Legendary radio collector John Tefteller presents the best of mystery, comedy, horror, and adventure stories, produced by the greatest writers, directors, composers, and stars.
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Grandad’s Recollections plus commentary
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Episode #371: Jimmy Stewart On Radio: The Sailor Who Had To Have A Horse
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32:05Today our month-long tribute to Jimmy Stewart on radio continues. "Cavalcade of America," at one time or other, had almost every major star in a title role during its near 20-year run. In this episode Jimmy Stewart taps into his easy, small American, home-town roots, playing a Montana cowboy who enlists in the Navy, but dreams of raising horses. De…
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Episode #370: Jimmy Stewart On Radio: The Bing Crosby Show
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34:48Our month-long tribute to actor Jimmy Stewart on radio features a funny 1948 episode of Philco Radio Time, hosted by Bing Crosby. The Bing Crosby Show was primarily focused on popular songs sung by Crosby in the first half, and depending on Bing’s guest, the second half generally was devoted to comedy (written by Carol Carol). Stewart appeared many…
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Episode #369: Jimmy Stewart On Radio: The Rescue
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28:08Today we are featuring Jimmy Stewart in an episode of Suspense that was only recently discovered in its entirety thanks to collector Randy Riddle. "The Rescue" stars James Stewart in a story about a man who witnesses a distressed woman threatening to jump from a hotel ledge. He becomes entangled in a dangerous plot involving a deceptive doctor and …
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Episode #368: Jimmy Stewart On Radio: It Pays To Be Ignorant
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36:02We are back to Jimmy Stewart appearances on popular comedy radio programs. Believe it or not, in 1947 Stewart was a guest on "It Pays to Be Ignorant," a show we have featured on this podcast on a somewhat regular basis. The show features host, Tom Howard, and a panel of “experts” (really vaudevillian baggy-pants comedians) who answer absurd questio…
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Episode #367: Jimmy Stewart On Radio: Letter At Midnight
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33:42This week we continue with radio shows featuring the work of the legendary actor, Jimmy Stewart. The story recounts Pilot Tom Greer's transformation from an isolationist college student to a military enlistee after meeting a refugee. The play highlights themes of American identity, sacrifice, and the moral imperative to fight against tyranny during…
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Episode #366: Jimmy Stewart On Radio: The Charlie McCarthy Show
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30:44We are kicking off the month of March featuring one of our favorite vintage Hollywood actors on radio, Jimmy Stewart. Stewart was prolific on radio, with numerous appearances on almost every major A-list program. We are beginning with Jimmy Stewart as guest on the popular comedy, "The Charlie McCarthy Show." The episode features Edgar Bergen, his v…
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Episode #365: 10 More Great Adventure Stories: The Heart of Kali
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33:13We end this series of 10 More Great Adventure Stories with an extraordinary adventure about Danny Carlin (played by Paul Richards) and his obsessive quest to steal a large ruby called "The Heart of Kali" from a temple in India. His pursuit leads him to murder, but upon finally reaching the idol he falls into a trap. This was the finale episode of t…
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Today we are bringing you a new find; a “lost” episode of Duffy's Tavern from November 23, 1945. This is the Armed Forces Radio Service version. That means, because the Armed Forces did not allow advertising on their stations, the commercials were edited out and music filler put in to round the program out to a half-hour. Because of the difference …
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Episode #363: 10 More Great Adventure Stories: Train From Olbiefelde
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29:01We are heading toward the end of our current series dedicated to radio dramas of adventure. Despite its rather non-descript title, today's story is a race against time to locate a bomb planted aboard a train carrying a defecting nuclear scientist. It stars voice over legend William Conrad, and is from near the end of the series, Escape. Regardless …
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Episode #362: The Abbott and Costello Show
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35:04Today in our on-going series of new transfers, we did a February 6, 1947 episode of the Abbott and Costello show sponsored by Camel cigarettes. This episode can be found in collector circles, but this new digital transfer, despite surface noise, should prove valuable. The episode includes their signature fast-paced comedic style and their classic "…
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Episode #361: 10 More Great Adventure Stories: Hitch-Hike Poker
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32:37Our series of adventure shows turns from the series Escape today to look at its big brother series, Suspense. Suspense rarely did straight up adventure stories, but this 1948 radio broadcast of "Hitch-Hike Poker" featuring Gregory Peck as an ex-GI hitchhiker, in a wild tale that begins innocently enough playing license plate poker with a seemingly …
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Episode #360: The Charlie McCarthy Show
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36:05Today's episode features a new transfer we did of a missing September 2, 1945 episode of The Charlie McCarthy Show, starring ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy. The episode includes guest appearances by Carmen Miranda and Keenan Wynn, and features a humorous skit about the then-novelty of television. Visit our website: https:…
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Episode #359: 10 More Great Adventure Stories: Seven Hours To Freedom
