Mystery Theater - Cary Grant

 

Mystery Theater was a repackaging of classic radio mysteries. In one form or another it started in WWII and continued well into the 1970s.  AFRTS still had the rights to the best.

In 1950 Cary Grant starred "Suspense" and On a Country Road. A couple is stranded during a storm, with a murderer on the loose! In the early 1970s the program was edited into this Mystery Theater broadcast.

Mystery Theater - On a Country Road

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Suspense 1963

 

We ran "old time" radio well into the 1980s.  There were places where we didn't have television.  Sometimes it was classic.  Suspense was classic.

This is a 1964 rebroadcast of this show:

Suspense. May 26, 1957.  "The Big Day". Which is the fastest car on Earth? The Stanley Steamer of course! A humorous story about the man who proves it! John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan.

Suspense - The Big Day

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Suspense 1950

Suspense has a long history with AFRTS, from WWII when the new shows were being broadcast off and on until well into the 1980s.  Quality Radio. Edward G Robinson is featured in a typical role about an evil little man, his invalid wife, and temptation in this 1950 "A Case Of Nerves".  This particular disk had made the rounds at our stations in Canada.

Suspense - Edward G Robinson

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Suspense 1961

 

AFRTS played a lot of Old Time Radio.  Some places we didn't have television.  Some places we had television, but there were so many programming restrictions that it was hard to enjoy.  Sometimes the troops were in the field without televisions.  Most radio dramas from the 40s and 50s were available and reissued well into the 1980s.

 

"Suspense" was one of the last radio dramas, finally being cancelled in 1962.  This disk is the 1961 issue of a program broadcast on CBS October 8, 1961 "Dreams" starring Phillip Sterling.

 

Suspense "Dreams"

 

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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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