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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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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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English


Episodes

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

7/12/2023
SUSPENSE - Till-Death-Do-Us-Part - December-15-1942 Starring Peter Lorre, Alice Frost and Mercedes McCambridge.

Duration:00:29:15

July 4 and The Flag

6/30/2023
Stan Freberg presents The United States of America.

Duration:00:14:26

Stan Freberg "The Declaration of Independence"

6/17/2023
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.

Duration:00:06:30

RADIOthen

6/15/2023
Podcast Promo

Duration:00:00:21

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

6/15/2023
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 the series were remakes of scripts that had been used for episodes in earlier seasons of the show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes_(radio_series)

Duration:00:26:04

The Shadow - "When the Grave is Open"

6/14/2023
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 scheme of digging up fresh corpses, then altering them with identifying marks so the burned remains will simulate his clients. The clients then pay hearty for either an insurance payoff or a start on a new life. Unable to retrieve the body with a lame leg, Digger agrees to partner with Koler so the other grave robber, Ryan, can become the next victim. Uncovering the truth from Koler’s latest client, The Shadow sets out to find the proof and interrupts Koller and Digger’s falling out so he can tie them up for the police.

Duration:00:28:38

USAF SERENADE IN BLUE "Cherokee"

6/1/2023
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 conductor. Captain Robert Landers and The Singing Sergeants. Singing Sergeant airman Robert Alan Campbell announcer-producer. Distributed on transcriptions to all USA radio stations.

Duration:00:15:27

SEARS RADIO THEATER "Retribution"

5/31/2023
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, the program moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System and became the Mutual Radio Theater. The Mutual series broadcast repeats from the CBS run until September 1980, when a short season of new dramas was presented. Sears continued as a sponsor during the Mutual run. Monday was "Western Night" and was hosted by Lorne Greene. Tuesday was "Comedy Night", hosted by Andy Griffith. Wednesday was "Mystery Night" with Vincent Price as host. Thursday was "Love And Hate Night" with Cicely Tyson doing honors as host. Finally, Friday brought "Adventure Night", first hosted by Richard Widmark and later by Howard Duff and then by Leonard Nimoy. Actors heard on the series included Parley Baer, Mary Jane Croft, Howard Culver, John Dehner, Virginia Gregg, Janet Waldo, Vic Perrin, Hans Conried, Marvin Miller, Elliot Lewis, Jeff Corey, Lesley Woods, Robert Rockwell, Lurene Tuttle, Eve Arden, Keith Andes, Harriet Nelson, Alan Young, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Lloyd Bochner, Rick Jason, Frank Campanella, Toni Tennille, Arthur Hill, Dan O'Herlihy, Jesse White and Frank Nelson. It was produced and directed by Fletcher Markle and Elliott Lewis. The theme was composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle. Though less long-lived than NPR's Earplay or the Mystery Theater, it was an ambitious attempt to reinvigorate a neglected field. Like Earplay, it was broadcast in stereo.

Duration:00:44:29

SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE "The Fighting O'Flynn"

5/26/2023
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 Assignment, Screen Directors Assignment and, as of July 1, 1949, Screen Directors Playhouse. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best-known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939), and The Corsican Brothers (1941). The son of Douglas Fairbanks and stepson of Mary Pickford.

Duration:00:29:57

SAM SPADE "The Wheel of Life Caper"

5/20/2023
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 see her.

Duration:00:28:42

THE SAINT "Girl In The Lower Berth"

5/19/2023
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, taking over from his brother, George Sanders, in The Falcon's Brother (1942), in which they both starred. He also appeared in several Val Lewton films.

Duration:00:29:27

ROCKY FORTUNE "Psychological Murder"

5/18/2023
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 and later asks Rocky to go over to her home and keep an eye on her for a few days.

Duration:00:25:31

RICHARD DIAMOND "Ralph Chace"

5/16/2023
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 calling cash-strapped Diamond's office and agreeing to his fee of $100 a day plus expenses, or Diamond taking on a case at the behest of his friend and former partner, Lt. Walter Levinson. Diamond often suffers a blow to the head in his sleuthing pursuits. Most episodes end with Diamond at the piano, singing a standard, popular song, or showtune from Powell's repertoire to Helen Asher (his girlfriend) in her penthouse at 975 Park Avenue. Levinson was played variously by Ed Begley, Arthur Q. Bryan, Ted DeCorsia and Alan Reed. Helen was played by Virginia Gregg and others. Another regular cast member was Wilms Herbert as Walt's bumbling sergeant, Otis, who also "doubled" on the show as Helen's butler, Francis. Many of the shows were either written or directed by Edwards. Its theme, "Leave It to Love", was whistled by Powell at the beginning of each episode. (Wikipedia)

Duration:00:28:19

RADIO'S FIRST 50 YEARS "1920's"

5/15/2023
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 has conducted his column in the New York Daily News.

Duration:00:24:42

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

5/14/2023
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.

