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On Christmas Eve in 1965 ABC Radio aired a wonderful Christmas gift. A “live” broadcast of legendary newscaster Paul Harvey reporting from the North Pole. If you appreciated Paul Harvey or love the magic of radio, you will enjoy this very special and historic part of broadcast history.  Merry Christmas to all...

This is the audio from the first 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. https://www.otrcat.com/p/christmas-fantasy

On CBS Radio December 19, 1946. Jack Casey solved crimes while on assignment as a photographer for The Morning Express newspaper. Casey and Ann fight the Christmas shopping crowds when Casey sees a pickpocket at work. Apparently broadcast before an audience with host-announcer Tony Marvin (Photo) (October 5, 1912 – October 10, 1998) an American radio and television announcer. He became a staff ann...

Episode 3 aired June 17, 1945. A rather lack luster and apparently unrehearsed episode of The Chase and Sanborn Program with guest Garry Moore, singer Francis Langford, host Ken Carpenter and Spike Jones and his City Slickers. Garry Moore (born Thomas Garrison Morfit; January 31, 1915 – November 28, 1993) was an American entertainer, comedic personality, game show host, and humorist. Here is a pho...

Episode 27 aired April 1, 1954 on NBC Radio. James Stewart stars. Britt's Aunt Emma comes to town and starts to change his life. Aunt Emma is played by Eleanor Audley who was an American actress, with a distinctive voice that helped her find work as a voice actress in radio and animation. She is primarily remembered as the first actress to voice Lady Tremaine and Maleficent, two of the most memora...

November 9, 1951. Milt Keebler is helping a gang of counterfeiters pass bad money through the Mitchell Ice Company. Andy Sales has a treacherous plan. Roy and his pals will assist in shutting down this gang.

Christmas 1968 in the Delaware Valley on WTMR 800khz. Lee Scott, newsman, R Alan Campbell DJ on "the board". ABC Entertainment Network for the Philadelphia area. History: The station began operations in the late 1940s as WKDN. It was originally owned by Ranulf Compton, and was a 1,000-watt, daytime-only station that broadcast middle-of-the-road music. WTMR's power had been increased to 5,000 watts...

December 24, 1949 on CBS Radio network. Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover, the show originated from New York during its first three months on the air. For the remainder of the series, the role of Detective Danny Clover was portrayed by Larry Thor (Photo). The series feature...

From 1969 NBC Monitor broadcast with Hugh Downs and Peter Roberts. WBAL Radio newsman Galen Fromme interviews Miss Naval Academy Color Girl of 1969.

Five episodes from one week 19th to 23rd in December of 1955. Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. A hired killer is gunning for a witness. Johnny is looking for in her during the Christmas holiday season in a small Michigan town and people are not talking to him.

Christmas Dragnet (Yulenet) · Stan Freberg · Daws Butler · Nathan Scott

Episode 79 aired on NBC Radio December 21, 1951. Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone who covers the night beat for the Chicago Tribune. He  normally couldn’t walk a downtown block without saying hello to half a dozen people couldn’t find anyone who’d be his friend on Christmas Eve with five days holiday ahead of him. At his office an envelope on his desk contained 50 cents and a note, which ju...

Episode 198 of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which aired in the USA from October 2, 1939 to July 7, 1947. Originally, the show starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Together, they starred in 220 episodes which aired weekly on Mondays from 8:30 to 9:00pm. The show first aired on the Blue Network (NBC) but later moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System. Basi...

December 20, 1959 over CBS Radio Network, affiliate WROW Albany New York. Johnny Dollar gets a call from Red his old fishing friend from Arizona, but it wasn’t to invite him on a fishing vacation, he wanted Johnny Dollar to fly to Las Vegas about something that was going to happen. Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. He was signed in 1943 by 20th Century-Fox and appeared in seven feature films; the first...

NBC coverage of the visit to The United States by King George VI of England. June 11, 1939. With notable English celebrities of the era.

This one hour episode of MONITOR, the NBC weekend radio service was aired on a Saturday morning in 1959 and hosted by Monte Hall and NBC announcer Bob Wilson. Monty Hall (born Monte Halparin ; August 25, 1921 – September 30, 2017) was a Canadian radio and television show host who moved to the United States in 1955 to pursue a career in broadcasting. After working as a radio newsreader and spo...

Episode 15 aired on NBC Radio December 21, 1948. Steve Wilson, managing editor of The Illustrated Press, is portrayed by actor Edward Pawley.  A struggle of faith against fear in the mind of a child. Ten-year-old Greta and her father are two thousands displaced persons from central Europe who stood at the rails of a mercy ship as it steamed in to Big Town harbor.

The Horace Heidt Show of December 25, 1944 on the BLUE Network of NBC. Horace Heidt (May 21, 1901 – December 1, 1986) was an American pianist, big band leader, and radio and television personality. From 1932 to 1953, he was one of the more popular radio bandleaders, heard on both NBC and CBS in a variety of different formats over the years. He began on the NBC Blue Network in 1932 with Shell Oil's...

Episode 2571 July 7, 1954. “A fiery horse with the speed of light. A cloud of dust, and a hearty ‘Hi-yo, Silver!’ The Lone Ranger,” the narrator, in the last decade of the radio series was Fred Foy (Photo) who intoned at the opening of every episode. “With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early West....

Doremus opens this hour long episode of beautiful music with "Do I Hear A Waltz" by The Percy Faith Orchestra.

Jim Ameche tells children in the voice of a tree about being selected as the first Christmas tree. 

Jack, Billy and Betty are on deck of The Penguin which is steaming towards the source of a red distress rocket. But this also means that they are heading straight towards the ice. Captain Campbell will have to use all his sea skills to avoid disaster and rescue the men from the trapped ship, that they soon discover is The Pelican! SPOILER ALERT: This is one episode from a serialized series of 15 m...

From AFRTS episode 481 Transcription From 1975. DJ Ira Cook with music from his collection.

August 18, 1955 episode with Howard Miller chatting with Gordon Jenkins. Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s. Jenkins worked with The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Cash, The Weavers, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Harry Nilsson, Peggy Lee...

Episode 14 in syndication the week of April 12, 1950.