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First Nighter Program"Chinese Gong"(3-29-44) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The First Nighter Program. January 29, 1948. CBS net. "A Writer In The Family". Sponsored by: Campana cosmetics, DDD Prescription. Highway Eighty Seven is coming right through the living room in a romantic/comedy of mistaken identity and "Shorty West," a writer of western adventures. James Arthur Rotie (writer), Frank Worth and His Orchestra, Olan Soule, Barbara Luddy, Paul Frees, Hugh Studebaker, Arthur Q. Bryan, Mary Lansing, Larry Keating (announcer). 29:39THIS EPISOD ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Band Serenade 151 Sister Groups and Their Music Part 2 of 2 Big Band Serenade presents Sister Groups and Their Music from 1940-1950   2 of 2 Included are the Andrews Sisters,DeCastro Sisters,King Sisters,Dinning Sisters,and The Demarco Sisters   *******Please Take Our Survey****** Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Calling All Cars"Murder At Southgate"(5-02-34) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Calling All Cars was one of radioâs earliest cop shows, dramatizing true crime stories and introduced by officers from the Los Angeles and other police departments. The narrator of the program was speech professor Charles Frederick Lindsley, and the only other regular voice heard on the program week after week belonged to that of Sergeant Jesse Rosenquist of the L.A.P.D., whose name and voice were so unusually distinctive that he was retained for the showâs entire run. None of the actors ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Friend Irma"Dinner Party For Jane's Boss"(4-11-47) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod My Friend Irma, created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard, was a top-rated, long-run radio situation comedy, so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated to films and television, while Howard scored with another radio comedy hit, Life with Luigi. Dependable and level-headed Jane Stacy (Cathy Lewis) narrated the misadventures of her innocent and bewildered roommate, Irma Peterson (Marie Wilson), a dim-bulb stenographer. Wilson portrayed the character on radio, in two films and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Harding Counterspy"Vicious Visitor"(9-29-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Counterspy was an espionage drama radio series that aired on ABC and Mutual from May 18, 1942 to November 29, 1957. David Harding (Don MacLaughlin) was the chief of the United States Counterspies, a unit engaged during World War II in counterespionage againstJapan's Black Dragon and Germany's Gestapo. With spies still lurking in the post-war years, the adventures continued apace well after World War II ended.THIS EPISODE:September 29, 1949. ABC network. "The Case Of The Vicious Vistor& ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academy Award Theater"Ruggles Of Red Gap"(6-08-46) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Academy Award Theater - The list of films and actors on Academy Award Theater is very impressive. Bette Davis begins the series in Jezebel, with Ginger Rogers following in Kitty Foyle, and then Paul Muni in The Life of Louis Pasteur. The Informer had to have Victor Mclaglen, and the Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet (this movie was his first major motion picutre role) plus Mary Astor for the hat trick. Suspicion starred Cary Grant with Ann Todd doing the Joan Fontaine role ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chase"Murder For Profit"(3-29-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Chase is an exciting Old Time Radio series in which every episode contains, well, a chase. Tales, highly melodramatic and often improbable, of people on the run. The concept of "hunter and hunted" was built into the signatures. with the lone bugle of a fox hunt, the braying of dogs, the sounds of a man running, a gunshot, and the slowing footsteps and eventual fall of the victim.  It may be an adventure story, a crime story, or even science fiction, but there will always ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Soaps 67 Caroline Shelley The Soaps present "Caroline Shelley"  3/15/50 The Soaps takes you back to the early days when soap operas were a everyday experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape Podcast 59 Red Wine Escape presents "Red Wine"  2/26/49  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Avenger"2 Episodes (8-17-45) and (09-19-45)"- Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Avenger is an Old Time Radio show aired by the South African Broadcasting System in the 1940s. It featured a biochemist crime-fighter by the name of Jim Brandon. Mr. Brandon had two inventions which assisted him in the fight against crime. Mr. Brandon was able to pick up telpathic thought flashes and had a diffusion capsule which allowed him to become invisible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Shadow"Murder On Approval"(8-21-38) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Shadow - In September of 1939, a new voice of the Shadow appeared in the form of radio actor Bill Johnstone. Later in 1939, Agnes Moorehead left the show and was replaced by Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane. The plot lines began to follow the standard formula of Margo Lane being in danger and the Shadow rescuing her from the clutches of evil. Bill Johnstone would be the voice of the Shadow for five seasons, until March 1943. Bret Morrison took over the Shadow role in 1943 for one season. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Author's Playhouse"The Long Way 'round"(11-13-44) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Authorâs Playhouse - Famous stories by celebrated authors: among them, Elementals (Stephen Vincent Benet), The Piano (William Saroyan), and The Snow Goose (Paul Gallico).March 5, 1941 till June 4, 1945, NBC;  Blue Network until mid-October 1941, then theRed Network.  