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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WPNM Oldies Broadcast #401 (Hr2 - STEREO) - Boxcars711 OTR Day73
June 28, 2006 05:53 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MBA June 2006 Oldies Broadcast (HOUR 2 of 2) Edited 'Shoutcast' Radio Network Presentation.
Vic & Sade - 6 Episodes From 1939 - Boxcars711 OTR Day71
June 23, 2006 05:19 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBVic and Sade, created and written by Paul Rhymer, had a 14-year run and was the most popular radio series of its kind, reaching 7,000,000 listeners in 1943, according to Time Magazine. For the majority of its span on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in 15-minute episodes without a continuing storyline. The central characters, known as "radio's home folks" and "the most lovable folks in radio," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook (Art Van Harvey), his wife Sade (Bernadine Flynn) and their adopte...
The Whistler - 2 Episodes (1945 -1948) - Boxcars711 OTR Day70
June 21, 2006 03:24 - 1 hour - 16.3 MBThe Whistler was one of radio's most popular mystery dramas, with a thirteen-year run from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. If it now seems to have been influenced explicitly by The Shadow, The Whistler was no less popular or credible with its listeners, the writing was first class for its genre, and it added a slightly macabre element of humour that sometimes went missing in The Shadow's longer-lived crime stories.
Boston Blackie - 2 Episodes From 1946 - Boxcars711 OTR Day69
June 19, 2006 03:24 - 59 minutes - 13.7 MBBoston Blackie was a character introduced by Jack Boyle who was featured in a series of mystery films during the silent movie era and in the 1940s. The character appeared in stories in the Redbook and Cosmopolitan magazines. He first appeared in book form in "Boston Blackie", published in 1919. In 1944 a Boston Blackie radio show was played by NBC as a replacement. The series was changed, with Richard Kollomar taking the lead role, and over 200 episodes were made between 1944 and 1950. Toda...
The Black Museum - 2 Episodes From 1951 - Boxcars711 OTR Day68
June 17, 2006 02:56 - 1 hour - 15.6 MBThe Black Museum Series is based on Scotland YardÃ??s Black Museum (aka Crime Museum) in London, where crime artifacts are stored. This is the largest and oldest museum of its type. Although it is not open to the public, we can get a glimpse of what lays inside through this show. Each program is based on a real crime story and an object from that museum. The show was a reenactment of a homicide in which each item was a key piece of evidence, and as enacted mainly from the police inspector i...
NBC University Theater - Heart of Darkness From May15, 1949 - Boxcars711 OTR Day67
June 13, 2006 03:26 - 1 hour - 15.3 MBHeart of Darkness From May15, 1949 - Day 2 of our 2 day spotlight on the NBC University Theater. In HEART OF DARKNESS, Author Joseph Conrad's most existential hero, Marlow, is the commander of a riverboat looking for ivory to trade in the Belgian Congo. His journey into the heart of the Congo is both a thrilling adventure and a symbolic excursion into the depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the mysterious and corrupted Kurtz, who dies...
NBC University Theater - Main Street From 1-2-49 - Boxcars711 OTR Day66
June 10, 2006 01:16 - 1 hour - 16.4 MBNBC University Theater is an unusual series that focused on reenacting novels by great authors for college classes. Many accredited American universities such as Washington State College, University of Louisville, and University of Tulsa, used this dramatics series as a supplement to correspondent college courses.The series' creators made study guides to accompany the courses. Students studying great literature by Steinbeck, Faulkner, Hemingway, Huxley, and many others listened to these shows...
Sears Radio Theater - Old Bones (06-25-79) - Boxcars711 OTR Day65
June 06, 2006 04:20 - 42 minutes - 9.71 MBSears Radio Theater - Old Bones From June 25, 1979 Clearly one of the last big attempts to produce radio programming, with many of radio's best talents, the way radio was heard in its "golden days. Despite budget and talent, it just wasn't to be. Enjoy Day Two of our spotlight on this great series.
Sears RadioTheater - An Honest Man (3-22-79) - Boxcars711 OTR Day64
June 03, 2006 15:41 - 59 minutes - 13.7 MBSears RadioTheater - An Honest Man (3-22-79) -STEREO The series premiered on Monday 02/05/79 and offered a different genre each weekday night. Each genre was hosted by a different celebrity. The program was produced on Paramount's Stage F in Hollywood. These first 130 programs were broadcast over a six month period and then rebroadcast over the following six months. From 02/14/80 to 12/19/81 this series was heard again, this time over Mutual, as The Mutual Radio Theater. This was clear...
