"The Burns & Allen Show" live tribute recreation of classic audio comedy of the 1940s

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0000

Long, long before George Burns became the senior citizen movie star of films like "The Sunshine Boys" and "Oh God!" he was familiar to radio and television audiences across the country as the grounded half of the comedy couple Burns and Allen, with real-life wife (and vaudeville partner) Gracie Allen playing the ditzy dame of the duo. Theirs was a 25-year run on the airwaves, and now for Project Audion, Pete Lutz has penned a fresh new Burns and Allen script that recalls the best of their radio work during World War II, right down to their sponsor of the time, Swan Soap. Much like Bob Hope and Jack Benny did, we find the two of them at a naval base entertaining the troops, along with guest stars Henry Fonda and Chico Marx. You'll be entertained by Audion's transcribed-live transcontinental cast of delicious, delirious vocal talents:

John Bell in Alabama
Mel Rose in Pennsylvania
Dana Gonsalves in Texas
Les Marsden in California
Scott R. McKinley in New Jersey
Pete Lutz in Texas
Robert L.  Mills in California
Larry Groebe supervised the production

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"Philip Marlowe: The Three Wise Guys" live recreation of lost noir detective audio drama from 1948

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Our Christmas present for you is a lost episode of the classic detective drama "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe" with a holiday theme! Because Audion's previous Philip Marlowe restoration became its most popular episode ever, we returned to our archives to unearth a Marlowe script which hasn't been performed or heard since December 19, 1948 -- "The Three Wise Guys." "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe" ran for three years on network radio, with new noir-ish tales from  author Raymond Chandler's detective. In this episode, it was the night before Christmas and (as Marlowe says) "a sweet girl was in trouble.  But that didn't mean a thing to the second-story man, the four-flusher in spats, and the ex-Chicago cabbie -- until, one way or the other, they all got into the spirit of the thing..." Our cast, which recorded this episode live in the classic radio drama style, included:

Andy Hartson-Bowyer in Virginia
Tom Konkle in California
Hunter Adkins in Maryland
Gregg Mcafee in California
Jessica Matthews in Texas
Rhiannon Mcafee in California
Donna Patton in Tennessee
Paul Kovit in New York
Music, sounds, production, direction by Larry Groebe

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"The Jack Benny Program: Casablanca" tribute recreation of classic radio comedy show of the 1940s

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0000

The Jack Benny Program returns with a delightful all-new radio episode penned by former Bob Hope staff writer Robert L. Mills just for Project Audion. Jack and his regular gang - Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, and Rochester - send up the movie classic "Casablanca" with  some of the movie's original cast in guest starring roles.  Jack takes the Humphrey Bogart part, inevitably. Join project Audion's talented transcontinental voice actors as they perform together in real time (like the old radio-drama days) this brand-new episode of the Jack Benny Program that sounds like it came from the 1940s! Our cast:

John Bell in Alabama
Paul Patterson in Georgia
Julie Hoverson in Washington
Mel Rose in Pennsylvania
Pete Lutz in Texas
Scott McKinley in New Jersey
Bob Beaumont in California
Ken Jeffries in California
Written and directed by Robert L. Mills in California
Produced by Larry Groebe in Texas

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"Johnny Dollar: The Damiani Diamond Matter" live tribute recreation of classic noir detective audio drama

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0000

"Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" was the last detective standing at the end of radio drama's original classic era, outlasting everyone else - Sam Spade, Richard Diamond, Sherlock Holmes, The Saint, Phillip Marlowe and dozens of others. "America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator" is arguably better-loved now than he was in the middle of the 20th century. Now Project Audion presents a new Johnny Dollar script, written by Patrick Keating in the style of the original episodes, and transcribed live (via Zoom) in the classic audio drama manner. Johnny Dollar travels to Texas to learn about the Damiani Diamond and what has happened to it... Project Audion's cast includes:

Pete Fernbaugh in West Virginia
Kristen James in California
Glenn Hascall in Kansas
Lefty Rosenthal in Toronto Canada
Caleb Fisher in Virginia
Norman and Denise Cline in Kentucky
with production by Larry Groebe in Texas

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"Lights Out: Burial Services" recreation of lost 1936 classic horror audio drama

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Brought back to life after nearly 90 years buried at the Library of Congress, Project Audion recreates the very first script Arch Oboler created for NBC's famous late night horror drama "Lights Out." Lights Out stories gave the listener free rein to imagine the worst. And in the hands of a master storyteller like Oboler, the worst could be terrifying indeed - like a good campfire ghost story, reinforced with sound effects. 

