5 Minute Mysteries from 1948, Episode: “Zombies!”
Happy Halloween
Candy Matson was a female detective, created by Monty Masters. She was played on radio by his wife, Natalie Parks, in a total of 80 30 minute episodes. The show aired on NBC out of San Francisco.
Once a model, Matson became a PI to pay the rent on her penthouse apartment. She didn’t use her gun very often, but she sure could fill out a size twelve business suit.
The Blue Beetle aired from May through September, 1940. The radio show was based loosely on a comic book character of the same name. In the radio show, the Blue Beetle was a police officer who realized that the police couldn’t fight crime effectively without assistance. Like Superman, he’d duck into an alcove, and slip into his crime fighting suit.
Part 2 of the Origin comes tomorrow.
“When Day Breaks,” a film by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, via the National Film Board of Canada.
This film was produced by filming actors in beak and snout masks, and then printing each digital frame, and redrawing them using pencil and paint. Read an interview with the creators.