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WBW Theater
by Dennis Moore
Recreations and original audio dramas coming from and inspired by old time radio, Way Back When imagination ran wild.
Episodes
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290. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Martin & Lewis Show - Bob Hope (Audition)
The National Broadcasting Company brings you transcribed from New York The Martin and Lewis Show with special guest Bob Hope, featuring Flo McMichael, Mike Roy, The Martingales, Dick Stabile and his orchestra and Starring Dean Martin with his wonderful singing voice and Jerry Lewis with his not…
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289. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Breakfast With Dick and Dorothy - Leo Durocher and Lorraine Day
It’s 8.15 am and Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Richard Kollmar bring you breakfast as usual from their New York apartment on 66th Street. Today they are very happy to have at their breakfast table two friends who are also neighbors, Leo Durocher and his wife Mrs Durocher otherwise known as...
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288. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Breakfast With Dick and Dorothy - Florence Pritchett
It’s 8.15 am and Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Richard Kollmar bring you breakfast as usual from their New York apartment on 66th Street. Today they are very happy to have at their breakfast table Florence Pritchett. Cast: Dorothy Kilgallen, Richard Kollmar, Florence Pritchett Broadcast…
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287. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - The Blue Beetle - Drug Ring
"Reaping down upon the underworld to smash ganglands comes a friend of the unfortunate an enemy of criminals, the mysterious all powerful character who is a problem to the police. A crusader for law, in reality Dan Garrett a rookie patrolman loved by everyone but suspected by none of being the…
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286. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Big Jon and Sparkie - Over The Falls In An Airplane
“Hey kids its time for the party with Big Jon and Sparkie”. They were escaping from the dread Mon Gumsy pygmy tribe in Africa in Captain Squinty’s airplane. Captain Squinty Coco Joecal and the rest of the native boys had gone back to camp in their jeep and they were going to fly away from danger...
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285. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Dimension X - Mars is Heaven
When the first space rocket lands on Mars, what will we find? Will we be welcomed with open arms or will the Martians treat us as invaders? Only one thing is certain someday a giant metal ship will take off from earth and travel through the black velocities of the silent states to descend at last...
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284. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Words at War - War Criminals and Punishment
A program based upon George Creel's book War Criminals and Punishment. It poses the question, "What are we going to do with Hitler when we have ended the war that he started?" The show is brought to you in the form of an open letter to Hitler, written by a man who has read Creel's book and wants…
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283. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - You Are the Jury - Episode 1 The People vs Professor Carver Simms
The famous criminologist Roy Post devised this series. Here is your chance to actually take part in the jury trial without leaving your own living room, the chance to find out what kind of juror you’d make. Be warned, it states that the verdict will not be heard while the next episode but in fact...
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282. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Ripley's Believe It Or Not - Beautiful People
For over twenty years, in over 180 different countries, Robert Ripley has collected facts in their strangest, most remarkable form. So let's see what he has in store for you tonight, when he can show you how amazing he truth can be. But first, the show opens with a medley of tunes, from Ozzie...
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281. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Ripley's Believe It Or Not - Aviation Oddities
Today's show is all about aviation oddities, thrills from high in the air, and some of the strangest and more daring aeronautical feats ever recorded. Cast: Robert Ripley Broadcast: December 1, 1935
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280. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Ripley's Believe It Or Not - (061) Witchcraft
Today's show bring you lots more interesting facts from Robert Ripley, beginning with a quiz. Here's the first question. Which weighs more? A pound of gold, or a pound feathers? But before you get the answer, first the discussion of the day is one of the most frightening phobias ever to delude...
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279. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Tales of Tomorrow - Morrow on Mars
It's the year 4000, and the colonization of the planet Mars is a fact. The folks up there aren't much different to those on Earth - except maybe a little wiser. Today's tale is the story of Matt Morrow, editor of the successful telepaper The Morrow News, and of what happened after a strange…
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278. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - The Mysterious Traveler - The Man Who Tried to Save Lincoln
Maurice Tarplin starred as the Mysterious Traveler in this supernatural drama series. The stories began; “This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the strange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a...
