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Episode publication activity over the past year
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GUNSMOKE "Twelfth Night"
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dodge city is the end of the railroad and the beginning of the frontier and it was filled to overflowing with people from all walks of life. Two real ...
FORT LARAMIE "Don't Kick My Horse"
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 19 aired June 3, 1956 on CBS Radio. A soldier's love for his eleven-year-old horse gets the entire troop into danger when the Indians attack. ...
ESCAPE "Love Came To Professor Guildea"
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 36 aired February 22, 1948 over the CBS Radio Network. A professor who has rejected companionship is haunted by an invisible creature. Luis Va...
DRAGNET "Big Grab"
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 55 aired on NBC Radio June 29, 1950. Professor Kessell's wife has been kidnapped. The show features a moving scene of a Seder. Jack Webb as Sg...
MYSTERY THEATER "The Girl Who Found Things"
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 14 aired January 19, 1974 and starred Norman Rose. A young girl with criminal tendencies is taken by a couple who discover her peculiar talent...
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Hanging By A Thread"
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 20 aired November 26, 1950 on NBC Radio. A story based on the events of May 5, 1947. George Hawks appears to have committed suicide. At 9:15 A...
SUSPENSE "Fugue in c minor"
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 94 aired on CBS Radio June 1, 1944 and stars Ida Lupino and Vincent Price. A grand pipe organ built throughout an entire house tends to play i...
STAN FREBERG SHOW "Abominable Snowman Revisited"
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 9 aired September 8, 1957 on CBS Radio. Freberg chats with his friend the abominable snowman about another visit in the Himalayas. We learn th...
SIX SHOOTER "Hiram's Gold Strike"
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 17 aired January 10, 1954 on the NBC Radio Network. An oldtimer prospector named Hiram strikes it rich. Britt Ponsett uses his guns in a gunfi...
NBC Recollections at 30
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the National Broadcasting Company, NBC created a series of shows called Recollections at 30. Using a vast number ...
NEWS MEMORIES "CBS News WWII 1938"
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Trout reports for CBS News the events from Europe on September 23, 1938. Including comments from Edward R. Murrow and Hans von Kaltenborn...
HOWARD MILLER "Giselle MacKenzie"
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Miller chats with Gisèle MacKenzie (born Gisèle Marie Louise Marguerite LaFlèche; January 10, 1927 – September 5, 2003). She was a Canadia...
LONE RANGER "Joe Fenton"
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1933, producer George W. Trendle and writer Fran Striker had the Lone Ranger ride out of the western sky, and it was "Hi Oh Silver, Away!" from the...
HOPALONG CASSIDY "Coltsville Terror"
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hopalong Cassidy is struggling in bad weather conditions to get his friend California into a deserted church in the deserted town of Coltsville. Of al...
HEAR IT NOW "Navy Ships"
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hear It Now, was an American radio program which began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Mu...
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Five Books of Owen Deaver"
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 18 aired March 22, 1959 on CBS Radio. Owen Deaver, the very tough sheriff of Three Winds, sets his own laws, whether or not the townsfolk want...
GUNSMOKE "Cain"
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bartell Episode 42 aired on CBS Radio February 7, 1953. Told he has only two months to live, a man is determined t...
FORT LARAMIE "Sgt Gorce's Baby"
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Victor Herbert Perrin (April 26, 1916 – July 4, 1989) was an American radio, film, and television actor, perhaps best remembered for providing the "...
ESCAPE "Ancient Sorceries"
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 34 aired February 21, 1948 on CBS Radio. A tale of the supernatural and witchcraft in a small Welsh town. You are alone in a strange and remot...
DRAGNET "Big Fake"
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 51 aired on NBC Radio June 1, 1950. A drunk accuses a rookie cop of beating him up, robbing him, and breaking his arm. Detective Sergeant Joe ...
DJ AIRCHECK ALAN FREED WJW
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Freed, the Cleveland DJ credited with coining the very phrase "rock 'n' roll." A 1954 WJW Cleveland recording of the opening of one of the Moondo...
MYSTERY THEATER "Ring of Roses"
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 13 of the CBS Mystery Theater recorded from WOR in New York City January 18, 1974. A trip to the country to visit a friend turns nightmarish a...
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Blood Relative"
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 19 Aired November 12, 1950 on NBC Radio. Based on events of June 26, 1949. A young ex-convict comes to town and threatens the life of a store-...
SUSPENSE "Donovan's Brain"
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Combined two episodes from May 1944 starring Orson Welles. A determined scientist plans to keep a brain alive in a jar. Donovan’s Brain, the famous ...
STAN FREBERG SHOW "Good Humor Man"
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 8 aired September 1, 1957 on the CBS Radio network. The show, starring comedian Stan Freberg and featuring the vocal talents of Daws Butler, J...
STAN FREBERG "Boston Tea Party"
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Boston Tea Party · Stan Freberg Presents: The United States Of America℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC... From a comedy album by comedian Stan Frebe...
SIX SHOOTER "A Friend In Need"
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Britt Ponset (played by veteran film star James Stewart) meets a killer in a narrow canyon who tells a very believable story. Britt was riding h...
OLD TIME RADIO "Fibber McGee and Molly"
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
March 20, 1956 episode 1378 on NBC Radio. Fibber McGee and Molly was a 1935–1959 American radio comedy series. The situation comedy was a staple of ...
NEWS MEMORIES "CBS NEWS Nazi Austrian Invasion"
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A CBS Radio News special report. March 12, 1938. Robert Trout reports Nazis take Austria. Nineteen months would elapse from the day Hitler grabb...
HOWARD MILLER "Pat Boone"
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Miller chats with singer Pat Boone on Miller's 15 minute CBS Radio network show of July 27, 1955. According to Billboard, Boone was the second-...
LONE RANGER "Marked For Murder"
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2563 June 18, 1954. "A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty hi-yo silver! The Lone Ranger! With his faithful Indi...
HOPALONG CASSIDY "Rainmaker of Eagle Nest Mountain"
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The second episode of the Hopalong Cassidy radio series was released by Commodore syndication, the second week of January 1950. Hopalong Cassidy was a...
HEAR IT NOW "Politics and Korean Retreat"
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our ears communicate with the mind and our eyes have a nasty habit of wandering about and daydreaming, rather than listening to what is being said. Ja...
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Death of a Young Gunfighter"
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Juan Morita, who has killed twelve, will not kill again...he says! Episode 17 aired on CBS Radio March 5, 1959. The radio show consisted of 106 episod...
FORT LARAMIE "Black Hills Gold"
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fort Laramie's protectorate duties during the Black Hills gold rush emerged as her most visible success in 1876. Gold had been discovered in the Hills...
ESCAPE "Snake Doctor"
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 27 aired February 8, 1948 on CBS Radio. Somewhere in the Appalachian mountains a strange old man is too friendly with the cottonmouths. ...
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "White Suit"
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Based on the events of June 23, 1947. A convict escapes from a small jail. The manhunt is aided by the prisoner's white jail clothes and a small walki...
HOPALONG CASSIDY "Dead Man's Hand"
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
First episode in the syndicated series from Commodore Productions in Los Angeles. Starring William Boyd as Hoppy and Andy Clyde as California. Hoppy h...
SUSPENSE "Visitor"
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 91 aired May 11, 1944 on CBS Radio. A teenage boy who seems to have disappeared after having a quarrel with a friend some three years earlier....
DJ AIRCHECK DAN INGRAM WABC
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Trombley Ingram (September 7, 1934 – June 24, 2018) was an American Top 40 radio disc jockey with a fifty-year career on radio stations such ...
DRAGNET "Big Book"
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 43 aired on NBC Radio April 6, 1950. Obscene "comic" books are being sold in high schools. The trail leads to a cigar stand downtown and "Barn...
MYSTERY THEATER "You Can Die Again"
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Mulligan stars as a husband who believes himself culpable for the murder of his wife. He is also convinced of his affair with another woman. B...
EASY ACES "Prizefighter"
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Easy Aces was an American serial radio comedy (1930–1945). It was trademarked by the low-keyed drollery of creator and writer Goodman Ace and his wi...
SIX SHOOTER "Cora Plummer Quincy"
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 15 aired on NBC Radio December 27, 1953. Movie star James Stewart rode the radio range from September 20, 1953, through June 24, 1954, as Brit...
HOWARD MILLER "Frankie Laine"
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chicago DJ Howard Miller chats with singer Frankie Laine on the CBS Radio Network July 25, 1955. Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March ...
LONE RANGER "Shrimp Butler"
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2562 June 16, 1954. A town character aids in the capture of an under-sized outlaw, "Shrimp Butler". Brace Beemer as The Lone Ranger and John T...
HEAR IT NOW "Return of 81st Congress"
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 4 with Edward R Murrow. News items from the week of January 1, 1950 including return of The 81st United States Congress, a meeting of the legi...
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Monster On Moon Ridge"
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have Gun, Will Travel The Monster on Moon Ridge, March 8, 1959, Starring John Dehner on CBS Radio network. "Have Gun Will Travel," consisted of 106 ep...
GUNSMOKE "Paid Killer"
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 39 aired on CBS Radio January 17, 1953. Lawson Hales hires a killer to gun down Marshal Dillon for $5000 in gold.
