The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Best of the Comedy-O-Rama Hour, Season One
By Joe Bevilacqua, Daws Butler, Robert J. Cirasa
Voiced by Vernon Morris, Henry J. Quinn, Jan Meredith , Ed Hyland, Terry Price, Gwendolyn Lewis, B. H. Barry
Length: 4 hours & 56 min.
Comedy and mystery are happy bedfellows in The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Veteran award-winning radio producer Joe Bevilacqua’s ten-part radio theater series pays humorous homage to the classic characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are filled with sly references to the original “Canon,” and even the Baker Street Irregulars and other Holmesian groups and scholars have enjoyed this about the series.
Titles include:
Episode One: “The Mystery of the Creepy Hack Writer”
Episode Two: “My Dinner at Baker Street”
Episode Three: “Sherlock Holmes in Trouble”
Episode Four: “A Study in Lavender”
Episode Five: “The Death of Mr. Sherlock Holmes”
Episode Six: “The Giant Rat of Sumatra”
Episode Seven: “Tales From the Vienna Wards”
Episode Eight: “His Second to Last Bow”
Episode Nine: “Revenge of the Beekeeper”
Episode Ten: “Holmes’ Creepy Christmas”
© 2014 by Joe Bevilacqua, Waterlogg Productions |
This Here Is Your Life, Sherlock Holmes: Parody from the Voice of Yogi Bear
Written and performed by Daws Butler, Douglas McEwan, and members of the Daws Butler Workshop
Produced by Joe Bevilacqua
Runtime: 1.0 Hours
ISBN-13: 978-1-4829-6567-4
This Here Is Your Life, Sherlock Holmes is a 1975 parody written and voiced by Daws Butler, Douglas McEwan, and members of the Daws Butler Workshop, including Billy Simpson, Pat Parris, and Corey Burton. In it, Ralph Backwards—along with Dr. Watson, Dracula, Jack-the-Ripper, and even Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman—roast the famous consulting detective.
© 2014 Charles Dawson Butler and Douglas McEwan
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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Missing Countess
By: Jon Koons
Performed by: Jon Koons and Joe Bevilacqua
Runtime: 2.6 Hours
Genre: Fiction/Humor
ISBN-13: 978-1-4815-1763-8
Scotland Yard is puzzled. A young countess has gone missing, and Sherlock Holmes, the world’s greatest detective, is summoned. Accompanied by the redoubtable Watson, Holmes must juggle the clues. What does he see? Why does he instruct Watson to bring his wife to the circus three days later? And why does Watson keep sneezing? An original Holmes adventure, it is one of Holmes’ more whimsical cases.
Written by actor, writer, and director Jon Koons in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle, performed by the author, and enhanced with sound effects and music, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Missing Countess has been published in the anthology The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes, as well as in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine.
Bonus Tracks: Noted fictional newsman Walter Cockeyed (Joe Bev) fills in for Joe Bevilacqua to present an interview with Jon Koons, the actor-writer-director behind the new stage playCockeyed Radio: Sherlock Holmes’ Misadventures with Abbott & Costello, sponsored by Brooklyn Seltzer Boys and Thayers Natural Remedies. Also heard is The Mystery of the Creepy Hack Writer, the first installment of Joe Bev’s ten-part audio parody series, the Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes.
© 2014 by Joe Bevilacqua, Waterlogg Productions, JestMaster, Jon Koons |