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Sherlock Holmes - The Crooked Man

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:00:01 EST

Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation. Colonel James Barclay is dead, apparently by violence, and his wife Nancy is the prime suspect.

Sherlock Holmes - The Devils Foot

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:00:01 EST

While on vacation Holmes is asked to investigate the bizarre death of family found stone dead while playing cards. Some theorize they died from sheer terror.....

Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Carbuncle

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:00:01 EST

Watson visits Holmes at Christmas time and finds him contemplating a battered old hat, brought to him by the commissionaire Peterson after it and a Christmas goose had been dropped by a man in a scuffle with some street ruffians. Peterson takes the goose home to eat it, but comes back later with a precious blue carbuncle. His wife had found it in the bird's crop.

Holmes cannot resist a good mystery, and he and Watson set out across the city to determine exactly how the stolen jewel wound up in a goose's crop.

X-1: Pictures Dont Lie

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:00:02 EST

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Sherlock Holmes - The Blanched Soldier

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:00:01 EST

A special episode narrated solely by Sherlock himself. Holmes tells the tale of Mr. James M. Dodd who came to see Holmes about a missing friend, Godfrey Emsworth. After years together in the service, Emsworth is wounded and disappears. After trying to track him down, Dodd eventually finds his friend but he is now a ghostly pale shell of his former friend......but why?

X-1: Chain of Command

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:00:01 EST

Sherlock Holmes - The Black Peter

Sun, 9 Dec 2007 19:00:01 EST

Captain Peter Carey is found harpooned to a wall. He was a most unpleasant man, especially when he was drunk. He had a reputation for being violent, even having been prosecuted once for assaulting the local vicar. His daughter is actually glad that he is dead. She and her mother have endured years of abuse from the old whaler and sealer, who moreover had some remarkably peculiar habits. He did not sleep in the family house, but in an outhouse that he built some distance from the house, and which he decorated to look like a sailor�s cabin on a ship. This is where he was found harpooned. No footprints or other physical evidence are to be found at the scene...

The Shadow - Murder By A Corpse

Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:00:01 EST

A woman's first husband returns from the dead to exact revenge in a scheme involving $50,000 in stolen bonds and a crooked psychiatrist,forcing The Shadow to unravel the truth!

Sherlock Holmes - The Beryl Coronet

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:00:01 EST

A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder of Streatham makes a loan of 50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves the Beryl Coronet � one of the most valuable public possessions in existence � as security. Holder feels that he must not leave this rare and precious piece of jewellery in his personal safe at the bank, and so he takes it home with him to lock it up there. He is awoken in the night by a noise, enters his dressing room, and is horrified to see his son Arthur with the coronet in his hands, apparently trying to bend it...

Sherlock Homes - A Study in Scarlet pt.3

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:00:01 EST

Lux Radio Theater - Leona's Room

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:00:02 EST

Story by Vincent Price.

Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet pts.1_2

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:00:03 EST

The first Sherlock story. Watson and Holmes meet and soon they embark on their first case together.

Suspense - Occurrence At Owl Creek

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:00:01 EST

�The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge� is an incredible powerful and suspense story; told of all fears of a young father coming to light as his life swings in and out of reality. Peyton Farquhar is being hanged at Owl Creek Bridge in Northern Alabama. The sergeant steps off of the plank keeping Peyton aloft and the story goes back in time to tell about Peyton and his family. All of the characters are the same but some of the aspects are slightly different or even completely opposite...

Inner Sanctum - Death for Sale

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:29:00 EST

This Inner Sanctum tale is about a life insurance scandal, a husband returning from the grave for only a short period to return with new friends, and best of all, back stabbing.

The Shadow - League of Terror

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:00:02 EST

Ray Bradbury - Off Season

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:00:01 EST

Sherlock Holmes - The Valley of Fear pt.3

Sun, 5 Nov 2006 19:00:01 EST

A coded warning sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to a country retreat, where they follow a perplexing trail of clues to unmask a murderer and to break the stranglehold of a terrorist cult.

In this, the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, Doyle is at his storytelling best.

