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No man has a duty to do what he knows is not right so the cowardly bomber pilot is destined for the crazy town where people live and love and kill as their fancy strikes.  Duration: 27:27  Starring: Edmond O’Brien, Charlotte Manson, Paul Stewart, John Brown, Betty Caine  Broadcast Date: 20th May 1939

The phone rings, and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answers and tells the party on the other line, “You’ll have to count me out this evening, I have to see about a gambling debt, a boy I know tried to make a seven the hard way and discovered murder was a natural.” It is late evening in New York, and at Frency Devlin’s, a gambling house in the east 70s, a young man named Steve Richards is conducting a...

It is twelve o’clock midnight in the home of Carl and Mary Watson. Carl is sleeping restlessly, uneasily then suddenly he discovers Mary over him with a knife in her hand. . . Duration: 26:19  Starring: Charlotte Holland, Alan Hewitt  Broadcast Date: Not Broadcast

“The war had come. In time they had joined up, they had fought to the end somewhere in Germany. Now here they were after the victory, the fighting over still in France in the mud and the rain and the chilly countryside. October 1945. . . ” Martin Wilson as the father, Robert Dryden as Welch and Myron McCormick as Captain Tainey.  Duration: 30:08  Starring: Fletcher Markle  Broadcast...

Matt Dillon and Kitty are having a drink when Webb Johnson who thinks he has a way with women interrupts and asks Kitty to join him at the poker table. The previous night Johnson had offered Kitty a job at the Longhorn Saloon, which he had bought up. Matt Dillon thought Johnson was talky enough to cause trouble sooner or later. . .  Duration: 29:59  Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer,...

Danny Clover received a call at headquarters from a frantic upset man telling them to get to Marley apartment on West 39 5th floor apartment 5c where someone he loved was lying there dead. . .  Duration: 29:42  Starring: Larry Thor  Broadcast Date: 27th November 1953

The great explorer, Peter Stranski, is giving a lecture on the head-hunters of the Amazon when he finds Ellen, his wife, in the arms of another man, John. Ellen wants a divorce. Peter invites John and Ellen to his home and asks John to witness the divorce papers and he scratches himself on Peter’s pen. Has Peter used the poison of the Amazon head-hunters? What strange and terrible revenge could a...

Paddy Devlin, who has somehow acquired a very fast colt he calls Malachi, meets a small, young farmhand, Stevie Oakes, who, Paddy believes, can be trained to ride Malachi to the Triple Crown.  Stevie's stepfather, Morton, agrees to allow the penniless Paddy to live in his barn with Malachi and teach Stevie how to ride after the boy has finished his chores.  But when boy and horse are rea...

Sebastian Packer is a clock maker and carries on the profession that his father taught him in London. He likes clocks, all that is but one. For 30 years he has looked for a certain clock and a certain man. Collectors know the clock as the Judas clock, the man he swore to kill when as a boy of 14 he closed his father’s gazing eyes and wiped the froth of blood from his lips. Last night he found the...

Ever since Ozzie Nelson was a little boy his parents taught him courage, determination and a sense of honor. These are the virtues it takes to keep a promise. The Ozzie Nelson of today has the same grim determination to keep his promise to take his kids on a woodland hike even though he’d rather go to the game. David and Ricky too don’t want to let their father down even though they also would rat...

For the opening program two of the brightest stars of the American theatre, Miss Judith Anderson and Mr Maurice Evans in a starring performance of Jean La Touchet’s moving vignette in verse The Statue Of Liberty . But first the magnificent baritone voice of Igor Gorin singing Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag .  Duration: 14:34   Starring: Robert Montgomery  Broadcast Date: 1942

All sorts of people are going around making all sorts of surveys about the habits of the American male and female. If they ever questioned Pam and Jerry North they would learn something that would make their hair stand on end. For instance in the morning Jerry prefers regaining consciousness by degrees but Pam on the other hand is as gay, fresh and romantic as a lark. . .  Duration: 26:16&nbs...

