Old Time Radio Listener
599 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsYou 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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Shirley Temple Time - Mister Ideal
August 15, 2022 21:20 - 29 minutes - 6.67 MBShirley Temple Black (born Shirley Jane Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat who was Hollywood's number one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.
Romance - The Pride of Potawatomie, PA
August 13, 2022 20:50 - 23 minutes - 5.34 MBThe Pride of Potawatomie, PA is a story of the humorous adventures of a lieutenant in the army air force during World War II. It was specially written for Romance by William N. Robeson based on an actual incident reported by CBS newsman William Knielley Duration: 23:31 Starring: Bob Bailey, John Dehner, Jack Kruschen, Virginia Christine, Herb Butterfield Broadcast Date: 31st December 1955
Sherlock Holmes - The Creeping Man
August 06, 2022 22:15 - 46 minutes - 10.6 MBSherlock Holmes had noticed something about dogs and the way they behave and how this could help in detective work. For example who ever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family or a sad dog in a happy one. Snarling people have snarling dogs and dangerous people have dangerous dogs. What now interests Holmes is why Professor Presbury’s faithful wolfhound Roy, endeavours to bite him. The dog until recently most devoted animal had attacked his master twice but had attacked no one else. . . Durati...
Lord Peter Wimsey - Unpleasantness At Bellona Club
August 06, 2022 18:00 - 2 hours - 155 MBOn the afternoon of 10 November, ninety-year-old General Fentiman is called to the deathbed of his estranged sister, Lady Dormer, and learns that under the terms of her will he stands to inherit most of her substantial fortune – money sorely needed by his grandsons Robert and George Fentiman. However, should the General die first, nearly everything will go to Lady Dormer's companion, Ann Dorland. Lady Dormer dies the next morning, Armistice Day, and that afternoon the General is found dead...
Frontier Town - The Chavez Family
August 03, 2022 21:07 - 27 minutes - 6.2 MBIf you know anything about the Frontier maybe you know Dos Rios the home town of Chad Remington not only the only practising lawyer in the town but in the whole county. The early Spanish settled his section of the country and the Spanish influence is still evident wherever you go and it is not at all unusual for a Layer to get in to gun trouble because of it. Duration: 27:45 Starring: Jeff Chandler Broadcast Date: 14th November 1952
Life With Luigi - First Date With An American Girl
August 01, 2022 20:44 - 30 minutes - 6.89 MBPasquali is determined to get Luigi married to Rosa, but Luigi has other ideas and none of them involve the oversized Rosa in any way. Pasquali makes him a challenge. If Luigi can get an American girl to go out with him that night Pasquali will pay for the night, but if Luigi fails to get a date with an American girl then he must marry Rosa. Duration: 29:36 Broadcast Date: 09 January 1949
Molle Mystery Theater - St Louis Lady
July 19, 2022 19:03 - 30 minutes - 6.91 MBSt Louis Lady by Irene Winston is about three things, summer heat, a woman and a little black book. What is it about some woman that makes men want to kill for them and what sort of a man lists methodically in a little black book his victims, his expenses and his net profit from their deaths? Add to this the kind of heat that pushes people in to things they never meant to do and you have St Louis Lady. . . Duration: 30:10 Starring: Elspeth Eric, Frank Lovejoy, Gilbert Mack Broadcast Da...
