#maurice tarplin

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This week on Content Abnormal we present Maurice Tarplin as The Mysterious Traveler in “Behind The Locked Door”!

#maurice tarplin #the mysterious traveler #behind the locked door #creature #creature feature john campbell #john campbell #birthday #creature from the black lagoon #revenge of the creature #museum of horrors #train #horror host

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Dime Mystery Magazine  June 1948

Seven Casks of Death by Maurice Tarplin

The House That Murder Built by Joe Kent

The Last of Mrs. Satan by Talmage Powell

The Visitor by John Bender

A Matter of Proof by Grover Brinkman

#pulp magazine #mystery stories

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(Maurice Tarplin, the narrator from The Mysterious Traveler, top right, Dietrich and Stewart, bottom)

Day 27- TV and Radio:  

TV: 

The Colgate Comedy Hour, “Martin and Lewis,” April 27th, 1952. 

I Love Lucy, episode 29, “The Freezer,” April 28th, 1952. 

Radio: 

Lux Radio Theater, “No Highway in the Sky,” April 28th, 1952. 

Gunsmoke, “Billy the Kid,” April 26th, 1952. 

The Mysterious Traveler, “Murder in 2952,” April 29th, 1952. 

During Project 1939 I listened to many episodes of Lux Radio Theater. It was a big budget show that had major celebrities come on each week to perform one-hour versions of their famous films. Until today, I had not heard any 1952 episodes. When I saw this episode would be a version of No Highway in the Sky, I was very excited. I saw the film years ago, and I remember liking it, but even better, Marlene Dietrich was in it! And James Stewart! It was smartly condensed, and I enjoyed it a lot. It made me want to watch the original movie again. 

The Mysterious Traveler was another new show for me, and I loved it. This episode took place in the year 2952, and the future forecasts were fascinating and hilarious. In 2952 we have colonized Venus and Mars, and we are working on Jupiter’s moons and Saturn. There are things called “Martian Dream Apples” that are more addictive and deadly than heroin or cocaine! One main character is a Dream Apple addict. There are devices that can somehow record previously spoken words based on their atomic pressure, and creatures called Surgeon Birds who experimentally reassemble humans on Calypso Island! It was loads of fun to listen to! 

...And now a word from today’s best sponsor: Lux Toilet Soap! Nine out of ten screen stars depend on it! Think of it as a beauty stimulant! You just lather it on your face with warm water and rinse it off with a splash of cold water- and that adds to the stimulation! Next, stimulate your... oh, wait. Lux now has Skin-Tonic action! Which is pretty vague, but it must mean something good! Ask your grocer or pharmacist for Lux! Because nothing sounds more glamourous than the words Toilet Soap!  

#project1952 #1952 #project1952 day 27

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The Strange Dr. Weird - 2 Episodes - Old Time Radio/Thriller

The Strange Dr. Weird - Stand and In For Death and The Secret Room (Air Date: 12/26/1944 and 02/13/1945).

“Good evening. Come in, won’t you? Why, what’s the matter? Surely you’re not nervous. Perhaps a story might calm your nerves a little…”

#The Strange Dr. Weird #Maurice Tarplin #Dr. Weird #Mutual Broadcasting System #Radio Dramas #YouTube

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Happy Birthday, Maurice Tarplin  (April 1, 1911 - May 12, 1975)

Best known as the sinister storyteller The Mysterious Traveler, Tarplin also played Inspector Farraday opposite Richard Kollmar’s Boston Blackie and was also heard on Gang Busters and The Shadow.

#Maurice Tarplin #Birthdays #Old Time Radio #Golden Age of Radio

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THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER ♦ Classic Radio Show ♦ EP 11 ♦ Death Comes For A...

The Mysterious Traveler Radio Show  03-24-1945

Episode 11

Title: Death Comes For Adolph Hitler

Written by: Robert Arthur, David Kogan

Produced By: Adam Hats

Genre(s): Fantasy Fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery, Suspense

Language: English

Written and directed by Robert Arthur and David Kogan, the radio series was sponsored by Adam Hats. It began on the Mutual Broadcasting System, December 5, 1943, continuing in many different time slots until September 16, 1952. The lonely sound of a distant locomotive heralded the arrival of the sinister narrator (portrayed by Maurice Tarplin), who introduced himself each week in the following manner:

This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the strange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves and be comfortable—if you can! Cast members included Jackson Beck, Lon Clark, Roger DeKoven, Elspeth Eric, Wendell Holmes, Bill Johnstone, Joseph Julian, Jan Miner, Santos Ortega, Bryna Raeburn, Frank Readick, Luis van Rooten, Ann Shepherd, Lawson Zerbe and Bill Zuckert. Sound effects were by Jack Amrhein, Jim Goode, Ron Harper, Walt McDonough and Al Schaffer.

