American Radio Theater

The Magnificent Montague - Agnes Quits

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Story of Doctor Kildare

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Phantom Filly

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The Mysterious Traveler - The Man with the Stolen Face

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 seem...

Frontier Gentleman - The Last of Belle Siddons

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Frontier Gentleman - Belle Siddons Strikes Back

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Belle falls in love with another gambler.

Job Talk - The Sugar Mine

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Frontier Gentleman - Belle Siddons Encore

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Magnificent Montague - Measles

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Burning Carr Matter

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Magnificent Montague - Summer Cottage

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Dragnet - Episode One: Slocum

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Mysterious Traveler - The Cat Died Twice

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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.

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

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Magnificent Montague #9: South Pacific

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Mutual Radio Theater - The Food of Love

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy - The Dance

01 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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.

Sam Spade - The Main Event Caper

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Sam Spade - The Bay Psalm Caper

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Richard Diamond, Private Detective - The Gibson Murder Case

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Nero Wolfe - The Case of the Calculated Risk

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

The Mysterious Traveler - Death Plays the Tune

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Forbidden Planet

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Mobiu...

Hallmark Playhouse - Harrington's Ghost

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Leave It to Joan - Wedding Proposal

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

An Elaborate Garnish

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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.

Candy Matson - Jack Frost

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Blondie - Scrooge

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dagwood imagines Dithers as Scrooge.

Incident at Scarlyn

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 due...

Broadway Is My Beat - Helen Shelby

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Babylon Revisited - Porraits in Literature

01 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Sam Spade - The Gold Rush Caper

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Rawhide Jones

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Philip Marlowe - A Long Way Home

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Magnificent Montague - Shakespeare Under the Stars

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Lux Radio Theater - Mother Is a Freshman

01 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Cat's Meow

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 sp...

Luke Slaughter - Heritage

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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?

Magnificent Montague - Baby In the House

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

My Favorite Husband - Knitting Baby Booties

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Mysterious Traveler - Meet Me at the Morgue

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Romance - I Am Not a Stranger

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

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

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Sam Spade - Sam and the Scythian Tiara

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sam finds lots of trouble trying to return a curio called the Scythian Tiara.  Is no one as they seem?

Blondie - Dinner With the the Dithers

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dagwood surprises Blondie by bringing his boss home for dinner.

The Adventures of Michael Shayne - The Case of the Bayou Monster

01 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Forsythes have been haunted by a monster and Shayne is instructed to find out the true story.

Blondie - Eggs

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dagwood fires a gun in a department store.  Havoc ensues.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Great Bannock Race Matter

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Johnny is sent to Scotland to find a missing husband.

December Bride - Car Thief

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lily and Hilda need to get to their convention and keep having problems with the car.

Destination Destiny - Captain Anne

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A look at the life of Anne Bonney, lady pirate.

Gunsmoke - Ball Nine, Take Your Base

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Early baseball in Dodge City with Doc as the umpire.

Silver Theater - Murder Unlimited

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dorothy Scott wants to scoop a murder but things get complicated.

First Nighter - A Date with Baby

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Melvin has been roped into babysitting on a Saturday night.  But what a baby!

Quiet Please - Be a Good Dog, Darling

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A salesman discovers a spell to change his wife into a dog.

Lady Esther - Christmas in July

01 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A boy submits a slogan to a quiz show contest and wins but the results aren't what he expected.

Charter Flight - Destination: North Pole

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last minute passengers to the Arctic North by Tony and Dietz.

Mysterious Traveler - Design for Death

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mrs. Drake is dying and has invited her grandchildren to stay with her during her last month.  They think they will inherit everything but she has ot...

Academy Award Theater - My Sister Eileen

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The life of two sisters who move to New York.

Electric Theater - No Room for Peter Pan

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Denny will never grow big enough to work as a miner so his mother allows him to go with the circus.  When he returns for a visit, she isn't happy wit...

The Fat Man - Murder Makes Headlines

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Starlet Sally in the Alley is pursued by a gunman.

The Count of Monte Cristo - The Pearl of Fu Chow

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Count has lost 48 hours and he must find out why.

Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens - Hanging at Willow Rock

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hashknife and Sleepy arrive into town to find out that they are being hung at Willow Rock.  Who is using their names and why are they being hung?

FBI In Peace and War - Madame Olga

01 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A fortune teller is running a scam.

Columbia Workshop - Florrie and the Country Green

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A mother and her young daughter stay at the home of a newly widowed housekeeper.  The girl plays a harmonica and waits for an answer from her missing...

Nero Wolfe - Stamped for Murder

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gloria's father purchased a map and letters but was swindled. Now he has been murdered and the map and letters are missing. Recorded on Zoom.

