Revisit the Golden Age of Radio with The Invisible Man
Airs October 30th and 31st at 7:00 pm
The Invisible Man is a story about a science experiment gone terribly wrong. After working tirelessly, young scientist Griffin comes upon a formula that makes him invisible-but he hasn’t found a way to change back! Come to the show to hear what happens when Griffin risks everything to get the cure! Will Griffin do whatever it takes? Join us on the airwaves to find out. Experience “radio” as people once did around the 1930s. Full of music and sound effects, you’ll keep wondering what will happen next! This is a two-nights-only engagement. All proceeds will go to support The Falls Church High School Theatre department. Thank you for your support!
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The Hall of Fantasy: The Black Figurine of Death –transcript- from: Generic Radio
A dying uncle vows revenge on his greedy family, warning them of a black figurine. “It was a queer little figure, its arms raised in supplication, a look of fear upon its face,” says nephew Dave, “There was something frightening about it.”
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Gunsmoke –transcript- from: Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Two years’ worth of “Gunsmoke” scripts.
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Columbia Workshop: Nine Prisoners –transcript- from: Generic Radio
American soldiers are ordered to massacre twenty-two German prisoners-of-war. A grim and occasionally heavy-handed adaptation of the story in William March’s “Company K.”
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Four for the Fifth: Surrender –transcript- from: Generic Radio
World War II propaganda by Arch Oboler about an army private who captures a sophisticated enemy lieutenant.
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The Mercury Theatre on the Air: A Tale of Two Cities –transcript- from: Microphone Plays
Orson Welles’ adaptation of Charles Dickens’ sprawling novel of the French Revolution. “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I’ve ever done. It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known,” says Sydney Carton at the guillotine.
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]]>The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy: The Bum –transcript- from: Generic Radio
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The Eternal Light: The Light in Darkness –transcript- from: Microphone Plays
Before becoming Helen Keller’s “Miracle Worker,” Anne Sullivan spends her childhood in a Massachusetts poorhouse surrounded by the mentally ill. A biographical sketch from a public service series that tried to promote religious tolerance with what the New York Times called “fine and sensitive dramas which stand very much on their own merit as radio plays.”
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The Columbia Workshop: Air Raid –transcript- from: Generic Radio
Archibald MacLeish’s poetic dramatization of the threat of an air raid on a small town. Premiering a few nights before the Mercury Theatre’s “War of the Worlds,” this play is cited by John Houseman as an influence on that famous broadcast.
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Arch Oboler’s Plays: Another World (aka Alter Ego) –transcript- from: Generic Radio
A frequently-revived “Lights Out” thriller about a woman with an evil alter ego driving her into madness.
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Calling All Cars: The Execution Of John Dillinger –transcript- from: Generic Radio
Broadcast three days after the gangster’s death, this is a not-entirely-accurate dramatization of Dillinger’s criminal career.
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Four Star Playhouse: The Incredible Annalee –transcript- from: Generic Radio
Screwball romantic comedy about a wacky ambitious actress and her cynical Hollywood press agent.
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The Black Ace: Episode 67 –transcript- from: Generic Radio
Who is the Black Ace? A hooded vigilante from Detroit who flies a rocket-powered super-plane while pursuing wrongdoers! From the producer of the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet.
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Roy Rogers: Missing Atomic Scientist –transcript- from: Generic Radio
The singing cowboy star gets slightly radioactive in this 1950s mystery.
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The Lux Radio Theatre: Jane Eyre –transcript- from: Microphone Plays
Jane Eyre takes a job as a governess at Thornfield Hall where her brooding master, Edward Rochester, harbors a dark secret. Says he, “Miss Eyre, I am a battleground where nature and circ*mstance tear at each other’s throat. Nature intends me to be a good man. Circ*mstance decrees otherwise.”
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Lights Out: Mother In Law (Knock at the Door) –transcript- from: Generic Radio
Suicidal Ella recounts her unholy plot to murder her mother-in-law.
