This certification level implied that all the files in the series were "Certified Accurate" and also indicated that the series was as complete as possible and included all circulating episodes. OTRR Certified Complete - A series that was "Certified Complete" achieved the highest level of certification available under the OTRR Certified Standards. OTRR Certified Accurate - A series that was "Certified Accurate" indicated that all the episodes were properly identified and labeled based on current information but that the series did not contain all known extant episodes. OTRR Non-Maintained Set - A collection of shows that has not gone through the OTRR Maintenance process. Replaces OTRR Certified Accurate and OTRR Certified Complete.
OTRR Maintained Set - This set contains all known episodes in the best available audio condition with the most accurate dates and titles known to be in general circulation and based on current research at the time of release. If you are interested in preserving Old Time Radio (OTR), you may wish to join the Old Time Radio Researchers Group at Facebook and Groups.io.
Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the original OTRR names to conform to naming requirements. This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. An updated version will be issued if more episodes or better sounding ones become available. It contains the most complete and accurate version of this series in the best sound possible at the time of creation. This is a production of the Old Time Radio Researchers (OTRR) Group located at Old Time Radio Researchers Website (Old Time Radio Researchers Facebook Group, and Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes" Section below for more information on the OTRR. Information for this description came from John Dunning's "Tune In Yesterday The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio".įrom the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. This show is a good companion to other old time radio shows that are historically-oriented, such as Cavalcade of America, You Are There, and The American Trail. Thus his killers were found out by the dead man, using his head. Then it is placed in a museum where it remained pending identification. In the story of "John Hayes, his Head, and How They Were Parted," we hear the tale of a glassblower who blows glass perfectly and completely surrounding the severed head of a unknown dead man and placed in glass. For example, the show about the Younger Brothers of the American West has some very interesting background details concerning Quantrell's Raiders and the Kansas Jayhawks. Each and every story, however bizarre, is actually based on fact. There is a wry, cool-blooded tone to the proceedings.Ĭases profiled on the series ranged from seventeenth-century murder to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Orchestral scores by the great Bernard Hermann, who did Orson Welles' Mercury Theater radio show and then Alfred Hitchcock's films, give the stories sophistication and mood. Would that all professors were this interesting! The actors in the stories themselves are uniformly sensitive. Thomas Hyland's delivery is measured and mild-mannered, as if giving a college lecture.
Lewis and his writers collected and developed true crime stories expressly for Crime Classics. Morton Fine and David Friedkin wrote the scripts. Bernard Herrmann composed the music that duplicated authentic music of the era being dramatized. The great Elliott Lewis, actor, producer and director of Suspense, Broadway is My Beat, and On Stage is in charge of this very intelligent and enjoyable show. Thomas Hyland - connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders." Thomas Hyland was played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time.
CRIME CLASSICS Crime Classics came to CBS Septemand was a neat little series of "true crime stories".