Amazing World of Radio: Recent Episodes
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Today’s Story: During California’s Gold Rush, the legendary outlaw Joaquin Murrieta finds himself torn between vengeance and the possibility of a new life after an unexpected reunion with a woman from his past. As vigilantes close in, Murrieta must choose between love and the destiny that has made him a legend. Original Radio Broadcast: June…
Today’s Story: A down-on-his-luck baseball manager receives some extraordinary help after the prayers of a young orphan are answered. As the Pittsburgh Pirates begin an improbable climb toward the pennant, the team’s remarkable turnaround sparks a debate over faith, miracles, and whether angels really do watch over America’s pastime. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} Original Radio Broadcast: April 6,…
This week in our summer series featuring old-time radio appearances by actors who later played killers on Columbo, we spotlight José Ferrer. Ferrer stars as a French artillery captain condemned by the Spanish Inquisition, who must endure a terrifying psychological ordeal while struggling to preserve his sanity and his hope of survival. Original Radio Broadcast…
This week in our summer series featuring old-time radio appearances by actors who later played killers on Columbo, we spotlight Jackie Cooper. Cooper stars as a young soldier whose life hangs in the balance after a dangerous heart infection resists every available treatment, while researchers at Rutgers University race to perfect a promising new antibiotic…
This week in our summer series featuring old-time radio appearances by actors who later played killers on Columbo, we spotlight Richard Basehart. Basehart stars as a successful attorney whose ties to organized crime leave him caught between a determined district attorney and the dangerous clients who suspect he knows too much. As he tries to…
This week in our summer series featuring old-time radio appearances by actors who later played killers on Columbo, we spotlight Anne Baxter. Baxter stars opposite Don Ameche in a whimsical fantasy set in 1896 about a young newspaper reporter who mysteriously gains access to tomorrow’s newspaper today. As he uses his knowledge of the future…
This week in our summer series featuring old-time radio appearances by actors who later played killers on Columbo, we spotlight Ray Milland. Milland stars as Lieutenant Commander James Harland in a dramatization of the true story of a British gunboat trapped deep in Communist-controlled territory along China’s Yangtze River. Cut off from help, low on…
This week in our summer series featuring old-time radio appearances by actors who later played killers on Columbo, we spotlight Roddy McDowall. McDowall stars as young Ronnie Cavanaugh in a radio adaptation of “The Pied Piper”, the story of an elderly Englishman who reluctantly becomes the protector of a growing band of refugee children as…
This week in our summer series featuring old-time radio appearances by actors who later played killers on Columbo, we spotlight Ross Martin. Martin delivers a memorable performance as Al Smith in this 1950 episode of The Eternal Light, a dramatization of the controversy surrounding Smith’s response to questions about whether his Catholic faith disqualified him…
Welcome to another summer miniseries on The Amazing World of Radio! This time around, we’re featuring actors who played memorable killers on Columbo and revisiting their work from the Golden Age of Radio. Our first featured performer is Eddie Albert, who appeared in the Season One Columbo episode “Dead Weight” as Major General Martin…
Today’s story: The angel death comes for a little girl lying in a hospital bed. Original Radio Broadcast date: April 17, 1949 Originating in New York Starring Cecille Roy, William Marshall, Bess Thompson Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show monthly…
Today’s Story: For a change, Gracie decides to get George a new outfit for the Easter parade. Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.
Today’s Episode: The classic story of the March sisters coming of age. Original Air Date: December 23, 1945 Starring Katherine Hepburn as Jo Marsh, Elliott Reid, Frances Reid, George Hicks,Oskar Homolka, Susan Douglas Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show monthly…
Today: A broadcast of the most beloved Hawaiian songs of 1949 as the popular series bids aloha to 1949. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 29, 1949 Originating from Honolulu Hosted by Webley Edwards Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show…
Charles Dickens’ classic tale of Ebenezer’s life-changing encounter with three spirits on Christmas Eve. Original Air Date: December 24, 1939 Narrated by Orson Welles Starring: George Coulouris; Bea Benaderet; Ray Collins; Everett Sloane; Frank Readick Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…http://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the…
The Comic Weekly Man comes for a weekly visit right before Christmas and reads strips from Puck: The Comic Weekly, including Flash Gordon, Dick’s Adventures, Rusty Riley, Donald Duck, Uncle Remus, Roy Rogers, Blondie, and Prince Valiant. Original Air Date: December 24, 1950 Originating from New York Starring: Lon Clark as the Comic Weekly Man…
Today’s Story: A writer who has cast herself as America’s favorite homemaker in her columns faces ruin when her publisher and a war-hero sailor are set to visit her non-existent farm. She agrees to marry a long-time suitor and use his farm for a Christmas celebration. Complications ensue when she falls for the sailor. Original…
Theatre Guild on the Air’s 1950 production of State Fair offers a gentle, nostalgic journey into the heart of Midwestern life, carried by the warmth of its performances and the shimmer of remembered summers. The Frake family—father Abel, mother Melissa (Gene and Kathleen Lockhart), and their nearly grown children Margie (June Lockhart) and Wayne (Dick…
Today’s story: Henry Aldrich gets his classmates to agree to a turkey run after a school dance in hopes of finding a use for an unwanted live turkey from a country uncle. However, complications ensue. Original AIr Date: November 25, 1948 Starring: Ezra Stone as Henry Aldrich Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast.…
Today’s story: A lawyer wonders why his friend Dr. Jeckyll has formed an association with the wicked, Edward Hyde. Original Radio Braodcast: Janua Read more ...
