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Crime Classics is a documentary-style podcast presenting restored episodes of the legendary old time radio series of the same name.
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Crime Classics - "Death of a Baltimore Birdie and Friend" (Old Time Radio, 1954) (opens the original)
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Crime Classics presents “Death of a Baltimore Birdie and Friend,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 16, 1954. Episode 49 is narrated by Lou Merrill as Thomas Hyland, with a script by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann. In contemporary Baltimore, a noisy late-summer gathering on Utah Place—complete with Chesapeake crabs, beer, bourbon, and uneasy conversation—takes on a darker tone. Drawing on court reports and newspaper accounts, Hyland recounts
Crime Classics - "Axe and Droot Family How They Fared" (Old Time Radio, 1953) (opens the original)
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Crime Classics presents “Axe and Droot Family How They Fared,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 10, 1953. Commonly cataloged as episode 9, this historical true-crime drama is narrated by Lou Merrill as Thomas Hyland and was written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In Pennsylvania Dutch country in 1795, Peter Droot’s will divides family property and sets powerful inheritance motives in motion. Directed and produced by Elliott Lewis, the story brings Crime Classics’ wry historical style to
Crime Classics - "Blackbeards 14th Wife Why She Was No Good for Him" (Old Time Radio, 1953) (opens the original)
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Crime Classics presents “Blackbeards 14th Wife Why She Was No Good for Him,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on November 11, 1953. This is episode 20 of the series, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and produced and directed by Elliott Lewis. Host Thomas Hyland leads a dramatized tale of Edward Teach—better known as Blackbeard—and Hannah, the woman called his fourteenth wife. Beginning in the Caribbean in 1714, the story contrasts the notorious pirate’s fearsome reputation with an unea
Crime Classics - "The Checkered Life and Sudden Death of James Fisk Junior" (Old Time Radio, 1953) (opens the original)
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Crime Classics presents “The Checkered Life and Sudden Death of James Fisk Junior,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on June 29, 1953. Episode 3 of the series, this historical drama was written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and produced and directed by Elliott Lewis. In 1872 New York City, railroad financier Colonel James Fisk Jr. becomes entangled in a volatile mix of business conflict, private correspondence, and a very public rivalry involving Edward S. Stokes and Josie Mansfield. Set ag
Crime Classics - "Good Evening My Name Is Jack the Ripper" (Old Time Radio, 1954) (opens the original)
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Crime Classics presents “Good Evening My Name Is Jack the Ripper,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 30, 1954. Episode 051, this is the series finale, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and produced and directed by Elliott Lewis. Narrator Thomas Hyland, voiced by Lou Merrill, leads a docudrama drawn from contemporary reports of the 1888 Whitechapel murders. Set amid the unease of Victorian London, the story follows the fear and uncertainty surrounding the still-unidentified Jack the Rip
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