Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of Fort Laramie . Featuring vocal talent by Raymond Burr . Fort Laramie was a CBS Radio Western series starring Raymond Burr. It originally aired Sunday afternoons from January 22–October 28, 1956, at 5:30 pm ET. Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell , this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century. The 41 episodes starred Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of the cavalry. One year later, Burr became a televisio...
Oct 12, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of Night Beat . Featuring vocal talent by Frank Lovejoy . In this series, Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, a reporter who covered the night beat for the Chicago Star , encountering criminals, eccentrics, and troubled souls. On each episode, listeners were invited to join Stone as he "searches through the city for the strange stories waiting for him in the darkness." Most episodes leaned towards suspense, crime and thriller themes, but Night Bea...
Oct 05, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Join host, Carl Amari , as we gallop into this week's episode of The Cavalcade of America . Featuring narration by Van Johnson . Did you know that Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds? The series was intended to improve DuPont's public image after World War I. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemist...
Sep 28, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of I Was A Communist for the FBI . Featuring narration by Dana Andrews . Did you know that The radio version of I Was a Communist for the FBI consisted of 78 episodes syndicated by the Frederick W. Ziv Company to more than 600 stations, including KNX in Los Angeles, California, with original episodes running from March 30, 1952, to September 20, 1953? The program was made without the cooperation of the FBI. However, real-life undercover agent Matt...
Sep 21, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of Philo Vance, Detective . Featuring vocal talent by Jackson Beck . Originally appearing as a fictional amateur detective featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s, the radio adventures of Detective Philo Vance were first broadcast to listeners across the airwaves in 1945. Did you know that three radio drama series were created with Philo Vance as the title character? The first series, broadcast by NBC, starred José Fer...
Sep 14, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of Murder By Experts . Hosted by John Dickson Carr . In 1949, Mutual Radio brought Murder By Experts to its airwaves. Each week on Murder By Experts , listeners were treated to a crime story selected by an expert, typically a detective story author. Though these authors usually had little involvement in each episode's script and rather used their name as an endorsement, proclaimed mystery author John Dickson Carr came on to become the series host....
Sep 07, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe . Featuring vocal talent by Sydney Greenstreet . Starring Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout 's fictional armchair detective, Nero Wolfe. The series was based on Stout's principal characters but not his stories, airing from October 20, 1950 to April 27, 1951, on NBC, it is regarded as the series that is most responsible for popularizing Nero Wolfe on radio. The series had gained recognition through associating each...
Aug 31, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of The Life of Riley . Featuring vocal talent by William Bendix . Did you know that The Life of Riley initially aired on the Blue Network (later known as ABC) from January 16, 1944, to July 8, 1945, before moving over to NBC, where it was broadcast from September 8, 1945, to June 29, 1951? Irving Brecher pitched the radio series for friend Groucho Marx under the title The Flotsam Family , but the sponsor balked at what would have been essentially ...
Aug 24, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Join host, Carl Amari , for a special radio re-broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater . Featuring narration by Humphrey Bogart . First broadcast from 1939 until 1952, The Screen Guild Theater was a radio anthology series that featured leading Hollywood stars as they performed adaptations of popular motion pictures. Originating on CBS Radio, it aired under several different titles including The Gulf Screen Guild Show , The Gulf Screen Guild Theater , The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater and The Ca...
Aug 17, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of The Man Called X . Featuring narration by Herbert Marshall . An espionage radio drama which premiered July 10, 1944 on CBS, Herbert Marshall had the lead role of Ken Thurston, an American Intelligence Agent. The series was an immediate favorite amongst its audience, as The Man Called X took listeners on nail-biting adventures that often took place in some of the world's most exotic locations. From tracking hot diamonds in Argentina to recoverin...
Aug 10, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of Dimension X . Featuring narration by Norman Rose and Joseph Julian . Initially conceived as an NBC radio program, Dimension X was an original science fiction series that was broadcast mostly on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951. Fred Wiehe and Edward King were the series directors, and Norman Rose was heard as both announcer and narrator, famously opening the show with: "Adventures in time and space... to...
