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Father Knows Best - New Years Baby Sitter

January 01, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes - 6.65 MB

What starts out to be the first well-organized New Years Eve in the history of the Anderson family ends up becoming a mixed-up shambles. When Kathy’s plans fall through they have to get a sitter for her. When the sitter turns out to be a handsome young man Betty called off her date with Ralph and now Jim is upsetting Betty’s little scheme by letting the sitter go home. Duration: 29:03 Starring: Robert Young Broadcast Date: 31st December 1953

Dark Venture - Turn About

December 29, 2021 23:00 - 23 minutes - 5.28 MB

rnes motive for killing Marvin Rice was quite commonplace, fear, hatred, envy but the part he found fascinating was the crime itself. It was so original and amazingly clever, there wasn’t the slightest chance in all the world that it would fail, it didn’t fail; yet downstairs in the prison courtyard they are testing a gallows built especially for Barnes. . . Duration: 23:05 Starring: Elliott Lewis Broadcast Date: Not Known

Father Knows Best - Rainy Day Activity

December 29, 2021 18:00 - 29 minutes - 6.69 MB

It’s raining this morning in Spring Field one of those steady downpours that looks like it’s going to last all day. And out in the white-framed house on Maple Street the head of the Anderson family parts the curtains at the front window, surveys the weather and then makes a pronouncement, like this. . . Duration: 29:13 Starring: Robert Young Broadcast Date: 25th March 1954

Lux Radio Theater - Christmas Holiday

December 23, 2021 02:00 - 59 minutes - 13.5 MB

This classic stars Loretta Young and William Holden. Merry Christmas. I wish I could find a description for this holiday show. But sadly I haven't found anything expect the above sentence.

Lord Peter Wimsey - The Nine Tailors

November 25, 2021 00:00 - 3 hours - 178 MB

Considered by many to be her best story. The discovery of a dismembered body in the churchyard of Fenchurch St. Paul, leads to many questions, who was he? who murdered him and why? and what significance do the Fenchurch bells themselves have? the Nine Tailors? The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations, and Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dra...

Sherlock Holmes - Blarney Stone

November 24, 2021 01:00 - 28 minutes - 6.64 MB

Blarney Castle is an imposing 15th century ruin a few miles outside the town of Cork and this is where “The Blarney Stone ” is situated. The stone itself is considered to be a powerful talisman and whoever kisses it, is endowed with eloquence for life. Holmes and Watson are enjoying a drink in the local hostelry when a gentleman by the name of Geoffrey Hankin introduces himself and his partner Michael Corcoran. An argument ensues between the partners and a bet is made, that Hankin dare not k...

Hello Americans - The Bad-Will Ambassador/Feed The World

November 22, 2021 20:00 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MB

December 27, 1942 Written by Richard Brooks Cast: Norman Field, Pedro de Cordoba, John Tucker Battle, Hans Conried, Martin Stone, Orson Welles January 17, 1943 Written by Milton Geiger Cast: Frank Readick (narrator), Eddie Jerome (Gaucho), Orson Welles (Famine), Carl Swenson, Joseph Cheshire (Cotten), Jack Moss, Louis Solomon --- Notes --- I find these episodes especially fitting with what is going on in the world today. Hello Americans - Wikipedia

Luke Slaugther of Tombstone - Wagon Train

November 22, 2021 00:13 - 23 minutes - 5.49 MB

Carl Justice was dead bushwhacked for the $10,000 he was carrying. But justice wasn’t dead, the posse from the cattleman’s association would see to that if they had to cover every section to the Mexican border and it looked like they might. At least the first men on the saddle didn’t find any trace of Justices killer or the gold. . . Duration: 24:20 Starring: Sam Buffington Broadcast Date: 13th April 1958

Mr. President - John Tyler

November 20, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 81.8 MB

John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States and was in the White House from 1841-1845 John Tyler had been elected vice president and became president when William Henry Harrison died after only a month in office. Throughout his term President Tyler fought for a treaty for the annexation of Texas to the United States and this was done during his term by joint resolution of congress. The mutiny on the USS Somers actually happened and Philip Spencer the son of secretary of war John...

Time to Travel to Canada with Canadian Snapshots

November 20, 2021 00:00 - 2 hours - 161 MB

Let's travel to Canada with Canadian Snapshots.

