Old Time Radio Stories | Old Time Radio

Old Time Radio Stories | Old Time Radio

Old Time Radio Stories | Old Time Radio brings you unforgettable drama, mystery, suspense, crime, horror, science fiction, Westerns, and adventure from the golden age of radio. Discover legendary programs, memorable performances, and compelling stories from broadcasting’s greatest era. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. From celebrated classics to forgotten gems, Old Time Radio Stories is curated for listeners who love timeless storytelling and vintage entertainment. Rediscover classic old time radio shows, vintage radio drama, mystery, suspense, crime, horror, sci-fi, Westerns, adventure, and golden age radio. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/old-time-radio-stories-old-time-radio--7218844/support.

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September 13, 2026 30 mins
Escape presents “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 29, 1948. Episode 51 adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s darkly fantastical short story, with a radio script by Les Crutchfield and direction by William N. Robson.

College student John Unger accepts classmate Percy Washington’s invitation to an isolated Montana retreat, where astonishing wealth and a legendary diamond con...
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Suspense presents “Formula for Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 10, 1962. This late-run episode is number 929 in the series.

A vital defense project depends on a brilliant, reclusive scientist and the complex optical formula only he can create. As Colonel Humboldt and Dr. Fernald attempt to secure its delivery, the scientist’s fear of espionage turns a routine handoff into an unsettling mystery. ...
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September 8, 2026 20 mins
Gunsmoke presents “Minnie,” episode 455, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on December 25, 1960. William Conrad stars as Marshal Matt Dillon, with Parley Baer as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNear as Doc Adams. The episode was written by John Meston and Norman Macdonnell, who also produced and directed the series.

In 1870s Dodge City, Minnie Higgins arrives at Doc Adams’s office with a bulle...
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X Minus One, “The Moon Is Green,” originally broadcast January 2, 1957, is episode 82. Adapted by George Lefferts from Fritz Leiber’s 1952 Galaxy Science Fiction story, this NBC sustaining drama features Joyce Gordon, Bill Lipton, and Ian Martin.

After the next atomic war, Effie and her husband Hank live sealed inside a protective shelter, certain the contaminated world outside is deadly. When Effie opens a...
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Escape presents “Benscelina and the Fisherman,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on June 10, 1954. This is episode 213 of the series.

An English visitor on a trout-fishing holiday in County Mayo, Ireland, encounters Benscelina, a young Romani woman, on the lonely moorland. When danger closes in around her caravan camp, the two make a desperate bid for safety across the rugged countryside. Written by John Dehner ...
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Molle Mystery Theatre presents “Killer Come Back to Me,” originally broadcast on NBC on May 17, 1946. Episode 32 is a radio adaptation by Joseph Ruscoll of Ray Bradbury’s short story “Killer, Come Back to Me!”

After a bank robbery leaves young hood Johnny Broghman wounded, the formidable Julie Barnes draws him into a deeper Los Angeles underworld scheme shaped by obsession, manipulation, and an ...
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Lux Radio Theatre presents “These Three,” episode 153, originally broadcast on CBS on December 6, 1937. Hosted by Cecil B. DeMille, this Lux adaptation of the 1936 film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Errol Flynn, and Mary Astor.

On a Massachusetts farm, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie build a girls’ boarding school through hard work and friendship. Their hopes for the school are shaken when troubled students become ...
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Dimension X presents “Mars Is Heaven,” episode 33, originally broadcast on NBC on January 7, 1951. This Ernest Kinoy radio adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s story features Wendell Holmes as Captain John Black and Peter Capell as Dr. Horst.

In 1987, Earth’s first expedition to Mars lands amid heavy mist and finds an impossible sight: a familiar small American town that seems lifted from the 1920s. As Captai...
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Suspense presents “Report from a Dead Planet,” originally broadcast on CBS on July 10, 1960. Listed as episode 861, this late-era science-fiction mystery was written by George Bamber and produced and directed by Paul Roberts.

A four-person space-exploration crew lands on a newly discovered world that appears to have no living inhabitants. As Dr. Siddons, the Captain, Lt. Jeffries, and Collins investigate the eeri...
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Gunsmoke presents “Matt for Murder,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on July 26, 1954. Episode 119 stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, with Parley Baer as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and John Dehner as Wild Bill Hickok. Written by John Meston and directed by Norman Macdonnell.

