The Falcon radio series aired from 1943 until 1954. “The Falcon” was an alternate identity for detective Michael Waring. Like the Falcon movies, the radio plots mixed danger, romance, and comedy in equal parts. Each show began with a telephone ringing and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answering the phone. Speaking with a woman whose voice was never heard, Waring would explain that he had an urgent situation he had to deal with. This led into the standard opening, followed by the wee...

From the darkest, foggiest, most rain-swept streets of your imagination come The Great Radio Private Eyes! Detectives, investigators, shamuses all -- here's a legion of radio's best-remembered gumshoes taking on all comers in a wide-ranging collection of thrill-packed cases of crime.They're all here! From Bulldog Drummond to Candy Matson, from the urbane world of The Falcon to the grubby dockside world of Pat Novak -- get set for classic radio drama at its most compelling!Episodes Include:...

Where there's trouble, you'll find him. Where there's mystery, there he is. And when there's romance, look out! He's Michael Waring to those who know him -- and to those who fear him, he's The Falcon!Les Damon stars in this collection of sixteen fast-moving adventures. With a little bit of a hard-boiled edge, a little bit sarcasm, and a whole lot of charm, The Falcon solves crimes, helps the helpless, and makes time with femmes-fatale all in equal measure.Episodes Include: The Case of the ...

"Always ready with a hand for oppressed men, and an eye for repressed women."Michael Waring is the freelance investigator, troubleshooter, and adventurer known to one and all as The Falcon. One part The Saint, one part Boston Blackie, and one part Philip Marlowe - Waring can be suave and charming, especially when a lady is involved. But, there's never any doubt about his nail-spitting toughness, nor of his impatience with the plodding methods of the police - most often expressed in an endl...

A duo of Dashiell Hammett detectives!J. Scott Smart stars as "The Fat Man," Brad Runyon, the stout-but-stalwart investigator who was first conceived as an arch villain in Hammett's classic novel The Maltese Falcon. Charismatic and captivating, Runyon has a way with the ladies, in spite of his 237 pounds.Nick Charles, "The Thin Man," was played on radio by William Powell, Les Damon and Les Tremayne. Cases seem to fall in to Nick's lap…often dropped there by his wife, Nora (played by Myrna L...

Wartime radio at its most provocative -- that's Words At War!The Office of War Information, in cooperation with The Council on Books in Wartime, brought listeners journalistic accounts of battle, first-person narratives, and novels inspired by actual events. Each story was adapted for radio…and for maximum emotional impact.These eight digitally restored and remastered broadcasts include performances by Les Damon, Lesley Woods, Maurice Tarplin, Staats Cotsworth, Jackson Beck, Lon Clark, Hou...

Launch your imagination, and break the bonds of time and space, with radio's highly-acclaimed science-fiction anthology X Minus One! Produced in cooperation with science fiction magazines of the day, the series featured provocative stories by the genre's top genre authors. Ray Bradbury, Ernest Kinoy, Robert Sheckley, and more helped Americans of the 1950s look to the future. Dramatized with an atmosphere of excitement, top radio voices like Raymond Edward Johnson, Les Damon, Staats Cotswor...

Les Damon stars as Michael Waring in sixteen more exciting adventures - taking on the troubles of ladies who are lost, dangerous, and deadly.Ken Lynch and Charles Webster co-star as Waring's police nemesis Sergeant James Corbett in these digitally restored and remastered tales of risky business, faithless families, blackmail, jail break, and murder. Jackson Beck, John Brown, Elspeth Eric, Ann Williams, and more radio regulars round out the cast.Come crack the cases, out the guilty, and rou...

All of us fear and fantasize about what is to come - be it tomorrow, or next year, or for the next generation. Sixty-five years after its creation, radio's most successful early venture into adult science fiction continues to entertain -- and to stimulate the imaginations of a whole new audience.Voyage with the voices of Raymond Edward Johnson, Les Damon, Joan Alexander, Santos Ortega, Berry Kroeger, and more in interstellar stories by Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Stephen Vincent Benet, ...

"No, no...stay where you are. Do not break the stillness of this moment. For this is a time of mystery, a time when imagination is free and moves forward swiftly, silently. This is the haunting hour."Terror in the night! Terror on the air! Terror in your mind's eye! Steel your nerves against tales of ghostly graveyards and lonesome corpses…time travel and amnesia…mentalists, mummies and murder!These sixteen exciting tales of the supernatural and the strange feature Frank Lovejoy, Les Damon...