Escape (radio program)
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Escape was radio
's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio drama
s, airing on CBS
from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense
, it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil
signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950.
Despite these problems, Escape enthralled many listeners during its seven-year run. The series' well-remembered opening combined Mussorgsky
's Night on Bald Mountain
with this introduction, as intoned by Paul Frees
and William Conrad
:
Following the opening theme, a second announcer (usually Roy Rowan) would add:
and supernatural
tales than Suspense. Some of the memorable adaptations include Daphne du Maurier
's "The Birds
", Carl Stephenson
's "Leiningen vs. the Ants" (filmed in 1954 as The Naked Jungle), Algernon Blackwood
's "Confession", Ray Bradbury
's oft-reprinted "Mars Is Heaven," George R. Stewart
's Earth Abides
(the program's only two-parter), Richard Connell
's "The Most Dangerous Game
" and F. Scott Fitzgerald
's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz".
John Collier
's "Evening Primrose," about people who live inside a department store, was later adapted to TV as a Stephen Sondheim
musical starring Anthony Perkins
. Vincent Price
, Harry Bartell
and Jeff Corey
were heard in the chilling "Three Skeleton Key" (broadcast on 17 March 1950), the tale of three men trapped in an isolated lighthouse by thousands of rats; the half-hour was adapted from an Esquire
short story by the French writer George Toudouze and later remade for the 9 August 1953 broadcast starring William Conrad, Ben Wright
and Jay Novello
.
Actors on the series included Elvia Allman, Eleanor Audley
, Parley Baer
, Michael Ann Barrett, Tony Barrett, Harry Bartell
, Ted Bliss, Lillian Buyeff, Ken Christy, William Conrad, Ted deCorsia, John Dehner
, Don Diamond, Paul Dubov, Sam Edwards, Virginia Gregg
, Lou Merrill, Howard McNear
, Jess Kirkpatrick, B.J. Thompson, Shep Menken, Frank Gerstle, George Neece, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy
, Barney Phillips, Forrest Lewis, Robert Griffin, Alan Reed, Bill Johnstone, Sandra Gould, Junius Matthews, Carleton G. Young
, Frank Gerstle, Marvin Miller
, Frank Lovejoy
, Berry Kroeger, Vic Perrin, Elliott Lewis
, Eleanore Tanin, Herb Vigran, Jack Webb
, Peggy Webber and Will Wright.
Music was supplied by Del Castillo, organist Ivan Ditmars, Cy Feuer, Wilbur Hatch
and Leith Stevens
. The announcers were Paul Frees and Roy Rowan.
The program's opening announcement—"Tired of the everyday grind?"—was employed as a slogan for the counterculture magazine, New Escapologist.
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio drama
Radio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
s, airing on CBS
CBS Radio Network
The CBS Radio Network provides news, sports and other programming to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by CBS Corporation, and operated by CBS Radio ....
from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense
Suspense (radio program)
-Production background:One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era...
, it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil
ARCO
Atlantic Richfield Company is an oil company with operations in the United States as well as in Indonesia, the North Sea, and the South China Sea. It has more than 1,300 gas stations in the western part of the United States. ARCO was originally formed by the merger of East Coast-based Atlantic...
signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950.
Despite these problems, Escape enthralled many listeners during its seven-year run. The series' well-remembered opening combined Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
's Night on Bald Mountain
Night on Bald Mountain
Night on Bald Mountain is a composition by Modest Mussorgsky that exists in, at least, two versions—a seldom performed 1867 version or a later and very popular "fantasy for orchestra" arranged by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, A Night on the Bare Mountain , based on the vocal score of the "Dream Vision...
with this introduction, as intoned by Paul Frees
Paul Frees
Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago...
and William Conrad
William Conrad
William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television....
:
- “Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you... Escape!”
Following the opening theme, a second announcer (usually Roy Rowan) would add:
- "Escape! Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half-hour of high adventure!"
Adaptations
Of the more than 230 Escape episodes, most have survived in good condition. Many story premises, both originals and adaptations, involved a protagonist in dire life-or-death straits, and the series featured more science fictionScience fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
and supernatural
Supernatural
The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...
tales than Suspense. Some of the memorable adaptations include Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was a British author and playwright.Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn and the short stories "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". The first three were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Her elder sister was...
's "The Birds
The Birds (story)
"The Birds" is a famous novelette by Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community, who are attacked by flocks of seabirds who have organized themselves into avian suicide warriors. The story is set in...
", Carl Stephenson
Carl Stephenson (author)
Carl Stephenson was a German author best known for his short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants". It was first published in 1938 and has appeared in numerous collections of short stories...
's "Leiningen vs. the Ants" (filmed in 1954 as The Naked Jungle), Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T...
's "Confession", Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
's oft-reprinted "Mars Is Heaven," George R. Stewart
George R. Stewart
George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley...
's Earth Abides
Earth Abides
Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. Beginning in the United States in the 1940s, it deals with Isherwood "Ish" Williams, Emma, and the community they...
(the program's only two-parter), Richard Connell
Richard Connell
Richard Edward Connell Jr. was an American author and journalist, probably best remembered for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time and his stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly...
's "The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game
"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell. It was published in Collier's Weekly on January 19, 1924....
" and F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost...
's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz".
John Collier
John Collier (writer)
John Henry Noyes Collier was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were collected in a 1951 volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in...
's "Evening Primrose," about people who live inside a department store, was later adapted to TV as a Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
musical starring Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins was an American actor, best known for his Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion and as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho , and its three sequels.-Early life:...
. Vincent Price
Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St...
, Harry Bartell
Harry Bartell
Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,...
and Jeff Corey
Jeff Corey
Jeff Corey was an American stage and screen actor and director who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s.-Biography:...
were heard in the chilling "Three Skeleton Key" (broadcast on 17 March 1950), the tale of three men trapped in an isolated lighthouse by thousands of rats; the half-hour was adapted from an Esquire
Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is a men's magazine, published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1932, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.-History:...
short story by the French writer George Toudouze and later remade for the 9 August 1953 broadcast starring William Conrad, Ben Wright
Ben Wright (actor)
Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:...
and Jay Novello
Jay Novello
Jay Novello was an American radio, film, and television character actor.Born in Chicago as Michael Romano, of Italian descent, Novello began his career as a radio actor, playing Jack Packard on the Hollywood version of I Love a Mystery for a brief period, circa 1944...
.
Actors on the series included Elvia Allman, Eleanor Audley
Eleanor Audley
Eleanor Audley was an American actress who was a familiar radio and animation voice, in addition to her TV and film roles...
, Parley Baer
Parley Baer
Parley Edward Baer was an American actor in film, television, and radio.-Radio:Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Baer had a circus background, but began his radio career at Utah station KSL...
, Michael Ann Barrett, Tony Barrett, Harry Bartell
Harry Bartell
Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,...
, Ted Bliss, Lillian Buyeff, Ken Christy, William Conrad, Ted deCorsia, John Dehner
John Dehner
John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio...
, Don Diamond, Paul Dubov, Sam Edwards, Virginia Gregg
Virginia Gregg
Virginia Gregg Burket was an American actress best known for her many roles in radio dramas.Born in Harrisburg, Illinois, Virginia Gregg was the daughter of musician Dewey Alphaleta and businessman Edward William Gregg.-Radio:Gregg was a prolific radio actor, heard on such programs as The...
