COMING ATTRACTIONS! (3-29-26)

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in. ANNOUNCERY-TYPE FANCY-TALK: Andy Hartson-Bowyer (who also produces each week's preview show!) CONTACT US AT [email protected] with your feedback and suggestions! 

OLD-TIME RADIO ESSENTIALS Episode 57: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar OTR-E returns with episode 57, and this time it's Paul's selection, and he's bringing us a five-part adventure of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey in the title role. As always, you're invited to join Paul, Pete and Patte for the old-time radio, and stay for the scintillating (that's one word for it...) discussion afterwards!  As you listen, perhaps you'll learn if we feel this entry meets the following criteria:  1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection?  So with this in mind, we four bring you, as our fifty-seventh number (but 8th official episode of S5), this 5-part adventure of Johnny Dollar, from 1955. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it!   Please show your support of the podcast by doing any of the following...  To comment on how we might improve OTR-E, or give suggestions for future discussions, please write to us at [email protected] . Put the word "Essentials" in the subject line.  Your feedback means a lot to us! A review at iTunes or at your usual podcatcher would be appreciated.  Next Time: It's Patte's pick again, and she'll bring us, for the edification of us Amuricanz, another CBC Radio comedy, plus a special guest who appeared on that series. Join us then, won't you?

JAKE SAMPSON, MONSTER HUNTER, Roof of the World ep. 4: Continuing the horror-mystery series written by Mark Kalita and produced by Bill Hollweg, in this penultimate chapter of this thrilling adventure, an avalanche threatens a fatal end to a heroic quest. Can the remaining members of our intrepid team go further or will they succumb to forces seemingly beyond their control? Does the walled city truly hold the power needed to save the day or is it all just an illusion? Tune in and find out! CAST: Jake Sampson – Mark Kalita Lucy Carter – Lyn Cullen Texas Holdum & Himmler's Guard – Bill Hollweg Announcer – Elie Hirschman Longsang ― Paul Mannering Captain Kopfjager ― Brian Bochicchio Gerhardt – Bruce Busby Himler – Gary Cobham Tsi-Fon ― Colin Snow Reichsmarschal Goring – Perry Whittle Mu Po ― Steven Jay Cohen

THE HANGMAN'S DOZEN, Ep 1: It's another horror series by the Alfred Hitchcock of Audio Drama, Mark Slade! In the premiere episode, "We Who are His Followers", Richard, Gina, and Sarah are trying to make the best of things in an apocalyptic time, but a war of faith between "him" and "the false one" will have dire consequences. Based on a short story by G. Wayne Miller. CAST:  TERRANCE DRYE as THE SPIRIT DAVID SCHÜTZ II as RICHARD RACHEL RUMLER as SARAH LAURA NICOLE as GINA JEFF NILES as THE FALSE ONE and HIM.

THE GROG & GRYPHON, Ep 4.0: Of Blood and Bane: Part 1 In this two-part episode, written and produced by Bill Hollweg, Acetegan comes to the tavern to set a quest into motion, whilst in the darkened lands, a lycana called Bane makes a fateful alliance with Belladonna – the vampire queen! CAST: Fiona Conn as Acetegan, The Mage of Wight Pamela Dane as Octavia John Dane as DeV'ralto Gina Hollweg as Arullia Swordcleaver, Amazonian Warrioress Natasha Lathrop as Reyna the Red and Belladonna, the Blood Queen of Tercia Mark Kalita as Bane Renbourne, the Lycana Changeling Paul Mannering as Olaff Houndsmaw Rob Northrup as Murrai the Goblin Bill Hollweg as Garulk the Barbarian, and assorted eunuchs

THE TABLE ROUND, Chap. 9: The Marriage of Arthur and Guinevere In the ninth chapter in the ongoing full cast audio drama of the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table...  Flowers and banners festoon St. Stephen's Cathedral in Camelot. On a glorious summer day the people of Britain rejoice, for Arthur, the young king and fearless leader is being wed to the sweet Guinevere, beloved of the people because of her beauty and goodness.  

As a continuing feature, we'll be posting, with our usual Sunday fare, a brief teaser for the following week's line-up! Please listen, won't you, and make plans to tune in. ANNOUNCERY-TYPE FANCY-TALK: Andy Hartson-Bowyer (who also produces each week's preview show!) CONTACT US AT [email protected] with your feedback and suggestions! 

PROJECT AUDION 79: Dragnet! The gang at Project Audion, headed up by Larry Groebe, has gathered together to re-create the lost, very first episode of the long-running series (on both radio and TV) "Dragnet" – not heard since it was first aired in June, 1949! With it being the series premiere, you may not recognize it as an episode of Dragnet, but this will be your opportunity to hear how it all began, and to imagine what Sgt. Joe Friday and the Los Angeles Police Dept. were yet to become!  With the voice talents of: Denise and Norman Cline, Kentucky Pete Fernbaugh, West Virginia Caleb Fisher, Virginia Chris Hart, Florida Ed Herman, New York Sean Massey, Texas Bob Mills, California Craig Wichman, New York ...with production, direction, sound & music by Larry Groebe in Texas

THE LONE RANGER, ep 07: "Harvey Preston, MD" In this continuing series of old-radio remakes from Misfits Audio, we meet up once again with that Masked Man, his faithful Native companion, and his sleek steed, Silver! There's a new doctor in town, and Big Taggert has plans for him, besides getting even! Jon Specht as the Announcer Brian Finnegan as Harvey Preston Paul Lavelle as the Hotel Keeper Mike Hennessy as Big Taggert Ted Smagata as Dan Reid John Bell as Slick Michael Liebmann as Kramer James Heaney as Shorty Glenn Hascall as Red Fox And Larry Phelan as The Cavalry Officer with Capt. John Tadrzak as Tonto And Jim Patton as The Lone Ranger   Directed and post-produced by Jim Smagata

BLACKOUT CITY: GHOST IN THE MIST EPISODE 2: We bring you another installment in the Blackout City series by Mark Slade. In Episode 2, Joe Smoke, hired by Doberman in episode 1 to find out who killed his girlfriend, goes with Morti to a strip joint to question Hammerhead Jones, who is known for using ghosts as hit men. STARRING: Pete Lutz as JOE SMOKE Jeff Niles as MORTI Viktor Aurelius as DOBERMAN Jack Ward as HAMMERHEAD Kendra Womack as DANCER # 1  Laurie E. smith as DANCER # 2 CREDIT NARRATION by Sharon O. Blumberg   BLACKOUT CITY CREATED by Mark Slade and Frank Larnerd WRITTEN AND PRODUCED by Mark Slade DIRECTED AND MIXED by Michael L. Stokes