Classic Radio Drama | OTR
Summary: For those times when you want to lie back, close your eyes and enter the time when radio shaped your world. Each week, PirateTV Theater features a program selected from our library of classic radio plays. The classics and some modern radio-inspired art will all be featured as we travel into the era of the imagination. Listen to characters who never were, but became real through the marvels of radio.
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A man presumably killed for the diamond he had recently acquired presents the characters with a classic Locked Room ScenarioTM. Starring Virginia Bruce.
Watson is awoken to tend a patient who has had his thumb cut clean off. While dressing the wound, the patient tells the story of how he was visited in his office by an odd, suspicious man who identifies himself as Colonel Lysander Stark and offered the young engineer a lucrative pay for a seemingly simply job....oh how awry things can go!
Dr. Watson is called to 221B Baker Street to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare Asian disease contracted while he was on a case at Rotherhithe. Watson is shocked, having heard nothing about his friends illness. Mrs. Hudson says that he has neither eaten nor drunk in three days and is on the verge of dying...
Mr. Hilton Cubitt of Ridling Thorpe Manor in Norfolk comes to Sherlock with the above drawing of little dancing men. The little dancing men are at the heart of a mystery which seems to be driving his young wife Elsie to distraction. The trouble began when Elsie received a letter from the United States, which evidently disturbed her, and she threw the letter on the fire. Then the dancing men appeared, sometimes on a piece of paper left on the sundial overnight, sometimes scrawled in chalk on a wall or door, even a windowsill. Each time, their appearance has an obvious, terrifying effect on Elsie, but she will not tell her husband what is going on.
Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation. Colonel James Barclay is dead, apparently by violence, and his wife Nancy is the prime suspect.
Watson visits Holmes at Christmas time and finds him contemplating a battered old hat, brought to him by the commissionaire Peterson after it and a Christmas goose had been dropped by a man in a scuffle with some street ruffians. Peterson takes the goose home to eat it, but comes back later with a precious blue carbuncle. His wife had found it in the bird's crop. Holmes cannot resist a good mystery, and he and Watson set out across the city to determine exactly how the stolen jewel wound up in a goose's crop.
A special episode narrated solely by Sherlock himself. Holmes tells the tale of Mr. James M. Dodd who came to see Holmes about a missing friend, Godfrey Emsworth. After years together in the service, Emsworth is wounded and disappears. After trying to track him down, Dodd eventually finds his friend but he is now a ghostly pale shell of his former friend......but why?#BR##BR#Last minute or so is cut off; though the solution is essentially complete.
Captain Peter Carey is found harpooned to a wall. He was a most unpleasant man, especially when he was drunk. He had a reputation for being violent, even having been prosecuted once for assaulting the local vicar. His daughter is actually glad that he is dead. She and her mother have endured years of abuse from the old whaler and sealer, who moreover had some remarkably peculiar habits. He did not sleep in the family house, but in an outhouse that he built some distance from the house, and which he decorated to look like a sailors cabin on a ship. This is where he was found harpooned. No footprints or other physical evidence are to be found at the scene...
A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder of Streatham makes a loan of 50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves the Beryl Coronet one of the most valuable public possessions in existence as security. Holder feels that he must not leave this rare and precious piece of jewellery in his personal safe at the bank, and so he takes it home with him to lock it up there. He is awoken in the night by a noise, enters his dressing room, and is horrified to see his son Arthur with the coronet in his hands, apparently trying to bend it...
Story by Vincent Price.
The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is an incredible powerful and suspense story; told of all fears of a young father coming to light as his life swings in and out of reality. Peyton Farquhar is being hanged at Owl Creek Bridge in Northern Alabama. The sergeant steps off of the plank keeping Peyton aloft and the story goes back in time to tell about Peyton and his family. All of the characters are the same but some of the aspects are slightly different or even completely opposite...
In another place, we again meet Parkhill. He has opened a hot-dog stand, when a lone Martian walks in. He panics and kills him. Suddenly, numerous Martians appear in sand ships. Parkhill takes his wife to his very own sand ship and flees. The Martians catch up and give Parkhill a message: he now owns half of Mars. Unfortunately, the fleet of rockets filled with "hungry customers" won't be coming to patronize his restaurant, as the nuclear war has begun on Earth.#BR##BR#
Tonight, Suspense brings you a repeat performance of one of the most controversial plays ever presented over your radio. It is called "Zero Hour" by Ray Bradbury. Starring Miss Iza Ashdown, here is tonight's Suspense play, "Zero Hour." Original Airdate: April 5th, 1955
A scientist in Europe has invented a machine that will shrink objects to the size of atoms and beyond.
Reinaction of the famous movie. Is a woman haunted by the spirit of her dead aunt? Or is it something far worse? Stars Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.