, Lou Merrill, Howard McNear
Howard McNear
Howard Terbell McNear was an American film, television and radio character actor. McNear is best remembered as Floyd Lawson, the barber in The Andy Griffith Show and as Doc Charles Adams in CBS Radio's Gunsmoke .-Career:McNear was born in Los Angeles, California to Luzetta M. Spencer and Franklin...
, Jess Kirkpatrick, B.J. Thompson, Shep Menken, Frank Gerstle, George Neece, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy
Dan O'Herlihy
Daniel O'Herlihy was an Oscar nominated Irish film actor.-Early life:O'Herlihy was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1919. His family moved to Dublin at a young age...
, Barney Phillips, Forrest Lewis, Robert Griffin, Alan Reed, Bill Johnstone, Sandra Gould, Junius Matthews, Carleton G. Young
Carleton G. Young
Carleton G. Young From January 10, 1942 until August, 1943, he had the title role on The Adventures of Ellery Queen, and from 1943 to 1952, he had the role of Edmond Dantes in Mutual's The Count of Monte Cristo. In 1951, he played the leading character on NBC's The Whisperer...
, Frank Gerstle, Marvin Miller
Marvin Miller (actor)
Marvin Elliott Miller was an American film and voice-over actor. Possessing a deep, baritone voice, he began his career in radio in St. Louis, Missouri before becoming a Hollywood actor...
, Frank Lovejoy
Frank Lovejoy
Frank Lovejoy was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He was born Frank Lovejoy Jr. in Bronx, New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine...
, Berry Kroeger, Vic Perrin, Elliott Lewis
Elliott Lewis (radio)
Elliott Lewis was active during the Golden Age of Radio as an actor, producer and director, proficient in both comedy and drama. These talents earned him the nickname "Mr Radio"....
, Eleanore Tanin, Herb Vigran, Jack Webb
Jack Webb
John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet...
, Peggy Webber and Will Wright.
Music was supplied by Del Castillo, organist Ivan Ditmars, Cy Feuer, Wilbur Hatch
Wilbur Hatch
Wilbur Hatch , was an American music composer who worked primarily in radio and television. He was born in Mokena, Illinois and died in Studio City, California.-Radio:...
and Leith Stevens
Leith Stevens
Leith Stevens was an American composer for radio and film scores.Born in Mount Moriah, Missouri, he was a child prodigy who was an accompanist for Madame Schumann-Heink....
. The announcers were Paul Frees and Roy Rowan.
The program's opening announcement—"Tired of the everyday grind?"—was employed as a slogan for the counterculture magazine, New Escapologist.
List of episodes
| Episode No | Title | Author | Star | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot | "Dead of Night Dead of Night Dead of Night is a British portmanteau horror film made by Ealing Studios, its various episodes directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. The film stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers and Michael Redgrave... " |
John Baines | Art Carney Art Carney Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. He is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners.... |
03-21-47 |
| 1 | "The Man Who Would Be King" | Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Raymond Lawrence | 07-07-47 |
| 2 | "Operation Fleur de Lis" | William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
Jack Webb Jack Webb John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet... |
07-14-47 |
| 3 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age... " |
F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Jack Edwards Jr. | 07-21-47 |
| 4 | "Typhoon Typhoon (novel) Typhoon is a novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine January to March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902 and was published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in 1903.-Plot summary:It is a classic sea yarn that... " |
Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He was born Frank Lovejoy Jr. in Bronx, New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine... |
07-28-47 |
| 5 | "The Sire del Maletroit's Door" | Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Elliott Lewis Elliott Lewis (radio) Elliott Lewis was active during the Golden Age of Radio as an actor, producer and director, proficient in both comedy and drama. These talents earned him the nickname "Mr Radio".... |
08-04-47 |
| 6 | "The Ring of Thoth" | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Jack Webb Jack Webb John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet... |
08-11-47 |
| 7 | "The Fourth Man" | John Russell, adapted by Irving Ravetch | William Johnstone | 08-18-47 |
| 8 | "The Most Dangerous Game" | Richard Connell Richard Connell Richard Edward Connell Jr. was an American author and journalist, probably best remembered for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time and his stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly... , adapted by Irving Ravetch |
Hans Conreid | 10-01-47 |
| 9 | "Run of the Yellow Mail" | 10-08-47 | ||
| 10 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Jack Webb Jack Webb John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet... |
10-15-47 |
| 11 | "The Fall of the House of Usher" | Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
10-22-47 |
| 12 | "Pollock and the Porroh Man" | H.G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Barton Yarborough Barton Yarborough William Barton Yarborough was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama.As a youth, Yarborough ran away from home, attracted by the vaudeville stages, and he first worked in radio during the 1920s... |
10-29-47 |
| 13 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier John Collier (writer) John Henry Noyes Collier was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were collected in a 1951 volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Elliott Lewis Elliott Lewis (radio) Elliott Lewis was active during the Golden Age of Radio as an actor, producer and director, proficient in both comedy and drama. These talents earned him the nickname "Mr Radio".... |
11-05-47 |
| 14 | "The Young Man With the Cream Tarts The Suicide Club (Stevenson) The Suicide Club is a collection of three 19th century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative... " |
Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.... , adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
11-12-47 |
| 15 | "Casting the Runes" | M.R. James M. R. James Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre... , adapted by Irving Ravetch |
John McIntire John McIntire John McIntire was an American character actor.-Career:The craggy-faced film actor was born in Spokane in eastern Washington State but reared in Montana, growing up around ranchers and cowboys, an experience that would later inspire his performances in dozens of westerns.A graduate of USC, McIntire... |
11-19-47 |
| 16 | "The Country of the Blind The Country of the Blind "The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of the Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories... " |
H.G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
11-26-47 |
| 17 | "Taboo" | Geoffrey Household Geoffrey Household Geoffrey Edward West Household was a prolific British novelist who specialized in thrillers. He is best known for his novel Rogue Male .-Personal life:... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
12-03-47 |
| 18 | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a short story by Ambrose Bierce. It was originally published in 1890, and first collected in Bierce's 1891 book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians... " |
Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist... , adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
12-10-47 |
| 19 | "Wild Oranges" | Joseph Hergesheimer Joseph Hergesheimer Joseph Hergesheimer was a prominent American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy.-Biography:... , adapted by John Dunkel |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
12-17-47 |
| 20 | "Back for Christmas" | John Collier John Collier (writer) John Henry Noyes Collier was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were collected in a 1951 volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in... , adapted by Robert Tallman |
Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
12-24-47 |
| 21 | "Confession" | Algernon Blackwood Algernon Blackwood Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T... , adapted by John Dunkel |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
12-31-47 |
| 22 | "The Second Class Passenger" | Percival Gibbons, adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
01-07-48 |
| 23 | "Leinengen vs. the Ants Leiningen Versus the Ants "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson is a classic short story published in the December 1938 edition of Esquire.The story centers on a scrappy, no-nonsense plantation owner called Leiningen , and his stubborn refusal to abandon his plantation in the face of a seemingly unstoppable mass of... " |
Carl Stephenson Carl Stephenson (author) Carl Stephenson was a German author best known for his short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants". It was first published in 1938 and has appeared in numerous collections of short stories... , adapted by Robert Ryf |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
01-14-48 |
| 24 | "Papa Benjamin" | Cornell Woolrich Cornell Woolrich Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He was born Frank Lovejoy Jr. in Bronx, New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine... |
