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Welcome to The Pop Culture Cafe. Thoughts and opinions from seasoned pop culture nerds. Join me, John, Scott and Paul as we explore the world of TV, movies, comics and sometimes the social issues that drive some entertainment content.
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A newly married couple is on their honeymoon, and the locals think they recognize her as a bride who went missing on her wedding day in the town. The locals are wary of them… and they get a warning from a boatman who takes them to “the Blue Grotto” which may have something to do with the disappearance. Air Date:1942-12-01 Digitally Restored by Nich…
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This is a WW2 espionage story where Brit journalists uncover a German plot to sabotage a factory. They find a secret code in Madam Tussaud’s wax museum. The story actually has little to do with the wax museum after that. The cast: Joseph Julian (Rogers), Ted Osborne (Signature Voice), Alfred Shirley, Stefan Schnabel Digitally Restored by Nicholas H…
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A strange man hires a private detective to find the Martian Embassy, which is hidden somewhere in New York. There is a man loitering outside the Broderick Private Detective Agency. He looks strange, but very intelligent, like a professor. His name is Mr. Grapheus, and he has come to New York to locate the Martian Embassy and the agents of the gover…
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A young man who needs money to continue a failing venture makes a bet with his uncle if he can escape being murdered… directly or indirectly by his uncle. The prize is $25,000 and his life. In today’s US dollars, that’s almost $475,000. The script was used again in the BBC’s Appointment with Fear radio series 1943-10-14. Digitally Restored by Nicho…
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An unimportant clerk, in an unimportant job, uses his Einiac to discover what the computers are up to! The story is based on the poem, "Revolt Of The Machines" by Stephen Vincent Benet. The script was previously used on "Dimension X" on June 10, 1951. The progam was rebroadcast as part of "Monitor" during December, 1974. + Based on the poem "Revolt…
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This story is about a reconsideration of an old suicide case because it may have been a murder. It has the stereotypical “dark and stormy night” opening scenes. It was originally a BBC "Detection Club" hour-long presentation featuring John Dickson Carr's character Dr. Fell, broadcast on 1940-10-15. It was broadcast again on 1946-08-21 on BBC “Myste…
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"Dr. Grimshaw's Sanitarium". Take missing bodies in a mental hospital and add a mad scientist or two! Stir well for horror. The system cue has been deleted. The script was used previously on "Dimension X" on September 22, 1950 and subsequently on "Future Tense" during July, 1976 and on "Monitor" during March, 1974. This story is the same as the one…
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With this episode, Suspense started its run on CBS as a sustaining feature in the schedule. Its Summer 1942 run was just as a replacement series. Released 1942-10-27. The cast: Nicholas Joy (Richardson), Ted Osborne (Bill Harris / Signature Voice), Brad Barker (Nero the Lion’s roar), others unidentified. Digitally Restored by Nicholas Hans Gary Sou…
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It is the story of "Noisy" Rhysling, the blind space-going songwriter whose poetic skills rival Rudyard Kipling's. Heinlein (himself a medically retired U.S. naval officer) spins a yarn about a radiation-blinded, unemployable spaceship engineer crisscrossing the Solar System writing and singing songs. The story takes the form of a nonfiction magazi…
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Well boys and girls or whoever is listening. The boys are back together. So this show is part one. Our chat was long so I decided to split up all the fun. We chat about Red Box closing for good and movies and the remake of Fist Full of Dollars. Gladitor 2 looking like Training Day. Also the Watchman trailer and the Penguin trailer.…
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A group of gentlemen in a New York writers club have just sat down for their after-dinner coffee. They are discussing the evolution of stories and it is brought up how, due to the many different human emotions, thousands of stories can be generated from just a few possible scenarios. Digitally Restored by Nicholas Hans Gary…
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