Adventure Theatre 1977

 

Well into the 1980s, we ran a lot of oldtime radio.  We had access to huge libraries, restrictions on the television product made it another way to present a good story.  When it was being presented as a 'story', it was done well.  When it was 'nostalgia', it was a harder sell.  By 1980 90% of the troops hadn't been there for network radio, making it quaint.  They didn't understand where the joke even was with Fibber McGee joking about 'ration points'.  But drama, mystery and some comedy could be very entertaining.

Here's a 1977 repackaging of a 1940s broadcast.

Adventure Theatre 1977

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Adventure Theater - 1976

Announcer William Conrad

We had a lot of great Old Time Radio, repackaged over the decades.  That worked well because in a lot of countries we had radio but not television well into the 80s.  Adventure Theater had the classics.  Today a 1955 show, well calculated to keep you in... Suspense.

Adventure Theater - 1976

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Adventure Theatre - 1976

In the 70s and 80s AFRTS went back to the shows that had been run over the years and repackaged them into "Adventure Theatre". There were still a lot of places with no television. 

"Zero Hour" had been done several times on Dimesion X, Escape and on Future Tense.  This was originally on a 1955 Suspense broadcast.

 Isa Ashdown, John Dehner (narrator), Parley Baer, Paula Winslowe, Beverly Hanley, Eve McVeagh, Ray Bradbury (author), Antony Ellis (adaptor, producer, director), Larry Thor (announcer), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Leith Stevens (composer), Wilbur Hatch (conductor), Bill James (sound patterns), Ray Kemper (sound patterns). 

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Adventure Theater - 1977

Gerald Mohr

Well into the 1970s and 80s AFRTS drew from their library of classic old-time radio broadcasts.  One of these new anthology shows was "Adventure Theater".  This time it's a  1977 rebroadcast of Phillip Marlowe and "The Persian Slippers".  Originally aired in 1948, Marlowe tries to find a woman who has left her husband and disappeared.

Adventure Theatre - 1977

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