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Dr. P's Daily Time Machine
by Ben Parisi
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/drpsdailytimemachine/subscribeEpisodes Uploaded M-F @4amThe best podcast for anyone who loves a great story! Presenting a medium that's been seemingly lost to a generation. Do you enjoy true crime podcasts, serial dramas, horror films, or science fiction? Well look no further than old time radio to create a theater of the mind. This podcast will include a short introduction with some information on the show, episode, and actors. Genres include all old time radio, detective, sci/fi, drama and more. All audio has been hand selected and enhanced by myself from public archives. Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/mv95jbhf
Episodes
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Episode 81: Dragnet - The Big Pair
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. As we have been doing all week, we will travel back to the first 100 episodes of Dragnet and pick out my favorites. Dragnet was not only one of the most famous, but also one of the most celebrated series of its time. Between radio and television it won...
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Episode 80: Dragnet - The Big Chance
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we are again reviewing my favorite shows from the first 100 episodes of Dragnet. We will join Sgt’s Friday and Romero on a dark case. A patrol officer has gone missing while on duty. His vehicle abandoned, radio still in operation, and no clues as...
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Episode 79: Dragnet - The Big Badge
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back 72 years to May 1950 for another episode from the first 100 of arguably the most successful old time radio shows of all time, Dragnet. We will join Jack Webb’s phenomenal portrayal of Sgt Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero…
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Episode 78: Dragnet - The Big Thank You
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. I apologize for my long absence but I have had a nasty case of laryngitis for the past week. I am happy to return for a special week here on the time machine. As it is my birthday week I have decided to do a special of one of my favorite shows Dragnet....
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Episode 77: The Mysterious Traveler - Fire In The Sky
Hello and welcome back to the time machine, although I am still without my voice, I have been listening to a lot of Mysterious Traveler during my sickness and this is another one of my favorites. Although the show is mostly horror and thriller based, some of the episodes lean more into science...
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Episode 76: The Mysterious Traveler - Death Has a Cold Breath
Hello and welcome back to the not so daily time machine. I apologize for my absence, but I am quite sick and lost my voice for a few days. For now I will upload filler episodes, today from The Mysterious Traveler. This is a fun romp following a couple committing what could be the perfect crime.…
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Episode 75: Dimension X - The Roads Must Roll
Hello and welcome back to the Time Machine. Today, we'll be traveling back in time to the world of 1950s science fiction radio drama, with an episode from the classic series "Dimension X." Our destination is the world of "The Roads Must Roll," a story written by the legendary science fiction…
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Episode 74: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Valentine Matter
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to 1955 to revisit an old friend, Bob Bailey once again playing the role of Johnny Dollar. Unlike the more recent filler episodes that I have featured from the later, 30 minute single episode era, this is from the nightly…
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Episode 73: The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe - Killer Cards
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to 1951 for another fantastic episode from The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe. Yes, the world's fattest, laziest, drunkest, smartest, cleverest, and best detective. In this episode we will join Mr. Wolfe where he always resides…
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Episode 72: Orson Welles adaptation of the true story from the first trip to the North Pole - Hell on Ice
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to our favorite theater this week for another great episode. Sorry I do not have an introduction today and a later upload time but this is a story not to be missed. On fridays on the time machine we like to do thriller/horror...
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Episode 71: Mercury Theater on The Air - Around The World in 80 Days
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today, we are taking a journey around the world in just 80 days. That's right, we are heading back to the Mercury Theater on the Air for their adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure, "Around the World in 80 Days." Orson Welles, the master of...
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Episode 70: Campbell Playhouse - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back for another wonderful adaptation by Orson Welles, this time from The Campbell Playhouse. Running from 1938 to 1940, it was a sponsored version of Mercury Radio Theater continuing the high production values and storytelling...
