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IRA COOK SHOW "old Muddy"

02 Aug 2022

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One of the AFRTS most popular DJs was Ira Cook whose personality comes shining through in every one of his recorded broadcasts; he is a white collared...

HOWARD MILLER SHOW "June Christy"

01 Aug 2022

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October 3, 1955 Howard chats with jazz vocalist June Christy on CBS Radio. June Christy (born Shirley Luster; November 20, 1925 – June 21, 1990) was...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Medicine Man"

31 Jul 2022

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Episode 25 released in syndication on June 18, 1950. Stars William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy and Andy Clyde as California Carlson.   Hopalong Cass...

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "The Lady"

30 Jul 2022

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Episode 39 aired August 15, 1959 on CBS Radio. Comanche violence gravely escalates around Paladin as he guides the Honorable Diane Coulter to her brot...

HARRY LIME "See Naples and Live"

29 Jul 2022

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Episode two aired August 10, 1951 on Mutual Radio. The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime) was an old...

GUNSMOKE "Daddy-o"

28 Jul 2022

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Episode 218 aired June 10, 1956 on CBS Radio. Kitty's long-lost father, who abandoned her when she was a baby, shows up in Dodge, eager to take her ba...

GRAND MARQUEE "Magic Wire"

27 Jul 2022

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Episode 50 aired on NBC Radio August 14, 1947. Jim Ameche stars. NBC   SUSTAINING     Tuesdays, Sundays and Thursdays at...

GANG BUSTERS "Blood Oath Gang"

26 Jul 2022

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Episode 71 aired on CBS Radio June 2, 1937. Gang Busters is an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you ...

FORT LARAMIE "Still Waters"

26 Jul 2022

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Episode 38 aired on CBS Radio October 14, 1956. Western series starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. It aired Sunday afternoons January 22–Oc...

FAVORITE STORY "From the Earth to the Moon"

25 Jul 2022

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Episode 21 aired November 5, 1946 and stars William Conrad and Jeff Corey. Jules Verne's famous science fiction novel of 1865 is dramatized.William Co...

LIVES OF HARRY LIME "Too Many Crooks"

25 Jul 2022

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Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime in episode 1 which aired August 3, 1951 on Mutual Radio syndication in USA. Also on BBC Radio in UK. The Adventures o...

ESCAPE "Seeds of Greed"

25 Jul 2022

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Episode 103 aired on CBS Radio December 27, 1948. Starring Gary Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990). He was an American film, radio and televis...

DRAGNET "Big Sorrow"

25 Jul 2022

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Episode 133 aired on NBC Radio December 27, 1951 and is dedicated to actor William Barton Yarborough (PHOTO) (October 2, 1900 – December 19, 1951) w...

BOX 13 "Haunted Artist"

24 Jul 2022

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Episode 17 with Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holiday. Dan helps an artist whose painting is being mysteriously vandalized.  Original syndication &nbsp...

BOB and RAY - "Hollywood Reporter"

22 Jul 2022

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March 3, 1960. "Their finest series was probably the 1959-60 quarter-hours for CBS."---John Dunning. The classic sign-on: "And now, from approximately...

BILL STEWART SHOW "Mort Garson"

22 Jul 2022

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Bill chatrs with Mort Garson who was one of the most unique and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-inf...

ANDY MANSFIELD "Moonlight Cocktail"

21 Jul 2022

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Andy and Virginia turn back the clock to start this episode from 1960 on AFRTS with Moonlight Cocktail versions.

KARL HAAS "Precursory Passages"

19 Jul 2022

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In syndication dated February 27, 1992. Adventures in Good Music, hosted by Karl Haas, was radio's most widely listened-to classical music program, an...

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Case Of Melanie Carter"

18 Jul 2022

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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama about a "fabulous" freelance insurance investigator "with the action-packed expense account." The show ai...

WHISTLER "Final Return"

18 Jul 2022

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Episode 179 aired on CBS Radio October 29, 1945. "The Whistler" was an American radio program running for a total of 13 years from May 16, 1942 u...

TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS "Conspiracy"

15 Jul 2022

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This episode aired April 15, 1951 on NBC Radio. Starring Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson) with Tony Barrett, Lillian Buyeff, Herb Ellis, Ken Christy...

SUSPENSE "Return Trip"

14 Jul 2022

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Edgeworth Blair "Elliott" Reid (January 16, 1920 – June 21, 2013) was an American actor. In 1935, Reid debuted on the radio program The March of Tim...

STAN FREBERG "Arthur Godfrey satire"

14 Jul 2022

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From 1958 Stan Freberg does a parody on "The old redhead" Arthur Godfrey. Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American r...

SIX SHOOTER "The New Sheriff"

13 Jul 2022

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Episode 37 aired on NBC Radio June 10, 1954 and stars James Stewart as Britt Ponset a traveling cowboy. He roams from town to town on his horse, Scar,...

THE SHADOW "The Temple Bells of Neban"

13 Jul 2022

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Orson Welles starts as The Shadow with Agnes Moorehead in episode 91 aired October 24, 1937 on CBS Radio. The Shadow finds himself in peril when going...

SAM SPADE The Bail Bond Caper

12 Jul 2022

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This episode aired on CBS Radio June 27, 1948. A million-dollar robbery of an armored car puts Sam on the spot and in need of some bail himself. Sandr...

THE SAINT "Case of the Lonesome Slab"

12 Jul 2022

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This episode aired on NBC Radio January 22, 1950. Vincent Price stars and Simon Templar. Famous stage actress Betty Aimes has an appointment with the ...

Pursuit - The Tall Man

11 Jul 2022

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Aired January 6, 1950 - (ep10) The police searched for a tall man believed to be behind a series of robberies. First sponsored by Ford Motor Cars, Pur...

PAUL HARVEY "Arthur Conan Doyle"

07 Jul 2022

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The REST of the STORY. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle born 22 May 1859 – died 7 July 1930 was a British writer and physician. He created the charac...

LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE "Building bridge"

06 Jul 2022

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Little Orphan Annie is an American radio drama series based on the popularity of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. It debuted on Chicago's WGN in 1...

NORMAN CORWIN "Odyssey of Runyan Jones"

06 Jul 2022

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Script writer Norman Corwin's "The Odyssey of Runyan Jones" appeared on CBS Radio several times. This is episode 6 of a Columbia Workshop series "26 B...

NIGHT BEAT "Girl From Kansas"

05 Jul 2022

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Episode 19 aired June 6, 1950. Frank Lovejo y starred as Randy Stone, a reporter who covered the night beat for the Chicago Star, encountering crimina...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Benny-Allen Feud"

04 Jul 2022

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The decade long feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen featured barbs between the two comedy greats on multiple old time radio shows.Since 1932, Jack ...

NBC MONITOR "Brad Crandall"

02 Jul 2022

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Bradley Crandall (born Robert Lee Bradley; August 6, 1927 – March 14, 1991) was an American radio personality, voice-over announcer, and film narrat...

MIKE HAMMER "That Hammer Guy"

30 Jun 2022

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Larry Haines stars as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in the series for Mutual Radio. c1953.

MERCURY THEATER "Hitch hiker"

30 Jun 2022

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Orson Welles presents Alice Frost with him in this episode aired June 21, 1946 on CBS Radio. Alice Frost (August 1, 1910 – January 6, 1998) was an A...

MR AND MRS NORTH "Wheel Of Chance"

29 Jun 2022

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Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin perform as Pam North and Jerry North on "Mr. and Mrs. North," a CBS Radio program. New York, NY.  Episode 504 dated...

THE LONE RANGER "Chief and the Colonel"

29 Jun 2022

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From August 2, 1954. Episode 2582. 

Keyboard Immortals "Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler"

28 Jun 2022

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Keyboard Immortals - ep 22 - Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler Plays Piano. Born July 16, 1863 and died August 20, 1927. She was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist...

