Post #178087 by Urban Tiki on Mon, Aug 8, 2005 12:30 PM

On 2005-08-08 12:15, johntiki wrote:
Old time radio - I particularly like mystery/detective shows from the 40's and 50's! To those who have never given them a listen, check out the CBS show "Suspense" that ran from 1942 until 1962 - great stuff, kinda like Hitchcock for your ears!

Cool. In a similar vein, I forgot to mention serials were shown in movie theaters before the main bill (also newsrteels are cool, too). When I was a kid in the 60's my father was in the Airforce in Spain. He had a part time job as a projectionist at the base theater, and used to take me to work with him. Even though they were about twenty years old at the time, they showed these serials before the movies. Two that come to mind are "The Black Whip" and "Radar Men from the Moon". The former was a western with a Zorro like hero and the latter was a guy with a helmet and rocket pack that fought evil. He was the character model for The Rocketeer movie not too long ago. I have both of these series on video.