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Vintage Radio Shows brings you the golden age of entertainment with classic comedies, mysteries, dramas, westerns, and serials from the 1930s–1950s. Enjoy restored recordings from 46,000+ episodes of old time radio, plus historic newsreels, film serials, and vintage cartoons.

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Old Time Radio Comedy — Bing Crosby Show: "Rosemary Clooney" (1953) | Full Episode

Nov 10, 2026 29 min

Sunday nights on CBS in 1953, General Electric gave Bing Crosby the easiest half hour on the air, and the Sunday before Thanksgiving he opened with a hoedown. "Y'all Come," with the Cass County Boys, washboards and steel guitars, is Bing's toast to families gathering across the country. Then he brings on "the Kentucky Canary," Rosemary Clooney, who teases him for wandering into her territory ("I thought you were from Spokane"). She sings "It's the Most Unusual Day," they duet on "Something to Remember You By," and they dedicate a romp through "That's Amore" to "the nebulous Neapolitan," Dean Martin. Bing adds "Lady Oh!", "Think," "Granada" and his new Decca waltz "Changing Partners," with John Scott Trotter's orchestra and Ken Carpenter. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Bing_Crosby_53-11-22_Guest_Rosemary_Clooney 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Bing_Crosby_53-11-22_Guest_Rosemary_Clooney

Old Time Radio Comedy — Bing Crosby Show: "Peggy Lee" (1949) | Full Episode

Nov 9, 2026 30 min

Wednesday nights on CBS in 1949, Bing Crosby ran the easiest half hour in radio, and on October 12 he threw out the script entirely. "Tonight's chirping for Chesterfield isn't going to be our usual pack of tunes," he tells Ken Carpenter. "We're unleashing a whole carton of melody." It's music lovers' night: ten songs, barely a joke in sight. Bing and Peggy Lee open with "How It Lies" and close on a hushed duet of "Again," and in between Peggy sings "A Wonderful Guy" from the brand-new South Pacific, Bing reprises "Cockeyed Optimist" at her request, croons "Some Enchanted Evening," "Amor" and Gershwin's "I've Got a Crush on You," and rides out "Ghost Riders in the Sky," the season's biggest hit, with Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires. Only the fourth week of Bing's Chesterfield run, with John Scott Trotter's orchestra and Buddy Cole at the keyboard. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Bing_Crosby_49-10-12_Peggy_Lee 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Bing_Crosby_49-10-12_Peggy_Lee

Old Time Radio Detective — Casey, Crime Photographer: "Source of Information" (1954) | Full Episode

Nov 8, 2026 30 min

Flashgun Casey, ace cameraman of the Morning Express, covers the crime news of a great city in this 1954 CBS revival starring Staats Cotsworth. Grove Snyder, once the most famous crime reporter in town and now a broke old drunk, swears his explosive memoirs have been stolen. Casey figures it's a touch for five bucks, until Grove turns up shot dead. A torn page, a pair of loaded dice and a 25-year-old Prohibition massacre lead Casey to a secret someone has been willing to kill for, and a newspaperman who never gave up a source. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_54-01-20_Source_of_Information 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_54-01-20_Source_of_Information

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Old Time Radio Comedy — Bing Crosby Show: "Rosemary Clooney" (1953) | Full Episode

Nov 10, 2026 29 min

Old Time Radio Comedy — Bing Crosby Show: "Peggy Lee" (1949) | Full Episode

Nov 9, 2026 30 min

Old Time Radio Detective — Casey, Crime Photographer: "Source of Information" (1954) | Full Episode

Nov 8, 2026 30 min

Old Time Radio Detective — Casey, Crime Photographer: "Too Many Angels" (1947) | Full Episode

Nov 7, 2026 29 min

Ace Morning Express cameraman Casey and reporter Ann Williams head to a Broadway preview after bartender Ethelbert confesses he's sunk $100 into the musical 'Angel Face' as one of its backers. Backstage, the star is found stabbed with a nightclub boss's knife, a hundred-pound sandbag drops from the flies, and Casey's photographic memory has to place a face before the killer reaches the understudy. Staats Cotsworth stars as Casey with Jan Miner as Ann in this 1947 CBS mystery from Anchor Hocking. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_47-11-13_Too_Many_Angels 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_47-11-13_Too_Many_Angels

Old Time Radio Comedy — Phil Harris-Alice Faye: "The Vaccinations" (1950) | Full Episode

Nov 6, 2026 29 min

Phil Harris and Alice Faye are about to sail for Europe, where Phil and Jack Benny will play the London Palladium, and everyone needs a smallpox shot first. Alice tells Phil the vaccinations are for the kids and plots with Dr. Brannigan to trick the biggest baby in the house into rolling up his sleeve. Julius the grocery boy makes it worse, a sedative sends Phil into a nightmare at Frankie Remley's pool-room doctor, and Alice sings Gershwin's 'Who Cares?' in this 1950 season finale of NBC's beloved Rexall comedy, starring Elliott Lewis as Frankie and Walter Tetley as Julius. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_50-11-26_Investment_In_A_Female_Wrestler 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_50-11-26_Investment_In_A_Female_Wrestler