"Burial Services" took a simple, horrifying premise - being buried alive - and wrapped a moody story around it, one whose shock value comes as much from hearing the private thoughts of the attendees as what happens to the person in the coffin. When "Burial Services" aired June 3, 1936 it upset so many listeners that it was never produced again - but it launched Arch Oboler on a long and highly successful career. Only the original script of "Burial Services" survived, resting in peace in the archives of the Library of Congress. Project Audion was able to unearth the script, and our transcontinental cast (even including a licensed mortician) performs the episode in its original as-broadcast form for the first time in nine decades. Listen with the lights out...if you dare...

Festuring
Holly Adams, New York
Patte Rosebank, Canada
John Mauldin, Tennessee
Grace Wagner, Illinois
Doug Fain, Kentucky
Greg McAfee, California
Sharon Grunwald, New Jersey
Vincent Caruso, New York
Production, direction, and sound patterns were by Larry Groebe, Texas.

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"Romance: Pride & Prejudice" live recreation of 1947 romantic-comedy audio drama

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

For fourteen years beginning in 1943, the CBS Radio network brought its listeners "Romance" - an anthology of half-hour love stories both classic and new, serious and comic. A story like Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" would seem to be a particular challenge to condense to a single half-hour, but Romance captured the essence of the tale in a brisk, highly entertaining adaptation that was performed three times during the show's long run.

The vintage mid-century recordings sound muddy and are not always well cast, so it became an ideal candidate for Project Audion to recreate. Enjoy the classic love match of Miss Bennet and Mr Darcy in this streamlined "Pride and Prejudice," recorded live in the authentic 1940s manner, but via Zoom using voice actors spread across the country.  Our cast:

Donna Patton in Tennessee
Tom Konkle in California
Jane Beverley in New Jersey
Richard Durrington in Idaho
Laura Mirsky in New Jersey
Greg Vestal in Texas
Les Marsden in California
Larry Groebe handled production, direction, music, and sound.

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"The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show" recreation of classic radio situation comedy series

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In terms of sheer fun and laughter during radio's classic mid-century era, it's hard to beat the Phil Harris/Alice Faye show. A spinoff from Jack Benny, bandleader Phil Harris and his family found themselves in classic sitcom predicaments week after week. Now, Robert L. Mills, former writer for Bob Hope, has created another fresh script that brings all those characters  -- including Frankie Remley, Julius, brother Willie, your friendly Rexall druggist and others --  back to life. 

Project Audion's talented voice actors came together live with a virtual studio audience to create a delightful - and delightfully accurate - recreation of a radio comedy classic. Here they are all:

PETE LUTZ in Texas
ANGELA YOUNG in Florida
DUANE NOCH in New Jersey
JULIE HOVERSON in Washington
BOB BEAUMONT in California
Mel Rose in Pennsylvania
HARRY MIDDLEBROOKS in California
RANDY KERDOON in Washington
ROBERT L. MILLS, in California, who also scripted the show 

Production was handled in Texas by Larry Groebe

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"Matinee with Bob & Ray" - tribute recreation of the classic radio comedy duo

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Project Audion invites you to some light summer fare: the Audion Original "Matinee with Bob & Ray." This is Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding like you've never heard before, because it's made of fresh sketches in tribute to "The Two and Only."

For those who are NOT intimately familiar with Biff Burns, Komodo dragons, or the Slow Talkers of America, the comedic duo of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding was formed (legend has it) by accident, in the mid-1940s when a  baseball game broadcast was rained out and these two young men were thrown together to ad-lib on the air. That began a five-decade partnership that saw them on every radio network, on TV, films, and even Broadway. Their wit and deadpan characters influenced many later funnymen, including Bob Newhart, David Letterman, Jay Leno and others. Also Pete Lutz, who wrote this half-hour of new absurdly satirical routines. The droll style of "The Two and Only" returns to life in our "Matinee with Bob & Ray!"

