Old Time Radio Horror — Adventures by Morse: "The City of the Dead Part 1" | Full Episode

VintageRadioShows.com · Aug 2, 2026 · 26m

Carlton E. Morse wrote "I Love a Mystery" and "One Man's Family," then went out on his own in the mid-1940s and turned out 52 half-hour adventures for San Francisco private investigator Captain Bart Friday and his drawling Texas partner Skip Turner. This is chapter one of "The City of the Dead," the ten-part serial that opened the series. Friday and Skip are called out to an enormous old cemetery where Bart's father is the caretaker — the man the locals call the Mayor. Waiting for them: a church bell that rings with nobody in the tower, a fresh corpse that has no business being there, and…