Old Time Radio Comedy — Phil Harris-Alice Faye: "Frankie's Foster Son" (1949) | Full Episode

Nov 5, 2026 29 min

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was NBC's Sunday-night family comedy, with bandleader Phil Harris and movie star Alice Faye playing themselves at home, flanked by Elliott Lewis as Phil's work-shy guitarist Frankie Remley and Walter Tetley as Julius, the grocery boy who can always be bought. This is the Father's Day broadcast of June 19, 1949. Andy, a French orphan who speaks no English, has landed in Frankie's life by mistake, and the welfare society won't let Frankie adopt him until he's married. So Frankie does the sensible thing: he places a "wife wanted" ad in the Police Gazette and signs it Phil Harris. Phil barricades the doors for the mob of women that never comes, until one very determined applicant does, and Frankie finds himself signing a marriage contract and booking a flight to Las Vegas for Andy's sake. Then word arrives that Andy has relatives in Chicago, Frankie needs out of the deal fast, and Phil hires Julius for ten dollars to play Frankie's obnoxious son. Alice sings "A Wonderful Guy" from South Pacific. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_49-06-19_Frankies_Foster_Son 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_49-06-19_Frankies_Foster_Son

Old Time Radio Comedy — Phil Harris-Alice Faye: "The First Show for Rexall" (1948) | Full Episode

Nov 4, 2026 29 min

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was NBC's Sunday-night family comedy, with bandleader Phil Harris and movie star Alice Faye playing themselves at home, flanked by Elliott Lewis as Phil's work-shy guitarist Frankie Remley and Walter Tetley as Julius, the grocery boy who lives to make Phil's life harder. This is the October 3, 1948 premiere, the first broadcast under the Rexall banner after two seasons as The Fitch Bandwagon, and the writers turn the sponsor change into the plot. Phil and Alice head downtown to sign their new contract, Alice tells the boys to wait in the reception room, and within minutes Phil and Frankie are behind the drugstore cosmetics counter in borrowed smocks, demonstrating lipstick and rouge on each other for an unimpressed customer. Then Julius turns up, promising to tell the manager everything, and Phil chases him straight into the perfume display. By the time the contract reaches Phil's hand, he cannot hold a pen, and asking Frankie to sign for him turns out to be the worst idea of the afternoon. Phil sings "You Can't Do Wrong Doing Right." 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_48-10-03_First_Rexall_Sponsored_Show 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_48-10-03_First_Rexall_Sponsored_Show

Old Time Radio Detective — Broadway Is My Beat: "Decker Murder Case" (1954) | Full Episode

Nov 3, 2026 29 min

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover and scripts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this August 1954 case, a once-feared gangster turned panhandler is fished out of the East River with a knife in his back. Clover works the bars of Third Avenue, a Broadway informant in a borrowed Hawaiian shirt, and a widow with a young admirer who quotes Cyrano. Where did a broke bum get $5,000, and who ended up holding the knife? Sheldon Leonard guest stars. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_54-08-01_Decker_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_54-08-01_Decker_Murder_Case

Old Time Radio Detective — Broadway Is My Beat: "The Georgia Gray Murder Case" (1951) | Full Episode

Nov 2, 2026 29 min

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, scripted by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this April 1951 case, a dance-hall girl is stabbed in a Broadway taxi-dance palace and tells Clover she'll keep the knife as a souvenir. The trail runs through a gangster's devoted mother, a parolee who won't talk, and a confessor who can't even dance. Then the mobster himself is gunned down in an alley, and a stranger arrives with an offer: a thick envelope and a killer, delivered. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_51-04-28_The_Georgia_Gray_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_51-04-28_The_Georgia_Gray_Murder_Case

Old Time Radio Detective — Broadway Is My Beat: "The Jane Darnell Murder Case" (1949) | Full Episode

Nov 1, 2026 29 min

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, scripted by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this August 1949 case, a scandal columnist gets a typewritten note predicting a girl's murder that very night, and the prophecy comes true. Then a second note arrives, and a third name is on the list. Clover has a stack of typewritten notes, one night, and a killer who announces each victim before the crime. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_49-08-11_The_Jane_Darnell_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_49-08-11_The_Jane_Darnell_Murder_Case

Old Time Radio Adventure — Escape: "The Follower" (1951) | Full Episode

Oct 30, 2026 29 min

Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, "exciting stories of man's escape from his everyday world." This February 1951 broadcast, featuring William Conrad, follows a man into Mexico on the trail of his missing wife, and the further he goes, the more certain he becomes that someone is following him. A tense, sun-baked tale of pursuit and suspicion. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Escape_51-02-18_The_Follower 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Escape_51-02-18_The_Follower

