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SUSPENSE "Dateline Lisbon"

05 Oct 2021

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Episode 112 aired October 5, 1944 on CBS Radio and starred motion picture actor John Hodiak. A foreign correspondent becomes involved in a dangerous d...

STAN FREBERG SHOW "Werewolves"

05 Oct 2021

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By the thirteenth episode, it was clear that The Stan Freberg Show was suffering from a lack of advertiser interest (perhaps helped by Freberg's werew...

SIX SHOOTER "Quiet City"

05 Oct 2021

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Episode 22 aired February 14, 1954 on NBC Radio. Movie star James Stewart rode the radio range from September 20, 1953, through June 24, 1954, as Brit...

ROY ROGERS "Eight Convicts"

04 Oct 2021

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December 7, 1951. Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German shepherd Bullet w...

BARRIE CRAIG, Confidential Investigator

04 Oct 2021

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Episode "Paper Bullet" aired on NBC Radio December 5, 1951.  Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a detective drama heard on NBC Radio fro...

NIGHT BEAT " The Night Is A Weapon"

04 Oct 2021

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Episode 2 aired February 13, 1950 on NBC Radio. Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, a reporter for the Chicago Star who works the night beat.

VINTAGE RADIO "Little Orphan Archie"

04 Oct 2021

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The Little Orphan Archie/Late Night Lounge program ran for 54 episodes on 40+ terrestrial and Internet radio stations in 2005-2006. The music was jazz...

LONE RANGER "Railroad Survey"

03 Oct 2021

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Episode 1438 March 31, 1947. The first of 2,956 radio episodes of The Lone Ranger premiered on WXYZ, a radio station serving Detroit, Michigan, on Jan...

HOWARD MILLER "Jack Webb"

03 Oct 2021

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August 8, 1955 Miller chats with Jack Webb about movie Pete Kelly's Blues.

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Voice of the Dead"

03 Oct 2021

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February 26, 1950. Episode 09. California has inherited a share of a ranch. California doesn’t often get letters particularly since he withdrew his ...

HEAR IT NOW "Episode 10"

03 Oct 2021

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CBS Radio February 16, 1951. Hear It Now, an American radio weekly news program, began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edw...

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "The Gunsmith"

03 Oct 2021

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Episode 23 aired on CBS Radio April 23, 1959. Paladin goes to the defense of an old gunsmith who's been beaten by a young bully. Ben Wright (Photo) ap...

WFLA-AM Tampa (Bob Allan)

03 Oct 2021

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Air check from 1976 WFLA 970 AM Tampa St Petersburg Florida. Prior to this 'Allan' worked at WBAL in Baltimore as a DJ working with Perry Andrews, Jim...

PAUL HARVEY "Alexander Graham Bell"

02 Oct 2021

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FORT LARAMIE "Troupers Widow"

02 Oct 2021

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Episode 23 aired July 1, 1956 on CBS Radio. Mrs. Stocker, new bride of a trooper, learns the harsh realities of the frontier the hard way. Blade had b...

ESCAPE "Beau Geste"

02 Oct 2021

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Episode 43 aired on CBS Radio June 6, 1948. The mystery of the desert fort filled with dead Legionnaires. You are stealthily stalking into a silent de...

DRAGNET "Big Betty"

02 Oct 2021

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Episode 56 aired November 23, 1950 on NBC Radio.  A gang of con artists checks the obituary section of the daily newspaper, then uses the informa...

BOB AND RAY "Komodo Dragon"

02 Oct 2021

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Bob and Ray were an American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades. Composed of comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, the duo's format was ty...

MUSIC PROGRAM "Lawrence Welk"

02 Oct 2021

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Radio transcription National Guard Session with Martin Block and Lawrence Welk. 

AMAZING MR. MALONE "Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness"

01 Oct 2021

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A man is framed for murder by a fellow racketeer and Malone has to find the truth. This August 28, 1948 episode was broadcast on ABC radio and Stars F...

NIGHT BEAT "Zero"

01 Oct 2021

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First episode aired February 6, 1950 on NBC Radio. Starring Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, a reporter who covered the night beat for the Chicago Star, ...

