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Radio Retropolis

Jim Romanovich•www.radioretropolis.com
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A network of podcasts under several genres relating to the retro pop culture field and how these features are relevant to everyone today. These podcasts will consist of classic radio dramas and commentary from Jim Romanovich, blogs, new interviews from individuals who contributed to the pop culture experience, and high-end audio documentaries.
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Episodes

The Suspense Radio Podcast #252- The Lodger: Act 2 (2/14/48)

As the attacks continue, suspicion focuses on the avenger’s description of a tall, distinguished person very similar to our Mr. Sleuth…the lodger! JR speaks on how this story's emphasis would have been different if told through Mr. Sleuth. Plus, updates on the real Jack the Ripper!

Feb 28, 2025•40 min•Season 8Ep. 252

The Suspense Radio Podcast #252- The Lodger: Act 1 (2/14/48)

Robert Montgomery doing double duty tonight as both the narrator and as the mysterious man who rents a room from a couple at a time when a serial killer terrorizes 1888 London. JR speaks on the special history of this episode with Suspense radio series.

Feb 28, 2025•34 min•Season 8Ep. 252

The Superman Radio Podcast #701- The Drought in Freeville Pt. 1

With Lois going on her own determined to find the truth about the drought in Freeville, Perry White is shaken by a telegram he received from Lois asking him to get her out of town at once. JR speaks about the blooper with Julian Noa who plays Perry White.

Feb 27, 2025•16 min•Season 10Ep. 701

The My Favorite Husband Radio Podcast #51- George and Liz are Handcuffed

Liz is playing "cops and robbers" with little Tommy Wood from next door, and lets him handcuff her and George with what turn out to be real handcuffs. Commentary on the classic handcuff formula used in several sitcoms as well as this being adapted into the classic I Love Lucy TV episode. Also, comic legend Dick Tracy, silent movie icon Rudolph Valentino, and the actor who plays little Tommy, Johnny McGovern, are discussed.

Feb 26, 2025•34 min•Season 2Ep. 51

The Dragnet Radio Podcast #66- The Big Church

Friday and Romero investigate a woman who is receiving life-threatening letters and phone calls and need to find this stalker before she winds up dead. Commentary on how this was a departure from its regular procedural format and how mental illness was treated in 1950.

Feb 25, 2025•32 min•Season 2Ep. 66

The Superman Radio Podcast #700- The Phony Inheritance Racket Pt. 8

As Superman puts the final move on Zara to end his racketeering terror, Perry White goes into a rage when he receives bad news from one of his reporters from the small village of Freeville. In part 2 of his commentary, JR discusses the downfall of George Reeves' career and conspiracies surrounding his death.

Feb 24, 2025•27 min•Season 10Ep. 700

The Shadow Radio Podcast #20- Power of the Mind

A brilliant scientist, who has discovered the secret formula for a super-powered explosive, has been kidnapped and tortured to madness by foreign nationals. As the formula resides only in his mind, they kidnap a second person- a famous psychiatrist-who is their only hope in extracting it from the scientist's brain. Lamont Cranston, as the Shadow, and Margo Lane learn of the dastardly plot by a telepathic phone call from the psychiatrist and work against time and international waters to thwart th...

Feb 22, 2025•29 min•Season 1Ep. 20

The Suspense Radio Podcast #251- The Black Angel: Act 2 (1/24/48)

Frank Jeremy, Eve’s husband, has been found guilty of murder and now Eve must figure out a way to prove his innocence. Commentary on comparison to the novel from which the radio episode was based. Plus, The Brown Derby Restaurant.

Feb 21, 2025•46 min•Season 8Ep. 251

The Suspense Radio Podcast #251- The Black Angel: Act 1 (1/24/48)

A Hollywood starlet, her producer husband, and a prominent actress sets the tone to this warped story of jealousy, passion and murder. Yet not everything is as it seems and not everything plays out as expected. Commentary on Prince Michael Romanoff of the famed Romanoff's Restaurant in Hollywood.

