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Episode 4 aired February 12, 1956 on CBS Radio. Mrs Dennis, recently widowed, now all alone out on the prairie is easy prey for Indians. Mrs Dennis and her husband Luther lived in a very remote area. She watched her husband die from gangrene from a broken leg. When Captain Lee Quince and Sergeant Gorce found her they buried her husband and suggested she leave the land, as it was no place for a wom...

Dragnet episode 009 aired August 14, 1949 on NBC Radio. A small-time narcotics user named Benny Trounsel has been beaten to death shortly after tipping the cops to a new narcotics ring in town. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday has been assigned to narcotics detail. For many weeks  Doctors offices, hospitals, drug stores and drug suppliers have been burglarized for narcotics. The criminals are ex...

Bold Venture is the radio adventure series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall that originally aired in 1951-52. Bogart plays hotel and boat owner Slate Shannon, and Bacall plays his ward, Sailor Duval.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bold_Venture  Spanish Gold (a.k.a. Treasure On Flamingo Cay) aired November 19, 1951 Beginning in March 1951, the Frederic W. Ziv Company syndi...

The "Trigger Men" aired July 29, 1950 on NBC Radio. This episode is based on events of May 27, 1947. The killers are the Gordon brothers who are wanted for a series of murders as they head for the Mexican border. A gas station attendant-operator on Oklahoma highway 8 was preparing to shut down for the night when two men in a green convertible pulled in to the service island when a series of horrib...

Episode 3 aired December 7, 1958 on CBS Radio. A character named Ella West is an unrefined Annie Oakley and Paladin is hired by Tomahawk to refine her. Paladin quotes Keats to Ella, who plays a character more complex than that of Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion'. In the end, Paladin does Tomahawk a big favor.

Episode 3 aired February 5, 1956 on CBS Radio. The cavalry must assure a wagon train gets to it's destination safely. Pioneer women are attracted to men in the troops and word comes from a frontiersman that an Indian uprising is eminent. The Indians feel that the government hasn’t been caring for them properly. Raiding parties will attack wagon trains if something doesn’t change. Captain Quince ha...

Episode 12, aired on CBS Radio July 12, 1952. Stage robbers get $50,000 worth of gold, and kidnap Carter's girl friend. When she returns to Dodge, and she's not very eager to reunite with Carter. Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, likes it peaceful. However the stage that was due in was carrying gold when it was held up and Dillon must get to work to apprehend the culprits. A companion on the st...

Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Episode 3, Apache Peak, aired July 22, 1950. Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal (or "Charky," a...

January 29, 1956  Captain Quince, Raymond Burr, and his patrol must stop the sale of Henry rifles to Yellow Knife. Quince heads to the Indian reservation to see his compadre Chief Wild Dog for information about the white man who is supplying Indians with rifles. Chief Wild Dog tells Quince where the rifle smuggler meets Yellow Knife. Private Boatwright hates the Indians and knew the only way...

Episode 2, November 30, 1958. CBS Radio network. Paladin wakes up after being drugged, beaten and robbed in the town of Blue Bell by five men, one of whom is the town's sheriff. They took his money, gun, bullets, horse and saddle. All he has left is his two-shot derringer.

"The Lone Ranger" radio program was created by George W. Trendle (photo insert) and Fran Striker. First aired on Trendle's radio station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan, in 1933. The radio series was carried by more than 400 American stations by the end of the decade. The Michigan Radio Network then the original Mutual Radio Network. Later on the ABC Radio Network and lastly in syndication by the ad age...

First Episode aired July 14, 1957. The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fifteen episodes in 1957–58. 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. Sunday evening time period.

January 22, 1956. Premiere episode.  Captain Quince sets a trap for a group of horse thieves and murderers who are hoping the cavalry will think they are Arapahos. Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry at Fort Laramie on the Wyoming frontier. An entire family have been killed. But not by the Arapaho’s... it was white men.

Joel McCrea stars as Jayce Pearson in Tales of the Texas Rangers, a contemporary procedural crime Western. With all of the technology available in the mid 20th century.  It was one of the most popular shows of that era. Produced by Stacy Keach, Sr., a successful actor, producer, writer and director for over fifty years. (Father of actors Stacy and James Keach). He created, produced and direct...

Have Gun Will Travel, the first episode on radio was broadcast on CBS network, November 23, 1958 the show continued until November 22, 1960. Paladin 'Gun For Hire' lived in and worked from the Carleton Hotel, in San Francisco around 1875.   Have Gun Will Travel was one of those programs which got its start on television (CBS TV 1957 thru 1963, starring Richard Boone), successfully moving...

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From December 18, 1945 with Joan Bennett. Theater of Romance ran for over 12 years between 1943 and 1956 on CBS Radio.  The show substituted for a number of shows and changes drastically with content, producers, directors and performers throughout its broadcast history, but all the episodes fall under the broad category of "romance."

Episode 007 aired July 21, 1949 An ex-con bears a grudge against the city of Los Angeles. He wants to blow up city hall unless his demands are met. He has a powerful bomb. The police find 28 sticks of dynamite in his apartment. Only Sergeant Friday has the power to stop this 1950s terrorist attack. Featuring Webb, Barton Yarborough, Parley Baer, Raymond Burr and others.

May 14, 1954 episode from transcription. Many ABC network stations would not clear the series any longer so General Mills distributed the series to individual market stations on a subscription basis.  Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting, which were widely used during the "Golden Age of Radio". They provided material—from station-...

An unaired pilot for a Bogart-produced anthology series in which Humphrey Bogart plays a railroad policeman who is killed by a young hobo who hears the dead policeman’s voice wherever he goes. Audition Date: September 17, 1949

A series of murders of men who have been lucky while gambling leads Marshal Dillon to a most unusual killer. Jones’s had been spending time in Dodge City buying supplies and food before he was found laying near his wagon, the horse still hitched, stabbed to death and the three thousand dollars he was carrying was missing. This was the third stabbing in the last two months and Marshall Dillon suspe...

The Lone Ranger is an American radio and television show created by George W. Trendle and developed by writer Fran Striker. This episode 2547 was transcribed to be aired on May 12, 1954.

A well liked waitress named Helen Corday has been murdered with a steel pipe. The suspect's name is Larson. Somewhere in the tangled web of the city there's a killer on the loose, a young woman has been brutally murdered, the weapon? A bludgeon. Here sets the scene for another "real life" homicide case for Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero.

Humphrey Bogart & Lurene Tuttle in "Love's Lovely Counterfeit" by James M. Cain for Suspense Radio.  March 8th 1945. The show was on the air for a little over twenty years beginning in January, 1942 and was rarely pre-empted. There were 947 performances. When SUSPENSE left the air, radio was never to see the likes of such a series again. Now the great medium of radio where imagination can...