Theater of the Mind
Ken Roberts
Cast, Narrator, Announcer
180 episodes in 10 shows · 1932–1950
Ken Roberts got his start announcing at WMCA in New York and WLTH in Brooklyn. He went on to announce The Shadow, including the 1937–38 Mutual season with a young Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston, and he posed the questions to make-believe contestants on the comedy quiz It Pays to Be Ignorant. In 1941 he hosted his own quiz show, Quick As a Flash, on Mutual, and he later became the original announcer for TV's Candid Camera.
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The Shadow108 · Announcer
1937
1938
- The League of Terror
- Sabotage
- Society of the Living Dead
- Poison Death
- The Phantom Voice
- Hounds in the Hills
- The Plot Murder
- The Bride of Death
- The Silent Avenger
- The White Legion
- Traffic in Death
- The Black Abbot
- Death Stalks the Shadow
- Night Without End
- Gun Island
- The Isle of Fear
- Shyster Payoff
- Black Rock
- Death Is Blind
- Murder by Rescue
- Guest of Death
1939
- Ghosts Can Kill
- Valley of the Living Dead
- Prelude to Terror
- The Ghost of Captain Bayloe
- The Hypnotic Death
- Friend of Darkness
- Horror in Wax
- Sabotage by Air
- Appointment with Death
- Can the Dead Talk?
- Dead Men Talk
- The Night Marauders
- The Diamond Murders
- Village of Doom
- House of Fun
- Phantom Fingerprints
- Mansion of Madness
- The Inventor of Death
- The Shadow Returns
- The Sandhog Murders
- Death Shows the Way
- Flight of the Vulture
- Murder Incorporated
- The Cat That Killed
1940
- Murder in the Death House
- The Precipice Called Death
- The Return of Carnation Charlie
- Death Is an Art
- Death on the Bridge
- The Laughing Corpse
- Murderer's Vanity
- The Plot That Failed
- Death in a Minor Key
- Ghost Town
- The Isle of the Living Dead
- The Oracle of Death
- The Mark of the Black Widow
- The Creeper
- Carnival of Death
- The House of Horror
- The Green Man
- The Curse of Shiva
- The Voice of Death
- The Killer's Rendezvous
- Joey's Christmas Story
- The Ghost on the Stair
1941
- The Man Who Lived Thrice
- The Phantom Voyage
- The Chess Club Murders
- Death Rides a Broomstick
- Murder Underground
- The Ghost Walks Again
- Death Prowls at Night
- Voodoo
- Murder from the Grave
- Death on the Rails
- The Dragon's Tongue Murders
- The Hoodoo Ship
- The Devil's Hour
- The Organ Played at Midnight
- The Case of the Three Frightened Policemen
- The Ring of Light
- Death Imported
1942
- Death Pulls the Strings
- The Drums of Doom (1942)
- The Thing in the Swamp
- Dead Man's Revenge
- The Return of Anatole Chevanic
- Death Speaks Twice
- Death Gives an Encore
- Dead Men Tell
- Altar of Death
- The Mystery of Madman's Deep
- Death Keeps a Deadline
- The Wailing Corpse
- The Lady in Black
- Death Shoots an Arrow
1943
- The Touch of Death (1943)
- The Gibbering Things
- The Crystal Globe
- The Bubbling Death
- The Club of Doom
1944
You Are There35 · Cast, Announcer
- The Witchcraft Trials at Salem
- The Sailing of the Mayflower (1947)
- The Signing of the Magna Carta
- The Dreyfus Case
- The Execution of Joan of Arc
- The Death of Socrates
- The Monitor and the Merrimac
- The Last Day of Pompeii
- The Battle of Plassey
- The Signing of the Declaration of Independence
- Lexington, Concord and Merriam's Corner
- The Ratification of the Constitution
- The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
- The First Battle of Bull Run
- Columbus Discovers America
- The Fall of Troy
- The Election of Thomas Jefferson
- The Execution of Maximilian
- The Conspiracy of Catiline
- The Hanging of Captain Kidd
- The Surrender of Sitting Bull
- The Execution of Charles I
- The Betrayal of Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Colonel Johnson Eats the Love Apple
- The Battle of Hastings
- Alexander the Great, Part 1: The Peace Offer
- Alexander the Great, Part 2: The Battle for Asia
- The Oklahoma Land Run
- Napoleon Returns from Elba
- The Assassination of Julius Caesar
- Montezuma and the Spaniards
- The Impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase
- Fort Sumter
- The Siege of Leiden
- The Capture of John Wilkes Booth
It Pays to Be Ignorant15 · Announcer
- How Can You Tell a Jersey Cow?
- What Is the Best Way to Keep Bills Down?
- Why Do Some People Eat with Their Knives?
- Why Do People Eat Garlic?
- Do Married Men Live Longer?
- What Kind of a Person Lives the Longest?
- What Is a Duck?
- What Is a New Year's Resolution?
- Who Was Rip Van Winkle?
- What Is a Window?
- What Is a Mother-in-Law?
- Where Do Bugs Go in the Winter?
- What Is a Bargain Sale?
- Why Do Wedding Bells Ring?
- How Can You Make a Woman Keep Her Mouth Shut?
Casey, Crime Photographer9 · Announcer
Easy Aces5 · Announcer
Columbia Workshop2 · Announcer
Grand Central Station2 · Narrator, Announcer
The Fred Allen Show2 · Announcer
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