Many briefly held 30m timeslots, including Sundays at 11:30, 1941-42;  Wednesdays at 11:30, 1942-44;   Mondays at 11:30, 1944-45.  Sponsor was Philip Morris, 1942-43. Cast:  John Hodiak, Fern Pers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st Precinct"The Shooting Gallery"(9-29-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod 21ST PRECINCT was one of the realistic police drama series of the early- to mid-1950's that were aired in the wake of DRAGNET. In 1953 CBS decided to use New York City as the backdrop for their own half-hour police series and focus on the day-to-day operation of a single police precinct. Actual cases were used as the basis for stories. The Precinct Captain acted as the narrator for the series.THIS EPISODE:September 29, 1953. CBS network origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. A young drug user trie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystery Theatre 94 Embassy Master Spy Mystery Theatre  presents Secret Agent K-7 Returns in Embassy Mastery Spy 1939 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fibber McGee&Molly"The New Fire Truck"(4-19-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Fibber McGee and Molly premiered in 1935. The program struggled in the ratings until 1940, when it became a national sensation. Within three years, it was the top-rated program in America. Few radio shows were more beloved than Fibber McGee and Molly. The programâs lovable characters included Mayor LaTrivia, Doc Gamble, Mrs. Uppington, Wallace Wimple, Alice Darling, Gildersleeve, Beulah, Myrt, and the Old Timer. 79 Wistful Vista was one of Americaâs most famous addresses and Mollyâs warn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Box 13"Round Robin"(8-22-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Box 13 - The premise of the program was that Dan Holiday was an author who wrote mystery novels. To get ideas for his novels he placed an advertisement in a newspaper saying "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything, Box 13." The ads always brought fun adventures of all kinds: from racketeer's victim to psychotic killer looking for fun. Most of the episodes were based on Dan Holiday replying to a letter he received at Box 13. He would generally solve a mystery in the proces ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of Old Time Radio 48 40th Birthday Best of Old Time Radio presents Beyond Midnight in 40th Birthday Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The CBS Radio Mystery Theater"Death Rides A Stallion"(01-14-74) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod CBS Radio Mystery Theater - As you walk through the creaking door you enter into another world, the world of imagination. This world is inside you, a part of you, and you take this journey alone. Each person hears and then sees with his or her mind's eye the events portrayed within these dramas. All of us interprets what they hear differently. The images we see is unique to ourselves. A voice becomes a person, living, breathing they come alive. They take on a physical form and characteristi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Falcon"Quarrelsome Quartet"(9-03-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Falcon - Regardless of the date of his first literary appearance, The Falcon was first brought to the screen in a 1941 RKO film, as a replacement for its popular series of B's featuring Leslie Charteris' The Saint. Except for the name change, at first at least it was pretty hard to tell the difference. The Falcon was also a good-looking suave, sophisticated type, a sort of freelance gentleman adventurer.THIS EPISODESeptember 3, 1950. NBC network. "Tthe Case Of The Quarrelsome Quart ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Band Serenade 150 Sister Groups and Their Music Part 1 of 2 Big Band Serenade presents Sister Groups and Their Music Part 1 of 2 *******Please Take Our Survey****** Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Black Museum - Service Card (1952) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Black Musuem - Opening in 1875, the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard is the oldest museum in the world purely for recording crime. The name Black Museum was coined in 1877 by a reporter from The Observer, a London newspaper, although the museum is still referred to as the Crime Museum. The idea of a crime museum was conceived by Inspector Neame who had already collected together a number of items, with the intention of giving police officers practical instruction on how to detect and preve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Curtain Time"Practically Engaged"(8-07-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Curtain Time, like First Nighter, presented romantic drama in a theater setting complete with the announcer shouting, âTickets please, thank youâ. The shows announcer was Harry Halcomb who was later known best for his appearances on the 60 minutes television show. Great scripts and superb acting, Curtain Time is truly an Old Time Radio Classic. Mutual Network, local KNX show sustained, heard Fridays 7:30 - 8:00 pm Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystery Theatre 96 The Movie Company Mystery Theatre  presents Candy Matson in The Movie Company 9/11/50 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of Old Time Radio 49 Landing of the Indians at Plymouth Best of Old Time Radio presents Burns and Allen in Landing of the Indians at Plymouth 11/25/36 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barry Craig Confidential Investigator"Cupie Doll"(2-13-52) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator is one of the few detective radio series that had separate versions of it broadcast from both coasts. Even the spelling changed over the years. It was first "Barry Crane" and then "Barrie Craig". NBC produced it in New York from 1951 to 1954 and then moved it to Hollywood where it aired from 1954 to 1955. It attracted only occasional sponsors so it was usually a sustainer.William Gargan, who also played the better known television ( ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The NBC University Theater"The Light That Failed"(2-12-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The NBC University Theater - dramatic anthology Offered novels, with programs for college credit. Broadcast History : July 30th, 1948 - February 14th, 1951 NBC. Mostly 60 minutes. Mostly aired on Sundays, with occasional weeknight airings. Announcer : Don Stanley Music : Albert Harris, Henry Russell Director : Andrew C. Love Writers : Claris A. Ross, Ernest Kinoy, George Lefferts, Jack C. Wilson Sound Effects : Bob Holmes, Rod Sutton.THIS EPISODE:February 12, 1950. NBC network. "The Li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ford Theater"Of Human Bondage"(10-29-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The FORD THEATER, sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, presented hour long dramas first on NBC for one only season. The series moved to CBS for its second and last season. There were 39 NBC and 39 CBS hour- long shows (not verified). The show initially received an unfavorable review from the New York Times for poor script adaptation but was still highly rated for the actors' performance and overall production. The show was supposed to feature only original scripts but had to forgo that plan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Father Knows Best"A Spooky Cemetary"(10-26-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Father Knows Best, a family comedy of the 1950s, is perhaps more important for what it has come to represent than for what it actually was. In essence, the series was one of a slew of middle-class family sitcoms in which moms were moms, kids were kids, and fathers knew best. Today, many critics view it, at best, as high camp fun, and, at worst, as part of what critic David Marc once labeled the "Aryan melodramas" of the 1950s and 1960s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower"The Mutiny On The Flame"(10-24-52) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower - Broadcast 1952; Transcribed in England for the BBC; aired in U.S. on CBS, then again on ABC in 1954 and Mutual in 1957.  Starring Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower. a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The radio series was based on twelve Horatio Hornblower novels written by C.S. Forester. These novels were, and still are, well liked due to their realistic tone and historical accuracy in telling the tales of Naval li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystery Theatre 95 Policeman in Danger Mystery Theatre  presents The Whisperer in Policeman in Danger 7/29/51 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Aldrich Family"Henry Sends Candy To Two Girls"(1-12-45) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Aldrich Family, a popular radio teenage situation comedy (1939-1953), is remembered first and foremost for its unforgettable introduction: awkward teen Henry's mother calling, "Hen-reeeeeeeeeeeee! Hen-ree Al-drich!" A top-ten ratings hit within two years of its birth (in 1941, the showm carried a 33.4 Crossley rating, landing it solidly alongside Jack Benny and Bob Hope), the show is considered a prototype for teen-oriented situation comedies to follow on radio and television ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Screen Directors Playhouse"Caged"(8-02-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Screen Director's Playhouse - From 01/09/49 to 09/28/51 this series was greatly enjoyed by the radio listening audience. It opened as NBC Theater and was also known as The Screen Directorâs Guild and The Screen Directorâs Assignment. But most people remember it simply as Screen Directorâs Playhouse. Many of the Hollywood elite were heard recreating their screen roles over the radio. John Wayne in his rare radio appearances, Cary Grant, Edward G. Robinson, Lucille Ball, Claire Trevor, Tal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lux Radio Theater"The Return Of Pete Grimm"(02-13-39) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Lux Radio Theater, one of the genuine classic radio anthology series (NBC Blue Network (1934-1935); CBS (1935-1954); NBC (1954-1955)) adapted first Broadway stage works, and then (especially) films to hour-long live radio presentations. It quickly became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, running more than twenty years. The program always began with an announcer proclaiming, "Ladies and gentlemen, Lux presents Hollywood!" Cecil B. DeMille was the host of the seri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Midnight"Don't Joke In The Morgue"(1968) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Beyond Midnight - A replacement series for SF 68, this South African horror anthology was far more successful than its predecessor, running from 1968 through 1969. Its success may have been due in part to producer Michael McCabe - who also produced SF 68 - honing his talents to a higher degree. Little else is known about it, including the number of shows produced. As far as I can discover, there were at least 43 episodes, all in half-hour format. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mr Keen - Murder&The Bloodstained Necklace (9-15-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of network radio's longest running detectives, although listening to it now would hardly explain why. This kind, elderly, boring sleuth, in company with his bumbling assistant, Mike Clancy, was on the airwaves from 1937 to 1955, logging nearly 20 years of fighting crime. The series came out of the soap opera fiction factory of Frank and Anne Hummert and encompassed most of the trite dialogue and snail plotting of daytime serials.THIS EPISODE:Septembe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Band Serenade 147 Brother Groups and Their Music Part 1 Big Band Serenade presents Brother Groups and Their Music Part 1 *******Please Take Our Survey****** Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baseball Historian 97 1949 World Series Game 5 Part 2 1949 World Series Game 5 Part 1Baseball Historian presents The 1949 World Series featured the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees winning in five games for their second defeat of the Dodgers in three years, and the 12th championship in team history. This victory would start a record run of five consecutive World Series championships by the Yankees.History was made in the 9th inning of Game 5, when the Ebbets Field lights were turned on, making it the first Wor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Creaking Door"Three Wishes"(1940) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Creaking Door was an old-time radio series of horror and suspense shows originating in South Africa. There are at present anywhere from 34-37 extant episodes in MP3 circulation, yet no currently available program logs for the series indicate the year of the series' broadcast (though it was likely sometime in the 1950s, given the generally high audio quality of the available shows), or the total number of episodes, and only a handful of them are known by their broadcast order. The storie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Planet Man - Episodes 7-8 and 9 (1950) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Planet ManEpisode7 "Kidnapping Order"  Episode8 "Bill & Jane Need Help" and Episode9 "Hoping For A Miracle"This is the fascinating story of Dantro, The Planet Man, troubleshooter for the League of Planets organization, the law enforcement body for peace and justice in the celestial world - whose headquarters and center of operations are situated on the capital of all the planets, Planeria Rex. From Mercury to Pluto, wherever danger threatens the un ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape Podcast 55 The Dream of Armageddon Escape presents "The Dream of Armageddon"  9/5/48  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Molle Mystery Theater"The Doctor And The Lunatic"(4-26-46) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Although Molle Mystery Theatre was initially sponsored by Molle Shaving Cream, other sponsors (such as Bayer Aspirin, Ironized Yeast, Phillips Milk of Magnesia) also sponsored the program. Sometimes, when it was not sponsored by Molle, the program was called "Mystery Theater". The show was first heard on NBC, on 9/7/43. Time slot was originally Sunday nights at 9:00 PM, but was later moved to Tuesday at 9:00 PM, and Friday at 10:00 PM. In 1948, the show moved to CBS (Tues, 8:00 PM ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Burns&Allen Show"Till The Cows Come Home"(4-03-40) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Burns and Allen are one of the most beloved couple in old time radio. They got started, like many of the greats of old time radio, in vaudeville, which is really just the touring popular entertainment in America prior to movies. Gracie was the sparkplug of the act, always the center of attention. George played the foil, the guy vainly trying to make sense of the ditzy world of Gracie. By the early 30s, Gracie was probably the best known woman on radio. Gracie often sang in a voice that show ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Soaps 63 Benjamin Barkley The Soaps present "Benjamin Barkley"  2/15/50 The Soaps takes you back to the early days when soap operas were a everyday experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mayor Of The Town"Bob Hope Visits"(3-21-43) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod MAYOR OF THE TOWN - An NBC offering. Aired on Sundays from 7:00PM to 7:30PM, starring Lional Barrymore and Agnes Moorehead. The creator and writer was Jean Holloway, the announcer Harlow Wilcox, music by Gordon Jenkins and sponsored by Rinso detergent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape Podcast 52 The Fugitive Escape presents "The Fugitive"  8/15/48  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape Podcast 51 The Man Who Would Be King Escape presents "The Man Who Would Be King"  8/1/48  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hancocks Half Hour - The Insurance Policy (2-11-58) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Hancock's Half-Hour is the yardstick against which all subsequent British sitcoms have been measured, the vast majority failing to size up to its extremely high standards. Based on his famous radio show of the same name, the TV run consolidated Tony Hancock's standing as Britain's leading comic of the day, the entertainer providing ample proof that his wonderfully flexible face could be as expressive as his dextrous radio voice. Tony Hancock was at the height of his powers during the late 1 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ford Theater"Wuthering Heights"(1-04-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Ford Theater aired 1947 - 1949. It was broadcast on NBC until October 8, 1948 then moved to CBS.  