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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Whistler "The Juggernaut" (04/06/09)Bob Camardella Remembers The Whistler OTR "The Juggernaut" Riginal Air Date: June 9, 1947Starring: "Herb Butterfield"Wilbur Hatch (music)The Whistler was a mystery/suspense radio show, the main star of which was the ironic twist at the end of almost every episode. Usually a criminal's activity was exposed either by an overlooked (vital) detail or by their own stupidity. The Whistler himself narrated, often commenting directly upon the action, taunting the criminal from an omniscient perspective.Each dramatic episode began with the whistling of a haunting tune which was...2024-12-2934 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodOur Miss Brooks "Lack Of Coal At Madison High"-STEREOBob Camardella Remembers Our Miss Brooks "Lack Of Coal At Madison High" (01-09-49) STEREORelease date April 24, 1956Our Miss Brooks is a 1956 American comedy film starring Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Don Porter and Robert Rockwell, based on the radio and TV sitcom hit on CBS of the same name. Directed by Al Lewis, who was the chief writer for the radio and TV editions, and written by both him and Joseph Quillan, the film disregarded the past four years of television and started with a new storyline. It was distributed by Warner Brothers....2024-12-1425 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBob Camardella Remembers The Fantastic Voice Of Barbra Streisand "The Way We Were"Bob Camardella Remembers The Fantastic Voice Of Barbra Streisand "The Way We Were" Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/ STRY-sand; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the first performer awarded an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). Streisand's career began in the early 1960s performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters. Following guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records—retaining full artistic control in exchange for accepting lower pay, an ar...2024-12-0103 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodLife With Luigi 49-12-27 (063) New Year's Phone CallBob Camardella Remembers "Life With Luigi" 1948 to 1953Life with Luigi is an American radio situation comedy series which began September 21, 1948, on CBS Radio and broadcast its final episode on March 3, 1953.The action centered on Luigi Basco and his experiences as a newly arrived Italian immigrant in Chicago. Many episodes took place at the night school classes that Luigi attended with other immigrants from different countries. Another common theme involved Luigi's landlord/sponsor, Pasquale, scheming to get Luigi to marry his obese daughter. Perennial character actor and two-time Academy Award nominee J. Carrol Naish played Luigi.2024-11-3028 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodJesus Of Nazareth MOVIE 1979Bob Camardella Remembers "Jesus Of Nazareth MOVIE 1979 Shot on location in Israel, the film was financed primarily by Campus Crusade for Christ with a budget of $6 million, and was released without production or cast credits, as producer John Heyman declared that the creators of this picture were “simply being translators” of the New Testament's Gospel of Luke, “so nobody will know who produced or directed the film.” The end of the film states that the Good News Bible (Today's English Version) was used during filming, and instead of telling a parallel story or embellishing the Biblical account like othe...2024-11-162h 08
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodHe Walked By Night (1948)Bob Camardella Remembers "He Walked By Night" (1948)He Walked by Night is a 1948 American police procedural film noir directed by Alfred L. Werker and an uncredited Anthony Mann. The film, shot in a semidocumentary tone, is loosely based on the real-life actions of Erwin "Machine-Gun" Walker, a former Glendale, California police department employee and World War II veteran who unleashed a crime spree of burglaries, robberies and shootouts in the Los Angeles area between 1945 and 1946.During production, actor Jack Webb met the film's police technical advisor Marty Wynn and was inspired by a conversation with W...2024-11-091h 18
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Dirty Dozen Final Mission (1967)Bob Camardella Remembers "The Dirty Dozen" Final Mission (1967)The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and Robert Webber. Set in 1944 during World War II, the film follows the titular penal military unit of twelve convicts as they are trained as commandos by the Allies for a suicide mission ahead of the Normandy landings.The Dirty Dozen...2024-11-071h 34
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodMr. Smith Goes To WashingtonBob Camardella Remembers "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American lighthearted political satire film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold. The film is about a naive, newly appointed United States senator who fights against government corruption, and was written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story "The Gentleman from Montana". It was loosely based on the life of Montana US Senator Burton Wheeler, who underwent a similar experience when he was investigating the Warren Harding administration.2024-11-022h 10
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodScrooge "A Christmas Carole"Bob Camardella Remembers "Scrooge" A Christmas Carol 1984A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. In the process, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a...2024-11-011h 41
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodFrankinstein (1930)Bob Camardella Remembers "Frankinstein" (1931)Frankenstein is a 1931 American gothic pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The Webling play was adapted by John L. Balderston and the screenplay written by Francis Edward Faragoh and Garrett Fort, with uncredited contributions from Robert Florey and John Russell.Frankenstein stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein (Victor Frankenstein in the novel), an obsessed scientist who digs up corpses with his...2024-10-291h 28
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodMr. District Attorney MOVIEBob Camardella Remembers Mr. District Attorney (1947) MOVIEMr. District Attorney is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by Robert B. Sinclair and starring Dennis O'Keefe, Adolphe Menjou and Marguerite Chapman. The film was based on the long-running and popular radio series Mr. District Attorney created by Phillips Lord.PlotAn assistant district attorney becomes involved with a woman who works for the group that he is investigating.Cast Dennis O'Keefe as Steve Bennett Adolphe Menjou as Craig Warren Marguerite Chapman as Marcia Manning Michael O'Shea as Harrington G...2024-10-281h 22
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodMOVIE The Chase (1946)Bob Camardella Remembers "The Chase" (1946) Full MovieThe Chase is a 1946 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley. The screenplay by Philip Yordan is based on Cornell Woolrich's 1944 novel The Black Path of Fear. It stars Robert Cummings as Chuck Scott, a veteran who suffers from hallucinations. When he returns a lost wallet to violent mobster Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), Eddie offers to hire him as a chauffeur. Chuck becomes mixed up in a plot to help Eddie's wife Lorna (Michèle Morgan) run off to Havana to escape her cruel husband.Chuck Scott is a...2024-10-251h 24
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodHang_Em_HighBob Camardella Remembers Clint Eastwood's "Hang 'Em High" (1968)Hang 'Em High is a 1968 American revisionist Western film directed by Ted Post and written by Leonard Freeman and Mel Goldberg. It stars Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper, an innocent man who survives a lynching; Inger Stevens as a widow who helps him; Ed Begley as the leader of the gang that lynched Cooper; and Pat Hingle as the federal judge who hires him as a Deputy U.S. Marshal.Hang 'Em High was the first production of The Malpaso Company, Eastwood's production company. It was processed...2024-10-231h 54
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodMOVIE Bob Camardella Remembers "Cold Sweap" (1970) Starring Charles BronsonCold Sweat is a 1970 French-Italian international co-production starring Charles Bronson and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1959 novel Ride the Nightmare by Richard Matheson. It was filmed in and around Beaulieu-sur-Mer.An American (Charles Bronson) living in France must face his past when his wife and daughter are kidnapped by former fellow convicts turned narco-dealers he once double-crossed.The film was known for an extended car chase with an Opel Commodore GS/E I6 involving the Bronson character's attempt to get a doctor to a wounded drug dealer in exchange for his...2024-10-171h 33
