The Mystery Project was produced by CBC Radio (Canada). It aired every Saturday night on CBC Radio One (6:30 p.m. for most of Canada, 7:30 p.m. Maritimes, 8:00 p.m. Nfld.), and is repeated at 3:30 p.m. the following Mondays on Richardson's Roundup, also on Radio One. CBC Radio produces more than 150 hours of original radio drama each year, and they do far more than just mysteries. They are produced in regional centres across the country and in the network studios in Toronto. Their mandate is to, hopefully "reflect the national fabric of Canada and beyond."[1]
The series ran from 1992 until 2002. Each week, casual listeners get to puzzle through a fully dramatized radio-play with a resolved plot, while regular listeners have the added fun of following familiar characters' further adventures. The series was created by the Executive Producer, Bill Howell. Barry Morgan was the co-ordinating producer. With Host Bob Boving.
There may be a few missing due to conflicting lists of the show
Among the many series featured were:
In The Blood by Paul Ledoux
(8 eps)
Midnight Cab by James W. Nichol
(39 eps)
Flynn by Lyal and Barbara Brown
Pocket City Blues by Charles Tidler
(4 eps)
House Detective Beckerby Martin Kinch
(13 eps in 12 plays, the last of which was in two parts)
Albert's Fatherby Henry Comor
(5 eps)
Clean Sweep by Alf Silver
(30 eps)
Bailey's Way by Gordon Pengilly
(13 eps)
Recipe for Murder 1-4 and Recipe For Murder 5-8 by Don Druick
(8 eps)
The Old Guy by Paul Ledoux
Fallaway Ridge by Eve Crawford and Cathy Dunphy
(4 eps)
The Investigations of Quentin Nickles by John Richard Wright
(20 eps)(the last 3 eps never broadcast)
Peggy Delaney by James W. Nichol
(39 eps)
(3 eps)
(5 eps)
(2 eps)
(2 eps)
(2 eps)
(20 eps)
(Single)
(2 eps)
(2 eps)
(2 eps)
(2 eps)
(8 eps)
(5 eps)
(5 eps)
(2 eps)
(7 eps)
(3 eps)
(2 eps)
(3 eps)
(2 eps)
(6 eps)
(3 eps)
(2 eps)
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Thanks. It was helpful to have the links all on one page.
Thanks for posting these Rick. The Mystery Project series makes for some good listening.
Here is one from the people at otrplus Murder repeats itself. A BBC play split into 3 parts in this series. It may be here but I could not spot it.
Paul
Thank you mike, i fixed it. ------------------------------------------- Rick
Rick, as always, you're the man!!! I love the Mystery Project. In your listing above you reversed one of the show titles. It should be, "Better never than late," as much as we are accustomed to the reverse adage. I wish I knew how you maintain the ability to store and recall all of your contributions to us, the old time radio fans. Mike
Does this ever help with the searching for CBC Project series. Thanks, Rick!
It helps in that it puts them all in one place. I think it was 2 years ago if not 3 that a bunch of us got together and tried to find all the many CBC Mystery Theater Shows and their component parts. I have been going to get the links all in one place since then but it was a terrible task. For some reason today I found myself immersed in finally doing it. I think i have them all. This show was one of the shows that helped to revive radio in north America. The shows were quality productions and people enjoyed listening again as they had 20-30 years earlier. many of the shows were leased from the BBC, but they also spawned Homegrown Drama in the wasteland that television created of the once great Radio Industry. It filled the gap and created a continuity of radio to make way years later for the thriving Computer Audio and Internet Radio Industry that we have come to love. Imagination did not die in the 1950s as we had feared and it is alive and well right here. Just hit one of the Titles that are the Links to the Revival of Radio and the world of Mystery and you will hear it come alive in your ears and your mind. ----------------- Rick
Rick, thanks for all this. It was a lot of work.
SEVERAL NOTES:
1. Nice compilation of all the scattered forum topics!
2. Many of the titles you've listed are merely rebroadcasts of BBC-produced shows and NOT original CBC material. Think of them as fillers while the CBC was busy readying new material :>)
2. "Hillary Spite" is actually Hilary (one 'l") Speight.
Hey not 'merely' they preserved them.
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