IRA COOK SHOW "Ray Conniff"

27 Jun 2022

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L.A. DJ Ira Cook with his half hour of middle of the road pop music for AFRTS listeners. Ray Conniff, Barbra Streisand and others.

THE SHADOW "The Death House Rescue"

26 Jun 2022

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Episode 87 September 26, 1937 Mutual Radio. A man who's looking for a job mistakenly becomes involved with a bank robbery. He is later sentenced to ...

HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Roger Williams"

26 Jun 2022

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Howard chats with Roger Williams. Roger Williams (born Louis Jacob Weertz, October 1, 1924 – October 8, 2011) was an American popular music pianist....

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Border of Nowhere"

26 Jun 2022

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Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on...

THE STORY OF GUNSMOKE 'Episode 5 of 5"

24 Jun 2022

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The conclusion of the five hour project detailing the development and history of the series.

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Finn Alley"

23 Jun 2022

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Episode 38 aired August 9, 1959 on CBS Radio. One of radio and TV's most successful Westerns told of the hired gun Paladin, who plied his trade in 19t...

THE STORY OF GUNSMOKE "Episode 4 of 5"

23 Jun 2022

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The 'biography' or The Story of the creation of the CBS radio series Gunsmoke continues. 

GUNSMOKE "Cows and Cribs"

22 Jun 2022

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Episode 214 aired on CBS Radio May 13, 1956. Homesteader Joe Nadler (Vic Perrin) turns to cattle rustling while Ma Smalley (Jeanette Nolan) raises an ...

GRAND MARQUEE "Till Crime Do Us Part"

22 Jun 2022

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Episode 49 aired August 17, 1947 on NBC. With Jim Ameche and Beryl Vaughn. Each episode brings us a new Romantic Comedy with a new situation and chara...

THE BIOGRAPHY OF GUNSMOKE "Episode 3 of 5"

22 Jun 2022

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The creators and actors of the radio series discuss the preparation, presentation and camaraderie of putting on one of radio's most popular and respec...

GANG BUSTERS "Jake and Ralph Fleager"

22 Jun 2022

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Episode 70 aired May 26, 1937 on CBS Radio. Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you...

FORT LARAMIE "Galvanized Yankee"

22 Jun 2022

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Episode 37 aired on CBS Radio October 7, 1956. Galvanized Yankees was a term from the American Civil War denoting former Confederate prisoners of war ...

THE BIOGRAPHY OF GUNSMOKE "Part 2 of 5"

21 Jun 2022

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The creators and actors of the radio series discuss the preparation, presentation and camaraderie of putting on one of radio's most popular and respec...

FAVORITE STORY "Phantom Rickshaw"

21 Jun 2022

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William Conrad stars in this drama from October 29, 1946. Episode 20 of Favorite Story. "The Phantom Rickshaw” appeared in Kipling’s 1888 collecti...

THE BIOGRAPHY OF GUNSMOKE "Episode 1 of 5"

21 Jun 2022

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The creators and actors of the radio series discuss the preparation, presentation and camaraderie of putting on one of radio's most popular and respec...

ESCAPE "Figure a Dame"

18 Jun 2022

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Episode 90 aired on CBS Radio December 20, 1949. Starring Frank Lovejoy and his wife Joan Banks. 

DRAGNET "Big Hands"

16 Jun 2022

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Episode 128 aired on NBC Radio November 22, 1951. Friday is assigned to investigate the strangulation of an unidentified woman in a hotel room. With n...

BOX 13 "Look Pleasant Please"

11 Jun 2022

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Box 13 is a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by ...

BOB AND RAY "One Fellas Family"

10 Jun 2022

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From CBS Radio March 2, 1960 A quarter hour of satire including One Fella's Family.

BILL STEWART SHOW "Nat King Cole"

09 Jun 2022

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This AFRTS episode opens with Nat King Cole's Dance Ballerina. 

KARL HAAS "Adventures In Good Music"

02 Jun 2022

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Karl Haas (December 6, 1913 – February 6, 2005) was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his sonorous speaking voice, humanistic ...

YOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Little Man"

31 May 2022

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CHARLES RUSSELL as Johnny Dollar. Aired October 29, 1949 on CBS Radio. The Little Man Who Wasn't There Matter. Johnny is called in to find a missing h...

THE WHISTLER "House On Sycamore Road"

31 May 2022

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Episode 177 aired on CBS WEST Network October 15, 1945. Marvin Miller is host. The Whistler is an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, ...

TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Bad Blood"

30 May 2022

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Aired on NBC Radio April 8, 1951. Joe Crayger has been drafted and is packing a suitcase to report to army duty when his friend Russ turns up to make ...

SUSPENSE "Dark Journey"

30 May 2022

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Quality improves as broadcast continues. Aired April 25, 1946 on CBS Radio. With Nancy Kelly who was an American actress, a major movie leading lady i...

Frontier Gentleman "The Shelton Brothers"

29 May 2022

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John Dehner stars as Frontier Gentleman aired on CBS RADIO February 2, 1958 episode 1 titled The Shelton Brothers. The first show of the series. Kenda...

STAN FREBERG "Pilgrim's Progress"

29 May 2022

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aka Take an Indian to Lunch. From Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years a 1961 American comedy album with mus...

SIX SHOOTER "Silver Threads"

29 May 2022

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Episode 36 aired on NBC Radio June 3, 1954. James Stewart stars with Barney Phillips. Bernard Philip Ofner (October 20, 1913 – August 17, 1982), was...

SAM SPADE "Death Bed Caper"

28 May 2022

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This episode aired June 20, 1948 on CBS Radio. Dan Starbuck calls the office of detective Sam Spade (Howard Duff) as his brother is dying on his boat....

THE SAINT "Cake That Killed"

28 May 2022

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Aired January 8, 1950. Vincent Price picked up the role of the Saint in 1947, after Edgar Barrier and Brian Aherne. For anyone used to Roger Moore’...

PURSUIT "Three For All"

27 May 2022

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Episode 2 aired November 10, 1949 on CBS Radio. Starring Ted De Corsia. First sponsored by Ford Motor Cars, Pursuit is a crime detective series that b...

PAUL HARVEY -_Arizona_Biltmore -

27 May 2022

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 The Rest of the Story

Salute to the Law "Young Shoplifter"

26 May 2022

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Salute to the Law ran from 1939 to 1940 and was an overly moralistic view of crime and punishment. The arresting officer would not only serve to preve...

NORMAN CORWIN "Radio Primer"

26 May 2022

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26 By Corwin. Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalis...

NIGHT BEAT "Stamp Dealer"

26 May 2022

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Episode 17 aired May 29, 1950 on NBC Radio. Harlan Matthews, a stamp dealer with memories of a murder he committed long ago, attempts murder, suicide ...

MIKE HAMMER "Contract On A Dead Man"

25 May 2022

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Larry Haines as that Hammer guy in an episode from 1953 on Mutual Radio Network.

MERCURY THEATER "Count of Monte Cristo"

25 May 2022

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Orson Wells production aired June 14, 1946 on CBS Radio. 

EVERETT DIRKSEN "Gallant Men"

25 May 2022

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Gallant Men was released by Capitol Records (5805) in December 1966. Several months later it had hit number 15 on the Billboard Top 100. It was scored...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Songwriters Tribute"

25 May 2022

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To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the company, NBC created a series of shows called Recollection at 30. Using a vast number of archival recordings,...

NBC MONITOR "Brad Crandall"

25 May 2022

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This monitor weekend episode on NBC Radio is from 1967. Bradley Crandall (born Robert Lee Bradley; August 6, 1927 – March 14, 1991) was an American ...

FAVORITE STORY "Meridian 7 12 12"

25 May 2022

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Favorite Story is an American old-time radio dramatic anthology. It was nationally syndicated by the Ziv Company from 1946 to 1949. The program was "a...

