Decoder Ring Theatre

Slick Bracer 04 - The Ruby Tooth

15 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Take one hard-boiled, poorly cliched private eye, add a mysterious missing artifact and stir in six or seven of history's most culturally insesitive a...

Slick Bracer 03 - Some Murdered Guy

01 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

He has always been a lone wolf... a solitary coyote... or at least an only puppy. But today, Slick Bracer, PI is getting himself a partner! Will doubl...

Slick Bracer 02 - The Case of the Kidnapped Canine!

15 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Metropolisville's most manly man of mystery takes of a crazed dognapping ring, an even more crazed client, a police detective who is also... um... cra...

Slick Bracer 01 - A Four Star Murder!

31 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Get ready for the Summer of Slick, as Decoder Ring Theatre proudly presents a full set of Erik Deckers' Slick Bracer, starring Peter Nicol as Slick! A...

Red Panda Adventures (72) - There Will Be Rain Tonight

14 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Which is more deadly, the battle you thought was lost, or the fight you thought you had won? In the chaos of war, only one thing is certain... There W...

Red Panda Adventures (71) - All The King's Men

30 Apr 2011

Contributed by Lukas

For years now, the country has been haunted by an enemy as elusive as any ghost. The head of a network working to weaken our war effort and prepared t...

Red Panda Adventures (70) - The Wild West

15 Apr 2011

Contributed by Lukas

There are some situations that you just can't prepare for. You can be the cleverest mystery man on the block, there will still be days that you just n...

Red Panda Adventures (69) - Stop the Presses

31 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A newspaper is a powerful tool. The voice of the people, a beacon of truth in dark times and a reflexion of all that we would like to be as a city, a ...

Red Panda Adventures (68) - Small Wonders

15 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Let's see... the Nazis have decimated the Council of Mages in the Occult War and swarmed over half of Europe. They have squadrons of telepathically c...

Red Panda Adventures (67) - Sword of the Sun King

01 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Through the mists of time, from an age almost forgotten, comes a lost blade once wielded by a man who held much of the civilized world under his pow...

Black Jack Justice (42) - The Sky's The Limit

14 Feb 2011

Contributed by Lukas

They say that if a person is lucky at cards, it stands to follow that they must also be unlucky at love. But it doesn't take much research to prove t...

Black Jack Justice (41) - Man's Best Friend

01 Feb 2011

Contributed by Lukas

There are always more than one side to every story. And when you're dealing with a newspaper magnate, a missing heiress, a kidnapping with no ransom ...

Black Jack Justice (40) - The Albatross

15 Jan 2011

Contributed by Lukas

"The one that got away" is a fine kind of tale for some. Fishermen, for example, seem to thrive on the subject. But in the detective business, where...

Black Jack Justice (39) - Cops and Robbers

31 Dec 2010

Contributed by Lukas

They say that there are no small parts, my friends, only small actors. I've never been entirely clear on exactly what that means, or if the folks that...

Black Jack Justice (38) - Auld Lang Syne

15 Dec 2010

Contributed by Lukas

There are few things that cry out for introspection quite like the passing of one year into the next. A time when the rustle of lost illusions crackle...

Black Jack Justice (37) - Hush Money

01 Dec 2010

Contributed by Lukas

When everybody's favorite junior boy detective drops by, its usually good for a twist of a certain tail, and our Square-Jawed hero kind of enjoys that...

Red Panda Adventures (66) - Barbarian at the Gates

15 Nov 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A mysterious monster is tearing through the landscape, destroying anything that gets in its way, and headed straight for Toronto! And nothing the Home...

Red Panda Adventures (65) - Girls' Night Out

01 Nov 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Time for a night on the town - West Coast Style! When the Flying Squirrel trails a sabotage ring to Vancouver, can a run in with the local masked hero...

Red Panda Adventures (64) - Rocket Science

15 Oct 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The Red Panda has faced many dangers in the service of his country, and few seem greater than being forced to share a sandbox with other superheroes. ...

Red Panda Adventures (63) - The King of Crime

30 Sep 2010

Contributed by Lukas

They say that crime knows no loyaties, and there is no honour among thieves. Certainly, for a nation at war, any attack upon the forces of law and ord...