Old Time Radio Adventure — Escape: "She" (1948) | Full Episode

Oct 29, 2026 29 min

Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, and this July 1948 broadcast tackles H. Rider Haggard's immortal romance of the lost African kingdom ruled by Ayesha, "She Who Must Be Obeyed." Two English explorers follow an ancient legend into uncharted jungle and find a beautiful, ageless queen who has waited two thousand years for the return of her lost love, with a flame of eternal life at her command. Ben Wright stars in this atmospheric adaptation of the Victorian classic. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Escape_48-07-11_She 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Escape_48-07-11_She

Old Time Radio Horror — Escape: "Dead of Night" Original Audition (1947) | Full Episode

Oct 28, 2026 29 min

Months before Escape became CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, this was the very first pilot, broadcast on February 28, 1947 under the name Out of This World. The story is a chilling ventriloquist tale borrowed from the 1945 British horror classic Dead of Night: a British ventriloquist and an American rival who can't stand each other, and a wooden dummy with ideas of its own. The same script was remade as the March 21 Escape audition, but this is where it all began. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Escape_47-02-28_Out_of_This_World_and_Dead_of_Night_first_audition 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Escape_47-02-28_Out_of_This_World_and_Dead_of_Night_first_audition

Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1951) | Full Episode

Oct 27, 2026 30 min

In its final season NBC University Theater, billed on air as the NBC Theater, was still bringing a great novel to radio every week from Hollywood. Tonight it is Leo Tolstoy's scandalous "The Kreutzer Sonata," adapted by Richard E. Davis. In a prison cell, Vasya Pozdnyshev (Whitfield Connor) gives his statement to Inspector Karkov (Stanley Farrar): ten bitter years of marriage, and then the handsome violinist Trukhachevsky (Paul Dubov), who came to play Beethoven duets with his wife (Vivi Janiss). Too proud to admit he is afraid, Vasya keeps inviting him back, until one midnight he comes home to find them alone in the music room. Directed by Andrew C. Love; announcer Don Stanley. First aired on NBC January 3, 1951. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_51-01-03_The_Kreutzer_Sonata 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_51-01-03_The_Kreutzer_Sonata

Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "The Portrait of a Lady" (1949) | Full Episode

Oct 26, 2026 59 min

By the fall of 1949 NBC University Theater (now billed simply as the NBC Theater) was broadcasting a full hour of a great novel from Hollywood every Sunday, with college courses built around the plays. This week is Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady," adapted by Richard E. Davis. Isabel Archer, a spirited young woman from Albany, turns down an English lord at a Tudor country house outside London because she wants to see life for herself. An inheritance arranged by her ailing cousin Ralph (Larry Dobkin) sets her free, and the cultivated Madame Merle steers her toward the elegant American expatriate Gilbert Osmond (Tony Barrett) in Florence and Rome, where Isabel learns what her freedom has cost. With Ben Wright as Lord Warburton and Gayne Whitman narrating; directed by Andrew C. Love. First aired on NBC October 2, 1949. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_49-10-02_Portrait_of_A_Lady 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_49-10-02_Portrait_of_A_Lady

Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "A Farewell to Arms" (1948) | Full Episode

Oct 25, 2026 59 min

NBC University Theater brought the great novels to radio from Hollywood, with film stars in the leads. This hour is Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," adapted by Ernest Kinoy, starring John Lund as Lt. Frederic Henry, an American ambulance officer on the Italian front in the First World War, and Lurene Tuttle as Catherine Barkley, the English nurse he meets through his friend Rinaldi. What starts as a wartime flirtation becomes a love that outlasts his wounding, the chaos of the retreat, and a desperate escape to Switzerland, until the war's logic catches up with them anyway. First aired on NBC August 6, 1948, with commentary by critic Malcolm Cowley, music by Albert Harris, and direction by Andrew C. Love. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_48-08-06_A_Farewell_To_Arms 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_48-08-06_A_Farewell_To_Arms

Old Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Kitty Caught" (1954) | Full Episode

Oct 24, 2026 29 min

Gunsmoke brought the adult Western to radio, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal of Dodge City. In "Kitty Caught," Chester comes back from Wichita with word that the Karp brothers, bank robbers drifting up from the Indian Territory, are headed for Dodge. The warning comes too late. The Karps hit the bank that same morning, kill the cashier, and ride north with Kitty as their hostage, promising to leave her dead on the trail if anyone follows. Matt and Chester track them anyway, past a cowboy the brothers shot out of his saddle, to a lonely prairie cabin. Then they lie in the buffalo grass all day, close enough to the cabin that a single sound could get Kitty killed, and a rattlesnake coils up beside Chester. Written by John Meston and first aired on CBS October 16, 1954, with Parley Baer as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin and Joe Du Val. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Gunsmoke_54-10-16_Kitty_Caught_Guest_Star_Lawrence_Dobkin 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Gunsmoke_54-10-16_Kitty_Caught_Guest_Star_Lawrence_Dobkin