The Long Ranger - 2 Episodes From 1953 - Boxcars711 OTR Day63
May 30, 2006 17:25 - 53 minutes - 12.2 MBThe Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Striker of Buffalo, New York. The basic premise is that a masked cowboy in the Old West gallops about righting injustices, usually with the aid of a clever and laconic American Indian called Tonto.
Dangerous Assignment - 2 Episodes From 1950 - Boxcars711 OTR Day62
May 26, 2006 12:40 - 1 hour - 15.4 MBDangerous Assignment - 2 Episodes From 1950 Dangerous Assignment first aired in 1949. Brian Donlevy played the lead as Steve Mitchell in this international spy series. Herb Butterfield played the Commissioner and Betty Moran was the Commissioner's secretary. The director was Bill Cairn and the writer for the series was Robert Ryf.
Philo Vance - 2 Episodes (1948-1949) - Boxcars711 OTR Day61
May 23, 2006 02:59 - 1 hour - 13.8 MBPhilo Vance was a fictional American detective created by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s who appeared in 12 novels. Although largely forgotten today, for a few years he was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He was considered America's most popular fictional detective of the 1920s and 1930s Films about Vance were made from the late 1920s to the late '40s, and among the several actors who played him on the screen were William Powell and Basil Rathbone. Vance was portrayed as b...
Nero Wolfe - 2 Episodes From 1950 - Boxcars711 OTR Day60
May 20, 2006 17:41 - 1 hour - 15.8 MBNero Wolfe is a fictional detective created by American author Rex Stout in the 1930s and featured in dozens of novels and novellas.In the stories, Wolfe is one of the most famous private detectives in the United States. He weighs about 285 pounds and is 5'11" tall. He raises orchids in a rooftop greenhouse in his New York City brownstone on West 35th Street, helped by his live-in gardener Theodore Horstmann. Wolfe drinks beer throughout the day and is a gourmÃ?ÃÂ??und. He employs a live-in ...
Lux Radio Theater - The Razor's Edge From - Boxcars711 OTR Day59
May 17, 2006 00:51 - 49 minutes - 11.4 MBLux Radio Theater - The Razor's Edge From 10/18/48 Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929, is invited to live in Paris with her rich, social climbing, Uncle Elliot. During a sojurn there, Larry, having attained his goal, is reunited with Isabel. While slumming one night Larry, Isabel and company are shocked to discover Sophie,...
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (Day2of2) - Boxcars711 OTR Day58
May 14, 2006 15:26 - 1 hour - 14.6 MBPhilip Marlowe - Day 2 of 2 Double Feature Episodes (1948) Philip Marlowe is perhaps the leading icon of the "hard-boiled" school of mystery writing. The fictional creation of author Raymond Chandler, Marlowe is a private detective, a smart and tough lone wolf with a sense of honor. He works mainly in Los Angeles (where Chandler himself had lived). In all Marlowe appears in seven complete novels by Chandler, beginning with The Big Sleep (published 1939) and ending with Playback (1958). Var...
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (Day1of2) - Boxcars711 OTR Day57
May 13, 2006 03:19 - 1 hour - 15.8 MBPhilip Marlowe was born in Santa Rosa, California, in that time out of time that allowed him to be 33 in 1933, 42 in 1953, and 43 1/2 in 1958. In many ways he was the very model of a perfect private investigator: a college graduate, 6 ft. 1/2 in. Tall and 199 Ib., with brown eyes and brown hair going gray, He liked liquor, women, and working alone. His independent detective agency was a shoestring operation which he ran from a pair of musty, scantily furnished rooms on the sixth floor of the...
Have Gun Will Travel - 2 Episodes From 1958 - Boxcars711 OTR Day56
May 11, 2006 04:06 - 55 minutes - 12.8 MBHave Gun â Will Travel was a popular American Western television series that aired between November 23, 1958, and November 22, 1960. There were 106 episode broadcasts on CBS. It was the only significant radio show that originated on television, many of the episodes having been adapted from television programs broadcast earlier, though some were original to radio, and it was also one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters. John Dehner played Paladin and Ben Wright usually (bu...
Let George Do It - 2 Episodes From 1946-1947 - Boxcars711 OTR Day55
May 08, 2006 22:34 - 1 hour - 15.8 MBLET GEORGE DO IT Bob Bailey played George Valentine as a detective handy man, who got his jobs from responses to a newspaper ad. Part-time detective and writer Dan Holiday in Box 13 also used the premise. It pays to advertise! The shows follow the usual formats of crime caper shows, with toughs, mysterious rendezvous and people who aren't who they say they are.
