The serial came to radio as a syndicated show on New York City’s WOR on February 12, 1940. On Mutual, it was broadcast from August 31, 1942, to February 4, 1949, as a 15-minute serial, running three or, usually, five times a week. From February 7 to June 24, 1949, it ran as a thrice-weekly half-hour show. The […]
Monthly Archives: August 2017
August
10
Suspense – “Menace in Wax”
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“During the French revolution of 1793, a Swiss girl copied in wax the severed heads of those had just been guillotined. She married a French Man named Tussard and came to London and she founded Madam Tussard’s Wax Works. There it is still in Marleborne near Baker Street station, not the original building, that was […]
August
09
A Princess of Mars – “Chapter 8: A Fair Captive From the Sky” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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CHAPTER VIII A FAIR CAPTIVE FROM THE SKY The third day after the incubator ceremony we set forth toward home, but scarcely had the head of the procession debouched into the open ground before the city than orders were given for an immediate and hasty return. As though trained for years in this particular evolution, […]
August
09
Flash Gordon – “General Tal Tries Capturing Dr. Zarkov” & “Pit of Peril and Death Dwarfs”
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Flash Gordon “General Tal Tries Capturing Dr. Zarkov” – September 7th 1935 Flash Gordon “Pit of Peril and Death Dwarf” September 14th, 1935
August
08
A Princess of Mars – “Chapter 7: Child-Raising on Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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CHAPTER VII CHILD-RAISING ON MARS After a breakfast, which was an exact replica of the meal of the preceding day and an index of practically every meal which followed while I was with the green men of Mars, Sola escorted me to the plaza, where I found the entire community engaged in watching or helping […]
August
08
X Minus One – “Nightmare”
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An unimportant clerk, in an unimportant job, uses his Einiac to discover what the computers are up to! The story is based on the poem, “Revolt Of The Machines” by Stephen Vincent Benet. The script was previously used on “Dimension X” on June 10, 1951. The progam was rebroadcast as part of “Monitor” during December, […]
August
07
A Princess of Mars – “Chapter 6: A Fight That Won Friends” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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CHAPTER VI A FIGHT THAT WON FRIENDS The thing, which more nearly resembled our earthly men than it did the Martians I had seen, held me pinioned to the ground with one huge foot, while it jabbered and gesticulated at some answering creature behind me. This other, which was evidently its mate, soon came toward […]
August
06
A Princess of Mars – “Chapter 5: I Elude My Watch Dog” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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CHAPTER V I ELUDE MY WATCH DOG Sola stared into the brute’s wicked-looking eyes, muttered a word or two of command, pointed to me, and left the chamber. I could not but wonder what this ferocious-looking monstrosity might do when left alone in such close proximity to such a relatively tender morsel of meat; but […]
August
05
A Princess of Mars – Chapter 4: A Prisoner” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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CHAPTER IV A PRISONER We had gone perhaps ten miles when the ground began to rise very rapidly. We were, as I was later to learn, nearing the edge of one of Mars’ long-dead seas, in the bottom of which my encounter with the Martians had taken place. In a short time we gained the […]
August
04
A Princess of Mars – “Chapter 3: My Advent On Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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CHAPTER III MY ADVENT ON MARS I opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape. I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. I was not asleep, no need for pinching here; my inner consciousness told me as plainly that I was upon Mars […]
August
03
A Princess of Mars – “Chapter Two: The Escape of the Dead” – Edgar Rice Burroughs
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CHAPTER II THE ESCAPE OF THE DEAD A sense of delicious dreaminess overcame me, my muscles relaxed, and I was on the point of giving way to my desire to sleep when the sound of approaching horses reached my ears. I attempted to spring to my feet but was horrified to discover that my muscles […]
August
02
A Princess of Mars – “Chapter One: On The Arizona Hills” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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CHAPTER I ON THE ARIZONA HILLS I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, […]
August
01
A Princess of Mars “Foreword” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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A PRINCESS OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs To My Son Jack FOREWORD To the Reader of this Work: In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest. My first recollection of Captain Carter is […]
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