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277. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - The Adventures of Ellery Queen - Number 31
Ellery Queen begins by dedicating this program to the fight against crime. Not merely crimes of violence and crimes of dishonesty but crimes of intolerance, discrimination, and bad citizenship, crimes against America. He then tells us the story of a mysterious international figure suspected of...
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276. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - The Avenger - Mystery of the Giant Brain
Professor O’Donnell is a great scientist who has become cruel and inhuman and it is for that reason that his assistant Miss St Clair has decided to leave him. The Professor has created Mechanical robots, which go out and capture animals from the zoo so that the professor can use their brains to...
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275. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Nightmare - Hollow Footsteps
Jeff Martin had been engaged to Gloria Bennett 15 years ago before he murdered her and now he believed her ghost was back to haunt him and his wife Helen. Cast: Peter Lorre Broadcast: 3rd February 1954
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274. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Nightmare - The Leech
Did you ever have a dream in which you were running and running, running away from some grotesque horrible thing that was after you to kill you? And you scream and you keep running it runs too and no matter how you run, how fast you run it’s still after you. This thing, this thing runs fast and…
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273. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - World War I Songs - America, I Love You
A mid fields of clover, 'T was just a little over a hundred years ago, A handful of strangers, they faced many dangers to make their country grow, It's now quite a nation of wond'rous population, And free from every king, It's your land, it's my land, A great do or die land, And that's why I…
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272. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Avalon Time - Fun at the Circus
Avalon Time with Red Foley, Janette Davis, Edna Stillwell, The Avalon Chorus, Bob Strong and his Orchestra and radio’s redheaded ragamuffin Richard “Red” Skelton. It’s Edna’s birthday and today she is having a party to celebrate. Red Skelton opens the show with his topical stand-up comedy…
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271. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Avalon Time - Sleeping Sickness
Avalon Time with Red Foley, Janette Davis, Edna Stillwell, The Avalon Chorus, Bob Strong and his Orchestra and radio’s redheaded ragamuffin Richard “Red” Skelton. It’s Edna’s birthday and today she is having a party to celebrate. Red Skelton opens the show with his topical stand-up comedy…
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270. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - The Avenger - High Tide Murder
Jim Brandon – the Avenger – receives three messages in the last two weeks all on the same wave thought length with sounds of lapping water and wind and the shouting out of a mans name, Scrawny. It all becomes clear when he receives a call from inspector white about the body of a man been washed...
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269. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Boxing Broadcasts - Baer vs. Louis
Edwin C. Hill noted newscaster and globetrotter and Clem McCarthy NBC and Pathe News sports announcer commentate the blow-by-blow account of the 1935 fight between Max Baer and Joe Louis from the Yankee Stadium in New York. Broadcast: 24th September 1935
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268. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Address Unknown - The Search for Gwen Moxon
This story is a dramatization of a real case of a missing person taken from the Missing Persons Bureau files in London but for obvious reasons names and addresses have been changed. One of the strangest cases the missing persons bureau ever handled began one afternoon in March '57. Mr Clifford...
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267. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - 5 Minute Mystery - Thomas Murders Partner
These five-minute mystery programs were used on stations as fillers. They are full dramatizations complete with sound effects and music. At the end of the program you are invited to identify the culprit and what led you to your conclusion. Then after the musical interlude, where station...
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266. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Adventures of Babe Ruth - Kidnapped
It's the last game of the season and all the Yankees are on the field except one - the greatest Yankee player ever. Nobody knows where Babe is. It's a mystery. The whole game goes by without Babe showing up and just as it finishes he walks in looking disheveled and with blood on his knuckles. The...
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265. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - 20th Century Fox Presents - Song of the Islands
20th Century Fox is on the air with a preview of its most exciting new musical Song of the Islands. Betty Grable sings the title tune among other songs in the film. Jack Oakie sings Home on the Ranch. Other hilarious high spots of the film are featured. Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack...