Inner Sanctum - 2 Episodes From 1941 - Boxcars711 OTR Day54
May 06, 2006 03:34 - 1 hour - 14 MBInner Sanctum - 2 Episodes From 1941 Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBCâs Blue Network in January 1941. Inner Sanctum Mysteries featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history: an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned and the famous âcreaking doorâ slowly began to open. Every week, Inner Sanctum Mysteries told stories of ghosts, murderers and lunatics. Produced in New York, the cast us...
You Bet Your Life - 2 Episodes From 1954 - Boxcars711 OTR Day53
May 03, 2006 21:30 - 1 hour - 15 MBYou Bet Your Life - 2 Episodes From 1954 From 1950 until 1961, Groucho Marx ruled on NBC-TV Thursday nights with, of all things, a game show. You Bet Your Life was originally broadcast on radio beginning in 1947, initially moving to television in 1950 as a radio show with cameras. On the program, contestants could "say the secret word and win a hundred dollars" and a paper-mache duck would come down with the loot. People tuned in to see and hear Groucho grill the contestants, the game itsel...
Candy Matson - 2 Episodes - Boxcars711 OTR Day52
May 01, 2006 04:08 - 1 hour - 14.5 MBCANDY MATSON was the private eye star of Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8208, an NBC West Coast show which first aired in March 1949 and was created by Monty Masters. He cast his wife, Natalie Parks, in the title role of this sassy, sexy PI. Her understated love interest, Lt. Ray Mallard, was played by Henry Leff while her assistant and best pal, aptly named Rembrandt Watson, was the voice of Jack Thomas. Every show opened with a ringing telephone and our lady PI answering it with "Candy Matson, YU 2...
The Shadow - 2 Episodes From 1938 - Boxcars711 OTR Day51
April 29, 2006 05:14 - 1 hour - 14.9 MBThe Shadow - 2 Episodes From 1938 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 promot...
Escape - 2 Episodes From 1948 - - Boxcars711 OTR Day50
April 27, 2006 02:50 - 1 hour - 15.5 MBEscape - 1947-1954 Escape was widely considered radioâs greatest series of high adventure. The opening was usually along the same lines of âTired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of â romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you â Escape!â You, the listener, are in the shoes of some embattled hero. You are alone and you must face the impossible, alone and rise to conquer or be conquered.
Lights Out - Day 3 of 3 - (2 Episodes) - Boxcars711 OTR Day49
April 25, 2006 06:23 - 1 hour - 14.7 MBLIGHTS OUT Day 3 of 3 Double Features. American old-time radio program featuring "tales of the supernatural and the supernormal."
Lights Out - Day 2 of 3 - (2 Episodes) - Boxcars711 OTR Day48
April 23, 2006 12:45 - 1 hour - 14.7 MBLIGHTS OUT Day 2 of 3 Double Features. American old-time radio program featuring "tales of the supernatural and the supernormal."
Lights Out - Day 1 of 3 - (2 Episodes) - Boxcars711 OTR Day47
April 22, 2006 04:35 - 58 minutes - 13.3 MBLights Out - Day 1 of 3 - (2 Episodes) Lights 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...
Murder At Midnight - 2 Episodes From 1946 - Boxcars711 OTR Day46
April 20, 2006 03:56 - 59 minutes - 13.7 MBMurder at Midnight was an old-time radio show featuring macabre tales of suspense, often with a supernatural twist. It was produced in New York and was first heard over the Mutual Network between September 16, 1946 and September 8, 1947 on radio station WJZ. The show's writers included Robert Newman, Joseph Ruscoll, Max Erlich and William Norwood, and it was directed by Anton M. Leder. The host was Raymond Morgan, who delivered the memorable lines of introduction over Charles Paul's effectiv...
Lux Radio Theater - Manhattan Melodrama 9/09/40 - Boxcars711 OTR Day45
April 18, 2006 07:24 - 1 hour - 15.3 MBLux Radio Theater - Manhattan Melodrama 9/09/40 The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman. Orphans Edward "Blackie" Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in life. Blackie thrives on gambling and grows up to be a hard-nosed racketeer. Bookworm Wade becomes a D.A. vying for the Governorship. When Blackie's girlfriend Eleanor leaves him and marries the more down to earth W...
