1 Crime Club Radio Show Death Blew Out the Match (Opening/Closing)
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["Episode 1, Death Blew Out The Match, 2nd December 1946" appears on screen, then the sound of a door opening can be heard]
LIBRARIAN: Ah, you're here ... Good! Uh, take the easy chair by the window?
[he chuckles]
LIBRARIAN: Comfortable? Good ... The book is, uh, on this shelf.
[dramatic organ music plays]
LIBRARIAN: Yes, here it is. "Death Blew Out the Match," a very absorbing story of death and mystery on a small island. Let's look at it under the reading lamp ... "It was an evening early in May, and the waters around the cape just off the coast of Massachusetts where buried under a fog as thick and as massive as any you'd want to see. Moving cautiously, a small boat makes its way slowly toward one of the islands off the cape. In the boat there are Elijah McCumber and Anne Walgreen."
["Conclusion" appears on screen]
LIBRARIAN: And so closes tonight's Crime Club book, "Death Blew Out the Match," based on the story by Kathleen Moore Knight.
[the phone rings]
LIBRARIAN: Stedman Coles did the radio adaptation, Roger Bower produced and directed ... Oh. Oh, I beg your pardon.
[the sound of the receiver being picked up can be heard]
LIBRARIAN: Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting ... Yes, this is the Crime Club. Why, I'm the librarian. Yes, yes. Ah, come over a week from tonight. Good, we have a very unusual story about a murderer who was revealed by postage stamps. It's called "For the Hangman."
[dramatic organ music plays]
LIBRARIAN: In the meantime?
[he chuckles]
LIBRARIAN: Well, in the meantime, there's a new Crime Club book available this week and every week at bookstores everywhere ... Mm hmm, it's available now. Quite alright, and we'll look for you next week.
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From archive.org:
BROADCAST: December 1946 - October 1947.
HOST: Barry Thomson as the host/librarian and Raymond Edward Johnson.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Roger Bower.
30-minute murder mystery stories adapted for radio by Stedman Coles or Wyllis Cooper from based on and featuring some of the stories from the Doubleday Crime Club books.
Crime Club was broadcast by Mutual and produced and directed by Roger Bower. The post war stories were by various different authors and adapted for radio by among others Stedman Coles and Wyllis Cooper (writer of Lights Out and Quiet Please). The narrator played by Barry Thomson is the supposed curator of the Crime Club library. He speaks to the listener as if they have just arrived or phoned and requested one of the Club's books.
The telephone rings, "Hello I hope I haven't kept you waiting. This is the librarian, Silent Witnesses; yes we have that Crime Club book for you, come right over." The organ plays suspenseful music, the door opens and the librarian says, "Ah you're here, good take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on this shelf..."
He would take the book from the shelf and begin to tell the tale. The story would end with the Librarian informing you that there was a new Crime Club book available this week and every week in bookstores everywhere.
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From google.com:
CRIME CLUB, murder-mystery anthology, based on and featuring some of the stories in the Doubleday Crime Club novel imprint.
Broadcast history: Dec. 2, 1946 - Oct. 16, 1947, Mutual. 30m, Mondays at 8 through Dec., then Thursdays at 10; also heard Wednesdays and Sundays.
Cast: Barry Thomson as the "librarian" of the Crime Club, host of the series.
Producer-Director: Roger Bower.
Sample opening: "Yes, this is the Crime Club ... I'm the librarian. Silent Witness? Yes, we have that Crime Club story for you. Come right over." Then the "reader" (listener) would arrive, and the "librarian" would put him in "the easy chair by the window." The book was opened, and the story began.
An earlier series, the Eno Crime Club, was also composed in part from Crime Club novels.
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From rusc.com:
Crime Club was broadcast by Mutual and produced and directed by Roger Bower. The post war stories were by various different authors and adapted for radio by among others Stedman Coles and Wyllis Cooper (writer of Lights Out and Quiet Please). The narrator played by Barry Thomson is the supposed curator of the Crime Club library. He speaks to the listener as if they have just arrived or phoned and requested one of the Club's books.
The telephone rings, "Hello I hope I haven't kept you waiting. This is the librarian, Silent Witnesses; yes we have that Crime Club book for you, come right over." The organ plays suspenseful music, the door opens and the librarian says, "Ah you're here, good take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on this shelf..."
He would take the book from the shelf and begin to tell the tale. The story would end with the Librarian informing you that there was a new Crime Club book available this week and every week in bookstores everywhere.
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From otrcat.com:
This Mutual series featured murder and mystery books that were actual Doubleday Crime Club imprints. There was a new Crime Club book "every week, at bookstores everywhere." Or so they said. It was certainly a natural to do an old time radio show to tantalize potential purchasers with half hour radio adaptations of the books.
The telephone rings"Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club. I'm the Librarian. Murder Rents A Room? Yes, we have that Crime Club story for you.Come right over. (The organist in the shadowed corner of the Crime Club library shivers the ivories) The doorbell tones sullenly"And you are here. Good. Take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on this shelf." (The organist hits the scary chord) "Let's look at it under the reading lamp." The Librarian begins reading our tale, and we begin another Crime Club offering let's hope it's not a burnt offering.
Raymond E. Johnson played the mild-mannered, albeit ominous, Librarian. Roger Bower produced and directed. Veteran Willis Cooper (Lights Out, Quiet Please) did some of the scripts from the Crime Club books.
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From blogspot.com:
In 1931, The Crime Club came to radio for the first time, when some of the titles from Doubleday's The Crime Club library were dramatized on The Eno Crime Club, sponsored by Eno Effervescent Salts. The CBS Radio detective series ran from February 9, 1931 until December 21, 1932. It should be noted that Eno later sponsored Blue Network's Eno Crime Clues, but that did not have anything to do with The Crime Club -- that series ran from January 3, 1933 to June 30, 1936.
Then, in 1946, The Crime Club returned to radio as half-hour adaptations from the series in the Mutual Broadcasting System's program, Crime Club. The premiere of the show was Death Blew Out the Match, which aired on Monday, December 2, 1946, filling the time-slot previously occupied by Bulldog Drummond. This new show was a completely new start for The Crime Club on radio, and not associated in any way with the prevoius Eno Crime Club or Eno Crime Clues. The 1940s series were all broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS), and introduced by a mysterious host known as The Librarian.
The role of The Librarian was actually portrayed by either Barry Thomson or Raymond Edward Johnson (who is famous for his role in the Inner Sanctum Mysteries). This new radio series ran from December 2, 1946 to October 16, 1947, and is available via many old-time radio channels. About half of the episodes were authored by Stedman Coles, as only half were adaptations of Doubleday's Crime Club selections.
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