Adventures by Morse was originally broadcast during 1944-45 and was written and directed by it's namesake Carlton E. Morse. It comprised a total of 8 different stories with a varying number of episodes. In total there were 52 30-minute shows done.

Described on the Wikipedia page:

"Captain Bart Friday was a globe-trotting San Francisco-based private investigator portrayed on various shows by Elliott Lewis, David Ellis and Russell Thorson. Jack Edwards played Skip Turner, Bart's sidekick from Texas. The tales covered such areas as espionage, kidnapping, and murder, along with secret Nazi bases, snake worshipers and voodoo."

I think the one that truly stood out amongst the rest was the series titled "The City of the Dead" which was without a doubt the creepiest. It was the first to be broadcast, and one of the longest coming in at 10 episodes (5 hours). It involves a broken down car, a cemetery, a couple of criminals and a seriously elaborate plan that would have been fitting for Scooby Doo if it weren't so eerie.

You can download all of the different series, this one being the most highly recommended from Archive.org here:

Archive.org: Adventures By Morse (Complete)

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John Wyndham, probably best known for The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos (ie Village of the Damned), wrote a number of lesser known works that are of no less value in the world of speculative/science fiction. One of them, The Kraken Wakes (published in 1953), has been broadcast in a number of different versions through the years as a full cast audio play. This particular one, done by the CBC out of Vancouver, is available in all 5 parts - roughly 150 minutes - on Archive.org.

As like a number of Wyndham's apocalyptic tales you get to follow along and unravel a mystery that brings the world to near destruction. Loaded with the author's great ability to bind science with the impossible it really is an entertaining story. The 40+ year old broadcast does the book justice, and the age of it gives it something that a modern adaptation would lose.

You can download the MP3 files, 131 MB for all 5 in a zip file here:

The Kraken Wakes - Full Cast Audio - CBC 1965

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