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Episode 20 aired November 26, 1950 on NBC Radio. A story based on the events of May 5, 1947. George Hawks appears to have committed suicide. At 9:15 AM the telephone rang in the office of Finny, Texas sheriff Hanson. It was George Hawks calling to tell him he was going to kill himself. Joel McCrea stars as Jace Pearson a Texas Ranger who while he was converse with gun, horse and wilderness surviva...

Episode 94 aired on CBS Radio June 1, 1944 and stars Ida Lupino and Vincent Price. A grand pipe organ built throughout an entire house tends to play itself. Lucille Fletcher wrote the script which deals with brooding anxiety and sharpening suspicion played against the severe and forbidding background of the late Victorian era.

Episode 9 aired September 8, 1957 on CBS Radio. Freberg chats with his friend the abominable snowman about another visit in the Himalayas. We learn the real name of the snowman and meet his wife. Stan exposes how he gets the details for his historical skits. Then we hear one on the Revolutionary War. Based on the painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Episode 17 aired January 10, 1954 on the NBC Radio Network. An oldtimer prospector named Hiram strikes it rich. Britt Ponsett uses his guns in a gunfight and gets shot at the assay office during a holdup. Britt’s horse Scar was able finish the eight miles of prairie between the hills and Clay City. It was over six months since their last visit to Clay City and surely Scar couldn’t be remembering t...

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the National Broadcasting Company, NBC created a series of shows called Recollections at 30. Using a vast number of archival recordings. Recollections at 30 host Ed Herlihy would assemble some of these transcriptions into a 25-minute show. Some of these shows followed a theme, such as the shows The Crash of the Hindenburg, The Big Bands, and Abraham Lincoln. Ot...

Robert Trout reports for CBS News the events from Europe on September 23, 1938. Including comments from  Edward R. Murrow and Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878 – June 14, 1965), generally known as H. V. Kaltenborn,  (Photo) was an American radio commentator. He was heard regularly on the radio for over 30 years, beginning with CBS in 1928. He was known for his highly precise diction, his...

Howard Miller chats with Gisèle MacKenzie (born Gisèle Marie Louise Marguerite LaFlèche; January 10, 1927 – September 5, 2003). She was a Canadian-American singer, actress, violinist and commercial spokesperson, best known for her performances on the US television program Your Hit Parade and The Jack Benny TV Show.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisele_MacKenzie

In 1933, producer George W. Trendle and writer Fran Striker had the Lone Ranger ride out of the western sky, and it was "Hi Oh Silver, Away!" from then on via Mutual nationally until 1954! Always at his side was his faithful indian companion, Tonto, portrayed by John Todd, who was a loyal, intelligent and resourceful indian - very different from the way indians usually were portrayed on the silver...

Hopalong Cassidy is struggling in bad weather conditions to get his friend California into a deserted church in the deserted town of Coltsville. Of all the places to bunk down an old church complete with graveyard is the last place that California wants to be especially when the old organ seems to have a knack of playing on it’s own. Episode 3 distributed via syndication transcription for the week...

Hear It Now, was an American radio program which began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time. Only the first half of this episode on CBS Radio network January 19, 1950.

Episode 18 aired March 22, 1959 on CBS Radio. Owen Deaver, the very tough sheriff of Three Winds, sets his own laws, whether or not the townsfolk want them. Gun control: only the sheriff can have a gun. So how do defenseless citizens protect themselves?  John Dehner as Paladin and James Olsen {Photo} as Owen Deaver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Olson_(actor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bartell Episode 42 aired on CBS Radio February 7, 1953. Told he has only two months to live, a man is determined to avenge the suicide of a young woman by killing the womanizer he blames for her death. (Photo) Harry Bartell as Cain Vestel. Harry Bartell (November 28, 1913 – February 26, 2004) was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. Wit...

Victor Herbert Perrin (April 26, 1916 – July 4, 1989) was an American radio, film, and television actor, perhaps best remembered for providing the "Control Voice" in the original version of the television series The Outer Limits (1963–1965). He was also a radio scriptwriter as well as a narrator in feature films and for special entertainment and educational projects, such as the original Spaceship...

