100th Barnaby Druthers story!
When we began to produce Barnaby Druthers as a separate series from our original anthology program Nutmeg Junction, we could never have known that the 100th unique Barnaby Druthers story would be released for air the week of 9/22/2024. It is a very special episode featuring two young voice actors who share their talents on a tale that delves into Barnaby’s past. You may wonder: is this the 100th episode? Let me explain. We began to create Barnaby Druthers stories in the anthology program “Nutmeg Junction”. We discovered there were many more stories to share about the character and also we found many radio stations liked the concept of a single concept series versus an anthology series (some stations do like anthologies, don’t worry, but there was a market for creating an audio theater series based around a single concept/idea/character). So we created Barnaby Druthers as a stand alone series, the idea took off like a rocket and we haven’t stopped since. The first “season” were initial episodes, we retooled the show and made some changes before series 3 and updated older shows over time which was relaunched with even more stations joining Druthers! We also created some short stories that were compiled into different episodes. So the 100th episode isn’t a relevant metric, after all, we’ve created over 160 mystery hour episodes, though these episodes included non-Druthers stories and encore episodes. But we do count the STORIES, the unique stories written associated with the character. For that reason, we can confidently say that the 100th unique episodewill be aired the week of 9/22 and is called “Secrets in the Coffin”!
