous Suspect lead our hosts on a merry chase!

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Welcome to Sunday Showcase! This week MONA- the Mutual Oral Network Assistant and we have Sonic Society's Season 21 premiere with episode #868 and Mutual Presents #6.17!

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Old-Time Radio Essentials' fifth season continues with Patte's pick, an episode of "Wayne and Shuster", a weekly comedy series that ran on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, on radio in the 1950s, and eventually moved to Canadian TV in the '60s. Will co-hosts Paul and Pete be able to point out from which American comedy show each joke was stolen? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT!

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In our grand finale for the sixteenth season of Sonic Summerstock, Jack Ward takes a relook at a classic episode of "I was a Communist for the F.B.I. and remakes it for the future and Retro Rockets with "I Was a Martian for the E.B.I." and the thrilling Sci-Fi Electric Curtain thriller. Sonic Cinema Productions and the Amigos Collective bring us "The Sleeper!"

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This week Jack brings a double-feature including the finale of Sonic Summerstock Playhouse #16.9- Sleeper and Old-Time Radio Essentials Episode 51 with "Wayne and Shuster"!

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