Boxcars711 Old Time Radio
2,257 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 74 ratingsBoxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod Offers the best of Old Time Radio, Oldies, Easy Listening and Talk. Broadcasting from the heart of Germantown, on WPNM radio, and over the Shoutcast Network, host Bob Camardella mixes his vast collection of entertainment, with news and events from the ole neighborhood reunion groups of Germantown, Phila., Pa., Where The Oldies Are Still Young
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The Real McCoys "Little Luke's Education" (2-06-58) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 07, 2008 04:57 - 21 minutes - 5.02 MBLittle Luke's Education (Aired February 6, 1958) A happy-go-lucking West Virginia mountain family picks up stakes and moves to a ranch in California's San Fernando Valley. Center of the action, and undisputed star of the show, was Grandpa, a porch-rockin', gol-darnin', consarnin' old geezer with a wheezy voice who liked to meddle in practically everybody's affairs, neighbors and kin alike. His kin were grandson Luke and his new bride, Kate; Luke's teenage sister, Hassie; and Luke's 11-year-o...
Favorite Story "Wuthering Heights" (10-04-47) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 07, 2008 03:23 - 29 minutes - 6.69 MBFAVORITE STORY aired from September 1947 through December of 1949 hosted by Ronald Colman. This is an excellent dramatic series of great stories from classic literature brought to radio. It's popularity was so high and with such well done stories, it was rebroadcasted for many years. Wuthering Heights is Emily BrontÃ's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from...
I Was A Communist For FBI "The Pit Viper" (5-21-52) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 06, 2008 22:59 - 27 minutes - 6.3 MBWas a Communist for the FBI was an American espionage thriller radio series with 78 episodes syndicated by Ziv to more than 600 stations in 1952-54. Made without FBI cooperation, the series was adapted from the book by undercover agent Matt Cvetic, who was portrayed by Dana Andrews.The series was crafted to warn people about the threat of Communist subversion of American society. The tone of the show is very jingoistic and ultra-patriotic. Communists are evil incarnate and the FBI can do no w...
CBS Radio Mystery Theater "The Man Who Heard Voices" (1-29-74) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 06, 2008 17:02 - 52 minutes - 12 MBThe CBS Radio Mystery Theater - As you walk through the creaking door you enter into another world, the world of imagination. This world is inside you, a part of you, and you take this journey alone. Each person hears and then sees with his or her mind's eye the events portrayed within these dramas. All of us interprets what they hear differently. The images we see is unique to ourselves. A voice becomes a person, living, breathing they come alive. They take on a physical form and characteris...
I Love Adventure "Girls Finishing School Kidnapping" (5-30-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 06, 2008 06:24 - 29 minutes - 6.81 MBI Love Adventure was a 30-minute weekly adventure series which only appeared in the summer of 1948. The show continued the adventures of the I Love A Mystery series CAST: Michael Raffetto, Tom Collins, Barton Yarborough, Russell Thorson, Lillian Buyeff, Earl Lee, Harry Lang, Janet Logan, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan, Rolfe Sedan, Donal Morrison, Luis Van Rooten, Lal Chand Mehra, Alma Lawton, Barbara Jean Wong, Henry Blair, Betty Lou Gerson, Dix Davis, Peggy Webber, Lou Krugman, Frank Richar...
Dragnet "The Big Grab" (6-21-55) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 06, 2008 03:36 - 25 minutes - 5.84 MBSHOW TWO OF TWO When Dragnet hit its stride, it became one of radioâs top-rated shows. While most radio shows used one or two sound effects experts, Dragnet needed five; a script clocking in at just under 30 minutes could require up to 300 separate effects. Accuracy was underlined: The exact number of footsteps from one room to another at Los Angeles police headquarters were imitated, and when a telephone rang at Fridayâs desk, the listener heard the same ring as the telephones in Los Angeles...