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The Campbell Playhouse: The Magnificent Ambersons –transcript- from: Microphone Plays
Spoiled George Amberson Minafer threatens the romance of his mother and the man she has always loved. Orson Welles, who later turned Booth Tarkington’s novel into a film, calls it “the truest, cruelest picture of the growth of the Middle West and the liveliest portrait left to us of the people who made it grow.”
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Escape: A Shipment of Mute Fate –transcript- from: Generic Radio
A zoologist wants to bring a dangerous animal aboard an ocean liner. This popular thriller was repeated several times on “Escape” and its sister show “Suspense.”
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Little Old Lady: Lights Out –transcript- from: Generic Radio
Alice and Lona, two college students, visit Aunt Harriet, a mysterious old lady with an unusual cat.
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The Damon Runyon Theater: Princess O’Hara –transcript- from: Generic Radio
A fable about a Central Park “princess” and a racehorse named Gallant Godfrey.
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The Big Story: Manhunt in Manhattan –transcript- from: Generic Radio
A crime reporter witnesses a hold-up and thinks he can identify the gang leader. This weekly anthology series featured dramatizations of true newspaper stories from the point-of-view of the journalists involved.
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]]>Lights Out: Ghost Party –transcript- from: Generic Radio
A séance party gets out of hand when an actual undead creature is summoned.
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BBC: The Dweller in the Darkness: A Play of the Unknown –transcript- from: The Wireless
A surprisingly solid thriller about six people in a haunted house. Broadcast in April 1925, this is a very early example of a play written especially for radio.
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The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy: The Farmer –transcript- from: Generic Radio
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The Witch’s Tale: The Altar –transcript- from: Generic Radio
The son of aristocrats takes vengeance on the French Revolutionaries who cost him his parents — and builds an altar of hate.
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Dragnet –transcript- from: Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Two years’ worth of “Dragnet” scripts
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Suspense: Return to Dust –transcript- from: Generic Radio
The entire drama takes place on the desktop of a scientist who is rapidly shrinking to microscopic size. Can he contact the one man in the world who could save him?
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The Lux Radio Theatre: Sunset Boulevard –transcript- from: Microphone Plays
A down-on-his-luck screenwriter works on a script for faded silent film star Norma Desmond. “You used to be big,” he tells Norma. “I am big,” she insists, “It’s the pictures that got small.”
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The Lux Radio Theatre: Death Takes a Holiday –transcript- from: Microphone Plays
To find out why humans fear him, Death assumes the mortal form and spends a weekend with the family and guests of a wealthy Italian duke. “There must be something here on earth to be known and felt — something desirable — that makes men fear me and cling to their life. I must know what it is,” says the Grim Reaper. Later remade as “Meet Joe Black.”
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Vic and Sade: Unaired Episode –transcript- from: Generic Radio
Vic and Sade’s son Rush is asked by a neighbor to hide a basket of Christmas presents. A typically odd holiday episode from radio’s quirkiest comedy program.
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Screen Guild: A Letter to Three Wives –transcript- from: Generic Radio
The town tart informs three wives that she’s run off with one of their husbands. But which one?
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The Life of Riley: Valentine Locket –transcript- from: Generic Radio
In this vintage sitcom, working man Chester A. Riley buys his wife a cheap locket to compete with a rival.
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The Life of Riley: Mother In Law –transcript- from: Generic Radio
Riley’s mother-in-law threatens to visit. This wartime sitcom episode includes some interesting VE Day commercials from the American Meat Institute.
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Dimension X: A Logic Named Joe –transcript- from: Generic Radio
Old time radio predicts the Internet in this science fiction comedy about an interconnected computer network that threatens to destroy society.
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Screen Guild: Take a Letter, Darling –transcript- from: Generic Radio
Comedy about an advertising executive who hires a handsome personal secretary to be her make-believe fiancé.
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The Campbell Playhouse: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town –transcript- from: Microphone Plays
Pixilated small town poet Longfellow Deeds inherits twenty million dollars and goes to Manhattan where everyone tries to take advantage of him. “One of the nicest stories ever to come out of Hollywood,” says Orson Welles who plays the title role a lot less convincingly than either Gary Cooper or Adam Sandler.
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