Monday Matinee

Re-Imagined Radio presents WRW Retrospective, Redux, in memoriam for Sam A. Mowry, who died July 20, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. Mowry, founder and director of Willamette Radio Workshop (WRW), was a leader of the theatrical, voice acting, and audio storytelling communities. We revisit our earlier WRW Retrospective and feature recordings of Mowry's appearances in several Re-Imagined Radio episodes....

While a backyard tree bellows silently in the wind; Barbara Knox attends her husband David’s crematorium service. Naturally she is sad but also secretly, a little angry. You see, there are unresolved issues between the two of them and questions that still remain unanswered. However as we will soon discover; David’s story isn’t yet over. He needs her help and somehow he finds a way to turn back to...

Two features this week on the Society as Jack and David bring “A Haunting Beyond the Lake” by Richard H. Brooks for 11th Hour Productions and “Soft Voice” by Qcode Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee for another week with Sonic society #690, One Last Time, and WRW Retrospective Redux- In Memoriam for Sam A. Mowry! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Dragnet, the real-life police procedural, and Jack Webb, as Detective Sgt. Joe Friday, who defined and was defined by this radio series. We sample from One Out of Seven, The Jack Webb Show, Pat Novak, For Hire, Johnny Madero, Pier 23, and Jeff Regan, Investigator, all pre-Dragnet radio shows where Webb honed his character and acting style. We end with "The City Hall Bo...

How would you spend the last few moments of your existence? Would it be with the one you love? Also more importantly, what would you vote as the best song ever to celebrate the end of the world?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the society Jack and David we complete the feature “Shipworm” from Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie. Wallace Conway wakes up to find he’s been implanted with an untraceable earpiece while sleeping. So long as he does everything the voice on the other end tells him, he and his family will live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens the Matinee. Come in from the cold and watch Sonic Society #689, I Love You Jean Benedict, and Dragnet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio presents two radio stories connected by the same name. NIGHTFALL. "Nightfall," is the title of the final episode of Dimension X. The precursor of X Minus One. The famous science fiction series. Nightfall is also the name of a radio anthology series produced and broadcast in Canada. Episodes were primarily supernatural and/or horror. We feature an episode called "The Porch Light."...

They are stories of heroism, strength and of courage. Stories in which one person can stand up against the darkness that surrounds us, and say with total conviction and self-belief; that they are the ‘light’. We see pages full of colour and life, in which kinetic action moves across the panels. Dancing in front of our eyes, filling our imagination with endless possibilities… Comics are a way of li...

An ill wind blows in November. But, it's all GREAT inside the Matinee! Federal Stonecipher opens the doors for Sonic Society #688, The Origins of Comic Book Boy, and Nightfall from Reimagined Radio! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the society Jack and David we feature Part One of “Shipworm”. Wallace Conway wakes up to find he’s been implanted with an untraceable earpiece while sleeping. So long as he does everything the voice on the other end tells him, he and his family will live. Written by Zack Akers and produced by Skip Bronkie, Shipworm is the fourth podcast from Two-Up, the studio known for breaking groun...

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Johnny Dollar, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, the man with the action-packed expense account, by sampling from "The McCormick Matter" episode starring Bob Bailey, considered the best of the eight Johnny Dollar actors during the series' fourteen-year run on CBS. Significance With Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, especially 1955 to 1956 when Bailey voice...

Lonnie Taylor is not a man given to sudden whims or flights of fancy and doesn’t believe in most things until they can be proven to him. But one day in 2002, while deer hunting on Hayden Ridge in Lytle County. He suddenly found himself a true believer in Bigfoot. A creature he’d never previously given any thought to… ‘Lonnie Taylor’s Bigfoot Encounter’ is our new ‘scripted documentary’ about how t...

This week we go back to the beginning as David and Jack look at Electric Vicuna Productions (then Sonic Cinema Productions) first audio drama “Right Number Wrong Party”. It’s a 20th anniversary of the writing of the script. This time around the Amigos Collective partner with EVP to bring you the shiny new version! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Stonecipher opens the last Monday before Halloween with Sonic Society #687, Lonnie Taylor's Bigfoot Encounter, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio samples two episodes of Escape, "Present Tense" and "Three Skeleton Key," both starring Vincent Price, to celebrate radio's greatest series of high adventure storytelling and an unforgettable voice actor. Frequently cited as the finest radio adventure series ever, Escape is significant for providing listeners a variety of literary experiences drawn from adventure classics and con...

We move around a Taxidermist’s candlelit workshop. It is full of dark, dusty objects cluttering every nook and cranny. Stuffed animals, piles of bones, amphibians pickled in formaldehyde; all tools of the trade, all laid out ready for use. We then reach Mr Stuffit, huddled up by the fireplace alongside his daughter Jocasta; who is a stunning thing of great beauty. Nineteen and never been kissed, b...

This week Jack and David look at the first two episodes from The Violet Hour The Elmwood Strain– Mighty Sabertooths and Elm Rot. Paige is a popular senior at Elmwood High until a violent tragedy forces her family to flee the town. A decade after abandoning her three best friends, Paige gets word that one of them has died under mysterious circumstances, forcing her to face the past. Learn more abou...

It's the hundredth week of Season 6! Welcome to the Matinee with Sonic Society #686, Jocasta Plays with Dead Things, and Escape! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio samples from Box 13 and The Damon Runyon Theater, offered by Paramount movie star Alan Ladd's Mayfair Productions, as syndicated radio programs. Both are significant examples of compelling, immersive radio storytelling. With syndication, private companies create and license transcribed (recorded) programs to radio stations and/or radio networks. Syndication allows the radio progr...

Deep underneath the waves of the ocean, two young women are on an adventure to see what hides within these hidden dark depths. Yet, danger lurks across this alternative steampunk world and soon Evie and Savannah realise that their submersible might also become their permanent tomb. So as the lights slowly fail and the air becomes colder, the only thing left between these two best friends are hidde...

It’s July, 1941. War is raging in Europe. Pearl Harbor is about to explode. Japan is terrorizing Korea and China and weaponizing islands across the Pacific. On one of those islands, three women – an ace transport pilot, a Chinese Intelligence officer and a local island leader – must join forces to rescue young girls sexually enslaved by the Japanese Navy and its ruthless secret police, the Tokkeit...

Federal Stonecipher opens up the Matinee with Sonic Society #685, Sink With Me, and Syndication! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Women's History Month with a tribute to eight women and three radio series that made significant and pioneering contributions to radio storytelling. We sample radio storytelling by Lucille Fletcher, Edith Meiser, Ruth Woodman, Mary MacBride, Jean King, Cathy Lewis, Margaret Lynch, and Gracie Allen, along with the radio series Women in the Making of America, Gallant Ame...