Radio crime and mystery - Posts - Page 38

“From Times Square to Columbus Circle…the gaudiest, the most violent—the lonesomest mile in the world…”

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 D. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 27th 2014

In the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina—as seen on the popular situation comedy The Andy Griffith Show—the locus

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

Radio Spirits has just released a brand-new CD collection of broadcasts featuring Boston Blackie, a lighthearted detective

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 10th 2014

One of radio’s most prolific character actresses was born in Oklahoma City on this date in 1919: Amzie Strickland. That fi