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The Man Called X - Timber (10-16-47) Timber (Aired October 16, 1947)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 Intelligence Agent Ken Thurston who took on dangerous cases in a variety of exotic locations. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra supplied the background music. Cast: Leon Belasco as Pagan Seldchmidt ANNOUNCER: Wendell Niles DIRECTOR: Jack Johnstone.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hallmark Playhouse - O'Hallorans Luck (10-28-48)O'Hallorans Luck (Aired October 28, 1948)THE HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE was heard over CBS stations Thursday evenings. This drama anthology of 30-minute shows was sponsored by, of course, Hallmark Greeting Cards. It was preceded by the RADIO READER'S DIGEST, which ran from September 13, 1942 thorugh June 3, 1948. Hallmark sponsored the RADIO READER'S DIGEST from January 13, 1946 to it's end. On Feb. 8, 1953, the series name and format was changed. It was now called THE HALLMARK HALL OF FAME and pre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures Of Ozzie&Harriet - Jury Duty (01-16-48)Jury Duty (Aired January 16, 1948)The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet launched on CBS October 8, 1944, making a mid-season switch to NBC in 1949. The final years of the radio series were on ABC (the former NBC Blue Network) from October 14, 1949, to June 18, 1954.The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, an American radio and television series, was once the longest-running, live-action situation comedy on American television, having aired on ABC from 1952 to 1966 after a ten-year run on radio. S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Case Dismissed - Installment Buying (02-27-54)Installment Buying (Aired February 27, 1954)Thus with the pounding of the gavel, the fate of men and women have been decided by the judge. This is the story of our legal rights, the battle to preserve and protect them, and how easily they can be lost. The program shows us just how fragile liberty and justice can be. These stories of everyday events are still interesting, even after 50 years. Stories of criminal liability, legal wills, buying on installment, and leasing an apartment. Each st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Screen Director's Playhouse - Ivy (01-11-51)Ivy (Aired January 11, 1951)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 Director’s Guild and The Screen Director’s Assignment. But most people remember it simply as Screen Director’s 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, Ta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Command Performance - Betty Grable (05-07-42)Host was Betty Grable (Aired May 7, 1942)Command Performance was one of the few radio shows that were sent overseas to boost the morale of US Troops during World War 2. In March 1942 it became a weekly show featuring famous people such as Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra and more. Each show consisted of several stars who get together and perform comedy routine. All talent for this program was donated, and valued at $75,000 a week. There were more than 400 shows. Announcers : ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Line-Up - The Bomber (01-11-51)The Bomber (Aired January 11, 1951)The Lineup is a realistic police drama that gives radio audiences a look behind the scenes at police headquarters. Bill Johnstone plays Lt. Ben Guthrie, a quiet, calm-as-a-cupcake cucumber. Joseph Kearns (and from 1951 to 1953, Matt Maher) plays Sgt. Matt Grebb, a hot-tempered hot plate who is easily bored. The director and script writer often rode with police on the job and sat in on the police lineups to get ideas for The Lineup. They also read dozens of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ellery Queen Master Detective - The Adventure Of The Foul Tip (07-15-44)The Adventure Of The Foul Tip (Aired July 15, 1944)On radio, The Adventures of Ellery Queen was heard on all three networks from 1939 to 1948. During the 1970s, syndicated radio fillers, Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries, began with an announcer saying, "This is Ellery Queen..." and contained a short one-minute case. The radio station encouraged callers to solve the mystery and win a sponsor's prize. Once a winner was found, the solution was broadcast as confirmation. A complete episode guide ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hollywood Star Playhouse - Im A Coward (7-26-51)Im A Coward (Aired July 26, 1951)This 30 minute anthology program was heard over three different networks during its three seasons. Many leading Hollywood stars appeared before the microphones for this programs original scripts. Marilyn Monroe made her radio debut on the 08/31/52 broadcast. Several programs were intended to become new series. On 04/13/52, the broadcast # 99 of The Six Shooter w/James Stewart did indeed become a new NBC series The Six Shooter in 1953, while the broadcast