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 coded warning sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to a country retreat, where they follow a perplexing trail of clues to unmask a murderer and to break the stranglehold of a terrorist cult. #BR##BR#In this, the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, Doyle is at his storytelling best.
A coded warning sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to a country retreat, where they follow a perplexing trail of clues to unmask a murderer and to break the stranglehold of a terrorist cult. #BR##BR#In this, the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, Doyle is at his storytelling best.
The classic story about a scientist with a nasty split personality. A wonderfully creepy dramatization.
Because of threats against his seeing eye dog, a blind man with a highly develped sense of touch is forced to help a gang of bank robbers.#BR##BR##EM#Original Airdate: February 19th, 1939#/EM#
A story about a space ship disaster that spews the crew out into space. The story was subsequently produced on Suspense on July 12, 1955.Story by Ray Bradbury.#EM#Original Airdate: September 15, 1951#/EM#
Aboard a spaceship to Venus, a battle of the sexes fills the vacuum. The story was also used on Future Tense during July, 1976 and Audion Theatre on September 29, 1990.#BR##BR##EM#Original Airdate: February 6, 1957#/EM#
A madman threatens to poison the entire city...and signs his threat..."The Shadow!"#BR##BR##EM#Original Airdate: January 30, 1938#/EM#
A doll with a soul let out of a bottle will kill for jewels.
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Set in the year 2117, the story presents District A-3, a newly built suburb of San Francisco, and the world's first community to be built entirely using Doors, a method of travel via teleportation.#BR##BR#When the Door that transfers him from home to school fails, Richard "Dickie" Hanshaw takes a dislike to the method and starts to wander outside in the unfamiliar open, exposed to the elements. When he catches a cold, Mrs. Hanshaw is horrified and takes him to see Dr. Sloane, a psychiatrist, afraid that her son's wanderings are signs of a mental abnormality.#BR##BR#
After a diamond robbery goes awry, the Shadow must try to prevent a dead man from killing his treacherous compatriots.
While on vacation in Hawaii, Lamont and Margo encounter evil at a mysterious hotel...Two criminals try to trick their native accomplice out of his share of the loot by concocting a story that a cheap ring will control Mahlalayee, a powerful dwarf god. The plot thickens when the wishes made upon the ring start to come true.#BR##BR#Commercials for healthful Blue Coal.#BR##BR##EM#Original air date 3/13/49#/EM#
A rescue vessel has been programmed to protect its occupants...the soldiers of Drome...have some Geezel? A great show!#BR##BR##EM#Original Airdate: September 11, 1956#/EM#
The Shadow finds a connection between the shocking suicide of his broker and a criminal group creating false passports for foreign spies. Can The Shadow solve the crime and help an innocent man escape death?#BR##BR#Commercials for Blue Coal.
A funny story about a sociological experiment that leads to a world government.#BR##BR##EM#Original Airdate: August 14, 1956#/EM#
