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Tribes are getting restless even the Arapaho. They were promised meat by the government and it hasn’t been forthcoming. They tried to hunt buffalo but there weren’t any. A squaw man warns Captain Quince that they may attack the wagon train that is on its way to Silver Springs right now.  Duration: 28:24  Starring: Raymond Burr  Broadcast Date: 5th February 1956

Ozzie is on his way home from downtown when he gets in to a conversation with a man who is humming Haydn’s Surprise Symphony. The man is talking to Ozzie about classical music and by Ozzie’s response he thinks he is really in to classical music. The man tells him how his cousin is the conductor at the classical symphony concert, which is on tomorrow night. Ozzie thinks that he might like to go the...

The father of a kidnapped woman asks Blackie to deliver his daughter’s ransom. Broadcast Air Date: February 12, 1946

The Mystery Theater was a radio series that was written, adapted, produced and broadcast by the CBC from 1966 to 1968. Chills, thrills, mystery and adventure make up the stories from this classic series from the CBC. Includes episodes 10 episodes from the ABC Mystery Theater.

Travel back to the time where the News was actually a 13 minute segment.

Travel back to the time where the News was actually a 13 minute segment.

It’s January and the time of year when we all make our New Year resolutions and Gildy has decided to go on diet. His niece Marjorie has decided she’s going to do everything she can to help him.  Duration: 27:25  Starring: Harold Peary  Broadcast Date: 4th January 1942

One of the Lone Rangers most amazing adventures began when a bolt of lightening flashed across the sky and met the earth at the top of Thunder Mountain. A massive rock as large as a house was blasted from the foundation upon which it had rested through the ages. Rolling down the mountain with increasing force it loosened other rocks and soft shale and the landslide was started. A Stage Coach on th...

20 years ago in 1928 there was a train wreck and he doesn’t have any memory of his childhood or his schoolmates. He remembers nothing but the hospital and people asking him a lot of questions. Suffering from amnesia, he doesn’t even remember his name or who he is so he goes by the name of Ulysses Smith. Here we hear the story of how he has built his life, a new life and then one evening whilst wor...

The year is 1714 and the place is the Caribbean. The sound you will hear is a pair of scissors snipping away. The young lady who is using them is trimming her husband’s beard. The beard has just been washed to get the blood out of it for a few hours ago he stabbed a few fellows from up close. He had been in a battle and was very vain about his beard. It is a black beard which caused some eighteent...

Documentary about the behind the scenes of the creations of the Radio Detectives.   

Simon Templar had a visit from a cowboy named McGowan but known as Tex. Seems that someone was trying to kill him as he was bushwhacked stepping out of a taxi in New York. In a couple of days he was due in Chicago to see a guy who knew he was coming but wasn’t hankering after seeing him seems he was trying to make sure Tex didn’t make it. So Tex he wanted The Saint to make sure he managed to stay...

The Origin of Superstition also known, as Superstition On The Air is a series of short stories designed to disclose the origins of many of the more popular superstitions. This one deals with the belief that crossing your fingers will avert bad luck.  Duration: 14:01  Broadcast Date: 1935

George Valentine has been out of uniform only a few weeks blessed with an abundance of energy, adventuresome spirit and not too much money, he has sunk his last dime in office rent a few pieces of furniture and an ad in the classified section of the daily paper. An ad, which reads, “Do you have a crime that needs solving? Do you have a dog that needs walking? Do you have a wife that needs spanking...

All good things must come to an end but bad things come to an end too which means that Phil Harris’s band rehearsal is finally over. Right now we find Phil and Elliott strolling casually up Hollywood Boulevard on what would otherwise be a very pleasant afternoon. . .  Duration: 30:47  Starring: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Bill Forman, Elliott Lewis  Broadcast Date: 11th December 1953

Dagwood Bumsteads of Shady Lane Avenue and his next-door-neighbor Herb Woodley are usually feuding with each other and today is no exception. Already there have been a couple of border clashes and right now while Blondie is in the kitchen Dagwood is doing a little reconnaissance around Woodley’s garage. All is quiet and then. . .  Duration: 26:07  Starring: Penny Singleton  Broadcas...

Philip Lock from Philadelphia arrived in Dodge City from Philadelphia looking for a girl. This girl had apparently written to her mother telling her that she was working at a school in Dodge but the school had never heard of her and Lock was worried that something had happened to her. When Marshall Matt Dillon asked her name and description he was told Laura Simmons whom he knew well but he did no...

Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy line knowing that you may never return alive? This was the question asked during the war to agents of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) ordinary citizens who to this question answered yes.  Before this first episode begins you will hear from the co-author of the book Cloak & Dagger who was also a former OSS officer on...

Ken Thurston “the man called X” is working out in Cairo when a female visitor came calling with a message, three silver bullets for Thurston. However, she shot a local man who was working with him but Thurston put out the message that he was killed so that the killers may relax a little and give them space to track the killer.  Duration : 26:05  Starring: Herbert Marshall  Broadcast...

A Single Case of Murder is the radio version of the Warner Brothers production. It is a story that deals with a benevolent gentleman a former bootlegger of some importance whose tenderness of heart is equalled only by his firmness of mind. After the days of prohibition were over Remmy Martin decides to go legitimate and he went in to business making real beer the only thing was he wasn’t accustome...

Today Hoppy and his partner California are many miles away from the Bar-20 riding along an old wagon road that winds through the lonely brush country. This is a land of superstition and Indian legends. But as they ride California shows little enthusiasm for Hoppy’s current venture, which is to buy some bulls from a bankrupt ranch north of Skull Valley.  Duration: 28:26  Starring: William...

When US Marshall Matt Dillon arrived at the jail office that morning Caylip Andrews was waiting for him. He had a court order from the US district Court, which he wanted Dillon to serve. It was for the eviction of Ed Blake who had borrowed money from Caylip Andrews in the form of a mortgage on his farm to the sum of $420. Matt Dillon was sympathetic to Blake and felt that if Andrews would allow Bl...

Duration : 30:00  Starring: Red Skelton  Broadcast Date: 17th October 1951

Its two night before Halloween and Riley is full of the spirit of the thing. It’s quite dark out and Riley’s son Junior is just returning from a meeting of the wild cats, his club, in a very thoughtful mood. . . .  Duration: 26:27  Starring : William Bendix  Broadcast Date: 29th October 1944

Liz has just come out of the beauty parlor where her beautician Sally told her that the Atterbury’s are having a Halloween costume party. Liz is not in a good mood, as it seems that they haven’t been invited. The next day she is anxiously awaiting the mailman sure that there’ll be an invite in the post for them but oh dear she’s in for disappointment. Then when they next see the Atterbury’s the At...