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December 19, 2015 "Swing Years & Beyond"

Candy Matson "Jack Frost" (December 19, 1949)

A "Santa's Helper" named Jack Frost has disappeared. This leads Candy to a Christmas murder. + Candy Matson ran in to a deal where she had a missing Santa Claus helper, Jack Frost. The Jack with the icicles was supposed to talk to the tiny tots at the Brownstone one of San Francisco’s larger and classier department stores. She’d gone down there that afternoon shopping and bumped in to an old friend Myra Fisher who was currently working at the store. It was the time of year when the store couldn’t manage without a “Jack Frost” and Myra appealed to Candy to find her a replacement Jack Frost as the agencies were all hired out.

"The Corpse Wrote Shorthand" - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - December 19, 1975

After serving a 5-year sentence for fraud, a bank accountant begins his own investigation to discover the real perpetrator of the crime for which he was convicted.

Marlene Dietrich (1939)

by Marlene Dietrich; Cole Porter; Frank Loesser; Victor Young; Frederick Hollander

December 18, 2010 "The Swing Years & Beyond" - Holiday Edition

Candy Matson "San Juan Batista" (December 18, 1950)

Candy and Lieutenant Mallard visit the old Mission at San Juan Bautista. They find the friendly Father Paulino and a dead body too! + Tragedy in the sleepy little California mission town of San Juan Batista, but it wasn’t the first time, if you look around the sides of the mission you’ll see the place marked with the mass grave of 12,000 Indians who died in a smallpox epidemic years ago. San Juan has seen knifings too and other shootings. It has lived a rowdy life in the dim years gone by and obviously the rowdiness is still alive in a minor sort of fashion…

"Fireball" - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - December 18, 1975

When strange things start happening around the newly hired blacksmith, a military contractor's wife begins to suspect that he is the incarnation of the fire god, Vulcan. Her husband is inclined to believe her when he is suddenly crippled by a freak accident.

Richard Diamond Private Detective "The John Blackwell Case" (December 17, 1949)

A man tells Diamond that he's going to commit a murder. A little guy with a big gun is put out of commission by Diamond's yo-yo! Dick sings, "I Only Have Eyes For You" after the story. A man with initials on his briefcase that read JB but who says his name is not important wants to employ Richard Diamond as he has come highly recommended. JB tells Diamond that he is going to commit a murder and that he has the victim, the opportunity, the method and the man to handle the details but he wants to be sure that he is not tripped up by his lack of foresight of police procedures. Richard Diamond begins to ring the police but JB pulls a gun on him and locks him in the closet.

"The Eleventh Hour" - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - December 17, 1975

After reading an interesting personal ad in the local paper, a businessman tries to connect with the advertiser. When they finally meet, the woman reveals she is a creature from another galaxy that can solve his problems for the sum of one million dollars.

Rocky Fortune "Companion To A Chimp" (December 15, 1953)

Rocky is hired to babysit for a chimp! "Ever had somebody try to make a monkey out of you? I did. Not that I really minded so much, until I found out that it was a dead monkey..."