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This week's Christmas holiday edition of Tuesday Night Detectives brings two hard-boiled mysteries with a season twist. First up is The Adventures of Sam Spade in "The 25", originally broadcast December 15, 1950, as America's most famous private eye follows a case where greed, suspicion, and a Christmas payoff collide in classic noir fashion.  Then it's Rocky Fortune, produced by NBC and starring...

Celebrate the Christmas holidays with Sunday Night Playhouse on Vintage Classic Radio, featuring a classic Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "Great Expectations", originally broadcast on October 13, 1947. This elegant radio production brings Charles Dickens' timeless novel to the airwaves with the rich storytelling and star-studded presentation that Lux was known for. Follow young Pip as a single ac...

This week on Saturday Matinee, we continue the holiday festivities with three heartwarming and hilarious old time radio classics. Abbott and Costello are back in "Lou's Christmas Party" finding the duo in chaotic holiday shenanigans as they try to host the perfect party. In Ozzie and Harriet's "No Show for Christmas", we see Ozzie scrambling to save the day when plans for a quiet Christmas don't g...

We continue the holidays with chills on Friday Night Noir. Joseph Cotten braves a deadly mission in "Arctic Rescue", while Raymond Burr faces a holiday night gone dangerously wrong in "Out for Christmas". Tense, gripping, and full of twists, these classic Suspense episodes bring winter's cold edge straight to your ears on Vintage Classic Radio.

This week on Tuesday Night Detectives, we open with The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in "The Great Gandolfo" starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Watson and Holmes square off against a master of deception whose illusions hide a far deadlier game, one that only the world's greatest detective can unravel. Then we turn up the pace with a double helping with Episodes 5 and 6 of Dick Barton, S...

This week on Sunday Night Playhouse, Vintage Classic Radio presents Norman Corwin's sharp and spirited 1944 holiday classic, "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas". In this witty rhymed fantasy, a council of history's great villains meets to hatch a plan to destroy Christmas itself. Corwin uses humour and imagination to take aim at tyranny and the forces that thrive on fear, cruelty, and authoritarian...

Kick off the holidays with this week's Saturday Matinee on Vintage Classic Radio! Laugh along with Jack Benny in "Christmas Open House", enjoy the festive chaos with Fibber McGee and Molly in "Listening to Carols", and feel the holiday spirit with Frank Sinatra, who stars in the Hallmark Playhouse radio play, "Room for a Stranger". Three classic Christmas stories full of humour, music, and heartwa...

Kick off the holiday season with a Christmas double feature on Friday Night Noir. First, an episode from Suspense in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" (1953), a gripping Christmas Eve search for a missing girl. Then Escape follows with "Back for Christmas" (1947), a darkly clever tale of a professor whose holiday plan hide a chilling twist. Classic tension and vintage radio charm. Welcome to Frid...

This week on Tuesday Night Detectives: Celebrate the season with two classic holiday mysteries from radio's golden age.  First, Big Town delivers a heartfelt Christmas tale in "Prelude to Christmas" (1948) where a simple assignment leads to an unexpected act of compassion.  Then, George Valentine takes on a puzzling holiday case in Let George Do It with "Christmas Letter" (1952).  Cozy up for intr...

Vintage Classic Radio presents this week's Sunday Night Playhouse, welcoming you back to the golden glow of classic Hollywood on the airwaves. This week, we feature a lush adaptation from Lux Radio Theatre's "Green Dolphin Street", originally broadcasted September 19th, 1949. Set against the backdrop of 19th century New Zealand, this sweeping romantic drama follows two sisters whose lives are upen...

This week's Saturday Matinee is a lively triple bill packed with laughs, hijinks, and Hollywood sparkle! We kick off with Our Miss Brooks in "Stretch to Transfer", where Connie Brooks juggles school politics and student antics as she tries to keep Stretch Snodgrass from being transferred out of Madison High.  Next up is The Aldrich Family in "The Great Weiner Roast", and Henry Aldrich's plans for...

This week on Friday Night Noir, we invite you into two unforgettable journeys through the darker corners of radio drama. We begin with Arch Oboler's Plays in "Strange Morning" originally broadcasted April 5th, 1945. An ordinary day unravels into an eerie and unsettling experience in Oboler's uniquely haunting style.  Then, from Quiet Please, comes "Good Ghost" broadcasted on October 24th, 1948. A...

