Caltex Theater was an Australian show similar to the American Lux Radio Theater. It was sponsored by the Caltex Oil Company. Mostly the radio shows were adapted from top movies from the time period. The show aired from 1950 - 1959 with somewhere around 490 shows.
- Caltex Theater - AU xx-xx-xx (x) Bad Day At Black Rock (nxt week - England Expects).mp3
- Caltex Theater - AU xx-xx-xx (x) Detectives Are Not Always Right (nxt week - It's Different For Men).mp3
- Caltex Theater - AU xx-xx-xx (x) Forbidden Planet (ntx week - Big Ben).mp3
- Caltex Theater - AU xx-xx-xx (x) Scrooge The Miser.mp3
- Caltex Theater - AU xx-xx-xx (x) The Big Smoke - Return To Tenderness.mp3
- Caltex Theater - AU xx-xx-xx (x) There Was A Crooked Man (nxt week - Jeopardy).mp3
- Caltex Theater - AU xx-xx-xx (x) You Only Die Once.mp3
"Forbidden Planet" from Caltex Theater aired September 06, 1959 adapted for radio from the 1956 science fiction film and a subsequent novelization by W.J. Stuart. In the early 2200s, the United Planets Cruiser C-57D is sent to the planet Altair IV in the Altair star system, sixteen light-years from Earth, to find out what happened to the Bellerophon expedition, sent out some twenty years earlier.
Caltex Theater 590906 Forbidden Planet (HQ)
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Two great finds, thank you very much.
New one
Caltex Theatre - The Queen Came By
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/qi7v9jrw7efes/caltex_th_2
GREAT !!!
Thank you very much.
New one
Caltex Theatre - The Ghost And Mrs Muir
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/qi7v9jrw7efes/caltex_th_2
Above added high quality episode of Forbidden Planet
Thank you for that!!! And for the Rest too!!! :)
I'm intrigued by all of this, I have so little knowledge of Australian radio. Really looking forward to this piece of radio history, thank you!!