DARK VENTURE

OLD TIME RADIO - 1 CD - 9 mp3 - Total Playtime: 3:57:10

Dark Venture was a grim kind of thriller where the listener got inside the twisted head of the murderer and heard his thoughts. It was not supernatural horror, but horror just the same... the kind that evil minds spawn when they are scheming ways to kill someone and get away with it. The writing was sharp and gritty. These killers were hardened sociopaths that didn't give a damn about anyone else. They had no conscience and were diabolical in their plots. Unfortunately for them, the audience also liked to see others suffer, especially if that person was guilty and deserved his comeuppance. So each week millions could tune in to "see" the murderer meet his fate on the radio in their mind's eye. The killing method wasn't especially creative. It was usually the tried and true technique of strangulation, knifing, or shooting. No, what made Dark Venture interesting was the manner in which the killer plotted to get away with it all. Killers would devise sinister mind games to trick their wife into believing she was going insane, or manipulate a business partner into thinking he was being stalked by a phantom lover. Both of these elaborate plots were dreamed up to provide a fall guy for the murder, and both would have worked too-- except for some small detail that would unravel the entire conspiracy. It was racy radio alright, the kind that made them pass new regulations in 1947 to tone it down. Maybe that's why Dark Venture ended that same year. (Or maybe it was that producer Donald Wilson was too busy with a similar series which was even more popular, The Whistler.) Whatever the reason, only a few samples of this sinister series survive.
 

John Lake was the narrator (Dunning, 191), but he didn't present much except the introduction. Most of the actual narrating was provided by the culprit, which made it difficult for the listener not to identify with the killer at least a little bit, because we were sharing his thoughts. It was one of the fun aspects of the show. You knew he would get caught at the end, but you still kind of wished he would get away with it. After all, he seemed nice enough while telling us his story. It was just that small detail about taking someone else's life that made him a menace to the rest of society...

SHOWS LIST

Dark Venture - Eclipse (West Coast Only)
Dark Venture - Elizabeth is Frightened (partial)
Dark Venture - Ten Dollar Bill (West Coast Only)
Dark Venture 46-00-00 The Boarder (AFRS Mystery Playhouse)
Dark Venture 46-05-20 Turnabout
Dark Venture 46-11-18 The Only Inhabitant
Dark Venture 46-12-02 The Man In 206
Dark Venture 46-12-09 (42) The Miser
Dark Venture 47-01-14 (46) The Expert (Wildroot)

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