Suspense - Zero Hour

Sun, 4 Nov 2007 19:00:01 EST

Tonight, Suspense brings you a repeat performance of one of the most controversial plays ever presented over your radio. It is called "Zero Hour" by Ray Bradbury.

Starring Miss Iza Ashdown, here is tonight's Suspense play, "Zero Hour."

Original Airdate: April 5th, 1955

Sherlock Holmes - The Valley of Fear pt.2

Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:04:34 EST

A coded warning sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to a country retreat, where they follow a perplexing trail of clues to unmask a murderer � and to break the stranglehold of a terrorist cult.

In this, the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, Doyle is at his storytelling best.

Sherlock Holmes - The Valley of Fear pt.1

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:00:01 EST

Dimension X - Beyond Infinity

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:00:01 EST

A scientist in Europe has invented a machine that will shrink objects to the size of atoms and beyond.

Weird Circle - Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:00:01 EST

The classic story about a scientist with a nasty split personality. A wonderfully creepy dramatization.

Lux Radio Theater - Gaslight

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:00:01 EST

Reinaction of the famous movie. Is a woman haunted by the spirit of her dead aunt? Or is it something far worse? Stars Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.

The Shadow - Friend Of Darkness

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:45:18 EST

Because of threats against his seeing eye dog, a blind man with a highly develped sense of touch is forced to help a gang of bank robbers.

Original Airdate: February 19th, 1939

Dimension X - Kaleidoscope

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:00:01 EST

A story about a space ship disaster that spews the crew out into space. The story was subsequently produced on Suspense on July 12, 1955.Story by Ray Bradbury.Original Airdate: September 15, 1951

Witch's Tale - The Devil's Number

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:00:01 EST

13 drops of blood is all it takes to make the dead return to life in a spooky old castle on Friday the 13th.

X-1: Venus is a Mans World

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:08:28 EST

Aboard a spaceship to Venus, a battle of the sexes fills the vacuum. The story was also used on Future Tense during July, 1976 and Audion Theatre on September 29, 1990.

Original Airdate: February 6, 1957

The Shadow - Poison Death

Sun, 8 Oct 2006 19:00:04 EST

A madman threatens to poison the entire city...and signs his threat..."The Shadow!"

Original Airdate: January 30, 1938

Suspense - The House in Cypress Canyon

Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:00:02 EST

There is something scary in the house....locked inside the closet!

Weird Circle - The Doll

Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:00:01 EST

A doll with a soul let out of a bottle will kill for jewels.

Lux Radio Theater - The Wizard of Oz

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:00:01 EST

The classic! Complete with flying monkeys, witches, freaky forrest, and, of course, the Wizard.

Isaac Asimov - It's Such A Beautiful Day (2 Of 2)

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:28:25 EST

Isaac Asimov - It's Such A Beautiful Day (1 of 2)

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:00:02 EST

The Price of Fear - An Eye for an Eye

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:00:02 EST

A chef creates a fantastic new dish, live octopus. Unfortunately, revenge is on the dessert menu. Starring and hosted by Vincent Price.

The Shadow - Revenge Is Murder

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:00:03 EST

After a diamond robbery goes awry, the Shadow must try to prevent a dead man from killing his treacherous compatriots.

The Screen Directors' Playhouse - The Uninvited

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:00:01 EST

Radio adaptation of the classic ghost story film. Stars Ray Milland.

The Shadow - Ring Of Mahlalayee

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:00:04 EST

While on vacation in Hawaii, Lamont and Margo encounter evil at a mysterious hotel...Two criminals try to trick their native accomplice out of his share of the loot by concocting a story that a cheap ring will control Mahlalayee, a powerful dwarf god. The plot thickens when the wishes made upon the ring start to come true.

Commercials for healthful Blue Coal.

Original air date 3/13/49

Weird Circle - The Werewolf

Sun, 9 Sep 2007 19:00:02 EST

A boy discovers the terrible truth about his strange new stepmother.

X-1: The Lifeboat Mutiny

Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:00:03 EST

A rescue vessel has been programmed to protect its occupants...the soldiers of Drome...have some Geezel? A great show!

Original Airdate: September 11, 1956

Lux Radio Theater - The Day The Earth Stood Still

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:00:01 EST

The scifi classic, reinacted for radio. Paul Frees (famous voice over artist) acts as narrator.

