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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Couple Next Door "2 Episodes (3-26-59 and 3-27-59)" Sep 11, 2007

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Rearranging Furniture (3-26-59) and Party Invitation Lost (3-27-59)The Couple Next Door was a Peg Lynch series which began in 1953-57 on Chicago's WGN, moving to the Mutual Broadcasting System in the summer of 1957. The married couple was played by Olan Soule and Elinor Harriot. It was revived on CBS Radio (December 30, 1957-November 25, 1960) with Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce as the unnamed married couple---essentially, it reprised Ethel and Albert but the new name was necessitated because Lynch had long since lost the rights to the original title. That still wasn't the end of the show---Lynch and Bunce brought the show to NBC's legendary weekend programming block Monitor in 1963, performing three- to four-minute vignettes not unlike the original fifteen-minute shows. Their presence continued a kind-of Monitor tradition of offering new material from classic radio favourites (including James and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly fame, until Marian Jordan's death). Even more, it returned yet again in the 1970s, as a syndicated radio feature known as The Little Things in Life.

Boxcars711 Sunday Matinee - The Lux Radio Theater "Salute To The Marines" (11-8-43) Sep 09, 2007

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In October of 1934, "Lux Radio Theater" debuted in New York on NBC's Blue radio network. Presenting audio versions of popular Broadway plays, the show failed to garner an audience and soon ran out of material. After switching networks to CBS and moving to Hollywood, Lux found its true market. The show began featuring adaptations of popular films, performed by as many of the original stars as possible. With an endless supply of hit films scripts and an audience of more than 40 million, Lux enjoyed a prosperous run until the curtain fell in 1956.THIS EPISODE:Salute to the Marines from Lux Radio Theater aired November 8, 1943 starring Wallace Beery as Sgt. Maj. William Bailey and Fay Bainter as Jenny Bailey. Leatherneck, Wallace Beery, is back in uniform.

Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee - Screen Directors Playhouse "Lifeboat" (11-16-50) Sep 08, 2007

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Directed by Alfred HitchcockUS 1944, b/w, 96 min.With Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak English and German w/English Subtitles. Based on a story by John Steinbeck, Lifeboat has Hitchcock skillfully blending elements of his trademark psychological thrillers with propaganda for the Allied cause during World War II. The film takes place on a lifeboat, where Allied survivors of a shipwreck caused by a German U-boat struggle to survive. When the group saves a Nazi from the water, tensions begin to mount in the confined space of the small boat. Tallulah Bankhead gives her definitive film performance as a materialistic reporter.

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Line-Up "Two Young Girls Killed By Hit & Run" (8-03-50) Sep 08, 2007

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The Lineup is a realistic police drama that gives radio audiences a look behind the scenes at police headquarters. Bill Johnstone plays Lt. Ben Guthrie, a quiet, calm-as-a-cupcake cucumber. Joseph Kearns (and from 1951 to 1953, Matt Maher) plays Sgt. Matt Grebb, a hot-tempered hot plate who is easily bored. The director and script writer often rode with police on the job and sat in on the police lineups to get ideas for The Lineup. They also read dozens of newspapers daily and intermeshed real stories with those that they used in the show. With Dragnet a smash hit, realism in police dramas was popular at the time this show aired. Donât be caught without this radio show in your collection!

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Devil & Mr O "Cemetary" (2-15-72) Sep 08, 2007

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Let George Do It "Needle In A Haystack" (1-02-50) Sep 07, 2007

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Let George Do It. January 2, 1950. Mutual-Don Lee net. "Needle In The Haystack". Sponsored by: Standard Oil, Chevron. Mr. Ferdinand Vase has had his most valuable possessions stolen...twelves roses! The roses were stolen in Pasadena, just before the Rose Bowl! George Valentine tries to nip a murder in the bud...a thorny problem! Ben Wright, Bob Bailey, Robert Griffin, Bud Hiestand (announcer), Clayton Post, David Victor (writer), Don Clark (director), Eddie Dunstedter (music), Jackson Gillis (writer), Stanley Farrar, Virginia Gregg, Wally Maher, William Conrad. 29:44.

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Amazing Mr. Malone - Seek And Ye Shall Find (6-08-51) Sep 07, 2007

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Based on Craig Riceâs (a female crime novelist who rivaled Agatha Christie in book sales) novels of crime drama, Frank Lovejoy (and later Gene Raymond and George Petrie) plays âfictionâs most famous criminal lawyer,â John J. Malone. Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting clichÃs, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a strong offense is the best defense, seek and ye shall find, and so on. Stories are gripping, from tales of Chicagoâs biggest operator who runs a nightclub and his right hand man, to a man looking for trouble in a hotel and finds it in room 419, to a story of a man who owns the most luscious gambling joint this side of Vegas. So brush up on your one liners, and grab your gun, because youâll want to tune in for this exciting half hour of mystery!

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Your's Truly Johnny Dollar "Trans-Pacific Matter" (8-29-55) Sep 06, 2007

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Audition #1 and Audition #2 - Trans-Pacific Matter (8-29-55)Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama about a freelance insurance investigator that aired from February 11, 1949 to September 30, 1962 on CBS. There were 811 episodes in the 12-year run, and over 720 still exist today. Charles Russell was the first to star as Johnny Dollar, the smart and tough detective who tossed silver dollar tips to bellhops. With the first three actors to play Johnny Dollar there was little to distinguish it from other detective series at the time (Richard Diamond, Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade).While always a friend of the police,Johnny wasn't necessarily a stickler for the strictest interpretation of the law. He was willing to let some things slide to satisfy his own sense of justice, as long as the interests of his employer were protected.

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot "The Careless Victim" (2-22-45) Sep 06, 2007

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Hercule Poirot (pronounced in English [??kyl pwa?o]) is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters: he appeared in 39 novels and 50 short stories. Poirot has been portrayed on screen, for films and TV, by various actors including Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and, most recently, and famously, David Suchet. His character was based on two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans' Monsieur Poiret, a retired French police officer living in London. A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of Arthur Conan Doyle. In An Autobiography Christie admits that "I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition â eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp."Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective â Inspector Hanaud of the French surete-who, first appearing in the 1910 novel "At the Villa Rose," predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - uperman "Happyland Amusement" - Complete 6 Episodes (July 1940) Sep 05, 2007

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Superman is a fictional character and regarded as the most influential and popular superhero of DC Comics. Created by Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster and American writer Jerry Siegel in 1932 and sold to Detective Comics, Inc. in 1938, Superman first appeared in Action Comics #1 (June 1938) and subsequently appeared in various radio serials, television programs, films, newspaper strips, and video games. With a premise that taps into adolescent fantasy, Superman is born Kal-El on the alien planet Krypton, before being rocketed to Earth as an infant by his scientist father moments before the planet's destruction. Adopted and raised by a Kansas farmer and his wife, the child is raised as Clark Kent, and imbued with a strong moral compass. Upon reaching maturity the character develops superhuman abilities, resolving to use these for the benefit of humanity. With the success of his adventures, Superman helped to create the superhero genre and establish its primacy within the American comic book. Superman is widely considered to be both one of the most famous and popular comic book superheroes of all time, and an American cultural icon.

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