Chandu the Magician is another Old Time Radio (OTR) character I'd like to see rebooted.  I reviewed the series sometime ago, and it is still at the top of my favorites list. Frank Chandler is an American who goes off to study esoterica at the feet of a yogi in India for about ten years, where he assumes the alternate name of 'Chandu'. He returns to ( Read more... )

As I pointed out in my review of the OTR series, Rocky Jordan is an American expatriate restaurateur from St. Louis, now the owner and operator of the Cafe Tambourine within the native quarter in Cairo, "within sight of the Mosque Sultan Hassan." The series was highly reminiscent of the film Casablanca, with actor Jack Moyles playing the part of ( Read more... )

I went into this with extremely low expectations. I wasn't terribly disappointed. However, there were a few bright spots in this film that actually surprised me.

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Just finished knocking out the first couple of paragraphs for my novella using characters from the OTR series The Ghost Corps, Rocky Jordan, and Chandu, the Magician"Frank Chandler hurried through the streets of Cairo. It was a hot day, hotter than usual. Everyone seemed to move at half-speed, as if they thought they could stay cool by not ( Read more... )

Here is the opening paragraph from my pulp novella, Cairo Storm, featuring the exploits of the Old Time Radio characters Rocky Jordan, Frank "Chandu the Magician" Chandler and K. C. Smith of the Ghost Corps:

"For those not used to it, the afternoon Cairo sun beats down like a blacksmith's hammer. Most locals know to stay indoors after three o' ( Read more... )

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I am by nature not a terribly disciplined writer (I still have a pulp themed rpg adventure called Gonne Island I really want to finish). However, my Nameless Project is not just continuing, its gathering steam. I have notes I've made on all the characters from the three shows I mentioned in the previous post, culled from listening to the shows, ( Read more... )

In a fit of either madness or inspiration, I have decided to embark on the writing of what was known in the pulps as a 'novelette' (somewhere between 7,500 and 17,499 words). The inspiration comes from three of my favorite Old Time Radio shows, the Ghost Corps, Chandu, the Magician, and Rocky JordanSeeing as all three are set in or around Cairo, ( Read more... )

[note: I had planned to post this earlier, but forgot until today ( Read more... )

I had not picked up Chandu the Magician before, as I thought (incorrectly) that it was too much of a juvenile series for me to be interested in. I had listened to other juvenile series in the past, and wasn't inclined to pick another up right away.

But for some reason, I took a chance on Chandu. And I regret my earlier hesitation, as this series ( Read more... )