Sunday Showcase

Have you noticed that recently Westerns are making a bit of a comeback? I'm not speaking directly about the most recent Oscar buzz of "Brokeback Mountain", but rather the successes of shows like Colonial Radio Theatre's "Powder River" which is getting rave reviews and thunderous applause from all quarters. XM Satellite radio can't seem to get enough Powder River, and Jerry Robbins is now working on season three of the hit series. On televsion, even science fiction takes a turn moseying along with the "wagon trains of the stars". Gene Roddenberry claimed to sell Star Trek in the 60's with that phrase, and Joss Whedon's pre-empted triumph "Firefly" along with its followup movie "Serenity" leans heavily on that age of old west. While I'm well aware that genres weave in and out of popularity, I'm more interested in why cycles occur rather than suggesting that they somehow have a regular pattern- if they did, wouldn't it have been time for a big 30's pulp movie like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? How long has it been since we've had a new renaissance in that genre? I think there's something about the world we live in today, and the values that the Old West represented- simplicity, even a clearer sense of what's right and what's wrong. In today's complex society, there's a real yearning for a tangible way to make a better life. Later we'll finish our interview with Schlock Audio's Bruce Humphries, and end this meeting with a little... Wasted Tape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Mutual Presents. This week, we're back again with The Mysterious Traveler! This week's double feature is Mind over Murder" and "Death Is the Judge"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MONA back at the Mutual Audio Network building is tripped when Jack and David haven't checked in, in time. Concerned they are lost in Audiospace she sets off a well-known tent-post of Audio Drama- that being the Wireless Theatre Company. Written by Stuart Price, editing by Matt Blair, music by Tom Hicox the signal from the live comedic feature "2010 Space Commander" will hopefully bring our heroes home? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Sunday Showcase! MONA is on the job while Jack and David are MIA in Sonic Society #871, Mutual Presents #6.20- Mysterious Traveler, and special Classic Sonic Society #28! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back in the theatre again with our Monday Matinee for the Mutual Present's addition from the Mutual Broadcasting System's classic shows. This week we continue Orson Welles, incredible seven part performance for Mutual of "Les Miserables"! And now, Part Two! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An ancient signal from a long-past artefact grabs Jack and David's attention as the TORDIS lands on the first episode of- The Penumbra Podcast by Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert, As they seem to discover the nature of the signal during 1.01: Juno Steel and the Case of the Murderous Mask (Part 1), can the TORDIS escape, once grounded?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the showcase we've got a double-feature of Sonic Society #870 and Mutual Presents #6.19: Monday Matinee's Les Miserables- Part 2! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back to Sunday Showcase's Mutual Presents as we introduce another favourite from the Mutual Broadcasting System, our spiritual forefather to the Mutual Audio Network- Welcome to "The Crime Club"! The Crime Club aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System as a half-hour weekly radio series, beginning on December 2, 1946 and continuing until October 16, 1947, a run of 47 episodes. It aired on Mondays at 8 p.m. through December and then on Thursdays at 10 p.m. It was also heard on Wednesdays and Sundays on some stations. Each installment was introduced by the series host, The Librarian, portrayed by Barry Thomson and Raymond Edward Johnson (who was perhaps better known as the host of Inner Sanctum Mysteries). The series featured murder and mystery dramas, some of which had already been published by the Doubleday Crime Club. A new Crime Club book was made available to the public each week and distributed though local newsstands and bookstores. Each show in the series began the same way. The telephone rings and the Librarian answers "Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club. I'm the Librarian. (name of the program)? Yes, we have that Crime Club story for you. Come right over. (The organist plays a creepy tune). The doorbell chimes. "Ah you're here. Good. Take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on this shelf." (The organist plays a scary chord). Here it is - (name of the program, the author and a very brief summary). "Let's look at it under the reading lamp." The Librarian begins reading the prologue for the tale, and another Crime Club offering begins. This week we start things off with "Death Blew Out the Match" and "Mr. Smith's Hat"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A terrific premiere is here! A lost episode from one of the greatest audio dramas to come from Radio's Golden Age -- "Gunsmoke."  Gunsmoke is the show that single-handedly created the "adult western" series drama genre...the show that moved the genre from the kid-centered "Lone Ranger" into darker, more mature themes... the show that ran for 10 years and nearly 500 radio episodes, and 20 years and 600 more chapters on television.  A handful of Gunsmoke audio recordings have been lost for seven decades, and Project Audion is recreating one of those missing episodes - in fact, Gunsmoke's second-ever show from May 3, 1952. Only the first seven minutes of the show survive as a recording, so this will be the first opportunity to hear this great early episode in 73 years! Tune in when our cross-country cast brings Marshall Matt Dillon, Doc Adams, Chester and others back to life in our live Zoom recording of Gunsmoke, a dark drama entitled "Ben Thompson." