Radio Retropolis show

Radio Retropolis

Summary: A network of podcasts under several genres relating to the retro pop culture field and how these features are relevant to everyone today. Retro doesn't mean old. It's about a style and a vibe that gives you your passion. These podcasts will consist of classic radio dramas and commentary from Jim Romanovich, blogs, new interviews from individuals who contributed to the pop culture experience, and high-end audio documentaries.

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Podcasts:

 My Favorite Husband #79- Trying To Marry Off Peggy Martin | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:30

Liz tries to play matchmaker for Peggy Martin with one of George's clients, but both the client and George think that Liz is going after the guy for herself. The audio is a little challenging but it’s a funny episode that survives in the My Favorite Husband library. Commentary on the risque' storyline for 1950 that involves negligees and extra-marital affairs and how these storylines were soon abandoned due to the new moral codes that were adopted for television in 1954.

 Dragnet #82- The Big New Years | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:19

On New Year's Eve, Detectives Friday and Romero must investigate a senseless cop killing. Commentary on ambush style attacks on police today compared to the 1950s.

 Lights Out #39-The Spider | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:15

Two nefarious opportunists stuck in Brazil stumble across a spider as big as a dog, deep in the jungle. Obviously, this is their ticket home if they can catch it-before IT catches them!

 Lights Out #38-Murder in the Script Department | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:46

Two network secretaries find themselves the object of bizarre occurrences while typing out a script for Lights Out. Mercedes McCambridge, who just appeared in the episode Execution, returns to fine form as Oboler secretary Bernice whose very sanity is given the ultimate test.

 Lights Out #37-Heavenly Jeep | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:12

The Captain and his Sergeant hit a landmine in their jeep and escape with nothing more than a scratch. But by enemy aircraft open fire on them and they find themselves in a mysterious world where nothing makes sense. Are they dead? Are they in suspended animation?

 Lights Out #36-Execution | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:48

A Nazi soldier publicly executes 50 women by hanging to punish a town that refused to hand over a defender. But as each are hanged, the Nazi aggressor notices something strangely familiar about each woman. Something that begins to terrify him.

 Lights Out #35-Kill | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:47

This was a remake of a previous Lights Out episode called The Dream with Boris Karloff that probes the subconscious instinct of a person where the desire to kill cannot be controlled.

 Lights Out #34-The Archer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:38

A young woman held prisoner in an old mine by bandits receives help from an unearthly source. Hans Conried and Claudette Colbert star.

 Lights Out #33-Money,Money, Money | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:40

A poor sailor wins three thousand dollars in a sweepstakes but his friend Tony has other plans for the money.

 Lights Out #32-The Flame | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:39

Arnie Douglas is a prosperous young man whom, despite having prestige and a beautiful fiancé, has a bizarre fascination with fire, claiming that the flames are genuine living things. Quoting from an incantation used by fire worshippers of Olde, Arnie conjures a fiery elemental maiden who commands him to perform heinous acts as her newly acquired servant.

 Lights Out #31-The Dream | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:18

Lights Out #31-The Dream

 Lights Out #30-The Ball | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:24

Lights Out #30-The Ball

 Lights Out #29-The Sea | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:12

Lights Out #29-The Sea

 Lights Out #28-They Met at Dorset | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:01

Lights Out #28-They Met at Dorset

 Lights Out #27-Oxychloride X | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:26

Lights Out #27-Oxychloride X

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