Tribute To Gregory Peck - Show 3 of 3 The Yearling From 1947 - Boxcars711 OTR Day44
April 15, 2006 04:32 - 31 minutes - 7.2 MBA Tribute To Gregory Peck - The Yearling From 01-06-47 The Yearling is a 1946 film which tells the story of a boy who adopts a fawn as a pet. It stars Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills and Forrest Tucker. The movie was adapted by Paul Osborn and John Lee Mahin (uncredited) from the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It was adapted by Clarence Brown. It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color and Best Cinematography, Color and was nominated...
A Tribute To Gregory Peck - Abe Lincoln The Prairie Years ( 2-3-49) Boxcars711 OTR Day43
April 13, 2006 04:02 - 33 minutes - 7.68 MBA Tribute To Gregory Peck - Abe Lincoln The Prairie Years - 2-3-49 Somehow, between "Moby Dick" at Cal in 1938 and "Sons and Soldiers" on Broadway in 1943, Gregory Peck became one of America's most distinguished actors. "My training was telescoped," he said. "I had to pay attention. It was survival of the fittest." When he and Ferrer and McGuire founded the La Jolla Playhouse, the idea was to help Hollywood actors polish their chops. He served as president of the Academy Awards body and was...
Tribute To Gregory Peck - Show 1 of 3 The Gunfighter From 1951 - Boxcars711 OTR Day42
April 11, 2006 06:22 - 1 hour - 14 MBA Tribute To Gregory Peck - Show 1 of 3 The Screen Director's Playhouse - The Gunfighter From 1951 Hollywood legend Gregory Peck has died aged 87. He was the star of more than 60 films, including classics Cape Fear, Spellbound and Roman Holiday. He was one of the most popular leading actors of the 20th Century and was nominated for five Oscars. He won just once, for his role as a lawyer defending a black man against an undeserved rape charge in To Kill A Mocking Bird. He tackled a wide vari...
Jeff Regan Investigator- 2 Episodes From 1948 - Boxcars711 OTR Day39
April 05, 2006 06:26 - 1 hour - 13.8 MBJeff Regan Investigator - 2 Episodes From 1948 A half-hour crime drama which debuted on the CBS West Coast radio network on July 10, 1948. Regan was an operative for the International Detective Bureau, a Los Angeles-based agency supervised by the wily and parsimonious Anthony J. Lyon (played by Wilms Herbert and Herb Butterfield) whose money-grubbing predilections inspired both admirers and critics to dub his firm "The Lyon's Den." Regan himself earned from his clients the nickname of "The ...
Suspense - 2 Episodes From 1943 - Boxcars711 OTR Day38
April 03, 2006 21:39 - 1 hour - 15.4 MBSuspense - 2 Episodes From 1943 Suspense was one of the premier programs of the Golden Age of Radio, and advertised itself as "radio's outstanding theater of thrills." It was heard in one form or another from 1942 through 1962. In the early phase, the program was hosted by "The Man in Black" (played by Joseph Kearns or Ted Osborne) and many episodes written or adapted by the prominent mystery author John Dickson Carr. Escape was a similar anthology thriller and suspense program. Both occasi...
Honest Harold - 2 Episodes From 1950 - Boxcars711 OTR Day37
April 01, 2006 01:31 - 1 hour - 15.3 MBH onest Harold, T he Homemaker - 2 Episodes From 1950 Honest Harold Hemp lived with his mother and nephew and did a radio homemaker's program. The series received undeserved negative ratings and general negative attitude of the critics. The HONEST HAROLD scripts were well crafted with well developed characters and had excellent acting and production values. First Show: Sep 17, 1950 Last Show: Jun 13, 1951 Number Shows: 38 Audition Show: Aug 23, 1950
The Clock - 2 Episodes From 1947 - Boxcars711 OTR Day36
March 30, 2006 02:03 - 56 minutes - 12.9 MBThe Clock - 2 Episodes From 1947 The Clock was a dramatic thirty-minute suspense and mystery series. It was written by Lawrence Klee and was first broadcast in November 1946. The story always began the same; âSunrise and sunset, promise and fulfilment, birth and death â the whole drama of life is written in the sands of timeâ. Imported from Austrailia it ran from 1946 until 1948. Stories as told by Father Time. Sort of like Twilight Zone for the radio.
