ACaseForDrMorelle audio oldtimeradio English Old Time Radio from the 1950s. This is a vintage radio drama series about a criminal psychologist, Dr Morelle, who solves murder cases which are too complex for the police. Morelle is played by English film actor Cecil Parker, and is alternately helped and hindered in his investigations by his secretary Miss Frayle, played by film actress Sheila Sim. The series was created by writer Ernest Dudley, who conceived the character during an air raid in 1942. The curmudgeonly and sarcastic psychologist is thought to be based on Hollywood actor and producer Erich von Stroheim; and as played by Cecil Parker the character certainly has a touch of the aristocrat about him. In a nod to the Baker Street residence of Sherlock Holmes, Morelle's London office is situated at 221b Harley Street. Most of the stories begin there, with his long-suffering secretary patiently enduring her employer's endless sarcasm. Each of the stories is self-contained, with Morelle solving the mystery in the final scene. Unusually for the time, he solves each case not by hunting for clues in the manner of Sherlock Holmes, but instead through a psychiatrist's insight into the personality of the killer: using his professional experience to consider the suspects, in order to determin which of them matches the deduced personality of the murderer. Thirteen episodes were broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1957, aired weekly from April 23rd to July 16th. Episodes 1, 7, 8, 11 and 12 in this collection are encoded from off-air recordings made in 1957. Episodes 3, 4 and 13 were recovered in Australia, where they had been broadcast on station 3LO Melbourne (probably in the 1960s). Episodes 2, 5, 6, 9 and 10 are encoded from repeats on BBC Radio 7 in the UK during 2007, and are consequently of higher technical quality than the others. The files listed in the column VBR MP3 are not in fact variable bit rate files. This is a column for files which do not fall into any of the Archive's standard bitrate categories. Those on this page are either 32 Kbps at a sample rate of 22 kHz (those recorded in 1957), 64 Kbps at a sample rate of 44 kHz (those recorded from 3LO Melbourne), or 80 Kbps at a sample rate of 48 kHz (those recorded from BBC Radio 7, which are MPEG 1.0 Layer II files as encoded by the BBC). Old Time Radio; OTR; Drama; A Case For Dr Morelle; Dr Morelle; Morelle 2009-02-11 20:56:21 2009-02-11 20:54:37 otr_man@hotmail.com Ed 999 twainbough Ed 999 Ed 999 2009-02-11 21:57:41 2009-02-11 23:24:42 2009-02-12 16:19:51 2009-04-09 19:29:50 2009-04-09 19:39:48 Ed 999