Red Panda Adventures (62) - The Home Team

15 Sep 2010

Contributed by Lukas

There may not be an ideal time to learn that one of the Red Panda's deadliest foes has escaped custody, but this certainly isn't it. The Red Panda and...

Red Panda Adventures (61) - The Nose For News

27 Aug 2010

Contributed by Lukas

More than a year has passed since the Occult War was lost, and little has gone well for those who stand against the forces of darkness. Many nations ...

Play It Again! Justice in Love and War

14 Aug 2010

Contributed by Lukas

All good things must come to an end, my friends, and so our summer stroll down memory lane comes to a close with this final episode. And it just would...

Play It Again! - Death Danced At Midnight!

01 Aug 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Holy cats, Decoder Ringers, two "Red Panda" Play It Agains in a row? It's almost like we're saving a Black Jack for the summer's big finale in a coupl...

Play It Again! - The Sweet Tooth

15 Jul 2010

Contributed by Lukas

We continue our summer stroll down memory lane with danger and daring-do courtesy of Steven Burley sitting in as the Red Panda with Hero van Harten as...

Play It Again! The Beefsteak Botheration

01 Jul 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Fun in the sun as we play "what might have been" with a favorite episode of Black Jack Justice, this time featuring the dream team of Freddie the Fing...

Play It Again! - Curse of Beaton Hall

14 Jun 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Our Summer Showcase of what-might-have-been continues and we play a little game of turnabout is fair play as Smilin' Chris Mott dons the red domino ma...

Play It Again! - No Justice

01 Jun 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The first in our series of Summer Delights featuring favorite scripts as selected by you, the listener! The only caveat to these tales so nice we told...

Red Panda Adventures (60) - The Great Fall

15 May 2010

Contributed by Lukas

For years now, the self-appointed guardians of the unearthly powers that remain in this world have fought a running battle, trying to hold back the fo...

Red Panda Adventures (59) - Sins of the Father

30 Apr 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A series of mysterious accidents is plauging the business interests of a certain wealthy former gad-about. Is it mere coincidence, or is Fenwick Ind...

Red Panda Adventures (58) - Eyes of the Idol

15 Apr 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Two impossibly rare jewels, each the twin of the other and locked in an ancient curse... kept as far apart as possible for years. But now one of the E...

Red Panda Adventures (57) - Song of the Siren

01 Apr 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Sun, sand, the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean... What could be more relaxing than an extended tropical vacation? With pleasure craft mysterious...

Welcome!

26 Mar 2010

Contributed by Lukas

If you just wandered to our scenic podcast page when we appeared (to my great wonderment) in Roger Ebert's Twitter Feed, welcome! For more informatio...

Red Panda Adventures (56) - A Dish Best Served Cold

15 Mar 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Our mysterious masked marvel has spent many years protecting the citizens of Toronto from the worst of the worst. A man makes a lot of enemies that ...

Red Panda Adventures (55) - The Secret City

28 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Life isn't always easy for a Police Detective. Especially with Chief O'Mally breathing down his neck about a kidnapping ring. But at least Andy Parker...

Black Jack Justice (36) - Journeys End

12 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

They say a man meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it. Which means that whatever you do, and whatever the result might be, your fortune co...

Black Jack Justice (35) - Small Mercies

29 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A certain hack writer who shall remain Shakespeare is of the opinion that the quality of mercy is not strained. He obviously doesn't ride the bus past...

Black Jack Justice (34) - The Devil You Know

15 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A client who seems a little too eager to pony up his retainer, the feds sniffing around like the wolf at the door and witnesses who keep blossoming in...

Black Jack Justice (33) - The Stopped Clock

01 Jan 2010

Contributed by Lukas

When a snoop-and-peep that paid turned into a murder case that almost certainly didn't, it meant one thing: Jack suddenly got interested. For the Girl...

Black Jack Justice (32) - Stormy Weather

19 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

It has been remarked more than once that there's always a calm just before the storm. Certified meteorological phenomenon or old wives saw, it was sti...

Black Jack Justice (31) - Requiem for an Elf

04 Dec 2009

Contributed by Lukas

It is a season not to be trusted, my friends. It can dress up sadness as nostalgia, tackiness as whimsy and grey-green slush as "Christmas snow"... bu...

