abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

At Thayer and Son Jewelers, Clark Kent and Inspector Henderson are shocked to learn that Lois Lane is somehow wrapped up in our story! Plus: the wait is over! You'll finally learn what the very first Bat-Supe swell prize is!

Part 15 of Looking For Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 24, 1945

Special thanks to Ted Davenport for his contribution to this episode!

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

The Scarlet Widow has been found, but only after Mr. Jones tried to silence her and made it known that he was out to finish Superman! What will Our Heroes do? Plus, in today’s Important Message, the wait is nearly over for the Big Announcement of our very first Swell Prize!

Part 14 of Looking For Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 21, 1945

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

Mr. Jones, is in the wind, and the trail of the Scarlet Widow and the stolen Kryptonite has blown away with him. Can Superman and Batman and Robin sweat the answers out of Mr. Smith? Plus, in today's Important Message: we’re making a special request on behalf of grocery store workers...

Part 13 of Looking for Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 20, 1945.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

The Dynamic Duo are still trapped in Room Zero and are almost out of time! Superman has launched himself into the air on a desperate search for his friends. Will he make it in time? Plus: There’s a new update about the Swell Prizes in today’s Important Message! 

Part 12 of Looking for Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 19, 1945.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

Batman and Robin remain trapped in Room Zero with only minutes left to live! Meanwhile, Clark Kent and Inspector Henderson are desperately searching for clues. Playing a wild hunch, Kent is betting it all on learning the whereabouts of the Dynamic Duo. Plus: In today’s Important Message, there’s good news and bad news about the Swell Prizes…

Part 11 of Looking for Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 18, 1945.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

The Dynamic Duo are trapped in Room Zero facing imminent death while Superman in his guise of Clark Kent is still looking for them! Will he be able to find them before the ceiling falls and Batman and Robin become Flatman and Ribbon? Plus: in today's Important Message, there's more information about our new Swell Prizes!

Part 10 of Looking for Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 17, 1945.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

It wasn’t wise to split the party. Batman and Robin have fallen into a trap, and Superman is a hundred miles away! The Dynamic Duo are captured and taken into a Sanitarium as prisoners. But prisoners of who…? Plus: There’s big news in today's Important Message! Part 9 of Looking For Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 14, 1945.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

Superman and Batman and Robin have split up in their search for the answer to the Crescent Moon and Star symbol. Is it wise to split the party? Plus: in today's Important Message, we'll meet Billy! Part 8 of Looking For Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 13, 1945.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

Clark Kent and Batman are looking for information as to the whereabouts of Squealie Evers, and decide to have a chat with the waiter at the waterfront coffee shop. But there’s only the ghost of a chance they’ll learn what they need to know! Plus, in today's Important Message, we'll hear from Superman himself! Part 7 of Looking For Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 12, 1945.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

Batman and Robin are on the trail of underworld informant Squealie Evers, but Squealie knows he’s being followed! It looks like big trouble is brewing on the waterfront for the Dynamic Duo. Part 6 of Looking For Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 11, 1945.

THE REASONABLY AMAZING ADVENTURES OF DALE ARDEN & DR. ZARKOV Episode 10: Flash Gets Eclipsed Part 2

A silly take on the original radio series Flash Gordon which is now in public domain. Starting April 22, 1935, and again in May 2022  the strip was adapted into The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon, a 26-episode weekly radio serial. The series followed the strip very closely, amounting to a week-by-week adaptation of the Sunday strip for most of its run.

Directed and edited by Tom Konkle

Written and Produced by Tom Konkle and Kurtis Bedford

Starring Tom Konkle as Flash Gordon and Hawkman

Stephanie Stearns Dulli as Dale Arden

Kurtis Bedford as Announcer 1  and Ming

Gino C. Vianelli as Thune

David Beeler as Dr. Zarkov    

Pete Lutz as Bound-and-Gagged Guard

Music various in the public domain 1934

THE REASONABLY AMAZING ADVENTURES OF DALE ARDEN & DR. ZARKOV Episode 9: Flash Gets Eclipsed, Part 1

A silly take on the original radio series Flash Gordon which is now in public domain. Starting April 22, 1935, and again in May 2022  the strip was adapted into The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon, a 26-episode weekly radio serial. The series followed the strip very closely, amounting to a week-by-week adaptation of the Sunday strip for most of its run.