Step back into the golden age of radio mystery with this week's double feature of intrigue and suspense! First, in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' as the great detective and Dr. Watson unravel the chilling case of "The Death of Mrs. Abernetty", originally broadcast on November 30th, 1946. A curious death, a tangle of motives, and Holmes' razor-sharp deductions promise a classic detective's tal...

This week on Sunday Night Playhouse, Vintage Classic Radio presents a double bill from Orson Welles' CBS Radio Workshop, bringing to life two timeless tales of imagination and discovery.  First, we hear Antoine de Saint Exupéry's The Little Prince from May 25th, 1956, the moving tale of a downed pilot who encounters a mysterious boy from another world, and through him learns profound lessons of lo...

This week's Saturday Matinee on Vintage Classic Radio brings you a trio of classic broadcasts: in the Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show episode "Phil's Vaccination", Phil does everything he can to dodge a shot with predictably funny results; then Abbott and Costello lampoon the hardboiled detective genre in "Sam Shovel in the Caes of the Grocer Who Fell in Wet Cement"; and finally Orson Welles transport...

This week on Friday Night Noir, Vintage Classic Radio invites you into the shadows with Wilkie Collins' eerie masterpiece, "The Haunted Hotel". When a bride-to-be loses her fiancé under suspicious circumstances, her search for the truth leads to a Venetian palace heavy with secrets, guilt, and whispers of the supernatural. Dark intrigue meets ghostly terror in a story where every shadow hides a qu...

Experience the intrigue of old-time radio with Carter Brown: Crime for a King, a gripping four-part 1957 detective mystery from the Carter Brown Mysteries series on Vintage Classic Radio's Tuesday Night Detectives. This classic crime drama follows private detective Carter Brown as he investigates a royal palace conspiracy filled with betrayal, secret meetings, and high-stakes deception. Featuring...

Step into the world of vintage detective radio with two classic mysteries. In Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates: Black Tuesday, a former police inspector turned gourmet sleuth unravels a deliciously devious act of sabotage. Then in Maigret in Montmartre, Paris's most famous detective hunts a killer through smoky clubs, opium dens, and the bohemian heart of Montmartre. Perfect for fans of French d...

This Sunday Night Playhouse, Vintage Classic Radio invites you to step into the world of Charles Dickens with the Mercury Theatre on the Air's sweeping 1938 adaptation of "A Tale of Two Cities", Orson Welles leads a stellar company including Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten, Martin Gabel, Anges Moorehead, and Everett Sloane, all framed by Bernard Bermann's stirring music. Journey between London and Pari...

This Saturday Matinee is brimming with classic British comedy and golden age orchestral charm. We begin with "The Goon Show" in "Emperor of the Universe", as Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, and Harry Secombe take us on a delightfully absurd hunt for 25 million missing Englishmen. Then it's time for our first musical interlude, with Jack Hilton and his Orchestra playing the Cole Porter gem "You're t...

On this week’s Tuesday Night Detectives on Vintage Classic Radio, we delve into two gripping cases from the golden age of mystery. First, in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, we present “The Copper Beaches,” originally broadcast on May 7th, 1943. When a young governess named Violet Hunter takes a strange job at a secluded estate, she turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for help. What begi...

This week on "Tuesday Night Detectives" from Vintage Classic Radio, we begin with suave sleuth Phil Vance in "The Butler Murder Case", originally broadcasted on February 15th, 1949. When a respected society figure is found dead in his study and all signs point to the loyal family butler, Vance isn't convinced by appearances. With his usual blend of erudite charm and sharp deduction, he peels back...

On this week's "Tuesday Night Detectives" on Vintage Classic Radio, we bring you two gripping detective stories from the golden age of radio. First, the brilliant Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot, returns in "Trail Led to Death", originally broadcast on November 11th, 1945. When a reclusive antique dealer is found murdered in his London shop, Poirot must untangle a series of cryptic clues, including...

This Sunday evening on "Sunday Night Playhouse", Vintage Classic Radio brings you a rare sci-fi double bill from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Our first feature is a haunting adaptation from CBC Sunday Theatre in Calgary, H.G. Wells' story, "The Crystal Egg", originally aired on March 26. 1972. Long before he unleashed the Martian apocalypse in "The War of the Worlds", Wel...

After a long hiatus, we present "Tuesday Night Detectives". First, "The Adventures of Sam Spade" in "Lawless Caper". Originally broadcasted on August 29th, 1948. Howard Duff stars as Spade, who investigates a stolen holiday shipment, with Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie Perrine, and support from William Conrad and June Havoc. Next up, we have "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" featuring "The Sudden...