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Old Time Radio Listener
by Sara Welch
You don't need to sit around the radio any longer to listen to radio programs. Now a days you can put in ear plugs and listen via your cell phones, or iPods. I just want to share some of my favorite OTR programs that I personally enjoy listening too. You will find comedy, drama, new casts and a host of other programs that our grandparents listened too.----Check out the tumblr page. Here you will find longer details of my ideas of programing blocks that I'm going to plan on doing. You will also be able to send me messages. ----
Episodes
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Globe Theater - You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
What does “have your cake and eat it too” mean? Having your cake refers to keeping it with you. This means you want to preserve the cake for the future. But you also want to eat it. This is contradictory. The moment you eat your cake, you can’t have it because it is finished. Conversely, if you...
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Nick Carter Master Detective - The Case of the Careless Employees
With Lon Clark in the title role, the series commenced 11 April 1943, on Mutual, continuing in many different timeslots for well over a decade. Between October 1944 and April 1945, it was heard as a 30-minute program on Sunday afternoons at 3 pm, sponsored by Acme Paints and Lin-X, with a…
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Kate Smith - Invasion Day
Kathryn Elizabeth Smith (May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986) was an American contralto. Referred to as The First Lady of Radio, Smith is well known for her renditions of "God Bless America" and "When the Moon Comes over the Mountain". She became known as The Songbird of the South because of her…
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Lord Peter Wimsey - Strong Poison
The novel opens with mystery author Harriet Vane on trial for the murder of her former lover, Phillip Boyes: a writer with strong views on atheism, anarchy, and free love. Publicly professing to disapprove of marriage, he had persuaded a reluctant Harriet to live with him, only to renounce his...
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Let George Do It - The Bookworm Turns
George Valentine’s case started with a book of poems by Robert Burns a valuable early edition from Four Dials Press in Edinburgh a book that someone broke into Mr Humber’s shop just to read, a book that an agent wanted to buy for a collector named Emery Whitsill. And who is Emery Whitsill? Well...
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Lux Radio Theater - Alexander’s Ragtime Band
San Francisco, the Barbary Coast, 1913 and the man with the belligerent voice is a beefy gentleman known as “Dirty Eddie” proprietor of Dirty Eddies Cafe, pride of the coast. The gentlemen reclining on the sidewalk committed an unforgivable sin; he sang a sour note while entertaining Eddies…
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The Chase - Stephan, Monica And One Million Dollars
A million dollars in cash provides the bait for two enterprising thieves who find themselves bankrupt before they have finished the chase. Duration: 29:43 Starring: Leon Janney, Kathleen Cordell Broadcast Date: 29th June 1952
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Let George Do It - The Brookdale Orphanage
George is sitting in his office when he hears a commotion outside. Jimmy Jones, an actor in western pictures, is outside signing autographs. Jimmy Jones enters the office. He has a confidential matter he needs George’s help with. Jimmy goes on to say, the kids like me, maybe because I like them…
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Crime Club - Death At 7:10
Death At 7:10 by H.F.S. Moore is the very intriguing story of a beautiful woman who was in love with death. . . Duration: 28:58 Starring: Raymond Edward Johnson, Helen Shields Broadcast Date: 3rd July 1947
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The Adventures of the Nelson Family
Come and join Ozzie and Harriet Nelson as they raise their two sons; David and Ricky .... and remember the simple days of child raising. - Jury Duty - The Baseball Manager - The Street Light - Oz Enters An Essay Contest - The New Dress Surprise - Sports Heroes - David's Date - Argument about…
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Johnny Madero: Pier 23 - Fatal Action
At about 3 o’clock Johnny Modero started down Post Street when he spotted the new auction House. It was small with enough dough changing hands to buy back Manhattan Island. Inside it was packed and a bald headed guy on a wooden stand was selling everything but his suspenders so Modero sat at the...
