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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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Episodes

Damon Runyon Theatre - Bred for Battle

Damon Runyon Theatre - Bred for Battle From-1949 Author-Damon Runyon Announcer-Frank Gallop Stars-John Brown as Broadway The son of a famous prize fighter is going to follow in his father's footsteps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 22, 202329 min

X-Minus One - To the Future

X-Minus One - To The Future From-1955 Writer-Ray Bradbury Al Jazzbo Collins, Joe DeSantis, Stan Early, Mercer McLeod, Alexander Scourby & Guy Sorel A trip two hundred years into the past...to 1955, AFRTS The script was used previously on "Dimension X" on May 27, 1950. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 18, 202330 min

Anthology - Dr. Faustus

Anthology - Dr. Faustus Announcer-Gene Hamilton Stars-Robert Culp & Elaine Carroll Readings from, "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus," by Christopher Marlowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 17, 202331 min

Mr. District Attorney - Case of the Body on the Freight Train

Mr. District Attorney - The Case of the Body on the Freight Train From-1953 Stars-David Brian From a midnight call, Harrington asking DA Paul Garrett to meet him at the railroad freight yard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 16, 202327 min

Stars Over Hollywood - The Truth Pays Off

Stars Over Hollywood - The Truth Pays Off From-1952 Announcer-Art Ballinger Stars-Jean Cagney, Marjorie Bennett & Fred Howard A young girl comes to New York with a million dollars and a determination never to tell a lie: object...matrimony! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 15, 202330 min

The Adventures of Maisie - The Poet Effie

The Adventures of Maisie - The Poet Effie From-1949 Stars-Ann Sothern, Sheldon Leonard & Lurene Tuttle You all remember MGM’s famous Maisie pictures starring Ann Sothern, well, she stars here in the radio situation comedy version The Adventures of Maisie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 11, 202328 min

Adventure Ahead - One of The 28th

Adventure Ahead - One Of The 28th From - 1944 Stars-Joe DeSantis, Bernard Lenrow, Jack Manning, Juano Hernandez, Nicholas Joy, Joseph F Mansfield, Waldo Fleming, Ken Reynard & Jim Tansey A swashbuckling tale about a young lad fished out of the sea by a notorious pirate and kept prisoner aboard ship. "I wouldn't be surprised if you were right there in fighting, with the troops the finally whipped Napoleon". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 10, 202329 min

Dark Venture - The Miser

Dark Venture - The Miser From-1946 Stars-Lou Merrill, Irene Tedrow, Herb Vigran, Sanford Bickart & John Lake A grocery clerk pockets $900 after a robbery and finds himself the victim of a blackmailer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 09, 202330 min

Let George Do It-The Robber

Let George Do It-The Robber From-1946 Stars-Bob Bailey, Frances Robinson, Harry Bartell, Eddie Firestone, Paul McVey, Jane Morgan & Evelyn Scott An eccentric book dealer dies, and George is hired to find his missing money. The clue lies with Mary...and her little lamb... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 08, 202331 min

Calling All Cars - Murder in the Back Room

Calling All Cars - Murder In The Back Room From-1936 Sponsored by: Rio Grande Charles Fedrick Lindsey Sheriff Miller - of Contra Costa county - speaking from KFRC, San Francisco A jeweler was murdered in his store and gems have been stolen. Be on the lookout for a man with blood still on his hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 04, 202331 min

Calling All Detectives - Uncle Merv's Radio Show

Calling All Detectives - Uncle Merv's Radio Show From-1948, episode 227 Stars-Paul Barnes WGN, Chicago. A radio personality starts the city's kids on an anti-crime crusade. A straight fender, a radio broadcast and a mob of children, those are the exhibits on this page of Private Detective Jerry Browning’s casebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 03, 202310 min

Hallmark Playhouse Theatre - The Old Nest

Hallmark Playhouse Theatre - The Old Nest From-1948 Host: James Hilton Writer Stars-Tony Barrett, Gloria Blondell, Sharon Douglas, William Johnstone, Jane Morgan & Earle Ross A sentimental story about the relationship between parents and children. A family of six children are raised by their parents in a loving home until one by one, they leave to fulfil their own destinies. They rarely keep in touch, or see one another, until a special announcement brings them all back together. Learn more ...

Aug 02, 202330 min

Rogues Gallery - Blondes Prefer Gentlemen

Rogues Gallery - Blondes Prefer Gentlemen From-1945 Stars-Dick Powell Richard Rogue was extremely busy when Mrs. Eccle a little old lady called in for his help regarding her granddaughter. He went to the girls' apartment only to find her dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 01, 202330 min

Address Unknown - The Search for Fedrick Lang

Address Unknown - The Search For Fedrick Lang From-1967 Starring-Lionel Stevens, Harp McGuire, Joe McCormick and Ray Barrett True stories of the search for men women and children who have been swept away... From their homes and lost through war, invasion and eventually occupation. Cases taken from the Missing Persons Bureau files in London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 28, 202326 min