Duration:00:29:01

PHILO VANCE "The Case of the Cellini Cup"

5/12/2023
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 sought to conceal his authorship of the novels. Van Dine was also a fictional character in the books, a sort of Dr. Watson figure who accompanied Vance and chronicled his exploits. Three radio drama series were created with Philo Vance as the title character. The first series, broadcast by NBC in 1945, starred José Ferrer. A summer replacement series in 1946 starred John Emery as Vance. The best-known series (and the one of which most episodes survived) ran from 1948 to 1950 in Frederick Ziv syndication and starred Jackson Beck. "Thankfully, the radio series uses only the name, and makes Philo a pretty normal, though very intelligent and extremely courteous gumshoe. Joan Alexander is Ellen Deering, Vance's secretary and right-hand woman.”

Duration:00:29:38

PHILIP MARLOWE "Red Wind"

5/11/2023
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.

Duration:00:30:03

PAUL HARVEY "Actor On Death Row"

5/10/2023
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 concluded with a variation on the tag line, "And now you know...the rest of the story." On the majority of radio stations, it often served as a mid-afternoon drive counterpart to Harvey's noontime News and Comment. From its inception, the scripts for the series had been drafted and the broadcasts produced by Harvey's son ⁠Paul Harvey Jr.⁠⁠ who in later years of his father's career also acted as a substitute host.

Duration:00:03:47

PAT NOVAK FOR HIRE "Mysterious Set of Books"

5/6/2023
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 Breen his duties as scriptwriter. The series is popular among fans for its fast-paced, hard-boiled dialogue and action and witty one-liners. ---Wikipedia Pat Novak, for Hire is an old-time radio detective drama series which aired from 1946 to 1947 as a West Coast regional (produced at KGO in San Francisco) program and in 1949 as a nationwide program for ABC. Background 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 Breen his duties as scriptwriter. The series is popular among fans for its fast-paced, hard-boiled dialogue and action and witty one-liners. Synopsis Ladies and gentlemen, the American Broadcasting Company brings to its entire network one of radio's most unusual programs … Pat Novak, for Hire. Pat Novak, for Hire is set on the San Francisco waterfront and depicts the city as a dark, rough place where the main goal is survival. Novak is not a detective by trade, but he owns a boat shop on Pier 19 where he rents out boats and does odd jobs to make money. Each episode of the program, particularly the Jack Webb episodes, follows the same basic formula; a foghorn sounds and Novak's footsteps are heard approaching. He then pauses and begins by wearily saying "Sure, I'm Pat Novak … for hire" (in one episode, "Rory Malone", he opens with "Sure, I'm Pat Foghorn..."). The foghorn repeats and leads to the intro theme, during which Novak gives a monologue about the waterfront and his job renting boats. Jack Webb narrates the story and plays the titular character. A downtrodden cynic, Novak throws off lines such as "...around here a set of morals won't cause any more stir than Mother's Day in an orphanage". He then relates a story about the trouble in which he found himself the past week. Typically, a person unknown to Pat asks him to do an unusual or risky job. Pat reluctantly accepts and finds himself in hot water in the form of an unexplained dead body. Sultry females are usually involved. Police Inspector Hellman (played by Raymond Burr, who often served as the program announcer doing the intro and outro) arrives on the scene and pins the murder on Novak. With only circumstantial evidence to go on, Hellman promises to haul Novak in the next day for the crime. The rapid, staccato dialogue between Webb & Burr is typical of hardboiled fiction and is often humorous. Pat uses the time to try to solve the case. He usually employs the help of "the only honest guy I know", his friend Jocko Madigan (played by Tudor Owen) – a drunken ex-doctor typically found at some disreputable tavern or bar – to help him solve the case. Each time Novak approaches him, Jocko launches into a long-winded philosophical diatribe, full of witty and funny remarks, until Novak cuts him off and asks for his help, which Jocko reluctantly agrees to, always ending their initial conversation with "Good night, Lover". Episode guide

Duration:00:28:50

21st Precinct "The Visitors"

5/5/2023
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 Manhattan but in 1929 the department reorganized the precinct numbering, and the 21st designation was dropped from use. No such precinct existed during the show's run, nor does a 21st exist today. However, the fictional precinct's territory corresponds closely to that of the Upper East Side's 23rd Precinct as it has existed since 1929. Stanley Niss was the producer writer-director. The role of precinct Captain Frank Kennelly was played by Everett Sloane (for the first 109 episodes and briefly in episode 135). During episode 109 Captain Frank Kennelly was promoted to Deputy Inspector and reassigned out of the 21st Precinct. He was replaced by Captain Cronin James Gregory (1955–56) and Les Damon (1956). Other cast regulars were Ken Lynch (as Lt. Matt King), Harold Stone (as Sgt. Waters), Jack Orissa (as Sgt. Collins), and Santos Ortega (as Lt. Gorman).

Duration:00:28:38