Project Audion is back with a legend! The Lone Ranger has got to be the single most famous fictional character to come out of old time radio...every generation knows him, even if they don't know his radio origins. And those radio origins go WAY back - the Masked Man has been around 90 years, since 1933! But because the first five years of broadcasts were never recorded, even Lone Ranger fans don't know how the Masked Man's early stories sounded. But thanks to historian Martin Grams, Jr., who pro...
Sep 10, 2023•42 min•Ep 76•Transcript available on Metacast A stunningly accurate re-creation of an OTR episode of The Adventures of Superman! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 10, 2023•26 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast We're off and running with Season 19 as tonight's feature is Roi Gold Productions' "Fall of the House of Sunshine". The complete and crazy musical adventures that begins with the murder of kids' TV show host and spins out into a world of: angry puppets, a tooth worshipping cult, a fuzzy elder god, and so, so much more! It's Episodes 1- 3: Open Wide and Say Die, Down in the Dank Darkness Darts Dankent and In the Mouths of Mouthness! It's Audio Drama Time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...
Sep 10, 2023•58 min•Ep 74•Transcript available on Metacast It's the first Sunday Jack is homeless! Still we can always have home where ever you listen with Sonic Society #783, Bell's in the Batfry #306, and Project Audion #44! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 10, 2023•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to Mutual Presents! We're back with another double-feature from First Nighter, the two-decade radio drama-comedy series that aired on various radio stations from 1930 to 1953 before landing on Mutual from 1942 to 1944. It's "The One in the Middle " and "Help Wanted, Female "! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 03, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep 73•Transcript available on Metacast Jack sits down with the makers of the incredible "The Crossing Guard Tapes"- Jim Waters and Jaz Garewal! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 03, 2023•43 min•Ep 72•Transcript available on Metacast To kick off this inaugural week of Season 19 of the Sonic Society, hosts Jack and David have a special feature of The Crossing Guard Tapes by Jim Waters with Tape 1 Side A and B and Side A of Tape two... Hit play! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 03, 2023•52 min•Ep 71•Transcript available on Metacast It's a relaxing Showcase- just ignore the street workers, as Jack brings Sonic Society #782 season 19, Sonic Speaks #609, and Mutual Presents: First Nighter Double-Feature! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 03, 2023•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Can you believe it's the end of the summer? We can't either. To cheer you up we return with Mutual Presents and another series of misadventures with Adventures with Maisie double-feature with "Maisie Inherits the Millvale Sentinel " and "Maisie Wrecks a Wreck & Bags a Bag" from the Mutual Broadcasting System... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 27, 2023•58 min•Ep 70•Transcript available on Metacast David Ault sweeps away the spotlights from the Summerstock Playhouse with our final act and feature season finale from Sonic Cinema Productions and the incredible screwball comedy from FIRST NIGHTER- "Love is Stranger Than Fiction" starring John Bell, Patte Rosebank, Angela Young, Larry Groebe, Joe Stofko, and introducing Paul Arbisi and Trevor Rines! Thanks for another incredible season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 27, 2023•46 min•Ep 69•Transcript available on Metacast David Ault closes the Summerstock Playhouse with the first act of our two feature finale from Sonic Cinema Productions and the Amigos Collective beginning with the taut thriller from SUSPENSE- "The Long Night" starring Lothar Tuppan, Jeffrey Billard, Pete Lutz, Rachel Pulliam, Richard Summers, Austin Beach, introducing Jason Fella and produced by John Bell of Bell's in the Batfry! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 27, 2023•36 min•Ep 68•Transcript available on Metacast This week it's a double-bill of Sonic Summerstock Playhouse finale with The Long Night and Love is Stranger than Fiction with more Mutual Presents #5.12! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 27, 2023•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to Mutual Presents. This week, we're reintroducing our Tuesday Terror feature from the classic days of the Mutual Broadcasting System, and this time the incredibly eclectic anthology series- The Mysterious Traveler! This series ran on Mutual from December 1943 until about September of 1952. This tremendously popular radio show was truly an all around favorite for any mystery lover of the time. It was the brainchild and magnum opus of golden age writing greats Robert Arthur and David...