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finding a clue from their last episode, David seeks out the connective thread of "Alice Isn't Dead" from Welcome to Nightvale Presents and Joseph Fink. A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman. The Episode: "Part 1, Chapter 1: Omelet" leads Jack and David deeper into the mystery! They take a moment to release the new Mutual Audio Network website! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Sunday Showcase! As MONA provides the rundown of this week, Jack is busily working on the soft Beta release of the new Mutual website. Our trilogy is Sonic Society #869, Project Audion #74: Gunsmoke, and Mutual Presents- Crime Club #6.18! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Summer's over and we're back with the Man of Steel in honour of the recent Superman movie. Saturday Story Circle presents our next grand Superman serial and it's a doozy! Join us for "The Adventure of the Counterfeit Money"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack is surprised by David in the opening episode of Season 21 as they discover a new mystery with a trilogy of "The Storage Papers" from Jeremy Enfinger. Episodes 1.00- A Cryptic Warning, 1.01- Baby Cries, and 102- A Conspicuous Suspect lead our hosts on a merry chase! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Sunday Showcase! This week MONA- the Mutual Oral Network Assistant and we have Sonic Society's Season 21 premiere with episode #868 and Mutual Presents #6.17! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials' fifth season continues with Patte's pick, an episode of "Wayne and Shuster", a weekly comedy series that ran on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, on radio in the 1950s, and eventually moved to Canadian TV in the '60s. Will co-hosts Paul and Pete be able to point out from which American comedy show each joke was stolen? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our grand finale for the sixteenth season of Sonic Summerstock, Jack Ward takes a relook at a classic episode of "I was a Communist for the F.B.I. and remakes it for the future and Retro Rockets with "I Was a Martian for the E.B.I." and the thrilling Sci-Fi Electric Curtain thriller. Sonic Cinema Productions and the Amigos Collective bring us "The Sleeper!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Jack brings a double-feature including the finale of Sonic Summerstock Playhouse #16.9- Sleeper and Old-Time Radio Essentials Episode 51 with "Wayne and Shuster"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Summertime is a good time for lighter fare...August brings us a variety show that is super-fun and super-easy to listen to -- "The Camel Comedy Caravan with Garry Moore and Jimmy Durante." (whew - just call it the Jimmy Durante Show) Remember Jimmy Durante?  A fellow so famous for so many decades that just a caricature of his face was once enough to elicit a smile. His outsized "Schnozz" matched the outsized personality from the 1920s through the 1970s. You know him, even if you think you don't -- because even today his catchphrases and songs have endured. You can hear Durante singing in the "Joker" movie of 2019, imitated in the "Lion King," and showing up every year in beloved animated Christmas specials.  So for this Audion Original, Pete Lutz decided to revisit this unique talent, imagining a fresh 1940s episode of the Comedy Caravan with on-air partner Garry Moore, plus guest stars Sydney Greenstreet and Rose Marie. It's a half-hour of the kind of variety show that radio did so well. "Everyone wants ta' get inta de act!" and they do for a marvelous half hour of mirth and music... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Narada Radio Company, a significant contributor to Sonic Summerstock Playhouse over the past decade, is back again this year with a major effort. Producer Pete Lutz is proud to bring you his adaptation of the Orson Welles film, THE STRANGER! Loosely attributed to the lost Old-Time Radio series, "This is Hollywood", from the late 1940s, Narada presents a re-imagining of what their radio adaptation of the tense, thrilling film, about a Nazi hunter and his prey, might have been like. With a huge cast of Narada favorites! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Sunday Showcase! This week host Jack gives us a pair of Pete's with Narada Radio Company bringing us "The Stranger" from Sonic Summerstock 16.8, and The Jimmy Durante Show from Project Audion #73! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back with Mutual Presents and more misadventures with Adventures with Maisie double-feature who brings in our summer with "Maisie & The Dueling Actors" and "Maisie Sells Restoro Skin-Rejuvenator"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our encore performance from Project Audion this season, Larry Groebe returns again to ask what do you do if you grew up listening the classic dramatic series on the radio, then found a career writing TV comedy for Bob Hope, and now, decades later, you still harbor fond feelings about those radio shows of your youth? Well, if you're Robert L. Mills, you write shows like the one you're about to hear.  It's a takeoff of a certain famous detective whose name sounds awfully similar to OUR show's hero, named Stan Slade. The original "Adventures of Sam Spade" was broadcast in the late 1940s and early '50s. It starred Howard Duff as the detective created by Dashiell Hammett. It was a fun show that never took itself entirely seriously. Mr Mills has nudged his tribute a little further into the toungue-in-cheek -- or should I say toungue in beak? -territory, reuniting the detective with his old adversaries from the Maltese Falcon movie, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Everyone in our cast gets to have some fun with this adventure of Stan Slade, Detective, entitled "The Burmese Penguin Caper".  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the hazy air of smoky Nova Scotia we're bringing two features to clear the skies and lighten your load for Sunday Showcase with Sonic Summerstock 16.7 and Mutual Presents 6.16! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are few people in this world that Jack admires as equally as the incredible Robert Arnold from "Spoken Signal Podcast". He checks in with the latest offering with his "Black Dog" series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Clinton, from comedy4cast, presents a one-man show about a two-man show at the Playhouse! Laugh loud to his take on "The Bob & Ray Show," featuring classic sketches by the legendary radio (and TV) comedy team of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Mutual Presents! With the Scarlet Queen permanently at dock, it's time for some mystery with another great contribution to story and sound- The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes! Airing from 1939-1946, this instant classic starred the great Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. We begin our series with "The Bruce Partington Plans" and "The Case of the Retired Colourman"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Sunday Showcase for August 10th! This week we begin with Sonic Summerstock Playhouse #16.6, Mutual Presents Sherlock Holmes #6.15, and Sonic Speaks 0706: Talking Spoken Signal with Robert Arnold! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Mutual Presents! This week for Wednesday Wonder's feature on Mutual we look at the fantastical world of The Shadow with "The Three Ghosts" and "Circle of Death". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old-Time Radio Essentials' fifth season kicks off with Pete, Patte and Paul welcoming Essential Listener Andy, who brings us an episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, entitled "The Final Problem", from 1955. Will we all end up wanting to go over the Falls? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sonic Summerstock starts the month of August with a barn-burner of an original adaptation of Stefan Zweig's famous short story, “Buchmendel”! The Gray Area's director, writer, producer, and actor, Edward Champion pulls out all the stops for this performance- "LIBROMENDEL", So sit back and relax with this incredible full modern classic! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to August in the Sunday Showcase! This week Jack brings the lineup with Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 16.5- LIBROMENDEL, OTR Radio Essentials #50, and Mutual Presents #6.14! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Summer is for stargazing and Mutual's resident Astronomer, David Ault brings us on a fantastic cosmic voyage from Steppe to Stars: A Kazakh Astronomical Journey. Sit down on a nice comfy blanket and view the universe while you listen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Mutual Presents. This week, we're back again with The Mysterious Traveler! This week's double feature is "The Woman in Black" and "Dark, Dark, Destiny"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sonic Summerstock returns with the incredible Larry Groebe and Project Audio and a very special performance! "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon" (actually called "The Challenge of the Yukon" for most of its 16 years on the radio) was one of the greatest juvenile adventure radio series ever - part of a trinity of kids' shows that originated from Station WXYZ in Detroit. (The others were "The Green Hornet" and "The Lone Ranger".) It chronicled the never-ending adventure of the noble Mountie and his wonder dog Yukon King, maintaining law and order in the wilds of the frozen Northwest. While there are nearly 700 surviving recordings of this classic show, Project Audion located a MISSING episode's script that originally aired on May 25, 1955 -- just two weeks before show ended its run. What's more, we are delighted to feature 94-year-old Chuck Daugherty, who was actually heard in some of the original Preston series episodes during his time at WXYZ over 70 years ago.  He's part of a terrifically talented coast-to-coast cast for this exciting episode with original commercials for Quaker cereals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Sunday Showcase! Host David gives the trilogy of tales beginning with Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 16.4, Mutual Presents #6.13, and Stargazing: Step to Stars: A Kazakh Astronomical Journey! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back in the theatre again with our Monday Matinee for the Mutual Present's addition from the Mutual Broadcasting System's classic shows. Since "First Nighter" has finished her run, we've begin Orson Welles, incredible seven part performance for Mutual- "Les Miserables"! This week we begin with Part One! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sonic Summerstock returns with another prominent performer to the stage! The incredible Rachel Pulliam brings her full cast of Pete Lutz, Les Marsden, Sharon Grunwald, Sally Swift, and Dean T. Moody to perform a Lucille Fletcher play from Suspense! TonighThe Fantastic 16th Season of the Best of Audio Drama Recreations!t's feature? "The Search for Henri LeFevre"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Sunday Showcase! This week MONA brings us Sonic Summerstock Playhouse #16.3- Suspense! from Rachel Pulliam, and Mutual Presents #6.12 with Les Miserables #1! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack, Jeff & Lothar are back with their continued look at OTR in this season's Science Fiction collection! This week it's from Rod Serling's 70s series "Zero Hour" with "Sky Lab are you there?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back to Sunday Showcase's Mutual Presents as a great summer rejoiner with Sonic Summerstock. This week our two features from Mutual Radio Theater are "The Lover Of Silence" and "The Legend Of Gibson Holler"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sonic Summerstock is back with another grand performance from a Summerstock favourite- John Bell of John Bell LLC and The Batfry brings us "Red Ryder"! Enjoy a classic Red Ryder radio episode, made a little less classic! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Sunday Showcase in the summer! This week MONA brings us Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 16.2, Mutual Presents #6.11, and Sonic Echo #60- Zero Hour! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices