If you want to record your own version, I’ll put it into the broadcast.

Just be sure to mention Bygolly Old Time Radio. And no commercial announcements please.

Something along the lines of, “This is [your name] from [locale] and you’re listening to Bygolly Old Time Radio”  would be great, but be as creative as you’d like.

Send your audio file to steve@bygolly.com

Thanks!

Shall we travel to Wistful Vista and visit Fibber McGee and Molly? Tag along with writer Dan Holliday as he reads through the letters to Box 13? Join noted author and criminologist Barton Drake and his good friend Inspector Noah Danton, waiting for the tag-line at the end of each episode where Drake reminds us that, “Mystery Is My Hobby”? And it seems like such a long time since we heard from the distinguished Shakespearean actor Edwin Montague, now reduced to playing the role of Uncle Goodheart on the radio.

By popular demand, here’s the schedule for the rest of the week…

Sam Spade
Fibber McGee and Molly
Adventures of Philip Marlowe
Sherlock Holmes (weekend broadcast)
Weird Circle
Jack Benny

Corporation head Gordon Martini phones Sam after being assaulted in his office. At their meeting outside his office, Martini is shot dead apparently by his chauffer Ernie.

Ernie doesn’t last long as a suspect – Sam find his body in the back of Mrs. Martini’s car.  Who killed Gordon Martini? Could it be his wife? Or maybe his attorney Mary Callahan –  described as the Medusa of the Magistrate Court,  a harpy of the halls of justice. Or could it be his accountant, Mr. Nesbit (described as the dean of double entry)? Listen and find out.

The cast includes Howard Duff as Sam, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, and Joseph Kearns as Nesbit.

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Raymond Fox is a mad scientist – his eyes had a wild gleam in them, his hair was a wild tangle, and he was wearing a wild assortment of clothing that looked like they’d been slept in. Inventor of the helioscope and synthesizer of hydroxylamaphotograniton, the formula for Fox’s latest and greatest invention, Penetron, has been stolen!  Grierson Enterprises submitted a patent application with identical information, and Fox’s high powered patent attorney, a legal ball of fire named Roscoe Manning, can do nothing about it.

This episode has one of my favorite lines… “I asked her to come up and listen to my Herb Jeffries record. She said my apartment needed a woman’s touch, so I handed her a broom. She hit me over the head with it and left.”

Sam takes on the case – searching for Grierson. During his investigation, Sam is locked up in a mental hospital and almost blown up… twice! Is Fox as mad as he seems? Is he blowing people up (again?) Listen and find out!

The cast includes Howard Duff as Sam, Lurene Tuttle as Effie and Joseph Kearn as Raymond Fox.

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Lurene Tuttle and Howard Duff

Effie is back! And Sam is hired to find a missing reporter, Ray McCully, who had been investigating a numbers racket. Aided by a thug named Woody, Sam finds McCully – dead.

In McCully’s wallet are the following items: a press card, police card, union card, and ten genuine crisp new $1,000 bills. Folded up in his vest pocket are two newspaper clippings – both weather reports for the same date. What does it all mean? And what about the slip of paper in his shoe with the number 9 stamped on it – and the same date as the two newspaper clippings? Listen and find out!

The cast includes Howard Duff as Sam, Lurene Tuttle as Effie and Alan Reed as Youngblood.

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Alan Reed

A beautiful woman appears in Sam’s office with a case of amnesia. Named after the flower of forgetfulness and the street on which she found herself, Poppy O’Farrell is being followed by a strange man.

Sam follows a lead to the Hotel Calcutta where he finds Poppy’s room where the floor and all the rest of the flat surfaces are covered in a fine dust – plaster dust. In the wardrobe is a dead body, a ship’s surgeon, with his throat cut. The murder weapon Sam finds isn’t a knife, not even a razor – it’s an electric buzz saw. Is Poppy a murderer? Who is the victim? And where did the plaster dust come from? And just what is the Wheel of Life? Listen and find out!

The cast includes Howard Duff as Sam, Sandra Gould as Bernadine and Alan Reed as Koralenko .

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Sam is hired to protect the gifts at Ralph Rushlight’s wedding, including the priceless Rushlight Diamond. The smooth cut diamond, only slightly smaller than an eight ball, is supposed to bring bad luck. Carrying it downstairs, a mirror breaks in the hall as he passes it, he falls all the way down the stairs, and knocks over a punchbowl when he enters the ballroom. Bad luck?

After the ceremony the bride swipes the diamond and runs out the door. After a short chase, the groom is found stabbed to death with a pair of garden shears, the diamond clutched in his hand. Bad luck indeed.

When the runaway bride shows up at Sam’s office looking for her diamond, things really get interesting.

The cast includes Howard Duff as Sam, Sandra Gould as Bernadine, Sam’s temporary secretary and Joseph Kearns as Colonel Bixby.

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Ugga Ugga Boo, Ugga Boo Boo Ugga!

Doctor Helmut Reese worries that his wife Esther is jealous – dangerously jealous – and seems to want to ruin him. But why? And who is the strange man that’s been watching the doctor’s house?

One of his patients, a terminally ill woman named Mrs. Cavanaugh, commits suicide in the doctor’s office. But as Sam points out, it’s the neatest suicide he’s ever seen: no powder burns and from the way her body fell, she shot herself from the direction of the bow window ten feet away. She screamed before the shots were fired and managed to shoot herself in the head a second time before throwing the gun across the room.

So who killed Mrs. Cavanaugh? Was it really a suicide? Was it Esther? The doctor? The strange man who’s been peering in the bow window? Listen and find out!

The cast includes Howard Duff as Sam, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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