Old Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Gone Straight" (1953) | Full Episode

Oct 23, 2026 30 min

Gunsmoke brought the adult Western to radio, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal of Dodge City. In "Gone Straight," a special deputy for the New Mexico Stock Raisers Association hands Dillon a Santa Fe warrant for Dane Shaw, a former rider with Billy the Kid, and Matt and Chester make the hard two-day ride south to Tascosa on the Canadian River. There they meet Nat Temple, owner of the Red Deer saloon, the man building the town its first schoolhouse, who has given his barkeep, gunman Mike Postle, a second chance away from rustler Harry Gunter. When Gunter vows to ride in and drag Postle back, Temple swears to stand beside him, and Dillon quietly realizes Temple is the very man his warrant names. Written by John Meston and first aired on CBS August 22, 1953, with Parley Baer as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and John Dehner, Tom Tully, Harry Bartell, Paul Dubov, Helen Kleeb and James Nusser. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Gunsmoke_53-08-22_Gone_Straight 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Gunsmoke_53-08-22_Gone_Straight

Old Time Radio Comedy — Fibber McGee and Molly: "Numerology" (1943) | Full Episode

Oct 22, 2026 29 min

For ten dollars, a numerologist over a barbershop promises to put Fibber McGee in harmony with the universe by giving him a new name: Homer K. Frink, eleven letters, a prime number, guaranteed lucky. Fibber shows off his new vibrations to the Old Timer, Mrs. Uppington, Harlow Wilcox and Wallace Wimple, then jaywalks against a red light and tells the cop his name. Homer K. Frink, it turns out, is wanted in seven states for arson, murder, bank robbery, forgery, swindling, parole violation and bigamy. Under the station-house spotlight Fibber 'confesses' to the big Chicago fur warehouse job, and it takes Doc Gamble and an appendix scar to spring him. Broadcast on NBC May 4, 1943, with Jim and Marian Jordan, Bill Thompson, Isabel Randolph, Arthur Q. Bryan and Harlow Wilcox, plus the King's Men singing 'I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'.' 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Fibber_Mcgee_And_Molly_43-05-04_Numerology 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Fibber_Mcgee_And_Molly_43-05-04_Numerology

Old Time Radio Comedy — Fibber McGee and Molly: "McGee Sells Watches" (1941) | Full Episode

Oct 21, 2026 29 min

A package marked FRAGILE, insured for $800, lands at 79 Wistful Vista, and inside is a leather sample case stamped in gold: Fibber McGee, special representative of a fancy watch company. Molly landed him the job at Mrs. Uppington's bridge party, and Fibber has already done the arithmetic: a hundred watches a week, a thousand dollars in commission, and a hotel suite to match. His very first sales call goes wrong in the worst possible way. Halfway through his pitch at the jewelry counter, a gunman walks in and holds up the store, Fibber gives chase, and the cop on the corner collars the man running down the street carrying a case full of gold watches. Then every friend who comes down to vouch for the McGees ends up behind bars beside them: Harlow Wilcox for an unpaid parking ticket, Mrs. Uppington on suspicion of being the fence, and Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve because the judge's wife wears his girdles. Broadcast on NBC February 11, 1941, the week of Lincoln's Birthday, with Jim and Marian Jordan, Harold Peary, Bill Thompson and Isabel Randolph. Listen for the hall closet, a gag barely a year old here and, as Molly says, it "still gets a laugh." 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Fibber_Mcgee_And_Molly_41-02-11_McGee_Sells_Watches 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Fibber_Mcgee_And_Molly_41-02-11_McGee_Sells_Watches

Old Time Radio Detective — Johnny Dollar: "Milford Brooks III (Audition)" (1948) | Full Episode

Oct 20, 2026 29 min

Before Bob Bailey, before Charles Russell, there was Dick Powell. In this December 1948 audition, never broadcast, Powell plays Johnny Dollar, the freelance insurance investigator with the action-packed expense account. East Coast Underwriters needs him to keep Milford Brooks III, a spoiled heir with a $2 million life policy, from killing himself. The beneficiary is a restaurant owner Brooks owes $200,000. Then Brooks vanishes out a window, his coat turns up on a ferry, and a matchbook in the pocket points straight at the man who collects. Dollar has to work out whether he's looking at a suicide, a murder, or a setup. Powell passed on the series to star in Richard Diamond, so this is the only time he played the role. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Yours_Truly_Johnny_Dollar_48-12-07_Milford_Brooks_III_Audition_Staring_Dick_Powell 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Yours_Truly_Johnny_Dollar_48-12-07_Milford_Brooks_III_Audition_Staring_Dick_Powell

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Boss of the Tarantulas" (1942) | Full Episode

