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December 24, 1948. Jerry Browning dresses up as Santa Claus, but so do 5 other guys...one of whom is a pickpocket! A good Christmas show. A very professionally created two-man operation, Calling all Detectives had a fun quiz show element to its detective investigations. Starring Paul J. Barnes, an actor known as ''the man of a thousand voices'' Barnes was the radio voice of the second ''Captain Mi...

Episode 92 aired on CBS Radio December 22, 1951. A radio crime drama series which ran from 1949 to 1954. The show originated in New York for the first 12 episodes, which was then moved to Hollywood. The story revolved around a hardened New York City policeman who worked the homicide division.  Larry Thor stars as Detective Danny Clover, an ex-shoe-shiner on the "Great White Way" in the New Yo...

December 22, 1948. Blackie tries to solve a Christmas robbery. Appears that Santa Claus is an unwilling accomplice. Blackie, Mary  and Inspector Faraday plan a dinner but become involved in apprehending a jewelry shop thief. The jewelry store manager is convinced that four rings have been stolen. Richard 'Dick' Kollmar stars as Blackie and joins the cast with holiday greetings and extended or...

December 23, 1956 A singing mouse? YES! Johnny has to find a singing mouse before a Christmas Eve show. Let's go traveling in the 'past' lane for this OTR holiday episode. Bob Bailey stars.

Episode three by Robin Morrow. Adolphe Charles Adam (French: [adɔlf adɑ̃]; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire (1856), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) and Si j'étais roi (1852) and his Christmas carol "Minuit, chrétiens!" (Midnight, Christia...

December 24, 1945 The Night Before Christmas , Sherlock Holmes tracks clues through his familiar haunts to “eliminate the impossible” and catch his nemesis Moriarty in his dastardly crimes. When he discovers the jolly old gent with the white beard dipping his hand into a bag full of toys, Sherlock surmises that “whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Or is it?  Basil Rathbo...

JFK, John F. Kennedy death, Four Dark Days In November, WQMR, WGAY-FM, An LP record of audio surrounding the coverage of the assassination of President John F Kennedy. The album was a re-creation taken from actual recordings broadcast that four day period over WQMR radio in Washington DC.

December 25, 1951. Let George Do It was an American radio drama series produced from 1946 to 1954 by Owen and Pauline Vinson. Bob Bailey starred as private investigator George Valentine. Don Clark directed the scripts by David Victor and Jackson Gillis.  Clients came to Valentine's office after reading a newspaper that carried his classified ad which varied from show to show, but always opene...

This is the second episode of a 25-episode countdown to a Christmas radio series made by Robin Morrow in the 1960s. Morrow put together a more grown-up oriented syndication, Christmas Fantasy. Rather than a single serialized narrative, Fantasy was a collection of different stories, myths, legends linked by the Christmas theme. OTRcat.com with more

December 22, 1957. An old prospector is dying and wants to change the beneficiary on a $50,000 policy to Carmen Kringle but the nephew Ned Kringle threatened to sue if they let him.

December 21, 1947. John Stanley as Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Watson. Sherlock Holmes is invited to spend the holidays with a family that needs him to assure a wedding occurs.  A Christmas story about a ghostly lady in white who haunts Pendragon Castle.

December 21, 1950. NBC Radio Network. A small boy has been reported missing from his home, his age nine years. Foul play is suspected. It's Detective Sergeant Joe Friday’s job to find him. 

Aired on CBS Radio Network December 25, 1947. This series went on the air on July 7, 1943 and lasted until April 22, 1955. A total of 431 episodes were broadcast. Casey, Crime Photographer had more history than substance. It was a B-grade radio detective similar to The Adventures of the Falcon, Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, and Sam Spade. Casey, the only name given to the character, is pla...

Aired on CBS Radio December 13, 1959. Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. An investment plan to double your money seems to good to be true.

Aired December 24, 1949 on NBC Radio Network. Diamond played by Richard Ewing Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American actor, musician, producer, director, and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility, and successfully transformed into a hardboiled leading man, starring in projects of a more dramatic nature. He was the first ac...

Mutual Radio, Don Lee Network December 25, 1950. Let George Do It was an American radio drama series produced from 1946 to 1954 by Owen and Pauline Vinson. Bob Bailey starred as private investigator George Valentine; Olan Soule voiced the role in 1954. Don Clark directed the scripts by David Victor and Jackson Gillis . George Valentine was a professional detective. Valentine's secretary was Claire...

Episode 8 aired on NBC Radio July 28, 1949. Hanah Laski phones long distance to ask Joe Friday to look for her missing daughter, Juanita.

The romance between dapper young Dancing Dan and his girl, Judy O'Neill, hits a snag when a very influential mobster decides that Judy reminds him of his mother. Judy, however, is not happy with the change. This Syndicated program stars Donald Woods. Donald Woods (born Ralph Lewis Zink ; December 2, 1906 – March 5, 1998) was a Canadian-American film and television actor whose career in Hollywood s...

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. Vintage radio excerpts and one hit wonder pop records.

Episode 49 Bolton’s department store in San Francisco is crowded with last minute Christmas shoppers. Miss Hope at counter 14 ignores everyone else to concentrate on the shy young man before her. He is slight, bashful and charming. His fiery red head hair falls across his brow as he peers at her with innocent eyes as we begin our adventure with Charlie Chan. On radio, Charlie Chan was heard in sev...

December 25, 1949 on NBC Radio. Vincent Price stars. Crime and mystery novelist Leslie Charteris’ (1907-1993) famous detective Simon Templar was dubbed The Saint by the underworld, though he was hardly what the nickname implied. The story goes that he came by the name because of his initials, S. T.. Simon Templar dressed up as Santa Claus for a holiday party, is surprised by a young woman who poin...

December 23, 1951. Dr. Hartley is murdered in his office on Christmas eve. The killer had a bandaged hand. 

From AFRTS transcription we hear Chuck Cecil's Big Band Countdown followed by an aircheck of a newscast by Ann Mulligan from AFN Europe Frankfurt Germany. (March 1979)

Episode 782 aired December 21, 1958 and stars Raymond Burr, Joan Banks and Howard McNear. Santa Claus has a gun and is getting revenge. He's really an ex-con out to get the person who testified against him, and his girl who ran off with him.

One of five Billboard charted versions of the 1955 Christmas novelty song. This is CD audio, originally issued on Capitol single 3280.  Nuttin’ For Christmas by Stan Freberg with Billy May’s Orchestra.