Crime Club:
Murder On Margin (5/22/47).
Haunting Hour:
The People in the House (1945).
Alien Worlds:
The Sun stealers Part 1 (01/01/79).
Alien Worlds:
The Sun stealers Part 2 (1/14/79).

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Segment One:
Crime Club – Murder On Margin (5/22/47).
Produced and directed by Willis Cooper (Lights Out, Quiet Please) “The Crime Club” was a series that ran in 1946 and 1947 featuring murder and mystery stories.

The radio series opens as a phone rings and a voice answers, “Hello, I hope I haven’t kept you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club. I’m the Librarian…” (Actually it’s Raymond Johnson (best known as the host of Inner Sanctum).

Although there exists no evidence of a contractual arrangement between the Mutual Network and Doubleday publishing even a casual exploration of the titles in  this series makes it clear that the inspiration for the series has to be  the literary imprint, The Crime Club as most of the stories told were adaptations from this Doubleday series.

This imprint of books began in 1928 with the publication of The Desert Moon Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan (creator of one of the first female fictional detectives).

The imprint continued to publish until 1991.

     Nobody killed Larry. Certainly people wondered in and
out of the murder scene.
      It was a damn parade.
     To be sure Someone got that hundred grand he had on
him.
     But no one seems to have killed him.
     There was that woman’s shoe that turns up later what
did that mean?
        Murder on Margin is adapted from a 1937 book by
Robert George Dean  not the well known ufologist
(Like that word? I swear I did not make it up. It’s right
there in the Wikipedia).
 Segment Two:

Haunting Hour – People in the House (1945).

The Haunting Hour was made. in 1945 by local talent at the then Philadelphia NBC affiliate, KYW.

Fairly successful, the series went into syndication for the following thirty years over the Armed Forces Radio service. It is often featured in 1940s Radio retrospectives over various FM Radio stations. And has found a new generation, as  it is popular with podcasters.

It is, nonetheless, like so many other old-time radio programs, a show  with a very shallow history. That is, there exists no credits for the show, or the folks who labored behind the microphones. They are now entirely unknown…taken up into the ether of Old-Time radio without a trace.

Frank Lovejoy, Jackson Beck, Eve Arden, Betty Furness often appeared in staring roles

The writing staff Max Erlich, Edwin Wolfe Brett Halliday

     The Thatcher’s live together quite unhappily in the
house on east 67thstreet, hatching hate, and murder.

Segment Three:

Alien Worlds – The Sun stealers Part 1 (01/07/79).

Alien Worlds was an American syndicated radio show that produced 26 episodes in 1979 beginning on January 7th. With its excellent soundtrack and production standards The successful series eventually would play on over 500 radio stations all over the country. Between 1979 and 1980 the series found even more success internationally after it was picked up in New Zealand and Australia.

The stories involve the governing body for the development and exploration of space, the I.S.A. (International Space Authority). Organized by all earth nations, the I.S.A. advances the interests of humans in interstellar space. Their base is officially named “The Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory” but is mostly referred to as, “Starlab”. From here a small cadre of scientists diplomats and explorers and a computer named after Sherlock’s smarter older brother Mycroft, undertake awesome responsibilities as humanities emissaries to the stars.

Aside from the 26 programs that were broadcast; there were four more produced but never aired.

Segment Four:

Alien Worlds – The Sun stealers Part 2 (01/14/79).

Where-in Captains Jon Graydon, Buddy Griff,
Dr. Maura Cassidy and the intrepid crew of Starlab
continue their confrontation with  Zarr Khonar,
leader of  the monster aliens from the Marcab
Confederacy. Will Earth freeze over and become a
solid mass of ice as the Marcab mine our sun’s
energy?