The Voyage Of the Scarlet Queen - King Ascot And The Maid In Waiting From-1947 Stars-Elliot Lewis & Ed Max The Voyage Of the Scarlet Queen was a high adventure program Mutual. It featured Elliot Lewis, who was also its director, as the sea captain Phillip Carney. Ed Max as the supporting character Red Gallagher. Others-include William Conrad, John Denner and Ben Wright. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 19, 2022•24 min
Dimension X - With Folded Hands From-1950 Stars-Alexander Scourby The perfect "mechanicals" from another planet make humans unnecessary, and they are always "at your service. " The year is 2006. Housework has been made easy by robots (or more correctly referred to in this story as mechanicals) who makes coffee, wash the dishes, and more besides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 16, 2022•30 min
Beyond Midnight - 40th Anniversary-AKA-Eloise's Whereabouts AKA-40th Birthday From-1969 Director & Producer-African author Michael McCabe A man who has an impending 40th birthday is threatened by his wife's youth and wealth. He decides to make a few minor changes to his life with devastating results. Springbok Radio Beyond Midnight a 30-minute radio mystery program written South African author Michael McCabe, was also the director & producer. It aired in 1960s, it featured stories about ...
Sep 14, 2022•28 min
The Avenger - The Mystery Of The Giant Brain From-1945 Announcer-Alyn Edwards, w-James Monks & Helen Adamson Professor O’Donnell is a great scientist who has become cruel and inhuman and it is for that reason that his assistant Miss St Clair has decided to leave him. The Professor has created Mechanical robots, which go out and capture animals from the zoo so that the professor can use their brains to create a super brain for his robots. But of course he can’t let her go for fear of her tell...
Sep 13, 2022•31 min
Exploring Tomorrow - Space Baby -Aka-The First Baby In Space From-1958 Announcer-Guy Wallace, with-Carol Teitel & Lawson Zerbe From Mutual, Armed Forces Radio & Television Service rebroadcast. "The Space Baby". Where do you find an incubator in a manned space station when one is needed in a hurry? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 12, 2022•21 min
Quiz Show - Queen For A Day - February 13th, 1950 From 1950 Staring-Jack Bailey Quiz Shows let listeners hear people just like themselves hit it big, sometimes through sheer luck. Queen for a Day helped to usher in the era of really big prize giveaways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 09, 2022•30 min
Squad Cars - Will She Jump? From The 1960s Broadcast in South Africa, this weekly show presented a dramatized story of the Johannesburg South African Police at work, based on real life cases. A woman, holding a baby, is found by a parapet on the 14th floor of an apartment building... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 07, 2022•27 min
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis - Guest-Peter Lorre From-1949 Peter Lorre-"The Cheerful Disc Jockey!" featuring, Flo McMichael, Ed Hurley, Dick Stabile and his orchestra. Dean sings-"Someone Like You." In order to sign up a sponsor (played by Roger Price), the boys try to get Peter Lorre to join them in a mystery program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 06, 2022•30 min
Recollections At 30 - Labor Day Announcer-Ed Herlihy Fred Collins First it's Bing Crosby at the dedication of NBC's Hollywood studios (December 7, 1935), Ed Wynn and Nelson Eddy on "The Chase and Sanborn Hour" (August 29, 1937), President Roosevelt speaks (August 31, 1936), Walter Damrosch on "The Music Appreciation Hour" (January, 1937), Ed East and Ralph Dumke as "The Sisters Of The Skillet" (June, 1937), Dinah Shore on "The Chamber Music Society Of Lower Basin Street" Learn more about your ad...
