Sep 24, 2013
In past episodes of Ron’s Amazing Stories we have looked at World War II through news and radio broadcasts. On the show this week we are going through it again. However, this time we will focus on what it was like here at home. We will use broadcasts of a different sort do this. You will hear Bing Crosby, Jack Benny...
Sep 17, 2013
Last week I promised a new detective series to the show and I have the man for the job. Nero Wolfe is a fictional character created in 1934 by the American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe's confidential assistant Archie Goodwin narrates the cases of the detective genius. Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 short stories from...
Sep 10, 2013
Our story this week comes from a series that ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System. The Mysterious Traveler was Written and directed by Robert Arthur and David Kogan. It began on, December 5, 1943, continuing in many different timeslots until September of 1952. The lonely sound of a distant locomotive heralded the...
Sep 3, 2013
This week we go back to the old west with Matt Dillon and his friends in Dodge City for one of the strangest episodes of Gunsmoke I have ever heard. The actors in this one turn in some creepy performances, to say the least. Two brothers, Harvey and Merle Finney, have a unique code of ethics. The story is called “The...