The Shadow - Society of the Living Dead

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:00:02 EST

The Shadow finds a connection between the shocking suicide of his broker and a criminal group creating false passports for foreign spies. Can The Shadow solve the crime and help an innocent man escape death?

Commercials for Blue Coal.

Suspense - Donovan's Brain

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:00:02 EST

An evil man's brain is kept alive by a well meaning scientist. Yes, the classic tale.

X-1: The Snowball Effect

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:00:02 EST

A funny story about a sociological experiment that leads to a world government.

Original Airdate: August 14, 1956

Lux Radio Theater - Sorry Wrong Number

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:00:02 EST

Adaptation of the movie, originaly adapted from another radio show, "Suspense". Stars Barbara Stanwyck.

X-1: The Last Martian

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:40:44 EST

After an epidemic which caused the extinction of life on Mars, a Martian finds himself on Earth living in a human body.Very amusing, with a twist at the end.

X-1: Student Body

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:00:01 EST

A small animal on a far planet is most adaptable, eating almost anything in sight. Then the mice disappear, eventually being replaced by something much better!

Original Airdate: July 31, 1956

Dimension X - The Green Hills of Earth

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:00:01 EST

Account of blind singer of the space ways that wants to return to Earth. Tom Glazer put the words to tunes and was backed by a trio in this production.

X-1: The Old Die Rich

Sun, 6 Aug 2006 19:00:01 EST

A story about the old people who starve to death with thousands of dollars in their pockets! The script was used previously on "X Minus One" on July 17, 1956 and subsequently on "Future Tense" on May 7, 1974 and "Audion Theatre" on July 21, 1990.

Original Airdate: September 12, 1957

Dimension X - Hello Tomorrow

Sun, 5 Aug 2007 19:00:02 EST

The tale takes place in the fourth millennium, long after the atomic wars have ravaged the surface back in the second millennium. In the subterranean society, the atomic mutants are outcasts and the genetically pure human strains mate scientifically.

X-1: The Stars Are the Styx

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:00:01 EST

Young Tween is stuck on a space station, waiting for her chance to leave for the stars. Her problem? She's an albino!

Original Airdate: July 24th, 1956

Orson The Alien!

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:00:02 EST

Seeing Ear Theatre pays homage to the wicked imagination of Welles and company with an alternate history of the series of events that transpired that magical night so long ago. Seeing Ear Theatre asks, what if intelligences greater than our own were indeed listening that night, from beyond our Milky Way� and what if they too believed the broadcasts to be authentic, what if they were good and honest aliens, what if they felt obliged to travel to Earth to help save us from the dreaded Martians� what then, Orson? Listen to the Original War of the Worlds here

Inner Sanctum - Corpse For Halloween

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:23:23 EST

A tiger hunt...in the jungles of New York City!

Original Airdate: October 31, 1949

Dimension X - Report on the Barnhouse Effect

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:00:02 EST

"Report on the Barnhouse Effect" is based on a Kurt Vonnegut story originally published in Collier's Weekly in 1950.

The story is reprinted in the Vonnegut collection _Welcome to the Monkey House_.(ISBN: 0385333501)

Suspense - The Dunwich Horror

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:00:01 EST

The classic H.P. Lovecraft tale.

Dimension X - Martian Chronicles

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:00:01 EST

One of Bradbury's most elliptical narratives, the Martian Chronicles teases its audience with plays on narrative voice and credibilty, weaving a kind of ghost story in which the audience is never quite sure whether the ghosts, the ghosts of Martians, or the Martians themselves are real or are the product of isolated explorers unmoored from Earth-ly ties.

Suspense - A Most Dangerous Game

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:00:02 EST

A man is stranded on an island which happens to the home of a most eccentric hunter. Stars Orson Welles.

Dimension X - Time And Time Again

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:56:20 EST

A thirteen year old boy wakes up with memories of his future. Will his father be able to prevent the inevitable?

Great episode!

X-1: Protective Mimicry

Sun, 9 Jul 2006 00:53:33 EST

This story is based on a short story by Algys Budrys. The story follows an investigator tracking down a counterfeit operation well in the future.