of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mysterious Traveler - No One On The Line (09-01-46)No One On The Line (Aired September 1, 1946)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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Band Serenade - Vic Damone (04-19-09)Vic Damone (Aired April 19, 2009)Among the more prominent of the pop-singing crooners of the mid-twentieth century, Vic Damone recorded more than 2,000 songs during an active career that began in 1947 and spanned 54 years. With a lush and mellow baritone, he possessed one of the finest singing voices of his era and was widely acknowledged by critics as one of the best crooner of the times. Even in his later concerts, his voice never faltered nor did it lose its easy tone. Instead, according ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lives Of Harry Lime (The Third Man) - Two Is Company (12-28-51)Two Is Company (Aired December 28, 1951)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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sherlock Holmes - The Problem Of Thor Bridge (10-01-45)The Problem Of Thor Bridge (Aired October 1, 1945)Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult case ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theater Five - The Lion Who Wasn't There (04-13-65)The Lion Who Wasn't There (Aired April 13, 1965)Theater Five was ABC's attempt to revive radio drama during the early 1960s. The series name was derived from its time slot, 5:00 PM. Running Monday through Friday, it was an anthology of short stories, each about 20 minutes long. News programs and commercials filled out the full 30 minutes. There was a good bit of science fiction and some of the plots seem to have been taken from the daily newspaper. Fred Foy, of The Lone Ranger fame, was an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dad's Army - A Man Of Action (3-16-76) Ep42A Man Of Action (Aired March 16, 1976)The unmistakable voice of Bud Flanagan singing 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?', a cod-Second World War propaganda singalong written especially for the show (by Jimmy Perry), introduced Dad's Army, the zenith of the British broad-comedy ensemble sitcom. Consistently good writing and a wonderful cast of old timers and newer talents combined to produce a whimsical period-piece that continues, justifiably, to be savoured and has now assumed a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventures In Research - 2 Episodes (10-16-45) and (10-22-46)"A New Kind Of Movie" (10-16-45) and "Hurricane Maker" (10-22-46)Down through the long corridors of time, man has strived unceasingly to solve the hidden mysteries of the universe...has sought to pierce the veil that shrouds the eternal riddle of life. Back from the dust of centuries past...reaching forward through the portals of tomorrow, comes a voice that will not be stilled...a voice that cries: Learn! Investigate! Instruct! Urging new generations to carry forward the work of progress f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio City Playhouse - Blackout (08-15-49)Blackout (Aired August 15, 1949)Half-hour drama, sometimes comedy, often very exciting and suspenseful. The cast were made up of New York veterans of radio and stage, including Jan Minor and John Larkin as featured performers. The director, Harry W. Junkin, also served as the show's host and narrator. Each week the show introduced a new story, often written by well-known writers of fantasy and suspense such as Ray Bradbury, Cornell Woolrich, Agatha Christie and Paul Gallico. They were dram ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Fort Laramie" - Nature Boy (07-29-56)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Fort Laramie" - Nature Boy (Aired July 29, 1956)Fort Laramie opened with "Specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier. The saga of fighting men who rode the rim of empire and the dramatic story of Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry". When Norman Macdonnell created Fort Laramie in late 1955, he made it clear to his writers that historical accuracy was essential to the integrity of the series. Correct geographic names, authentic In ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lux Radio Theater - Intrigue (05-10-48)Intrigue (Aired May 10, 1948)Lux Radio Theater strove to feature as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance to do the show. It was when sponsor Lever Brothers (who made Lux soap and detergent) moved the show from New York to Hollywood in 1936 that it eased back from adapting stage shows and toward adaptations of films. The first Lux film adaptation was The Legionnaire and the Lady, with Marlene Dietrich and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventures Of The Falcon - The Dirty Dollars (06-08-52)The Dirty Dollars (Aired June 8, 1952)This hard boiled spy drama began as an RKO Radio Pictures theatrical serial in the 1940s, went on radio in 1945, and then came to TV ten years later in this Syndicated series produced for distribution by NBC Films; Charles McGraw had been in many