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBob Camardella Remembers Frankie Valli The Four Seasons STEREOValli was born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio on May 3, 1934 to an Italian family in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey; he is the eldest of three sons. His father, Anthony Castelluccio, was a barber and display designer for Lionel model trains; his mother, Mary Rinaldi, was a homemaker and beer company employee. He was inspired to take up a singing career at age seven after his mother took him to see Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater in New York City. One of his early favorite singers was "Texas" Jean Valli, from whom he took his stage name. He...2024-10-151h 01
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Four Seasons - Greatest Hits185mbBob Camardella Remembers "Frankie Valli The Four Seasons" STEREOValli was born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio on May 3, 1934 to an Italian family in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey; he is the eldest of three sons. His father, Anthony Castelluccio, was a barber and display designer for Lionel model trains; his mother, Mary Rinaldi, was a homemaker and beer company employee. He was inspired to take up a singing career at age seven after his mother took him to see Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater in New York City. One of his early favorite singers was "...2024-10-141h 01
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodCatwomen of the Moon was an Outer Limits Episode.mp4INTRO: Bob Camardella Remembers The Twilight Time "Cat Women From The Moon" (1953)Cat-Women of the Moon is an independently made 1953 American black-and-white three-dimensional science-fiction film, produced by Jack Rabin and Al Zimbalist, directed by Arthur Hilton, that stars Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, and Marie Windsor. The film was released by Astor Pictures.The musical score was composed by Academy Award–winner Elmer Bernstein, whose name is misspelled as "Bernstien" in the opening credits.Cat-Women of the Moon was remade in 1958 as Missile to the Moon.PlotTravelling in a spaceship equipped wi...2024-10-0955 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodMOVIE: Bob Camardella Remembers "Johnny Come Lately 1943 HD Starring James Cagney"Johnny Come Lately is a 1943 drama film directed by William K. Howard starring James Cagney, Grace George, Marjorie Main and Hattie McDaniel. It was the first film produced by Cagney's brother, William Cagney.The title is derived from the idiom "Johnny Come Lately", which refers to a newcomer who seeks to change an established system.[3] The film centers on a drifter who comes to a new town and is faced with the question of choosing integrity or financial gain.PlotIn 1906, Tom Richards, a drifter, arrives in the small town of Plattsville. He sits...2024-10-051h 37
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod"Mickey Mantle The Definitive Story" (MLB Baseball Sports Documentary)Bob Camardella Remembers Mickey MantleMickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1951–1968) with the New York Yankees, primarily as a center fielder. Mantle is regarded by many as being one of the best players and sluggers of all time. He was an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player three times and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.\Born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, Mantle was raised by his father to become a baseball player and was...2024-10-0158 minBoxcars711 Old Time Radio PodNight of the Living Dead (1968)In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation.Note: This item contains a user-contributed srt subtitle file. To use this file you must download an srt compatible player and point it at the correct video and srt files (google for srt subtitles). We include this file for advanced users who may wish to use it, however the Archive does not support any player that displays subtitles stored external to the video they are...2024-09-281h 35Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodDragnet Ep190 "The Big Press" EP190INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays "Dragnet" "The Time I'm In It For Love" From (2007)Podomatic Boxcars711 Bob_Camardella Duke Count Kids_and_Family Adventure Suspense Thriller Detective Comedy Mystery Sci-fi WPNM Gumshoe Westerns Game Quiz Homor Funny Old_Time_Radio OTR Soap_Opera Theater Movie Video Variety Music Rock_Roll Oldies_Still_Young Holiday Xmas Christmas Thanksgiving Holloween Drama Hollywood Love Radio Sicense_Fiction Crime Law Lawless 21st_Precinct NYPD New_York_City_Detectives JAD Juvenile_Aid_Division Philadelphia_Police_Department Mounted_Police Law Government Lurene_Tuttle Lawyer Gang_Control Family_Court Old_Time_Radio_Researchers_Group Radio_Gold...2024-09-2429 minBoxcars711 Old Time Radio PodDragnet - "The Big Press"INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays "Dragnet" and "The Time I'm In It For Love" From (2007)The victims have been unable to identify the criminals. Your job, get them. If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. Smoke extra mild Fatima.Yes, Fatima is the king size cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, superbly blended to make it extra mild, to give Fatima a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. That's why Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. Enjoy extra m...2024-09-2333 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodDad's Army - "A Brush With The Law" (03-25-75)-STEREOA Brush With The Law (Aired March 25, 1975)INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Ed Townsend For Your Love (1958)Dad's Army" was a long running British comedy series created and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. The idea of a series came to Jimmy Perry when he realised that many people had forgotten about the contribution the Home Guard had made to the British Home Front during the years of the Second World War. Commencing in 1968, "Dad's Army" ran on BBC Television for 9 years with over eighty episodes spread within 10 series. The series is set in a small f...2024-09-0431 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodCrime Does Not Pay - "Gasoline Cocktail" (12-12-49)-STEREOCrime Does Not Pay - Gasoline Cocktail (12-12-49)Gasoline Cocktail (Aired December 12, 1949)With the possible exception of Ed Begley, Everett Sloane, Lionel Stander and Joan Lorring, none of the other featured actors in the series ever played a major role in Radio. We don't mention this to in any way detract from these fine performers' work in this program. We simply point out the novelty of this program in the annals of Golden Age Radio history. "In the Interest of Good Citizenship and Law Enforcement," MGM presented these seventy-eight programs as syndicated transcriptions. There had...2024-09-0229 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodFilename: Cloak & Dagger - The Kachin Story (06-18-50)-2-STEREO The Kachin Story (Aired June 18, 1950)Based on the book, Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Story of the O.S.S. by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain, the Radio rendition of these fascinating stories promised to keep any listener perched on the edge of their seat. Apart from describing the book upon which the new adventure series was based, the above is just about all the fanfare that was associated with the roll-out of NBC's only espionage program of the year. It was also one of the few solo productions that Wyllis Cooper undertook for NBC. It was a...2024-08-1830 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBoston Blackie - The Jonathan Diamond (06-23-44)222-Repaired STEREOINTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Dionne Warwick & Then Spinners "Then Came You" (1974)Boston Blackie REPAIRED- The Jonathan Diamond aka: Rockwell Diamond (06-23-44)The Jonathan Diamond aka: Rockwell Diamond (Aired June 23, 1944)The Boston Blackie radio series, also starring Morris, began June 23, 1944, on NBC as a summer replacement for The Amos 'n' Andy Show. Sponsored by Rinso, the series continued until September 15 of that year. Unlike the concurrent films, Blackie had a steady romantic interest in the radio show: Lesley Woods appeared as Blackie's girlfriend Mary Wesley. Harlow Wilcox was the show's announcer. On April 11, 1945...2024-08-1133 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBig Show - "Guests Jimmy Durante & Milton Berle" (04-29-51)-STEREOBig Show - "Guests Jimmy Durante & Milton Berle" (04-29-51)-STEREOAired April 29, 1951April 29, 1951. NBC network. Sponsored by: Canon Towels, Chesterfield, Anacin, RCA. Ethel Merman opens the show with, "There's No Business Like Show Business." Frank Lovejoy appears in an "I Was A Communist For The FBI" drama and the real Matt Cvetic makes a brief anti-communist speech. Rosemary Clooney sings, "Taking a Chance On Love." Gordon MacRae recalls his days as an NBC page. Uncle Miltie does a great monologue about the good old days of radio, and other topics. The cast does a...2024-07-291h 27
