All Episodes
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Don’t Trust the Mannequins | Escape - “Evening Primrose” (1947)
Lucille Ball in Handcuffs | My Favorite Husband - “Liz and George Are Handcuffed” (1949)
The Trouble with Hepplewhite | Richard Diamond, Private Detective - “The Leland Gibson Murder” (1949)
Wine, Pride, and Premeditated Murder | The Hall of Fantasy - “The Cask of Amontillado” (1953)
Help I’ve Been Kidnapped by Three Bat-Shit Crazy Women in a Crappy Ford Contour | 4: “The Long Way”
Danger in Evening Clothes | The Saint - “Cupid and the Corpse” (1950)
Everyone Knew Him ... Except Himself | Nightfall - “How Did You Get My Name?” (1980)
The Day Salem Lost Its Mind | You Are There - “Witchcraft Trials at Salem” (1947)
When the Creepy-Crawlies Laid Siege | The Mysterious Traveler - “The Man the Insects Hated” (1947)
Help I’ve Been Kidnapped by Three Bat-Shit Crazy Women in a Crappy Ford Contour | 3: “Snapshots”
Murder on Page 189 | The Adventures of Nero Wolfe - “The Final Page” (1951)
The Hammer and the Silo | AppleTV and the Trifecta of Dystopian Visions (Severance, Silo, Pluribus)
The Long March Home | Dimension X - “Martian Death March” (1951)
What If Tomorrow Never Comes? | The Shadow - “The Man Who Murdered Time” (1939)
The Strangest Weapon of All: Darkness | Night Beat - “Night Is a Weapon” (1950)
Help I’ve Been Kidnapped by Three Bat-Shit Crazy Women in a Crappy Ford Contour | 2: “Beginnings”
How to Start a Faculty Crisis Without Really Trying | The Halls of Ivy - “Poetry Reading” (1950)
A Secret Carried for 21 Years | Broadway Is My Beat - “Spring Death Is Round the Corner” (1953)
Nothing to Fear? | Quiet, Please - “Nothing Behind the Door” (1947)
Step Right Up to Murder … with Vincent Price | ”The Saint - “The Carnival Murder” (1951)
Help, I’ve Been Kidnapped by Three Bat-Shit Crazy Women in a Crappy Ford Contour | 1 : “The Kidnappers”
When Radio Refused to Die | The General Mills Radio Adventure - “The Adventures of Oliver” (1977)
A Mystery Without an Ending | Suspense - “The Mystery of Edwin Dood” (1953)
Ambition, Guilt, and Moral Reckoning | NBC University Theater - “Great Expectations” (1950)
Kindness, Comedy, and Social Folly | Mercury Theatre on the Air - “The Pickwick Papers” (1938)
A Far, Far Better Thing | Mercury Theatre on the Air - “Tale of Two Cities” (1938)
The Power of Genre: A Special 100th Episode Presentation
Journey Into Space - “Operation Luna” (1953) episodes 9-13
Journey Into Space - “Operation Luna” (1953) episodes 4-8
Before the Space Race Began | Journey Into Space - “Operation Luna” (1953) episodes 1-3
Why Sherlock Holmes Endures | Mercury Theatre on the Air - “The Immortal Sherlock Holmes” (1938)
Holmes Returns to Radio | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - “The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes” (1946)
When the Game Finally Ends | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 15 – “Resolution”
The Tyranny of Normal | Author’s Playhouse - “Country of the Blind” (1944)
When the Mind Turns on Itself | Murder at Midnight - “Nightmare” (1946)
Bonus Summer Episode: When the Heat Breaks … Murder Follows | The Whistler – "Summer Thunder" (1945)
When Evidence Lies | Casey, Crime Photographer - “Photo of the Dead” (1947)
When Happiness Becomes Mandatory | Exploring Tomorrow - “The Happiness Effect” (1958)
Mutually Assured Destruction | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 14 – “Leverage”
Captain Midnight - “Mysterious Voice” (1940), the finale, episodes 27-33
Captain Midnight - “Mysterious Voice” (1940), continued, episodes 20-26
Captain Midnight - “Mysterious Voice” (1940), continued, episodes 13-19
Captain Midnight - “Mysterious Voice” (1940), continued, episodes 6-12
A Pre-War Heroic Radio Serial Begins | Captain Midnight - “Mysterious Voice” (1940) episodes 1-5
Nothing, No One, Nobody, Null | Night Beat - “Zero” (1950)
When Losing Your Job Is the Joke | My Friend Irma - “Jane & Irma Lose Their Jobs” (1947)
The Case No One Wants | 21st Precinct - “Policeman Shot - Suicide or Murder?” (1953)
When Control Is No Longer Possible | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 13 – “Surrender”
The Sound of Certainty | The Weird Circle - “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1944)
