Get full-length pulp audiobooks pulp eBooks and old-time radio shows ABSOLUTELY FREE FOR IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD by emailing WeirdDarkness RadioArchives com After September 30 1962 commercial radio drama was as dead as the doornail described in the opening pages of Dickens A Christmas Carol 1843 and everyone understood that television killed it People who worked in both mediums realized that working in radio was a much better overall experience than television could ever be Sure TV had pictures to go along with the stories but putting those pictures on the air involved a highly technical and expensive technology and by the time those images reached the audience they were grainy blurry and sometimes nearly impossible to see One actor could play different parts on several different radio programs even in a single episode but once they were seen in a TV show their face was recognizable enough that they had a hard time working on another show and even a twenty-second appearance meant hours in makeup and wardrobe Appearing in a radio drama required just a couple rehearsals and then remaining as quiet as possible in the studio following along in the script until time to perform your lines which you also read from the script There was one important thing that television could offer over radio work money The accounting in TV and radio was fundamentally different A radio program was usually paid for by a single sponsor while commercial time on TV shows was sold piecemeal but there was still a phenomenal amount of money involved in TV production and the networks and sponsors were happy to pay it Unable to compete with the huge amount of money being spread around by TV after the final broadcasts of Suspense and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar on September 30 1960 the Golden Age of Radio came to an end Or did it In the decade after the end of the Golden Age of Radio TV matured artistically and technically There had been a rejection by the networks of rural programming which helped launch a nostalgia craze This craze began with the release of George Lucas s American Graffiti 1973 and suddenly everything old seemed new again One of the genres which were best suited to radio was the horror shows which made listeners sit up in bed and pull the sheets over their heads This sort of program had been pioneered Wyliss Cooper and Arch Oboler on Lights Out as well as The Whistler Suspense and Inner Sanctum Mysteries This was the type of show creators decided upon for his radio nostalgia project which became The CBS Radio Mystery Theater They were convinced that there was enough interest from those who had heard similar shows growing up during the Golden Age but the show built a following of younger fans for whom radio drama was a new and exciting experience In many ways CBSRMT was more like a TV program on the radio than a typical Old Time Radio show The shows were taped rather than broadcast live which allowed for greater post-production editing and creative control The scripts generally ran 45 minutes and the action was broken at points to allow for separately produced commercials and news bulletins to be inserted The opening featured the creaking door effect which had been part of The Inner Sanctum Host E G Marshall was never as campily creepy earlier horror hosts but his closing Until next time pleasant dreams was sure to inspire nightmares Production of CBSRMT was efficient almost to the point of cheapness Creators drew upon radio row veterans working in New York as well as up-and-coming television personalities The show used original stories from a wide variety of genres as well as literary classics Writers were paid a flat 350 for each recorded script and actors received union scale rates of 73 92 per episode The actors would come into the studio for an initial script reading at 9 00 am and the episode was generally completed by noon Paychecks were handed out and the tape would be edited in the afternoon 00 00 00 000 INTRO00 01 54 482 The Bleeding Statue May 23 1974 00 46 21 986 Mirror For Murder May 27 1974 01 30 27 244 The Phantom Lullaby May 29 1974 02 14 39 905 Dressed To Kill May 30 1974 02 59 05 145 To Kill With Confidence June 03 1974 03 43 09 434 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge June 04 1974 04 27 15 215 Darling Deadly Dolores June 06 1974 SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS This episode is sponsored by http RadioArchives comWeird Darkness Retro Radio theme by Storyblocks I have come into the world as a light so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness John 12 46Find out how to escape eternal darkness at https weirddarkness com eternaldarknessWeirdDarkness – is a registered trademark Copyright Weird Darkness 2024 CUSTOM WEBPAGE https weirddarkness com cbsrmt-marathon-010Click here to visit this podcast episode
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