Back in Dodge City, Matt faces a grave accusation when cattle buyer Red Samples arrives with the body of Lou Price and cla...
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X Minus One presents “Jaywalker,” episode 47, originally broadcast on NBC on April 17, 1956. Adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Ross Rocklynne’s short story, first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in December 1950, the drama features Bob Hastings, Raymond Edward Johnson, Terri Keane, and Connie Lienke.

On an Earth-to-Moon passenger flight, a pilot discovers that his estranged wife has boarded unde...
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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Melody of Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on April 22, 1944. Episode 173 stars film favorite Mary Astor as Anne, with Raymond Edward Johnson as the series’ memorable host. The original radio play was written by Robert Tallman and Robert Sloane and directed by Himan Brown.

Newly betrothed Anne meets a café violinist who warns her never to hear a particular melody. Wh...
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Lux Radio Theatre presents “The Man Who Played God,” episode 168, originally broadcast on March 21, 1938. This Lux-sponsored CBS drama stars George Arliss, returning to the role he played in the 1932 Warner Bros. film, with Florence Arliss and Dolores Costello. Cecil B. DeMille hosts.

Celebrated concert pianist Montgomery Royle faces a life-changing crisis after a violent attack at a royal performance leaves him ...
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Escape presents “The Man Who Would Be King,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 1, 1948. Episode 48 adapts Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale, with Ben Wright starring in this return performance.

In British India, soldiers of fortune Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan announce an audacious plan to cross the northern frontier and make themselves kings in a remote mountain land. With rifles, disguises, and a s...
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Dimension X presents “Nightmare,” episode 36, originally broadcast on NBC on June 10, 1951. Adapted by George Lefferts from Stephen Vincent Benét’s poem “The Revolt of the Machines,” the drama features John Gibson, Rita Lynn, Joseph Julian, and Joe DeSantis.

At Long Island’s Brook Meadow atomic-pile project, statistician Samson Gurney detects an unsettling pattern behind a string of suppos...
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Gunsmoke presents “Maw Hawkins,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 8, 1959. Episode 361 stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, with Parley Baer as Chester.

A stagecoach carrying a large cash shipment is headed back toward Dodge, with Chester aboard, when Maw Hawkins pressures her son into a dangerous holdup. Written by Tom Hanley and directed by Norman Macdonnell, the episode also features Jeanette Nolan...
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Suspense presents “One Way Street,” episode 229, originally broadcast on CBS on January 23, 1947. Roddy McDowall stars in this tense drama, written by Robert L. Richards and Sanford Schlessinger and directed by William Spier.

In postwar London, a young man returns to the slum neighborhood of his childhood, hoping to escape its hard limits. Instead, he is drawn back into the orbit of his crooked Uncle Bert and the...
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The Whistler presents “Death in Sixteen Millimeter,” originally broadcast on July 17, 1949. Episode 372 of the CBS Pacific network series was sponsored by Signal Oil.

On the Southern California coast, ambitious estate manager Paul Benton finds himself caught between an unhappy marriage and his wealthy client, Cynthia. With a 16-millimeter camera close at hand, a calculated plan unfolds amid Malibu waters, money, ...
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Lux Radio Theatre presents “Mister Blandings Builds His Dream House,” episode 671, originally broadcast on CBS on October 10, 1949. Cary Grant reprises his film role as New York advertising man Jim Blandings, with Irene Dunne as his wife, Muriel, in this adaptation of Eric Hodgins’s novel and the 1948 RKO film.

Tired of their cramped Manhattan apartment, Jim and Muriel buy what seems to be an affordable cou...
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X Minus One presents “Drop Dead,” episode 108, originally broadcast on NBC Radio Network on August 22, 1957. This sustaining-program science-fiction drama adapts Clifford D. Simak’s 1956 Galaxy Science Fiction novelette, with radio adaptation by Ernest Kinoy.

An Earth expedition reaches an unexplored planet and finds a single, strangely accommodating native creature known as the Critter. As the explorers ev...
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