The Shadow - Hypnotic Death

Sun, 9 Jul 2006 00:54:56 EST

Lamont becomes witness to murder disguised as a traffic accident which leads him into a deadly showdown with an enemy with even greater mental powers than The Shadow!

The Shadow - Horror In Wax

Sun, 9 Jul 2006 04:12:56 EST

The Police Commissioner plays a trick on The Shadow by having him investigate the "death" of a wax figure. The joke is on the Commissioner when The Shadow discovers someone can not only turn people into wax figures, but he can return to them to life!
Original air date 2/26/39

Inner Sanctum - Death Is A Joker

Sun, 9 Jul 2006 19:00:03 EST

Peter Lorre introduces "Raymond," who introduces a rebroadcast of "Inner Sanctum," starring Peter Lorre. A small ugly man commits a needless murder for love.

Original Airdate: June 10, 1944

Lights Out - The Dark

Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:00:01 EST

A weird "creeping darkness" turns people inside out.

X-1: Colony

Sun, 2 Jul 2006 19:00:01 EST

This story is based on Colony by Phillip K. Dick. It is an outstanding Sci-fi short story about an exploratory survey ship evaluating an Earthlike planet for colonization. Everything looks like paradise until the Biologist is unexpectedly attacked....

Mysterious Traveler - Death is the Visitor

Sun, 1 Jul 2007 19:00:01 EST

A man murders his mother in law, only to have her return, again and again!

X-1: Soldier Boy

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:00:01 EST

After 500 years of peace the armies of the earthlings is just of group of misfits and drunks. Equipment stinks and no one knows how to fight anymore. The fleet is decimated. When alien invasion of the rim colonies looms the decision is to have them evacuate, no defence is planned. Our hero is ordered to notifiy the colonies. He rises to the occasion when the colony he is on is attacked. He catches an alien and that leads to saftey for all earthlings.
Really great acting, story is great to a point. It should be a serial but by the time it was produced radio plays were dying, no sponsers could be found and the network was the only support.

Lux Radio Theater - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:00:02 EST

Radio adaptation of the classic ghost tale. Stars Charles Boyer.

The Shadow - Joeys Christmas Story

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:00:02 EST

A heartwarming Christmas adventure in which Lamont and Margot bring a little Christmas cheer to a newsboy and his impoverished family.

Original Airdate: December 22nd, 1940

Lux Radio Theater - The Canterville Ghost

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:00:01 EST

Radio adaptation of the classic. Stars Charles Laughton and Margaret O'Brien.

Dimension X - Potters Of Firsk

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:00:01 EST

Michael Tom is 2nd in command under a very strict government official who runs the planet. He is puzzled about the potters who take the dead and sometimes the living to their camp.

Lux Radio Theater - The Phantom of the Opera

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:00:02 EST

The classic.

Dimension X - Requiem

Sun, 4 Jun 2006 19:00:04 EST

"The Man Who Sold The Moon" is now old and wants to finally go to the moon. He was never healthy enough to go even as a younger man, but now he wants to die trying. He finds a washed up moon shuttle captain at a carnival and sells all of his assets to have them take him to the moon, no matter what. "DB" still fights the the money hungry from stopping his trip to the moon.

Same old plot from the Heinlien story plus 50 years.

This copy is just so so sound wise, especially at the begining.
It is not complete, the ending is missing and it has no commercials. 23 min 28 secs

Creaking Door - Cat's Whiskers

Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:00:01 EST

The strange tale of a woman becoming a cat. Great ending. Creepy!

The Shadow - Werewolf Of Hamilton Mansion

Sun, 28 May 2006 19:00:01 EST

A mysterious case of mutilations and an old friend's desperate plea lure Lamont and Margot into a murder case. Could the killings really be caused by a werewolf-or something more human?

Weird Circle - The Ghost's Touch

Sun, 27 May 2007 19:00:02 EST

A woman's scientist relative invents a serum that causes people to become impervious to pain, but the ghost of her dead fiance interferes.

