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February 6th, 2012 
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Merry Christmas from the Pumpkin FM Old Time Radio Network
December 22nd, 2011 adminMay the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow, and may you continue to enjoy the golden memories of yesteryear today and in the future on the Pumpkin FM Old Time Radio Network Wishing all our listeners lots of joy, peace and happiness this Christmas and best wishes for [...]
Posted in American Comedy, British Comedy, Crime, Drama, OTR, Science Fiction, Westerns Tags: Christmas, Seasonal Greetings, Xmas No Comments »
Christmas on the Crime & Suspense Channel
December 20th, 2011 adminFull details of all our special Christmas programming: The British Comedy Channel | The American Comedy Channel | The Science Fiction Channel | The Drama & Western Channel | The Crime & Suspense Channel The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a series of radio dramas based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective Sherlock Holmes. Written [...]
Posted in Crime, OTR Tags: Andrew Sachs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bert Coules, Clive Merrison, Sherlock Holmes No Comments »
The Crime & Suspense Channel
September 3rd, 2011 adminBeing one of the most prolific categories during The Golden Age of Radio, the airwaves were stuffed full with detective, police and suspense stories – shows about licensed (and unlicensed) “private eyes”, insurance investigators, police detectives, amateur sleuths from little known characters such as Philo Vance to giant detective legends such as Sherlock Holmes. The [...]
Posted in Crime, OTR Tags: Broadway is my Beat, Crime, Crime & Suspense Channel, Detectives, Dragnet, Gangs, Jack Webb, Murder, Murder at Midnight, Police Stories, Suspense No Comments »
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe
June 12th, 2011 adminNero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created in 1934 by the American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe’s confidential assistant Archie Goodwin narrates the cases of the detective genius. In total, Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 short stories from 1934 to 1974, with most of them set in New York City. Wolfe’s residence, a luxurious [...]
Posted in Crime, OTR Tags: Archie, Brownstone, Luis Van Rooten, Mystery, NBC Blue, Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout, Santos Ortega, Sidney Greenstreet No Comments »
Boston Blackie – Friend to those who have no friend!
May 17th, 2011 adminBoston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (born before 1880; died circa 1928). Originally a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle’s novels, he became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television—an “enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend.” Jack Boyle’s stories [...]
Posted in Crime Tags: Boston Blackie, Crime, Detective, Farraday, Gumshoe, Jack Boyle, Maurice Tarplin, Mutual, NBC, Richard Kollmar, The American Magazine No Comments »
The Adventures of the Falcon
April 3rd, 2011 adminThe Falcon radio series premiered on the Blue Network on April 10, 1943, continuing on NBC and Mutual until November 27, 1954. Some 70 episodes were produced. “Drexel Drake” (a pseudonym of Charles H. Huff) created Michael Waring, alias the Falcon, a free-lance investigator and troubleshooter, in his 1936 novel, The Falcon’s Prey. It was [...]
Posted in Crime, OTR Tags: Blue Network, Crime, Detectives, Falcon, Les Tremayne, Michael Arlen, Old Time Radio, OTR, Suspense No Comments »
The Adventure of Sam Spade Detective
March 6th, 2011 adminSam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel The Maltese Falcon (1930) and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser known short stories by Hammett. The novel, first published as a serial in the pulp magazine Black Mask, is the only one [...]
Posted in Crime, OTR Tags: Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Detective Shows, Gumshoe, Howard Duff, Laureen Tuttle, Marlowe, Murder, Old Time Radio, OTR, Police, Sam Spade No Comments »
Dragnet
February 6th, 2011 adminThe original Dragnet started as a radio show in June 1949 and later transfered to television. A total of 314 original episodes were broadcast from 1949 through 1957. The series was broadcast on NBC and starred Jack Webb and Barton Yarborough as Friday’s first partner Sergeant Ben Romero. The show takes its name from [...]
Posted in Crime Tags: Crime, Detective Shows, Dragnet, Jack Webb, LAPD, Police Force, Suspense 1 Comment »The Black Museum Radio Series
November 20th, 2010 adminOpening in 1875, the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard is the oldest museum in the world purely for recording crime. The name “Black Museum” was coined in 1877 by a reporter from “The Observer”, a London newspaper, although the museum is still referred to as the Crime Museum. It is this museum that inspired The [...]
Posted in Crime, OTR Tags: Crime, Murder, Orson Welles, OTR, Police, Radio, Scotland Yard, shows No Comments »
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