Mrs Myra Wilson and her husband arrived in town and took a room at the Hotel Mica. After lunch she went shopping and to a movie and then she went back to the hotel. It looked the same but when she asked at the hotel for her husband the clerk told her that there was no one registered by that name.  Duration: 22:44  Starring: William Gargan  Broadcast Date: 9th February 1955

Most female teachers at Madison High School think of Mr. Boynton the bashful biologist as an extremely handsome, virile irresistible individual. But our Miss Brooks who teaches English there can take him with a grain of salt. . .  Duration: 24:34  Starring: Eve Arden  Broadcast Date: 24th April 1954

Last winter had been an especially severe winter, colder than usual with almost constant snows so deep and heavy that even the winter range was useless, cattle froze, starved and died right and left. It was late in February up in the mountain town appropriately named Headstone, the principle business building in Headstone is a long narrow room operated as a cafe or ´ saloon and run by a strange ha...

Judy has decided to augment her vocal talent by becoming a musician and as the scene opens she is practicing on the saxophone. . . Duration: 28:53  Starring: Judy Canova, Mel Blanc  Broadcast Date: 3rd November 1945

Fearing the racketeers behind a brutal gang killing of a construction foreman may not know the only witness against them is their victims blind sister Lorelei has taken Anna Bartam to her apartment for safety while Steve Wilson managing editor of the illustrated press has set a trap for them.  Duration: 29:35  Starring: Edward Pawley  Broadcast Date: 14th September 1948

The Long Way Home – a glimpse of the future we trust will never happen. A story of the fate of man to whom it is given to do what they have to do who with or without understanding, but with patience, goodwill and a sense of comradeship.  Duration: 24:02  Broadcast Date: 12th May 1957

Liz’s maid Katie had been corresponding with Roscoe for sometime now and had told him that she travelled in fancy society and now he was coming to town and planning to stop in and see her. Katie didn’t know what to do as she didn’t want Roscoe to know that she had been fibbing then Liz came up with an idea that meant Katie could be everything she said she was, Liz would be Katie’s maid!  Dura...

The sound you hear is that of a grave been dug on a hillside in a lonely section of England in the 17th century. It is a stormy night and the gravedigger is James Alsop, money clipper, highwayman, and father-in-law. It will take him about an hour to finish and another hour to give it a corpse for in that time James Alsop will add murder to his other attributes. . .  Duration: 29:32  Star...

Over Here  - Charles Laughton One Night Stand  - Count Basie Hotel Lincoln - First Song - Digging For Dex Orson Welles Radio Almanac  - Guest - Susan Hayward Old Gold Comedy Theater - A Slight Case Of Murder O’Henry Plays - Mrs Parker's Rooming House One Out of Seven - Third World War Our Miss Brooks - Convict Has Threatened To Kill Mr. Conklin Our Freedom's Blessings  - The Fl...

Dixie is the story of a song that has been on the hit parade for over one hundred years and here you will hear Bing sing Dixie and some of the other great songs from the picture. In the period before the civil war a new form of entertainment flashed across the American scene, the Minstrel Show. This is the story of the first of the great Minstrels, Daniel Decatur Emmett who donned burnt cork and s...

Get ready for a Barrel of Fun and a variety of entertainment starring Charlie Ruggles, Benny Rubin, Verna Felton, Jerry Hausner, Sara Berner, Hanley Stafford, Charlie Lung, and Harry Lang. Music by Linda Ware and the Sportsmen and Dave Rose and his Orchestra who open the show performing Your Grand.  Announcer: Art Gilmore  Duration: 29:02  Starring: Charlie Ruggles, Benny Rubin, Ver...

In this story we drop in on a very clever gentleman, a gentleman who perfected a plan to be rid of people he disliked without ever having to suffer for it. Mr. Jeffrey Andrews is temporarily confined to a hospital, so we start there to meet him. He’s just been given a routine checkup by the staff physician, Dr. French.  Duration: 28:57  Broadcast Date: 6th June 1950

The National Broadcasting Company brings you transcribed from New York The Martin and Lewis Show with special guest John Garfield and featuring, Flo McMichael, Dick Stabile and his orchestra and Starring Dean Martin with his wonderful singing voice and Jerry Lewis with his not so wonderful singing voice!  Duration: 29:59  Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis  Broadcast Date: 26th May...