The Aldrich Family - Close That Door
July 14, 2022 01:10 - 22 minutes - 5.24 MBIn trying to train her son to close things behind him Mrs Aldrich has sent word down town for Henry to come back and close the cellar door. In so doing she has quite innocently started a rumor that someone has wrecked the Aldrich home. Duration: 22:54 Starring: Ezra Stone Broadcast Date: 13th April 1944
Sherlock Holmes - Darlington Substitution
July 08, 2022 18:07 - 28 minutes - 6.6 MBThe Darlington Substitution adventure involves one of the most shocking scandals of the nineteenth century a scandal that had it ever emerged in the light of day might easily have brought ruin and disgrace to one of the most famous men who ever became a member of the House of Lords. Duration: 30:10 Starring: Tom Conway, Nigel Bruce Broadcast Date: 4th January 1947
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - Worrying
July 06, 2022 13:54 - 28 minutes - 4.94 MBOf course Ozzie Nelson is not a worrier he states that the worst thing in the world to do is to keep your troubles to yourself, if you have any worries get them out in the open. But then when everyone unloads their worries on him the tables are turned and he becomes the worrier! Duration: 29:32 Starring: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard Nelson Broadcast Date: 12th December 1948
ABC A Look at 1960 - Jiminy Cricket and Donald Duck
July 01, 2022 17:47 - 1 hour - 13.8 MB1947 ABC radio musical documentary, which features Jiminy Cricket, Donald Duck, and the 7 Dwarfs. This musical documentary was based upon the "America's Needs and Resources" white paper by the Twentieth Century Fund liberal think tank. (!) (We'll do less work and be more prosperous in 1960 thanks to our natural resources and improved labor relations.)
In the shadows with The Shadow
July 01, 2022 00:30 - 5 hours - 303 MBThe Shadow: Orson Welles, Bill Johnstone, Bret Matterson The Face Ghosts Can Kill The Firebug Terrible Legend Of Crownshield Castle Night Without End The Three Ghosts The Werewolf Of Hamilton Mansion Shyster Payoff Murder On Approval Death Is A Colored Dream Black Rock The Power Of The Mind
Abbott & Castello Show - Costello Gets A Tattoo
June 27, 2022 18:11 - 29 minutes - 6.7 MBOn the Abbott and Costello Show listen top the music of Will Osborne and his Orchestra, the great song styles of Connie Haines and Bob Mathews and that happy, heavy, hippy, little horseman who when asked to pick the winner of the Kentucky Derby glanced at his racing form and calmly said, “Heeeeeeeere’s Abbott!” Duration: 29:09 Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello Broadcast Date: 7th June 1945
The Chase - Newspaper Reporter After Germans
June 25, 2022 18:32 - 29 minutes - 6.76 MBreporter is pursued by sudden death in South America. Duration: 29:31 Starring: Vinton Hayworth Broadcast Date: 25th May 1952
Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Tolling Bell
June 24, 2022 18:40 - 25 minutes - 4.36 MBThis tale takes place in the beautiful English countryside. The story begins in small country village, they were there for a few days rest after solving a case before going back to Baker Street. They were staying in small but comfortable inn. Early in the morning of the third day as they began their morning ritual, they heard the nearby church bell tolling a funeral bell. Holmes then reflects on the history of bells tolling for numerous reasons. It seems that the girl bringing in some suppli...
A Life In Your Hands - The Alderman
June 23, 2022 18:25 - 29 minutes - 6.78 MBPeter Grant is being blackmailed by his secretary Karen Wells and he has paid her $20,000 to prevent her telling his wife about his indiscretions. But he had borrowed $15000 of that money from Sidney Bonden who now wanted his money back and Grant feared that Bonden may kill him if he didn’t get the money soon. Grant depressed and not knowing what to do tells his wife everything and plans to mortgage their house and insurance to get the money and hopes that when he runs for election as Alderm...
Arthur Godfrey - Robert Q. Lewis
June 20, 2022 00:08 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBMore about Arthur Godfrey .... Arthur Godfrey - Wikipedia
Burns and Allen - George The Butler
June 18, 2022 18:22 - 28 minutes - 6.53 MBBill Goodwin is trying to win a part in movie playing opposite Ingrid Bergman but the producer Lawrence Sherwood is after a family man. Gracie agrees to pretend that she’s married to Bill and when Lawrence Sherwood is invited round for dinner George pretends to be the butler. Duration: 28:50 Starring: George Burns, Gracie Allen Broadcast Date: 1st November 1945
Cabin B13 - The Bride Vanishes
June 14, 2022 23:53 - 29 minutes - 6.75 MBDiana Powell, in 100 American Crime Writers, wrote: Cabin B-13 is the harrowing tale of a new bride who boards an ocean liner for her honeymoon only to find out the groom has disappeared and that the ship's crew doubt his existence and her sanity. Her fear over her groom's whereabouts is heightened by a threat to her inherited wealth and the stress of not being believed. Cabin B-13 was first broadcast on the American radio program Suspense on March 16, 1943, with Ralph Bellamy starring. I...
