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Today · 29 min
Old Time Radio Comedy — Phil Harris-Alice Faye: "The First Show for Rexall" (1948) | Full Episode
The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was NBC's Sunday-night family comedy, with bandleader Phil Harris and movie star Alice Faye playing themselves at home, flanked by Elliott Lewis as Phil's work-shy guitarist Frankie Remley and Walter Tetley as Julius, the grocery boy who lives to make Phil's life harder. This is the October 3, 1948 premiere, the first broadcast under the Rexall banner after two seasons as The Fitch Bandwagon, and the writers turn the sponsor change into the plot. Phil and Alice head downtown to sign their new contract, Alice tells the boys to wait in the reception room, and within minutes Phil and Frankie are behind the drugstore cosmetics counter in borrowed smocks, demonstrating lipstick and rouge on each other for an unimpressed customer. Then Julius turns up, promising to tell the manager everything, and Phil chases him straight into the perfume display. By the time the contract reaches Phil's hand, he cannot hold a pen, and asking Frankie to sign for him turns out to be the worst idea of the afternoon. Phil sings "You Can't Do Wrong Doing Right." 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_48-10-03_First_Rexall_Sponsored_Show 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_48-10-03_First_Rexall_Sponsored_Show
Yesterday · 29 min
Old Time Radio Detective — Broadway Is My Beat: "Decker Murder Case" (1954) | Full Episode
Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover and scripts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this August 1954 case, a once-feared gangster turned panhandler is fished out of the East River with a knife in his back. Clover works the bars of Third Avenue, a Broadway informant in a borrowed Hawaiian shirt, and a widow with a young admirer who quotes Cyrano. Where did a broke bum get $5,000, and who ended up holding the knife? Sheldon Leonard guest stars. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_54-08-01_Decker_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_54-08-01_Decker_Murder_Case
Monday · 29 min
Old Time Radio Detective — Broadway Is My Beat: "The Georgia Gray Murder Case" (1951) | Full Episode
Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, scripted by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this April 1951 case, a dance-hall girl is stabbed in a Broadway taxi-dance palace and tells Clover she'll keep the knife as a souvenir. The trail runs through a gangster's devoted mother, a parolee who won't talk, and a confessor who can't even dance. Then the mobster himself is gunned down in an alley, and a stranger arrives with an offer: a thick envelope and a killer, delivered. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_51-04-28_The_Georgia_Gray_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_51-04-28_The_Georgia_Gray_Murder_Case
Sunday · 29 min
Old Time Radio Detective — Broadway Is My Beat: "The Jane Darnell Murder Case" (1949) | Full Episode
Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, scripted by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this August 1949 case, a scandal columnist gets a typewritten note predicting a girl's murder that very night, and the prophecy comes true. Then a second note arrives, and a third name is on the list. Clover has a stack of typewritten notes, one night, and a killer who announces each victim before the crime. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_49-08-11_The_Jane_Darnell_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_49-08-11_The_Jane_Darnell_Murder_Case
Friday · 29 min
Old Time Radio Adventure — Escape: "The Follower" (1951) | Full Episode
Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, "exciting stories of man's escape from his everyday world." This February 1951 broadcast, featuring William Conrad, follows a man into Mexico on the trail of his missing wife, and the further he goes, the more certain he becomes that someone is following him. A tense, sun-baked tale of pursuit and suspicion. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Escape_51-02-18_The_Follower 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Escape_51-02-18_The_Follower
Thursday · 29 min
Old Time Radio Adventure — Escape: "She" (1948) | Full Episode
Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, and this July 1948 broadcast tackles H. Rider Haggard's immortal romance of the lost African kingdom ruled by Ayesha, "She Who Must Be Obeyed." Two English explorers follow an ancient legend into uncharted jungle and find a beautiful, ageless queen who has waited two thousand years for the return of her lost love, with a flame of eternal life at her command. Ben Wright stars in this atmospheric adaptation of the Victorian classic. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Escape_48-07-11_She 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Escape_48-07-11_She