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33:23Today's adventure is "Seven Hours to Freedom," another production from the 1950s adventure series Escape. This is a story of fishermen and escaped convicts who hijack their boat. The attention to detail is remarkable here, especially the sequence of fish flopping on the deck, and shows just how far producer Norman Macdonnell was pushing technical i…
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Episode #358: It Pays To Be Ignorant
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33:46Today we are featuring a 1944 radio episode from, "It Pays To Be Ignorant," showcasing a vaudeville-style comedy act. The show consists of a series of absurd jokes and puns, interspersed with goofy musical interludes, and features a panel of intentionally inept contestants answering ridiculous questions. The episode is presented in its original, un…
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Episode #357: 10 More Great Adventure Stories: Seeds Of Greed
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31:48Today we continue 10 More Great Adventure Stories, and we are pulling back from adventure realism to a fanciful pulp adventure from 1949, "Seeds of Greed," from the Escape series. The story follows Kenneth Brown, a man who partners with a ruthless killer/fortune hunter to locate a sunken treasure. Visit our website: https://goodolddaysofradio.com/ …
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Today we’re featuring a rare, unrestored recording of a 1945 radio show, "The FreshUp Show," starring Bert Wheeler of the comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey. This is a mix between a 1940s sitcom and a standup vaudeville style comedy, with a loose plot revolving around Wheeler's attempts to avoid marrying his boss's daughter by getting himself arrested. V…
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Episode #355: 10 More Great Adventure Stories: Hell On Ice
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1:03:33Today we’re featuring a 1938 Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of Commander Edward Ellsberg's “Hell on Ice.” The play, a dramatic retelling of the disastrous 1879-1881 Jeannette Arctic expedition, recounts the realistic experiences of the crew, including their entrapment in ice, dwindling supplies, and eventual fate. This is a great example of …
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Episode #354: The Jack Kirkwood Show
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39:59John has made veiled promises in the New Year that from time to time we will bring you something new and (hopefully) interesting direct from his vast collection of radio transcription discs. Today, we are starting with two episodes of a well-produced, virtually lost and forgotten 15-minute daily comedy series from 1945, The Jack Kirkwood Show. Kirk…
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Episode #353: 10 More Great Adventure Stories: A Letter To Jason
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31:58Today’s adventure pick is from radio’s greatest adventure series, “Escape.” The story is about a man, Jason (played by Frank Lovejoy), who is hired by his uncle to assassinate Jake Finch in the South Seas. The problem: Jason is a hopelessly trapped alcoholic. John talks about Escape's significance, despite its budget constraints. And there’s a spec…
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Episode #352: The Red Skelton Show Rehearsal
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48:56Today in keeping with a theme we began last week, we have for you a rare 1947 rehearsal for a Red Skelton radio show sponsored by Raleigh cigarettes. Apparently comedian Red Skelton often kept the comedy going for the studio audience for a while after his show went off the air. This rehearsal is about 15-minutes longer than the broadcast show and w…
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Episode #351: 10 More Great Adventure Stories: A Rough Shoot
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32:17“10 More Great Adventure Stories,” continues today, as we have selected some great adventure stories of daring that were dramatized from the Golden Age of Radio. Today a story from an author who is perhaps best known for his cat-and-mouse political thriller “Rogue Male,” Geoffrey Household. "A Rough Shoot," recounts the story of an Englishman who a…
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Episode #350: The Jack Benny Show Rehearsal
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46:16Join us today as we’re featuring an interview with Simon Singer, a child actor known as "Stuffy Singer" who played one of the Beverly Hills Beavers on the Jack Benny radio show. Stuffy discusses his early career in radio and television, including his experiences working with Benny and other well-remembered personalities. We also listen to a 1953 re…
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Episode #349: 10 More Great Adventure Stories: The Prisoner of Zenda
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1:03:57For the first episode of the New Year, we are presenting number two in our “More Great Adventure Stories.” This is a classic tale of mistaken identity, kidnapped royalty, and forbidden romance. The Prisoner of Zenda is a tale of chivalry and high stakes chess match against mustache twirling villains. This is a full-hour adaptation of the film, whic…
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Episode #348: New Year's: Our Miss Brooks
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32:332025 is on the brink, and sometimes you just need to pause the crazy of modern day to get some perspective. We’re jumping back to a New Year’s back in 1949 to hear the popular sitcom Our Miss Brooks. These ‘50s-ish sitcoms were professionally executed, with excellent performances, solid writing and music, and a crowd pleasing formula. There’s not m…
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Episode #347: 10 More Great Adventure Stories: The Boiling Sea
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31:48We’re beginning another tribute to today, with “10 More Great Adventure Stories.” These are stories of imagination and escapism, and thus are perfect for radio drama. Our first is a wild story that fits all of these criteria: "The Boiling Sea," about a cargo ship trapped in the crater of a newly forming volcano in the Pacific. It’s a story of survi…