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The Chase - The Amusement Park
Cathy is being questioned about the death of poor old Billy. Earlier Billy had confided in Cathy that he was concerned about something he’d found and now he’s dead. Duration: 29:12 Starring: Bill Lipton Broadcast Date: 14th August 1952
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My Favorite Husband - Marriage License Error
When Liz Cooper discovers an error on her wedding license she begins to wonder whether she is legally married to her husband George H Cooper. On their wedding license the husband is named as George C Hooper! Duration: 22:57 Starring: Lucille Ball Broadcast Date: 21st January 1949
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The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective - The Biddle Riddle Caper
Killer At Large is a radio station whose sponsors pay $50,000 for the arrest and conviction of a killer at large. The twist is that they deal with real facts, real people and real crimes and real criminals. With a tape recorder they reconstruct one of San Francisco’s more sensational unsolved...
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Father Knows Best - The Elusive Card Game
Starring Robert Young. In every family there are special days like the day Junior had his hair cut, the day father reversed into the garage door, the day mother didn’t. And today was going to be one of those days in the Anderson family. It will be remembered as the day father received the…
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Good News of (1937 to 1940) - Alice Faye Stars In 100th Anniversary Episode
The makers of Maxwell House Coffee presents 60 star-studded minutes brought to you from Metro Goldwyn Meyer studios in Hollywood starring Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks with Hanley Stafford as Daddy Higgins, Connie Boswell and George Euston. As an added extra special treat this program which is the...
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Christmas on the blue network
Christmas on the Blue is a Christmas Variety show with two full hours with some of the biggest stars of radio. The show includes skits, music, and more and is an excellent radio show to listen to get into the holiday mood. The show opens with a very festive rendition of the favorite Christmas…
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The Game Is AFoot
Join Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they solve mysterious in turn of century England and aboard. The Bruce Partington Plans Murder by Proxy Paradol Chamber Case of the King Phillips Golden Salver Haunting of Sherlock Holmes The Waltz of Death Colonel Warburton Great Gandolf Strange Case of the...
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Father Knows Best - The Boy Next Door
As far back as history has recorded our activities, woman has been a rather puzzling creature, especially when she’s going through what is known as the teenage. A good case in point is Betty Anderson. But before we can reveal the capricious maneuvers of her feminine mind we must first look in on...
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The Shadow - The White God
The Navy has given up it’s search for the missing yacht owned by a millionaire scientist last reported in that region of the Pacific which has in recent months has come to be known as the graveyard of the Pacific due to more than 15 disappearances of ocean vessels in that area of the Pacific in…
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Suspense - A Murder of Necessity
A Murder Of Necessity is a story about a man Paul Drake who commits a murder efficiently and safely only to find out there is a witness the person Herbie Sachs was talking to on the telephone before he was murdered. Paul Drake has to find out who that person was and commit another murder of...
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Red Skelton - Rehearsal for January 27, 1942
Richard Red Skelton was an American entertainer best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971, especially as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show.
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Michael Shayne Private Detective - The Blood Strained Pearls
It had started like any other day, a widow named Mrs Coplis had hired Shayne to track down one of her boarders who had run away with her copper samovar and he feared the good widows heart, a guy had called to ask his rates for getting divorce evidence against his blond wife and then an old man...
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Lux Radio Theater - A Blueprint for Murder
Whitney "Cam" Cameron arrives at a hospital to be with his widowed sister-in-law Lynne, whose stepdaughter Polly has died under mysterious circumstances. A doctor cannot determine the cause of the child's death. Cam has great affection for his young nephew Doug. He begins to fear for the boy's…
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Father Coughlin - Popular Front Vs Christian Front
Following 1936 Father Coughlin retired from all active organizations and now he is encouraging the growth of the Christian Front. Not that it is his organization but that he seeks to its promoters a word of encouragement and a word of advice. In this address Father Coughlin is concerned with the...
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The Damon Runyon Theater - Blood Pressure
Starring John Brown as Broadway, the narrator of Damon Runyon’s dramatic stories of old Manhattan New York and the gangster life in the 1920’s and 1930’s. It is 11.30 on a Wednesday night and Broadway is standing at the corner of 48th and Broadway thinking about his blood pressure. This is a...
