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November 22, 2024
2 new products and 5 featured products from Radio Archives this week!
All new and featured products are discounted the first week.
Featured: previously released
"Hen-reeee!, Henry Aldrich!"
Comedy is taking something mundane and ordinary and turning it into a masterpiece of hilarity and humor. No classic radio show did this better than one centered on the daily chaos surrounding teenager Henry Aldrich! Henry and an entire cast of characters bring laughter to everyday life once more in The Aldrich Family, a collection from Radio Archives!
"The Aldrich Family" spotlighted the adolescent escapades of young Henry and the hijinks that ensued from simple things like a bicycle's flat tire or an overdue library book. The show also features one of the best-remembered openings from classic radio – Alice, Henry's stalwart mother summons her son by yelling "Hen-reeee! Henry Aldrich!" And Henry responds with a voice riddled with the crackle of puberty, "Coming, Mother!" The show's opening salvo had such an impact that some play on it still crops up occasionally in modern entertainment.
The Aldrich Family features as rich and colorful a cast as any show could. From Alice to Sam, Henry's father to Homer Brown, Henry's usual partner in confusion right through to Kathleen Anderson, Henry's sweetheart, and his arch nemesis George Bigelow. Each character was distinct and had a life beyond the gags and jokes, making this show both real and larger than life at the same time. Listeners identified with Henry and his family.
Restored to sparkling audio quality, The Aldrich Family is a great set for both golden age comedy and characters so believable you can't help but relate to and laugh with them.
Featured: previously released
Volume 32
Even though the change of lead actors in The Great Gildersleeve didn’t necessarily affect the show negatively, by 1952, cracks were beginning to show in the classic program. Characters who were essentially show staples, like Judge Hooker and Gildy’s niece, Marjorie (and her family), appeared less and less, sometimes for months. Other characters were introduced almost randomly, including Mrs. Potter, who suffered from hypochondria, and the egg man, Mr. Cooley, but none really stuck. A shift in focus occurred in 1953 from the general family/town comedy of before to almost exclusively focusing on Gildy’s love life.
The Widow Ransom would play a key part both in the early and later years of The Great Gildersleeve. Shirley Mitchell, the actress bringing the amorous Widow to life in the show, got the role, in a way accidentally. Hal Peary, apparently dropped into to see Dinah Shore. Shirley Mitchell, recently moving from Chicago, was living with Shore. It is debated that it was either Shore or her secretary using a Southern accent that caught Peary’s attention. Either way, whichever one it was didn’t wish to be in Perry’s new show when asked. Mitchell then proceeded to put on a Southern accent and asked ‘How about me?’ The Widow Ransom, according to Peary, had been found.
The Widow Ransom was definitely not Gildersleeve’s only love interest. Gildy finds himself attracted to Eve Goodwin, the principal of Leroy’s school. He also dates nurse Katherine Milford later in the show, as well as Principal Irene Henshaw and Rumson Bullard’s sisters, Ellen Bullard Knickerbocker and Paula Bullard Winthrop. He dates the Widow Ransom off and on again, ending up at one point engaged to both her and her cousin Adeline Fairchild at the same time.
Discover why The Great Gildersleeve is not only considered a great comedy, but also one of the best shows of classic radio in this collection of twelve original broadcasts of The Great Gildersleeve, Volume 32, complete with Kraft Foods commercials and restored to sparkling digital quality.
Featured: previously released
The Comet King
by Edmond Hamilton
Read by Milton Bagby
Trapped in the depths of Halley’s Comet, the Futuremen battle fourth-dimensional monsters in a titanic struggle to save the system’s solar energy!
Captain Future learned much of what he knew from perhaps the oddest surrogate father in fiction - The Brain. Simon Wright, a brilliant scientist and companion to Curtis Newton’s father, became so riddled with age and sickness that the only option to continue his life meant literally living as a brain in a specially designed box. When Captain Future’s parents were killed, Wright not only serves as Captain Future’s mentor, but also as the leader of the trio of Futuremen who join Captain Future on his wild escapades.
Grag is most definitely the brawn of the Futuremen. A robot constructed by the Brain and Captain Future’s father, Grag stands over seven feet tall and may be the strongest creation in the solar system. Constructed of ‘inert’ metal, Grag is almost indestructible and powered by atomic energy deep in his chest. Grag’s greatest desire is to be considered human, a point that Otho tends to agitate him over again and again, leading to some of the funniest moments in the stories.
