Old Time Radio Classics is a collection of Old Time Radio Shows. These shows were enjoyed by generations before the invention of television.
This is the debut episode of Jack Benny's vault, the racetrack tout, and Mel Blank's train announcer who always announces “Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga”.
Story of an experimental rocket plane which disappears for ten hours when it only had fuel for ten minutes. The pilot tells an incredible story of an alien contact. Graham Doar wrote the original and Ernest Kinoy adapted it to radio. + The year is 1965. There is a vast concrete runway set in the desert of the south west. A giant metal ship stands proud and pointed to the stars. In 5 minutes the signal will flash and it will tear up through the atmosphere to the outer limits. A thrilling tale of alien contact. Tonight we escape with the pilot of an experimental jet rocket aircraft, about to be hurled 40 miles out from the earth's surface, into the limitless boundaries of space. Where he receives the most terrible warning in the history of man, from which there is no escape...
Original Air Date of 11/09/1944
You Bet Your Life starring Groucho MarxOriginal Air Date: 05-17-1950
The Big Gangster" Part 1. Who has taken a shot at Gus Valentine? Even though he's on the wrong side of the law, the cops must protect him.... Detective Sergeant Friday is assigned to homicide detail. Attempts have been made on a notorious hoodlum whose death could lead to open gang war. It's Fridays job to stop it."The Big Gangster" Part 2. The search for the killers of Gus Valentine continues. Detective Sergeant Friday is assigned to homicide detail. A notorious hoodlum in the city has been shot to death and a gang war is threatened if his followers seek revenge. It's Fridays job to find the killers.https://oldtimeradioclassics.transistor.fm
Miss Brooks tries to convince Mr. Conklin to heat the school building and buy new supplies. Original Air Date 01-09-1949
The Babe is kidnapped just before the World Series by gamblers, and told to throw the game or else! Babe Ruth is impersonatedFirst aired on 05-12-1950
The series was a spoof on the authoritative, academic discourse evident on such authoritative panel series as Quiz Kids and Information Please, while the beginning of the program parodied the popular quiz show, Doctor I.Q. With announcers Ken Roberts and Dick Stark, the program was broadcast on Mutual from June 25, 1942 to February 28, 1944, on CBS from February 25, 1944 to September 27, 1950 and finally on NBC from July 4, 1951 to September 26, 1951.
Welcome aboard "The Gypsy Princess," with death along for the ride.
Costello takes on The Great Gildersleeve, on and off the football field.
The original The War of the Worlds story recounts a Martian invasion of Great Britain around the turn of the 20th century. The invaders easily defeat the British army thanks to their advanced weaponry, a “heat-ray” and poisonous “black smoke,” only to be felled by earthly diseases against which they have no immunity.
Henry and Toby are bored on Halloween night and are finally allowed to go out and ring just one doorbell, but they immediately get themselves into a night of trouble.Original AirDate: 10/31/1940
isten to stories about baseball legend Babe Ruth from the people who knew him best
Original Airdate 03/20/1945
Collection of Three Episode of the Redbook Dramas. Episodes include: Lazy Bones, The Kid, Under the Midnight Sun.Original Airdates:Lazy Bones: 11/03/1932The Kid: 06/23/1932Under the Midnight Sun: 08/04/1932
The premise of the original show involved Kelly asking questions sent in by listeners and researched by Eliza Hickok and Rachel Stevenson. Kelly often said that he was not an intellectual, and that he could not have answered any of the questions without knowing the answer from his flash card. Yet he was remarkably kind and affable, and put even novice young contestants at ease immediately. The answers were supplied by a panel of five children, chosen for their high IQs, strong academic interests, and appealing personalities, as well as such qualities as poise, quickness, and sense of humor. Original Air Date: 04-16-1941
This episode of The Black Museum is based on the case of Harold Greenwood of Carmarthen Wales, who was accused of poisoning his wife Mabel in June 1919.Original Airdate: April 8, 1952
Bud joins the carnival, and he learns that a sucker is born every minute.Original Air Date: 10/03/1952Starring:Robert Young as Jim Anderson, Jane Wyatt as Margaret Anderson, Elinor Donahue as Betty Anderson, Billy Gray as Bud Anderson, Lauren Chapin as Kathy Anderson.
A Date with Judy is a comedy radio series aimed at a teenage audience which ran from 1941 to 1950. The series was co-created by Jerome Lawrence and Aleen Leslie and based on Leslie's “One Girl Chorus” column in the Pittsburgh Press. Lawrence left the show in 1943.Original Airdate - 9/24/1946
Frank Lovejoy, starred as Randy Stone, a reporter who covered the night beat for the Chicago Star, encountering criminals, eccentrics, and troubled souls. Listeners were invited to join Stone as he "searches through the city for the strange stories waiting for him in the darkness." Most episodes leaned towards suspense, crime and thriller themes, but Night Beat also featured occasional humorous or sentimental stories. Each episode ended with Stone at his desk as he finished typing a news story based on his latest exploits, and shouting for the copy boy to deliver his story to an editor. Radio historian John Dunning described Night Beat as a "superior series", carried by vivid writing and Lovejoy's sympathetic performance.Original Air Date: 02-06-1950
Even in the 1940's Hallmark was putting out romance tales. Original Air Date 06/24/1948
In the world of Million Dollar Prizes, lets go back to 1941 and see what they thought was winning big.Original Air Date 7-18-1941
"The cat saw everything with its yellow eyes..." in this classic horror episode sponsored by Lipton Tea: Boris Karloff is a man is haunted for forty years by moans of his strangled wife!Original Air Date:11/06/1945
Starring the comedic Harold Peary: Uncle Mort and family prepare for a halloween party and share tales of mischief. Leroy dresses as Frankenstein and Gildersleeve is hit with a sock full of flour. Judge Hooker, Leila, and Eve Goodwin bob for apples in this classic old time radio Halloween special.Original AirDate: 9/7/1958
In this classic horror radio show starring William Conrad: at a sleepy lighthouse off the coast of French Guiana, a derelict boat brings a terrorizing invasion of rats. This script was later adapted into a Suspense episode and starred Vincent Price.Original Air Date: 11/15/1949
The Man Called X travels to Venezuela to sabotage and fulfill the dream of a friend to establish a trade route to the. United States and provide jobs for the local economy.Original Airdate 02/26/52
Many Earth ships tries to go beyond the radiation belt but none are heard back ever again. What happened to those ships? We are about to find out in NO CONTACT, first episode of X Minus One series.StarsLuis Van Rooten(voice)Donald Buka(voice)Wendell Holmes(voice)
Fibber McGee and Molly - Mailing Christmas Packages Original Air Date: 12/10/1940
Abbott and Costello open a Gas Station. Original Air Date: 11/29/1949
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