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Episode 2563 June 18, 1954. "A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty hi-yo silver! The Lone Ranger! 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 western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thri...

The second episode of the Hopalong Cassidy radio series was released by Commodore syndication, the second week of January 1950. Hopalong Cassidy was already a hit on television when Mutual Broadcasting began airing the radio version. A short time later, it moved to CBS, where it aired until 1952. Set on the Bar-20 Ranch.   In this episode the local sheriff has become obsessed with the id...

Our ears communicate with the mind and our eyes have a nasty habit of wandering about and daydreaming, rather than listening to what is being said. January 12, 1951 Episode 5 of Hear It Now gives you an immediate sense of 1950's and the thinking the US put into understanding that Korean war. Edward R. Murrow's weekly hour long news program featured news of the week and reports from the Korean War...

Juan Morita, who has killed twelve, will not kill again...he says! Episode 17 aired on CBS Radio March 5, 1959. The radio show consisted of 106 episodes on the CBS Radio Network between November 23, 1958, and November 27, 1960. It was one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters and the only significant American radio adaptation of a television series. John Dehner (a regular on the...

Fort Laramie's protectorate duties during the Black Hills gold rush emerged as her most visible success in 1876. Gold had been discovered in the Hills in 1874, and with its graceful three-span iron bridge over the North Platte River, Fort Laramie quickly became the most popular gateway to the new El Dorado. Episode 17 aired on CBS Radio May 20, 1956. By the mid-1950s when Fort Laramie began, most...

Episode 27 aired February 8, 1948 on CBS Radio. Somewhere in the Appalachian mountains a strange old man is too friendly with the cottonmouths.  And a small-minded hillbilly who is afraid of snakes has a neighbor he calls the "snake doctor."  The old man has no fear of the snakes, as he uses them to create a snake oil to sell for healing remedies.  Starring William Conrad (Photo). P...

Based on the events of June 23, 1947. A convict escapes from a small jail. The manhunt is aided by the prisoner's white jail clothes and a small walkie-talkie. There is only one prisoner in the county jail. It is John Elliott Bascomb a notorious and dangerous gunman. In the anteroom connecting the jail with the sheriff’s office deputy George Keaton dozes snoring at the end of a long and up until n...

First episode in the syndicated series from Commodore Productions in Los Angeles. Starring William Boyd as Hoppy and Andy Clyde as California. Hoppy has summoned California to the Bar-20 Ranch. Hoppy has received a letter from an old friend who has been mining for gold up in the mountains. It seems he’s struck it rich but his partner has been murdered, and he now fears for the safety of his family...

Episode 91 aired May 11, 1944 on CBS Radio. A teenage boy who seems to have disappeared after having a quarrel with a friend some three years earlier. He is believed to have been murdered by his friend but no hard evidence has ever been found. Comedian Eddie Bracken stars in this serious role. Edward Vincent Bracken (February 7, 1915 – November 14, 2002) was an American actor. Bracken became a Hol...

Daniel Trombley Ingram (September 7, 1934 – June 24, 2018) was an American Top 40 radio disc jockey with a fifty-year career on radio stations such as WABC and WCBS-FM in New York City. July 3, 1961 - May 10, 1982 — WABC, New York City. He and Ron Lundy were on-air as the station switched to TalkRadio. Ingram was one of the most highly regarded DJs from his era. He was noted for his quick wit and...

Episode 43 aired on NBC Radio April 6, 1950. Obscene "comic" books are being sold in high schools. The trail leads to a cigar stand downtown and "Barney." Detective Sergeant Friday is assigned to juvenile bureau. The high schools in the city have been flooded with obscene literature.

Richard Mulligan stars as a husband who believes himself culpable for the murder of his wife. He is also convinced of his affair with another woman. But he simply can't persuade a police officer to believe either. Episode 12 aired January 17, 1974 on the CBS Radio Network. Richard Mulligan ( 13 of November of 1932 - 26 of September of 2000 ) was a film and television actor known for his role Ameri...

Easy Aces was an American serial radio comedy (1930–1945). It was trademarked by the low-keyed drollery of creator and writer Goodman Ace and his wife, Jane, as an urbane, put-upon realtor and his malaprop-prone wife. A 15-minute program, airing as often as five times a week, Easy Aces wasn't quite the ratings smash that such concurrent 15-minute serial comedies as Amos 'n' Andy, The Goldbergs, Lu...

Episode 15 aired on NBC Radio December 27, 1953. Movie star James Stewart rode the radio range from September 20, 1953, through June 24, 1954, as Britt Ponset. Cora Plummer had remarried soon after her husband died. Her son is convinced his step-father is after the family ranch and money. It is raining ferociously in Petersville. Britt runs over to the Jackson Hotel's front porch to take shelter....

Chicago DJ Howard Miller chats with singer Frankie Laine on the CBS Radio Network July 25, 1955. Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned nearly 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as "Am...

Episode 2562 June 16, 1954. A town character aids in the capture of an under-sized outlaw, "Shrimp Butler". Brace Beemer as The Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto. Your announcer and narrator...Fred Foy. (Photo)

Episode 4 with Edward R Murrow. News items from the week of January 1, 1950 including return of The 81st United States Congress, a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1951. Audio Archives from CBS News.

Have Gun, Will Travel The Monster on Moon Ridge, March 8, 1959, Starring John Dehner on CBS Radio network. "Have Gun Will Travel," consisted of 106 episodes. This radio Western was created by Sam Rolfe & Herb Meadow (starring John Dehner as Paladin) was broadcast on CBS radio, November 23, 1958 to November 22, 1960. Paladin 'Gun For Hire' lived in & worked out of the Carleton Hotel, in 187...

Episode 39 aired on CBS Radio January 17, 1953. Lawson Hales hires a killer to gun down Marshal Dillon for $5000 in gold.

Episode 16 ( of 41 episodes ) aired on CBS Radio May 13, 1956. A reporter from a New York newspaper comes west to tell the "truth" and also to learn of the "real" west. Raymond Burr stars as Captain Lee Quince. It aired Sunday afternoons January 22–October 28, 1956, at 5:30pm ET. Produced and directed by Norman MacDonnell, this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Centur...

Episode 25 February 2, 1948 on CBS Radio. East coast version. Many OTR broadcasts were fed to the west coast to be heard in the evening in the Pacific time zone. The classic suspense story about a young girl in Paris whose mother has vanished from the face of the earth. Joan Banks (October 30, 1918 – January 18, 1998) was an American film, television, stage, and radio actress (described as "a soap...

Ed Murrow reports from London to CBS Radio Network, April 15, 1945. Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established by the Nazis. The field was built in 1937 in a wooded area on the northern slope of the Etterberg, about five miles northwest of Weimar in central eastern Germany. During the Nazi regime , "Weimar" came to be associated with the Buchenwald concentration camp. Murrow...

Episodes 41 and 42 aired March 23 and 30, 1950. An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge. 

Episode 11 aired on CBS Radio January 16, 1974 and starred William Prince. Burdened with the responsibility of his sick father who has been recently released from jail, a son must also struggle to find $15,000 and buy out his business associate in order to keep his business afloat. William LeRoy Prince (January 26, 1913 – October 8, 1996) was an American actor who appeared in numerous soap op...

The lives of a waitress and a drifter are shaken up when a gangster (Humphrey Bogart) takes refuge in an Arizona roadside diner. Broadcast January 7, 1940. Gabriele works in a diner in the Arizona desert where she meets and connects with a failed British writer and intellectual named Alan Squire who is in search of something worth living for. She dreams of a life in France and wants that Squire wi...