Waldina

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Every Dog Has His Day" - August 2, 1976 Two brothers argue over their father's estate with one accusing the other of murder. The real heir could be the dog. Meanwhile, their father's lawyer's daughter is in love with both of them and must choose. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "The 39 Steps" (August 1, 1938) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Night Shift" - August 30, 1976 Eddie O'Brian hates going to work driving a bus 9 hours a day until he gets a new bus, #2792. He becomes very protective of it and soon cares more for it than his wife Margie. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Shotgun Wedding" - July 29, 1976 Charlie, a man of about 30, is invited by his co-worker, Gus, to meet his daughter. Gus feels that Charlie will fall instantly in love with Elaine. When Charlie meets her, he does fall in love with her. Then things begin to get strange. Charlie goes back to visit his beloved, but he finds the house and its occupants gone. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "The Last Letter Of Dr Bronson" July 27, 1943 A scientist has an interesting theory about "The Five Checks To Murder." The story was subsequently produced on "Suspense" on August 15, 1946 and November 4, 1954. The script was used subsequently on "Audion Theatre" on August 25, 1990. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "The Black Shawl" July 27, 1944 A good mood piece about a young girl kept in the mansion of a madwoman, and of the woman's idiot son. The system cue has been deleted. + Susan Appleby says she is about to be murdered, she's not certain; no one has even threatened her. She is sitting in a plain ordinary looking kitchen but to her it is a death house… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Brain without Mercy" - July 26, 1976 A mad scientist removes the brain from a severely injured hijacker to ascertain where he left the loot he got away with. Just how far will he go in the name of science? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "A Tale of Two Cities" (July 25, 1938) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"The Men with the Magic Fingers" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - July 22, 1976 A turn-of the-century tale of romance and tragedy where a circus owner sculpts a fortune teller out of wax and falls in love with his own creation. Held captive in his world of make-believe, his poor wife has no other recourse but to question his sanity. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "Forcast The Lodger Audition" (July 21, 1940) CBS Presented "The Lodger" as its audition program of the hugely successful radio series Suspense. Mr. Alfred Hitchcock brilliant English director of such outstanding motion pictures as "The Thirty-Nine Steps", Rebbeca and Foreign Correspondent was eager to create a very special type of radio drama, the suspense stories. As narrator and star of his production he thought at once of the distinguished actor with whom he had been associated in countless British film successes, Herbert Marshall. Mr Marshall suggested that they dramatized a certain favorite story of his and that story happened to be the very one Mr Hitchcok had in mind, Marie Belloc-Lowndes classic in chills, The Lodger. The Lodger is a work of fiction, which springs from recorded fact a story that begins in the year 1888 in London, a London terrorised by the fifth in a succession of recent murders. It is believed that these deeds were the works of one person, a tall gaunt figure in a black Inverness cape carrying a small narrow bag. The mysterious killer known as the Avenger preyed on young attractive blond haired women just like Daisy the daughter of the Buntings, the Buntings who had taken in a gentleman lodger… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "Murder Goes For A Swim" July 20, 1943 The program is introduced by, "The Man In Black." The first radio appearance of "The Lone Wolf." A treasure hunt at a society party leads Michael Lanyard to a dead bathing-beauty and a dead gossip columnist. + Warren William as Michael Lanyard and Eric Blore as Jamison who have appeared together many times in screen thrillers based on the celebrated character of crime pictures, The Lone Wolf are together again in this episode of Suspense. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "Of Maestro And Man" July 20, 1944 Peter Lorre is typecast as "The Maestro," a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steamroom! + Written by Jo Eisenger this original story for Suspense is a play with sporting blood in its veins and in which death has a ringside seat. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

July 19, 2008 "The Swing Years & Beyond" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"Future Eye" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - July 19, 1976 An investigator is sent back in time with a critical mission-- to secure a microchip which has a complete account of the world until 2976. It's a race against time to retrieve the technology which, in the wrong hands has the power to wipe out the future. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "Treasure Island" (July 18, 1938) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Richard Diamond Private Detective "The Man Who Hated Women" (July 16, 1949) A serial killer is on the loose, slashing women and threatening Lt. Levinson's job! A good, serious cops and robbers story. Dick Powell sings, "Cruising Down The River" after the story. The same script used on the program on April 12, 1950. + When Lynnette Knight quits her job as a café photographer she is surprised at the unprovoked attempts on her life. She goes to Richard Diamond but leaves, as she cannot afford his $100 a day fee. But when Diamond receives a call threatening him not to take the job, he takes it… Levinson contacts Dick Powell to help him with a case. Someone is killing women in a brutal way and Levinson has to solve the case by next week or his job is on the line. This is the third killing like this in three weeks. Virginia Gregg is credited as Virginia Del Valle, her married name to Jamie Del Valle. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"The Last Trip of Charter Boat Sally" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - July 15, 1976 An old charter boat captain is set-up as the fall guy for murder of her husband by a scheming woman and her good-for-nothing lover. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