Inner Sanctum Mystery - The Dead Laugh

November 18, 2021 19:00 - 26 minutes - 5.98 MB

Tonight’s story is a triangle tale, concerning a man, a woman and a murderer. You’ve heard it said that those who laugh last, laugh best? Tonight’s story is to prove that it never pays to get into a laughing contest with a ghost. . . Duration: 25:31 Starring: House Jameson Broadcast Date: 23rd September 1946

Studio One - Let Me Do the Talking

November 17, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 13.8 MB

Let Me Do The Talking is based on the novel by Richard Mayland. It is a behind the scenes inside the agents portrait of the literary business and its main concern is the young man who came to be known as the agent Gabriel. Charles Gabriel Bachelor moves with the speed of light through publishing and promotional circles. Duration: 58:41 Starring: John Garfield, Mercedes McCambridge Broadcast Date: 11th November 1947

Casebook of Gregory Hood - The Beeswax Candle

November 16, 2021 20:00 - 28 minutes - 6.44 MB

Sanderson and Mary Taylor were driving home slowly one night in the dark misty fog when Mary commented on the beautiful playing of a clarinet coming from a house nearby. Just then the clarinet stopped and they heard a scream. Sandy stopped the car and Mary jumped out with Sandy following her but in the fog Mary disappeared. Duration: 28:05 Starring: Gale Gordon Broadcast Date: 24th June 1946

On Stage - Public Furlough

November 15, 2021 18:00 - 29 minutes - 6.8 MB

n this story written by Anthony Ellis Cathy plays the part of a famous picture actress and Elliott plays the part of a soldier going on furlough who wants a date with her. The scene is an army post in California about midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It’s a bright clear day and off to the side of the drill field in one of the few permanent buildings is an orderly room. The corporal at the typewriter is deeply intent on his composition. At the other side of the room another soldi...

The Roy Rogers Show - Herb Selby And Counterfeit Money

November 15, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 7.01 MB

Post Cereals brings you The Roy Rogers Show starring the King of the Cowboys himself, Roy Rogers. The Double R Ranch, transcribed stories and songs of the real West with The Whipporwills, the wisest trail scout of the west Jonah Wilde played by Forrest Lewis and the Queen of the West Dale Evans. Duration: 30:37 Starring: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans Broadcast Date: 21st March 1952

Philo Vance - The Bulletin Murder Case

November 12, 2021 17:00 - 27 minutes - 6.19 MB

The Bulletin Murder Case began when Myrna Harkins, Bulletin reporter was found stabbed to death in a cab. Philo Vance visited the Bulletin office where he talked to Eddie Henderson, reporter, and Mike Abbot, Editor. Neither could throw any light on the murder but the police believe that a story Miss Harkins was writing, which was later published unfinished is a clue. It concerns a concert pianist named Lillian White and her secret and up until now missing husband. Duration: 29:16 Starrin...

Lights Out - The Meteor Man

November 11, 2021 19:00 - 23 minutes - 5.35 MB

Diane and Russell, while having an elicit affair, get caught up in a meteor shower. A large meteor hits the earth. Russell finds part of it. It is covered with strange markings. He breaks it open. What does he find inside? Is it flesh? Is it a living thing? It starts to grow! Is it from outer space? What does it want? Could this be a threat to the human race? Duration: 23:16 Starring: Bret Morrison Broadcast Date: 22nd December 1942

Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator - Murder In Wax

November 10, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes - 7.16 MB

What kind of free lodging leaves everyone cold is when it’s yours - courtesy of the city morgue. Barrie Craig’s investigation takes him on a trip to an amusement park to visit the new wax exhibit. Barrie Craig’s investigation takes him on a trip to an amusement park to visit the new wax exhibit. Craig receives a circular inviting him to see the brutal murder of Vince Lorimer so real it will startle you. But how could a wax model be set up for the customers less than 24 hours after the murder...

The Adventures 0f Ozzie and Harriet - The Boat Builder

November 02, 2021 22:16 - 26 minutes - 6.17 MB

There’s been plenty of activity in the Nelson garage for the past few days and it looks like the shipbuilding firm of Ozzie and Sons are in business! Of course their first effort is only a rowboat but who knows where they’ll go from there this rowboat may the first of a whole fleet bearing the name of Commodore Nelson! Duration: 26:57 Starring: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard Nelson, David, Ricky Nelson, John Brown, Arthur Q. Bryan Broadcast Date: 4th April 1952

Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater - The Mermaid On Halloween Bridge

October 31, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 20.5 MB

For years an anonymous Cape Cod mural painter has been adorning the underpass to the Barnstable Village railroad bridge with images of scantily clad nudes in Clasical poses. An activity which, although many in the Village enjoy them and approve, is also illegal and a source of irritation particuarly to nearby neighbor, Otis Narwhal, who feels the paintings go too far. With night-vision binoculars he sits on his portch at night hoping to spy the Phantom Artist at work and report her to the lo...

