Couch and Coffee Table

Sherlock Holmes month on Couch And Coffee Table comes to an end. Due to the holiday season, this podcast also serves as a transition. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce star in The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes. The episode from that series for this podcast is called The Night Before Christmas, it aired on Dec.24,1945.

Coming into the final week of our Sherlock Holmes month, we present our next to last podcast on the great detective. Today's episode is called The Adventure Of The Empty House. The is the final episode from The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. This series ran on the BBC in 1954 and then on NBC in 1955, this episode has the distinction of not being r...

It's another episode of Sherlock Holmes here on The Couch. For this podcast it's The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. This episode is called The Final Problem and this episode also stars Orson Welles as Professor Moriarty. Because this series has the distinction of running on both the BBC and NBC, there are two dates. This episode aired on the BBC o...

For today's podcast, we present The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson in A Scandal In Bohemia. This series ran first on the BBC in 1954 and then on NBC in 1955. The episode aired on the BBC on Oct.12,1954 and on NBC on Jan.9,1955.

For today's podcast, we present The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. This show started out on the BBC in 1954 and then was broadcast on NBC in 1955. The episode presented for this podcast is called Dr. Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes, the first from The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes. This episode first aired on the BBC on Oct.5,1954 and on NBC on Jan.2...

Today's podcast features another episode from The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone. The name of the episode from that series that is ran for today's podcast is called The Strange Case Of The Demon Barber and it aired on Jan.28,1946.

Continuing on with Sherlock Holmes month, Couch And Coffee Table present The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes starring Bail Rathbone. In this episode, it's The Case Of The Out Of Date Murder which aired on Sept.17,1945.

Couch And Coffee Table is pleased to present another installment for their Sherlock Holmes month with The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone in The Unfortunate Tobacconist which aired on April 30,1945.

Mike and Heather discuss Sherlock Holmes and his author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce is also presented with The Bruce Partington Plans. The Bruce Partington Plans was aired on Nov.6,1939.

Mike and Heather present the final Halloween Houdini seance from 1936. This is set up in an audio documentary but this is an actual event that took place, It is not dramatised. The audio you hear of the seance is from the actual seance. The final Halloween Houdini seance was October 31, 1936 (the tenth anniversary of Harry Houdini's death), on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood. This...

Mike and Heather discuss Frankenstein on film, tv and stage. They briefly talk about Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley and how she herself came to create a monster. The selection from the old time radio collection for this episode is The Weird Circle and an adaptation of Frankenstein. The air date for this episode is uncertain because in the research there were found two different dates, Jan.8,19...

Mike and Heather discuss Bram Stoker and Dracula along with his many other works. Heather also delves into the story structure of Dracula along with it's many adaptations. Couch And Coffee Table also present The CBS Radio Mystery Theater adaptation of Dracula from May 2,1974. 

Last year for October Nights, Couch And Coffee Table presented the 1948 hour long version of Donovan's Brain from Suspense. This year, Couch And Coffee Table present the two part version from 1944 starring Orson Welles. Part one of Donovan's Brain aired on May 18,1944 and Part two aired on May 25,1944.

Mike and Heather discuss The Phantom Of The Opera in its many forms from the original book to film to musical and back again. Mike and Heather also present Lux Radio Theater's adaptation of the 1943 film on radio. Lux Radio Theater presents The Phantom Of The Opera aired Sept.13,1943. Basil Rathbone starred in this adaptation as the phantom.

Mike and Heather Perry discuss Edgar Allan Poe and his various works including The Oblong Box. Later, Mike and Heather present CBS Radio Mystery Theater's adaptation of The Oblong Box as it aired on Jan.8,1975. Two poems by Edgar Allan Poe are read in this episode, Silence and Alone.

Continuing on with our October Nights series for this year, we present the radio series Quiet Please with their episode Don't Tell Me About Halloween. This episode of Quiet Please aired on Oct.27,1947.

Continuing on with our October Nights for this year we present The House In Cypress Canyon. This episode from Suspense is still considered one of the more scarier episodes of radio. Although this episode takes place at Christmas time, it is not a Christmas story. The House In Cypress Canyon from Suspense aired Dec.5,1946.

This episode kicks off October Nights 2022 for Couch And Coffee Table. We present Lux Radio Theatre's adaptation of the 1944 film The Canterville Ghost. Charles Laughton and Margaret O'Brien reprise their roles from the 1944 film for this radio presentation which aired on June 18,1945.

Couch And Coffee Table presents a radio adaptation of the 1940 film The Ghost Breakers starring Bob Hope. This adaptation was produced by the Screen Director's Playhouse and has Bob Hope reprise his role from the film for radio. This Presentation of The Ghost Breakers aired on April 4,1949.

For the last week of September, we thought we'd do a couple of horror comedies. First up, The Abbott and Costello Show with Bela Lugosi. This Show has been logged with two different titles to it, the first is called The New Sheriff and the second one is called Bela Lugosi's Haunted House. This show aired on May 5,1948 which was a month before Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein hit theaters. (gi...

Continuing on with their discussion from the last podcast, Mike and Heather talk about Wizards, Witches and Magicians in film and television. They also talk about magic systems in various story formats.

This show marks exactly one year of Couch And Coffee Table so for this episode the subject is Magic In Film, at least the first part of the conversation anyway.

For today's podcast, we present another episode of The Danny Kaye Show with guest star Orson Welles appearing on the show. This show was transcribed by Armed Forces Radio Service. This episode of The Danny Kaye Show aired on March 1,1946.

For this episode, we present Danny Kaye in the first episode of his own radio show. The show is called The Danny Kaye Show and it aired on Jan.6,1945.

Lux Radio Theatre is known for their film to radio adaptations and for this podcast we present Fancy Pants starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. This first aired on Sept.10,1951.