Comedy Radio Plays
by Award-Winning Playwrights
Bring the comedy radio plays of On the Air! to your ensemble with our scripts by award-winning playwrights. Add them to a night of original radio plays or standards from the golden age. Each radio play in the On the Air Series comes in BBC Radio, Dramatist Stage Play, and Audio Movie formats to best fit the style of your troupe. Each radio comedy comes complete with links to the suggested theme music for each show, custom vintage logos, and digital poster files. Every show is audience-tested and designed to work with live Foley or pre-recorded audio. All shows can be staged as radio performances or, with a little ingenuity, as full one acts.
Script Series Available
Aggie Blackthorn
Paranormal Reporter
Created by Bob LeBlanc
Aggie Blackthorn, the gal with an eye for ghosts, ghouls, and mysteries is on the case! Aggie was the seventh child of a seventh child, born on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of this century, giving her the power to commune with all nature of beasts and man, both normal and metaphysical. Salem Brand Housewares takes you along on Aggie’s journey as she uncovers the secrets of the paranormal.
Episode 1: The Screaming House
Episode 2: The Sight of the Medusa
The Adventures of Aphrodite Prime
Created by Bob LeBlanc
It is the distant year of 1999. When the earth is threatened with invasion, the United States of Space calls upon an unlikely hero to save the day in this 1930s-style comedy adventure.
As seen in PortFringe 2022.
Episode 1: The Invaders from Venus Twelve
Alpha Gals
Created by David Hanright
Jump through time with the Alpha Gals!
Episode 14: The Great Plague
The Amethyst Ghost
Written and created by Bob LeBlanc
After the untimely death of her brother at the hands of organized crime, wealthy heiress Claire Montague traveled the world in search of mystic powers to protect the innocent. In deepest Asia she learned the ancient ability to control minds through the mysterious mystic art of yoga. She now protects the meek and hunts for the guilty as The Amethyst Ghost!
Episode 1: The Eye of Bastet
The Bonnie Tales of Captain Bellamy
Created by Bob LeBlanc
From dark of night through break of dawn when there are rough seas ahead pray that Captain Bellamy is at the helm.
Bonnie Captain Bonny Bellamy is the terror of the high seas and the hero to the crew of the Seawitch. Join her crew as they spin tales of her love life of adventure.
From the Sleuths Mystery Entertainment hit “Who Killed Jolly Roger?”.
Episode 1: The Song of Trickery
Episode 2: The Tides Have Turned
Cosmic Specter
Written and created by Robert J. LeBlanc
Mild-mannered astronomer, Rob Cadaveer was hit by a living dead particle ray from space while observing the planet Pluto. When he awoke he discovered that he had the power of the living and the dead. He now protects the innocent as a man between worlds. He is the Cosmic Specter.
Episode 1: The Call of the Wild
Eagle Squadron Zebra
Created by David Hanright
Fear not, Eagle Squadron Zebras in the air. The cavalry has arrived.
During the Great War, a force of flying heroes was assembled to bring about the defeat fo the enemy. This is their story.
Episode 37: Somme Enchanted Christmas
Frank and Beans
Created by Bob LeBlanc
Follow in the adventures of everyone’s favorite married couple, Frank and Beanie Garland! Frank is a serial entrepreneur and Beanie is the clever mind that keeps him grounded. Frank might not always win, but with Beanie, he rarely loses.
Episode 1: The Galloping Ghost
Episode 2: Something’s Fishy
Episode 3: The Holiday Intruder
Episode 4: The Nutbound Nemesis
Episode 5: Stranded in Paradise
Episode 6: The Grand High Gobbler
Episode 7: A Cut Above
Episode 8: Weighty Soles
Jack Stacy - Hotel Detective
Created by Bob LeBlanc
The world is a scary place. But at the Hotel Catalonia, on these twelve floors, you got one man watching your back. Jack Stacy. Hotel Detective.
Trained in the art of hospitality sleuthing and justice, Jack Stacy watches over the residents and guests of the Hotel Catalonia.
Episode 2: Dirty Laundry
Josiah Mix Puritan Witch Hunter
Created by David Hanright
Josiah Mix: with his armor of Hecate and Trident of Endor, Josiah Mix hunts and destroys the powers of evil!
Episode 1: The Witch of New Haven
Kitty Vittles: Ace Reporter
Created by Bob LeBlanc
Everyone’s favorite reporter, Kitty Vittles has her own way of getting to the facts.
Episode 1: The Art of Eating Your Own Foot
Episode 2: The Camp Out
Episode 3: Gone Fishin’
Episode 4: Flail to the Chief
The Old Library
Created by Bob LeBlanc
There are stories and mysteries on every shelf. There is romance, heartbreak, laughter, and joy hidden on worm-eaten pages. Borrow as you please, but be careful, for you are likely to get lost here, in the Old Library.
Episode 1: The Interview
Episode 2: The Resurrectionists
Poseidon Jones
Hero of the Deep
Created by Bob LeBlanc
In the distant future, when terror comes to the ocean blue, the citizens of Nautilus City call Poseidon Jones, Hero of the Deep.
Episode 1: Out of the Blue
Pudding Gulch - Frontier Town
Created by David Hanright
Out of the wilds of the American West, a new town is growing. And so is love and friendship in Pudding Gulch: Frontier Town.