"Behind the Locked Door," a popular, much-requested episode which took place in total darkness, was repeated several times during the years. Two archaeologists discover a century-old wagon train that had been sealed in a cave following a landslide. When their Native American guide is mysteriously and brutally attacked, the two, now lost in the darkness, conclude that the descendants of the wagon train are still living in the cave.

Only 75 of the original 370 Mysterious Traveler episodes still exist. The popularity of the series spawned other supernatural shows, such as The Sealed Book. With scripts by a Mysterious Traveler writer and Tarplin as host-narrator, The Strange Dr. Weird was a nearly identical program. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Traveler

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#TheMysteriousTraveler #OldTimeRadio  #ClassicRadio #TheManinsectsHated  #GoldenAgeRadio   #AtomicAge  #MysteryRadio  #Whodunit   #Thriller  #Chiller   #DramaticRadio   #chipSlater   #ScienceFiction #FantasyFiction    #SciFi #anthologyradioseries  #SciFiFantasy  #AdamHats #RobertArthur  #DavidKogan

#the mysterious traveler #old time radio #golden age of radio #Science fiction #Fantasy Fiction #short story

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This week on Content Abnormal we celebrate the induction of the MC5 into The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame as we present Maurice Tarplin in The Mysterious Traveler's tale "S.O.S."!

#rob tyner #dennis thompson #wayne krame #mc5 #michael davis #fred sonic smith #rock and roll hall of fame #maurice tarplin #the mysterious traveler #radio #classic #otr #horror host #s.o.s. #five #5

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This week on Content Abnormal we present Maurice Tarplin as The Mysterious Traveler, who tells his tale of "The Haunted Trailer"!

#maurice tarplin #james stevens #the mysterious traveler #larry haines #the haunted trailer #classic #radio #otr #horror host #train #ghosts #ghost story

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This week on Content Abnormal we present Maurice Tarplin in The Mysterious Traveler tale, “Beware Of Tomorrow”!

I.W.E. Fight Or Fright

#the mysterious traveler #maurice tarplin #horror host #radio #horror #robotics #beware of tomorrow #i.w.e. #imperial wrestling entertainment #creature feature john campbell #john campbell #frankenbucket #houghton lake michigan #houghton lake mi #artesia youth center #casket match #fight or fright #i.w.e. fight or fright #the mysterians #dogoro #toho #hazel park michigan #hazel park library #midnight movies

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This week on Content Abnormal we present The Mysterious Traveler’s tale of “The Locomotive Ghost”!

#the mysterious traveler #maurice tarplin #horror host #radio #classic radio #the locomotive ghost #ghost story #ghostbusters: afterlife #mckenna grace #phoebe spengler

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This week on Content Abnormal we present Mason Adams & Adelaide Klein in The Mysterious Traveler’s tale of “The Visiting Corpse”!

#the mysterious traveler #maurice tarplin #horror host #radio #robert a. arthur #david kogan #mason adams #william keene #adelaide klein #radio horror #1948 #ferndale pennsylvania #ferndale michigan #wwe hell in a cell 2021 #alfred hitchcock #e.c. comics #the visiting corpse

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For our final creepy communication of 2020 we present The Mysterious Traveler’s tale of “New Year’s Nightmare”!  HAPPY NEW YEAR!

#the mysterious traveler #new year's nightmare #times square #new york #1947 #1948 #maurice tarplin #train #frankentyner #area mca51 #content abnormal #podcast #horror host #heather bisson-simpson

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Happy Birthday, Maurice Tarplin (April 1, 1911 - May 12, 1975) - A very busy radio actor, Tarplin was heard on several east coast programs, including Gang Busters, The Shadow, and as the always-exasperated Inspector Farraday on Boston Blackie. During the syndicated run starring Richard Kollmar as the jewel thief turned detective, Tarplin was a wonderful foil to the smooth, polished Blackie. Farraday was a tough, hard-working cop who was just a little slow on the uptake, and his relationship with Blackie (antagonistic as it often was) was a highlight of the shows.

To fans of old time radio, he may be best known as the titular narrator on The Mysterious Traveler. As one of radio’s most sinister storytellers, Tarplin introduced the tales that he hoped would “thrill you a little and chill you a little.” Tarplin narrated the chillers from 1943 until 1952.

#Maurice Tarplin #Birthdays #Old Time Radio #Golden Age of Radio

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Episode 474 - I Mustache You (Hercule Poirot)

With Hercule Poirot back on the big screen in Death on the Nile, we're saluting Agatha Christie's brilliant Belgian sleuth with three of his old time radio adventures. Harold Huber stars as the magnificently mustachioed Poirot in "Murder Wears a Mask" (originally aired on Mutual on May 3, 1945); "The Trail Led to Death" (originally aired on Mutual on November 16, 1945); and "The Bride Wore Fright" (originally aired on Mutual on November 30, 1945).

