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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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Hollywood Star Playhouse - The Six Shooter

Hollywood Star Playhouse - The Six Shooter From-1952 Host Wendell Niles Stars-Jimmy Stewart, Parley Baer, Herb Vigran Diana Lynn, Bert Holland & William Conrad The first adventure of Britt Ponset, which would lead to a series named "The Six-Shooter." The Wells Fargo office has been robbed of $5000 and a man has been shot. A distinctive horseshoe leads "The Six-Shooter" to Ben Schofield, the sheriff's son. The same recording (with one scene deleted) which was broadcast as "The Six-Shooter" on...

Jan 09, 202330 min

Escape - A Shipment Of Mute Fate

Escape - A Shipment Of Mute Fate From-1947 Stars-Jack Webb A story about a deadly snake looser on an ocean liner. Jack Webb the narrator, the sound of the snake strike is very well done. You are groping your way slowly through the dark hold of a ship at sea ... moving carefully step-by-step ... searching intently for something you dread to find, because you know this ship carries a cargo of death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 06, 202326 min

The Whistler - Blind Impulse

The Whistler - Blind Impulse From-1946 Host-Bob Venables Stars-Patricia Dunlap, Ed Prentiss & Everett Clark as The Whistler A woman's wealthy father isn't dying after all. He may live another twenty years before she inherits his money. The woman's husband is disappointed enough to get a "whistleresque idea" while atop a mule going down the Grand Canyon! Steve was in his glory never in his wildest dreams had he ever believed a thing like this could come to pass. Here they were just the two of...

Jan 04, 202330 min

Adventures by Carlton E. Morse - The City Of the Dead 1(The Adventure Begins)(Includes Audition episode)

Adventures by Carlton E. Morse - The City Of the Dead 1(The Adventure Begins) From-1944-0108-01 Writer-Carlton E. Morse Stars-Gayne Whitman with Elliot Lewis, Barton Yarborough & Jack Edwards In the 15 minute audition-introducing Adventures by Morse, Gayne Whitman tells you about the series, its origins and creator and writer Carlton E Morse. You are also provided with bite sized samples of the various shows to whet your appetite. There are 10,000 citizens in the City Of The Dead each with a...

Jan 03, 202341 min

Dimension X - No Contact

Dimension X - No Contact From-1950 Host-Norman Rhodes Stars-Luis Van Rooten, Donald Buka, Matt Crowley & Cameron Prudhomme It was in the year 1982 that space men first discovered the great galactic barrier. In the past 10 years rocket travel to the moon and the nearer planets had become common place and then men fixed their sights on a more distant star the remote planet known as Volta. 5 exploratory ships went out and none came back each disappearing mysteriously at the same vanishing point...

Jan 02, 202331 min

Burns And Allen - New Year's Eve Party

Burns & Allen - New Year's Eve Party From-1940s George Burns, Gracie Allen, Merideth Wilson, Bea Benadaret, Hans Conreid, Gale Gordon, Harry Lubin & The Maxwell House Orchestra, Bill Goodwin & Toby Reed George & Gracie discussing New Year's Eve Party Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 30, 202230 min

David Harding's Counterspy - Hot Car Killer

David Harding's-Counterspy - Hot Car Killer From-1949 Stars-Don MacLaughlin & Mandel Kramer Phillips H. Lord Production The system cue has been deleted. From a hideout high above New York a master criminal brain used human beings and stolen automobiles like pawns in a chess game of life and death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 28, 202232 min

Bulldog Drummond - The Case Of The Axis Submarine

Bulldog Drummond - The Case Of The Axis Submarine From-1943 Stars-George Coulouris Mutual net, WOR, New York aircheck. Sponsored by: Horton's Ice Cream. While investigating the murder of a night watchman on the piers, Captain Drummond is shot! This leads to the sinking of two Nazi submarines!. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 27, 202225 min

Dangerously Yours - Firebrand

Dangerously Yours - Firebrand From-1944 Stars-Victor Jory, Kermit Murdock & Joan Tetzel A tale of sixteenth century Italy and the loves of Benvenuto Cellini...a superb silversmith and lover! + “I am adventure. In my name men have traversed the highways, the byways, the skyways of the world. I am the fire that burns in the heart of youth that makes men dream and dare and conquer. I am Dangerously Yours…” Today follow me to the Italy of the 16th century, a day when the smile or the frown of a ...

