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The pilot and first episode aired February 2, 1958 on CBS Radio. Frontier Gentleman was a radio Western series heard on CBS from February 2 to November 16, 1958, It starred John Dehner as J B Kendall. It was  an Englishman's account of life and death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his colorful and unusual accounts. But as a man with a gun, he lives and becomes a pa...

February 1948_ep01 The Adventures of Frank Race was an American radio adventure serial syndicated by Bruce Eells Productions. The 30-minute program's first East Coast broadcast was 1949, and the show ran 43 episodes. Because it was syndicated, it aired on different stations on different days. For instance, in New York City, the first episode ran on WINS on April 9, 1949. It "began running in some...

This episode from an AFRTS transcription believed to be from December 28, 1950. The FBI in Peace and War was a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewis Collins' book, The FBI in Peace and War. The idea for the show came from Louis Pelletier who wrote many of the scripts. Among the show's other writers were Jack Finke, Ed Adamson and Collins. Airing on CBS from November 25, 1944 to September 2...

Episode 42, Ben Hur, aired April 1, 1947 starring John Beal (born James Alexander Bliedung, August 13, 1909 – April 26, 1997) was an American actor.   Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace , published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century".

Escape  - 4 OCT 1953 - Zero Hour CBS Stars John Dehner announcer Roy Rowan. You are in your house surrounded by all that is secure and normal while outside your children are playing a new and wonderful game called invasion. All the children under nine years of age are playing it and zero hour is to be at five o’clock.

Episode 352 of The Adventures of Ellery Queen aired May 6, 1948. The guest is vocalist Peggy Lee.

Aired June 22, 1954 on NBC Radio. A special officer has been shot and the owner of a liquor store knifed during a robbery. One of the robbers has filthy finger nails. Jack Webb, George Fenneman (announcer).

Dangerous Assignment  ep143 Assignment Mexico aired on NBC Radio January 28, 1953. Dangerous Assignment was an NBC Radio drama starring Brian Donlevy broadcast in the US 1949–1953

Candy Matson series released April 4, 1949. The Donna Dunham Case was the first in the series. Candy Matson is a radio program on NBC West Coast that aired from June 29, 1949, to May 20, 1951. It centered on Candy Matson, a female private investigator with a wry sense of humor and a penthouse on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. The program was notable for having a striking female character "withou...

Broadway Is My Beat episode 001 The Jimmy_Dorn_Case aired July 7, 1949 on CBS Radio. Broadway aka The Great White Way. In its theatres—one day you’re an understudy, the next a star. Your name in headlines and lights. But Broadway has an underbelly. A troubling side through which to view humanity at its worst: corrupt, dark, venal, and violent. For Detective Danny Clover every time he walked that s...

Released in syndication September 19, 1948. Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. The premise of the program was that Dan Holiday was an author who wrote mystery novels. To get ideas for his novels he placed an advertisement in a newspaper saying "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything, Box 13." The ads always brought fun adventures of all kinds: from racketeer's victim to psychotic killer looking fo...

Aired April 8, 1944. Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (1881–1928). Blackie, a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's stories, became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television—an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend."

"Tears Of Shiva" is the 12th episode of the Bold Venture radio program. It was released on Jun 16, 1950.  Bold Venture was a 1951-1952 syndicated radio series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Morton Fine and David Friedkin scripted the taped series for Bogart's Santana Productions.  Salty seadog Slate Shannon (Bogart) owns a Cuban hotel sheltering an assortment of treasure hun...

This is episode 166 of Bob and Ray on CBS Radio. February 15, 1960.

This episode aired January 4, 1949 on NBC Radio. Mystery writer Hannah Harper, and her nervous companion, summon Steve Wilson and Lorelei to the lighthouse in which they're living. They are hearing noises and explosions. Big Town aired from 1937 to 1952. Edward G. Robinson had the lead role of Steve Wilson from 1937 to 1942. Claire Trevor was Wilson's society editor sidekick Lorelei Kilbourne, wit...

Aired October 15, 1947. Based on real life news stories, Big Story featured murder and other violent crime cases from the point of view of a newspaper reporter. A unique and exciting format, Big Story dramatized a different news reporter and their heroic deed each week. According to the ads of the day, this program starred "a reporter who has solved a crime, exposed a corrupt political administrat...

Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator starred William Gargan. This episode aired March 3, 1953.   Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a detective drama heard on NBC Radio from October 3, 1951 to June 30, 1955. Detective Barrie Craig (William Gargan) worked alone from his Madison Avenue office. Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Craig had a laid-back personality,...

This episode aired on ABC Radio on February 3, 1950 . Sponsored by Quaker cereals. Challenge of the Yukon is an American radio adventure series that began on Detroit's WXYZ and is an example of a Northern genre story. The series was first heard on January 3, 1939. The title changed from Challenge of the Yukon to Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in September 1950, and that title was retained through t...

This episode aired February 25, 1949. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was aired on CBS radio from 1949 to 1962. The radio drama features the many cases of a wisecracking insurance investigator, aka “the man with the action-packed expense account.”  “The Slow Boat From China” stars Charles Russell, and was written by Paul Dudley and Gil Doud.

A man is sentenced to an insane asylum after murdering an entire family with an ax. Escaping from custody, he finds himself alone with three women and $1000 on an isolated farm.  The rain beats down in torrents, and during the brief flashes of lightning, a certain stone building stands out in the darkness of the night, the courthouse of a southwestern state. This episode aired on May 1, 1943...

Aired from 1937 to 1952. Written by Jerry McGill. Theme music by Fran Frey. Edward G. Robinson had the lead role of Steve Wilson from 1937 to 1942. Claire Trevor was Wilson's society editor sidekick with Ona Munson taking over that role in 1940. Edward J. Pawley portrayed Steve Wilson from 1943 until 1952 when Walter Greaza was heard as Wilson in the final episodes in this radio drama series. &nbs...

Big Story   Triple Murder [T R Johnson] 11/29/50, episode 192. NBC Radio. Based on real life news stories, Big Story featured murder and other violent crime cases from the point of view of a newspaper reporter. A unique and exciting format, Big Story dramatized a different news reporter and their heroic deed each week. According to the ads of the day, this program starred "a reporter who...

Dr Haas looks at the life and music of Miklós Rózsa (Hungarian:  [ˈmikloːʃ ˈroːʒɒ] ; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995). He was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953 onward. Best known for his nearly one hundred film scores, h...

Jezebel is a 1938 American romantic drama film released by Warner Bros. and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda.

Theater Five aired on ABC Radio (USA) August 3, 1954. THEATER FIVE..... Was a radio drama series, presented by ABC, between 1964 and 1965. The series used an anthology format, presented a number of short twenty minute radio plays, across a number of genres, a number of which reflected topical issues contemporary with its airing.   Writers for the show varied, as did actors, although a pr...