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Doc Savage made it to the radio three times 1934-35, 1943, and 1985. Below is a list of the episodes culled from numerous sources.

1934-35 episodes were 15 minutes each and were written by Lester Dent.

Episode Date Title

1 02/10/1934 The Red Death
2 02/17/1934 The Golden Legacy
3 02/24/1934 The Red Lake Quest
4 03/03/1934 The Sniper in The Sky
5 03/10/1934 The Evil Extortionists
6 03/17/1934 Black-Light Magic
7 03/24/1934 Radium Scramble
8 03/31/1934 Death Had Blue Hands
9 04/07/1934 The Sinister Sleep
10 04/14/1934 The Southern Star Mystery
11 04/21/1934 The Impossible Bullet
12 04/28/1934 The Too-talkative Parrot
13 05/05/1934 The Blue Angel
14 05/12/1934 The Green Ghost
15 05/19/1934 The Box of Fear
16 05/26/1934 The Phantom Terror
17 06/02/1934 Mantrap Mesa
18 06/09/1934 Fast Workers
19 06/16/1934 Needle in a Chinese Haystack
20 06/23/1934 Monk Called it Justice
21 06/30/1934 The White Haired Devil
22 07/07/1934 The Oilfield Ogres
23 07/14/1934 The Fainting Lady
24 07/21/1934 Poison Cargo
25 07/28/1934 Find Curley Morgan
26 08/04/1934 The Growing Wizard

Episodes 27-52 were repeats of the 1934 episodes.

The 1943 episodes were 30 minutes long.

Episode Date Title

53 01/06/1943 Doc Savage
54 01/13/1943 Return From Death
55 01/20/1943 Note of Death
56 01/27/1943 Murder Charm
57 02/03/1943 Death Stalks The Morgue
58 02/10/1943 I'll Dance On Your Grave
59 02/17/1943 Murder Is a Business
60 02/24/1943 Living Evil
61 03/03/1943 Journey Into Oblivion
62 03/10/1943 Hour of Murder
63 03/17/1943 Pharaoh's Wisdom
64 03/24/1943 Society Amazonia
65 03/31/1943 Insect Menace
66 04/07/1943 Subway to Hell
67 04/14/1943 Monster of The Sea
68 04/21/1943 The Voice That Cried 'Kill!'
69 04/28/1943 Cult of Satan
70 05/05/1943 When Dead Men Walk
71 05/12/1943 The Screeching Ghost
72 05/19/1943 Ransom or Death
73 05/26/1943 Murder Man
74 06/02/1943 Miracle Maniac
75 06/09/1943 Skull Man

Episodes 76-78 were repeats of selected 1943 episodes.

The 1985 National Public Radio episodes were 30 minutes each. They were two series, Fear Cay (Episodes 79-85) and The Thousand-Headed Man (Episodes 86-91)

Fear Cay

79 09/30/1985 Kidnapped
80 10/07/1985 The Hanging Man
81 10/14/1985 The Disappointing Parcel
82 10/21/1985 The Island of Death
83 10/28/1985 Terror Underground
84 11/04/1985 The Mysterious Weeds
85 11/11/1985 The Crawling Terror

The Thousand-Headed Man

86 11/18/1985 The Black Stick
87 11/25/1985 Three Black Sticks
88 12/02/1985 Flight Into Fear
89 12/09/1985 Pagoda of The Hands
90 12/16/1985 The Accursed City
91 12/23/1985 The Deadly Treasure

These are a couple of rare items from Doc's long music career. The Doc Savage Six was Doc's Jazz combo from 1958 to 1964. The cassette was a 70s re-release of the most famous Savage Six album. This ticket was from the group's final concert. The "Special Suprise Guest" was actually Doc and the crew in the next incarnation of the band -- "Savage." I have a line on a rare Savage cassette.

Doc Savage Info is making a big change. Look for something new before Doc's birthday... November 7th.

We could carry our discussion here....

All right...I agree this is by far the easiest, since we all have our
own careers. So, I have heard from a few people already who are interested
in co-writing an adventure. Let's get to it!

What I need now is a suggested story. Anyone have a quirky event,
villian, or death-machine they'd like to suggest? Or a title or anything else
to spark the book. It doesn't matter to me. I can write on any topic
(but let's not make it a stupid one; please think of it as a legitimate Doc
adventure so let's make it as cool as possible). I can also create the
topic myself, but thoguht it might be more fun if the group nominates some
potential villians/tales and then we jump from there. That'd be more
interactive and fun. But keep it original. Let's not just rehash and
old tale or reuse old characters. Time to use your OWN imagination.

Then I'll write the first chapter and post it here to see what happens
next. I don't know how fast others writers write -- I myself am extremely
fast and usually do chapters within an hour to a few hours. But, just to be
nice, I'm sure we could allow a week per chapter. That'd be more than enough for a few pages.

The main rules are this:

1) HONOR THE INTEGRITY OF DOC AND GANG, THEIR ERA AND MYTHOS.

2) WRITE A REAL ADVENTURE. CLIFFHANG EACH CHAPTER.

3) REMEMBER IT IS A TRUE STORY, WITH BEGINNING, MIDDLE, AND END. THIS MEANS YOU CANNOT ENDLESSLY INTRODUCE NEW CHARACTERS AND DEVICES. WORK WITH THE ESTABLISHED CAST AND PLOT.

4) IF IN DOUBT, DON'T. This means "I wonder if any will notice if I
kill off Ham?"

5) BE ORIGINAL. DON'T BE AFRAID TO IMAGINE. CREATE NEW, VIBRANT
CHARACTERS AND SCENES. DON'T REHASH THE OLD.

6) WRITE WELL. This isn't the time or place to louse up a tale with
remedial grammar, spelling, etc. That'll just ruin the book for
everyone. We're all readers. Let's do some justice to Doc and his fans.

Everyone gets their name on the chapter they contribute. We'll post
the finale novel here or out at Hidalgo or wherever is eventually decided
as home.

I think I should add that maybe in case things don't work out, as in no
one finishes the tale and it is left hanging at Chapter Ten or something,
maybe the core writers of the group like myself, Howard, Joe, Tom, etc.,
should agree to finish it. Maybe we'll be the "editorial advisory board" or
some such, so we can tidy up the end mess.

Sound good (or good enough for something I just pulled out of a magic
hat)? Good.

OK, I'm ready for suggestions. Anybody have a character, villain,
place, color, event, or plot suggestion?

Cheers,

Thomas Fortenberry

Welcome to the temporary home for the Doc Savage Discussion Group. Please take a minute to make a comment to answer a couple of questions....

A) How many Doc novels do you want to discuss a month? 1, 2, or 3?

B) Are you interested in starting at a certain date and following them in order?

C) Are you interested in reading from a sub-set of the novels? (Example: For November read any Donovan penned novel.)

D) Is this site ok to make comments or would you prefer I setup an email list?

I purpose we decide by Thursday and announce it to the group. To keep the newsgroup from getting confused I'll make a place for the discussion here (or set up a new group...depending on what everyone prefers...)

January 17, 2000: An interview with Will Murray

In a previous column we listed the order Doc Savage novels were submitted to the publisher. We weren't finished. Below we have the five novels that were quickest "submitted to published" in days. We used the submitted date and subtracted it from the first day of the published month. (Yes, we know the novels weren't published on that day, but we needed a consistant date.)

After the Quickest Five we have the Slowest Five. They are the novels that languished the longest on the editor's desk.

Quickest Five

Days
43 The Polar Treasure
68 The Man of Bronze
71 The Land of Terror
85 The Roar Devil
87 Quest of the Spider

Slowest Five

Days
547 Mad Eyes
573 He Could Stop the World
574 The Magic Forest
608 The Rustling Death
688 The Motion Menace

Doc Savage fans are a particular lot. Some have read the novels in the order they were published by Bantam. Some insist a better method is to read them in the order they were originally published. The latest "best order" is to read the novels in the order they were "submitted to Street and Smith." Guess who has that order for you?

Year
# Mag Title

1932
001 The Man of Bronze

1933
002 The Land of Terror
003 Quest of the Spider
004 The Polar Treasure
005 Pirate of the Pacific
006 The Red Skull
007 The Lost Oasis
008 The Sargasso Ogre
009 The Czar of Fear
010 The Phantom City
011 Brand of the Werewolf
012 The Man Who Shook the Earth
013 Meteor Menace
014 The Monsters
015 The Mystery on the Snow

1934
016 The King Maker
017 The Thousand-Headed Man
018 The Squeaking Goblin
019 Fear Cay
020 Death in Silver
021 The Sea Magician
022 The Annihilist
023 The Mystic Mullah
024 Red Snow
025 Land of Always-Night
026 The Spook Legion
027 The Secret in the Sky

