Old Time Radio Listener

Starring John Brown as Broadway, the narrator of Damon Runyon’s dramatic stories of old Manhattan New York and the gangster life in the 1920’s and 1930’s. It is 11.30 on a Wednesday night and Broadway is standing at the corner of 48th and Broadway thinking about his blood pressure. This is a proposition that he’s never given much thought to before, in fact he’s never heard of it before he went to...

Gordon Miller the shoestring producer has a headache and justifiably so, he’s about to be ejected from his hotel. The reason being that Wagner the managing director has made an unexpected visit to the hotel and is at the moment looking over the books. All that Gordon Miller has promoted is 22 rooms for his cast and has run up a bill for $1200. The manager Joe Gribble is his brother-in-law and Joe...

Popeye was adapted to radio in several series broadcast over three different networks by two sponsors from 1935 to 1938. Popeye and most of the major supporting characters were first featured in a thrice-weekly 15-minute  radio program, Popeye the Sailor , which starred Detmar Poppen as Popeye, along with most of the major supporting characters—Olive Oyl (Olive Lamoy), Wimpy (Charles Lawrence...

To the young and the valiant New York is a city for conquest and that is the name Warner Brothers gave to a fine motion picture drama, which Lux presents with Alice Faye and Robert Preston in the starring roles. City For Conquest is hard driving drama of a fight for success waged by one man and one girl in this fabulous town. A fight that takes courage and a stalwart but is not worth wining withou...

A 6-foot well-dressed man in a dark grey overcoat turned up at Diamond’s office. But his face raised goose bumps, it was as grey as his overcoat even his tongue was grey as he spoke. The man offered him a $1000 to find a missing science teacher at the State College Mr. Carnes within 5 hours. He owed the man a debt and the reason he needed him finding in five hours? He only had 5 hours to live.&nbs...

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW In December 1944 it was announced that Pabst Sales Co. was dropping The Kenny Baker Show in favor of a vehicle for rising star Danny Kaye. Pabst had tried to sign established comedian Fred Allen for the show at a whopping cost of $25,000 per episode but the effort fizzled when Allen reportedly sniffing that he didn’t care to work for a beer company. Kaye agreed to a package cos...

A factual yet incredible report of those New Yorkers who try to mix work in the city with country living and who almost always invariably end up behind the eight ball.  Author: A. C. Spectorsky  Duration: 28:21  Starring: Eric Severied, John Larkin, Jan Miner  Broadcast Date: 30th March 1956

Folks that write dictionaries must have a tough time with the word tolerance. I guess if you had to boil it down to just one other word it would have to be understanding. Some of them in Tombstone found that out when Luke Slaughter gave Chief Margono and a few of his Apache braves the loan of a couple of sections of his spread to try their hand at cattle raising. And Luke got chewed out plenty abo...

Ian MacAndrews was the man who founded Lake City. He died five years ago and his life policy had been paid out but now it seemed that he had come back or his ghost had come back.  Duration: 24:57  Starring: Bob Bailey  Broadcast Date: 18th May 1958

Official Detective ran from 1950 to 1956 and was a classic old time radio police drama starring Craig McDonnell as Detective Lieutenant Dan Britt and Tommy Evans as Sergeant Al Bowen.... The show features a crime from the start to the end from a drunk accused of murder to bride that murders her groom after discovering that he married her for her money. Even spinsters are unsafe at the hands of mad...

Bright young comedian from Canada, Alan Young plays the part of Bob Bennett a young stockbroker working for E.M Ralston the big bad wolf of Wall Street. He is sitting in his office chatting to a client over the phone when a beautiful woman enters his office. It is Gwinn Ralston his boss’s daughter and his love interest played by Anne Baxter. She has $10,000, which she collected for Seaside Chariti...