X-1: Honeymoon in Hell

Sun, 21 May 2006 04:40:03 EST

It is the future and the Earth is in the midst of a crisis. There is a shortage of males being born every year. In an attempt to rectify this 'crisis' American and Soviet scientists join forces to try to conceive a male child on the moon.

Original Airdate: December 26th, 1956

X-1: The Reluctant Heros

Sun, 21 May 2006 19:00:04 EST

Chapman is finishing his three-year stint on the moon and is ready to return to Earth. But his experience is needed and he is asked to be a hero and stay for 18 months longer.Good acting by Mandel Kramer as Chapman and a good story by Frank M. Robinson.Original Airdate: December 19th, 1956

Weird Circle - The Wooden Ghost

Sun, 20 May 2007 19:00:01 EST

A 300 year old ghost seeks to hear three words that will set him free.

X-1: The Moon is Green

Thu, 18 May 2006 18:21:53 EST

After the next atomic war in the U.S. A lead shield keeps people secure from the radiation, and they can't see the moon. The conflict: A couple argue. The obstinant man says they must stay inside. The weepy woman wants to go and see the "outsiders". While her husband is gone to a meeting, the woman opens the shield while her husband is gone. The man, Patrick, describes how wonderful it is outside. Or is it? The outside children have 7 fingers and 8 toes.

Original Airdate: January 2nd, 1957

X-1: The Girls from Earth

Tue, 16 May 2006 01:22:54 EST

Story By Frank M. Robinson
Mike McDonnel and Charlie Dougle are broke on mars, and finding that they can't pay for the meal. So, they invite a geologist who pays for they're meal. After that they find that there are no girls on mars, thn Mike gets an idea.

X-1: Saucer of Loneliness

Tue, 16 May 2006 01:45:51 EST

A woman has heard, and understood, messages from a flying saucer. But she refuses to say what the message was. She's imprisoned, rejected, and ridiculed, but she still refuses to say what the alien space ship told her.

This is a very emotional story by Theordore Sturgeon.

Original Airdate: January 9th, 1957

X-1: Open Warfare

Sun, 14 May 2006 19:00:04 EST

My favorite X-1 episode where Jim Pearson bet Sam Hatcher that he could make $50,000 in a year. If he doesn't, he cant see Mr. Hatcher's daughter. To Prevent Jim Pearson from winning $25,000 in the U.S. Open, Sam Hatcher puts in his own entry, "Silent" Saul. After that, the game gets interesting.

Weird Circle - Mad Monkton

Sun, 13 May 2007 19:00:01 EST

A man goes in search of his uncle's dead body, coffin in tow, to end a family curse.

The Shadow - Silent Avenger

Sun, 7 May 2006 19:00:01 EST

When a convict is about to be executed, he calls upon his brother - a shell-shocked war sniper - to carry out a series of vengeance slayings against the people who have wronged him. It's up to the Shadow to stop a killer who can hide in plain sight before he claims another victim.

Escape - The Birds

Sun, 6 May 2007 19:00:02 EST

Based on the same story as the Alfred Hitchcock film.

The Shadow - Sabotage

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:18:13 EST

A series of explosions aboard Navy ships puts The Shadow on the trail of a Deadly Doctor with a prescription for sabotage!

Dimension X - Shanghaied

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:05:14 EST

It's his wedding day and our hero is Shanghaied. He's hoping it's just a trick his buddy's have pulled on him but he's actually kidnapped to work on the spaceship on a 15 year journey. Can the rich young man bribe his way out or threaten with the authority of his father?

Inner Sanctum - The Wailing Wall

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:00:02 EST

A man walls-in his wife, but continues to hear her moans for years.

Inner Sanctum - Deadly Fare

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:30:00 EST

A cabby picks up a killer, then watches him murder two more people and stuff their bodies in the cab's trunk!

Original Airdate: July 18, 1949

1984 - George Orwell

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:00:05 EST

A 1949 NBC radio adaptation of George Orwell�s classicStarring David NivenOriginally broadcasted as programme number 55 on August 27, 1949 at 9 p.m. as a one-hour production over the N.B.C. radio network as part of the N.B.C. University Theater, which adapted the world�s great novels for broadcast.�Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.�

The Shadow - The Drum of Obi

Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:06:15 EST

A man orders a coffin and then walks straight into a car accident. Is it the curse of Obi, the power of suggestion, or something more mundane and criminal?

