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SUSPENSE - Till-Death-Do-Us-Part - December-15-1942 Starring Peter Lorre, Alice Frost and Mercedes McCambridge.

Stan Freberg presents The United States of America.

Stan Freberg - Presents the United States of America, Vol. 1 - The Declaration of Independence. A Stan Freberg sketch explains how Thomas Jefferson may have convinced Benjamin Franklin to sign the Declaration of Independence.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is an American old-time radio show that aired on US radio networks between 1930 and 1936. The series was adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories by scriptwriter Edith Meiser. For most of the series, Richard Gordon played Sherlock Holmes and Leigh Lovell played Dr. Watson. The series included multiple original stories by Meiser, in additio...

This episode aired September 9, 1947 on Mutual Radio Network stars Bret Morrison. The police suspect vandalism in the cemetery until a series of ghoulish grave robberies includes the disappearance and murder of the cemetery caretaker. Believing the gravediggers will return to finish what they couldn’t due to an unexpected interruption, Lamont and Margot attempt to observe the late night happenings...

The public service radio program Serenade in Blue was written, produced, and performed by men in blue. It featured three top-notch Air Force bands: The Air Force Strings, Symphony in Blue, and the big band sound of Airmen of Note (which was originally started by Glenn Miller during WWII). This episode is from the summer of 1963. Recorded and produced by the Air Force Band radio recording unit at B...

From February 5, 1979 on CBS Radio this is the first episode of Sears Radio Theater. The Host is Lorne Green and stars John McIntire and Janette Nolan. Announcer is Art Gilmore. Air check from KMOX St. Louis. 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 fir...

Episode 63 on NBC Radio starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Screen Directors Playhouse was a popular American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to NBC Radio beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcasts adaptations of films frequently with the original directors of the films. The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949, to S...

Aired July 11, 1948 on NBC Radio with Howard Duff as Spade. Sam meets a mystery woman with no memory and a corpse that's been killed by a buzz saw! Sandra Gould replaces Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Sam's secretary. Poppy O'Farrell walks into Sam's office. She has lost her memory and wants Sam to try and trace who she is. All she is aware of is that she was on a cable car that morning a...

Aired June 3, 1951 on NBC Radio. Tom Conway stars as The Saint. The Saint agrees to meet a woman’s husband on the train and ends up investigating the husband’s murder. Tom Conway (born Thomas Charles Sanders, 15 September 1904 – 22 April 1967) was a British film, television, and radio actor remembered for playing detectives (including The Falcon, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond, and The Saint) a...

Aired March 16, 1954 on NBC Radio. Frank Sinatra stars as his character Rocky witnesses the execution of the will of a wealthy woman who thinks that she's going insane. She believes that she's going to kill her husband. Rocky visits Perry Shane at his Law office. He wants Rocky to be a witness for Mrs. Biggolo's Will. Whilst they are going through the formalities of the Will Mrs. Biggo...

Dick Powell stars as Private Detective Richard Diamond in his Ralph Chase case on NBC Radio aired May 15, 1949. Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960. Described as “a modern Robin Hood". Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series features a wisecracking forme...

A collection of happenings in radio that touched our lives from the twenties through the sixties. Ben Gross, The dean of American radio and television editors turns the dials back and forth and summons, with a wealth of anecdotes, his own remembrance of the events and personalities of the air waves, past and present. For twenty-nine years, from the time of the first crystal sets to the moment when...

Aired on CBS Radio July 1, 1950. John Dehner stars as Inspector Black of Scotland Yard. Black is called to a hotel room where a man is out on a ledge, saying he can’t deal with his guilt over a murder he committed.

John Emery stars as Philo Vance in this episode from April 29, 1943 on NBC Radio. Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, films, and radio. He was portrayed as a stylish—even foppish—dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. "S. S....

From June 17, 1947 on NBC Radio. Van Heflin and Lurene Tuttle star. Phillip Marlowe is minding his own business, having a beer in a bar conveniently located within staggering distance of his apartment. Business is as lite as the beer with only one other customer in the bar. The drunken man has a pile of dimes in front of him and is pounding back shots of rye like there is no tomorrow, which there...

The Rest of the Story was a Monday-through-Friday ⁠radio⁠ program originally hosted by ⁠Paul Harvey⁠.⁠⁠ Beginning as a part of his newscasts during the ⁠Second World War⁠ and then premiering as its own series on the ⁠ABC Radio Networks⁠ on May 10, 1976, The Rest of the Story consisted of stories presented as little-known or forgotten facts on a variety of subjects with some key element of the stor...

Ben Morris stars as Pat Novak on this episode of August 10, 1947 on ABC Radio (USA). The regional version originally starred Jack Webb in the title role, with scripts by his roommate Richard L. Breen. When Webb and Breen moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles to work on an extremely similar nationwide series, Johnny Madero, Pier 23, for the Mutual network, Webb was replaced by Ben Morris and Bree...

21st Precinct (aka Twenty-First Precinct and Twenty First Precinct) was a police drama broadcast on CBS radio from July 7, 1953, to July 26, 1956. It was initially a summer replacement for My Friend Irma. The program was produced in cooperation with the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York[2] and presented "adaptations from true criminal records in New York...from the policem...

Known as the Poet Laureate of Radio, Norman Corwin is one of the greatest writer-producer-directors the Golden Age Norman Corwin directed episode 108 of The CBS Workshop. The Lighthouse Keepers starred Ray Collins and Luis d'Antin van Rooten (November 29, 1906 – June 17, 1973). He was a Mexican-born American actor. He was sometimes credited as Louis Van Rooten. Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10...

The audition program for the series. Film noir star Edmund O'Brien played the role in the audition program but was not in the regular production, having assumed the role as the second Johnny Dollar. Hank Mitchell’s friend is killed and he sets out to use his newspaper column to imply an infamous gangster is behind it. When Hank’s roughed up by some of the gangster’s men, he gets a gun to hunt...

July 6, 1943. Mutual Radio. Lon Clark as Detective Nick Carter. Nick Carter, Master Detective was a popular radio show that aired from 1939 to 1955. The show followed the adventures of Nick Carter, a private detective who solving crimes using his keen intellect and athletic prowess. Although the cases were often based on real life events, the characters and locations were often fictionalized for d...

Sydney Greenstreet  stars as  Rex Stout’s  famous corpulent detective. Gerals Mohr as Archie Goodwin. This particular mystery features four criminals who decide to play one winner-take-all game of poker for ownership of their shared illegal enterprises. But there’s murder in the cards and only Nero Wolfe can solve the case! Will Archie Goodwin be given the night off to go on a date? Does the detec...

Starring Lynn Bari (born Marjorie Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1919 – November 20, 1989). A film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 films for 20th Century Fox, from the early 1930s through the 1940s. This episode aired on March 20, 1949 on NBC Radio. The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in...