Those Old Radio Shows
Those Old Radio Shows bring you back to a much simpler time when the early days of radio were filled with comedy, drama and mystery programs. Unwind with a light-hearted program or become engrossed in a whodunnit. Those Old Radio Shows has something for everyone.
Episodes
May 15, 2024 • 30 mins
Movietown Theatre - Liar
1951
Producer & Announcer-Les Mitchell
Sabu as Napa, Peggy Webber, Dan O'Herlihy, James Hayward,
Francie Hill & Charlie Lund
"Why does your Uncle say you're bad"?
Napa-"I tell lies, big ones, I will teach you how to lie
and you can teach me how to make medicine"
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May 14, 2024 • 30 mins
Manhattan At Midnight - The Foster Family
1940
Announcer-Nelson Case,
Writer-Frank Dolan
Organist-Charles Paul
Peggy Foster is trying to get her no-good brother a job.
A fountain pen given to the brother for his birthday
leads to a shocking discovery...and the brother accused of murder!
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May 10, 2024 • 26 mins
Burns and Allen - Gracie's Mother Visit (AFRTS)
1948
Announcer-Tobe Reed
Host-Meredeth Wilson
George Burns, Gracie Allen & Verna Felton
Gracie's mother is visiting.
She doesn’t approve of her son in law being in show business,
and has concerns, is George a handy man around the house.
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May 9, 2024 • 24 mins
Hall Of Fantasy - Spectre of Denston
1953
Writer-James Workman, Announcer-Harry Elders
w-Eloise Kummer
There was a letter on the table from England. It seems that David Denston’s
uncle had died, an uncle he had never met, and David was the only heir to
the Denston castle and estate.
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May 8, 2024 • 29 mins
Encore Theatre - A Man to Remember
1946
Lionel Barrymore, Griff Barnett, Ken Christy,
Howard Duff, Frank Graham & Jerry Hausner
Lionel Barrymore stars as Dr. Bill Brown. The story, adapted from Kathryn Haviland-Taylor's novel, "Failure," deals with the sacrifices of a small-town doctor who set aside personal security for the welfare of the community.
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May 7, 2024 • 31 mins
Calling All Cars - Murder at Midnight
1938
James E Davis (host, Chief of The Los Angeles Police Department),
Jesse Rosenquist (dispatcher),
Host Fedrick Chales Lindsey
A few friends are on the hunt looking for bootleg liquor.
There's trouble brewing at the San Pedro pier.
An ambulance may be needed.
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May 3, 2024 • 30 mins
John Steele, Adventurer - Comeback
1950
Don Douglas
"One man, consumed by a driving ambition, adds the red color of hate in the blistering heat of the baseball diamond." "Sometimes you can step down, to go upstairs." No credits are given.
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May 2, 2024 • 32 mins
Pat Novak for Hire - Killing in a Church,
Father Lahey Joe Feldman
(United Armed Forces Radio)
1949
Jack Webb
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May 1, 2024 • 29 mins
The Globe Theatre - Man Called X - Goes to Italy or Murder and a Blonde Madonna
Host and stars - Herbert Marshall, w-Hans Conreid,
Female actors not credited.
Director & Producer William N. Robson
1944 (AFRTS)
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April 30, 2024 • 30 mins
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator - The Crimson Queen
Announcer-Carl Carouso
William Gargan & Barbra Weeks
"The major trouble with murder as a career is that it has no future. You come pretty quickly to the end of your rope...and usually it's around your neck."
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April 26, 2024 • 19 mins
The Secrets of Scotland Yard - Great Gold Robbery
Late 1940s
Narrator - Clive Brook
The Secrets of Scotland Yard was a successful crime drama series.
Percy Hoskins, a 1950s crime expert and reporter for the London Daily Express. He knew every nook and cranny in London’s seedier districts and personally reported on many of the major crimes of the day.
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April 25, 2024 • 29 mins
Wanted - Jailbreak - Henry Clay Tolett
1950
Announcers - Fred Collins & Don Pardo
Walter McGraw
Wanted for Jailbreak
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April 24, 2024 • 29 mins
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell - The Unreasonable Aunt
1948
Lawson Zerbe, Elaine Rost and Hal Studer
Frank saves a woman from being cheated out of her soap factory.
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April 23, 2024 • 24 mins
Danger With Grainger - The Arnie Lessick Story
Ray Barrett
1940s
"I've been framed", Arnie Lessick was convicted of one of his crimes,
a conviction which led to murder...
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April 22, 2024 • 60 mins
Lux Radio Theatre - The day The Earth Stood Still
1954
Announcer-Ken Carpenter, Art Linkletter
Producer-Irving Cummings, Narrator-Paul Frees
Michael Rennie, Jean Peters, Lamont Johnston, Herb Butterfield,
Tudor Owen, Billy Gray, Edith Evanson...
An alien from space gives mankind a final chance to achieve world peace.
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April 19, 2024 • 29 mins
Information Please - Sigmund Spaeth & Basil Rathbone
1938
Announcer-Milton Cross, w-Franklin P. Adams
Clifton Fadiman as moderator & Other regulars included Science writer Bernard Jaffe, professor of philosophy Dr Harry Overstreet, Marcus Duffield of the New York Herald-Tribune and later John Kieran a sport's columnist for the New York Times and Oscar Levant a pianist and composer.
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April 18, 2024 • 25 mins
The Adventures Of Sam Spade - The Cheesecake Caper
Based on the stories of: Dashiell Hammett
1949
Announcer-Dick Joy
Howard Duff & Lurene Tuttle
Sam finds $50 and a photo of a blonde in his sandwich.
The three words on the photo say, "Find the girl!"
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April 17, 2024 • 26 mins
Crime Does Not Pay - Operation Payroll
1951
Donald Buka, w-Harold Vermiliar
Follow my lead & we'll come clean as a whistle,
500 Gs to split between us!...
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April 16, 2024 • 24 mins
Mystery Playhouse/Philo Vance - The Girl Who Came back
Narrator-T4Y, w-Jose Ferrer and Francis Robinson
1945
A belief of a girl's death due to a drowning, the body never revcovered.
She then appears at a rich man's home as his daughter. The man claim's he's never seen her before, is she after his money, Philo Vance gets involved.
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April 15, 2024 • 45 mins
The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre - The Return of the Moresbys
1974
Announcer-E.G. Marshall, w-Patrick O'Neal,
Daniel Ocko, Nick Pryor & Marian Seldes
Is there a life after death? Can we come back in the body of a living creature.
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