FORT LARAMIE "Loving Cup"

01 Oct 2021

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Episode 22 aired on CBS Radio June 24, 1956. Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince has an unusual way to give Lieutenant Seiberts (Harry Bartel, photol) ...

ESCAPE "Match"

01 Oct 2021

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Escape episode 41 aired on CBS Radio May 16, 1948 starring Frank Lovejoy. A determined Mountie who is going to bring back his man, even if it kills hi...

DRAGNET "Big Pair"

30 Sep 2021

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September 21, 1950 Episode 67 A couple run a racket of selling all the furniture in the houses of families out of town, starting with a little girl an...

MUSIC PROGRAM " Harry James Orchestra "

30 Sep 2021

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Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band from...

BOB AND RAY "Most Beautiful Face"

30 Sep 2021

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"MOST BEAUTIFUL FACE" CONTEST WINNER: My neatly chiseled features stand out. Four leaf clover grower. On the Tonight Show NBC TV.

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Ring of Death Matter"

30 Sep 2021

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March 12, 1961, CBS Radio. A prize fighter from New Orleans is being set up for sure death, in a Mexican arena. The last time Johnny Dollar saw Tom Pi...

THE WHISTLER "Alibi"

30 Sep 2021

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October 25, 1942. A domineering old lady controls all those around her...several of whom have a good reason for doing her in. Poor Henry Farrington pa...

THE SAINT "Murder On The High Seas"

30 Sep 2021

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The Saint radio program, starring Vincent Price. All known existing shows are from 1944-1951. The show's third version, which began July 9, 1947, was ...

MUSIC PROGRAM "Charlie Barnet"

29 Sep 2021

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Down Beat was an Armed Forces Radio Service program. Episode 140 featured the Charlie Barnet Orchestra. Charles Daly Barnet (October 26, 1913 – Sept...

WHISTLER "House of Greed"

29 Sep 2021

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Episode 17 of the series was heard over CBS Radio on September 5, 1942. Bill Forman as The Whistler. A gullible man is taken advantage of his relative...

TEXAS RANGERS "Cactus Pear"

29 Sep 2021

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December 17, 1950 Episode 23. Based on events of March 28, 1947. A cowboy is killed with a shotgun. The clues are a shotgun shell and a cast of a hors...

SUSPENSE "Hitchhiker"

29 Sep 2021

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Episode 11 aired on CBS Radio September 2, 1942, with Orson Welles. A supernatural hitchhiker follows the main character on a trip across the country....

STAN FREBERG "Rocket Sled"

28 Sep 2021

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Episode 12, September 29, 1957.  Features a death defying journey in a rocket sled is in its final stages. Stan is the on site reporter to get th...

SIX SHOOTER "Apron Faced Sorrel"

28 Sep 2021

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Clay Fanton, a young boy from the east, comes west to learn ranch life. It appears that he's beaten one of the ranch horses. NBC Radio February 7, 195...

ROY ROGERS "Paradise Valley Sweepstakes"

28 Sep 2021

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Broadcast August 28, 1952. Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. The Roy Rogers Show started its life as a thirty-minute western music and variet...

NBC Recollections at 30 "Hindenburg, Sinatra Tommy Dorsey"

27 Sep 2021

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Episode 7 aired August 8, 1956 on NBC Radio. Excerpts of old NBC radio broadcasts by Julius and Frank, Phil Baker, Snow Village Sketches and Frank Sin...

SIX SHOOTER "Trail To Sunset"

27 Sep 2021

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Episode 20 aired January 31, 1954 on NBC Radio. James Stewart rode the radio range from September 20, 1953, through June 24, 1954, as Britt Ponset, th...

LONE RANGER "Train Wreck"

27 Sep 2021

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Episode 811, April 19, 1943. John Reid and Tonto barely survive a locomotive crash.

PAUL HARVEY "Albert Einstein"

27 Sep 2021

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VINTAGE RADIO's "Little Orphan Archie"

26 Sep 2021

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The Little Orphan Archie/Late Night Lounge program ran for 54 episodes on 40+ terrestrial and Internet radio stations in 2005-2006. The music was jazz...

