Blog - Page 67 - Radio Spirits

Review: Alias Boston Blackie (1942)

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 14th 2014

It’s Christmas Eve, and reformed safecracker Horatio “Boston Blackie” Black (Chester Morris) has arranged for a vaudeville

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 8th 2014

The birth of one of radio’s most prolific and celebrated writers occurred on this date one hundred and two years ago. Davi

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 27th 2014

By the beginning of the 1950s, radio crime drama began to develop a new breed of program that, in the words of old-time rad

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 14th 2014

Diane Parrish (Harriet Hilliard) has commissioned art dealer Eric Allison (Walter Soderling) to sell a valuable statue at a

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 11th 2014

Who would have guessed that on this date in 1949, the premiere of a half-hour program about an independent investigator who

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 2nd 2014

On this date in 1958, a western — that old-time radio historian John Dunning once described (in Tune in Yesterday) as “the o