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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After an epidemic which caused the extinction of life on Mars, a Martian finds himself on Earth living in a human body.Very amusing, with a twist at the end.
A small animal on a far planet is most adaptable, eating almost anything in sight. Then the mice disappear, eventually being replaced by something much better!#BR##BR##EM#Original Airdate: July 31, 1956#/EM#
A story about the old people who starve to death with thousands of dollars in their pockets! The script was used previously on "X Minus One" on July 17, 1956 and subsequently on "Future Tense" on May 7, 1974 and "Audion Theatre" on July 21, 1990.#BR##BR##EM#Original Airdate: September 12, 1957#/EM#
Young Tween is stuck on a space station, waiting for her chance to leave for the stars. Her problem? She's an albino!#BR##BR##EM#Original Airdate: July 24th, 1956#/EM#
A tiger hunt...in the jungles of New York City!Original Airdate: October 31, 1949
#B#"Report on the Barnhouse Effect"#/B# is based on a Kurt Vonnegut story originally published in #B#Collier's Weekly#/B# in 1950.#BR##BR#The story is reprinted in the Vonnegut collection _Welcome to the Monkey House_.(ISBN: 0385333501)#BR##BR#
One of Bradbury's most elliptical narratives, the Martian Chronicles teases its audience with plays on narrative voice and credibilty, weaving a kind of ghost story in which the audience is never quite sure whether the ghosts, the ghosts of Martians, or the Martians themselves are real or are the product of isolated explorers unmoored from Earth-ly ties.
A thirteen year old boy wakes up with memories of his future. Will his father be able to prevent the inevitable?#BR##BR#Great episode!
Peter Lorre introduces "Raymond," who introduces a rebroadcast of "Inner Sanctum," starring Peter Lorre. A small ugly man commits a needless murder for love.Original Airdate: June 10, 1944
The Police Commissioner plays a trick on The Shadow by having him investigate the "death" of a wax figure. The joke is on the Commissioner when The Shadow discovers someone can not only turn people into wax figures, but he can return to them to life!#BR##EM#Original air date 2/26/39#/EM#
Lamont becomes witness to murder disguised as a traffic accident which leads him into a deadly showdown with an enemy with even greater mental powers than The Shadow!
This story is based on a short story by Algys Budrys. The story follows an investigator tracking down a counterfeit operation well in the future.
This story is based on Colony by Phillip K. Dick. It is an outstanding Sci-fi short story about an exploratory survey ship evaluating an Earthlike planet for colonization. Everything looks like paradise until the Biologist is unexpectedly attacked....
After 500 years of peace the armies of the earthlings is just of group of misfits and drunks. Equipment stinks and no one knows how to fight anymore. The fleet is decimated. When alien invasion of the rim colonies looms the decision is to have them evacuate, no defence is planned. Our hero is ordered to notifiy the colonies. He rises to the occasion when the colony he is on is attacked. He catches an alien and that leads to saftey for all earthlings.#BR#Really great acting, story is great to a point. It should be a serial but by the time it was produced radio plays were dying, no sponsers could be found and the network was the only support.
A heartwarming Christmas adventure in which Lamont and Margot bring a little Christmas cheer to a newsboy and his impoverished family.#BR##BR#Original Airdate: December 22nd, 1940
