The Good Old Days of Radio Show

Moving along from last week's grimy waterfront detective Pat Novak, we look at TV and radio actor Jack Webb in a similar role, Pete Kelly, a musician who travelled amongst the seedy world of jazz musicians and crime lords. Learn on this episode how authentic this show was, and how "Pete Kelly's Blues" really had very little to do with "the blues" at all.

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Today's unusual science fiction story is by Hugo-Award winning writer Mark Clifton, and deals with children who are a step beyond the genius IQ. They are "Brights," and they have figured out how to manipulate the space-time continuum, making the inter-dimensional cosmos their playground. This creates a thorny problem for their parents, the "Tweens" and "Stupids" to figure out.

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We did a Pat Novak last year, and the dialogue writing was so outrageous, we had to go back to hear more. Jack Webb did this series briefly before becoming typecast as 'Joe Friday' on Dragnet. Here he is playing a skeezy private detective on the dirty San Francisco waterfront. Webb's delivery is so earnest and deadpan, it's no wonder this obscure series had listeners calling in to ask, "Who's that guy?"

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This is a compelling story of a family that survived a cataclysmic event, when a passing meteorite pulls the earth out of Axis and away from the sun. It is a story that is at the same time claustrophobic, about a family clinging to life in "the nest," and vast, as they must go to fetch frozen air in the frozen wastes in order to keep breathing. It's from the pen of Fritz Leiber, writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

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It's episode 11 of 15 for the Stan Freberg Show today, the last network comedy show. In this episode, the star sportscaster "Cliff Les Hutley" from the dressing room of Bearcat Panther Tigers, a trombone playing dog, and Bang Gunley, US Marshal. Inventive radio from a time when all eyes were glued to TV. 

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Another great science fiction story today from one of our favorite writers of the Golden Age and beyond, Ray Bradbury. This is may be his best time travel story, about a couple from the future, who travel back in time to escape the horrors of a world consumed by war. They are being pursued though, by an agent from the future who is attempting to send them back.

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Broadcasting from San Francisco, Jack and the gang are back. This is one of the few episodes we've played so far in our journey through this series where Jack and the cast are on stage performing the show, a staple of Jack Benny from the early years, which was like a variety program of the earlier vaudeville format. Joining them is the Academy Award winning actress Jane Wyman.

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We begin a new series this week, with science fiction stories that are still as imaginative, mind-blowing, and entertaining as they were originally written. Our first stop is an author who is best-known for his i-Robot/Foundations series, Isaac Asimov. This is his riveting stand-alone short story all about cancer, and the "real" cause of cancer, that will have you scratching your head--and wondering if he is right.

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Groucho Marx is back with George Fenneman in the hugely popular radio/TV show about men and women betting and guessing. But mostly about getting a chance to exchange quips with Groucho. We're once again in the early Desoto years with this episode, and John talks about how the TV and radio show differed, and the famous "duck."

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After WWII, and before "The Great Escape," radio gave us "Four Went Home," a great little condensed story about some POWs who decide to break out of a Nazi prison camp. It was written by a name that keeps coming up synonymous with excellent tales of adventure and horror in later years, Antony Ellis. This is our tribute to Memorial Day, and the bravery and sacrifice of all of our Armed Forces from all times. 

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