The Good Old Days of Radio Show

Nov 19 2024 336 ep. 40 mins 15

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Legendary radio collector John Tefteller presents the best of mystery, comedy, horror, and adventure stories, produced by the greatest writers, directors, composers, and stars.

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Episode #336: Vincent Price Month: Duffy's Tavern

Nov 19 2024 32 mins

We are featuring actor Vincent Price all through the month of November. Of course, he is well-remembered today for being a spooky character in film, but that reputation began later in his career. Often people forget that he played all sorts of roles before he was typecast in the more grisly roles. Today we are bringing you a comedy show with Price as a guest, and here in '51, he wa

Episode #335: Vincent Price Month: The Undecided Molecule

Nov 14 2024 32 mins

We've featured some Norman Corwin dramas here in the past (links in the description). Corwin was particularly noted as one of radio's most literary figures. He was certainly known for some hard-hitters, but did some light scripts, such as this one. Of course, having a reputation to uphold, he could not settle for anything easy, and so you have the entire thing written in verse. The

Episode #334: Vincent Price Month: The Ghosts Who Came For Dinner

Nov 12 2024 32 mins

Author Leslie Charteris had a popular and long-running book series about a suave character named Simon Templar, nicknamed "The Saint." During a time when quirky literary detectives got a treatment on radio, "The Saint" had a brief run starring Vincent Price. Of course, any similarity between the Saint of the novels and radio was purely coincidental. But the dialogue was surprisingl

Episode #333: Vincent Price Month: Hunting Trip

Nov 07 2024 31 mins

November is Vincent Price month, featuring the astounding body of radio work from this beloved actor. This is Thursday, and as is our inclination, we feature slightly darker tales on Thursdays, and we don't have to look far to find a great mystery/horror story starring Vincent Price. This is a story of paranoia, as two old friends take a trip to an isolated cabin in the woods, with

Episode #332: Vincent Price Month: Mr. Shakespeare

Nov 05 2024 32 mins

All this month we are celebrating actor Vincent Price, featuring in particular his work on radio. As usual, we have done our best to select programs that show Price's range and versatility as a performer, so you will be hearing everything from horror to comedy to drama. Price's style often felt very classical, leading many to believe he was British. So for our debut, we are featuri

Episode #331: Halloween 1938: The War of the Worlds

Oct 31 2024 71 mins

This is a broadcast we've been avoiding on this podcast, since it's been overdone by just about every old time radio program in history. But there is still so much interest in this historic broadcast, especially among younger listeners, we caved. So here is the famous panic broadcast in which real people really believed that real Martians had landed in Grover's Mill, New Jersey, an

Episode #330: Creepy Comedies: Our Miss Brooks

Oct 29 2024 32 mins

This is the last Halloween-themed comedy show for now. Our Miss Brooks was a late-40s through 1950s classic sitcom that leaned heavily into character comedy. It was led by Eve Arden, who carried her persona of the wise-cracking character she developed in the movies, over to a high school English teacher, who was perpetually broke, ever pining for the reclusive biology teacher Phill

Episode #329: Pre-Halloween Show: My Son John

Oct 24 2024 32 mins

Well, our Carlton E. Morse series is wrapped up, and we are still one week away from our official Halloween show, so instead of starting something new, we are going to anticipate the dark and stormy night with this creepy little number from Wyllis Cooper. As usual, Quiet Please takes a little bit of figuring out ("are we listening to a comedy or a spoof?"). But this is one of John'

Episode #328: Creepy Comedies: Life With Luigi

Oct 22 2024 32 mins

J. Carrol Naish was one of the great dialect performers from vintage film and radio. For a brief period he became known for a well-written radio show from Si Howard, about a number of immigrants struggling to acclimate to American culture. As you might imagine, this gave the writers plenty of fodder to mock modern pop culture. This Halloween show came late in the show's run, when i

Episode #327: City of the Dead: Part 10

Oct 17 2024 29 mins

OK, we're here. Somehow we've survived our 10 week excursion through creepy, ghoulish happenings, disappearances, buried pearls, wandering phantoms, and lots and lots of weird noises. In this finale of "City of the Dead," Morse lays out in meticulous detail all of the explanations behind what was seen and heard in his cemetery. We will leave it to you, dear listener, as they did ba