October 28 · 29 min
Old Time Radio Horror — Escape: "Dead of Night" Original Audition (1947) | Full Episode
Months before Escape became CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, this was the very first pilot, broadcast on February 28, 1947 under the name Out of This World. The story is a chilling ventriloquist tale borrowed from the 1945 British horror classic Dead of Night: a British ventriloquist and an American rival who can't stand each other, and a wooden dummy with ideas of its own. The same script was remade as the March 21 Escape audition, but this is where it all began. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Escape_47-02-28_Out_of_This_World_and_Dead_of_Night_first_audition 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Escape_47-02-28_Out_of_This_World_and_Dead_of_Night_first_audition
October 27 · 30 min
Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1951) | Full Episode
In its final season NBC University Theater, billed on air as the NBC Theater, was still bringing a great novel to radio every week from Hollywood. Tonight it is Leo Tolstoy's scandalous "The Kreutzer Sonata," adapted by Richard E. Davis. In a prison cell, Vasya Pozdnyshev (Whitfield Connor) gives his statement to Inspector Karkov (Stanley Farrar): ten bitter years of marriage, and then the handsome violinist Trukhachevsky (Paul Dubov), who came to play Beethoven duets with his wife (Vivi Janiss). Too proud to admit he is afraid, Vasya keeps inviting him back, until one midnight he comes home to find them alone in the music room. Directed by Andrew C. Love; announcer Don Stanley. First aired on NBC January 3, 1951. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_51-01-03_The_Kreutzer_Sonata 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_51-01-03_The_Kreutzer_Sonata
October 26 · 59 min
Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "The Portrait of a Lady" (1949) | Full Episode
By the fall of 1949 NBC University Theater (now billed simply as the NBC Theater) was broadcasting a full hour of a great novel from Hollywood every Sunday, with college courses built around the plays. This week is Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady," adapted by Richard E. Davis. Isabel Archer, a spirited young woman from Albany, turns down an English lord at a Tudor country house outside London because she wants to see life for herself. An inheritance arranged by her ailing cousin Ralph (Larry Dobkin) sets her free, and the cultivated Madame Merle steers her toward the elegant American expatriate Gilbert Osmond (Tony Barrett) in Florence and Rome, where Isabel learns what her freedom has cost. With Ben Wright as Lord Warburton and Gayne Whitman narrating; directed by Andrew C. Love. First aired on NBC October 2, 1949. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_49-10-02_Portrait_of_A_Lady 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_49-10-02_Portrait_of_A_Lady
October 25 · 59 min
Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "A Farewell to Arms" (1948) | Full Episode
NBC University Theater brought the great novels to radio from Hollywood, with film stars in the leads. This hour is Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," adapted by Ernest Kinoy, starring John Lund as Lt. Frederic Henry, an American ambulance officer on the Italian front in the First World War, and Lurene Tuttle as Catherine Barkley, the English nurse he meets through his friend Rinaldi. What starts as a wartime flirtation becomes a love that outlasts his wounding, the chaos of the retreat, and a desperate escape to Switzerland, until the war's logic catches up with them anyway. First aired on NBC August 6, 1948, with commentary by critic Malcolm Cowley, music by Albert Harris, and direction by Andrew C. Love. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_48-08-06_A_Farewell_To_Arms 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_48-08-06_A_Farewell_To_Arms
October 24 · 29 min
Old Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Kitty Caught" (1954) | Full Episode
Gunsmoke brought the adult Western to radio, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal of Dodge City. In "Kitty Caught," Chester comes back from Wichita with word that the Karp brothers, bank robbers drifting up from the Indian Territory, are headed for Dodge. The warning comes too late. The Karps hit the bank that same morning, kill the cashier, and ride north with Kitty as their hostage, promising to leave her dead on the trail if anyone follows. Matt and Chester track them anyway, past a cowboy the brothers shot out of his saddle, to a lonely prairie cabin. Then they lie in the buffalo grass all day, close enough to the cabin that a single sound could get Kitty killed, and a rattlesnake coils up beside Chester. Written by John Meston and first aired on CBS October 16, 1954, with Parley Baer as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin and Joe Du Val. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Gunsmoke_54-10-16_Kitty_Caught_Guest_Star_Lawrence_Dobkin 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Gunsmoke_54-10-16_Kitty_Caught_Guest_Star_Lawrence_Dobkin