The Shadow - The Cat That Killed
June 13, 2022 19:18 - 26 minutes - 4.48 MBThe night watchman of a particular warehouse is found one morning with his throat hideously ripped. The next watchman meets the same fate. Lamont, in disguise, volunteers for the job, and Margo goes along (without Lamont’s knowledge). The two are shocked when the killer appears–whatever they had expected, it wasn’t quite what they got. . . Duration: 26:06 Starring: Bill Johnstone Broadcast Date: 31st December 1939
Suspense - Cant We Be Friends
June 10, 2022 00:25 - 28 minutes - 4.83 MBThree weeks after Frances had been in hospital for an operation Michael turns up to see how she is. Frances is annoyed with him but Michael flatters her and asks her if they can be good friends. Just as she comes round to his flattering he shows a jealous streak and she tells him she doesn’t want to see him anymore. Michael decided the only way he can cure his longing for Fran and his jealousy is to kill her. Duration: 30:00 Starring: Elliott Lewis, Lurene Tuttle, Wally Maher, Jerry Haus...
Dangerous Assignment - Alien Smuggling
June 08, 2022 18:17 - 29 minutes - 6.75 MBThe time: Sunset. The place: A small fishing village on the coast of Portugal. Two fishermen trudge wearily homeward, past a deserted monastery near the waterfront. A sudden sound breaks the stillness of the evening air. Unbelievable. The monastery bells are ringing. But nobody has lived there for five years. . . Duration: 29:28 Starring: Brian Donlevy Broadcast Date: 13th August 1949
Columbia Presents Corwin - The Undecided Molecule
May 31, 2022 20:19 - 58 minutes - 6.66 MBThis is a classic episode of Columbia Presents Corwin entitled “The Undecided Molecule”, in which Norman Corwin brings you a rhymed fantasy concerning dangerous developments among the elements as disclosed by Robert Benchley, Norman Lloyd, Groucho Marx, , Vincent Price, Sylvia Sidney and Keenan Wynn. Duration: 29:05 Starring: Norman Corwin Broadcast Date: 17th July 1945
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - Alvin Summers Matter
May 22, 2022 17:21 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBFred Wilkinson from North Eastern Fidelity has a case for Johnny relating to the Alvin Summers fraud. A guy called Fred from a little town in Mexico called Santa Thomas with some vital information relating to the Summers case, but before Fred could get any additional details the line was cut off, which means Johnny has to set off on what could be a wild goose chase. Starring: Bob Bailey Broadcast Date: 24th October - 28th 1955
Arch Oboler's Plays - Crazy Town
May 12, 2022 15:58 - 27 minutes - 6.28 MBNo man has a duty to do what he knows is not right so the cowardly bomber pilot is destined for the crazy town where people live and love and kill as their fancy strikes. Duration: 27:27 Starring: Edmond O’Brien, Charlotte Manson, Paul Stewart, John Brown, Betty Caine Broadcast Date: 20th May 1939
The Falcon - The Case Of The Natural Seven
May 05, 2022 18:26 - 26 minutes - 5.99 MBThe phone rings, and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answers and tells the party on the other line, “You’ll have to count me out this evening, I have to see about a gambling debt, a boy I know tried to make a seven the hard way and discovered murder was a natural.” It is late evening in New York, and at Frency Devlin’s, a gambling house in the east 70s, a young man named Steve Richards is conducting an interesting experiment. Steve is trying to get a pair of ivory cubes to come up the right way....
