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The Damon Runyon Theater- Neat Strip (12-11-49) Neat Strip (Aired December 11, 1949)
The Damon Runyon Theater was a 52 show series that was syndicated across the USA beginning in early 1949. Damon Runyon was a gifted sports writer in New York City as well as being a great journalist and great short story writer. His stories were humorous ones, written in the "dem" and "dose" vernacular of the city's loveable and not so loveable characters of Broadway, the prize ring and the underworld. His most famous collection of short stories, Guys a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Broadway Is My Beat - Ernie Lane Case (04-18-53)Ernie Lane Case (Aired April 18, 1953)
Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With music by Robert Stringer, the show originated from New York during its first three months on the air, with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover. John Dietz directed for producer Lester Gottlieb. Beginning with the July 7, 1949 episode, the series was broadcast from Hollywood with producer Elliott Lewis directing a new cast in scri ... 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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Calling All Cars - The Human Bomb (12-20-33)The Human Bomb (Aired December 20, 1933
Calling All Cars was one of radio’s 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 t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lights Out - Profits Unlimited (07-20-43)Profits Unlimited (Aired July 20, 1943)
Lights Out, featuring "tales of the supernatural and the supernormal", was created in Chicago by writer Wyllis Cooper in 1934, and the first series of shows (each 15 minutes long) ran on a local NBC station, WENR. By April 1934, the series was expanded to a half hour in length and moved to midnight Wednesdays. In January 1935, the show was discontinued in order to ease Cooper's workload (he was then writing scripts for the network's prestigious Immor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Father Knows Best - 2 Episodes From 19532 Episodes From 1953 - "The Boy Next Door" (Aired January 15, 1953) and "Bud Likes Girls" (Aired January 29, 1953)
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 Mar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Columbia Workshop - Nine Prisoners (02-20-39)Nine Prisoners (Aired February 20, 1939)
This was drama with a difference. Columbia Workshop was not everybody’s cup of tea and in terms of audience popularity it was always noted that it was never a strong contender for the title “Radios Top Rated Drama Series” and yet it was always considered to be the drama program that led the way in radio standards. Columbia was the first to experiment with what radio drama was all about, introducing new techniques never before used in over the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Lightning Jim" - The Outlaw's Son (1940)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Lightning Jim" - The Outlaw's Son (1940)
J. David Goldin's The Golden Age of Radio published by Radio Yesteryear in 1998 indicates that 41 Lightning Jim broadcasts have been located. The program originated in the 1940s and was called The Adventures of Lightning Jim. At this time it was a West coast program. The program returned to the air in the 1950s. A total of 98 radio programs were produced.
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Program #2. ZIV Syndication. "The Outlaw's Son". C ... 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
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
Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Town" - Lefty Slaughter (1950)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Town" - Lefty Slaughter (1950)
Chad Remington, played by Jeff Chandler for the first 23 shows, 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 WC 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. FRONTIER TOWN was a syndicated Western that ran through the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dimension X - The Embassy (06-03-50)The Embassy (Aired June 3, 1950)
Dimension X was first heard on NBC April 8, 1950, and ran until September 29, 1951. Strange that so little good science fiction came out of radio; they seem ideally compatible, both relying heavily on imagination. Some fine isolated science fiction stories were developed on the great anthology shows, Suspense and Escape. But until the premiere of Dimension X -- a full two decades after network radio was established -- there were no major science fiction ser ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