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodAuthor's Playhouse - "Forever Walking Free" (04-23-45)-STEREOForever Walking Free (Aired April 23, 1945)Author's Playhouse was an anthology radio drama series, created by Wynn Wright, that aired on the NBC Blue Network from March 5, 1941 until October 1941. It then moved to the NBC Red Network where it was heard until June 4, 1945. Philip Morris was the sponsor in 1942-43. Premiering with "Elementals" by Stephen Vincent Benét, the series featured adaptations of stories by famous authors, such as “Mr. Mergenthwirker’s Lobbies” by Nelson Bond, "The Snow Goose" by Paul Gallico, "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, "The Piano" by William Saroyan and "The Secret Life of Walte...2024-07-1929 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodArchie Andrews - "The Big Dance" (09-04-48)The Big Dance (Aired September 4, 1948)Archie Andrews, created in 1941 by Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, a long-run radio series, a syndicated comic strip and animation -- The Archie Show, a Saturday morning cartoon television series by Filmation, plus Archie's Weird Mysteries. Archie Andrews began on the Blue Network on May 31, 1943, switched to Mutual in 1944, and then continued on NBC from 1945 until September 5 1953. Archie was first played by Charles Mullen, Jack Grimes and Burt Boyar, with Bob Hastings as the title character during the NBC years.The...2024-07-1831 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodArch Oboler’s Plays -" Mr. Ten Percent (05-17-45)"-STEREO INTRO=Barbra Streisand The Way We Were (1973)INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Barbra Streisand The Way We Were (1973)Mr. Ten Percent (Aired May 17, 1945)Arch Oboler's Plays was a radio drama series written, produced and directed by Arch Oboler. Minus a sponsor, it ran for one year, airing Saturday evenings on NBC from March 25, 1939 to March 23, 1940 and revived five years later on Mutual for a sustaining summer run from April 5, 1945 to October 11, 1945. Leading film actors were heard on this series, including Gloria Blondell, Eddie Cantor, James Cagney, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Greer Garson, Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin, Katharine Hepburn, Elsa Lanchester, Peter Lorre, Frank...2024-07-1733 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodAlkaSeltzerShow-Bob-Dialog-VOICE-222On the Sunny Side of the Street (10-09-53) and Just to be With You (10-29-53)Alka-Seltzer Time (aka The Alka-Seltzer Show) was a 15-minute radio series broadcast weekdays on both CBS and Mutual. Baritone Curt Massey starred with Martha Tilton when the program, sponsored by Alka-Seltzer, began in 1949 as Curt Massey Time (sometimes advertised as Curt Massey Time with Martha Tilton) with a title change to highlight the sponsor's product by 1952. The announcer was Fort Pearson. By 1953, the series was heard simultaneously on Mutual (at noon) and later that same day on CBS (at 5:45pm...2024-07-1602 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodSam Spade - "The Crab Louis Caper" (03-02-51)-STEREOThe Crab Louis Caper (Aired March 2, 1951)The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951. The series starred Howard Duff (and later, Steve Dunne) as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie, and took a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character than the novel or movie. In 1947, scriptwriters Jason James and Bob Tallman received...2024-07-1032 minBoxcars711 Old Time Radio PodINTRO: Bob Camardella Presents The Brownstone Theater “The Lion & The Mouse” (1905)The Brownstone Theater is an old-time radio dramatic anthology series in the United States. It was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System February 21, 1945 – September 23, 1945.Brownstone Theater featured adaptations of stories and plays that were popular at the turn of the 20th century. The premiere offering, The Lion and the Mouse, was followed by productions such as The Man Without a Country, The Prisoner of Zenda, and Cyrano de Bergerac. A contemporary publication's radio listing described the material as "Revivals of some of the plays that thrilled Grandpa and Grandma."Radio historian John Dunning wrote in On...2024-06-2528 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBob Hope Pepsodent Show - Guest Fred Astaire (02-17-48)Special Guest Is Fred Astaire (Aired February 17, 1948)Special Guest Is Fred Astaire (Aired February 17, 1948)After five years on the Vaudeville circuit, by his own account Hope was surprised and humbled when he and his partner Grace Louise Troxell failed a 1930 screen test for Pathé at Culver City, California. (Hope had been on the screen in small parts, 1927's The Sidewalks of New York and 1928's Smiles. Hope returned to New York City and subsequently appeared in several Broadway musicals including Roberta, Say When, the 1936 Ziegfeld Follies, and Red, Hot and Blue with Ethel Merman. His performances w...2024-06-2028 minBoxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBeyond Midnight - "Lancerford House" (01-24-69)Lancerford House (Aired January 24, 1969)This series was written by Michael McCabe and was produced in South Africa. It was a replacement for another series McCabe produced, called SF68. That series adapted famous Sci-fi stories to radio, and it seems to have been the place where McCabe honed his craft. The subject matter to Beyond Midnight was more horror oriented, including madness, murder, and supernatural sleuths! What survives today doesn't involve a horror host per se, but a few include framing narration (by someone involved in the plot) while others just start up the story with no announcer...2024-06-1530 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Mysterious Stranger (07-14-44)-222-STEREOAuthor’s Playhouse - Famous stories by celebrated authors: among them, Elementals (Stephen Vincent Benet), The Piano (William Saroyan), and The Snow Goose (Paul Gallico).March 5, 1941 till June 4, 1945, NBC; Blue Network until mid-October 1941, then the Red Network. Many briefly held 30m timeslots, including Sundays at 11:30, 1941-42; Wednesdays at 11:30, 1942-44; Mondays at 11:30, 1944-45. Sponsor was Philip Morris, 1942-43. Cast: John Hodiak, Fern Persons, Arthur Kohl, Laurette Fillbrandt, Kathryn Card, Bob Jellison, Nelson Olmsted, Marvin Miller, Olan Soule, Les Tremayne, Clarence Hartzell, Curley Bradley, etc. Orchestra: Rex Maupin, Roy Shield, J6seph Gallicchio. Creator: Wynn Wright. Directors: Norman Felton, Fred Weihe, Homer Heck, e...2024-06-0832 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodArchie Andrews - "JiveTalk" (05-18-46)"JiveTalk" (Aired May 18, 1946)Archie Andrews, created in 1941 by Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, a long-run radio series, a syndicated comic strip and animation -- The Archie Show, a Saturday morning cartoon television series by Filmation, plus Archie's Weird Mysteries. Archie Andrews began on the Blue Network on May 31, 1943, switched to Mutual in 1944, and then continued on NBC from 1945 until September 5 1953. Archie was first played by Charles Mullen, Jack Grimes and Burt Boyar, with Bob Hastings as the title character during the NBC years.The sponsor was...2024-06-0630 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodAldrich Family - "The Lost Watch" (12-07-52)INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Judy Garland - "Danny Boy" (1955)The Lost Watch (Aired December 7, 1952)INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Judy Garland - "Danny Boy" (1955)The Aldrich Family as a separate radio show was born as a summer replacement for Jack Benny in NBC's Sunday night lineup, July 2, 1939, and it stayed there until October 1, 1939, when it moved to Tuesday nights at 8 p.m., sponsored by General Foods's popular gelatin dessert Jell-O---which also sponsored Jack Benny at the time. The Aldriches ran in that slot from October 10, 1939 until May 28, 1940, moving to Thursdays, from July 4, 1940 until July 20, 1944...2024-06-0232 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodAlan Young - "Alan The Fullback" (11-13-45)Alan The Fullback (Aired November 13, 1945)The Alan Young Show was a radio and television series presented in diverse formats over a nine-year period and starring Canadian-English actor Alan Young. It began on NBC radio as a summer replacement situation comedy in 1944, featuring vocalist Bea Wain. It moved to ABC with Jean Gillespie portraying Young's girlfriend Betty. The program was next broadcast by NBC for a 1946-47 run and was off in 1948. When it returned to NBC in 1949, Louise Erickson played Betty and Jim Backus was heard as snobbish playboy Hubert Updike III. In 1950 The Alan Young Show...2024-06-0130 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodSam Spade - "The Wheel Of Life Caper" (07-11-48)The Wheel Of Life Caper (Aired July 11, 1948)The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951. The series starred Howard Duff (and later, Steve Dunne) as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie, and took a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character than the novel or movie. In 1947, scriptwriters Jason James and Bob Tallman...2024-05-3130 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodAcademy Award Theater - "Blood On The Sun" (10-16-46)-STEREOINTRO: BOB: The Drifters "Save The Last Dance For Me" (#1 Hit) Atlantic RecordsAcademy Award Theater (Starring John Garfield) - "Blood On The Sun" (10-16-46)Blood On The Sun (Aired October 16, 1946)John Dunning in his book,"On the Air, The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio,"tells us why such a fine production lasted less than a year: "The House of Squibb, a drug firm, footed a stiff bill: up to $5,000 for the stars and $1,600 a week to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for use of the title. The production h...2024-05-2333 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodAbbott & Costello - "Trip To Palm Springs" (Guest Veronica Lake)INTRO: Bob Camardella Remembers The FlaminghosTrip To Palm Springs (Guest Veronica Lake) Aired December 2, 1943The Abbott and Costello Show mixed comedy with musical interludes (usually, by singers such as Connie Haines, Marilyn Maxwell, the Delta Rhythm Boys, Skinnay Ennis, and the Les Baxter Singers). Regulars and semi-regulars on the show included Artie Auerbrook, Elvia Allman, Iris Adrian, Mel Blanc, Wally Brown, Sharon Douglas, Verna Felton, Sidney Fields, Frank Nelson, Martha Wentworth, and Benay Venuta. Ken Niles was the show's longtime announcer, doubling as an exasperated foil to Abbott & Costello's mishaps (and often fuming in...2024-05-2133 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodA Date With Judy - "Oggie's Band" (04-09-46)Aired 04-09-1946A Date with Judy was an American radio program during the 1940s. It was a teenage comedy that began as a summer replacement for Bob Hope's show, sponsored by Pepsodent and airing on NBC from June 24 to September 16, 1941, with 14-year-old Ann Gillis in the title role. Dellie Ellis portrayed Judy when the series returned the next summer (June 23-September 15, 1942). Louise Erickson took over the role the following summer (June 30–September 22, 1943) when the series, sponsored by Bristol Myers, replaced The Eddie Cantor Show. Louise Erickson continued as Judy for the next seven years, as the serie...2024-05-2029 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodFamily Theater - "J. Smith and Wife" (02-27-47)Each program was preceded by the familiar announcement: “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of”—a quote from Alfred, Lord Tennyson. And always worked in somewhere before the end of the show was the famous slogan that became Peyton’s signature: “The family that prays together stays together!” Father Peyton’s vision of the family is expressed in his book, The Ear of God: “The family was meant to be the cradle of religion,” he wrote. “Restore to the family its religious soul and you enrich the entire country, you strengthen civilization.” Many people, including Hollywood entertainers...2024-04-0129 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodCrime Does Not Pay - "Operation Payroll" (02-28-51)Operation Payroll (Aired February 28, 1951)As must be immediately noticeable from the long list of movie actors heard in Crime Does Not Pay, this was not your everyday Golden Age Radio drama. Indeed, you might be forgiven if you fail to recognize more than a couple of Radio voice talents in the entire list. The Radio program was based on a very popular series of MGM Short Subjects they produced between 1935 and 1948 under the same name, Crime Does Not Pay. The Marcus Loew Booking Agency had owned radio station call sign WHN since 1946. In September of 1948, WHN changed...2024-03-1326 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodCasebook Of Gregory Hood - "The Derringer Society" (07-08-46)The Derringer Society (Aired July 08, 1946)In The Casebook of Gregory Hood the spokesperson was initially the legendary and versatile Radio talent, Harry Bartell. The incorporation of a sponsor's spokesperson into the ensemble cast wasn't ground-breaking for the genre. Petri had introduced their flavor of the format with their first sponsorship of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes over MBS in October 1943 and for the three following years immediately preceding their sponsorship of The Casebook of Gregory Hood. But this wasn't the earliest product placement innovation in Radio. Burns and Allen had woven their various sponsors' products into their...2024-02-2631 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBox 13 - "The Philanthropist" (01-30-49)INTRO: Bob Camardella Remembers Nat & Natalie Cole "Unforgetable" (1991) The Philanthropist (Aired January 30, 1949)Alan Ladd's early portrayals of Dan Holiday did tend to be a bit pat, somewhat sparse in depth, and even wooden in the beginning. Ladd hired some excellent voice talent for his project, and these superb, veteran Radio professionals set a pretty high bar for Ladd, himself. Box 13 is highly expositional, as are most programs of the genre, and Ladd's grovelly, gritty voice lends itself well to the production. But by Episode #6 it seems apparent that Alan Ladd was beginning to hit his...2024-02-1133 minBoxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Bob Hope Show - "Filling Out Income Tax With Guest Jane Russell" (03-04-53)Filling Out Income Tax With Guest Jane Russell (Aired March 4, 1953)After five years on the Vaudeville circuit, by his own account Hope was surprised and humbled when he and his partner Grace Louise Troxell failed a 1930 screen test for Pathé at Culver City, California. (Hope had been on the screen in small parts, 1927's The Sidewalks of New York and 1928's Smiles. Hope returned to New York City and subsequently appeared in several Broadway musicals including Roberta, Say When, the 1936 Ziegfeld Follies, and Red, Hot and Blue with Ethel Merman. His performances were generally well-received and critics n...2024-02-0925 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBarry Craig Confidential Investigator - "Murder By Error" (07-13-54)INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Peabo Bryson "Unconditional Love" (1999)Murder By Error (Aired July 13, 1954)Like Sam Spade, Craig narrated his stories, in addition to being the leading character in this 30 minute show. Nearly sixty episodes are in trading circulation today William Gargan as a Detective (and an actor) If William Gargan brought an air of authenticity to his roles as a private detective, there were some good very reasons. His father was a bookmaker, so Gargan learned a lot about the gambling world and met a lot of interesting characters from across the spectrum of society...2024-01-2034 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodWPNM - Oldies Broadcast 106-333 01-13-24-FINALE_STEREOW.P.N.M - Oldies Broadcast 106-333 01-13-24-FINALE_STEREOBob Camardella Plays Two Hours of Oldies from his hometown in Historic Germantown, Pa. This show is a repeat from 2010 and remastered in Stereo. Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod originates from the 'Heart Of Historic Germantown," Philadelphia, Pa.Bob Camardella began podcasting at Podomatic in October 2005 and at the Radio Nostalgia Network at Libsyn.com in January 2006. From 2006 through 2009, in addition to the top ranked Boxcars711 show at Podomatic and Libsyn, "Humphrey/Camardella Media Productions" commanded a top ten slot at Pod...2024-01-151h 10
