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Host Adam Graham is your guide on this journey through the Man of Steel's Golden Ageadventures in Old TIme Radio. This looks like a job for Superman. From 1940-51, kids (and more than a few adults) thrilled to The Adventures of Superman which for most of its run featured Bud Collyer in his pioneering performance as Clark Kent and Superman.Over the course of time, Superman changed and grew. Join him as he faces all-comers from ordinary racketeers, bigots, spies to alien dictators, and even a Kryptonite-powered Nazi. Enjoy the first appearances of Jimmy Olsen and hear Superman and Batman ...

Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond was a British World War I veteran turned adventurer introduced in his eponymous novel in 1920. He quickly leaped to the stage and silent film, and then to a series of talking pictures released on both sides on the Atlantic. In the 1940s, Bulldog Drummond leaped radio in a series dedicated to telling the Drummond's American adventures. For eight years, listeners heard the distinctive sound of the foghorn announcing a new adventure with Bulldog Drummond as he battled the forces of evil with his friend and sidekick, Denny.Your host, Adam Graham is your guide ...

What do a Prohibition-era Speak-easy clarinetist, a boys school headmaster who looks like William Shakespeare, a piano player, and a criminologist have in common with tough cops, an assistant DA, private eyes, and defense attorneys? They're all among the forgotten detectives of old time radio. Join your host Adam Graham and rediscover these long-forgotten programs. Some of them may have aired for years, others for a single Summer, but all have left less than ten episodes behind. Together we'll take a listen to these obscure crime solvers.Note: This is part of the larger Great Detectives of Old...

Join host Adam Graham on two seperate journeys through Box 13, the series starring Alan Ladd as reprorter turned Mystery Writer Dan Holiday. Holiday's adventures begin as a result of a newspaper ad that reads, "Adventure wanted. Will go anywhere, will do anything." This podcast features every episode of Box 13 twice. First, originally podcast from 2009-2010 and then ten years later. Find out how our knowledge of some episodes have grown and how reactions to them have changed over the years.

Host Adam Graham presents the two Thin Man Movie adaptations done by the Lux Radio Theater starring William Powell as well as every complete circulating episode of the radio adventures of Nick and Nora Charles.

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio presents the adventures of several amateur gentleman detectives who solve crimes with their wits and for the thrill of it.A Life In Your HandsThe forgotten, underrated Erle Stanley Gardener-created radio series A Life in Your Hands remains a diamond in the rough. It was a summer replacement for NBC in four different seasons with three different actors playing the lead role.In many ways, it was a legal fantasy. Jonathan Kegg, a wealthy lawyer who was allowed to enter cases as amicus curiae, a friend of the court. He would enter the courtroom representing...

Join us as we journey into the radio adventures of Charlie Chan including serialized adventures and standalone shows.

Before Star Wars... before Star Trek… there were Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. These legendary space heroes captured imaginations across the globe with tales of rockets, ray guns, and far-off worlds—and in the 1930s, they blasted off from the comic strips into the airwaves in some of the earliest science fiction audio dramas ever produced.In this feed from The Great Adventures of Old Time Radio, host Adam Graham presents the surviving radio serial adventures of these two pioneers of planetary peril.First, journey with Flash Gordon launched into space by a paranoid scientist and ...

Enjoy some of the best radio detective programs of all time!This feed features thirty different detective episodes from twenty-five different programs. The Listener's Choice countdown was made in celebration of the tenth season of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. providing daily old time radio detective stories. Twenty-five episodes were chosen by listeners and five as wild cars by host Adam Graham.This is a sample of old time radio detective goodness. You can listen to any of these programs in our massive archive and also follow our main podcast feed for new episodes posted daily.

During Dick Powell's lengthy career, he had many stages. From the 1930s to 1944, he was known as a skilled singer and comic actor. He landed the film role Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, he starred in the first true hard-boiled Private Eye show Rogue's Gallery, and then he spent many years playing a variety of hard-boiled characters in Noir films. In many ways, Richard Diamond was a perfect marriage of the two halves of Powell's performing career before the next stage of Powell's career which saw him as a creative force behind programs such as the Zane Grey Theater.The series was ...

The basic facts of Holmes are well-known to nearly every literate person on the globe. He was the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and made appearances in fifty-six short stories and four novels. He solved cases from 221B Baker Street in London with the assistance of his faithful companion, Dr. Watson. Holmes became so popular that Doyle couldn’t get away with killing him.Holmes is one of the few true timeless characters in literature. His canonical adventures may have been set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but in the hands of a competent author, with a few modifications, ...

Major Joshua Speed has escaped our time back to his native 1950s, but the past ain't what it used to be. Alien invasions, costumed criminals, and Red martial artists dominate his days. He's beginning to wonder if something is very wrong with the world.

Why should Edmund be given the Talisman? Why should he have to give it away when the time comes? Edmund's story starts in the early '60s and tracks his life into the next century. Life-changing events occur to him that cannot be explained, except for the prophesy from that old woman! So many lives are changed when they contact Edmund, not all to the good!

Get ready for the first-ever snackable Old Time Radio podcast, featuring mostly obscure treasures from radio's golden age.Each week listen for a bite-sized sample of the Golden Age of Radio and journey back to the twentieth century. Gain keen insights into life in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s through short-form old-time radio programs including comedic moments, full-cast short audio dramas, stories from the greatest storytellers of the past, powerful dramatic readings, and even memorable old time radio ads.Unearth legends and rediscover those who have long been forgotten, all while ...

Ken Wayne stars as Larry Kent, an American reporter whose relocated to Australia and now acts as a hard-boiled private eye. Adam Graham is your guide through circulating episodes of this key Australian Detective series.

Adam Graham continues his journey through Old Time Radio Detective programs from their first available adventure to their final bow in Seasons 1-3 which were released between 2009 and 2012, featuring nearly 800 Old Time Radio episodes. You can listen to the current podcast feed of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio here.In this volume, you'll hear:Alan Ladd playing Dan Holiday, a reporter-mystery writer who will go anywhere and do anything to those who send him a letter to Box 13.Jack Webb as Pat Novak for Hire, a Man Who Rents Boats and also ends up getting involved in murders in the most...

Welcome to Rabbit Trails with Adam, Graham, and Lucy! This is a podcast where two friends talk about random topics and just see where the trails lead! What will they talk about next? Who knows!

This podcast features all available episodes of the 1955 radio series features Les Damon and later Mandell Kramer as Pat Abbott and Claudia Morgan as Jean Abbott. The podcast is hosted by Adam Graham who provides commentary on each episode.

Some called it, "Dragnet on Horseback." But this 1950-52 Old Time crime Series focused on the exploits of the Texas Rangers and provided keen insights into the work of one most storied police forces in the world and vital nature of their work investigating major crimes across the state of Texas, often operating hundreds of miles away from the metropolitan resources that other fictional lawmen enjoyed.Ranger Jayce Pearson (Joel McCrea) portrays the resourcefulness, and ingenuity of the Texas Rangers as he investigates everything from cattle theft, arson, robberies, and shocking murders in rural...

Host Adam Graham is your guide on two lesser-known series, both starring James Monks. In the Avenger, he plays a criminologist who can turn invisible when necessary. In I.A. Moto, he plays Mister Moto, who is this 1950s series is portrayed as a Japanese-American Crimefighter.