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The Mysterious Traveler - "Zero Hour" (Old Time Radio, 1948) (opens the original)
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The Mysterious Traveler presents “Zero Hour,” episode 159, originally broadcast on June 22, 1948, over the Mutual Broadcasting System. Hosted by Maurice Tarplin, this science-fiction suspense drama was written and produced by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David P. Kogan. After a reported meteor crash near Helena, Montana, Professor Dana Freidberg and biographer Keith Roberts investigate strange metallic wreckage and discover disturbing signs in the surrounding countryside. An original Martian-invasio
The Mysterious Traveler - "I Won't Die Alone" (Old Time Radio, 1948) (opens the original)
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The Mysterious Traveler presents “I Won’t Die Alone,” episode 153, originally broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System on May 11, 1948. Written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, this suspenseful crime drama features Art Carney and is hosted by Maurice Tarplin as the Mysterious Traveler. After a $254,000 bank robbery, Steve Martin and Chuck Williams speed along a lonely West Virginia road with pressure mounting between them. Seventeen years later, one of the men is prosperous and married, b
The Mysterious Traveler - "The Lady in Red" (Old Time Radio, 1950) (opens the original)
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The Mysterious Traveler presents “The Lady in Red,” episode 256, originally broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System on May 23, 1950. Hosted by Maurice Tarplin, this suspenseful anthology entry runs approximately 29 minutes. Newspaper reporter Bill Storm is pulled into a dangerous underworld investigation after a gangster’s funeral introduces his friend Tom Jarvis to Theda, an alluring woman in red. From the Banner Bar and Grill to police homicide headquarters, Storm follows a trail of violen
The Mysterious Traveler - "Operation Tomorrow" (Old Time Radio, 1950) (opens the original)
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The Mysterious Traveler presents “Operation Tomorrow,” originally broadcast on April 11, 1950. Listed as episode 250, this Mutual Broadcasting System science-fiction thriller was written and produced by series creators Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, with Maurice Tarplin as the Mysterious Traveler. In a subterranean New York City laboratory, Professor Wilbur Malcolm and his assistant Fred Andrews test a machine capable of sending objects into the future. When Fred travels one hundred years ahe
The Mysterious Traveler - "Out of the Past" (Old Time Radio, 1949) (opens the original)
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The Mysterious Traveler presents “Out of the Past,” episode 200, originally broadcast on April 19, 1949, over the Mutual Broadcasting System. This surviving approximately 24½-minute drama features Santos Ortega and Ann Sheppard. Wealthy Joan Morgan receives a threatening letter from John Benedict, a blackmailer who claims to know a dangerous secret from her past. As the demands mount, Joan’s comfortable marriage and carefully built life are shadowed by fear and suspicion. Written by Robert A. Ar
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