CBS Radio Workshop and Sears Radio Theatre

I’m starting to better appreciate Sears Radio Theater. The Nelson Riddle music used to put me off, but I see now that many veteran radio actors gave truly fine performances in this series. In Tough Guy you can hear the renewed pleasure John Dehner feels swimming again in audio as his voice inhabits the opportunistic arms merchant and as Vic Perrin, maybe the most most versatile radio actor of all, steps into the shallowness of the world destroyer paradise propagandist. This episode touches on some deep political and sexual themes of survival. Vic Perrin is also in the really good RR499 program, Climb, from Sears Radio Theater. Television could never do justice to these actors. SRT plays are not just adventure dramas, they are psychological studies and commentaries on character. I’d be interested in hearing some of the SRT episodes written by Arch Obler.