Dimension X Videos

"Regarding Mother" - Grand Theft Goodwill, "Vamp" - Larry Winfield; Geeknotes: New Podpage Items, Buddy Board Additions, LA Pod Promo, Swingercast ShoutOut; Open Mic Stage: "A Conversation With Death" - Green Man, KnitWitch Zone Interverse News Promo, Mysterious Universe Promo, "Snow Is Falling" - Yoko Ono, "Vampire's Castle Music" - Anonymous, "Devil's Bride" - Alien Christ, Klingon Word Promo, "If Jesus Came" - Künstler Treu; Map Room: Number of Ocean 'Dead Zones' Rises, Fear Could be Linked to Cancer, "X MINUS ONE" Radio Serial, Bush's Real Secret Plan?; Venue Verite: "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain, read by Esther

Three mysteries on this edition. This trilogy begins with Suspense. Suspense was a radio drama series broadcast on CBS from 1942 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills," and focussed on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 are extant in mostly high-quality recordings Suspense went through several major phases, characterized by different hosts, sponsors and director/producers. There were a few rules which were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation; solutions were "withheld until the last possible second"; and evildoers were punished in the end. The program made only occasional forays into science fiction and fantasy. Among its science fiction entries were "The Man who Tried to Save Lincoln" (a time travel fantasy) and an adaptation of Curt Siodmak's Donovan's Brain, as well as an adaptation of an H. P. Lovecraft short story, "The Dunwich Horror". Alfred Hitchcock directed its audition show (for the CBS series Forecast). This was an adaptation of "The Lodger," a story Hitchcock had filmed in 1926 with Ivor Novello. Martin Grams, Jr., author of Suspense: Twenty Years of Thrills and Chills, described the Forecast origin of Suspense: On the second presentation of July 22, 1940, Forecast offered a mystery/horror show titled Suspense. With the co-operation of his producer Walter Wanger, Alfred Hitchcock received the honor of directing his first radio show for the American public. The condition agreed upon for Hitchcock's appearance was that CBS make a pitch to the listening audience about his and Wanger's latest film, Foreign Correspondent. To add some flavour to the deal, Wanger threw in Edmund Gwenn and Herbert Marshall as part of the package. All three men (including Hitch) would be seen in the upcoming film, which was due for a theatrical release the next month. Both Marshall and Hitchcock decided on the same story to bring to the airwaves, which happened to be a favorite of both of them: Marie Belloc Lowndes' "The Lodger." Alfred Hitchcock had filmed this story for Gainsborough in 1926, and since then it had remained as one of his favorites. The final broadcasts of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar on September 30, 1962, are often cited as the end of the Golden Age of Radio. The series expanded to television with the Suspense series on CBS from 1949 to 1954, and again in 1962. The radio series had a tie-in with Suspense magazine which published four 1946-47 issues edited by Leslie Charteris. The familiar opening phrase "tales calculated to..." was satirized by Mad as the cover blurb "Tales Calculated to Drive You... Mad" on its first issue (October-November 1952) and continuing until issue #23 (May 1955). For the Poway Performance Art Company, the 70-year-old San Diego actor-director Robert Hitchcox mounted a 2006 stage production recreating Suspense, complete with commercials, in a stage set designed like a CBS radio studio This episode is called, The Blind Date. The CBS Mystery Theater is next with The Briefcase Blunder. Then, a Sci-Fi adventure on Dimension X with, The Outer Limit. As Always, Enjoy!

A special episode narrated solely by Sherlock himself. Holmes tells the tale of Mr. James M. Dodd who came to see Holmes about a missing friend, Godfrey Emsworth. After years together in the service, Emsworth is wounded and disappears. After trying to track him down, Dodd eventually finds his friend but he is now a ghostly pale shell of his former friend......but why?