Broadcasting, March 15, 1937: “...the Chairman of the Board of Radio Events, Inc., Georgia
Backus, one of the keenest minds in radio, watches over its Editorial Department.”
“The Script Library...pays tribute to Tom Devore who in order to convince the sales staff of WBNS
of the possibilities ofThe Crooked House, made himself up like a corpse, doused the lights in the
studio, and as the program started with the announcement, “I am Alfred Drummond, dead for
eighteen years”, had a baby spot light hit his face to bring an added touch of startling realism to as
chilling a radio program as ever serialized.”
: WBNS, Columbus, Ohio.
: Ca. 1937.
: Unknown.
: None.
Carlton Morse was in the vanguard of the mystery serial genre that blossomed in 1930, and no
one else brought as macabre a tone to the genre as he did.
The Cross-Eyed Parrothas been performed by stock companies in all parts of
the United States. Maxwell himself appeared in the juvenile lead with his own company in
Oakland. He wrote the play about eight years ago. Carlton E. Morse is writing the radio
adaptation in ten episodes.”
Oakland Tribune] “’The Cross-Eyed Parrot’ has got us all cross-eyed trying to
keep one eye on the present and the other on the future, in an effort to see what the villain is up to
now, and to figure out what he’s going to do next.”
“Presented over the air for the first time last summer, the serial created a sensation with NBC
audiences and was the forerunner of a series of mystery plays which have been written by Morse
during the past year.”
KGO, San Francisco, California (NBC PACIFIC COAST RED).
May 2-July 11, 1930.
PERSONNEL: Ted Maxwell (director), Carlton E. Morse (scriptwriter).
CAST: Grace Cooper (Lisle Frawley), Will Foster (The Parrot), Barry Hopkins (Dr. Herz Von
Elm), Bert Horton (Plummer Collins), Barbara Lee (Margot, the Panther Woman), Richard
LeGrand (Dr. S. Pinal Kord), Rollon Parker (Hayne Frawley), Jack Phipps (Morgan), Fred
Thomas (The Laughing Maniac), Vanita d’Voir (Teja Von Elm).
None.
THE CROSS-EYED PARROT (KGO, SAN FRANCISCO)
May 2, 1930
The Transplanting of Brains”
Von Elm, who has a fondness for conducting experiments on
human beings and animals. He holds his human captives for huge
ransoms, and if they are unable to pay the money, he uses them as
subjects for his gruesome scientific tests…”]
May 9, 1930
Two Men and a Maid”
and his sister Lisle. Plummer Collins, in love with Lisle, is an early
morning visitor. The chief topic of conversation is the activities of a
mysterious man who kidnaps people, blindfolds them and takes them for
a boat ride to an unknown place, where they are kept in a richly furnished
apartment until they pay a huge ransom. Hayne and Plummer have a
theory as to the identity of the kidnapper. As the episode comes to a
close, Lisle disappears…”]
May 16, 1930
The Panther Girl Screams”
May 23, 1930
The Laughing Maniac Escapes”
May 30, 1930
The Gorilla Roars”
Von Elm’s island in search of Hayne’s sister, Lisle…”]
June 6, 1930
The End of the Panther Girl”
June 20, 1930
“The Phantom Strikes Again”
note left at Dr. Herz Von Elm’s door… Morgan, who has been employed
by the doctor, is murdered under puzzling circumstances. Then the
doctor is discovered in an unconscious condition. And things happen fast
and mysteriously…”]
June 27, 1930
mysterious killer promised him a ghastly death by strangling… The
mysterious disappearance of Dr. Von elm is partially solved. He was
carried away by a masked giant who wore gloves as big as baseball
mitts—was carried to a cave and forced to dress the wound in the Panther
Girl’s shoulder. After he has finished dressing the wound, the doctor is
walloped on the head…”]
July 4, 1930
Strapped to the Operating Table”
skull of a gorilla. His plan meets another setback in tonight’s episode
when, during the operation, the gorilla gets loose…”]
July 11, 1930
The Gorilla Man Revealed”
doctor and is stabbed to death. But the doctor dies also, the gorilla’s paws
closed around his neck in a death grip. Margot, the doctor’s wife, dies of
heart trouble. Jack Henderson, Chicago medical dentist, reveals himself
as the mystery man…”]
Second production of the Carlton Morse mystery serial…
WFAA, Dallas, Texas.
June 27-August 29, 1931 (WFAA).
PERSONNEL: Carlton E. Morse (scriptwriter), Mrs. Maxwell Sholes (director).