Bob Elliott - John Bell, Alabama
Ray Goulding - Pete Lutz, Texas
Organ - Ross Bernardt , Texas 
Production - Larry Groebe, Texas

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"Philip Marlowe" live recreation of lost 1949 episode from classic noir detective radio drama

Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In the long lineup of fictional hard-boiled detectives, Philip Marlowe stands out as one of the earliest and best. Raymond Chandler's creation first reached print in the early 1930s, then went on to memorable adaptations in film, television, and of course radio. "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe" had a solid four-year run of well over 100 episodes on CBS. Still, a handful of recordings are lost today. 

Now Project Audion recreates one of these missing episodes - "The Quiet Number" - directly from the original script, exactly seventy-five years after it was broadcast. "The Quiet Number" wasn't penned by Chandler, but we meet the son of the man who wrote this and most of Marlowe's other radio adventures. Then our transcontinental voice cast performs this gritty story of lost love in a hot Los Angeles summer via a live transcription that sounds just like 1949. Our versatile voice actors were:

Andy Hartson-bowyer in Virginia
Richard Durrington in Idaho
Gary Layton in Texas
Lothar Tuppan in California
Kristen James in Nevada
Holly Adams in New York
Kyle Bonn in Oregon
Larry Groebe produced and directed from Texas

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"Jack Benny Program: The Man Who Knew Too Much" tribute recreation of classic radio comedy series

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Project Audion once again brings you laughs, with an all-new original episode of the Jack Benny Program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.  This Audion Original was written for us by former Bob Hope staff writer Robert L. Mills. Jack Benny was his childhood comedy inspiration, and once again Mr. Mills has recreated that classic Benny style and humor so faithfully it's like discovering a lost episode!

This week, Jack has snagged Jimmy Stewart as his guest star, so the Benny gang (Mary Livingston, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mel Blanc, and the rest) can stage their send-up of the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Man Who Knew Too Much." Also, after a trying violin lesson with Professor LeBlanc, Jack faces a tax audit which requires a trip to the IRS to explain some of his more mysterious deductions. Performing live in our virtual Zoom studio, our coast-to-coast cast and crew once again capture the sound of the Benny show right down to the studio audience. Tune in and join in the laughter!

JOHN BELL In Alabama
SCOTT MCKINLEY in New Jersey
ANGELA YOUNG in Florida
PAUL PATTERSON in Georgia
PETE LUTZ in Texas
BOB BEAUMONT in California
RACHEL PULLIAM in Missouri
KEN JEFFRIES in California
LARRY GROEBE produced and directed from Texas

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"Suspense: The Life of Nellie James" recreation of lost 1942 classic audio drama

Sat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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! 

Before the show, there is an interview with Suspense scholar Dr. Joseph Webb, where we discuss what makes "Suspense" so special. Our cast features a mix of players, including folks returning from Project Audion episode #1 and professional voices who are brand-new to Audion.

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
while Larry Groebe produced and directed from Texas

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"The Man Called X" recreation of the lost debut episode of this 1944 comedy-mystery audio drama

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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

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"The Damon Runyon Theatre" tribute recreation of classic 1949 radio audio drama series

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 01:00:00 +0000

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 things did 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

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"Jack Benny Show: Witness for the Prosecution" tribute recreation of classic radio comedy series

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Just premiered for the International Jack Benny Society annual convention, and now available to all: a "new" episode of the classic Jack Benny radio show newly penned exclusively for Project Audion by Bob Hope comedy writer Robert L. Mills. Here, Jack and the gang do a send up of the movie "Witness for the Prosecution" - with W. C. Fields in a guest-starring role. 

Here's what Mr Mills said after hearing the final product: "This as near perfection as any living humans could possibly recreate a 75-year-old radio show. You performed miracles producing this and the program will take its place among the best work you've ever done." As Jack would say... "Well!” That's a tribute to the cast and crew. Go ahead - join our virtual studio audience and laugh at the efforts of these talented voice actors...