It was hosted by Howard Lindsay. The show tried to use good but not to famous radio performers. Producer George Zachary, first producer, attempting to use popular radio stars instead of Hollywood stars offered limited success. Followed was low ratings which forced the replacement of Zachary with Fletcher Markle, husband of radio legend Mercedes McCambridge. Needing a change the show mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Box 13"The Sad Night"(12-19-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Box 13 - The premise of the program was that Dan Holiday was an author who wrote mystery novels. To get ideas for his novels he placed an advertisement in a newspaper saying "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything, Box 13." The ads always brought fun adventures of all kinds: from racketeer's victim to psychotic killer looking for fun. Most of the episodes were based on Dan Holiday replying to a letter he received at Box 13. He would generally solve a mystery in the proces ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spy Catcher"The Infernal Triangle"(1960) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Spy Catcher -  (BBC) 1960-1961. A series of true stories in the unceasing search for enemy spys in wartime. Based on the memoirs of Lt. Col. Oreste Pinto of Allied Counterintelligence Services. The shows were extremly popular during the golden age of radio.THIS EPISODE:The Infernal Triangle - In May 1945 the war in Europe was over but the search for spys was still on and a mass of letters on known spy activities continued to pour in to the new intellegence headquarters located in the w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baseball Historian 96 1949 World Series Game 5 Part 1 1949 World Series Game 5 Part 1Baseball Historian presents The 1949 World Series featured the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees winning in five games for their second defeat of the Dodgers in three years, and the 12th championship in team history. This victory would start a record run of five consecutive World Series championships by the Yankees.History was made in the 9th inning of Game 5, when the Ebbets Field lights were turned on, making it the first World Ser ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Bet Your Life -"2 Episodes From 1950"- Boxcars711 Wayback Moment In Time Groucho Marx matches wits with the American public in four episodes of this classic game show. Starting on the radio in 1947, You Bet Your Life made its television debut in 1950 and aired for 11 years with Groucho as host and emcee. Sponsored rather conspicuously by the Dodge DeSoto car manufacturers, the show featured two contestants working as a team to answer questions for cash prizes. Another mainstay of these question and answer segments was the paper mache duck that would descend from ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Band Serenade 146 Bud Freeman Great Saxophonist and His Music Big Band Serenade presents Bud Freeman Great Saxophonist and His MusicHe became one of the first great innovators on tenor sax. He played with swing bands led by Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, but Bud Freeman was happiest leading his own smaller, hot jazz bands. Listen to recordings of Bud Freeman playing his compositions like âThe Eel,â and you can hardly believe that he had little formal musical training. Except for a few basic lessons when he was a kid, his music education consi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2000 Plus"Flying Saucers"(1950) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod 2000 AD  (2000 Plus) is known as the first of the network science fiction shows, although it ran on Mutual just a month prior to the introduction of the landmark series, Dimension X. It was a half hour of science fiction wonder in an exciting package. Thestories have a charm that is always present in science fiction of the future that is written in the past. "When The Worlds Met" takes place "at the giant space port in Washington, temporary capitol of the federated world ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes"A Case Of Identity"(1-23-55) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Sherlock Holmes detective stories appeared on radio for more than 25 years, with a long list of performers playing the parts of Holmes and Dr Watson. FIRST BROADCAST: October 20th 1930 LAST BROADCAST: September 4th 1956. The stories were written by Edith Meiser, a self-confessed Holmes addict.  These were so well written that she was warmly praised by Arthur Conan Doyleâs widow and son. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe"The Dark Tunnel"(8-18-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe - The first portrayal of Phillip Marlowe on the radio was by Dick Powell, when he played Raymond Chandler's detective on the Lux Radio Theater on June 11, 1945. This was a radio adaptation of the 1944 movie, from RKO, in which Mr. Powell played the lead. Two years later, Van Heflin starred as Marlowe in a summer replacement series for the Bob Hope Show on NBC. This series ran for 13 shows. On September 26, 1948, Gerald Mohr became the third radio Marlowe, th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chase"Amusement Park"(8-14-52) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Chase is an exciting Old Time Radio series in which every episode contains, well, a chase. Tales, highly melodramatic and often improbable, of people on the run. The concept of "hunter and hunted" was built into the signatures. with the lone bugle of a fox hunt, the braying of dogs, the sounds of a man running, a gunshot, and the slowing footsteps and eventual fall of the victim.  It may be an adventure story, a crime story, or even science fiction, but there will always ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st Precinct"Case Of The Young Incorrigible"(7-14-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod 21ST PRECINCT was one of the realistic police drama series of the early- to mid-1950's that were aired in the wake of DRAGNET. Hard-boiled private detective series that often portrayed police as inept or incompetent were losing favor. NBC's DRAGNET had proven that a realistic police show could attract and hold an audience. In 1953 CBS decided to use New York City as the backdrop for their own half-hour police series and focus on the ay-to- day operations of a single police precinct.  