HOPALONG WILLIAM BOYD OBIT

26 Sep 2021

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William Lawrence Boyd (June 5, 1895 – September 12, 1972).... HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 13 1972 (AP) —William Boyd, who rose to stardom as Hopalong Cassid...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Blackton Bend Bandit"

26 Sep 2021

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A feud between newspaper writer named Matt Hardesty and a neighbor, Knute Damlon, almost leads to a fistfight. Hoppy shoots a gunfighter and apparentl...

HEAR IT NOW "Train Wreck"

25 Sep 2021

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Episode 9, aired February 9, 1951. Edward R. Murrow hosts an hour long program with highlights of the weeks news from CBS Radio News.

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Birds of a Feather"

25 Sep 2021

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Episode 22 aired on CBS Radio April 19, 1959. Paladin is put in the middle of a land dispute between two different railroad companies in Colorado. A r...

GUNSMOKE "Pussy Cats"

25 Sep 2021

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Episode 48 aired on CBS Radio March 21, 1953. Jack Farah and his wife casually kill four men in Dodge and then leave town. Ken Creed is fast with a gu...

FORT LARAMIE "Assembly Line"

25 Sep 2021

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Indian Agent Lack is expecting an uprising...and for a very good reason. Episode 29 aired on CBS Radio August 12, 1956. Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Qu...

ESCAPE "John Jock Todd"

25 Sep 2021

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John Todd was played by Wilms Herbert, Captain Brock was played by Jack Kruschen, and Tony Barrett played Ganson. Also appearing were Don Diamond and ...

DRAGNET "Police Academy"

24 Sep 2021

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Episode 12 was broadcast August 25, 1949 on NBC Radio. A gang of "blitz bandits" are committing three and four burglaries a night, eighteen liquor sto...

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Melancholy Memory Matter"

24 Sep 2021

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Episode 1345...BOB BAILEY stars as Insurance investigator JOHNNY DOLLAR aired on CBS Radio April 28, 1957. Johnny searches for a pitcher who disappear...

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Cold Blood"

24 Sep 2021

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This episode aired on June 17, 1952. A poor field hand is accused of a murder, and he only has a snake as his alibi.

SUSPENSE "Diary of Sophronia Winters"

24 Sep 2021

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Episode 105 aired on CBS Radio August 17 , 1944. Starring Agnes Morehead and Ray Collins. Sophronia Winters spent most of her life taking care of her ...

STAN FREBERG SHOW "College Football Report"

23 Sep 2021

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Episode 11 aired on CBS Radio September 22, 1957. A sports interview, A Hollywood agent with canine clients, Bang Gunley: U. S. Marshall Fields (spons...

SIX SHOOTER "Hiram's Gold"

23 Sep 2021

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Episode 17 aired on NBC Radio, January 10, 1954. An old prospector named Hiram finally strikes it rich. Britt Ponsett gets into a gunfight and promptl...

WDEL (Skimmer air check) mid 1970s

23 Sep 2021

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7PM to 8PM Skimmer air check WDEL AM, Wilmington Delaware. 

ROY ROGERS "Wagon Raiders"

23 Sep 2021

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From March 4 1951. Evil Cliff Bogard has threaten Nort Spitzer, cattle rancher. Roy wants to see that Nort's cattle drive arrives safely. However Roy ...

MELODY RANCH GENE AUTRY "Champion is lost"

23 Sep 2021

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Sponsored by Wrigley's Gum and carried over the CBS radio network from January 7, 1940 to August 1, 1943.  The series was off the air when Gene A...

OLD TIME RADIO THE AVENGER "Giant Brain"

23 Sep 2021

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A mad scientist has created servant robots, and now plans to implant one with a composite brain made from humans. Charles Michelson Inc. of New York C...

PAUL HARVEY "Agatha Christie"

23 Sep 2021

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YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Milford Brooks III"

22 Sep 2021

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Dick Powell stars as insurance investigator Johnny Dollar in this CBS Radio 'AUDITION' episode from December 7, 1948. His movie career changed in 1944...