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Old Gold Comedy Theater - Room Service
Gordon Miller the shoestring producer has a headache and justifiably so, he’s about to be ejected from his hotel. The reason being that Wagner the managing director has made an unexpected visit to the hotel and is at the moment looking over the books. All that Gordon Miller has promoted is 22…
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Popeye - First Episode
Popeye was adapted to radio in several series broadcast over three different networks by two sponsors from 1935 to 1938. Popeye and most of the major supporting characters were first featured in a thrice-weekly 15-minute radio program, Popeye the Sailor, which starred Detmar Poppen as Popeye…
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Lux Radio Theater - City for Conquest
To the young and the valiant New York is a city for conquest and that is the name Warner Brothers gave to a fine motion picture drama, which Lux presents with Alice Faye and Robert Preston in the starring roles. City For Conquest is hard driving drama of a fight for success waged by one man and…
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Richard Diamond Private Detective - The Gray Man
A 6-foot well-dressed man in a dark grey overcoat turned up at Diamond’s office. But his face raised goose bumps, it was as grey as his overcoat even his tongue was grey as he spoke. The man offered him a $1000 to find a missing science teacher at the State College Mr. Carnes within 5 hours. He...
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Danny Kaye - The Great Donivitch Kayeoff
THE DANNY KAYE SHOW In December 1944 it was announced that Pabst Sales Co. was dropping The Kenny Baker Show in favor of a vehicle for rising star Danny Kaye. Pabst had tried to sign established comedian Fred Allen for the show at a whopping cost of $25,000 per episode but the effort fizzled when...
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CBS Radio Workshop - The Ex-Urbanites
A factual yet incredible report of those New Yorkers who try to mix work in the city with country living and who almost always invariably end up behind the eight ball. Author: A. C. Spectorsky Duration: 28:21 Starring: Eric Severied, John Larkin, Jan Miner Broadcast Date: 30th March 1956
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Luke Slaughter of Tombstone - The Henry Fell Story
Folks that write dictionaries must have a tough time with the word tolerance. I guess if you had to boil it down to just one other word it would have to be understanding. Some of them in Tombstone found that out when Luke Slaughter gave Chief Margono and a few of his Apache braves the loan of a...
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar - The Ghost to Ghost Matter
Ian MacAndrews was the man who founded Lake City. He died five years ago and his life policy had been paid out but now it seemed that he had come back or his ghost had come back. Duration: 24:57 Starring: Bob Bailey Broadcast Date: 18th May 1958
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Official Detective - Murder in Butcher Shop, Gay Sailor Suspected
Official Detective ran from 1950 to 1956 and was a classic old time radio police drama starring Craig McDonnell as Detective Lieutenant Dan Britt and Tommy Evans as Sergeant Al Bowen.... The show features a crime from the start to the end from a drunk accused of murder to bride that murders her...
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Old Gold Comedy Theater - Nothing But The Truth
Bright young comedian from Canada, Alan Young plays the part of Bob Bennett a young stockbroker working for E.M Ralston the big bad wolf of Wall Street. He is sitting in his office chatting to a client over the phone when a beautiful woman enters his office. It is Gwinn Ralston his boss’s…
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Black Musem - The Wool Jacket a.k.a. The Baby’s Jacket
In Scotland Yard’s museum of murder here lies death dressed in its Sunday best. And here we find a jacket somewhat inconspicuous in its place on the shelf sleeveless and unstitched, a tragic relic of passion and violence. Duration: 26:06 Starring: Ozzie Nelson Broadcast Date: 1952
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Suspense - The Customers Like Murder
Roland Young plays the part of an author of detective novels who invented his best part when his life was at stake. With Mr Young to play his long-suffering secretary is Miss Peggy Conklin. Written by John Dickson Carr. Duration: 28:53 Starring: Roland Young Broadcast Date: 23rd March 1943
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The Chase - Hardluck Ethel
thel seemed to have a jinx on the horses and was always loosing. She considered herself hardluck Ethel until one day she went to see a fortune teller who told her she will be lucky very soon that she will win five times. But beware a handsome man who will chase her and catch her because he wants…
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Robert Arden News Commentary
Robert Arden News Commentary ran from 1940 to 1942 and featured Robert Arden, who was a foreign correspondent. Arden made insightful comments about the current events of the time. Most of the episodes in this collection aired before the US became involved in WWII and offer a interesting and...
