| "The Weed of Crime bears Bitter Fruit! Crime does not pay! The Shadow knows."
I am thinking of going as the Shadow for Halloween next year. I love that show. I also enjoyed Fibber McGee, Suspense, Amos and Andy among others. I remember as a youngster listening to Mystery Theatre hosted by E.G. Marshall who was also in Tora! Tora! Tora! I haven't listened to them in awhile but I still have a large box of tapes and CDs of these programs.
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Hi again Chiefs!
I'm a big Shadow fan, specializing in Orson Welles's two seasons. I could listen to his 30-40 shows over and over, I enjoy the stories and performances that much. Do you have any favorite episodes? Among mine are The Plot Murder, Aboard the Steamship Amazon, The Temple Bells of Neban, Message from the Hills and Death Under the Chapel. In fact, there are only a few I don't like (again, we're talking from Orson's years of 37-38).
I love the EG Marshall narrated series, there's a great WWII adventure called Rescue where an English pilot (with one leg) evades capture in France.
I buy my disks for $5 ea online. (EG Marshall's series is legally unavailable but virtually all other series are in the public domain). Each disk has approx 50+ shows. So I bought the entire 20 year Suspense run (1942-62) on 19 disks or so, that close to 950 shows. There's just so much great stuff out there!
X-1 (a sci-fi show) has a great WWII story called Project Trojan, and Suspense tackled wartime and post war issues as well.