NBC Recollections at 30 Episode 6

22 Sep 2021

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Aired July 25, 1956 includes excerpts of NBC radio shows with Gene and Glenn, Jack Benny and Kate Smith, The Goodwill Hour, Tap dancing chorus, Fiber ...

EDWARD R MURROW "Flying Saucers"

21 Sep 2021

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June 24, 1950 Ed Murrow, CBS News, narrated a half-hour radio documentary called "The Case for the Flying Saucers". It offered a balanced look at unid...

LONE RANGER "Colonel's Daughter"

20 Sep 2021

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July 2, 1954. Colonel Harris' daughter tries to get to Fort Davis. But Blackhawk is on the warpath.

HOWARD MILLER "Jerry Vale"

20 Sep 2021

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August 3, 1955 Howard Miller chats with singer Jerry Vale on CBS Radio. Jerry Vale (born Gennaro Louis Vitaliano; July 8, 1930 – May 18, 2014) ...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Chance"

20 Sep 2021

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HOPPY TAKES A CHANCE, Episode 8 February 1950.

HEAR IT NOW Episode 8

20 Sep 2021

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February 2, 1951

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Colonel and the Lady"

19 Sep 2021

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Episode 21 aired April 12, 1959 on CBS Radio. Colonel Lathrop hires Paladin to find the mysterious Gloria Morgan...but first, who is she?  The sc...

GUNSMOKE "Cyclone"

18 Sep 2021

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Episode 47 aired on CBS Radio March 14, 1953. The Cyclone Ranch has been sold under unusual circumstances. Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conr...

FORT LARAMIE "Winter Soldier"

18 Sep 2021

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Episode 21 aired on CBS Radio June 17, 1956. Fort Laramie was a military drama that explored what the United States Calvary was doing on the frontier ...

ESCAPE "Shipment Of Mute Fate"

18 Sep 2021

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Episode 36 aired on CBS radio February 28, 1948 and stars Harry Bartell. What happens when a deadly snake gets loose on an ocean liner?

DRAGNET "Big Actor"

17 Sep 2021

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Episode 61 aired on NBC Radio Network (WMAQ, Chicago aircheck) August 10, 1950. $10,000 worth of narcotics has been stolen from St. Christopher's Hosp...

JOHN DEHNER, FRONTIER GENTLEMAN audition

17 Sep 2021

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John Dehner (born John Forkum; November 23, 1915 – February 4, 1992) was an American actor and animator. He had a long and prolific career in radi...

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Lucky Dollar"

16 Sep 2021

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Based on events of August 14, 1945. A store-keeper is murdered by a robber who shuts off the electricity inside the store. A special kind of dollar le...

SUSPENSE "Beast Must Die"

16 Sep 2021

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Episode 100 aired July 13, 1944 on CBS Radio. Starring Herbert Marshall who plays the part of Felix Laine a writer of detective novels who was plannin...

STAN FREBERG "Thanksgiving Story"

15 Sep 2021

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Yes! At last we learn that the turkey was intended to be the national bird, but due to a mix--up, it was the turkey rather than the eagle to be cooked...

STAN FREBERG SHOW "Build It Yourself Piano"

15 Sep 2021

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Episode 10 aired on CBS Radio September 15, 1957. The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fift...

SIX SHOOTER "Helen Bricker"

15 Sep 2021

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Episode 19 was broadcast over the NBC Radio Network on January 24, 1954. Stars James Stewart as Britt Ponset. An outlaw is scheduled to be hanged, and...

OLD TIME RADIO "Gang Busters"

15 Sep 2021

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Episode 524 was broadcast on the evening of April 10, 1948. Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "W C Fields, Dixie Lee Crosby"

13 Sep 2021

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Episode 5 aired July 18, 1956 on NBC Radio. Charlie McCarthy Show with W C Fields, Little Jack Little singer, VOX POP interviews, Al Pierce, Ben Berni...

LONE RANGER "Gentle Tucson Thorpe"

13 Sep 2021

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Episode 2567, Aired June 28, 1954. The Lone Ranger disguises himself as a Mexican in order to capture the bandit Tucson Thorpe.