Oct 19, 2026 29 min

The Lone Ranger and Tonto have jailed four of the knife-throwing Tarantula gang with help from Texas Jack of the Border City Cafe, and now Jack hands over a dead sheriff's letter naming the last of them: Larkspur, who cheated old Bart Billings out of the Last Chance mine by burying its gold vein under a blast. Billings turns up in an arroyo with a Tarantula knife in his back, a knife fired from a crossbow carries the gang boss's order to kill the masked man, and an ambush at Overhang Rock closes in on two glowing headbands in the dark. The final chapter of the September 1942 Tarantula serial, with Brace Beemer as the Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=The_Lone_Ranger_42-09-14_The_Boss_of_the_Tarantulas_Tarantula_Series 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=The_Lone_Ranger_42-09-14_The_Boss_of_the_Tarantulas_Tarantula_Series

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Hold Up Stagecoach" (1940) | Full Episode

Oct 17, 2026 29 min

Caleb Saxon and his wife Edith ride the stage to Basin City hoping to leave the whispers back East behind them: a court cleared Caleb, but everyone still believes he stole the trust fund he managed for his late friend's son. Then the stranger riding up top pulls a gun, forces the coach down the lonely Creek Trail, and marches the old couple off into the woods with every dollar they own. The young man who swore to get even with Caleb is camped with the Lone Ranger, and the masked man has a hard lesson in mind for him. A July 1, 1940 broadcast with Earle Graser as the Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Osage Bank Robbery" (1938) | Full Episode

Oct 16, 2026 29 min

The Brogan brothers, two of the most wanted killers in the West, rob the bank at Osage and shoot the banker for no reason at all, then vanish without leaving a trail. The sheriff's posse rides out without Sleepy and Missouri, two broke old prospectors who once gave away every dime from their played-out silver mine to the poor families of the county. So the Lone Ranger, posing as an Eastern mining expert, sends the old partners back to their abandoned tunnel with a hint of a new silver vein, a plan, and a bundle of blasting powder. A January 24, 1938 broadcast from radio's golden-age Western, with Earle Graser as the masked man and John Todd as Tonto, and the William Tell Overture riding in the opening. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Mystery — Suspense: "The Lodger" (1940) | Full Episode

Oct 12, 2026 29 min

London, 1888. A quiet, soft-spoken man takes the upstairs room at the Buntings' boarding house, pays in advance, keeps odd hours, and asks that his landlady never touch the black bag he carries. Out in Whitechapel, a killer the papers call the Avenger is working his way through the fog. Herbert Marshall plays the mysterious lodger and Edmund Gwenn is the landlord who slowly begins to wonder whom he has let into his home, in a CBS audition broadcast that helped launch Suspense, the long-running anthology of 'radio's outstanding theater of thrills.' Adapted from Marie Belloc Lowndes' 1913 novel, the same story Alfred Hitchcock filmed in 1927. Broadcast July 22, 1940. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Adventure — John Steele, Adventurer: "Cargo Unknown" (1949) | Full Episode

Oct 11, 2026 29 min

Lou Cardone flew 71 fighter missions over Europe and came home too restless to sit still, so he bought a surplus twin-engine ship and called it the Anything, Anywhere Airline. Then a soft-spoken stranger with a file on every quiet cargo Lou ever flew offers him twenty thousand dollars to carry a man with a bandaged face to Argentina. An engine quits over the Atlantic, and the pilot, the passenger, and a young woman from Vienna spend two weeks on a twelve-foot raft with one revolver, food for two, and a game only one of them can win. From John Steele, Adventurer, Mutual's pulp-style anthology of stories 'taken from the files' of a roving soldier of fortune, with Don Douglas as Steele and a young Ross Martin in the cast. Broadcast July 12, 1949. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Horror — Escape: "Dead of Night" (1947) | Full Episode

Oct 10, 2026 23 min

Before Escape ever became CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, it was auditioned with this: a chilling half hour adapted from the ventriloquist segment of the 1945 British horror classic Dead of Night. Eric Hickson has clawed his way up from cheap music halls to London's fashionable Kit-Kat Club with his wooden partner Toby. Then the American star Mel Baxter turns up in the audience with his beautiful wife, and Toby starts saying things Hickson never put in his mouth. Berry Kroeger is Hickson and a young Art Carney is the voice of Toby, in the March 21, 1947 audition directed by John Moseman. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Adventure — Escape: "The Man Who Would Be King" (1947) | Full Episode

Oct 9, 2026 29 min

Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, and this is the night it began: the series premiere of July 7, 1947, produced and directed by William N. Robson. Les Crutchfield adapts Rudyard Kipling's tale of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan, two loafers who sign a contract to swear off liquor and women until they become kings of Kafiristan, a land no Englishman has entered and left alive. With twenty smuggled Martini rifles and a working knowledge of Freemasonry, they find their kingdom in the snowbound mountains. Then Dravot decides a king needs a queen. Raymond Lawrence is Peachy, Eric Snowden is Dravot, and Herbert Rawlinson is Kipling, the newspaperman who hears the story told. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Adventure — The Green Lama: "Adventure of the Perfect Prisoner" (1949) | Full Episode

