Madison On The Air

Madison On The Air

Do you love old time radio? Don't know anything about old time radio? Well, if you enjoy comedy, we're the show for you. Follow Madison Standish, a modern day influencer, as she gets zapped back into the Golden Age of Radio. Actual OTR scripts adapted! It's as if the MST3K/Riff Trax guys were in the movies they riff. Every episode is stand-alone. Start at the beginning or jump to a title that grabs you. New episodes premiere the first of every month!

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December 31, 2025 46 mins

It’s New Year’s Eve, 2020, and Madison is partying a bit more than her boyfriend, Jeff, would like. Left on her own, a freak accident will change the course of her — and Jeff’s  — lives for the future. Or is it the past? Take a journey with the Mysterious Traveler as we present the Madison origin story!

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It’s New Year’s Eve, 2020, and Madison is partying a bit more than her boyfriend, Jeff, would like. Left on her own, a freak accident will change the course of her — and Jeff’s  — lives for the future. Or is it the past? Take a journey with the Mysterious Traveler as we present the Madison origin story!

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Madison's Mad Facts are now PATREON EXCLUSIVES. These bonus features for our episodes premiere the 10th of every month. This Mad Facts is from our adaptation of "Lux Radio Theater Presents - It's a Wonderful Life" (episode 50) released December 2024.

Our ah-mazing George Bailey, Scott R. McKinley, presents some history around the making of one of the Holiday's most beloved films.

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Madison thinks she’s getting an easy gig covering for Archie Goodwin over the holidays. That is, until Santa Claus comes to Nero Wolfe — afraid he’s going to be murdered!  Madison will be the great detective’s snow-boots on the ground as they take on “The Case of the Slaughtered Santas.”

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Madison thinks she’s getting an easy gig covering for Archie Goodwin over the holidays. That is, until Santa Claus comes to Nero Wolfe — afraid he’s going to be murdered!  Madison will be the great detective’s snow-boots on the ground as they take on “The Case of the Slaughtered Santas.”

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Madison's Mad Facts are now PATREON EXCLUSIVES. These bonus features for our episodes premiere the 10th of every month. This Mad Facts is from our adaptation of "Have Gun - Will Travel" released November 2024.

Madison talks about the use of real Old West locations and other period things to make OTR feel more real.

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Written/Produced/Edited: Chrisi Talyn Saje

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The PINK Beetle fights for justice! Madison takes a special assignment to look into reports of a sea serpent terrorizing bathers in the tourist town of Breaker City. The beachfront hotels are losing business and the owners fear bankruptcy, but no one seems to be able to catch the mythical monster.  Even the oceanic specialist, Professor Meredith, comes up empty. It will take a lady repor...

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October 20, 2025 1 min

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The PINK Beetle fights for justice! Madison takes a special assignment to look into reports of a sea serpent terrorizing bathers in the tourist town of Breaker City. The beachfront hotels are losing business and the owners fear bankruptcy, but no one seems to be able to catch the mythical monster.  Even the oceanic specialist, Professor Meredith, comes up empt...

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Madison's Mad Facts are now PATREON EXCLUSIVES. These bonus features for our episodes premiere the 10th of every month. This Mad Facts is from our adaptation of Inner Sanctum's "A Tell-Tale Heart" released October 2024.

Madison talks about Hollywood's "Lost Years of Horror" in the 1930s and again in the late 1940s, and how we almost lost the horror genre in films!

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Once again "Madison on the Air's" Halloween episode was hosted by our favorite voice of horror, Edward October. Please enjoy his Halloween treat: "The Spirit Doll"

Join Edward October and special guest star Nicole Engelbrecht (True Crime South Africa) as Octoberpod AM presents THE SPIRIT DOLL -- a dark fantasy Halloween fantasia of magic, mystery, and twisted nostalgia. This Halloween se...

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September 30, 2025 44 mins

Nearly 10 years before Hitchcock brought this thriller to the silver screen, the radio anthology series, “Escape,” adapted Daphne du Maurier’s short story, “The Birds.” This adaptation is closer to the original story (Hitchcock took the concept and completely reworked it). Set in the rural seaside of Southern England, Deborah Hawkins and her two young children, along with hired governess...

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September 19, 2025 1 min

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Nearly 10 years before Hitchcock brought this thriller to the silver screen, the radio anthology series, “Escape,” adapted Daphne du Maurier’s short story, “The Birds.” This adaptation is closer to the original story (Hitchcock took the concept and completely reworked it). Set in the rural seaside of Southern England, Deborah Hawkins and her two young children...

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Madison's Mad Facts are now PATREON EXCLUSIVES. These bonus features for our episodes premiere the 10th of every month. This Mad Facts is from "The Adventures of Maisie" released September 2024.

For our episode of "The Adventures of Maisie" Madison discusses the Women's Army Corp (WAC). The struggle to include women as active army soldiers, the slander campaign against them, and the woma...

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Madison finally travels to “Ricky Ricardo’s” Cuba! It’s Havana circa 1951. There she joins up with hotel owner Slate Shannon. Shannon agrees to pilot a boat from Havana to Batabanó for a young couple to make some cash and so Madison can play tourist. But when they arrive in Batabanó, they find themselves the perfect patsies for a murder rap! Can Madison and Shannon get to the truth while...

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August 19, 2025 1 min

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Madison finally travels to "Ricky Ricardo's" Cuba! It's Havana circa 1951. There she joins up with hotel owner Slate Shannon. Shannon agrees to pilot a boat from Havana to Batabanó for a young couple to make some cash and so Madison can play tourist. But when they arrive in Batabanó, they find themselves the perfect patsies for a murder rap! Can Madison and Sha...

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Madison takes the train from Chicago to New York to fill in for Nikki Porter, the assistant to Ellery Queen. On the trip, a bank robber corners her in her compartment, demanding that she be a mule for his heist money. But when that robber ends up shot dead, Madison will be on the hook by the police for the murder. And to make things worse, the other robbers from the bank job think she ha...

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Madison takes the train from Chicago to New York to fill in for Nikki Porter, the assistant to Ellery Queen. On the trip, a bank robber corners her in her compartment, demanding that she be a mule for his heist money. But when that robber ends up shot dead, Madison will be on the hook by the police for the murder. And to make things worse, the other robbers fr...

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Madison and the entire town of Elk Point are in lockdown. The notorious bank robber, Stacy Gault, has been reported heading their way. Madison has been holding up at Ma Benson’s rooming house when Britt Ponset, the easy going nomad of the West known for his justice and quick draw, stops by.  Ma thinks he’s the answer to the town’s problems. Madison thinks he’s hogging the potatoes. But w...

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 Madison and the entire town of Elk Point are in lockdown. The notorious bank robber, Stacy Gault, has been reported heading their way. Madison has been holding up at Ma Benson’s rooming house when Britt Ponset, the easy going nomad of the West known for his justice and quick draw, stops by.  Ma thinks he’s the answer to the town’s problems. Madison thinks he’...

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Buck Rogers, a coal miner from 1919, finds himself in the future and quickly adapts to what the 1930s thought the 25th Century might be like. But neither century was expecting Madison. When a test rocket carrying new Martian technology mistakenly launches with Madison (and the evil criminal, Killer Kane!) aboard, will Buck Rogers be able to stop the villain from using a mad scientist’s m...

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