Aug 03, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 40
The Film Detective is honored to welcome April Clemmer to this month's edition of The Film Detective Focus; a special monthly segment where we dive into a selected topic and explore what is upcoming. April Clemmer is a Hollywood historian, best known as the creator of the Old Hollywood Walking Tour. Her vision is to preserve the stories and style of the Classic Hollywood era by creating experiences that enable others to relive the glamorous past of Hollywood’s iconic places and personalities. Ap...
Aug 01, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of Casey, Crime Photographer . Featuring narration by Staats Cotsworth and Jan Miner . For those who could not get enough of B-movie murder mysteries, Casey, Crime Photographer was the true radio equivalent. The series employed similar plot devices, such as the suspect about to reveal important information, ultimately to be shot and killed by the guilty party. Loose ends, disappearing corpses, a lack of clues, and too many suspects were the hallma...
Jul 27, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of Broadway is My Beat . Featuring narration by Larry Thor . Running on CBS Radio from February 27, 1949 to August 1st, 1950, Broadway is My Beat introduced listeners to Detective Danny Clover , a hard-boiled New York City cop who worked in the homicide unit. With a jurisdiction from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the series listeners were treated to various tales of crime and murder straight from the gaudiest, most violent, and the most lonesom...
Jul 20, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Join host, Carl Amari, for an exciting re-broadcast of My Friend Irma. Featuring narration by Marie Wilson and Cathy Lewis. Originating as a radio series created by writer-producer-director Cy Howard in 1947, My Friend Irma was a successful, long-running radio situation comedy that escalated into film, television, and even a comic strip helmed by none other than Marvel's Stan Lee. Dependable, level-headed Jane Stacy (Cathy Lewis) began each weekly radio program by narrating a misadventure of her...
Jul 13, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of Box 13 . Featuring vocal talent by Alan Ladd and Sylvia Picker . First incepted in 1947, motion picture actor Alan Ladd created Mayfair Productions, a company that specialized in radio syndication. Mayfair developed several successful radio series including the Damon Runyon Theater and Box 13 . Covering the exciting escapades of a newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist named Dan Holiday , the series was an immediate success running in various cit...
Jul 06, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Welcome to the July '22 edition of The Film Detective Focus, starring author/journalist Don Stradley and The Movie Loft host, Dana Hersey! Join us for this month's special episode as Don and Dana discuss the highlighted features that are showing this month on The Film Detective. This month, The Film Detective shines the spotlight on Summer classics with Friday night Drive-In double features , birthday marathons celebrating icon actors Olivia de Havilland , Barbara Stanwyck , Ginger Rogers , and ...
Jul 01, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Join host, Carl Amari , for a special radio re-broadcast of The Falcon . Featuring narration by Les Damon . First created by Drexel Drake in 1936 for a series of novels, "The Falcon" was an alternate identity for freelance investigator and troubleshooter, Michael Waring. By 1941, the character could be seen for the first time on the silver screen by RKO Pictures, with George Sanders taking on the leading role. Two years later, The Falcon made his radio debut with Berry Kroeger taking on narratio...
Jun 29, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet . Featuring vocal talent by Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard. Considered to be one of America's longest running sitcoms, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet documented the life of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson as they raised their two sons, Ricky and David. The series was ultimately a huge television success, airing on ABC for a whopping 14 seasons, from October 3rd, 1952 to April 23rd, 1966. Though the televisio...
Jun 22, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar . Featuring narration by the legendary Edmund O'Brien . Originally conceived to be a smart, tough, and wisecracking detective who tossed silver-dollar tips to waiters and bellhops, Johnny Dollar was easily one of the Golden Age of Radio's most beloved detective characters. Fitting amongst the ranks of Richard Diamond , Sam Spade , and Phillip Marlowe, Johnny's character was known to purvey his own sense of the law whe...