In Scotland Yard’s museum of murder here lies death dressed in its Sunday best. And here we find a jacket somewhat inconspicuous in its place on the shelf sleeveless and unstitched, a tragic relic of passion and violence.  Duration : 26:06  Starring: Ozzie Nelson  Broadcast Date: 1952

Roland Young plays the part of an author of detective novels who invented his best part when his life was at stake. With Mr Young to play his long-suffering secretary is Miss Peggy Conklin. Written by John Dickson Carr.  Duration: 28:53  Starring: Roland Young  Broadcast Date: 23rd March 1943

thel seemed to have a jinx on the horses and was always loosing. She considered herself hardluck Ethel until one day she went to see a fortune teller who told her she will be lucky very soon that she will win five times. But beware a handsome man who will chase her and catch her because he wants to kill her. . .  Duration: 29:42  Starring: Ruth Gilbert, Ann Thomas, Ralph Bell  Broad...

Robert Arden News Commentary ran from 1940 to 1942 and featured Robert Arden, who was a foreign correspondent. Arden made insightful comments about the current events of the time. Most of the episodes in this collection aired before the US became involved in WWII and offer a interesting and introspective pre-war American viewpoint. Once the USA became involved in WWI Arden reported on the news of...

Young David Nelson has hardly said a word all morning and his mother is worried about him. It seems that Grace Johnson has invited him to her party on Friday night and he has told her he would come but his team is playing basketball on Friday night so he has to tell her he can’t make it and doesn’t know how to tell her. He doesn’t really want to let her down and is worried that if he does tell her...

Original broadcast day Wednesday, July 25, 1979. A hard-working honest plumber and a small time hustler join forces for the perfect kidnapping. Only they discover they need their victims help to collect the ransom. 

Muirock the bottom of a dried up lake is now the home of an air installation and all kinds of military airplanes where homed there. Max Westlake was a sergeant in 1937 who’s interested in science and skyrockets. Looking up one night he sees a parachute coming down with what looks like part of an airplane. A man was recovered from the crash landing and taken to the hospital with concussion. That ma...

First Show  Duration: 30:00  Starring: Jack Benny  Broadcast Date: 02 May 1932 A regular in vaudeville comedy, Jack Benny made his first professional on air appearance in May 2, 1932 on the Canada Dry Program . A different Jack Benny than you know and love, hear Jack Benny as MC in this early 1932 broadcast...

Running out of gas on a foggy back road in Maine, a couple become frightened by news reports of a murderous woman who's escaped from an asylum. Searching for help, the two take refuge in an abandoned shack. When an hysterical woman appears at the window wanting refuge, they're convinced she's the lunatic that's on the loose.

A man is killed by drowning in a bathtub in a small upstate town. His killers take his body to the city where they dump it in the sea lion pool at the zoo. When the body is found it looks like suicide until laboratory tests prove what Boston Blackie suspected.  Duration: 26:47  Starring: Dick Kollmar, Jan Miner, Maurice Tarplin  Broadcast Date: 14th May 1947

Granville Merryweather and Fennis Finny want to join the army claiming that they’re answering the call to the colors, but you could put it another way, they’re starving to death. But the kind of recruits that are coming to join the army these days are dregs, failures and fugitives.  Duration: 27:44  Starring: Raymond Burr, Harry Bartell, Parley Baer, John Dehner  Broadcast Date: 8th...

“In our experience in our war against crime, nothing in the popular conception of crime is so widespread, and so erroneous, as the idea that honor exists amongst thieves. In this case of the deadly snowflake, we see this so-called criminal code for what it is. . .  Duration: 29:24  Starring: Dwight Weist  Broadcast Date: 26th May 1948

Lux Radio Theater presents the comedy romance Mr Blandings Builds His Dream Home with Cary Grant playing the part of Jim Blandings, the same role he payed in the 1948 RKO motion picture of the same name and Irene Dunne as Muriel Blandings. Like millions of other New Yorkers Jim and Muriel Blandings and their two young daughters live in an apartment. It is adequate but somewhat crowded. Not that Ji...

Ray Milland stars as Rick Fitzgerald the same role he played in the 1944 film adaptation of Dorothy Macardle’s ghost story. Rick and his sister Pamela move to an old deserted seaside house and discover that it is haunted by the sound of a sobbing woman. When a neighbor Stella Meredith, calls upon them they discover that she lived there, as a child until the age of three when her mother had died af...