01-21-48 |
| 25 | "Three Good Witnesses" | Harold Lamb Harold Lamb Harold Albert Lamb was an American historian, screenwriter, short story writer, and novelist.Lamb was born in Alpine, New Jersey. He attended Columbia University, where his interest in the peoples and history of Asia began. Lamb's tutors at Columbia included Carl Van Doren andJohn Erskine. ... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Morgan Farley Morgan Farley Francis Morgan Farley was an American actor whose career began in 1918 in the play "Seventeen". Farley played a large number of mostly small parts in movies, television and broadway... |
01-28-48 |
| 26 | "The Vanishing Lady" | Alexander Woolcott, adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
Joan Banks Joan Banks Joan Banks was an American film, television, stage and radio actress who often appeared in dramas with her husband, Frank Lovejoy.... |
02-01-48 |
| 27 | "Snake Doctor" | Irvin S. Cobb Irvin S. Cobb Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.-Biography:... , adapted by Fred Howard |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
02-08-48 |
| 28 | "Ancient Sorceries" | Algernon Blackwood Algernon Blackwood Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
02-15-48 |
| 29 | "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" | Robert Hichens Robert Smythe Hichens Robert Smythe Hichens was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the "Naughty Nineties".-Biography:... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Luis Van Rooten Luis van Rooten Luis van Rooten, was an American film actor. He was christened Luis d'Antin van Rooten.Van Rooten earned his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and worked as an architect before deciding to pursue film work in Hollywood during World War II... |
02-22-48 |
| 30 | "The Grove of Ashtaroth" | John Buchan, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
02-29-48 |
| 31 | "Jimmy Goggles...the God" | H.G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
03-07-48 | |
| 32 | "Log of the Evening Star" | Alfred Noyes Alfred Noyes Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Jack Webb Jack Webb John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet... |
03-14-48 |
| 33 | "Misfortune's Isle" | Richard Matthew Hallet, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
03-21-48 |
| 34 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
03-28-48 |
| 35 | "Action" | C.E. Montague Charles Edward Montague Charles Edward Montague, , was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays.He was born and brought up in London, the son of an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had left the church to marry. He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1890 he... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Berry Kroeger Berry Kroeger Berry Kroeger was an American film, television, and stage actor.Born in San Antonio, Texas, Kroeger got his acting start on radio as an announcer and actor, playing for a time The Falcon and The Shadow... |
04-04-48 |
| 36 | "The Brute" | Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Dan O'Herlihy Dan O'Herlihy Daniel O'Herlihy was an Oscar nominated Irish film actor.-Early life:O'Herlihy was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1919. His family moved to Dublin at a young age... |
04-11-48 |
| 37 | "The Drums of the Fore and Aft Drums of the Fore and Aft The "Fore and Aft" Regiment is the nickname of the fictional "The Fore and Fit Princess Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Anspach's Merther-Tydfilshire Own Royal Loyal Light Infantry, Regimental District 329A."... " |
Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Gil Stratton | 04-18-48 |
| 38 | "The Fourth Man" | John Russell, adapted by Irving Ravetch | Joseph Kearns Joseph Kearns Joseph Sherrard Kearns was an American actor, who is best remembered for his role as George Wilson in the CBS television series Dennis the Menace from 1959 until his death in 1962.-Biography:... |
04-25-48 |
| 39 | "John Jock Todd" | Robert Simpson | Wilms Herbert | 05-02-48 |
| 40 | "The Time Machine The Time Machine The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction... " |
H.G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , adapted by Irving Ravetch |
Jeff Corey Jeff Corey Jeff Corey was an American stage and screen actor and director who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s.-Biography:... |
05-09-48 |
| 41 | "The Match" | James Oliver Curwood, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He was born Frank Lovejoy Jr. in Bronx, New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine... |
05-16-48 |
| 42 | "Leinengen vs. the Ants Leiningen Versus the Ants "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson is a classic short story published in the December 1938 edition of Esquire.The story centers on a scrappy, no-nonsense plantation owner called Leiningen , and his stubborn refusal to abandon his plantation in the face of a seemingly unstoppable mass of... " |
Carl Stephenson Carl Stephenson (author) Carl Stephenson was a German author best known for his short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants". It was first published in 1938 and has appeared in numerous collections of short stories... , adapted by Robert Ryf |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
05-23-48 |
| 43 | "Beau Geste Beau Geste Beau Geste is a 1924 adventure novel by P. C. Wren. It has been adapted for the screen several times.-Plot summary:Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist. The main narrator , by contrast, is his younger brother John... " |
Percival Christopher Wren P. C. Wren Percival Christopher Wren was a British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its main sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal Percival Christopher Wren (1 November 187522... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Jay Novello Jay Novello Jay Novello was an American radio, film, and television character actor.Born in Chicago as Michael Romano, of Italian descent, Novello began his career as a radio actor, playing Jack Packard on the Hollywood version of I Love a Mystery for a brief period, circa 1944... |
06-06-48 |
| 44 | "The Country of the Blind The Country of the Blind "The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of the Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories... " |
H.G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
06-20-48 |
| 45 | "A Tooth for Paul Revere" | Stephen Vincent Benet, adapted by John Dunkel | Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
07-04-48 |
| 46 | "She She (novel) She, subtitled A History of Adventure, is a novel by Henry Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic magazine from October 1886 to January 1887. She is one of the classics of imaginative literature, and with over 83 million copies sold in 44 different languages, one of the best-selling books... " |
H. Rider Haggard, adapted by John Dunkel | Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
07-11-48 |
| 47 | "Habit" | F.R. Buckley, adapted by Les Crutchfield | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
07-18-48 |
| 48 | "The Man Who Would Be King" | Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
08-01-48 |
| 49 | "The Fugitive" | Vincent Starrett Vincent Starrett Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett , known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer and newspaperman.- Biography :... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Luis Van Rooten Luis van Rooten Luis van Rooten, was an American film actor. He was christened Luis d'Antin van Rooten.Van Rooten earned his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and worked as an architect before deciding to pursue film work in Hollywood during World War II... |
08-15-48 |
| 50 | "S.S. San Pedro" | James Gould Cozzens James Gould Cozzens James Gould Cozzens was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.He is often grouped today with his contemporaries John O'Hara and John P. Marquand, but his work is generally considered more challenging. Despite initial critical acclaim, his popularity came gradually... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
08-22-48 |
| 51 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age... " |
F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Sam Edwards Sam Edwards Sam Edwards was an American actor. His most famous role on TV was as the banker in the TV series Little House on the Prairie.-Biography:Born into a showbusiness family, his first role was as a baby in his mother's arms... |
08-29-48 |
| 52 | "A Dream of Armageddon" | H.G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Betty Lou Gerson Betty Lou Gerson Betty Lou Gerson was an American actress, predominantly in radio, but also in film and television, and as a voice actress.-Early life:... |
09-05-48 |
| 53 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier John Collier (writer) John Henry Noyes Collier was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were collected in a 1951 volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
09-12-48 |
| 54 | "The Man Who Could Work Miracles The Man Who Could Work Miracles (story) "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" is a British fantasy–comedy short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1898 in The Illustrated London News.-Plot summary:... " |