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Episode 69: Mercury Theater on the Air - The Count of Monte Cristo
Today on the time machine Orson Welles brings you another literary classic, this time Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. This is another fantastic adaptation, so I hope you enjoy, and we'll be back tomorrow with one of the greatest mystery stories ever written, The Murder of Roger…
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Episode 68: Mercury Theater On The Air - Dracula
Hello, and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will continue focusing on the career of Orson Welles. Firstly however I would like to take a quick sidebar, if you’d like to just listen to the episode please feel free to skip to 3ish minutes. I would like to apologize for the very…
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Episode 67: The Shadow - Death House Rescue
Hello and welcome back to time time machine. Today we will travel back to 1937 to highlight this week's focus, the career of Orson Welles in Old Time Radio. We will begin with his first starring role in a major radio series, as the mysterious character, The Shadow. And as it is one of his first...
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Episode 66: The Hitchhiker
Welcome back to the Time Machine, Today, we're taking a trip back to 1942, to experience the iconic episode of "Suspense" - "The Hitchhiker." This episode was written by Lucille Fletcher, who is considered one of the most successful female writers of the Golden Age of Radio. It was widely popular...
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Episode 65: The Man Called X - Into Berlin
Hello and welcome back to the time machine, today we will travel back to May 3rd, 1945 to a broadcast that would be just 4 days before the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Today we will join a very interesting and mostly unknown broadcast named A Man Called X. The...
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Episode 64: Bradbury 13 - Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed
Filler episode today, this coming from more Bradbury week overflow. This is another fantastic production by Bradbury 13, the people at NPR and students at BYU university in the 80s. This story comes extremely late in the timeline and relates to Bradbury's collection of short stories telling his...
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Bonus Episode #3: Bradbury Week Overflow
Hello and welcome back to a bonus episode of the time machine. Today we will highlight a great episode from suspense called Kaleidoscope. This unsettling tale from July of 1955 is fantastically adapted for radio and starring William Conrad. Mr. Conrad appeared in more than 19 different series and...
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Episode 63: Dragnet - The Big Man Parts 1 & 2
Subscribe on Patreon or Spotify to get extra episodes every month! SPOTIFY: https://anchor.fm/drpsdailytimemachine/subscribe PATREON https://tinyurl.com/mv95jbhf Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to 1950 for an episode from the classic show Dragnet. Recently I...
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Episode 62: Lights Out - The Ugliest Man in the World
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. On Fridays around here we usually like to do something a little more thriller or horror based and today won’t be any different. Today we will present Raymond Edward Johnson best known for his role hosting Inner Sanctum Mysteries, in one of his earliest...
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Episode 61: The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe - Stamped for Murder
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back 72 years to a new show here on the time machine. Unlike the normal private detectives we feature, I would like to introduce you to Nero Wolfe in only the way his assistant Archie can. Nero Wolfe was first broadcast from 1950 to...
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Episode 60: Your's Truly Johnny Dollar - The Burning Carr Matter
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today is a filler episode with no introduction. I will be back tomorrow for a full show for episode 61, in the mean time please enjoy some classic YTJD from the thirty minute era staring one of our favorite Bob Bailey as the man with the action packed...
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Episode 59: Richard Diamond Private Detective - The Stolen Purse
Hello and welcome back to The Time Machine. Today we will be taking a step back in time to the year 1949 and introducing the classic radio show "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" for the first time. The episode we will be listening to today is called "The Stolen Purse" and it follows the...
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Episode 58: Ray Bradbury's "The Wind" and "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. I hope you have been enjoying this week as we have worked our way through some of Bradbury’s greatest works that have been adapted for radio. Today we will feature two shows, first we will join Bradbury 13 for their phenomenal adaptation of The Wind.…
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Episode 57: Ray Bradbury's "Mars is Heaven"
Hello and welcome back to the time machine, my fellow time travelers. Today we will be embarking on another exciting journey, as we travel back in time to 1955 to explore one of Ray Bradbury's classic short fiction. In this episode, we will be delving into one of his most famous and celebrated...