Hollywood Star PLayhouse "Night and The River" (1956) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 06, 2008 00:05 - 28 minutes - 6.53 MBThe Hollywood Star Playhouse , well written and performed, presented many original plays and popular Hollywood stars. Some of those who accepted roles in this great series included Jimmy Stewart, William Conrad, Deborah Kerr, Vincent Price, Harry Bartell and Betty Lou Gerson. Highlights included an episode entitled The Six Shooter and which later became itâs own series staring James Stewart. In 1952, Marilyn Monroe made her radio debut on The Hollywood Star Playhouse.
Dragnet 'The Big Trunk" (3-22-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 05, 2008 20:46 - 25 minutes - 5.79 MBDragnet 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 programâs format and eventually became comfortable with their characters (F...
Dark Shadows "The House Of Despair" (Part 3 of 3) 1966 - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 05, 2008 14:25 - 29 minutes - 6.68 MB"THE HOUSE OF DESPAIR" (SHOW THREE OF THREE) Dark Shadows is a Gothic television soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis, who tells of a dream he had in which a girl takes a long train ride to visit a large mansion. The story "bible", which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements. It was considered daring (and unprecedented in daytime television) when ghosts ...
The Fred Allen Show "Hill Billy Skit" (6-12-40) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 05, 2008 05:47 - 59 minutes - 13.7 MBThe Fred Allen Show - Born John Florence Sullivan on May 31, 1894, Fred Allen began his career in vaudeville before becoming one of radioâs most acerbic and admired wits. Allen and his wife, former chorus girl Portland Hoffa, began their radio career on October 23, 1932, starring on The Linit Bath Club Revue. By 1934, Allen was starring on Town Hall Tonight, a one-hour show which featured Allen examining current events and interviewing unusual guests. It was here that Allen began radioâs long...
Dark Shadows "The House Of Despair" (Part 2 of 3) 1966 - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 05, 2008 03:22 - 18 minutes - 4.18 MB"THE HOUSE OF DESPAIR" (SHOW 2 OF THREE) A small company of actors each played many roles and, as actors came and went, some characters were played by several actors. Major writers in addition to Art Wallace included Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles. Dark Shadows has the distinction of being the only long-running soap to have every episode released for home video (including a reconstruction episode #1219, the videotape for which is lost), first on VHS and currently in progress on ...
The Damon Runyon Theater "The Big Umbrella" (7-03-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 05, 2008 01:10 - 29 minutes - 6.7 MBDamon Runyon Theater- Broadcast from January to December 1949, "The Damon Runyon Theater" dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories for radio. Damon Runyon (October 4, 1884 â December 10, 1946) was a newspaperman and writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. He spun tales of gamblers, petty thieves, actors and gangsters; few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead to be known as "Nathan Detro...
Dark Shadows "The House Of Despair" (Part 1 of 3) 1966 - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 04, 2008 19:58 - 26 minutes - 5.99 MBDark Shadows is a Gothic television soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis, who tells of a dream he had in which a girl takes a long train ride to visit a large mansion. The story "bible", which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements. It was considered daring (and unprecedented in daytime television) when ghosts were introduced about six months after it beg...
You Bet Your Life - "Secret Word Is SKY" (1-25-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 04, 2008 14:23 - 29 minutes - 6.68 MBGroucho Marx matches wits with the American public in four episodes of this classic game show. Starting on the radio in 1947, You Bet Your Life made its television debut in 1950 and aired for 11 years with Groucho as host and emcee. Sponsored rather conspicuously by the Dodge DeSoto car manufacturers, the show featured two contestants working as a team to answer questions for cash prizes. Another mainstay of these question and answer segments was the paper mache duck that would descend from t...
Nick Carter Master Detective - Case Of The Missing Street (12-28-47) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 04, 2008 05:57 - 30 minutes - 7.01 MBNick 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 1943 to 1955. Nick Carter first came to radio as The Return ...
Escape "The Fourth Man" (8-18-47) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 04, 2008 02:28 - 26 minutes - 6.01 MBEscape was radio's leading anthology series of high adventure, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense, it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950. Despite these problems, Escape enthralled many listeners during its seven-year run. The series' well-remembered opening combined Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain with...