Sep 05, 2022•24 min
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure Of The Retired Colorman From-1940 Announcer-Knox Manning Stars-Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce Josiah Amberley pleads for Holmes to look into his disappearance of his wife. "Nobody cares if an Old Man's Heart Is Broken" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 02, 2022•30 min
Molle Mystery Theatre - Murder In The City Hall From-1946 Creator-Raymond Chandler Announcer-Dan Seymour, Stars-Bernard Lenrow, Robert Dryden & Chuck Webster A man is murdered while running for the position of judge. What does the police commissioner have in mind when he prevents a certain police lieutenant from working on the case? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 30, 2022•30 min
Dragnet - The Sullivan Kidnapping From-1949 Stars-Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, Charles McGraw/Raymond Burr A twenty-two year old girl has disappeared and a letter has been received demanding $30,000 for the girls return. The letter is signed The Wolf. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday has been assigned to Homicide Detail and it's his job to get him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 29, 2022•30 min
The Green Hornet - The Smuggler Signs His Name-AKA-Lace Smuggler Smuggling Racket From 1939 Stars-Al Hodge & Raymond Toyo Mr. Sneed, a foreign diplomat who’s using his immunity to smuggle expensive lace into the country. Lowry reports the story to his boss Dan Reid, who decides it’s time for the Green Hornet and his assistant Kato to investigate! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 26, 2022•29 min
Suspense - The Death Of Barbra Allen From-1952 Stars-Ann Baxter, Ken Christy, Harry Bartell, William Conrad, Elliot Lewis, Julius Mathew & Louise Louis Singer-Dennis Day An excellent radio production based on an Irish folk song, told in story and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 25, 2022•30 min
Dark Fantasy - The Letter From Yesterday From-1942 Writer-Scott Bishop Announcer: Tom Paxton Stars-Ben Morris & Eleanor Naylor The Letter From Yesterday is an original tale of Dark Fantasy written and created by Scott Bishop. A couple meet and Marry, find an old mail sack of letters hidden in their loft from 50 years ago. One of the unopened letters was from Adam’s father to his wife’s mother whose life parallel theirs except they didn’t get to be together because of this unopened letter. Le...
Aug 23, 2022•25 min
The Lives Of Harry Lime - The Third Woman From-1951 Stars-Orson Welles & Anton Karas plays the zither During the war, Corporal Lime is ordered to a tailor on Saville Row for three suits, and told to report to the Savoy Hotel for a special assignment, with the rank of Colonel. All through his military career Corporal Harry Lime had never been able to force himself to be fond of the brass. You’ve got have the army you’ve got to have the brass but Lime didn’t honestly see why. Learn more about ...
Aug 22, 2022•30 min
Lights Out - Nobody Died From-1936 Host-Arch Oboler Adelina, an old woman, is dying. Dr Miller is called out to attend to her. Adelina's youngest son is due in two days and she does not want to die without seeing him. She begs Dr Miller for a few more days of life. Dr Miller has an experimental potion to extend life. Does she use it? Does Adelina live? What are the consequences? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 19, 2022•29 min
The Whistler - Murder In Haste From-1947 The Voice of The Whistler-Bill Forman Announcer-Marvin Miller David Ellis & Joan Banks Albert Taylor murders his wealthy wife and takes the train from Florida north to New York. With a suspicious detective watching his every move. He switches identity with a famous mystery writer. The story has a nice "whistleresque" ending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 18, 2022•30 min
X Minus One - Real Gone! From-1957 Announcer-Fred Collins Al Jazzbo Collins, John Barragray, John McGovern & Harold Huber Hep Cat's view of an artist who produces amazing miniature statuary. The story of Ralph Therian and his unusual art medium. Announcer/DJ-Albert Richard "Jazzbo" Collins (January 4, 1919 – September 30, 1997) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 16, 2022•24 min
The Adventures Of Philo Vance - The Money Machine Murder Case From-1950 Announcer-Dwight Weist, and-Stars-Jackson Beck & Joan Alexander A gang of conmen are selling machines that they say can manufacture genuine $1 bills. It's a neat scam, but it leads to murder! Frank Kent, an inmate of a mental institution. He is kidnapped. Frank was there because his mind is permanently in another world. But, the reason somebody wants him, is because he is a mathematical genius, he can add, subtract, mult...
