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Old Time Radio Listener

599 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 57 ratings

You don't need to sit around the radio any longer to listen to radio programs. Now a days you can put in ear plugs and listen via your cell phones, or iPods.

I just want to share some of my favorite OTR programs that I personally enjoy listening too. You will find comedy, drama, new casts and a host of other programs that our grandparents listened too.

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Globe Theater - You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

January 17, 2024 15:54 - 23 minutes - 5.48 MB

What does “have your cake and eat it too” mean? Having your cake refers to keeping it with you. This means you want to preserve the cake for the future. But you also want to eat it. This is contradictory. The moment you eat your cake, you can’t have it because it is finished. Conversely, if you decide to have or keep your cake then you can’t eat it. This proverb highlights a very valuable lesson which is that you cannot have it both ways. When you are presented with two choices that are mutu...

Nick Carter Master Detective - The Case of the Careless Employees

January 12, 2024 15:31 - 25 minutes - 4.45 MB

With Lon Clark in the title role, the series commenced 11 April 1943, on Mutual, continuing in many different timeslots for well over a decade. Between October 1944 and April 1945, it was heard as a 30-minute program on Sunday afternoons at 3 pm, sponsored by Acme Paints and Lin-X, with a 15-minute serial airing four or five times a week in 1944 from April to September. In April 1945, the Sunday series moved to 6pm, continuing in that timeslot until June 1946, and it was also heard in 1946 on...

Kate Smith - Invasion Day

January 09, 2024 20:39 - 14 minutes - 3.33 MB

Kathryn Elizabeth Smith (May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986) was an American contralto. Referred to as The First Lady of Radio, Smith is well known for her renditions of "God Bless America" and "When the Moon Comes over the Mountain". She became known as The Songbird of the South because of her tremendous popularity during World War II. Notes: More on Kate Smith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Smith

Lord Peter Wimsey - Strong Poison

August 06, 2023 16:38 - 2 hours - 157 MB

The novel opens with mystery author Harriet Vane on trial for the murder of her former lover, Phillip Boyes: a writer with strong views on atheism, anarchy, and free love. Publicly professing to disapprove of marriage, he had persuaded a reluctant Harriet to live with him, only to renounce his principles a year later and to propose. Harriet, outraged at being deceived, had broken off the relationship. Following the separation, the former couple had met occasionally, and the evidence at tria...

Let George Do It - The Bookworm Turns

May 10, 2023 16:05 - 30 minutes - 7.03 MB

George Valentine’s case started with a book of poems by Robert Burns a valuable early edition from Four Dials Press in Edinburgh a book that someone broke into Mr Humber’s shop just to read, a book that an agent wanted to buy for a collector named Emery Whitsill. And who is Emery Whitsill? Well lieutenant Johnson from homicide has an opinion on that because now it seems the little book may have been the cause of murder. . . Duration: 30:34 Starring: Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Ken Christie...

Lux Radio Theater - Alexander’s Ragtime Band

April 15, 2023 00:23 - 44 minutes - 10.1 MB

San Francisco, the Barbary Coast, 1913 and the man with the belligerent voice is a beefy gentleman known as “Dirty Eddie” proprietor of Dirty Eddies Cafe, pride of the coast. The gentlemen reclining on the sidewalk committed an unforgivable sin; he sang a sour note while entertaining Eddies select clientele composed mostly of thugs from the waterfront. As Eddie stands glowering in the swinging doors a girl comes from the street stepping carefully over the fallen tenor. . . Duration: 44:03...

The Chase - Stephan, Monica And One Million Dollars

March 10, 2023 14:25 - 29 minutes - 6.77 MB

A million dollars in cash provides the bait for two enterprising thieves who find themselves bankrupt before they have finished the chase. Duration: 29:43 Starring: Leon Janney, Kathleen Cordell Broadcast Date: 29th June 1952

Let George Do It - The Brookdale Orphanage

March 08, 2023 18:37 - 30 minutes - 7 MB

George is sitting in his office when he hears a commotion outside. Jimmy Jones, an actor in western pictures, is outside signing autographs. Jimmy Jones enters the office. He has a confidential matter he needs George’s help with. Jimmy goes on to say, the kids like me, maybe because I like them and I would never want to let them down. Jimmy was brought up at Brookdale Orphanage, and every year Jimmy and Thunderbolt (Jimmy’s horse) put on a benefit performance for them, but now there’s a prob...

