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Sunday Showcase

Jack Ward
The Mutual Audio Network- the United Artists of Modern Audio Drama and Audio Fiction release new shows on their Sunday Showcase feed. Join us every Sunday for the collection of new stories and audio drama from around the world!

Episodes

Project Audion Episode 63: Casablanca Benny!

Project Audion is back with the Jack Benny Program, returning with a delightful all-new radio episode penned by former Bob Hope staff writer Robert L. Mills just for Project Audion. (and as someone noted, "maybe there's some Corn in there too!") In this terrific recreation of a typical late-1940s Lucky Strike episode, Jack and his regular gang - Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Dennis Day and Rochester - send up the movie classic "Casablanca" with guest-starring help from some of the movie's origin...

Dec 08, 202437 minSeason 6Ep. 126

Sonic Society #839- Forgiveness Audio

Jack finds himself alone in the Mutual Building for a Sunday... Even MONA the Mutual Oral Network Assistant seems offline. Somewhere in the echos of the empty building. Forgive Me! plays. Our double-feature tells the story of Father Ben, a try-hard young Catholic priest who was recently reassigned from Binghamton to St. Patrick’s, a new parish in the fictional Texarkana, NY, under mysterious circumstances. Each episode follows Ben into the confessional with another eccentric parishioner from aro...

Dec 08, 202455 minSeason 6Ep. 124

Sunday Showcase, December 8th, 2024

Welcome to December in Sunday Showcase! This week we have Sonic Society #839, Tales from the Mutual Basement: Snake Eyes, Project Audion #63, and Adventures of the Fed Tec S2E10! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 08, 20242 min

Old-Time Radio Essentials Episode 45

Old-Time Radio Essentials' fourth season continues with our annual Thanksgiving Special, which is Patte's pick, an episode of "Fountain of Fun", a weekly comedy-variety series that ran on Cincinnati station W-L-W from 1942 to 1944. Will co-hosts Paul and Pete survive the onslaught of corny jokes? Will they swear off Milky Way bars forever? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 01, 20241 hr 12 minSeason 6Ep. 123

The Haunted Diner

Saturn Space Station's top Operations crew is space-napped across the solar system to an unknown location. With little to go on, Chief Dolly Hadershorn and Colonel Grey Midlan work feverishly to find and rescue them. Meanwhile, Space Station Commander Paul Dukoe, his sister, Bette, and the other Saturn ringer kidnap victims struggle to solve the mystery of how, and why!, they have become characters in a popular pre-Cataclysm Earth cartoon show! Don't touch that dial, space chimps! Learn more abo...

Dec 01, 20241 hr 13 minSeason 6Ep. 122

Sonic Society #838- Sorry about the Sonic

Jack and David try to get home for the holidays and run into a Canadian gem "Sorry for the Murder"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 01, 20241 hr 1 minSeason 6Ep. 122

Sunday Showcase, December 1st, 2024

Welcome to Sunday Showcase for Thanksgiving Sunday! This week we've got Sonic Society #838, Tales from the Mutual Basement: World's Greatest Magician, The Haunted Diner, and Old-Time Radio Essentials Episode 45! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 01, 20242 min

Sonic Society #837- Polar Audiosets

Jack and David and the TORDIS have discovered a new audio drama! The Northside/Southside Radio Players with the incredible Carol Seymour & David Drazin bring us two features now and their whole catalogue coming in 2025 on Mutual! So sit back and relax with "Put the Kettle On" and "Flywheel & Ravelle"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 24, 202454 minSeason 6Ep. 120

Sunday Showcase, November 24th, 2024

Welcome to the Sunday Showcase! Host Jack gives his best wishes to David for his birthday this past week and brings Sonic Society #837 and Tales from the Mutual Basement! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 24, 20244 min

Adventures of the Federated Tec S2 E9 The Golden Horseshoe, Part 2

In the conclusion of this two-part adventure, the Tec returns to Tijuana, Mexico, to discover just who murdered his client. Once he arrives, however, there's any number of possible suspects. Story by Dashiell Hammett, adapted and dramatized by Pete Lutz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 17, 202437 minSeason 6Ep. 119

Sonic Society #836- Translators

Jack and David are back with a spark and a new opportunity with "The Fourth Ambit" episode 9: Translation! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 17, 20241 hr 2 minSeason 6Ep. 117

