Pulp-pourri Theatre Audio Drama

Season Two of Old-Time Radio Essentials continues! This installment is our 2nd Annual Christmas Special, and Dave's choice, so he's bringing us an episode of "The Six-Shooter": BRITT PONSET'S CHRISTMAS CAROL. Will our discussion cause Paul to cry, "Fiddlesticks"? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT!  And since we're on the subject of discussion, we hope to determine whether this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection? So with this in mind, we three bring you, as our nineteenth number (but 6th official episode of S2), this episode of "The Six-Shooter" from 1953. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it! Merry Christmas! Please show your support of the podcast by doing any of the following! To comment on how we might impro

LIGHTS OUT: Christmas Story (12-22-37) In this story written by series creator Wyllis Cooper, three World War One soldiers from different countries share a railway car and their lives intertwine with those of the Three Wise Men. A touching story that incorporates an unusual (for its time) sense of racial tolerance. 

TEXACO STAR THEATRE Starring Fred Allen (12-20-42) with Guest Risë Stevens of the Metropolitan Opera Fred Allen was famous in his day for his annual Christmas show that featured an unhappy Santa Claus who was striking against Christmas due to unfair treatment over two centuries. He would tell some random visitor to the North Pole the long, hilarious story of how he came to this sad decision.  Enjoy this classic of Old-Time Radio!

THE GOON SHOW (1956 broadcast) "Robin Hood and His Merry Men" As part of our Christmas celebration for 2020, we present this hilarious sendup of the traditional English Christmas Pantomime, from the zany Goon Show, starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. Enjoy!

MIRACLE FOR CHRISTMAS (DRAMA) It's the Narada Radio Company's 2nd of three very special holiday offerings for 2020, a loving remake of the classic radio drama, "Miracle for Christmas", from the Grand Central Station series, broadcast annually for several years. Our script is from the 12-24-1949 broadcast. In this heartwarming tale, a cynical ambulance driver resents having to work on Christmas Eve; but he soon realizes the importance of his job when the young doctor he is transporting from case to case appears to perform miracle after miracle. You will want to listen to this one again and again.  CAST: ANNOUNCERS: Michele Barnett, Dawn Robertson MAC: John Bell DR. MASON: Dana Gonsalves SWITCHBOARD GIRL/ELLIE: Jessica Mathews DR. GARRETT: Chuck Wilson DISPATCHER: Dawn Robertson DRUNK/YOUNG FATHER: Pete Lutz VOICE IN THE CROWD: Ross Bernhardt MUSIC BY Dr. Ross Bernhardt DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Pete Lutz Recorded via Zoom in November 2020.

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (COMEDY) Lovingly remade by the Narada Radio Company, this is Radio City Playhouse's adaptation of Paul Gallico's short story, originally broadcast 12/25/49 on NBC Radio. A newspaperman and his photographer are shanghaied on Christmas Eve by the Editor's bossy wife to find and deliver two goats and a red wagon. Hijinks and hilarity ensue as they reluctantly take on this challenge. CAST: Pete Lutz as PERRY BROWN Dana Gonsalves as AL VOGEL John Bell as TEX COURT and MR. PETTINGSOLL Jessica Mathews as RUSTY Michele Barnett as ANNOUNCER and MRS. BUANACASSA Dawn Robertson as THE WAITRESS, MRS. PETTINGSOLL and THE BOY Chuck Wilson as THE BUTLER and THE WAITER John Bell, Jessica Mathews and Chuck Wilson as THE GOATS. Music was by Dr. Ross Bernhardt Direction and post-production by Pete Lutz Recorded in Zoom in November 2020.