Character, Duty, and the American Ideal | Cavalcade of America - “Abraham Lincoln” (1936)
When Laughter Turns Sinister | Inner Sanctum - “The Death Laugh” (1944)
When Good Intentions Turn Deadly | This Is Your FBI - “The Innocent Killer” (1946)
Nothing Remains Hidden | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 12 – “Exposure”
Automation Without Control | 2000 Plus – “When the Machines Went Wild” (1950)
Crime, Masks, and Misdirection | The Green Hornet - “The Corpse That Wasn’t There” (1943)
When Safety Becomes an Illusion | Box 13 - “Daytime Nightmare” (1949)
The Real English Lesson | Our Miss Brooks - “The English Test” (1949)
Distance Fails | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 11 – “Proximity”
When Evidence Refuses to Vanish | The Black Museum – “The Jar of Acid” (1952)
Some Ideas Don’t Stay on the Page | Lights Out - “The Author and the Thing” (1936)
History as Live Radio | You Are There - “The Defense of the Alamo” (1947)
You Can’t Escape Yourself | The Whistler – “The Man Who Died Twice” (1945)
What Endurance Demands | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 10 – “Attrition”
When Broadway Breaks You | Broadway Is My Beat - “Georgia Gray” (1951)
By Request: Vincent Price’s Strange Case | The Saint - “The Horrible Hamburger” (1950)
When the Future Feels Familiar | Dimension X - “Mars Is Heaven!” (1950)
The Terror of the Unseen | The Shadow - “The Phantom Voice” (1938)
When Literature Saves Lives | Escape – “The Man Who Liked Dickens” (1952)
No More Time to Think | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 9 – “Ultimatum”
A Comedy of Confusion | Burns and Allen - “Gracie’s Murder Mystery” (1938)
The Rise of the Police Procedural | Dragnet - “The Big Cast” (1951)
Radio’s Most Existential Hour | Quiet, Please - “It’s Later Than You Think” (1948)
A Reckoning at the End of the War | The Mysterious Traveller - “Death Comes for Adolf Hitler” (1945)
We Didn’t Expect This | You Won’t Believe It | OK, You Might Believe It | No, You Really Won’t (200)
When Sherlock Holmes Is Not in the Room | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 8 - “Displacement”
Wisecracks and Bruises | Richard Diamond, Private Detective - “Lt. Levinson Is Kidnapped” (1950)
A Tender Farewell | William Shakespeare, Sonnet 71: “No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead” (1609)
A Lyrical Farewell to Love | Algernon Charles Swinburne, “A Leave-Taking” (1866)
When Intelligence Outruns Wisdom | 2000 Plus - “The Brooklyn Brain” (1950)
A Metaphysical Awakening into Love | John Donne - “The Good-Morrow” (1633)
A Haunting Poem of Unrequited Love | William Butler Yeats - “When You Are Old” (1892)
A Devastating Elegy of Grief and Love | Donald Hall - “Without” (1998)
The Birth of Superman | The Adventures of Superman – First Five Episodes (1940)
A Love Poem That Refuses to Be Cute | Carol Ann Duffy - “Valentine” (1993)
A Tiny Poem About a Vast Truth | William Blake - “Love and Harmony” (1783)
When the World Won’t Make Space for Love | Robert Browning - “Never the Time and the Place” (1883)
A Cosmic Argument for Love | Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Love’s Philosophy” (1819)
When the Bells Begin to Ring | Have Gun, Will Travel – “Three Bells to Perdido” (1958)
When the Future Self Speaks Back | Ocean Vuong - “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” (2015)
Grief, Compassion, and Renewal | Naomi Shihab Nye - “Kindness” (1980)
A Poem of Longing and Devotion | Ezra Pound - “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” (1915)
The Cost of Control | Sherlock Holmes: The Last Analysis, Episode 7 – “Paradox”
A Poem About Returning to Yourself | Derek Walcott - “Love after Love” (1976)
Harmony, Distance, and Devotion | Rainer Maria Rilke - “Love Song” (1907)
Harmony, Distance, and Devotion | Rainer Maria Rilke - “Love Song” (1907)
Love in the Face of Mortality | William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73: “That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold” (1609)
A Pastoral Love Classic | Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (1599)
Optimism Meets Reality | Our Miss Brooks - “First Day” (1948)
Rethinking Love, Loss, and Success | Jack Gilbert - “Failing and Flying” (2005)
Why This Love Poem Endures | e. e. cummings - “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” (1952)