Creaking Door - Secret Of The Mausoleum (1955) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 03, 2008 22:36 - 29 minutes - 6.75 MBThe Creaking Door was an old-time radio series of horror and suspense shows originating in South Africa. There are at present anywhere from 34-37 extant episodes in MP3 circulation, yet no currently available program logs for the series indicate the year of the series' broadcast (though it was likely sometime in the 1950s, given the generally high audio quality of the available shows), or the total number of episodes, and only a handful of them are known by their broadcast order. The stories ...
Amos & Andy Show "Andy Goes To Charm School" (4-02-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 03, 2008 11:54 - 26 minutes - 6.02 MBAmos 'n' Andy began March 19, 1928, on WMAQ, and prior to airing each program they recorded their show on 78 rpm disks at Marsh Laboratories, Orlando R. Marsh, owner. Initially, Gosden and Correll portrayed all the male roles. Between the two, they voiced over 170 distinct characterizations in the show's first decade. With the episodic drama and suspense heightened by cliffhanger endings, Amos 'n' Andy reached an ever-expanding radio audience. It was one of the earliest success stories of rad...
Radio City Playhouse "Dark Hour" (9-25-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 03, 2008 04:16 - 29 minutes - 6.76 MBRADIO CITY PLAYHOUSE - Half-hour drama, sometimes comedy, often very exciting and suspenseful. The cast were made up of New York veterans of radio and stage, including Jan Minor and John Larkin as featured performers. The director, Harry W. Junkin, also served as the show's host and narrator. Each week the show introduced a new story, often written by well-known writers of fantasy and suspense such as Ray Bradbury, Cornell Woolrich, Agatha Christie and Paul Gallico. They were dramatized with...
Silent Men "The Transatlantic Push" (11-11-52) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 03, 2008 02:41 - 31 minutes - 7.15 MBThe Silent Men - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. played the parts of "special agents of all branches of the federal government, who daily risk their lives to protect the lives of all of us... to guard our welfare and our liberties, they must remain nameless - The Silent Men!" At each episode, Fairbank checked in with his chief, played by either William Conrad or Herb Butterfield. Regulars included Virginia Gregg, Raymond Burr, Lou Merrill Lurene Tuttle, Paul Frees and John Dehner. Don Stanley was th...
Your's Truly Johnny Dollar "Virginia Beach Matter" (8-31-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 02, 2008 19:55 - 29 minutes - 6.68 MBYours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama about a freelance insurance investigator "with the action-packed expense account." The show aired on CBS Radio from February 11, 1949 to September 30, 1962. There were 811 episodes in the 12-year run, and over 720 still exist today. Each story started with a phone call from an insurance agent, calling on Johnny to investigate an unusual claim. Each story required Johnny to travel to some distant locale, usually within the United States but sometime...
Mike Hammer That Hammer Guy "The Saddle Shoes" (4-07-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 02, 2008 13:30 - 29 minutes - 6.76 MBTHAT HAMMER GUY Mickey Spillane wrote violent, sex-filled tales that epitomized the hard-boiled detective genre of tough guys, fist fights and sultry dames. That Hammer Guy was a detective drama well inside the hard-boiled tradition. This was the rough and rugged series that hit hard and fast and it was unlike some other shows, such as, "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" or "Richard Diamond" that where more upbeat with humor and sly wit. Mike Hammer believes in justice, rough justice... his justice...
Gangbusters "The Osage Indian Murders G-Men" (8-03-35) Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 02, 2008 06:30 - 30 minutes - 7.03 MBGangbusters 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 â guns firing and tires squealing â this intrusive introduction led to the popular catch phrase "came on like Gang Busters."The s...
Boston Blackie "Jack Meer Prison Break" (5-05-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 02, 2008 00:54 - 22 minutes - 5.2 MBBlackie was a tough, wisecracking private detective working in New York, billed as "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend." His speciality was making fools of the police, a simple task with Inspector Farraday heading the official investigations. "An enemy to those who call him an enemy, a friend to those who have no friends." Boston Blackie is a reformed jewel thief who is never far from trouble. Inspector Farraday of the homicide squad tries to pin Blackie...