John Bell in Alabama
Pete Lutz in Texas
Ken Jeffries in California
Carl Thomas in Texas
Bob Beaumont in California
Angela Young in Florida
Harry Middlebrooks in CA
Norman Cline in Kentucky
Bob Mills wrote the script in LA
While back in Texas,  Larry Groebe oversaw the production

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"Crime Classics" live recreation of audition script of classic 1953 true crime audio drama

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Premiering tonight (2/9) at 9 PM Eastern, Project Audion recreates a shocking tale of love, hate, conspiracy, and murder - all the more so for being a true story that took place in 1778.
"The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner" tells the story of the first woman executed for murder in the United States. It was the audition script for a new CBS radio drama series - "Crime Classics" --  a sort of mid-century predecessor to today's true-crime podcasts, created by some of radio's finest actors, writers, directors, and musicians.

Audion's rendition of "The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner" works from the 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. Join us and listen to the modern passions that inflamed Revolutionary America!

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"Mystery In The Air" Tribute recreation in the style of 1947 Peter Lorre audio drama

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Peter Lorre is an actor with such a distinctive voice and presence that even now, 60 years after his death, he's still instantly identifiable. It's surprising he didn't do more radio dramas, but he did host and star in "Mystery In The Air" in 1947. As a summer replacement show, there were only 17 episodes, and only 8 or so recordings exist -- so Project Audion asked Pete Lutz to create a NEW Mystery in the Air script. The result is both light-hearted and supernaturally spooky, and thanks to our transcontinental cast of talented voice actors, sounds just like an unheard episode from this terrific vintage series:

Pete Lutz in Texas
Lothar Tuppan in California
Jeff Billard in Massachusetts
Geri Elliff in Texas
Angela Young in Florida
John Bell in Alabama
Bob Beaumont in California
with Larry Groebe handling sounds, music, and production

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"The Big Story: Joe Saldana" recreation of true-crime audio drama from December 20, 1950

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0000

EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it! Big Story radio drama recreated by Project Audion!

Newspaper reporters were once heroic figures - exposing rackets and corruption, taking down the powerful and giving voice to the powerless. The "Big Story" series from audio drama's original classic era (the mid 20th century) celebrated the newspaper reporter - selecting true headlines and converting them into gripping dramas, much like Dragnet did with police. 

Audion's December offering is a story set during the Christmas holiday, and while there IS an appearance by Santa Claus and a happy ending - this is a drama, pure and simple - of murder, greed, and redemption. Hmmm...maybe a Christmas theme after all! Our cast reaches from Canada to across the United states to recreate this lost original script just as it was done back then, so you can hear it for the first time since December 20, 1950! Our cast:

David Phillips in Virginia
Donna Patton in Tenessee
Trevor Rines in Canada
Sean Massey in Texas
Julie Hoverson in Washington
Dana Gonsalves in Texas
Scott McKinley in New Jersey
Ken Raney in Texas
and Larry Groebe produced, directed, and handled sound and music.

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"The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show" tribute recreation of classic Golden-Age radio comedy series

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0000

In the late 1940s and early 1950s the Phil Harris-Alice Faye radio series was a masterclass in radio comedy. Harris (charming, egotistical, smooth, Southern) and Faye ( grounded, smart, and only occasionally the movie star) were surrounded by eccentric regulars like Elliot Lewis as Phil’s band buddy Frank Remley, and Walter Tetley as the little kid Julius - and each week the happy result could be heard in the gales of laughter from the live studio audience. Today, Harris is best remembered as the voice of Ballou the Bear in Walt Disney's Jungle Book, but former Bob Hope comedy writer Robert L. Mills fondly recalls the Harris-Faye radio shows of his youth, and has penned a pitch-perfect recreation for our coast-to-coast Project Audion cast to perform. We promise you a half-hour's classic entertainment! Our cast --

