Charlie Niemeyer
157 episodes listed below
Classic radio, clipped and case-ready.
Charlie’s Geekcast Presents is a straight-ahead archive of Golden Age radio adventure and crime. Recent episodes lean on Dragnet investigations, Green Hornet underworld plots, and Superman serial peril, with period ads and copyright notices left in the frame.
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Charlie’s Geekcast Presents is a curated run of archival radio drama with very little modern interruption. The show gives a brief introduction, names the featured series and episode, then lets the original broadcast carry the weight. Recent entries move among Dragnet, The Green Hornet, and The Adventures of Superman. The Dragnet material is the most severe. A detective sergeant is assigned to robbery or homicide, a case is framed in clipped official language, and the search proceeds by procedure rather than sentiment. Desk clerks, roadblocks, car descriptions, parole offices, bloodstains, and final sentencing notes all matter. The Green Hornet episodes bring a different kind of pressure. Britt Reid and Kato move through rackets involving numbers operations, employment scams, framed cab drivers, and criminals who believe they are still ahead of the paper and the law. These stories are pulpy but efficient. They waste little time getting from accusation to trap. Superman broadens the feed into serial adventure. Clark Kent moves through Buffalo Hills, Arctic ice fields, vanished explorers, governors in danger, and rescue scenes built for the next episode’s hook. The show’s rhythm is therefore brisk and episodic. It starts with labels and dates, drops into theatrical exchanges, and often ends with a copyright notice, sponsor language, or cliffhanger handoff. The preserved ads are not incidental. Fatima Cigarettes spots, network announcements, and period disclaimers make the listening experience feel like broadcast history rather than a polished modern remake. The appeal is partly narrative and partly archival. Fans get crime files, underworld melodrama, superhero peril, and the sound of old commercial radio in one feed. Charlie’s Geekcast Presents is best approached as a rotating program block. It does not analyze the material at length. It presents the case, the racket, or the rescue, and moves on.
Made for: For listeners who like old-time radio drama with the original broadcast texture intact. It fits fans of Dragnet procedure, pulp crime adventure, Superman serials, and period audio ephemera.
What sets it apart: The show keeps the surrounding broadcast machinery visible: short setup, sponsor copy, legal notices, cliffhangers, and full dramatic pacing. That makes it feel less like nostalgia commentary and more like a recovered program block.
Presenting episodes of various radio series from the Golden Age of Radio!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Classic crime and superhero broadcasts arrive with brief credits and their period storytelling rhythms intact.
Charlie's Geekcast Presents gives vintage broadcasts a clean, direct frame: the host identifies the episode, original air date, and principal cast, then lets the drama take over.
A winning ticket meets the Green Hornet's worst timing, and you get the last laugh.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A spare Dragnet hunt that turns routine legwork into steady procedural pressure.
The Big Boys first aired on March 16, 1950, with Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero. In Dragnet's procedural mode, a robbery-detail hunt moves through hotels, rooming houses, and a stolen car as the search tightens around four young hoodlums…
A brisk numbers-racket caper with hardboiled radio snap and a tidy sting in the tail.
The Green Hornet turns a numbers racket into a murder case and keeps the pressure on as reporters, police, and racketeers close in on the same trouble.
A May 1940 Superman double bill moves from monument peril to an Arctic ship trapped in ice.
Charlie's Geek Cast Presents brings together two May 1940 Adventures of Superman chapters, first closing out danger around the Pioneer National Monument and then opening a new search in the Arctic.
A lean manhunt told with hard facts and steady force.
Dragnet's "The Big Kill" opens with the shooting of a police officer on his front steps and follows the investigation with steady, procedural pressure.
A brisk Green Hornet employment-racket story with clean momentum and period-radio bite.
Charlie's Geekcast Presents settles into A Rake-Off on the Job, a 1939 Green Hornet story about an employment racket and the people trying to cash in on it. The plot moves quickly, the allegiances keep shifting, and the clipped radio pace gives the case a steady forward pull.
A brisk Superman serial built on a late-night threat, a missing governor, and a tightening mystery around Colonel Bowles.
A late-night Superman serial sends Clark Kent and Asa Hatch through Boulder City as they race to warn Governor Carson about Pete Flores's gang, then circles into the question of who was in Colonel Bowles's room ahead of them.
Batman audio drama, from Gotham's docks to Batman's memories
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Deborah Treisman and a guest writer read and dissect one archival short story monthly.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.
Joe Friday and Ben Romero are assigned to robbery detail.
Charlie's Geekcast Presents introduces the August 29, 1939 Green Hornet broadcast Numbers Make a Racket, with Al Hodge as Britt Reid and Raymond Toyo as Kato.
This episode continues the Arctic adventure of Superman searching for the missing expedition of Professor Peters and Ray Martin while investigating the disappearance of explorer Captain Alonzo Craig.
This episode of Dragnet follows Sergeant Joe Friday as he investigates a paroled murderess who has disappeared from contact with the parole office.
This episode features a classic 1939 radio broadcast of The Green Hornet, starring Al Hodge and Raymond Toyo, focusing on the character's pursuit of public enemies.
Charlie’s Geekcast Presents combines a Buffalo Hills Superman cliffhanger from May 24, 1940 with the first chapter of Alonzo Craig, Arctic Explorer, aired May 27, 1940.
A police officer is shot on his front steps.
Charlie's Geekcast Presents brings out a Green Hornet adventure called "A Rake-Off on the Job." It first aired on August 22, 1939, with Al Hodge as Britt Reid and Raymond Toyo as Kato.
Charlie’s Geekcast Presents brings two back-to-back chapters of The Adventures of Superman, Parts 4 and 5, both centered on the Buffalo Hills storyline.
This episode of Dragnet follows detectives investigating a juvenile gang responsible for a crime wave in the city.
This episode continues the story of Superman trying to save Dyreville from the villain Yellow Mask, who threatens to destroy the town by breaking the Harley Dam.
This episode presents a vintage 1949 Dragnet radio drama titled 'Mrs.
This episode of Dragnet follows detectives investigating a series of clever truck hijackings in Los Angeles, based on an actual police case from 1949.
This episode presents a classic 1949 Dragnet radio drama titled 'Brick-Bat Slayer,' following detectives investigating a serial killer case in Los Angeles.