Crime Club - Death At 7:10

March 03, 2023 19:52 - 28 minutes - 6.63 MB

Death At 7:10 by H.F.S. Moore is the very intriguing story of a beautiful woman who was in love with death. . . Duration: 28:58 Starring: Raymond Edward Johnson, Helen Shields Broadcast Date: 3rd July 1947

The Adventures of the Nelson Family

March 02, 2023 11:52 - 12 hours - 685 MB

Come and join Ozzie and Harriet Nelson as they raise their two sons; David and Ricky .... and remember the simple days of child raising. - Jury Duty - The Baseball Manager - The Street Light - Oz Enters An Essay Contest - The New Dress Surprise - Sports Heroes - David's Date - Argument about Rover Boys - Have a Cigar - The New Radio - Phonograph - David Discovers Girls - Going to a Concent - The 3rd Degree - Ricky's Third Prize in School - A Cup of Coffee - Fifi La Plume - R...

Johnny Madero: Pier 23 - Fatal Action

February 28, 2023 21:06 - 28 minutes - 6.53 MB

At about 3 o’clock Johnny Modero started down Post Street when he spotted the new auction House. It was small with enough dough changing hands to buy back Manhattan Island. Inside it was packed and a bald headed guy on a wooden stand was selling everything but his suspenders so Modero sat at the back and noticed a girl standing up against the wall. She walked over to Modero and asked him to do her a favor. A black leather suitcase was to be auctioned off that belonged to her and she wanted i...

The Chase - The Amusement Park

February 22, 2023 18:10 - 29 minutes - 6.71 MB

Cathy is being questioned about the death of poor old Billy. Earlier Billy had confided in Cathy that he was concerned about something he’d found and now he’s dead. Duration: 29:12 Starring: Bill Lipton Broadcast Date: 14th August 1952

My Favorite Husband - Marriage License Error

February 01, 2023 21:00 - 22 minutes - 3.94 MB

When Liz Cooper discovers an error on her wedding license she begins to wonder whether she is legally married to her husband George H Cooper. On their wedding license the husband is named as George C Hooper! Duration: 22:57 Starring: Lucille Ball Broadcast Date: 21st January 1949

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective - The Biddle Riddle Caper

January 31, 2023 03:50 - 27 minutes - 4.8 MB

Killer At Large is a radio station whose sponsors pay $50,000 for the arrest and conviction of a killer at large. The twist is that they deal with real facts, real people and real crimes and real criminals. With a tape recorder they reconstruct one of San Francisco’s more sensational unsolved crimes the murder of Carol Stevens. The show is made up of the simple and honest spontaneous statements of witnesses themselves. The radio show is set on this case except for the statement of one man, J...

Father Knows Best - The Elusive Card Game

January 28, 2023 20:34 - 29 minutes - 6.69 MB

Starring Robert Young. In every family there are special days like the day Junior had his hair cut, the day father reversed into the garage door, the day mother didn’t. And today was going to be one of those days in the Anderson family. It will be remembered as the day father received the Christmas bills! Duration: 30:00 Starring: Robert Young Broadcast Date: 12th January 1950

Good News of (1937 to 1940) - Alice Faye Stars In 100th Anniversary Episode

January 26, 2023 19:22 - 1 hour - 13.8 MB

The makers of Maxwell House Coffee presents 60 star-studded minutes brought to you from Metro Goldwyn Meyer studios in Hollywood starring Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks with Hanley Stafford as Daddy Higgins, Connie Boswell and George Euston. As an added extra special treat this program which is the 100th anniversary episode of Good News it is Movie Night including a special preview of Twentieth Century Fox production Little Old New York in which you will hear Alice Faye, Richard Green, Brenda Jo...