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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - Invitation To Dinner
Young David Nelson has hardly said a word all morning and his mother is worried about him. It seems that Grace Johnson has invited him to her party on Friday night and he has told her he would come but his team is playing basketball on Friday night so he has to tell her he can’t make it and…
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Sears Radio Theater - The Ransom
Original broadcast day Wednesday, July 25, 1979. A hard-working honest plumber and a small time hustler join forces for the perfect kidnapping. Only they discover they need their victims help to collect the ransom.
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Quiet Please - One for the Book
Muirock the bottom of a dried up lake is now the home of an air installation and all kinds of military airplanes where homed there. Max Westlake was a sergeant in 1937 who’s interested in science and skyrockets. Looking up one night he sees a parachute coming down with what looks like part of an...
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Jack Benny - First Professional Appearance
First Show Duration: 30:00 Starring: Jack Benny Broadcast Date: 02 May 1932 A regular in vaudeville comedy, Jack Benny made his first professional on air appearance in May 2, 1932 on the Canada Dry Program. A different Jack Benny than you know and love, hear Jack Benny as MC in this early 1932...
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Suspense - On a Country Road
Running out of gas on a foggy back road in Maine, a couple become frightened by news reports of a murderous woman who's escaped from an asylum. Searching for help, the two take refuge in an abandoned shack. When an hysterical woman appears at the window wanting refuge, they're convinced she's the...
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Boston Blackie - Joe Adams Drowned
A man is killed by drowning in a bathtub in a small upstate town. His killers take his body to the city where they dump it in the sea lion pool at the zoo. When the body is found it looks like suicide until laboratory tests prove what Boston Blackie suspected. Duration: 26:47 Starring: Dick...
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Fort Laramie - Talented Recruits
Granville Merryweather and Fennis Finny want to join the army claiming that they’re answering the call to the colors, but you could put it another way, they’re starving to death. But the kind of recruits that are coming to join the army these days are dregs, failures and fugitives. Duration…
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Mr District Attorney - The Deadly Snowflake
“In our experience in our war against crime, nothing in the popular conception of crime is so widespread, and so erroneous, as the idea that honor exists amongst thieves. In this case of the deadly snowflake, we see this so-called criminal code for what it is. . . Duration: 29:24 Starring: Dwight...
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Lux Radio Theater - Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Lux Radio Theater presents the comedy romance Mr Blandings Builds His Dream Home with Cary Grant playing the part of Jim Blandings, the same role he payed in the 1948 RKO motion picture of the same name and Irene Dunne as Muriel Blandings. Like millions of other New Yorkers Jim and Muriel…
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The Screen Directors' Playhouse - The Uninvited
Ray Milland stars as Rick Fitzgerald the same role he played in the 1944 film adaptation of Dorothy Macardle’s ghost story. Rick and his sister Pamela move to an old deserted seaside house and discover that it is haunted by the sound of a sobbing woman. When a neighbor Stella Meredith, calls upon...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
You don't need to sit around the radio any longer to listen to radio programs. Now a days you can put in ear plugs and listen via your cell phones, or iPods. I just want to share some of my favorite OTR programs that I personally enjoy listening too. You will find comedy, drama, new casts and a host of other programs that our grandparents listened too.----Check out the tumblr page. Here you will find longer details of my ideas of programing blocks that I'm going to plan on doing. You will also be able to send me messages. ----
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Sara Welch
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You don't need to sit around the radio any longer to listen to radio programs. Now a days you can put in ear plugs and listen via your cell phones, or iPods. I just want to share some of my favorite OTR programs that I personally enjoy listening too. You will find comedy, drama, new casts and a...
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