Newsletter March 2025

Hello everyone!  Here’s the Hollywood 360 newsletter, March 2025 / Vol. 47.  As someone on our mailing list, you’ll receive the most current newsletter via email on the first day of every month.  If you don’t receive it by the end of the first day of the month, check your spam folder as they often end up there.  If it is not in your regular email box or in your spam folder, contact me at carlpamari@gmail.com and I’ll forward you a copy.  The monthly Hollywood 360 newsletter contains articles from my team and the full month’s detailed schedule of classic radio shows that will air on Hollywood 360.  The week of March 29th, we’ll broadcasting an episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe starring Gerald Mohr (pictured here).  Other great radio shows scheduled for March include: The Fred Allen Show, The Mysterious Traveler, The Bing Crosby Show, The Six-Shooter, Duffy’s Tavern, Escape, The Life of Riley, Yours Truly-Johnny Dollar, Inner Sanctum Mystery, The Red Skelton Show, Gunsmoke, Night Beat and The Whistler.  Thank you for helping to keep these amazing radio programs alive! Stay safe.  Blessings, Carl Amari

THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE

by Carl Amari and Martin Grams

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was radio’s top detective program. Raymond Chandler’s celebrated hardboiled private eye, Philip Marlowe, made his radio debut in 1945 on The Lux Radio Theatre with “Murder My Sweet” starring Dick Powell.  Two years later, NBC would bring the character to the air in his own weekly series starring Van Heflin in The New Adventures of Philip Marlowe.  A summer replacement for The Bob Hope Show, the series was short-lived, ending September 9^th, 1947.  CBS revived it in 1948 with The Adventures of Philip Marlowe starring Gerald Mohr.  With Producer/Director Norman Macdonnell at the helm, the series captured the largest audience in radio by 1949.  Scripts were by Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell, Mel Dinelli and Kathleen Hite.  While Chandler’s distinctive similes were largely lacking, the strong, dry, sarcastic narration was there, and the way Mohr delivered his lines made you forget they weren’t written by Chandler.  Supporting Mohr, were radio’s best, including Howard McNear, Parley Baer, Lawrence Dobkin, Virginian Greg and Lou Krugman.  Mostly heard sustained (without a sponsor), it lasted until 1951.

SUPER EXCITING NEWS FROM CARL AMARI:

I licensed all 41 complete radio series produced by Frederic W. Ziv, the most prolific radio syndicator in history.  All 10,000+ radio episodes have been preserved on Mr. Ziv’s personal 16 inch master transcription discs.  So far, I’ve launched three different Kickstarter campaigns to raise the funds necessary to professionally transfer these 16 inch discs so that the complete series for each can be enjoyed for generations to come in brilliant sound quality!

If you have pledged to help save these important radio series, thank you!  If not, feel free to learn about these three radio series and their campaigns by clicking the links below.  All three of these Kickstarter campaigns were successful and are now closed.  If you missed out on obtaining these complete radio series, call me to order them on audio CDs or via digital download links.  FYI: The cost is slightly higher than the Kickstarter pricing.  To order, call 1-815-900-7535.