Lux Presents - My Darling Clemetine From 1947 - Boxcars711 OTR Day35
March 28, 2006 01:40 - 1 hour - 15.1 MBLux Radio Theater Presentation Of My Darling Clementine From 4-18-47 Directed by John Ford, based on the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral between the Earp brothers and the Clanton gang. In 1882, the Earp brothers Wyatt, James, Morgan and Virgil are driving cattle to California when they cross the Clanton family led by the "Old Man". Told of a nearby town, Tombstone, the older brothers ride in leaving the youngest brother James to watch over the cattle. The Earps quickly find Tombsto...
Box13 - 2 Episodes From 1948 - Boxcars711 OTR Day34
March 25, 2006 19:24 - 1 hour - 13.9 MBDan Holiday in Box 13 - 2 Episodes From 1948 Box 13 was a syndicated radio series about the escapades of mystery novelist Dan Holiday (Alan Ladd), a former newsman. Created by Mayfair Productions, the series premiered August 22, 1948, on New York's WOR and aired in syndication on the East Coast from August 22, 1948, to August 14. 1949. On the West Coast, Box 13 was heard from March 15, 1948 to March 7, 1949. To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holiday ran a classified ad in the Star-Time...
The Mercury Theater -Orson Wells - Count of Monte Cristo Boxcars711 OTR Day33
March 24, 2006 03:25 - 1 hour - 14.9 MBThe Mercury Theater - Orson Wells - Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45) - The protagonist, Edmond DantÃs, is about to marry his sweetheart and become a captain of a vessel. He is framed by three enemies as a Napoleonic conspirator, shortly before Napoleon's dramatic return from Elba in 1815. DantÃs is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If, by the politician Villefort who is anxious to conceal his own father's machinations on behalf of Bonaparte. DantÃs remains in the French Al...
The Man Called X - 2 Episodes From 1951
March 21, 2006 14:05 - 1 hour - 15.2 MBThe Man Called X - 2 Episodes From 1951 British actor Herbert Marshall was the star of this espionage melodrama, which debuted over CBS on July 10, 1944 as a summer series sponsored by Lockheed Aircraft. It moved to the Blue network in September of that year, and then had two summer runs in 1945 and 1946 as Pepsodentâs replacement for The Bob Hope Show. After an additional season on CBS (1947-48, for Frigidaire) it moved back to NBC in October 1950 and concluded its run May 20, 1952.
The Mercury Theater On The Air - Orson Wells as Dracula (7-11-38)-Boxcars711 OTR Day31
March 20, 2006 03:46 - 1 hour - 14 MBThe Mercury Theater On The Air - Orson Wells as Dracula (7-11-38) During that first 9-week summer series, it became increasingly apparent to the more perceptive radio listener that The Mercury Theatre was something special. Unlike many anthology series before and since, the stories were chosen because of their suitability to the radio medium. Also, the innovative use of sound-effects and music (by CBS staff composer/conductor Bernard Herrmann), combined with the gripping performances of Mr. ...
Your's Truly Johnny Dollar - The Mojave Red Matter From 1958 - Boxcars711 OTR Day30
March 17, 2006 14:31 - 1 hour - 13.9 MBYour's Truly Johnny Dollar - The Mojave Red Matter From 1958 Opening on a Friday night, February 18, 1949 (The Paricoff Policy Matter), right at the start of television's golden age, this radio show brought us a high-powered insurance investigator who worked chiefly for the Universal Adjustment Bureau, a clearinghouse for the many insurance companies. The series starred Charles Russell as Johnny Dollar, the smart and tough detective, whose trademark it was to toss silver dollars as tips to ...
Adventures of Michael Shayne - 2 Episodes From 1948 - Boxcars711 OTR Day29
March 15, 2006 20:28 - 58 minutes - 13.5 MBThe New Adventures of Michael Shayne - 2 Episodes From 1948 Michael Shayne was a fictional sleuth created by Brett Halliday (a pen name for author Davis Dresser) who was first initiated into the fraternity for detectives in the 1939 novel "Dividend of Death". Dresser based the character on a âtall and rangyâ brawler who once saved his life during a braw in a Mexican cantina. The Shayne character would go on to appear in 69 novels, plus a long-running mystery magazineâand in 1941, was brought...