Today’s Story: During the War between the Yorks and Lancasters in 15h Century England, a young man witnesses the murder of a friend with a black a Read more ...
Today’s Story: A gambler murders a pawn broker on Christmas Eve and is haunted by it. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 24, 1947 Origina Read more ...
Today’s Story: The eldest of two brothers is presumed dead in war and the youngest marries his sweetheart and iherits the estate. Conflict comes when the Read more ...
A bored crown prince, looking for excitement, joins a club of men who want to end their lives. Original Air Date: Sometime between 1947 and 1949 Read more ...
Today’s story: In fifteenth-century Paris, a roguish poet finds himself on the run, wanted for a murder he didn’t commit Original Rad Read more ...
Today’s Story: Jim Hawkins acquires a treasure map and is named cabin boy on The Hispanola where he encounters adventures, pirates, and mutiny Read more ...
In 1429, a man, fleeing for his life, goes through a door that will let him in but not out, and finds himself in the hands of a host who makes most unusual dem Read more ...
David Balfour escapes the sea only to find himself a victim of circumstance who is running for his life and wanted for murdering a King’s Agent. O Read more ...
Today: A Jacobite takes refuge on the ship and pays for passage. David faces a moment of decision when the Captain asks him to help murder their guest. Original Air Date: May 7, 1948 Originating in Chicago Starring: Phil Fine as David Balfour, Larry Alexander as Alan Brechk Stewart, Jess Pugh, Marvin Piesner, Cliff Norton,…
Today’s Story: David Balfour’s father has died and left him a letter of introduction to his uncle in the Scottish lowlands. He finds his unc Read more ...
Today’s story: A man buys a lamp that grants his every wish for three cents … but with a catch. Original Radio Broadcast Date: Decemb Read more ...
A rural doctor adopts the serious-minded young servant of a deceased clown and then stumbles on a fabulous treasure. Original Air Date: July 16, 1950
The classic story of a mild-mannered scientist who turned into the beastly Edward Hyde. Original Air Date: October 15, 1946 Starring: William Con Read more ...
Today’s Story: The story of the events after the Crucifixion of Jesus leading up to Easter. Original Air Date: April 6, 1947 Go to
In an Easter program with Spike Jones and his orchestra is an Arkansas Traveler sketch, in which the Traveler is asked to judge an Easter beauty conte Read more ...
A photographer is fired after Shorty turns her pictures in to an editor. Original Air Date: June 27, 1948 Starring: Mickey Rooney as Shorty Bell; Read more ...
Today’s Episode: Shorty goes to state prison to cover the death of an old political boss. He encounters a boxing hero, and learns something that s Read more ...
Today’s Story: Shorty sells a story to a Hollywood movie studio but lands in hot water with his editor, as he wrote it on company time. Ori Read more ...
The trials and tribulations of a disenchanted owner of a tourist campa on Christmas eve. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 17, 1948 Starrin Read more ...
A program of Christmas program with show regulars Bob Hannon, Evelyn MacGregor, The Knightsbridge Chorus, The American Melody Orchestra. Frank Black Conducting Read more ...
After finding out that Dagwood’s boss, Mr. Dithers, bought a bunch of cheap presents for disadvantaged children at a home, the Bumsteads tr Read more ...
Today’s story: At the end of the war, three officers from different countries find themselves as the wise men. Original Broadcast Date: Dec Read more ...
Actress Jan Minor hosts this program, featuring real audio tape of the writer of The Second Mrs. Burton. Hector Chevigny works with his secretary to c Read more ...
A radio biography of the White House, from John Adams to Woodrow Wilson. Original Air Date: November 2, 1956 Go to
Today’s story: Martians invade the Earth in the mid-1950s. Original Air Date: February 8, 1955 Originating in Hollywood Starr Read more ...
A young man (James Earl Jones) gets more than he bargains for when he holds up a diner near the highway. Original Air Date: May 4, 1965 Starring: Read more ...
Today’s Story: A woman struggling with depression turns to a Salvation Army major for help. Original Air Date: October 14, 1966 Star Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. In our final week, we focus on Zsa Zsa Gabor, who played Mine Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: A man is murdered after having a fight with his wife over their child. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 19, 1949 Originating f Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week, we focus on Tallulah Bankhead, who played the Blac Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week we focus on Liberace, who played music-based villai Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week, we look at Vincent Price, who played the recurring Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week we turn our focus to Eli Wallach, a legendary chara Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week our focus is on Milton Berle, who played Louie the Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This time we turn to Ida Lupino, who played Cassandra Spellcr Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This time, we turn to Art Carney who played the Robin Hood-inspired cr Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week, we turn to Cesar Romero, who pl Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. For this week’s episode, we’re taking a look at Van Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 “Batman” TV series. This week we feature Ethel Merman, who played Lola Lasag Read more ...
We continue our look at actors who portrayed villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week we turn to Burgess Meredith, who played the Penguin and w Read more ...
We begin a series looking at radio performances by actors who played villains in the 1960s Batman TV series. This week, we focus on Barbara Rush, who Read more ...
An adaptation of Lew Wallace’s classic novel of Judah Ben-Hur, a 1st Century Jewish man unjustly imprisoned by the decree of his ambitious best friend.
