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Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod originates from the "Heart Of Historic Germantown," Philadelphia, Pa.Bob Camardella began podcasting at Podomatic in October 2005 and at the Radio Nostalgia Network at Libsyn.com in January 2006. From 2006 through 2009, in addition to the top ranked Boxcars711 show at Podomatic and Libsyn, "Humphrey/Camardella Media Productions" commanded a top ten slot at Podshow (1.5 million downloads per month), a top 10 ranking at Libsyn (1.7 million downloads per month)

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29:48

Episode 9758: Damon Runyon Theater- "Neat Strip"...

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2024/09/12

Neat Strip (Aired December 11, 1949)He was born Alfred Damon Runyan in Manhattan, Kansas, and grew up in Pueblo, Colorado, where Runyon Field and Runyon Lake are named after him. He was a third-generation newspaperman, and started in the trade under his father in Pueblo. He worked for various newspapers in the Rocky Mountain area; at one of those, the spelling of his last name was changed from "Runyan" to "Runyon", a change he let stand. After a notable failure in trying to organize a

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31:57

Episode 9757: Dad's Army - "A Brush With The Law"...

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2024/09/04

A Brush With The Law (Aired March 25, 1975)INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Ed Townsend For Your Love (1958)Dad's Army" was a long running British comedy series created and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. The idea of a series came to Jimmy Perry when he realised that many people had forgotten about the contribution the Home Guard had made to the British Home Front during the years of the Second World War. Commencing in 1968, "Dad's Army" ran on BBC Television for 9 years with over

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29:10

Episode 9756: Crime Does Not Pay - "Gasoline...

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2024/09/02

Crime Does Not Pay - Gasoline Cocktail (12-12-49)Gasoline Cocktail (Aired December 12, 1949)With the possible exception of Ed Begley, Everett Sloane, Lionel Stander and Joan Lorring, none of the other featured actors in the series ever played a major role in Radio. We don't mention this to in any way detract from these fine performers' work in this program. We simply point out the novelty of this program in the annals of Golden Age Radio history. "In the Interest of Good Citizenship and Law

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31:55

Episode 9755: Crime Club - "Death Is A Knockout"...

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2024/09/01

Death Is A Knockout (Aired June 12, 1947)The Crime Club was broadcast by Mutual and produced and directed by Roger Bower. The post war stories were by various different authors and adapted for radio by among others Stedman Coles and Wyllis Cooper (writer of Lights Out and Quiet Please). The narrator played by Barry Thomson is the supposed curator of the Crime Club library. He speaks to the listener as if they have just arrived or phoned and requested one of the Club's books. The telephone

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29:46

Episode 9754: Crime & Peter Chambers - The Hot Spot...

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2024/08/31

The Hot Spot (Aired August 31, 1954)Crime and Peter Chambers, stared Dane Clark as a hard-hitting private eye that worked well the with police department. His counter part at the NYPD was Lt Parker played by Bill Zuckert. The series was based on the character created by Henry Kane who wrote eight Peter Chambers novels before the series came to radio. Henry Kane wrote the scripts for the radio show adaptation which aired from 6 Apr – 7 Sep 1954 on NBC. The show was directed by Fred Weihe

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30:59

Episode 9753: "The Incredible Trial Of Laura D. Fair"...

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2024/08/29

The Incredible Trial Of Laura D. Fair (Aired August 17, 1953)Crime Classics was a U. S. radio docudrama which aired over CBS from June 15, 1953 to June 30, 1954. Created, produced, and directed by radio actor/director Elliott Lewis, the program was basically a historical true crime series, examining crimes, and especially murders, from the past. It grew out of Lewis's personal interest in famous murder cases, and took a documentary-like approach to the subject, carefully recreating the

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26:45

Episode 9752: Crime & Peter Chambers - "The Hot Spot"...

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2024/08/27

The Hot Spot (Aired August 31, 1954)Crime and Peter Chambers, stared Dane Clark as a hard-hitting private eye that worked well the with police department. His counter part at the NYPD was Lt Parker played by Bill Zuckert. The series was based on the character created by Henry Kane who wrote eight Peter Chambers novels before the series came to radio. Henry Kane wrote the scripts for the radio show adaptation which aired from 6 Apr – 7 Sep 1954 on NBC. The show was directed by Fred Weihe

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29:47

Episode 9751: The Creaking Door - "The Haunted...

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2024/08/25

The Haunted Hangman (1950) *The Exact Date Is Unknown.The Creaking Door was South African Radio's attempt to create a compelling program of highly suspenseful, dramatic thrillers with a supernatural bent for their sponsor, State Express Cigarettes. Some commentators insist it was conceived as a spin-off of the already successful Inner Sanctum episodes that had been syndicated for broadcast in Australia and South Africa during the 1950s. Given the format, one can see the inference, but in

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27:08

Episode 9750: Columbia Workshop - A Story In Dogtown...

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2024/08/22

This was drama with a difference. Columbia Workshop was not everybody’s cup of tea and in terms of audience popularity it was always noted that it was never a strong contender for the title “Radios Top Rated Drama Series” and yet it was always considered to be the drama program that led the way in radio standards. Columbia was the first to experiment with what radio drama was all about, introducing new techniques never before used in over the airwaves drama and because it received little

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30:41

Episode 9749: Filename: Cloak & Dagger - The Kachin...

