Old Time Radio Listener

Created by Federal Civil Defense Administration as a public service program to be broadcast by participating radio stations throughout the country with music and practical advice for Americans fearful of an impending attack during the Cold War. Stars of Defense was a series of recordings made between 1956 and 1967 for the United States Federal Civil Defense Administration as a public service progr...

Basil Rathbone whom for a very long time played the role of Sherlock Holmes. Here a few sound bits of Basil telling us about: Melba Toast Stoic Tangerine The Saxophone To Get One's Goat

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Sounds like a real storm is coming up when Annie hears what sounds like little kittens meowing outside and she sends him out to rescue them. But when he goes out he is attacked and killed by what sounds like a pack of wild dogs. Meanwhile Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane are in Louisiana on their way to see Arthur Whittington an old friend of Lamont’s from college who was ridiculed for his strange v...

It is 8:30 on Wednesday morning in Texas on July 7th 1951. As Sheriff Alan Hankins answers the telephone in his office. Buck Whatley has had four of his calves stolen. . .  Duration: 29:16  Starring: Joel McCrea  Broadcast Date: 16th March 1952

Mrs. Carlton is having her piano tuned when her husband arrives home. She asks if he has managed to get his partners to lend him some money to get them out of their debt. They have mad some unwise investments and the only way Mr. Carlton can see to getting out of trouble is to get a loan against his wife’s jewels. Mrs. Carlton is not prepared to let him have her jewels and in the ensuing argument...

A tale as old as the bible, but with a ghostly twist. A mother and her two sons, Thomas, a good, loving man, keeping the family a float with his meager earnings; Paddy, his brother, is just the opposite- mean-spirited and lazy. Its the day of Thomas’ wedding, and his brother comes to him with a story of treasures under the sea. “It will only take a couple of hours”, says Paddy, “and then you’ll ha...

The grey stone building stands at the end of the alleyway. There’s a small brass plate on the door which reads, Metropolitan Police Morgue. Inside the morgue a dead man has been delivered, just another tramp involved in a hit and run case. The grey stone building stands at the end of the alleyway. There’s a small brass plate on the door which reads, Metropolitan Police Morgue. Inside the morgue a...

Angelino Guiseppie runs butchers shop and was a friend of Richard Diamond’s. He came to Diamond for some help on behalf of all the owners of all independent butcher’s shops who had got together last night to discuss their troubles. Every week a couple of guys come round and collect and if they don’t pay they get their shops bust up and sometimes even themselves. It was too dangerous to go to the p...

One of Joshua Masters three sons is trying to kill him and he wants to find out which two are innocent.  Duration: 29:51  Starring: Mercedes McCambridge  Broadcast Date: 10th April 1952

Phyliss Kenny had hired Michael Shayne to find out if her husband was two-timing her. He wasn’t but he’d gotten himself mixed up with a character named Jasper who was following his usual routine of getting close to his blackmail victim by working for him. In this case he was the gardener at the Duval estate and that’s how Dick Kenny got mixed up with him, Dick was the Duval chauffer.  Duratio...

A thoroughly enjoyable adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel, Rebecca, by and starring Orson Welles. Introduced by newsman Edwin C. Hill and broadcast only a month after the famous broadcast of War of the World. If you have not read the book or seen the film then this really is a must. It is radio drama at its very best.  Duration: 59:36  Starring: Orson Welles  Broadcast Date: 9t...

On a beautiful summer day in 1895 Holmes had just concluded his investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Tusker. Holmes and Watson thought a couple of weeks rest would be a pleasant change and they chose Stratford-Upon-Avon as the destination. For the first week life was calm and peaceful and it wasn’t until the following Tuesday when the troubles began. They decided to take a walk through th...

Life with Luigi was created by Cy Howard , who had earlier created the hit radio comedy, My Friend Irma. The working title was The Little Immigrant, echoed in the sign-off of each episode, "Your lovin-a son-a, Luigi Basco, the li'l immigrant." ,,,,, Here's a website that details this wonderful radio program. http://www.jimramsburg.com/life-with-luigi.html

Again it’s early evening as we look in on the Andrew’s home in Riverdale and we find Mrs. Andrews sitting in the living room sewing when Archie arrives home excitedly. He wants to have a Halloween party there tonight, as it would really impress Veronica. His mum agrees but when Mr. Andrews arrives home from a hard days work he’s expecting a quiet relaxing night!  Duration: 24:52  Starrin...

Marshall Matt Dillon and Chester find themselves in the middle of a feud between Alvin Peevie and Jack Kade and his wife who believe Peevie shot and killed their son, Ben and took his body too.  Duration: 30:03  Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer  Broadcast Date: 16th April 1955

Miss Carmen is associated with the famous psychic consultant, Prince Kayrou. She helps the prince look in to people’s minds and deals with the Prince’s outside matters. The Prince feared that his life was in danger after being threatened over the telephone that morning.  Duration: 30:56  Starring: Jack Webb  Broadcast Date: 4th September 1948

1957 NFL Championship Game Enjoy the game. The 1957 National Football League Championship Game was the 25th annual championship game, held on December 29 at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan. The Detroit Lions, winners of the Western Conference, hosted the Cleveland Browns, champions of the Eastern Conference. Detroit had won the regular season game 20–7 three weeks earlier on December 8, also a...

“We take you now to England. If it only were as simple as that, if you could take a man like a radio wave and whisk him over the Atlantic and then drop him through a loudspeaker and let him wander for a month over the face of this island would he be any different at the end of his wandering? How would he feel about the war and about England? Would the United States look very much different to him...

Sam Dodsworth has just sold his automobile company and he and his wife Fran are just about to set of on a trip to Europe. They set sail from New York and eventually arrive in England for their six months tour. As the story unfolds it becomes apparent that Fran Dodsworth has an eye for other men and to make matters worse they seem to be attracted to her. They cross the channel to visit Paris and it...

In the corridor of a metropolitan hotel, a man with a briefcase in his hand has been knocking impatiently at one of the room doors as a bell-boy approaches with a pitcher of ice-water and some glasses. The man at the door is Mr. Orston. He had been called by Mrs. Bradley, the occupier of the room, to come to her room as she desperately needed to speak to him. Mr. Orston demands that the bell-boy o...

 Bogart plays Slate Shannon who owns a hotel in Havana and gets involved in intrigue with his beautiful sidekick "Sailor." Shannon and Sailor get involved with a shipment of arms for a planned revolution. But Shannon never picked up the "merchandise" in Key West, and two murders follow because he doesn't have the guns. The characters in this series are based on those in, "To Have and Have Not...

We have an expert on murder here tonight. He has a rather strange idea, something about everyone being a potential murderer. Maybe he’s right. Take a good look at your neighbor, maybe he’s the one – maybe its you. . . Boris Karloff stars as Mr Herbert March in this original radio play by Sigmund Miller. At the time of going to broadcast Boris Karloff was appearing in the smash Broadway hit Arsenic...

He had traveled hard for three hundred miles to find the man who had killed his brother and that afternoon he ended up in Pleasant Valley. The town was quiet but then he saw them, maybe 60 or 70 standing in a circle gathered around two men, two men who were digging. He saw the looks on the faces of the people standing there and it was a look he had seen before. Not a good look, it was the look som...

The story begins in one of the manufacturing plants in the Worldwide Business Machines Corporation. In one wing of the plant is housed the huge laboratory where newly designed and experimental calculating machines are built and tested. It is evening, and the vast laboratory with the small rows of intricate looking machines is deserted except for a young university professor Lester DeWitt who is ta...