H.G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
09-19-48 |
| 55 | "The Lost Special The Lost Special "The Lost Special" is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1898. It is implied to be a Sherlock Holmes story, though his name is not used.-Synopsis:This story concerns the baffling disappearance of a special train on its journey to London... " |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
02-12-49 |
| 56 | "Orient Express Stamboul Train Stamboul Train is a novel by author Graham Greene. A thriller set on an Orient Express train, it was renamed Orient Express when it was published in the United States.-Plot introduction:... " |
Graham Greene Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world... , adapted by Sheldon Stark |
Edgar Barrier Edgar Barrier Edgar Barrier was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show.... |
02-19-49 |
| 57 | "Red Wine" | Lawrence Blochman Lawrence Blochman Lawrence Goldtree Blochman was an American detective story writer and translator.Lawrence Blochman was born in San Diego, California to Lucien A. Blochman, a banker, and his wife Haidee Goldtree. He began writing early... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Jeff Chandler Jeff Chandler (actor) Jeff Chandler was an American film actor and singer in the 1950s.-Early life:Chandler was born Ira Grossel to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Anna and Phillip Grossel. He attended Erasmus Hall High School, the alma mater of many stage and film personalities... |
02-26-49 |
| 58 | "Conqueror's Isle" | Nelson Bond, adapted by John Meston John Meston John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for creating, along with Norman MacDonnell, the long-running radio and TV series, Gunsmoke. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado.... |
David Ellis | 03-05-49 |
| 59 | "He Who Rides the Tiger" | James Norman, adapted by Les Crutchfield | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
03-12-49 |
| 60 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Berry Kroeger Berry Kroeger Berry Kroeger was an American film, television, and stage actor.Born in San Antonio, Texas, Kroeger got his acting start on radio as an announcer and actor, playing for a time The Falcon and The Shadow... |
03-13-49 |
| 61 | "Finger of Doom" | Cornell Woolrich Cornell Woolrich Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
03-19-49 |
| 62 | "The Country of the Blind The Country of the Blind "The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of the Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories... " |
H.G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Edmond O'Brien Edmond O'Brien Edmond O'Brien was an American actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. and his Oscar winning role in The Barefoot Contessa... |
03-20-49 |
| 63 | "The Adaptive Ultimate The Adaptive Ultimate "The Adaptive Ultimate" is a science fiction short story about an experimental medical treatment gone awry. It was written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and first published in the November 1935 issue of Astounding magazine under the pen name "John Jessel". It was collected in various editions of A... " |
Stanley G. Weinbaum Stanley G. Weinbaum Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Edgar Barrier Edgar Barrier Edgar Barrier was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show.... |
03-26-49 |
| 64 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age... " |
F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Sam Edwards Sam Edwards Sam Edwards was an American actor. His most famous role on TV was as the banker in the TV series Little House on the Prairie.-Biography:Born into a showbusiness family, his first role was as a baby in his mother's arms... |
03-27-49 |
| 65 | "Confidential Agent The Confidential Agent The Confidential Agent is a thriller novel by British author Graham Greene. Fueled by Benzedrine, Greene wrote it in six weeks. To avoid distraction while working, he rented a room in Bloomsbury from a landlady who lived in an apartment below him. He used that apartment in the novel and had an... " |
Graham Greene Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world... , adapted by Ken Crossen |
Berry Kroeger Berry Kroeger Berry Kroeger was an American film, television, and stage actor.Born in San Antonio, Texas, Kroeger got his acting start on radio as an announcer and actor, playing for a time The Falcon and The Shadow... |
04-02-49 |
| 66 | "When the Man Comes, Follow Him" | Ralph Bates Ralph Bates (writer) Ralph Bates was an English novelist. He is best known for his writings on pre–Civil War Spain.-Life:Bates was born in Swindon, England in 1899 and as a teenager worked at the Great Western Railway factory... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Paul Dubov | 04-09-49 |
| 67 | "The General Died at Dawn The General Died at Dawn The General Died at Dawn is a 1936 film that tells the story of a mercenary who meets a beautiful girl while trying to keep arms from getting to a vicious warlord in war-torn China. The movie was written by Charles G. Booth and Clifford Odets, and directed by Lewis Milestone.It stars Gary Cooper,... " |
Charles Booth Charles G. Booth Charles G. Booth was a British-born writer who settled in America and wrote several classic Hollywood stories, including The General Died at Dawn and Sundown... , adapted by Walter Newman Walter Newman (screenwriter) Walter Newman was an American radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. He was nominated three times for Academy Awards , but he may be best known for a work that never made it to the screen: his unproduced original script Harrow Alley.Newman's radio... |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
04-16-49 |
| 68 | "The Great Impersonation" | E. Philllips Oppenheim, adapted by Walter Newman Walter Newman (screenwriter) Walter Newman was an American radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. He was nominated three times for Academy Awards , but he may be best known for a work that never made it to the screen: his unproduced original script Harrow Alley.Newman's radio... |
Edgar Barrier Edgar Barrier Edgar Barrier was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show.... |
04-23-49 |
| 69 | "The Fourth Man" | John Russell, adapted by Irving Ravetch | Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin was an American television director, actor and television screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.... |
07-07-49 |
| 70 | "The Drums of the Fore and Aft Drums of the Fore and Aft The "Fore and Aft" Regiment is the nickname of the fictional "The Fore and Fit Princess Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Anspach's Merther-Tydfilshire Own Royal Loyal Light Infantry, Regimental District 329A."... " |
Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
07-14-49 |
| 71 | "Action" | C.E. Montague Charles Edward Montague Charles Edward Montague, , was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays.He was born and brought up in London, the son of an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had left the church to marry. He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1890 he... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Joseph Kearns Joseph Kearns Joseph Sherrard Kearns was an American actor, who is best remembered for his role as George Wilson in the CBS television series Dennis the Menace from 1959 until his death in 1962.-Biography:... |
07-21-49 |
| 72 | "The Second Class Passenger" | Percival Gibbons, adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
Parley Baer Parley Baer Parley Edward Baer was an American actor in film, television, and radio.-Radio:Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Baer had a circus background, but began his radio career at Utah station KSL... |
07-28-49 |
| 73 | "Leinengen vs. the Ants Leiningen Versus the Ants "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson is a classic short story published in the December 1938 edition of Esquire.The story centers on a scrappy, no-nonsense plantation owner called Leiningen , and his stubborn refusal to abandon his plantation in the face of a seemingly unstoppable mass of... " |
Carl Stephenson Carl Stephenson (author) Carl Stephenson was a German author best known for his short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants". It was first published in 1938 and has appeared in numerous collections of short stories... , adapted by Robert Ryf |
Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows.... |
08-04-49 |
| 74 | "Red Wine" | Lawrence Blochman Lawrence Blochman Lawrence Goldtree Blochman was an American detective story writer and translator.Lawrence Blochman was born in San Diego, California to Lucien A. Blochman, a banker, and his wife Haidee Goldtree. He began writing early... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Willard Waterman Willard Waterman Willard Lewis Waterman was a character actor in films, TV and on radio, remembered best for succeeding Harold Peary as the title character of The Great Gildersleeve at the height of that show's popularity.Peary was unable to convince sponsor and show owner Kraft Cheese to allow him an ownership... |
08-11-49 |
| 75 | "Snake Doctor" | Irvin S. Cobb Irvin S. Cobb Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.-Biography:... , adapted by Fred Howard |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
08-18-49 |