Christmas on the blue network

December 23, 2022 00:32 - 1 hour - 109 MB

Christmas on the Blue is a Christmas Variety show with two full hours with some of the biggest stars of radio. The show includes skits, music, and more and is an excellent radio show to listen to get into the holiday mood. The show opens with a very festive rendition of the favorite Christmas song "Deck the Halls." One of the best parts of the Christmas on the Blue is the voices of WWII Military personal heard from overseas. Locations include Pearl Harbor, Paris, and the "European Battle Fr...

The Game Is AFoot

December 18, 2022 21:50 - 10 hours - 568 MB

Join Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they solve mysterious in turn of century England and aboard. The Bruce Partington Plans Murder by Proxy Paradol Chamber Case of the King Phillips Golden Salver Haunting of Sherlock Holmes The Waltz of Death Colonel Warburton Great Gandolf Strange Case of the Persecuted Millionaire Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipe Blarney Stone Darlington Substitution Limping Ghost Singular Affair of the Dying School Boys The Adventure of the Tolling Bells...

Father Knows Best - The Boy Next Door

December 13, 2022 22:04 - 29 minutes - 6.8 MB

As far back as history has recorded our activities, woman has been a rather puzzling creature, especially when she’s going through what is known as the teenage. A good case in point is Betty Anderson. But before we can reveal the capricious maneuvers of her feminine mind we must first look in on the principle male member of the family, Jim Anderson as he settles himself in the Den to do some work in the quiet of his home. Like this. . . Duration: 29:42 Starring: Robert Young Broadcast Dat...

The Shadow - The White God

December 10, 2022 20:00 - 28 minutes - 6.54 MB

The Navy has given up it’s search for the missing yacht owned by a millionaire scientist last reported in that region of the Pacific which has in recent months has come to be known as the graveyard of the Pacific due to more than 15 disappearances of ocean vessels in that area of the Pacific in the last two years. The Shadow suspects that the disappearances are more than a coincidence and is set to prove it. Duration: 29:04 Starring: Orson Welles Broadcast Date: 10th July 1938

Suspense - A Murder of Necessity

December 08, 2022 22:15 - 57 minutes - 6.58 MB

A Murder Of Necessity is a story about a man Paul Drake who commits a murder efficiently and safely only to find out there is a witness the person Herbie Sachs was talking to on the telephone before he was murdered. Paul Drake has to find out who that person was and commit another murder of necessity only to discover that it wasn’t necessary at all. Duration: 28:52 Starring: Robert Young Broadcast Date: 24th March 1952

Red Skelton - Rehearsal for January 27, 1942

December 04, 2022 19:44 - 26 minutes - 6.05 MB

Richard Red Skelton was an American entertainer best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971, especially as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show.

Michael Shayne Private Detective - The Blood Strained Pearls

December 03, 2022 18:48 - 26 minutes - 6.13 MB

It had started like any other day, a widow named Mrs Coplis had hired Shayne to track down one of her boarders who had run away with her copper samovar and he feared the good widows heart, a guy had called to ask his rates for getting divorce evidence against his blond wife and then an old man named Peters came in. The kind of old guy you might see in Jackson Square sleeping on the grass with a newspaper over his face only this old man had a million dollars worth of the biggest pearls Shayne...

Lux Radio Theater - A Blueprint for Murder

November 23, 2022 01:36 - 58 minutes - 13.5 MB

Whitney "Cam" Cameron arrives at a hospital to be with his widowed sister-in-law Lynne, whose stepdaughter Polly has died under mysterious circumstances. A doctor cannot determine the cause of the child's death. Cam has great affection for his young nephew Doug. He begins to fear for the boy's life when Maggie Sargent (Catherine McLeod), the wife of his lawyer, Fred, mentions that the dead girl's symptoms sound suspiciously as if she had been poisoned. Fred reveals that the will of Cam's b...

Father Coughlin - Popular Front Vs Christian Front

November 19, 2022 21:30 - 1 hour - 13.8 MB

Following 1936 Father Coughlin retired from all active organizations and now he is encouraging the growth of the Christian Front. Not that it is his organization but that he seeks to its promoters a word of encouragement and a word of advice. In this address Father Coughlin is concerned with the Popular Front that persists in coddling communism and with the Christian Front that is opposed to communism as well as Nazis and other foreignisms.  Duration: 61:00  Starring: Father Charles Coughl...

