WHFR Sunday Night Mysteries

Tonight on WHFR SUNDAY NIGHT MYSTERIES: MR CHAMELEON was the not-so-witty police detective who used disguises to help solve mysteries. Millionaires and mayhem are at the root of these adventures as Karl Swenson portrays a hard hitting and often terse detective who brings criminals to justice (and punishes the guility). Frank and Anne Hummert were responsible for this series as well as shows like Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons and some 40 other radio shows.
Also tonight, hard boiled and dead serious is Jack Webb as he portrays Joe Friday on another DRAGNET program especially prepared for tonight's show.
Finally, a newly circulated episode of INNER SANCTUM, with all the horrible puns you'd expect of the host along with a mystery. WHFR SUNDAY NIGHT MYSTERIES (02-18-2024) 9PM-MIDNIGHT ET Stream: whfr.fm, 89.3 FM in the Detroit area.

Tonights show includes a twin spin as we take a listen to Jack Webb in two more consecutive DRAGNET broadcasts. We also have the MOLLE MYSTERY THEATER which was originally sponsored by a shave cream. If you missed our William Conrad show, we have much more of his work in tonights show: A twin spin of GUNSMOKE, featuring Conrad, and a host of professional CBS actors, GUNSMOKE was the most famous (and beloved) adult western. It was actually more like a dramatic series with extensively developed characters. They produced hundreds of episodes long after television was commanding the public's attention. No one could compare to Conrad's interpretation of the lead character even after GUNSMOKE made it successfully to TV (without the radio cast).
Finally, the SUSPENSE show in which Conrad played ALL the roles: An eerie tale called The Waxwork broadcast in 1956 on CBS. Tonight, tune in 1 hour early while HISTORY NOTES is still on vacation as we present the lighter side of radio in The Best of Radio Vault from our Tuesday shows. Tonight 9:00-12:00 Midnight EDT 89.3 FM in the Detroit area, whfr.fm on the stream. See you on the radio.

It's not just nostalgia, it's hard core entertainment -- the proverbial Theater of the Mind...
We join Jack Webb for another real-life Dragnet police adventure to start tonights show (04/30/2023), followed by a triple play of Suspense. This includes a Suspense show that supposedly never aired, but had various titles as it was presented over the years more than once with different actors... A Murderous Revision was recorded on 10/13/1951 with Howard Duff. Duff was best known as radio's Sam Spade, Detective. In this show, he plays a radio writer, tired of being disrespected who produces a real life radio show in which he plans to finish off his director.
Tonights Mysteries ends with another creepy installment of Anton M. Leader's Murder At Midnight which airs on WHFR just before midnight.
It's WHFR'S SUNDAY NIGHT MYSTERIES 10pm-12 Midnight ET WHFR 89.3 or whfr.fm on your digital device.

Tonight's WHFR Sunday Night Mystery program will feature SIX different programs of semi-related nature. Here's the rundown:
DRAGNET The Big Deal (1955)
FIRST NIGHTER Mystery of the Chinese Gong (1944)
MR. CHAMELEON The Forbidden Marriage Murder Case (1949)
THE WHISTLER The Hangtree Affair (1949)
HALL OF FANTASY The Twisting Weeds of Death (1954)
INNER SANCTUM No Rest For the Dead (1950)
The show is inspired by Detroit radio personality and former TV host, Warren Pierce, who in the early 1970s, hosted a somewhat similar program on Sunday nights. Pierce in fact, inspired a career.
WHFR Sunday Mysteries show is exclusive and heard nowhere else, originating from the campus of Henry Ford College, Dearborn Michigan... 89.3 FM Dearborn-Detroit, or whfr.fm on your streaming device... 9PM-Midnight.

TONIGHTS WHFR Sunday Mysteries, a triple threat of INNER SANCTUM featuring Raymond Edward Johnson, the original creepy host...followed by ESCAPE...3 Skeleton Key with Vincent Price (that story about the rats in the lighthouse).
Finally, a double dose of SUSPENSE A Murderous Revision...the Howard Duff version (much later with Raymond Burr, retitled Murder on Mike). The Duff version supposedly never aired.
Finally, (also from SUSPENSE) Elliott Reid in Return Trip -- the story of a bus caught in an avalanche -- and "Killer Greg" may be one of the passengers.
TONIGHT, 9PM - 12 MIDNIGHT ET. whfr.fm 89.3 on the FM dial in the Detroit area.

Featured on our November 13 show are six tales of detective adventures.
All are from the CBS Network.

We start with a series that has only become available during the past couple years and had been extremely rare previously. Now we have over 40 episodes. MR. CHAMELEON is the police officer who uses disguises to trap criminals played by Joseph Kearns.

Following that, we feature another show that actually had a cult following. When CBS cancelled YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR, public outcry forced the network to bring it back! Mandel Kramer stars as JOHNNY DOLLAR "the fabulous free-lance investigator" in two episodes from 1961.

Finally, SAM SPADE was the role that Humphrey Bogart made famous on film, but it also became extremely popular on radio. Howard Duff, however, plays Spade and owned role on radio with the versatile actress Lurene Tuttle as his secretary. We'll also feature two shows of that series from 1949.

SUNDAY NIGHT MYSTERIES starts at 9:00 PM and runs until midnight on WHFR.fm 89.3