CAST: Joe Berger, Adams Calhoun, Lena McNair, Louis Veda Quince, Blanche Rosenberg.
None.
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June 27, 1931
Third production of the Carlton Morse mystery serial…
KTAB, Oakland, California.
July 27-September 28, 1931.
PERSONNEL: Carlton E. Morse (scriptwriter).
CAST: Will Foster (The Cross-eyed Parrot), Al Gibney, Peggy Jensen (Lisle Frawley), Alma La
Marr (Margot), Robert S. Lawler (Morgan / Spinal Cord), Grant Pollock (Wain Frawley), Bob
Roberts (Doctor Von Elm), Jean Wakefield (Teja Von Elm).
None.
July 27, 1931
Aug. 3, 1931
Aug. 10, 1931
The Panther Girl Screams”
Aug. 17, 1931
The Laughing Maniac
Escapes”
Aug. 24, 1931
The Gorilla Roars”
Aug. 31, 1931
Sep. 7, 1931
Sep. 14, 1931
Sep. 21, 1931
Sep. 28, 1931
An original radio play first produced in 1928 from London. Holt Marvel was thenom deplumeof
Eric Maschwitz.
2LO, London (BBC), et al.
August 7, 1928, et al.
Horace Brown (adapter—Toronto, 1937), Cyril Lister (scriptwriter), Rupert Lucas
(producer—Toronto, 1937), Holt Marvell(scriptwriter), Herbert Rice (director—WMAK, 1930).
CAST [1928, 5GB]: Matthew Boulton (A Porter), Dorothy Holmes-Gore (Jane), Raymond
Trafford (An Old Man), Patrick Waddington (Gerald).
CAST [1928, 2LO & 5XX]: Cecil Calvert (A Porter), Philip Cunningham (Gerald), Dorothy
Holmes-Gore (Jane), Raymond Trafford (An Old Man).
CAST [1928, 2LO]: Cecil Calvert (A Porter), Dorothy Holmes-Gore (Jane), George Thirlwell
(Gerald), Raymond Trafford (An Old Man).
CAST [1930, WMAK]: Fred Dampier, Lorraine Pankow, Herbert Rice.
CAST [1934]: Cathleen Cordell, George Ide, Eric Lugg, Charles Mason.
None.
April 19, 1928“The Crossing” / The Third Act of “Apples and Eve”
July 2, 1928“The Crossing”
a few minutes. The platform is like a stage where passengers, porters,
newsboys, guards and inspectors are playing their cheerful, bustling
parts in the diurnal tragi-comedy of departure…”]
August 7, 1928 “The Crossing”
February 8, 1930“Witch Wife”/“The Crossing”
August 21, 1930 “The Crossing”
THE ENTERTAINMENT HOUR (LONDON REGIONAL)
August 15, 1934“Round the World in Twenty-five Minutes”/“The Crossing”/Tune-a-
Minute”
April 25, 1937“The Crossing”
is indeed an unusual script idea that often leaves the listener with small chills creeping up his
spine. You won't want to miss this completely different type of dramatic entertainment.”
weird story about an ancient Roman gladiator roaming the seas as a "modern Flying Dutchman,"
(on an aircraft carrier?).”
WABC, New York City, New York (ABC).
September 21-November 16, 1949.
Milton Geiger (scriptwriter, director), Rex Koury (organist), Dan O’Herlihy
(announcer?)
CASTS: Margaret Brayton, Howard Culver, Paul Frees, Vincent Price (guest star in “The Roman”)
“The Roman” (9/21/49).
September 21, 1949“The Roman”
September 28, 1949
October 5, 1949
October 12, 1949“The Nightmare Man”
October 19, 1949
October 26, 1949
November 2, 1949
November 9, 1949
November 16, 1949
[San Francisco Chronicle, July 3, 1931] "Mystery story fans who followed the adventures of Dr.
Vernon in the ‘Mysterious Green Ray’ serial will be able to listen in on further adventures of the
doctor when Darrell Donnell’s sequel ‘The Crystal Cane’ is produced… ‘The Crystal Cane’ will run
for thirteen weeks with Frank Wright in the role of Dr. Vernon.”
[Oakland Tribune, July 10, 1931] “The second episode of the current mystery story on KTAB, ‘The
Crystal Cane’ by Darrell Donnell, will be heard this evening. The broadcast will be heard from 9 to
9:30.”
KTAB, San Francisco, California.
July 3-September 25, 1931.
Darrell Donnell (scriptwriter).
CAST: Frank Wright (Dr. Vernon), Sylvia Wright, et al.