The Damon Runyon Theater - Blood Pressure

November 19, 2022 00:38 - 28 minutes - 6.53 MB

Starring John Brown as Broadway, the narrator of Damon Runyon’s dramatic stories of old Manhattan New York and the gangster life in the 1920’s and 1930’s. It is 11.30 on a Wednesday night and Broadway is standing at the corner of 48th and Broadway thinking about his blood pressure. This is a proposition that he’s never given much thought to before, in fact he’s never heard of it before he went to see Doc Brennan this Wednesday of which he speaks. Now the reason he thinks of his blood pressur...

Old Gold Comedy Theater - Room Service

November 16, 2022 20:58 - 23 minutes - 5.44 MB

Gordon Miller the shoestring producer has a headache and justifiably so, he’s about to be ejected from his hotel. The reason being that Wagner the managing director has made an unexpected visit to the hotel and is at the moment looking over the books. All that Gordon Miller has promoted is 22 rooms for his cast and has run up a bill for $1200. The manager Joe Gribble is his brother-in-law and Joe feels that he has been stuck in to this unhappy atmosphere.  Duration: 23:45  Starring: Jack O...

Popeye - First Episode

November 15, 2022 15:37 - 14 minutes - 3.35 MB

Popeye was adapted to radio in several series broadcast over three different networks by two sponsors from 1935 to 1938. Popeye and most of the major supporting characters were first featured in a thrice-weekly 15-minute  radio program, Popeye the Sailor, which starred Detmar Poppen as Popeye, along with most of the major supporting characters—Olive Oyl (Olive Lamoy), Wimpy (Charles Lawrence), Bluto (Jackson Beck) and Swee'Pea (Mae Questel). In the first episode, Popeye adopted Sonny (Jimmy ...

Lux Radio Theater - City for Conquest

November 14, 2022 00:05 - 58 minutes - 13.5 MB

To the young and the valiant New York is a city for conquest and that is the name Warner Brothers gave to a fine motion picture drama, which Lux presents with Alice Faye and Robert Preston in the starring roles. City For Conquest is hard driving drama of a fight for success waged by one man and one girl in this fabulous town. A fight that takes courage and a stalwart but is not worth wining without love. It is a story with a very moving lesson, which is real and human.  Duration: 59:14  St...

Richard Diamond Private Detective - The Gray Man

November 10, 2022 17:23 - 29 minutes - 5.07 MB

A 6-foot well-dressed man in a dark grey overcoat turned up at Diamond’s office. But his face raised goose bumps, it was as grey as his overcoat even his tongue was grey as he spoke. The man offered him a $1000 to find a missing science teacher at the State College Mr. Carnes within 5 hours. He owed the man a debt and the reason he needed him finding in five hours? He only had 5 hours to live.  Duration: 29:11  Starring: Dick Powell  Broadcast Date: 16th February 1951

Danny Kaye - The Great Donivitch Kayeoff

November 10, 2022 02:56 - 30 minutes - 6.87 MB

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW In December 1944 it was announced that Pabst Sales Co. was dropping The Kenny Baker Show in favor of a vehicle for rising star Danny Kaye. Pabst had tried to sign established comedian Fred Allen for the show at a whopping cost of $25,000 per episode but the effort fizzled when Allen reportedly sniffing that he didn’t care to work for a beer company. Kaye agreed to a package costing the beer producer $16,000 per week, 2/3 the cost of Fred Allen. The Danny Kaye Show debut...

CBS Radio Workshop - The Ex-Urbanites

November 07, 2022 21:10 - 28 minutes - 6.5 MB

A factual yet incredible report of those New Yorkers who try to mix work in the city with country living and who almost always invariably end up behind the eight ball.  Author: A. C. Spectorsky  Duration: 28:21  Starring: Eric Severied, John Larkin, Jan Miner  Broadcast Date: 30th March 1956

Luke Slaughter of Tombstone - The Henry Fell Story

November 02, 2022 20:18 - 23 minutes - 5.47 MB

Folks that write dictionaries must have a tough time with the word tolerance. I guess if you had to boil it down to just one other word it would have to be understanding. Some of them in Tombstone found that out when Luke Slaughter gave Chief Margono and a few of his Apache braves the loan of a couple of sections of his spread to try their hand at cattle raising. And Luke got chewed out plenty about it every time he went in to town. . .  Duration: 24:16  Starring: Sam Buffington  Broadcas...

