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OLD TIME RADIO...from www.RADIOthen.network...Broadcast Dramas, Comedy, Music, News, Documentaries and interviews about old time radio series and celebrities from the golden age of radio broadcasting. Primarily in the United States. Enjoy!

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SUSPENSE - Till-Death-Do-Us-Part - December-15-1942

July 12, 2023 14:01 - 29 minutes - 15.9 MB

SUSPENSE - Till-Death-Do-Us-Part - December-15-1942 Starring Peter Lorre, Alice Frost and Mercedes McCambridge.

July 4 and The Flag

June 30, 2023 18:14 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MB

Stan Freberg presents The United States of America.

Stan Freberg "The Declaration of Independence"

June 17, 2023 16:33 - 6 minutes - 6.02 MB

Stan Freberg - Presents the United States of America, Vol. 1 - The Declaration of Independence. A Stan Freberg sketch explains how Thomas Jefferson may have convinced Benjamin Franklin to sign the Declaration of Independence.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "The Devil's Foot"

June 15, 2023 19:16 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MB

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is an American old-time radio show that aired on US radio networks between 1930 and 1936. The series was adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories by scriptwriter Edith Meiser. For most of the series, Richard Gordon played Sherlock Holmes and Leigh Lovell played Dr. Watson. The series included multiple original stories by Meiser, in addition to Meiser's adaptations of all of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories except one. Some episodes in th...

The Shadow - "When the Grave is Open"

June 14, 2023 22:16 - 28 minutes - 15.1 MB

This episode aired September 9, 1947 on Mutual Radio Network stars Bret Morrison. The police suspect vandalism in the cemetery until a series of ghoulish grave robberies includes the disappearance and murder of the cemetery caretaker. Believing the gravediggers will return to finish what they couldn’t due to an unexpected interruption, Lamont and Margot attempt to observe the late night happenings while avoiding the police standing guard. Digger, one of the two gravediggers, learns Koller’s ...

USAF SERENADE IN BLUE "Cherokee"

June 01, 2023 20:53 - 15 minutes - 17.6 MB

The public service radio program Serenade in Blue was written, produced, and performed by men in blue. It featured three top-notch Air Force bands: The Air Force Strings, Symphony in Blue, and the big band sound of Airmen of Note (which was originally started by Glenn Miller during WWII). This episode is from the summer of 1963. Recorded and produced by the Air Force Band radio recording unit at Bolling AFB home of the USAF Band, Col. George S. Howard commander. Captain John Yesulitis conduc...

SEARS RADIO THEATER "Retribution"

May 31, 2023 20:08 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MB

From February 5, 1979 on CBS Radio this is the first episode of Sears Radio Theater. The Host is Lorne Green and stars John McIntire and Janette Nolan. Announcer is Art Gilmore. Air check from KMOX St. Louis. Sears Radio Theater was a radio drama anthology series which ran weeknightly on CBS Radio in 1979, sponsored by the Sears chain. Often paired with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater during its first season, the program offered a different genre of drama for each day's broadcast. In 1980, th...

SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE "The Fighting O'Flynn"

May 26, 2023 18:54 - 29 minutes - 23.1 MB

Episode 63 on NBC Radio starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Screen Directors Playhouse was a popular American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to NBC Radio beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcasts adaptations of films frequently with the original directors of the films. The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949, to September 28, 1951, under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Directors Guild Assignmen...

SAM SPADE "The Wheel of Life Caper"

May 20, 2023 22:06 - 28 minutes - 17.1 MB

Aired July 11, 1948 on NBC Radio with Howard Duff as Spade. Sam meets a mystery woman with no memory and a corpse that's been killed by a buzz saw! Sandra Gould replaces Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Sam's secretary. Poppy O'Farrell walks into Sam's office. She has lost her memory and wants Sam to try and trace who she is. All she is aware of is that she was on a cable car that morning and a man came and sat next to her, viciously grabbed her arm and told her that someone called Leverett wanted to...

THE SAINT "Girl In The Lower Berth"

May 19, 2023 18:48 - 29 minutes - 10.4 MB

Aired June 3, 1951 on NBC Radio. Tom Conway stars as The Saint. The Saint agrees to meet a woman’s husband on the train and ends up investigating the husband’s murder. Tom Conway (born Thomas Charles Sanders, 15 September 1904 – 22 April 1967) was a British film, television, and radio actor remembered for playing detectives (including The Falcon, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond, and The Saint) and psychiatrists, among other roles. Conway played "The Falcon" in 10 episodes of the series, ta...