Today’s Story: Phil’s plans for Easter go awry when, instead of using the sponsor’s product, he shampoos his hair with leftover easter Read more ...
Today we hear the story of Eliza Ann Brooks who, in 1852, set off alone with her children to make the perilous journey to California. Original Radio Bro Read more ...
Today’s Episode: A look at the role women played in nutrition and providing quality food from the time of the pilgrims to the then-modern time.
Today’s Story: In the early 18th Century in colonial New York, Anna Zenger tries to save her husband, printer Peter Zenger, while also trying to s Read more ...
Today’s Episode: A look at women who fought for freedom of religion, speech, and the abolition of slavery. Original Radio Broadcast Date: O Read more ...
Today’s story: A young architect has a big break, taking charge of development in a small Connecticut town. However, a beautiful woman and her gra Read more ...
Today’s story: In Strausburg, a Salvation Army Major tries to help a Jewish shop owner who believes his landlord is trying to drive him out. < Read more ...
John Charles Thomas and the Chaffey College Symphonic Choir perform traditional Christmas carols in support of Christmas Seals. Original Air Date: Decen Read more ...
An escape German POW will die if Dr. Christian doesn’t perform emergency surgery. He’s not sure if he wants to operate. Original Radio Broad Read more ...
The AFRTS broadcasts a Christmas Specatcular which is taken from the Annual Los Angeles Examiner Christmas Benefit on December 7, 1956. Among those appe Read more ...
Leopold Stoknowski hosts a Thanksgiving musical party for 1,400 children at Radio City, playing a variety of classical and popular music as well as music writt Read more ...
The premiere of The Woolworth Hour, featuring guest appearances by Tony Bennett, Ray Walston, and Gisele MacKenzie. Features Percy Faith and Read more ...
The story of a New York Advertising executive and the ordeal of building a home in Connecticut. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 10, 1949 O Read more ...
Muriel prepares to celebrate the first anniversary of moving in by recalling the day they moved in … and got lost on the way there. Audition Date: Read more ...
Jim is pressured into playing the lead in an experimental charity play. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 10, 1951 Originated from Hollywood
Muriel tries to remind Jim of an appointment, but he thinks he’s forgotten an anniversary. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 13, Read more ...
Jim decides to renovate the barn. Did he learn anything from building the house? Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 5, 1951 Orig Read more ...
Jim talks the town leaders into setting up a program to take local kids into nature, and is chagrined when he finds himself chosen for the tas Read more ...
Today’s Plot: An old girlfriend is in town and Jim doesn’t want Muriel to know. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April Read more ...
A stressed-out Jim and Muriel take a vacation to the site of their honeymoon. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 8, 1951 Origin Read more ...
Plot: Jim is apointed acting Justice of the Peace just as Bill gets a traffic ticket. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 1, 19 Read more ...
Frustrated by a seemingly endless series of repairs, Jim decides to sell the house. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 18, 1951 < Read more ...
Jim is furious when Muriel buys a television set but changes his mind when he’s invited to be a panelist on a TV show. Original R Read more ...
Jim gets a rare day off from work that gets spoiled when the girls come down with measles (or maybe athlete’s foot). Original Rad Read more ...
A new highway is being planned through the middle of the Blandings’ home. Audition Day: November 8, 1950 Originated from H Read more ...
A New York City advertising executive (Cary Grant) throws his life into chaos when he decides to move to rural Connecticut. Original Ai Read more ...
A New York City advertising executive (Cary Grant) throws his life into chaos when he decides to move to rural Connecticut. Original Ai Read more ...
Harry Bellafonte performs songs and encourages listeners to purchase U.S. Savings Bonds. Original Air Date: November 6, 1955 Go t Read more ...
A Roman centurion (Everett Clark) recounts his experience during Holy Week and Easter. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 5, 1947 Read more ...
Luigi decides to throw a combination Easter/surprise birthday party for Rosa, but Pasquale complicates matters by taking the money for the par Read more ...
A wealthy woman (Barbara Stanwyck) overhears two men planning a murder on the phone. (Burt Lancaster co-stars.) Original Radio Broadcas Read more ...
A former romantic rival arrives in a new car with loads of cash, leading riveter Chester Riley (William Bendix) on a quest to become successfu Read more ...
Lum ‘n Abner go to Washington to try to get the government a design for synthetic rubber that Abner inadvertently invented. Origi Read more ...
The Great Gildersleeve gets jury duty and is determined to turn in a just decision, even when the defendant’s gang tries to bribe him.
After hearing a voice, Fibber McGee goes to Washington to speak for the common man. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1947
A program of holiday music featuring David Rose and his orchestra, and Frank Sinatra. Radio Broadcast Date: December 19, 1948 Go Read more ...
Today’s Golden Age of Radio Episode: Service men stationed in Germany after World War II plan a Christmas Party.
A combined Christmas program for four soap operas sponsored by Proctor and Gamble. Original Air Date: December 25, 1946< Read more ...
Ozzie and Harriet make a pact to count their new radio phonograph as their joint Christmas present. Original Radio Broad Read more ...
The life story of the First Thanksgiving and the Native American who befriended the Pilgrims, Original Air Date: Novembe Read more ...
Archie hatches a scheme to get Duffy to fund a motion picture based on his life with help from guest star Larry Storch. Original Air Date: January 11, 1 Read more ...
