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Decoder Ring Theatre

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Decoder Ring Theatre presents new stories and characters inspired by the classic broadcasts of the Golden Age of Radio. The crimebusting exploits of The Red Panda - Canada's Greatest Superhero! The mystery of that hardest-boiled of detectives, Black Jack Justice... all this and more in full-length, full-cast recordings.

Episodes

Red Panda Adventures (48) - Operation: Cold Feet

As the big day approaches, strange things are afoot in the city. Our heroes are being sighted in places that their mild-mannered secret identities have no memory of ever being. Old friends and old enemies alike will clash in pursuit of... Operation: Cold Feet !

May 15, 200927 min

Red Panda Adventures (47) - The Endgame

For years now, a shadowy organization has targeted the city and its citizens. Time after time the Terrific Twosome has defeated their most diabolical efforts and time after time the Syndicate has risen from the ashes, changed its stripes and begun it's campaign of terror anew. Who would have thought that the worst thing they could possibly do was give up? Will anything be left standing after we enter.... The Endgame ?

May 01, 200927 min

Red Panda Adventures (46) The Crimson Death

Three members of the Sanitarium Board of Directors have met an untimely end, each apparently at the hands of a different super-powered villain. But since all three supposed killers were under lock and key, there must be more to the Madhouse Murders than meets the eye. Can the Red Panda stop the spread of... The Crimson Death ?

Apr 17, 200927 min

Red Panda Adventures (45) - Jungle of Terror

When an emergency message arrives from an old friend from half a world away, the Terrific Twosome of Toronto race against time to reach the savage beauty of the Amazon. But will they reach the downed aviator in time, or are they destined to share his doom in the Jungle of Terror ?

Apr 03, 200929 min

Red Panda Adventures (44) - I Dream of Genies

Even the self-professed World's Greatest Criminal Mastermind can get a little predictable. The Genie has hatched plots, capers and fiendish plans in his day, and The Red Panda has outsmarted him every time. But if he ever cut loose and went on an honest-to-goodness crime spree, would there be anything or anyone that could stand in his way... except perhaps himself?

Mar 21, 200927 min

Red Panda Adventures (43) - The Golden Idol

A darkened street, a cry for help and a courageous rescue by... by a super-powered flying man in a bright yellow cape? This can't be good. Will a certain two-fisted mystery man learn to share his city with high-powered interlopers, or is a showdown at hand? What will happen when the city comes to worship... The Golden Idol ?

Mar 06, 200927 min

Black Jack Justice (30) - Now Who's The Dummy?

The life of a private detective is one that tends to keep a fella behind the times. After all, if you're sitting on top of the world, you rarely find yourself in need of a pair of low-rent gumshoes. Sometimes a little nostalgia isn't a bad thing... and sometimes the line between reality and anything-but is paper thin. Those are the days that leave a fella asking... Now Who's The Dummy?

Feb 20, 200923 min

Black Jack Justice (29) The Problem of the Perplexing Pastiche

Two solid days of surveillance can take it out of anybody. Two nights without sleep and things don't make a lot of sense. But when Trixie Dixon, Girl Detective starts mixing her metaphors with Trixia Dixon, Lady Consulting Detective Extraordinaire... well that can't be good, can it?

Feb 06, 200928 min

Black Jack Justice (28) - No News is Good News

If there's one thing worse than not having one of your best sources at your beck and call, it's never having him again because he went and got dead. With a client yapping at their heels, a word from Mike Rogers, crime reporter for the gazette, could make all the difference. But when the newshound pulls a disappearing act, Jack and Trixie can only hope that it's a case of... No News is Good News

Jan 23, 200923 min

Black Jack Justice (27) - The Family Jewels

The life of a detective has its ups and downs to be sure. Some might even argue that the downs held a pretty strong grip on the majority. But every so often a client like Midge Crocker opened the door and made it all worthwhile. A girl who was equal parts helpless doe-eyed bunny rabbit and hard, practiced liar. Now all Jack and Trixie had to do was figure out if the too-good to be true story was just that, or if they really were after... The Family Jewels

Jan 09, 200927 min

Black Jack Justice (26) - The Do-Nothing Detective

Private detecting isn't the sort of game where you can pick your battles. Jack and Trixie have done all kinds of things for all kinds of people, and most of the time you just hope for the best. But when a mystery man is perpared to drop a nice, fat retainer in their laps to drop a client that they never had, it looks like our heroes have finally caught that nice soft case everybody always talks about. But it couldn't really be that simple... could it?

Dec 27, 200825 min

Black Jack Justice (25) - A Midsummer Night's Noir

With the city in the grips of a heat wave, things are bound to get a little screwy. But no matter what air-conditioned hidey-hole a gumshoe ducks into, the place is lousy with crouching jade kittens and raincoated would-be girl detectives. It's bound to end badly for someone when Jack and Trixie start A Midsummer Night's Noir! - With special guest star Mary Jo Pehl!

Dec 13, 200827 min

A Very Decoder Ring Christmas!

When the Decoder Ring Theatre Gang gets together to finally record that oft-requested crossover episode between The Red Panda Adventures and Black Jack Justice , there's only one thing that can stop Audio Drama history from being made - A Family Christmas Special breaking out! From all of us, to all of you, with best wishes for the Holiday Season, we present A Very Decoder Ring Christmas !

Nov 28, 200825 min

Red Panda Adventures (42) - The Boy In Blue

The agents who serve The Red Panda are our masked heroes' eyes and ears. They are the many hands that make their great work light. They are men who hold high the lamp of justice when darkness falls . But what happens when your most Trusted Agent... isn't? Only one man has truly has that answer, and he is.... The Boy In Blue!

