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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Episodes
Dimension X - Time And Time Again
April 22, 2021 19:00 - 29 minutes - 5.01 MBt happened during a routine skirmish in the great war. Patrols advanced from the defense perimeter under jet cover and preceded by napalm throwers. The enemy defended in depth, and mopped up with guided 98’s, fired from 40 miles to the rear. The blast area was 10 miles in circumference, and the medics didn’t find much to pick up over 500 yards in. . . Duration: 29:13 Starring: Norman Rose Broadcast Date: 12th July 1951
The Saint - The What-Not What Got Hot
April 22, 2021 18:00 - 28 minutes - 6.5 MBimon Templar arrives home a night out to find a removal van outside his house and the furniture they’re loading looks familiar. When he entered his office he discovered the reason why, it was his desk. So why did someone want to steal his furniture? Duration: 28:24 Starring: Vincent Price Broadcast Date: 4th March 1951
Avengers - Tunnel of Disaster
April 21, 2021 18:00 - 30 minutes - 6.87 MBSeveral thousand people are gathered for the opening of the new Riverford tunnel, which cuts through South Mountain. It had eventually cost twice as much money as was planned for it as the engineers ran in to all kinds of trouble and advised the council more than once to abandon the idea. But now the tunnel is finished it will be well worth it relieving traffic congestion and making it easier to get into the city on the South side. The tunnel commissioner, Jonas Anderson drove set off to dri...
I Was A Communist For the FBI - The Dangerous Dollars
April 20, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutes - 6.34 MBMatt Cvetic was assigned to the communist finance committee in charge of collections for the district and he watched the figures mount up on comrade Nora’s adding machine. It was big money from reds and just plain suckers; dues paid monthly or as often as could be sucked out of so called voluntary donors. It was Cvetic’s job to make sure the FBI knew where the money came from and where it went. . . Duration: 27:13 Starring: Dana Andrews Broadcast Date: 9th July 1952
The Aldrich Family - Man Or Mouse
April 20, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 4.98 MBHenry has decided that he needs a course in physical development and after filling out the rather intimate questions on the application blank he discovers that he has left the blank in a book belonging to Nancy Adams. . . Duration: 29:01 Starring: Ezra Stone Broadcast Date: 28th September 1952
The Shadow - Gun Island
April 19, 2021 19:00 - 29 minutes - 6.79 MBCaptain Joe and his crew on board his ship in the Caribbean Sea are planning an ambush. When the right boat comes along Enricho must light oil on the bow and in the hold so they think the boat is on fire and send up a distress signal then when the ship comes to help they will take the ship. However the ship they intend to take has Lamont Cranston – The Shadow - and his friend Margo Lane on board. . . Duration: 29:40 Starring: Bill Johnstone Broadcast Date: 23rd October 1938
First Nighter - There's Something In the Air
April 18, 2021 16:00 - 30 minutes - 7.06 MBWritten by Anthony Wain Something In The Air is a farce which promises a half hour of hilarious entertainment. Olan Soule and Barbara Luddy head the all-star cast. Mr Soule plays Ted Brisedale a man who’s sure of his girl but not sure of his mother’s blessing and Miss Luddy takes the part of Anne Brown Ted’s fiancee the ´ girl in question. Also in the cast Parley Baer as Homer and Luis Van Rooten as Mr Brown. Duration: 30:50 Starring: Barbara Luddy, Olan Soule Broadcast Date: 11th Marc...
The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe - The Feminine Touch
April 17, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 5.01 MBAn iron skull was their trademark, their business was climbing walls and it was all done on wheels at 70 miles an hour but that was a cinch for the death cheaters until they felt murder and a feminine touch. . . Duration: 29:10 Starring: Gerald Mohr Broadcast Date: 7th May 1949
Dragnet - The Big Bomb
April 16, 2021 19:00 - 26 minutes - 4.55 MBThis true story concerns the heart of a great city. It took fifty-eight minutes to resolve the question of its safety or its total destruction. This is the story of those fiftyeight minutes; only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Duration: 25:27 Starring: Jack Webb Broadcast Date: 13th July 1950
Richard Diamond Private Detective - Max Farmer Boxer
April 16, 2021 18:00 - 29 minutes - 6.66 MBFrank Bowers has a half interest in a gym and invites Richard Diamond to a fight tonight to watch his boy Max Farmer box against Lou Scott a bum from upstate. Max Farmer is favorite to win so it is a surprise to Frank when Farmer loses and he is convinced it was a fix and asks Richard Diamond to investigate. It is more of a surprise to Diamond when Frank Bowers seemingly commits suicide. Duration: 28:007 Starring: Dick Powell, Virginia Gregg, Ted de Corsia, Wilms Herbert, Wally Maher, Ho...
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Who is George Williams?
April 15, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes - 9.5 MBWhile playing chess during a blinding blizzard, Anchorage's police chief, George Teller, and his friend Dr. William Bertram hear a cry for help. They find a man in a snowdrift who doesn't know who he is or how he got there. They name him George Williams, and Teller gives him a job. He soon becomes an excellent policeman, but still cannot remember his real name - until he is sent to help the Juneau police unravel the mystery of a human skeleton found in a deep well. Duration: 41:42 Cr...
Gunsmoke - Going Bad
April 13, 2021 19:00 - 25 minutes - 7.19 MBA skinner was brought in to town with fatal injuries from apparently spilling hot lead on himself. Marshall Matt Dillon was suspicious of the skinner’s boss Gatliff following his couldn’t care less attitude. Duration: 21:115 Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Tom Tully, Richard Beals, John Dehner Broadcast Date: 19th June 1954
Jeff Regan, Investigator - Lady Who Wanted To Live
April 13, 2021 18:00 - 29 minutes - 6.77 MBAmy Goodridge was a nightclub singer and needed to hire Jeff Regan to protect her. Two years ago she worked as a singer for Tim Connover at the Diamond Club and he was interested in her but she turned him down. Now he was casing the cub that she currently worked at and Amy was worried that he intended to hurt her. Duration: 29:34 Starring: Frank Graham, Frank Nelson Broadcast Date: 26th October 1949
Nightbeat - Harlan Matthews Stamp Dealer
April 12, 2021 22:00 - 49 minutes - 5.67 MBRandy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star. Stories begin in many different ways. This one began and ended with a confession . . . a confession to the crime of murder. Duration: 28:25 Starring: Frank Lovejoy Broadcast Date: 29th May 1950
The Saint - The Color Blind Killer
April 07, 2021 18:05 - 24 minutes - 5.5 MBThe Saint meets up with Barbara, a famous movie actress. She’s very nervous and is thinking of giving up acting. Something has scared her, but she won’t say what. The Saint walks over to get her shawl from one of the deck benches, as he turns, he is horrified to see somebody pushing Barbara over the railings, into the icy water below. . . Duration: 24:01 Starring: Vincent Price Broadcast Date: 18th September 1949
Gunsmoke - Kitty
April 07, 2021 15:43 - 30 minutes - 8.77 MBMatt called early to the saloon to see Kitty. There was a party the following night a dance to benefit the new school and Matt plucked up courage to ask Kitty to go with him but she turned him down. Kitty was concerned at what the “ladies” would think him taking a hostess from the saloon but Matt was not going to take no for an answer. Duration: 28:17 Starring: William Conrad Broadcast Date: 29th November 1952
Richard Diamond Private Detective - White Cow Case
April 07, 2021 15:27 - 29 minutes - 6.77 MBArthur Stevens was prepared to pay Richard Diamond $500 for a quick trip to Florida. That was easy enough but Loucious Timken was going to make it tough. Stevens wanted Diamond to deliver a very rare European art object worth a considerable fortune and Loucious Timpken would try to stop him by killing him if necessary. Duration: 29:42 Starring: Dick Powell, Virginia Gregg, Sidney Miller, Ted de Corsia, Tony Barrett, Alan Reed, Herb Butterfield Broadcast Date: 11th January 1952
Phil Harris and Alice Fay Show - Frankie and Easter Dinner
April 05, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutes - 6.75 MBThe Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, was a comedy radio program which ran on NBC from 1948 to 1954 starring Alice Faye and Phil Harris. Harris had previously become known to radio audiences as the band-leader-turned-cast-member of the same name on The Jack Benny Program while Faye had been a frequent guest on programs such as Rudy Vallée's variety shows. After becoming the breakout stars of the music and comedy variety program The Fitch Bandwagon, the show was retooled into a full situation come...
