By request.
30-minute murder mystery stories adapted for radio by Stedman Coles or Wyllis Cooper from based on and featuring some of the stories from the Doubleday Crime Club books.
Crime Club was broadcast by Mutual and produced and directed by Roger Bower. The post war stories were by various different authors and adapted for radio by among others Stedman Coles and Wyllis Cooper (writer of Lights Out and Quiet Please). The narrator played by Barry Thomson is the supposed curator of the Crime Club library. He speaks to the listener as if they have just arrived or phoned and requested one of the Club's books.
The telephone rings, "Hello I hope I haven't kept you waiting. This is the librarian, Silent Witnesses; yes we have that Crime Club book for you, come right over." The organ plays suspenseful music, the door opens and the librarian says, "Ah you're here, good take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on this shelf..."
He would take the book from the shelf and begin to tell the tale. The story would end with the Librarian informing you that there was a new Crime Club book available this week and every week in bookstores everywhere.
Program: Crime Club
Title: Death is a Knockout
Date: 06-12-1947
Network: Mutual
Sponsor: Sustained
Note: This old time radio show is in the public domain* and from my personal collection and can be used for historical, educational, and entertainment purposes.
*We have checked with the Library of Congress regarding the status of old time radio recordings made prior to 1978 and that all such recordings are generally in the public domain, as sound recordings were not allowed under the previous copyright law and such recordings have not been granted copyright status under the new laws.
17 янв 2014
