Those Old Radio Shows

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Welcome to Those Old Radio Shows. Travel back in time and listen to great radio mysteries, dramas and comedies from yesteryear like Gunsmoke, Amos & Andy and Dimension X.

  • 19 minutes 5 seconds
    The Secrets of Scotland Yard - Great Gold Robbery

    The Secrets of Scotland Yard - Great Gold Robbery

    Late 1940s

    Narrator - Clive Brook

    The Secrets of Scotland Yard was a successful crime drama series.

    Percy Hoskins, a 1950s crime expert and reporter for the London Daily Express. He knew every nook and cranny in Londonā€™s seedier districts and personally reported on many of the major crimes of the day.

    26 April 2024, 4:20 pm
  • 29 minutes 30 seconds
    Wanted - Jailbreak - Henry Clay Tolett

    Wanted - Jailbreak - Henry Clay Tolett

    1950

    Announcers - Fred Collins & Don Pardo

    Walter McGraw

    Wanted for Jailbreak

    25 April 2024, 4:58 pm
  • 29 minutes 11 seconds
    The Adventures of Frank Merriwell - The Unreasonable Aunt

    The Adventures of Frank Merriwell - The Unreasonable Aunt

    1948

    Lawson Zerbe, Elaine Rost and Hal StuderĀ 

    Frank saves a woman from being cheated out of her soap factory.

    24 April 2024, 3:23 pm
  • 24 minutes 44 seconds
    Danger With Grainger - The Arnie Lessick Story

    Danger With Grainger - The Arnie Lessick Story

    Ray Barrett

    1940s

    "I've been framed",Ā Arnie Lessick was convicted of one of his crimes,

    a conviction which led to murder...

    23 April 2024, 7:44 pm
  • 1 hour 45 seconds
    Lux Radio Theatre - The Day the Earth Stood Still

    Lux Radio Theatre - The day The Earth Stood Still

    1954

    Announcer-Ken Carpenter, Art Linkletter

    Producer-Irving Cummings, Narrator-Paul Frees

    Michael Rennie, Jean Peters, Lamont Johnston, Herb Butterfield,

    Tudor Owen, Billy Gray, Edith Evanson...Ā Ā Ā 

    An alien from space gives mankind a final chance to achieve world peace.

    22 April 2024, 4:55 pm
  • 29 minutes 14 seconds
    Information Please - Sigmund Spaeth & Basil Rathbone

    Information Please - Sigmund Spaeth & Basil Rathbone

    1938

    Announcer-Milton Cross, w-Franklin P. Adams

    Clifton Fadiman as moderator & Other regulars included Science writer Bernard Jaffe, professor of philosophy Dr Harry Overstreet, Marcus Duffield of the New York Herald-Tribune and later John Kieran a sport's columnist for the New York Times and Oscar Levant a pianist and composer.

    19 April 2024, 5:20 pm
  • 25 minutes 56 seconds
    The Adventures of Sam Spade - The Cheesecake Caper

    The Adventures Of Sam Spade - The Cheesecake Caper

    Based on the stories of: Dashiell Hammett

    1949

    Announcer-Dick Joy

    Howard Duff & Lurene TuttleĀ 

    Sam finds $50 and a photo of a blonde in his sandwich.

    The three words on the photo say, "Find the girl!"

    18 April 2024, 6:21 pm
  • 26 minutes 19 seconds
    Crime Does Not Pay - Operation Payroll

    Crime Does Not Pay - Operation Payroll

    1951

    Donald Buka, w-Harold Vermiliar

    Follow my lead & we'll come clean as a whistle,

    500 Gs to split between us!...

    17 April 2024, 5:34 pm
  • 24 minutes 5 seconds
    Mystery Playhouse/Philo Vance - The Girl Who Came Back

    Mystery Playhouse/Philo Vance - The Girl Who Came back

    Narrator-T4Y, w-Jose Ferrer and Francis Robinson

    1945

    A belief of a girl's death due to a drowning, the body never revcovered.

    She then appears at a rich man's home as his daughter. The man claim's he's never seen her before, is she after his money, Philo Vance gets involved.

    16 April 2024, 5:05 pm
  • 45 minutes 15 seconds
    CBS Radio Mystery Theatre - The Return of the Moresbys

    The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre - The Return of the Moresbys

    1974

    Announcer-E.G. Marshall, w-Patrick O'Neal,

    Daniel Ocko, Nick Pryor & Marian Seldes

    Ā Is there a life after death? Can we come back in the body of a living creature.

    15 April 2024, 2:57 pm
  • 30 minutes 11 seconds
    House Of Mystery - A Gift from the Dead

    House Of Mystery - A Gift from the Dead

    1947

    Stars-John Griggs as Roger ElliotĀ 

    The story of a sleepy ghost named Wilbur. Roger Elliot & Friend Paul Sheldon were invited by Paulā€™s sister to her home, then saddened of her husband's death, with cancelling the invitation Janeā€™s husband had returned from the deadā€¦

    12 April 2024, 4:57 pm
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