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Episode 56: Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt"
Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/mv95jbhf Contact me with any questions or comments: [email protected] Hello and welcome back to Dr. P's Daily Time Machine, the radio show where Dr. P, your host, takes you on a journey through the greatest works of fiction. Today's episode, "The Veldt," is a...
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Episode 55: CBS Radio Workshop - Ray Bradbury's "Season of Disbelief" and "Hail and Farewell"
Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/mv95jbhf Contact me with any questions or comments: [email protected] Hello and welcome back to the time machine. I would first like to apologize for yesterday's episode, as I had completely forgotten that I had already done it! I hope that conveys just how…
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Episode 54: Dimension X - Ray Bradbury's To The Future
Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/mv95jbhf Contact me with any questions or comments: [email protected] Hello and welcome back to the time machine. I am sorry for the delay and limited selection, but when I heard this phenomenal tale, I couldn't pass up the chance to feature it. Today we will...
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Episode 53: X-Minus One - Almost Human
Around here on Fridays we travel back to thrill and sometimes horror. Today we will do the same with a sci fi twist as we join the recently featured X Minus One with some… campy fun. In this episode we will meet a child. His name is Junior and he’s a sweet little boy, although, you know not that…
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Episode 52: Have Gun Will Travel - Heyboy's Revenge
The last two days we have featured new shows, but today we will go back to one of my favorites, Have Gun Will Travel. This exciting western features the fascinating character Paladin, who is a traveling gunfighter in the late 1800s. He lives in the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco where he has a...
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Episode 51: Escape - A Diamond as big as the Ritz
Today we will travel back 75 years to the dramatic show named Escape, which ran on CBS from 1947 to 1954. Much like another series, Suspense, which had similar content, escape was run on a much lower budget as they did not have a sponsor. Generally this led to the producer, Les Crutchfield to…
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Episode 50: Mr. Chameleon - The Brownstone Murder Case
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we celebrate the fiftieth episode of the time machine by traveling back to 1948 and a new show Mr. Chameleon. Today we also celebrate over 15,000 plays, so I would like to thank you all so much for your support. There is little known about this...
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Episode 49: Cloak and Dagger - Eyes of Buddah
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. I would like to start with an apology for taking a few days off last week for the holidays. We will resume programming as normal today and from now on. If future things arise I will be sure to mention it in advance or a chosen episode will air from my...
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Episode 48: Lux Radio Theater - Legionnaire And The Lady
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. We are taking a much needed Christmas break here and will be back with normal episodes on Wednesday. In the mean time please enjoy this unabridged production of the romantic comedy starring Clark Gable, from Lux Radio Theater called The Legionnaire and...
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Episode 47: Macabre - Weekend
Hello and welcome back to The Time Machine. Today we will take a little vacation with a show that was broadcast in 1961 called Macabre. This horror and suspense radio show, although only a few episodes survive today, are all excellently acted and produced with wonderfully told and often…
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Episode 46: Exploring Tomorrow - The Happiness Effect
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel to 1958 and a mostly unknown show called Exploring Tomorrow. This show, despite having limited remaining episodes, featured only the finest science fiction writers of the time. All stories are taken directly from the pages of...
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Episode 45: The Adventures of Ellery Queen - The Circus Train
If you'd like to subscribe for extra episodes in a slightly slightly less rigid format, you can for just $1 a month on Patreon (https://tinyurl.com/mv95jbhf). Feel free to subscribe, download the episodes, and then cancel. Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel back to a...
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Episode 44: X-Minus One - Knock
If you'd like to subscribe for extra episodes in a slightly slightly less rigid format, you can for just $1 a month on Patreon (https://tinyurl.com/mv95jbhf). Feel free to subscribe, download the episodes, and then cancel. Hello everyone and welcome back to the time machine. Today we will travel...