FORT LARAMIE "War Correspondent"
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 16 ( of 41 episodes ) aired on CBS Radio May 13, 1956. A reporter from a New York newspaper comes west to tell the "truth" and also to learn o...
ESCAPE "Vanishing Lady"
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 25 February 2, 1948 on CBS Radio. East coast version. Many OTR broadcasts were fed to the west coast to be heard in the evening in the Pacific...
EDWARD R MURROW "Buchenwald"
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Murrow reports from London to CBS Radio Network, April 15, 1945. Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established by the Nazis. Th...
DRAGNET "Big Gangster" Parts 1 & 2
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episodes 41 and 42 aired March 23 and 30, 1950. An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his fo...
MYSTERY THEATER "Accounts Receivable"
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 11 aired on CBS Radio January 16, 1974 and starred William Prince. Burdened with the responsibility of his sick father who has been recently r...
BOGART "Petrified Forest"
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The lives of a waitress and a drifter are shaken up when a gangster (Humphrey Bogart) takes refuge in an Arizona roadside diner. Broadcast January 7, ...
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Soft Touch"
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 17 aired on NBC Radio October 29, 1950. Ranger Jace Pearson suspects an elderly couple was beaten to death by a serial killer. Joel McCr...
SUSPENSE "Sisters"
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 77 aired February 3, 1944 on CBS Radio. Starring Ida Lupino and Agnes Morehead. Two sisters live alone in a large house. One of them buys a co...
STAN FREBERG SHOW "Lone Analyst"
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
August 25, 1957. Episode 7 titled "The Lone Analyst." The driving of the Golden Spike and some music that's just too piercing, man.The Stan Freberg Sh...
SIX SHOOTER "Christmas Carol"
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 14 aired December 20, 1953 on NBC Radio. The story of "A Christmas Carol" is retold with a western motif. James Stewart (Britt Ponset) and How...
OLD TIME RADIO "Baby Snooks"
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Baby Snooks Show was an American radio program starring comedian and Ziegfeld Follies alumna Fanny Brice as a mischievous young girl who was 40 ye...
HOWARD MILLER "Tony Martin"
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
DJ Howard Miller chats with Alvin Morris (December 25, 1913 – July 27, 2012), known professionally as Tony Martin, was an American actor and popular...
LONE RANGER "The Army Mule"
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Written by Fran Striker (Photo) This episode 2561 aired on ABC Radio and syndicated to markets where ABC affiliates did not clear the program. For exa...
NEWS MEMORIES "CBS Radio News Archives"
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Edward R. Murrow hosts an historic montage of voices from history in the 20th century from the CBS radio network news archives.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Heyboy's Revenge"
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 15 aired on CBS Radio March 1, 1959. Have Gun Will Travel broadcast 106 episodes between November 23, 1958, and November 22, 1960. I...
GUNSMOKE "Word Of Honor"
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 38 aired January 10, 1953 on CBS Radio. After treating a wounded man, Doc gives his word of honor not to reveal the identities or hiding place...
FORT LARAMIE "Never The Twain"
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 15 aired May 6, 1956 on CBS Radio. The story title is also known as "Death Is A Quiet Time." The program was recorded April 5, 1956. Lt Seiber...
ESCAPE "Papa Benjamin"
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CBS radio drama aired January 21, 1948. brace yourself for voodoo in the slums of New Orleans. Fine music and sound patterns on this 24th episode of E...
ROBERT TROUT "CBS News Of Europe"
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
September 19, 1939 Robert Trout, CBS News, broadcasting news from Europe including poor quality shortwave actuality from CBS newsman in London, Edward...
DRAGNET "Big Boys"
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 40 aired on NBC Radio March 31, 1950. A gang of four robbers, and their puppy have come to Los Angeles from San Francisco, planning to pull a ...
DJ AIRCHECK Rush Limbaugh aka Jeff Christie
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Born in Cape Girardeau, MO, in 1951, Limbaugh spent many of his formative years pursuing a career in radio. After using his pilonidal cyst (a congenit...
MYSTERY THEATER "The Resident"
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A move from the countryside to town leaves a retired lady prey to a cat named Evil and a young girl who forcefully moves in with her! A CBS Mystery T...
BOGART in BOLD VENTURE "Sailor's Dead Husband"
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
April 14, 1952 - ep 56 Bold Venture was a syndicated radio series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall that aired from 1951 to 1952. Morton...
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Dead Give Away"
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is 1:30 am December 4th, 1945. A single light glows in the living room of a farmhouse 4 miles to the town of Ashton in west Texas. Inside the house...
SUSPENSE "Dime A Dance"
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 74 January 13, 1944 on CBS Radio. Sponsored by: Roma Wines. A madman has been murdering dance hall girls and then dancing with their bodies to...