Dad's Army "Sgt Wilsons Little Secret" (3-11-74) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 01, 2008 20:38 - 28 minutes - 6.49 MBDAD'S ARMY - The unmistakable voice of Bud Flanagan singing 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?', a cod-Second World War propaganda singalong written especially for the show (by Jimmy Perry), introduced Dad's Army, the zenith of the British broad-comedy ensemble sitcom. Consistently good writing and a wonderful cast of old timers and newer talents combined to produce a whimsical period-piece that continues, justifiably, to be savoured and has now assumed a place in the 'hall of grea...
Lights Out "Battle Of The Magicians" (7-27-46) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 01, 2008 16:08 - 30 minutes - 6.98 MBLIGHTS OUT was an American old-time radio program featuring "tales of the supernatural and the supernormal." It was immensely popular, and was one of the first horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. In its heydey, Lights Out rivalled the popularity of those shows. Lights Out ran through several series and networks, from January 1, 1934 to August 6, 1947. The principal sponsor was Ironized Yeast. Most episodes were broadcast at midnight. Lights Out then made the transition to t...
Father Knows Best "Father's Day Trip" (6-15-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 01, 2008 07:15 - 30 minutes - 6.99 MBFather 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 Marc once labeled the "Aryan melodramas" of the 1950s and 1960s.
Curtain Time "Broadway Interlude" (2-07-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
April 01, 2008 02:53 - 30 minutes - 7.06 MBCurtain Time, like First Nighter, presented romantic drama in a theater setting complete with the announcer shouting, âTickets please, thank youâ. The shows announcer was Harry Halcomb who was later known best for his appearances on the 60 minutes television show. Great scripts and superb acting, Curtain Time is truly an Old Time Radio Classic. Mutual Network, local KNX show sustained, heard Fridays 7:30 - 8:00 pm THIS EPISODE: February 7, 1948. NBC network, Chicago origination. "Broadway I...
The Ford Theater "The Front Page" (5-09-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 31, 2008 20:30 - 1 hour - 13.8 MBThe Ford Theater aired 1947 - 1949. It was broadcast on NBC until October 8, 1948 then moved to CBS. It was hosted by Howard Lindsay. The show tried to use good but not to famous radio performers. Producer George Zachary, first producer, attempting to use popular radio stars instead of Hollywood stars offered limited success. Followed was low ratings which forced the replacement of Zachary with Fletcher Markle, husband of radio legend Mercedes McCambridge. Needing a change the show moved to ...
This Is Our Enemy "The Hitler Youth Movement" (9-13-42) - Boxcars711 Ols Time Radio Pod
March 31, 2008 17:01 - 28 minutes - 6.44 MBTHIS IS OUR ENEMY is one of a number of war propaganda presentations that were popular during the years leading up to and during World War II. In this episode, parents are asked to send their children, most sickly from food and staple rationing, to a camp that would "make them strong again". During the time away from home, the youth attended "school" which resulted in pro-nazi indoctrination into the "Youth Movement". As members of the Black Brigade and "servants of the Fuhrer", brainwashed c...
Fort Laramie "Audition Show - The Beginning" (7-25-55) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 31, 2008 07:30 - 31 minutes - 7.26 MBThe Golden Age of Radio was ending, not with a whimper, but with a robust bang. Many of the best network and syndicated shows began in the 1950s, even though public interest and advertising dollars were switching to television, FORT LARAMIE was certainly one of the finest radio series, and were it not for GUNSMOKE, it could be termed the best adult Western program ever aired. FORT LARAMIE is a close relative of GUNSMOKE since it had the same producer-director, same writers, same sound effects...
The Fat Man "Murder Runs An Ad" (1946) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 31, 2008 03:13 - 29 minutes - 6.73 MBThe Fat Man - "There he goes across the street into the drugstore, steps on the scale, height: 6 feet, weight: 290 pounds, fortune: Danger. Who isit? THE FAT MAN." Brad Runyon was the Fat Man, played by Jack Scott Smart. The series was created by Dashall Hammott and was first heard on the ABC network Jan. 21, 1946. J. Scott Smart fit the part of the Fat Man perfectly, weighing in at 270 pounds himself. When he spoke, there was no doubt that this was the voice of a big guy. Smart gave a wi...