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Episode 43: Dragnet - A .22 For Christmas
Hello everyone and welcome to the time machine. Unfortunately today I am feeling very under the weather and dealing with several personal issues. As I'm sure you can hear from the recording and strange intro music (which is from my band like 12 years ago I think?) So no fun intro but this is a…
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Episode 42: Zero Hour
Today we will travel back 72 years to an unknown horror science fiction show. It is possible that it was a segment of a multi part episode of Dimension X, which was yesterday’s featured show, but, not positive on that. Like yesterday's story, it is also written by Ray Bradbury, but has a much...
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Episode 41: Dimesion X - Shangheid
Today we will travel back 72 years and revisit the science fiction show Dimension X. This show was previously featured with the story The Outer Limit, which was rebroadcast as X-Minus One and is one of my all time favorites, episode 15 if you’d like to listen back. Dimension X features stories by...
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Episode 40: The Screen Guild Theater - Miss Brown of Worcester
Today we will travel back to 1939 for a Comedy Romance from Screen Guild Theater. This radio anthology series featured not only the biggest stars of radio at the time, but also of theater. The show had a variety format as you will hear, and eventually mostly relied on adaptations of major motion...
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Episode 39: The Falcon - Murder is a Family Affair
Today we will travel back to the 1940s for a show filled with danger, romance, and comedy. The Falcon was a radio series that premiered on April 19th, 1943 and ran all the way until November of 1954. The shows creator Charles Huff, wrote two Falcon novels in 1936 and 1937 that were very popular....
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Episode 38: Gunsmoke - The Kid
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. As we have our first snowfall of the year here in the northeast, my thoughts carried me back to the nice and warm southwest of the US. So to follow along with that dream of warm weather, we are going to travel back all the way to 1872 and Dodge City in...
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Episode 37: Adventures By Morse - Dead Men Prowl The Finale
Hello and welcome to the time machine. Today is the finale of a four part series featuring Adventures by Morse. Over the course of this week we have traveled back 77 years, and featured all ten parts of Dead Men Prowl, one of the best horror/thriller series in old time radio. I hope you have...
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Episode 36: Adventures By Morse - Dead Men Prowl Part 3
Today and for the rest of the week, we are traveling back 77 years to feature the ten part story from Adventures By Morse named Dead Men Prowl. Today is the third part, featuring episodes 6, 7, and 8. So sit back, relax, and let's join Captain Bart Friday and Dr. Croft, as horror continues to...
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Episode 35: Adventures By Morse - Dead Men Prowl Part 2
Today and for the rest of the week, we are traveling back 77 years to feature the ten part story from Adventures By Morse named Dead Men Prowl. Today is the second part, featuring episodes 3, 4, and 5. So sit back, relax, and lets join Captain Bart Friday and Dr. Croft, as horror begins to spread...
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Episode 34: Adventures by Morse - Dead Men Prowl Part 1
Hello and welcome back to the time machine. Today and for the rest of the week, we are going to travel back 77 years and visit another classic serialized adventure series by Carlton Morse. Previously, we featured the remake of the classic, but mostly lost series, I Love a Mystery with Fear That...
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Episode 33: Dragnet - Police Academy
Today we will travel back 73 years to what is one of the most popular old time radio shows. Dragnet was featured back on episode 7, and will be featured again today with another episode from the show's first few months. For those that do not already know, Dragnet was a series endorsed by the LAPD...
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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/drpsdailytimemachine/subscribeEpisodes Uploaded M-F @4amThe best podcast for anyone who loves a great story! Presenting a medium that's been seemingly lost to a generation. Do you enjoy true crime podcasts, serial dramas, horror films, or science fiction? Well look no further than old time radio to create a theater of the mind. This podcast will include a short introduction with some information on the show, episode, and actors. Genres include all old time radio, detective, sci/fi, drama and more. All audio has been hand selected and enhanced by myself from public archives. Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/mv95jbhf
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