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The Whirlpool (MP3)
Copyright 1999
60 minutes
A Captain Underhill Thriller
Captain Underhill and Doctor Scofield, vacationing up from Cape Cod, encounter more adventure than they sought.
First, they offer a ride to a beautiful park ranger. Then, they’re kidnapped by an escaped convict. To top it all off, they are all swept into a harrowing merry-go-round on a busted-loose ferry platform, which is being sucked into the spiral maw of one of Nature’s most awesome displays, a monstrous tidal whirlpool fourteen hundred feet across. Musically rich and with awesome sound effects and a marvelous cast, The Whirlpool features John Stead, o.b.e. as the Announcer, regulars David Ellsworth, Wally O’Hara, Stephen Russell and introducing Jade Rutanen.
This story is based on a real natural phenomenon. Just off the easternmost point of land of the United States is situated a rare natural phenomenon; the Old Sow, one of five large size whirlpools in the world, and the largest ‘true’ one, meaning one formed from multiple colliding currents. Passamaquoddy Bay is the breeding ground for the Old Sow and her piglets; Eastport, Maine is where you’ll find it.
75MB
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The Whereabouts of Heidi McKnown (MP...
Copyright 1993
69 minutes
A Captain Waverly Underhill mystery
Lottery winners Henry and Pamela McKnown have their luck stolen from them when their four-year-old daughter, Heidi, is kidnapped. Years pass without a word and the McKnowns, coping with their grief, are slowly rebuilding their lives. Then the cycle of terror begins again, as a carnival psychic shows up on Cape Cod, claiming to have made contact with the spirit of the dead child. Though Heidi’s voice comes through in a seance, Underhill is convinced it’s a fake. He enters the case to expose the charlatan and discover the whereabouts of the missing child.
87MB
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The Mystery of Anna Gale (MP3)
Copyright 1998
43 minutes
A Captain Underhill mystery
When little Anna Gale Storm is abducted by a stranger in a white van, the police– and the media — spring into action. Bulletins are issued. The police swarm. News and police helicopters hover near the twin bridges. Anna Gale’s mother, Betsy Storm, is hysterical but must be questioned. The police are desperate, frustrated by the fact that the only eyewitness is a frightened, easily confused, 5 year old named Jody Higgins.
A parent’s worst nightmare, this story is based in part on a true Cape Cod incident. The locale is Point Isabella, Cotuit, off Old Post Road, where, legend has it, Bluebeard the Pirate buried his girlfriend, Hannah Screechum, after he caught her snooping. Now little Anna Gale Storm, by virtue of her recent kidnapping from the same spot, is in line to take her place alongside Hannah’s. Unless Captain Underhill can get to her in time…
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The Junebug Mystery (MP3)
Copyright 1994
53 minutes
A Captain Waverly Underhill mystery
Captain Underhill and Doctor Scofield recount their very first case.
April, 1961. It is tourist season on Cape Cod… and open season on the President. Having sent its favorite son to the White House, Cape Cod has come under the spell of Camelot. Young police deputy Waverly Underhill meets Doctor Scofield for the very first time, and together they seek to stop an assassination plot that anyone would call crazy: it appears that John Wilkes Booth has returned to kill another President.
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The Golden Idol (MP3)
Copyright 1992
66 minutes
A Captain Waverly Underhill mystery
Lady Kemp is worried. Her granddaughter, Carmeline, is about to marry Victor Fabloose, a French playboy who may be a gold-digger…or a poisoner. Captain Waverly Underhill is offered $25,000 to make sure the marriage never takes place. To succeed, he devises a clever scheme involving real buried treasure–a solid-gold statue of a pirate as big as a chocolate Easter bunny. Underhill also borrows a chapter and page out of Charles Dickens while adding an ingenious new wrinkle to a thousand-year-old lie detector test.
85MB
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The Cobra in the Kindergarten (MP3)
Copyright 2003
45 minutes
Captain Underhill’s always been a charming fellow, but this might be out of his line. When an Egyptian cobra gets loose in an elementary school, it’s up to Underhill and Doctor Scofield to track the reptile down before a tragedy occurs. But can Captain Underhill charm an actual snake? And what if it isn’t there at all?
size:55MB
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The Case of the Four Little Beatles ...
Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater Presents:
“The Case of the Four Little Beatles”
A Captain Underhill mystery-puzzler
Total running time: 74:47
(Act I: 38:26; Act II: 35:21)
Copyline: The Day the Beatles secretly came to Cape Cod is both an historical fact and the departure point for this sendup of Agatha Christies’ classic mystery play, “Ten Little Indians”.
Stellar cast includes regulars Dave Ellsworth and Wally O’Hara; Beatles sound alikes; as well as Jerry Nelson, voice of numerous characters from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street (e.g. Count Von Count)
Synopsis: One day after their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Beatles secretly slip off to Cape Cod . Seeking shelter from a freakish mid-February thunderstorm at an old village store, the Fab Four discover themselves pursued by a sinister character, menaced by the town bully and now, alarmingly, disappearing one by one. Manager, Brian Epstein, and bodyguard, Mal Evans, panic. Fortunately, Captain Underhill and Dr. Scofield are on hand.
80MB
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The Case of the Calico Lobster (MP3)
CAPE COD RADIO MYSTERY THEATER presents:
“The Case of the Calico Lobster”
A Captain Underhill mystery.
Total running time: 84:29
Copyline: Celebrating its 25th year, Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater releases its 19th Captain Underhill Mystery, “The Case of the Calico Lobster”.
Cast includes veterans, Dave Ellsworth, as Captain Waverly Underhill and Wally O’Hara, as his loyal sidekick, Doctor Alexander Scofield, as well as returning actors, Peter Milan, Jean Bates, and Joe Magnus, with a cameo appearance by real DJ, Bumper Morgan, and introducing Jennifer Logan as Molly Neptune.
91MB
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The Bouy (MP3)
Copyright 1987
55 minutes
Radio Thriller
Edward Wolcott is an innocent tourist abducted from his motel room, taken by boat, and strapped to a large sea buoy in the Woods Hole Passage. His strange night bobbing alone at sea turns into one of sheer terror, when he realizes the current is slowly dragging the buoy under.
An excellent Halloween story, this Pit and the Pendulum-style thriller places the listener on the buoy with Mr. Wolcott to experience the terror first hand.
Strap yourself to the sofa… we’re going down!
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Some People Are Missing On Canal Str...
Copyright 1991
48 minutes
Radio Thriller
It begins as static…then, you hear a voice, desperate, frightened, coming from a shack in the Cape Cod dunes, broadcasting his story to anyone who might be listening. He tells an unbelievable tale of missing persons and an unseen enemy that may already have conquered us.
Is he insane? Is he deluded? And most terrifying of all, is he telling the truth?
Some People Are Missing on Canal Street was written as an experiment to try to duplicate the same shock in the listener that was generated by The Mercury Theater’s legendary production of The War of the Worlds. In that production, near the end of the program, a lone survivor hides out in a shack, trying to contact someone, anyone. “2X2L…2X2L….isn’t there anyone on the air?!”
Excellent for Halloween.
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