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Boxcars711 Weekend Matinee - Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes "April Fools Day" (4-01-46) Apr 01, 2007

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Sherlock Holmes detective stories appeared on radio for more than 25 years, with a long list of performers playing the parts of Holmes and Dr Watson. FIRST BROADCAST: October 20th 1930 LAST BROADCAST: September 4th 1956. The stories were written by Edith Meiser, a self-confessed Holmes addict. These were so well written that she was warmly praised by Arthur Conan Doyleâs widow and son.

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Adventures Of Ellery Queen "The World Series Crime" (10-08-42) Mar 31, 2007

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Tuska cited Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940) and Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941) as the best of the Bellamy-Lindsay pairings. "The influence of The Thin Man series was apparent in reverse", Tuska noted about Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery. "Ellery and Nikki are unmarried but obviously in love with each other. Probably the biggest mystery... is how Ellery ever gets a book written. Not only is Nikki attractive and perfectly willing to show off her figure", Tuska wrote, "but she also likes to write her own stories on Queen's time, and gets carried away doing her own investigations." In Ellery Queen, Master Detective, "the amorous relationship between Ellery and Nikki Porter was given a dignity, and therefore integrity", Tuska wrote, "that was lacking in the two previous entries in the series", made at Republic Pictures before Bellamy and Lindsay were signed by Columbia.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Alien Worlds "The Sun Stealers Part 1" (1-07-79) Mar 31, 2007

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Transport you through your imagination to the deepest reaches of space. Exciting action packed well written adventures featuring highly skilled and renowned actors combined with outrageous theme music from the London Symphony Orchestra. All in digital stereo sound. Alien Worlds is the most complex audio adventure series ever created in terms of production value. The series was heard by millions of loyal fans each week on a network of over 600 stations worldwide.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Inner Sanctum "The Dead Walk At Night" (9-20-42) Mar 30, 2007

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Tales of horror recreated by great actors, a spooky organ and chilling sound effects presented by a creepy, rib-tickling host, was a strange brew indeed. Inner Sanctum did it in spades! To this day the show remains a wonderful "guilty" pleasure of many old time radio fans, who listened back then when these shows first fired the imaginations of all but the most jaded.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod "Agatha Christie - Sad Cypress"Part 2 of 2 Mar 30, 2007

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Her appeal is so huge that Christie is often called - by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others - the best-selling writer of fiction of all time, and the best-selling writer of any kind second to William Shakespeare. An estimated billion copies of her novels have been sold in English, and another billion in 103 other languages. [1]. As an example of her broad appeal, she is the all-time best-selling author in France, with over 40 million copies sold in French (as of 2003) versus 22 million for Emile Zola, the nearest contender.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Air Adventures Of Jummy Allen "Ep #86 and #87 (1937) Mar 29, 2007

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This series included the boy wonder and pilot, Jimmie Allen, his best teenage buddy, Speed Robertson, and mechanic Flash Lewis. As a team they would solve crimes often at the hands of their enemies the corrupt Black Pete and the dishonorable Digger Dawson. Young listeners could join the very popular Jimmie Allen Flying club, complete with a "personal letter" from the boy wonder himself. Jimmie Allen was so popular a character that Paramount shot the feature film The Sky Parade.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Agatha Christie's "Sad Cypress" Part 1 of 2 Mar 29, 2007

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Agatha Christie remains the most popular novelist in history, with over two billion of her books sold at a conservative estimate. The rejacketing of her books and new adaptations of Poirot and Marple on ITV have all ensured that the magic of her storytelling continues to reach a contemporary audience and that she continues to be recognised as the undisputed 'Queen of Crime'.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Topper "Rajah" (9-6-45) Mar 28, 2007

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Roland Young (11 November 1887, London - 5 June 1953, New York City) was a British actor. Young debuted in Hollywood in the 1922 silent film Sherlock Holmes, in which he played Doctor Watson opposite John Barrymore. Young had several supporting roles in his career, in such films as His Double Life, Ruggles of Red Gap, King Solomon's Mines, Ali Baba Goes to Town, And Then There Were None and The Great Lover. But he is probably best known for creating the title role in the comedy film Topper and its sequels. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Topper. In the 1950s, Young appeared on several episodic television series, including Lux Video Theatre, Studio One, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and The Chevrolet Tele Theatre. Young has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for motion picture at 6523 Hollywood Blvd. and for television at 6315 Hollywood Blvd.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Shadow "Nightmare At Gaelsberry" (2-02-41) Mar 28, 2007

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On July 31, 1930 a sinister voice came over the radio into American Homes. The voice of the Shadow appeared for the first time. In the beginning the Shadow was not a crime fighter. He was a mysterious narrator of mystery tales taken from the pages of Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. The publisher Street & Smith began to use radio as an advertising medium to promote their fiction publications. The Shadow was a perfectly creepy teller of tales promoting Street & Smith. This format continued until 1935 when creative differences between Street & Smith and NBC called a halt to the Shadow on the air.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio - Paul Temple "The Van Dyke Affair-The Sitter Inn" (10-30-50) Mar 26, 2007

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One of the most popular private detectives of all time, once upon a time, PAUL TEMPLE was a popular British private detective who made his first appearance in a BBC radio serial in 1938 and went on to appear in novels, film, television and even a daily comic strip. And on the radio itself for a whopping thirty-year run. Temple is a crime writer turned private eye, who is frenquently "sent for" by Scotland Yard to help out. Aiding him in his investigations are his faithful wife, Steve, and Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard. The stories themselves are often quite suspenseful, and the radio serials were full of cliffhanger endings, but nobody's going to mistake Temple for a member of the hard-boiled school.

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