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar - The Ghost to Ghost Matter

October 29, 2022 01:56 - 26 minutes - 6.05 MB

Ian MacAndrews was the man who founded Lake City. He died five years ago and his life policy had been paid out but now it seemed that he had come back or his ghost had come back.  Duration: 24:57  Starring: Bob Bailey  Broadcast Date: 18th May 1958

Official Detective - Murder in Butcher Shop, Gay Sailor Suspected

October 21, 2022 17:18 - 22 minutes - 5.13 MB

Official Detective ran from 1950 to 1956 and was a classic old time radio police drama starring Craig McDonnell as Detective Lieutenant Dan Britt and Tommy Evans as Sergeant Al Bowen.... The show features a crime from the start to the end from a drunk accused of murder to bride that murders her groom after discovering that he married her for her money. Even spinsters are unsafe at the hands of madmen and murderers. Plots in this police melodrama offer great twists and an unusual lineup of t...

Old Gold Comedy Theater - Nothing But The Truth

October 16, 2022 23:08 - 29 minutes - 6.81 MB

Bright young comedian from Canada, Alan Young plays the part of Bob Bennett a young stockbroker working for E.M Ralston the big bad wolf of Wall Street. He is sitting in his office chatting to a client over the phone when a beautiful woman enters his office. It is Gwinn Ralston his boss’s daughter and his love interest played by Anne Baxter. She has $10,000, which she collected for Seaside Charities but she promised to raise $20,000 and now wants Bob to invest it and double it in three days!...

Black Musem - The Wool Jacket a.k.a. The Baby’s Jacket

October 12, 2022 21:43 - 24 minutes - 5.57 MB

In Scotland Yard’s museum of murder here lies death dressed in its Sunday best. And here we find a jacket somewhat inconspicuous in its place on the shelf sleeveless and unstitched, a tragic relic of passion and violence.  Duration: 26:06  Starring: Ozzie Nelson  Broadcast Date: 1952

Suspense - The Customers Like Murder

October 11, 2022 18:03 - 28 minutes - 6.48 MB

Roland Young plays the part of an author of detective novels who invented his best part when his life was at stake. With Mr Young to play his long-suffering secretary is Miss Peggy Conklin. Written by John Dickson Carr.  Duration: 28:53  Starring: Roland Young  Broadcast Date: 23rd March 1943

The Chase - Hardluck Ethel

October 10, 2022 16:37 - 29 minutes - 6.8 MB

thel seemed to have a jinx on the horses and was always loosing. She considered herself hardluck Ethel until one day she went to see a fortune teller who told her she will be lucky very soon that she will win five times. But beware a handsome man who will chase her and catch her because he wants to kill her. . .  Duration: 29:42  Starring: Ruth Gilbert, Ann Thomas, Ralph Bell  Broadcast Date: 8th June 1952

Robert Arden News Commentary

October 07, 2022 23:28 - 2 hours - 145 MB

Robert Arden News Commentary ran from 1940 to 1942 and featured Robert Arden, who was a foreign correspondent. Arden made insightful comments about the current events of the time. Most of the episodes in this collection aired before the US became involved in WWII and offer a interesting and introspective pre-war American viewpoint. Once the USA became involved in WWI Arden reported on the news of the war in Europe and examined both side of the war, including the life history of Adolf Hitler....

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - Invitation To Dinner

October 05, 2022 19:36 - 28 minutes - 4.94 MB

Young David Nelson has hardly said a word all morning and his mother is worried about him. It seems that Grace Johnson has invited him to her party on Friday night and he has told her he would come but his team is playing basketball on Friday night so he has to tell her he can’t make it and doesn’t know how to tell her. He doesn’t really want to let her down and is worried that if he does tell her he can’t make it and then the basketball is called off he will regret it. He decides to think a...