Our Miss Brooks - Easter Egg Dye
April 04, 2021 20:00 - 29 minutes - 6.84 MBWell, many of us like to share Easter breakfast with our friends. Our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School looked forward all week to sharing hers with several of the students and some of the faculty, some of the faculty being Biology teacher Mr Boynton. . . Duration: 30:08 Starring: Eve Arden Broadcast Date: 9th April 1950
Quiz Kids - Why Does The Easter Rabbit Always Have A Shiny Nose
April 04, 2021 18:00 - 29 minutes - 6.82 MBThe Quiz Kids was TV game show that began on NBC during the earliest days of television in 1949. Host Joe Kelly would pose difficult questions to five teenager with exceptional IQs and academic records. The top three contestants would continue to the next week, where they would be joined by two new teens. All of the contestants were under 16 years of age. "Quiz Kids" began as a radio program in 1940. After the first TV version went off the air in 1953, later versions include a 1956 Quiz Kids...
Worlds Greatest Stories - The Real Story of Easter from John18-20
April 04, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 5.03 MBHappy Easter.
Baby Snooks - Easter Bonnet
April 04, 2021 14:00 - 28 minutes - 6.62 MBnd now to Sycamore Terrace and the Higgins family. . . Easter is almost here and with it the new outfits for that stroll down the avenue on Easter Sunday, but Easter finery costs money and money is what poor daddy Higgins is always without. Having been victorious with mommy who wanted a anew Easter outfit he’s just started a second one with Snooks. . . Duration: 28:49 Starring: Fanny Brice, Hanley Stafford Broadcast Date: Not known
Life with Luigi - April Fools Joke
April 01, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 6.82 MBPasquale plays what starts out to be an April Fools day joke on Luigi but fails to tell him it was a joke in the hope that his April fool will turn Rosa in to a June bride! Duration: 29:48 Starring: J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed Broadcast Date: 1st April 1952
Our Miss Brooks - April Fools
April 01, 2021 17:00 - 28 minutes - 6.61 MBOur Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School is has always tried to get along with her fellow faculty members regardless of whether they are male or female. There’s one thing that they all have in common they are all under paid. But as she points’s out when the male doesn’t have enough money to go to the movies at least he can stay at home and look at his Esquire calendar! Miss Brooks has overcome that advantage to some slight extent by making her own calendar using 12 snap sho...
Red Skelton Show - April Fools Day
April 01, 2021 16:00 - 28 minutes - 6.53 MBThe jokes take on a nautical feel, when Red Skelton talks about sailors, ships, and storms. Phil Davis plays, Begin the Beguine. Red talks about his new suit. When the phone rings, he gets a gig at the policeman’s ball. Is he as big of a shot as his secretary, Edna Stillwell? Should he take the tickets to see the big fight, or stick to his public speaking class? The instructor in proper diction could use some lessons themself. Janette sings, I never Knew. At the policeman’s ball, Red and E...
Mel Blanc Show - April Fools
April 01, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes - 5.4 MBMel plays an April Fool's Day joke on Mr. Colby by telling him that he's inherited a fortune from England. -- Notes -- Mel Blanc is best known as the voice of the Looney Tunes characters, especially Bugs Bunny, but this "Man of a Thousand Voices" was a hit on radio, not just in his own show but with Jack Benny and many others.
Comic Weekly Man - April Fools, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy
April 01, 2021 15:00 - 28 minutes - 6.53 MBThe Comic Weekly Man Based on what is published in the weekly paper, The Comic Weekly Man entertains us with a dramatized reading of the Sunday comics, complete with sound effects and music. Young and old alike would follow along with the print copy in hand.
Major Bowes Amateur Hour - First Guest - Harlem Roust-a-Bouts
April 01, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 14 MB--- Notes --- Major Bowes Amateur Hour - Wikipedia About Major Bowes - Major Bowes and the Original Amateur Hour - Research Guides at Library of Congress (loc.gov) Celebrity Performers - Major Bowes and the Original Amateur Hour - Research Guides at Library of Congress (loc.gov) Major Bowes and His Amateur Hour – (Travalanche) (wordpress.com)
Quiet Please - Adam And The Darkest Day
March 26, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes - 6.68 MBAdam had grown up in Chicago where he used to go for walks along the lake when fish used to swim in it before the dark days. It’s all swamp now and mutant stock lives in it now. Adam was about twenty when the war started and Chicago was pretty well destroyed and it wasn’t safe to be in the street. Adam stumbled upon a big warehouse, which looked like a fine big safe place and moved in. Then on the second day someone dropped an atom bomb and the whole of Chicago was blown up except this big s...
Sherlock Holmes - Guileless Gypsy
March 19, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 6.51 MBBragston on the Marsh in the heart of the Norfolk Fens, is the scene at the beginning of this tale. Holmes is looking for a vital clue which he hopes will help convict the last of the Moriarty Gang. Whilst there, they visit a gypsy fair and a chance meeting brings them into contact with Arthur Threadgold and his wife Olive who live at the Manor House. He tells Holmes that the gypsies have threatened that they will kidnap his nephew, heir to the Threadgold fortune. . . Duration: 28:26 Sta...
I Deal in Crime - Abigail Murray Case
March 11, 2021 18:00 - 29 minutes - 6.68 MBAbigail Murray receives a threatening letter telling her she should have stayed in Milwaukee but now it is too late for tonight she is going to die. Duration: 28:00 Starring: William Gargan Broadcast Date: 27th September 1947
The Great Gildersleeve - Aunt Hattie Stays On
March 08, 2021 19:00 - 29 minutes - 6.64 MBGildersleeve appears to be in fine spirits this morning and a pretty fair voice. What’s come over him? He’s up before daylight and in his bathroom shaving, yes believe it or not the clock stands at ten to seven and the kids have noticed he’s not as gruesome as usual and the reason? Aunt Hattie has decided that her job here his done and she is finally leaving. Duration: 29:00 Starring: Harold Peary Broadcast Date: 18th February 1945
My Favorite Husband - Baby Booties
March 06, 2021 22:00 - 30 minutes - 6.88 MBIt is morning at the Cougat’s house and Katy the maid has gone out to the mailbox to see if the postman has left any adds or blotters and Liz is cooking breakfast and George is still upstairs dressing. . . Duration: 29:53 Starring: Lucille Ball, Richard Denning Broadcast Date: 24th September 1948
Gunsmoke - Boughten Bride
March 04, 2021 18:00 - 30 minutes - 8.64 MBIt had been a long time since they’d had any real trouble and Matt Dillon, United States Marshall liked it peaceful for a change and hoped it would stay that way. But of course it doesn’t. The stage that was due in was carrying fifty thousand dollars in gold when it was held up and Mr. Carter’s fiance was kidnapped. However ´ the stage rider said it didn’t much look like she was kidnapped, more like she went along willingly. Duration: 29:38 Starring: William Conrad Broadcast Date: 12th...
Academy Award Ceremony 1947
February 28, 2021 23:00 - 2 hours - 37.1 MBThe 19th edition of the Academy Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) was held on March 13, 1947 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, United States, awarding the best films of the year 1946. The ceremony was presented by Jack Benny. The movie with the most nominations at the Academy Awards 1947 was The Best Years of Our Lives with 8 nominations and The film that won the most awards was The Best Years of Our Lives, winning 7 of the 8 nominations.
NBC University Theater - 1984
February 28, 2021 20:00 - 56 minutes - 12.9 MBHerewith a disturbing broadcast, a dramatization by Milton Wain, George Orwell’s 1984. In his 1949 widely discussed novel Orwell has projected the totalitarian techniques abroad in the world to their terrible extreme. The plight of the individual in this world are left to you to assess for yourself as you listen to the story of Mr Winston Smith played by the internationally known British actor David Niven. Duration: 54:15 Starring: David Niven Broadcast Date: 27th August 1949
Richard Diamond Private Detective - The Blue Serge Suit
February 18, 2021 19:00 - 30 minutes - 5.16 MBDavid Barr calls upon Diamond to discuss a business arrangement. He wants him to guard his store, a most fashionable haberdashery that had been vandalized two nights ago. The only item missing was 1 blue serge suit then last night the store was broken in to again and the whole stock of blue serge material was taken but leaving two other suits and a grey flannel suit untouched. Barr wants Diamond to solve the mystery of this unusual robbery. Duration: 29:18 Starring: Dick Powell Broadca...
Michael Shayne Private Detective - Case of the Judge Shot Motive Revenge
February 16, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes - 5.04 MBMichael Shayne has received a letter requesting him to appear at Judge Forman’s house that night at seven o’clock. Shayne does not yet know why and before he arrives Judge Forman has seemingly committed suicide because of the threats he was receiving on his life. Duration: 29:22 Starring: Wally Maher, Cathy Lewis Broadcast Date: 14th October 1947
The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe - Heir For G-String
February 14, 2021 20:00 - 29 minutes - 8.4 MB“Get this and get it straight, crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave. There’s no other end, but they never learn. This time the main theme was Main Street and the counter melody was full of sharps from a burlesque house in flats from Skid Row. It was wine, women and murder. . . ” Duration: 29:22 Starring: Gerald Mohr, Jack Moyles, Michael Ann Barrett, John Stevenson, Sidney Miller, Norman Field, Jack Kruschen Broadcast Date: 25th...
February 1st, 2021
February 01, 2021 20:00 - 23 hours - 1.28 GBSun Up Serenade - Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon Tales from the Diamond K - Horse Named Gunpowder 10-2-4 Ranch – First Song: Song of the Bandit Red Skelton - Stolen Plans East Coast Broadcast The Life of Riley - Riley Becomes An Actor On TV Caltex Theater - You Only Die Once Frontier Town - All Trails Lead to Trouble Nero Wolfe - Room304 Inner Sanctum Mysteries - The Corpse Nobody Loved Jack Benny Show - The Coleman's Ride In Jack's Car Radio Adv Theater - Gulliver's Trave...
Our Miss Brooks - Dress Code Protest
January 28, 2021 20:00 - 29 minutes - 6.75 MBFor most teachers the first few schooldays after the Easter week vacation pose a problem in readjustment to routine but our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School didn’t let the idiosyncrasies of her pupils dampen her spirits one bit. . . Duration: 29:11 Starring: Eve Arden Broadcast Date: 24th April 1949
Let George Do It - Death In Fancy Dress
January 27, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes - 6.85 MBBecause of a hobby that is dear to his heart and certainly innocent enough Lloyd Bascum he has received several threats on his life of late. Duration: 29:54 Starring: Bob Bailey, Frances Robinson Broadcast Date: 27th December 1948
Results Incorporated - Mummy Sitting With Queen Sheshack
January 26, 2021 19:00 - 29 minutes - 6.65 MBIt’s Sunday and it’s New Years Eve. Johnny wants to get a report finished so that they can celebrate the New Year with a quiet night, but oh no that’s not for Terry all year long she’s slaved in this office and now she wants to celebrate in style. But neither of them gets the night they’d bargained for sitting in a museum with an ancient Egyptian mummy called Queen Sheshack. . . This was the final episode of the short liverd series. Duration: 29:03 Starring: Lloyd Nolan, Claire Trevor ...
The Aldrich Family - Sam Aldrich Is Sick
January 25, 2021 18:00 - 29 minutes - 4.99 MBThe every day existence of an average teenage boy like Henry Aldrich is always a very complicated affair. Life is one crisis after another and if the normal run of problems isn’t baffling enough there are always adults around to make things even more difficult. . . Duration: 29:08 Starring: Bobby Ellis, Jack Grimes, House Jameson Broadcast Date: 30th November 1952
The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe - The Glass Donkey
January 25, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes - 6.86 MBPhilip Marlowe received a call from Sergeant Mathews regarding a brunette named Helen Lawton. Marlowe made out with Helen and sometimes still does though he hadn’t seen her for about a month. When he asked Mathews if she was in some kind of trouble he replied, “Not now, at about five o’clock this afternoon somebody put a bullet in her neck”. Duration: 29:59 Starring: Gerald Mohr Broadcast Date: 28th July 1950
Escape - Second Class Passenger
January 25, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 4.99 MBYou are trapped in the native quarter of Mozambique, two dead men at your feet and the police closing in on you and besides you a sultry girl who offers you escape. Ronald A Dawson, second class passenger who could of course have afforded first class but who was to know back at the department store where he worked. The important thing is that they would be saying “Ronald Dawson is taking a trip around the world”. Duration: 29:05 Starring: Harry Bartell Broadcast Date: 10th January 1948
Inner Sanctum Mystery - Musical Score
January 24, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 6.76 MBThis is the story of a simple melody, and of a killer. Who, as the story opens, is fighting desperately, alone, against a raging storm off the coast of Maine. The lifeboat that he is in is half pounded, and the man’s rowing does little good. . . Duration: 27:39 Starring: House Jameson, Berry Kroeger Broadcast Date: 29th May 1945
Nick Carter Master Detective - The Forgetful Killer
January 23, 2021 18:00 - 25 minutes - 5.77 MBWhitey Gear was blackmailing Don Mason for $10,000. Whitey knew that Mason was really Jimmy Burke who was wanted for murder after being mixed up in a juvenile gang some years ago when a guard was killed. Don suffered from blackout periods when he couldn’t remember what had happened but he hadn’t had one for a while until apparently last night when he met and killed Whitey. Duration: 24:42 Starring: Lon Clark Broadcast Date: 7th November 1948