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This episode aired on CBS Radio June 27, 1948. A million-dollar robbery of an armored car puts Sam on the spot and in need of some bail himself. Sandra Gould replaces Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Sam's secretary. Howard Duff stars as Sam Spade. 

This episode aired on NBC Radio January 22, 1950. Vincent Price stars and Simon Templar. Famous stage actress Betty Aimes has an appointment with the publisher Jim Barrie but when she arrives to meet him he is shot dead on the street before her. In a panic she runs away and jumps in to a taxi in which Simon Templar is already occupying. A few minutes later a car passes by and shoots at the taxi. I...

Aired January 6, 1950 - (ep10) The police searched for a tall man believed to be behind a series of robberies. First sponsored by Ford Motor Cars, Pursuit is a crime detective series that broadcast from 1949 to 1951. Ted De Corsica plays the original Inspector Peter Black of Scotland Yard.

The REST of the STORY. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle born 22 May 1859 – died 7 July 1930 was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet.

Little Orphan Annie is an American radio drama series based on the popularity of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. It debuted on Chicago's WGN in 1930, then moved to the NBC radio network Blue Network on April 6, 1931. It aired until April 26, 1942. Together with Skippy (1932–1935) it is seen as the oldest US children's radio program. Radio historian Jim Harmon attributes the show's popularity...

Script writer Norman Corwin's "The Odyssey of Runyan Jones" appeared on CBS Radio several times. This is episode 6 of a Columbia Workshop series "26 By Corwin" which aired June 8, 1941. It was called a fantasy for children. It stars Larry Robinson as Runyon Jones in this delightful fantasy about a young boy searching for his lost dog in purgatory with several actors including Norman Lloyd and Fran...

Episode 19 aired June 6, 1950. Frank Lovejo y starred as Randy Stone, a reporter who covered the night beat for the Chicago Star , encountering criminals, eccentrics, and troubled souls. Listeners were invited to join Stone as he "searches through the city for the strange stories waiting for him in the darkness." Most episodes leaned towards suspense, crime and thriller themes, but Night Beat also...

The decade long feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen featured barbs between the two comedy greats on multiple old time radio shows. Since 1932, Jack Benny long amused radio audiences with his continuing gags, including his ah-hem thrifty spending habits, his perpetual age of 39, that dreadful violin playing. Fred Allen also began his career in radio comedy since 1932, when he began the show "The...

Bradley Crandall (born Robert Lee Bradley; August 6, 1927 – March 14, 1991) was an American radio personality, voice-over announcer, and film narrator, best known for his radio show on WNBC in New York City, which aired from March 1964 to September 1971. Here is an episode of the NBC weekend radio service, MONITOR from 1968 with host Brad Crandall. "Going places and doing things, you're on the Mon...

Larry Haines stars as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in the series for Mutual Radio. c1953.

Orson Welles presents Alice Frost with him in this episode aired June 21, 1946 on CBS Radio. Alice Frost (August 1, 1910 – January 6, 1998) was an American actress. An inaugural member of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre on radio and the stage, she later performed the role of Pamela North on the radio series Mr. and Mrs. North for nearly 10 years.

Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin perform as Pam North and Jerry North on "Mr. and Mrs. North," a CBS Radio program. New York, NY.  Episode 504 dated 1953.

From August 2, 1954. Episode 2582. 

Keyboard Immortals - ep 22 - Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler Plays Piano. Born July 16, 1863 and died August 20, 1927. She was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist. At the age of six, before receiving any musical instruction, she began picking out tunes on the piano. Her first teachers were in Chicago; Bernard Ziehn and Carl Wolfsohn. In 1877, Annette Essipova, then on tour in the United States, heard her play...

L.A. DJ Ira Cook with his half hour of middle of the road pop music for AFRTS listeners. Ray Conniff, Barbra Streisand and others.

Episode 87 September 26, 1937 Mutual Radio. A man who's looking for a job mistakenly becomes involved with a bank robbery. He is later sentenced to death for a cop killing he didn't commit. The Shadow investigates and locates a missed piece of evidence, which helps free the wrongly accused man. Orson Welles as The Shadow (Lamont Cranston) (1st radio origin). Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane (1st app...

Howard chats with Roger Williams. Roger Williams (born Louis Jacob Weertz, October 1, 1924 – October 8, 2011) was an American popular music pianist. Described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most popular instrumentalists of the mid-20th century", and "the rare instrumental pop artist to strike a lasting commercial chord," Williams had 22 hit singles – including the chart-topping "Autumn Le...

Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. The success of the television series made Boyd a star. The Mutual Broadcasting System began broadcasting a radio version, with Andy Clyde (later George MacMichael on Walter Brennan's ABC sitcom The Real McCoys) as the sidekick (except...

The conclusion of the five hour project detailing the development and history of the series.

Episode 38 aired August 9, 1959 on CBS Radio. One of radio and TV's most successful Westerns told of the hired gun Paladin, who plied his trade in 19th-century San Francisco with a calling card ('Have Gun, Will Travel...') that hid the compelling loner's cultured manner. When he wasn't eating fine food, engaged in polite conversation and dressed impeccably, he was an intimidating gunman dressed in...

The 'biography' or The Story of the creation of the CBS radio series Gunsmoke continues. 

Episode 214 aired on CBS Radio May 13, 1956. Homesteader Joe Nadler (Vic Perrin) turns to cattle rustling while Ma Smalley (Jeanette Nolan) raises an orphaned infant. Also starring John Dehner as Bowers and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. (William Conrad) as Marshal Matt Dillon.

Episode 49 aired August 17, 1947 on NBC. With Jim Ameche and Beryl Vaughn. Each episode brings us a new Romantic Comedy with a new situation and characters. The majority of the show is tied to antics proving the difference between men and women and the problems that arise from misunderstanding between the sexes. 

The creators and actors of the radio series discuss the preparation, presentation and camaraderie of putting on one of radio's most popular and respected western series. Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It is set in and around Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West....

Episode 70 aired May 26, 1937 on CBS Radio. Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories ." It premiered on January 15, 1936, and was broadcast over 21 years through November 27, 1957.