Murder By Experts: 

“Summer Heat” (6/13/49)

CBS Radio workshop: 

“Season of Disbelief and Hail and Farewell”

Weird Circle:

“The Passion In The Desert” (2/25/32)

The origins of superstition:

“Rabbit’s Foot” ( 1935)

Richard Wilson:

“Back To Julie”

(Galaxy Science Fiction May 1954)

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Murder By Experts – Summer Heat

Murder By Experts was  an  anthology that ran in the United States between 1949 and 1951 on the Mutual Network. The program was at first  hosted by mystery writer  John Dickson Carr. Who would leave the show in 1950 to be replaced by Brett Halliday.

With a catalog of 130 episodes (unfortunately only a handful are known to have survived) the show revolved around the premise that each week a guest mystery writer would select a story from another writer (as in not themselves) to be presented as that  week’s show.  Sometimes at the end of the show (I guess as time permitted)  there would be a  critical postmortem of the episode, sometimes featuring well-known personalities.

Murder by Experts  was created by David Kogan. A man who is well remembered in old-time radio circles as the writer/creator of The Mysterious Traveler, The Strange Doctor Weird and, if not countless then at least numerous, other radio programs dotting the landscape the radio’s “Golden Age“.

A newly graduated lawyer awakes with a dead body sharing his  bedroom. He quickly finds that an old truism applies. “A friend will help you move. A really good friend will help you move a body. He could have used a friend like that as he has a very difficult time getting rid of that body!

Weird Circle – “The Passion In The Desert” (2/25/32)

The Weird Circle was a syndicated series produced in New York and licensed by Mutual, and later, NBC’s Red network (Digital Deli Too). For two seasons, it cranked out 39 shows (78 total) consisting mostly of radio adaptations of classic horror stories.

Contradiction Alert: Some sources date The Weird Circle as being produced from 1943 – 1945 (Digital Deli). Others state it was produced from 1946 – 1947.

This adaptation strays considerably from Honore de Balzac’s 1830 short story. It’s a tale about a man who encounters a leopard in the desert with which he develops an uneasy relationship.

Serious  consequences entail.

I thought inasmuch as this story differs rather considerably from the original story. And since the original story is now safely in the public domain, I thought I would provide links to either read online, or download the story from the Internet.

I have had, in the past, some difficulty providing ancillary material in a manner that remains axillary. That is to say, I do not want the RSS feed to scrape this particular material and send it along. After a little bit of thought it seemed to me the best thing to do would be to create another blog at WordPress which I have called, “The NightTransmissions Annex”.

Here is the first entry…