Rikki Gins Old Time Radio: Recent Episodes
Rikki Gins Old Time Radio
Suspense. Episode 59, The Night Reveals. An insurance investigator thinks that his wife likes to set fires. (December 9, 1943) You Bet Your Life. [...]
Inner Sanctum. Episode 67, Detour To Terror. A brother, his sister and a dog named Butch find themselves driving along a terror filled road with no curves. (May 21, 1946)
New Adventures of Nero Wolfe. Episode 3, Dear Dead Lady. Nero orders a humongous amount of food and drink, which he never seems to pay for, before embarking on a search for whoever killed the dear, dead lady. (November 3, 1950)
Escape. Episode 69, Red Wine. The great Jeff Chandler joins us to present a jungle adventure that was broadcast on August 11, 1949. (The exact date that Yours Truly was born on.)
Richard Diamond. Episode 11, The Lynn Knight Case. Lynn is a nightclub photographer who is fired for taking someone’s picture who she shouldn’t have ought to. Now her life is in danger so she hires Richard for protection.
Suspense. Episode 58, The Black Curtain. Cary Grant graces us with his presence by portraying a man who slips on ice and hits his head on the sidewalk. And just like that, the last three and a half years of his memory are gone with the wind. (November 30, 1944.)
Gunsmoke. Episode 20, Cain. Cain Vestal is a mild mannered man who is dying of consumption. But before he kicks the bucket, there’s a little matter of him killin’ a man, first. (October 3, 1953.)
The Mysterious Traveler. Episode 28, Murder in Jazztime. We travel to good old New Orleans to listen to Jazz music and witness what appears [...]
Escape. Episode 68, The Orient Express. Murder, intrigue and even some romance can be found on the famous train. (February 16, 1949) Dangerous [...]
Suspense. Episode 57, The Strange Death of Charles Umberstein. The great Vincent Price takes on those despicable Nazis, or Nazzeees, as Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan [...]
Inner Sanctum Mysteries. Episode 56, Skeleton Bay. A lady novelist witnesses a murder and, in a surprise plot twist, decides to help the murderer [...]
Crime Club. Episode 28, No Time For Murder. A lawyer takes a night walk on Madison Avenue. He sees a man mistreating a lady [...]
Suspense. Episode 55, Cabin B-13. Some Rat Fink named Rikki turns up missing on an ocean liner, along with the cabin that he was [...]
Inner Sanctum. Episode 55, Blood of Cain. This episode begs the question, are murderers born or made? (January 29, 1946) Yours Truly, Johnny [...]
Rogue’s Gallery. Episode 9, Murder At Minden. A certain Mr. Stark McVey hires detective Rogue over the phone. He doesn’t say why he wants [...]
Suspense. Episode 53, The After Dinner Story. No after dinner mints with this story, but there is an out of control elevator, if that’s [...]
Inner Sanctum Mysteries. Episode 52, The Edge of Death. A newlywed couple is given an unusual gift, a rapier (sword) once owned by Rasputin, [...]
Escape. Episode 65, Evening Primrose. An offbeat tale of a number of characters who live in a department store. (November 5, 1947) The [...]
Suspense. Episode 49, The Most Dangerous Game. A man lives in the middle of a jungle island and he loves to hunt. Three guesses [...]
Inner Sanctum. Episode 46, Boomerang. A man is convinced that his business partner and wife are having an affair so he does away with [...]
Escape. Episode 64, The Dream of Armageddon. A man falls asleep and wakes up 200 years in the future. Or he’s dreaming that he [...]
Suspense. Episode 47, Marry For Murder. Mix the sound of a foghorn with thick fog and murder and what do you get? This episode [...]
Inner Sanctum. Episode 45, The Wailing Wall. Two women are heavy into S & M. Their boyfriend? Who else but Boris Karloff himself. (November 6, [...]
Crime Classics. Episode 11, Mr. Thrower’s Hammer. We journey to Merry Old England to meet Mr. Thrower, a village blacksmith. He specializes in making [...]
Crime Club. Episode 27, Fish For Entrée. A man is found dead, with a fish in his pocket. (September 11, 1947) Suspense. Episode [...]
Inner Sanctum. Episode 44, The Corridor of Doom. Boris Karloff finds himself in a hospital corridor that seemingly goes on forever. (October 23, 1945) [...]
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, The Caligio Diamond Matter. Episode 19, 30:01 The Caligio diamond is missing and the guy who owned it has been [...]
Escape. Episode 59, The Fugitive. A murderer decides to escape from a French prison and while doing so, is given a peculiar knife which [...]
Suspense. Episode 45, The King’s Birthday. Not King Midas, or that Emperor who had no clothes. No, this king is a curse of sorts, [...]
Inner Sanctum. Episode 41, Death By Scripture. For this episode of Inner Sanctum we journey to deepest darkest China. Oooops, did I get that [...]
Escape. Episode 57, She. The beautiful woman who lives forever comes to radio. Big mistake on her part. (July 11, 1948) The Six [...]