The Thin Man - "The Adventure Of The Haunted Hams" (July 13, 1948) Every once in a while a man' wife gets the idea that her husband needs a change. Of course the conscientious little homemaker never suggests her husband change his wife. Well this evening we find the great ex-detective Nick Charles in the car with his lovely wife Nora and his good friend Ebenezer Williams driving through the countryside… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "The Beast Must Die" July 13, 1944 A man vows to kill the hit and run driver who killed his son, and he's keeping a diary of his plans! The story has a good "suspense" ending. + The Beast Must Die is a powerful story of vengeance and retribution. Herbert Marshall plays the part of Felix Laine a writer by profession of detective novels who was planning to kill a man. He didn't know his name, where he lived or what he looked like but he knew that he was going to find him and kill him. He recorded all of the details in a diary, which was either the best murder novel he had ever written, or an incriminating document. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "The Search For Henry Le Ferre"" (July 12, 1946) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"Blood Red Roses" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - July 12, 1976 When his son is brutally murdered by the mafia, a father's beliefs are shaken. He meets the mastermind behind the crime and falls deeper into confusion and the Boss' love for Red Roses is the key to their salvation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "Dracula" (July 11, 1938) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Richard Diamond Private Detective "Charles Walsh Bob Wells" (July 9, 1949) Two convicts escape from Sing Sing with plans to kill Richard Diamond. They start by kidnapping Diamond's girlfriend Helen Asher. Diamond's alcoholic friend "Wilbur" is similar to the character "Jocko" heard on, "Pat Novak, For Hire." After the story, Dick Powell imitates Ezio Pinza and sings, "Some Enchanted Evening!" Charles Walsh and Bob Wells two lifers were planning to bust out of the state penitentiary and head for safety in Cuba. Walsh had paid out a lot of dough to make sure it all came off but before he left New York for Florida then Cuba he was planning to knock off an ex-cop for bringing down his brother in a bank job. That ex-cop was Richard Diamond, private detective… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Candy Matson "Cable Car Case" (July 7, 1949) The man riding next to Candy on a cable car is silently shot to death. + Candy Matson was sitting besides a man on a Cable Car when it appeared that he had been killed. Candy didn't know him from Adam but suddenly she was a suspect the only thing for her to do was to investigate herself… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

The Thin Man - "The Adventure Of The Passionate Palooka" (July 6, 1948) Nick and Nora Charles have promised to find Jojo the mongrel pooch whose mysterious disappearance has broken the heart of “Atom Bomber” Birkenhead the heavy weight challenger who lacks a mind. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "The White Rose Murders" July 6, 1943 A good story about a maniacal murderer, one who kills only young girls and leaves a white rose behind. The story has a surprise ending. + He stood there waiting, he knew that presently they would come out of a second rate dance hall, out in to the dimly lit street. He listened a while and smiled as the orchestra played that tune inside. And then they came out the two girls and still he waited till he was close enough to hear what they were saying. In the narrow alley that divided the dance hall from an ugly office building he stood smiling and standing stiffly against the wall, his head back, eyes closed, arms straight down and in his left hand a white rose… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "The Search For Henri Lefevre" July 6, 1944 A man who has just finished writing a symphony hears the exact same symphony on the radio. This is a network, sponsored version. The script was used subsequently on "Audion Theatre" . + He had just set down the last note on paper he was happy and weary and full of peace. There was a radio near the couch, he sat down and turned it on and felt great horror as he heard the music playing on the radio, the music that he had just set down on paper. Then as the music finished the announcer said, you have just been listening to eulogy for orchestra opus 42 by Henri Lefevre. But who was Henri Lefevre? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Richard Diamond Private Detective "Hat Without A Body" (July 2, 1949) The program switches to Saturdays at 10:00 P. M. Bert Kalmus is framed for murder in an early version of a classic scam. Dick Powell sings, "A, You're Adorable." The name Bert Kalmus was used previously on the program of June 5, 1949. Bea Kalmus was actually a broadcaster in New York City at this time. + When taxi driver Hennessey found a hat with the initials B.K. in it and blood around the rim in the gutter with a 38 gun besides it, not wanting to get involved with the police he took it to private detective Richard Diamond. Diamond knew that he should've taken it down to his friend Lieutenant Levinson but he didn't have anything to do so he decided to fit the pieces in to the puzzle of the hat without a body. ** This episode file has the title of "George Watkins Framed" but with the same exact date. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"Loser Takes All" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - July 1, 1976 When Jake Alexander, the world's top agent first sets eyes on the beautiful Delphi Carr, he takes both a professional and personal interest in her. Before he can act out on either, she gets married and instead urges Jake to sign on her husband, actor Deke Roberts. Jake willingly agrees with the evil intention of murdering him. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "Uncle Henrys Rose Bush" June 29, 1943 What on earth is Aunt Julie up to? And where is Uncle Henry? The story has a surprise ending. + Quality – Good with a few audio drop-outs When a woman and her husband arrive unexpectedly they discover Uncle Henry missing and Aunt Julie very remote. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "Walls Come Tumbling Down" June 29, 1944 There's some nice detection by a newspaperman trying to locate a priceless-but-hidden mural. + Father Walsh came to see Mr Darcy a newspaper editor, as he didn't know where else to turn. Three nights ago a man came to see him demanding that he gave him the bibles marked EB. Father Walsh did not know what he was talking about and the man became angry saying he would give him three days to help him find the walls of Jericho or he would regret it… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"Forty-Five Minutes to Murder" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - June 28, 1976 Inconsistencies in the official statement given by a businessman regarding his wife's murder move a brilliant defense attorney to scrutinize it further. All evidence point towards foul play and the answers he seeks can be found in poison. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Richard Diamond Private Detective "Tom Waxman Murdered" (June 26, 1949) A mail bomb has been sent to the Waxman family, killing Tom Waxman. His brother Phil is accused of the crime, but Diamond suspects that the Labor Assistance League is behind it. After the case, Dick Powell sings in Yiddish! An announcement is made that the program is switching to Saturdays. The script is essentially the same as the "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" program of July 14, 1953 (see cat. #16553). + A union meeting is in full swing. Tom Waxman, a charismatic young speaker has the audience in the palm of his hand, but two men have other plans on who should control the union. That evening a parcel arrives at Tom's house. The parcel turns out to be a bomb. It kills Tom and severely injures his fiancé and future mother-in-law. The main suspect is Tom's brother Phil, but Richard Diamond knows this is ridiculous and sets out to prove that the police are wrong in their suspicions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "Wet Saturday" June 24, 1942 Sponsored by: Auto-Lite. Who killed the curate? Almost everybody it seems! A very British story, subsequently produced on "Suspense" on December 16, 1943, December 19, 1947 and March 20, 1948. + Based on John Collier's short story of the same name. A story of suspense that tickles your funny bone whilst tingling your spine. It would have been just another day in the Princey household had it not been for the rain. If they had all been out doing what they had planned the murder would never have happened and the cover-up would not have been necessary. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"Child of Fate" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - June 24, 1976 Threatened by the entrance of new and real-life companions, a child's imaginary friend manifests and attacks them in a battle to exist beyond their make-believe world. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "The Ten Grand" June 22, 1944 A story about a penniless dancer who has her empty purse stolen in the subway. When the purse is returned, she finds it loaded with money! + Miss Zizi Lewis is taking the subway home late at night when her purse is snatched. A tall dark handsome man recovers her bag for her and disappears in to the crowd. When she opens her bag to find the nickel she needs for the slot her heart nearly stops for there in her bag is a wad of notes which looked like ten grand… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "Man Without A Body" June 22, 1943 A humdinger thriller set in rural England. What is the secret of the invisible man terrorizing the countryside? You'll never guess! + John Sutton appears as a young English doctor, Jim Norwood who knew a great deal more than he admitted concerning the strange events, which you are about to hear, and George Zuko plays the village curate, Reverend Arthur Morley. The story, which bears a coincidental resemblance to H G. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "The Hitch-Hiker" (June 21, 1946) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"Checkmate" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - June 21, 1976 Implicated in the vicious slaying of a friend and former opponent, a renowned chess player finds himself at the center of a murder investigation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Candy Matson "Symphony Of Death" (June 20, 1950) composer is going to die, and there's no doubt about it. We're going to call on Edward Farrington and his three sisters, a little family of four who love each other devotedly. Edward Farrington and his sisters live by themselves in a large, roomy old house on the outskirts of Boston. It is evening, and Edward is on his way home when his attention is attracted by a small establishment which is advertising a close out sale. An economical and foresighted man, Edward stops his car and enters the dimly lighted shop. If only he hadn't ... Reviewed by Kitty + Candy Matson Memories created by a songwriter named Gordon Grey. Symphony of death, it never became a popular composition but it will always be on Candy's all time hit parade, a tune she'll never forget. Because it brought about a very strange chain of events and a fascinating finish to the whole story… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Richard Diamond Private Detective "Fred Sears Murder Case" (June 19, 1949) It's breakfast time and Fred Sears is reading the paper with disregard for his wife who is vying for an argument. When Sears sees an article in Jimmy Cellos column “prominent socialite fighting with her wealthy husband then crying on the shoulder of big time playboy” an argument ensues and Sears declares he's gonna do something about it. This is where Richard Diamond, private eye comes in. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "The Burning Court" June 17, 1942 A story of poisoning with supernatural overtones. One of the guests at a dinner party is a murderer...which one? The first show of the series. The series was based on a "Forecast" broadcast called "Suspense" that was aired July 22, 1940. The story was produced on "Suspense" again on June 14, 1945 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"Pension Plan" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - June 17, 1976 On the eve of retirement, a purchasing manager discovers he is penniless and that an entire life of being honest and straightforward has brought him no reward. His values are tested when he realizes that living by his principles were all for naught. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

