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67 Years Ago today in Radio History: Escape aired for the final time on the radio. CBS cancels "Escape" thriller anthology program: Today Escape is considered the best of all of Radio's romantic adventure anthologies, but during its seven-year run, it was an early victim of the rise of Television sponsorship. CBS moved it through eighteen time slots, often relegating t to summer replacement status. CBS already had a hit in the Thriller-anthology drama category with "Suspense", which had kept listeners entranced since 1940, so there was no real need for "Escape" when Bill Robson and Norm MacDonnell brought the new show to network execs in 1947. However, no one could deny that "Escape" was a great show, perhaps as good or better than "Suspense". The biggest difference between the two was that the older program used original stories while Escape turned to literature for material. This meant that Escape was cheaper and easier to write, but the Network seemed to want the program to die, moving it between a series of bad time-slots with little support. "Escape" finally went off the air for good in 1954.
244 Episodes 5 Volume
A sister show to the classic Suspense, Escape drew upon great tales from literature to take listeners away from the everyday world. Upgrade: few additional episodes, sound quality upgrades
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Soap opera about a female doctor in the 1930s, she works in a male dominated profession and looks for respect and love starring Frank Lovejoy, Agnes Moorehead and Mercedes McCambrdige.
74 Years Ago today in Radio History: Mystery in the Air (Peter Lorre) aired for the final time on the radio. Movie star Peter Lorre long wanted to star in his own dramatic radio production, and he got the chance in 1947 with Mystery Is In The Air, a summer replacement for The Abbott and Costello Show. Lorre chose classic horror tales like "The Marvelous Balastro", "The Lodger", "The Horla", and others. The short-lived project cae to an end on this day in 1947, but it caught the attention of studio execs who became interested in putting Lorre and his stories on the big screen.
8 Episodes 1 Volume
Peter Lorre stars in this series of Tales of Psychological Terror.
66 Years Ago today in Radio History: Nick Carter Master Detective aired for the final time on the radio. Nick Carter, Master Detective, which aired for a dozen years on Mutual, was a classical detective story which presented all the clues in the body of the story, and during the epilogue, Carter explained how each clue sealed the fate of the killer. The first Nick Carter stories appeared in 1886 dime novels. The final episode was broadcast on Mutual, September 25, 1955.
154 Episodes 4 Volume
Look Smart, Patsy! Detective Nick Carter now has better audio and additional episodes!
69 Years Ago today in Radio History: Night Beat aired for the final time on the radio. Nightbeat starring Frank Lovejoy could have been a compelling crime drama told from the perspective of a newspaperman, but the character of Randy Stone saw more than crime on the darkened streets of Chicago. What he saw were people. Good people, bad people, people in trouble, and people who are causing trouble. The gritty tales were told with heart and style. The program went off the air after the broadcast of September 25, 1952.
88 Episodes 3 Volume
Newspaperman Randy Stone finds hard-boiled adventure as he roams Chicago after dark in Night Beat, but he is played with such humanity by Frank Lovejoy that he and his stories generate genuine sympathy
88 Years Ago today in Radio History: Tom Mix debuted on the radio today in 1933.
Tom Mix was a real cowboy who was born in Pennsylvania in 1880. He joined the Army during the Spanish-American War in 1898 but was never deployed overseas. Mix still rode with a Rough Riders detachment during Teddy Roosevelt's Inaugural Parade. He settled in Oklahoma and worked at the Miller Bros 101 Ranch. Around 1909, Mix moved to Los Angeles where Selig Polyscope made him one of Hollywood's first Cowboy Stars.
Tom Mix was the original Movie Cowboy, appearing in almost 300 silent films (and 9 talkies). He helped establish the Western genre and the trope of the Good Guy in the White Hat saving the day and riding off into the sunset. Mix was a pallbearer at Wyatt Earp's funeral and helped John Wayne get started in the film industry. The Ralston-Purina Milling Company Wanted to break into the breakfast cereal market and licensed tom Mix's name for Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters kid's show which debuted on September 25, 1933, airing through the early Fifties. The old cowboy did not appear on the program, his rough Western life left his voice unsuitable for the Radio. Tom Mix never personally appeared on the program and passed away after an automobile accident on October 12, 1940.
25 Episodes 1 Volume
Tom Mix was one of the great American popular cowboys, and he was one who was a real cowboy, too!
Happy Birthday, William Faulkner! Today would be William Faulkner's 124th Birthday.
4 Episodes 1 Volume
his stream-of-consciousness style has thrilled, inspired, and challenged readers for nearly a full century including The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August