ROCKY FORTUNE "Psychological Murder"

May 18, 2023 21:23 - 25 minutes - 22.7 MB

Aired March 16, 1954 on NBC Radio. Frank Sinatra stars as his character Rocky witnesses the execution of the will of a wealthy woman who thinks that she's going insane. She believes that she's going to kill her husband. Rocky visits Perry Shane at his Law office. He wants Rocky to be a witness for Mrs. Biggolo's Will. Whilst they are going through the formalities of the Will Mrs. Biggolo tells Rocky that she is afraid that she is going to kill her husband. Perry is quite disturbed by this an...

RICHARD DIAMOND "Ralph Chace"

May 16, 2023 20:36 - 28 minutes - 24.3 MB

Dick Powell stars as Private Detective Richard Diamond in his Ralph Chase case on NBC Radio aired May 15, 1949. Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960. Described as “a modern Robin Hood". Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series features a wisecracking former police officer turned private detective. Episodes typically open with a client visiting or callin...

RADIO'S FIRST 50 YEARS "1920's"

May 15, 2023 19:18 - 24 minutes - 15.9 MB

A collection of happenings in radio that touched our lives from the twenties through the sixties. Ben Gross, The dean of American radio and television editors turns the dials back and forth and summons, with a wealth of anecdotes, his own remembrance of the events and personalities of the air waves, past and present. For twenty-nine years, from the time of the first crystal sets to the moment when United States Senators are the featured actors at microphones and cameras, Ben Gross ha...

PURSUIT "Of The Man Who Couldn't Go Home"

May 14, 2023 20:37 - 29 minutes - 19 MB

Aired on CBS Radio July 1, 1950. John Dehner stars as Inspector Black of Scotland Yard. Black is called to a hotel room where a man is out on a ledge, saying he can’t deal with his guilt over a murder he committed.

PHILO VANCE "The Case of the Cellini Cup"

May 12, 2023 19:46 - 29 minutes - 18.1 MB

John Emery stars as Philo Vance in this episode from April 29, 1943 on NBC Radio. Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, films, and radio. He was portrayed as a stylish—even foppish—dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. "S. S. Van Dine" was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright, a prominent art critic who initially so...

PHILIP MARLOWE "Red Wind"

May 11, 2023 12:07 - 30 minutes - 20.1 MB

From June 17, 1947 on NBC Radio. Van Heflin and Lurene Tuttle star. Phillip Marlowe is minding his own business, having a beer in a bar conveniently located within staggering distance of his apartment. Business is as lite as the beer with only one other customer in the bar. The drunken man has a pile of dimes in front of him and is pounding back shots of rye like there is no tomorrow, which there technically never is.

PAUL HARVEY "Actor On Death Row"

May 10, 2023 18:44 - 3 minutes - 1.74 MB

The Rest of the Story was a Monday-through-Friday ⁠radio⁠ program originally hosted by ⁠Paul Harvey⁠.⁠⁠ Beginning as a part of his newscasts during the ⁠Second World War⁠ and then premiering as its own series on the ⁠ABC Radio Networks⁠ on May 10, 1976, The Rest of the Story consisted of stories presented as little-known or forgotten facts on a variety of subjects with some key element of the story (usually the name of some well-known person) held back until the end. The broadcasts always co...

PAT NOVAK FOR HIRE "Mysterious Set of Books"

May 06, 2023 19:02 - 28 minutes - 8.56 MB

Ben Morris stars as Pat Novak on this episode of August 10, 1947 on ABC Radio (USA). The regional version originally starred Jack Webb in the title role, with scripts by his roommate Richard L. Breen. When Webb and Breen moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles to work on an extremely similar nationwide series, Johnny Madero, Pier 23, for the Mutual network, Webb was replaced by Ben Morris and Breen by other writers. In the later 1949 network version, Jack Webb resumed the Novak role, and Bre...

21st Precinct "The Visitors"

May 05, 2023 21:44 - 28 minutes - 16.9 MB

21st Precinct (aka Twenty-First Precinct and Twenty First Precinct) was a police drama broadcast on CBS radio from July 7, 1953, to July 26, 1956. It was initially a summer replacement for My Friend Irma. The program was produced in cooperation with the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York[2] and presented "adaptations from true criminal records in New York...from the policeman's point of view." Historically, the 21st Precinct had been located near Gramercy Park in Manh...

NORMAN CORWIN "Lighthouse Keepers"

May 04, 2023 04:07 - 22 minutes - 13.5 MB

Known as the Poet Laureate of Radio, Norman Corwin is one of the greatest writer-producer-directors the Golden Age Norman Corwin directed episode 108 of The CBS Workshop. The Lighthouse Keepers starred Ray Collins and Luis d'Antin van Rooten (November 29, 1906 – June 17, 1973). He was a Mexican-born American actor. He was sometimes credited as Louis Van Rooten. Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films...

NIGHT BEAT "Ted Carter Murder Case"

May 02, 2023 20:02 - 29 minutes - 10.3 MB

The audition program for the series. Film noir star Edmund O'Brien played the role in the audition program but was not in the regular production, having assumed the role as the second Johnny Dollar. Hank Mitchell’s friend is killed and he sets out to use his newspaper column to imply an infamous gangster is behind it. When Hank’s roughed up by some of the gangster’s men, he gets a gun to hunt him down.

NICK CARTER "Echo of Death"

April 27, 2023 19:04 - 29 minutes - 15.5 MB

July 6, 1943. Mutual Radio. Lon Clark as Detective Nick Carter. Nick Carter, Master Detective was a popular radio show that aired from 1939 to 1955. The show followed the adventures of Nick Carter, a private detective who solving crimes using his keen intellect and athletic prowess. Although the cases were often based on real life events, the characters and locations were often fictionalized for dramatic effect. Nonetheless, the show was widely popular and helped to cement the image of th...

Mac McGuire And His Harmony Rangers - Sundown Lullaby

April 26, 2023 12:44 - 3 minutes - 2.86 MB

Quaker Records. An article in "Band Leaders Magazine, dated January 1946 said: "Mac McGuire gives out with his cheery good mornings, weather reports, records and commercials from 7:05 am to 7:45 am and from 8:15 am to 8:55 am, six days a week over WCAU, CBS affiliate. in Philadelphia, PA" Mac McGuire and the Harmony Rangers was a Country & Western group that performed on WIP Radio, Philadelphia. For quite awhile, the show was carried over the Mutual Radio Network. They were WIP & Mutual's ...

NERO WOLFE "Case of the Killer Cards"

April 24, 2023 17:25 - 28 minutes - 17.3 MB

Sydney Greenstreet stars as Rex Stout’s famous corpulent detective. Gerals Mohr as Archie Goodwin. This particular mystery features four criminals who decide to play one winner-take-all game of poker for ownership of their shared illegal enterprises. But there’s murder in the cards and only Nero Wolfe can solve the case! Will Archie Goodwin be given the night off to go on a date? Does the detective really have a meticulous plan to find the solution? Aired January 12, 1951 on NBC Radio.

NBC UNIVERSITY THEATER "The Marble Faun"

April 21, 2023 19:00 - 58 minutes - 29.5 MB

Starring Lynn Bari (born Marjorie Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1919 – November 20, 1989). A film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 films for 20th Century Fox, from the early 1930s through the 1940s. This episode aired on March 20, 1949 on NBC Radio. The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classica...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Irving Berlin Tribute"

April 20, 2023 21:31 - 29 minutes - 19.6 MB

Epsode 43 aired April 17, 1957 on NBC Radio. Irving Berlin, original name Israel Baline, (born May 11, 1888, Mogilyov, Russia [now in Belarus]—died Sept. 22, 1989, New York, N.Y., U.S.), American composer who played a leading role in the evolution of the popular song from the early ragtime and jazz eras through the golden age of musicals. His easy mastery of a wide range of song styles, for both stage and motion pictures, made him perhaps the greatest and most enduring of American songwriter...

NBC MONITOR "Durward Kirby"

April 20, 2023 15:41 - 16 minutes - 10.2 MB

Durward Kirby host on this Monitor segment. He was on only a short time in ’69 (and so was his associate for many years, Garry Moore, who hosted another segment on Monitor).  Here he is on Sunday night Monitor on Sept. 21, 1969, from 9 to about 9:20 p.m. ET  Homer Durward Kirby (August 24, 1911 – March 15, 2000), sometimes misspelled Dirwood or Durwood Kirby, was an American television host and announcer. He is best remembered for The Garry Moore Show in the 1950s and Candid Camera, which he...

NBC BANDSTAND "Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey"

April 19, 2023 23:13 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MB

Bert Parks hosts The Dorsey Brothers on this broadcast from October 11, 1956.

MR KEEN "The Case of the Missing Witness"

April 17, 2023 21:33 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MB

Aired on CBS Radio January 13, 1944. Mr. Keen - The Case of the Missing Witness. Sponsored by: Anacin, Kolynos, Heet, Kriptin, Bisodol, Hills Cold Tabs. A famous fashion designer has killed her daughter's lover...or has she?

MR DISTRICT ATTORNEY "The Museum Mystery"

April 13, 2023 23:05 - 28 minutes - 16.7 MB

Jay Jostyn stars as Mr D. A. in this episode aka The Case of the Priceless Miniature. Aired on the NBC Red Network December 10, 1941. Mr. District Attorney is a radio crime drama produced by Samuel Bischoff that aired on NBC and ABC from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed syndication through 1953). 

MIKE HAMMER "Framed For Murder"

April 13, 2023 22:31 - 22 minutes - 8.44 MB

Larry Holmes stars as Mike Hammer in this syndicated episode from 1953.

MICHAEL SHAYNE "Phantom Gun"

April 12, 2023 21:10 - 25 minutes - 15.9 MB

August 6, 1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shayne_(radio_program) Michael Shayne, "the reckless, red-headed Irishman" was a popular hard-boiled detective created by American crime novelist Brett Halliday. Phyliss Kenny had hired Michael Shayne to find out if her husband was two-timing her. He wasn’t but he’d gotten himself mixed up with a character named Jasper who was following his usual routine of getting close to his blackmail victim by working for him. In this case he was the...

Mercury Summer Theater "Search For Henri Lefevre"

April 06, 2023 17:58 - 28 minutes - 13.5 MB

Mercury Summer Theater AIRED 1946 07 12 on CBS Radio. Episode 06 "Search For Henri Lefevre". An original story for radio by Lucille Fletcher This series produced, directed by and starring Orson Welles. It was a short-lived summer radio series sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, on Friday evenings at 10 p.m. ET lasting 15 episodes. It harked back to Welles's earlier The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938) and its successor, The Campbell Playhouse.

MR AND MRS NORTH "RUSSIAN RESTAURANT"

April 05, 2023 21:08 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB

MR AND MRS NORTH - FEBRUARY 3, 1943 - C.F. 006 RUSSIAN RESTAURANT Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. The cha...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "December 12, 1956

March 31, 2023 21:42 - 24 minutes - 17.7 MB

Selections by singer Lanny Ross, Jack Pearl and Rudy Valle. News by Floyd Gibbons. Singer Carmen Miranda, pianist Art Tatum. Bergin, McCarthy with John Barrymore. Selection by the Lenny Hayton Orchestra.

Monitor, 6th hour last day

March 30, 2023 19:54 - 58 minutes - 38.4 MB

Along with Big Wilson, John Bartholomew Tucker was one of the last two communicators (hosts) of the long-running NBC Radio program Monitor they were on the air when the show signed off for the last time on January 26, 1975. This is the sixth hour on that last day...,a Sunday.

NBC BANDSTAND "The Art Mooney Orchestra"

March 29, 2023 18:50 - 58 minutes - 34.7 MB

NBC Radio, WGY. October 9, 1956. Bert Parks host. Vocalists Dick Haymes and Ann Gilbert.

MR KEEN "Case of the Moonless Night"

March 28, 2023 16:41 - 30 minutes - 12.5 MB

This episoded aired on CBS Radio January 6, 1944. Mr. Keen: Tracer of Lost Persons. Mr. Keen’s in the deep South to find a missing southern gentleman on a plantation with black walnut trees. Bennett Kilpack, Frank Hummert, Anne Hummert, Larry Elliott (announcer). Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of radio's longest running shows, airing October 12, 1937 to April 19, 1955, continuing well into the television era. It was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, who based it upon Robert W. ...

