Classic Radio Shows

[Melooon]

Iv been listening to The Shadow today and it really reminded me how much I used to like listening to late night radio stories my dad would put on AM radio at night to stop the house getting lonely. Also for anyone whos like.. too young.. There used to be like fiction TV series.. but on the radio :omg:k: Do you know any, do you like any??

Some that people might enjoy!

The Shadow episode 1 (1937)
Action; Superhero "The Shadow" fights mobsters using magic powers he learned in India?

The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy episode 1 (197:cool: (Click to get the full playlist)
Sci-Fi Comedy; A man explores the galaxy after earth is destroyed to make way for a space highway.

[Memory]

It's not quite the same as what you mentioned, but I used to love Welcome to Nightvale.

https://www.welcometonightvale.com

To anyone unfamiliar, it's set up as a radio news broadcast in a small town where every conspiracy and supernatural thing you can think of is real, but they're reported on as mundane, everyday events.

I eventually stopped listening because it became too serialized and was more about the established characters and their relationships than the town itself and the weird things that happen there. But the early episodes are amazing.

[brisray]

The radio vesion of Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy was great. I taped it, the cassettes should be lying around somewhere. The TV series was good, the film was OK. The play I saw of it was the funniest thing. The curtain opened, and all there was on stage was a doll's house. A little RC bulldozer came on stage and tried to demolish it, then it just got sillier and funnier.

[Melooon]

radio vesion of Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy was great

I saw the movie when I was about 12 and loved it; so I listened to the whole radio show on CD and loved it even more - it's got so much in it it makes the movie seem tame in comparison.

Spoiler

I particularly loved that all of humanity descended from hapless telephone repairmen who could not decide on what colour the wheel should be before they invented it

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It's definitely worth a listen; multiple times even!

[brisray]

Lots of British shows appeared on radio before they were made into TV programs like Red Dwarf (science fiction) and The League of Gentlemen (horror comedy). During the day I preferred listening to the radio, usuually the pirate Radio Caroline which was broadcast from a ship out in the North Sea, but BBC Radio 4 had great programming, like the above series, quiz shows and some good radio plays. Daytime TV at the time was usally full of soaps and not very interesting to me.

[IndigoGolem]

I only know a few radio shows. I like them but they're before my time. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was already mentioned and i recommend it to anyone who likes the books/film/tv series/computer game or Adams' other work.

The webcomic Girl Genius has a handful of radio episodes still available on the Internet Archive in varying levels of quality.

There's also Dimension X from 1950. I listened to one episode and haven't gotten around to finding the rest, but it was alright.

I'll have to check out some of these others.

[candycanearter07]

An internet radio show I listen to (https://anonradio.net) occasionally broadcasts some classic radio shows. The only one I actually know the name of is DragNet, which is apparently a pretty famous one? You could probably find em on internet archive too, though.

[WaybackGuy]

One I grew up with and miss is A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, which featured the News from Lake Wobegon. The show aired live with Keillor from 1974 to 2016.

I was lucky to see a performance live about 10 years ago. Unfortunately Keillor seems to have been a bit of a jerk, which eventually caught up with him, I think leading to his departure from the show and its ultimate demise.