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
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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April 12, 2024 • 30 mins
House Of Mystery - A Gift from the Dead
1947
Stars-John Griggs as Roger Elliot
The story of a sleepy ghost named Wilbur. Roger Elliot & Friend Paul Sheldon were invited by Paul’s sister to her home, then saddened of her husband's death, with cancelling the invitation Jane’s husband had returned from the dead…
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April 11, 2024 • 27 mins
Box 13 - Insurance Fraud Scheme
1948
Alan Ladd, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Betty Lou Gerson,
Luis Van Rooten, John Beal & Frank Lovejoy
A doctor, dead for almost seven years, is suspected of still being alive...
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April 10, 2024 • 27 mins
Bold Venture - Voodoo Vendetta in Paradise
or Search For Tommy Reed
1950s
Stars-Humphrey Bogart, Lauren BaCall
Jester Hairston as King Moses & Betty Lou Gerson
A murderess searching for Tommy Reed traps Slate and Sailor. She uses poisoned darts and voodoo while Sailor slowly dies.
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April 9, 2024 • 30 mins
Under Arrest - Max Kemp
1948
Announcer-Ted Mallie
Joe De Satis, Margaret Drake, Grant Richards & Roc Rogers
A girl reporter's old friend is seen with Max Kemp, a known gangster. Eddie is forced to supply the alibi for a murder.
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April 5, 2024 • 30 mins
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Jeanne Maxwell Matter
1953
Announcer-Dan Cubberly, w-John Lund, Dick Ryan,
Jeanette Nolan, Howard McNear, Ted de Corsiar,
Virginia Gregg, John McIntyre & Barney Phillips
A choice of a young girl murdered...or suicide...
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April 4, 2024 • 29 mins
Proudly We Hail - Destination Found
1948
C.P. MacGregor, Wendell Niles, w-Gail Patrick
Christine Strokes, who left the security of a university professorship, to teach school in a country town, discoverers both herself and romance.
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April 3, 2024 • 26 mins
Murder At Midnight - Red Wheels
1946
Announcer-Raymond Morgan, w-John Sylvester, Charles Paul,
Jack Gordon, Anton M Leader
"I said put that gun away Joe, stop him Freddy"...
"He can't hear you Smolie"...
"Don't push the switch on me, don't" - sfx- "gunfire."
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April 2, 2024 • 30 mins
Four Star Playhouse - The Hunted
1949
Robert Cummings, Rosalind Russell, Fred Macmurray & Loretta Young
A man helping a damsel in distress, who turns out to be a kleptomaniac.
The relationship soon turns to murder.
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April 1, 2024 • 30 mins
Night Beat - Gus Reed, The Juvenile Gangster
1950
Weaties Man-Frank Martin
Frank Lovejoy, William Conrad, Bea Benaderet,
Jack Crushen, Sheldon Leonard, Jeff Silver and Parley Baer
While doing life for murder, Gus Reed broke jail,
with Neal Ramsay.
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March 29, 2024 • 30 mins
Family Theatre - The Passion and the Death of Christ
Announcer - Tony La Frano
Host - Guy Madison
Ethel Barrymore, Edward Colmans, Norman Field,
Charles Maxwell, Bob Purcell & Janet Scott
The Passion and Death". A dramatized version
of the condemnation and crucifixion.
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