FIBBER McGEE & MOLLY: LOOKING FOR A CHRISTMAS TREE THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, we'll be sharing a bunch of Christmas-themed shows, both old and new. We have four new shows coming your way: two OTR remakes, a Christmas story featuring Jake Dimes, Range Detective, and our 2nd Annual Old-Time Radio Essentials Christmas special. But because I enjoy the old stuff just as much as the new stuff, I wanted to share a few choice programs this month for our mutual enjoyment. So next up is this episode of "Fibber McGee & Molly". In this classic OTR comedy, the McGees are on the hunt for the perfect Christmas tree for their home at 79 Wistful Vista. A hilarious romp thru yesteryear! Originally aired 12-21-1943 on NBC Radio, sponsored by Johnson's Wax. Check the feed regularly this month for more of our holiday-themed shows! You can thank me by listening and enjoying. Season's Greetings!  

THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, we'll be sharing a bunch of Christmas-themed shows, both old and new. We have four new shows coming your way: two OTR remakes, a Christmas story featuring Jake Dimes, Range Detective, and our 2nd Annual Old-Time Radio Essentials Christmas special. But because I enjoy the old stuff just as much as the new stuff, I wanted to share a few choice programs this month for our mutual enjoyment. So first up is this episode of "Duffy's Tavern", an excellent comedy series that ran for nearly 11 years on radio. Archie's guest is Dorothy Shay, a terrific singer who billed herself as "The Park Avenue Hillbillie", and you'll find out why when you listen.  Check the feed regularly this month for more of our holiday-themed shows! You can thank me by listening and enjoying. Season's Greetings!

Originally launched in 2016, we are re-releasing this episode of Pulp-Pourri Theatre from Season Four without the "Narada Audio Drive-In" foofaraw, and without the Jake Dimes episode. Plus we added two holiday-themed installments of the popular "Bix Bixby Book Review". Enjoy and have a very merry holiday season! PULP-POURRI THEATRE S4 E3: A CHRISTMAS CORNUCOPIA  1. SCROOGE & MARLEY'S REUNION (Live recording): Pete Lutz, Micah Blain, Jason D. Johnson, Ross Bernhardt, Julio Herrera 2. Robert Frost's STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING: Lisa Michaud 3. BIX BIXBY BOOK REVIEW (Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"): Melody Gaines, Nick Wommack, Austin Hanna, Pete Lutz 4. THE MARCH SISTERS' CHRISTMAS (Live recording): Pete Lutz, Victoria Fancki, Jessica Matthews, Paige Walker, Debby Leal-Ramirez, Wendy Sauer, Merilee Robinson, Richard Robinson 5. George Wither's A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1622) Austin Hanna, Geri Elliff, George Hatfield, Kristy Glick 6. THE BICKERSONS' CHRISTMAS EVE: Dana Gonsalves, Victoria Fancki, Pete Lut

Season Two of Old-Time Radio Essentials continues! In this installment, our 2nd annual Thanksgiving Special, Pete, Paul and Dave present another of Paul's selections, this time an episode of "Life With Luigi": THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION. Will our discussion lead to overeating? Will Dave go into a cranberry coma? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT!  And since we're on the subject of discussion, we hope to determine whether this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection? So with this in mind, we three bring you, as our 18th installment (but 5th official episode of S2), this episode of "Life With Luigi" from 1949. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it!  Please show your support of the podcast by doing any of the following! T

ONE-WAY ROCKET TO PALOOKAVILLE (SCI-FI) tells the story of "Slugs" Dougherty, a 24th-Century ex-boxer who gets offered a chance to fight one more bout, but he has to make a seven-month rocket trip to a distant planet to do it. Chock full of engaging characters, this melding of two pulp genres -- sci-fi and sports -- will remind you of "X-Minus-One" or "Dimension-X".    CAST:   ANNOUNCER: John Bell SLUGS DOUGHERTY: Pete Lutz EDDIE: Jason D. Johnson THE STRANGER: Jack Ward THE CREWBEING: Rachel Pulliam THE TRAINER: Paul Arbisi THE RING ANNOUNCER: Glenn Higbee RADIO VOICE 1: Jeff Billard RADIO VOICE 2: Lothar Tuppan   Written/Directed/Produced by Pete Lutz Music by Jason Shaw through a Creative Commons License