21st Precinct "The Dog Day" (9-15-53) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 30, 2008 22:05 - 28 minutes - 6.51 MB21ST PRECINCT was one of the realistic police drama series of the early- to mid-1950's that were aired in the wake of DRAGNET. In 1953 CBS decided to use New York City as the backdrop for their own half-hour police series and focus on the day-to-day operation of a single police precinct. Actual cases were used as the basis for stories. The Precinct Captain acted as the narrator for the series.
The Adventure Of Phillip Marlowe "The Hairpin Turn" (1-28-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 30, 2008 18:32 - 28 minutes - 6.55 MBThe first portrayal of Phillip 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, this time on CBS. It remained a CBS sh...
Archie Andrews "The Red Cross Benefit" (3-15-47) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 30, 2008 07:30 - 28 minutes - 6.44 MBArchie Andrews, created in 1941 by Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, a long-run radio series, a syndicated comic strip and animation -- The Archie Show, a Saturday morning cartoon television series by Filmation, plus Archie's Weird Mysteries. Archie On Radio Montana's characters were heard on radio in the early 1940s. Archie Andrews began on the Blue Network on May 31, 1943, switched to Mutual in 1944, and then continued on NBC...
Rocky Jordan "Red Stands For Blood" (2-13-49) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 30, 2008 03:34 - 29 minutes - 6.86 MBROCKY JORDAN was the title character of one of the better and more exotic radio detective series. In fact, it's one of the best detective series I have ever heard. The series had two separate incarnations. The first, A Man Named Jordan, started as a daily 15 minute show and after about six months changed to a weekly 30 minute show. It took place in Istanbul and the Cafe was described as "a small restaurant in a narrow street off Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, permeated with by the smoke of Oriental...
Tom Corbett Space Cadet - Sparkling Meteor Part 2 of 2 (04-10-52) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 30, 2008 01:43 - 24 minutes - 5.53 MBSHOW 2 OF 2 Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett â Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, coloring books, punch-out books and View-Master reels in the 1950s. The stories followed the adventures of Tom Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the elite Solar Guard.
Beyond Midnight "Thing In Cabin 105" (1950) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 29, 2008 22:57 - 30 minutes - 7.09 MBBEYOND MIDNIGHT Let us journey âinto the land that lies beyond midnight,â into a world of ghost hunters, men going mad, and DEATH DEATH DEATH! Written by the masterful Michael McCabe, these well-done South African radio shows will capture your attention and keep you up listening to them well beyond midnight.
Tom Corbett Space Cadet "Sparkling Meteor" Part 1 of 2 (04-08-52) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 29, 2008 17:01 - 24 minutes - 5.67 MBTom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett â Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips, coloring books, punch-out books and View-Master reels in the 1950s. The stories followed the adventures of Tom Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the elite Solar Guard. The action takes place at the Academy in classrooms and bunkroom, aboard their training ship the rocket cru...
The Blue Beetle "Whale Of Pirates Folly" (1944) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 29, 2008 07:30 - 24 minutes - 5.67 MBThe Blue Beetle had a relatively short career on the radio, between May and September of 1940. Motion picture and radio actor Frank Lovejoy was the Blue Beetle for the first 13 episodes, while for the rest of the shows, the voice was provided by a different, uncredited actor. The Blue Beetle was a young police officer who saw the need for extra-ordinary crime fighting. He took the task on himself by secretly donning a superhero costume to create fear in the criminals who were to learn to fear...
CBS Radio Workshop "Portrait Of London" (7-20-56) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 29, 2008 01:36 - 30 minutes - 6.9 MBThe CBS Columbia Workshop was the first to experiment with what radio drama was all about, introducing new techniques never before used in over the airwaves drama and because it received little encouragement from established writers, actors, etc., it was only by breaking new ground with new ideas and new techniques from writers who were not versed in the old ways that it was going to survive. Unlike theater drama which required scenery to stage the settings of a play. Radio drama relied only ...