Pete Lutz (Phil Harris)
JoAnne Kurman (Alice Faye)
John Bell (Frank Remley)
Bob Beaumont (Willie / Mr. Scott)
Angela Young (Julius / Miss Bluecross / Customer)
Ken Jeffries (Announcer)
Robert L Mills (Druggist, Scriptwriter)
Larry Groebe (Producer/Director)

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"Lights Out: The Dark" Recreation of January 19, 1938 episode

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Who was it who made that phone call to the emergency room -- the one that set off the horrible chain of events that took place in The Dark? Project Audion recreates the episode "The Dark" from LIGHTS OUT - one of classic radio's most imaginatively gruesome shows. It's an episode show that hasn't been heard in its complete form since January 1938! "Lights Out" was the work of  master radio dramatist Arch Oboler, and he memorably redid "The Dark" 25 years later as a highly abridged adaptation for an LP called "Drop Dead" - the only recording you could hear until now. But Project Audion worked from the original half-hour 1938 script to deliver extra thrills and chills, and leading to a climax where -- well, that would be telling, wouldn't it? Who's afraid of The Dark? You will be!
Our cast features:
 Jacob Palka in Illinois
 Douglas Herrman in California
 Denise Cline in Kentucky
 Robert Stevenson in Indiana
 Sounds, production, and direction by Larry Groebe in Texas

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The Lone Ranger: Episode 266, October 12, 1934

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Lone Ranger has got to be the most famous fictional character to come out of old time radio...every generation knows him, even if they don't know his radio origins. And those radio origins go WAY back - the Masked Man has been around 90 years, since 1933! But  the radio version of the Lone Ranger has hundreds of episodes we'll never hear - because the show wasn't recorded from 1933-1937. A shame, because these earliest years would let us listen to the series and characters evolving into the forms everyone knows. A 1934 episode simply wasn't the same as a 1954 episode in story, characters, and even sound.

But thanks to historian Martin Grams, Jr. , who provided us with some scripts from 1934, Project Audion actors have now recreated one. We selected episode #266 (October 12, 1934), a story of a cattle rancher, the coming of the railroad, and a "greasy half-breed" named Magdalena - yup, definitely less sensitive and streamlined than subsequent shows. You'll hear the show as we think it would have sounded in 1934...from the original 78rpm music cues to a period-accurate Silvercup bread commercial. Our cast even includes one actor who performed on Ranger radio shows during the 1950s. Now 93 years young, Chuck Daugherty is a living link to those thrilling days of yesteryear...

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"Pat Novak for Hire: A Trunkful of Trouble"

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The short-lived noirish radio detective series "Pat Novak for Hire" is probably better loved now than it was in the late 1940s, thanks to its darkly-comic quips and the dry-as-dust performance of Jack Webb in the title role, just before his breakout turn on "Dragnet." Pat Novak - the man, like the show - was one of those "hard-boiled" types - he may bounce or crack, but he doesn't break easily. Pat Novak shows are famed for their Raymond Chandler-esque plots and style, where the lead character never met a crook or a lady he couldn't describe with a delirious simile. Project Audion presents a brand-new episode penned for Project Audion by long-time network television writer Casey Keller. Mr Keller's script and Project Audions transcontinental cast matches the late-1940s originals blow for blow, dame for dame, gunshot for gunshot, metaphor for metaphor. Step  into the perpetual foggy night of the San Francisco waterfront to meet "Pat Novak, For Hire."

Pat Novak: PETE FERNBAUGH (WV)
Jocko Madigan: TOM KONKLE (CA)
Inspector Helleman: TEE QUILLAN (TN)
Hannah Gordon: JOANNE KURMAN (CA)
Stripper 1: DONNA PATTON (TN))
Stripper 2: JULIE HOVERSON (WA)

Jack Silver: KIM TITUS (TX)
Announcer/Goon: LOTHAR TUPPAN (CA)
Goon: BOB MILLS (CA) 
Coroner: CASEY KELLER (CA)

Written by Casey Keller
Sound, Direction, and Production by Larry Groebe

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Tales of Tomorrow: "Syndrome Johnny"

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

It's the year 2090. There are signs that a pandemic is coming - a pandemic which will kill millions of innocent people - again. Because it's happened before. But this time, just maybe, we know what - or who - is causing it...and a chance to stop it.

