On the Wednesday overnight, Aug 26 into 27, in THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, we hear another early episode of INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES with Boris Karloff in Poe's Tell-Tale Heart, the next EXPLORING TOMORROW from 1958, a visit to the swamp on THE STRANGE DR WEIRD, Basil Rathbone BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR, and of course a lost JEAN SHEPHERD episode from the Hines Collection on August 27, 1964 “Drunk Ballplayers.”

EXPLORING TOMORROW from Mutual on Jan 21, 1958 #7 “The Moon Is New” by Robert Silverberg. The first American astronaut lands on the Moon, to find the first Russian already there...and claiming the Moon as Soviet property! This I an original radio script written by science fiction author Robert Silverberg under the pseudonym David Osborne. Host: John Campbell Jr., produced and directed by Sanford Marshall, announcer Bill Mahr.


INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES from the Blue net Aug 03, 1941 #31 "The Tell-Tale Heart” for Carter's Little Liver Pills. The deaf man who could hear everything meets the blind man who can see it all. They take up residence in an old abandoned mill. Host Raymond Edward Johnson, starring Boris Karloff, Everett Sloane, Santos Ortega, story by Edgar Allan Poe, adapted by Robert Newman, announcer Ed Herlihy.

THE STRANGE DOCTOR WEIRD from Mutual net aircheck (syndicated on an RCA transcription) on Nov 28, 1944 #5 "Death in the Everglades” for Adam Hats. A greedy couple kill their miserly uncle in the swamps for his money... with predictable results. Host: Maurice Tarplin, written by Robert A. Arthur & David Kogan, directed by Jock MacGregor.

BEYOND THE GREEN DOOR 1966 #7 "07 Henry Gill Joins the Foreign Legion"
Narrator Basil Rathbone, written by Robert Sheckley for NBC Monitor

Lost Jean Shepherd from the Hines Collection
From WOR-NY on Thursday August 27, 1964 “Pair Drunk Ballplayers”

Shep opens playing the closings from several Tchaikovsky pieces. Who can name these.

Mr Chuckie's preview of the upcoming musical season

Drunken newscast and ballplayers

Guest star syndrome

Long promo for the Limelight - what's it all about?