Click here to listen to Orson Welles as Poirot in "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" from The Campbell Playhouse.

And click here for Maurice Tarplin as Poirot in "The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor" from Murder Clinic, plus another Harold Huber Poirot mystery.

Check out this episode!

#old time radio #golden age of radio

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“Dime Mystery Magazine”   June 1948

Seven Casks of Death by Maurice Tarplin

The Last of Mrs. Satan by Talmage Powell

The House That Murder Built by Joe Kent

The Strange Lives of Johnny Q by Lauri Wirti

Who Will Kill Claude? by Francis K. Allan

#pulp magazine #mystery stories #horror stories

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Thief in the Night

“And now, on to Dick Kollmar as Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend.”

“Boston Blackie” was the nickname of Horatio Black, a reformed thief and modern day Robin Hood in the vein of The Saint. Emerging from the pen and mind of a real-life convict, Blackie went on to become one of the most popular radio detectives of the 1940s and 1950s, and he made his first radio appearance on June 23, 1944.

He was created by Jack Boyle, whose writing career began behind bars with a series of true crime confession novels written under his prison number, 6006. The stories originated in San Quentin and were published by The American Magazine. Editor Ray Long recalled Boyle as “an opium addict, and a hard-drinking man if ever there was one. But withal, one of the most entertaining men in the world, and so far as his dealings with me went, a square shooter.” Long encouraged Boyle to continue writing upon his release the first Blackie story was published in July 1914 in The American Magazine.

Those initial 12 short stories were collected and published as a novel in 1919. From 1918 to 1927, Blackie appeared in nine silent films, but actor Chester Morris made the role his own during a run of 14 B-movies for Columbia Pictures from 1941 to 1949. This film series established Blackie as a reformed jewel thief who used his knowledge of the underworld to come to the aid of innocent victims. Throughout the series, Blackie was pursued by Inspector Farraday of the police (played by Richard Lane), who was never fully convinced that Blackie had gone over to the side of law and order. A classic thick-headed movie, cop, Farraday was always quick to blame Blackie for any robberies in his proximity.

Blackie first came to radio in 1944 for an NBC summer series replacing Amos n’ Andy. Sponsored by Rinso, the Boston Blackie radio show starred Chester Morris and Richard Lane (reprising their screen roles) and promoted One Mysterious Night, the upcoming Columbia Boston Blackie film. As the introduction to the series explained every week, Blackie was an “enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend. Along with Blackie and Inspector Farraday, the NBC series featured recurring characters like Blackie’s wealthy benefactor Arthur Manletter and “Shorty,” Blackie’s driver and sidekick. Veteran announcer Harlow Wilcox, who pitched Johnson’s Wax on Fibber McGee & Molly and Auto-Lite Spark Plugs on Suspense, announced the show. The Morris-NBC series ran for 13 weeks.

A year after the Morris series signed off NBC, Boston Blackie returned to radio in a syndicated series from producer Frederick Ziv. Ziv was a pioneer of radio and television syndication; among the shows he produced were Philo Vance starring Jackson Beck, I Was a Communist for the FBI with Dana Andrews, and the Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall adventure series Bold Venture. Later, Ziv brought a Blackie TV series to the air in 1951. Richard “Dick” Kollmar played Blackie for the entire Ziv run, appearing in over 200 episodes. Kollmar was perhaps most famous for co-hosting the morning radio show Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick for 18 years with his wife Dorothy Kilgallen. In the syndicated series, Inspector Farrady was played by Maurice Tarplin, a versatile New York radio actor who could also be heard narrating tales of terror as The Mysterious Traveler. Actresses Lesley Woods and Jan Miner appeared as Blackie’s girlfriend Mary Wesley. Coincidentally, both actresses also played Ann Williams, reporter and gal pal of Casey, Crime Photographer on CBS during the same period!)

In both runs of the series, plots often involved Blackie being set up or suspected of a robbery. Another frequently employed plot device would involve old cellmates of Blackie’s, or criminals he’d sent up the river, breaking out of jail to exact their revenge. Each week found Farraday being ribbed by Blackie, the cops wrongly suspecting Blackie of the latest crime, and no shortage of groan-worthy puns from the sleuth. The series was a more lighthearted affair than some of the more hard-boiled offerings from the Golden Age of Radio, but it was solidly entertaining with lively characterizations and plots.

#Boston Blackie #Old Time Radio #Golden Age of Radio #Richard Kollmar #Chester Morris