Those Old Radio Shows

Adventures By Morse - City of the Dead(I've dug up something ghastly)

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From-1944

Writer-Carlton E. Morse

Stars-Gayne Whitman with Elliot Lewis, Barton Yarborough & Jack Edwards

"A Coffin For The Lady". Two soldiers find themselves on a secret mission on a small island off the cost of Canada. As they lie in wait they try to fathom out what this secret mission is all about, but the peace is shattered by a mysterious man who comes staggering out of the bushes carrying a young lady. He drops the lady to the ground and then falls himself - a dagger protruding from his back. What is the meaning of the phantom church bell? Why are Jimmy and Phyllis held prisoners? Who shot Mayor Friday and how and why? The mystery grows…

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Hollywood Star Playhouse - The Six Shooter

From-1952

Host Wendell Niles

Stars-Jimmy Stewart, Parley Baer, Herb Vigran

Diana Lynn, Bert Holland & William Conrad

The first adventure of Britt Ponset, which would lead to a series named "The Six-Shooter." The Wells Fargo office has been robbed of $5000 and a man has been shot. A distinctive horseshoe leads "The Six-Shooter" to Ben Schofield, the sheriff's son. The same recording (with one scene deleted) which was broadcast as "The Six-Shooter" on November 1, 1953. The program was therefore possibly on tape. Diana Lynn appears in an excerpt from the next week's show. This is a heartwarming and suspenseful story which was responsible for the spinoff of the Six Shooter series. Close to as the precursor for Gunsmoke too. With all the stars it was almost Six Shooter meets Gunsmoke.

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Escape - A Shipment Of Mute Fate

From-1947

Stars-Jack Webb 

A story about a deadly snake looser on an ocean liner. Jack Webb the narrator, the sound of the snake strike is very well done. 

You are groping your way slowly through the dark hold of a ship at sea ... moving carefully step-by-step ... searching intently for something you dread to find, because you know this ship carries a cargo of death.

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The Whistler - Blind Impulse

From-1946

Host-Bob Venables

Stars-Patricia Dunlap, Ed Prentiss & Everett Clark as The Whistler

A woman's wealthy father isn't dying after all. He may live another twenty years before she inherits his money. The woman's husband is disappointed enough to get a "whistleresque idea" while atop a mule going down the Grand Canyon! Steve was in his glory never in his wildest dreams had he ever believed a thing like this could come to pass. Here they were just the two of them at Carol Crandall’s special table at the Top of The Mark in San Francisco. Through the huge plate glass window he could see the shining city stretching away to the east. Everything sparkled and across from him Carol Crandall sparkled…

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Adventures by Carlton E. Morse - The City Of the Dead 1(The Adventure Begins) 

From-1944-0108-01

Writer-Carlton E. Morse

Stars-Gayne Whitman with Elliot Lewis, Barton Yarborough & Jack Edwards 

In the 15 minute audition-introducing Adventures by Morse, Gayne Whitman tells you about the series, its origins and creator and writer Carlton E Morse. You are also provided with bite sized samples of the various shows to whet your appetite.

There are 10,000 citizens in the City Of The Dead each with a white marble slab indicating each residence. The gates of the City Of The Dead have long been closed to newcomers. It is a city whose population has remained unchanged for the last 10 years and the mayor of this city is Joshua Friday some call him caretaker of the old cemetery in the valley but anyone who knows Joshua Friday at all calls him Mayor. He is the only living person in the City Of The Dead that is unless you care to include Lammy Fink a slow-witted fellow who does kitchen police duty and a little garden duty during the day and retires beyond its precinct at night. The City Of The Dead lies in a tiny valley 25 miles from the suburb of a great city. It is off the main highway and completely isolated from the world. But now it’s 9 o’clock on a moonlit windy night in October…

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Dimension X - No Contact

From-1950

Host-Norman Rhodes

Stars-Luis Van Rooten, Donald Buka,

Matt Crowley & Cameron Prudhomme

It was in the year 1982 that space men first discovered the great galactic barrier. In the past 10 years rocket travel to the moon and the nearer planets had become common place and then men fixed their sights on a more distant star the remote planet known as Volta. 5 exploratory ships went out and none came back each disappearing mysteriously at the same vanishing point an invisible wall somewhere in the vast outer reaches that became known as the wrecker of spaceships, the Galactic Reef...

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Burns & Allen - New Year's Eve Party

From-1940s

George Burns, Gracie Allen, Merideth Wilson, Bea Benadaret,

Hans Conreid, Gale Gordon, Harry Lubin & The Maxwell House Orchestra,

Bill Goodwin & Toby Reed 

George & Gracie discussing New Year's Eve Party

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David Harding's-Counterspy - Hot Car Killer

From-1949

Stars-Don MacLaughlin & Mandel Kramer

Phillips H. Lord Production

The system cue has been deleted. From a hideout high above New York a master criminal brain used human beings and stolen automobiles like pawns in a chess game of life and death.

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Bulldog Drummond - The Case Of The Axis Submarine

From-1943

Stars-George Coulouris

Mutual net, WOR, New York aircheck. Sponsored by: Horton's Ice Cream. While investigating the murder of a night watchman on the piers, Captain Drummond is shot! This leads to the sinking of two Nazi submarines!.

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Dangerously Yours - Firebrand

From-1944

Stars-Victor Jory, Kermit Murdock & Joan Tetzel

A tale of sixteenth century Italy and the loves of Benvenuto Cellini...a superb silversmith and lover! + “I am adventure. In my name men have traversed the highways, the byways, the skyways of the world. I am the fire that burns in the heart of youth that makes men dream and dare and conquer. I am Dangerously Yours…” Today follow me to the Italy of the 16th century, a day when the smile or the frown of a duke would mean life or death, when ladies were the fragile lovely prizes of the brave and daring and when the bravest and most daring man in Florence was Benvenuto Cellini The Firebrand…

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