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TALES TEXAS RANGERS "Apache Peak"
March 27, 2021 18:22 - 29 minutes - 14.3 MBTales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Episode 3, Apache Peak, aired July 22, 1950. Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal (or "Charky," as Jayce would sometimes refer to him), to track them down. The shows were reenactments of actual...
FORT LARAMIE "Boatwright's Story"
March 26, 2021 17:21 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBJanuary 29, 1956 Captain Quince, Raymond Burr, and his patrol must stop the sale of Henry rifles to Yellow Knife. Quince heads to the Indian reservation to see his compadre Chief Wild Dog for information about the white man who is supplying Indians with rifles. Chief Wild Dog tells Quince where the rifle smuggler meets Yellow Knife. Private Boatwright hates the Indians and knew the only way to conquer his fear was to kill one of them.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Road to Wickenburg"
March 25, 2021 14:45 - 23 minutes - 6.92 MBEpisode 2, November 30, 1958. CBS Radio network. Paladin wakes up after being drugged, beaten and robbed in the town of Blue Bell by five men, one of whom is the town's sheriff. They took his money, gun, bullets, horse and saddle. All he has left is his two-shot derringer.
The Lone Ranger episode "Brightest Star" May 17, 1954
March 24, 2021 14:51 - 22 minutes - 13.7 MB"The Lone Ranger" radio program was created by George W. Trendle (photo insert) and Fran Striker. First aired on Trendle's radio station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan, in 1933. The radio series was carried by more than 400 American stations by the end of the decade. The Michigan Radio Network then the original Mutual Radio Network. Later on the ABC Radio Network and lastly in syndication by the ad agency representing General Mills, the sponsor. Cheerios, Wheaties and Betty Crocker products. The ...
CBS STAN FREBERG SHOW "Musical_Sheep"
March 24, 2021 03:31 - 29 minutes - 11.4 MBFirst Episode aired July 14, 1957. The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fifteen episodes in 1957–58. The show, starring comedian Stan Freberg and featuring the vocal talents of Daws Butler, June Foray, and Peter Leeds and the musical direction of Billy May, ran in the 7 p.m. Sunday evening time period.
CBS STAN FREBERG SHOW - 01_1957-07-14_ - Musical_Sheep
March 24, 2021 03:31 - 29 minutes - 11.4 MBThe Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fifteen episodes in 1957–58. The show, starring comedian Stan Freberg and featuring the vocal talents of Daws Butler, June Foray, and Peter Leeds and the musical direction of Billy May, ran in the 7 p.m. Sunday evening time period.
FORT LARAMIE "Playing Indian"
March 23, 2021 17:06 - 29 minutes - 18.6 MBJanuary 22, 1956. Premiere episode. Captain Quince sets a trap for a group of horse thieves and murderers who are hoping the cavalry will think they are Arapahos. Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry at Fort Laramie on the Wyoming frontier. An entire family have been killed. But not by the Arapaho’s... it was white men.
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS 'WHITE ELEPHANT'
March 22, 2021 17:21 - 29 minutes - 14.3 MBJoel McCrea stars as Jayce Pearson in Tales of the Texas Rangers, a contemporary procedural crime Western. With all of the technology available in the mid 20th century. It was one of the most popular shows of that era. Produced by Stacy Keach, Sr., a successful actor, producer, writer and director for over fifty years. (Father of actors Stacy and James Keach). He created, produced and directed this legendary “Tales of the Texas Rangers” for NBC Radio in the early 1950’s. The show was also i...
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Strange Vandetta"
March 21, 2021 19:34 - 22 minutes - 6.83 MBHave Gun Will Travel, the first episode on radio was broadcast on CBS network, November 23, 1958 the show continued until November 22, 1960. Paladin 'Gun For Hire' lived in and worked from the Carleton Hotel, in San Francisco around 1875. Have Gun Will Travel was one of those programs which got its start on television (CBS TV 1957 thru 1963, starring Richard Boone), successfully moving to radio. The Series was created by Herb Meadow, Sam Rolfe and starred John Dehner as Paladin, Ben Wrig...
Article about The Lone Ranger
March 21, 2021 00:02 - 3 minutes - 1.31 MBHI YOU SILVER The radio image
BOGART Theater of Romance "One Way Baggage"
March 20, 2021 23:26 - 24 minutes - 11 MBFrom December 18, 1945 with Joan Bennett. Theater of Romance ran for over 12 years between 1943 and 1956 on CBS Radio. The show substituted for a number of shows and changes drastically with content, producers, directors and performers throughout its broadcast history, but all the episodes fall under the broad category of "romance."
DRAGNET "City Hall Bombing"
March 19, 2021 23:44 - 30 minutes - 10.9 MBEpisode 007 aired July 21, 1949 An ex-con bears a grudge against the city of Los Angeles. He wants to blow up city hall unless his demands are met. He has a powerful bomb. The police find 28 sticks of dynamite in his apartment. Only Sergeant Friday has the power to stop this 1950s terrorist attack. Featuring Webb, Barton Yarborough, Parley Baer, Raymond Burr and others.
LONE RANGER "BADGE OF HONOR"
March 18, 2021 15:04 - 19 minutes - 5.1 MBMay 14, 1954 episode from transcription. Many ABC network stations would not clear the series any longer so General Mills distributed the series to individual market stations on a subscription basis. Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting, which were widely used during the "Golden Age of Radio". They provided material—from station-identification jingles and commercials to full-length programs—for use by local stations, which were ...
THE LONER RANGER "BADGE OF HONOR"
March 18, 2021 15:04 - 19 minutes - 5.1 MBMay 14, 1954 episode from transcription. Many ABC network stations would not clear the series any longer so General Mills distributed the series to individual market stations on a subscription basis. Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting, which were widely used during the "Golden Age of Radio". They provided material—from station-identification jingles and commercials to full-length programs—for use by local stations, which were ...
BOGART PRESENTS "Dead Man"
March 16, 2021 17:11 - 32 minutes - 9.99 MBAn unaired pilot for a Bogart-produced anthology series in which Humphrey Bogart plays a railroad policeman who is killed by a young hobo who hears the dead policeman’s voice wherever he goes. Audition Date: September 17, 1949
GUNSMOKE Slades Saloon
March 16, 2021 03:01 - 28 minutes - 13.3 MBA series of murders of men who have been lucky while gambling leads Marshal Dillon to a most unusual killer. Jones’s had been spending time in Dodge City buying supplies and food before he was found laying near his wagon, the horse still hitched, stabbed to death and the three thousand dollars he was carrying was missing. This was the third stabbing in the last two months and Marshall Dillon suspected it was the same killer.
GUNSMOKE "Slades Saloon"
March 16, 2021 03:01 - 28 minutes - 13.3 MBA series of murders of men who have been lucky while gambling leads Marshal Dillon to a most unusual killer. Jones’s had been spending time in Dodge City buying supplies and food before he was found laying near his wagon, the horse still hitched, stabbed to death and the three thousand dollars he was carrying was missing. This was the third stabbing in the last two months and Marshall Dillon suspected it was the same killer.
LONE RANGER - 1954 05 12 -episode 2547 Infernal Machine
March 14, 2021 21:30 - 24 minutes - 7.5 MBThe Lone Ranger is an American radio and television show created by George W. Trendle and developed by writer Fran Striker.
LONE RANGER "Infernal Machine"
March 14, 2021 21:30 - 24 minutes - 7.5 MBThe Lone Ranger is an American radio and television show created by George W. Trendle and developed by writer Fran Striker. This episode 2547 was transcribed to be aired on May 12, 1954.
DRAGNET "CORDAY CASE"
March 12, 2021 22:37 - 29 minutes - 11 MBA well liked waitress named Helen Corday has been murdered with a steel pipe. The suspect's name is Larson. Somewhere in the tangled web of the city there's a killer on the loose, a young woman has been brutally murdered, the weapon? A bludgeon. Here sets the scene for another "real life" homicide case for Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero.
BOGART in SUSPENSE a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962.
March 11, 2021 17:48 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBHumphrey Bogart & Lurene Tuttle in "Love's Lovely Counterfeit" by James M. Cain for Suspense Radio. March 8th 1945. The show was on the air for a little over twenty years beginning in January, 1942 and was rarely pre-empted. There were 947 performances. When SUSPENSE left the air, radio was never to see the likes of such a series again. Now the great medium of radio where imagination can run free has been recreated here on RADIOthen.network
The masked man's music
March 03, 2021 18:15 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBThe most popular radio adventure show in history, The Lone Ranger held an audience of millions spellbound for over two decades. Key to its success was the music used on it-music rendered so beautifully, chosen with such delicate precision, that for half a century listeners have frantically searched for an answer to the question, "What was the music used on the Lone Ranger?" This book answers that question and many more, including, "Who performed it?" "Who recorded it?" "When?" "Where?". Set ...
GUNSMOKE BILLY THE KID
March 02, 2021 14:26 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MBThis is the first show of the series. Great old time entertainment. The script, acting and especially the sound effects are excellent. I'm certainly someone who appreciates great, detailed sound effects. A Dutchman draws a lynch mob after the whole town accuses him of murder.