Original Airdate: October 24th, 1948

Suspense - Three Skeleton Key

Sun, 8 Apr 2007 19:00:09 EST

Men are trapped in a lighthouse by malicious rats. Stars Vincent Price.

Dimension X - Untitled Story

Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:46:07 EST

A private eye is hired by the city mayor to obtain an elixir of life from an enigmatic scientist. His investigation reveals a strange conspiracy that could have serious repercussions for the future of humanity...

Original Airdate: August 23rd, 1951

Suspense - Fugue in C Minor

Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:00:02 EST

Haunting tale featuring a pipe organ that plays itself. Starring Vincent Price.

Inner Sanctum - Birdsong for a Murderer

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:46:49 EST

A former employee of a local lunatic asylum tries his hand at a little blackmail and gets a knife in his throat for his trouble. The only clue seems to be the singing parakeet mysteriously left by the murderer. Starring Boris Karloff as Karl.

Supense - The Pit and The Pendulum

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:00:02 EST

The classic E. A Poe tale, starring Vincent Price.

The Shadow - Night Without End

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:45:58 EST

An extortionist obtains a smog-making machine and uses it to engulf the city in darkness. He demands to be paid five million dollars or he'll throw something toxic in the mix.

Neil Gaiman: Murder Mysteries - pt.2

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:00:05 EST

In Heaven�s City of Angels before the fall, the first Crime has been committed: an angel has been murdered. While the angelic hosts labor to create the universe, one of their numbers is mysteriously slain by one of their own. Raguel, Angel of Vengeance, is commanded to discover both motive and murderer� while in contemporary Los Angeles; an Englishman learns a dark story of love and consequences.

The Shadow - Phantom Fingerprints

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:40:15 EST

A veteran medical examiner is found murdered in his office and the only lead are the fresh prints of a knife thrower who was executed for murder several years back.

Original Airdate: October 29th, 1939.

Neil Gaiman: Murder Mysteries - pt.1

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:00:03 EST

X-1: Bad Medicine

Sun, 5 Mar 2006 16:48:30 EST

It's May 2103, and Elwood Casswell admits he's a homicidal maniac with a gun in his pocket. Fortunately, times have advanced. You can go to the local hardware store and by a psychiatrist robot. But unfortunately for old Elwood, he buys the floor model which is meant for psychotic Martians. The machine uses Martian terms and language to cure Elwood but for the psychological problems of Martians.

Original Airdate: July 10th, 1956

A Clockwork Orange - pt4

Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:00:01 EST

X-1: Marionettes Incorporated

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:28:00 EST

Originally written by Ray Bardbury, this is a fun short about Charles Brailing - a husband looking to get away from his wife for a vacation who purchases a robot duplicate of himself to take his place. But what happens when the robot likes his new life????Original airdate: December 21st, 1955

A Clockwork Orange - pt3

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:00:01 EST

Love to do a synopsis, except iTunes can't download the file to my ipod!! Same for the last 2 episodes -->THIS HAS NOW BEEN RESOLVED. THANKS FOR THE TIP.

The Shadow - Dream of Death

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:05:37 EST

A young widow has nightmares that her recently departed husband has returned from the dead. When strange occurrences start to happen, is it truly a visitor from beyond the Grave, or something more down to earth?

A Clockwork Orange - pt2

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:00:02 EST

Suspense - The Locked Room

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:08:48 EST

A man presumably killed for the diamond he had recently acquired presents the characters with a classic Locked Room ScenarioTM. Starring Virginia Bruce.

A Clockwork Orange - pt1

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:00:04 EST

A BBC Radio 4 dramatization of Anthony Burgess�s novel

Starring Jason Hughes & Jack Devenport

A Radio 4 dramatization of Anthony Burgess�s novel which became a controversial film in the 1970s. In a nightmare world of the near future, packs of teenagers run wild, beyond the control of their families or the police. Alex is a gang-leader, addicted to drug-fuelled assault, torture and rape.