Episode 34 aired February 21, 1948 on CBS Radio. A tale of the supernatural and witchcraft in a small Welsh town. You are alone in a strange and remote village on the Welsh boarder surrounded by silent town's people who are watching and waiting for you to decide to lose your soul. Starring Paul Frees, an American actor, comedian, vaudevillian and impressionist, known for his work for Metro-Go...

Episode 51 aired on NBC Radio June 1, 1950. A drunk accuses a rookie cop of beating him up, robbing him, and breaking his arm. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb, photo) is assigned to Personnel Division. A resident of Los Angeles files a report of robbery and assault and the suspect is a rookie police officer.

Alan Freed, the Cleveland DJ credited with coining the very phrase "rock 'n' roll." A 1954 WJW Cleveland recording of the opening of one of the Moondog Shows. (Two minutes). In the late 1940s, while working at WAKR, Freed met Cleveland record store owner Leo Mintz . Record Rendezvous, one of Cleveland's largest record stores, had begun selling rhythm and blues records. Mintz told Freed that he had...

Episode 13 of the CBS Mystery Theater recorded from WOR in New York City January 18, 1974. A trip to the country to visit a friend turns nightmarish as a couple comes across a small girl being whipped by a man. It's only the beginning of a journey back into an old family curse and a murder - all wrapped up in a ring. Over dramatic unnatural reading of the script by actors Glynnis Mary O'Conno...

Episode 19 Aired November 12, 1950 on NBC Radio. Based on events of June 26, 1949. A young ex-convict comes to town and threatens the life of a store-owner, who is found shot to death the next day! It is 4:00pm June 26th 1949. Will Bonner proprietor of the general store in Stump Hill, Texas is waiting on Mac Kennedy when his nephew Ben who he hasn’t seen for some time walks in. For the last four y...

Combined two episodes from May 1944 starring Orson Welles. A determined scientist plans to keep a brain alive in a jar. Donovan’s Brain, the famous novel by Curt Siodmak was deemed so unusual by the producers of Suspense that it was made in two 30-minute parts. Welles as Dr Patrick Cory who has been experimenting with the brain of a dead monkey. When a plane crashed nearby and knowing they’d be un...

Episode 8 aired September 1, 1957 on the CBS Radio network. The show, starring comedian Stan Freberg and featuring the vocal talents of Daws Butler, June Foray, and Peter Leeds and the musical direction of Billy May, ran in the 7 p.m. timeslot previously occupied by The Jack Benny Program. The show was produced by Pete Barnum with sound effects by Bill James and Gene Twombly.

The Boston Tea Party · Stan Freberg Presents: The United States Of America℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC... From a comedy album by comedian Stan Freberg which presents the history of the United States of America as a series of comedy sketches and songs.

Britt Ponset  (played by veteran film star James Stewart) meets a killer in a narrow canyon who tells a very believable story. Britt was riding his horse Scar, through 50 yard canyon near Smoke Falls. As he rode out into a wider part of the canyon, Scar slowed to a walk and suddenly somebody started to take shots at him. Episode 16 aired January 03, 1954 on NBC Radio. Also starring Shepard Me...

March 20, 1956 episode 1378 on NBC Radio. Fibber McGee and Molly was a 1935–1959 American radio comedy series. The situation comedy was a staple of the NBC Red Network from 1936 on, after originating on NBC Blue in 1935. One of the most popular and enduring radio series of its time, it ran as a stand-alone series from 1935 to 1956, and then continued as a short-form series as part of the weekend M...

A CBS Radio News special report. March 12, 1938. Robert Trout reports Nazis take Austria. Nineteen months would elapse from the day Hitler  grabbed control of the German Army until the actual start of World War II. During those months, Hitler engaged in a kind of gangster diplomacy in which he bluffed, bullied, threatened, and lied to various European leaders in order to expand the borders of...

Howard Miller chats with singer Pat Boone on Miller's 15 minute CBS Radio network show of July 27, 1955. According to Billboard, Boone was the second-biggest charting artist of the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley, and was ranked at No. 9 in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists 1955–1995. Until the 2010s, Boone held the Billboard record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts wi...