There’s mutiny at sea and the ship’s captain is locked up with a cabin boy and another crew member. Original Air Date: 1948 Go to
A professional cow-puncher buys his own ranch at last but finds it difficult. Can an eccentric tenant farmer help him? Original Air Date: 1942 Go Read more ...
Two card sharks seek to change their fortunes by hustling a writer. Original Air Date: 1948 Go to h Read more ...
A grifter running an airplane ride gets a soft spot for a desperate father who needs his sick son flown to the city. Original Air Date: 1942 Go t Read more ...
In The Professor Goes to the Museum, Cosmo Jones has a crazy scheme to catch an art thief. From Nightcap Yarns. Original Air Date: March Read more ...
A flight instructor refuses an offer to test-pilot the latest military aircraft. Original Air Date: 1948 Go to
A man who loves trying new things accidentally finds himself working for an organized crime syndicate. Original Air Date: 1942 Go Read more ...
A butler cheating his employer is haunted by the surprise appearance of a red macaw. Original Air Date: 1948 Go to
The presence of a beautiful vacationer creates tension between two friends on a ranch. Original Air Date: March 29, 1939 Go to
Two men journey through a jungle notorious for its mirages in order to stake their claim to a mine. Original AIr Date: 1948 Go to
A gangster’s plan for a $500,000 bank robbery is complicated by a young man who unexpectedly tries to stop the robbery and is killed. Original Air Read more ...
In order to protect his daughter’s happiness, a little man challenges the town bully to a rifle duel. Original Air Date: 1948 Go to
A doctor contacts Karin and asks for a meeting, as he may have to a clue to an infamous Soviet Agent she’s pledged to end. Original Read more ...
The story of a Salvation Army worker’s fight against the inhumane conditions at Devil’s Island. Original Air Date: April 3, 1947 Go t Read more ...
Gorgeous Frog learns who his opponent is for his wrestling match…the Easter Bunny. Original Air Date: April 16, 1949 Go to
A man follows an attractive girl into Panama off a ship and sees her stab someone in an alley before returning to the ship. Original Air Read more ...
A young heir witnesses his guardian pushing a man off a cliff and thinks he can use it as leverage to gain control of his estate. However, when Read more ...
A gangster’s life is threatened along with two people he’s never heard of. He hires a private eye to find out what the connection is Read more ...
A man who lives according to the odds robs a sailor of his lottery winnings and returns home to the States. Original Air Date: March 17, Read more ...
A man who was arrested for accidentally killing a beloved local man goes on the run. Original Air Date: September 12, 1954 Go to < Read more ...
An architect who murdered his aunt for her money and gets a developed picture from the drug store that indicates someone knows about it. Read more ...
Oscar Brand hosts and examines the songs sung about Abraham Lincoln and the songs he sang. Original Air Date: April 4, 1961 Go to Read more ...
Fibber McGee and Molly help out a young medical secretary (Betty White) who broke up with her boyfriend. Molly just wants to be a friend, but Fi Read more ...
A retelling of the Nativity story. Original Air Date: December 21, 1947 Go to http:/ Read more ...
Bing Crosby hosts a program of Christmas music featuring performances from across America and around the World. Original Air Date: Decemb Read more ...
On Christmas Eve, three shady characters drive to a barn in a small Pennsylvania town to recover a payroll that one of them had stolen, only to Read more ...
John Nesbitt tells the story of how a social worker founded the Christmas seals in a quest to save a sanitarium for the care of people with tube Read more ...
A fourteen-year-old boy (Dean Stockwell) creates imaginary parents after his old friend in the orphanage is adopted. Go to
A half hour of fun with Durante and Moore including their Thanksgiving “opera” about the Courtship of Miles Standish. Origina Read more ...
Two American G.I.’s in Casablanca meet a young Moroccan Jew and encourage his dream of going to Jerusalem. Features Ed Asner. Origi Read more ...
The story of the effort to swear in immigrants serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Original Air Date: 1949 Go to
A young man travelling across country keeps seeing the same hitchhiker over and over again. Original Air Date: June 21, 1946 Go to Read more ...
A middle aged man returns to the site of a doomed Summer romance from his youth. Original Air Date; September 6, 1946 Go to
Frances cooks for the church social auction while the men of the cast connive to outdo each other to get lunch with Frances. Original Air Read more ...
Frances is taken to a baseball game by her guyfriend. Original Air Date: June 5, 1947 Go to
The story of the FBI’s pursuit of a convicted killer who had become a Southern folk legend. Original Air Date: August 11, 1950 Read more ...
After Topper’s lady friend asks him to confide in her, he informs her that’s he’s been seeing two mischievous ghosts. She resp Read more ...
The classic story of the plot against Julius Caesar. Original Air Date: July 26, 1937 Go to
A true-crime radio program lays out the facts in the murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles and offers a $5,000 reward for her murderer’ Read more ...
A woman (Rosalind Russell) with a big personality but no talent gets a shot at making it big in Hollywood. Her publicity agent (Frank Lovejoy) b Read more ...
A disfigured woman has isolated herself in a cottage that served as a wealthy family’s honeymoon location for decades. Original Air Read more ...
The confession by a young college student of how he was drawn into a crime by another man who looks similar to him and has the same birthdate.
Meredith Willson presents a lost composition inspired by a songbird and John Nesbitt tells the story of the writing of Mein Kampf. Origin Read more ...