GUNSMOKE "BILLY THE KID"
March 02, 2021 14:26 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MBThis is the first show of the series. Great old time entertainment. The script, acting and especially the sound effects are excellent. I'm certainly someone who appreciates great, detailed sound effects. A Dutchman draws a lynch mob after the whole town accuses him of murder.
DRAGNET "Werewolf"
March 02, 2021 02:13 - 29 minutes - 10.7 MB“Werewolf” aired June 17, 1949. The women are left half-dead, victims of robbery and horrible attacks. “The Werewolf” as dubbed by the local papers, was a maniac that attacked, beat, and robbed 18 victims. The attacks are so brutal leaving the women in the hospital with horrible wounds, that Joe Friday fears the Werewolf will kill…and he’s right.
DRAGNET Werewolf
March 02, 2021 02:13 - 29 minutes - 10.7 MB“Werewolf” aired June 17, 1949. The women are left half-dead, victims of robbery and horrible attacks. “The Werewolf” as dubbed by the local papers, was a maniac that attacked, beat, and robbed 18 victims. The attacks are so brutal leaving the women in the hospital with horrible wounds, that Joe Friday fears the Werewolf will kill…and he’s right.
NBC RECOLLECTIONS...RADIOthen.network
July 10, 2019 15:21 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBTo celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the company, NBC created a series of shows called Recollection at 30. Using a vast number of archival recordings, Recollection at 30 would assemble some of these transcriptions into a 25-minute show. TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES BOB BURNS ON BING CROSBY SHOW OLYMPIC WINNER JESSE OWENS DEMARCO SISTERS SINGERS HOWARD AND SHELDON COMEDIANS
JOHN DEHNER...RADIOthen.network
July 09, 2019 15:12 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBJohn Dehner (born November 23, 1915 – February 4, 1992) was an American actor and animator. He played roles in radio, television, and film, often as droll villains. Between 1940 and 1989, he appeared in over 260 films, television series, and made-for-television movies. RADIO: As Paladin "Have Gun Will Travel" and J B. Kendall in "Frontier Gentleman".
Creation of GUNSMOKE...RADIOthen.network
July 08, 2019 17:26 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBGunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The radio version ran from 1952 to 1961 and is commonly regarded as one of the finest radio dramas of all time.
The AFRS Story...American military radio
July 07, 2019 20:18 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThe American Forces Network (AFN) is the broadcast service operated by the United States Armed Forces' American Forces Radio and Television Service for its entertainment and command internal information networks worldwide. The AFN worldwide radio and television broadcast network serves American servicemembers, Department of Defense and other U.S. government civilians and their families stationed at bases overseas, as well as U.S. Navy ships at sea. AFN broadcasts popular American radio and ...
E G MARSHALL...CBS MYSTERY THEATER
July 05, 2019 12:40 - 54 minutes - 50 MBThe format was similar to that of classic old time radio shows like The Mysterious Traveler and The Whistler, in that the episodes were introduced by host E. G. Marshall who provided pithy wisdom and commentary throughout. Unlike the hosts of those earlier programs, Marshall is fully mortal, merely someone whose heightened insight and erudition plunge the listener into the world of the macabre. As with Himan Brown's prior Inner Sanctum Mysteries, each episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater o...
Hollywood Is On The Air
July 02, 2019 18:06 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBREMEMBER RADIO Comedy and Variety shows MEMORY MOMENTS MONTAGE
NEWS Reporting
July 02, 2019 15:05 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBGolden radio memories of news reporting hosted by Frank Knight. 1920's and 1930's. KDKA, Luck Lindy, Amos and Andy, Eddie Cantor, Billy Sunday, FDR, E C Hill, Hindenburg blimp crash with Herb Morrison.
NEWS Reports in old time radio
July 01, 2019 19:25 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBOld Time Radio NEWS Reporting in the 1930s. BBC, NBC. British monarchy, WWII, Submarine rescue, Hitler speech, Britian declares war and Beethoven symphony excerpt.
FRED FOY...Lone Ranger
June 30, 2019 17:37 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBFRED FOY best known Lone Ranger announcer and narrator.
BRACE BEAMER...LONE RANGER
June 30, 2019 15:14 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBA Tribute to the radio actor who is most remembered as the Lone Ranger. Brace Beemer (December 9, 1902 – March 1, 1965) was an American radio actor and announcer at radio station WXYZ (AM), Detroit, Michigan. He is best known as the radio voice of the Lone Ranger.