A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventures In Research"Two Episodes"(3-30-43) and (4-06-43) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Adventures In ResearchEpisode 9   "The Immigrant Inventor" (3-30-43)Episode 10 "Dirty Hands" (4-06-43)A wonderfully informative old time radio series can be found in Adventures In Research. With tales that arenot only wonderfully dramatic, but at the same time extremely interesting and entertaining. Adventures In Research offers the listener accounts in American scientific research history. You will be enthralled, as will your children. Best of all, in regards ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vanishing Point"Teenage Catalog Model"(12-07-84) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod 1984-1986 There were 69 episodes in the original series. The series continued after that under various names and formats. "The point between reality and fantasy. Where imagination holds the key to new worlds. That point of no return---The Vanishing Point." Favorably compared to Rod Sterling's classic TV series, The Twilight Zone, these finely tuned radio dramas from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation provide compelling excursions into the realm of mystery and fantasy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Diamond Private Investigator"Bill Kirby Murder Case"(10-29-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Richard Diamond, Private Detective was a radio show starring Dick Powell which aired from 1949 to 1953, first on NBC, then ABC and finally on CBS. The title character was a rather light-hearted detective who often ended the episodes singing to his girlfriend,Helen. The television series was produced by Powell's company, Four Star Television, and that series ran for 3 years from 1957 to 1960. On TV, David Janssen played the hard boiled private eye and his secretary renamed âSamâ, was only ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Soaps 62 Marjorie Northrup The Soaps present "Marjorie Northrup"  2/8/50 The Soaps takes you back to the early days when soap operas were a everyday experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape Podcast 54 The Diamond As Big As The Ritz Escape presents "The Diamond As Big As The Ritz"  8/29/48  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baby Snooks"Report Card"(5-01-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Baby Snooks - FIRST BROADCAST: 29th February 1936 as part of The Ziegfield Follies of the Air LAST BROADCAST: 29th May 1951 CAST: Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks. Henley Stafford as Lancelot âDaddyâ Higgins, Baby Snooks father. Lalive Brownell as âMommyâ Higgins (later played by Lois Corbet and Arlene Harris).Leone Ledoux as Snookâs little brother Roberspierre. ANNOUNCERS: John Conte (late 30s and early 40s). Tobe Reed (1944-45), Harlow Willcox (mid to late 1940s), Dick Joy, Don Wilson and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mysterious Traveler"Fire In The Sky"(8-28-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER - Written and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, the series began on the Mutual Broadcasting System, December 5, 1943, continuing in many different timeslots until September 16, 1952. Unlike many other shows of the era, The Mysterious Traveler was without a sponsor for its entire run. The lonely sound of a distant locomotive heralded the arrival of the malevolent narrator, portrayed by Maurice Tarplin, who introduced himself each week in the following mann ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Town"The Fatal Chain"(11-09-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Big Town is a radio show that aired from 1937 to 1952. Edward G. Robinson had the lead role of Steve Wilson from 1937 to 1942. Claire Trevor was Wilson's society editor sidekick Lorelei Kilbourne, with Ona Munson taking over that role in 1940. Edward J. Pawleyportrayed Wilson from 1942 until 1952 when Walter Greaza was heard as Wilson in the final episodes in the radio series. When Big Town moved to television, the program was telecast live, but in 1952 the production switched to film after ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Manhunt"(Masked Murderer) and (Conflicting Confessions)"1946 Manhunt - CRIME DRAMA1945-1946 15 Minutes transcribed syndication (ZIV network), with crime stories complete in each episode. CAST: Larry Haines as Drew Stevens. New York players were in support. The shows were well written and, for the time period, quite well performed. In Episode One "Clue Of The Masked Murderer", police are notiified of a murder. Upon arrival at the scene, they find nothing. Under their watch, a body suddenly appears and sends everyone into a search of surround ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lives Of Harry Lime"Blue Bride"(1-19-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Third Man (The Lives of Harry Lime) was a old-time radio adventure series that ran in 1951 and 1952. It was based on the 1949 film of the same name. Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime, a perpetually broke confidence man, smuggler, and general scoundrel. He will participate in virtually any criminal activity to make a fast buck, but uses his wits rather than a gun. He draws the line short of murder, blackmail, or drugs. Even so, Harry is an endearing character and listeners love to hear of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Haunting Hour"Occupation Murder"(8-25-45) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Haunting Hour - The shows are classic chills from the old school, with creepy organ, overwrought women and over the top men. Perhaps not the highest of melodrama, but obsessively workmanlike. After all, they might have known they were a skeleton staff toiling relentlessly without a ghost of a chance of fame. Thanks to transcription, these unknowns are still with us. John Dunning, succinctly states in "On the Air, The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio," "There were no credits ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Philip