Dec 26, 202230 min

T-Man - Show Business Is No Business

T-Man - Show Business Is No Business From-1950 Stars-Dennis O'Keefe, Verna Hillie, Frances Chaney, Wally Maher, Paul Frees, Ted de Corsia, Ben Wright & Rick Vallin T-Man was a radio program aired in 1950 and 1956. The show’s first season featured Dennis O’Keefe, who played the role of a treasury agent going after counterfeiters. He also starred in the film version of T-Man, which was released years before the radio adaptation started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

Dec 23, 202216 min

Suspense - Ghost Hunt

Suspense - Ghost Hunt From-1949 Announcer-Harlow Wilcox Stars-Ralph Edwards, Bill Johnstone, Antony Leader A disc jockey spends the night in a haunted house...with surprising results. Smiley I Must Be Crazy Smith was a DJ and for his Friday Night Stunt Night he was going to spend the night on a spook hunt in a haunted house in which four people were known to have committed suicide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 21, 202231 min

The Silver Theatre - One Day After Another

The Silver Theatre - One Day After Another From-1945 Director-Conrad Nagle Stars-Mary Astor The play is a series of chapters of the typical American Mother. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 20, 202230 min

Inspector Thorne - The Vacant Lot Murder Case

Inspector Thorne - The Vacant Lot Murder Case From-1951 Announcer-Fred Collins Stars-Karl Weber "This is a funny thing, he said to come to 1220. Must have been a mistake. This is a vacant lot! I wonder if this is a trap, just what I thought, You, you lured me here to murder me, help, police" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 19, 202229 min

Top Secret - The Story Of The Unknown Mission

Top Secret - The Story Of The Unknown Mission From-1950 Stars-Llona Massey, Bernard Grant, Fred Collins & Ralph Camargo Spy vs. spy in Italy, and a strange double-failure to murder. "Gorgeous" Ilona sings, "Perhaps." The beautiful Hungarian actress Ilona Massey stars as Baroness Karen Gaza, a top secret agent spy who fought for liberty and justice and freedom as bravely as any soldier anywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 16, 202231 min

Stars Over Hollywood - Fantasy Impromptu

Stars Over Hollywood - Fantasy Impromptu From-1952 Announcer-Art Ballinger Stars-David Niven, Lurene Tuttle & Larry Dobkins "Mary Blake," the commercial spokesman on many of these shows, was possibly played by Rosemary De Camp. A pianist with an injured hand stifles the creativity of his author-wife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 14, 202229 min

The Key - Dear John Letter

The Key - Dear John Letter From-1956 James Workman A Corporal receives a "Dear John" letter. The Key was a mystery series from Australia that aired in the mid 1950's. James Workman educated in England & trained as a naval cadet. He spent time in the London Metropolitan Police. Moving to South Africa, Workman later joined a touring theatre company. Instrumental in South African Broadcasting Commission as an announcer, scriptwriter & producer, continuing these positions when in Australia. ...

Dec 13, 202226 min

Jeff Regan, Investigator - The Lady From Brazil

Jeff Regan, Investigator - The Lady From Brazil From-1949 Announcer-Bob Stevenson Stars-Frank Graham & Frank Nelson Writer-E. Jack Neuman Music-Richard Aurandt Jeff Regan works for Anthony J Lion head of the International detective bureau. Irene Santino from Brazil hires "The Lyon's Eye" to find her missing sister. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 12, 202230 min

The Weird Circle - The Trial For Murder

The Weird Circle - The Trial For Murder From-1944 Various Stars such as-Lawson Zerbe, Gladys Thornton, Walter Vaughn & Arnold Moss Written by Charles Dickens Author: Charles Elster Collins. An excellent ghost story about murder and trial and the strange role of the foreman of the jury. This popular series started life in 1931 as a 15 minute comedy drama written by Goodman Ace and produced by Frank and Anne Hummert. The program portrayed the lives of Goodman Ace and his wife, Jane. Jane was a...

Dec 09, 202229 min

Hall Of Fantasy - The Judges House

The Hall Of Fantasy - The Judges House Writer-James Workman, Announcer-Harry Elders, Cast & Crew N/A KALL, Salt Lake City origination. "The Judge's House". A man rents the house of a hanging judge and finds himself a victim of a giant rat with the judge's eyes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 07, 202228 min

The Sealed Book - Murderer Unknown

The Sealed Book - Murderer Unknown From-1945 Host-Philip Clarke A successful businessman gets black-bordered letters that threaten his life. The Sealed Book was a horror and mystery series aired on Mutual from June to September 1945. Produced by Jock MacGregor, aired for 30 minutes Sunday evenings. Philip Clarke was the show’s host, while David Kogan and Robert Arthur Jr. were the scriptwriters. Kogan and Arthur were also the writers behind the radio anthology, The Mysterious Traveller. Learn mo...

Dec 06, 202230 min

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Kings Necklace(John Lund)

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Kings Necklace From-1953 Stars-John Lund, Milton Charles, Howard McNear, Tom Tully A $250,000 jewelry heist and murder off the coast of Cuba. King Rawlings lived on his own exotic island near Cuba. He had taken a policy out on a necklace worth quarter of a million dollars, which was due for renewal. However he reported that someone had unsuccessfully tried to break in to his safe and steal it. The insurance company were concerned following rumors of King Rawlings...