Meredith Willson plays a lost song and plays folk songs of the future. John Nesbitt tells the story of a persistent newspaper in World Wa Read more ...
The story of four heroic chaplains aboard a doomed ship. Original Air Date: August 19, 1945 Go to
A banker decides to give up his job and move his wife and daughter to a rundown farm. Audition Date: March 30, 1950 Go to
A half hour Easter program of poems read by Janet Logan mixed with classical music. Original Air Date: April 17, 1949 Go to
Riley’s Uncle Baxter wants Riley to buy him a new best suit so he can be recognized as the best dressed man on Easter. Original Air Da Read more ...
The rehearsal for the Lux Radio theater adaptation of the Disney classic including many members from the original cast including Kathryn Beaumont ( Read more ...
Alice continues her journey across the chess board in hopes of becoming a queen. Original Air Date: Decemebr 30, 1937 Go to
Alice journeys into the looking glass and finds herself travelling across a chess board. Original Air Date: December 23, 1937 Go to
Alice goes to a tea party at the house of the March Hare. Original Air Date: October 3, 1937 Go to
Alice follows a White rabbit into the bizarre world of Wonderland. Original Air Date: September 26, 1937 Go to
Noel Coward’s classic play about the life of the British Marryot family in the three decades after the turn of the century. Original Read more ...
Elgin’s fourth annaul Christmas Special. Hosted by Don Ameche, featuring Bob Hope, Bob Crosby, Ginny Simms, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, and mor Read more ...
An indigent worker meets a young man who’s run away from home the day before Thanksgiving. Original Air Date: November 24, 1963 Read more ...
A “folk-contata” capturing the national reaction to the assassination of President Lincoln. Original Air Date: March 21, 1944
An examination of little known incidents in the Life of Lincoln through artifacts in the massive Lincoln collection of Oliver R. Barrett. O Read more ...
A look at Abraham Lincoln’s life through poetry and prose written about him. Original Air Date: February 7, 1950 Go to
In the waning days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tries to negotiate a peaceful end to the war despite calls for vengeance. Ori Read more ...
The story of a Jewish immigrant who began a career as a telegraph operator, met Abraham Lincoln, and telegraphed the Emancipation Proclamation to t Read more ...
An overview of Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency and leadership through the Civil War. Original Air Date: February 13, 1940 Go to < Read more ...
Abraham Lincoln risks his political career to defend a fifteen-year-old boy who faces the death penalty. Original Air Date: February 13, 194 Read more ...
The State Auditor is ready to fight a duel with State Representative Abraham Lincoln over some anonymously published letter, the auditor believes L Read more ...
A year in the life of young Abe Lincoln as he moves to town, gets a job in a store, runs for the legislature, and falls in love. Original A Read more ...
A wealthy but plain young woman (Olivia De Havilland) falls in love, but her overbearing father suspects the young man is a fortune hunter. Read more ...
A nurse (Olivia De Havilland) takes the blame for her sister’s mistake that led to a patient’s death and finds herself working in a poo Read more ...
A mild-mannered dentist prepares to gain revenge by killing an ex-friend politician who ruined his life and stole the girl he wanted. Origi Read more ...
The wife (Olivia De Havilland) of a foppish English nobleman (Leslie Howard) is blackmailed to help the revolutionary government of France appreh Read more ...
A woman (Olivia De Haviland) comes to suspect that her husband (William Powell) is a murderer. Original Air Date: September 18, 1944 Read more ...
A nurse to a deceased elderly woman escorting her body to be buried at sea runs into a mysterious man who she falls in love with…even thou Read more ...
The story of Dr. Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) who turned outlaw, slave, and then pirate and the governor’s daughter (Olivia De Havilland) who Read more ...
Kerin travels to Shanghai to thwart a thought by the Communists to sabotage Chinese nationalists using opium. Original Air Date: October 19 Read more ...
An important oil document containing information on U.S. relations with Iran is stolen. Kerin suspects the company president’s son. O Read more ...
Kerin goes to San Francisco to pursue one of the other side’s most dangerous agents who may have his sights sent on U.S. relief supplies to Read more ...
Kerin travels to Bulgaria to rescue the husband of a friend from the Communist Government of Bulgaria, who have brainwashed him. Original A Read more ...
Karin goes to Belgium to find the source of devastating bombs being dropped on London. Original Air Date: August 20, 1950 Go to
Karin investigates the source of a leak that’s going from London directly to Germany. Original Air Date: August 13, 1950 Go to Read more ...
Nazi agents plot to spread a highly infectious disease into the London water supply. Original Air Date: August 6, 1950 Go to
Kerin is ordered to kill a French Count who’s a Nazi Agent. But she refuses to act until she knows what his assignment is. Unknown to her, h Read more ...
Kerin travels to neutral Switzerland and she has to find out what the Germans are planning with Operation Dusk. Original Air Date: July 23, Read more ...
A German employee of the Italian government is murdered after promising to sell Karin information that could bring down the Italian government.
Karin has to smuggle an RAF fighter out of Germany. Original Air Date: July 3, 1950 Go to
Karin goes to Tangiers on a mission for Hiter’s right hand man while also trying to ferrett out the leak with the allied spy network.
The Baroness substitutes herself for a Nazi Agent and finds herself smuggling a Nazi Admiral out of New York…in a coffin. Original Ai Read more ...
Baroness Karin Geza has to intercept a Gestapo Agent carrying a weapon that could turn the course of the War aboard a train to Berlin. Ori Read more ...
