Clever Levers

Rated 3.33(3) — Clever Levers

The eponymous host of “The Mysterious Traveler” knows a lot of good stories, but few have happy endings: murderers choose the wrong victim; the dead won’t stay buried; malign insects turn monstrous; a comet brings the end of the world. In one memorable...

Rated 3.67(3) — Clever Levers

Turn down the lights and turn up the volume for the eeriest radio series ever aired. Quiet, Please was a perfect pairing of two unique talents: an offbeat, imaginative writer and a nuanced, naturalistic actor who could make the incredible sound ... well..

Rated 0.00(0) — Clever Levers

Airing weekdays at 5:00 for just one year, “Theater Five” was an unexpected gift: an ambitious, expensive, and sophisticated series launched just when radio drama was dismissed as dead. By the summer of ’64 all the action had moved to television...

Rated 0.00(0) — Clever Levers

Airing weekdays at 5:00 for just one year, “Theater Five” was an unexpected gift: an ambitious, expensive, and sophisticated series launched just when radio drama was dismissed as dead. By the summer of ’64 all the action had moved to television...

Rated 3.00(1) — Clever Levers

“You Are There” throws you directly into the action, presenting “live” audio broadcasts where reporters have to scramble to keep up with breaking news. The series ranges freely in time and space, sending reporters to the Spartans at Thermopylae...

Rated 4.00(2) — Clever Levers

Think you’d make a pretty good detective? Listen closely and think fast and you might, in fact, be able to name the killer before Philo Vance. His creator, S. S. Van Dine, once listed “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories.” The first two...

Rated 5.00(2) — Clever Levers

Enjoy hours of thrills, chills, and withering wit in this collection of radio dramas. In the late '40s and early '50s Vincent Price played “The Saint” in a series based on Leslie Charteris’ literary creation. His “Robin Hood of modern crime”...

Rated 0.00(0) — Clever Levers

Airing weekdays at 5:00 for just one year, “Theater Five” was an unexpected gift: an ambitious, expensive, and sophisticated series launched just when radio drama was dismissed as dead. By the summer of ’64 all the action had moved to television...

Rated 0.00(0) — Clever Levers

Airing weekdays at 5:00 for just one year, “Theater Five” was an unexpected gift: an ambitious, expensive, and sophisticated series launched just when radio drama was dismissed as dead. By the summer of ’64 all the action had moved to television...