Show #8 - The Shadow and Superman

The Old Time Radio Express kicks the New Year off with a couple of radio classics - The Shadow and The Adventures of Superman.

The Shadow is a wonderful show, one of those that first drew me into OTR some fifteen plus years ago.  Yes, the plots are often fantastic, but in terms of pure entertainment value, escapism and fun, The Shadow rivals anything on television.  The Shadow broadcast we have for you this week is called "Stake-Out" (for reasons that are slightly unclear) and turns the conventions of The Shadow on its head.  Rather than Lamont Cranston, alias The Shadow, being chased by the cops, Lamont is the one holding the bag.  But did he do it?  Only the Shadow knows....

The second program is the premiere episode of The Adventures of Superman.  Like The Shadow program we have for you, this is not a representative episode of Superman.  There's no Clark Kent, no Superman, no Lois and no arch-criminal.  Instead, it's all back story.  But since this is a first, we'll ignore all that and revel in the hindsight that we're listening to the beginning of an era.

(Clayton "Bud" Collyer portrayed Superman for a decade on radio)

Link Fixed

The link for the show of December 27th (O&H and Suspense) should work now.  I'd like to blame technical difficulties, but more likely than not user-error.

New Show - Ozzie and Harriet & Suspense

I hope Christmas was all you hoped it to be.  Here at the Old Time Radio Express, we had a nice Christmas, and avoided getting caught by too much weather.

Radio Brownsburg gave us 90 minutes on Sunday night, so we made the most of it with a look back at The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and then a gripping Suspense story entitled "Too Little To Live On" starring the two stars of the first program, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson). 

Click on the title of this blog episode to listen to or download this week's episode.

The range of these performers who are typecast as saccharine Americana is amazing to see.  Enjoy - we'll talk to you in 2010!