MR DISTRICT ATTORNEY "Man From Alcatraz"

March 27, 2023 20:51 - 24 minutes - 13.8 MB

Episode 141 aired February 12, 1942. The series focused on a crusading D.A., initially known only as "Mister District Attorney," or "Chief", and was later translated to television. On television the D.A. had a name, Paul Garrett, and the radio version picked up this name in the final years when David Brian played the role. Mr. District Attorney is a ⁠radio⁠ ⁠crime drama⁠ produced by ⁠Samuel Bischoff⁠ that aired on ⁠NBC⁠ and ⁠ABC⁠ from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed syndi...

MR AND MRS NORTH "Death With Father"

March 24, 2023 22:54 - 26 minutes - 14.3 MB

Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. The radio mystery series aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. Richard Denning and Barbara Britton star in this episode.

THE ORIGIN OF THE LONE RANGER

March 23, 2023 21:36 - 29 minutes - 18 MB

Released June 30, 1948 aka The legend of The Lone Ranger...is an incredibly American story that may very well have been inspired by the U.S Marshal Bass Reeves. The legend began 1875, but was introduced into modern culture through a radio show what developed into a popular story in the entertainment industry.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Ranger

JEFF REGAN "The Prodigal Daughter"

March 22, 2023 14:32 - 29 minutes - 17.4 MB

In an early radio role Jack Webb portrays Jeff Regan. Jeff Regan is chief investigator for International Detective Agency, an agency owned by Anthony J. Lyon (hence the series often being referred to as 'The Lyon's Eye').  This episode aired on CBS Radio July 17, 1948.

IRA COOK SHOW "Jack Jones"

March 21, 2023 14:44 - 29 minutes - 15.3 MB

Ira Cook's artist of the day is John Allan Jones aka JACK JONES (born January 14, 1938) an American singer and actor. Son of singer Allan Jones. Jack Jones is primarily a straight-pop singer whose forays into jazz are mostly of the big-band/swing variety. He has won two Grammy Awards. Note as of this post (8/21/2023) Jones is 85 years of age and continues to perform.

HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Eddy Arnold"

March 19, 2023 16:09 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MB

This episode of The Howard Miller Show aired on CBS Radio February 15, 1957 and features an interview with Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008). Eddy Arnold was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and ...

Hopalong Cassidy "Hoppy and the School Marm"

March 15, 2023 17:21 - 25 minutes - 10.1 MB

Hopalong Cassidy in syndication released 1950-07-16 (episode 029) - Hoppy and the School Marm. Miss Abbott breaks up a saloon that's about to open, and vanishes the following day. The script is based on the Hopalong Cassidy movie, "Borrowed Trouble."

HOLLYWOOD BOWL SYM "Roman Totenberg"

March 10, 2023 19:45 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCH - 460818 Roman Totenberg, violin Leopold Stokowski, cond.- Il Segreto Di Susanna

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "The Boss"

March 09, 2023 19:53 - 23 minutes - 9.84 MB

Episode 64 aired February 7, 1960 on CBS Radio. A visit to Alder Bend, Colorado, for a job with Ira Stokes, a horse and wife beater out to own the town. The Have Gun – Will Travel radio show broadcast 106 episodes between November 23, 1958 and November 27, 1960. It was one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters and one of only a handful of American radio adaptation of a television series. John Dehner (a regular on the radio series version of Gunsmoke) played Paladin, and Be...

heartbeat theater "Once a Thief"

March 08, 2023 14:28 - 30 minutes - 12.7 MB

The Heartbeat Theater sponsored by the Salvation Army, gives dramatic accounts of regular people helping others through illness, tragedy, and heartbreak. Episodes illustrate problems can be solved with faith, optimism, and the help of good Samaritans.

Harry Lime "Voodoo"

March 07, 2023 13:20 - 28 minutes - 17.3 MB

Harry lands in Haiti, where he plans to grift a wealthy vacationer of an artifact once belonging to the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti. Episode 5 aired August 31, 1951. THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY LIME was Broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime, an old time radio program produced in London, England during the 1951 to 1952 season. Orson Welles reprised his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 1949 film The Third Man. The radio series is a "prequel" to the film, and depi...