Red Panda Adventures (54) - Terror Walks the Night

20 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The struggle against dark times has been a long and bitter one, and the fight to not give in to that darkness is constant. A rash of inexplicable dis...

Red Panda Adventures (53) - Murder Wears a Mask

07 Nov 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The newspapers trumpet murder and mayhem almost every day, and there's more than enough to keep the Terrific Twosome of Toronto busy in their own home...

Red Panda Adventures (52) - Just Like Clockwork

22 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A stranger awakes in an alley with no memory, no clue who he is and only a dim impression of his mission. All around, shadowy forces are closing in. W...

Red Panda Adventures (51) - The Puzzle Master

09 Oct 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Scientific scerets are being stolen by a sinister superfiend with a mind for mazes and the morals of a monster. But when the Terrific Twosome of Toro...

Red Panda Adventures (50) - Flight of the Bumblebee

26 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A forgotten foe from our masked marvel's past returns, exhibiting astonishing new powers. Is this the opening overture of a new concerto of crime, o...

Red Panda Adventures (49) - Nightshade

11 Sep 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A nice, quiet honeymoon was probably too much to ask, wasn't it? But after a string of adventures, our crime-fighters are finally headed for home. And...

Summer Showcase (13) - Shinkei

21 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Are there any two phrases in the English language that offer as much delight at "mildly dystopian" and "not-too-distant future"? If there are, they ca...

Summer Showcase (12) - Thinking in Ternary

07 Aug 2009

Contributed by Lukas

From Tim Prasil, author of "Magic of the Movies" and "The Crasher", our showcase presents this thoughtful and engaging tale. What makes a mind? Is it ...

Summer Showcase (11) - Spotlight on Icebox

24 Jul 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Our pals from International Falls, Minnesota sit in with the band this week as the first of two Spotlight episodes we'll be bringing you this summer s...

Summer Showcase (10) - Tales of the Rodeo King

10 Jul 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Phil Bledsoe's iconic hero Blaze Bing, Rodeo King was brought to us just two weeks ago. But behind evey tale of heroes is another story. Sometimes dar...

Summer Showcase (09) - Blaze Bing, Rodeo King

26 Jun 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Thrill once again to the thunder of hoofbeats and the roar of blazing six-guns as the Decoder Ring Theatre Summer showcase presents the first in a pai...

Summer Showcase (08) The Knightmare pt 2

12 Jun 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The Knightmare races to Carol Lane's rescue as the top-secret Nazi shock troops of the Murder Legion strike at the reception at the Griffiths Observat...

Summer Showcase (07) - The Knightmare pt 1

29 May 2009

Contributed by Lukas

From New Pulp Media Baron Bill Cunningham comes this thrilling tale of adventure in 1940's Hollywood! Since the dawn of time, mankind has been protect...

Red Panda Adventures (48) - Operation: Cold Feet

15 May 2009

Contributed by Lukas

As the big day approaches, strange things are afoot in the city. Our heroes are being sighted in places that their mild-mannered secret identities hav...

Red Panda Adventures (47) - The Endgame

01 May 2009

Contributed by Lukas

For years now, a shadowy organization has targeted the city and its citizens. Time after time the Terrific Twosome has defeated their most diabolical ...

Red Panda Adventures (46) The Crimson Death

17 Apr 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Three members of the Sanitarium Board of Directors have met an untimely end, each apparently at the hands of a different super-powered villain. But s...

Red Panda Adventures (45) - Jungle of Terror

03 Apr 2009

Contributed by Lukas

When an emergency message arrives from an old friend from half a world away, the Terrific Twosome of Toronto race against time to reach the savage bea...

Red Panda Adventures (44) - I Dream of Genies

21 Mar 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Even the self-professed World's Greatest Criminal Mastermind can get a little predictable. The Genie has hatched plots, capers and fiendish plans in...

Red Panda Adventures (43) - The Golden Idol

06 Mar 2009

Contributed by Lukas

A darkened street, a cry for help and a courageous rescue by... by a super-powered flying man in a bright yellow cape? This can't be good. Will a cert...