Directed and edited by Tom Konkle. 

Written and Produced by Tom Konkle and Kurtis Bedford 

 Starring Tom Konkle as Flash Gordon and Hawkman

Stephanie Stearns Dulli as Dale Arden

Pete Lutz as Saul, Hawkman Envoy, and Guard 2

Kurtis Bedford as Announcer 1 and Ming

Gino C. Vianelli as Thune

David Beeler as Dr. Zarkov

Music various in the public domain 1934.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

Batman and Robin have joined forces with Superman to unravel the mystery of the Crescent Moon and Star symbol. Batman and Robin have made contact with an underworld informant, but will he sell them the information they need, or sell them out to the mob?  Part 5 of Looking For Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 10, 1945.

NOTE: More to come! We'll be posting these episodes of Bat-Supe, five at a time. So don't get discouraged, fellas and girls! 

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

Inside Stately Wayne Manor seeking to enlist the help of Batman, Clark Kent has found himself in a difficult position: come clean that he knows Bruce Wayne’s secret and reveal his own, or continue his search for the deadly Kryptonite alone. What will the Man of Steel do? Part 4 of Looking For Kryptonite was originally broadcast on December 7, 1945.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

In this episode of Bat-Supe, Clark Kent decides to enlist the aid of the only man who can help him find and eliminate the threat of the Kryptonite. But he'll have to pay a high price for his help… Part 3 of Looking For Kryptonite originally aired on December 6, 1945.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! 

Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen continue their search for clues, but danger is hiding in the shadows. Will they find answers? Or only more questions? Find out in this episode of Bat-Supe! Part two of Looking for Kryptonite was originally broadcast on The Adventures of Superman on December 5, 1945.

abVoices presents: Bat-Supe! Old Time Radio’s “Adventures of Superman” featuring Superman and the Dynamic Duo! Episode 1 of Bat-Supe begins the adventure “Looking For Kryptonite!”

Superman has put an end to the dreaded Atom Man, but the threat is far from over. A terrible threat still remains for the entire world, and possibly most especially for Superman himself! In today's episode, Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen go looking for clues, they find danger in an unlikely place! Looking For Kryptonite originally aired on December 4th, 1945.

Old-Time Radio Essentials is back after a months-long hiatus, with episode 41, the 4th installment of Season 4! Pete, Paul and Patte present an episode of the ABC Radio series The Henry Morgan Show. This time it's Pete's pick, called "Morgan's Around the World Listening Post"!  Come for the old-time radio, stay for the scintillating (that's one way of putting it) discussion afterwards!

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Next Time: It's Patte's pick again, and she'll bring an episode of The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show!

SUSPENSE, Episode 55

Premiered May 10, 2024

Suspense is one of classic radio's most highly-regarded dramas -- with good reason. It sustained a remarkably high quality level of dramatic tension for 20 years, as the many surviving recordings attest. But a handful of episodes are lost - and Project Audion now recreates one of them. "The Life of Nellie James" was intended as Suspense's premiere, but circumstances pushed it back to the third episode. It was performed once, live, on July 1, 1942, but never heard again. Until now -- as Project Audion, kicking off its fifth season, brings together a transcontinental cast in a live transcription of "The Life of Nellie James" from the original 1942 script. A dreadful murder takes place in the Simon James home, and justice is done ...or is it? It's a tale well-calculated to keep you in ...Suspense!

