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American Radio Theater

American Radio Theater's podcast of audio drama as it was done in the Golden Age of Radio. ART re-creates programs which do not exist in recorded form using the original scripts from that era. ART also produces new audio dramas using techniques developed and tested during that Golden Age.

  1. 218

    The Games of Chance

    Someone is always angling to get something on gambler, Chance Malone,  Will this be his last trip on the Jackson Queen?

  2. 217

    The Mysterious Traveler - Death Is My Host

    Simon Harvey, a small town banker, has embezzled money from his bank, which quickly forces him to murder a couple of people.

  3. 216

    The Mysterious Traveler - Between Two Worlds

    Two merchant marines are rescued after their ship is sunk by a submarine.  They are rescued by a Clipper ship in the fog... or are they?

  4. 215

    Mutual Radio Theater- The Stranger

    A stranger comes to town with a lot of money and plans for revenge on four people.

  5. 214

    Cavalcade of America - Flight Nurse

    Experiences during a medical flight in WW2 make a flight nurse reasssess her future.

  6. 213

    The Magnificent Montague - Agnes Joins a Cult

    Montague tries to use his spot on the radio to fund-raise for Agnes' cult.

  7. 212

    The Mysterious Traveler - Death Dream.

    Be careful what you dream.

  8. 211

    The Magnificent Montague - Agnes Quits

    The results aren't as expected when Alice quits.  Havoc reigns.

  9. 210

    The Story of Doctor Kildare

    Veronica Casper has a mysterious ailment and journalist, Lamar Fiske, keeps sticking his nose in.

  10. 209

    The Phantom Filly

    Sparky joins his uncle's horse farm.  He secretly breeds Lady, a blind trotter,  with Hamilcar Chief, the stallion next door.  Will Lady's foal be a winner in the sulky races?

  11. 208

    The Mysterious Traveler - The Man with the Stolen Face

    John Harrington has worked for twenty years and amassed twenty million dollars.  Now he wants to disappear.  He has it all planned but it never seems to go as planned.

  12. 207

    Frontier Gentleman - The Last of Belle Siddons

    J. B. Kendall is involved with the law in regards to Belle.

  13. 206

    Frontier Gentleman - Belle Siddons Strikes Back

    Belle falls in love with another gambler.

  14. 205

    Job Talk - The Sugar Mine

    Job Talk!  Host Eddie Martin interviews folks with unusual professions.  In this episode, Mr. Martin interviews former sugar miner, Sid Noname.  Written by Kay Lutz.

  15. 204

    Frontier Gentleman - Belle Siddons Encore

    J. B. Kendall comes back to Deadwood and gets re-acquainted with gambler, Bell Siddons.

  16. 203

    The Magnificent Montague - Measles

    Who will fill in for Uncle Good Heart when Edwin gets the measles?

  17. 202

    Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Burning Carr Matter

    Johnny mixes business with pleasure in Sarasota, Florida, when he agrees to investigate the arson in the Carr lumber yards.

  18. 201

    The Magnificent Montague - Summer Cottage

    To escape from the neighbors' incessant card games, Montague tries our his producer's cottage in the woods.

  19. 200

    Dragnet - Episode One: Slocum

    Introduction of Joe Friday and Ben Romero as they pursue the criminals, Slocum and Bantam Campbell.

  20. 199

    Mysterious Traveler - The Cat Died Twice

    Old man Kedrick is dying.  His niece and nephew want to hurry him along but he is guarded by a large black cat that he got in Egypt.

  21. 198

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective - The Longest Shortcut In the World

    Rick takes a shortcut back to New York City only to encounter the Elkins family and their guns.

  22. 197

    The Magnificent Montague #9: South Pacific

    Montague auditions for the Planter role in South Pacific but then encounters his father, Cyril, in town.

  23. 196

    Mutual Radio Theater - The Food of Love

    Stephanie Goulden gets a little more than she anticipated when she signs up for a cooking class.

  24. 195

    The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy - The Dance

    Dr. Tweedy is in charge of the dance at his school.  Sugar Kane of The Gum Drops is the bandleader but there are some complications in store.

  25. 194

    Sam Spade - The Main Event Caper

    Sam is involved with a boxer, Kid Bolan,  and his brotther-trainer, Lonie as The Kid goes up for the Main Event.

  26. 193

    Sam Spade - The Bay Psalm Caper

    Sam is asked to locate Roy Rowland.  Surprise - It turns into a trail of murder regarding a rare book.

