ADVENTURE INTO FEAR
[RADIO-SERIES]
“Remember…none of these things you’ll hear about could possibly happen…to YOU!”
This Australian version of the WOR-Mutual anthology series The Mysterious Traveler aired for
one season in the mid-‘50s. It used the original Robert Arthur-David Kogan scripts and some of
the standard introductory remarks, but (inexplicably) omitted the entire atmospheric train
opening and the character of the Traveler himself. Compere Tony Roberts exhorted listeners to
follow him “on a personally-conducted tour into the world of the strange, the mysterious, the
uncanny, and the unknown.” Later he was succeeded in the emcee spotlight by Moray Powell, who
had previously endeared himself to Australian horror lovers by playing Raymond, the host of
Inner Sanctum Mysteries, on Sydney station 2GB in 1952 and ’53.
ORIGINATION: AWA Limited, Sydney, New South Wales (electrical transcriptions).
DURATION: November 16, 1956-November 8, 1957.
[NOTE: These broadcast dates were supplied by Gordon Payton, but the radio listings of the Sydney Morning Herald do
not confirm them. However, the SFSA does reference what they call “Label of transcription discs from this series; B&TV
Nov. 16, 1956 p. 20.”]
PERSONNEL: J. Colin Craigen (producer), James Manley (producer), Moray Powell (compere), Tony
Roberts (compere).
EXTANT RECORDINGS: Only the first, second, fifth and sixth episodes are currently in circulation among
collectors in the United States. The remaining 48 are accessible only at the archives of ScreenSound
Australia in Canberra.]
[CHRONOLOGY]
ADVENTURE INTO FEAR (AWA LIMITED DISC SERIES)
Circa 1956 [1] “Two of a Kind”
[2] “The Big Brain”
[3] “They’ll Never Believe Me”
[4] “When The Dead Return”
[5] “The Ghost Makers”
[6] “They Won’t Escape Me”
[7] “Death Rides The Storm”
[8] “The Big Drop”
[9] “Blind Alley”
[10] “Destination Death”
[11] “In the Depths”
[12] “It’s Later Than You Think”
[13] “The Mirror of Cagliostro”
[14] “A Coffin for Charlie”
[15] “Beyond the Law”
[16] “Mortal Clay”
[17] “Death Spins a Web”
[18] “Killer at Large”
[19] “The House of Death”
[20] “Mind Over Murder”
[21] “They Struck It Rich”
[22] “Ring Down the Curtain”
[23] “Murder Makes Music”
[24] “The Man Who Frightened Himself”
[25] “Visitors from Infinity”
[26] “You Only Die Once”
[27] “Collector’s Item”
[28] “Vacation from Life”
[29] “The Cat’s Paw”
[30] “Death Has Two Faces”
[31] “Death Must Wait”
[32] “X Marks the Spot”
[33] “Nightmare”
[34] “Death Is in the Wind”
[35] “Another Man’s Murder”
[36] “Murder Has a Voice”
[37] “The Lady in Red”
[38] “Appointment to Die”
[39] “Strange Voyage”
[40] “The Final Hour”
[41] “The Corpse Comes Home”
[42] “The Dead Can’t Testify”
[43] “Death in the Swamp”
[44] “The Man Who Came Back”
[45] “Murder 50,000 B.C.”
[46] “Murder Must Have a Price”
[47] “Man of Destiny”
[48] “The Unexpected”
[49] “Token of Friendship”
[50] “Some Only Sleep”
[51] “The Treasure of Superstition Mountain”
[52] “The Visiting Corpse”
(DISC SERIES ON 3AW, MELBOURNE)
[Wednesday—7:00-7:30 PM]
December 7, 1961 “They’ll Never Believe Me”
ADVENTURE INTO FEAR
[RADIO-SERIES]
Reviewed in the February 12, 1958 issue of Variety as part of a package of series offered by New
York syndicator Harry S. Goodman.
[Winnipeg Free Press, October 29, 1957] “CJOB features two hours of drama, beginning at 8
p.m. The plays to be heard are Peril, The Big Squeeze, Adventure into Fear and Big City.”
October 15, 1957 (first show)
November 12, 1957
December 3, 1957
[Winnipeg Free Press, January 21, 1958] “CJOB features four mysteries. At 8 p.m. is Peril; at
8:30 p.m. is The Big Squeeze, followed at 9 p.m. by Adventure into Fear, and Big City at 9:30
p.m.”
January 28, 1958
February 18, 1958
ORIGINATION: Harry S. Goodman, New York City, New York.
DURATION: Released in 1958.
PERSONNEL: Unknown.
EXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.