With the end of Imagination Theater I fear there won't be many new posts here.
I happened to be looking for something at Archive-org recently and thought I'd do a search for Sherlock Holmes audio. The last time I checked was 2 or 3 years back so using the filter by date I checked the last few years. I didn't see anything new of interest apart from something titled "The Authentic Death Of Sherlock Holmes".
The text at the bottom accompanies the audio file on Archive-org.
It's a broadcast from June 1975 by the AM radio station WGY of Schenectady, New York.
A quick search revealed that they still broadcast.
This audio was added to archive-org in December 2016. It's basically a run through of The Final Problem. It does deviate a little around the 19th minute though.
If you're after an opinion, well, all I will say is that I didn't feel that I'd wasted my time by listening to it. It's around 45 minutes in length. Ads have been removed. Probably took up an hour slot on the radio station.
On the archive-org page for this you'll find the audio in various formats, lossless (wav and flac) and lossy (ogg and mp3).
https://archive.org/details/TheAuthenticDeathOfSherlockHolmes
On the archive-org page for this you'll find the audio in various formats, lossless (wav and flac) and lossy (ogg and mp3).
I've also uploaded a mp3 version to Dropbox. The link is below. For me the link below avoids sending me to the Dropbox website.
In Chrome the file just starts to download straight away. In Firefox I get a Windows dialog box asking me where I want to save the file.
The Authentic Death Of Sherlock Holmes
by John McCarty
Published June 30, 1975
On August 3, 1922, less than 6 months after the station went on the air,
WGY (Schenectady, NY) presented a locally-produced radio drama called THE WOLF.
It was the first radio drama broadcast in this country.
By September of that year, radio drama had become a weekly feature on WGY. As a
result of the success of the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, a brand new series of
original dramas produced and aired six nights a week nationally beginning in
January 1974, the long-dormant radio drama enjoyed a brief revival, and WGY,
which had given birth to radio drama and now aired the CBS Radio Mystery
Theatre, decided to try its hand at the form again with an original of its own,
the first to be produced at the station in almost three decades.
Titled THE AUTHENTIC DEATH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, it aired on WGY in June of 1975
and was such a ratings winner for the station that WGY repeated the program the
following year. This is the original recording of the show, which was produced
for WGY by John Mangan and written and directed by John McCarty.
Nationally known announcer Hy Agens headed the cast, supported by local actors
Bruce Hallenbeck, Steven Albrizzi, Karen Bernhard and Chuck Winans.
Replies
Thank you Jake. I haven't come across this one before.
Thank you! This is new to me.
Roger