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Those Old Radio Shows

Those Old Radio Shows bring you back to a much simpler time when the early days of radio were filled with comedy, drama and mystery programs. Unwind with a light-hearted program or become engrossed in a whodunnit. Those Old Radio Shows has something for everyone.
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Inner Sanctum Mysteries - The Blood Of Cain Mcbridge

Inner Sanctum Mysteries From-1946 Host-Raymond Edward Johnson & Karl Swenson A woman graduates from poisoning pigeons to learning that she is the lates in a long line of murderers. "That was no lady...that was my knife!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 16, 202231 min

Academy Award Theatre - Ruggles Of Red Gap

The Academy Award Theatre - Ruggles Of Red Gap From-1946 Announcer-Hugh Brundage Stars-Charles Laughton, Charles Ruggles The famous story of the English valet in the wild American West. Stars Charles Laughton and Charlie Ruggles playing the famous roles they created for the screen in that outstanding comedy drama. Laughton had twice been nominated as best actor of the year and in 1932 won the academy award. Ruggles Of Red Gap was nominated as best production of the year for the 1935 academy awar...

Nov 15, 202232 min

Mr. Keen, Tracer Of Lost Persons - The Case Of Murder On The Air

Mr. Keen, Tracer Of Missing Persons - Case Of The Murder On The Air Announcer-Larry Elliot Stars-Bennett Kilpack & Jim Kelly A woman found hiding in Mr. Keen's closet is the target of three murder attempts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 14, 202230 min

X Minus One - Soldier Boy

X Minus One - Soldier Boy From-1956 Bob Hastings, Alan Hewitt, Floyd Mack & Kermit Murdock Interplanetary war has come to mankind...and the battle is about to start. There is a Scandinavian Legend, in the North land deep in a great cave by an ever burning fire the warrior sleeps, for this is the resting time, the time of peace and so shall it be for a thousand years. Sand yet we shall summon him again my children when we are sore in need. And out of the north he will come and again and again...

Nov 11, 202229 min

The Green Hornet - The Imposter

The Green Hornet - The Imposter From-1945 Creator & Producer-George Washington Trendle Announcer-Bill Morgan Stars-Al Hodge, Lee Allman, Rollon Parker & Gilbert Shea Theme-Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov-Flight Of The Bumble Bee Michigan Radio net, WXYZ, Detroit origination. "The Imposter". The Hornet is accused of a truck hijacking and the robbery of a jewelry store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 10, 202230 min

It Pays To Be Ignorant - How Can You Tell A Jersey Cow

It Pays To Be Ignorant - How Can You Tell A Jersey Cow From-1944 Comedy, Gameshow MC-Tom Howard Announcer-Ken Roberts Harry McNaugton, Lulu McConnell, George Shelton, Nat Novick And His Orchestra The first question (at the opening): "How can you tell a Jersey cow?" "What town in Massachusetts had the Boston Tea Party?" A quiz show spoof that lampooned other quiz shows of the time such as Information, Please and The Quiz Kids. Three nitwits made up the "board of experts". They spent more time try...

Nov 08, 202231 min

The Adventures Of Maisie - The Efficiency Expert

The Adventures Of Maisie - The Efficiency Expert From-1951 Announcer-John Eastman Stars-Ann Sothern, Frank Nelson, Hans Conried, Lurene Tuttle, Sheldon Leonard, Earle Lee & Sidney Miller Maisie advises her boss Mr. Hemingway to hire an efficiency expert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 07, 202229 min

This Is Your FBI - Grand Larceny-Daniel Holly, Thief

This Is Your FBI - Grand Larceny-Daniel Holly, Thief From-1945 Stars-Stacey Harris, Dean Carlton, Frank Lovejoy & Carl Frank This Is Your FBI. May 18, 1945. Blue Network. "Grand Larceny". A mild salesman by day is a notorious safecracker at night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 04, 202230 min

I Was A Communist For The FBI - A Riot Made To Order

I Was A Communist For The FBI - A Riot Made To Order From-1952 Announcer-Truman Bradley Stars-Dana Andrews Matt Cvetic uses a sprinkler system to foil the plans of the Party to cause a riot and create sympathy for the Communists. Matt had heard people call members of the communist party in America harmless crackpots. He was one of those communists for nine years and reported their conspiracy against the United States from within. Crackpots? Like spiders spinning their webs. Harmless? Like tigers...