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodArchie Andrews - "Mr. Andrews Wallpaper Adventure" (07-17-48)Mr. Andrews Wallpaper Adventure (Aired July 17, 1948)His earlier life is revealed in the "Little Archie" stories when he had a dog named Spotty. Archie is a typical small-town teenager. Generous, well-mannered, but clumsy, he is genuinely liked by many of his friends. Archie goes crazy when he sees an attractive girl, but mainly dates Veronica Lodge and Betty Cooper. He has taken various employment, but despite the best intentions, often clumsily breaks things, coming in conflict with Veronica's father Hiram Lodge and Riverdale High's principal, Waldo Weatherbee.THIS EPISODE: July 17, 1948. "Mr...2024-01-1230 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod"The Raleigh Cigarette Program" Starring Red Skelton "Bells and Resolutions" (01-01-46)INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Ron Stewart "Auld Lang Syne"The Raleigh Cigarette Program Starring Red SkeltonBells and Resolutions (Aired 01-01-46)After appearances on The Rudy Vallee Show in 1937, Skelton became a regular in 1939's Avalon Time on NBC, sponsored by Avalon Cigarettes. On October 7, 1941, Skelton premiered his own radio show, The Raleigh Cigarette Program, developing a number of recurring characters including punch-drunk boxer "Cauliflower McPugg," inebriated "Willy Lump-Lump" and "'Mean Widdle Kid' Junior," whose favorite phrase ("I dood it!") soon became part of the American lexicon. That, along with "He bwoke my...2024-01-0133 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodCBS Radio Workshop - "Roughing It" (10-05-56)INTRO: Bob Camardella Presents Samuel ClemensAKA Mark Twain (11-30-1835 to 04-21-1910)Roughing It (Aired October 5, 1956)The CBS Radio Workshop aired from January 27, 1956 through September 22, 1957 and was a revival of the prestigious Columbia Workshop from the 1930s and 1940s. Creator William Froug launched the series with this powerhouse two-part adaptation of "Brave New World" and booked author Aldous Huxley to narrate his famous novel. "We’ll never get a sponsor anyway," CBS vice president Howard Barnes explained to Time, "so we might as well try anything." The CBS Workshop regularly featured the wo...2023-12-2731 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodLet George Do It - "Follow That Christmas Train" (12-19-49)INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Andy Williams "Its The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (1963)Let George Do It was a radio drama series produced by Owen and Pauline Vinson from 1946 to 1954. It starred Bob Bailey as detective-for-hire George Valentine (with Olan Soule stepping into the role in 1954). Clients came to Valentine's office after reading a newspaper carrying his classified ad: "Personal notice: Danger's my stock in trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me. George Valentine. "The few earliest episodes were more sitcom than private eye shows...2023-12-2132 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodVIDEO "It's A Wonderful Life" MOVIEBob Camardella Plays "It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946" Part One of TwoIt's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and the contributions he has made to his community. Despite initially being considered a box office flop...2023-12-201h 06Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Saint - "Santa Claus Is No Saint" - Christmas Episode (12-24-50)INTRO: Bob Camardella Remembers The Cleftones "Heart & Soul" (1961)In Santa Claus Is No Saint (12-24-50), the 'Robin Hood Of Modern Crime' forgoes bow and quiver to don whiskers and a red suit, for the highest of purposes: entertaining tots on Christmas Eve. The Saint's troubles begin in earnest, however, when "a tot, twenty years later" shows up at his door, armed with a gun and the notion that Simon Templar is actually one 'Fats' Boylen. It seems that Mr. Boylen was hired to play Santa at a society party, but chose to leave early, as did a...2023-12-1833 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Weird Circle - "A Terrible Night" (01-23-44)A Terrible Night (Aired January 23, 1944)"The Weird Circle" was produced in New York City by the National Broadcasting Company, under the auspices of its Radio-Recording Division. Though best known for live programs over its Red and Blue Networks, NBC produced and recorded a great many shows for syndication to local stations, including such diverse dramatic programs as "Playhouse of Favorites", "Five Minute Mysteries", "Destiny Trails", and "Betty and Bob" (a five-a-week daily "soap opera" featuring Arlene Francis), as well as quarter-hour musical programs starring performers ranging from Carson Robison and his Buckaroos to Ferde Grofe and his...2023-12-1427 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod"A Favor You Can’t Refuse" (Starring William Shatner) 05-31-74"A Favor You Can’t Refuse" (Starring William Shatner) Aired May 31, 1974The Zero Hour (aka Hollywood Radio Theater) was a 1973-74 radio drama anthology series hosted by Rod Serling. With tales of mystery, adventure and suspense, the program aired in stereo for two seasons. Some of the scripts were written by Serling. Originally placed into syndication on September 3, 1973, the series was picked up by the Mutual Broadcasting System in December of that year. The original format featured five-part dramas broadcast Monday through Friday with the story coming to a conclusion on Friday. Including commercials, each part was ap...2023-12-0723 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Abbott & Costello Christmas Show 2023The Abbott and Costello Show mixed comedy with musical interludes (usually, by singers such as Connie Haines, Marilyn Maxwell, the Delta Rhythm Boys, Skinnay Ennis, and the Les Baxter Singers). Regulars and semi-regulars on the show included Artie Auerbrook, Elvia Allman, Iris Adrian, Mel Blanc, Wally Brown, Sharon Douglas, Verna Felton, Sidney Fields, Frank Nelson, Martha Wentworth, and Benay Venuta. Ken Niles was the show's longtime announcer, doubling as an exasperated foil to Abbott & Costello's mishaps (and often fuming in character as Costello insulted his on-air wife routinely); he was succeeded by Michael Roy, with annoncing chores also handled...2023-12-0633 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodYou Bet Your Life - "The Secret Word Is Bread" (02-08-50)You Bet Your Life is an American quiz show that aired on both radio and television. The most well-known version was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant George Fenneman. The show debuted on ABC Radio in October 1947, then moved to CBS Radio in 1949 before making the transition to the NBC Radio and NBC-TV networks in October 1950. Because of its simple format, it was possible to broadcast the show simultaneously on the radio and on television. In 1960, the show was renamed The Groucho Show and ran a further year. Most episodes are in the...2023-12-0534 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodYou Are There - "The Trial Of Marie Antoinette" (10-17-48)The Trial Of Marie Antoinette (Aired October 17, 1948)You Are There is an American historical educational television and radio series broadcast over the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks. reated by Goodman Ace for CBS Radio, it blended history with modern technology, taking an entire network newsroom on a figurative time warp each week reporting the great events of the past. Reporters included John Charles Daly, Don Hollenbeck and Richard C. Hottelet. The series was first heard on July 7, 1947 under the title CBS Is There. Its final broadcast was on March 19, 1950 under the title You Are There. According...2023-12-0429 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodYour's Truly Johnny Dollar - (Stuart Palmer) "The Man Who Wrote Himself To Death" (03-21-50)(Stuart Palmer) The Man Who Wrote Himself To Death - (Aired March 21, 1950)Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar attracted some of the best writers in Hollywood, including Jack Johnstone, E. Jack Neuman (using the pen name John Dawson), Robert Ryf, and Les Crutchfield. Bob Bailey also wrote a script while he was playing Johnny Dollar. He used the pen name Robert Bainter (Bainter was his middle name) as the scriptwriter for "The Carmen Kringle Matter", which was aired on Saturday, December 21, 1957 on the West Coast, and on the following day for the rest of the country. Bob Bailey, generally...2023-12-0326 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod"A Christmas Carol" - 1951 (Alastair Sim) (2015) Re Broadcast"A Christmas Carol" - 1951 (Alastair Sim) (2015) Re BroadcastMOVIE - A Christmas Carol - 1951 (Alastair Sim) - VIDEOScrooge, released as A Christmas Carol in the United States, is a 1951 film adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. It starred Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley. The film also features Kathleen Harrison in an acclaimed turn as Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge's charwoman. Fans of British cinema will recognise George Cole as the younger version of Scrooge, Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Cratchit, Mervyn Johns as...2023-11-291h 29