Queen of the Night Greta Von Ghoul
Created by Bob LeBlanc
Queen of the Night, Greta VonGhoul, receives a letter from a New York socialite about her haunted mansion in Maine. Greta and her trusted driver, Mister Murphy, go to investigate only to discover that not all is as it seems in this horror-filled gothic romp of a supernatural 1930-style comedy adventure.
Episode 1: The Haunting of the Slaughter House Finalist in the 2022 Marion Thauer Brown Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition.
Episode 2: The Bad Deal on Witch Hill
Full-Length Mystery: Toil and Trouble at the Midnight Masquerade (Full-length)
The Rocky Coast
Created by David Hanright
The Rocky Coast holds its myths and secrets. Join us as we tell its stories.
Episode 2: Myths and Mermaids
Scamps McGee,
Hobo With a Heart of Gold
Created by Bob LeBlanc
Charles “Scamps” McGee was a hero in the Great War who found himself on the wrong side of history as a banker. After the crash left him penniless he was rescued and taught the way of the road by the mysterious Flat-Footed Stranger. Now he and his dog Bindle ride the rails to try to make amends for their sinister banking escapades in this 1930s-style comedy adventure.
Episode 1: The Problematic Proposal
Episode 2: The Hopeful Holiday
The Schmanker Twins
Teen-age Detectives
Created by David Hanright
The Schmankers: an average American New England family with a secret – a secret only the kids know about! Join the Schmanker twins, Jiles and Mildred as they solve the mysteries of their own hometown.
Episode 1: Meet the Schmankers
Treasure Hunter!
Created by Bob LeBlanc
After his parents disappeared searching for the lost treasure of Malabudu, Dirk Quartermain and his trusted monkey Coco scour the globe in search of the treasure that will bring his parents home. His trusted benefactor, Professor Alexander, put him on the path of a new artifact that could help solve the case in this 1930s-style comedy adventure.
Episode 1: Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Episode 2: The Tunnels of Dungeon Rock
The Underworld of Penny Dreadful
Created by Bob LeBlanc
Join everyone’s favorite teenage protector, Penny Dreadful, as she travels the crime-infested streets of 1880s London. It’s a time of injustice, cruelty, and of hardship with one beacon of hope against the darkness, that lovable orphan sleuth, Penny Dreadful, and her raven Poe. In this episode, there is a murder in Whitechapel. It looks like the notorious Apple Jack has struck again. Penny and her Warren of Rabbits are on the case to solve the crime and bring the killer to justice in this in this 1930-style comedy mystery adventure.
Episode 1: The Case of the Ghost and the Treasure
Episode 2: The Case of the Cider and the Rose
Van Diamond - Private Eye
Created by Bob LeBlanc
If you're in trouble and can afford $20 a day plus expenses, then Van Diamond is your private eye.
Episode 1: Painted Into a Corner
Episode 2: Ugly Business
Full-length Scripts
Motive, Means, Opportunity: A Filsher and Bianco Mystery
Written and Created by Bob LeBlanc
Strangers, each with a motive to commit murder, are invited to a remote mansion under mysterious circumstances. A cache of weapons is ready for their arrival. Who invited them? Who is pulling the strings?
From the Sleuths Mystery Entertainment hit comedy of the same name.
Motive, Means, Opportunity II:
I Love You to Death
It's a wild night at the speakeasy and the password is "mystery."
Written and Created by Bob LeBlanc
Inspector Brian Fisher spins a tale of his first case undercover at the Irish Lyon Social Club. He sets the scene with a boxer, a gangster, a rival, a tortured vaudevillian, a woman on the prowl, a priest, and a pair of star-crossed lovers entering the Irish Lyon Social Club. Who will leave the speakeasy alive? The jazz plays, illegal liquor flows, and the bodies and suspects start piling up in this tale of crooked deals, jilted lovers, betrayal, and mayhem. Try to pin the suspect with the crime to find out who did the deed in I Love You to Death.
From the Sleuths Mystery Entertainment hit comedy “I Love You to Death”
Trouble in Deadwood
Written and Created by Bob LeBlanc
There's a mystery in them thar hills. It’s Deadwood, 1876, and Boss Butler wants control of the town. When he makes his move to seize it from the Widow Dawson the town pushes back. Was it Sawbones the Snake Oil Salesman, the wild woman of a tracker “Catastrophe” Jones, the outlaw gunslinger Black Bart, or was it “Hawkeye Hayes” Dawson herself? Solve the crime to find out who caused the Trouble in Deadwood.
From the Sleuths Mystery Entertainment hit comedy of the same name.
While we only offer radio plays in the On the Air Series we have friends who focus on the traditional stage. We strongly recommend the following works:
ON THE AIR: The Failing Career of Victor Chablis by Robert Mattson (2-hour two-act comedy) Follow the ensemble of the Jupiter Radio Theater through the years as Victor Chablis's career goes from Orson Welles to Alex Trebek. (Includes 4 radio comedies)
Last Days of Radio - Mystery at KDED by Brian Files (interactive mystery) In the last days of radio, silence is murder. In the last days of radio, silence is murder. It’s 1952 and Mystery is afoot during the live broadcast of the Buck Brick Show on KDED radio. Owner Russ Spring is about to make a decision that could mean the end of the station and the careers of everyone involved. When a body is discovered they find that dead air is something everyone will pay for. Even with a killer on the loose, the show must go on.
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On the Air Scripts for Your Next Event.
Our new-vintage original radio comedy scripts run from adult to family-friendly to fit whatever your ensemble might need. Our series can be performed separately as a part of an evening of comedy or you can perform more than one to create a one-of-a-kind event.
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