X -Minus One - The Haunted Corpse

October 30, 2021 22:00 - 20 minutes - 4.61 MB

r Horn believed that we were all human corpses inhabited by ghosts an he had invented a machine that could separate the two without destroying them. Written by Frederick Pohl Duration: 20:15 Starring: Edgar Stehli, Dean Olmquist, Walter Black, Lydia Bruce Broadcast Date: 12th December 1957

The World Adventurers’ Club

October 30, 2021 14:00 - 7 hours - 415 MB

The World Adventurers Club bids you welcome. You are invited to join an informal gathering of this international organization whose members have explored all the strange lands of the earth from the Russia28 ts and international diplomats. It is the custom of the club members to hold a private meeting in which each member recounts the most thrilling of his experiences. The members of the club invite you to pull up a chair and listen to a tale of the thrilling road to adventure. 28 episodes =...

2000 Plus - The Flying Saucers

October 29, 2021 22:00 - 29 minutes - 6.7 MB

A man is alone in a room 100,000 miles from earth. His body lies dead before him and yet he speaks, feels and lives. Behind him is a tortured world and in-front the moon and destiny. He feels the surge of power and had he been able to he would have smiled as his mission had been accomplished. However, nobody knew and nobody understood, if they had they would not believe. This was a project 3,000 years old but nobody had guessed. Duration: 30:00 Broadcast Date: 1950

Exploring Tomorrow - The Liar

October 28, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 4.61 MB

Tonight’s story is about a liar, somebody who doesn’t tell the truth, somebody who injures people by not giving them the true facts. But suppose you have someone who injures you by telling you the truth would he be a liar? Such is the latest model of robot named Herby who can read minds and will always tell you what you want to hear so as not to break the rule not to hurt a human. Duration: 20:08 Starring: John Campbell Jr Broadcast Date: 195x

Dimension X - There Will Come Soft Rains + Zero Hour

October 26, 2021 22:00 - 28 minutes - 4.96 MB

Can you predict the future? Can you tell what will come in 100 years or in five or in the next minute? Tonight we present two ventures in to the unknown two adventures of the future taken from the works of brilliant science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. First his 10 minute story entitled There Will Come Soft Rain and secondly Zero Hour. Duration: 28:48 Starring: Norman Rose Broadcast Date: 17th June 1950

X -Minus One - Dr Grimshaw’s Sanitarium

October 26, 2021 02:00 - 23 minutes - 5.36 MB

This story is the same as the one originally broadcast on 22nd of September 1950. What you will hear transcribed in the next half hour represents either a magnificent hoax or the true explanation of the famous Grimshaw sanatorium scandal, which made the headlines back in 1947. The manuscript upon which this account is based was removed by the New York State Police from a fountain pen cover found in the doorway to Dr Grimshaw’s study. We offer this manuscript as evidence only and whether it...

The Haunting Hour - If The Shoe Fits

October 25, 2021 19:00 - 25 minutes - 5.72 MB

Gregory Destus a custom shoemaker has become strangely involved with the young daughter of the wealthy and unscrupulous Henry Bollett and though Destus has denied any knowledge of the affair to his wife he is forced at the point of a revolver to go off in the custody of Bollett’s so called bodyguard Macintyre who has been assigned to take care of Destus. . . Duration: 25:00 Broadcast Date: 1946

Suspense - After Dinner Story

October 24, 2021 23:00 - 28 minutes - 6.49 MB

A year ago six men were in a lift when it tragically went out of control plunging 64 floors. The operator was killed and one man in distress killed himself with a shot through his heart. Now, a year later the father of that man has invited the four survivors for dinner and something else. . . Duration: 28:26 Starring: Otto Kruger Broadcast Date: 26th October 1943

The Hall of Fantasy - The Masks of Ashor

October 22, 2021 19:00 - 23 minutes - 5.37 MB

Marsha and Bert had been sent a pair of gold masks by her uncle Harold from his travels in Istanbul. He said that although they were gold he had bought them cheaply from a trader who seemed very keen to get rid of them. He said that there was a story behind them and once he discovered it he would let them know. Marsha felt uneasy about them, as if they had eyes that followed you. Duration: 23:27 Starring: Harry Elders Broadcast Date: 9th March 1953

Escape - Seven Hours To Freedom

October 22, 2021 19:00 - 29 minutes - 6.76 MB

scape with us now, to a small fishing boat off the California coast and a night of terror and death at the hands of a brilliant madman. . . Duration: 28:46 Starring: William Conrad Broadcast Date: 3rd November 1950