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodHenry Morgan Show - "The American School" (05-07-47)The American School (Aired May 7, 1947)One early sponsor had been Adler Shoe Stores, which came close to canceling its account after Morgan started making references to "Old Man Adler" on the air; the chain changed its mind after it was learned business spiked upward, with many new patrons asking to meet Old Man Adler. Morgan had to read an Adler commercial heralding the new fall line of colors; Morgan thought the colors were dreadful, and said he wouldn't wear them to a dogfight, but perhaps the listeners would like them. Old Man Adler demanded a retraction on...2023-11-2732 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodChallenge Of Space - "A Clapper For The Bell" (02-09-70) A Clapper For The Bell (02-09-70)Sponsored by Carling Black Label Beer, this series examined man’s early ventures into space. The space race of the 1950’s and 1960’s spawned this series, especially the Apollo missions to the moon in the late 1960’s. The series was narrated by Donald Monat as the character Charles B Ryan and was broadcast on Springbok Radio on Monday evenings at 18H30. The episodes were written by June Dixon & Hal Orlandini (never credited) & recorded at the AFS Studios in Johannesburg & produced by Donald Monat. A total of 62 episodes were broadcast, including a live br...2023-11-2427 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodHear It Now - "Edward R. Murrow" (01-12-51) Hear It Now - "Edward R. Murrow" (Aired January 12, 1951)Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began in 1950 and was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Fred Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 p.m. One of the most popular and best selling records of 1948 was I Can Hear It Now 1933-1945. The record was a collaboration between Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. The record interwove historical events with speeches and Murrow's narration and marked the beginning of one of the most famous pairings in journalism history. The h...2023-11-221h 04
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodHawk Larabee - "Tillie Mcgoon The Preacher" (11-07-46)Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Overnight WesternHawk Larabee was CBS' first attempt at an adult Western, predating Gunsmoke by six years but never achieving the heights of its illustrious successor. Elliott Lewis starred in its earliest incarnation (titled Hawk Durango) with Texas-native Barton Yarborough as his sidekick. Yarborough moved into the lead role for a season (supported by Barney Jones) but returned to his earlier sidekick status when Elliott Lewis reclaimed the role for the final season. Hawk Larabee aired from July 5, 1946 through February 7, 1948 with the Texas Rangers (and later the Plainsmen) providing unusual...2023-11-2030 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodHaunting Hour "Homicide House" (06-30-45)Homicide House (Aired June 30, 1945) Haunting Hour "Homicide House" (06-30-45)The Haunting Hour is a work-in-progress collection within the holdings of many serious Radio Collectors. From the meager available productions currently in circulation it's clear that the series was popular for its time, at the very least. With a known run of at least 52 unique scripts and more doubtful further 39 to 52 scripts, it would appear that the series was in demand for at least four years--in and out of syndication. Given the high quality of NBC Network voice talent in the circulating episodes, one can well i...2023-11-1927 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Honest Harold Peary Show - "Harold Vs. Mr. Walker" (05-09-51)The series received undeserved negative ratings and general negative comments as there were just too many similarities between the two series. Also, the series was without a sponsor, although some of the last shows were sponsored by the US Armed Forces. The series lasted only one season. The regular cast consisted of Harold Peary, Gloria Holiday, Peary’s wife, who played Gloria, Joseph Kearns as Old Doc ‘Yak Yak’ Yancy, Mary Jane Croft and Parley Baer. The announcer was Bob Lamond. The series was directed by Norman MacDonnell. Writers for the series were Harold Peary, Bill Danch, Jack Robinson and Ge...2023-11-1735 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodHancock's Half Hour -" Bill & Father Christmas" (12-25-58)Tony Hancock starred as an exaggerated version of his own character, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. Sid James played a criminally-inclined confidante who usually managed to con Hancock, while Bill Kerr appeared as Hancock's dim-witted Australian lodger. Moira Lister also appeared in the first series before being replaced by Andrée Melly for the next two, both playing love interests for Hancock's character. In the fourth and fifth series, Hattie Jacques played Griselda Pugh, live-in secretary to Hancock and occasional girlfriend of Sid James. The series broke from the variety tradition dominant i...2023-11-1633 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Halls Of Ivy - "The Fighting Med Student" (05-24-50)The Fighting Med Student (Aired May 24, 1950)The Halls of Ivy featured Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small, Midwestern Ivy College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends, and college trustees. Others in the cast included Herbert Butterfield as testy board chairman Clarence Wellman; Willard Waterman (then starring as Harold Peary's successor as The Great Gildersleeve) as board member John Merriweather; and Bea Benadaret, Elizabeth Patterson, and Gloria Gordon as the Halls' maids. Alan Reed (television's...2023-11-1433 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodHallmark Hall Of Fame - "A Christmas Carol" (12-19-54)Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television and radio. It has had a historically long run, beginning on TV in 1951. From 1954 onward, all of their productions have been shown in color, although color television productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many TV-movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then moved into videotaped productions before finally turning to filmed ones. The series has received seventy-eight Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. THIS...2023-11-1126 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodHall Of Fantasy - "The Castle Of Lavoka" (03-29-54)The Castle Of Lavoka (Aired March 29, 1954)Originally a local series out of Utah that found its way on to the airwaves sporadically from 1947 to 1952, this anthology was picked up for national syndication by the Mutual network and broadcast from mid-52 through mid-53. Written and directed by Richard Thorne, a prolific and talented writer and producer, this series is often overlooked, even by fans of OTR. It is unfortunate, since it provides some very unique and dramatic material; the acting in particular was superb. Early on, the series concentrated on murder mysteries, but later shows were devoted to...2023-11-1026 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBoxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke" - Doc Holiday (07-19-52)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke" - Doc Holiday (Aired July 19, 1952)The radio show first aired on April 26, 1952 and ran until June 18, 1961 on the CBS radio network. The series starred William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, and Parley Baer as Deputy Chester Proudfoot. Doc's first name and Chester's last name were changed for the television program. Gunsmoke was notable for its critically acclaimed cast and writing, and is commonly regarded as one of the finest old time radio shows. Some listeners (such as old time radio expert John...2023-11-0831 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Green Hornet - "A Question Of Time" (03-02-46)A Question Of Time (Aired March 2, 1946)The Green Hornet fought crime with his high-powered car, the Black Beauty. He also utilized a gun that fired knockout gas instead of bullets. His fists also came in handy on a regular basis. He was assisted by his Filipino valet, Kato. Kato would drive the Black Beauty, keep watch out for the police or the bad guys and sometimes lend a helping fist to the fighting. The Green Hornet pretended to be a villain while really battling the forces of crime in the big city. This would make for some...2023-11-0629 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBoxcars711 