Comments on: Episode 112: A Study in Wax

By: Brian Kilburn

Brian Kilburn — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:11:15 +0000

I’ve been going through some old episodes. Lots of stuff I had forgotten or forgotten how good it was.
This episode made me have to mention that I discovered Shostakovich at the library when I was in Jr High. Loved it, wierd crazy music from another time.
Although this piece doesn’t seem familiar. Just wanted to note that I have never locked anyone outside in a blizzard.

By: Tim Uren

Tim Uren — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:33:44 +0000

In reply to Dave Potts. If you had told me that one of these two actors played Batman, that's not the one I would have guessed! That's a lovely bit of lore!

By: Dave Potts

Dave Potts — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 05:02:40 +0000

This was awesome!

Stacy Harris was one of Jack Webb’s semi-regular cast of recurring actors on Dragnet, usually playing a criminal. Among other roles, he was the mob boss who was the main villain in the 1954 Dragnet movie. And at the other end of the crime-fighting spectrum, he was the first actor to play Batman on the radio, when Batman and Robin made their first guest-appearance on The Adventures of Superman.

By: Timothy DeForest

Timothy DeForest — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 02:13:35 +0000

I’m glad you all mentioned William Conrad. The man was a fantastic actor on radio. Though I always recognize his distinctive voice, I never have any trouble accepting him in any role he played.

I understand that he used the same trick Orson Welles had used in the 1930s–hiring an ambulance to get him from one studio to another when cast in different shows on the same night.

There is actually one time I wasn’t sure if I was hearing Conrad’s voice. He plays a Chinese merchant in the Escape episode “Misfortune’s Isle” and tones down his bass to the degree that I wasn’t sure it was him until I heard his voice in the credits.

By: patrick jean

patrick jean — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 04:19:46 +0000

this story is taken from a jack london short story “in a far country.” worth reading, which many of his stories are.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:21:01 +0000

Many Golden Era radio shows, notably Dragnet, were sponsored by cigarette manufacturers and it has always struck me as odd that a company like Philip Morris didn’t sponsor Escape. This is unfortunate because I feel like the Venn diagram of Escape’s audience and the target market for the Marlboro Man ads would have been two overlapping circles.

By: James Potts

James Potts — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:44:40 +0000

We’re still waiting for that classic Dragnet, “the Big Little .22 Rifle for Jesus.”