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Episode 37 aired on CBS Radio October 7, 1956. Galvanized Yankees was a term from the American Civil War denoting former Confederate prisoners of war who swore allegiance to the United States and joined the Union Army. Approximately 5,600 former Confederate soldiers enlisted in the "United States Volunteers", organized into six regiments of infantry between January 1864 and November 1866. Of those...

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....

William Conrad stars in this drama from October 29, 1946. Episode 20 of Favorite Story. "The Phantom Rickshaw” appeared in Kipling’s 1888 collection The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales . “Rickshaw” takes place in British colonial India in  a town called Simla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh (located in the northwest Himalayas, and served as the summer capital of the British Raj).

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 90 aired on CBS Radio December 20, 1949. Starring Frank Lovejoy and his wife Joan Banks. 

Episode 128 aired on NBC Radio November 22, 1951. Friday is assigned to investigate the strangulation of an unidentified woman in a hotel room. With no leads and no clues, and no idea of who she is, he must start from scratch to find her killer.

Box 13 is a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 aired in different cities over different dates and times. It first aired in several United States radio markets in October 1947. Episode 16.

From CBS Radio March 2, 1960 A quarter hour of satire including One Fella's Family.

This AFRTS episode opens with Nat King Cole's Dance Ballerina. 

Karl Haas (December 6, 1913 – February 6, 2005) was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his sonorous speaking voice, humanistic approach to music appreciation, and popularization of classical music. He was the host of the classical music radio program Adventures in Good Music, which was syndicated to commercial and public radio stations around the world. He also published the b...

CHARLES RUSSELL as Johnny Dollar. Aired October 29, 1949 on CBS Radio. The Little Man Who Wasn't There Matter. Johnny is called in to find a missing husband. The local police are sure the husband is committing a fraud, Johnny isn’t quite convinced.

Episode 177 aired on CBS WEST Network October 15, 1945. Marvin Miller is host. The Whistler is an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942, until September 22, 1955, on the west-coast regional CBS radio network. The show was also broadcast in Chicago and over Armed Forces Radio. On the west coast, it was sponsored by the Signal Oil Company: "That whistle is your signal for the Sign...

Aired on NBC Radio April 8, 1951. Joe Crayger has been drafted and is packing a suitcase to report to army duty when his friend Russ turns up to make peace. Russ didn’t want to him to leave without them being friends again and says it’s a pity that brother-in-law of his didn’t get drafted instead. After Russ leaves Orville his brother-in-law wants to borrow some money. When Joe refuses Orville kil...

Quality improves as broadcast continues. Aired April 25, 1946 on CBS Radio. With Nancy Kelly who was an American actress, a major movie leading lady in the 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977. A thwarted woman plans a horrible revenge...and succeeds by the force of her powerful will. A well-done, excellent story that is "well calculated." The drama is told with only two voices. She had b...

John Dehner stars as Frontier Gentleman aired on CBS RADIO February 2, 1958 episode 1 titled The Shelton Brothers. The first show of the series. Kendall takes on the entire Shelton gang in a small town in the Montana Territory. There is a town in Montana territory, where it is against the law to carry a gun. The sheriff lives by this order. But, because of it, other men can die.  Frontier Gen...

aka Take an Indian to Lunch. From Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years a 1961 American comedy album with music and dialogue written by Stan Freberg, released as Capitol W/SW-1573. Freberg satirizes episodes of the history of the United States from 1492 until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783. The album combined dialogue and song in a musical theater...

Episode 36 aired on NBC Radio June 3, 1954. James Stewart stars with Barney Phillips. Bernard Philip Ofner (October 20, 1913 – August 17, 1982), was an American film, television, and radio actor. His most prominent roles include that of Sgt. Ed Jacobs on the 1950s Dragnet television series, appearances in the 1960s on The Twilight Zone, in which he played a Venusian living under cover on Earth in...

This episode aired June 20, 1948 on CBS Radio. Dan Starbuck calls the office of detective Sam Spade (Howard Duff) as his brother is dying on his boat. If his brother dies he suspects police will accuse him of murder because the brothers had hated each other for years.

Aired January 8, 1950. Vincent Price picked up the role of the Saint in 1947, after Edgar Barrier and Brian Aherne. For anyone used to Roger Moore’s portrayal of Simon Templar, the first impact with Price can be baffling. Price’s cultured, quietly witty voice is superimposed in our mind with Moore’s features, and the end result is weird.

Episode 2 aired November 10, 1949 on CBS Radio. Starring Ted De Corsia. First sponsored by Ford Motor Cars, Pursuit is a crime detective series that broadcast from 1949 to 1951. Edward Gildea De Corsia (September 29, 1903 – April 11, 1973) was an American radio, film, and television actor, best remembered for his roles as the ex-wrestler murderer Willie Garzah in the film The Naked City (1948) and...

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Salute to the Law ran from 1939 to 1940 and was an overly moralistic view of crime and punishment. The arresting officer would not only serve to prevent crime but to serve as a moral guider as well. Most stories involve young women who have turned to crime only to be rescued by the officer in question and put on the right path.

26 By Corwin. Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest successes were in the writing and directing of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s.

Episode 17 aired May 29, 1950 on NBC Radio. Harlan Matthews, a stamp dealer with memories of a murder he committed long ago, attempts murder, suicide and more! An alienist and Randy Stone try to help. The system cue has been deleted. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star . Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone.

Larry Haines as that Hammer guy in an episode from 1953 on Mutual Radio Network.