| 76 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier John Collier (writer) John Henry Noyes Collier was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were collected in a 1951 volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
08-25-49 |
| 77 | "The Fortune of Vargas" | Geoffrey Household Geoffrey Household Geoffrey Edward West Household was a prolific British novelist who specialized in thrillers. He is best known for his novel Rogue Male .-Personal life:... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Victor Mature Victor Mature Victor John Mature was an American stage, film and television actor.-Early life:Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to an Italian-speaking father from the town Pinzolo, in the Italian part of the former County of Tyrol , Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, a cutler,... |
09-21-49 |
| 78 | "Wild Oranges" | Joseph Hergesheimer Joseph Hergesheimer Joseph Hergesheimer was a prominent American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy.-Biography:... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Van Heflin Van Heflin Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. was an American film and theatre actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man... |
09-28-49 |
| 79 | "The Primitive" | 10-08-49 | ||
| 80 | "The Sure Thing" | John & Gwen Bagni | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
10-15-49 |
| 81 | "Night in Havana" | Burnham Crater, adapted by walter Newman Walter Newman (screenwriter) Walter Newman was an American radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. He was nominated three times for Academy Awards , but he may be best known for a work that never made it to the screen: his unproduced original script Harrow Alley.Newman's radio... |
Tony Barrett | 10-22-49 |
| 82 | "The Blue Wall" | 10-29-49 | ||
| 83 | "Plunder of the Sun" | David Dodge David F. Dodge David Francis Dodge was an author of mystery/thriller novels and humorous travel books. His first book was published in 1941. His fiction is characterized by tight plotting, brisk dialogue, memorable and well-defined characters, and exotic locations... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
11-08-49 |
| 84 | "Flood on the Goodwins" | David Devine, adapted by James Poe James Poe James Poe was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, Around the World in 80 Days and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts... |
Jack Edwards | 11-01-49 |
| 85 | "Three Skeleton Key" | George Toudouze, adapted by James Poe James Poe James Poe was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, Around the World in 80 Days and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts... |
Elliott Reid Elliott Reid Elliott Reid is an American character actor from New York City.He worked regularly in radio dramas during the Golden Age of radio... |
11-15-49 |
| 86 | "Maracas" | John & Gwen Bagni | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
11-22-49 |
| 87 | "A Letter From Jason" | George F. Wert, adapted by Selig Lester | Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He was born Frank Lovejoy Jr. in Bronx, New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine... |
11-29-49 |
| 88 | "Command" | James Warner Bellah James Warner Bellah James Warner Bellah was a popular American Western author from the 1930s to the 1950s... , adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
Elliott Reid Elliott Reid Elliott Reid is an American character actor from New York City.He worked regularly in radio dramas during the Golden Age of radio... |
12-06-49 |
| 89 | "Border Town" | John & Gwen Bagni | Jack Webb Jack Webb John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet... |
12-13-49 |
| 90 | "Figure a Dame" | Richard Sales, adapted by Morton Fine Morton S. Fine Morton Fine was an American screenwriter.A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Fine worked in an advertising agency, a bookstore, and an aircraft factory before joining the Army Air Force in 1942. A graduate of St... & David Fiedkin |
Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He was born Frank Lovejoy Jr. in Bronx, New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine... |
12-20-49 |
| 91 | "Seeds of Greed" | Freud A. Nelson | Gary Merrill Gary Merrill Gary Fred Merrill was an American film and television character actor whose credits included more than fifty feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances.... |
12-27-49 |
| 92 | "The Pistol" | Les Crutchfield | Betty Lou Gerson Betty Lou Gerson Betty Lou Gerson was an American actress, predominantly in radio, but also in film and television, and as a voice actress.-Early life:... |
01-03-50 |
| 93 | "The Vanishing Lady" | Alexander Woolcott, adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
Joan Banks Joan Banks Joan Banks was an American film, television, stage and radio actress who often appeared in dramas with her husband, Frank Lovejoy.... |
01-10-50 |
| 94 | "The Sure Thing" | John & Gwen Bagni | Anthony Ross Anthony Ross Anthony Ross was a Broadway stage, television and film actor.Born in New York City, he may be best remembered for being the first to play the character of "the Gentleman Caller" in the original 1944 production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.Ross appeared in 20th Century Fox films... |
01-17-50 |
| 95 | "Treasure, Inc." | John & Gwen Bagni | Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He was born Frank Lovejoy Jr. in Bronx, New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine... |
01-24-50 |
| 96 | "Present Tense" | James Poe James Poe James Poe was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, Around the World in 80 Days and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts... |
Vincent Price Vincent Price Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St... |
01-31-50 |
| 97 | "The Outer Limit" | Graham Doar, adapted by Morton Fine Morton S. Fine Morton Fine was an American screenwriter.A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Fine worked in an advertising agency, a bookstore, and an aircraft factory before joining the Army Air Force in 1942. A graduate of St... |
Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He was born Frank Lovejoy Jr. in Bronx, New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine... |
02-07-50 |
| 98 | "Two if by Sea" | Roger Bax, adapted by E. Jack Neuman & John Michael Hayes | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
02-14-50 |
| 99 | "The Red Mark" | John Russell, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
02-21-50 |
| 100 | "The Man Who Won the War The Man Who Won the War The Man Who Won the War is a short story by Robert Buckner. The story tells of an exiled British Naval Officer, Roger Bradman, who "really" won the First World War. Before the start of the story, Buckner writes a short paragraph explaining why none of the story can be "legally" proven. This short... " |
Robert Buckner Robert Buckner Robert Buckner was a film screenwriter, producer and short story writer.He wrote the screenplays for films including Knute Rockne All American... , adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
02-28-50 |
| 101 | "Port Royal" | Harry Rieseberg, adapted by Gil Doud | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
03-10-50 |
| 102 | "Three Skeleton Key" | George Toudouze, adapted by James Poe James Poe James Poe was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, Around the World in 80 Days and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts... |
Vincent Price Vincent Price Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St... |
03-17-50 |
| 103 | "Danger at Matacumbe" | John & Gwen Bagni | Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy Frank Lovejoy was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He was born Frank Lovejoy Jr. in Bronx, New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine... |
03-24-50 |
| 104 | "Green Splotches" | T.S. Stribling, adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
03-31-50 |
| 105 | "Ambassador of Poker" | Achmed Abdullah Achmed Abdullah Achmed Abdullah , a pseudonym of Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff, was a Russian-born writer. He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films. He was the author of the progressive Siamese drama Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness,... , adapted by John Dunkel |
Elliott Reid Elliott Reid Elliott Reid is an American character actor from New York City.He worked regularly in radio dramas during the Golden Age of radio... |
04-07-50 |
| 106 | "The Golden Snake" | Paul Pierce, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Tony Barrett | 04-14-50 |
| 107 | "The Shanghai Document" | John & Gwen Bagni | Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
04-21-50 |
| 108 | "Something for Nothing" | H. Vernon Dickson, adapted by Sylvia Richards | Anne Morrison | 04-28-50 |
| 109 | "The Man Who Stole the Bible" | John & Gwen Bagni | Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
05-05-50 |
| 110 | "The Rim of Terror" | Hildegard Teilhet, adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
Barton Yarborough Barton Yarborough William Barton Yarborough was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama.As a youth, Yarborough ran away from home, attracted by the vaudeville stages, and he first worked in radio during the 1920s... |
05-12-50 |
