This is a list of the current episodes of the on-going radio drama, The Red Panda Adventures, by Decoder Ring Theater. The episodes are divided by season and listed by the release date. Each entry includes the number of the show, its title, a short description of the episode, and its original release date.
Episode list
Season One
| # | Title | Description | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| This week: A stolen sapphire, a mysterious murder and purloined plans add up to Amazing Adventure as The Red Panda and his trusty sidekick Kit Baxter, The Flying Squirrel race against time to decipher The Riddle Of The Sphinx! | October 15, 2005 | ||
| What do superheroes do when they don't have a case? Why they go out looking for trouble of course! They'll find more than they bargained for when The Red Pandas new sidekick Kit Baxter, The Flying Squirrel joins her partner on her very first Night Patrol! | October 29, 2005 | ||
| They say the hand is quicker than the eye... but when a baffling jewel robbery proves that someone's hands are quicker than a hundred eyes, the Red Panda is on the case! And when the culprit adds murder to their crimes, the hunt is on in earnest... and it's Rabbit Season! | November 12, 2005 | ||
| A ruthless protection syndicate is shaking down the citizens and shopkeepers of the city. But when our heroes move to intervene, they learn there may be more to this racket than meets the eye. Can even The Red Panda escape the clutches of The Golden Claw? | November 26, 2005 | ||
| Someone's been collecting old debts... and leaving a trail of corpses in his wake. But the city's most feared gang leader isn't going gentle into that good night - and he's found himself an unlikely ally. But will The Red Panda learn that not even he can stop payment of The Devil's Due? | December 10, 2005 | ||
| Will Holland was sentenced to die for his crimes. That should have been the end of the story... but one year later, the jurors that condemned him are sharing his fate one by one. With the aid of a new ally, The Red Panda and The Flying Squirrel must learn how Death Danced At Midnight! | December 24, 2005 | ||
| Someone is on a spree of high-profile robberies throughout the city. Someone wearing a very familiar bright red mask! Can it be true? Has the city's champion turned traitor to the cause of law and order? Can even Kit Baxter, The Flying Squirrel save her friend and mentor once the call has gone out - Red Panda: Dead Or Alive! | April 1, 2006 | ||
| Beaton Hall, an idyllic resort not far from the city, an oasis from the cares of the world... or a spider's web of danger and death! When the guests of Beaton Hall begin to meet with a series of unfortunate accidents, the press decides the old family manor must be cursed. The City's Greatest Champion suspects murder rather than misfortune. Can The Red Panda and The Flying Squirrel defeat this deadly game, or will they become the final victims of The Curse of Beaton Hall? | April 15, 2006 | ||
| An ancient killer stalks the city through shadows and fog. Each night brings new terrors, new victims. With each new dawn there are more questions, more outrage... and the lingering dread of the darkness to come. Who dares to hunt the hunter? To bring the light of justice to a metropolis under siege? The city cries out for its champions; but can even the Terrific Twosome of Toronto, The Red Panda and The Flying Squirrel, withstand the fury of... The Shadow Hunter? | April 29, 2006 | ||
| A cargo ship, hopelessly lost in the fog... from out of the darkness comes an eerie glow, bringing with it an impossible spectre from the past - and disaster! Again and again the terrifying scene is played out, until the city can bear the attacks no more. Our heroes take to the water to bring this menace to an end - but can even The Red Panda solve the mystery of The Ghost Ship? | May 13, 2006 | ||
| "Simon Radford released this morning. Apparently cured. Thought you should know." So reads the terse note from The Red Panda's agent. But can a maniac like Radford, who once terrorized the city as the villainous Electric Eel ever be truly reformed? And if so, who is behind the reign of terror that sweeps across the city? Can our heroes crack this case while struggling with their own... Duality? | May 26, 2006 | ||
| What does one do when one has seen it all? Done it all? Been to every corner of the former Empire and hunted every quarry known to man? Where does the mighty hunter turn for a challenge? Col. Barker Whistance-Smith, late of his Majesty's service, turns to the wilds of the urban jungle, and his quarry is the new breed of Mystery Man. But when he sets his sights upon The Red Panda, will he learn the folly of hunting The Deadliest Game? | June 10, 2006 |
Season Two
| # | Title | Description | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A mysterious stranger dies in the street in front of the fashionable Club Macaw. Were his claims of membership simply the sad ravings of yet another victim of hard times, or is there something far more sinister at work? Could he truly have been the son a wealthy house, long thought dead? Can even The Red Panda and The Flying Squirrel succeed in a struggle with The Hand of Fate? | October 7, 2006 | ||