Jun 15, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Welcome to the June '22 edition of The Film Detective Focus. This month we bring Actor Joyce Meadows and Director David Schecter on to talk about our upcoming release, "The Brain from Planet Arous!" The release, available to audiences on June 21, 2022, features Joyce herself and is a delightful treat to sci-fi fans everywhere. Join in on this conversation as we go behind the scenes of that special film set. Serving up a perfect conversation for any connoisseur who has an affinity for classic cin...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of The New Adventures of Michael Shayne, Detective . Featuring vocal talent from Jeff Chandler . First created as a fictionalized private detective character during the late 1930s by writer Davis Dresser, Detective Michael Shayne first appeared in a series of seven films starring Lloyd Nolan for Twentieth Century Fox. From that point on, Michael Shayne became a household figure by further appearing in five more films from Producers Releasing Corpo...
Jun 08, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Join host, Carl Amari , for a chilling radio re-broadcast of Murder at Midnight . Featuring narration by Raymond Edward Johnson . Produced in New York and first syndicating the airwaves in 1946, Murder at Midnight was a classic horror series that featured macabre tales of suspense, often with a supernatural twist. By the time the series wrapped production, it had become one of radio's premiere horror series, featuring a memorable opening that had served as clear horror inspiration for generation...
Jun 01, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of the hit comedy series My Favorite Husband . Featuring vocal talent by the legendary Lucille Ball and Richard Denning . Perhaps one of the most pivotal sitcoms to grace the Golden Age of Radio, My Favorite Husband first aired to listeners on CBS Radio in 1948. Originally based on the novels Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945), each episode of the series was filled with laughs for nationwide listeners...
May 25, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Join host, Carl Amari , for a radio re-broadcast of Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator . Featuring narration by William Gargan and Ralph Bell . A popular whodunnit detective series that aired on NBC from aired from 1951 until 1955, the series was based around the thrilling investigations of New York detective Barry Craig ( William Gargan ). Billed as "Your man when you can't go to the cops," Barry Craig solved his cases efficiently and liked to work alone. Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade...
May 18, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Welcome to the May '22 edition of The Film Detective Focus, starring author/journalist Don Stradley and The Movie Loft host, Dana Hersey! Join us for this month's special episode as Don and Dana discuss the highlighted features that showing this month on The Film Detective. The duo also do a deep dive into a conversation on The Duke, John Wayne, and Vincent Price ; both of who have birthday anniversaries at the end of this month. Also mentioned is Anna May Wong, who is featured in some films on ...
May 12, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Join host, Carl Amari , for a special radio re-broadcast of Lights Out! Featuring an original script from the legendary, Arch Oboler ! Predating both Suspense and Inner Sanctum , Lights Out! is considered to be one of the earliest radio horror programs. Created by Wyllis Cooper , the series had originated in the WENR Studios of Chicago, and eventually expanded the series as an NBC broadcast after garnering a cult following nationwide. Seething with vampires, invisible monsters, evil beings, and ...
May 11, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Join Host, Carl Amari, for a splendid radio re-broadcast of Fibber McGee & Molly. Featuring narration by Jim and Marian Jordan. Considered to be one of the most beloved and popular radio comedy series of the time, the series became an iconic staple of NBC as they hosted the show from 1935 to 1959. Fibber McGee & Molly followed the adventures of a working class couple, and was portrayed (and co-produced) by the real-life couple of Jim and Marian Jordan as a direct follow-up to their fan f...
May 04, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Join host, Carl Amari , for a thrilling re-broadcast of The Thin Man . Featuring vocal talent by Les Damon and Claudia Morgan . First appearing in movie theaters in 1934, The Thin Man featured a slightly more seductive tone compared to other detective works from the period. Thus in turn, The Thin Man was promptly banned in Canada, as the sexy references between Detective Nick Charles and his beautiful wife Nora Charles violated the Canadian film code. However, in 1941 the film was eventually ada...
Apr 27, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Join host, Carl Amari , as we gallop into this week's episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers . Featuring narration by Joel McCrea . Hopping on the Western van wagon, did you know that NBC's Tales of the Texas Rangers featured actual case files which involved the Texas Rangers? Throughout the series history, Captain Manuel T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, who was said to have killed thirty-one men during his 30-year career as a Texas Ranger, served as a consultant to ensure accurate portrayal of these c...
Apr 20, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 25