Nov 03, 202227 min

The FBI In Peace & War - Strictly Business

The FBI In Peace & War - Strictly Business From-1955 Martin Blaine & Donald Briggs The FBI in Peace and War 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 02, 202221 min

The Life Of Sherlock Holmes - The Strange Case of Murder In Wax

The Life Of Sherlock Holmes - The Strange Case of Murder In Wax Announcer & Host-Harry Bartell Stars-Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce One of the most sinister murderers who ever threatened the peace of London and is also known as The Hampton Heath Killer. Rose Bishop was the fifteenth girl to be murdered on the heath stabbed to death. Sherlock Holmes recognized the weapon as a collectors item a knife over 100 years old. Under the microscope he discovers wax on the knife which leads him to a wa...

Nov 01, 202231 min

Mercury Theatre On The Air - Dracula

Mercury Theatre On The Air - Dracula From-1938 Author-Bram Stoker Announcer-Dan Seymour Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Elizabeth Farah & Martin Gabel Bram Stokers' Dracula. The first show of the series starring Orson Welles Dr. Arthur Seward, who presents the story based on documents, telegrams, clippings from the press of the day, memoranda, and letters in various hands and begins with excerpts from the private journal of Jonathan Harker. Harker recalls his journey to Dracula's...

Oct 31, 202254 min

Abbott And Costello - With Bela Lugosi

Abbott & Costello - Meet Bela Lugosi Circa-1940s Featuring-Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bele Lugosi, Susam Miller with-Matty Matlock & His Orchestra Abbott & Costello investigate Bela Lugois' home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 28, 202230 min

Beyond Midnight - The Locked Room

Beyond Midnight - The Locked Room Author-Michael McCabe Cast & Crew-No Info-N/A "Let us journey into the land that lies beyond midnight, into a world of ghost hunters, men going mad". Beyond Midnight-South African Author, director & producer-Michael McCabe. It aired in the 1960s, and featured stories about death, madmen, ghost and ghost hunters, and anything supernatural. Little information about the show is available, including the number of episodes, at least 70. Learn more about your ...

Oct 27, 202230 min

The Haunting Hour - Ptolomey's Grave

The Haunting Hour - Ptolomey's Grave From-1946 Host-Barry Kroeger, Various Actors Cast & crew info-N/A Over the tomb, which held the mummy of Ptolemy III, these words were written, “Death to him who disturbs the everlasting resting place of these sacred remains.” Two weeks ago William Cartwright a famous Egyptologist defied this curse. He bought the mummy and had it sent home. That same day he slowly walked down the stairs through his upstairs study. His wife Martha heard his familiar footst...

Oct 26, 202226 min

Radio Mystery Theatre/Inner Sanctum Mysteries - Make Rady My Grave

Radio Mystery Theatre/Inner Sanctum Mysteries Make Ready My Grave From-1946 Host-Paul McGrath & Raymond Edward Johnson Stars-Joan Banks & Santos Ortega, John Loomis brings his new bride to the family mansion, where she discovers the many nooses and learns the secret of the family curse! Betty has just gotten married, and is in a state of euphoria which ends rather quickly. First, on the train her husband gives her a gun and makes her promise to shoot anyone who tries to kill her, even if...

Oct 25, 202226 min

The Great Gildersleeve - Election Day, Gildy Loses

The Great Gildersleeve - Election Day, Gildy Loses From-1944 Arthur Q. Bryan, Harold Peary, Jim & Marion Jordan, Lillian Randolph, Walter Tetley, Richard LeGrand, Lurene Tuttle, Erle Ross, Bea Benadaret, Shirley Mitchel & Ken Capenter(Kraft Cheese Announcer) Gildersleeve wins the election and becomes mayor of Summerfield...or does he? Gildy is confident that no matter how the election goes he cannot lose. We find two eager officials Fibber McGee & Molly! The actual election returns, ...

Oct 24, 202230 min

Dark Venture - The Only Inhabitant

Dark Venture - The Only Inhabitant From-1946 Narrator-John Lake, w-Betty Moran & Dwight Hauser & William Tracy Over the minds of mortal men come many shadows, shadows of greed and hate, jealousy & fear. Darkness is the absence of light, so in the sudden shadows which fog the minds of man & women, ought to be found the strange impulses which edge them into the unknown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 21, 202230 min

The Whistler - The Thief

The Whistler - The Thief From-1943 Announcer-Marvin Miller, Bill Forman-The Voice Of The Whistler, w-CBS Staff & Crew A strange story about a woman who meets her son for the first time, after he's grown up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 19, 202231 min

Suspense - A Friend To Alexander

Suspense - A Friend To Alexander From 1944 Geraldine Fitzgerald, John McIntire, Richard Wharfe The story of the Hamilton-Burr duel. An Announcement of Normandy Beachhead at the start of the show. Then Harry Andrews an upbeat guy, began to have dreams about Aaron Burr dreams in which Burr would be mean to his friend Alexander Hamilton, dreams that became nightmares that began to plague him… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 18, 202227 min