Aug 20, 2023•1 hr•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast Brad and Arnie decide to reboot the origin of the Cowlets! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 20, 2023•20 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast Summerstock Playhouse returns for a penultimate week with the amazing Rachel Pulliam and Sole Twin Audio featuring "The Most Dangerous Game" adapted from the archetypal short story of Richard Connell and the classic Escape series! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 20, 2023•38 min•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Sunday Showcase! Host Jack begins the press release with Sonic Summerstock Playhouse #14.9, continues with Bell's in the Batfry #315, and finally Mutual Presents: The Mysterious Traveller #5.11! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 20, 2023•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast We return to Mutual Presents! This week we're back with "The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen" and more classic old time radio from the Mutual Broadcasting System with the double feature of adventure with "Kang's Treasure and the Ghost of Tangolan Bay" and "Beautiful Girl in the Bargain Basement". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 13, 2023•51 min•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast Project Audion returns with the short-lived noirish radio detective series "Pat Novak for Hire" is probably better loved now than it was in the late 1940s, thanks to its darkly-comic quips and the dry-as-dust performance of Jack Webb in the title role, just before his breakout turn on "Dragnet." Pat Novak - the man, like the show - was one of those "hard-boiled" types - he may bounce or crack, but he doesn't break easily. Pat Novak shows are famed for their Raymond Chandler-esque plots and style...
Aug 13, 2023•40 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast Summerstock Playhouse returns for the last call of Pete Lutz and his Narada Radio Company Players for season 14 as they present the NBC crime thriller "The Petrified Forest" originally featuring the iconic Humphrey Bogart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 13, 2023•2 hr 9 min•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast It's a noir palooza with Sunday Showcase! This week we have Sunday Showcase: The Petrified Forest, Project Audion's Pat Novak and Mutual Presents! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 13, 2023•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to Mutual Presents! This week we sample another amazing science fiction series- the first of it's kind from Old Time Radio and of course from the Mutual Audio Network's spiritual grandfather- the Mutual Broadcasting System. It's 2000 Plus! This series ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System from March 15, 1950 to January 2, 1952 in various 30-minute time slots. A Dryer Weenolsen production, it was the first adult science fiction series on radio, airing one month prior to the better kn...
Aug 06, 2023•54 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast In our second Act of our Midpoint Summer special, Peter Beeston and the incredible Cornucopia Radio, produce their adaptation of the classic episode of ESCAPE from the original novel by Hammond Innes. Join us in this world Internet premiere! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 06, 2023•48 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast Summerstock Playhouse presents a special double-feature to kick off our midpoint of entertainment! Beginning Act One with our second grand evening of Pete Lutz and his Narada Radio Company Players. This week they present "You Can't Take it With You" first performed on the Lux Radio Theatre broadcast, October 2nd, 1939 from the Pulitzer prize winning play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 06, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast It's Sunday Showcase! Jack takes folks on a tour which includes Sonic Summerstock Playhouse Midpoint Double Feature! Host David Ault brings us You Can't Take it With You and The Killer Mine! Finally we have Mutual Presents 2000+! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 06, 2023•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast We return to Mutual Presents! This week we're back with Mutual Radio Theater's "Those Who Can" and "The Whale Savers". Sundays never looked so sweet with great anthology showcases on Mutual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 30, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast Time to join the Batfry Club! Don't be left out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 30, 2023•20 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast This week host David returns with a Summerstock favourite- Pete Lutz brings in the crowds with the Narada Radio Company's extended triumph, "Of Mice and Men" from the BBC production of their Afternoon Play! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 30, 2023•2 hr 18 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast It's Sunday! This week's Showcase brings us Sonic Summerstock #14.5- Of Mice and Men, Bells in the Batfry #314, and Mutual Presents #5.8! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 30, 2023•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Mutual Presents is back with the next full serial installment of the Man of Steal with The Adventures of Superman with our second serial "The North Star Mining Company Mystery!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 23, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast This week host David returns with Suspense! from the Suspense Radio Show with John Alsedek as the producer. Our feature tonight is "Who Goes There". An Antarctic research expedition finds something frozen deep in the ice cap...something that is still alive... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 23, 2023•41 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast