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Campbell Playhouse - Craig's Wife

July 18, 2021 18:00 - 44 minutes - 10.1 MB

This is a story of 24 hours in the life of a husband and wife and is as fresh and vital and true as when it was first played on Broadway and got the Pulitzer Prize. Fay Bainter was scheduled to play the wife but unfortunately was cut down with the flu so Ann Harding takes the lead part. When the Craig’s neighbors are found murdered Mr Craig becomes a murder suspect. Mrs Craig is more concerned with her house and material possessions than her husband and her gold digging ways become her downf...

Michael Shayne Private Detective - The Gray Eyed Blonde

July 17, 2021 01:00 - 27 minutes - 4.67 MB

“I eased in to the alley and waited. Pretty soon a side door opened and out came Helen. Just as I got to her I heard a noise behind me. I started to turn around but too late, a king sized comet exploded over my right ear and the ground came up and hit me in the face. . . ” Duration: 26:29 Starring: Wally Maher Broadcast Date: 1946

Lone Ranger - Boots And A Bloodhound

July 14, 2021 19:00 - 25 minutes - 5.74 MB

Hobb Wilson and his actors have been in Gunside for two days now, arranging to stage Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the local Opera House. Hobb and an actor named Eddie Clyde are also planning to rob the bank. A second floor store room in the Opera House overlooks the flat roof of the one storey bank. By climbing out of the Opera House window, Eddie can walk across the roof of the General Store to the freshly tarred roof of the bank. . . Duration: 25:34 Starring: Brace Beemer Broadcast Date: 10t...

Rouge's Gallery - Latin Type

July 12, 2021 20:00 - 24 minutes - 5.66 MB

ichard Rogue is travelling on the train in a compartment with Betty a friend and journalist to the Charlie Miller trial when a Latin type woman enters his compartment and says that there is a man on the train that has designs on her life. When the man knocks on the door the woman asks Rogue to look after her briefcase before leaving the compartment. The man comes back and whacks Betty and Rogue knocking them out before jumping from the train with the briefcase. However he has taken the wrong...

Black Museum - Champagne Glass

July 10, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutes - 5.79 MB

The Black Museum; here in the grim stone structure on the Thames, which houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide where everyday objects, a mans neck tie, a woman’s glove, a boys school cap all are touched by murder. Here’s a champagne glass a long slim stem it’s a familiar object that belongs to New Years Eve, to weddings to anniversaries. Funny how human beings can take an article meant for happiness and use it for tragedy, which is why that champagne glass can be found in the Black...

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - Morning After Matter

July 09, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 5.59 MB

After more than his share of tough cases during a long hard winter Johnny Dollar felt he deserved a few days of relaxation fishing. However, when a case turns up to find Mrs Brownburgs missing husband Dollar takes it. Duration: 32:46 Starring: Bob Readick Broadcast Date: 5th March 1961

Sealtest Village Store - Joan Davis, Jack Haley

July 09, 2021 10:21 - 29 minutes - 6.83 MB

The "Sealtest Village Store" was a followup to the "Rudy Vallee Show" and premiered in 1943 with Joan Davis in the lead and Jack Haley taking over from Vallee as the male presence on the show. Davis carried the show so well, that she went on to her own solo series in mid-1945, leaving Haley to mind the store until he left in 1947. Then cast member Eve Arden took over the hosting duties for a few months when she was joined by Jack Carson. They both departed the series in 1948 with Arden getti...

Cavalcade of America - Anne Sullivan Macy

July 09, 2021 03:00 - 30 minutes - 6.95 MB

The story of a woman who went down in to darkness as she might bring another in to light Ann Sullivan Macy takes ranks among the foremost educators for her work with the labor of love and she found her reward in aiding her beloved pupil Helen Keller who knew her only as teacher. Duration: 30:19 Broadcast Date: 2nd March 1938

Michael Shayne Private Detective - The Hate That Killed

July 09, 2021 01:00 - 27 minutes - 4.76 MB

“That fourth bullet tore through the flesh of my left shoulder. There was nothing between him and me now except a tree. I stood there waiting, there were two more shots left in the gun. I caught the glint of the barrel in the moonlight and then the grand daddy of all fire crackers blew up in my face. . . ” Duration: 26:33 Starring: Jeff Chandler Broadcast Date: 27th August 1949

Sherlock Holmes - The Harley Street Murders

July 08, 2021 17:35 - 29 minutes - 6.74 MB

Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes are on their way to visit Dr Ingleby when they come across a murder scene. The well-dressed man has been stabbed to death and identified as Dr Marsden and appears not to have been robbed. There is no apparent motive and no clues but when they meet with Dr Ingleby and another Doctor, Dr David McKenna Sherlock uncovers a possible connection. Duration: 29:04 Starring: Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway Broadcast Date: 19th May 1947

Happy Fourth of July - 2021

July 04, 2021 19:00 - 6 hours - 368 MB

Lum and Abner – Fourth of July picnic The Connie Boswell Show – Fourth of July picnic The Great Gildersleeve – Fourth of July Speech Yankee Yams – Fourth of July In The Name of The Law – Fourth of July picnic Heartbeat Theater – Fourth of July Reunion Anthology – Special 4th of July edition Quiz Kids – Most Appropriate Hairdo for July 4th Life with Luigi – The 4th of July parade Jean Shepard – The July 4th Weekend Democracy in Action – 4th of July in Albany Red Skelton – 4th of Ju...

Pat Novak For Hire - The Geranium Plant

July 01, 2021 16:20 - 28 minutes - 6.5 MB

Pat Nokak was approached by a woman in a bar who gave him $50 to go to a flower stand tomorrow at two o’clock and collect a geranium and deliver it to an address. She told him nothing more and said that would be the last time he saw her. He collected the flower but on his way to the address someone tried to run him down in their car. Duration: 29:04 Starring: Jack Webb Broadcast Date: 14th May 1949

Suspense - Betrayal In Vienna

June 23, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes - 5.06 MB

Betrayal In Vienna is a story taken from life. It is a true story of a man who destroyed an empire one of the most dramatic spy stories ever told. Duration: 29:50 Starring: Herbert Marshall, Ben Wright, Joseph Kearns, Bill Johnstone, Herb Butterfield, Charles Davis, Byron Kane, John Stevenson Broadcast Date: 8th October 1951

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Wrong Doctor Matter

June 23, 2021 03:00 - 24 minutes - 5.51 MB

Jackson from the Tri-Western Life Insurance Company calls insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. One of his clients is mixed up in a narcotics incident and Jackson wants Johnny Dollar to help him before it is too late. Duration: 24:02 Starring: Mandel Kramer, Ralph Camargo, Robert Dryden, Lawson Zerbe Broadcast Date: 13th August 1961

Rip Lawson Adventurer - Meets the Dahi Lama

June 22, 2021 23:00 - 12 minutes - 2.97 MB

Rip and Big Mike arrive in Lhasa for an interview with the Dalai Lama. The holy one asks the adventurers to investigate a botanical gardens that shouldn't even exist! What is the secret behind the mysterious steam heated cave in the Himalayas? Postwar. Duration: 12:58

The Hermits Crave - The Nameless Day

June 21, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutes - 5.15 MB

Harden Wilgen and Stanley Creighton had invented a unit to cool the motor engine of a car that would make them millionaires. But Harden Wilgen had no intention of sharing any of the money with Creighton. Once Wilgen was sure the invention was perfect he poisoned Creighton and disposed of his body in the river after first being sure there was no way of identifying the body. Duration: 24:29 Starring: Mel Johnson Broadcast Date: 1940

The Shadow - The Society Of The Living Dead

June 21, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutes - 7.28 MB

r. and Mrs. Smith are being held in the Holly Military prison as spies. They are believed not to be American citizens. There is an immigration and identification racket going on. It all seems to tie in with a case that the Shadow is studying. Duration: 28:19 Starring: Orson Welles Broadcast Date: 23rd January 1938

Casey, Crime Photographer - Cupid Is a Killer

June 20, 2021 01:00 - 28 minutes - 4.93 MB

A man was shot from outside by a bullet, which came in through the window. The killer was across the street in a parked car with a high-powered rifle. There had been another two auto killings with the same MO recently and the police suspected Bat McCoy but Casey wondered why he would want to kill his piano player. It seems that his piano player had married a woman that McCoy had a crush on. Casey and his girlfriend reporter, Ann Williams attend the funeral to see what they can discover. Wr...

The Green Hornet - Exposed

June 19, 2021 17:00 - 23 minutes - 5.33 MB

Sergeant Burke drove slowly through the city streets dividing his attention between the traffic and the attractive girl who sat at his side. His pal Michael Oxford was also in the front seat of the police car. Linda Travis had been a reporter for less than a week. She had gotten her job on merit no one suspected she had come from the west expressly top work for the Daily Sentinel so she could give regular reports to Britt Reid’s father telling him how Britt conducted him how Brit Reid conduc...

Suspense - The Flame Blue Glove

June 19, 2021 03:00 - 30 minutes - 7.07 MB

dow never liked Dutch or working for his detective agency. She’d done her final case and thought she was through with Dutch when she married Jimmy Conway but then one day Dutch turned up wanting her to work on a case for him, a closed case that had been nagging him as he still felt that it was murder. A case that Shadow had done the groundwork for, the Conway case! Dutch was convinced that Shadow’s husband had killed his first wife but Shadow was sure that he was clean and decent. Duration...

Inner Sanctum Mystery - Murder Comes at Midnight

June 16, 2021 17:00 - 25 minutes - 5.77 MB

This is the story of how one average family even as yours and mine spent a quiet night at their rented country house a night of terror. The Cummings were just an average family Harry was just 29 and worked as a sound engineer for a broadcasting studio in the city. Ethel was 27 and had been a schoolteacher before she was married. Now she was kept pretty busy between writing the great American novel and taking care of Judy, their 7 year old daughter. This was the first year they had rented a h...

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Silver Blue Matter

June 09, 2021 22:04 - 1 hour - 69.2 MB

A bunch of wild kids have broken in to a warehouse and stolen 80 fur coats, silver blue mink. A night watchman has been slugged and lays dying in the hospital and he seems the only hope of a witness in a poor neighbourhood where the residents have closed ranks from fear Starring: Bob Dailey Duration: 1h 14m Broadcast Dates: 7th May - 11th, 1956

Our Miss Brooks - The Grudge Match a.k.a. Walter Vs Stretch Grudge Match

June 04, 2021 16:48 - 29 minutes - 6.67 MB

Walter and Stretch were the best of friends until one night when Walter found out that his best friend had been to the movies with his girlfriend Harriet Conklin. Duration: 29:08 Starring: Eve Arden Broadcast Date: 1st May 1949

Casey, Crime Photographer - King Of The Apes

June 04, 2021 00:37 - 30 minutes - 6.87 MB

Casey and Anne Williams had an assignment at the circus to take some pictures for the Morning Press covering the feature act “King of the Apes” which was six wild orang-utans from Borneo trained by Charles King. When they arrived to interview King after the matinee performance they overheard him arguing with his wife. Duration: 29:15 Starring: Staats Cotsworth Broadcast Date: 1st May 1947

The Roy Rogers Show - Lee Burlough Gang

June 03, 2021 17:00 - 27 minutes - 6.34 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: 27:43 Starring: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans Broadcast Date: 14th March 1952

The Adventures 0f Ozzie and Harriet - Ricky’s Third Prize In School

May 31, 2021 18:00 - 24 minutes - 5.61 MB

t’s no wonder mothers get weary, after getting them up, getting them dressed, getting them fed Harriet gets her little family started on the daily routine. First 10- year-old David slides down the banister followed by 6- year-old Ricky and then Mother her self! When Ricky got third prize in a contest Ozzie and Harriet made quite a fuss of him and didn’t even ask David how he’d made out and now David thinking his mother and father are disappointed in him has disappeared. Duration: 24:37 S...

Suspense - Consequence

May 31, 2021 16:43 - 29 minutes - 6.65 MB

Maybe the costume was the decisive factor or maybe it would have happened anyway. In any event the occasion was the tenth reunion and the class of 29 as such occasions demand were all dressed identically in cowboy suits. There was Ted Wolf whom he hadn’t seen in ten years although in college he’d been by far his closest friend and so of course he brought him home to dinner. Gwen managed to be quite charming even though it was the maid’s night off. She didn’t even kick about the oven and that...

Mercury Theater - My Little Boy

May 30, 2021 20:00 - 52 minutes - 6.03 MB

One of the most popular stories ever broadcast on The Mercury Theatre on The Air. A wonderful tale of a little boy and how he and his father deals with the trials of life. First it is the death of John, his treasured dog. Then it is the value of money. Next comes his first romance and his first fight. Along the way the story touches on everything from religion and the ten commandments through to racism. It’s a tale all parents will enjoy, particularly new parents. Duration: 52:57 Starring...

Bulldog Drummond - Dinner of Death

May 30, 2021 01:00 - 27 minutes - 6.32 MB

ncludes a public notice by Bulldog Drummond on inflation and war bonds. Out of the fog. . . out of the night. . . and into his American adventures. . . comes. . . Bulldog Drummond! Champion of lost causes, amateur detective, the most celebrated soldier of fortune of the screen and radio Bulldog Drummond comes to you with more of his baffling and intriguing mysteries. The story began when two men known as Barnaby Mullans and Spike Saunders were arrested for hijacking trucks. Duration: 27:36...

Lone Ranger - A New Leaf

May 22, 2021 22:00 - 28 minutes - 6.42 MB

Day in and day out Matilda Prindle sat in the rear of her husband’s general store rocking and knitting as Abe waited on their customers. One morning Tonto, the Lone Ranger’s faithful Indian companion entered the little shop. Abe greeted him and Tonto learned that Abe’s wife was blind but could tell what a customer was like just by the sound of his voice. Abe went to get Tonto some sugar when an undesirable character entered the shop to buy some tobacco but learning Mrs Prindle was blind trie...

Escape - Sundown

May 20, 2021 20:00 - 28 minutes - 4.86 MB

Tonight, we escape to the old West and the story of a boy who had never owned anything, but a gun. . . Duration: 28:17 Starring: William Conrad, Paul Frees Broadcast Date: 23rd June 1950

Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator - The Motive for Murder

May 19, 2021 03:00 - 30 minutes - 5.26 MB

Floyd Spencer Junior is due home from Portugal to inherit $40 million. His parents had separated when he was 6 years old and his mother had gone to live in Portugal taking her son who was raised and educated there. Now with both parents dead Floyd was to return from Portugal but Mr. Talbot who had been the families attorney for a very long time wanted to hire Barrie Craig to escort the young Spencer home as he was concerned about recent incidents upon his life in Portugal. The only other mem...

The Man Called X - A Man, A Girl & A Plot

May 15, 2021 21:07 - 20 minutes - 4.72 MB

cting for Mr X Jim Kendall is in Hong Kong attempting to break up the illegal traffic in American medicinal supplies being smuggled in to Red China. A Chinese pharmaceutical firm, The House of Lee is apparently involved but then the owner Sammy Lee turns up murdered. Duration: 20:31 Starring: Van Heflin Broadcast Date: 25th May 1951

Crime Club - Death Swims At Midnight

May 14, 2021 19:00 - 29 minutes - 6.69 MB

Death Swims At Midnight is the very exciting story of a singular beach where the tide goes out and murder comes in. . . Duration: 29:12 Starring: Arthur Vinton, Elspeth Eric, Murray Forbes Broadcast Date: 28th August 1947

Lux Radio Theater - Come And Get It

May 13, 2021 18:01 - 59 minutes - 13.6 MB

Come And Get It stars Edward Arnold in the lead role as Barney Glasgow the same role he played in Samuel Goldwyn’s 1936 screen production. Other stars include Miss Anne Shirley as Lotta and Lew Ayres as Bernie. Also from the original 1936 movie are, Walter Brennan as Swan, Mary Nash as Emmie and Mady Christians as Swan’s sister, Karie. It is 1880 lumberman Barney Glasgow leaves his true love, saloon singer Lotta Morgan, to marry Emmie Hewitt, his boss’s daughter. His buddy Swan marries Lotta...

Nick Carter Master Detective - Body On The Slab

May 12, 2021 03:00 - 29 minutes - 6.76 MB

Vernon Wallis was missing and was last seen on a night out with his friend Mr Burnett. He and Burnett had ended up in a run down gambling house run by a one legged soldier called Bill. Burnett told Nick Carter that Vernon had got into a card game with Bill and no matter what Bill did Vernon won. Burnett was afraid for him in a dive like that but Vernon told him to leave, which he did, but Vernon never arrived home. Mrs Wallis afraid for her husband asked Nick Carter to investigate and as he ...

CBS Radio Workshop - 1489 Words

May 08, 2021 16:00 - 24 minutes - 5.68 MB

They say one picture is worth 10 thousand words well here as narrated by William Conrad CBS bring you 1489 words which are worth innumerable pictures. Exactly how many only you can tell for it is the magic of your imagination that will paint them. Duration: 26:55 Music by: Jerry Goldsmith Starring: William Conrad Broadcast Date: 10th February 1957

Box 13 - 113-5

May 08, 2021 15:00 - 26 minutes - 4.53 MB

“Two days ago I saw your ad in the Star Times. I want you to do something for me, find someone who I know is in this city. You see I think the man I want you to help me locate will be killed unless I find him first.” Dan Holliday took on the job from Dorothy Simmons but when the case was over he wished the mail carrier had taken a detour somewhere on his appointed rounds. Duration: 26:17 Starring: Alan Ladd Broadcast Date: 20th March 1949

The Thin Man - Plunger And Joan Winslow

May 07, 2021 21:00 - 21 minutes - 4.9 MB

In the apartment of Joan Winslow an attractive young thing just out of bobby socks Plunger Belson a husky young boozer just out of football socks is talking to someone on the telephone. When he puts the phone down he tells Joni that he is going out to kill the man he has just been talking to. . . Duration: 21:23 Starring: Claudia Morgan, David Gothard Broadcast Date: 1st December 1944