The Thin Man - "The Case of the Glamorous Clue" (June 16, 1944) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "A Friend To Alexander" June 15, 1944 The story of a very personal reaction to the Hamilton-Burr duel. The program is delayed by an attempted report from the Normandy Beachhead. The story was produced on "Suspense" previously on August 3, 1943 and subsequently on August 15, 1956. + Before the Suspense story begins you will hear a CBS World News bulletin from an American wartime correspondent at Normandy beach. Harry Andrews was a laughing happy-go-lucky fellow before he began to have dreams about Aaron Burr dreams in which Burr would be mean to his friend Alexander Hamilton, dreams that became nightmares that began to plague him… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "Last Night" June 15, 1943 The story of a corpse in the rumble seat and a debt-ridden dude ranch. Kent Smith, Margo, Cornell Woolrich (author, based on his short story, "The Red Tide"), + Quality – Fair with some audio drop-out and background noise Owners of a dude ranch needing $2500 to pay their debts host a businessman and his male secretary and when the businessman supposedly changes his plans and leaves in the middle of the night a mystery and several twists develop. A woman must figure out if her husband murdered a prospective investor in order to get money to keep their dude ranch operating. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"The Unthinkable" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - June 14, 1976 When his wife lands a job and starts moving up the corporate ladder, an unemployed engineer's ego takes a beating. He takes matters into his own hands and finds gratification in robbing a bank-- and not just any bank but the place where she works. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"Free the Beast" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - June 10, 1976 Furtive conversations take place between an unseen entity and a patient of a sanitarium for the insane. A freak accident triggers a chain of events that lead to the discovery of her horrifying family secret. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "Case History On Edgar Lowndes" June 8, 1944 A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad dreams...and with good reason! + Case History On Edgar Lowndes is a story in which psychiatry is called upon to deal with a sick mind, which has unknowingly been tempted thrice by murder. Thomas Mitchell stars as the millionaire tycoon Edgar Lowndes and Donald Crisp as the psychiatrist Dr Erinson. A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad dreams... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

Suspense "Five Canaries In The Room" June 8, 1943 A fun filled bachelor party turns serious when a dead body, a vanishing apartment and those damn birds are introduced. + Ronald Denham was getting married to Anita in two weeks and his friend Jimmy Westlake threw a bachelor party for him. When he arrived home after only two drinks he felt as though his drink had been spiked. He entered a room with five canaries in cages all in a line. But it wasn't his apartment. He discovered a dead man and then something hit him and he remembered nothing after that. Trouble was the whole apartment vanished and a dead man disappeared with it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message

"The Corpse that Would Not Die" CBS Radio Mystery Theater - June 7, 1976 To marry his lover, a man kills her husband despite being his best friend. Soon the weight of both their sins begins to slowly poison their love. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waldina/message