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This Christmas episode of Gene Autry's Melody Ranch aired on CBS Radio in December, 1948.

BBC Four from December 1984. Tom Wilkinson stars as Sam Spade in this BBC adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon.  A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed gra...

Aired December 24, 1950 on NBC. The Saint was a radio adventure program in the United States that featured a character in his attempt to help people, remained just one step ahead of the police and criminals both of whom he combatted. The character was created by author Leslie Charteris. As the program's introduction said, The Saint, alias of Simon Templar, was "known to millions from books, magazi...

Jason Remington in the VINTAGE RADIO Late Night Lounge presents another audio montage of old hits, vintage radio classics and comedy. The Little Orphan Archie/Late Night Lounge program ran for 54 episodes on 40+ terrestrial and Internet radio stations in 2005-2006. The music was jazz, blues, swing, country, pop and easy listening, spanning about an 80 year period. The programs contained audio from...

Episode 8 of Robin Morrow's syndicated Christmas series.

Aired December 22, 1953 on NBC Radio. Frank Sinatra, as Rocky Fortune, is mixed up in a plot to murder Santa Claus. It started when Rocky answered a Christmas ad for a department store needing a young man as an auxiliary store detective for Christmas season employment. Rocky Fortune is an American radio drama that aired weekly on NBC Radio beginning in October 1953. The series ended its run in Mar...

Aired December 21, 1951 on American Broadcasting Company (ABC ) starring Dick Powell as Richard Diamond. THE RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE CHRISTMAS CAROL SHOW was sponsored by Camel Cigarettes Written and directed by Blake Edwards with Alan Reed as Lieutenant Walt Levinson, Virginia Gregg as Helen Asher with Barney Phillips and Arthur Q. Brian.

Robin Morrow's episode 7 of Christmas Fantasy programs. Who was Jose Garcia and seasonal topics.

December 25, 1943 over Mutual Radio Network originating from WOR radio NYC. With Lon Clark, Helen Choate, Ed Latimer and John Kane. Nick Carter investigates why a wealthy man hates Christmas. Nick Carter, Master Detective was a Mutual radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Nick Carter first came to r...

Episode 10 of The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe aired on NBC Radio December 22, 1950. There were 26 episodes in this series which starred Sydney Greenstreet as Wolfe. Nero Wolfe is hired to investigate the death of several sidewalk Santas by a Santa who fears he will be next.

January 29, 1951 on the Don Lee Mutual Network. Bob Bailey stars as George Valentine with veteran radio dramatic actor Virginia Gregg. The celebrated and glamorous movie star, Charity de Frane, has purchased an oil painting for Mr. Francis Xavier Wick, a critic in a Santa Claus suit. He celebrates Christmas in July, and there's murder under the Christmas tree. Let George Do It was a radio drama se...

Episode 6 of Robin Morrow's series Christmas Fantasy. The first appearance of a modern Santa Claus , complete with what we consider to be the Santa suit was in drawings by Thomas Nast . Nast's original drawings were of a small Santa who could slide down chimneys, but his later works made him full size. He was also the first to draw Santa wearing a red suit with fur lining, a nightcap , and a black...

Murrow died at his home on April 27, 1965 two days after his 57th birthday. His colleague and friend Eric Sevareid said of him, "He was a shooting star; and we will live in his afterglow a very long time." CBS carried a memorial program, hosted by Robert Trout, which included a rare appearance by CBS chairman William S. Paley. https://worldhistoryproject.org/1965/4/27/edward-r-murrow-dies

July 8, 1949 NBC Radio Network. Downs worked as a radio announcer and program director in 1939 at WLOK in Lima, Ohio , after his first year of college. In 1940, he moved on to WWJ in Detroit . Downs served in the United States Army during World War II in 1943 and then joined the NBC radio network at WMAQ as an announcer in Chicago , where he lived until 1954. Origination of the early Dave Garroway...

Episode 6 c.1948. Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holliday takes a blackjack on the head and finds himself on the high seas to adventure. Box 13 was a syndicated radio series from Ladd's company Mayfair Productions and sold to radio stations. The series also was heard on Mutual Radio Network. To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holliday ran a classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper where he formerly...

Episode 8 Harry's on crossing the Atlantic on the Princess Ann, planning to swindle to Lady Barbara Follet. However, what about her lovely companion. The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime ) is an old-time radio program produced in the United Kingdom during the 1951 to 1952 season. Orson Welles reprises his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 194...

Robin Morrow's holiday program is designed to be played daily between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Christmas Fantasy is a great way to enhance the spirit of the season 25 old time radio show recordings. Episode 5 is about Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748). He was an English Christian minister (Congregational), theologian, and logician. He was also a prolific and popular hymn writer. &nb...

Audio material was provided to RADIO THEN producer R A CAMPBELL by Jason Remington creator of Little Orphan Archie. This series was distributed to many radio stations several years ago. Enjoy another montage of audio clips from the past.

This episode aired September 2, 1954 on the ABC Radio Network in the USA.  http://www.enteringhemindseye.com/thefatman.html The Fat Man, a popular radio show during the 1940s and early 1950s, was a detective drama created by Dashiell Hammett, author of The Thin Man. It starred J. Scott Smart in the title role, as a detective who started out anonymous but rapidly acquired the name 'Brad Runyon...

Aired December 24, 1950 on NBC Radio Network. Larry Sterling is looking for something to buy his girlfriend when a man in a van pulls up besides him and.....let's listen. Les Damon stars Lester Joseph "Les" Damon (March 31, 1908 – July 21, 1962) was an American character actor best known for his nearly 30 years performing on radio. Out of all his appearances on radio, Damon was best remembered for...

Episode 4 of Christmas Fantasy by Robin Morrow. Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today (with the possible exception of The Crucifixion, still heard at Passiontide in some churches of the Anglican Communion), was very popular during his lifetime. His work as choir trainer and organist set standards for Anglican...

Repeat of 1953 episode on NBC Radio. This episode aired on December 21, 1954. The radio episodes have edited in the television audio with a Webb narration to cover visuals. A Los Angeles Mission reports the statue of Jesus has been stolen the day before Christmas. It's Christmas Eve when Father Rojas at the Old Mission Plaza Church in Los Angeles discovers that the statue of the Infant Jesus is st...

For Christmas December 25, 1949 a Mayfair Production in syndication. Once glamorous, now old and unwanted, Dream Street Rose tells a story about a naïve waitress in Colorado who meets a man who’s been around, and her pursuit of love and poetic justice.

Jason Remington in the Late Night Lounge as Little Orphan Archie presents another audio montage of old hits, vintage radio classics and comedy. The Little Orphan Archie/Late Night Lounge program ran for 54 episodes on 40+ terrestrial and Internet radio stations in 2005-2006. The music was jazz, blues, swing, country, pop and easy listening, spanning about an 80 year period. The programs contained...

1946, On top of Cherry Hill one of San Francisco’s wealthier suburbs stands the mansion of Mr Grainger famous art collector and philanthropist. Charlie Chan and his number one son are visiting Grainger to help him arrange his annual Christmas party given for the police orphanage.