Sunday, Dec 07, 2025, from 8 to 10 pm, and repeated at 4am Friday early morning Dec 05, it's THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO! Tonight, at long last, THE GOTHAM RADIO PLAYERS recorded live at MANC! A lost radio program DANNY McGUIRE, NIGHT-TIME OPERATIVE written by Rod Serling! We will also hear the classic MARCH OF TIME episode from the days following Pearl harbor in Dec 1941, all following our weekly episode of GUNSMOKE!

Tune in to WBAI-NY 99.5 FM at 8pm Sunday of 4am Friday Nov 21, or listen to the stream at wbai.org for THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO, produced by Max Schmid.

GUNSMOKE from CBS via the AFRTS on Jan 26, 1958 #303 "One for Lee." Senator Hooper pays his first visit to Dodge, and is shot as soon as soon as he gets off the train! With William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, John Dehner, Ralph Moody, produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, written by Les Crutchfield, editorial supervisor John Meston, SFX by Ray Kemper & Bill James, music by Rex Koury, announcer George Walsh.

THE GOTHAM RADIO PLAYERS Live at The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention on Sept,
18, 2025.

The Gotham Radio Players specialize in performing re-enactments of “lost” radio scripts from the Golden Age of Radio, programs for which no recording exists and which have probably not been heard since their original broadcast more than 60 years ago. DANNY McGUIRE is a lost radio drama which does not exist in recorded form. A rare treat for those who love the series or love detective radio dramas!

DANNY McGUIRE, NIGHT-TIME OPERATIVE by Rod Serling, broadcast on July 29, 1951. The fifth episode of the series.

Craig Wichman as Danny McGuire, Mike Thomas-Faria as Inspector Resnick, Bill Zarro as Granigan, Melissa Kalt as Janie, Mary Ellen Baker Jockle as Mamie Jordan, announcer Timm Gillette , music by Mike Mandel, Bernadette Fiorella Wichman, producer and sound engineer Max Schmid, directed by Steven M Lewis.

 

WNYC archivist Cara McCormick wrote:

During his freshman year at Antioch College, Rod Serling worked as an unpaid intern at WNYC. Although his newsroom and script-writing duties kept him mostly off the air, Serling's unmistakable voice can be heard in the station's public service series Toward Return to Society, produced in cooperation with the New York City Department of Correction.

In this program from December 11, 1946, Serling plays a boy who thinks stealing a radio is "his ticket to the future." Until he gets caught....
 

THE MARCH OF TIME from the Blue net, KQV, Pittsburgh aircheck on Dec 11, 1941 for Time, Fort Pitt Beer (local). A review of the activities in the country during the first five days of the United States at war. Well done, perhaps one of the best shows of this famous series. Narrator Westbrook Van Voorhis.