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264. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Adventure Ahead - Hill Lawyer
What began as a title searching trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains, ended up with new qualified lawyer, Jim Martin, being caught in a desperate struggle to end the violence and terrorism of Red Clute and his gang who are out to steal mining rights from land owners. Cast: Jack Manning, Juano...
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263. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Adventure Ahead - One of the 28th
This week's tale is of piracy and courage in the days of Napoleon, based on one of the classic books by G A Henty, master storyteller of another generation. The year is 1812 and the clouds of war hang heavily over England. The armies of Napoleon threaten all of Europe, and everywhere there is...
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262. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - House Of Mystery - Gift From The Dead
It began in a hotel in San Francisco where Roger Elliott had taken a room to wait for Paul Sheldon an old friend of his who was flying in from Kansas City to join him. Some weeks ago he and Paul had been invited by Paul’s sister Jane to spend a few days at her home in the beautiful but rugged big...
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261. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - The Creaking Door - The Informer
White Oaks is a gloomy estate, somewhere along the jagged coast line, which has long passed its heyday. On the floor in the corner of the library, staring blindly at the ceiling is an old man, whose cheek and neck are riddled with bullets. Across the room there is a young man, who is mortally...
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260. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - The Railroad Hour - Starlight
The Railroad Hour present Lawrence and Lee's delightful musical play Starlight. It is a memory of the good old days of Vaudeville with Dorothy Warenskjold playing the role of Helen Harris and Gordon MacRae as singer Harry McKaye. songs include Picnic at the Palace and Starlight. Starring: Gordon...
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259. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Philco Radio Time - Road To Hollywood
Many people have asked when Bing and Bob met, many people have asked where they met and many have asked why they met! Listen here to a hilarious vignette of how they met on the way to Hollywood meeting the beautiful Dorothy Lamour along the way. Includes songs, My Heart Goes Crazy, The Tumbling...
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258. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Grand Ole Opry - Ernest Tubb and Grandpa Jones
From Nashville Tennessee the country music capital of the world is the Grand Ole Opry with the star of this weeks show, the Texas Troubadour Ernest Tubb. Broadcast Date: June 5, 1959
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257. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - The Dinah Shore Show - Somebody Loves Me
Enjoy the beautiful singing of Dinah Shore with music by Paul Lavelle and his Orchestra. Dinah opens the show by singing Somebody Loves Me followed by Miss You. Starring: Dinah Shore, Harry Von Zell Broadcast Date: November 23, 1941
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256. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Al Jolson Show - Guest Jimmy Durante
Be prepared for lots of musical fun and entertainment in The Music Hall starring Al Jolson with Oscar Levant, Lou Bring and his orchestra and chorus and guest Jimmy Durante. Starring: Al Jolson, Jimmy Durante Broadcast Date: April 21, 1949
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255. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Police Headquarters - Red Dugan Murder
These early shows of the police weren't fact based, but just good old crime drama. As was usual then, music filled the first and last parts of the show, so that the local station announcer could do a commercial or two. In Episode 1, mobster Red Dugan is found sitting in his office, dead, stabbed…
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254. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Murder By Experts - Dark Island
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Murder By Experts with your host and narrator Mr John Dickson Carr, world famous mystery novelist and author of the best seller “The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle”. Look now at the small tree covered island lying in darkness several miles off the rocky…
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253. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Gangbusters - Basket Weaving Burglar
Tonight's case it's a very exciting one, about an unusually vicious criminal. The date is August 21st 1938, and at 7:15 that morning, in an outlying section in the Kentucky hills, we find Mrs Godfrey struggling with her dog, who has been poisoned. Whilst Mr and Mrs Godfrey were sleeping the...
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252. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Calling All Detectives - Ghost in the Apartment Building
Every now and then, a private detective like Jerry Browning, gets a case that gives him a new lease on life. The man who entered his office this week was a man who dealt in leases, and at a time when apartments were scarcer than hen's teeth, one place had had nine tenants in three months, and the...