Black Jack Justice (30) - Now Who's The Dummy?

20 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The life of a private detective is one that tends to keep a fella behind the times. After all, if you're sitting on top of the world, you rarely find ...

Black Jack Justice (29) The Problem of the Perplexing Pastiche

06 Feb 2009

Contributed by Lukas

Two solid days of surveillance can take it out of anybody. Two nights without sleep and things don't make a lot of sense. But when Trixie Dixon, Girl ...

Black Jack Justice (28) - No News is Good News

23 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

If there's one thing worse than not having one of your best sources at your beck and call, it's never having him again because he went and got dead. W...

Black Jack Justice (27) - The Family Jewels

09 Jan 2009

Contributed by Lukas

The life of a detective has its ups and downs to be sure. Some might even argue that the downs held a pretty strong grip on the majority. But every so...

Black Jack Justice (26) - The Do-Nothing Detective

27 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Private detecting isn't the sort of game where you can pick your battles. Jack and Trixie have done all kinds of things for all kinds of people, and m...

Black Jack Justice (25) - A Midsummer Night's Noir

13 Dec 2008

Contributed by Lukas

With the city in the grips of a heat wave, things are bound to get a little screwy. But no matter what air-conditioned hidey-hole a gumshoe ducks into...

A Very Decoder Ring Christmas!

28 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

When the Decoder Ring Theatre Gang gets together to finally record that oft-requested crossover episode between The Red Panda Adventures and Black Jac...

Red Panda Adventures (42) - The Boy In Blue

14 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

The agents who serve The Red Panda are our masked heroes' eyes and ears. They are the many hands that make their great work light. They are men who ho...

Red Panda Adventures (41) - Trial by Terror

01 Nov 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Side by side, the Terrific Twosome of Toronto have faced danger and dastadly daring-do of every shape and size. But when the walls that hold back The ...

Red Panda Adventures (40) - The Gathering Storm

18 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Once again the cold tendrils of dark powers reach forth into our world. Our heroes have stood the test before, and made such preparations as they may....

Red Panda Adventures (39) - Murder In The Castle

04 Oct 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Ah, a romantic evening on the town... dinner and dancing at the swanky Casa Loma. Could anything be finer? Could an evening be more perfect? Could any...

Red Panda Adventures (38) - The Mask of Death

20 Sep 2008

Contributed by Lukas

A train station full of terrified hostages... An old enemy returned to spread chaos and destruction... Who would have guessed that the day could only ...

Red Panda Adventures (37) - The Third Wave

06 Sep 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Time after time, threats from without have battered the city. Gangsters, racketeers and power mad-supervillains, and always our masked heroes have bee...

DG08 - Deck Gibson at the End of the Universe pt 2

10 Aug 2008

Contributed by Lukas

A dreaded foe... an unfathomable prize... a damsel in distress... seems like everything a Commander could ask for. But with the future itself on the l...

DG07 - Deck Gibson at the End of the Universe pt1

26 Jul 2008

Contributed by Lukas

For a Far Reach Commander, the mysteries and wonders of the Galaxy are home sweet home, the dangers of the darkest places in the big black are busines...

DG06 - Deck Gibson and the Plutonium Man

12 Jul 2008

Contributed by Lukas

When Deck took on the mantle of Far Reach Commander, he stepped into a universe of wonder those within Earth's isolationist borders could scarcely ima...

DG05 - Deck Gibson and the Court of Eternity

28 Jun 2008

Contributed by Lukas

A Far Reach Commander is a man without limits, a man for whom the boarders and petty territories carved out of space mean nothing... only that open e...

DG04 - Deck Gibson and Two Days on the Tundra of Terror

14 Jun 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Responding to a faint distress call brings Deck to a frozen wasteland of a planet. With bone-chilling temperatures and blinding blizzards, surely noth...

DG03 - Deck Gibson and the Room With No View

31 May 2008

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Deck is held prisoner after a Quasar Corps ambush and arrested as a traitor against Earth! Will his training as a Far Reach Commander sav...

Red Panda Adventures (36) - The Field Trip

17 May 2008

Contributed by Lukas

In his own city, The Red Panda calls the shots - and he doesn't tolerate any interloping from other masked do-gooders that aren't soft and Squirrel-sh...