Feb 21, 2025•34 min•Season 8Ep. 251

The My Favorite Husband Radio Podcast #49- George's Christmas Gift

Liz vows to finish knitting George a sweater by Christmas by taking a few regretful shortcuts. Commentary on the ointment Unguentine and why that line was funny. Plus, Eleanor Audley as George's mom and the connection between Lucille Ball's new movie Miss Grant Takes Richmond and a classic I Love Lucy episode.

Feb 19, 2025•34 min•Season 2Ep. 49

The Dragnet Radio Podcast #65- The Big Meet

Sgt. Friday tries to trap Howard Scully, a careful narcotics wholesaler, by posing as a buyer. Commentary on Joe Friday's tough character when faced with a situation of having to actually kill someone...or be killed.

Feb 18, 2025•31 min•Season 2Ep. 65

The Lights Out Radio Podcast #51- Sub Basement

A man takes his unfaithful wife down into the labyrinth of corridors beneath a large department store very late one night to 'show her around. But his sinister intentions backfire when they encounter a thing that should not exist.

Feb 16, 2025•28 min•Season 2Ep. 51

The Suspense Radio Podcast #250- Love's Lovely Counterfeit: Act 1 (1/17/48)

In Act 1, James Cagney stars as Ben Grace, a gangster torn between his love for June Lyons, a reform politician's campaign manager, and his desire for money and power. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel. Commentary on the previous Radio Retropolis podcast of this episode as a half hour story.

Feb 14, 2025•28 min•Season 8Ep. 250

The Dragnet Radio Podcast #64-The Big Grandma

An expert check forger has hit the city of Angels. The suspect is an unassuming middle-aged woman-who has taken in over $20,000. Commentary on the everyday minutia Friday and Romero face and why these unassuming moments are among the most brilliant in Dragnet episodes.

Feb 11, 2025•33 min•Season 2Ep. 64

The Lights Out Radio Podcast #50- State Executioner

During the days of King George III, a man becomes obsessed with his profession as the state executioner, reveling in his work as he sends criminals to their death at the gallows. Turned callous and bloodthirsty by his job, the executioner purposefully withholds evidence that would prove his next victim innocent. Commentary tonight on the true horror of what Arch Oboler provided in Lights out, how we address limitations in our own minds, the prospect of death, and fighting our demons.

Feb 09, 2025•32 min•Season 2Ep. 50

The Shadow Radio Podcast #18-The Fire Bug

Two pyromaniacs hold Margot Lane hostage and it's up to the Shadow to use his powers of psychological manipulation to rescue her.

Feb 08, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 18

The Suspense Radio Podcast #249- The Kandy Tooth: Act 2 (1/10/48)

Act 2 of tonight’s story features Sam Spade looking for a valuable tooth that was smuggled into the US via some dental work in an unsuspecting patient who now has ended up murdered which we discovered right before the end of Act 1. Commentary on Sam Spade and why this hour long format is problematic after only two episodes.

Feb 07, 2025•30 min•Season 8Ep. 249

The My Favorite Husband Radio Podcast #47- College Homecoming

George and Rudolph get tickets to the Homecoming football game at their alma mater and decide not to take the wives. When Liz and Iris catch their husbands in a compromising situation at the game on their television, they go undercover to get to the truth. Commentary on the final interview given by actor Jerry Hausner and his bitterness towards Lucy and Desi on how he was treated.

Feb 05, 2025•33 min•Season 2Ep. 47

The Dragnet Radio Podcast #63- The Big Quack

A man posing as a doctor is burglarizing homes in the city. Commentary on William H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Chief, who in this episode gives Dragnet and Jack Webb a citation for merit for the authentic portrayal of the LAPD. Parker modeled his tenure as chief after Dragnet.

Feb 04, 2025•30 min•Season 2Ep. 63
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