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2024/08/18

The Kachin Story (Aired June 18, 1950)Based on the book, Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Story of the O.S.S. by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain, the Radio rendition of these fascinating stories promised to keep any listener perched on the edge of their seat. Apart from describing the book upon which the new adventure series was based, the above is just about all the fanfare that was associated with the roll-out of NBC's only espionage program of the year. It was also one of the few solo

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31:20

Episode 9748: The Adventures Of Christopher London -...

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2024/08/16

CHRISTOPHER LONDON was the name and the hero of this 1950 radio show that related the adventures and exploits of a private eye who will "go anywhere and do anything...for a price." Of an added interest is the fact that this guy is supposedly based on a character created by Erle Stanley Gardner. It's an excellent detective drama with Glen Ford in the lead role. Supporting cast compliment his talent. There is little else known about this NBC 1950 presentation.Glenn Ford had not yet appeared

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30:31

Episode 9747: Chase - Harry Troll's Diamond (05-04-52)

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2024/08/15

Harry Troll's Diamond (Aired May 4, 1952)The Chase is an exciting Old Time Radio series in which every episode contains, well, a chase. Tales, highly melodramatic and often improbable, of people on the run. The concept of "hunter and hunted" was built into the signatures. with the lone bugle of a fox hunt, the braying of dogs, the sounds of a man running, a gunshot, and the slowing footsteps and eventual fall of the victim. It may be an adventure story, a crime story, or even science

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25:30

Episode 9746: Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke"...

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2024/08/14

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke" -Killer Mike Evans (Aired May 13, 1956)Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The radio version ran from 1952 to 1961, and John Dunning writes that among radio drama enthusiasts "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time." The

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31:05

Episode 9745: Dragnet - "The Big Mustache" (03-23-54)

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2024/08/12

Dragnet - The Big Mustache (03-23-54)The Big Mustache (Aired March 23, 1954)The first several months were bumpy, as Webb and company worked out the program’s format and eventually became comfortable with their characters (Friday was originally portrayed as more brash and forceful than his later usually relaxed demeanor). Gradually, Friday’s deadpan, fast-talking persona emerged, described by John Dunning as "a cop's cop, tough but not hard, conservative but caring." (Dunning, 210) Friday’s

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33:27

Episode 9744: Boston Blackie - The Jonathan Diamond...

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2024/08/11

INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Dionne Warwick & Then Spinners "Then Came You" (1974)Boston Blackie REPAIRED- The Jonathan Diamond aka: Rockwell Diamond (06-23-44)The Jonathan Diamond aka: Rockwell Diamond (Aired June 23, 1944)The Boston Blackie radio series, also starring Morris, began June 23, 1944, on NBC as a summer replacement for The Amos 'n' Andy Show. Sponsored by Rinso, the series continued until September 15 of that year. Unlike the concurrent films, Blackie had a steady romantic

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28:03

Episode 9743: Bold Venture - Slate Gets The Hook...

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2024/08/11

Boston Blackie - The Jonathan Diamond aka: Rockwell Diamond (06-23-44)The Jonathan Diamond aka: Rockwell Diamond (Aired June 23, 1944)The Boston Blackie radio series, also starring Morris, began June 23, 1944, on NBC as a summer replacement for The Amos 'n' Andy Show. Sponsored by Rinso, the series continued until September 15 of that year. Unlike the concurrent films, Blackie had a steady romantic interest in the radio show: Lesley Woods appeared as Blackie's girlfriend Mary Wesley. Harlow

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28:03

Episode 9742: Bold Venture - "Slate Gets The Hook"...

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2024/08/05

Slate Gets The Hook (Aired October 8, 1951)One can only imagine the number of Ad agencies, networks, sponsors, and syndicators that lined up month after month to pitch a Radio project to Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. That's undoubtedly a story in itself. What the Bogarts finally settled on has become something of a cult favorite in the world of Golden Age Radio. And they settled on a gem--for both its day and for generations of Golden Age Radio fans to come. The concept of Bold Venture

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31:07

Episode 9741: The Black Museum - "The Bathtub"...

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2024/08/03

The Bathtub (Aired April 1, 1952)Opening in 1875, the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard is the oldest museum in the world purely for recording crime. The name Black Museum was coined in 1877 by a reporter from The Observer, a London newspaper, although the museum is still referred to as the Crime Museum. The idea of a crime museum was conceived by Inspector Neame who had already collected together a number of items, with the intention of giving police officers practical instruction on how to

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30:06

Episode 9740: Big Town - "Pittsburgh Lil"...

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2024/08/01

Pittsburgh Lil (Aired October 19, 1937)Hard-nosed editor, Wilson, as played by Robinson would get the story no matter what it takes. Though sometimes over the top, Robinson was excellent in his role. The stories were well written and directed by William N. Robson as well as McGill. The skill of this group shows in making the series very good radio. The show was a big promoter of the free press and the first amendment with its opening sequence: "Freedom of the press is a flaming sword! Use

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Episode 9739: Big Show - "Guests Jimmy Durante &...

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2024/07/29

Big Show - "Guests Jimmy Durante & Milton Berle" (04-29-51)-STEREOAired April 29, 1951April 29, 1951. NBC network. Sponsored by: Canon Towels, Chesterfield, Anacin, RCA. Ethel Merman opens the show with, "There's No Business Like Show Business." Frank Lovejoy appears in an "I Was A Communist For The FBI" drama and the real Matt Cvetic makes a brief anti-communist speech. Rosemary Clooney sings, "Taking a Chance On Love." Gordon MacRae recalls his days as an NBC page. Uncle Miltie does a

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