Murder At Midnight - Murder Out Of Mind
April 30, 2022 20:00 - 26 minutes - 6.05 MBIt is twelve o’clock midnight in the home of Carl and Mary Watson. Carl is sleeping restlessly, uneasily then suddenly he discovers Mary over him with a knife in her hand. . . Duration: 26:19 Starring: Charlotte Holland, Alan Hewitt Broadcast Date: Not Broadcast
Studio One - Act of Faith
April 27, 2022 20:00 - 30 minutes - 6.9 MB“The war had come. In time they had joined up, they had fought to the end somewhere in Germany. Now here they were after the victory, the fighting over still in France in the mud and the rain and the chilly countryside. October 1945. . . ” Martin Wilson as the father, Robert Dryden as Welch and Myron McCormick as Captain Tainey. Duration: 30:08 Starring: Fletcher Markle Broadcast Date: 16th September 1947
Gunsmoke - Boy
April 16, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes - 8.5 MBMatt Dillon and Kitty are having a drink when Webb Johnson who thinks he has a way with women interrupts and asks Kitty to join him at the poker table. The previous night Johnson had offered Kitty a job at the Longhorn Saloon, which he had bought up. Matt Dillon thought Johnson was talky enough to cause trouble sooner or later. . . Duration: 29:59 Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Lawrence Dobkin, John Dehner, Howard McNear, Charlotte Lawrence Broadcast Date: 1st Au...
Broadway Is My Beat - The Janice Bennett Murder Case
April 14, 2022 20:00 - 29 minutes - 7.15 MBDanny Clover received a call at headquarters from a frantic upset man telling them to get to Marley apartment on West 39 5th floor apartment 5c where someone he loved was lying there dead. . . Duration: 29:42 Starring: Larry Thor Broadcast Date: 27th November 1953
Lights Out - The Little People
April 07, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes - 7.05 MBThe great explorer, Peter Stranski, is giving a lecture on the head-hunters of the Amazon when he finds Ellen, his wife, in the arms of another man, John. Ellen wants a divorce. Peter invites John and Ellen to his home and asks John to witness the divorce papers and he scratches himself on Peter’s pen. Has Peter used the poison of the Amazon head-hunters? What strange and terrible revenge could a jealous husband take against his wife and the man she loved? Duration: 30:47 Starring: Bret ...
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Triple Crown
March 31, 2022 23:00 - 42 minutes - 9.77 MBPaddy Devlin, who has somehow acquired a very fast colt he calls Malachi, meets a small, young farmhand, Stevie Oakes, who, Paddy believes, can be trained to ride Malachi to the Triple Crown. Stevie's stepfather, Morton, agrees to allow the penniless Paddy to live in his barn with Malachi and teach Stevie how to ride after the boy has finished his chores. But when boy and horse are ready to race, Morton serves Paddy with legal papers stating that he now owns Malachi as payment for all the ...
Inner Sanctum Mystery - The Judas Clock
March 28, 2022 18:00 - 29 minutes - 6.7 MBSebastian Packer is a clock maker and carries on the profession that his father taught him in London. He likes clocks, all that is but one. For 30 years he has looked for a certain clock and a certain man. Collectors know the clock as the Judas clock, the man he swore to kill when as a boy of 14 he closed his father’s gazing eyes and wiped the froth of blood from his lips. Last night he found the Judas clock and tonight he may have found the man. Duration: 29:04 Starring: Berry Kroeger ...
The Adventures 0f Ozzie and Harriet -Retreat From Civilization
March 27, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes - 6.74 MBEver since Ozzie Nelson was a little boy his parents taught him courage, determination and a sense of honor. These are the virtues it takes to keep a promise. The Ozzie Nelson of today has the same grim determination to keep his promise to take his kids on a woodland hike even though he’d rather go to the game. David and Ricky too don’t want to let their father down even though they also would rather go to the game. Harriet has a plan so that they can all go to the game without anyone breaki...
