The Shadow started out as a mysterious voice on the radio, created by the publisher Street & Smith and brought to life by writer Walter B. Gibson. Gibson turned that voice into a full-blown character in 1931, and The Shadow soon jumped into all kinds of media—American comic books and strips, movie serials, video games, and at least five feature films. On radio, some episodes even featured Orson Welles in the lead.
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The Zero Hour (aka Hollywood Radio Theater) was a 1973–74 American radio drama anthology series hosted by Rod Serling.[1][2] With tales of mystery, adventure and suspense, the program was broadcast for two seasons.
This serial was set in the Caribbean and included plots about petty pirates, stolen Aztec necklaces, storms and swamps.
The Bickersons was a radio comedy sketch series that began September 8, 1946, on NBC, moving the following year to CBS where it continued until August 28, 1951. The show's married protagonists, portrayed by Don Ameche (later by Lew Parker) and Frances Langford, spent nearly all their time together in relentless verbal war.
Created by Dashiell Hammett, Howard Duff appears in this action-packed old time radio show full of dames, wisecracks, adventure, and laughs.
Ripley's Believe or Not starred Robert Ripley himself as he explains the weird and strange stories from his travels around the world. Ripley's took his first trip around the world in 1922 and kept a sketch book and journal to chronicle all the unusual sites, customs, people, animals, and more.
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The Campbell Playhouse (1938–1940) is a live CBS radio drama series directed by and starring Orson Welles. Produced by Welles and John Houseman, it was a sponsored continuation of The Mercury Theatre on the Air. The series offered hour-long adaptations of classic plays and novels, as well as adaptations of popular motion pictures.
Orbit One Zero is a BBC Radio science fiction programme written by Peter Elliott Hayes, and starring Felix Felton. A single series consisting of six episodes was produced which aired between 21 April 1961 and 26 May 1961.
Genre Science fiction / Running time 30 minutes / Country of origin United Kingdom / 1959
Orbiter X: An adventure in the conquest of space was a BBC Radio science fiction programme written by B. D. Chapman. Only a single series was produced which was broadcast by the BBC Light Programme on Monday evenings in late 1959. Presumed to have been wiped and lost, a set of discs of the entire series, recorded for the BBC Transcription Service, was discovered and restored.[1] Since 2016, Orbiter X has occasionally been repeated on the BBC's archive station, BBC Radio 4 Extra.
In 1930, Ruth Woodman created a 30 minute American radio and television anthology under the sponsorship of Pacific Coast Borax Company, aka U.S. Borax Company, and named it Death Valley Days. The series later on became the most successful syndicated television series ever. The series featured real stories of the old American West, specifically in the area of Death Valley. The series ended by 1945 but it was revived in 1952 as a syndicated television series. The revived version of Death Valley Days ended in year 1975.
This show was one of the more successful radio shows of the early 1950's, airing for 3 years. Directed by Stacey Keach, Sr., TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS broadcast coast-to-coast every Sunday on NBC. Don't mistake this series for a Western. It's a modern (1950's) police drama featuring the oldest and most respected law enforcement body in North America. "Tales" related true cases from the police files and is sometimes considered a forerunner of today's TV series starring Chuck Norris. Joel McCrea stared as Texas Ranger Jace Pierson, the main character of this series.
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham presented by the BBC as a radio drama in 1960