MIKE HAMMER "Miller Trouble"

24 May 2022

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Larry Haines as Mike Hammer in this 1953 episode from Mutual Radio. The Barney Miller syndicate has trouble with dames in this case about Hank Busby.

MERCURY THEATER "Around World In Eighty Days"

24 May 2022

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Orson Welles host. June 7, 1946 The Mercury Summer Theater presents their adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days, the story of the adventures of a ...

THE LONE RANGER "Double Frame Up"

23 May 2022

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Aired July 30, 1954. Expert marksman. Above-average athlete, horseman, hand-to-hand combat, and master of disguise. The Lone Ranger is a fictional mas...

KEYBOARD IMMORTALS "Chopin"

23 May 2022

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Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Roma...

JOHN DOREMUS SHOW - TREES, ROSES and TRAVEL

22 May 2022

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John Doremus was born on August 3, 1931 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, USA as John Crumley Doremus. He was an actor, known for Sinistar (1983). Radio programme...

IRA COOK SHOW "Brass Impact"

22 May 2022

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Cook's 1793rf show for AFRTS transcription service. Opens with selection by group known as Brass Impact.

HOWARD MILLER SHOW "Gale Storm"

21 May 2022

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Howard chats with singer-actor Gale Storm. Josephine Owaissa Cottle (April 5, 1922 – June 27, 2009), known professionally as Gale Storm, was an Amer...

HOPALONG CASSIDY "Death Paints a Picture"

21 May 2022

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Episode 23 released by Commodore Productions June 4, 1950. William Boyd as Hoppy. 

ALAN'S HIDEAWAY "Episode 04"

21 May 2022

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A mixed bag of Alan's favorite selections from his library secured at a Mexican hideaway in the Sierra Madre's. A collection from the 1940's to today....

MIKE HAMMER "That Hammer Guy"

21 May 2022

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A December 1952 to October 1954 Mutual Broadcasting System radio series titled That Hammer Guy starred Larry Haines then George Petrie and Ted DeCorsi...

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "High Wire"

20 May 2022

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Episode 37 aired August 2, 1959 on CBS Radio. John Dehner as Paladin plays the sportsman, reluctantly for once, in an effort to reunite a fallen circu...

PAUL HARVEY "Archduke Ferdinand"

20 May 2022

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THE REST OF THE STORY Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive t...

GUNSMOKE "Wild West"

19 May 2022

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Episode 65 aired July 18, 1953 on CBS Radio Network. Gunsmoke, the radio series, aired from April 26, 1952 until June 18, 1961 on CBS. It starred Will...

GRAND MARQUEE "Sometimes You Strike It Rich"

19 May 2022

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It's like Valentines Day every week with Jim Ameche and Beryl Vaughn. Each episode brings us a new Romantic Comedy with a new situation and characters...

GANG BUSTERS "Safe Cracking Combine"

19 May 2022

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Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premie...

FORT LARAMIE "Small Beginning"

19 May 2022

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Episode 36 aired on CBS Radio September 30, 1956. Fort Laramie is a CBS Radio Western series starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. It aired Sun...

ESCAPE "Border Town"

18 May 2022

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Episode 101 aired December 13, 1949 on CBS Radio. An actor on a bus to Hollywood has $15,000 in counterfeit money planted in his coat and a trip to Me...

DRAGNET "Big Hit and Run Killer"

18 May 2022

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Episode 126 aired on NBC Radio November 8, 1951. Traffic Investigation, Hit and Run Felony Detail. A hit and run driver escapes, after killing a woman...

BOX 13 "Double Right Cross"

16 May 2022

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In syndication by Mayfair Productions. Alan Ladd portrays writer Dan Holiday who goes to see an old army buddy who is now a professional boxer, but so...

BOB AND RAY "Mr Trace"

16 May 2022

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Bob and Ray present the CBS Radio Network. Aired March 1, 1960. Episode 177 included skit, Mr. Trace, keener than most persons. A satire on OTR's Mr K...