motion pictures before and after including "The Killers", "Spartacus" and "Cimarron"; in this series he played the title role of a man whose real name was supposedly Mike Waring, an American agent whose code na ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Town" - Poisoned Waterhole (10-24-52)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Town" - Poisoned Waterhole (Aired October 24, 1952)Chad Remington was a two fisted lawyer in the town of Dos Rios. Chad's sidekick, Cherokee O'Bannon, played by Wade Crosby, who performed his role in a W.C. Fields dialect. Mr. Chandler remained in the lead role for the first 23 shows and was replaced by Reed Hadley who played Remington until the end of the series.THIS EPISODE:October 24, 1952. Program #13. Broadcasters Program Syndicate/Bruce Eells and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The CBS Radio Mystery Theater - A Message From Space (02-28-78)A Message From Space (Aired February 28, 1978)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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hermit's Cave - Author Of Murder (1940)Author Of Murder (1940)*Exact Date Is UnknownThe Hermit's cave Ghost stories ... weird stories ... of murder, too ... the Hermit knows them all. Horror stories with Mel Johnson and howling wolves (or dogs with indigestion?) in the background, obliterating some of the introduction. This syndicated show was one of the treats for the kiddies, cuddled up to their hollow-state radio sets to keep warm in Detroit, between 1940 and 1944. The show was also heard in Beverly Hills, CA in 1943-1944. He ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Have Gun Will Travel" - High Wire (08-02-59Boxcars711 Overnight Western "High Wire" (Aired August 2, 1959Have Gun—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, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theater Guild On The Air - The Glass Menagerie (09-16-51)The Glass Menagerie (Aired September 16, 1951)The theatrical society in U.S.A. is termed as Theater Guild. Founded in New York City in 1918 by Lawrence Langner (1890-1962) and others, the group proposed to produce high-quality, noncommercial plays. Its board of directors shared responsibility for choice of plays, management, and production. After the premiere of George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House in 1920, the Guild became his U.S. agent and staged 15 of his plays. It also produced suc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures Of Frank Merriwell - Sold At Auction (7-24-48)Sold At Auction (Aired July 24, 1948)Frank Merriwell, the much-loved fictional hero of Street and Smith's Tip Top Weekly, was first introduced to readers on April 18, 1896. Merriwell was the creation of writer Burt L. Standish (real name: Gilbert Patten), and embodied a new type of dime novel hero, one who relied as much upon mental as physical prowess. The Yale-educated Merriwell possessed "a body like Tarzan's and a head like Einstein's," wrote one admiring writer, and thus represented "t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bickersons - John Makes Out His Will (5-18-47)John Makes Out His Will (Aired May 18, 1947)The Bickersons was an American radio comedy program that aired from 1946 to 1951. Born as a recurring skit on The Chase and Sanborn Hour and refined on the lesser-remembered Drene Time variety show, it stood the already-typical domestic presentation of radio and its infant offspring, television, so squarely on its head that there were those who feared the show. The show's married protagonists spent nearly all their time together in relentless verb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Corbett Space Cadet - Doomed Cargo (02-07-52)Doomed Cargo (Aired February 7, 1952)Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett—Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, coloring books, punch-out books and View-Master reels in the 1950s. The stories followed the adventures of Tom Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the elite Solar Guard. The action takes place at the Academy in classrooms and bunkroom, ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen - The Beautiful Girl In The Bargain Basement (11-20-47)The Beautiful Girl In The Bargain Basement (Aired November 20, 1947)First heard on Mutual featuring Elliott Lewis, who as Leonard Maltin writes in "The Great American Broadcast, "…wore every hat imaginable-actor, producer, and director-also penned a good number of scripts for series he supervised, including Suspense." And Maltin says of this show, "On the terrific late-1940's high-adventure series The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen he held down both jobs simultaneously as director and star." ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secrets Of Scotland Yard - Frederick Stewart (1944)Frederick Stewart (1944)Stories" filled the newsstands. Radio also helped fill the need with fictional heroes such as Johnny Dollar and The Saint. Few true crime dramas, other than Gangbusters or Dragnet, sustained long term success on radio. The Secrets of Scotland Yardwas a successful crime drama series, initially airing internationally between 1949 and 1951. Selected episodes finally came to a US radio network for a brief run much later in 1957 over the Mutual Broadcasting System. The se ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boston Blackie - Joe Adams Drowned (05-14-47)Joe Adams Drowned (Aired May 14, 1947)The Boston Blackie radio series, also starring Morris, began June 23, 1944, on NBC as a summer replacement for The Amos 'n' Andy Show. Sponsored by Rinso, the series continued until September 15 of that year. Unlike the concurrent films, Blackie had a steady romantic interest in the radio show: Lesley Woods appeared as Blackie's girlfriend Mary Wesley. Harlow Wilcox was the show's announcer. On April 11, 1945, Richard Kollmar took over the title role in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventure Ahead - Robinson Crusoe (9-02-44)Robinson Crusoe (Aired September 2, 1944)Adventure Ahead. The Red network. "Robinson Crusoe". Sustaining. The classic story of the castaway and his man Friday. 1/2 hour.Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island, encountering natives, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mercury Theater - Dracula (7-11-38)Dracula (Aired July 11, 1938)The Mercury Theater was a theater company founded in New York City by Orson Welles and John Houseman. They had initial success in the theater, then went to radio, and one of the most notable radio broadcasts of all time, The War of the Worlds. Welles had already worked extensively in radio drama, playing the Shadow for a year, and directing a seven-part adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. In 1938, he was offered a chance to direct his own weekly, hour-l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Bet Your Life - Secret Word "Bread" (2-08-50)Secret Word "Bread" (Aired February 8, 1950)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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Screen Director's Playhouse - Pitfall (10-17-49)Pitfall (Aired October 17, 1949)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 Director’s Guild and The Screen Director’s Assignment. But most people remember it simply as Screen Director’s 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Six Shooter" - More Than Kin (12-15-53)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Six Shooter" - More Than Kin (Aired December 15, 1953)The Six Shooter brought James Stewart to the NBC microphone on September 20, 1953, in a fine series of folksy Western adventures. Stewart was never better on the air than in this drama of Britt Ponset, frontier drifter created by Frank Burt. The epigraph set it up nicely: "The man in the saddle is angular and long-legged: his skin is sun dyed brown. The gun in his holster is gray steel and rainbow moth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Regan Investigator - The Diamond Quartet (8-14-48)The Diamond Quartet (Aired August 14, 1948)Jeff Regan, Investigator was one of the three detective shows Jack Webb did before Dragnet (see also Pat Novak For Hire and Johnny Modero: Pier 23). It debuted on CBS in July 1948. Webb played JEFF REGAN, a tough private eye working in a Los Angeles investigation firm run by Anthony J. Lyon. Regan introduced himself on each show "I get ten a day and expenses...they call me the Lyon's Eye." The show was fairly well-plotted, Webb's voice was great, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Couple Next Door - 2 Episodes From 1958"Phone Call To Mexico" (1-01-58) and "Liability Insurance" (1-01-58)The Couple Next Door was a Peg Lynch series which began in 1953-57 on Chicago's WGN, moving to the Mutual Broadcasting System in the summer of 1957. The married couple was played by Olan Soule and Elinor Harriot. It was revived on CBS Radio (December 30, 1957-November 25, 1960) with Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce as the unnamed married couple---essentially, it reprised Ethel and Albert but the new name was necessitated because Ly ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Burns&Alen Show - Harpo Marx Reporter (05-09-46)Harpo Marx Reporter (Aired May 9, 1946)Burns and Allen were an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen.Burns wrote most of the material, and played the straight man. Allen played a silly, addleheaded woman. Both attributed their success to the other, to the ends of their lives. Early on, the team had played the opposite roles until they noticed that the audience was laughing at Gracie's straight lines, so they made the change. Burns and Allen developed thei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Murder At Midnight - The Heavy Death (11-04-46)The Heavy Death (Aired November 4, 1946)The Murder at Midnight series was a thirty-minute broadcast featuring tales of the supernatural. The actors included Mercedes McCambridge and Lawson Zerbe and the show was narrated using the spooky, creepy voice of Raymond Morgan and always opened using the same gripping signature;“the witching hour, when night is darkest, our fears are the strongest, our strength at its lowest ebb…Midnight!