ABC Mystery Time

"It's mystery time! Time now, for the best in mystery..."

ABC Mystery Time came onto the air so late in the Golden Age of Radio, that you'd think all of the episodes would have survived. Alas, of the seventeen episodes produced, there seems to be only thirteen extant - and up until now, we had just ten of these on the website!

However, after some digging around in the RUSC archives, I've found a few more, and so the last three missing ABC Mystery Time episodes will be going live on RUSC each day of the weekend.

You can rest assured that these surviving episodes are the same bone chilling mysteries that we have come to expect from old time radio, with the obligatory creepy, mysterious organ music to accompany. 

The official name of the program, hosted by Don Dowd, was always ABC Mystery Time, but it was also known as plain old Mystery Time, Masters of Mystery, and Mystery Time Classics when the networks got involved in some tinkering to try and attract more listeners. 

The program did have enough of a following to attract some serious star power though, including the immortal Sir Laurence Olivier, who you can hear in the series mystifying tale The Suicide Club, and my personal favorite The Picture of Dorian Grey, in which he brings to life Oscar Wilde's chilling classic story of the portrait which grows old in place of its owner. It's sure to hold you spellbound! 

Happy listening my friends,