Overnight Western "The Roy Rogers Show" - The Rene Eigan Case (04-11-52)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Roy Rogers Show" - The Rene Eigan Case (Aired April 11, 1952)Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often either Pat Brady, (who drove a jeep called "Ne...2023-11-0431 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Great Gildersleeve - "Leila's Returning" (09-19-43)Leila's Returning (Aired September 19, 1943)The Great Gildersleeve (1941–1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity. On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who be...2023-11-0333 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodGranby's Green Acres - "Granby Bites The Love Bug" (07-24-50)Granby Bites The Love Bug (Aired July 24, 1950)Broadcast History: July 3 - August 21, 1950, CBS. 30m, Mondays at 9:30. Cast: Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as John and Martha Granby, ex-bank teller and wife who moved to the country to become farmers. Louise Erickson as Janice, their daughter. Parley Baer as Eb, the hired hand. Announcer: Bob LeMond Music: Opie Cates Writer-Producer-Director: Jay Sommers. Granby's Green Acres grew out of characters played by Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet on the Lucille Ball series My Favorite Husband. The names were changed, but the basic characters remained the same. T...2023-11-0134 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodGlobe Theater "The Ghost Goes West" (08-21-44)The Ghost Goes West (Aired August 21, 1944)The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) incorporated some thirty-plus exemplars from the This Is My Best canon into their own Frontline Theatre/Globe Theater syndicated transcriptions for service people overseas. For the Globe Theater run, Jimmy Wallington, Herbert Marshall, Jack Tierny and William Johnstone alternated as hosts of the denatured This Is My Best productions under the Globe Theater series designated H-5, the fifth such series to enter the growing number of AFRS offerings sent to American and Allied troops throughout World War II, and further, until the AFRS was folded...2023-10-3032 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodGeneral Mills Radio Adventure Black Arrow (03-13-77)The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater was a 1977 anthology radio drama series with Tom Bosley as host. Himan Brown, already producing the CBS Radio Mystery Theater for the network, added this twice-weekly (Saturdays and Sundays) anthology radio drama series to his workload in 1977. It usually aired on weekends, beginning in February 1977 and continuing through the end of January 1978, on stations which cleared it. General Mills's advertising agency was looking for a means of reaching children that would be less expensive than television advertising. Brown and CBS were willing to experiment with a series aimed at younger listeners, reaching that...2023-10-2840 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodGeneral Electric Theater -" State Fair" (09-10-53)General Electric Theater - State Fair (Aired September 10, 1953)General Electric Theater featured a mix of romance, comedy, adventure, tragedy, fantasy and variety music. Occupying the Sunday evening spot on CBS following the Toast of the Town/Ed Sullivan Show from 1 February 1953 to 27 May 1962, the General Electric Theater presented top Hollywood and Broadway stars in dramatic roles calculated to deliver company voice advertising to the largest possible audience. Despite a long technical and practical experience with television production, GE's previous attempts to establish a Sunday evening company program had fared poorly. In the fall of 1948 GE entered commercial...2023-10-2632 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodGangbusters - "The Case Of The Jersey Butcher Bandits" (11-08-47)Gangbusters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premiered as G-Men, sponsored by Chevrolet, on July 20, 1935. After the title was changed to Gang Busters January 15, 1936, the show had a 21-year run through November 20, 1957. Beginning with a barrage of loud sound effects — guns firing and tires squealing — this intrusive introduction led to the popular catch phrase "came on like Gang Busters."The series dramatized FBI cases, which producer-director Phillips H. Lord arranged in close association with Bureau director J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover insisted that only closed cases woul...2023-10-2427 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodBoxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Town" - Trouble Rides The Rails (05-08-53)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Town" - Trouble Rides The Rails (Aired May 8, 1953)Chandler's characterization of Chad Remington is forceful, dynamic and melodramatic and runs for the first twenty-three episodes. Veteran Film, Television and Radio actor Reed Hadley then assumes the role of Chad Remington for the remaining 24 installments. The contrast between the two characterizations is quite evident, but doesn't interfere with either the continuity of the main character or the flow of the episodes. Both principal actors acquit themselves well in the role. Wade Crosby in the role of Cherokee O'Bannon plays it well over the top...2023-10-2229 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodTheater Royal - "The Aspern Papers" (05-23-54)Theater Royal - "The Aspern Papers" (05-23-54)Harry Alan Towers produced and directed the show for his Towers of London company for international syndication, at the time in Europe, South Africa and Australia. The episodes included in this distribution are from the initial US run on NBC. However selected episodes were repeated, with a different series opening and close on the ABC Mystery Time series during the late 1950s. The show Theatre Royal remained in active syndication in the United States well up into the 1970s. Many of the copies in circulation today, come from those 1970...2023-10-2131 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodTheater Guild On The Air - "The Unguarded Hour" (11-17-46)The series originated on radio in the 1940s as Theater Guild on the Air. Organized in 1919 to improve the quality of American theater, the Theatre Guild first experimented with radio productions in Theatre Guild Dramas, a CBS series which ran from December 6, 1943 to February 29, 1944. Actress-playwright Armina Marshall (1895–1991), a co-administrator of the Theater Guild, headed the Guild's newly created Radio Department, and in 1945, Theatre Guild on the Air embarked on its ambitious plan to bring Broadway theater to radio with leading actors in major productions. It premiered September 9, 1945, on ABC with Burgess Meredith, Henry Daniell and Cecil Humphreys in Wings Ov...2023-10-191h 02
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodTheater Five - "The Last Land Rush" (10-06-64)The Last Land Rush (Aired October 6, 1964)Theater Five probably came a bit late in ABC's Radio History to really contribute to the body of Golden Age Radio drama, but better late than never. Some have implied that Theater Five was a rather lightweight attempt to recapture the wonderful Radio heritage of the Golden Age of Radio. I suppose this should be considered a Golden Age Revival series in that respect. But in all fairness to ABC Radio, this was never a half-hearted attempt by any means. The production values, polish, direction, sound engineering, and acting were all...2023-10-1722 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodTheater 1030 - "Two Little Puncture Wounds" (1958)Two Little Puncture Wounds (1958) *The Exact Date Is UnknownThe old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, refers to a period of radio programming in the United States lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until the 1950s, when television superseded radio as the medium of choice for scripted programming and radio shifted to playing popular music. During this period, when radio was dominant and filled with a variety of formats and genres, people regularly tuned into their favorite radio programs. In fact, according to a 1947 C. E...2023-10-1528 min
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodTales Of Tomarrow - "Martians Never Die" (03-12-53)Martians Never Die (Aired March 12, 1953)The 1950's saw both the twilight of the Golden Age of Radio and the birth of the science fiction radio series.. Science fiction was not new to radio before 1950 but it was either targeted to juvenile audiences or were shows in a broader series. For example, ESCAPE's "The Time Machine". On March 15, 1950, the first show of Mutual's 2000 PLUS aired and becoming the very first true science fiction series in the US. DIMENSION X followed shortly on April 8, 1950 and broadcast over NBC stations. TALES OF TOMORROW was the third dedicated science fiction series ove...2023-10-1333 min
