Adventures by MorseAdventures by Morse relates the travels and adventures of San Francisco private investigators, Captain Bart Friday and Skip Turner. Friday is a no-nonsense type, raised in the California, while Turner is quite the lady's man, complete with a laconic Southern accent. Their escapades take them around the globe, from the South Pacific to South America, from Cambodia to South Carolina. See? "Travel Adventures" before there was such a thing. Each week they deal with murder, espionage, Nazis, voodoo and even snake worshippers. The stories often dealt with the supernatural, though there was usually a rational explanation in the end. The series is written by the talented Carlton E Morse (below) who also wrote I Love Adventure and One Man's Family. Mr. Morse is good at setting up suspense. The show has an unusual format for the Golden Age of Radio. The adventures are presented in serial form. The first, City of the Dead, is ten episodes long. Then they alternate between serials of three and  ten episodes for a total of 52 shows.Serials had been heard on Radio since Amos and Andy first hit the airwaves and were heard every weekday on the soaps, but it was unusual for an adventure program to be presented in this way. Fans today are accustomed to this form, enjoying it in television shows like 24 and Prison Break and Podcasts such as the excellent horror series Shadow Falls, but at the time it was new and radically different. I like these stories. They are fun to listen to -- but often the characters do things that just don't ring true. I often find myself thinking, "no one would do that!" like you might during a horror movie. It's still a good listen and belongs in every OTR library. Especially at the price I have found for you. FREE!
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