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A rambling house on the outskirts of a small university town and in the house a room that seems more like the cell of a medieval alchemist than the study of a college professor. . .  Duration: 26:00  Starring: James Van Dyke  Broadcast Date: 30th December 1946

Of all man’s symbols of power and security, the greatest and perhaps the worst, is the gun. And this symbol of man’s alter ego is the background of this story. It begins on an old coal dock on the waterfront of Big Town as two young boys met for what was to be a tragic rendezvous.  Duration: 29:03  Starring: Edward Pawley  Broadcast Date: 15th March 1949

Broadway where the vision of beauty stands in the doorway at night you go looking for it and a guy shoots you. It’s Broadway the Beat of Danny Clover. He was sent to respond to a call from a rest home - Primrose Sanitarium - to investigate the death of a stabbed man found on their doorstep. An anonymous man who has now just become an important man.  Duration: 31:14  Starring: Larry Thor&...

This was an audition episode of Gunsmoke and starred Rye Billsbury as Marshall Mark Dillon in an episode entitles Mark Dillon Goes To Gouge Eye. This show was never aired on the radio. When Gunsmoke finally came to air in 1952 it starred William Conrad as Marshall Matt Dillon. They all drifted here to Dodge City one time or another, the buffalo killers, the saddle bums the spoilers. It was the end...

Sam is called up to the third floor by Mrs. Kelsey due to a commotion going on between Rosemary Thelma and Joe Dunnigan. Rosemary is convinced that Joe is going to murder her and wants Sam to prove it.  Duration: 24:35  Starring: Howard Duff  Broadcast Date: 16th January 1949

A mans disguise at a masquerade ball is usually the key to his honest opinion of himself. So naturally how would Andy Hardy go to a masquerade? He tells his mum that naturally he’s going to the masquerade as the greatest lover in history!  Duration: 26:37  Starring: Mickey Rooney  Broadcast Date: 1950

Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Enjoy a few hours of the sweet cooing style of the 'Ol Blue Eyes" Sinatra.

"The Nitrate Shipment" ( April - May 1941 ) (9 parts) Beginning August 25, 1941, a second series of transcriptions designed to air five days per week (although many stations continued the previous three-per-week schedule) aired. 

One corporal wrote to command Performance to ask, “How’s the feud getting on between Fred Allen and jack Benny?” And here to host this performance is the Eastern half of the feud Fred Allen who advises us that the feud has slowed down a little then commences with a barrage of jokes against Benny! other Commands bring music from Kenny Baker and comedy from Henny Youngman.  Duration: 30:22&nbsp...

Birdseye Frosted Foods presents The Dinah Shore Show with Wally Brown, Robert Emmett Dolan and his Orchestra, the Joseph Lilley singers and special guest Charles Laughton and of course Dinah Shore!  Duration: 29:53  Starring: Dinah Shore, Charles Laughton  Broadcast Date: 29th June 1944

On this show Bing does his little bit from New York, having just returned from the European theatre of war. On the other coast in Hollywood George Murphy and Marilyn Maxwell open the show with Thou Swell Thou Witty Thou Grand. George goes on to welcome Spike Jones and his City Slickers after their tour entertaining the troops in France. Bing comes across the airwaves from a studio in New York and...

Charming Dr. William Hall is the urbane president of rural Ivy College. His pleasant life include his attractive wife, former actress Vicky and their all knowing housekeeper Alice. Occasionally school chairman Clarence Wellman causes a disruption. Duration : 25:08 Starring: Roland Coleman, Benita Hume Broadcast Airdate: March 19, 1952

The story begins in 1889. Holmes and Watson are in Vienna because Holmes has been engaged in important investigations. The case has just concluded and Holmes is playing his violin whilst Watson makes notes about the investigation when there is a knock at the door. It is a female German pianist. She is being blackmailed by a Hungarian painter. He knows a secret about her and she wants Holmes to get...

Chad Remington received a long letter a desperate cry for help from people he’d never seen from a part of the country he’d never been to and hardly even heard of. He was sitting in his office above the Dos Rios livery discussing it with Cherokee O’Bannon. Dust storms had made Mr Newsom’s farm and his neighbor’s farm worthless and they wanted some legal advice on how to obtain new land from the gov...

Billy Saxton had killed Joe Powell shot him in the back and now he was about to be lynched by Joe’s brother. When Matt Dillon found him he told Ken Powell that if it were him that had arranged the lynching he would get a fair trial for the murder the same way that Saxton should have had one.  Duration: 28:01  Starring: William Conrad  Broadcast Date: 16th August 1952

Our Miss Brooks is very fond of Biology teacher Philip Boynton and he is very fond of his frogs and guinea pigs. This absorption in his laboratory is largely due to Mr. Boynton’s natural shyness. That is to say that he is shy in the world of reality but in the dreams of our Miss Brooks Philip Boynton is every bit as ardent and attentive as any woman could desire.  Duration : 27:47  Starr...

The Philip Morris Playhouse grew from an earlier program called Johnny Presents , which included music and drama performances. Johnny Presents, too, was sponsored by Philip Morris. It was named after Philip Morris' trademark midget bellhop, Johnny Roventini. This show includes the famous commercial, "Callll for Philip Morrriiiiiiaaaasssss, yelled by none other than Johnny. This commercial began wh...

For some people there is only one chase and no other exists: the chase to secure and hold money, nothing, nothing else matters. There is no love except for pennies, dimes and dollars and only hate for those who would deprive them of it… Duration: 28:44 Broadcast Date: February 8, 1953

It is 4:30am on the morning of June 6th 1943. About 12 miles east of Humbole, Texas an army troop train draws westwards through the darkness. In the smoking room of one sleeping car a virile private of thirty plays solitaire. . .  Duration: 29:02  Starring: Joel McCrea  Broadcast Date: 6th April 1952

The Knock This story starts with the wonderful words ” The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door”. With such a wonderful opening it is impossible not to listen on to this sinister little tale.  Duration: 29.40  Starring : Norman Rose  Broadcast Date: 6th May 1950

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, affectionately known as TP or Gildy is owner of Gildersleeve Girdle works and onetime neighbor of Fibber McGee and bearer of an inimitable dirty laugh! In this first episode of “The Great Gildersleeve we see the departure of TP from his home town Wistful Vista to Summerfield. On the train journey TP enters into a disagreement with a man over a lower berth and it later...

Listening to the problems of the Riley’s for the next half hour is sure to make you forget your own problems. The Riley’s are on the move again as the apartment they’ve been renting in LA must be vacated by the end of the week. While breadwinning father has been hard at work in his defense job Peggy has been out house hunting all day, unsuccessfully!  Duration: 29:03  Starring: William B...

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Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series be...

Mrs Amelia Harwell has died of poisoning. The family fortune was built by the deceased’s father. Amelia Harwell was his only child and he trained her to take over the business. When she died she was over 70 and was still taking an active part in the business. She was an extremely domineering woman and earned little warmth from her husband Thomas, her daughter Maxine or her son Dexter. Any one of t...