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Pendant Productions is an independent production group that creates audio serials and radio dramas. Pendant creates fan shows based on comic book and movie characters, and also content with original characters. Pendant is part of a growing online community of creators of original and fanfiction audio.

=History= Pendant is an audio production group dedicated to making radio dramas like the old radio serials of the '30s and '40s, only modernized for today's audiences. It was founded by Jeffrey Bridges, who is also the Executive Producer.

Pendant started with "Star Trek: Defiant," which originated as a text based story in 1995. It expanded with a Superman serial after the founder was exposed to the old Superman radio serials. While Pendant started exclusively with fan fiction, it now boasts original shows such as The Kingery and Seminar.

Cast members record their parts of each script on their personal computers, and send those parts to the director who mixes the dialogue with sound effects to create audioplays. The resultant product is similiar to old time radio dramas, though everything is recorded at home rather than in a professional studio. Unfortunately, this shows in the final quality of the productions. Actors, writers, directors and producers are not paid for their work.

=Fan Shows=

Batman: The Ace of Detectives
"Batman: The Ace of Detectives" is an ongoing monthly serial adventure based on the modern incarnation of the character in DC Comics.

Superman: The Last Son of Krypton
"Superman: The Last Son of Krypton" is an ongoing monthly serial adventure based on the modern incarnation of the character in DC Comics.

Last Son of Krypton star on Radio KAL
Ryan H. Nelson, star of "Superman: The Last Son of Krypton", was interviewed on Superman news show Radio KAL (episode 5) specifically about his roles as Superman/Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen: http://www.supermanhomepage.com/multimedia/Radio/radio-kal005.mp3 http://www.supermanhomepage.com/multimedia/multimedia.php?topic=radio-kal

Wonder Woman: The Champion of Themyscira
"Wonder Woman: Champion of Themyscira" is an ongoing monthly serial adventure based on the modern incarnation of the character in DC Comics.

James Bond: The The End
"James Bond: To The End" is a feature-length adventure based on the James Bond film franchise.

Indiana Jones and the Well of Life
"Indiana Jones and the Well of Life" is a feature-length adventure based on the Indiana Jones film franchise.

Star Trek: Defiant
"Star Trek: Defiant" is a full-cast, ongoing sci-fi serial adventure based upon the Star Trek television series.

"Space. The Final Frontier. These are the Chronicles of the Starship Defiant. To keep the charge entrusted by those who have gone before. To continue the quest for the new and the unknown. To go, with honor and courage, the far and wondrous distance"

Set after the events of Deep Space Nine, the Defiant has an all new crew piloting the ship across the Galaxy. In the true style of Star Trek, they meet challenges and adversarys both from outside and from within.

The first two episode arcs "Ailing Spirt" and "Wounded Heart" are written and directed by Jeffrey Bridges. The thrid episode arc "Rejuvenated Core" is written by Jeffrey Bridges and directed by Chris Brittain. The fourth and all subsequent arcs will be written by Theresa J McGarry and directed by Chris Brittain.

The show aims to keep an authentic and honest 'trek feel whilst exploring new avenues and ideas in the universe that has existed for over forty years.

Defiant in the media
On August 9, 2006, Star Trek: Defiant was featured on the cover of "Hailing Frequencies Open" Vol. 2 Issue 3. "Hailing Frequencies Open" is the newsletter of TrekUnited.com. The issue included an interview about Defiant as a new Trek based radio drama.

=Originals=

Umket Industries Presents: The Dixie Stenberg and Brassy Battalion Adventure Theater
"Umket Industries Presents: The Dixie Stenberg and Brassy Battalion Adventure Theater" is an original, ongoing, monthly sci-fi serial adventure produced by Pendant Productions, and grew out of a shared love for the classic radio theatre shows of the 40s and 50s. Specifically the aerial adventure drama, with shows like Captain Midnight, Hop Harrigan, Adventures by Morse and Speed Gibson.

The tagline of the show provides the setting: "In the early spring of 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the formation of a clandestine squadron of P47 Thunderbolts. This squadron was known as Brassy Battalion, and this is their story..."

The Kingery
"The Kingery" is a full-cast, ongoing sci-fi serial drama. The plot surrounds employees at a crime-boss led resort and casino, and Detective Roberts, who seeks to shut it down.

Seminar
"Seminar" is a full-cast, ongoing anthology show with no restrictions on genre.

This Week In Pendant!
"This Week In Pendant" is a weekly round-up of Pendant's shows, featuring news, interviews, casting calls and generally more than you probably ever wanted to know about Pendant Productions. =Pendant Productions on the air= Pendant shows have aired on CHLY-FM radio in Canada.

Pendant shows are currently featured on "The Pendant Audio Power Hour" on KTDR-FM in Del Rio, Texas, every Sunday night.

Clips from Pendant show "James Bond: To The End" were featured on the program "Saturday Live" on BBC4 radio.

Pendant shows may soon be broadcast on a radio station in New Zealand, but it is not finalized yet.

=Pendant at the Fan Audio Summit=

Pendant Founder and Creator Jeffrey Bridges was invited to The Fan Audio Summit 2007, and interviewed. More information and the interview are availible at the following URLs.
 * http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=9490
 * http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TS-5646.mp3

=External links=
 * Pendant Productions
 * Star of The Last Son of Krypton interviewed on Radio KAL
 * Pendant in Hailing Frequencies Open