Oct 8, 2026 29 min

Jethro Dumont spent ten years in a Tibetan monastery and came home as the Green Lama, a crime fighter who never carries a gun. In the final broadcast of the 1949 CBS series, starring Paul Frees with Ben Wright as his servant Tulku, a reform-minded warden invites Dumont to see a model prisoner pardoned, but the convict sculptor is found with a knife in his back. Then a hundred armed men seize the prison arsenal, a hard-line captain readies the machine guns, and Dumont walks alone and unarmed across the yard to talk them out. The killer turns out to be closer to the warden's office than anyone suspected. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Adventure — The Green Lama: "The Man Who Never Existed" (1949) | Full Episode

Oct 7, 2026 32 min

Jethro Dumont spent ten years in a Tibetan monastery and came home as the Green Lama, a crime fighter who refuses to carry a gun. In this audition recording of the CBS series' premiere story, starring Paul Frees with Ben Wright as his loyal servant Tulku, an old friend, archaeologist Harlan Hendricks, phones Dumont for help and is cut off mid-sentence. By nightfall Hendricks is in the morgue with a bullet in his head and every trace of his existence erased: no birth record, no driver's license, nothing. The only clue is a stolen Maya carving of the feathered serpent Kukulkan, and the trail leads from a New York museum to a moonlit excavation outside Mexico City. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Mystery — Lives of Harry Lime: "Mexican Hat Trick" (1951) | Full Episode

Oct 6, 2026 28 min

Orson Welles reprises Harry Lime, the charming racketeer of The Third Man, in this 1951 series that tells the con man's adventures before that fatal night in Vienna. In "Mexican Hat Trick," a broke Lime in Mexico City is handed a dying pickpocket's confession to a 17-year-old murder, and sells a grieving widow and her daughter Alicia on a search for the lost affidavits that could clear her father's name. The trail leads to the sleepy mountain town of León, a church bell that lost its music the year of the killing, a ragged beggar who tries to kill Harry, and a midnight climb up the bell rope. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Adventure — Challenge of the Yukon: "The Stolen Pups" (1947) | Full Episode

Oct 5, 2026 29 min

Challenge of the Yukon follows Sergeant Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they keep the peace in the Klondike. In "The Stolen Pups," a simple-minded old café handyman longs for a puppy to replace the dog he lost, and two crooked bank clerks use that longing to get their hands on a prospector's $10,000. When the money and two newborn Malamute pups vanish from a cabin, Preston puts King on the scent through the melting northern snow. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Adventure — Challenge of the Yukon: "Sam's Gold" (1947) | Full Episode

Oct 4, 2026 29 min

Challenge of the Yukon follows Sergeant Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they keep the peace in the Klondike. In "Sam's Gold," a kindly prospector once nursed a cantankerous hermit through a winter, and years later the old man's hidden gold nuggets resurface. Now a trading post owner raising his young granddaughter finds his past catching up with him, and Preston must sort out a moral dilemma and a daring kidnapping attempt in the brutal northern cold. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Double For An Outlaw" (1942) | Full Episode

Oct 3, 2026 29 min

The Lone Ranger is an iconic masked western hero who fights for justice alongside his Native American companion Tonto. Broadcast throughout the 1930s-1950s, this classic radio serial featured thrilling adventures across the American frontier with the legendary William Tell Overture as its theme. In this episode, In 'Double For An Outlaw,' the Lone Ranger faces a daring case of mistaken identity and deception. Someone is impersonating the masked hero, causing trouble and endangering innocent people. The Lone Ranger and Tonto must work together to expose the imposter and restore justice to the frontier. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Magic Belt" (1942) | Full Episode

Oct 2, 2026 28 min

The Lone Ranger is an iconic radio western serial about a masked former Texas Ranger and his Native American companion Tonto who right wrongs in the Old West. In this classic episode, the masked hero and his loyal companion face danger and intrigue in their mission to bring justice to the frontier. Featuring Brace Beemer as The Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto, with the legendary William Tell Overture as its theme. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Drama — Biography In Sound: "Meet Ernest Hemingway" (1954) | Full Episode

Oct 1, 2026 55 min

Biography in Sound, a CBS documentary series produced by Norman Corwin, presented biographical profiles of notable American figures through dramatizations, interviews, and narration. A pioneering program that brought the lives of American heroes, artists, and leaders to radio audiences. This episode profiles meet ernest hemingway, exploring his life, literary career, and lasting impact on American letters. Originally broadcast on 1954-12-19. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Sci-Fi — Mercury Theater On The Air: "War of the Worlds" (1938) | Full Episode

