Thursday Night - Old Time Radio

First we will listen to George S Decker tell us about the murder of his mother from
the 1953 series Confession. Then will pay a visit to the old west, yes you heard
correctly, the old west, and listen to Thomas Hyland tell us the story of The Death
of a Picture Hanger from the Crime Classics series. This show also is from 1953.
Fred Bertelsen

Joy Jackson will play one of her favorite creations, the Sunset Squadron. We will
be treated to the Director’s Cut of this radio play, originally recorded in 2004.
The program will start with the promo that KIXI radio built for the show, since it
was broadcast a week after the performance.
The show has been modified with the addition of some characters, and new performances
by a few others, along with enhanced sound effects and music. Afterwards, Joy will
be willing to share behind the scenes experiences that made a difference in the writing
of the play.
What’s it about? The Sunset Squadron shares the experiences of a P-51 pilot during
the week of May 25, 1945. All of the events that make up the play happened in real
life that week, in the sea off Japan.

This year is an election year here in the U.S. and we have a woman running for president.
Well, back in 1940 a woman ran for president as well, her name Gracie Allen. So join
me as Gracie tells about the Surprise Party and her run for the White House.
As you may or may not know the following Monday is Presidents Day here in the U.S.
When we celebrate the presidents of the past. For my second show I will present Life
With Luigi. In this show Luigi discovers America the young Italian shows his love
for our country and its presidents especially George Washington.

Hearthstone of the Death Squad was a spinoff from The Molle Mystery Theater. It featured
homicide cases investigated by Inspector Hearthstone. Starring Alfred Shirley, the
series was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert. Tonight’s show, “The Terrifying Letter
Murder Case” is from January 10th, 1952. Then we shall hear an episode of The Adventures
of Father Brown, which was broadcast on Sundays over Mutual from June 10, to July
29, 1945 and starred Karl Swenson. Tonight we will listen to the episode “The Three
Tools of Death” from July 22, 1945.

Rob hancik plays two exciting shows from Frontier Gentleman. Frontier Gentleman,
J.B> Kendall played by John Danar ran in 1958. Unfortunately, this program came to
us at a time when old time radio was waning.
Rob will play two parts of a four-part story. This program concerns the life of the
famous madam gambler, Belle Siddens played by jean Bates. I believe that J.B. kendall
fell in love with Belle.

kelly Sapergia of Canada played two fine shows. Ellery Queen, the Mischief Maker
and the World Adventurer’s Club. This show features John Steel, Adventurer.

Join Joy Jackson and the American Radio Theater in two recreations from the days
of old time radio. “In the Bag” is a charming tale of love in the fast city of Las
Vegas. We finish off with a visit with Vic and Sade. January is the month for resolutions.
Rich and Vic have resolved to exercise, but they’re having a little trouble getting
started.

Crime Fighters will take a look at Calling All Cars, which was broadcast from Nov
29th, 1933 to Sept 8th, 1939. Calling All Cars was one of the earliest police shows
on the air. It dramatized true crime stories and was introduced by officers of Los
Angeles and other police departments. None of the cast was credited, with one exception.
We will feature the episode, “Death In The Moonlight” from March 8th, 1938.
Then we will take a look at everyone’s favorite, Nero Wolfe, who first appeared on
radio on July 5th, 1943 on the Blue Network in The Adventures Of Nero Wolfe. This
will be an episode from the third Nero Wolfe series, The New Adventures Of Nero Wolfe.
It starred Sidney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe. In this series, the part of Archie was
first played by Lawrence Dobkin, then Gerald Mohr and finally Harry Bartell. Tonight
we will hear the episode titled “The Party For Death,” from Feb 2nd, 1951, in which
Nero sends Archie to a cocktail party and tells him not to come home until after
the murder.
Information for these series is based on information contained in Dunnings On The
Air.

we introduce a new Old-time Radio presenter, and we are very proud to present Mr.
John Beaulieu, of Townsend, Mass. John has brought us a lot of very good music over
the last couple of years both in Joanie’s Corner and during the Holiday OTR Marathon’s.
Please join him as he presents his new series of Old-time Radio Shows.
Welcome to the first edition of What Once Was Radio. Thursday Dec. 27, 2007. We will
hear two Dragnet shows, the first being the fifth in the series dated July 7th, 1949,
called Helen Corday, and the ninth show dated August 4th, 1949, called Benny Trounsel.
Join me for chitchat before the shows and then again after. Remember it’s What Once
Was Radio and I’m your host, John Beaulieu.

There is an ongoing debate as to whether science fiction is considered classic literature.
Both stories are considered classroom reading but again we’ll not see the books but
the otr resemblance to the books.
We’ll be looking first at “Escape.” We’ve been there before but now we’ll be looking
at “The Most Dangerous Game.”
Then we’ll be diving in to Bradbury with “Dimenssion X,” and “Mars Is Heaven.”