| What could be finer than a peaceful Sunday morning? Just about anything if your name happens to be Kit Baxter and your hobbies include fighting injustice, protecting the innocent and gliding over the city as The Flying Squirrel. But getting the city's mighty champion out of the garden and away from the newspaper is another matter entirely. If there's to be any excitement, The Red Panda will have to find it in The Sunday Supplement! | October 21, 2006 | ||
| In the margins of every adventure story there are stories untold and heroes unsung. This episode we step into the spaces between the comic-book panels for a very special story. If you've ever wondered about The Red Panda's oft-mentioned, never-seen "agents"... or if you've ever simply stared out over the rooftops of your city and dreamed of being a hero; you won't want to miss a moment of When Darkness Falls! | November 4, 2006 | ||
| Cynthia Muldoon, daughter of one of the city's finest families, has disappeared. Has she been kidnapped, as her family fears? Or run off with some young man, as the police suspect? And what, if anything, does any of this have to do with a chocolate shop that Kit Baxter seems preoccupied with? If the Red Panda is to find the answers, first he'll need to pull The Sweet Tooth! | November 18, 2006 | ||
| Dark forces are gathering on the horizon. Powers that have long slept and now awaken to a new world, ripe for the plucking. Ancient secrets are whispered that, were they spoken aloud, would threaten all that lives... Kind of a tall order for a masked mystery man and his trusty sidekick. But when a friend's life is at stake, The Red Panda must turn to a mysterious figure from his past to help him seal... Merlin's Tomb! | December 2, 2006 | ||
| You've followed their thrilling exploits for a season and a half of Red Panda Adventures. You've been very good. You've earned a little backstory. This week we flash back to some of the earliest days of a certain wealthy young gad-about's exploits as a masked man of mystery and show you The Very First Meeting between The Red Panda and Kit Baxter, who later became the fearless flying female known as The Flying Squirrel! | December 16, 2005 | ||
| In hard times, people stick together. They help one another as best they can with the little they have. And always they cling to the one thing that keeps them going: Hope. But there are monsters in the darkness. Men made beasts who use that hope as a lure to prey upon those who have little else left. When creatures such as this begin to ply their vile trade in Toronto, they will pay a price for their treachery. For in this city, Justice is served freely, and by the Red-Gauntleted fistful! Join us now as Decoder Ring Theatre presents the return of Canada's Greatest Superheroes in The Dream Factory! | March 24, 2007 | ||
| Sometimes crime is so easy to spot. The thug in the alleyway, the mugger on the street... And other times the strangest little things can turn out to be the most sinister. Say... five hundred pounds of bananas that vanish into thin air. Or a load of plastic coconuts. Crimes on a theme? A new menace taking shape? Or is it a simple case of... Monkeyshines? | April 7, 2007 | ||
| An incognito visit to a traveling circus? Well, even masked heroes get the occasional evening off... or do they? When members of a high-flying family of acrobats find themselves accused of a crime, The Red Panda has even more reason than normal to clear their names and see justice served. After all, even masked heroes take a girl home to meet Mama once in a while... don't they? | April 21, 2007 | ||
| Dark forces are gathering. Powers that have long slept are stirring once more; a coming storm of otherworldly evil. So our heroes have been warned. But can any warning prepare The Red Panda and The Flying Squirrel for the unknowable? Or will the Terrific Twosome of Toronto fall before The Black Hand? | May 5, 2007 | ||
| When you put on a mask and fight for what's right, secrets are your stock and trade. They protect you, and those around you, from those that would seek to end your quest for justice. But when those secrets are compromised, the shield can become a sword in the hands of a vengeful enemy. What will happen when that moment comes for our heroes? When the mask slips, just a little? And what fury will come crashing through The Hidden Door? | May 19, 2007 | ||
| A symposium in the city has the world's greatest scientific minds together under one roof. A fine opportunity to advance mankind's knowledge - and perhaps a target too tempting to resist! But with that masked mystery man The Red Panda, the fearless fighting female The Flying Squirrel and their army of agents on the case, the conference is safe from any threat in the world. But what about... The World Next Door? | June 2, 2007 |
Season Three
| # | Title | Description | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| This week: 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 vulnerable citizens. The police are searching in vain for the firebug who holds the city in a grip of terror. But if a certain masked duo is right, there may be more to this arson spree than meets the eye. Can even the Red Panda and The Flying Squirrel withstand the flames of... Brimstone Alley? | September 22, 2007 | ||