Escape - Country Of The Blind

Escape - Country Of The Blind From-1948 Writer-H.G. Wells Host & stars-William Conrad, Paul Frees, Berry Kroger, Peggy Webber, Herbert Wilms & Byron Kane A mountain guide finds a hidden valley where the people don't have eyes. However, the blind think that he is the deformity. Zebarra is a mining engineer in Ecuador near the towering Andes. Up until a year ago his chief sport was mountaineering. His last climb was an attempt to climb the remote and forbidding peak of Parascotopetl, the 2...

Oct 05, 202230 min

Mr. District Attorney - The Case Of Death By Adoption

Mr. District Attorney - The Case Of Death By Adoption From-1953 Stars-David Brian A Phillips H. Lord Production A used car dealer is blackmailed and then murdered, by the father of his adopted daughter. Larry Cashman sits waiting in his car lot for somebody and it is not a customer - it is a blackmailer. Larry has paid the blackmailer before, but now he thinks enough is enough. He offers him one final large payment on condition he does not visit again, but the blackmailer does not agree. There i...

Oct 04, 202228 min

The Adventures Of Sam Spade, Detective Agency - The Adam Fig Matter

The Adventures Of Sam Spade, Detective Agency, The Adam Fig Caper From-1947 Writer of Detective, Fiction stories & Creator of Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett. Announcer-Hugh Holder & Dick Joy Stars-Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle, Elspeth Eric Detective Sam Spade is hired to protect an old, sick, very wealthy man. There are lots of gunshots and screams in the night. Sam(Howard Duff) cracks up when an "office robot" given to him by Effie(Lurene Tuttle), fails to work. When Adam Fig walked in to Sa...

Oct 03, 202225 min

Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator - For Love Of Murder

Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator - For Love Of Murder From-1954 Announcer-Eddy King Stars-William Gargan, Barney Phillips, Tom McKee, Barbra Fuller, Gloria Ann Simpson & Herb Ellis Barrie bails out of jail a broken hearted man and possibly a murderer named Damon Runyon. After receiving a begging letter Barrie Craig took a trip to see an inmate named Maxie Potter who was locked up on a charge for 3rd degree assault for hitting Randy Lomax. Lomax was a talent agent who was promoting Max...

Sep 30, 202231 min

The Mysterious Traveler - Stranger In The House

The Mysterious Traveler - Stranger In The House From-1944 Stars-Maurice Tarplin, Bryna Raeburn & Lyle Sudrow An adventure of a young couple in search of a home. The scene: A small village of Woodford, Vermont. Evening, It's 9pm, and the main street in the village is deserted. A car comes speeding through and with the squeal of its brakes comes to a stop before the home of Dr. Samuel Stewart. A young woman, obviously distraught, gets out from behind the wheel of the car and hurries up the wal...

Sep 28, 202230 min

Top Secret - Confession

Top Secret - Confession From-1950 Host & Director-Harry W Junkin Ilona Massey, Luis Van Rooten, Inga Adams, Alan Stevenson, Guy Repp & Peter Cappel Friends with the Baroness Karin Geza for years, Mary Bryant receives a letter from her husband in Bulgaria. Impossible but it is reported he is a communist. The Baroness takes on the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 27, 202231 min

The Family Theatre - A Talent For Living

The Family Theatre - Talent for Living From-1948 Host- Danny Thomas Stars-Kirk Douglas, Diana Douglas, Pat Lower, Myra Marsh & Tommy Bernard Talent For Living. A working guy becomes engaged to a wealthy decorator. A visit to the groom's family exposes big differences between the two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 26, 202230 min

2000 Plus - When The Machines Went Mad

2000 Plus - When The Machines Went Mad From-1950 Announcer-Bob Emerick Stars-Charlotte Manson, Ken Williams, Joseph Julian & Albert Robertson It seems Morten’s experiments for the master mechanical brains are succeeding. The electronic men can make other electronic men and could control them absolutely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 23, 202224 min

The Mystery Playhouse/Hermit's Cave - Mr. Randall's Discovery

The Mystery Playhouse/Hermit's Cave - Mr. Randall's Discovery 1940s Horror Narrator-Peter Lorre Turn out your lights!, Mr. Randall wasn't a scientist, just an ordinary man. A Vice President of a small town bank. He experimented in his basement as a hobby, and quite by accident he stumbled upon a secret so amazing, so terrifying...listen in... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 21, 202226 min
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