Because Joe DiMaggio is sick, the Yankees call for Lou Costello. Original Air Date: April 17, 1947 Go to
An ambitious young pitcher is ready to cheat in a game against Dick Cole and the Parr Academy team so that he looks good for a Major League scout Read more ...
The story of Negro League legend Leroy “Satchel” Paige. Original Air Date: May 15, 1949 Go to
The struggling Los Angeles Dodgers sign an eighteen inch tall Martian pitcher to turn around their fortunes. Original Air Date: April 3, 19 Read more ...
The story of the life and career of baseball legend Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) Original Air Date: October 4, 1943 Go to
In 1774, a young woman risks her life to get a message from her brother’s forces to another group of rebels across British lines. Ori Read more ...
A man with a rare talent for baseball makes it in the big leagues, but also has a rare talent for making up excuses. Original Air Date: Apri Read more ...
Marjorie and Leroy want to go to the Easter Sunrise service and persuade Gildersleeve to go with them. Original Air Date: April 9, 1952 Read more ...
Dick Powell hosts a variety featuring Abbott and Costello and an Easter sketch starring George Raft. Original Air Date: April 21, 1946 Read more ...
A Passion Play produced by Herbert Marshall featuring the voices of Marshall, Robert Young, Victory Jory, and Vincent Price as well as the music o Read more ...
Kirk Douglas makes a guest appearance on the Doris Day Show. Original Air Date: November 25, 1952 Go to
The story of a young boxer’s (Kirk Douglas) rise from obscurity to becoming a boxing champion. Original Air Date: March 17, 1950 Read more ...
A psychiatrist falls in love with his patient and moves her in with his family leading to serious problems. Original Air Date: October 2, 1 Read more ...
A mystery writer with writer’s block discovers a lost Edgar Allan Poe manuscript while visiting London and decides to rewrite it to bring ba Read more ...
A writer sells out to a corrupt political machine boss in order to give a better life to his daughter. Original Air Date: February 8, 1950
A man’s bigoted friend is trapped in bed with a deadly snake, and the only one who can help is a doctor from India. Original Air Date Read more ...
In “Mere Coincidence,” a salesman ends up with someone else’s luggage and then learns the hard way that the owner is a Soviet Ag Read more ...
A woman (Bonita Granville )reflects on her life after death in “The Road to Yesterday” In “the Gift of Life,” a tax Read more ...
A private eye falls for a beautiful woman with thousands of dollars in gambling debts and a rich uncle. Original Air Date: June 12, 1949
A police lieutenant is convinced a local hood (Jack Webb) has committed murder but doesn’t know how he can prove it. Original Air Dat Read more ...
A teenage girl drops out of school and falls into a car theft ring. Original Air Date: November 17, 1946 Go to
Three Adventurers (played by Jack Webb, Elliot Lewis, and Barton Yarborough) arrive in New Orleans to locate a valuable black opal. Auditio Read more ...
An actor on a bus to Hollywood has $15,000 in counterfeit money planted in his coat and a trip to Mexico to get rid of it leads to dangerous adven Read more ...
The world’s most deadly snake escapes aboard a cruise liner. Original Date: October 15, 1947 Go to
Two OSS Agents (Jack Webb and Elliot Lewis) parachute into occupied France to organize resistance to the Nazis to support the Allied invasion. How Read more ...
Jack Webb hosts and performs the roles of all news figures in a news and commentary program in two episodes. First, a profile of segregatio Read more ...
From San Francisco, Jack Webb stars in a sketch comedy show, hosting and playing a variety of parts including Razor Master, Private Detective. Read more ...
Orson Welles stars in a play honoring George Washington’s 209th Birthday. Original Air Date: February 22, 1941 Go to
The story of an orphaned, nonverbal special needs child living on the streets of Bethlehem and a Christmas miracle. Original Air Date: Dece Read more ...
Two young boys encounter a world of pirates, danger, and adventure in a cave on Christmas. Original Air Date: December 20, 1955 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…
A girl (Shirley Temple) gets left by her father at boarding school and needs her grumpy headmaster (Lionel Barrymore) to take her shopping. Original Air Date: December 19, 1941 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the suppor Read more ...
Groucho Marx agrees to bring the Turkey to Dinah Shore’s Thanksgiving Party and he does, but to Dinah’s chagrin, the turkey’s al Read more ...
Two post-war episodes of the Veteran’s Administration sponsored program Here’s to Veterans featuring Eve Arden and Abbott and Costello. Read more ...
A celebration of the 450th Anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America. Original Air Date: October 12, 1942 Go to
The kids want to go to Grass Lake, but Gildersleeve wants to spend his Labor Day weekend relaxing around the house. Original Air Date: Sept Read more ...
A wealthy Victoria lady (Angela Lansbury) becomes fascinated by a new neighbor, who (unknown to her) is a professional fighter. Origin Read more ...
A young ward of a wealthy man becomes the object of a wealthy young man’s unwanted affection, while she’s really in love with her guar Read more ...
A young woman from Paducah on vacation in California falls for a surly beachcomber. Original Air Date: July 18, 1953 Go to
A doctor falls in love with the prisoner who’s volunteered for her medical experiment. Original Air Date: May 24, 1952 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net to subscribe to the podcast. Brought to you by the support of our Patreon listeners…
The arrival of a mysterious stranger (Joseph Cotten) disrupts the world where an unhappy young woman (Angela Lansbury) works as a caretaker for he Read more ...