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Episode #346: Christmas 1945: Elgin Christmas Special
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2:01:44This is the finale of our annual time-traveling expedition to Christmas Past. And we are closing it out with a huge radio extravaganza. The 1945 Christmas Day radio broadcast sponsored by the Elgin Watch Company. This two-hour show features numerous big-name celebrities, including Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and Red Skelton. The broadcast also has a real…
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Episode #345: Christmas 1945: Names on the Land
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31:44We are time traveling again, and it’s back to Christmas Eve of 1945 today, to listen to a lesser known A-tier radio program. "Names on the Land," features Frank Morgan as a train conductor on a fictional journey across America. The show uses the alphabet to highlight the origins of various town names, weaving together anecdotes and historical accou…
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Episode #344: Christmas 1946: The Mel Blanc Show
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28:03Most remember Mel Blanc as “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” most notably the beloved cartoon character Bugs Bunny. But of course he played almost all of the most remembered voices in the Leon Schlesinger cartoons, as well as having a prolific career on radio. In 1946-’47 Blanc had his own sitcom, a vehicle to show off his tremendous comic character …
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Episode #343: Christmas 1949: Double Entry
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32:36We're jumping into our little time-sleigh today to zip back to a couple of days before Christmas 1949, when the series "Suspense" presented comedian Eddie Cantor in an amusing little story about a couple of button-down accountants who get rooked into betting some of the company's funds on a racehorse. This is a sharp departure from Suspense's usual…
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Episode #342: Christmas 1943: Burns and Allen
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40:06We are back to Christmas comedy today with one of radio's most popular couples, George Burns and Gracie Allen. Their special guests in this Christmas episode are Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, as Gracie uses some backhanded manipulation to get Charles to be Santa Claus in an amateur theatre production. Also, we are doing a Baby Snooks skit a…
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Episode #341: Pearl Harbor: Shortcut To Tokyo
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33:45Today we are pausing briefly to observe Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. There were a whole lot of shows with great WWII themes, and a few times a year we have a chance to feature one of them. This one is from The Cavalcade of America war years. Normally this series dramatized events from American history or historical figures. But for a while after t…
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Episode #340: Christmas 1948: The Jack Benny Show
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33:20It's December, and that means we are officially plunging into our Christmas bag of goodies. This year we will be featuring popular shows of the era, including some dramas. We are starting out with one of the best traditions on radio (and later TV), the Jack Benny shopping episode. For 2024, we are featuring the 1948 version of this Christmas classi…
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Episode #339: Thanksgiving 1945: The Charlie McCarthy Show
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33:43Happy Thanksgiving! We are celebrating with a program that is a little lighter than last year's offering. It's a Thanksgiving program from Edgar Bergen, 1945. Edgar Bergen was radio's ventriloquist, and his lead act was the puppet Charlie McCarthy. This was before ventriloquist dummies became the subject of horror movies. The guest in this show is …
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Episode #338: Vincent Price Month: Champagne For Caesar
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1:02:12We are ending our month-long tribute to Vincent Price with a zany comedy. It was a successful movie from 1950, adapted for radio here in 1951, about an intellectual named Beauregard Bottomly (played by Ronald Colman), who goes toe-to-toe with the slimy president of a soap company, Burnbridge Waters (Vincent Price), set on a background of radio/TV q…
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Episode #337: Vincent Price Month: The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
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33:05Our month-long tribute to the classic horror villain Vincent Price continues today. And this is your more traditional Vincent Price story, and a great role where he gets to exude menace and suspicion. Starring alongside Price, and the reason we picked this particular story, is another one of our favorite villainous character actors, the original In…
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Episode #336: Vincent Price Month: Duffy's Tavern
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32:51We are featuring actor Vincent Price all through the month of November. Of course, he is well-remembered today for being a spooky character in film, but that reputation began later in his career. Often people forget that he played all sorts of roles before he was typecast in the more grisly roles. Today we are bringing you a comedy show with Price …
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Episode #335: Vincent Price Month: The Undecided Molecule
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32:59We've featured some Norman Corwin dramas here in the past (links in the description). Corwin was particularly noted as one of radio's most literary figures. He was certainly known for some hard-hitters, but did some light scripts, such as this one. Of course, having a reputation to uphold, he could not settle for anything easy, and so you have the …
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Episode #334: Vincent Price Month: The Ghosts Who Came For Dinner