STAN FREBERG SHOW "CBS Censor"
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For fifteen weeks during the summer of 1957, Stan Freberg and a talented ensemble performed satirical sketches and comedy routines, filling a void lef...
STAN FREBERG "Wun'erful! Wun'erful"
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
1957 parody of the Lawrence Welk TV Show. Stan Freberg recorded a humorous spoof of the Lawrence Welk Show as it existed back in the late 1950s and ea...
SIX SHOOTER "More Than Kin"
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 13 aired on NBC Radio December 13, 1953. The Six Shooter was an unusual western series starring James Stewart as Brit Ponsit. Britt treads the...
OLD TIME RADIO "Bob and Ray"
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"And now, from approximately coast to coast, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding present the CBS radio network." Aired August 13, 1959 broadcast recorded by ...
NEWS MEMORIES "March Of Time"
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
February 3, 1938 broadcast over NBC Radio. The March of Time was an American radio news documentary and dramatization series sponsored by Time Inc. (L...
HOWARD MILLER "Mitch Miller"
14 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mitchell William Miller (July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010) was an American oboist, conductor, record producer and record industry executive. He was invo...
LONE RANGER "Firey Death Trap"
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 3341 released on transcription June 11, 1954. From 1933 to 1956 the Lone Ranger rode the radio air waves. One of the most successful radio pro...
HEAR IT NOW "Korean War and more"
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 3 aired December 29, 1950 on CBS Radio. Edward R Murrow's new team and news from the week.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Winchester Quarantine"
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 14 aired February 22, 1959 on CBS Radio "Winchester Quarantine" TV Episode was adapted by Ann Doud for the Have Gun - Will Travel radio progra...
GUNSMOKE "The Cabin"
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the best known episodes of the early years of “Gunsmoke” which combined a gritty story, excellent sound patterns and great acting was “Th...
FORT LARAMIE "Quince's Capture"
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 14 aired on CBS Radio April 29, 1956. Even though his dying father (Red Horse) has asked for him, a young Indian named Snowfoot will not go on...
ESCAPE "Leiningen vs Ants"
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 23 aired on January 14, 1948 over CBS Radio Network. Starring William Conrad. "You are isolated on a remote plantation in the steamy Ama...
EDWARD R MURROW "GB at war with Germany"
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/world-war-ii-how-one-journalist-used-his-microphone-fight-nazi-germany-189724?page=0%2C1 Shortwave broadcast ...
DRAGNET "The Big Thank You"
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 39 aired March 9, 1950 on NBC Radio. Los Angles detectives Friday and Romero are called in when reports about a murderess’ parole officer ar...
CASEY KASEM, KRLA DJ
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kasem began his professional broadcasting career in Flint, Michigan, later working in Detroit as a disc jockey for WJBK-AM (and doing such shows as Th...
MYSTERY THEATER "Death Rides A Stallion"
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 9 stars Mason Adams and aired January 14, 1974 on CBS Radio Network. An old flame torments a playboy after her death in a horse riding acciden...
BOGART in BOLD VENTURE "Russian Roulette"
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 15 released in syndication week of July 2, 1951. A storm has blown in, and while Shannon (Bogart) and Sailor (Bacall) deal with a power outage...
HOWARD MILLER "Patti Page"
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patti Page, was an American singer of pop and country music and occasional actress. She was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female a...
TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Living Death"
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode aired October 8, 1950 on NBC Radio. Ranger Jace Pearson investigates narcotics smuggling and murder along the Texas-Mexican border. ...
SUSPENSE "Back For Christmas"
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Back for Christmas” is a devilishly clever tale, as a man schemes to commit the perfect murder for ill gotten gain (and a new, younger wife), onl...
STAN FREBERG "Orville"
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Freberg with his puppet Orville the Moon Man. Stan Freberg (1926 - 2015) was a satirist, voice actor, puppeteer, and advertising man. Freberg began hi...
SIX SHOOTER " A Pressing Engagement "
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 12 aired December 6, 1953 on the NBC Radio Network. Word around town has it that Britt is getting married to the niece of Minnie Flint. ...
EDWARD R MURROW "London Before the War"
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Edward R. Murrow CBS London August 28, 1939 The news of Europe, as it occurs.
LONE RANGER "Birthday For Billy"
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2559, June 9, 1954 From 1933 to 1956 the Lone Ranger rode the radio waves. One of the most successful radio programs in history, the Lone...
HEAR IT NOW "Santa Claus"
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2 Aired on CBS Radio December 22, 1950. Abe Burrows interviews Santa Claus among news events and features presented on the program that week.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Return of Dr Thackery"
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 13 aired February 15, 1950 on CBS Radio. Paladin assists his friend Phyllis Thackeray, M.D., when impatience and panic threaten to generate a ...