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The Twilight Zone is a nationally syndicated radio drama series featuring radio play adaptations of the classic 1959–1964 television series The Twilight Zone. The series was produced for the British digital radio station BBC Radio 4 Extra airing for 176 episodes between October 2002 and 2012. In the United States, it aired on nearly 200 radio stations including WCCO, KSL, KOA, WIND, XM Satellite Radio channel 163 and Sirius XM Book Radio.Most of the stations aired two episodes each week, usually on the weekends and many times back to back.Many of the stories are based on Rod Serling's ...

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.At age 21, Welles was directing high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project in New York City—starting with a celebrated 1936 adaptation of Macbeth with an African-American cast, and ending with the controversial labor opera The Cradle Will Rock in 1937. He and John Houseman then founded the Mercury Theatre...

Presented on this page are episodes of British radio comedy shows which the BBC has banned or censored during the 21st Century culture wars, for allegedly being politically incorrect.The recordings included here are the complete original broadcasts of the episodes concerned, presented as they were first broadcast, before any cuts were made for political reasons. Many of the episodes are rare, since they are no longer broadcast, having been banned by the BBC.Additional shows are being banned and cut all the time. So I will be adding new recordings to this page from time to time, where ...

Macabre was a horror radio series that aired in 1961 and 1962. The show was produced by the Far East Network (FEN) of the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS). How it came aboutMacabre was the result of a contest between the FEN and the AFRS in Germany. The FEN won the contest and the show aired worldwide. What it was aboutMacabre was a supernatural and spooky series based on novels and short stories. The show was written and directed by William Verdier, who also starred in the series. What's notable*The first show in the series was called "Final Resting Place".*The show was well-written ...

Beyond Midnight was a South African radio horror anthology series that ran from 1968 to 1970 on Springbok Radio. The program "was a replacement series for SF'68. Michael McCabe served as producer, and adapted stories for both series. Unlike its sci-fi predecessor, Beyond Midnight served up stories with a supernatural bent."[1] The show was sponsored by Biotex and featured the tagline "Just Soak, Just Soak, Just Soak in Biotex."

The Burkiss Way is a BBC Radio 4 sketch comedy series, originally broadcast between August 1976 and November 1980. It was written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, with additional material in series 1 and 2 by John Mason, Colin Bostock-Smith, Douglas Adams, John Lloyd, Tom Magee Englefield and Liz Pollock.The first series of the show starred Denise Coffey, Chris Emmett, Nigel Rees and Fred Harris. From series 2 onwards the show starred Jo Kendall, Chris Emmett, Nigel Rees and Fred Harris. The series had three producers, announced as "Simon Brett of Stepney", "John Lloyd...

There was a radio show called Thriller Playhouse that featured classic thrillers. There was also an American radio and TV series called Starring Boris Karloff that was similar to Thriller. ExplanationThriller PlayhouseA radio program that featured classic thrillers, including Murder in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe Starring Boris KarloffAn American radio and TV anthology series that aired on ABC in 1949 The show featured Boris Karloff as the host and occasional star The series adapted short stories of mystery and suspense

Olmsted's appearances during the era of live television began in 1950 with The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre and Lights Out, followed by Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951). The Philco Television Playhouse (1951–52), Kraft Television Theatre (1951–52), Tales of Tomorrow (1952), Hallmark Hall of Fame (1952), Goodyear Television Playhouse (1953), Robert Montgomery Presents (1953–54), Studio One (1954–55), The Phil Silvers Show (1955-59) and NBC Sunday Showcase (1959).Nelson Olmsted narrated and acted in over 150 episodes of the Ohio Story television series. Image ...

Under Arrest was a fictional radio drama about crime and detection that aired in the 1940s. It was a summer replacement series for The Shadow in 1946 and 1947. What was it about?Under Arrest was a modern drama set in 1948. It starred Craig McDonnell as Police Captain John Drake. When did it air?Under Arrest aired in the 1940s, a year before the more well-known radio show Dragnet. Who starred in it?Under Arrest starred Craig McDonnell as Police Captain John Drake.

1951 Private Detective stories starring British Actor Rex Harrison as Rex Saunders, a gentleman detective.

True Detective Mysteries radio series was based on the "True Detective magazine. Later it was sponsored by Listerine and Oh Henry Candy, but kept the same name. Each week the show presented the "case history of an actual crime. Many were told from the criminal's point of view.