Escape - The Follower

Escape - The Follower From-1951 Writer-Patrick Quentin Stars-William Conrad, Georgia Ellis, Harry Bartell, Virginia Gregg, Lou Krugman, Sydney Miller & Don Diamond Escape with us now to Mexico City as a man caught up in a terrifying web of murderous intrigue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 27, 202330 min

Boston Blackie - The Missing String of Pearls

Boston Blackie - The Missing String of Pearls From-1944 Chester Morris, Jann Miner & Richard Lane Valuable pearls have been stolen from a jewelry shop, shortly after a visit by Blackie...Mr. Faraday is sure he's got his man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 25, 202330 min

Rock And Roll Dance Party

From-1956 Host-Alan Freed Count Basie & His Orchestra, with singer-Joe Williams Special Guests Singers-Tony Bennett & The Chordettes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 21, 202327 min

The Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower - Horatio Captures the Natividad

The Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower - Horatio Captures the Natividad From-1952 Stars-Michael Redgrave After so many years Horatio Hornblower still feels a sense of shame of his temporary dependence on the mad Don Julian who believed himself a divine being and above the laws of man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 20, 202323 min

Favorite Story - The Man Who Sold His Shadow to the Devil

Favorite Story - The Man Who Sold His Shadow to the Devil From-1948 Chosen by American poet Robert Frost. Narrator-Tru Boardman Stars-Ronald Colman & Sam Edwards Peter wants to marry the woman he loves but her father forbids it as Peter has no money or prospects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 19, 202328 min

David Harding, Counterspy - The Case of the International Intrigue

David Harding, Counterspy - The Case of the International Intrigue From-1949 Phillips H. Lord Production Announcer-Bob Shepherd Stars-Mandel Kramer & Don MacLaughlin Dr. Brewster, the famous American atomic scientist, arrives in Switzerland. and is promptly kidnapped and offered for sale to the highest bidder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 18, 202332 min

Dangerous Assignment - Find Missing Scientist-Dr.Wiezek

Dangerous Assignment - Find Missing Scientist-Dr.Wiezek From-1951 Stars-Brian Donlevy This time Steve Mitchell travels to Madrid Spain, to find a missing scientist and his newly invented radio tube. There's also a lady bullfighter known as "The Wasp." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 14, 202329 min

Let George Do It - No Way Out

Let George Do It - No Way Out From-1951 Announcer-Bud Hiestand Stars-Robert Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Louise Arthur & Ken Christy A frightened young man is mixed up in a racket and shooting. He then is arrested and jailed. George Valentine helps him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 12, 202331 min

The Mysterious Traveler - The Man Who Died Twice

The Mysterious Traveler - The Man Who Died Twice Announcer-Carl Caruso Maurice Tarplin, Art Carney, Elspeth Eric & Frank Behrens A man discovers that after sixteen years in jail for murder, the man he "killed" is still alive...so he kills him! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 11, 202330 min

Bold Venture - The Mystery of the Mary Kay Murders

Bold Venture - The Mystery Of The Mary Kay Murders From-1952 Stars-Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall & Jester Hairston as King Moses Slate Shannon and Sailor find four dead men in a drifting boat. They are in a lifeboat from the "Mary Kay," a ship missing for a year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 10, 202326 min

The Adventures of Philo Vance - The Listless Murder Case

The Adventures Of Philo Vance - The Listless Murder Case From-1949 Stars-Jackson Beck, Joan Alexander & George Petrie A crook running a phony charity racket is found murdered. Shot by bullets in his heart and in the calf of his leg. Philo Vance is under the impression that the murderer has a bruise on his face or a black eye but has refused to indicate why he believes this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 07, 202327 min

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Yankee Pride Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Yankee Pride Matter From-1950 Stars-Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Gregg, Bob Sweeney, Peter Owens, William Johnstone, Wally Maher, Jack Kruschen & Ben Wright Edmond O'Brien as Johnny investigates murder, intrigue and sabotage in mysterious Singapore. Breakdown(s) on a ship, were they accidental, sabotage or both… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 06, 202330 min

The Whistler - Jealousy

The Whistler - Jealousy From-1942 Early Episodes & Armed Forces Broadcasts Contain Gale Gordon, Joseph Kearns as Main actors, others not credited, plus various CBS Stars & Crew A sick woman is sure that her husband is trying to kill her so he can be with another woman, so she decides to make the first move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 03, 202330 min

Suspense - America's Boyfriend

Suspense - America's Boyfriend From-1957 Stars-Mercedes McCambridge, Norma Jean Nilsson & Joan Banks If you are about to do something you shouldn't, we advise you not to do it around your moppets, they can be blabbering mouths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 30, 202331 min

Screen Guild Players - The Informer

Lady Esther Screen Guild Players - The Informer From-1944 Stars-Wallace Ford, Charles Bickford Reginald Denny & Isabel Jewel So they got your face on a poster Frankie, offering 20lbs. Lady Esther Screen Guild Players was able to showcase radio adaptations of some of the most popular Hollywood films. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 29, 202331 min
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