Sunday at Seven: Sherlock Holmes - “The Adventure of the Stuttering Ghost”

April 13, 2008

Sunday at Seven welcomes The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to its weekly broadcast courtesy of Old Time Radio Mystery Theater. Tonight’s episode is “The Adventure of the Stuttering Ghost” starring Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson and Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes.

  

Sunday at Seven

Sunday at Seven is Lit Between the Ear’s program for listening to vintage radio drama and contemporary audio theatre. Posted once each week, literally Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm, our goal is to present a variety of genre and format.

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Mysteryshows.com Forum IndexOld Time Radio Mystery Theater’s mission is to provide fine shows to the folks who grew up listening to them and still enjoy hearing them today. Also to introduce old time radio to young people and provide them with the chance to enjoy these great shows.

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Sunday at Seven: The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe - “Stamped for Murder”

April 6, 2008

Sydney Greenstreet - Nero Wolf 

Sunday at Seven welcomes The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe to its weekly broadcast courtesy of Old Time Radio Mystery Theater. Sydney Greenstreet stars in ”Stamped for Murder”.

Sunday at Seven

Sunday at Seven is Lit Between the Ear’s program for listening to vintage radio drama and contemporary audio theatre. Posted once each week, literally Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm, our goal is to present a variety of genre and format.

Old Time Radio Mystery Theater

Mysteryshows.com Forum IndexOld Time Radio Mystery Theater’s mission is to provide fine shows to the folks who grew up listening to them and still enjoy hearing them today. Also to introduce old time radio to young people and provide them with the chance to enjoy these great shows.

Visit the Old Time Radio Message Board for show reviews, OTR information and links to shows from other members of the club located at:

http://mysteryshows.com/OTR/index.php

Details:

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Sunday at Seven: The Mercury Theatre on the Air - “Treasure Island”

March 23, 2008

Sunday at Seven presents The Mercury Theatre on the Air and its adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”. This performance originally aired on CBS on July 18, 1938. Mercury Theatre would produce its iconic “The War of the Worlds” later in 1938.

Orson Welles, John Houseman, and an “impressive array of talents”

Welles and Houseman launched Mercury Theatre on the Air with the collective talents of Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, George Coulouris and many others. The show ran without a sponsor until Campbell’s Soup picked it up and renamed it The Campbell Playhouse.

Be prepared to be thrilled by “Treasure Island”:

Sunday at Seven

Sunday at Seven is Lit Between the Ear’s program for listening to vintage radio drama and contemporary audio theatre. Posted once each week, literally Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm, our goal is to present a variety of genre and format.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air website

Kim Scarborough has catalogued a large number of Mercury Theatre and Campbell Playhouse shows on the site. The Mercury Theatre on the Air website may be reached at:

http://www.mercurytheatre.info/

Internet Archive

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Sunday at Seven: The Mercury Theatre on the Air - “Dracula”

March 2, 2008

Sunday at Seven presents The Mercury Theatre on the Air and its adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. Mercury Theatre began its broadcast run on CBS on July 11, 1938 and produced its iconic “The War of the Worlds” later in 1938.

Orson Welles, John Houseman, and an “impressive array of talents”

Welles and Houseman launched Mercury Theatre on the Air with the collective talents of Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, George Coulouris and many others. The show ran without a sponsor until Campbell’s Soup picked it up and renamed it The Campbell Playhouse.

Be prepared to be chilled by “Dracula”:

Sunday at Seven

Sunday at Seven is Lit Between the Ear’s program for listening to vintage radio drama and contemporary audio theatre. Posted once each week, literally Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm, our goal is to present a variety of genre and format.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air website

Kim Scarborough has catalogued a large number of Mercury Theatre and Campbell Playhouse show on the site. The Mercury Theatre on the Air website may be reached at:

http://www.mercurytheatre.info/

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1996 to build an Internet library for the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in its collection and may be accessed at:

http://www.archive.org/

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Sunday at Seven: Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209 - “The Donna Dunham Case”

February 24, 2008

Candy MatsonSunday at Seven welcomes Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209 to its weekly broadcast courtesy of Old Time Radio Mystery Theater. Tonight’s show is “The Donna Dunham Case” which served as the series audition.

“Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209″

Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209 was a detective story airing on NBC between 1949 and 1951. Candy Matson was the private eye who opened each of her shows by answering a ringing phone with “Candy Matson, YU 2-8209″.

Natalie Parks-Masters starred as Candy Matson. Also starring were Henry Leff and Jack Thomas.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy “The Donna Dunham Case”:

Sunday at Seven

Sunday at Seven is Lit Between the Ear’s program for listening to vintage radio drama and contemporary audio theatre. Posted once each week, literally Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm, our goal is to present a variety of genre and format.

Old Time Radio Mystery Theater

Mysteryshows.com Forum IndexOld Time Radio Mystery Theater’s mission is to provide fine shows to the folks who grew up listening to them and still enjoy hearing them today. Also to introduce old time radio to young people and provide them with the chance to enjoy these great shows.

Visit the Old Time Radio Message Board for show reviews, OTR information and links to shows from other members of the club located at:

http://mysteryshows.com/OTR/index.php

Details:

Old Time Radio Mystery Theater

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webmaster@mysteryshows.com

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