The Good Old Days of Radio Show

Phil Harris and Alice Faye are back today with a comedy that was a real original of the time. Bandleader Phil Harris and his guitar-strumming counterpart, Franky, have to do some plumbing work today, and as you might imagine, the shenanigans are at an all-time high. Look out for Julius's cough which brings down the house!

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With all the recent discussions around artificial intelligence, we decided to travel back to the 1950s, when the subject of machines capable of sentience was also very much in the public consciousness. We are beginning this series today with a wild story that perfectly encapsulates this theme, about machines turning against mankind.

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Today comedian Henry Morgan is back and takes pot shots at just about everything, from popular radio programs, to politics, to commercials. This episode features blood pressure tests for radio listeners, a Russian gossip column, and a preview of the coming attraction, "Blubber."

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This is our Halloween episode, and today we have one of radio's strangest shows, an episode of Lights Out! with a disturbing story of a husband and his wife who transforms into a cat. Boris Karloff performed this bizarre radio play four times, and this intense recording from 1938 is the only one known to survive. Joining us for this final show in our month-long tribute to Boris Karloff is his daughter Sara Karloff to discuss the show, and more reminiscences of her legendary father.

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Our month-long salute, focusing on the radio work of the beloved "monster" of the movies Boris Karloff continues. Today we are joined once again by Boris Karloff's daughter Sara Karloff to listen with her to a rare early surviving Inner Sanctum Mystery starring her father as a gentle man with super-hearing who meets a wicked man with super-sight, in a loose adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe short story.

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Today we feature another Boris Karloff radio classic, from a series of appearances he made in 1938 on the famous horror series, Lights Out! This is not long after Arch Oboler took over as the principle writer of the series. This is a creepy tale of a man who never had a dream, but is suddenly haunted by a nightmare from the pit of hell.

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Boris Karloff month continues, and today the famous horror movie star shows up on another comedy program, The Jack Benny Show. In this episode from 1947, Jack reads a melodramatic novel called, "I Was Condemned," which features Boris Karloff, and parodies many of the tropes found in radio horror shows of the time.

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Today we are joined once again by Sara Karloff, daughter of Boris Karloff, in our month-long tribute to the famous actor's radio work. We are jumping forward to 1952 today to hear the 66-year-old Boris Karloff starring in the story of a serial killer who is triggered by canaries.

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It's the second week of our month-long salute to Boris Karloff, and if you like wacky off-the-wall humor, and Boris Karloff, you've come to the right podcast! Today it's musical slapstick mayhem as we feature Boris Karloff in a guest appearance on the The Spike Jones Show.

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Boris Karloff Month continues today with Mr. Karloff in a mystery about a Scotland Yard detective with amnesia who begins unraveling the dark secrets of his own past in an episode of Suspense from 1945. Joining us once again is Boris Karloff's daughter, Sara Karloff, to listen and discuss this show.

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