Nelson Olmsted was one of the last great radio horror performers. Born Leroy Nelson Olmsted, Jr. on January 28, 1914 in Minnesota, he was raised in Texas, where he became an announcer for local radio stations. For the album notes on his Sleep No More album, he offered a bit of biography:“By the time I moved to WBAP in Ft. Worth... the announcer's life seemed endlessly sterile.What to do about it? Dramatic shows cost money and there were no budgets. The cheapest drama for radio I could think of was good literature, read aloud. Especially the work of that great dramatist who never wrote a play...

Blackstone, the Magic Detective was a 15-minute radio series based on Elmer Cecil Stoner's comic book series Blackstone, Master Magician. The program aired Sunday afternoons at 2:45pm on the Mutual Broadcasting System from October 3, 1948, until March 26, 1950.Radio.Starring Edwin Jerome as "the world's greatest living magician," the radio series was based on real-life magician Harry Blackstone, Sr.The series was announced by Don Hancock from October 1948 through June 1949, and Alan Kent from July 1949 through to the end of the series in March, 1950. The background organ music was ...

"The Haunted Crossroads" was a horror radio show that aired in 1932, likely as part of a larger series called "The Witch's Tale" which was known for its spooky, supernatural stories; "The Haunted Crossroads" would have been one episode within that series, featuring a narrative centered around a haunted intersection. Key points about "The Haunted Crossroads":Part of "The Witch's Tale":This episode was most likely part of the "The Witch's Tale" radio show, which ran from 1931 to 1938 and was known for its eerie, supernatural themes.Genre:Horror fiction, focusing on a spooky story centered ...

The English-language propaganda radio programme Germany Calling was broadcast to audiences in the United Kingdom on the medium wave station Reichssender Hamburg and by shortwave to the United States. The programme began on 18 September 1939 and continued until 30 April 1945, when the British Army overran Hamburg. The next scheduled broadcast was made by Horst Pinschewer (also known as Geoffrey Perry), a German-Jewish refugee serving in the British Army who announced the British takeover. Pinschewer was later responsible for the capture of William Joyce.Through such broadcasts, the ...

Bogart began acting in Broadway shows. Debuting in film in The Dancing Town (1928), he appeared in supporting roles for more than a decade, regularly portraying gangsters. He was praised for his work as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936). Bogart also received positive reviews for his performance as gangster Hugh "Baby Face" Martin in William Wyler's Dead End (1937).His breakthrough came in High Sierra (1941), and he catapulted to stardom as the lead in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered one of the first great noir films.[4] Bogart's private detectives,...

Frankenstein is a frame story written in epistolary form. Set in the 18th century, it documents a fictional correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville.Captain Walton introductory narrativeCaptain Walton is a failed writer who sets out to explore the North Pole in hopes of expanding scientific knowledge. After departing from Archangel, the ship is trapped by pack ice on the journey across the Arctic Ocean. During this time, the crew spots a dog sled driven by a gigantic figure. A few hours later, the ice splits apart, freeing the ship, and the...

This series, "the longest-running cooking program on radio," began November 7, 1933 on CBS and concluded October 9, 1954 on NBC. The CBS episodes were initially fifteen minutes long and devoted to cooking tips and recipes. Before the show switched to NBC in 1948, it had expanded to thirty minutes, and there it became part of the "NBC Saturday morning parade of stars". The new version, introduced informally by the announcer as "Mary Lee on NBC," was an unusual but effective generic hybrid. Each episode begins with "The Story of the Week", a light domestic drama about fifteen minutes in length ...

For his entire life though, Welles's obsession was Shakespeare. He produced and starred in Shakespeare plays on Broadway and directed and starred in multiple versions of Shakespeare's work on film, including Chimes at Midnight.

The True Adventures of Junior G-Men was a radio show that featured true crime stories from the FBI. The show was hosted and produced by Melvin Purvis, a former FBI agent who later became a Hollywood star. The Junior G-Men was a program that was part of a larger "war on crime" campaign that was promoted by the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover. The program was designed to give boys a sense of participating in the adult world of crime-fighting. The Junior G-Men clubs were supported by police departments and non-profit organizations, and their activities were intended to instill law-abiding attitudes ...