Aug 15, 2022•27 min
Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy - With Guest - Janet Blair From Norman Oklahoma The year-1945 Also staring-Don Ameche Charlie doesn't backdown about his allowance from Edgar Bergen, and expresses to leave the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 12, 2022•30 min
Confession - The Roger S Chapman Case From-1953 Paul Frees as Richard A. McGee, James Edwards, Jester Hairston, Jay Lock Lynn & Jonathan Hole "I make this confession of my own free will because it is true. There has not been any force or violence used upon my person to induce me to make these statements. Without promise of immunity or reward or gratuity, I confess." "You understand of course that your statement will be made public with the radio program, Confession?" To protect the legal rig...
Aug 11, 2022•30 min
Agatha Christie's Herecule Poirot - Death in The Golden Gate(AFRTS) From-1945 Stars-Harold Huber This story of detective fiction finds Herecule Poirot in the time of San Francisco at the time of the United Nations Conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 09, 2022•30 min
The Mysterious Traveler - The Man Who Knew Everything From-1951 Maurice Tarplin, Chuck Webster, Santos Ortega & Bret Morrison A crook forces the secret of reading minds from a swami Randor, "The Mystic". Armed with information about everything, he rises to the top of the underworld. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 08, 2022•31 min
Escape - The Derelict From-1953 Host & Stars-William Conrad, w-Charlotte Lawrence, Joseph Kearns, Ben Wright & Charlie Lung "The Derelict". Three men and a woman are adrift with a cargo of gold. You are aboard a ship drifting aimlessly in the endless reaches of the Indian ocean while the three men who are your companions unaware of your inner most thoughts are making plans for their own division of the treasure which because you are a woman can mean life or death for all of you. Learn mo...
Aug 04, 2022•30 min
Treasury Agent - The Case Of The Faithful Wife From-1949 Raymond Edward Johnson & Ralph Bell A Phillips H. Lord Productions Special agent Joe Lincoln was on the hunt to find and destroy an almost perfect set of counterfeit plates. To the underworld they represented months of painstaking work and a potential value of millions of dollars. The final phase of the case began in a North Carolina town in the white-framed house of Lettie Raymond... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...
Aug 02, 2022•30 min
The Chase - Tiger Lily From-1953 Announcer-Fred Collins, w-Larry Haines, Carl Swenson, Anne Pitonia, Leon Jenny & Ralph Bell Directed and transcribed by: Fred Weihe, Created & written by: Lawrence Klee A strange concoction known as Tiger Lily turns a mouse in to a lion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 01, 2022•30 min
You Bet Your Life - Secret Word 'Window'From-1949Announcer-Mike WallaceAnnouncer-George FennemanGroucho MarxContestant-Henrietta Adair Hosted by the quick witted Groucho Marx this is a fun quiz show.The couple that finishes with the most money gets to go for the $1500 question at the end of the show. Plus if someone uses the secret word they win an extra bonus prize. It was said that the contestants did not care much for the money, they just wanted to see if they were shrewd enough to escape Gro...
Jul 29, 2022•27 min
The CBS Radio Workshop - Cops And RobbersFrom-1956Writer-Stanley NissAnnouncer-Art HannesStars-Elspeth Eric, Ken Lynch, John Sylvester A crime is solved on the air. Real cops...not-so-real robbers. Cops and Robbers is a game played by children and it is a part that actors play on the radio for a living. Here the actors as usual will be playing make-believe robbers but the cops will be real. Stanley Niss is a writer mostly of crime and criminals and what police do about them. For a long time wond...
Jul 28, 2022•30 min
Yours Truly, Johnny DollarThe Frustrated Phoenix Matter[AFRTS]From-1954Stars-John Lund A brilliant author of the 1930's, now a drunken bum is killed...just after changing his beneficiary. Click on the picture to listen on Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 26, 2022•29 min
