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Britt Ponsett’s horse Scar Seemed pretty to clear the eight miles of prairie between the hills and Clay City. It was over six months since their last visit to Clay City and surely Scar couldn’t be remembering the filly form the livery, but something sure was spurring him on. . .  Duration: 28:14  Starring: James Stewart  Broadcast Date: 10th January 1954

“You Are There” is the best radio dramatization I have ever heard. Each show begins with “live” background coverage of the historical event, and then the “on the scene reporters” take over. Everybody knows there were no radio announcers onboard the Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria, (or from Ancient Greece, Medieval France, or the Battle of Gettysburg either!) but you will be transported back in time an...

You are traveling east on a cross-country bus and among your fellow passengers seemingly innocent and friendly are a man and a woman who plan to destroy you and a hundred and fifty million of your countrymen. Now Escape brings you Anthony Ellis’s exciting story - Classified Secret .  Duration: 28:52  Broadcast Date: 12th April 1953

Three men want George Valentine to find out who’s been using the little town of Summer Springs as collection headquarters for city rackets. They want him to do it before the federal grand jury moves in. George Valentine thinks this might be an interesting case if he would ever get to work on it. The trouble is getting out from behind the eight ball because as matters stand he is wanted by the poli...

It is June 1912, The Great Gandolfo and his assistant Miss Florine Le Suer are playing at the Devonshire Theater in Eastbourne. At the same time a spy is operating which is causing some concern to the British Government. Holmes and Watson feel they may have solved the mystery, when suddenly the suspect gets murdered.  Duration: 28:55  Starring: Basil Rathbone  Broadcast Date: 22nd O...

This is a story of 24 hours in the life of a husband and wife and is as fresh and vital and true as when it was first played on Broadway and got the Pulitzer Prize. Fay Bainter was scheduled to play the wife but unfortunately was cut down with the flu so Ann Harding takes the lead part. When the Craig’s neighbors are found murdered Mr Craig becomes a murder suspect. Mrs Craig is more concerned wit...

“I eased in to the alley and waited. Pretty soon a side door opened and out came Helen. Just as I got to her I heard a noise behind me. I started to turn around but too late, a king sized comet exploded over my right ear and the ground came up and hit me in the face. . . ”  Duration: 26:29  Starring: Wally Maher  Broadcast Date: 1946

Hobb Wilson and his actors have been in Gunside for two days now, arranging to stage Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the local Opera House. Hobb and an actor named Eddie Clyde are also planning to rob the bank. A second floor store room in the Opera House overlooks the flat roof of the one storey bank. By climbing out of the Opera House window, Eddie can walk across the roof of the General Store to the fresh...

ichard Rogue is travelling on the train in a compartment with Betty a friend and journalist to the Charlie Miller trial when a Latin type woman enters his compartment and says that there is a man on the train that has designs on her life. When the man knocks on the door the woman asks Rogue to look after her briefcase before leaving the compartment. The man comes back and whacks Betty and Rogue kn...

The Black Museum; here in the grim stone structure on the Thames, which houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide where everyday objects, a mans neck tie, a woman’s glove, a boys school cap all are touched by murder. Here’s a champagne glass a long slim stem it’s a familiar object that belongs to New Years Eve, to weddings to anniversaries. Funny how human beings can take an article meant f...

After more than his share of tough cases during a long hard winter Johnny Dollar felt he deserved a few days of relaxation fishing. However, when a case turns up to find Mrs Brownburgs missing husband Dollar takes it.  Duration: 32:46  Starring: Bob Readick  Broadcast Date: 5th March 1961

The "Sealtest Village Store" was a followup to the "Rudy Vallee Show" and premiered in 1943 with Joan Davis in the lead and Jack Haley taking over from Vallee as the male presence on the show. Davis carried the show so well, that she went on to her own solo series in mid-1945, leaving Haley to mind the store until he left in 1947. Then cast member Eve Arden took over the hosting duties for a few m...