The Adventures Of Sam Spade "The Sure Thing Caper" (2-09-51) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 28, 2008 20:55 - 29 minutes - 6.67 MBThe Adventures of Sam Spade was first heard on ABC July 12, 1946, as a Friday-night summer series. The show clicked at once, and went into a regular fall lineup on CBS September 29, 1946. From then until 1949, Sam Spade was a Sunday-night thriller for Wildroot Cream Oil, starring Howard Duff in the title role. With Duff's departure, NBC took the series, leaving it on Sunday for Wildroot and starring Stephen Dunne as Spade. This version lasted until 1951, the last year running as a Friday sust...
CBS Radio Mystery Theater "The Haunted Mill" (11-08-77) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 28, 2008 15:12 - 42 minutes - 9.83 MBThe CBS Radio Mystery Theater (or CBSRMT) was an ambitious and sustained attempt to revive the great drama of old-time radio in the 1970s. 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.
Great Gildersleeve "Gildy Repairs His Car" (4-04-43) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 28, 2008 07:30 - 31 minutes - 7.14 MBThe Great Gildersleeve (1941-1957) was the arguable founding father of the spin-off program, as well as one of the first true situation comedies (as opposed to sketch programs) in broadcast history. Hooked around a character who had been a staple on the classic radio hit Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest period in the 1940s, when Harold Peary graduated the character from the earlier show into the sitcom and in a quartet of likeable feature films at the height...
Life With Luigi "Big Brothers Of America" (3-14-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 28, 2008 03:15 - 27 minutes - 6.22 MBLife with Luigi was a radio comedy-drama series which began September 21, 1948 on CBS. The story concerned Italian immigrant Luigi Basco, and his experiences as an immigrant in Chicago. Many of the shows take place at the US citizenship classes that Luigi attends with other immigrants from different countries, as well as trying to fend off the repeated advances of the morbidly-obese daughter of his landlord/sponsor. Luigi was played by J. Carrol Naish, an Irish-American. Naish continued in th...
The Shadow "Chill Of Death" (1-04-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 27, 2008 22:36 - 25 minutes - 5.87 MBTHE SHADOW - On July 31, 1930 a sinister voice came over the radio into American Homes. The voice of the Shadow appeared for the first time. In the beginning the Shadow was not a crime fighter. He was a mysterious narrator of mystery tales taken from the pages of Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. The publisher Street & Smith began to use radio as an advertising medium to promote their fiction publications. The Shadow was a perfectly creepy teller of tales promoting Street & Smith. Th...
Box 13 "Look Pleasant Please" (12-05-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 27, 2008 05:39 - 27 minutes - 6.22 MBBox 13 - 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 mystery in the process, and retur...
Bunco Squad "The Book Worm" (4-15-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 27, 2008 01:16 - 31 minutes - 7.1 MBBunco Squad - April 20, 1950. CBS network. "The Case Of The Bookworm". Sustaining. A con-artist in St. Louis poses as a scientist. He plans to swindle his mark out of $15,000 by "publishing" his book. The date is approximate. Frank Trumbull (host), Ralph Rose (producer, director), Del Castillo (composer, conductor), Merrick Goldman (writer), Troy Leonard (writer), Joe Walters (announcer). 29:32.
Cloak And Dagger "Wine Of Freedom" (10-15-50) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 26, 2008 21:02 - 30 minutes - 6.94 MBCloak & Dagger - "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 maintain spy networks throughout E...
The Adventures Of Leonidas Witherall "Murder On TheTrain" (10-08-44) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
March 26, 2008 14:14 - 27 minutes - 6.24 MBAdventures of Leonidas Witherall was a radio mystery series broadcast on Mutual in the mid-1940s. Based on the novels of Phoebe Atwood Taylor (writing as Alice Tilton), the 30-minute dramas were produced by Roger Bower and starred Walter Hampden as Leonidas Witherall, a New England boys' school instructor in Dalton, Massachusetts, a fictional Boston suburb. Witherall, who resembled William Shakespeare, is an amateur detective and the accomplished author of the "popular Lieutenant Hazeltine st...