HOWARD MILLER "Steve Allen"

13 Sep 2021

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September 11, 1957 on CBS Radio Network DJ Howard Miller in Chicago chats on line with musician-comedian Steve Allen in New York City.

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Murder on the Trail"

13 Sep 2021

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Episode 7 in syndication for broadcast during the week of February 12, 1950. Hopalong Cassidy and his pal California strongly suspect trouble on the t...

HEAR IT NOW "Cost of Steak"

13 Sep 2021

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Hear it now (episode 07) Edward R. Murrow hosts...the cost of a pound of steak Air Date January 26, 1951. The voices of Eisenhower, Truman, MacArthur,...

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Maggie O'Banyon"

12 Sep 2021

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Episode 20 aired April 5, 1959 on CBS Radio. John Dehner as Paladin. The American Western radio series debuted November 23, 1958. 

GUNSMOKE "Meshougah"

12 Sep 2021

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Episode 44 aired February 21, 1953 on CBS Radio. A town s being terrorized by a gang of killers. Marshall Matt Dillon and Chester Proudfoot had left D...

FORT LARAMIE "Young Trouper"

11 Sep 2021

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Episode 20 aired June 10, 1956 starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. Fort Laramie was a radio Western series that aired Sundays on CBS from Jan...

ESCAPE "Log Of The Evening Star"

11 Sep 2021

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Episode 32 aired on CBS Radio March 14, 1948 and stars Jack Webb (Photo) and Alan Reed. A tale of murder, madness, and a walking dead man on the high ...

DRAGNET "Big Frame"

11 Sep 2021

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A man is found dead in the gutter. At first it seems as a hit-run case, but Friday becomes suspicious when all witnesses from the night before give ex...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "The Phantom Bandito"

11 Sep 2021

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A large amount of cash invariably leads to a robbery and an attempted bar-room suicide. Episode 6 for broadcast February 5, 1950.

CBS MYSTERY THEATER "The Chinaman Button"

11 Sep 2021

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A man desperate for money is offered the chance to make a fortune. All he has to do is commit an anonymous murder where he won't even have to see the ...

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Room 114"

10 Sep 2021

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Episode 20 aired on NBC Radio December 3, 1950. Based on events of October 29, 1927. A dead man found in the Alamo Motel was killed by a ranch owner n...

SUSPENSE "Ten Grand"

10 Sep 2021

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Episode 97 aired June 22, 1944 on CBS Radio. Starring Lucille Ball  A woman's purse is stolen then returned with a large amount of money inside.

SIX SHOOTER "The Silver Buckle"

09 Sep 2021

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Episode 18 aired on NBC Radio January 17, 1954. A trip through a mountain pass with two strange companions...with a strange purpose.

OLD TIME RADIO "Tribute to Irving Berlin"

09 Sep 2021

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Radio tribute to Irving Berlin August 3, 1938. Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin;  May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer ...

EDWARD R. MURROW "AFRS Tribute"

09 Sep 2021

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From 1946 an Armed Forces Radio tribute to Edward R. Murrow's "I Can Hear It Now" radio series.

NBC Recollections at 30 "Ralph Edwards, Rudy Vallee"

09 Sep 2021

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Episode 3 aired July 4, 1956. Featuring excerpts from Truth or Consequences, Bob Burns on The Bing Crosby Show, Jesse Owens Olympic runner, Demarco Si...

LONE RANGER "Race Against Sunrise"

09 Sep 2021

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Episode of June 25, 1954. The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native Americ...

HOWARD MILLER "Gogi Grant"

09 Sep 2021

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Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg (September 20, 1924 – March 10, 2016), known professionally as Gogi Grant, was an American pop singer. She is best known for...

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Sense of Justice"

09 Sep 2021

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Andy is accused of murder and in jail. Paladin stands up to a lynch mob out to get him...only Andy is stupid. John Dehner is Paladin. Aired March...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Mystery of Skull Valley"

08 Sep 2021

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 Gold coins lead Hoppy and California to a red-bearded killer and a missing archeologist. Syndicated for broadcast the week of January 22, 1950