The Sunday Story: The Slasher

Hello all!  It has been a while since I've posted any radio stories, but I hope to have some more put out regularly this year for your listening pleasure.  Today we hear from one of my favorite shows, Night Beat.

You may recognize the star, Frank Lovejoy, from his appearances in movies like House of Wax or The Hitch-Hiker.  (I especially liked his character from In a Lonely Place.)  His bread and butter was playing the every-man with straight morals, but who was also a little rough around the edges.  Randy Stone, the reporter of Night Beat, is definitely the same type.

This story is a fun one, something that starts out with the feel of the typical "madman on the loose" storyline, but which turns into something quite different.

The Sunday Story: The Magic Space Pictures

For today's radio show, we'll hear the episode "The Magic Space Pictures" from Space Patrol!  This was a show from the early 1950s that featured the adventures of Commander Buzz Corry, the head of the Space Patrol, and his sidekick Cadet Happy.  They have adventures, solve mysteries, and usually end up being overpowered and knocked out cold in every single episode.  They were probably the two worst candidates for Space Patrol officers, and their constant mishaps are actually pretty funny, but the B-grade plots and thinly-disguised-Soviet bad guys are campy fun.

(A word of warning: the constant ads for Chex cereal still work 50 years after the fact.  After hearing too many of them, I had such a craving that I started buying Chex regularly.  So stock up.)

The Sunday Story: Goodnight, Mrs. Russell

For today's listening pleasure, I'm sharing the story "Good Night, Mrs. Russell," presented by Suspense in 1949 and starring the incomparable Bette Davis.  This story stuck with me since the moment I first heard it, and I hope you'll enjoy the fine acting in one of Bette Davis' few Suspense appearances.

Click below to listen and enjoy!


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The Sunday Story: Guy Fawkes Night, by The Price of Fear

Hello all, and welcome to today's edition of the Sunday Story!  I was hoping to put up a blog post between last week's story, but with life being busy and me recovering from a cold, it was not to be.  So while I prepare what's in store for next week, settle in and listen to this week's pick: Guy Fawkes Night, from the BBC show The Price of Fear.

The Price of Fear was hosted by the one and only Vincent Price, who would either simply narrate the stories or (my favorite) would recount a (fictional) story involving himself.  This is one of the latter.  It involves a mysterious disappearance, an insane woman, and a bonfire.  Vincent Price could read the phone book and make it sound chilling, and this episode definitely delivers his stories' special brand of unease and creepiness.

Click below to listen, and enjoy!

Guy Fawkes Night, by The Price of Fear
 Audio hosted by Archive.org; radio image via simplyuse on Deviant Art