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioLet George Do It - Murder For Two (03-19-51)Let George Do It - Bob Bailey played George Valentine as a detective handy man, who got his jobs from responses to a newspaper ad. Part-time detective and writer Dan Holiday in Box 13 also used the premise. It pays to advertise! The shows follow the usual formats of crime caper shows, with toughs, mysterious rendezvous and people who aren't who they say they are.THIS EPISODE:March 19, 1951. Mutual-Don Lee network. "Murder For two". Sustaining. Mrs. Ruth Jennings has been murdered. Lou Jennings is suspected of the killing...and he doesn't...2009-11-0232 min
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioIn The Name Of The Law - Nothing Ever Happens In Chinatown (07-26-36)In the Name of the Law was a True Crime radio show from 1936. It says "In the name of the law, we bring you another of the thrilling stories in this exciting series, taken from actual police case files. "In the name of the Law, we bring you another of the thrilling stories in this exciting series, taken from actual police case files."Mrs Mary James found dead in her pool 8-05-35. Her husband Bob is suspected. He had been married several times before and a previous wife was also found dead under suspicious circumstances. Police investigation...2009-10-0224 min
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioLet George Do It - No Way Out (10-01-51)Let George Do It was a radio drama series produced by Owen and Pauline Vinson from 1946 to 1954. It starred Bob Bailey as detective-for-hire George Valentine (with Olan Soule stepping into the role in 1954). Clients came to Valentine's office after reading a newspaper carrying his classified ad: "Personal notice: Danger's my stock in trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me. George Valentine." Valentine's secretary was Claire Brooks, aka Brooksie (Frances Robinson, Virginia Gregg, Lillian Buyeff). As Valentine made his rounds in search of the bad guys, he usually encounted Brooksie's...2009-08-1230 min
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioThe Bob Hope Show - Guest - Basil Rathbone (1-28-41)The Bob Hope Show - From the age of twelve, Bob Hope worked at a wide variety of odd jobs at a local board walk. When not doing this he would busk, doing dance and comedy patter to make extra money. He entered many dancing and amateur talent contests, and won prizes for his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. He also boxed briefly and unsuccessfully under the name Packy East, making it once as far as the semi-finals of the Ohio novice championship. Fallen silent film comedian Fatty Arbuckle saw one of his performances and in 1925 got him steady...2009-06-3027 min
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioAbbott & Costello Show - Spanish Acting School (05-03-45)The Abbott and Costello Show mixed comedy with musical interludes (usually, by singers such as Connie Haines, Marilyn Maxwell, the Delta Rhythm Boys, Skinnay Ennis, and the Les Baxter Singers). Regulars and semi-regulars on the show included Artie Auerbrook, Elvia Allman, Iris Adrian, Mel Blanc, Wally Brown, Sharon Douglas, Verna Felton, Sidney Fields, Frank Nelson, Martha Wentworth, and Benay Venuta. Ken Niles was the show's longtime announcer, doubling as an exasperated foil to Abbott & Costello's mishaps (and often fuming in character as Costello insulted his on-air wife routinely); he was succeeded by Michael Roy, with annoncing chores also...2009-06-2229 min
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioLet George Do It - Double Feature (01-31-49) and (06-26-50)Let George Do It - Bob Bailey played George Valentine as a detective handy man, who got his jobs from responses to a newspaper ad. Part-time detective and writer Dan Holiday in Box 13 also used the premise. It pays to advertise! The shows follow the usual formats of crime caper shows, with toughs, mysterious rendezvous and people who aren't who they say they are. Network was Mutual, Sponson was Standard Oil. STARS:Bob Bailey,Eddie Firestone jr, Francis Robinson, Joe Kearn PRODUCER:Owen Vinson WRITER: Polly Hopkins MUSIC: Eddie Dunstedter.
TODAY'S SHOW: Double Feature - "Mayhem...2009-05-281h 05
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioArchie Andrews - The New TV Set (05-21-49)Archie Andrews, created in 1941 by Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, a long-run radio series, a syndicated comic strip and animation -- The Archie Show, a Saturday morning cartoon television series by Filmation, plus Archie's Weird Mysteries. Archie Andrews began on the Blue Network on May 31, 1943, switched to Mutual in 1944, and then continued on NBC from 1945 until September 5 1953. Archie was first played by Charles Mullen, Jack Grimes and Burt Boyar, with Bob Hastings as the title character during the NBC years.The sponsor was Swift Products. The Cast...2009-04-2029 min
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioDick Tracy - Ep71 ( 04-11-38) and Ep72 (04-12-38)Dick Tracy had a long run on radio, from 1934 weekdays on NBC's New England stations to the ABC network in 1948. Bob Burlen was the first radio Tracy in 1934, and others heard in the role during the 1930s and 1940s were Barry Thompson, Ned Wever and Matt Crowley. The early shows all had 15-minute episodes. On CBS, with Sterling Products as sponsor, the serial aired four times a week from February 4, 1935 to July 11, 1935, moving to Mutual from September 30, 1935 to March 24, 1937 with Bill McClintock doing the sound effects. NBC's weekday afternoon run from January 3, 1938 to April 28, 1939 had sound effects by...2009-03-1929 min
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioJeff Regan - 2 Episodes From 1948Jeff Regan Investigator was one of the three detective shows Jack Webb did before Dragnet (see also Pat Novak For Hire and Johnny Modero: Pier 23). It debuted on CBS in July 1948. Webb played JEFF REGAN, a tough private eye working in a Los Angeles investigation firm run by Anthony J. Lyon. Regan introduced himself on each show "I get ten a day and expenses...they call me the Lyon's Eye." The show was fairly well-plotted, Webb's voice was great, and the supporting cast were skillful. Regan handled rough assignments from Lion, with whom he was not always on...2009-03-161h 00
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioArchie Andrews "The Big Dance" (9-04-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodArchie Andrews, created in 1941 by Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, a long-run radio series, a syndicated comic strip and animation -- The Archie Show, a Saturday morning cartoon television series by Filmation, plus Archie's Weird Mysteries.Archie on radioMontana's characters were heard on radio in the early 1940s. Archie Andrews began on the Blue Network on May 31, 1943, switched to Mutual in 1944, and then continued on NBC from 1945 until September 5 1953. Archie was first played by Charles Mullen, Jack Grimes and Burt Boyar, with Bob Hastings as...2008-04-2830 minBoxcars711 Old Time RadioThe Adventures Of Philip Marlowe "The Dark Tunnel" (8-18-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodThe Adventures Of Philip Marlowe - The first portrayal of Phillip Marlowe on the radio was by Dick Powell, when he played Raymond Chandler's detective on the Lux Radio Theater on June 11, 1945. This was a radio adaptation of the 1944 movie, from RKO, in which Mr. Powell played the lead. Two years later, Van Heflin starred as Marlowe in a summer replacement series for the Bob Hope Show on NBC. This series ran for 13 shows. On September 26, 1948, Gerald Mohr became the third radio Marlowe, this time on CBS. It remained a CBS show through its last show in 1951.THIS E...2008-04-2629 minBoxcars711 Old Time RadioThe Adventures Of Dick Tracy "2 Episodes" (2-14-38) and (2-25-38) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio PodDick Tracy had a long run on radio, from 1934 weekdays on NBC's New England stations to the ABC network in 1948. Bob Burlen was the first radio Tracy in 1934, and others heard in the role during the 1930s and 1940s were Barry Thompson, Ned Wever and Matt Crowley. The early shows all had 15-minute episodes. On CBS, with Sterling Products as sponsor, the serial aired four times a week from February 4, 1935 to July 11, 1935, moving to Mutual from September 30, 1935 to March 24, 1937 with Bill McClintock doing the sound effects. NBC's weekday afternoon run from January 3, 1938 to April 28, 1939 had sound effects by Keene Crockett...2008-04-2229 min