On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:11:58 -0800, stbenge wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:24:04 -0800, stbenge wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:03:14 -0800, stbenge wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I run a lot of tests over here, though very few ever make it to the
>>>>> public. I figured this image was worth posting, even if it is
>>>>> unfinished.
>>>> It brings to mind one of the episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater
>>>> that I listened to earlier today - entitled "Escape!  Escape!".
>>>>
>>>> The upshot was some escaped convicts ended up being shrunk down to
>>>> ant- size and placed in a terrarium.
>>> That sounds like a fun show to listen to. Where might I find it?
>> 
>> I found the recordings on one of the more popular torrent sites.  The
>> shows date from 1974 (it's radio drama), about 1400 of them in total
>> over 9 years.
> 
> Darn! I was hoping CBS still had radio shows :(

There was an attempt at a revival in about 1998 IIRC, but it only went 
for a little while (and I haven't managed to find those recordings, 
either).  I remember listening to these on WCCO radio in Minneapolis as a 
kid - though I don't remember any of the stories specifically.

They were broadcast on the CBS Radio Network; the recordings I found are 
from radio stations all over the country (I've noted a station in 
Portland, OR; WOR out of New York; and KSL out of Salt Lake City so far), 
sometimes with commercials, sometimes without.  Occasionally with news at 
the beginning or end of the episode as well.  That's actually been fairly 
interesting to listen to as well, as the timing of the first episodes 
comes from right around Watergate and the energy crisis from the 70s.

Some of the episodes are also sourced from records used for broadcasts to 
US Servicemen abroad as I understand it.

Jim

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