Bold Venture

:"For the racehorse see" Bold Venture (horse).

"Bold Venture" was a 1951-1952 syndicated radio series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Morton Fine and David Friedkin scripted the taped series for Bogart's Santana Productions.

Salty seadog Slate Shannon (Bogart) owns a Cuban hotel sheltering an assortment of treasure hunters, revolutionaries and other shady characters. With his sidekick and ward, the sultry Sailor Duval (Bacall), tagging along, he encounters modern-day pirates and other tough situations while navigating the waters around Havana. Aboard his boat, the "Bold Venture", Slate and Sailor experience "adventure, intrigue, mystery and romance in the sultry settings of tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean."

Calypso singer King Moses (Jester Hairston) provided musical bridges by threading plot situations into the lyrics of his songs. Music by David Rose. Beginning March 26, 1951, the Frederic W. Ziv Company syndicated 78 episodes. Other sources claim that the 78 episodes include reruns, and that there were only around 30 episodes. Heard on 423 stations, the 30-minute series earned $4000 weekly for Bogart and Bacall.

32 episodes are known to exist in 2008, some are known by more than one title which can make it appear that there are more.The latest episode to come to light is "Senor Rufio".

Television

Ziv brought "Bold Venture" to television in 1959 with 39 episodes directed by William Conrad. The series starred Dane Clark as Slate Shannon, Joan Marshall as Sailor Duval and Bernie Gozier as King Moses. Locations included the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, California.

Radio episode guide

*12 Year Promise (aka Oil Wells)
*A Bullet For Shannon (aka Thugs And Slugs/Johnny Price Story)
*Alice Ramsey's Husband (aka Poison Darts/Voodoo Vendetta)
*Blue Moon
*Carlos & Juan Story (aka Crazy Old Carlos)
*The Chaney Wedding (aka Death At The Wedding)
*Cruise To Batabano (aka Emelio Lopez Story)
*Death By A Fighting Bird (aka Deadly Merchandise/Smuggling Arms)
*Death Of Rudy Keijon (aka With Friends Like These/Bob Yancy arrests Slate for murder)
*El Indio
*Ghost Ship
*Haven's Venezuelan Island (aka Gene Moore's wife/Claudia)
*Isle Of Pines (aka I'm Going To Die/Rhoda Gonzalez)
*Kwan Yen Statue (aka Quam Yi Statue)
*Louis Gaspar Case (aka Slate's Stolen Identity)
*Murder Of Franny Lane (aka He Who Laughs Last/Murder Is No Joke/Slate Shannon accused of murder)
*Mystery Of The Mary K
*Paul Brewer Story (aka Escape From Guantanamo)
*Robbery By Joe Ralston (aka Revenge Is Sweet/The Big Road)
*Russian Roulette
*Ruthie Ryan's Father (aka The Big K.O.)
*Sailor's Dead Husband (aka Marriage And Murder/Freddie Naye)
*Search For Tommy Reed
*Senor Rufio
*Six Crates of Apples, White Envelope (aka Bill Of Lading/Dope Smugglers)
*Slate's Tuxedo Pocket (aka Black Tie Affair)
*Spanish Gold (aka Treasure On Flamingo Cay)
*Suicide or Murder (aka Out Of Control/Phyllis Calvert murder)
*Tabard of Pizarro (aka Alice Markel poisoning)
*The Dead Matt Jefferies (aka The One That Got Away)
*The Tears of Siva (aka Star of Sheba)
*Welcome Back to Civilization, Dead Man (aka Man From Sumatra/George Carson Killed)

Listen to

* [http://www.bold-venture.co.uk "Bold Venture" (32 episodes)]
* [http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/boldventure.htm Radio Lovers: "Bold Ventures" (20 episodes)]
* [http://TheaterOfTheEars.com/ Theater of the Ears: "Bold Venture"]

External links

* [http://www.old-time.com/otrlogs2/boldv_dj.log.txt Dick Judge's "Bold Venture" log]
* [http://www.magazine.uc.edu/0207/classacts2.htm Fred Ziv and "Bold Venture"]