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How often have you had that strange experience that makes you say it seems like all this has happened to me before? Psychologists call that phenomenon prevision and this story explores an experience in prevision and will hold you spellbound up to its stunning and fearful finish.  Duration: 29:31  Starring: Robert Cummings, Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Loretta Young  Broadcast D...

He is the epitome of the word "mad scientist." This top scientist doesn't care whether his inventions have already vastly altered the world, all that he cares about is the vast amount of knowledge that he acquires in his research. What the world sees as a destructive weapon is nothing more but a mere scribble of equations for him. The world is starting to reach a crucial point when human knowledge...

Tuning up his violin, Jack breaks a string, and needs to get a new one. Taking a walk, since the Maxwell is broken down, Jack greets people on the street. Namely a French nurse maid, a baby, but will they believe that Jack can get them into the movies? In the music store, Jack ponders where he'd be without his success in radio and TV. 

It’s only natural for a member of the bird watchers society even when he’s a professional statistician like Dr. Wormsley to be watching starlings on a penthouse roof. But when instead his binoculars reveal one man pushing another off that self same roof that is just sort of the case George valentine would get involved in.  Duration: 29:31  Starring: Bob Bailey, Frances Robinson, Wally Ma...

Breaking Walls is a once-per-month audio documentary on the history of American Network Radio Broadcasting, focusing on people, places, and events from the Golden Age of Radio. http://thewallbreakers.com/   To find out more about James Scully :  http://thewallbreakers.com/jamesscully/ I personally recommend listening to episodes in this order to get the full story of the beginning of Rad...

Cathy Lewis begins by thanking the listeners for the cards and best wishes they have received for their wedding anniversary!  John Bradford rings District Attorney Dale Christian to tell him that Helen Randal Dudley has been found and arrested. Apparently Mrs Dudley’s husband Roger Aimes Dudley has been found dead and a coroners report shows it as a result of wounds inflicted by Mrs Dudley wi...

Suffolk England in 1676 and Roger Nems is playing croquet with his cousin John and friend Guy Marcy. The sound you will hear is that of Guy Macy hitting Roger Nems on the head with his mallet and killing him. So here is Thomas Hyland connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders report on Roger Nems and how he, though dead won the game.  Duration: 27:29  Starring: Lou...

Ellery Queen begins by dedicating this program to the fight against crime. Not merely crimes of violence and crimes of dishonesty but crimes of intolerance, discrimination, and bad citizenship, crimes against America. He then tells us the story of a mysterious international figure suspected of diamond smuggling.  Duration: 29:28  Starring: Hugh Marlowe  Broadcast Date : 7th Septembe...

This is the audition show for Halls of Ivy in which Gale Gordon and actress Edna Best were originally cast as Dr William Todhunter Hall, the Ivy college president and his English Theatre actress wife formerly Victoria Cromwell. The story is the same as the first episode of Halls of Ivy entitled “Reappointment” starring Mr and Ronald Coleman in the title roles. We are all familiar with the Coleman’...

Private Jobey Turler’s horse Belle Shannon was 11 years old and lame but she meant more to him than just a form of transport to be changed. When he found she was on the remount order list Jobey appealed to Captain Quincy. Understanding what she meant to him, Quincy agreed to take her off the order for the time being.  Duration: 28:14  Starring: Raymond Burr, Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobki...

Draw close your chair and if there are no faint hearts among us we’ll begin tonight’s tale of terror.  Three doctors have told Elwood Fitch that he has only a year to live unless he moves to Arizona but Elwood doesn’t know how he would make a living there. While driving home from a movie with his wife he ran a red light at speed and hit a man killing him. Elwood believes that no one saw them...

In class Miss Spalding explains that their street is 50 years old this year. Luigi suggests that it would be a good idea to have a block pary so that the neighbors can get to know each other but Pasquale the “head of the block” or as Luige puts it the “block head” won’t donate the food unless Luigi marries his daughter Rosa. Oh no, it looks like there isn’t going to be a party!  Duration: 29:...

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Richard Rogue was extremely busy when Mrs Eccle a little old lady called in for his help concerning her granddaughter. Mrs Eccle reminded him so much of the grandma he spent so much of his youth with that he couldn’t resist helping her. When Rogue went round to the girl’s apartment there was no answer so he went in only to find a girl dead.  Duration: 30:15  Starring: Dick Powell  B...

Our story tonight takes us to Brooklyn New York. Brooklyn is a quiet little place at the end of a bridge, it is noted for its cemetaries, a tree that grows there and its baseball club, the Dodgers. Now Brooklyn is also the home of an assortment of rather odd characters not the least of whom is Aubery Piper played by Fred Allen. Aubery has recently blown in to the Fisher home as the suiter of daugh...

Orchids don’t grow up overnight. They have to be carefully planted, tended, watered and watched and the same thing goes for murder. Take Zavros’ Flower shop minutes after Archie Goodwin got that phone call for Nero Wolfe. . .  Duration: 29:07  Starring: Sydney Greenstreet  Broadcast Date: 29th December 1950

“The big gun in his hand turned over and over. He leaned his face close to mine hissing softly between his teeth it was a face that held all the evil in the world, a kind that gets up close when somebody’s gonna die. Suddenly everything shattered in front of me like a bulb smashed against a rock. I got the last funny flash Michael Shayne, a guy head deep in nothing. . . ”  Duration: 26:27&nbs...

Good question: should they? Duration: 29:03  Starring: Jimmy Durante  Broadcast Date : 16th June 1948

Carrying a trunk with mysterious contents to be dumped overboard, two sisters soon discover that the ship they've boarded is mysterious as well..

There is a man loitering outside the Broderick Private Detective Agency. He looks strange, but very intelligent, like a professor. His name is Mr. Grapheus, and he has come to New York to locate the Martian Embassy and the agents of the government of the planet Mars. Broderick obviously believes him to be a crackpot, until he hands him a document, an authentic 5th century note. .   Durat...

Doc wants to speak to Matt. There has been some trouble between a man and his lady, known by the name Tebbs. Doc had popped around to their house to introduce himself. But, when he got there, the man was lying on the bed with a knife wound to his leg. Doc thinks that the lady is trying to kill him. . .  Duration: 23:48  Starring: William Conrad  Broadcast Date: 5th February 1956

The story that Dr. Watson is about to relate is a Cornish horror known as the Adventure of the Devils Foot. It was spring of the year 1897 Holmes iron constitution had shown some signs of giving way due to some particular arduous nerve-racking winter. In March of that year Dr. Moore Aver of Harley Street positive injunctions that Holmes get out in to the country and the third week in March found D...

Abbott’s the coach of the Yanks for as long as Costello is on the team and you know nowadays they give the players strange names such as Who and What!  Duration: 30:00  Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello  Broadcast Date: 18th June 1947

:Someone is trying to jump out of a window and that scene triggers a crowd of photographers. While taking the pictures, a person seems to be always getting in the way of a photographer which makes him yell "13 and 8" to warn all the photographers around to be on their guard for that person. But that photographer can't prove the existence of that person because he doesn't show up on his photos. Thi...

Sadly there is no summary for this episode.     Starring: Eve Arden, Jeff Chandler, Gale Gordon, Jane Morgan, Richard Crenna,  Gloria McMillan, Leonard Smith Duration: 29:18