Old Time Radio Listener
599 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 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
Encores From the Bell Telephone Hour - Christmas Special
December 25, 2020 17:39 - 25 minutes - 5.76 MBMerry Christmas.
Christmas on the Moon
December 25, 2020 00:28 - 5 hours - 286 MBThis charming radio broadcast of Christmas on the Moon series follows the bed-time story of protagonist, Jonathan Thomas. The series played one episode a day in 1938 between Thanksgiving and Christmas. With the help of his teddy bear and man on the moon, Jonathan sets out to rescue kidnapped Santa Claus. There can be no Christmas without Santa Claus, so when our hero finds out that he has been kidnapped and taken to the moon there is no time to spare! Like any Christmas serial, Jonathan Tho...
A Christmas Carol - Lionel Barrymore
December 25, 2020 00:20 - 24 minutes - 5.5 MBA Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
Christmas Seals Show - With Frank Sinatra
December 25, 2020 00:01 - 14 minutes - 3.34 MBMerry Christmas.
Christmas On the Blue Network
December 24, 2020 23:51 - 1 hour - 109 MBMerry Christmas. Happy Holidays,
Victory Front - Christmas Eve Opening Night [Second Husband]
December 24, 2020 23:35 - 14 minutes - 3.34 MBIsolationism was a popular sentiment in the years and months before December 7, 1941. After the Date Which Would Live in Infamy, people from all over the nation, from all walks of life suddenly rose as one and dedicated their efforts to defeating the Axis. Industrial workers produced more planes and guns and bullets. Farmers raised more food than ever before. On the radio, they produced more... Soap Operas? Yes, Soap Operas were part of the War Effort. No one tried to throw an organ at Mu...
The World's Great Novels - The Christmas Chapter from The Pickwick Papers
December 24, 2020 23:22 - 29 minutes - 6.74 MBThe World's Great Novels Experience distance learning 1940s style with The World's Great Novel presented by the NBC University of the Air. The World's Great Novels, produce by the NBC University of the Air, worked with the University of Louisville, the University of Tulsa and Washington State University to present serialized adaptions of classic novels over two to six episodes. Listeners could enroll in correspondence courses and earn college credit for listening to the books. For a quart...
Our Miss Brooks - Magic Christmas Tree
December 24, 2020 23:13 - 30 minutes - 8.69 MBWell, most of us spend Christmas Eve with our family and friends but our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School wasn’t quite so fortunate, her family were too far away to visit and it seemed her friends had other plans. Duration: 25:49 Starring: Eve Arden Broadcast Date: 25th December 1949
Jack Benny Show - Christmas Bonus
December 24, 2020 23:09 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBBeavers Come to Jack's for Christmas The Christmas Tree
Claudia 481224 - The Christmas Calf
December 24, 2020 02:44 - 14 minutes - 3.22 MBClaudia is an old time radio show about the ups and downs of being a newlywed. Topics include dealing with in-laws, burning dinner, losing socks, buying really big dogs, and all the little moments that make up a life together. Originally originating as a script on The Kate Smith Show, the original roles were played by Patricia Ryan (Claudia) and by Richard Kollmar (David). The characters Clauda and David Naughton were created by Rose Franken who wrote a series of popular short stories abo...
Claudia - The Christmas Calf
December 24, 2020 02:44 - 14 minutes - 3.22 MBClaudia is an old time radio show about the ups and downs of being a newlywed. Topics include dealing with in-laws, burning dinner, losing socks, buying really big dogs, and all the little moments that make up a life together. Originally originating as a script on The Kate Smith Show, the original roles were played by Patricia Ryan (Claudia) and by Richard Kollmar (David). The characters Clauda and David Naughton were created by Rose Franken who wrote a series of popular short stories abo...
Suspense - Out for Christmas
December 24, 2020 02:38 - 24 minutes - 5.7 MBJoe Wharton didn’t expect to be out of jail for Christmas but with his good behaviour he was out and Christmas was as good a time as any for what he had to do. He planned on killing the cop who testified and got him convicted and finds he has more reason to do it when he discovers the cop has fallen in love with and married his girl Lucile. Lucile had promised she’d wait for Joe and now Joe plans to kill them both. Duration: 24:02 Starring: Raymond Burr, Joan Banks, Lillian Buyeff, Karl ...
Life of Riley - Family Christmas Present
December 24, 2020 02:34 - 26 minutes - 6.02 MBChristmas day has come and gone and there reposes now in the Riley living room a very special gift. Just how this particular package from Santa Claus came to be there is quite a story. A story that began three days before Christmas. . . Duration: 26:33 Starring: William Bendix Broadcast Date: 27th December 1947
Songs By Dinah Shore - Merry Christmas
December 24, 2020 02:28 - 14 minutes - 3.3 MBMerry Christmas everyone.
Bing Cosby - Philco Radio Time - Christmas Show
December 24, 2020 02:18 - 29 minutes - 6.75 MBSpend some of your Christmas time with Bing Cosby.
The Charlotte Greenwood Show - Helping A Sailor On Christmas Eve
December 24, 2020 02:07 - 29 minutes - 6.69 MBThe Charlotte Greenwood Show was a radio situation comedy in the United States. It was broadcast on ABC June 13 - September 5, 1944, and on NBC October 15, 1944 - January 6, 1946. The program began as a summer replacement for The Bob Hope Show. Newspaper columnist Hedda Hopper reported, "The interesting thing is that she [Charlotte Greenwood] got the job on a couple of scripts written by her husband, Martin Broones, who's never before written for radio. The 1944 version of the show had Gre...
Veterans Affairs Christmas Special
December 24, 2020 02:02 - 11 minutes - 2.63 MBGuests: Bing Crosby Dinah Shore
Christmas Seals - Guest Margaret Whiting.
December 24, 2020 01:59 - 14 minutes - 3.27 MBChristmas Seals Recordings brought in top stars like Fibber McGee and Molly and Frank Sinatra to be sure that every card and package sent during Christmas included a Christmas Seal. Christmas Seals donated money to various charitable organizations for over 100 years. The organization began in the early 1900s when in the industrial cities many children and adults alike suffered from tubercuosis. In Denmark, a postage stamp was used to gather extra money for children suffering from tuberculo...
Suspense - Back For Christmas
December 24, 2020 01:47 - 27 minutes - 6.2 MBA university lecture is down in his cellar digging up the floor when his nagging wife catches him. She asks him what he’s doing and he explains that he is planting some rare flowers called “Devil Orchids”. She nags him about his barber’s appointment and their impending trip to America. He has no option but to do as he is told - as usual. On his way back from the barbers he calls into his favorite old bookshop and gets talking to a rather appealing young lady. One thing leads to another and b...
The Adventures 0f Ozzie and Harriet - Lost Christmas Gift
December 24, 2020 01:43 - 22 minutes - 5.07 MBAfter the Christmas gifts have been opened, one exception is noticed: Ricky's catcher's mitt. Ozzie guesses it might have been delivered to another Nelson family across town, as a package had before. They go there and find a poor, young widow with small kids. Ozzie, Harriet and the boys decide to give them a merry Christmas.
Sherlock Holmes - Adventure of Christmas Bride
December 24, 2020 00:11 - 27 minutes - 6.27 MBThe story, which Holmes always referred to as the Adventure of the Christmas Bride concerns a ghostly lady in white who was supposed to have disappeared centuries ago, the honor of a noble family and a certain Father Christmas who suddenly sang base. . . Duration: 27:22 Starring: John Stanley Broadcast Date: 21st December 1947
Casey, Crime Photographer - Christmas Shopping
December 23, 2020 23:35 - 29 minutes - 6.75 MBIn 1945 the name of this show changed from Casey, Press Photographer to Casey, Crime Photographer. Casey and his girlfriend Ann Williams, reporter, are out Christmas shopping and stop off in a bar when Casey sees well known pickpocket “Fingers” take the wallet from a fat guys pocket. When Casey informs the fat guy, the fat guy denies having his wallet picked. The story thickens when fingers gets arrested for passing forged notes and he claims to have picked them from the fat guy. Duration:...
The Great Gildersleeve - Merry Christmas
December 23, 2020 23:28 - 7 hours - 439 MBGildy Earns Christmas money by selling Insurance Christmas Shopping Leory's Christmas Job Christmas Gift for Fibber Mcgree Disappearing Christmas Gifts Christmas Present for Paula Christmas Show - Present for Kathryn Gildy and Hooker Feud at Christmas Twas the Night Before Christmas Christmas Carling at Gildersleeve Gildy and Leory Alone for Christmas Leory's Christmas Dog Christmas Eve at Gildersleeve Christmas Eve at Home The Christmas Spirit Christmas Program
Dr. Christin - Danny Gets Married
December 23, 2020 00:40 - 29 minutes - 6.72 MBSit back and listen to Jean Hersholt in his Christmas Dr Christian story and also featuring miss Gloria Holden as the young nurse Goldie. There’s no place on earth that you’d get a better feeling of excitement at Christmas than the children’s ward of a hospital. Those little tots have something to look forward to at last, the Christmas party, cake, candy a tree with a present. It was a few days before Christmas and Dr Christian was hurrying along the corridor of the Centre City hospital on h...
Jack Benny - Christmas Block
December 23, 2020 00:32 - 3 hours - 217 MBI have decided to put together a block of Jack Benny's Christmas Episodes for your enjoyment. Christmas Shopping Cactus Christmas Tree Christmas Gopher Jack Buys A Wallet for Don for Christmas Trimming the Christmas Tree Christmas Show With Fred Allen Jack's Christmas Party Day After Christmas
Broadway is my Beat - Nick Norman Santa Claus
December 23, 2020 00:13 - 29 minutes - 7.12 MBIt’s Christmas Eve on Broadway, creatures are stirring in police H.Q. In the office of Danny Clover Nick Norman the ex-con is released after 15 years in Jail and Detective Danny Clover has got him a job as Santa Claus at the Police Kids Christmas Party. However he doesn’t make it to the party as two guys in a Black Sedan abduct him. Duration: 29:34 Starring: Larry Thor Broadcast Date: 24 December 1949
Duffy's Traven - Archie Meets Jesus
December 23, 2020 00:09 - 30 minutes - 6.93 MBArchie is in a cranky mood over Christmas and has just locked up when he notices a stranger in the bar who knows his name. The stranger takes Archie out for a walk and forces him to look into his heart for faith and human kindness. Duration: 28:55 Starring: Ed Gardner Broadcast Date: 23rd December 1948
Nero Wolfe - The Slaughtered Santas
December 21, 2020 19:51 - 29 minutes - 6.79 MBIt is 48 hours before Christmas. Archie Goodwin receives a telephone call from Santa Claus! He is coming around to Nero’s office at 8pm. Two Santa’s have been murdered and this Santa is very worried. It seems that someone is trying to murder all the Santa Claus’s of Carlisle Avenue and they seem to be succeeding! Duration: 27:54 Starring: Sydney Greenstreet Broadcast Date: 22nd December 1950
Let George Do It - Christmas In January
December 21, 2020 19:42 - 31 minutes - 7.11 MBFrancis Xavier Wick the columnist, the gossip, the collector of rounded anecdotes the man who this year was celebrating Christmas in January and why apparently because he likes to collect presents too. He wouldn’t miss Christmas for anything and nor would George Valentine. By now he’s learned enough about the man in the Santa Claus suit to know that his vast collection of friends and retainers are not exactly loyal to him in fact one of them has just murdered him. . . Duration: 30:59 Sta...
Our Miss Brooks - Letter To Santa
December 21, 2020 19:34 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MBWell the holiday season is practically with us. To our Miss Brooks who teaches English Madison High School it means more than just a respite from a difficult school term. . . Duration: 27:42 Starring: Eve Arden Broadcast Date: 18th December 1949
Archie Andrews - Christmas Shopping
December 21, 2020 19:29 - 26 minutes - 6.07 MBIt’s Saturday afternoon as we look in on the Andrews home and at the moment we find Mr. Andrews alone in the living room sitting in his favorite armchair reading the newspaper when the telephone rings. It’s Veronica and she mentions to Mr. Andrews that she’s going to do her Christmas shopping at Stacy’s, which reminds him he needs to do his Christmas shopping. It seems that everyone has decided to do their Christmas shopping today, and all at Stacy’s Department store! Duration: 26:19 Sta...
CBS Radio Workshop - Interview With Shakespeare
December 19, 2020 17:29 - 29 minutes - 6.74 MBDr. Frank C. Baxter who was a professor of English at the University of Southern California interviews the distinguished author William Shakespeare as if he were alive in 1956 to ascertain who wrote the works of Shakespeare. Duration: 30:10 Starring: Ben Wright, Hans Conried, Ramsey Hill, Jay Novello, William Conrad Broadcast Date: 24th February 1956
Christmas with Burns and Allen
December 19, 2020 17:20 - 2 hours - 133 MBLet's spend Christmas with George Burns and Gracie Allen.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Cherchez La Femme
December 10, 2020 23:52 - 43 minutes - 10 MBMadame Ottilie Tibault, owner of a prosperous little cafe in the French quarter of New Orleans, gives the $25,000 she has been keeping under her mattress to Gaspard Morin, one of her customers, for "investment". But, before he can tell her what he ahs invested in, Morin dies. O. Henry agress to help Madame Tibault find out what happened to the money. His most promising clue is the name of a woman Morin uttered just before he died: "Miss Liberty." Host: Himan Brown Duration: 43m 52s ...
Sherlock Holmes - In Flanders Field
December 08, 2020 20:41 - 28 minutes - 6.46 MBIt was just twenty four hours before the commencement of The Battle of the Marne In the first winter of World War 1. Holmes and Watson found themselves in the front seat of an army staff car. They were taken to General Morris’s Headquarters four miles from the front line. The General’s brother Maitland and his wife, both famous Shakespearian actors, accompanied them. They were to give a performance for the troops that evening. But shortly before the performance it is discovered that the Gene...
Gunsmoke - Cain
December 08, 2020 20:36 - 30 minutes - 8.68 MBCain Vestel is a musician who came in to Dodge last night and is leaving for Arizona tomorrow. Cain, a very nice fellow is suffering from consumption and the Doc said he would be dead in a couple of months. Duration: 30:02 Starring: William Conrad Broadcast Date: 3rd October 1952
Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator - Case Of The Philanthropist Bride
December 06, 2020 23:29 - 29 minutes - 6.82 MBIn a couple of weeks Wilma Lord is going to marry John Waring a man a lot older than she is and she wants nothing to happen to that marriage and hires Barry Craig to make sure that no one is murdered! Duration: 29:57 Starring: William Gargan Broadcast Date: 7th May 1951
Ellery Queen’s Minute Mysteries
December 05, 2020 19:24 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBEllery Queens Minute Mysteries are exactly that, a one minute mystery. A problem is posed for you to work out the answer to but you only have a few seconds to work it out befor Ellery Queen gives you the answer. It'll only take a minute out of your time ... enjoy these really minute long mysteries. See if you can beat Ellery Queen to the punch before the minute is up.
Les Miserables
December 05, 2020 19:11 - 3 hours - 183 MBThe Bishop “So long as these problems are not solved, so long as ignorance and poverty remain on earth, these words cannot be useless”. These words set forth the soul and spirit of one of the world’s great literacy masterpieces, Les Miserables. Out of the depth of his pity for suffering mankind Victor Hugo drew a compelling story, one that will live so long as bewildered humanity shall continue to grope towards the light. The Bishop is the 1st of 7 broadcasts specifically adapted for radio...
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Dameron Matter
December 03, 2020 21:36 - 24 minutes - 5.66 MBJohnny Dollar phoned Lieutenant Joe Benson on behalf of Federal Underwriters to get a report on the National Savings and Loans hold-up. The watchman died, shot three times but lived long enough to give a make on one of the four guys who heisted the place. . . Duration: 24:44 Starring: John Lund Broadcast Date: 21st April 1953
Fred Allen Town Hall Tonight - November, The month of Harvest and Thanksgiving
November 26, 2020 16:34 - 55 minutes - 12.7 MBHappy Thanksgiving.
Jack Benny Show - Happy Thanksgiving
November 26, 2020 16:28 - 2 hours - 157 MBAll of Jack Benny's Thanksgiving shows in one great holiday block.
Our Miss Brooks - Thanksgiving Weekend
November 26, 2020 16:18 - 29 minutes - 6.65 MBWell last Thursday was Thanksgiving Day and most of us realize that we have quite a bit to be thankful for even our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School. . . Duration: 28:56 Starring: Eve Arden Broadcast Date: 27th November 1949
The Aldrich Family - Thanksgiving Dance And Turkey Run
November 26, 2020 16:08 - 27 minutes - 6.3 MBWhile Mr Aldrich is having turkey troubles of his own the duck, which Henry has been forced to buy for, the class turkey run has flown the coup and is causing mayhem in the school! Duration: 25:33 Starring: Ezra Stone, Jackie Kelk Broadcast Date: 25th November 1948
Burns & Allen - Thanksgiving Show
November 26, 2020 16:01 - 28 minutes - 6.59 MBGracie couldn’t make it to the show on account of her Grandaddy being sick and it’s not that George needs Gracie to do the show but he decides if she can’t come in he’ll to go to her house. George tells Gracie that tonight’s show is about Thanksgiving and then has to explain to her what it is! Duration: 28:57 Starring: George Burns, Gracie Allen Broadcast Date: 18th November 1940
Death Valley Days - The Burro That Had No Name
November 21, 2020 02:52 - 23 minutes - 5.3 MBBefore the story begins the old Ranger tells us, for those that don’t know, that a Burro is the same as a donkey or a jackass, they stand about four foot high with furry coats and long ears and with a tail like a piece of rope frayed at the end. The scene opens in the mining camp, it’s the year 1905. Walter Scott Smith known as Smitty and his partner Owen Martin are negotiating with a fellow for a string of Burro’s with which to start out in to the hills.' Duration: 24:12 Starring: Dress...
Nick Carter Master Detective - The Case of the Priceless Prose
November 21, 2020 02:26 - 30 minutes - 6.9 MB"The Case Of The Priceless Prose". Sponsored by: Old Dutch Cleanser, Del Rich Margarine. Stolen manuscripts and a few murders thrown in. Clever twist at the end...you won't guess whodunit. + There has been a robbery at Bancroft hall the ancestral home of famous writer Joshua Bancroft. His two great grand daughters shared the home now and Victoria was killed in the robbery and Julia Bancroft badly beaten. Just after Nick Carter read of the crime in the morning newspaper he receives a call fro...
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Lost Dog
November 14, 2020 15:34 - 41 minutes - 9.53 MBA fear of animals is not easily understood by people who don't share the same phobia, as Julia Smolett discovers when her husband attempts to bring a fearsome dog into their home. After being terrorized by the fierce dog, she decides to make the four- legged creature her friend, thus making the animal turn on its master. Duration: 41:49 Directed by: Himan Brown Written by: Henry Sleasar Starring: Kim Hunter, George Matthews, Mandy Potamkin, Bob Dryden, Gilbert Mack. Broadcast Date: Ja...