1935
028 Spook Hole
029 The Roar Devil
030 Quest of Qui
031 Cold Death
032 The Majii
033 Mystery Under the Sea
034 Murder Melody
035 The Fantastic lsland
036 Dust of Death
037 The Seven Agate Devils
038 Murder Mirage
039 The Midas Man
040 The Black Spot
041 The Men Who Smiled No More
042 The Metal Master
043 Haunted Ocean
044 The South Pole Terror
045 Land of Long Juju
046 The Vanisher
047 Mad Eyes
048 He Could Stop the World
049 The Terror in the Navy
050 The Derrick Devil

1936
051 The Mental Wizard
052 The Land of Fear
053 Resurrection Day
054 Repel
055 The Motion Menace
056 Ost
057 The Sea Angel

1937
058 Devil on the Moon
059 The Golden Peril
060 The Feathered Octopus
061 The Living Fire Menace
062 The Mountain Monster
063 The Pirate's Ghost
064 The Red Terrors
065 The Submarine Mystery

1938
066 The Giggling Ghosts
067 The Munitions Master
068 Fortress of Solitude
069 The Devil Genghis
070 The Green Death
071 Mad Mesa
072 The Yellow Cloud
073 Merchants of Disaster
074 The Freckled Shark
075 World's Fair Goblin
076 The Gold Ogre

1939
077 The Flaming Falcons
078 The Crimson Serpent
079 Hex
080 Poison Island
081 The Stone Man
082 The Angry Ghost
083 The Dagger in the Sky
084 The Other World
085 The Spotted Men
086 The Evil Gnome
087 The Boss of Terror
088 The Flying Goblin

1940
089 The Purple Dragon
090 Tunnel Terror
091 The Awful Egg
092 The Headless Men
093 The Awful Dynasty
094 Devils of the Deep
095 The Men Vanished
096 The Devil's Playground
097 Bequest of Evil
098 The All-White Elf
099 The Golden Man
100 The Pink Lady
101 The Magic Forest
102 The Mindless Monsters
103 The Rustling Death
104 The Green Eagle
105 Mystery Island

1941
106 Birds of Death
107 Peril in the North
108 The Invisible-Box Murders
109 Men of Fear
110 The Man Who Fell Up
111 The Too-Wise Owl
112 Pirate Isle
113 The Speaking Stone

1942
114 The Three Wild Men
115 The Fiery Menace
116 The Laugh of Death
117 They Died Twice
118 The Devil's Black Rock
119 The Time Terror
120 The Talking Devil
121 Waves of Death
122 The King of Terror
123 The Black, Black Witch
124 The Running Skeletons
125 Mystery on Happy Bones

1943
126 The Goblins
127 The Mental Monster
128 Hell Below
129 The Secret of the Su
130 The Spook of Grandpa Eben
131 The Whisker of Hercules
132 According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic
133 Death Had Yellow Eyes
134 The Derelict of Skull Shoal
135 The Three Devils
136 The Pharaoh's Ghost

1944
137 The Man Who Was Scared
138 The Shape of Terror
139 Weird Valley
140 Jin San
141 Satan Black
142 The Lost Giant
143 Violent Night
144 Strange Fish
145 The Ten-Ton Snakes
146 Cargo Unknown
147 Rock Sinister
148 The Terrible Stork
149 King Joe Cay

1945
150 The Wee Ones
151 Terror Takes 7
152 The Thing That Pursued
153 Trouble on Parade
154 The Screaming Man
155 Measures for a Coffin
156 Se-Pah-Poo
157 Terror and the Lonely Widow
158 Five Fathoms Dead
159 Death is a Round Black Spot
160 Colors for Murder

1946
161 Fire and Ice
162 Three Times a Corpse
163 The Exploding Lake
164 Death in Little Houses
165 The Devil Is Jones
166 The Disappearing Lady
167 Target for Death
168 Danger Lies East
169 The Death Lady
170 No Light to Die By
171 The Monkey Suit

1947
172 Let's Kill Ames
173 Once Over Lightly
174 I Died Yesterday
175 The Pure Evil
176 Terror Wears No Shoes

1948
177 The Angry Canary
178 The Swooning Lady
179 In Hell, Madonna
180 The Green Master
181 Return From Cormoral

1949
182 Up From Earth's Center

Tom Barnett is looking for interest in a collection of articles Will Murray has written about Doc Savage. Will asked Tom to guage reader interest in the project.

If you'd like to express interest or receive information when the collection is published email Tom at tomrbarnett@yahoo.com or leave your email as a comment here.

He's written Bleeding Sun, but Duane Spurlock isn't one to rest on his laurels. The man has started publishing articles on adventure and western pulps on his site Pulprack.com. Catchy name, no?