Zoomer Radio's Theatre of the Mind

We take you back to 1944 for a story from the program Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, and the episode “Moonless Night”.

And stay tuned for Robert Young and Father Knows Best and the episode entitled "Led Too Many Peanuts".

"Susie's Cue" - Lives of Harry Lime (1952) & "Boomer Park" - Honest Harold (1950)

Tonight we begin with an episode from the series The Lives of Harry Lime starring Orson Welles, Susie’s Cue.

And stay tuned for a trip back to 1952 for a visit with Harold Peary as he portrays Honest Harold, a DJ on a small radio Station

The Case of the Cellini Cup - Philo Vance (1943) & John's Snoring Dilemma - The Bickersons (1946)

Our first show tonight is from the series Philo Vance, a fictional character featured in 12 crime novels written by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright), published in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy; a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. Here’s tonight’s episode entitled The Cellini Cup

And stay tuned for The Bickersons, a show created by Philip Rapp, the one-time Eddie Cantor writer who had also created the Fanny Brice skits (for The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air). The show's married protagonists, portrayed by Don Ameche and Frances Langford, as you will hear, spend nearly all their time together in relentless verbal war. The show tonight might ring a bell with some married couples, one of whom snores!

The Professor's System - Night Beat (1956) & The Delivery Bicycle - The Aldrich Family (1953)

We begin tonight’s entertainment by listening to a program first aired in 1950 starring Frank Lovejoy. The show is called Night Beat and the episode is "The Professor’s System”.

And stay tuned for The Aldrich Family with Henry Aldrich, an endearingly bumbling kid growing awkwardly into adolescence. Tonight’s story centers around a delivery bicycle.

Rendezvous with Satan - Dark Fantasy (1942) & McGee's Old Straw Hat - Fibber McGee & Molly (1942)

Let me take you back to 1942 when radio audiences were tuning in to be offered scary stories on the program Dark Fantasy. Tonight’s episode is called “Rendezvous with Satan”

And stay tuned for a change of pace when we’ll check in with Fibber McGee and Molly starring the real life married couple, Jim and Marian Jordan.

A Dog Named Mabel - Challenge of the Yukon (1947) & Guest Star Rosemary Clooney - Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy (1952)