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251. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Big Story - To Avenge A Murder
Paul Rogers, a 29 year old service station attendant was found to be missing from his post at 4:30am, along with approximately $50 missing from the cash register. In Helena, Montana, from the pages of the Independent Record, we bring you the story of Alan Cowperthwaite, a reporter who gambled his...
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250. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Touchdown Tips - Top Ten In Football
A run down on the top ten teams in the nation as rated by the all American Gridiron index. Topping the list for the week 17th October 1953 Notre Dame. All American Elroy Crazy Legs Hirsch does a feature about, one of the great football teams to come out of the far west, the 1947 Stanford team....
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249. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - NFL Broadcasts - 1953 Rose Bowl USC vs Wisconsin Pt4o4
The 1953 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on New Year's Day in 1953, at the end of the 1952 college football season. It was the 39th Rose Bowl Game, but it was the first Rose Bowl game for Wisconsin, and the first Rose Bowl appearance for the Trojans since 1948. Played in…
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248. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - NFL Broadcasts - 1953 Rose Bowl USC vs Wisconsin Pt3o4
The 1953 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on New Year's Day in 1953, at the end of the 1952 college football season. It was the 39th Rose Bowl Game, but it was the first Rose Bowl game for Wisconsin, and the first Rose Bowl appearance for the Trojans since 1948. Played in…
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247. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - NFL Broadcasts - 1953 Rose Bowl USC vs Wisconsin Pt2o4
The 1953 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on New Year's Day in 1953, at the end of the 1952 college football season. It was the 39th Rose Bowl Game, but it was the first Rose Bowl game for Wisconsin, and the first Rose Bowl appearance for the Trojans since 1948. Played in…
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246. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - NFL Broadcasts - 1953 Rose Bowl USC vs Wisconsin Pt1o4
The 1953 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on New Year's Day in 1953, at the end of the 1952 college football season. It was the 39th Rose Bowl Game, but it was the first Rose Bowl game for Wisconsin, and the first Rose Bowl appearance for the Trojans since 1948. Played in…
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245. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Your Hit Parade - First Song - A Little Bird Told Me
Reflecting the ultimate pop culture of the day, thousands of fans listened in rapture for the exciting countdown to the Number One song, from a group of 15, was hyped. Today's show opens with the number 4 hit, A Little Bird Told Me, performed by Frank Sinatra and the Hit Paraders. Starring: Frank...
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244. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Moon River - Program 19
Tonight’s poems were A Lover’s Sonnet by Dupont, Goodnight by Percy Bysshe Shelly and Flow Gently Sweet Afton by Bobby Burns.
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243. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - GI Jive - Bing Crosby Rollio Rolling Along
G.I. Jive is an American Air Force Radio Service AFRS) program, which was produced during the Second World War to boost the morale of the US Army overseas. GI Jill who introduced big band and other popular music of the era often requested by the soldiers hosted it. Starring: Bing Crosby
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242. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Disney Preview - Song Of The South
Preview of Walt Disney's 1946 animated film Song of the South with heart warming stories based on the tales of uncle Remus with Walt Disney's animated star Br'er Rabbit. Songs include Sooner or Later and Zipa-dee Doo Dah. Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Ruth Warrick, James Baskett, Walt Disney…
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241. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Arthur Godfrey - Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts - Winner Johnny Daggan
Lipton Tea and Lipton Soup present Arthur Godfrey and his Talent Scouts. Over the next 30 minutes Arthur Godfrey showcases 4 new young talents and the audience are asked to vote for the best act by their applause. The winner’s were then invited on to the Arthur Godfrey Time show for the following...
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Recreations and original audio dramas coming from and inspired by old time radio, Way Back When imagination ran wild.
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Dennis Moore
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Recreations and original audio dramas coming from and inspired by old time radio, Way Back When imagination ran wild.
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