The programs include Mystery in the Air, “Crime and Punishment”, broadcast September 25, 1947; Rocky Fortune, “Boarding House Doublecross”, broadcast March 30, 1954; The Falcon, “The Case of the Vanishing Varmint”, broadcast July 11, 1951; and Boston Blackie, “The Twin Midnight Murders”, broadcast February 25, 1948.
The birthday block will air these dates and times ~
Tuesday, April 23 –
3 am Pacific
6 am Eastern
Thursday, April 25 –
7 pm Pacific
10 pm Eastern
Saturday, April 27 –
11 am Pacific
2 pm Eastern
The satellite radio service SiriusXM airs Radio Classics over channel 148. Subscribers may also listen to the programs over the internet or through the SiriusXM app. Log-in with your User ID and password. Not a subscriber? A trial is also available for a nominal price through the SiriusXM radio website.
Mystery in the Air was the 1947 summer replacement series for The Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Show and originally aired over NBC for 13 weeks, beginning July 3, 1947, with “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and ending on September 25 with “Crime and Punishment”.
The “Crime and Punishment” episode was adapted from Peter Lorre’s 1935 movie for Columbia. In the episode, Gloria Ann Simpson plays the pawnbroker, whom Lorre’s character Roderick Raskolnikov murders with a poker – resulting in a cat-and-mouse game between Raskolnikov and the police inspector Porfiry, played by series regular Louis Van Rooten.
In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses the radio career of Peter Lorre, beginning in Germany in the 1930s and continued throughout his years in Hollywood with a variety of comedies, dramas, and anthology series.
A complete-to-date list of Peter’s radio work is included in the book’s Appendix.
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre may be purchased from many brick-and-mortar shops, as well as these online merchants ~
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