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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Academy Award Theater "Watch On The Rhine" (8-07-46) Mar 26, 2007

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The list of films and actors on Academy Award Theater is very impressive. Bette Davis begins the series in Jezebel, with Ginger Rogers following in Kitty Foyle, and then Paul Muni in The Life of Louis Pasteur. The Informer had to have Victor Mclaglen, and the Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet (this movie was his first major motion picutre role) plus Mary Astor for the hat trick. Suspicion starred Cary Grant with Ann Todd doing the Joan Fontaine role, Ronald Coleman in Lost Horizon, and Joan Fontaine and John Lund were in Portrait of Jenny. How Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio were done is something to hear!

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Boxcars711 Weekend Matinee - Top Secret "A Package In Tangiers" (6-25-50) Mar 25, 2007

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6-12-50 to 10-26-50 NBC, various 30 minute timeslots. STAR: Ilona Massey as a Mata Hari-style operative in World War II. ORCHESTRAL: Roy Shield. WRITER-DIRECTOR: Harry W. Junkin. Top secret was highly effective, said Radio Life: the role played by the Hungarian actress was âtailor-made for her sultry voice and heavy accentâ

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Results Inc "Mummy-Sitting With Queen Sheshack" (12-30-44) Mar 24, 2007

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A funny farce, Results Inc. stars Lloyd Nolan as Johnny Strange in this rare series. Results Inc.. December 30, 1944. Mutual net. Sustaining. Johnny Strange finds that a mummy in a museum has been going on nightly strolls! Possibly, the last show of the series. Lloyd Nolan, Claire Trevor, Sol Stein (writer), Martin Worth (writer), Lawrence Edmond Taylor (creator), Russ Crump (music), Bob O'Connor (announcer), Joseph Kearns, Harry Lang. 29:37.The Strange detective places two ads:âResults, Incorporated â your problem is our problem. Will locate your long-lost uncle, work your crossword puzzle, hold your baby.â The second silly slip, âSecretary wanted â blonde, beautiful, between 22 and 28 years, unmarried, with the skin you love to touch and a heart you canât."Terry Travers (played by Claire Trevor) answers the ad. Terryâs pay is â25% commission, my hospital bills, and bail money.â A laugh a minute!

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Michael Shayne "The Crooked Wheel" (9-18-48) Mar 24, 2007

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Michael Shayne was a fictional sleuth created by Brett Halliday (a pen name for author Davis Dresser) who was first initiated into the fraternity for detectives in the 1939 novel "Dividend of Death". Dresser based the character on a âtall and rangyâ brawler who once saved his life during a braw in a Mexican cantina. The Shayne character would go on to appear in 69 novels, plus a long-running mystery magazineâand in 1941, was brought to the silver screen in Paramountâs Michael Shayne, Private Detective, an adaptation of Dividend of Death that starred Lloyd Nolan, and paved the way for six additional B-mysteries to follow. The New Adventures of Michael Shayneâpremiered on July 15, 1948 starring Jeff Chandler.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Journey To The Center Of Earth "The Great Discovery" (6-12-63) Mar 23, 2007

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JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is Jules Verne's story of Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, Lidenbrock and Axel descend deeper into the planet than anyone has ever gone before . . . but will they make it back to the surface alive? Alien Voices' productions are an adventure in sound: classic works of science fiction and fantasy come to life in completely new, bold and wonderful audio dramatizations featuring virtuoso performances from the entire cast, riveting sound effects and original music. BBC - EIGHT EPISODE SI-FI SERIAL

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Gunsmoke "Audition Show 1" (6-11-49) Mar 23, 2007

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Audition Show 6/11/49Gunsmoke was a long-running American old-time radio and television Western drama created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories took place in or about Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.The radio version ran from 1952 to 1961, and is commonly regarded as one of the finest radio dramas of all time; the television version ran from 1955 to 1975 and still holds the record for the longest-running U.S. prime time fictional television program.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Rogue's Gallery "Murder With Muriel" (10-10-45) Mar 22, 2007

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Rogue's Gallery came to the Mutual network on September 27, 1945 with Dick Powell portraying Richard Rogue, a private detective who invariably ended up getting knocked out each week and spending his dream time in acerbic conversation with his subconscious self, Eugor. Rogue's Gallery was, in a sense, Dick Powell's rehearsal for Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Powell played private detective Richard Rogue, who trailed luscious blondes, protected witness, and did whatever else detectives do to make a living. It was a good series, though not destined to make much of a mark. Under the capable direction of Dee Englebach and accompanied by the music of Leith Stevens, Powell floated through his lines with the help of such competents as Lou Merrill, Gerald Mohr, Gloria Blondell, Tony Barrett, and Lurene Tuttle. Peter Leeds played Rogue's friend Eugor, an obscure play on names with Eugor spelling Rogue backwards.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Night Beat "Johnny Liggets Wife Paula" (5-22-52) Mar 22, 2007

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Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, a toughened, street-wise Chicago Star reporter working the Nightbeat in the early 1950's. Sometimes the capers are cops and robbers. Or just normal people in trouble. Sometimes they deserve it. Sometimes fate twists their arm. Sometimes they're just too scared or confused to know the difference. Lovejoy is a seasoned pro of radio and film with an honest, gripping delivery. Solid supporting casts, good writing and direction.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Price Of Fear "Fish" (10-20-73) Mar 21, 2007

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For the 1970âs late-night horror show, The Price of Fear, the BBC dramatized the most chilling stories they could find, drawing on talented new writers as well as the established master of terror who narrated tale, re-written as though Price actually experienced each chilling adventure himself. The show was enormously successful in the UK and abroad, and a number of series were made during 1973, 1975 and 1982.

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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Ozzie And Harriet "The Prince's Gift" (10-07-45) Mar 21, 2007

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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, an American radio and television series, was once the longest-running, live-action situation comedy on American television, having aired on ABC from 1952 to 1966 after a ten-year run on radio. Starring former bandleader Ozzie Nelson and his wife, vocalist Harriet, the show's sober, gentle humor captured a large, sustaining audience, even if it never reached the top ten in the actual ratings and later critics tended to dismiss it as fostering a slightly unrealistic picture of post-World War II American family life.

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