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Episode 8 "Hattie Pelfrey" aired on CBS Radio March 11, 1956. Captain Quince is wounded and seeks shelter from the Arapahos in the cabin of a strange old woman...Hattie Pelfrey is a mean old woman in most people’s eye but she did once save Lee Quince’s life and he promised if he was in her part of Texas again he would let her have his late mothers earrings. The diamond earrings were the only thing...

Episode 44 aired on CBS Radio June 1, 1943. Starring veteran actor Donald Crisp. Banquo’s Chair” is the story of the ex-chief of England’s Criminal Investigative department, one William Brent, and the unusual method he devises to extract a confession from a murderer some 20 years after his being set free for lack of evidence. It was the only case in Brent’s case file where his quarry had escaped h...

Episode 11 was aired on October 22, 1947 by the CBS Radio Network. This radio adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe story  for radio stars Paul Frees (Photo). A well-done dramatization of the horror classic. It was written by their ancestors many years ago that when the rains are blood red the house of Usher would crumble to the earth. There are three members of the Usher family still living, two...

Episode 17 aired September 24, 1949 on NBC Radio. A mad killer is loose in Los Angeles. He always leaves the murder weapon behind but there are no finger prints or clues to the killers identity. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday has been assigned to the Homicide Division of the LAPD.  His team must get the killer before he strikes again. 

To Have and Have Not was adapted as an hour-long radio play for Lux Radio Theater, with Bogart and Bacall reprising their screen roles. It was broadcast on October 14, 1946. As great a radio play as was the movie. Great performances in an action packed story of Caribbean intrigue during the war. The program was produced on The Lux Video Theatre on January 17, 1957.

Episode 2 aired January 7, 1974 on CBS Radio. Starring Patrick O'Neill (Photo) in a cat and mouse game.  A husband kills his wife for donating all their money. Now, he is certain that she has been reincarnated in the form of a cat to wreak revenge on him.

Episode 8 aired August 26, 1950. Western film star Joel McCrea portrayed Ranger Jace Pearson in NBC's Tales of the Texas Rangers , covering "more than 260,000 square miles" of modern-day frontier with "50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America". Their job was to solve major crimes, using old-fashioned tracking techniques and psychological analysis. The ser...

Episode 27 aired on CBS Radio on February 3, 1943. Starring Bela Lugosi. A doctor has a theory that people who want to commit suicide, can instead be convinced to commit murder, and sets out to prove it.

Episode 6 aired October 25, 1953 on NBC Radio. Red Lawson says he's going to kill Britt's friend Dan to get revenge for the death of his brother, four years earlier. Britt is riding across the prairie when he comes across a man at a campfire. He prefers the company of people to coyotes so he stops and makes conversation with him. The man is Red Lawson and over a coffee he tells Britt about his pla...

Elderly Man River by Stan Freberg and Daws Butler. At the time this routine was done on Stan's 1957 radio show, the song was barely 30 years old at the time, 1938... from Broadway's Show Boat by Jerome Kern. Brilliant parody sending up many years in advance what is now called political correctness The risky parts are gradually cleansed thanks to a prudish censor (Butler) who appears in the recordi...

The Stan Freberg Show was an oasis in a medium quickly sinking into a morass of wall-to-wall pop music, but the economics of 1957 radio prevented it continuing beyond a short season, originally airing July-August 1957. 

The Lone Ranger helps to foil a plan to cheat a young orphan out of his inheritance. This episode appeared in syndication May 24, 1954.

Episode 7 was aired on CBS Radio January 4, 1959. Paladin is hired to defend an Armenian maiden's honor, but it soon appears that she may not be the one in need of looking after. Script written by Gene Roddenberry (PHOTO). As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for Highway Patrol, Have Gun  Will Travel, and other series, before creating and producing his own television series, The L...

Episode 8 aired October 1, 1947 on CBS Radio. Starring Hans Conried (PHOTO) and Paul Frees. The story features a big game hunter from New York City who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly...

Episode 22 aired September 20, 1952 on CBS Radio. Selfish Mr. Howard refuses to allow Jack Jackson to water his cattle during a Kansas drought. Matt Dillon, US Marshall, doesn’t like it when things get too quiet in Dodge City as it usually means there’s a blow up coming. And that’s exactly what he gets from a thirsty herd and a mean rancher who has fenced off his water source.

Lieutenant Seiberts has disobeyed orders for what he thought was a good reason. A battle of wits with Squaw Dog follows. Seiberts was on an assignment to collect 60 horses. When he returns he tells Captain Quince that Indians have ambushed them and has only 35 horses and one man is dead. Captain Quince dresses him down for not following orders and for fighting to try to save the horses. However Qu...

This was episode 7, aired on CBS Radio August 18, 1947 as last in summer series. Escape presented several episodes based on short stories by John Russell, and among these, "The Fourth Man" was the most popular. "The Fourth Man", with Paul Frees (photo), is the story of three French convicts who have just escaped from a prison in Noumea , New Caledonia. The leader of the group, Dr. Dubosc, has made...

Episode 15 aired on NBC Radio September 10, 1949. Featuring Raymond Burr as Chief Ed Baxter. Friday and Romero try and catch a kidnapper after a 21-year-old girl has disappeared and a letter has been received demanding $30,000 for the girl's return. The letter is signed "The Wolf."

The first episode in the series aired on CBS Radio January 6, 1974. Starring Agnes Moorehead. An old lady rents a room to a sick boarder. She runs into problems with his strange deathbed confession. Moorehead passed away a few weeks later April 30, 1974 at the age of 74.

This episode, 481, of Lux Radio Theater with Humphrey Bogart aired on CBS Radio April 30, 1945. It is the radio version of the 1942 film Moontide,  Bogart taking Jean Gabin's role as Bobo in this radio version of the film. 

This episode, number 7, aired on NBC Radio, August 19, 1950. It is shortly after 9 am on the Tuesday after Labor Day 1946. Two men in a late model black sedan cruise slowly along the main street of the town of Live Oak in West Texas casing a bank.  A gold tooth is the clue needed to track down a botched bank robbery and a killing. Based on events of September, 1946. Producer/director Stacy Ke...

In old England, doctors would be given human bodies for experimentation from grave robbers.  These so-called body snatchers brought fear to the dead and the living all over England.  At that time only four bodies per year could be supplied to surgeons for their studies.  There was a constant demand for upcoming surgeons so they would resort to body snatchers to supply their needs. &...

James Stewart's great Western NBC radio drama, this is the episode called Rink Larkin, which originally aired on October 18, 1953. Brit Ponset is on the trail and has the feeling he’s being followed. It turns out to be an 11 year old runaway boy. They are heading the same direction so after sharing a meal, and learning a little of the boy’s past, they ride on together. The boy’s mom has died, his...

Artifact collector finds something unusual. This radio episode, number 2551,  aired in syndication on May 21, 1954.

AIRED: March 28, 1940 on the Don Lee Mutual Network. "From out of the west to you," California Melodies features British-American music director and composer David Rose and singer Maxine Gray. David Rose is best known for his exotica, space age and cocktail hour recordings. His 1944 hit composition, Holiday of Strings , went on to become the theme song for Red Skelton shows. California Melodies pr...