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Each 30-minute episode featured five mini-mysteries dramatized with actors, organ music and sound effects. Solutions to each mystery were then suggested by a panel of listeners and studio guests. The panelists sometimes shared a common background; for example, on the April 14, 1949 program, the amateur sleuths were gas industry officials. [2] [3]
The Five Mysteries Program; Five Star Theater; Flash Gordon; The Fleischmann Yeast Hour (a.k.a. Harlem) [1]: 58 Floyd Calvin Hour (originally The Pittsburgh Courier Hour) [1]: 58–60 Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel; Folks from Dixie [1]: 60–61 The Ford Sunday Evening Hour; Ford Theater; Forecast [1]: 61–2 Foreign Assignment; Forever Ernest
Donald Sobol was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Ira J. and Ida (Gelula) Sobol.Ira Sobol owned a few gas stations that eventually were sold. [1] Donald attended the NYC Ethical Culture Fieldston School and then served for two years during World War II with the Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific Theatre.
The miniature grandfather clock never ticked in Greg Allison's childhood. The clock, just 7 inches high, sat under a rounded glass dome on one of the highest shelves in the library of his family's ...
In your story, you again tap that rich vein of Jewish gangsters and wannabes I got to know in the “Gangsterland” novels and the short story collection “The Low Desert.”
The mysteries are intended to be solved by the reader, thanks to the placement of a logical or factual inconsistency somewhere within the text. [4] This is very similar to the layout of Donald Sobol's other book series, Two-Minute Mysteries. Many of the mysteries involve Brown helping his father, the local police chief, solve a crime; Brown ...
Situation puzzles, often referred to as minute mysteries, lateral thinking puzzles or "yes/no" puzzles, are puzzles in which participants are to construct a story that the host has in mind, basing on a puzzling situation that is given at the start.
The series is designed to teach reading and writing skills to schoolchildren. Each mystery is presented as a case, covering four 30-minute episodes (except for the first and fifth story arc, where there are five 30 minute episodes); children are encouraged to follow each mystery and use the reading and writing clues given to attempt to solve them just as the Ghostwriter team does.