Radio City Playhouse - Level Crossing

May 07, 2021 16:00 - 28 minutes - 6.59 MB

Bradley Lane had stolen $4000 from his employers and let someone else take the blame but John Dunn found out and for the past few years had been blackmailing him. When the stakes became higher Lane had the idea to kill Dunn but something stopped him at the last minute. . . Duration: 28:47 Starring: David Gothard Broadcast Date: 8th August 1949

The Cisco Kid - Saga of Sundown Kelly

May 07, 2021 03:00 - 26 minutes - 6.03 MB

Soon after striking it rich, Sundown knocks Cisco down. Sundown is as Irish as Paddy's pig, and a bullet will never keep Sundown Kelly from a fight! Duration: 26:20

A Life In Your Hands - The Kalare Temple

May 05, 2021 18:00 - 29 minutes - 6.83 MB

Dr Albany’s discovery of Kalare temple would at last prove his theory that the Mayan people came from the Orient through what we now know as Alaska down the Pacific coast into Mexico and Yucatan. He was planning on an expedition to the Kalare temple to recover the golden treasure. Who knocked on the door, was there a struggle, where was the map? Duration: 29:50 Starring: Carlton KaDell Broadcast Date: 21st August 1952

The Aldrich Family - The Great Weiner Roast

May 05, 2021 01:00 - 25 minutes - 5.86 MB

In the fall of the year most drawing things shed their foliage and settle down to rest for the winter but an impulsive teenage boy never rests. In the case of Henry Aldrich the fall air merely increases his normal speed. The scene opens in the Centreville butchers shop on Main Street. It is early afternoon. . . Duration: 25:31 Starring: Ezra Stone Broadcast Date: 14th October 1948

Macabre - The House in the Garden

May 03, 2021 03:00 - 26 minutes - 6 MB

A rich duke makes a wager with a rival to split his fortune if the man can remain locked in isolation within a prison house for ten years straight. Duration: 26:12 Broadcast Airdate: December 4, 1961

Gunsmoke - Hack Prine

April 28, 2021 18:00 - 29 minutes - 8.55 MB

It was a long ride from Dodge up to Ponka Creek in the Dakota Territory and Matt Dillon killed a good horse getting there but he caught Lee Trombow. He was asleep in a lump of willow and he took him without a fight. Trumbow was wanted for murdering a man but his brother Dolph was determined to get him free without a trial and hires a gunman to kill Dillon. Duration: 29:25 Starring: William Conrad, Harry Bartell Broadcast Date: 5th July 1954

Richard Diamond Private Detective - The George Lexington Murder

April 28, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 6.66 MB

George Lexington was in fear of his life and requested that Richard Diamond call to his house to see him at six o’clock on the dot. When Diamond arrives he finds a girl standing in the middle of Lexington’s room holding a shotgun and Lexington slumped over his desk. The girl does not deny shooting Lexington but who also took the trouble of stabbing him with a carving knife in his back? Duration: 29:13 Announcer: Bill Forman Starring: Dick Powell, Ted de Corsia, Wilms Herbert, Ted Osbor...

Escape - Command

April 27, 2021 20:29 - 28 minutes - 4.96 MB

Escape to the prairie west of the Platt River and to the Indian fighting US cavalry of the old west as James Warner-Bella describes it in this exciting tale. Duration: 28.51 Starring: William Conrad, Paul Frees Broadcast Date: 6th December 1949

2000 Plus - When the Machines Went Mad

April 26, 2021 18:00 - 21 minutes - 4.96 MB

It seems Morten’s experiments for the master mechanical brain are succeeding. He has been working to produce electronic men that can produce other electronic men and the master electronic brain could control the electronic men absolutely. Duration: 21:46 Broadcast Date: 26th April 1950

Destination Freedom - Birth Of The Urban League

April 26, 2021 16:00 - 30 minutes - 6.9 MB

Before the beginning of World War I there was started a mass migration within the United States that was destined to involve 2 million souls. It was a shift of 2 million Negro citizens from southern regions to northern cities and it radically altered the social and economic course of the country. In a chapter entitled The Birth of a League Destination Freedom tells the story of the greatest internal migration in American history and the story of the League that was organized as a result of i...

Gunsmoke - The Kentucky Tolmans

April 24, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 8.52 MB

Hannah Tolman is concerned that her father is going to get himself killed and wants Marshall Dillon to save his skin by placing him in jail. Jed won’t tell Dillon who is trying to kill him but he has an idea it could have something to do with Vic Tolman, his own son who is wanted for robbery and murder who just got out of jail last week. Duration: 29:18 Starring: William Conrad Broadcast Date: 9th August 1952

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