X -Minus One - End As A World

October 21, 2021 01:00 - 20 minutes - 4.62 MB

It was Saturday and the headline in the paper, the only thing on the first page, read This Is The Day The World Ends. . . Author: F.L. Wallace Duration: 21:31 Starring: Jack Grimes Broadcast Date: 1st August 1957

Dimension X - The Last Objective

October 20, 2021 21:19 - 24 minutes - 4.28 MB

The war had been going on for generations. Guided atomic missiles ruled the sea and air. Radiation and total destruction drove man under ground and there the war continued. Duration: 23:43 Starring: Norman Rose Broadcast Date: 3rd June 1951

The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe - The Red Wind

October 14, 2021 23:00 - 30 minutes - 6.97 MB

There was a rough desert wind blowing in to Los Angeles that evening, one of those hot dry Santa Ana winds that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair, make your nerves jump and your skin itch. Philip Marlowe closed up his office early and went out to get a beer. There is a drunk in the bar then a guy named Waldo enters looking for a tall good-looking girl in a silk dress and bolero jacket. He finds she isn’t there and as he leaves the drunken guy kills him with a shot from...

I Was A Communist For the FBI - American Kremlin

October 04, 2021 02:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MB

In all these fantastic years fear was Matt Cvetic’s worst enemy. The average man in the normal course of events comes face to face with fear only a few times in his life but he faced the terror of fear almost constantly for nine years as a communist for the FBI. . . Duration: 26:25 Starring: Dana Andrews Broadcast Date: 11th June 1952

(The Starlight Mystery Theater) Matthew Slade, Private Investigator - Who Killed My Pen Pal

September 30, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutes - 5.06 MB

Mathew Slade: Private Investigator was a featured, half-hour mystery presentation by The Pacifica Players of Pacifica Radio of Berkeley, California and the Pacifica Foundation of North Hollywood, California. It premiered as a Starlight Mystery Theater production on July 5, 1964 over Pacifica Radio affiliate stations. Initially announced for alternating Sundays, the program soon began airing in erratic installments from August through November of 1964. Starring William Wintersole as Mathew Sl...

Crime Club - Hearses Don't Hurry

September 26, 2021 23:00 - 28 minutes - 6.62 MB

The city was small and clean and comfortable. Seen from a train window it looked like many another American city but something new had been added to this one that could not be seen from a train window. It was Christopher Chance, young special prosecutor who’s been appointed by the governor to investigate corruption in the office of Anthony Pierce the district attorney. Duration: 28:55 Starring: Sydney Smith, Charlotte Lawrence, Joseph Julian, Helen Shields, Larry Haines Broadcast Date:...

Luke Slaugther of Tombstone - Paige's Progress

September 16, 2021 17:00 - 24 minutes - 5.63 MB

You get used to gunfire in Tombstone, usually you hear a single shot or at most two. One gunslinger goes back to the bar and the other goes to Boot hill but when you hear a whole fusillade of shots in the middle of the afternoon you think of the ok coral and head for cover. But the fury of gunshots that Luke and Wichita heard that afternoon were from a local cowhand Paige Webster and his shots were for happiness as he was going to be married to Selina Cordell. But his happiness didn’t last l...

Escape .... into (or out) of your mind

September 14, 2021 20:00 - 11 hours - 648 MB

Four Went Home Crossing Paris A Bullet For Mr Smith How Love Came to Prof. Guildea Wild Oranges Sundown The Man from Tomorrow Journey Into Fear Ancient Sorceries The Game The Man Who Stole The Bible Casting the Runes A Tooth For Paul Revere The Great Impersonation Evening Primrose Young Man with Cream Tarts The Man Who Would Be King Ambassador of Poker Papa Benjamin Funeral Fires Command Zero Hour An Ordinary Man Figure A Dame Judgement Day At Crippled Deer The Sure ...

Rocky Fortune - Incident In A Bar

September 09, 2021 15:00 - 23 minutes - 5.45 MB

According to the insurance guys, an average joker like Rocky can expect to show up on the census for about 66 years before he shuffles off the old mortal coil. However, a friend of Rocky’s who knows a little about these things, says that in the case of certain unfortunate citizens, these statistics are not valid, and then he precedes to produce a fresh corpse to prove it. Duration: 23:48 Starring: Frank Sinatra Broadcast Date: 9th March 1954

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - PO Matter

September 07, 2021 14:28 - 25 minutes - 4.4 MB

Dan Diamond has apparently resigned from his career of crime and is growing orchids at his home in Long Beach California. But right now he is in New York City and he just happens to have lifted $75,000 from a small but expensive jewellery store. Duration: 23:24 Starring: Bob Bailey Broadcast Date: 14th February 1960

Suspense - Starring Jack Benny

September 05, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 106 MB

A Good And Faithful Servant On the eve of his retirement, a long-time bank employee is locked overnight in the vault by robbers who make off with several thousands, and all of his col[1]leagues are sympathetic towards him for having under[1]gone this terrible experience. Little do they know that there were no robbers; this “good and faithful servant” has taken necessary steps to ensure that he will retire in comfort. Duration: 29:19 Broadcast Date: 2nd June 1952 Murder in G-Flat Hercule...