| 111 | "Pass to Berlin" | David Friedkin & Morton Fine Morton S. Fine Morton Fine was an American screenwriter.A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Fine worked in an advertising agency, a bookstore, and an aircraft factory before joining the Army Air Force in 1942. A graduate of St... |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
05-19-50 |
| 112 | "Command" | James Warner Bellah James Warner Bellah James Warner Bellah was a popular American Western author from the 1930s to the 1950s... , adapted by William N. Robson William N. Robson William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He... |
Walter Burke Walter Burke Walter Burke was a prolific Irish-American character actor, of stage, film, and television. His small stature, and distinctive voice and face, made him easily recognizable in even the most minor of roles.- Early life :... |
05-26-50 |
| 113 | "Mars is Heaven Mars is Heaven! "Mars is Heaven!" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury originally published in 1948. "Mars is Heaven!" was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one the best science fiction short stories of all time. As such, it was published in The Science... " |
Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th... , adapted by David Friedkin |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
06-02-50 |
| 114 | "The Big Sponge" | 06-09-50 | ||
| 115 | "Serenade for a Cobra" | Joel Murcott | Charles McGraw Charles McGraw Charles Butters , best known by his stage name Charles McGraw, was an American actor, who made his first film in 1942, albeit in a small, uncredited role. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa.-Career:... |
06-16-50 |
| 116 | "Sundown" | Joel Murcott | Barton Yarborough Barton Yarborough William Barton Yarborough was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama.As a youth, Yarborough ran away from home, attracted by the vaudeville stages, and he first worked in radio during the 1920s... |
06-23-50 |
| 117 | "Blood Bath" | James Poe James Poe James Poe was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, Around the World in 80 Days and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts... |
Vincent Price Vincent Price Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St... |
06-30-50 |
| 118 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted by Les Crutchfield | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
07-10-50 |
| 119 | "Shark Bait" | Antony Ellis | Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
07-14-50 |
| 120 | "The Yellow Wake" | Bud Nelson | Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
07-21-50 |
| 121 | "Poison Poison (Story) Poison is a short story written by Roald Dahl that was originally published in June 1950 in Collier's. In 1950 it was adapted to the radio program Escape. In 1958 it was turned into an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock himself.-Plot summary:The story is set in India... " |
Roald Dahl Roald Dahl Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander... , adapted by James Poe James Poe James Poe was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, Around the World in 80 Days and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts... |
Jack Webb Jack Webb John Randolph "Jack" Webb , also known by the pseudonym John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet... |
07-28-50 |
| 122 | "Two Came Back" | Jules Archer Jules Archer Jules Archer was an American author who wrote many volumes of non-fiction history for a general audience and for young adults.... |
Stacy Harris | 08-04-50 |
| 123 | "The Red Forest" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
08-11-50 |
| 124 | "The Footprint" | Gouverneur Morris, adapted by Richard Chandlee | Charles Davis | 08-18-50 |
| 125 | "Crossing Paris" | Marcel Ayme Marcel Aymé Marcel Aymé was a French novelist, children's writer, humour writer and also a screenwriter and theatre playwright.- Biography :... , adapted by John Meston John Meston John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for creating, along with Norman MacDonnell, the long-running radio and TV series, Gunsmoke. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado.... |
Barney Phillips Barney Phillips Barney Phillips was an American film, radio and television actor.-Biography and career:He was born Bernard Philip Ofner in St. Louis, Missouri, to Harry Nathan Ofner, a commercial salesman for the leather industry, and Leona Frank Ofner, a naturalized citizen of German origin, who went by the... |
08-25-50 |
| 126 | "A Sleeping Draught" | Weston Martyr Weston Martyr Joseph Weston Martyr,, was a pioneer British ocean yachtsman, writer and broadcaster, who was influential in the creation of the Fastnet race after participating in similar races in Bermuda in 1924... , adapted by Antony Ellis |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
10-01-50 |
| 127 | "Roulette" | Antony Ellis | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
10-08-50 |
| 128 | "The Power of Hammer" | Antony Ellis | Anne Morrison | 10-15-50 |
| 129 | "The Time Machine The Time Machine The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction... " |
H.G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , adapted by Irving Ravetch |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
10-22-50 |
| 130 | "Seven Hours to Freedom" | Bud Nelson | Barney Phillips Barney Phillips Barney Phillips was an American film, radio and television actor.-Biography and career:He was born Bernard Philip Ofner in St. Louis, Missouri, to Harry Nathan Ofner, a commercial salesman for the leather industry, and Leona Frank Ofner, a naturalized citizen of German origin, who went by the... |
10-29-50 |
| 131 | "Earth Abides Earth Abides Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. Beginning in the United States in the 1940s, it deals with Isherwood "Ish" Williams, Emma, and the community they... " Part 1 |
George Stewart George R. Stewart George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley... , adapted by David Ellis |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
11-05-50 |
| 132 | "Earth Abides Earth Abides Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. Beginning in the United States in the 1940s, it deals with Isherwood "Ish" Williams, Emma, and the community they... " Part 2 |
George Stewart George R. Stewart George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley... , adapted by David Ellis |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
11-12-50 |
| 133 | "Journey into Fear" | Eric Ambler Eric Ambler Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.-Life:... , adapted by Antony Ellis |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
11-19-50 |
| 134 | "Funeral Fires" | Charles E. Israel | Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
11-26-50 |
| 135 | "This Side of Nowhere" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
12-03-50 |
| 136 | "A Passenger to Bali" | Ellis St. Joseph, adapated by Norman MacDonnell Norman MacDonnell Norman MacDonnell was an American radio and television producer best known for co-creating and producing the Western radio and television series, Gunsmoke. He was also a long-time executive producer for the television series The Virginian.... |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
12-10-50 |
| 137 | "Wild Jack Rhett" | Ernest Haycox Ernest Haycox Ernest James Haycox was a prolific American author of Western fiction.-Biography:Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt on October 1, 1899... , adapted by John Meston John Meston John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for creating, along with Norman MacDonnell, the long-running radio and TV series, Gunsmoke. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado.... |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
12-17-50 |
| 138 | "The Cave" | Antony Ellis | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
12-24-50 |
| 139 | "The Man Who Could Work Miracles The Man Who Could Work Miracles (story) "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" is a British fantasy–comedy short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1898 in The Illustrated London News.-Plot summary:... " |
H.G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
12-31-50 |
| 140 | "Conquest" | Leonard Lee, adapted by David Ellis | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
01-07-51 |
| 141 | "A Bullet for Mr. Smith" | Antony Ellis | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
01-14-51 |
| 142 | "The Killer Mine" | Hammond Innis, adapted by Antony Ellis | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
02-11-51 |
| 143 | "The Follower" | Patrick Quentin Patrick Quentin Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler , Richard Wilson Webb , Martha Mott Kelly and Mary Louise White Aswell wrote detective fiction... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
02-18-51 |
| 144 | "The Island" | Millard Kaufman Millard Kaufman Millard Kaufman was an American screenwriter and novelist. His works include the Academy Award-nominated Bad Day at Black Rock . He was also one of the creators of Mr. Magoo.-Life:... |
Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
07-11-51 |
| 145 | "Macao" | Herb Purdum | Raymond Burr Raymond Burr Raymond William Stacey Burr was a Canadian actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. His early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television and in film, usually as the villain... |
07-18-51 |