| A blinding snowstorm, a manor house cut off from the outside world, a desperate, violent act... A perfect recipe for danger? Perhaps. But those strangers who just came in the door, are they really newlyweds John and Jane Morris, or has a certain masked duo come calling? And will even The Red Panda and The Flying Squirrel be enough to prevent... A Midwinter's Murder? | October 6, 2007 | ||
| Sometimes there's more to the story than a headline, as we find out as we follow our heroes on three short adventures that take us behind the scenes and show us that there's more to current events than meets the eye! | October 20, 2007 | ||
| 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 joins forces with a new organization, the game is rigged against The Red Panda before it begins. When they begin taking pieces off the board, will our heroes risk everything to get them back? Will will either of them survive... The Opening Gambit? | November 3, 2007 | ||
| 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 themselves safe from both the police and the city's masked heroes, and they just might be right! Is an alliance with the underworld the answer? Who will win the day, the Red Panda's army of agents or... The Calaghan Mob? | November 17, 2007 | ||
| 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, we tip our fedoras to the great Will Eisner and the classic Christmas stories he wrote for his much-loved Mystery Man "The Spirit", and in so doing, turn 1930s Toronto on its ear! Please enjoy, with our best wishes... Tis The Season! | December 1, 2007 | ||
| 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 foes! But with mechanical walking bombs appearing all over the city, it looks like the world's greatest criminal mastermind just became the least of their problems - to say nothing of the unknown threat of the mysterious... Red Squirrel! | March 8, 2008 | ||
| 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 up all over the city, each promising new crime more fiendish than the last. But Baxter's Law says "When the Goony-birds start changing their tune, there's usually something else goin' on." Will The Red Panda find the key to the villainous verse in time? Or will the city and it's masked protectors fall before... The Terrible Two? | March 22, 2008 | ||
| A string of industrial accidents is plaguing the city, each more serious than the last. Little by little fear spreads, public confidence erodes and the economic engines of the city grind to a halt. Is this simple coincidence? A conspiracy of terror? Or are there forces still more sinister at work? The Red Panda must find out, or fall before the power of... Barton's Charm! | April 5, 2008 | ||
| 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... everyone that had had put him behind bars would suffer a voodoo curse until he was freed. Of course, no one took him very seriously; until his victims started dropping like flies. Now The Red Panda may have only hours to crack the mystery... of The Empty Box! | April 19, 2008 | ||
| 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 are being carried out by an army of children? What elemental force could possibly have driven these innocents into a life of crime? And will even The Red Panda be able to oppose the might... of The Rat Lord? | May 3, 2008 | ||
| 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-shaped. But when an investigation leads the Terrific Twosome of Toronto all the way to New York City; already teeming with huddled masses of mystery men, superheroes and masked vigilantes, a lot can happen on... The Field Trip! | May 17, 2008 |
Season Four
| # | Title | Description | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time after time, threats from without have battered the city. Gangsters, racketeers and power mad-supervillains, and always our masked heroes have been equal to the task. But when the city turns upon itself; when its own citizens threaten to become the means of its destruction, can even the Red Panda turn the tide against... The Third Wave? | September 5, 2008 | ||
| 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 get worse? But with the powers of darkness creeping ever nearer, will our heroes be in time to discover the secrets of ... The Mask of Death? | September 19, 2008 | ||
| 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 anything ever possibly be that simple? With an eccentric millionaire in the house, about to sign away the family fortune and disinherit a roomful of angry relations, there's almost sure to be... Murder In The Castle! | October 4, 2008 | ||
| 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... but with a full-scale dimensional breach in progress, can even the Red Panda and the Flying Squirrel turn back... The Gathering Storm? | October 18, 2008 | ||
| 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's greatest foes come tumbling down, can even that Fearless Fighting Female the Flying Squirrel save her partner from the... Trial By Terror? | November 1, 2008 | ||
| 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 hold high the lamp of justice when darkness falls. But what happens when your most Trusted Agent... isn't? Only one man has truly has that answer, and he is.... The Boy In Blue! | November 14, 2008 |
References
- Decoder Ring Theatre Homepage - List of the Red Panda Adventures episodes