Dec 05, 202229 min

Molle Mystery Theatre - Angel Face

The Molle Mystery Theatre - Angel Face From-1946 Adaptation-Don Agger Announcer-Dan Seymour Stars-Bernard Lenrow & June Havoc Angel Face! A sweet baby doll gets a surprise when the latest victim she just buried alive returns from the grave. The story was originally titled, "Murder On Her Mind." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 02, 202230 min

Stand By For Crime - The Luke Larson Murder

Stand By For Crime - The Luke Larson Murder From-1953 Stars-Adele Jergens & Glenn Langan Lefty Luc Larson and K.O McCrady were light heavyweight boxers who were scheduled for a ten rounder in the Starlight stadium. It was supposed to be a grudge fight but Chuck Morgan, newscaster for radio station KLP had pretty good information that the fight was fixed with Lefty set up to lose. Chuck Morgan tried for a week to get his hands on something concrete and got nowhere. Then suddenly he gets a cal...

Nov 30, 202225 min

Crime Classics - A Shrapnel Body of Charles Drew Senior

Crime Classics - A Shrapnel Body of Charles Drew Senior From-1953 Announcer-Bob Lemond Stars-Elliot Lewis, Paul Frees, Betty Harford, Terry Kilburn, Lou Merrill & Irene Tedrow In England 1739, Charles Drew Jr. kills Charles Drew Sr. before he has the opportunity to change his will. At the introduction of this show you hear a man having his right hand hook filed. It’s Saturday night and in London town he wants it to be gleaming and presentable. A well-sharpened hook in London was considered p...

Nov 29, 202231 min

Dangerous Assignment - Recover Stolen Dynamite/The Canal Zone, & a Piece of String

Dangerous Assignment - Recover Stolen Dynamite/The Canal Zone, & a Piece of String From-1951 Stars-Brian Donlevy, Al Brown, Raymond Burr, Byron Kane & Kaye Stewart Dynamite has been stolen in Panama, so Steve Mitchell flies to the Canal Zone. What is the significance of an eleven-inch piece of string? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 28, 202229 min

The New Adventures Of Nero Wolfe - The Party For Death

The New Adventures Of Nero Wolfe - The Party For Death From-1951 Announcer-Don Stanley Stars-Sydney Greenstreet, Harry Bartell, Ge Ge Pearson, Herb Butterfield, Peter Leeds, Evelyn Eaton & Bill Johnstone. Ladies & Gentlemen, the ringing of that telephone brings you mystery, adventure... Archie attends a cocktail party at which Nero Wolfe expects the guest of honor to be murder! The final public service announcement and system cue have been deleted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Nov 25, 202230 min

The New Adventures Of Michael Shayne - The Case Of The Constant Companion

The New Adventures Of Michael Shayne - The Case Of The Constant Companion From-1948 Stars-Jeff Chandler His gun in his hand didn’t waver and his pale blue eyes stared at Shayne unblinking, cold and deadly. Then he saw his finger start to tighten on the trigger and Shayne knew that in one more second his last case was due to be closed… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 23, 202228 min

Spy Catcher - The Gentle Gestapo Man

Spy Catcher - The Gentle Gestapo Man From-The BBC-1960 Stars-Bernard Archard as Col Oresto Pinto The series of true stories of the ongoing search of enemy spies in war. Throughout the war batches of refugees and escapers of Europe were ariving in headquarters in London. Most of them were young men anxious to join the free arm. Some were the regestant men fleeing from the Gestapo, but some were spies. Each intel legation was a challenge was he friend or foe. What kind of story would he come here ...

Nov 22, 202227 min

The Adventures Of Rocky Jordan - Strangers In Three

The Adventures Of Rocky Jordan - Strangers In Three From-1948 Stars-Jack Moyles, Jay Novello & Milton Charles A shadow with a felt hat and tweeds introduces Rocky to lots of new people...living and dead! Rocky Jordan is always suspicious of a man, even in Cairo, who wants to play hide and seek especially when he’s a total stranger. But this fellow in a felt hat and tweeds had been shadowing him for too long. Finally the stranger leaves The Café Tambourine figuring that before the night was o...

Nov 21, 202230 min

Pursuit - In Clynewidd Mine

Pursuit - In Clynewidd Mine From-1952 Stars-Ben Wright, Raymond Lawrence, William Johnstone, Antony Ellis, Steve Roberts, Joseph Kearns & Charles Davis "In Clinuet Mine" A disaster in a Welsh coal mine, and a murder at the same time. A detective from Scotland Yard works on the case, while trapped underground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 18, 202229 min
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