| 146 | "The Earthmen" | Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th... , adapted by Walter Newman Walter Newman (screenwriter) Walter Newman was an American radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. He was nominated three times for Academy Awards , but he may be best known for a work that never made it to the screen: his unproduced original script Harrow Alley.Newman's radio... |
Byron Kane | 07-25-51 |
| 147 | "The Gladiator" | Millard Kaufman Millard Kaufman Millard Kaufman was an American screenwriter and novelist. His works include the Academy Award-nominated Bad Day at Black Rock . He was also one of the creators of Mr. Magoo.-Life:... |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
08-01-51 |
| 148 | "Up Periscope" | Alex Hudson, adapted by William Froug William Froug William Froug is an Emmy award-winning American television writer and producer. His producing credits include the series The Twilight Zone, Gilligan's Island, and Bewitched. In addition he wrote teleplays for The Dick Powell Show, Charlie's Angels, and The New Twilight Zone... |
Hy Averback Hy Averback Hyman J. Averback, known as Hy Averback , was a radio, television, and film actor who eventually became a producer and director.-Radio:... |
08-08-51 |
| 149 | "A Rough Shoot" | Geoffrey Household Geoffrey Household Geoffrey Edward West Household was a prolific British novelist who specialized in thrillers. He is best known for his novel Rogue Male .-Personal life:... , adapted by Arthur Ross |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
08-15-51 |
| 150 | "The Silent Horror" | Hugh Cave, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Lou Krugman | 08-22-51 |
| 151 | "The Man Who Stole the Bible" | John & Gwen Bagni | Sam Pierce | 08-29-51 |
| 152 | "Gringo" | E. Jack Neuman | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
10-12-52 |
| 153 | "The Price of the Head" | John Russell, adapted by John Meston John Meston John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for creating, along with Norman MacDonnell, the long-running radio and TV series, Gunsmoke. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado.... |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
10-19-52 |
| 154 | "Robert of Huntingdon" | Adapted by Antony Ellis | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
10-26-52 |
| 155 | "The Running Man" | Herb Purdum | Vic Perrin Vic Perrin Vic Perrin was an American actor and voice artist. He is best remembered as the "Control Voice" in the original version of the TV series The Outer Limits .... |
11-02-52 |
| 156 | "The Return" | Kathleen Hite | Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin was an American television director, actor and television screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.... |
11-09-52 |
| 157 | "The Loup-Garou" | William Froug William Froug William Froug is an Emmy award-winning American television writer and producer. His producing credits include the series The Twilight Zone, Gilligan's Island, and Bewitched. In addition he wrote teleplays for The Dick Powell Show, Charlie's Angels, and The New Twilight Zone... |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
11-16-52 |
| 158 | "Transport to Terror" | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
11-23-52 | |
| 159 | "Pagosa" | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
11-30-52 | |
| 160 | "Incident in Quito" | Ross Murray | Larry Thor | 12-07-52 |
| 161 | "Four Went Home" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
12-14-52 |
| 162 | "The Man Who Liked Dickens" | Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh , known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer... , adapted by John Meston John Meston John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for creating, along with Norman MacDonnell, the long-running radio and TV series, Gunsmoke. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado.... |
Terry Kilburn Terry Kilburn Terry Kilburn is an English-American former child actor. He is sometimes credited as Terence Kilburn or Terrance Kilburn.Kilburn was born in London in 1926... |
12-21-52 |
| 163 | "Nightmare in the Sun" | 12-28-52 | ||
| 164 | "Dangerous Man" | 01-04-53 | ||
| 165 | "A Matter of Conscience" | Antony Ellis | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
01-18-53 |
| 166 | "Conqueror's Isle" | Nelson Bond, adapted by John Meston John Meston John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for creating, along with Norman MacDonnell, the long-running radio and TV series, Gunsmoke. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado.... |
Harry Bartell Harry Bartell Harry Bartell was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s.Bartell was born in New Orleans,... |
01-11-53 |
| 167 | "Diary of a Madman" | Les Crutchfield | Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
01-25-53 |
| 168 | "A Study in Wax" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
02-01-53 |
| 169 | "Jetsam" | John Russell, adapted by Norman MacDonnell Norman MacDonnell Norman MacDonnell was an American radio and television producer best known for co-creating and producing the Western radio and television series, Gunsmoke. He was also a long-time executive producer for the television series The Virginian.... |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
02-08-53 |
| 170 | "Wild Jack Rhett" | Ernest Haycox Ernest Haycox Ernest James Haycox was a prolific American author of Western fiction.-Biography:Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt on October 1, 1899... , adapted by John Meston John Meston John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for creating, along with Norman MacDonnell, the long-running radio and TV series, Gunsmoke. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado.... |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
02-15-53 |
| 171 | "I Saw Myself Running" | Antony Ellis | Georgia Ellis Georgia Ellis Georgia Ellis was an American actress who is best known for her recurring role of Kitty in the popular Western radio drama Gunsmoke.-External links:... |
02-22-53 |
| 172 | "The Tramp" | Antony Ellis | Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
03-01-53 |
| 173 | "The Island" | Millard Kaufman Millard Kaufman Millard Kaufman was an American screenwriter and novelist. His works include the Academy Award-nominated Bad Day at Black Rock . He was also one of the creators of Mr. Magoo.-Life:... |
William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
03-08-53 |
| 174 | "The Man With the Steel Teeth" | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
Jack Kruschen Jack Kruschen Jack Kruschen was a Canadian-born character actor who worked primarily in American film, television and radio.-Radio:... |
03-15-53 |
| 175 | "Pressure" | Richard Chandlee | Larry Thor | 03-22-53 |
| 176 | "The Invader" | Michael Gray | Howard McNear Howard McNear Howard Terbell McNear was an American film, television and radio character actor. McNear is best remembered as Floyd Lawson, the barber in The Andy Griffith Show and as Doc Charles Adams in CBS Radio's Gunsmoke .-Career:McNear was born in Los Angeles, California to Luzetta M. Spencer and Franklin... |
03-29-53 |
| 177 | "A Sleeping Draught" | Weston Martyr Weston Martyr Joseph Weston Martyr,, was a pioneer British ocean yachtsman, writer and broadcaster, who was influential in the creation of the Fastnet race after participating in similar races in Bermuda in 1924... , adapted by Antony Ellis |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
04-05-53 |
| 178 | "Classified Secret" | Antony Ellis | Parley Baer Parley Baer Parley Edward Baer was an American actor in film, television, and radio.-Radio:Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Baer had a circus background, but began his radio career at Utah station KSL... |
04-12-53 |
| 179 | "El Guitarero" | E. Jack Neuman | Eddie Firestone | 04-19-53 |
| 180 | "Derelict" | Victor Schwartz, adapted by Larry Roman | Charlotte Lawrence | 04-26-53 |
| 181 | "Lily and the Colonel" | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
05-03-53 |
| 182 | "The Vessel of Wrath" | Somerset Maugham, adapted by Antony Ellis | Alan Reed Alan Reed Alan Reed was an American actor and voice actor, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones and various spinoff series... |
05-10-53 |
| 183 | "North of Polaris" | Charles Smith | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
05-17-53 |
| 184 | "The Blue Hotel" | 05-24-53 | ||
| 185 | "A Good Thing" | Kathleen Hite | Jack Kruschen Jack Kruschen Jack Kruschen was a Canadian-born character actor who worked primarily in American film, television and radio.-Radio:... |
05-31-53 |
| 186 | "The Voyages of Sinbad" | Adapted by Antony Ellis | Ted de Corsia Ted de Corsia Ted de Corsia was a radio and movie actor.He is probably best remembered for his role as a gangster turned state's evidence in The Enforcer... |
06-07-53 |
| 187 | "Clear for Action" | Antony Ellis | Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
06-14-53 |
| 188 | "The Far Away Island" | Charles Smith | Ted de Corsia Ted de Corsia Ted de Corsia was a radio and movie actor.He is probably best remembered for his role as a gangster turned state's evidence in The Enforcer... |
06-21-53 |
| 189 | "One-Eighth Apache" | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
06-28-53 | |
| 190 | "A Source of Irritation" | Stacey Aumonier, adapted by Mayer Dolinsky | Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
07-05-53 |
| 191 | "The Out-Station" | Somerset Maugham, adapted by Antony Ellis | Alistair Duncan | 07-12-53 |
