By popular demand, The New Adventures of Johnny Dollar, Volume Two, is a followup to Volume One, dramatized pastiches of the great old time radio detective series by Joe Bevilacqua (“Joe Bev”).This second volume features The Bowery Boys Matter, The James Forbes Matter, The Sarah Martin Matter, The Ugly Pattern Matter, The Walter Patterson Matter, and The Larson Arson Matter. Also, included are bonus tracks of some of Joe Bev’s old time radio parodies of Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow,...

A Jimmy Durante Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of “The Great Schnozzola” entertainer with the gruff voice—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered audio from classic radio, TV, and cartoons.Included in this set:Who Gets All Da Mackerel?My Little Worm is Lost!A Possum’s Tail wit’ a Crow CameoDoggy Daddy’s Dude RanchDurante Eats Kellogg’s CornflakesHappy Fadder’s Day, Dear Ol’ Dad!Alias Jack GeronimoDurante Mee...

A Bud & Lou Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the Abbott & Costello comedy team—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered episodes of their radio broadcasts.Included in this set:The Unemployment RateA Dollar a DayU-DriveGoing HuntingNobody’s in Right?Calling Gracie AllenJack and the Beans Talked?The Vaudeville Show, Who’s on First?The Bank RobberyMeet Bugs Bunny and Lucille BallMeets Peter LorreMeet ...

Move over Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. There’s a new gumshoe named Brute Ballingham.Together with secretary Moolada and nephew Pinky, this hard drinking private detective is sucked into the seedy 1940s New York crime underworld.The Excruciating Hello is a five hour wild and bizarre post-modern pastiche of such hardboiled crime noir fiction as The Long Goodbye, The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, The Red Wind, The High ...

A Stan & Ollie Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies and rarities of the Laurel & Hardy comedy team—written, produced and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered clips of their classic performances on radio, stage and screen.Included in this set:For the Freedom of the WorldFatherland Security OfficersA Pilgrim’s ProgressThe Courtship of Miles StandishOllie Ox and Stanley FrogFor the BirdsDeconstructing Laurel and HardyKnuclear Knuck...

An Edward G. Robinson Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the great film actor—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio dramas.This set includes:If We All Talked Like Allen JenkinsMurder is a Merry-Go-RoundThe ReflectionHobo HawkWillaby Meets the GodfatherThe Man who Wanted to be Edward G. RobinsonThe TrapKey LargoJoe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is a public radio pro...

A Phil Silvers Festival is collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the great con man comedian—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio and TV broadcasts.This set includes:Jack Robinson at Your ServiceThe Wolf and the GoatThe Fox and the PenguinHis Second to Last BowThis Here is Your LifeRobin CatCommand PerformanceThe Tailor ShopAunt Sooty’s NeighborThe Efficiency ExpertSlowly I TurnThe Slowest Gun ...

The original Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962.The best known incarnation was with Bob Bailey starring in “the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account—America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator.” There were 809 episodes, plus two not-for-broadcast auditions, in the twelve-year run, and more than 720 still exist today out of 886 total performances.

Dunkle Does Aesop is a three-hour flurry of furry family friendly fun, based on the characters of Daws Butler and Aesop.These twenty-eight fantastically funny fractured fables were written, voiced, and fully produced, with sound effects and music, by Joe Bevilacqua.They are based on actual Aesop fables but embroidered by Uncle Dunkle with a little help from surprise cameos by Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Mr. Jinks, Foghorn Leghorn, Hokey Wolf, Fibber Fox, Wally Gator, Gary ...

Abbott & Costello in the Catskills is an authentic recreation of a 1930s Borscht Belt variety show, recorded before a live audience in the Catskills.In this New Oldtime Radio Hour, Lou Costello (Bob Greenberg) follows Bud Abbott (Joe Bevilacqua) to the Catskills when Abbott is hired as sole Master of Ceremonies of a Borscht Belt variety show. Meanwhile, guest stars George Burns and Cab Calloway miss their train, forcing Abbott to sing and dance in their place! Guest stars ...

In this 1988 documentary, award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua looks at how the landmark broadcast came about and examines its impact on broadcast history.The half-hour program includes rare interviews with Mercury Theater producer John Houseman, writer Howard Koch, actor Arthur Anderson, and the people of Grover's Mill, NJ, who lived through the "Martian Invasion."

The New Stories of Old-Time Radio is the first anthology of new fiction based on the beloved OTR characters and shows we know and love. Old Time Radio fans have something new to listen to!Includes: Our Miss Brooks: "One Principal Too Many, One Principal Too Meanie" by Clair Schulz; Tom Mix: "Tom Mix and the Mystery of the Bodiless Horseman" by Jim Harmon; Candy Matson Yukon 2-8209: "The Japanese Sandman" by Jack French; The Clyde Beatty Show