MPIR Play Listing

Hello MPIR Fans,

We have a great line up for shows for your listening enjoyment this weekend. Now featured on the mystery stream is what I call "Movies For Your Ears". These are radio plays based on period movies, of the 40's and 50's. Film noir, adventure, drama plays! It's like watching two or three movies within an hour. :)

The Comedy stream is featuring several episodes of The Jack Benny Program, Our Miss Brooks, The Adventures of Ossie and Harriet, The Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show, The Great Gildersleeve, The Mel Blanc Show, and per a listener requests several episodes of the Grouch Marx game show You Bet Your Life.

For you history fans, the History Capsule is featuring several episodes of CBS European News from August of 1940. CBS World News Today, Command Performance, CBS You Are There, Your Hit Parade music program, and a South African historical educational show called Scoop. I just discovered these and they were produced in the 1970's and are very similar to the You Are There series.

The MPIR Dial stream is featuring a mixed playlists of historical, educational, comedy, and drama radio plays.

Enjoy!

Radio Works of Carlton E. Morse

Hello MPIR Fans & Friends,
The mystery stream is featuring some of the radio works of Carlton E. Morse. Currently the playlists features: Adventures By Morse "The Cobra King Strikes Back" 10 parts each 30 minutes.

Adventures in Cambodia.

Captain Bart Friday was a globe-trotting San Francisco-based private investigator, portrayed during the series by Elliott Lewis, David Ellis and Russell Thorson. Friday's sidekick from Texas, Skip Turner, was played mostly by Jack Edwards and occasionally by Barton Yarborough. The tales covered such areas as espionage, kidnapping and murder, along with secret Nazi bases, snake worshipers and voodoo.

I Love A Mystery "Fear Creeps Like A Cat" and "The Million Dollar Curse".

The central characters, Jack Packard, Doc Long, and Reggie York, met as mercenary soldiers fighting the Japanese in China. Later, they met again in San Francisco, where they decided to form the A-1 Detective Agency. Their motto was "No job too tough, no adventure too baffling." The agency served as a plot device to involve the trio in a wide variety of stories. These straddled the genres of mystery, adventure, and supernatural horror, and the plot lines often took them to exotic locales.

I Love Adventure 1948 several episodes placed in the play listing.

This was a 30-minute weekly adventure series which only appeared in the summer of 1948. The show continued the adventures of the I Love A Mystery series.

The play listing also includes a few interviews with the main characters. Most of the original recordings of some of these series have been lost to history, and so some of recordings are later 1948 - 150 recreations. However the true flavor of Carlton E. Morse's writing is retained. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.