Nov 14, 200826 min

Red Panda Adventures (41) - Trial by Terror

Side by side, the Terrific Twosome of Toronto have faced danger and dastadly daring-do of every shape and size. But when the walls that hold back The Red Panda's greatest foes come tumbling down, can even that Fearless Fighting Female the Flying Squirrel save her partner from the... Trial By Terror ?

Nov 01, 200830 min

Red Panda Adventures (40) - The Gathering Storm

Once again the cold tendrils of dark powers reach forth into our world. Our heroes have stood the test before, and made such preparations as they may... but with a full-scale dimensional breach in progress, can even the Red Panda and the Flying Squirrel turn back... The Gathering Storm ?

Oct 18, 200831 min

Red Panda Adventures (39) - Murder In The Castle

Ah, a romantic evening on the town... dinner and dancing at the swanky Casa Loma. Could anything be finer? Could an evening be more perfect? Could anything ever possibly be that simple? With an eccentric millionaire in the house, about to sign away the family fortune and disinherit a roomful of angry relations, there's almost sure to be... Murder In The Castle !

Oct 04, 20080

Red Panda Adventures (38) - The Mask of Death

A train station full of terrified hostages... An old enemy returned to spread chaos and destruction... Who would have guessed that the day could only get worse? But with the powers of darkness creeping ever nearer, will our heroes be in time to discover the secrets of ... The Mask of Death ?

Sep 20, 200827 min

Red Panda Adventures (37) - The Third Wave

Time after time, threats from without have battered the city. Gangsters, racketeers and power mad-supervillains, and always our masked heroes have been equal to the task. But when the city turns upon itself; when its own citizens threaten to become the means of its destruction, can even the Red Panda turn the tide against... The Third Wave ?

Sep 06, 200828 min

DG08 - Deck Gibson at the End of the Universe pt 2

A dreaded foe... an unfathomable prize... a damsel in distress... seems like everything a Commander could ask for. But with the future itself on the line, can even the combined might of the entire Far Reach Fleet stand against the powers at... The End of the Universe ?

Aug 10, 200822 min

DG07 - Deck Gibson at the End of the Universe pt1

For a Far Reach Commander, the mysteries and wonders of the Galaxy are home sweet home, the dangers of the darkest places in the big black are business as usual. But nothing that Commander Deck Gibson has ever encountered can prepare him for what waits... at The End of the Universe !

Jul 26, 200825 min

DG06 - Deck Gibson and the Plutonium Man

When Deck took on the mantle of Far Reach Commander, he stepped into a universe of wonder those within Earth's isolationist borders could scarcely imagine. But there are still greater mysteries out there in the void, new wonders and new terrors alike, as Deck Gibson is about to find out as he encounters.... The Plutonium Man!

Jul 12, 200821 min

DG05 - Deck Gibson and the Court of Eternity

A Far Reach Commander is a man without limits, a man for whom the boarders and petty territories carved out of space mean nothing... only that open expanse of sky. But even those who serve Control, the mysterious mistress of the Far Reach Fleet must still answer to a higher power; something Commander Deck Gibson will some to realize when his past returns to haunt him once again... before The Court of Eternity !

Jun 28, 200821 min

DG04 - Deck Gibson and Two Days on the Tundra of Terror

Responding to a faint distress call brings Deck to a frozen wasteland of a planet. With bone-chilling temperatures and blinding blizzards, surely nothing could have survived in such an environment... Or could it? Isoloated from the Far Reach One, far from help, far from hope, Deck will find the answer to this and more questions during... Two Days on the Tundra of Terror!

Jun 14, 200821 min

DG03 - Deck Gibson and the Room With No View

This week: Deck is held prisoner after a Quasar Corps ambush and arrested as a traitor against Earth! Will his training as a Far Reach Commander save him, or will the last sight our hero ever sees be... The Room With No View !

May 31, 200825 min

Red Panda Adventures (36) - The Field Trip

In his own city, The Red Panda calls the shots - and he doesn't tolerate any interloping from other masked do-gooders that aren't soft and Squirrel-shaped. But when an investigation leads the Terrific Twosome of Toronto all the way to New York City; already teeming with huddled masses of mystery men, superheroes and masked vigilantes, a lot can happen on... The Field Trip !

May 17, 200829 min

Red Panda Adventures (35) - The Rat Lord

A sudden rash of petty crime is spreading like wildfire, bleeding the city white a few dollars at a time. Is it really possible that these robberies are being carried out by an army of children? What elemental force could possibly have driven these innocents into a life of crime? And will even The Red Panda be able to oppose the might... of The Rat Lord ?

May 03, 200828 min

Red Panda Adventures (34) - The Empty Box

The day they carried Sam Merk out of the courtroom, he swore he'd never serve the life sentence he'd been given. He promised that the judge, the jury... everyone that had had put him behind bars would suffer a voodoo curse until he was freed. Of course, no one took him very seriously; until his victims started dropping like flies. Now The Red Panda may have only hours to crack the mystery... of The Empty Box !

Apr 19, 200830 min

Red Panda Adventures (33) - Barton's Charm

A string of industrial accidents is plaguing the city, each more serious than the last. Little by little fear spreads, public confidence erodes and the economic engines of the city grind to a halt. Is this simple coincidence? A conspiricy of terror? Or are there forces still more sinister at work? The Red Panda must find out, or fall before the power of... Barton's Charm !

Apr 05, 200830 min

Red Panda Adventures (32) - The Terrible Two

With that Pompous Pirate of the Pen known only as The Poet on the loose, it was only a matter of time before clues in couplet form started sprouting up all over the city, each promising new crime more fiendish than the last. But Baxter's Law says "When the Goony-birds start changing their tune, there's usually something else goin' on." Will The Red Panda find the key to the villainous verse in time? Or will the city and it's masked protectors fall before... The Terrible Two ?...

Mar 22, 200828 min
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