Richard Diamond. Episode 9, The Man Who Hated Women. This episode could have also been called The Man Who Murdered Women. (July 16, 1949) [...]
Inner Sanctum. Episode 38, The Lonely Sleep. Archie falls in love, but not with Betty or Veronica. The object of his love is a store [...]
Escape. Episode 55, Country of the Blind. A mountain guide enters a strange valley where everyone is blind. Oddly enough, the villagers think [...]
Dangerous Assignment. Episode 41, Millionaire Murders. Steve is sent to Paris in order to find out why millionaires are dropping like flies. (August 6, [...]
Inner Sanctum. Episode 37, Terror By Night. A young lady driving alone in the dead of night. An escaped convict out on the loose. [...]
Escape. Episode 52, The Match. A Mountie easily tracks a wanted man down in the frozen wastelands of Canada. The real ‘Match’ begins [...]
Crime Club. Episode 22, A Pitch In Time. Mix some policemen, firemen, a bank robbery and a baseball game all together and what do [...]
Inner Sanctum. Episode 34, Dead Man’s Deal. Two men play a game of poker and whoever loses has to commit suicide. (August 28, 1945) [...]
Escape. Episode 51, The Time Machine. The timeless (pun intended) tale of a man who takes his pal into the future where the Morlocks (not [...]
Suspense. Episode 39, The White Rose Murders. A whodunnit about a man who likes to murder young women and then leave a white rose in their lifeless hands. (July 6, 1943)
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Episode 18, The Port-au-Prince Matter. The man with the action packed expense account is sent down to Haiti to see if a client is dead or if he’s been bewitched by that spooky Voodoo stuff. (May 30, 1950)
Inner Sanctum – Episode 33, Dead Man’s Debt. A man owes a debt to society and he tries to pay it off in blood. Good luck with that, Buddy. (June 26, 1945)
Rogue’s Gallery – Episode 6, Little Old Lady. Richard sits down to tea with an old lady but his cup has knockout drops in it. He passes out and drifts up to cloud 8 where he meets his old pal Eugor, (Rogue backwards) a genie of sorts who tries to help Richard with his cases. (November 29, 1945)
Escape. Episode 50, John Jock Todd. A Scotsman finds himself in Africa, trying to help a wee bonny lad who is being tormented by a bully. (May 2, 1948.)
You Bet Your Life. Episode 20, The Secret Word Is Bread. (February 8, 1950.)
Suspense. Episode 37, The Man Without A Body. An invisible man is terrorizing the English countryside. We’ve heard it before, right? Actually, no. The producers of this episode make it quite clear that their Invisible Man is not to be confused with H. G. Well’s Invisible Man. (June 22, 1943.)
The Six Shooter. Episode 29, General Guilford’s Widow. Britt Ponset stops at a house to water his horse and becomes acquainted with the widow of a general he once knew. The general was killed five years ago but his widow acts like he’s inside the house. Britt is puzzled, but that’s nothing new. Britt is puzzled in all of the Six Shooter episodes. (April 15, 1954.)
Inner Sanctum. Episode 32, Dead Man’s Holiday. A train slams on its brakes, shaking the passengers up. A man turns to check on his wife only to find a complete stranger sitting next to him. (June 19, 1945.)
Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Episode 8, Charles Walsh & Bob Wells. A couple of bad apple criminals escape from Sing Sing but they don’t want to Dance Dance. No, they could easily escape to Cuba but one of them wants to kill Detective Diamond first. (July 9, 1949.)
Suspense. Episode 82, Donovan’s Brain, Part One. A scientist puts a rich man’s brain in a liquid filled bottle and he keeps it alive by feeding it nutritious brain food. Too bad this wasn’t Inner Sanctum. He could have fed the brain Lipton Soup.
Suspense. Episode 83, Donovan’s Brain, Part Two. The now crazed scientist finds out that it isn’t a good idea to keep a brain alive, especially one that can reach out and control other brains that are still inside their human bodies. (May 18, 1944.)
Escape. Episode 47, The Brute. All about a ship that takes delight in killing her various crews. (April 11, 1948.)
Dangerous Assignment. Episode 2, Sunken Ships. Lots of people are being murdered on exploding ships, so investigator Mitchell heads on down to Vietnam to check things out. (July 16, 1949.)
Suspense. Episode 35, Five Canaries In The Room. A man returns to his room after a bachelor party and finds himself in a different room with five canaries and a dead body. (June 8, 1943.)
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Episode 12, The Restless Day. An inventor killed in an explosion aboard a yacht, interrupts Marlowe’s sleep to say that he (the inventor) is very much alive. (January 8, 1949.)
Inner Sanctum. Episode 31, Portrait of Death. A portrait of a lady that seemingly kills everyone who wants to possess it. (June 12, 1945.)
Crime Classics. Episode 8, Death of a Picture Hanger. A detailed account of the ~~shooting~~ murder of Jesse James. (July 20, 1953.)