| 192 | "Open Boat The Open Boat "The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane . First published in 1897, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent. Crane was stranded at sea for thirty... " |
Stephen Crane Stephen Crane Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism... , adapted by E. Jack Neuman |
Bob Sweeney Bob Sweeney (TV director and producer) child = Bridget Bob Sweeney was an actor, director and producer of radio, television and film.-Early career on radio and television:... |
07-19-53 |
| 193 | "The Notebook" | William J. Radcliff | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
07-26-53 |
| 194 | "The Red Forest" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
08-02-53 |
| 195 | "Three Skeleton Key" | George Toudouze, adapted by James Poe James Poe James Poe was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, Around the World in 80 Days and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts... |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
08-09-53 |
| 196 | "The Thirteenth Trunk" | Cecil Carnes, adapted by Gus Bayz | Alec Harford | 08-16-53 |
| 197 | "The Man from Tomorrow" | Irving Reis Irving Reis Irving Reis, born May 7, 1906, in New York City – died July 3, 1953, in Woodland Hills, California, was a radio program producer & director, and a film director.Reis was the creator of the experimental anthology program on the radio, Columbia Workshop... , adapted by Antony Ellis |
Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin was an American television director, actor and television screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.... |
08-23-53 |
| 198 | "The Game" | Antony Ellis | 08-30-53 | |
| 199 | "Train from Olbiefelde" | Ross Murray | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
09-06-53 |
| 200 | "The Abominable Snowman" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
09-13-53 |
| 201 | "The Log" | Marianne Mosner, adapted by Antony Ellis | James Nusser | 09-20-53 |
| 202 | "The Untouchable" | James Henderson | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
09-27-53 |
| 203 | "Zero Hour" | Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th... , adapted by Antony Ellis |
Eve McVeagh | 10-04-53 |
| 204 | "Elementals" | Stephen Vincent Benet, adapted by Meyer Dolinsky | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
10-11-53 |
| 205 | "The Bird of Paradise" | John Russell, adapted by John Meston John Meston John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for creating, along with Norman MacDonnell, the long-running radio and TV series, Gunsmoke. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado.... |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
03-11-54 |
| 206 | "Violent Night" | Les Crutchfield | William Conrad William Conrad William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television.... |
03-18-54 |
| 207 | "The Second Shot" | Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Les Crutchfield | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
03-25-54 |
| 208 | "The Return" | Kathleen Hite | Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin was an American television director, actor and television screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.... |
04-01-54 |
| 209 | "The Scarlet Plague" | Jack London Jack London John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone... , adapted by Les Crutchfield |
Barney Phillips Barney Phillips Barney Phillips was an American film, radio and television actor.-Biography and career:He was born Bernard Philip Ofner in St. Louis, Missouri, to Harry Nathan Ofner, a commercial salesman for the leather industry, and Leona Frank Ofner, a naturalized citizen of German origin, who went by the... |
04-08-54 |
| 210 | "Affair at Mandrake" | Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
04-15-54 |
| 211 | "The Adversary" | John Russell, adapted by Norman MacDonnell Norman MacDonnell Norman MacDonnell was an American radio and television producer best known for co-creating and producing the Western radio and television series, Gunsmoke. He was also a long-time executive producer for the television series The Virginian.... |
Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin was an American television director, actor and television screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.... |
05-06-54 |
| 212 | "An Ordinary Man" | Kathleen Hite | Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin was an American television director, actor and television screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.... |
06-03-54 |
| 213 | "Benchillina and the Fisherman" | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
06-10-54 |
| 214 | "Blood Waters" | Tony Barrett | Tony Barrett | 06-17-54 |
| 215 | "Judgment Day at Crippled Deer" | Les Crutchfield | Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin Lawrence Dobkin was an American television director, actor and television screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.... |
06-24-54 |
| 216 | "The Dark Wall" | Kathleen Hite | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
07-01-54 |
| 217 | "The Birds The Birds (story) "The Birds" is a famous novelette by Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community, who are attacked by flocks of seabirds who have organized themselves into avian suicide warriors. The story is set in... " |
Daphne du Maurier Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was a British author and playwright.Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn and the short stories "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". The first three were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Her elder sister was... , adapted by Robert Wright |
Paul Frees Paul Frees Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago... |
07-10-54 |
| 218 | "The Eye of Evil" | Kathleen Hite | John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... |
07-17-54 |
| 219 | "Flood on the Goodwins" | David Devine, adapted by James Poe James Poe James Poe was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, Around the World in 80 Days and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts... |
Vic Perrin Vic Perrin Vic Perrin was an American actor and voice artist. He is best remembered as the "Control Voice" in the original version of the TV series The Outer Limits .... |
07-24-54 |
| 220 | "Night of the Guns" | David Friedkin & Morton Fine Morton S. Fine Morton Fine was an American screenwriter.A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Fine worked in an advertising agency, a bookstore, and an aircraft factory before joining the Army Air Force in 1942. A graduate of St... |
Herb Ellis | 07-31-54 |
| 221 | "The Price of the Head" | John Russell, adapted by John Meston John Meston John Meston was an American radio and television writer best known for creating, along with Norman MacDonnell, the long-running radio and TV series, Gunsmoke. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado.... |
Ben Wright Ben Wright (actor) Ben Wright was an English actor in radio, film and television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Radio:... |
08-07-54 |
| 222 | "The Coward" | E. Jack Neuman | Barney Phillips Barney Phillips Barney Phillips was an American film, radio and television actor.-Biography and career:He was born Bernard Philip Ofner in St. Louis, Missouri, to Harry Nathan Ofner, a commercial salesman for the leather industry, and Leona Frank Ofner, a naturalized citizen of German origin, who went by the... |
08-14-54 |
| 223 | "Two and Two Make Four" | Walter Newman Walter Newman (screenwriter) Walter Newman was an American radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. He was nominated three times for Academy Awards , but he may be best known for a work that never made it to the screen: his unproduced original script Harrow Alley.Newman's radio... |
Shepard Menken Shepard Menken Shepard Menken was an American voice actor and character actor.Menken began his career at the age of 11, when he started appearing on children's radio programs... |
08-21-54 |
| 224 | "The King of Owanatu" | Robert Tallman | Tony Barrett | 08-28-54 |
| 225 | "The Boiling Sea" | Vincent McHugh, adapted by John Dunkel | Clayton Post | 09-04-54 |
| 226 | "Carnival in Vienna" | Morton Fine Morton S. Fine Morton Fine was an American screenwriter.A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Fine worked in an advertising agency, a bookstore, and an aircraft factory before joining the Army Air Force in 1942. A graduate of St... & David Friedkin |
Barney Phillips Barney Phillips Barney Phillips was an American film, radio and television actor.-Biography and career:He was born Bernard Philip Ofner in St. Louis, Missouri, to Harry Nathan Ofner, a commercial salesman for the leather industry, and Leona Frank Ofner, a naturalized citizen of German origin, who went by the... |
09-11-54 |
| 227 | "The Target" | Tony Barrett | Edgar Barrier Edgar Barrier Edgar Barrier was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show.... |
09-18-54 |
| 228 | "The Heart of Kali" | Ross Murray | Paul Richards Paul Richards (actor) Paul Richards was a Jewish American actor who appeared in films and on television in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s until his death from cancer at the age of fifty. He married actress Monica Keating in 1953.Richards guest-starred in a number of classic television western series, including Gunsmoke... |
09-25-54 |
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