Dan's Old-Time Radio Corner - Podcasts

[dan]

Dan's Old-Time Radio Corner - Murder Clinic

I still marvel at how little is known or remembered about old-time radio. We know more about the history of ancient Rome than we do about radio shows of the 1940s.

And here's another example - a program that is nearly forgotten, though it ran for over a year on the Mutual network during World War II.

The show is Murder Clinic, and it adapted murder mystery short stories into half-hour radio shows.

This episode, Murder at Marsden Manor, features Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot. It was first broadcast on October 6, 1942.

Listen at http://radiofun.info

 

[texasmustang]

Every weekend when I was young we would be riding back with the grandparents from a little place on the Nueces river and an AM radio program called Mystery Theater would be the entertainment. It was a great show with a creaking door introduction. Thanks for the memory.

 

[dan]

Texasmustang, that show ran on the CBS radio network from 1974 to 1982.

And you can listen to every single episode on the internet! Here ya go!

http://www.cbsrmt-shows.com/index.htm

You can load a bunch of them onto an MP3 player and listen to them whenever and wherever.

Enjoy!

 

[texasmustang]

Thanks for the link Dan, I will check it out. Cathy

 

[dan]

DAN'S OLD-TIME RADIO CORNER - Radio Reader's Digest

For the second week in a row, we are spotlighting an obscure old-time radio show.

As its name suggests, Radio Reader's Digest was a radio adaption of stories that originally appeared in Reader's Digest magazine.

From the episodes available, my best guess is that the show ran from 1943 to 1948.

This performance, He Fell in Love With a Picture, is a humorous adaptation of the romance of Mark Twain and Olivia Langdon. It originally aired on October 17, 1946.

Listen at http://radiofun.info.

 

[talosiv]

Good choice, Dan.

 

[dan]

Good choice, Dan.

Thanks, Terry. I thoroughly enjoyed it - a fun show!

---Dan

 

[talosiv]

Have you thought about "Have gun will travel" as a podcast? I have been going over your past podcast and have not seen that one.

 

[dan]

Have you thought about "Have gun will travel" as a podcast? I have been going over your past podcast and have not seen that one.

Terry, with over 100 shows up now, it's easy to miss one.

I put up an episode of Have Gun Will Travel almost exactly a year ago. It's show #54 (at http://radiofun.info).

 

[talosiv]

I looked back and saw it #54. It is one of my favorites, along with Gunsmoke.

 

[dan]

I looked back and saw it #54. It is one of my favorites, along with Gunsmoke.

Terry, you can listen to 106 episodes of Have Gun Will Travel here:

http://archive.org/details/HaveGunWillTravel_543

And 92 episodes of Gunsmoke are here:

http://archive.org/details/GUNSMOKE04

Enjoy!

 

[talosiv]

I have all the Have Gun will Travel and 483 of Gunsmoke.

 

[dan]

I have all the Have Gun will Travel and 483 of Gunsmoke.

Excellent stuff! What else do you listen to? Any comedies?

My family is so much into Jack Benny that our car license plate honors him. (Remember that even when he was in his seventies, he claimed to be just 39 years old?)

 

[talosiv]

I haven't listened to Jack Benny yet, will have to listen soon. One of my favorite comedies was Maisie. Right now I am listening to That Hammer Guy and Silent Men.

 

[dan]

Dan's Old-Time Radio Corner - The Jimmy Durante Show

Jimmy Durante was born in New York City in 1893, and he played ragtime piano in honky-tonks when he was still in junior high.

His 1934 record Inka Dinka Doo propelled him to national prominence, and he was a radio regular from then on.

He got his own radio show in 1943, and this episode, from October 29, 1947, featured guest star Lucille Ball.


Listen at http://radiofun.info


P.S. The Petrillo joke at the beginning of the show refers to the musicians union boss who forbade union musicians to record music in the mid-1940s (in a bid for higher royalties for musicians).

 

[Patton]

Brings back some memories.
What a funny guy. Thanks for sharing.

 

[dan]

A Minelab Sovereign for Fifteen Dollars

I was just five minutes late for the Buy of the Century.

Last Saturday at a Goodwill store in Plainfield, Indiana, I saw a treasure hunting newbie buy a like-new Minelab Sovereign metal detector for $14.98.

I was luckier a few years ago, when I scored a Teknetics Coin Computer detector for ten dollars at a garage sale. This is a machine that sold new for $749.95 (I found an old ad after I recorded the podcast).

In this podcast, I talk about thrift shops, yard sales, and flea market finds.

Listen at http://thetreasurecorner.com

What great finds have you made at thrift shops and yard sales?

 

[gordonquixote]

The worst misses that stick out in my head:

1. About 20-25 years ago and was at a local flea market with my mom (I was prolly about 12 years old) and a guy was selling a consecutively serial #d pair of Lugers with ivory swasikas on the grips in a Nazi presentaion case for $200.

2. I was 16 and a neighbor was selling a really, really nice 68 Firebird with athe SB 400 for $1,500...

Oh the joys of growing up poor...

 

[AceGVSU11]

You should have offered $30 to him as soon as he walked out the door! Let him double his money while you still get a steal...

 

[dan]

You should have offered $30 to him as soon as he walked out the door! Let him double his money while you still get a steal...

I offered to buy it from him and get him a machine better suited for a newbie, but he wanted to keep that one.

He did take my business card and said he'd buzz me if he changed his mind.