CBS News covers the vote on the Declaration of Independence. Original Air Date: July 4, 1948 Go to
A female German Spy (Angela Lansbury) falls in love while having to complete a dangerous wartime mission in Turkey. Original Air Date: Augu Read more ...
An aspiring novelist is hired to live in her dream home and try to sell it. Original Air Date: July 18, 1948 Go to
A woman awaiting a divorce in Reno (Angela Lansbury) reflects on her birthdays with her husband. Original Air Date: March 21, 1948 G Read more ...
Angela Lansbury stars as Elizabeth Bennet in this adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic first novel, Pride and Prejudice. Original Air Read more ...
A student doctor’s career is sidetracked when he falls for a bad woman (Angela Lansbury.) Original Air Date: November 14, 1948 Read more ...
A reclusive actress tells a curate and his new assistant the story of the actress’s life and how she came to be a recluse Original Ai Read more ...
An episode of Anthology featuring a variety of poems and music including, “The Man Without a Country.” Original Air Date: May 3 Read more ...
A minister’s daughter falls in love with an adventurer and has to endure long separations. Her faith is tested by an apparent tragedy. < Read more ...
It’s an hour of music on the White Rabbit line. Hosted by Milton Cross. Original Air Date:April 9, 1939 Go to
Barry O’Day returns to help the downtrodden Irish in their rebellion against the English in this adaptation of the Victor Herbert opera. Read more ...
The story of a tailor who served as a spy to George Washington and became privy to a fantastic plot. Original Air Date: February 22, 1943 Read more ...
A couple is separated over a false criminal allegation. Original Air Date: February 14, 1940 Go to
The story of Abe Lincoln’s rise in Illinois from humble country storekeeper to President-elect of the United States. Original Air Da Read more ...
A man decides to teach his niece the true value of matrimony by changing his will to require her and her husband to stay married for ten years before they inherit. If one of them dies, the other inherits everything. Original Air Date: December 31, 1947 Go to http://amazing.greatdetectiv Read more ...
The Railroad Hour has its Christmas Party and performs Holiday music including a portion of the Nutcracker Suite. Features Gordon Macrae. O Read more ...
Faced with potential scandal and jail time, George Bailey is going to commit suicide on Christmas Eve unless an angel (Victor Moore) can stop him. Read more ...
An army truck driver picks up a mysterious soldier on a road in Korea on Christmas Eve. Original Air Date: December 22, 1959 Go to < Read more ...
The sixth annual two-hour long Thanksgiving special. Hosted by Don Ameche. Featuring Jimmy Durante, Garry Moore, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Larry St Read more ...
A Mister President tries to keep peace but finds his son-in-law an obstacle pushing the nation towards Civil War. Original Air Date: August Read more ...
An episode of the Quiz Kids begins with a question about Governor Thomas Dewey’s Presidential campaign. Original August 15, 1948 Read more ...
The key to a fortune in stolen art, and the well-being of starving children in Europe lies with a young woman with amnesia who is kidnapped. < Read more ...
A program that teaches listeners about popular con games through the many misadventures of Mrs. Gullible. Original Air Date: August 15, 194 Read more ...
After a tornado, Dorothy lands in the strange land of Oz to begin an unforgettable journey. Original Air Date: December 25, 1950 Go Read more ...
Sam Spade (Edward G. Robinson) has to solve the murder of his partner, Miles Archer but finds himself embroiled in a tussle between desperate peop Read more ...
An heiress (Claudette Colbert) is running away from home on a cross-country bus. A reporter (Clark Gable) tries to help her in exchange for a stor Read more ...
A gunslinger tries to live a peaceful life on a homestead in a Wyoming but a greedy cattle baron and his men harass the family he’s been hir Read more ...
An aging Broadway Star (Bette Davis) fears she’ll be a supplanted by a young actress (Anne Baxter) who first comes to her as a fan but then Read more ...
A cafe owner (Alan Ladd) meets the woman (Hedy Lamar) who left him on the day the Nazis entered Paris in wartime Casablanca. Original Air D Read more ...
A comedian/singer (Al Jolson) returns to New York for the first time since leaving home and runs into conflict with his father, the cantor at the Read more ...
A socialite (Katherine Hepburn) plans her second marriage but has to deal with interference from her first husband (Cary Grant) and the appearance Read more ...
An insurance agent plots to murder an insured and split the money with the widow. Original Air Date: October 30, 1950 Go to
The Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the classic Disney Animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. The beautiful Snow White flees Read more ...
Val Jean goes into hiding for the rest of his days after Cosette and Marius are married. Original Air Date: September 3, 1937 Go to Read more ...
Valjean goes to the barricade to save Cossette’s beloved Marius who has joined with student revolutionaries. There Valjean has his final rec Read more ...
Val Jean has gotten away from Javert, but has to find a place to raise Cossette and avoid being recaptured. Original Air Date: August 20, 1 Read more ...
Val Jean has been assumed dead after being sent back to the galley and apparently drowning, but Javert doesn’t believe it. Meanwhile, eight Read more ...
Javert offers his resignation after a man is caught and identified as Val Jean. Val Jean has to decide whether to reveal his true identity and ris Read more ...