Frank Meriwell - 2 Episodes From 1948 - Boxcars711 OTR Day28
March 14, 2006 03:01 - 1 hour - 14.9 MBThe Adventures of Frank Meriwell - 2 Episodes From 1948 Frank Merriwell, the much-loved fictional hero of Street and Smith's Tip Top Weekly, was first introduced to readers on April 18, 1896. Merriwell was the creation of writer Burt L. Standish (real name: Gilbert Patten), and embodied a new type of dime novel hero, one who relied as much upon mental as physical prowess. The Yale-educated Merriwell possessed "a body like Tarzan's and a head like Einstein's," wrote one admiring writer, and t...
Lux Presents "Nobody Lives Forever" 11-17-47 - Boxcars711 OTR Day26
March 10, 2006 02:24 - 1 hour - 15.2 MBNobody Lives Forever - Lux Radio Theater From 11/17/47 This Lux Radio presentation stars Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan in a 1946 movie of the same name and which starred John Garfield and Geraldine Fitzgerald. Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich young widow, but finds himself falling for her for real, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.
Barry Craig Confidential Investigator - 2 Episodes From 1951 - Boxcars711 OTR Day25
March 08, 2006 04:47 - 1 hour - 15.7 MBBarry Craig Confidential Investigator - 2 Episodes From 1951 Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator is one of the few detective radio series that had separate versions of it broadcast from both coasts. Even the spelling changed over the years. It was first "Barry Crane" and then "Barrie Craig". NBC produced it in New York from 1951 to 1954 and then moved it to Hollywood where it aired from 1954 to 1955. William Gargan, who also played the better known television (and radio) detective Martin ...
Our Miss Brooks - 2 Episodes From 1950 - Boxcars711 OTR Day24
March 06, 2006 06:14 - 1 hour - 15.1 MBOur Miss Brooks - 2 Episodes From 1950 Our Miss Brooks was an American situation comedy that started on radio in 1948 and migrated to television in 1952. Miss Brooks was an English teacher in Madison High School and the show centered around her daily relationships with students, other teachers and her principal, Mr Conklin. The radio program starred Eve Arden as Connie Brooks, Jeff Chandler (actor) as biology teacher Philip Boynton, Gale Gordon as Osgood Conklin and Richard Crenna as Walter ...
The Avenger - 2 Episodes From 1945 - Boxcars711 OTR Day22
March 02, 2006 02:43 - 1 hour - 13.8 MBThe Avenger - 2 Episodes From 1945 1945 - 1946 radio series run, staring James Monks as Jim Brandon and Helen Adamson as Fern Collier. The Avenger is a fictional character whose original adventures appeared from 1939 to 1942 in The Avenger magazine, published by Street and Smith Publications. Five additional short stories were published in Clues Detective magazine from 1942 to 1943, and a sixth novelette in The Shadow magazine in 1943. The Avenger is actually Richard Henry Benson, a globe tr...
The Jack Benny Show-2 Episodes (1943 1950)-Boxcars711 OTR Day21
February 28, 2006 05:19 - 1 hour - 15.7 MBThe Jack Benny Show - 2 Episodes (1943 1950) Jack Benny appeared on Ed Sullivan's radio show on March 29, 1943 and by May 2 he was the star of his own radio program. The Canada Dry Ginger Ale Program starring Jack as the Canada Dry Humorist. Jack became one of the biggest names in radio. For thirty minutes, each Sunday night at seven o'clock, Jack and his gang of regulars would hit the airwaves with "their version" of current films, with a bit of music, and always with lots of laughter. Jack...
Duffy's Tavern - 2 Episodes From 1953 - Boxcars711 OTR Day 20
February 25, 2006 15:00 - 1 hour - 15.8 MBDuffy's Tavern - 2 Episodes From 1953 Duffy's Tavern was an American radio situation comedy, that often featured top-name stage and film guest stars when not hooking around the misadventures of the title establishment's manager, Archie, played by the writer/actor who created the show, Ed Gardner.The Show was first heard in 1940 on NBC radio and became a regular feature. It was hailed from the start by critics and whole neighborhoods of working-class listeners alikeÃÂ?ÃÂa duo that doesn't oft...
Mr. & Mrs. North - 2 Episodes From 1953 - Boxcars711 OTR Day 19
February 23, 2006 01:16 - 1 hour - 13.9 MBMr. & Mrs. North - 2 Episodes From 1953 Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that ran from 1942 to 1954. It originated in New Yorker short stories written by Richard Lockridge in the 1930s. Lockridge's characters found a wider audience when he teamed with his wife Frances for a series of novels, including such best-selling titles as: "The Norths Meet Murder," "Death takes a Bow," "Death on the Aisle," and "The Dishonest Murderer." The sleuths eventually counted as their fans nearly ...