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GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater

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Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original dramatizations. For most of its history, programs ran for 90 minutes and were largely entertainment-centered, including thrillers, comedies and mysteries. The GSMC Classics collection is the embodiment of the best of the golden age of radio. Let Golden State Media Concepts take you on a ride through the classic age of radio, with this compiled collection of episodes from a wide variety of old programs. ***PLEASE NOTE*** GSMC Podcast Network presents these shows as historical content and have brought them to you unedited. Remember that times have changed and some shows might not reflect the standards of today’s politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or b

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Episodes

  1. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 34: Father and Son Parts 1 and 2

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 1 and 2 of Father and Son, a dramatization of the relationship between Johann Strauss and his son. Enjoy this rebroadcast of a previous episode. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas,...

  2. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 33: The Catchmere Fugitive Parts 1 and 2

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  3. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 32: The Catchmere Fugitive Parts 1 and 2

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  4. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 31: Father and Son Parts 5 and 6

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  5. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 30: Father and Son Parts 3 and 4

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  6. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 29: Father and Son Parts 1 and 2

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  7. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 28: With a Wimper to the Grave

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  8. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 27: The Terrible Connexion

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  9. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 26: The Ringer

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  10. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 25: The Long Fight

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  11. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 24: The Doppelganger Machine

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  12. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 23: The Chiltern Hundreds

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  13. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 22: The Calendar

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  14. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 21: The Appointed Hour

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  15. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 20: Sophie

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  16. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 19: Next Man Through the Door

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  17. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 18: Miss Anya

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  18. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 17: Himself

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  19. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 16: Death of My Aunt

    Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

  20. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 15: Before the Screaming Begins Parts 5 and 6

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 5 and 6 of Before the Screaming Begins, a radio play by Wally K. Daly, and the first part of the Scream Trilogy. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio on 01 July 1978. Tom Harris is abducted by aliens. What is their intent? GSMC Classics...

  21. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 14: Before the Screaming Begins Parts 3 and 4

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 3 and 4 of Before the Screaming Begins, a radio play by Wally K. Daly, and the first part of the Scream Trilogy. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio on 01 July 1978. Tom Harris is abducted by aliens. What is their intent? GSMC Classics...

  22. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 13: Before the Screaming Begins Parts 1 and 2

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 1 and 2 of Before the Screaming Begins, a radio play by Wally K. Daly, and the first part of the Scream Trilogy. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio on 01 July 1978. Tom Harris is abducted by aliens. What is their intent? GSMC Classics...

  23. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 12: Rebecca Parts 5 and 6

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 5 and 6 of Rebecca, adapted for radio by Cynthia Pew. Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel written by English author, Daphne du Maurier. The novel depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before discovering that...

  24. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 11: Rebecca Parts 3 and 4

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 3 and 4 of Rebecca, adapted for radio by Cynthia Pew. Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel written by English author, Daphne du Maurier. The novel depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before discovering that...

  25. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 10: Rebecca Parts 1 and 2

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 1 and 2 of Rebecca, adapted for radio by Cynthia Pew. Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel written by English author, Daphne du Maurier. The novel depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before discovering that...

  26. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 9: Waters of the Moon Parts 5 and 6

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 5 and 6 of Waters of the Moon by NC Hunter. A woman, Helen Lancaster, is caught in a house during a snowstorm and forced to spend time there with her husband and daughter. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio…

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  27. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 8: Waters of the Moon Parts 3 and 4

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 3 and 4 of Waters of the Moon by NC Hunter. A woman, Helen Lancaster, is caught in a house during a snowstorm and forced to spend time there with her husband and daughter. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio…

    more

  28. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 7: Waters of the Moon Parts 1 and 2

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 1 and 2 of Waters of the Moon by NC Hunter. A woman, Helen Lancaster, is caught in a house during a snowstorm and forced to spend time there with her husband and daughter. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio…

    more

  29. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 6: The Catchmere Fugitive Parts 5, 6, and 7

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts Parts 5, 6, and 7 of The Catchmere Fugitive. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical presentations from a bygone era. The GSMC Classics collection is...

  30. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 5: The Catchmere Fugitive Parts 3 and 4

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 3 and 4 of The Catchmere Fugitive. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical presentations from a bygone era. The GSMC Classics collection is the...

  31. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 4: The Catchmere Fugitive Parts 1 and 2

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 1 and 2 of The Catchmere Fugitive. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical presentations from a bygone era. The GSMC Classics collection is the...

  32. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 3: Father and Son Parts 5 and 6

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 1 and 2 of Father and Son, a dramatization of the relationship between Johann Strauss and his son. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical…

    more

  33. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 2: Father and Son Parts 3 and 4

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 1 and 2 of Father and Son, a dramatization of the relationship between Johann Strauss and his son. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical…

    more

  34. GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater Episode 1: Father and Son Parts 1 and 2

    GSMC Podcast Network and Afternoon Theater present parts 1 and 2 of Father and Son, a dramatization of the relationship between Johann Strauss and his son. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical…

    more

About this show

Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original dramatizations. For most of its history, programs ran for 90 minutes and were largely entertainment-centered, including thrillers, comedies and mysteries. The GSMC Classics collection is the embodiment of the best of the golden age of radio. Let Golden State Media Concepts take you on a ride through the classic age of radio, with this compiled collection of episodes from a wide variety of old programs. ***PLEASE NOTE*** GSMC Podcast Network presents these shows as historical content and have brought them to you unedited. Remember that times have changed and some shows might not reflect the standards of today’s politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or b

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GSMC Drama Network

Frequently asked questions

How many episodes does GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater have?

GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater has 34 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on February 22, 2024.

What is GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater about?

Afternoon Theater (also Saturday Night Theater) was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. Launched in April 1943, Afternoon Theater showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays for more than 50 years. The plays featured included stage plays, book adaptations and original...

How often does GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater release new episodes?

GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater publishes monthly, based on its 34 episodes since June 2021.

Who hosts GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater?

GSMC Classics: Afternoon Theater is created and hosted by GSMC Drama Network.
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