Show

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Num of  Shows

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Blackstone the Magic Detective & Mandrake the Magician

Blackstone would begin each series reminiscing to his friends, John and Rhonda, about a mystery case. Always with a dramatic flashback, the audience is encouraged to solve the mystery themselves. However, be on alert, there is always a surprising twist in the end.

1

55

$5.50

Captain Midnight

Captain Midnight was Captain Red Albright, a flying ace in the Great War, and he continues battling evil such as master criminal like Ivan Shark. Shark's henchmen are a wonderful bunch of stooges that serve his every evil whim. Shark's frustration and ridicule of their incompetence is great fun. Shark's an exemplary baddie, played in mini-Lorrie style by Boris Aplon.  The adventures are in exotic locales, with twists and turns in the plots that gives the show a serial format.

1

99

$5.50

Chandu the Magician

Frank Chandler, an American agent known in the secret places of the far east as Chandu The Magician. He had learned magic from a yogi in India and used his occult powers and a crystal ball against Roxor, a master criminal, amongst many other evils of the world.

2

286

$7.50

Cloak & Dagger

This is the story of the World War II special governmental agency, the OSS [Office of Strategic Services]. Its mission was to develop and maintain spy networks throughout Europe and into Asia, while giving aid to underground partisan groups and developing espionage activities for Allied forces overseas. The show is based on the book of the same name by Lt. Col. Corey Ford and Major Alastair MacBain.

1

66

$5.50

Clyde Beatty - Bring 'Em Back Alive

The Clyde Beatty Show followed the adventures of the owner of the Clyde Beatty Circus to find new and more extravagant beasts for his performances.

1

59

$5.50

Doc Savage

1

39

$5.50

Fire Fighters, The

Fire Fighters is a radio show about the "true stories" of American fighters. It is a highly entertaining and informative show about the realities of fire fighters and fire related products. Most of the shows follow the same pattern, a fire-related mystery needs to be solved and after interviews, research, and discussion the solution is eventually found.

1

140

$5.50

Hop Harrigan

Harrigan is "America's Ace of the Airwaves," and he gets a lot of flying time fighting evil, and as the war developed, Hop in his radio adventures was in the thick of the real battles that were raging overseas. His flying buddy Tank Tinker is along for the ride along with Hop's girlfriend Gail Nolan.

1

116

$5.50

Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy

Jack Armstrong was your typical teenage athlete who encountered not so average adventures. Jack's companions, Billy and Betty Fairfield were often in need of rescue by the brave and daring Jack. Their Uncle Jim (Captain Fairfield) was a pilot of the Silver Albatross and led the adventurous group to locations around the world. Uncle Jim added a mature and fatherly component to the show guiding and instructing the Jack and his friends.

1

108

$5.50

Jimmy Allen, Air Adventures of

Bob Burt and Bill Moore, the writers of Jimmie Allen had been flying aces in World War I. They came up with the idea of a show about a boy pilot whilst at a party in Kansas City and used there experience as pilots to create and write the show. The show was one of the first to capitalize on the idea of a club as a promotional tool. To join the Jimmie Allen Flying Club all a child had to do was apply at any Skelly gas station (the initial sponsor). As a member the child received a whole host of goodies ranging from a set of wings through to a “personal” letter from Jimmie himself. An incredible 600,000 club newspapers were sent out to children each week and many thousands attended the Jimmie Allen Air Races that were held in Midwest cities. The show was first broadcast between 1933 and 37 and then came back to the air with brand new stories after the war between 1946 and 47. The post war stint in no way lived up to the fascination for the show in the 1930s.

1

123

$5.50

Jungle Jim

This fifteen minute juvenile adventure show, based on the Alex Raymond comic strip in Hearst’s Comic Weekly, was broadcast on a weekly basis for many years. Week-by-week it followed the trials and tribulations of Jungle Jim Bradley, the intrepid adventurer. Interestingly, the first episode of the series not only continued the story line of Flash Gordon, which was another Hearst strip, but also used the same theme music.

4

440

$12.50

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

The amazing adventures of Sgt Preston in the frozen Northern blizzards and winds with his sidekick Husky, Yukon King.

3

362

$10.00

Speed Gibson

This adventure series, written by Virginia Cooke, featured Speed Gibson, a fifteen-year-old pilot, whose quest was to capture the master criminal “The Octopus” and his ruthless gang of henchmen. Clint Barlow was Speed’s uncle, an agent of the International Secret Police. Together they flew all over the world in their airship, the “Flying China Clipper”, trying to apprehend the arch villain.

1

178

$5.50

Superman

This juvenile adventure series was first broadcast on Mutual in 1940 with Clayton (Bud) Collyer starring as Superman/Clark Kent. It first began as a fifteen-minute show but later, in 1949, it moved to ABC as a thirty-minute Saturday show with Michael Fitzmaurice as Superman. At the end of its thirteen-year run it had totaled over 1,600 episodes. The opening for the show was one of radio’s best, setting the stage for those flights into fantasy with a cascade of voices, narration and sound effects. “Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!” “Look! Up in the sky!” “It’s a bird!” “It’s a plane!” “It’s Superman!”

6

1,160

$18.00

Tarzan

The original Tarzan radio adaptation was regarded as the first major syndicated serial, heard widely over WOR, New York. Tarzan was originally played by James Pierce, Jane was played by his real-life wife, Joan Burroughs, who was also the daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of Tarzan. The story begins with Lord and Lady Greystoke and their young son marooned on an African coast. The young boy's parents are later killed by the apes and Tarzan is raised by them.

2

228

$7.50