Treasury Star Parade - Program 01
March 22, 2022 19:00 - 14 minutes - 3.34 MBFor the opening program two of the brightest stars of the American theatre, Miss Judith Anderson and Mr Maurice Evans in a starring performance of Jean La Touchet’s moving vignette in verse The Statue Of Liberty. But first the magnificent baritone voice of Igor Gorin singing Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Duration: 14:34 Starring: Robert Montgomery Broadcast Date: 1942
Mr. & Mrs. North - Dime A Dance a.ka. Honey Jones
March 18, 2022 18:00 - 26 minutes - 7.52 MBAll sorts of people are going around making all sorts of surveys about the habits of the American male and female. If they ever questioned Pam and Jerry North they would learn something that would make their hair stand on end. For instance in the morning Jerry prefers regaining consciousness by degrees but Pam on the other hand is as gay, fresh and romantic as a lark. . . Duration: 26:16 Starring: Joseph Curtin, Alice Frost Broadcast Date: Not Known
Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator - Missing Hotel Room
March 16, 2022 21:00 - 45 minutes - 7.77 MBMrs Myra Wilson and her husband arrived in town and took a room at the Hotel Mica. After lunch she went shopping and to a movie and then she went back to the hotel. It looked the same but when she asked at the hotel for her husband the clerk told her that there was no one registered by that name. Duration: 22:44 Starring: William Gargan Broadcast Date: 9th February 1955
Our Miss Brooks - Take Him Or Leave Him
March 10, 2022 20:00 - 29 minutes - 6.71 MBMost female teachers at Madison High School think of Mr. Boynton the bashful biologist as an extremely handsome, virile irresistible individual. But our Miss Brooks who teaches English there can take him with a grain of salt. . . Duration: 24:34 Starring: Eve Arden Broadcast Date: 24th April 1954
Frontier Town - Her Name Is Burbon Kate
March 02, 2022 01:00 - 27 minutes - 6.32 MBLast winter had been an especially severe winter, colder than usual with almost constant snows so deep and heavy that even the winter range was useless, cattle froze, starved and died right and left. It was late in February up in the mountain town appropriately named Headstone, the principle business building in Headstone is a long narrow room operated as a cafe or ´ saloon and run by a strange hard faced woman called Burbon Kate. This particular night was a blustery one, Kate’s saloon was e...
The Judy Canova Show - Judy and the Saxophone
February 28, 2022 23:00 - 28 minutes - 6.61 MBJudy has decided to augment her vocal talent by becoming a musician and as the scene opens she is practicing on the saxophone. . . Duration: 28:53 Starring: Judy Canova, Mel Blanc Broadcast Date: 3rd November 1945
Big Town - Blind Justice
February 26, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes - 6.77 MBFearing the racketeers behind a brutal gang killing of a construction foreman may not know the only witness against them is their victims blind sister Lorelei has taken Anna Bartam to her apartment for safety while Steve Wilson managing editor of the illustrated press has set a trap for them. Duration: 29:35 Starring: Edward Pawley Broadcast Date: 14th September 1948
CBS Radio Workshop - The Long Way Home
February 24, 2022 18:00 - 24 minutes - 5.5 MBThe Long Way Home – a glimpse of the future we trust will never happen. A story of the fate of man to whom it is given to do what they have to do who with or without understanding, but with patience, goodwill and a sense of comradeship. Duration: 24:02 Broadcast Date: 12th May 1957
My Favorite Husband - Katy And Roscoe
February 24, 2022 16:00 - 24 minutes - 4.15 MBLiz’s maid Katie had been corresponding with Roscoe for sometime now and had told him that she travelled in fancy society and now he was coming to town and planning to stop in and see her. Katie didn’t know what to do as she didn’t want Roscoe to know that she had been fibbing then Liz came up with an idea that meant Katie could be everything she said she was, Liz would be Katie’s maid! Duration: 23:28 Starring: Lucille Ball, Richard Denning Broadcast Date: 6th November 1948
