onesmedia Store ONESMEDIA.com HOME | BOOKS | JEAN SHEPHERD | MOVIES | OLD TIME RADIO AUDIO CD | OLD TIME RADIO mp3 CD ROM | OLD TIME RADIO mp3 DVD ROM CRIME CLASSICS Volume 1 OLD TIME RADIO - 13 AUDIO CD - 26 Shows Total Playtime: 12:44:30 Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". This show introduces itself succinctly: "A series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, and from every time. Your host each week, is Mr. Thomas Hyland -- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders. " Thomas Hyland is played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The great Elliott Lewis, actor, producer and director of Suspense, Broadway is my Beat and On Stage is in charge of this very intelligent and enjoyable show. Composer Bernard Herrmann duplicated authentic music of the era being dramatized, and Morton Fine and David Friedkin were the writers. Lewis and his writers collected and developed true crime stories expressly for Crime Classics.Thomas Hyland's delivery is measured and mild-mannered, as if giving a college lecture. Would that all professors were this interesting! The actors in the stories themselves are uniformly. Sensitive orchestral scores by the great Bernard Hermann, who did Orson Welles' Mercury Theater Radio show and then Alfred Hitchcock's films, give the stories sophistication and mood. So do the tasteful sound effects. There is a wry, cool-blooded tone to the proceedings.Cases ranged from seventeenth-century murder to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Each and every story, however bizarre, is actually based on fact. For example, the show on the Younger Brothers of the American West has some very interesting background details concerning Quantrell's Raiders and the Kansas Jayhawks. In the story of "John Hayes, his Head, and How They Were Parted," we hear the tale of a glassblower who blows glass perfectly and completely surrounding the severed head of a unknown deadman. Then it is placed in a museum where it remained pending identification. Thus his killers were found out by the dead man, using his head.This show is a good companion to other old time radio shows that are historically-oriented, such as Cavalcade of America, You Are There, and American Trail. For science and research, the shows Science Magazine of the Air and Adventures in Research are very good. Information for this description came from John Dunning's "Tune In Yesterday The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio" THESE ARE REGULAR AUDIO CD CAN BE PLAYED IN ANY CD PLAYER, DVD PLAYER OR COMPUTERS THIS COLLECTION WILL BE DELIVERED IN A BOX SET WITH ART WORK We guarantee delivery of your item. If your item doesn't get there or is damaged, please notify us and we'll reship for you. FULL REFUND IF NOT SATISFIED SHOWS LIST CD 1 53-06-15 (1) Crime of Bathsheba Spooner 53-06-22 (2) Peaceful Passing of Thomas Bartlett CD 2 53-06-29 (3) Sudden Death of Col. James Fisk 53-07-06 (4) Shrapnelled Body of Charles Drew CD 3 53-07-13 (5) The Deed of John White Webster 53-07-20 (6) The Death of a Picture Hanger CD 4 53-07-27 (7) The Final Day of General Ketchum 53-08-03 (8) Mr. Thrower's Hammer CD 5 53-08-10 (9) The Axe & the Droot Family 53-08-17 (10) The Incredible Trial of Laura D. Fair CD 6 53-08-24 (11) The Alsop Family 53-08-31 (12) Your Loving Son, Nero CD 7 53-09-07 (13) The Torment of Henrietta Robinson 53-09-30 (14) The Bloody Banks of Fall River CD 8 3-10-07 (15) The Hangman & William Palmer 53-10-14 (16) Arsenic Cake Of Madame La farge CD 9 53-10-21 (17) Billy Bonny Bloodletter 53-10-28 (18) John Hayes CD 10 53-11-04 (19) Raschi Among The Crocodiles 53-11-11 (20) Blackbeard's Fourteenth Wife CD 11 53-11-18 (21) The Triangle on the Round Table 53-11-25 (22) Killing Story of William Corder CD 12 53-12-02 (23) If a Body Need a Body 53-12-09 (24) The Assasination of Abraham Lincoln CD 13 53-12-16 (25) John & Judith 53-12-30 (26) Coyle & Richardson THESE ARE REGULAR AUDIO CD CAN BE PLAYED IN ANY CD PLAYER, DVD PLAYER OR COMPUTERS THIS COLLECTION WILL BE DELIVERED IN A BOX SET WITH ART WORK We guarantee delivery of your item. If your item doesn't get there or is damaged, please notify us and we'll reship for you. FULL REFUND IF NOT SATISFIED FEEDBACK Our feedback record is excellent but if any problems arise, contact us before leaving any kind of neutral or negative feedback or if you plan on rating us anything less of five stars in all DSR areas. We, always, will take care of any kind of problems. PUBLIC DOMAIN NOTE This item is the public domain and was created between January 1, 1923 and December 31, 1971 This item is in the public domain due to failure to comply with required formalities After a careful search of the Library of