  27. 192

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective - The Gibson Murder Case

    Rick is called to a schoolteacher's apartment to do something about the body in her Hepplewhite chair.

  28. 191

    Nero Wolfe - The Case of the Calculated Risk

    Three partners dissolve their partnership with murder.   One of the remaining partners returns to New York to Avenge and stops by Nero Wolfe's on the way for a little insurance.

  29. 190

    The Mysterious Traveler - Death Plays the Tune

    John's girlfriend has turned into a blackmailer and p;d Schultz has constructed a music box with a deadly punch.

  30. 189

    Forbidden Planet

    United Planets cruiser is on a special mission to the gourth planet of the great main sequence star to check on a lost space rocket.  They find Mobius and his daughter Alta the only survivors, amidst the ancient Krell  civilization reliques.

  31. 188

    Hallmark Playhouse - Harrington's Ghost

    Arnold Harrington's publisher takes matters into his own hands err pen when he wants to correspond with one of Harrington's fans.

  32. 187

    Leave It to Joan - Wedding Proposal

    Joan's father's proposal to Suzanne Fletcher gets accidentally mailed.  Suzanne is clearly a gold digger and everyone works at getting this annulled before the wedding.

  33. 186

    An Elaborate Garnish

    This show is an extreme spoof of a certain form of British comedy.  It's campy, it's creepy and if done right it's hilarious.

  34. 185

    Candy Matson - Jack Frost

    Candy gets Rembrandt to substitute for Santa's helper, Jack Frost, as she searches for the murderer of the real one.

  35. 184

    Blondie - Scrooge

    Dagwood imagines Dithers as Scrooge.

  36. 183

    Incident at Scarlyn

    Two chapters from Joy Jackson's Book of Tir.  Bayadire Donaire takes a troupe of actors on a caravan to Clan Scarlyn.  Lasrty gets involved in a duel with the clan heir.

  37. 182

    Broadway Is My Beat - Helen Shelby

    A young girl is found dead just before changing living quarters.  Danny Glover gets to the story behind the killing.

  38. 181

    Babylon Revisited - Porraits in Literature

    F. Scott Fitsgerald's story of an American ex-pat returning to his old haunts in Paris to retrieve his daughter.

  39. 180

    Sam Spade - The Gold Rush Caper

    Sam is called back by Elihu Person about disappearing  gold bricks from his mine.

  40. 179

    Rawhide Jones

    Marshal Jones and his roly-poly deputy encounter a woman Sheriff while tracking two killers in the early west.

  41. 178

    Philip Marlowe - A Long Way Home

    Ennis Harper hires Marlowe to find his wife.  She went off to the laundromat and didn't come back.

  42. 177

    Magnificent Montague - Shakespeare Under the Stars

    Montague is asked to perform at an event in Brooklyn at the Civic Club but Shakespeare has never been done that way before.

  43. 176

    Lux Radio Theater - Mother Is a Freshman

    Abigail Fortitude finds herself in financial trouble and takes advantage of her grandmother's endowment to attend college but she didn't count on falling in love with her daughter's professor.

  44. 175

    The Cat's Meow

    American Radio Theater presents and original play written by Kay Lutz. Ned Nifkins desperately wants to be able to talk to his cat, so he tries the spell of transformation.  But he finds there are a lot of disadvantages to becoming a cat.

  45. 174

    Luke Slaughter - Heritage

    Luke, while helping the sheriff bring in four Indians  watches a friend of his gun down a man. How can he save his friend from the gallows?

  46. 173

    Magnificent Montague - Baby In the House

    Mrs. Zinzer is having her tenth child and Lily has plans to have it come home to the Montague house.

  47. 172

    My Favorite Husband - Knitting Baby Booties

    Liz is knitting baby booties for a friend but Cory and husband, George, think she is expecting.

  48. 171

    Mysterious Traveler - Meet Me at the Morgue

    Harry Wilson works hard at appeasing his demanding wife so he has no clue that she's planning mischief when she sends him out for medicine on a wildly rainy night.

  49. 170

    Romance - I Am Not a Stranger

    Larry is captivated by a small town in North Carolina, which doesn't seem to be the typical southern town, and a girl.

  50. 169

    Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Matter of the Medium Well Done

    Johnny investigates a bequest that seems fishy, involving mediums and death.

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American Radio Theater's podcast of audio drama as it was done in the Golden Age of Radio. ART re-creates programs which do not exist in recorded form using the original scripts from that era. ART also produces new audio dramas using techniques developed and tested during that Golden Age.

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