That's the setup for "Syndrome Johnny," a lost episode from a nearly-forgotten science-fiction anthology radio drama from 1953 called "Tales of Tomorrow." The television version of "Tales of Tomorrow," which actually came before the radio edition, is considered one of the first serious scifi video series. The TV edition spawned the radio offshoot, which hoped to fill the void of the recently-cancelled and now-classic series "Dimension X," adapting stories from Galaxy Magazine. Failing to find a sponsor, it only lasted a few months. The sound quality of the few recordings that survive is mostly quite poor, and our recreation "Syndrome Johnny" doesn't survive at all.Our transcontinental cast performs in the classic audio drama tradition - live in one uninterrupted take - to recapture the spirit of this pioneering science fiction show for a national audience for the first time in 70 years. 

In our cast:
Trevor Rines, Canada
Tim Burns, Kansas
Jack Ward, Canada
Greg McAfee, California
Rhiannon McAfee California
Gary Layton, Texas
and Larry Groebe, Texas

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"Fibber McGee & Molly": A brand new episode based on the classic 1940s radio comedy show

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Project Audion revisits one of the funniest, most beloved radio comedies of the 20th century. Fibber McGee and Molly tickled the radio audience for so long - more than a quarter of a century - that it spawned the very first-ever spinoff shows... and recurring gags like Fibber's hopelessly overstuffed closet and quips like Molly's "t'ain't funny, McGee" remained part of shared American pop culture long after the series left the airwaves. Part vaudeville act, part sitcom, the series stared real-life couple Jim and Marion Jordan who were indeed former vaudeville comics. Don Quinn's scripts and a large cast of supporting characters who stopped by 79 Wistful Vista kept the laughs rolling. Now, Robert L. Mills (former comedy writer for Bob Hope) has wonderfully recreated the style of the show at its peak in a new script penned just for Project Audion. In it, Fibber thinks he's come up with a brilliant and practical new invention - for once, does his boasting have merit? Listen to our transcontinental cast and laugh! 

Our cast:
Fibber McGee: John Bell, AL
Molly / Teeny: Holly Adams, NY
Harlow Wilcox: Ken Jeffries, CA
Wallace Wimple: Dana Gonsalves, TX
Mayor LaTrivia: Bob Beaumont, CA
Doc Gamble: Frank Guglielmeli, PA
Old Timer: Harry Middlebrooks, CA
Gildersleeve: Larry Groebe, TX
Leroy: Carolyn Threlkeld, KY
Produced, directed, and mixed by Larry Groebe

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Podcasts

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:16:06 +0000

Project Audion Podcasts

New episodes are released at least monthly.

Recent Episodes:

Suspense: "The Witness On The Westbound Train"

Sun, 21 May 2023 17:55:00 +0000

Project Audion recreates an extraordinarily rare, early lost episode of the classic audio drama "Suspense." When CBS premiered the the show in June 1942, it wasn't immediately evident that it would become one of the all-time great radio dramas, running for 20 years and nearly 1000 stories. Indeed, in this (just Suspense's fifth-ever episode, from July 15, 1942), while all the typical ingredients are in place (in this instance, a murder aboard a moving train) the show hadn't quite yet settled into the style that would soon define classics like 1943's "Sorry, Wrong Number." 

Heard for the first time in 80 years, our recreation of this lost Suspense episode -- "The Witness on the Westbound Train" -- is taken from the single known surviving script. It features the same transcontinental cast of vocal actors who appeared in Project Audion's very first episode, along with additional talented voices who have appeared in Project Audion shows during the past three years. The cast:

MARK: Pete Lutz, TX
JOE: Doug Fain, KY
DORIS: Patte Rosebank, Canada
CONDUCTOR: Denny Thmpson, CO
LAWRENCE / RANDOLPH: John Mauldin, TN
BILL / BAGGAGEMAN: Dick Huitema, FL
ANNOUNCER / WAITER: Robert Stevenson, IN
DIRECTION / PRODUCTION / SOUND: Larry Groebe, TX

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