Sep 30, 2026 59 min

Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air present H. G. Wells's tale of a Martian invasion, adapted by Howard Koch and told as a live dance-band broadcast that keeps being interrupted by news bulletins. A meteor lands at Grover's Mill, New Jersey; a professor peers at the smoking crater; then the Martians rise from the pit with their Heat-Ray and the tripods begin to wade toward New York. Broadcast on CBS on Halloween eve, October 30, 1938, with Welles as Professor Pierson and Bernard Herrmann conducting, it is the most famous half hour in the history of radio, and it still works on anyone who hears it cold. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Thriller — Suspense: "The Diary of Sophronia Winters" (1943) | Full Episode

Sep 29, 2026 29 min

Suspense presents Lucille Fletcher's first original script for the series, a study in terror told through a diary. Sophronia Winters is forty, freed by her father's death, and on her first holiday in St. Petersburg, Florida when a charming hotel owner from Maine sits down beside her on the beach and proposes within the week. Married, she rides north to his enormous, empty hotel at the end of a foggy road, where the doors are locked and her husband has strange things to say about his late sister-in-law, who happened to share her name. Agnes Moorehead, fresh from Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, stars with Ray Collins, produced by William Spier and heard here on CBS in April 1943. The solution waits on the last page of the diary. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Bouncing Betty Caper" (1948) | Full Episode

Sep 28, 2026 24 min

A fussy English butler named Carruthers walks into Sam Spade's office, tidies his ashtray, and hires him to go undercover as a chauffeur at Bleakcliff, a clifftop estate near Squid Beach. Someone keeps trying to kill young Kathy McGraw, and the household blames her troubled brother Tony. Kathy blames her stepfather, a psychiatrist and fortune hunter. Before Spade can prove anything, a wartime German land mine goes off in the doctor's office. Howard Duff plays Spade and Lurene Tuttle is Effie in this 1948 CBS caper, heard here in its Armed Forces Radio Service rebroadcast. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Horror — Lights Out: "It Happened" (1938) | Full Episode

Sep 27, 2026 29 min

Jean Taylor is a spoiled rich girl from New York on a chaperoned art tour of Paris, and she is bored stiff. She slips away from the Louvre looking for fun and finds a smooth stranger who says he knows her father and offers to show her the real Paris. By nightfall she is locked in an empty house with a man who wants $150,000 in revenge, a heavy candlestick in her hand, and nowhere to run but down, into the black, rushing sewers beneath the city. Down there an old man named Louis pulls her from the water. He has a workshop, and a hobby: exquisite lace-like necklaces, carved from what the current brings him. Arch Oboler wrote and directed this Lights Out nightmare, letting you hear both Jean's voice and the frantic thoughts racing through her head. First broadcast May 11, 1938, from NBC's Chicago studios. Also known as "Her Name Was Jean." 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Murder Strikes Thrice" (1942) | Full Episode

Sep 26, 2026 29 min

The Lone Ranger and Tonto ride into Excalibur, a dusty frontier town where somebody is killing men on their birthdays. A year ago, three witnesses swore away the alibi of a young drifter named Paul Zember, and the court sent him to prison for life on his own birthday. Now Cole Rankin has been poisoned at his birthday toast, Lem Parsons knifed in his bed, and Seth Hollins shot in the street, each on his birthday. The town is sure the convict has come back for revenge, the honest sheriff has been voted out, and the judge who passed sentence may be next. But the judge is hiding a secret of his own, and the masked man suspects the killer wants the town looking the wrong way. Brace Beemer stars as the Lone Ranger, with John Todd as Tonto, in a Fran Striker story first broadcast October 2, 1942. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Western — Have Gun Will Travel: "Strange Vendetta" (1958) | Full Episode

Sep 25, 2026 25 min

The very first radio episode of Have Gun Will Travel, with John Dehner as Paladin, the cultured San Francisco gunman of CBS's "thinking man's Western." San Francisco, 1875: Paladin lends his opera box to a Mexican grandee, Don Miguel Rojas, and his lovely wife. After The Marriage of Figaro, an assassin strikes from behind the curtain, the blade is poisoned, and a dying Don Miguel speaks of a family blood feud. His last wish: pay Paladin $1,000 to escort his coffin safely across the desert to his home in Mexico. But a coffin can carry more than a body, and the road south runs past a lonely waterhole called Loma Verde. With Ben Wright as Hey Boy and Lillian Buyeff, Harry Bartell and Joseph Kearns. From Ken Kolb's TV script, adapted by John Dawson; first aired November 23, 1958. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "Britt Ponset's Christmas Carol" (1953) | Full Episode

Sep 24, 2026 29 min

Jimmy Stewart rides the winter trail as Britt Ponset, the easygoing drifter of NBC's The Six Shooter. With Christmas coming on, he comes upon Johnny, an orphaned runaway who wants no part of the holiday, so Britt sits the boy down and tells him Dickens' A Christmas Carol the only way he knows how: as a Western, with a frontier Eben Scrooge (Howard McNear, later Floyd the barber), his clerk Bob, and three ghosts who have to ride a long way to change a hard man's heart. With Dick Beals as Johnny and Eleanor Audley as Aunt Millie. Written by Frank Burt; first aired December 20, 1953. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Comedy — The Jack Benny Program: "Jack and the Bean Stalk" (1954) | Full Episode