…when graves gape open and death strikes!”CAST: Elspe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website X Minus One - The Light (10-24-57)The Light (Aired October 24, 1957)X MINUS ONE was an NBC science fiction series that was an extension, or revival, of NBC's earlier science fiction series, DIMENSION X. which ran from Apr. 8, 1950 through Sept. 29, 1951. Both are remembered for bringing really first rate science fiction to the air. The first X MINUS ONE shows used scripts from DIMENSION X, but soon created new shows from storied from the pages of Galaxy Magazine. A total of 125 programs were broadcast, some repeats or remak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Lux Radio Theater" - Red River (03-07-49)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Lux Radio Theater" - Red River (Aired March 7, 1949)THE LUX RADIO THEATER was first heard on NBC October 14, 1934 as a Sunday afternoon show. On July 19, 1935, it moved to CBS and into it's long running Monday night time slot. All shows were one hour long. Less than a year after it's arrival on the air, the series' ratings began to drop. Danny Danker, an executive working for the advertising agency handling the Lux account, was given the responsibility to impr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures Of Nero Wolf - The Impolite Corpse (12-08-50)The Impolite Corpse (Aired December 8, 1950)Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created by the American mystery writer Rex Stout, who made his debut in 1934. Wolfe's confidential assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius in 33 novels and 39 short stories from the 1930s to the 1970s, with most of them set in New York City. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Midnight - Short Circuit (1968)Short Circuit (1968)Beyond Midnight - Let us journey“into the land that lies beyond midnight,”into a world of ghost hunters, men going mad, and DEATH DEATH DEATH! Written by the masterful Michael McCabe, these well-done South African radio shows will capture your attention and keep you up listening to them well beyond midnight. A replacement series for SF 68, this horror anthology was far more successful than its predecessor, running from 1968 through 1969. Its success may have been due ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Shadow - Altar Of Death (3-15-42)Altar Of Death (Aired March 15, 1942)One of the most popular radio shows in history debuted in August 1930 when "The Shadow" went on the air. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" The opening lines of the "Detective Story" program captivated listeners and are instantly recognizable even today. Originally the narrator of the series of macabre tales, the eerie voice known as The Shadow became so popular to listeners that "Detective Story" was soon renamed "The Sh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Molle Mystery Theater - Corpus Delecti (01-17-47)Corpus Delecti (Aired January 17, 1947)Although Molle Mystery Theater 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 sho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Jack Benny (Jell-O) Program - Jack vs. Fred Allen (3-14-37)Jack vs. Fred Allen (Aired March 14, 1937)The Jack Benny Program is a classic comedy that is truly one of the best-loved programs from the Golden Age of Radio. It started life as The Canada Dry Program in 1932 on the Blue Network and finished off as The Lucky Strike Program on CBS in 1955. In between, it kept the audience in stitches and established Benny as one of America's all-time great comedians. The format of the show, and the personality of its star, so well honed in two decades on r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Little Margie - 30 Days To Live (12-12-54)30 Days To Live (Aired December 12, 1954)My Little Margie is an American situation comedy that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955. The series was created by Frank Fox and produced in Los Angeles, California by Hal Roach, Jr. and Roland D. Reed. My Little Margie premiered on CBS as the summer replacement for I Love Lucy on June 16, 1952. Its success prompted NBC to give it a regular berth - Saturday at 7:30 pm - on its fall schedule, where it lasted for two months. In January 1 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Candy Matson - Jack Frost (12-19-49)Jack Frost (Aired December 19, 1949)CANDY MATSON was the private eye star of Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8208, an NBC West Coast show which first aired in March 1949 and was created by Monty Masters. He cast his wife, Natalie Parks, in the title role of this sassy, sexy PI. Her understated love interest, Lt. Ray Mallard, was played by Henry Leff while her assistant and best pal, aptly named Rembrandt Watson, was the voice of Jack Thomas. Every show opened with a ringing telephone and our lady PI ... 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