The Good Old Days of Radio Show

We are paying a visit to Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard today, one of the most famous married in real life husband and wife comedy teams on 1950s television. They started in radio, and like many entertainer couples had achieved a certain fame before marriage. The family sitcom that would eventually star themselves and their two real-life sons would far eclipse their earlier careers. This episode takes on the topic of who is better at things: men or women? 

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Our series of Top 10 episodes from the "Escape" radio series continues today with a wild adventure in the chaos and madness of Mardis Gras in 1950s New Orleans. A man attempting to sleep through the ruckus of the celebration gets his hands on a Gideons bible that happens to have some secret coded messages inside, and now he's being pursued by a mafia ring. Keith Scott joins us to discuss this original Escape story.

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Jim and Marion Jordan, also known as Fibber McGee and Molly, is the next husband and wife comedy team that we are looking at today. Although they made some movies, McGee and Molly were most famous on the radio, and built their own world of zany characters who were constantly dropping in at their house at "79 Wistful Vista." Today Fibber has created an invention that he believes will change the aviation industry forever.

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A few weeks ago in Keith Scott's series of "Top 10 Escape" we presented the mystery of a vanishing train. Today we have another baffling vanishing mystery. The story is about a woman and her mother attending the Paris Exhibition of 1889, when the mother suddenly disappears under mysterious circumstances, and everyone seems to deny she ever existed. This is not the same story as Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes," though Hitchcock would later televise this story in 1965 as "Into Thin air." 

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Another popular husband and wife comedy team that were married in real life was Phil Harris and Alice Faye. Regular listeners to the podcast will be familiar with this show, because it's one of the funniest that still holds up today. By the time of its broadcast Alice Faye had been out of show business quite awhile, and Phil Harris, was at the height of his fame thanks to his long time situation on the Jack Benny Show. 

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This week we are revisiting a classic radio story, "Three Skeleton Key." We did this one early in our podcast, which starred Vincent Price. Today as part of our series dedicated to "Escape," researcher Keith Scott has brought "Three Skeleton Key" starring Elliott Reid, the first time this story was done on radio in 1948. It's the story of three men trapped in a lighthouse by a mischief of rats.

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In the days of vintage entertainment from the vaudeville era all the way into the 1950s, some of the highest ranking entertainers were comedy husband and wife teams that were married in real life. Perhaps the most famous of these teams was "George and Gracie." Today we are looking at this famous comedy team and listening to a broadcast from the late '40s that tackled an extravagant fashion trend of the day -- the mink coat.

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Keeping with the theme of trains from last week, radio researcher Keith Scott has brought a fast-moving, two-fisted thriller, written by Graham Greene and staring one of the great actors of radio, William Conrad. Conrad was used regularly on Escape, and his powerful voice became one of the signatures of the series. 

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If you like stupid jokes and bizarre off-the-wall parodies of long forgotten radio shows and personalities, Henry Morgan was a unique gem from the Golden Age of Entertainment. In this episode, he kids everything from his own looks, to Hollywood columnists, to daytime radio serials. Everything that should've broken the medium. Even if you have no clue what he is riffing on, we think this strange radio comedy is one of the funniest and most entertaining shows ever produced.

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It's the late 1800s, and a special ordered train has vanished without a trace somewhere between Liverpool and London. So begins the strange mystery yarn by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle told in the entertaining tradition of Doyle, that makes Sherlock Holmes still endure today. Join John and our special guest Keith Scott for this second delving into the great radio series," Escape!"

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