PRESENTING...AN ALL-NEW MUSICAL AUDIO COMEDY -- In the style of a Marx Brothers movie! It's Do I Specter? I'll Say I Do! produced especially for World Audio Drama Day 2020. Written, produced and directed by life-long Marx Brothers fan Pete Lutz, 63audio presents a scenario unlike anything seen in any Marx Bros. film:  Mr. Woodrow Fillmore Protoplasm is a ghost-hunter, hired to rid Stately Manor on Long Island of the ghost of the widow's late husband, who refuses to cross over. A little later, he's also hired by an Italian piano player whose brother's ghost won't cross over, either. And then, Protoplasm's son meets up with yet another ghost, who's been hiding in Stately Manor for 30 years! It's spooks a-plenty for our heroes, and for you, our listeners! Chock-full of Marx-style humor and hijinks, this new play also features two new songs, composed especially for this production by Pete Lutz, and orchestrated by Dr. Ross Bernhardt. Set your Ouija Boards for laughter! DISCLAIMER: This production was recorded re

Season Two of Old-Time Radio Essentials continues! In this installment, Pete, Paul and Dave present another of Pete's selections, this time an episode of "Escape": THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, adapted from Poe's classic Gothic horror tale. Will our discussion lead to property values in the 19th century? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT!  And since we're on the subject of discussion, we hope to determine whether this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection? So with this in mind, we three bring you, as our seventeenth installment (but 4th official episode of S2), this episode of "Escape" from 1947. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it!  Please show your support of the podcast by doing any of the following! To comm

Simultaneously launched today on the Mutual Audio Network for Transcontinental Terror 2020, we present our first of three for this year, entitled "What the Cat Dragged In", written by Will Anderson and Pete Lutz.  CAST: Jessica Rainville as MAGGIE Austin Beach as MATT Philboyd Studge as MR. HERMS and THE E.M.T. Delaney Brittingham as THE LITTLE GIRL John Bell as SERGEANT KAPINSKY Rachel Pulliam as OFFICER GARRITY and Ryo-Ohki and Olive as THE CAT ANNOUNCER: C. K. Standard Our theme was "Private Reflection" by Kevin MacLeod, obtained under an Attribution Creative Commons License.  Directed & Produced by Pete Lutz Private Reflection by Kevin MacLeod: Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4241-private-reflection License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

With a planned release on World Audio Drama Day, October 30th, DO I SPECTER? I'LL SAY I DO! Is bound to go down in the history books as something that somebody wrote and a few other people performed! Who can ask for better than that, I ask you? Anyway, here's a sneak preview of three musical numbers that will be performed in this all-new comedy!  First you'll hear Jamison Protoplasm and his father Woodrow Fillmore Protoplasm singing a snippet of "I've Never Met a Ghost (That I Believed In); that's followed by a small smackerel of Lillian Stately and Jamison singing the love duet, "Phantom Love"; and finally we'll hear Rigatoni playing a sample his obligatory piano solo (with his brother Shadow coming in on the harp towards the end). Enjoy, and be sure to return to this spot (or a similar spot, or a polka-dot, or even a paisley -- whatever you like) on October 30th to hear the whole dang thing! SONGS (c) 2020 by Pete Lutz Composed by Pete Lutz, orchestrated by Dr. Ross Bernhardt; singers: Nick Wommack, Todd F

