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Dad's Army - Present Arms (07-18-74)Present Arms (Aired July 18, 1974)
Dad’s Army was a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The British Home Guard consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, usually owing to age, and as such the series starred several veterans of British film, television and stage, including Arthur Lowe (1915–82), John Le Mesurier (1912–83), Arnold R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nightfall - Wildcats (02-27-81)Wildcats (Aired February 27, 1981)
Nightfall is the title of a radio drama series produced and aired by CBC Radio ( Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ) from July 1980 to June 1983. While primarily a supernatural/horror series, Nightfall featured some episodes in other genres, such as science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and human drama. One episode was even adapted from a folk song by Stan Rogers. Some of Nightfall's episodes were so terrifying that the CBC registered numerous complaints and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ray Bradbury Short Story - The Rocket (01-04-52)The Rocket (Aired January 4, 1952)
NBC Presents Short Story (AKA: Short Story) - Stories were dramatizations of the works of Ray Bradbury. Each show features a brief introduction by Ray Bradbury, often relating how the story came to be. In this episode, "The Rocket", A poor man who runs a junkyard wants nothing more in life than to travel to Mars...which is just what he does! David DuVal, Don Diamond (producer, host, performer), Dorothy Brown, Ernest Kinoy (adaptor), Joel Nessler, John Wa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Box 13 - Death Is A Doll (03-13-49)Death Is A Doll (Aired March 13, 1949)
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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Amazing Mr. Malone - Hard Work Never Killed Anyone (06-22-51)Hard Work Never Killed Anyone (Aired June 22, 1951)
Based on Craig Rice’s (a female crime novelist who rivaled Agatha Christie in book sales) novels of crime drama, Frank Lovejoy (and later Gene Raymond and George Petrie) plays “fiction’s most famous criminal lawyer,” John J. Malone. Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting clichés, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a str ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Author's Playhouse - Minstrels Of The Mist (08-04-44)Minstrels Of The Mist (Aired August 4, 1944)
Author’s 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 the Red 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: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Have Gun Will Travel" - Stopover In Tombstone (10-11-59)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Have Gun Will Travel" - Stopover In Tombstone (Aired October 11, 1959)
One of the last radio shows and one of the few to go from TV to radio, HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL started its 106 show run on November 23, 1958. These Sunday afternoon shows were radio adaptations of the previous nights TV script with John Dehner replacing Richard Boone. Paladin, the lead character, played by John Dehner, was a man with a
short temper and a fast gun.
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The Shadow - The The Man Who Murdered Time (01-01-39)The Man Who Murdered Time (Aired 01-01-39)
The Shadow - 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe - Man On The Roof (04-04-50)Man On The Roof (Aired April 4, 1950)
The first portrayal of Philip 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, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The FBI In Peace & War - The Bungler (09-14-55)The Bungler (Aired September 14, 1955)
The FBI in Peace and War was a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewsis Collins' book, The FBI in Peace and War. The idea for the show came from Louis Pelletier who wrote many of the scripts. Among the show's other writers were Jack Finke, Ed Adamson and Collins. Airing on CBS from November 25, 1944 to September 28, 1958, it had a variety of sponsors (including Lava Soap, Wildroot Cream Oil, Lucky Strike, Nescafe and Wrigley's) over the years. M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bold Venture - The High Price Of Treason (06-25-51)The High Price Of Treason (Aired June 25, 1951)
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 pla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lux Radio Theater - Lady In The Lake (02-09-48)Lady In The Lake (Aired February 9, 1948)
In October of 1934, "Lux Radio Theater" debuted in New York on NBC's Blue radio network. Presenting audio versions of popular Broadway plays, the show failed to garner an audience and soon ran out of material. After switching networks to CBS and moving to Hollywood, Lux found its true market. The show began featuring adaptations of popular films, performed by as many of the original stars as possible. With an endless supply of hit films scripts and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Blair Of The Mounties - The Robbery At The Canada Western (06-06-38)The Robbery At The Canada Western (06-06-38)
Blair of the Mounties is the story of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police -- a fictional series based on the work of the Northwest Mounted Police before the World War I. It was a fifteen minute weekly serial heard every Monday for 36 weeks beginning January 31st, 1938 and running through the 3rd of October of 1938. It may have been on the air as early as 1935, although there’s no actual proof of this. Little is known of the series other than it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dragnet - The Big Poison (09-07-50)The Big Poison (Aired September 7, 1950)
Dragnet was a long-running radio and television police procedural drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet debuted inauspiciously. The first several months were bumpy, as Webb and company worked out the program’s format and eventual ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
General Mills Radio Adventure Theater - Three Swords (04-16-77)Three Swords (Aired April 16, 1977)
The series had it origins in the meeting of two minds: the ad agency for General Mills at the time, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample was looking for a different means to reach a child audience besides television, which was decreasing commercial minutes and increasing costs; and Himan Brown, producer-director of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, who wanted to introduce new audiences to the dramatic form on radio. Tom Bosley was chosen as the host because of his tele ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Big Town - Deadline At Dawn (12-14-48)Deadline At Dawn (Aired December 14, 1948)
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. Pawley portrayed 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mr. District Attorney - Hijack Killer (1952)Hijack Killer (1952)
Mr District Attorney was for many years the nation’s best-liked crime show. The thirty-minute drama was inspired by the real-life exploits of Thomas E Dewey, a racket-busting district attorney of the late 30s in New York. The show was directed and often written by Ed Byron, a former law student who devoted all of his time researching crime, which was the reason that the show was so topical.
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1952. Program #1. Ziv syndication. "The Case Of The Hijack Kil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Casebook Of Gregory Hood - Gregory Hood Suspect (09-30-46)Gregory Hood Suspect (Aired September 30, 1946)
The Casebook of Gregory Hood, starring Gale Gordon in the title role, took over where Sherlock Holmes had left off. Sponsored by Petri wine, it used the same "weekly visit" format and the same team of Anthony Boucher and Dennis Green that had written The New Adventured of Sherlock Holmes. Gregory Hood was modelled after true-life San Francisco importer Richard Gump, and many of the stories revolve around a mystery surrounding some particular ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ellery Queen Master Detective - The Three Frogs (04-29-48)The Three Frogs (Aired April 29, 1948)
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. Tuska cited Ellery Queen, Master De ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Gangbusters - A Date With Death (06-04-49)A Date With Death (Aired June 4, 1949)
Gangbusters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premiered as G-Men, sponsored by Chevrolet, on July 20, 1935. After the title was changed to Gang Busters January 15, 1936, the show had a 21-year run through November 20, 1957. Beginning with a barrage of loud sound effects — guns firing and tires squealing — this intrusive introduction led to the popular ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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