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Boston Blackie - The Case Of The Unused Shoes (05-02-45)The Case Of The Unused Shoes (Aired May 2, 1945)
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 t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mr. & Mrs. North - Diehard (09-08-53)Diehard (Aired September 8, 1953)
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 hi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Molle Mystery Theater - Close Shave (05-14-48)Close Shave (Aired May 14, 1948)
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 mov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Gunsmoke - Bear Trap (04-21-57)Bear Trap (Aired April 21, 1957)
Gunsmoke - The radio show first aired on April 26, 1952 and ran until June 18, 1961 on the CBS radio network. The series starred William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, and Parley Baer as Deputy Chester Proudfoot. Doc's first name and Chester's last name were changed for the television program. Gunsmoke was notable for its critically acclaimed cast and writing, and is commonly regarded as on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Chase - Joey (07-17-52)Joey (Aired July 17, 1952)
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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Academy Award Theater - Lost Angel (12-18-46) Lost Angel (Aired December 18, 1946)
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 Joa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Night Beat - Bomb On The Denver Plane (09-04-52)Bomb On The Denver Plane (Aired September 4, 1952)
Broadcast on NBC, Night Beat ran from 1949 to 1952 and starred Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, a tough and streetwise reporter who worked the nightbeat for the Chicago Star looking for human interest stories. He met an assortment of people, most of them with a problem, many of them scared, and sometimes he was able to help them, sometimes he wasn’t. It is generally regarded as a ‘quality’ show and it stands up extremely well. Frank Lov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Candy Matson - The Fort Ord Story (10-09-50)The Fort Ord Story (Aired October 9, 1950)
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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bulldog Drummond - Dinner Of Death (04-23-45)Dinner Of Death (Aired April 23, 1945)
Bulldog Drummond has come to wreak havoc on unsuspecting killers, counterfeiters, and underworld characters. The opening of the show starts with a the sounds of footsteps, foghorn, then two shots ring out, followed by three blows of a police officer's whistle. Bulldog, who's really name is Hugh (played by George Coulouris), was a methodical crime-solving sleuth who let nothing get in his way of his goal, which was to put a stop to crime! Bulldog belie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Crime Classics - The Alsop Family: How It Diminished and Grew Again (08-24-53)The Alsop Family: How It Diminished and Grew Again (Aired August 24, 1953)
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. It grew out of Lewis's personal interest in famous murder cases, and took a documentary-like approach to the subject, carefully recr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Bob Hope Pepsodent Show - Guest Fred Astaire (02-17-48)Guest Fred Astaire (Aired February 17, 1948)
From the age of twelve, Bob Hope worked at a wide variety of odd jobs at a local board walk. When not doing this he would busk, doing dance and comedy patter to make extra money. He entered many dancing and amateur talent contests, and won prizes for his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. He also boxed briefly and unsuccessfully under the name Packy East, making it once as far as the semi-finals of the Ohio novice championship. Fallen silent film ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cloak & Dagger - The People In The Forest (06-11-50)The People In The Forest (Aired June 11, 1950)
"Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission for the United States, knowing in advance you may never return alive?" Cloak and Dagger first aired over the NBC network on May 7, 1950. It had a short run through the Summer on Sundays, changing to Fridays after its Summer run. The last show aired Oct. 22, 1950. This is the story of the WWII special governmental agency, the OSS, or Office of Strategic Services. Its mission was to develop and m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ports Of Call - Russia (1936)Russia (1936)
Ports Of Call - An obscure series from 1935 or 1936 in which each episode deals with a voyage to a different country where events of that country's history are dramatized. They each begin with the low moan of a tramp steamer's whistle and the announcement of the series title, followed by a musical interlude.*Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group.
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1936. Transco syndication. "Russia". Music fill for local commercial insert. In 1605, Boris Gudenov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nick Carter Master Detective - The Case Of The Unwritten Letter (07-29-45)The Case Of The Unwritten Letter (Aired July 29, 1945)
Nick Carter, Master Detective - Nick Carter is the name of a popular fictional detective who first appeared in in a dime novel entitled "The Old Detective's Pupil" on September 18, 1886. In 1915, Nick Carter Weekly became Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. Novels featuring Carter continued to appear through the 1950s, by which time there was also a popular radio show, Nick Carter, Master Detective, which aired on Mutual from 19 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Murder At Midnight - Death Worshipper (1946)Death Worshipper (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!” FIRST BROADCAST: Sept ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mayor Of The Town - War Orphan (10-07-42)War Orphan (Aired October 7, 1942)
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. The show was a perfect vehicle for Lionel Barrymore: rich with warmhearted humor, and good-natured grumbling, its "mayor" had a fierce bark but a mushy heart when confronted with the plight of an orphan or a stray dog. The may ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Arch Oboler's Plays - Come To The Bank (10-31-64)Come To The Bank (Aired October 31, 1964)
Arch Oboler's Plays was a radio drama series written, produced and directed by Arch Oboler. Minus a sponsor, it ran for one year, airing Saturday evenings on NBC from March 25, 1939 to March 23, 1940 and revived five years later on Mutual for a sustaining summer run from April 5, 1945 to October 11, 1945. Leading film actors were heard on this series, including Gloria Blondell, Eddie Cantor, James Cagney, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Greer Garson, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell - The Quarantine (12-18-48)The Quarantine (Aired December 18, 1948)
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell first ran on NBC radio from March 26 to June 22, 1934 as a 15-minute serial airing three times a week at 5:30pm. Sponsored by Dr. West's Toothpaste, this program starred Donald Briggs in the title role. Harlow Wilcox was the announcer. After a 12-year gap, the series returned October 5, 1946 as a 30-minute NBC Saturday morning show, continuing until June 4, 1949. Lawson Zerbe starred as Merriwell, Jean Gillespie and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Men Without Mouths (04-16-74)Men Without Mouths (Aired April 16, 1974)
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Created by Himan Brown (who had by then become a radio legend due to his work on Inner Sanctum Mysteries and other shows dating back to the 1930s), and aired on affiliate stations across the CBS Radio network, the series began its long run on January 6, 1974. The final episode ran on December 31, 1982. A host of prominent actors from radio and screen performed on the series, including Agnes Moorehead, Joan Hackett, Merce ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The New Adventures Of Nero Wolf - A Slight Case Of Perjury (04-06-51)A Slight Case Of Perjury (Aired April 6, 1951)
Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective created by American author Rex Stout in the 1930s and featured in dozens of novels and novellas.In the stories, Wolfe is one of the most famous private detectives in the United States. He weighs about 285 pounds and is 5'11" tall. He raises orchids in a rooftop greenhouse in his New York City brownstone on West 35th Street, helped by his live-in gardener Theodore Horstmann. Wolfe drinks beer throughout the d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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