Sears Radio Theater - The Ransom

October 01, 2022 00:18 - 40 minutes - 9.17 MB

Original broadcast day Wednesday, July 25, 1979. A hard-working honest plumber and a small time hustler join forces for the perfect kidnapping. Only they discover they need their victims help to collect the ransom. 

Quiet Please - One for the Book

September 30, 2022 00:22 - 29 minutes - 6.76 MB

Muirock the bottom of a dried up lake is now the home of an air installation and all kinds of military airplanes where homed there. Max Westlake was a sergeant in 1937 who’s interested in science and skyrockets. Looking up one night he sees a parachute coming down with what looks like part of an airplane. A man was recovered from the crash landing and taken to the hospital with concussion. That man was a major in the United States Air force and his name was Max Westlake and he bore a strikin...

Jack Benny - First Professional Appearance

September 28, 2022 21:06 - 29 minutes - 6.74 MB

First Show  Duration: 30:00  Starring: Jack Benny  Broadcast Date: 02 May 1932 A regular in vaudeville comedy, Jack Benny made his first professional on air appearance in May 2, 1932 on the Canada Dry Program. A different Jack Benny than you know and love, hear Jack Benny as MC in this early 1932 broadcast...

Suspense - On a Country Road

September 12, 2022 20:12 - 30 minutes - 6.94 MB

Running out of gas on a foggy back road in Maine, a couple become frightened by news reports of a murderous woman who's escaped from an asylum. Searching for help, the two take refuge in an abandoned shack. When an hysterical woman appears at the window wanting refuge, they're convinced she's the lunatic that's on the loose.

Boston Blackie - Joe Adams Drowned

September 07, 2022 18:55 - 26 minutes - 6.15 MB

A man is killed by drowning in a bathtub in a small upstate town. His killers take his body to the city where they dump it in the sea lion pool at the zoo. When the body is found it looks like suicide until laboratory tests prove what Boston Blackie suspected.  Duration: 26:47  Starring: Dick Kollmar, Jan Miner, Maurice Tarplin  Broadcast Date: 14th May 1947

Fort Laramie - Talented Recruits

September 05, 2022 16:03 - 27 minutes - 6.29 MB

Granville Merryweather and Fennis Finny want to join the army claiming that they’re answering the call to the colors, but you could put it another way, they’re starving to death. But the kind of recruits that are coming to join the army these days are dregs, failures and fugitives.  Duration: 27:44  Starring: Raymond Burr, Harry Bartell, Parley Baer, John Dehner  Broadcast Date: 8th July 1956

Mr District Attorney - The Deadly Snowflake

September 01, 2022 18:00 - 29 minutes - 6.73 MB

“In our experience in our war against crime, nothing in the popular conception of crime is so widespread, and so erroneous, as the idea that honor exists amongst thieves. In this case of the deadly snowflake, we see this so-called criminal code for what it is. . .  Duration: 29:24  Starring: Dwight Weist  Broadcast Date: 26th May 1948

Lux Radio Theater - Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

August 31, 2022 17:51 - 55 minutes - 12.7 MB

Lux Radio Theater presents the comedy romance Mr Blandings Builds His Dream Home with Cary Grant playing the part of Jim Blandings, the same role he payed in the 1948 RKO motion picture of the same name and Irene Dunne as Muriel Blandings. Like millions of other New Yorkers Jim and Muriel Blandings and their two young daughters live in an apartment. It is adequate but somewhat crowded. Not that Jim isn’t doing well he is a college graduate and makes $15000 a year in the Advertising business....

The Screen Directors' Playhouse - The Uninvited

August 29, 2022 20:55 - 28 minutes - 4.97 MB

Ray Milland stars as Rick Fitzgerald the same role he played in the 1944 film adaptation of Dorothy Macardle’s ghost story. Rick and his sister Pamela move to an old deserted seaside house and discover that it is haunted by the sound of a sobbing woman. When a neighbor Stella Meredith, calls upon them they discover that she lived there, as a child until the age of three when her mother had died after falling over a cliff in to the sea and that she hasn’t been since. Her grandfather forbade h...