The Shadow - Death Stalks the Shadow

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:22:00 EST

A young man's Death Row confession puts The Shadow on the trail of a murderous crimelord who uses modern technology in his attempt to kill The Shadow.

Dimension X - First Contact

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:00:19 EST

Two spaceships meet for the first time - one of the ships is from Earth, the other from another planet. The first contact goes well, except that neither ship can leave first because they are afraid the other will follow them back to conquer their home planets. A rare tale where the Aliens are scared of the humans!Story by Murray Leinster.

X-1: Surface Tension

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:38:12 EST

This week's show is an excellent story about scientists developing a microscopic race of humans as the Earth prepares to be destroyed by an expanding star. The microscopic humans try to go through the surface with a diatom powered vesse.l

Great philosophical overtones in this story by James Blis.

Dimension X - The Veldt

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:47:36 EST

A family buys the ultimate modern house. All the gadgets are meant to make life easier for the family: no more cooking, ironing, housework or baby sitting...the nursery fulfills the children most hidden dreams...will mum and dad will be able to stop them?

The end has not been cut off...you will draw your own conclusions...enjoy this tale of the unexpected!

Originally broadcast on September 8, 1951 this play is based on a short story by Ray Bradbury.

Inner Sanctum - Beneficiary -- Death

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:03:29 EST

A man fakes his death to collect the insurance money but his wife proves to be an unwilling participant in the scheme.

Sherlock Holmes - The Engineer's Thumb

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:00:05 EST

Watson is awoken to tend a patient who has had his thumb cut clean off. While dressing the wound, the patient tells the story of how he was visited in his office by an odd, suspicious man who identifies himself as Colonel Lysander Stark and offered the young engineer a lucrative pay for a seemingly simply job....oh how awry things can go!

Skeleton - Ray Bradbury

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:03:16 EST

Sometimes I'm aware of what's inside--I walk around in aging skin and suddenly it seems I'm socket-eyed, a thing of bones, a creaking Halloween skeleton whose flesh is shed.

Alas, I'm Yorick or some other skull no one talks to, or a heap of calcium too ancient to appall deep in a Catacomb where beetles creep and rats squeak on a seeping wall.

Or maybe in a classroom there I am teaching tomorrow's medics what, with toothy mandible and ilium, coccyx, sacrum, pubis, shoulder joint, remains when all is said and done.

My rattling ribs will be a xylophone, my radius could beat a drum, my underface might grace a tube of poison--Beware Beware or here's what you'll become, a ghoul that's not like anyone, which you will anyway some now or then, as if your body's sunken down and down and down and drowning in a fen until what's left of you can't smile or frown but only shows a gruesome grin.

Poe's Red Death that's dancing in a mask, if fleshless vertebras could dance, you'll be a thing past slow or fast, a symbol of the innerness that haunts us even when we're at our best.

I'm not yet in a closet chained and swaying or snowy in the desert heat; though such grim images may be dismaying, as long as my unquiet heart can beat I'll fight the thought that I'm decaying.

Amen, so be it, let the music vary from somber tunes by Baudelaire to livelier airs by Ray Bradbury, who knows the score but doesn't quite despair--much horror is imaginary.

Sherlock Holmes - The Dying Detective

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:00:01 EST

Dr. Watson is called to 221B Baker Street to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare Asian disease contracted while he was on a case at Rotherhithe. Watson is shocked, having heard nothing about his friend�s illness. Mrs. Hudson says that he has neither eaten nor drunk in three days and is on the verge of dying...

Sherlock Holmes - The Dancing Men

Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:00:01 EST

Mr. Hilton Cubitt of Ridling Thorpe Manor in Norfolk comes to Sherlock with the above drawing of little dancing men. The little dancing men are at the heart of a mystery which seems to be driving his young wife Elsie to distraction. The trouble began when Elsie received a letter from the United States, which evidently disturbed her, and she threw the letter on the fire. Then the dancing men appeared, sometimes on a piece of paper left on the sundial overnight, sometimes scrawled in chalk on a wall or door, even a windowsill. Each time, their appearance has an obvious, terrifying effect on Elsie, but she will not tell her husband what is going on.