Red Panda Adventures (35) - The Rat Lord

03 May 2008

Contributed by Lukas

A sudden rash of petty crime is spreading like wildfire, bleeding the city white a few dollars at a time. Is it really possible that these robberies a...

Red Panda Adventures (34) - The Empty Box

19 Apr 2008

Contributed by Lukas

The day they carried Sam Merk out of the courtroom, he swore he'd never serve the life sentence he'd been given. He promised that the judge, the jury....

Red Panda Adventures (33) - Barton's Charm

05 Apr 2008

Contributed by Lukas

A string of industrial accidents is plaguing the city, each more serious than the last. Little by little fear spreads, public confidence erodes and th...

Red Panda Adventures (32) - The Terrible Two

22 Mar 2008

Contributed by Lukas

With that Pompous Pirate of the Pen known only as The Poet on the loose, it was only a matter of time before clues in couplet form started sprouting ...

Red Panda Adventures (31) - The Red Squirrel

08 Mar 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Return with us now to the thrill-packed exploits of the masked protectors of 1930's Toronto as they hunt down one of their oldest and most diabolical ...

Black Jack Justice (24) - Dance, Justice, Dance

23 Feb 2008

Contributed by Lukas

They say that music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. But like just about everything "they" say, truth is in the eye of the beholder. When Jack...

Black Jack Justice (23) - Much Ado About Norman

09 Feb 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Everywhere you looked, there were goods to be gotten, and the getting often fell to Black Jack and Trixie. But there were consequences to be paid that...

Black Jack Justice 22 - The Reunion

26 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

It sounded like a nice, simple job. Two sisters, estranged long ago over a man who was long gone. An apology... a reunion... the restoration of family...

Black Jack Justice (21) - Trixie's Pet

12 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

It wouldn't be quite right to say that Trixie had a soft spot in her heart for old Button-Down Theo. But she had a soft spot in her head for him anywa...

Black Jack Justice (20) - Sabien's Law

29 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

"Law stands mute in the midst of arms" they say. Well, that proves one thing anyway; old man Cicero never met Police Lieutenant Victor Sabien. He'd n...

Black Jack Justice (19) - Payback

15 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

"...But to me, it was as if the city had emptied out at the word of Jack Justice's return. As well they might. As well they might..." Yes, Jack Justic...

Red Panda Adventures (30) - Tis The Season

01 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, kids, there's a man in red on the rooftops, but it ain't St Nick! In this very special slice of two-fisted pulp justice with all the trimmings, w...

Red Panda Adventures (29) The Callaghan Mob

17 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

When a string of petty extortionists hits our heroes too close to home, it's a sure bet that fists are gonna fly. But these "little fish" think themse...

Red Panda Adventures (28) - The Opening Gambit

03 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

If you play the game long enough, it is only a matter of time before others know your moves as well as you know theirs. But when just such an old foe ...

Red Panda Adventures (27) - Now, The News

20 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

And now, from headlines around the world and here at home, join us as the Radiogram News Picture Corporation presents: News On Parade! Sometimes ther...

Red Panda Adventures (26) - A Midwinter's Murder

06 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

A blinding snowstorm, a manor house cut off from the outside world, a desperate, violent act... A perfect recipe for danger? Perhaps. But those strang...

Red Panda Adventures (25) - Brimstone Alley

22 Sep 2007

Contributed by Lukas

A pyromaniac is preying on the slums and tenement buildings of the city, bringing danger and misery to the lives of the some of its most vunerable c...

Summer Showcase (06) - Slick Bracer and the Giant Nap

25 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Metropolisville is more than just a wheelbarrow full of consonants and vowels rubbing up against each other in ways that are dark and dangerous, and h...

Summer Showcase (05) - I.D.0

11 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

"I don't know how long I sat there... reading the name on the door over and over until my scrambled brain could make sense of it... Drake Finn Investi...

Summer Showcase (04) Deck Gibson and the Last Squadron Fighter

28 Jul 2007

Contributed by Lukas

And now, our Showcase presents another adventure with Matt Wallace's Deck Gibson: Far Reach Commander! Years ago Deck left Earth's isolationist Quasar...