Sep 23, 2026 25 min

Spring has come to Beverly Hills, and Jack Benny is out in the backyard in overalls and long white gloves, planting string beans again — last year's crop was so small the bugs were picking them. This time he has a miracle fertilizer. Between Rochester refusing to taste his "mushrooms," Dennis shooting the garden hose he mistook for a snake, and Mary demanding her dime back for the cucumber seeds, Jack dozes off on the sofa and dreams the beans came up after all: a beanstalk through the clouds, a fall broken by the Los Angeles smog, a rabbit who asks "What's up, Doc?", and a giant with a hen that lays golden eggs. From March 28, 1954, with Mary Livingstone, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Bob Crosby, and Mel Blanc. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Comedy — Abbott & Costello: "Return to P.S. 15" (1944) | Full Episode

Sep 22, 2026 29 min

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were the fastest, loudest comedy act in America, and their weekly NBC show turned every broadcast into a scheme that got away from them. In this November 1944 outing, Lou's old grade school — P.S. 15 — decides to honor its most famous dropout, and Lou heads back to the classroom to collect the tribute he has been waiting a lifetime for. The ceremony never stands a chance: between the guest of honor's own memory of his school days and baby brother Sebastian turning up with a plan, the whole occasion comes apart at high speed. Classic burlesque crosstalk from the pair who gave the world "Who's on First?" 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Comedy — The Jack Benny Program: "Dennis Wants to Join the Air Force" | Full Episode

Sep 21, 2026 25 min

For more than twenty years Jack Benny ran the best-loved comedy in American radio, and the joke was always himself: vain, penny-pinching, stuck forever at 39, and hopeless on the violin. In this April 1954 broadcast it is spring-cleaning day at Jack's house. Rochester has the place turned inside out, Dennis Day breezes in to announce he is enlisting, and Jack retreats into a book for some peace and quiet -- which is when the show hands itself over to the story. Jack becomes a distinguished psychiatrist, the patients start filing in, and Mel Blanc arrives as a man who is absolutely certain he is a refrigerator. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Comedy — Our Miss Brooks: "Rare Black Orchid" (1950) | Full Episode

Sep 20, 2026 29 min

Connie Brooks teaches English at Madison High, dodges her blustering principal, and never quite gets a date with the biology teacher. In this May 1950 broadcast, Mr. Conklin's prized rare black orchid becomes the center of the week's trouble — and Miss Brooks, as always, ends up standing closest to the wreckage. Eve Arden stars with Gale Gordon as Osgood Conklin, Jeff Chandler as Mr. Boynton, and Richard Crenna as Walter Denton. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Thriller — Lights Out: "Execution" (1943) | Full Episode

Sep 19, 2026 29 min

Lights Out was radio's premier horror series, and it reached its best-remembered form when writer-director Arch Oboler brought it back to CBS in 1942 — a half hour of dread delivered to a country already living through a war. Oboler used the show as readily for human terror as for the supernatural, and "Execution" is one of his sharpest wartime thrillers. In an occupied French village, a German officer claims a woman fired on him from a darkened window. The reprisal is announced at once: unless she comes forward, fifty women of the village will hang. What follows is a long, airless night of suspicion, silence and terrible arithmetic, as neighbors weigh one life against fifty and wait to see who will speak. No ghosts, no monsters — only what people do to each other under occupation. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Sinister Siren Caper" (1951) | Full Episode

Sep 18, 2026 29 min

The Adventures of Sam Spade let Dashiell Hammett's hardboiled private eye tell his own stories — every case dictated back at the office to his secretary Effie Perrine, period, new paragraph. In "The Sinister Siren Caper," broadcast March 16, 1951, a badly rattled man turns up in Spade's office with a warning he can't laugh off: his life is in danger from a red-headed woman. Spade takes the job. Stephen Dunne stars as Spade with Lurene Tuttle as Effie, in one of the last capers of the series' final NBC season. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Horror — Quiet, Please: "Whence Came You" (1948) | Full Episode

Sep 17, 2026 29 min

Quiet, Please was radio's quietest horror show and its strangest — Wyllis Cooper wrote and directed every episode, and Ernest Chappell told them to you in a calm, confiding voice with nothing behind it but an organ and a lot of deliberate silence. In "Whence Came You," an American archaeologist named Austin comes back to Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo and sees a woman in the lobby who is gone before he can cross to her. Out at the dig, a newly opened chamber holds a gold-robed figure with the head of a hawk, a wall painting of Osiris and his daughter — wearing the face of the woman from the hotel — and a stone slab that comes down behind him. What waits in the dark has been waiting a very long time, and it knows his name. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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