Truly one of a kind, Otho is a unique android created by Captain Future’s father and the Brain. The synthetic man does not naturally resemble an Earthman, but Otho is well known for his mastery of disguise, a skill that has been useful for Captain Future on many occasions. Otho also is faster and more nimble than nearly any other being alive and he is responsible for teaching Captain Future much of what he knows of speed and agility. Otho also enjoys the danger of each mission they undertake, almost as much as he likes to antagonize the humorless Grag about not being human.
Rocket into science fiction adventure and discover new worlds. Ripped from the pages of the Summer 1942 issue of Captain Future magazine, “The Comet King” is read with wonder and excitement by Milton Bagby.
5 hours - MP3 regular price $9.99
Featured: previously released
Revolt of the Underworld
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
With only a small boy to tend his grave wounds; with every bluecoat hunting him on charges of kidnaping, murder and treason, how could Richard Wentworth — as himself or in the grim guise of the Spider — possibly quell a gigantic Underworld uprising designed to crush him first — and then inflict a murder-rule upon the land!
The Spider was the champion of oppressed humanity, its protector against the murderous outbreaks of the Underworld; wherever crime struck terribly, that way he hastened, taking up the challenge. The police had offered rewards totaling thousands of dollars for his capture “dead or alive.” And the Underworld hated him, and plotted his destruction with a fierceness bred of abject terror.
But the Spider was indifferent to proscription by the Underworld and dogged persecution by police. Evading their bullets and traps, he continued to fight his thankless battle as humanity’s paladin....
And the Spider rejoiced in impossible odds. Captured by a modern-day buccaneer in one epic, Wentworth shrugged off the mood of black despair which often came over him when defeat seemed imminent:
One man against more than a hundred pirates, of course, a hundred killers. The Spider knew that, but it did not check the wild impulse to laughter that squeezed his lungs. It was no wonder that men call the Spider mad!
This thrilling Spider audiobook features acclaimed voice talent Nick Santa Maria, who has made the Spider his own! Revolt of the Underworld originally published in The Spider magazine, June, 1942.
 New eBook
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
Sky Fighters was one of the longest running "air" pulps beginning in 1932 and lasting until 1950. An amazing 118 issues were published during that time. Thrilling Publications published this one, along with its two sister aviation magazines Air War and The Lone Eagle. When the magazine began, it featured exciting tales of World War I, written by some of the men who actually flew in the skies above France. The magazine began featuring more contemporary stories as World War II loomed. By 1941, the magazine was entirely taken over by battles of the Allies against the Axis. After the end of the global conflict in 1946, the magazine featured a mixture of old and new tales, some containing aviation adventures not related to the wars. Sky Fighters returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 New eBook
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
There could seemingly never be enough detective fiction magazines. Readers clamored for more hard-hitting action, more flinty-eyed investigators, and more shifty underground mobsters. So another detective pulp was launched, rather late in the game, in March of 1951 when other pulp magazines were closing down. And it hit it off with its reading audience, selling enough copies to remain on newsstands until February of 1958 when the era of pulp magazines was at an end. The magazine was published by Columbia Publications, who had been in the pulp business since the mid-1930s. Some of its other magazines included Crack Detective Stories, Famous Western, Hooded Detective, and Science Fiction Quarterly. Smashing Detective magazine ran a grand total of 33 issues, and provided readers with quarterly (and for two years bi-monthly) issues of murder and mystery. Smashing Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Featured eBook
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.
Another epic exploit of America’s best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men! Richard Wentworth — the dread Spider, nemesis of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that grim no-man’s land between Law and lawless — returns in vintage pulp tales of the Spider, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want. New Kindle's use ePub. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.
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Comments From Our Customers!
James Elfers writes:
The Spider #15 The Red Death Rain. Maybe the Sexiest Spider Adventure Ever. Amadman is poisoning tobacco all over New York, causing thousands to die horrific deaths. Nita is kidnapped in the first chapter. Later, she turns up barely dressed in the villain's seraglio. The fate the Mandarin has for her is repulsive. Can the Spider save the day? Will he be distracted by the Mandarin's incredibly beautiful daughter? By far the sexiest Spider adventure I have ever read! Five stars!
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