October 23 · 30 min
Old Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Gone Straight" (1953) | Full Episode
Gunsmoke brought the adult Western to radio, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal of Dodge City. In "Gone Straight," a special deputy for the New Mexico Stock Raisers Association hands Dillon a Santa Fe warrant for Dane Shaw, a former rider with Billy the Kid, and Matt and Chester make the hard two-day ride south to Tascosa on the Canadian River. There they meet Nat Temple, owner of the Red Deer saloon, the man building the town its first schoolhouse, who has given his barkeep, gunman Mike Postle, a second chance away from rustler Harry Gunter. When Gunter vows to ride in and drag Postle back, Temple swears to stand beside him, and Dillon quietly realizes Temple is the very man his warrant names. Written by John Meston and first aired on CBS August 22, 1953, with Parley Baer as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and John Dehner, Tom Tully, Harry Bartell, Paul Dubov, Helen Kleeb and James Nusser. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Gunsmoke_53-08-22_Gone_Straight 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Gunsmoke_53-08-22_Gone_Straight
October 22 · 29 min
Old Time Radio Comedy — Fibber McGee and Molly: "Numerology" (1943) | Full Episode
For ten dollars, a numerologist over a barbershop promises to put Fibber McGee in harmony with the universe by giving him a new name: Homer K. Frink, eleven letters, a prime number, guaranteed lucky. Fibber shows off his new vibrations to the Old Timer, Mrs. Uppington, Harlow Wilcox and Wallace Wimple, then jaywalks against a red light and tells the cop his name. Homer K. Frink, it turns out, is wanted in seven states for arson, murder, bank robbery, forgery, swindling, parole violation and bigamy. Under the station-house spotlight Fibber 'confesses' to the big Chicago fur warehouse job, and it takes Doc Gamble and an appendix scar to spring him. Broadcast on NBC May 4, 1943, with Jim and Marian Jordan, Bill Thompson, Isabel Randolph, Arthur Q. Bryan and Harlow Wilcox, plus the King's Men singing 'I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'.' 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Fibber_Mcgee_And_Molly_43-05-04_Numerology 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Fibber_Mcgee_And_Molly_43-05-04_Numerology
October 21 · 29 min
Old Time Radio Comedy — Fibber McGee and Molly: "McGee Sells Watches" (1941) | Full Episode
A package marked FRAGILE, insured for $800, lands at 79 Wistful Vista, and inside is a leather sample case stamped in gold: Fibber McGee, special representative of a fancy watch company. Molly landed him the job at Mrs. Uppington's bridge party, and Fibber has already done the arithmetic: a hundred watches a week, a thousand dollars in commission, and a hotel suite to match. His very first sales call goes wrong in the worst possible way. Halfway through his pitch at the jewelry counter, a gunman walks in and holds up the store, Fibber gives chase, and the cop on the corner collars the man running down the street carrying a case full of gold watches. Then every friend who comes down to vouch for the McGees ends up behind bars beside them: Harlow Wilcox for an unpaid parking ticket, Mrs. Uppington on suspicion of being the fence, and Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve because the judge's wife wears his girdles. Broadcast on NBC February 11, 1941, the week of Lincoln's Birthday, with Jim and Marian Jordan, Harold Peary, Bill Thompson and Isabel Randolph. Listen for the hall closet, a gag barely a year old here and, as Molly says, it "still gets a laugh." 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Fibber_Mcgee_And_Molly_41-02-11_McGee_Sells_Watches 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Fibber_Mcgee_And_Molly_41-02-11_McGee_Sells_Watches
October 20 · 29 min
Old Time Radio Detective — Johnny Dollar: "Milford Brooks III (Audition)" (1948) | Full Episode