Sunday Showcase, November 17th, 2024

Welcome to the Sunday Showcase! Host David brings us your newest trilogy of releases including Sonic Society Society #836, Tales from the Mutual Basement- Spoilers, and Adventures of the Federated Tec S2 E9 The Golden Horseshoe, Part 2! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 17, 20242 min

Project Audion Episode 61: Johnny Dollar: The Damiani Diamond Matter"

Project Audion is back! Johnny Dollar was the last detective standing at the end of radio drama's original classic era, outlasting everyone else - Sam Spade, Richard Diamond, Sherlock Holmes, The Saint, Phillip Marlowe and dozens of others. "America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator" is arguably better-loved now than he was in the middle of the 20th century. Now Project Audion presents a new Johnny Dollar script, written by Patrick Keating in the style of the original episodes, and tra...

Nov 10, 202443 minSeason 6Ep. 116

Tales from the Mutual Basement: Moist

A man steps out of a shower and find himself very wet and very VERY far away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 10, 202414 minSeason 6Ep. 115

Sonic Society #835- Wraithy Radio

Captain Radio is wondering what happened to the TORDIS as the feed powers with look at "The Fourth Ambit" episode 8: Wraiths! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 10, 20241 hr 2 minSeason 6Ep. 114

Sunday Showcase, November 10th, 2024

It's SUNDAY! Snows on the ground and the showcase will keep you warm with Sonic Society #835, Tales from the Mutual Basement- Moist, and Project Audion Episode 61- Johnny Dollar- The Damianai Diamond Matter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 10, 20242 min

Old-Time Radio Essentials Episode 44

Old-Time Radio Essentials returns with episode 44, the 7th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present Pete's pick, an episode of the syndicated series Hall of Fantasy, called "Black Figurine of Death"! Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 03, 20241 hr 5 minSeason 6Ep. 113

Sonic Society #834- Nagging

Jack and David look at "The Fourth Ambit" episode 7: Nags! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 03, 20241 hr 1 minSeason 6Ep. 112

Sunday Showcase, November 3rd, 2024

The cold winds of November blow some beautiful audio dramas and it's Sunday Showcase! This week MONA brings us Sonic Society #834, and OTR Radio Essentials episode 44 where Pete, Paul, and Patte give us "The Halls of Fantasy" to dissect! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 03, 20242 min

Escape: A Shipment of Muted Fate

You are groping your way slowly through the dark hold of a ship at sea ... moving carefully step-by-step ... searching intently for something you dread to find, because you know this ship carries a silent cargo of ... death! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 27, 202431 minSeason 6Ep. 111

Escape: A Shipment of Muted Fate

You are groping your way slowly through the dark hold of a ship at sea ... moving carefully step-by-step ... searching intently for something you dread to find, because you know this ship carries a silent cargo of ... death! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 27, 202431 minSeason 6Ep. 111

The Cellar Miniseries 4, Ep 5: Twin Peeks

The fourth miniseries of 'The Cellar' concludes with this original play by Pete Lutz and his daughter R.C., produced especially for this year's Transcontinental Terror fest! In episode 5, "Twin Peeks", ghostly hostess Cadavera Quivry brings you the tale of a pair of twins, brought back from the brink of death after a car accident, but not before they each had had a glimpse of the afterlife. But each one witnessed something completely different from the other! Who's right? Which one's wrong? Dire...

Oct 27, 202436 minSeason 6Ep. 110

WotW

A "War of the Worlds" spoof, based on a true incident wherein H. G. Wells collaborated with other prestigious British authors. To the very best of any commoner's knowledge, none of these authors had the appetite for doing so again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 27, 202414 minSeason 6Ep. 109

Follow the Butterflies

An investigator follows a string of murders and finds herself ensnared in a web of danger far deeper than she could ever imagine! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 27, 20241 hr 4 minSeason 6Ep. 108

Tales from the Mutual Basement: Help Me

An ambitious talk radio host receives a call from a woman stranded in a blizzard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 27, 202421 minSeason 6Ep. 107

Sonic Society #833- Tag!

Jack and David look at "The Fourth Ambit" episode 6: Tag Part 2 including a special recording from Craig Robotham's play last summer! Happy Halloween coming everyone! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 27, 20241 hr 15 minSeason 6Ep. 106