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32:22Author Leslie Charteris had a popular and long-running book series about a suave character named Simon Templar, nicknamed "The Saint." During a time when quirky literary detectives got a treatment on radio, "The Saint" had a brief run starring Vincent Price. Of course, any similarity between the Saint of the novels and radio was purely coincidental…
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Episode #333: Vincent Price Month: Hunting Trip
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31:53November is Vincent Price month, featuring the astounding body of radio work from this beloved actor. This is Thursday, and as is our inclination, we feature slightly darker tales on Thursdays, and we don't have to look far to find a great mystery/horror story starring Vincent Price. This is a story of paranoia, as two old friends take a trip to an…
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Episode #332: Vincent Price Month: Mr. Shakespeare
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32:28All this month we are celebrating actor Vincent Price, featuring in particular his work on radio. As usual, we have done our best to select programs that show Price's range and versatility as a performer, so you will be hearing everything from horror to comedy to drama. Price's style often felt very classical, leading many to believe he was British…
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Episode #331: Halloween 1938: The War of the Worlds
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1:11:27This is a broadcast we've been avoiding on this podcast, since it's been overdone by just about every old time radio program in history. But there is still so much interest in this historic broadcast, especially among younger listeners, we caved. So here is the famous panic broadcast in which real people really believed that real Martians had lande…
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Episode #330: Creepy Comedies: Our Miss Brooks
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32:32This is the last Halloween-themed comedy show for now. Our Miss Brooks was a late-40s through 1950s classic sitcom that leaned heavily into character comedy. It was led by Eve Arden, who carried her persona of the wise-cracking character she developed in the movies, over to a high school English teacher, who was perpetually broke, ever pining for t…
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Episode #329: Pre-Halloween Show: My Son John
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32:45Well, our Carlton E. Morse series is wrapped up, and we are still one week away from our official Halloween show, so instead of starting something new, we are going to anticipate the dark and stormy night with this creepy little number from Wyllis Cooper. As usual, Quiet Please takes a little bit of figuring out ("are we listening to a comedy or a …
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Episode #328: Creepy Comedies: Life With Luigi
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32:24J. Carrol Naish was one of the great dialect performers from vintage film and radio. For a brief period he became known for a well-written radio show from Si Howard, about a number of immigrants struggling to acclimate to American culture. As you might imagine, this gave the writers plenty of fodder to mock modern pop culture. This Halloween show c…
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Episode #327: City of the Dead: Part 10
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29:40OK, we're here. Somehow we've survived our 10 week excursion through creepy, ghoulish happenings, disappearances, buried pearls, wandering phantoms, and lots and lots of weird noises. In this finale of "City of the Dead," Morse lays out in meticulous detail all of the explanations behind what was seen and heard in his cemetery. We will leave it to …
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Episode #326: Creepy Comedies: Ozzie and Harriet
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32:52Our "Creepy Comedies" series continues all through the month of October with "America's Favorite Young Couple" Ozzie and Harriet. This is their 1948 Halloween themed episode, a nostalgic look back at "trick or treat" from the past, with a nod to the future. Ozzie is determined to have a spooky time at Halloween by visiting a neighborhood haunted ho…
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Episode #325: City of the Dead: Part 9
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28:53We continue with the Carlton E. Morse classic today, The City of the Dead, in Episode 9 titled "The Trail of the Phantom Churchbell." As tensions rise, Captain Friday has mysteriously vanished, leaving Phyllis, Jimmy, and their companions in a harrowing situation. With black pearls, mysterious kidnappings, and a haunting church bell, the group trie…
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Episode #324: Creepy Comedies: Abbott and Costello
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27:28In this second installment of our October comedy-horror series, we're bringing you a classic Abbott and Costello episode from January 13, 1944. Though not technically a Halloween show, this one features the legendary Peter Lorre. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello deliver their signature slapstick humor and rapid-fire wordplay, a great "flee when flu flie…
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Episode #323: City of the Dead: Part 8
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28:17We're so close to the end of The City of the Dead, we can smell it. Literally. It's episode 8 of Adventures by Morse, with more weird twists and turns in the old creaky cemetery. "The Kidnapping of Clawfoot" begins with a series of strange occurrences: Captain Friday goes missing, a ghoul is caught digging in Ernie Morton's grave, and tensions rise…
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Episode #322: Creepy Comedies: Jack Benny
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32:34In this special October series, we are going to be presenting comedy programs with a spooky twist. We start by featuring the Jack Benny Program from October 31st, 1948—just before the iconic show moved to CBS during the network talent raids. This is one of Jack's best Halloween themed shows, as he goes trick-or-treating with the "Beavers." Join us …
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