Hear It Now: ( Episode 20) - McCarthy Recall

September 01, 2021 22:00 - 59 minutes - 13.7 MB

Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time.

The 'S' Block

August 31, 2021 16:00 - 9 hours - 520 MB

Silent Men, The - Souvenirs Of War Secrets of Scotland Yard - Jean Pierre Vaquier The Dapper Frenchman aka Battalier Screen Director Theater - No Time for Love Sexton Blake - No Trees for Peke Story Behind the Song, The - Maryland, My Maryland Swing and Sway Time - First Song - That's My Weakness Now Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis Shirley Temple Time - Mister Ideal Saint, The - Color Blind Murderer Aboard Ship Sam Spade - The Wheel Of Life Caper Six Shooter - Escape From Smoke Fall...

Lord Peter Wimsey - Five Red Herrings

August 06, 2021 22:00 - 3 hours - 217 MB

Lord Peter Wimsey is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1973 and 1983, with a further adaptation of Gaudy Night mounted for BBC Audiobooks in 2005 to complete the full sequence of Sayers' novels, all starring Ian Carmichael in the title role. .... This is by far my favorite of the series .... I highly recommend you go to this website to read more about this most interesting stories. h...

Inheritance - Their Rights and Nothing Else

August 06, 2021 01:00 - 29 minutes - 6.79 MB

Inheritance was a joint production of the National Broadcasting Company and The American Legion and it's Auxliary. The timing of the production is significant. This was the height of the 'Red Scare' era, during which The American Legion of the era-- with the assistance of several powerful right wing Conservative senators and congressmen--orchestrated the notoriously infamous 'Red Channels' pamphlet which purported to 'out' alleged communist sympathizers in the name of 'national security.' Th...

The Six Shooter - Hiram’s Gold strike

August 04, 2021 17:00 - 28 minutes - 6.46 MB

Britt Ponsett’s horse Scar Seemed pretty to clear the eight miles of prairie between the hills and Clay City. It was over six months since their last visit to Clay City and surely Scar couldn’t be remembering the filly form the livery, but something sure was spurring him on. . . Duration: 28:14 Starring: James Stewart Broadcast Date: 10th January 1954

You Are There - The Monitor and the Merrimac

August 04, 2021 00:00 - 28 minutes - 6.63 MB

“You Are There” is the best radio dramatization I have ever heard. Each show begins with “live” background coverage of the historical event, and then the “on the scene reporters” take over. Everybody knows there were no radio announcers onboard the Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria, (or from Ancient Greece, Medieval France, or the Battle of Gettysburg either!) but you will be transported back in time anyway as the show “broadcasts” from the ships, the shore, and from Spain. The dialogue is very be...

Escape - Classified Secret

August 02, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 4.85 MB

You are traveling east on a cross-country bus and among your fellow passengers seemingly innocent and friendly are a man and a woman who plan to destroy you and a hundred and fifty million of your countrymen. Now Escape brings you Anthony Ellis’s exciting story - Classified Secret. Duration: 28:52 Broadcast Date: 12th April 1953

Let George Do It - The Eight Ball

August 01, 2021 16:00 - 30 minutes - 7.03 MB

Three men want George Valentine to find out who’s been using the little town of Summer Springs as collection headquarters for city rackets. They want him to do it before the federal grand jury moves in. George Valentine thinks this might be an interesting case if he would ever get to work on it. The trouble is getting out from behind the eight ball because as matters stand he is wanted by the police for murdering himself. . . Duration: 30:30 Starring: Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, William ...

Sherlock Holmes - The Great Gandolf

July 28, 2021 18:00 - 28 minutes - 6.62 MB

It is June 1912, The Great Gandolfo and his assistant Miss Florine Le Suer are playing at the Devonshire Theater in Eastbourne. At the same time a spy is operating which is causing some concern to the British Government. Holmes and Watson feel they may have solved the mystery, when suddenly the suspect gets murdered. Duration: 28:55 Starring: Basil Rathbone Broadcast Date: 22nd October 1945

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