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The Blue Beetle had a relatively short career on the radio, between May and September of 1940. Motion picture and radio actor Frank Lovejoy was the Blue Beetle for the first 13 episodes, while for the rest of the shows, the voice was provided by a different, uncredited actor. The Blue Beetle was a young police officer who saw the need for extra-ordinary crime fighting. He took the task on himself...

You are groping in the midnight dimness of a gigantic department store and suddenly you realize that you are not alone, but a hundred eyes are glaring at you from the shadows and a hundred hands are reaching for your throat and your most urgent desire is to . . . escape! Based on the eerie short story Evening Primrose by John Collier . Duration: 29:45  Starring: Elliott Lewis, Paul Frees&nbsp...

Tonight it’s the big testimonial dinner and Archie is telling Duffy over the phone that Georgie Jessel is coming down to Duffy’s Tavern and other people beside. Who’s the testimonial dinner for? Why Archie of course. Join in the fun along with Archie and his gang Finnegan, Miss Duffy and Eddie and also appearing Rudy Vallee.  Duration: 30:24  Starring: Ed Gardner  Broadcast Date: 5t...

Wendy Morris was a very rich lady whose five years ago married a man by the name of Stanley Morris and immediately after he joined the army and hasn’t been see since, that is until a month ago. And now that he’s back something very peculiar has happened to lead Wendy’s lawyer not to believe that he is her husband. He wants Novak to investigate.  Duration: 29:08  Starring: Jack Webb ...

There it is, an echo of the past – an exciting past, a romantic past – the era of the horse and carriage, gas-lit streets and free for all football games: the era of one of the most beloved characters in American fiction, Frank Merriwell. Merriwell is loved as much today as ever he was and so the NBC brings him to radio in a brand new series of thirty minute stories. Listen here to The Riddle Of T...

Bright Star , also called the  Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray  Show , used big film stars to add to the appeal of the show and gain listeners. Best known for her films with Cary Grant, Irene Dunne  left film action in 1952 to save her legacy as "Hollywood's First Lady. She had been nominated for five Academy awards in such films as "The Awful Truth and "Love Affair, but failed to wi...

 Julius has been accused of robbery. Phil, Alice and Elliott goes to the police to see if they can help out. Alice sings, "Glow-Worm." Phil sings, "Where The Blues Began."  Broadcast Date: December 7, 1947

“It’s always good to visit old friends. But I didn’t know this meeting would lead to such a calamity. . . ”  Duration: 23:40  Starring: John Dehner  Broadcast Date: 25th September 1960

Adeline Fairchild the niece of Liela has arrived in Summerfield and is now living next door to Gildersleeve. Gildy has taken quite a shine to her and get’s Birdie to make some scrumptious goodies for him to take round to her. But then later he is worried that Miss Fairchild has plans to take Birdie away from their household and has terrible dreams about missing Birdie’s pot roast.  Duration:...

Dependable, level-headed Jane Stacy began each weekly radio program by narrating a misadventure of her innocent, bewildered roommate, Irma, a dim-bulb stenographer from Minnesota. The two central characters were in their mid-twenties. Irma had her 25th birthday in one episode; she was born on May 5. After the two met in the first episode, they lived together in an apartment rented from their Irish...

“No doubt the telephone is an ingenious invention but as far as I know no one as yet has been able to commit murder over it although many people have wanted to. Still there are worse things you can get on the phone than the wrong number especially if you happen to call the voice on the wire. . . ”  Duration: 28:57  Starring: Lesley Woods  Broadcast Date: 29th November 1944

Al Rocco and Ed Regan two convicts have escaped from Lock Moore penitentiary. Al Rocco has only one thing on his mind and that is to pay Lamont back as he blames him for the five years he has spent locked up.  Duration: 25:10  Starring: Bret Morrison  Broadcast Date: 11th May 1947

The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson starring Laurence Olivier. A shuffle of the cards and then they were drawn out and if you draw the wrong card it you will be either the killer or the victim. . .  Duration: 21:28  Starring: Laurence Olivier  Broadcast Date: Unknown

Speed McFarland middleweight champion of the world and Spider, his trainer are in Speed’s apartment after a very convivial night. They are trying to do two things, recall what happened the night before and get back in to condition. They are failing miserably on both accounts when the door opens and Anne Wesley walks in. . .  Duration: 30:06  Starring: Robert Walker, Jimmy Gleason, Eve Ar...

John isn’t a usual sort of man although he has a very ordinary sort of name, John Smith, what could be more ordinary than that? But he is a most unusual man take his blood group for instance. His blood group is group AB, very rare indeed as the doctor is pointing out to him. . .  Duration: 28:56  Broadcast Date: Not known

Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star searching through the city for strange stories waiting for him in the darkness. It was early morning when Randy was called in the morgue to identify Ted Carter a guy he’d known since they were kids. He knew that Ted had been going straight and Randy was determined to uncover the story.  Duration: 31:17  Starring: Frank Lovejoy ...

It’s a rainy Tuesday evening in New York, and the city streets are deserted save for a red convertible which is parked at the curb, and at the wheel sits Brenda Sinclair, petting her pet Pekinese. She sits in the car with a man named Kenny, who is not her husband, when her husband, Ray Sinclair comes up to the car. Brenda says she’s going to leave Ray, an argument begins, and Ray pulls out a gun....

The people of his county elected Paul Remson to the Supreme Court bench in November he was sworn-in in January and by April he was already one of the most popular judges in the county. Paul Remson has always been against capital punishment but now according to the law he had to pass the sentence on to Martin Rivers who was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree.  Duration: 29:06&nb...

Sears Radio Theater was a radio drama anthology series which ran weeknightly on CBS Radio in 1979, sponsored by the Sears chain. Often paired with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater during its first season, the program offered a different genre of drama for each day's broadcast. In 1980, the program moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System and became the Mutual Radio Theater. The Mutual series broadcast...

The  Line Up,  as the title indicates, centered around the police line up. The show always began with one. The Sergeant in charge of line would say, “May I have your attention please? You people  on the other side of the wire in the audience room, may I have your attention please.” He would then give his name and say, “I’ll explain the line up to you. Each of the suspects you will s...

We tune in to find that Jack is late for the broadcast. As Mary tries to cover for him in the studio, we are transported to Jack's wisecracking cabbie who gets stopped by the cops, but do you think Jack makes it to the studio? No? Yes! Don't worry, that'll make more sense when you listen. In the studio, Don Bestor plays, but his song is snipped. Jack jokes on music, the sponsor, Don Wilson being c...

Let George Do It was an American radio drama series produced from 1946 to 1954 by Owen and Pauline Vinson. Bob Bailey starred as private investigator George Valentine; Olan Soule voiced the role in 1954. Don Clark directed the scripts by David Victor and Jackson Gillis.

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Samson tries to goad his son in to doing what he wants him to do by insulting him and calling him a fool but his son'a response is to run away from home.  Duration: 29:35  Broadcast Date: 24th August 1947

The last time Johnny Dollar saw Tom Pinkley from New Orleans they took in a boxing match and Johnny won $20 from him on an Italian kid who called himself Touchy Tarrantino. That boy was a fighter with a real future, which is why Pinkley covered his losses by selling him a $25000 life policy. However now Pinkley is afraid Tarrantino has no future and suspects the kid is either going to commit suici...