Season Two of Old-Time Radio Essentials continues! In this installment, Pete, Paul and Dave welcome Essential Listener Kelly, who brings us this episode of OUR MISS BROOKS from 1950, "School on Saturday", starring Eve Arden! Will our post-show discussion cause Kelly to give us all detention? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT!  And since we're on the subject of discussion, we hope to determine whether this entry meets the following criteria: 1. Is it truly representative of that series? (Can anyone point to it and say, "Yes, that is what [NAME OF SERIES] was all about.") 2. Is it an episode worthy of inclusion in any and every OTR aficionado's private collection? So with this in mind, we three bring you, as our sixteenth installment (but 3rd official episode of S2), this episode of Our Miss Brooks from 1/20/50. We'll introduce the show, play it in its entirety, then discuss it at length. Thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy it!  Please show your support of the podcast by doing any of the following! To comment on

Here's part 2 of our fourth and final Sonic Summerstock Playhouse offering for 2020, a beautiful Norwegian folk tale interpreted by Louis MacNiece for BBC Radio and originally broadcast in 1959. There was no recording available for us to take inspiration from, so we did everything based on the script's dialogue and sound/music cues. In my humble opinion, this is one of the most lovely audio dramas I've ever produced, and I hope you enjoy it.  Angel Leigh McCoy as Helga Karim C. Kronfli as Father and the North Wind’s Groom Rachel Pulliam as Halvor and Longnose Julia Eve as Mother and the Female Troll Gareth Severn as the Prince and the Bear Alex Moore as the Three Crones Pete Lutz as the East Wind, the Parrot, and the Male Troll Julie Hoverson as the West Wind and the Stepmother Dana Gonsalves as the South Wind and the Prisoner  Nick Wommack as the North Wind  Additional voices by Alex Moore and Pete Lutz Music composed and performed/sung by Dr. Ross Bernhardt Produced & Directed by Pete Lutz  

COMING SOON to this feed, especially for World Audio Drama Day 2020 -- an all-new comedy tribute to those masters of comedy mayhem, the Marx Brothers!  DO I SPECTER? I'LL SAY I DO! was written by Pete Lutz and inspired by his life-long love of Los Hermanos Marx, and includes representations of all four brothers, plus other familiar character archetypes from their films -- except this time, they're placed in a situation unlike any seen in their 13 movies.  This new feature is cast with wonderful voices (a mix of amateur and professional actors) and terrific gags, which Marxian experts have deemed worthy of the brothers themselves! It includes two brand-new songs, "I Never Met a Ghost That I Believed In", and "Phantom Love", composed and with lyrics by Pete Lutz, and orchestrated by Dr. Ross Bernhardt, who has himself composed many wonderful musical passages for the Narada Radio Company. So here is the opening fanfare and the overture for DO I SPECTER? I'LL SAY I DO!, and we sincerely hope you like it and will

Here's part 1 of our fourth and final Sonic Summerstock Playhouse offering for 2020, a beautiful Norwegian folk tale interpreted by Louis MacNiece for BBC Radio and originally broadcast in 1959. There was no recording available for us to take inspiration from, so we did everything based on the script's dialogue and sound/music cues. In my humble opinion, this is one of the most lovely audio dramas I've ever produced, and I hope you enjoy it. Part 2 follows next week! Angel Leigh McCoy as Helga Karim C. Kronfli as Father and the North Wind’s Groom Rachel Pulliam as Halvor and Longnose Julia Eve as Mother and the Female Troll Gareth Severn as the Prince and the Bear Alex Moore as the Three Crones Pete Lutz as the East Wind, the Parrot, and the Male Troll Julie Hoverson as the West Wind and the Stepmother Dana Gonsalves as the South Wind and the Prisoner  Nick Wommack as the North Wind  Additional voices by Alex Moore and Pete Lutz Music composed and performed/sung by Dr. Ross Bernhardt Produced & Directed

Created especially for Sonic Summerstock Playhouse 2020, we present a loving re-creation of several sketches from my favorite radio comedy duo, Bob & Ray. These sketches were drawn from their 1980s-era radio show for NPR. Directed by Pete Lutz and post-produced by John Bell, with music by Dr. Ross Bernhardt. JOHN BELL as Bob Elliott PETE LUTZ as Ray Goulding