Kay Jewelry Company.
None.
July 3, 1931
experiences…”]
July 10, 1931
July 17, 1931
The Phantom Rickshaw”
itself felt in far off Singapore…”]
July 24, 1931
The action takes place in Singapore…”]
July 31, 1931
private yacht bound for Egypt…”]
August 7, 1931 [6]
an Egyptian tomb…”]
August 14, 1931 [7]
of the Egyptian king, Ahmneles…”]
August 21, 1931 [8]
August 28, 1931 [9]
September 4, 1931
September 11, 1931
September 18, 1931
September 25, 1931
Based on the Mexican edition of the notorious U.S. horror comic, this series of radio adaptations
was part of a larger program which plugged the current numbers of a variety ofhistorietasissued
by publishing giant La Prensa. TheCuentos de Brujasstories ran once a month on the Saturday
on which the new issue was released to the newsstands.
XEQ, Mexico, D.F.
Unknown.
None.
CUENTOS DE LA PRENSA—“CUENTOS DE BRUJAS” (XEQ, MEXICO, D.F.)
March 29, 1952
April 26, 1952“La Venganza de la Oruga”
May 31, 1952
Found at the web-site of La Tremenda, a Spanish-language station in Houston owned by the
Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation.___
KLAT, Houston, Texas (HBC).
Unknown.
Nacho Limon (host).
Unknown.
Three story readings from the BBC Cult Vampire website.
BBC 7, London (BBC).
October 27-29, 2004.
John Ainsworth (director—“Mildew Manor”), Jamie Bamber (reader), Clare
Corbett (reader), Kim Newman (narrator—“Mildew Manor”).
CAST [for “Mildew Manor”]: John Ainsworth (The Dark Figure), Nick Briggs, Ian Brooker, Helen
Goldwyn, Patricia Levington.
The entire series can be heard at the website.
Oct. 27, 2004“This Is Now” (by Michael
Marshall Smith)
can suck the life out of people?
Multiple-award winning author
Michael Marshall Smith gives an
unsettling answer…”]
Oct. 28, 2004“After the Stone Age” (by Brian
Stableford)
slim could be over now that
vampires are back. A new story in
Brian’s long-running vampire
mythology…”]
Oct. 29, 2004“Half-Sick of Shadows” (by
Graham Masterton)
she’s not happy… A group of dodgy
archaeologists get more than they
bargain for… The author ofThe
Manitoupens a classic chiller…”]
Not broadcast but available for listening at website:
“Mildew Manor” (by Kim
Newman)
from the master of pastiche, where
the reader can choose how the tale
ends…”]
This sub-series of the BBC programAfternoonPlaydramtized five stories of mystery and the
supernatural by Victorian authoress Elizabeth Gaskell.
Radio 4, London (BBC).
October 19-23, 1998.
Nigel Bryant (director), Sally Hedges (scriptwriter).
CASTS: Adjoa Andoh, Sandra Berkin, Carolyn Backhouse, Janet Dale, Stella Gonet, Kathryn
Hunt, Michael Lumsden, Peter Meakin, Mary Jo Randle, Elizabeth Spriggs, Angela Thorne, Kim
Wall.
The complete sub-series of 5 broadcasts.
AFTERNOON PLAY—“CURIOUS, IF TRUE” (RADIO 4, LONDON)
October 19, 1998“The Squire’s Story”
manners—not to mention a tendency to disappear—suggest a less
ordinary source for his comfortable lifestyle…”]
October 20, 1998“The Crooked Branch”
their handsome son Benjamin. But he has ambitions above their humble
station, and the result is unexpected, to say the least…”]
October 21, 1998“The Poor Clare”
drawn towards a young woman haunted by a mother’s curse…”]
October 22, 1998“Lois the Witch”
herself drawn into a Puritan family’s world of visions, malice and,
apparently, demonic possession…”]
October 23, 1998“The Grey Woman”
but the beginning of a terrifying adventure…”]
[The Brooklyn Citizen] “In ‘The Curse of the Reckaviles’ Masterman shows he is versatile. His
latest deals not alone with mystery, but is a throwback to the Gothic romance…strongly
reminiscent of Mrs. Radcliffe’s ‘Mysteries of Udolpho’ and Walpole’s ‘Castle of Otranto’.”
WABC, New York City, New York (CBS).
????, 1932.
None.
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???? ??, 1932“The Curse of the Reckaviles” [PART 1]
[
???? ??, 1932“The Curse of the Reckaviles” [PART 2]
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