Featured in our cast are –

Patte Rosebank in Canada

Tim Burns in Kansas

Andy Hartson-Bowyer in Virginia

Richard Huitema in Florida

Mel Rose in Pennsylvania

Pete Lutz in Texas

Art Brown in California

Denny Thompson in Colorado

Frank Guglielmelli in Pennsylvania

Sharon Grunwald in New Jersey

Larry Groebe produced and directed from Texas

THE MAN CALLED "X", Episode 54

Premiered Apr 12, 2024

A spy caper always makes for a good show. Start with a suave man of mystery, sprinkle in some far-off exotic locales, and stir in some evil enemies of democracy and beautiful women. The result: James Bond? No, "The Man Called X" -- which broadcast several hundred episodes on network radio from 1944 through 1952. Unflappable British actor Herbert Marshall originally played American agent Ken Thurston, AKA the man called X. Project Audion now recreates the very first episode of "The Man Called X," from a script which has not been heard since its premiere in July 1944! The action of "The Cage of Europe" is set in wartime Lisbon (you know, where Ilsa flew off to in "Casablanca." Audion's recreation features voice actors performing live on both sides of the Atlantic for this half hour of what was described as in 1944 as a "comedy-mystery," and which eighty years later is still highly entertaining!

Featuring –

David Ault in England

Jack Ward in Canada

Laura Mirsky in New Jersey

George Taylor in Tennessee

Jane Beverley in New Jersey

Jeff Billard in Massachusetts

Caleb Fisher in Virginia

Joe Mendell in England

Robert Stevenson in Indiana

Larry Groebe produced and directed from Texas

DAMON RUNYON THEATRE, Episode 53

Premiered Mar 8, 2024

"The Damon Runyon Theatre", a syndicated radio series from 1949 relating stories of New York's "guys and dolls" -- mobsters and dames, gamblers and frails, saints and sinners -- which newspaperman and sportswriter Damon Runyon colorfully brought to life in decades of short stories. They may have been gangsters, but they often had hearts of gold underneath - plus a unique present-tense way of speaking which has come to be known as "Runyonesque." The Damon Runyon Theatre recorded 52 charming half-hour versions of his stories, and those got writer Casey Keller (Beakman's World, The Love Boat) wanting more. So he's written a new episode, and Project Audion brings you the world premiere of his Runyonesque tale, "Ringside Rosie." Our transcontinental cast is captured live in performance, just like they did in 1949, for a delightful story about a doll who loved boxing, and the guy who loved her.

Our cast includes:

Duane Noch in New Jersey

Don Paul in California

Andy Hartson-Bowyer in Virginia

Jacob Palka in Illinois

Stanley Dyrector in California

Paul Arbisi in Illinois

Reg Platt in Texas

Susan Platt in Texas

Casey Keller in California

with the production under the supervision of Larry Groebe in Texas

CRIME CLASSICS, Episode 52

Premiered Feb 9, 2024

The first woman executed for murder in the United States was hanged in 1778. In 1953 her shocking tale of love, hate, conspiracy, and murder was brought to life in the audition script for a new CBS radio drama series - "Crime Classics." Crime Classics was a sort of mid-century predecessor to today's true-crime podcasts. The audition episode, titled "The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner," featured some of radio's finest actors, writers, directors, and musicians. Unfortunately, this thoughtful adult true crime series only lasted a year before succumbing to the inexorable advance of television. Now, Project Audion premieres a recreation of the show using the original, uncut audition script, including material that never aired seventy years ago. In addition, we visit with Andrew Noone, author of a recent book on the 1778 murder, trial, and execution of Spooner. Join us and listen to the modern passions that inflamed Revolutionary America, as our transcontinental cast gathers via Zoom to perform a true "Crime Classic."

The cast includes –

David Phillips in Virginia

Patte Rosebank in Toronto Canada

Kyle Bonn in Oregon

Scott McKinley in New Jersey

Mick Wheaton in Washington

Pete Fernbaugh in West Virginia

Tom Konkle in California

Donna Patton in Tennessee

while Larry Groebe produced and directed from Texas