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This episode stars Charles Russell. It aired on CBS Radio August 21, 1949. 

Episode 159 aired on CBS Radio June 11, 1945. Jack Crowley needs $10,000 fast to cover the shortage in his accounts at the bank. Along comes laughing cousin Charlie for a weekend visit...with $10,000 in cash! The course of action called for seems obvious. Marvin Miller hosts this series.

Jason Remington repeats his Little Orphan Archie show with Lenny the Cabby, some vintage pop songs and comedy from Bob and Ray.

Aired March 11, 1951 on NBC Radio. It is 5:45 am, March 6, 1940, and Pete Salverson, owner of the roadside café in West Texas, is opening for business. As he sweeps up in the kitchen, he hears a sound outside the back door and discovers a beat up and hungry dog there with a strange kind of leash on it like a harness — the kind a blind man's dog might wear. 

This episode is from an AFRTS Transcription. The original program aired on CBS Radio November 1, 1945 as episode 165. Starring Ronald Colman.

"St. George and the Dragonet " is a short audio satire recorded August 26, 1953 by Stan Freberg for Capitol Records. It was released September 21, 1953 as a 45 rpm single (Capitol F2596), and reached No. 1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box record charts. This satire features the theme sound intro music (minus the spoken word part on this record) for the "Dragnet" TV-crime show series on NBC from...

This episode (22) aired May 28, 1949 with guest a dog known in motion pictures as 'Lassie'.

A mail-order bride from Sweden who arrives to find her pen-pal groom about to be hanged for murder.  James Stewart, Harry Bartell, Lillian Buyeff, Lou Merrill, William Johnstone. Harry Bartell is billed as Harry "Killer" Bartell (?? Inside joke?) Episode 32 aired on NBC Radio May 5, 1954. 

Episode 38 Howard Duff stars as Sam Spade aired June 15, 1947 on NBC Radio. The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951. The series star...

November 7, 1949. Vincent Price as The Saint would rather toss off a witty remark than engage in fisticuffs, but his suave charm nets as many pretty girls as any hardboiled detective.

Father Knows Best was a radio show during the 1950s and 1960s. It portrayed an idealized vision of middle-class American life of the era. A total of 203 episodes were produced until it made a debut on television in 1962. The series began August 25, 1949, on NBC Radio. Set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as the General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret was first portrayed by J...

AFRTS program aka Sketches In Sound with Pete Smith.

Old Time Radio drama from NBC Radio aired August 29, 1948. More than a story of a year, this radio drama was a metaphor for the end of congressional reconstruction of the South and the imposition of socially repressive controls over Blacks that would last a century. Here Durham dramatized the life of Charles Caldwell (1831-1875), a Black state senator in Mississippi following the Civil War—using C...

Episode 13 aired May 1, 1950. Let's listen to Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, night beat reporter for the Chicago Star , as his nightly wanderings through the city find him at a summer carnival and the unexpected goings-on involving “Mentallo, the Mental Marvel". 

Excerpts from NBC Radio broadcasts featuring The Vincent Lopez Orchestra, Boris Karloff on Lights Out, Buddy Clark sings, comedian Col. Stupnagle, NBC News coverage of ship Normandy fire and music from 1938 Contented Hour.

Stage, screen and TV star Barry Nelson first became a Monitor host in 1963 and remained on the program until 1967.  After hosting Saturday afternoon Monitor for a couple of years, he became Sunday afternoon’s host in ’65, and on this first-Sunday-of-the-New Year in 1966. This episode features Frank Sinatra.

Aired in syndication around July 19, 1954. The Lone Ranger was played by several actors: John L. Barrett, on test broadcasts on WEBR in January 1933; George Seaton (under the name George Stenius) (January 31 – May 9, 1933); Series director James Jewell , for one episode; An actor known only by the pseudonym "Jack Deeds", for one episode; Earle Graser (May 16, 1933 – April 7, 1941). On April 8, Gra...

Live piano performances were recorded with incredible accuracy at the dawn of the 20th Century using Welte Vorsetzer player piano technology. These classic performances are the basis for Keyboard Immortals Play Again In Stereo .

America's greatest stentorian radio voice after the passing of Walter Winchell. He studied at the University of Tulsa on a scholarship. From 1948 to 1953, he served as announcer of Tulsa radio station KWGS but he became best known as the voice of "The Passing Parade' and "Patterns In Sound".

Ira Cook, Actor: McCloud. Composer and Hollywood disc jockey, educated at Stanford University. His Los Angeles broadcasting career spanned 26 years, sixteen of which were at KMPC. 

Howard Miller Show One of the first "disc jockeys", Miller's music selections were popular but it was his fun and easy patter between records which kept listeners engaged. This episode aired on CBS Radio August 20, 1957. Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, and businesswoman. Her career spanned almost 70 years.

In syndication episode 19 was released May 7, 1960. Hoppy turns bank robber to help a criminal straighten out. The afternoon sunlight comes in through the small window of the sheriffs office blinding the sullen young man seated on the chair in the middle of the room. William Boyd stars in his best known character role. 

Episode 33 aired July 5, 1959 on CBS Radio. John Dehner as Paladin who is hired to find a U.S. Army corporal, who is a deserter and the son of a general. Paladin must travel into Indian territory as he seeks the corporal. Along the way, Paladin encounters a soldier he knew from his own time in the Army. It turns out the corporal is part of the 7th Calvary, and is part of the command of George Cust...

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