Old Time Radio as a History Lesson Old Time Radio as a History Lesson

Close your eyes. The only input you have is audio. With a little imagination, you can easily transport yourself back to a comfortable chair positioned next to the fire, in a 1940s’ home. What you are experiencing is exactly the same as what someone in the 1940s experienced if they sat by the fire with their eyes closed.


Adventures by Morse: (8) The City of the Dead (The Kidnapping of Clawfoot) Adventures by Morse: (8) The City of the Dead (The Kidnapping of Clawfoot)

It’s the third night in the City of the Dead. Captain Friday locks Jimmy Parker and Phyllis Carroll together in a room. Later, Friday and his father discover three corpses. One had been strangled. The second is the body of the man killed by the Claw-footed Phantom. The last appears to have been inexplicably frightened to death.


Adventures by Morse: (7) The City of the Dead (Captain Friday Vanishes) Adventures by Morse: (7) The City of the Dead (Captain Friday Vanishes)

After a night of unearthly events and sudden death that all seem to be centered around the caretaker’s cottage in the City of The Dead, Captain Friday wakes to find a phantom figure roaming about.


The History Of Old Time Radio The History Of Old Time Radio

In the be­gin­ning, most ra­dio pro­grams em­u­lat­ed the vaudeville acts that were the main­stay of pub­lic amuse­ment be­fore ra­dio. Comics and singers ruled the air­waves! Best of all, you no longer had to leave your home to en­joy their tal­ents! Even­tu­al­ly, how­ev­er, au­di­ences ma­tured and oth­er types of pro­grams were added to the ra­dio sched­ule.


Adventures by Morse: The City Of The Dead (The Ghoul In The Grave) pt. 6 Adventures by Morse: The City Of The Dead (The Ghoul In The Grave) pt. 6

In this episode of Carlton E. Morse’s The City of the Dead, three men stand on the edge of a partially open grave. A fourth stands in the grave whispering, “I’ve struck something. Something awful.”


Adventures by Morse: (5) The City of the Dead (The Skeleton Walks In) Adventures by Morse: (5) The City of the Dead (The Skeleton Walks In)

Joshua Friday is shot as he searches for the source of the phantom church bell.


Adventures by Morse: (4) The City of the Dead pt. 4 (Old Clawfoot Again) Adventures by Morse: (4) The City of the Dead pt. 4 (Old Clawfoot Again)

Jimmy Parker and Doc Tuner go down to the City of the Dead to investigate the source of the phantom church bell.


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