Because horror deals in primordial and life-threatening situations, it tends to age better than dramas of other genres.
The term covers programs that have an eerie, suspenseful, spooky, or supernatural ingredient. In the context of radio programs, the term “horror” has a broader and gentler meaning than it does for modern movies. These days, the most fondly-remembered programs include plenty of horror, the genre that includes Midnight. The pre-TV time period when radio was the dominant form of entertainment is called the “Golden Age of Radio.” I’ve heard it said that there are so many Golden Age episodes available that you would be able to listen 8 hours a day for decades. Fans and collectors call the medium “OTR” or Old Time Radio. But there’s still a lot of material available, painstakingly preserved by collectors through the years. Many episodes have been lost because early radio was often performed live for the air and wasn’t recorded. In many countries it was the main communications medium until it was edged out by a new innovation - television. From the late 1920’s to the early 1960’s, there were hundreds of different programs, which generated many thousands of individual episodes. Moto, Miss Brooks, Perry Mason, Philip Marlowe, Roy Rogers, Sam Spade, Superman, Tarzan, and The Shadow. Joe Friday, Dick Tracy, Fu Manchu, Gene Autry, Green Hornet, Lone Ranger, Mr. When I looked outside that genre, I found most of the popular characters of the early and mid-20th Century, including Charlie Chan, Doc Savage, Sgt. Even among private-eye programs, there were about a dozen like Barrie Craig. It turns out that there are a lot of old radio programs. That was it! I could do my physical therapy to Barrie Craig and other old radio shows! I began to look for them. I remembered liking Barrie Craig’s old-fashioned noirish style, as well as the quick-moving plot, the skill of the voice actors, and the rich sound effects. It was a private eye story like the ones by writers Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald and Robert B.
Then I remembered an old 1950’s radio program I enjoyed when it was re-broadcast in the 1980’s. I could listen to music, but wanted to hear storytelling. The body turns and bends every which way and holds its positions for several minutes – mostly away from the screen.
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The exercises aren’t compatible with watching a TV screen.
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“Great! I can catch up on my movie watching!” My physical therapist prescribed “homework” - several hours of bending and stretching exercises each day. It started a few months ago when I injured my lower back while washing my car. I discovered Midnight during my recent immersion in old radio programs. WARNING: Some episodes mention physical violence, ghosts, vampires, and Satan.
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The entire series is currently available in CD and MP3 download formats from. Each week, Midnight featured original half-hour tales of mystery, horror and the macabre. Midnight is a radio program, a 13-episode horror anthology produced by Roger Rittner and originally broadcast on “NPR Playhouse” from July to September 1982.