Morris Playhouse"The Iron Man"(7-29-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Philip Morris Playhouse - Philip Morris invested heavily in radio advertising throughout the 1930s and â40s, often having two weekly programs on competing networks. The first, a variety show that ran for twelve seasons (1934-47) and combined musical and dramatic elements, was called Johnny Presents, essentially giving Roventini "top billing" above all the big name guests that appeared on the broadcasts. The cigarette company also sponsored Philip Morris Playhouse, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bold Venture"Slates Stolen Identity"(1951) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Bold Venture - The Hollywood husband and wife team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall set sail for adventure in the Bold Venture radio series in early 1951. There were well over 400 stations that aired the program. Since thiswas syndicated * the starting date varied from station to station but Mar 26, 1951 was the official date of the first show. Humphrey Bogart portrayed Slate Shannon, owner of a rundown Havana hotel, Shannon's Place. The action took place on land as well aboard Slate's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Valley Line"Episodes10 and 12"(1947) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Green Valley Line is "the story of a back-country railroad in the early years of the 20th Century". Not much is known about the people or history of the Green Valley Line radio show. It was probably a single radio station production, since it doesn't even have credits. There's a real live quality to the show, since there's mis-reading of dialogue, and skewed inflections, but that's a great deal of the charm with this rarely-heard local show. It has simple, direct dialogue and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures Of Dick Tracy"2 Episodes"(2-14-38) and (2-25-38) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Dick Tracy had a long run on radio, from 1934 weekdays on NBC's New England stations to the ABC network in 1948. Bob Burlen was the first radio Tracy in 1934, and others heard in the role during the 1930s and 1940s were Barry Thompson, Ned Wever and Matt Crowley. The early shows all had 15-minute episodes. On CBS, with Sterling Products as sponsor, the serial aired four times a week from February 4, 1935 to July 11, 1935, moving to Mutual from September 30, 1935 to March 24, 1937 with Bill ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let George Do It"The Prairie Dog"(3-12-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Let George Do It was a radio drama series produced by Owen and Pauline Vinson from 1946 to 1954. It starred Bob Bailey as detective-for-hire George Valentine (with Olan Soule stepping into the role in 1954). Clients came to Valentine's office after reading a newspaper carrying his classified ad: "Personal notice: Danger's my stock in trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me. George Valentine." Valentine's secretary was Claire Brooks, aka Brooksie (F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Great Gildersleeve"Eves Mother Arrives"(6-04-44) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Great Gildersleeve (1941-1957) was the arguable founding father of the spin-off program, as well as one of the first true situation comedies (as opposed to sketch programs) in broadcast history. Hooked around a character who had been a staple on the classic radio hit Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest period in the 1940s, when Harold Peary graduated the character from the earlier show into the sitcom and in a quartet of likeable feature films at the heig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of Old Time Radio 45 Ellery Queen in Nicky Porter Suspect Best of Old Time Radio presents Ellery Queen in Nicky Porter Suspect Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures Of Maisie"The Gambler"(4-05-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Adventures Of Maisie - The first in 1939, was from the book "Dark Dame" by the writer Wilson Collison,who did decades of scripting for the silver screen along with Broadway plays and magazine fiction. From the first, MGM wanted Ann Sothern to play Maisie. She began in Hollywood as an extra in 1927. "Maisie and I were just together - I just understood her," Sothern, born Harriette Arlene Lake, said after several of the films made her a star. Throughout the 1930s and ' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Weird Circle"Mad Monkton"(11-05-44) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod THE WEIRD CIRCLE was a syndicated series that was heard on Mutualstations November, 1943 through October, 1947 and very briefly inSeptember/October of 1947 on ABC. The show presented 30 minute tales of horror, frequently inspired by classic horror or ghost stories, frequently done by French authors. It opened with the sound of the surf and the chant-like opening, "In this cave by the restless sea, we are met to call from out of past, stories strange and weird.  Bell keeper, toll t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Man Called X - 2 Ep. (1-13-51) and (1-20-51) - Boxcars711 Wayback Moment In Time The Man Called X was an espionage radio drama which aired on CBS and NBC from July 10, 1944 to May 20, 1952. Herbert Marshall had the lead role of agent Ken Thurston who took on dangerous cases in a variety of exotic locations. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra supplied the background music. Leon Belasco played Mr. X's comedic sidekick, Pagan Zeldchmidt, who always turned up in remote parts of the world because he had a "cousin" there. Pagan would annoy and help Mr. X Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hollywood Radio Theater"It Happened On 5th Avenue"(5-19-47) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Hollywood Radio Theater (Lux), one of the genuine classic radio anthology series (NBC Blue Network, 1934-1935; CBS 1935-1955), adapted first Broadway stage and then (and especially) films to hour-long live radio presentations and became the standard by which future radio and early television anthologies would be judged. Cecil B. DeMille was the host of the series each Monday evening from June 1, 1936 until January 22, 1945. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Have Gun Will Travel"2 Episodes"(11-29-59) and (10-09-60) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Have Gun â Will Travel was a popular American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted on November 23, 1958. The show followed the adventures of Paladin, a gentleman-turned-gunfighter (played by Richard Boone on television, and by John Dehner on radio), who preferred to settle problems without violence, yet, when forced to fight, excelled. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escape Podcast 53 S S San Pedro Escape presents "S S San Pedro"  8/22/48  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Confession"George S Decker"(8-16-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod CONFESSIONNBC 30 minutes Sunday at 9:30PM.Cast Paul Frees, virginia Christine,Herb Butterfield, Parley Bear and other Hollywood radio actors. Announcer John Wald. From: July 5, 1953 to September 13, 1954The Show had a texture and sound not unlike Dragnet, indeed the influence was realized throughout the show. These were true stories of Crime and Punishment, the obvious difference that Dragnet began with the crime while Confession unfolded in reverse order, from the end. Confession was les ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inspector Thorne"Vacant Lot Murder Case"(7-27-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod By the 1940's, Frank and Ann Hummert controlled four and a half hours of national weekday broadcast schedules. Their features reportedly spawned more that 5 million pieces of correspondence annually from steadfast fans. Simultaneously they brought in more than half of the national radio chain's advertising revenues generated during the daylight hours. The couple broadcast 18 quarter-hour serials five times weekly, a total of 90 original episodes for 52 weeks per year, with none of those eve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Black Museum"Four Small Bottles"(1952) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod The Black Museum - Opening in 1875, the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard is the oldest museum in the world purely for recording crime. The name Black Museum was coined in 1877 by a reporter from The Observer, a London newspaper, although the museum is still referred to as the Crime Museum. The idea of a crime museum was conceived by Inspector Neame who had already collected together a number of items, with the intention of giving police officers practical instruction on how to detect and preve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crime Classics"Bloody Banks Of Fall River"(9-14-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Crime Classics was a U. S. radio docudrama which aired over CBS from June 15, 1953 to June 30, 1954. Created, produced, and directed by radio actor/director Elliott Lewis, the program was basically a historical true crime series, examining crimes, and especially murders, from the past. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower"Disguised As A French Ship"(9-08-52) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Horatio HornblowerBased on the novels by C. S. Forester.1952-1953 SeriesBroadcast 1952; Transcribed in England for the BBC; aired in U.S. on CBS, then again on ABC in 1954 and Mutual in 1957.  Starring Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower. a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The radio series was based on twelve Horatio Hornblower novels written by C.S. Forester. These novels were, and still are, well liked due to their realistic tone and historical accuracy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honest Harold"Cleaning The Cellar"(4-18-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Honest Harold Hemp lived with his mother and nephew and did a radio homemaker's program. The series received undeserved negative ratings and general negative attitude of the critics. The HONEST HAROLD scripts were well crafted with well developed characters and had excellent acting and production values. Many people, including Harold Peary, believed that THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE would not survive without Peary. However, Willard Waterman assumed the role and most listeners didn't notice the di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mr&Mrs North"Pam Goes It Alone"(8-02-44) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of twenty-six Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture, and several different radio and television series. Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. Publisher Jerry North and his wife Pam lived in Greenwich Villa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Archie Andrews"The Big Dance"(9-04-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Archie Andrews, created in 1941 by Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, a long-run radio series, a syndicated comic strip and animation -- The Archie Show, a Saturday morning cartoon television series by Filmation, plus Archie's Weird Mysteries.Archie on radioMontana's characters were heard on radio in the early 1940s. Archie Andrews began on the Blue Network on May 31, 1943, switched to Mutual in 1944, and then continued on NBC ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Those Oldie But Goodies 35 The Best of Doo Wop and Oldies Those Oldie but Goodies Podcast, Your home for the best Doo Wop and Oldies sounds from the 50's & 60's. 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