Gunsmoke - Dodge City Killer

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matt's friend brings his Indian bride to Dodge.  A man beats her foully and is later found dead.  Everyone assumes she did it.  Matt has to find he...

Mutual Radio Theater - Oh, Really? No, O'Reilly

01 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When a boom town goes bust some local merchants hatch a scheme to preserve their prosperity.

Gulf Screen Theater - The Shop Around the Corner

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Martin doesn't get along with Klara until he discovers that she is really his pen pal.

My Friend Irma - Thanksgiving

01 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Irma buys a turkey for Thanksgiving.

Frontier Gentleman - Beljoy's Prisoner

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kimble has to teach Beljoy's daughter while serving as a "trusty" on a trumped up robbery charge.

Sam Spade - The Simile Caper

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sam is cracking down on similes.  Starring Ivan Cury.

The Magnificent Montague - Movie Offer

01 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Montague is offered the role of Macbeth in the new movie being shot in Hollywood.  But will the second act be done underwater?

Tales of Tomorrow - The Other Now

01 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A horrible car accident has killed Jimmy's wife, Jane but perhaps there is a way for them to get together.

Mayor of the Town - Au Revoir But Not Goodbye

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Mayor and all the family packs up for the summer vacation, but what to do with the animals?

Richard Diamond - The Barrio Case

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Richard is tasked with delivering a letter to Julio in the Barrio but everywhere he goes people turn up dead.

The Magnificent Montague - Aunt Agatha

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There's a rival in town against Edwin's Uncle Goodheart.

Sunset Squadron

01 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Based on true events from March, 1945.   A P-51 pilot is shot down and rescued by a U.S. submarine, which proceeded to rescue 28 additional personne...

Sam Spade - The Caper with Eight Diamonds

01 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Eight diamonds are missing from Professor Rivers' lab and Sam is on the case  but the missing diamonds are only the beginning of the story.

The Hand

01 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This month we feature a production by our friends at Wayback Radio Theater.   Adapted from an un-produced Suspense script, a young woman embarks on a...

Romance - Richer by One Christmas

01 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is your best Christmas memory?  How did it affect your Christmas spirit? 

Amy's Gift

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

American Radio Theater presents and original play written by Kay Lutz. Coming back from death, Amy develops a unique gift.

Emma's Angel

01 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

American Radio Theater presents and original play written by Kay Lutz. Who says cats can't be angels?

The Librarian - Ep. 2 - Bookworms

01 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Librarianship in another dimension, handling overdue books of magic.

The Librarian - Ep. 1 - Overdue

01 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Librarianship in another dimension.  Handling overdue books of magic.  Written by Jay Fuller.

Hashknife Hartley & Sleepy Stevens - Bloody Beginnings

01 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How these two range detectives got together and became a team.  Written by Joy Jackson.

Folklife Live!

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is the ART live performance of The Magnificent Montague, To Shave or Not to Shave, presented at the 2019 Northwest Folklife Festival.

Job Talk - Cough Off

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Notes from the author: This episode of "Job Talk" was my submission to the 2018 radio play writing contest sponsored by Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sou...

The Last Guest at the Hotel Darjeeling

01 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's a game of hide and seek.  Where does someone hide when he physically cannot move?  Written by Stephen Poole.

Richard Diamond - The Dead Heiress

01 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Richard gets involved with an heiress who ends up dead before he can guard her.

The Magnificent Montague - To Shave or Not to Shave

01 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Edwin must shave off his beard if he wants to be cast as Romeo.

Murder On the Wire

01 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gary Maxwell, detective and Miss Riley, reporter, trying to get along on a case.

Quiet Please - A Ribbon of Lincoln Green

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A World War II descendant of Robin Hood meets up with Robin's band at the battle of Dunkirk.

The Mysterious Traveler - 13 Steps to Death

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Repercussions of two marriages on the rocks.

Absinthe Makes the Heart Go Ponder

01 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Original story about a time-traveling bartender written by American Radio Theater member, Maizie.

Mr. District Attorney - The Case of the Misguided Mothers

01 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Investigation of a political group of mothers and the resultant murder of a volunteer.

Hot Copy - Death to Play and Mate

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Reporter Anne Rogers joins Sgt. Flannigan to solve the case of Dr. King, dead at his chess game.

Crime Club - The Topaz Flower

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The head of the family is murdered and the jewels stolen with a houseful of suspects.

The Clinic - Diagnosed With Kidney Disease

01 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Libbys have a last blowout on vacation before the operation.

Lights Out - The Cave

01 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Two college girls play a trick on the tour guide at Carlsbad Caverns but the joke is on them.

CBS Radio Workshop - A Pride of Carrots

01 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Science fiction Cold War satire about carrots and onions.