The story of a woman who went down in to darkness as she might bring another in to light Ann Sullivan Macy takes ranks among the foremost educators for her work with the labor of love and she found her reward in aiding her beloved pupil Helen Keller who knew her only as teacher.  Duration: 30:19  Broadcast Date: 2nd March 1938

“That fourth bullet tore through the flesh of my left shoulder. There was nothing between him and me now except a tree. I stood there waiting, there were two more shots left in the gun. I caught the glint of the barrel in the moonlight and then the grand daddy of all fire crackers blew up in my face. . . ”  Duration: 26:33  Starring: Jeff Chandler  Broadcast Date: 27th August 1949

Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes are on their way to visit Dr Ingleby when they come across a murder scene. The well-dressed man has been stabbed to death and identified as Dr Marsden and appears not to have been robbed. There is no apparent motive and no clues but when they meet with Dr Ingleby and another Doctor, Dr David McKenna Sherlock uncovers a possible connection.  Duration: 29:04 ...

Lum and Abner – Fourth of July picnic The Connie Boswell Show – Fourth of July picnic The Great Gildersleeve – Fourth of July Speech Yankee Yams – Fourth of July In The Name of The Law – Fourth of July picnic Heartbeat Theater – Fourth of July Reunion Anthology – Special 4th of July edition Quiz Kids – Most Appropriate Hairdo for July 4th Life with Luigi – The 4th of July parade Jean Shepard – The...

Pat Nokak was approached by a woman in a bar who gave him $50 to go to a flower stand tomorrow at two o’clock and collect a geranium and deliver it to an address. She told him nothing more and said that would be the last time he saw her. He collected the flower but on his way to the address someone tried to run him down in their car.  Duration: 29:04  Starring: Jack Webb  Broadcast...

Betrayal In Vienna is a story taken from life. It is a true story of a man who destroyed an empire one of the most dramatic spy stories ever told.  Duration: 29:50  Starring: Herbert Marshall, Ben Wright, Joseph Kearns, Bill Johnstone, Herb Butterfield, Charles Davis, Byron Kane, John Stevenson  Broadcast Date: 8th October 1951

Jackson from the Tri-Western Life Insurance Company calls insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. One of his clients is mixed up in a narcotics incident and Jackson wants Johnny Dollar to help him before it is too late.  Duration: 24:02  Starring: Mandel Kramer, Ralph Camargo, Robert Dryden, Lawson Zerbe  Broadcast Date: 13th August 1961

Rip and Big Mike arrive in Lhasa for an interview with the Dalai Lama. The holy one asks the adventurers to investigate a botanical gardens that shouldn't even exist! What is the secret behind the mysterious steam heated cave in the Himalayas? Postwar. Duration: 12:58

Harden Wilgen and Stanley Creighton had invented a unit to cool the motor engine of a car that would make them millionaires. But Harden Wilgen had no intention of sharing any of the money with Creighton. Once Wilgen was sure the invention was perfect he poisoned Creighton and disposed of his body in the river after first being sure there was no way of identifying the body.  Duration: 24:29 &n...

r. and Mrs. Smith are being held in the Holly Military prison as spies. They are believed not to be American citizens. There is an immigration and identification racket going on. It all seems to tie in with a case that the Shadow is studying.  Duration: 28:19  Starring: Orson Welles  Broadcast Date: 23rd January 1938

A man was shot from outside by a bullet, which came in through the window. The killer was across the street in a parked car with a high-powered rifle. There had been another two auto killings with the same MO recently and the police suspected Bat McCoy but Casey wondered why he would want to kill his piano player. It seems that his piano player had married a woman that McCoy had a crush on. Casey...

Sergeant Burke drove slowly through the city streets dividing his attention between the traffic and the attractive girl who sat at his side. His pal Michael Oxford was also in the front seat of the police car. Linda Travis had been a reporter for less than a week. She had gotten her job on merit no one suspected she had come from the west expressly top work for the Daily Sentinel so she could give...

dow never liked Dutch or working for his detective agency. She’d done her final case and thought she was through with Dutch when she married Jimmy Conway but then one day Dutch turned up wanting her to work on a case for him, a closed case that had been nagging him as he still felt that it was murder. A case that Shadow had done the groundwork for, the Conway case! Dutch was convinced that Shadow’...