Crime Classics - The Alsop Family How It Diminished And Grew Again
February 09, 2022 17:24 - 29 minutes - 5.05 MBThe sound you hear is that of a grave been dug on a hillside in a lonely section of England in the 17th century. It is a stormy night and the gravedigger is James Alsop, money clipper, highwayman, and father-in-law. It will take him about an hour to finish and another hour to give it a corpse for in that time James Alsop will add murder to his other attributes. . . Duration: 29:32 Starring: Lou Merrill, Ben Wright Broadcast Date: 24th August 1953
The 'O' Block
February 02, 2022 00:00 - 7 hours - 430 MBOver Here - Charles Laughton One Night Stand - Count Basie Hotel Lincoln - First Song - Digging For Dex Orson Welles Radio Almanac - Guest - Susan Hayward Old Gold Comedy Theater - A Slight Case Of Murder O’Henry Plays - Mrs Parker's Rooming House One Out of Seven - Third World War Our Miss Brooks - Convict Has Threatened To Kill Mr. Conklin Our Freedom's Blessings - The Flying Piano On Stage - The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Once Upon a Tune - Ferdinand the Bullfrog Operatio...
Lux Radio Theater - Dixie
February 01, 2022 01:00 - 56 minutes - 12.9 MBDixie is the story of a song that has been on the hit parade for over one hundred years and here you will hear Bing sing Dixie and some of the other great songs from the picture. In the period before the civil war a new form of entertainment flashed across the American scene, the Minstrel Show. This is the story of the first of the great Minstrels, Daniel Decatur Emmett who donned burnt cork and sang his way in to the heart of a nation with his immortal song Dixie which he composed in 1859. ...
Barrel of Fun - Winning A Prize In A Draw
January 29, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes - 6.65 MBGet ready for a Barrel of Fun and a variety of entertainment starring Charlie Ruggles, Benny Rubin, Verna Felton, Jerry Hausner, Sara Berner, Hanley Stafford, Charlie Lung, and Harry Lang. Music by Linda Ware and the Sportsmen and Dave Rose and his Orchestra who open the show performing Your Grand. Announcer: Art Gilmore Duration: 29:02 Starring: Charlie Ruggles, Benny Rubin, Verna Felton, Hanley Stafford, Jerry Hausner, Charles Lung, Harry Lang, Sara Berner Broadcast Date: 18th Dece...
The Mysterious Traveler - Killer At Large
January 14, 2022 19:00 - 28 minutes - 4.97 MBIn this story we drop in on a very clever gentleman, a gentleman who perfected a plan to be rid of people he disliked without ever having to suffer for it. Mr. Jeffrey Andrews is temporarily confined to a hospital, so we start there to meet him. He’s just been given a routine checkup by the staff physician, Dr. French. Duration: 28:57 Broadcast Date: 6th June 1950
Martin & Lewis Show - Guest John Garfield
January 11, 2022 01:00 - 29 minutes - 6.86 MBThe National Broadcasting Company brings you transcribed from New York The Martin and Lewis Show with special guest John Garfield and featuring, Flo McMichael, Dick Stabile and his orchestra and Starring Dean Martin with his wonderful singing voice and Jerry Lewis with his not so wonderful singing voice! Duration: 29:59 Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis Broadcast Date: 26th May 1949
Let George Do It - The Coward
January 06, 2022 23:00 - 29 minutes - 6.85 MBYou learn the tragic wartime story of one man out of four who betray the location of thirty-seven refugees fleeing from fallen Singapore and if you are anything like George Valentine you’d like to meet the writer who wrote that story particularly when you see that his note book contains the words of that same telegram. The only trouble is, the writer’s dead. . . Duration: 29:47 Starring: Bob Bailey, Frances Robinson, Wally Maher, Joe Forte, Robert Griffin, Mark Lawrence, Betty Moran, Mar...