Old Time Radio
Old Time Radio Dramas
OTR – Incredible But True
Aug 29th
Incredible But True – Ten 3-minute shows.
- The Man Who Walked Behind by Incredible But True
- Water, Water Everywhere by Incredible But True
- Mr Watt's Awakening by Incredible But True
- Dead Man's Mirror by Incredible But True
- The Man Who Saw Everything by Incredible But True
- Human Atmosphere by Incredible But True
- The End of David Lang by Incredible But True
- What Day Will He Die by Incredible But True
- The Playful Spirit by Incredible But True
- Beware My Son by Incredible But True
History of the series
This series consisted of 15 minute shows, similar in format to Ripley's Believe It Or Not that had aired from 1930 to 1948. It More >
The Strange Dr. Weird
Mar 17th
Old Time Radio Dramas
The Strange Dr. Weird is a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945.
Sponsored by Adams Hats, the drama is notable in part because it was a sister series to The Mysterious Travel, both in theme and its narrator. Maurice Tarplin, who was also the creepy voice of The Mysterious Traveler. Many of the scripts were condensed 15-minute versions of scripts originally broadcast on.
To the accompaniment of an organ’s spooky strains, Tarplin introduced each episode:
Good evening. Come in, won’t you? Why, what’s the matter? You seem a bit nervous. Perhaps the cemetery outside this house has upset More >Old Time Radio Horror Dramas
Dec 18th
Old Time Radio Dramas
Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story.
Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, however, radio drama lost some of its popularity, and in some countries, has never regained large audiences.
However, recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors and museums.
Listen to such More >
