Tag: The Joker

Lux Radio Theater: Sangaree (AWR0250)

 

 

Batman Villains of Old Time Radio

We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week, we turn to Cesar Romero, who played the Clown Prince of Crime, The Joker.

For this week’s episode, we’re joined by the lawyer Tom Fox of the Compliance Podcast Network.

We takea look at Sangaree from the Lux Radio Theatre, where Romero plays an ex-indentured servant and doctor who returns from the Revolutionary War to fulfill the dying wish of his benefactor, and goes to Georgia to run the family plantation over the objection of the deceased’s headstrong daughter (Anne Blythe) and has to deal with lawsuits, pirates, and plague.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 25, 1955

Cast: Cesar Romero as Dr. Carlos Morales; Arlene Dahl as Nancy Darby, Lamont Johnson, William Conrad, Carleton Young, John Sutton, Herb Butterfield, Frances Robinson, Edward Marr, William Walker, Jack Kruschen, Leo Britt, Bill Bouchey

After listening to and discussing the program, we talk about the Joker two-part episode from season one: “The Joker Trumps an Ace’ and “Batman sets the Pace.”

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