Val Jean starts a new life and becomes a leading citizen, but Inspector Javert is sure he recognizes him from somewhere. Meanwhile a young single Read more ...
In the first part of Orson Welles’ adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, a man who spent 19 years as a galley slave for stealing Read more ...
Tallulah Bankhead plans a Christmas party for Margaret O’Brien. Features Jimmy Durante, Ed Wynn, and Bert Lahr. Original Air Date: December 24, 1950 Read more ...
A new internist declared dead shows up alive at a hospital on Christmas Eve and partners with a jaded ambulance driver. Original Read more ...
A cult leader turned murderer who Lois sent to Death Row pledges to come back from the dead and get him revenge. Then Lois starts hearing his voice. Original Air Date: October 29, 1949 Read more ...
Clark Kent is accused of a crime while another city, but his alibi is challenged by the testimony of Jimmy Olsen. Original Air Date: March 9, 1949 Read more ...
Everyone has their own Thanksgiving plans. Original Air Date: November 23, 1950 Go to Read more ...
A brother of an old friend of Slate’s shows up to spend time with Slate and asks for Slate’s help. Secretly, he’s on the run fro Read more ...
Two episodes of Bold Venture In That Gun Kills You, a series of murders accompany a married couple from Havana. In The Sea Read more ...
An old girlfriend of Slate’s shows up and drives a wedge between Slate and Sailor, but she has a more nefarious goal in mind. Origina Read more ...
A customer who wanted them to bring merchandise to Cuba doesn’t show up at his scheduled rendezvous with The Bold Venture. When they Read more ...
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Becall guest star in an episode of the Bing Crosby show for Chesterfields. Bing and Becall perform a scene from the Afr Read more ...
Trapped in German East Africa at the start of World War I, a missionary woman and a river boat captain journey down the Ulanga River in a quest to Read more ...
An unaired pilot for a Bogart-produced anthology series in which Humphrey Bogart plays a railroad policeman who is killed by a young hobo who hear Read more ...
An old, experienced prospector (Walter Huston) joins with two young men (Humphrey Bogart and Frank Lovejoy) to hunt for gold on a mountain in Mexi Read more ...
A roguish American boat captain (Humphrey Bogart) tries to stay out of World War II in Martinique but is pulled into a web of intrigue along with Read more ...
A new father (Humphrey Borgart) takes a shine to his new assistant radio man on a Submarine. Unfortunately, the young man is labeled a jinx. < Read more ...
An ambitious hood (Humphrey Bogart) seeks to bring down his boss and forms an alliance with a reform politician’s campaign aide. Orig Read more ...
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman reprise their roles in the radio adaptation of the all-time classic story of love, war, and danger in World War Read more ...
In this 1943 adaptation of the original hard-boiled detective story: Miles Archer, the partner of Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) is killed Read more ...
In this adaptation of both parts of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, in his old age, King Henry has to stave off a revolt led by Hotspur (Hu Read more ...
A stressed out auto company CEO (Herbert Marshall) isn’t sure about his upcoming marriage so he does what any rational person would do and b Read more ...
The lives of a waitress and a drifter are shaken up when a gangster (Humphrey Bogart) takes refuge in an Arizona roadside diner. Original A Read more ...
A tough cop (Edward G. Robinson) is kicked off the force and goes to work for a criminal gang, but one of the bosses’ top Lieutenants (Humph Read more ...
Stroke of Fate asks what would have happened if Alexander Hamilton killed Aaron Burr in their famous duel. Original Air Date: Octo Read more ...
A modern man is taunted in his dreams by Aaron Burr until he realizes that either he or Burr must die. From Suspense. Original Air Read more ...
An account of the events leading up to the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Original Air Date: July 6, 1942 Go to
CBS News reports on the deadlocked presidential election of 1800. Original Air Date: October 31, 1948 Go to
The story of the drafting and passage of the Constitution. From Cavalcade of America. Original Air Date: December 8, 1937 G Read more ...
The story of Colonel Alexander Hamilton and his quest for a command during the Revolutionary War. From Cavalcade of America. Original Air D Read more ...
The Hallmark Playhouse presents the story of Silent Night. Original Air Date: December 23, 1948 Go to
A Christmas episode of Philco Radio time featuring Bing Crosby. Original Air Date: December 24, 1947 Go to
Lou goes hunting for Christmas presents. In the Sam Shovel sketch, Sam encounters a young shoplifter on Christmas Eve. Original Air Date: D Read more ...
Kris Kringle shakes up Macy’s and the world of a little girl and her mother as a court has to decide whether he’s the real Santa Claus Read more ...
The finale of 26 by Corwin focuses on Thanksgiving in war torn 1941. Original Air Date: November 9, 1941 Go to
The all-female orchestra performs half an hour of beautiful music. Original Air Date: February 11, 1945 Go to
Corliss secretly takes a babysitting job so she can raise money to buy her parents a gift. Original Air Date: July 11, 1946 Go to
Two episodes of The Diamond Dramas. In “The Yellow Eye,” Napoleon plans to cease a famous diamond during his occup Read more ...
Jackie plans an opera and tells of his bitter romance with a jukebox Original Air Date: September 24, 1944 Go to
A look at the pilot episode of the legendary Les Paul’s radio show and then another episode of the series. Audition Date: March 30, 19 Read more ...
A disc jockey plots to kill his wealthy wife but needs to find an alibi, and thinks he found it when an engineer with a past. Original Air D Read more ...