The Mysterious Traveler - Old Time Radio Dramas - Volume 2: Part 2 of 2
16. (0:00:14) “New Year's Nightmare” - Written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan - Starring: Maurice Tarplin - January 5, 1947.
In this episode, it’s New Year's Eve 1946 and Chris and Judy who are engaged to be married are celebrating in the Tropicana nightclub. Judy becomes upset at Chris for drinking too much and after an argument Chris storms out of the club and gets hit by a car. When Chris finally wakes up it’s now 1948 and he remembers nothing of the entire year that has passed.
17. (0:29:08) “No Grave Can Hold Me” - Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan - Starring: Shirley Black, Richard Coogan, Bob Emerick (announcer), Al Fanelli (organist), Santos Ortega, Bill Smith, Maurice Tarplin - January 12, 1947.
In this episode, the story begins in a courtroom where a man is on trial and facing the death penalty. The verdict comes in and he’s sentenced to death. Strangely calm, the man leaves very specific and unsettling burial instructions.
18. (0:58:48) “The Woman In Black” - Written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan - Starring: Carl Caruso (announcer), James Van Dyke, Morton Lawrence, Chester Stratton, Maurice Tarplin, Joan Tompkins, Jack Ward (organist) - March 9, 1947.
In this episode, newspaper reporter Bill Storm is searching the city trying to track down a dangerous women. Her name is Theda and death seems to accompany her wherever she goes.
19. (1:27:53) “Dark, Dark Destiny” - Written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan - Starring: Carl Caruso (announcer), Joseph Julian, Elaine Kemp, Ken Lynch, Charles Paul (organist), Bill Smith, Maurice Tarplin, Palmer Ward - April 13, 1947.
In this episode, a seemingly honest man desperately needs to come up with $1,500 to pay a surgeon for an operation that will save his wife’s life. Will he set aside his morals and follow a path of darkness that leads to murder?
20. (1:56:47) “Death Is The Judge” - Written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan - Starring: Donald Buka, Juano Hernandez, Homme, Morton Lawrence, Charles Paul (organist), Ralph Paul (announcer), Eleanor Phelps, Cameron Prudhomme, Maurice Tarplin - June 15, 1947.
In this episode, a strange story involving a brain surgeon, a curio shop, and a Chinese “bell of life” that can restore life to the dead, but in return…brings death to living.
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The Mysterious Traveler was an anthology radio series, a magazine, and a comic book. All three featured stories which ran the gamut from fantasy and science fiction to straight crime dramas of mystery and suspense.
Written and directed by Robert Arthur and David Kogan, the radio series was sponsored by Adam Hats and began on the Mutual Broadcasting System, December 5, 1943. The show continued in many different time slots until September 16, 1952. During its run 370 Mysterious Traveler episodes were produced, only 75 of the originals still exist today.
Cast members included Jackson Beck, Lon Clark, Roger DeKoven, Elspeth Eric, Wendell Holmes, Bill Johnstone, Joseph Julian, Jan Miner, Santos Ortega, Bryna Raeburn, Frank Readick, Luis van Rooten, Ann Shepherd, Lawson Zerbe and Bill Zuckert. Sound effects were by Jack Amrhein, Jim Goode, Ron Harper, Walt McDonough and Al Schaffer.
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15 окт 2024