Before Bob Bailey, before Charles Russell, there was Dick Powell. In this December 1948 audition, never broadcast, Powell plays Johnny Dollar, the freelance insurance investigator with the action-packed expense account. East Coast Underwriters needs him to keep Milford Brooks III, a spoiled heir with a $2 million life policy, from killing himself. The beneficiary is a restaurant owner Brooks owes $200,000. Then Brooks vanishes out a window, his coat turns up on a ferry, and a matchbook in the pocket points straight at the man who collects. Dollar has to work out whether he's looking at a suicide, a murder, or a setup. Powell passed on the series to star in Richard Diamond, so this is the only time he played the role. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Yours_Truly_Johnny_Dollar_48-12-07_Milford_Brooks_III_Audition_Staring_Dick_Powell 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Yours_Truly_Johnny_Dollar_48-12-07_Milford_Brooks_III_Audition_Staring_Dick_Powell
October 19 · 29 min
Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Boss of the Tarantulas" (1942) | Full Episode
The Lone Ranger and Tonto have jailed four of the knife-throwing Tarantula gang with help from Texas Jack of the Border City Cafe, and now Jack hands over a dead sheriff's letter naming the last of them: Larkspur, who cheated old Bart Billings out of the Last Chance mine by burying its gold vein under a blast. Billings turns up in an arroyo with a Tarantula knife in his back, a knife fired from a crossbow carries the gang boss's order to kill the masked man, and an ambush at Overhang Rock closes in on two glowing headbands in the dark. The final chapter of the September 1942 Tarantula serial, with Brace Beemer as the Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=The_Lone_Ranger_42-09-14_The_Boss_of_the_Tarantulas_Tarantula_Series 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=The_Lone_Ranger_42-09-14_The_Boss_of_the_Tarantulas_Tarantula_Series
October 17 · 29 min
Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Hold Up Stagecoach" (1940) | Full Episode
Caleb Saxon and his wife Edith ride the stage to Basin City hoping to leave the whispers back East behind them: a court cleared Caleb, but everyone still believes he stole the trust fund he managed for his late friend's son. Then the stranger riding up top pulls a gun, forces the coach down the lonely Creek Trail, and marches the old couple off into the woods with every dollar they own. The young man who swore to get even with Caleb is camped with the Lone Ranger, and the masked man has a hard lesson in mind for him. A July 1, 1940 broadcast with Earle Graser as the Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974
October 16 · 29 min
Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Osage Bank Robbery" (1938) | Full Episode
The Brogan brothers, two of the most wanted killers in the West, rob the bank at Osage and shoot the banker for no reason at all, then vanish without leaving a trail. The sheriff's posse rides out without Sleepy and Missouri, two broke old prospectors who once gave away every dime from their played-out silver mine to the poor families of the county. So the Lone Ranger, posing as an Eastern mining expert, sends the old partners back to their abandoned tunnel with a hint of a new silver vein, a plan, and a bundle of blasting powder. A January 24, 1938 broadcast from radio's golden-age Western, with Earle Graser as the masked man and John Todd as Tonto, and the William Tell Overture riding in the opening. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974
October 12 · 29 min
Old Time Radio Mystery — Suspense: "The Lodger" (1940) | Full Episode
London, 1888. A quiet, soft-spoken man takes the upstairs room at the Buntings' boarding house, pays in advance, keeps odd hours, and asks that his landlady never touch the black bag he carries. Out in Whitechapel, a killer the papers call the Avenger is working his way through the fog. Herbert Marshall plays the mysterious lodger and Edmund Gwenn is the landlord who slowly begins to wonder whom he has let into his home, in a CBS audition broadcast that helped launch Suspense, the long-running anthology of 'radio's outstanding theater of thrills.' Adapted from Marie Belloc Lowndes' 1913 novel, the same story Alfred Hitchcock filmed in 1927. Broadcast July 22, 1940. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974
October 11 · 29 min
Old Time Radio Adventure — John Steele, Adventurer: "Cargo Unknown" (1949) | Full Episode
Lou Cardone flew 71 fighter missions over Europe and came home too restless to sit still, so he bought a surplus twin-engine ship and called it the Anything, Anywhere Airline. Then a soft-spoken stranger with a file on every quiet cargo Lou ever flew offers him twenty thousand dollars to carry a man with a bandaged face to Argentina. An engine quits over the Atlantic, and the pilot, the passenger, and a young woman from Vienna spend two weeks on a twelve-foot raft with one revolver, food for two, and a game only one of them can win. From John Steele, Adventurer, Mutual's pulp-style anthology of stories 'taken from the files' of a roving soldier of fortune, with Don Douglas as Steele and a young Ross Martin in the cast. Broadcast July 12, 1949. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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