I Love a Mystery [With DVD] (Collector Series Old Time Radio Shows) [Unabridged] [Audio CD]

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Book Description

Series: Collector Series Old Time Radio Shows | Publication Date: April 2005

One of the most memorable shows in radio history, "I Love a Mystery" was created by radio's renaissance man, Carleton E. Morse. In this 20-hour collection, you'll enjoy twenty full hours of Morse mysteries, also including broadcasts from "I Love Adventure" and "Adventures by Morse".

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Nostalgia Ventures; Unabridged edition (April 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932806121
• ISBN-13: 978-1932806120
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,028,354 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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54 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have!!, December 7, 2004

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Edmund Zebrowski (Schaumburg IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Love a Mystery [With DVD] (Collector Series Old Time Radio Shows) (Audio CD)

After being out of print for a long time I Love A Mystery returns. This set is an excellent representation of Carlton E. Morse's radio series. The set of 20 CDs contains the following programs:
From I Love A Mystery:
The Thing that Cried In the Night
Bury Your Dead Arizona
The Million Dollar Curse (still missing episode 10)

The complete run of Morse's I Love Adventure

The complete first story, "City of the Dead", from Adventures by Morse
Plus the two audition shows for Adventures by Morse.

All sound like they have some cleaning done to them, and sound fantastic. This is a great set, and highly recommended!

31 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Reason it is the same material, April 14, 2006

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Gregory T. Farshtey (West Hartford, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Love a Mystery [With DVD] (Collector Series Old Time Radio Shows) (Audio CD)

To the other reviewer's point, there is a reason that this collection features the "same old shows" that have been kicking around for years, etc. If you read the Encylopedia of Old-Time Radio, you'll see that tapes of the other shows have not been found to date -- the only ones out there are from the later Hollywood shows, not the New York shows with the original cast. Rumors have circulated for years that the tapes are being hoarded somewhere ... but at any rate, these are the ones that are available, until more are discovered.

43 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another Scam Perpetrated on Us OTR Fans, December 19, 2005

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Cassandra A. Morrison "The Shadow's Girl" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Love a Mystery [With DVD] (Collector Series Old Time Radio Shows) (Audio CD)

Here again we have the same shows that have been kicking around for decades hugely over-priced to make yet ANOTHER buck out of someone else's work. There is nothing new here so don't waste your money.

Someday (maybe) someone will put together one of these things and will give us something that will make the collection worthwhile. How about the ORIGINAL CAST of "I LOVE A MYSTERY"?
Michael Raffeto is the original Jack Packard (and is the guy creator Carleton E Morse had in mind when he created the part) He, along with Barton Yarborough as "Doc Long" and Reggie Patterson as "Reggie York", are the cast who put I LOVE A MYSTERY into our living rooms back in the good old days...but...no...we get the same old version everybody's been hearing for years with Russell Thorson as Jack, Jim Boles as Doc and Tony Randall as Reggie.

Now, please, I'm saying nothing against these three actors...(nor against Tom Collins, who took over the part of Reggie after Mr Patterson's death --Tom sure got around---he inherited the part of Chandu the Magician too---the original Chandu was Gayne Whitman---interesting because he's the guy trying to get radio stations to buy ADVENTURES BY MORSE on those two "audition shows" you hear on this cd---they did a FINE job recreating these classic shows back in the early 50s but everyone HAS these or can get them much cheaper than they are being offered here...my point is if you're gonna charge me over twenty bucks for something it better not be something I can get free from any collector (minus the cost of a blank cd or dvd). Give me something I haven't heard!!! Please!!!

In the meantime save your money until the people putting these albums out finally realize they are going to have to put in some work if they want to make some money.