Popular and rare vintage radio programs with brief commentary. Posted weekly.

Halloween Lights Out "The Little People" April 14, 1937 NBC Lights Out "Heavenly Jeep" May 4, 1943 CBS

Lights Out "Money Money Money" March 30, 1943 CBS Lights Out "Speed" January 5, 1943 CBS

Lights Out "Special to Hollywood" February 17, 1941 NBC Lights Out "He Dug It Up" February 9, 1943 CBS

Lights Out, Everybody "The Devil's Due" April 4, 1939 NBC Lights Out "Strange Couple" first broadcast in 1935 from Chicago NBC

Suspense "A Ring for Marya" December 28, 1950 CBS starring Cornel Wilde Suspense "Another Man's Poison" May 17, 1951 CBS starring Charles Boyer

Back to School The Halls of Ivy "Professor Gerhard's Secret" March 24, 1950 NBC The Halls of Ivy "Gangsters Son" January 20, 1950 NBC Starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Colman

Back to School The Halls of Ivy "Reappointment" January 6, 1950 NBC The Halls of Ivy "Student Editorial" January 13, 1950 NBC

Labor Day Lux Radio Theater "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes" September 2, 1946 CBS starring Margaret O'Brien

Suspense "The Black Path Of Fear" August 31, 1944 CBS Suspense "Dame Fortune" October 24, 1946 CBS starring Susan Hayward

Suspense "Murder in G Flat" April 5, 1951 CBS starring Jack Benny Suspense "Steel River Prison Break" September 3, 1951 on CBS starring Jeff Chandler

The King's Men "Hoagy Carmichael" June 14, 1949 NBC The King's Men "Johnny Mercer" August 16, 1949 NBC

The Stan Freberg Show Episode 5 "Moon Man Orrville" August 11, 1957 CBS The Stan Freberg Show Episode 10 "Do It Yourself Piano" September 15, 1957 CBS

Stan Freberg with Daws Butler and June Foray The Stan Freberg Show Episode 8 "Good Humor Men" September 1, 1957 CBS The Stan Freberg Show Episode 1 "Tuned Sheep" July 14, 1957 CBS

Summer Vacation with Columbia Workshop Columbia Workshop "Now It's Summer" September 29, 1939 CBS Columbia Workshop "Sometime Every Summer" June 16, 1946 CBS

Summer Vacation My Favorite Husband "Vacation Time" April 29, 1949 CBS starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning Fibber McGee and Molly "Camping Trip" June 22, 1943 NBC

Screen Guild Theater "Yankee Doodle Dandy" October 19, 1942 CBS Starring James Cagney The Railroad Hour "The Man Without a Country" June 29, 1953 NBC

Lux Radio Theater "The Emperor Waltz" September 26, 1949 CBS starring Bing Crosby

Lux Radio Theater "A Doll's House" June 6, 1938 CBS starring Joan Crawford

Father's Day The Magnificent Montague in "Father of the Year" June 16, 1951 NBC Life with the Lyons "It's A Wise Father" November 22, 1951 BBC

Richard Diamond, Private Detective "The Enigma Of Big Ed" April 04, 1952 ABC Richard Diamond, Private Detective "Mr. Walker's Problem" March 28, 1952 ABC

Richard Diamond, Private Detective "The Wolfe Case" August 9, 1950 NBC Richard Diamond, Private Detective "Carnival Murder" August 16, 1950 NBC

Richard Diamond, Private Detective "Louis Spense" March 05, 1950 NBC Richard Diamond, Private Detective "Joyce Wallace" March 12, 1950 NBC

Richard Diamond the Singing Detective Richard Diamond, Private Detective "The Stolen Purse" May 22, 1949 NBC Richard Diamond, Private Detective "Charles Walsh and Bob Wells" July 9, 1949 NBC

The Alan Young Show "Mother's Day Contest" May 9, 1947 NBC Family Theater "Vacation for Mom" November 12, 1952 Mutual

Dragnet "The Big Pug" May 18, 1949 NBC Dragnet "The Big Pug" May 18, 1949 NBC

Dragnet "The Big Grab" June 29, 1950 NBC Dragnet "The Big Threat" April 12, 1951 NBC

Easter Show Burns and Allen "Gracie Buys George a New Suit" March 25, 1948 NBC The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Easter Sunrise Service" April 17, 1949 NBC

The Adventures of The Falcon "The Case of the Rich Racketeer" November 5, 1950 NBC The Adventures of The Falcon "The Case of the Puzzling Pinup" November 19, 1950 NBC

The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe "Birds on the Wing" November 26, 1949 CBS The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe "The Face to Forget" June 14, 1950 CBS

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe "The Green Flame" March 26, 1949 CBS The Adventures of Philip Marlowe "The Last Laugh" April 02, 1949 CBS

Raymond Chandler's detective The Adventures of Philip Marlowe "Red Wind" September 26, 1948 CBS The Adventures of Philip Marlowe "Old Acquaintance" December 26, 1948 CBS

The Fat Man "The Pearl" January 21, 1946 ABC The Fat Man "Murder Plays Hide and Seek" January 2, 1948 ABC

Suspense "Don't Call Me Mother" January 4, 1959 CBS starring Agnes Moorhead Suspense "Time On My Hands" September 25, 1960 CBS

The Fat Man Detective created by Dashiell Hammett The Fat Man "Black Angel" July 8, 1946 ABC The Fat Man "Nightmare Murder" January 17, 1951 ABC

Lux Radio Theater "Goodbye Mr Chips" November 20, 1939 CBS starring Laurence Olivier

Valentines Day Fibber McGee and Molly "Valentine's Candy" February 10, 1942 NBC The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Valentine" February 13, 1949 NBC

Lux Radio Theater "Seven Keys to Baldpate" September 26, 1938 CBS Jack Benny, Mary Livingston and Cecil B DeMille

Lux Radio Theater "Captain Blood" February 22, 1937 CBS Errol Flynn Olivia De Havilland

The Railroad Hour "The Mikado" December 5, 1949 NBC The Railroad Hour "Revenge With Music" October 23, 1950 NBC

Lux Radio Theater "Algiers" July 7, 1941 CBS starring Hedy Lamarr and Charles Boyer

The Frank Morgan Show "Guest Richard Neutra" January 7, 1948 Armed Forces Radio Service The Railroad Hour "Brigadoon" January 30, 1950 NBC

Suspense "Return Trip" June 27, 1946 CBS Suspense "Infanticide" October 11, 1959 CBS

Christmas Family Theater "Star of Wonder" December 26, 1951 Mutual Hanukkah The Eternal Light "The Top that Ran Away" December 10, 1950 NBC

Lux Radio Theater "Miracle on 34th Street" December 22, 1947 CBS Natalie Wood

Christmas Show Good News of 1938 December 22, 1938 NBC

Campbell Playhouse "A Christmas Carol" Dec 24, 1939 CBS Orson Welles

Thanksgiving Lum and Abner "Thanksgiving Dinner" November 21, 1948 CBS Bing Crosby Philco Radio Show November 26, 1947 ABC Guest star Frankie Laine

Thanksgiving Our Miss Brooks "Thanksgiving Turkey" November 19, 1950 CBS Life with Luigi "Thanksgiving Dinner" November 20, 1951 CBS

Lux Radio Theater "Swing High, Swing Low" February 26, 1940 CBS starring Rudy Vallee and Virginia Bruce

The Lux Radio Theatre "Conversation Piece" November 16, 1936 CBS Noel Coward musical

Halloween Chase and Sanborn Hour Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy October 29, 1944 NBC guest star Orson Welles Fibber McGee and Molly "Gildy's Halloween Party" October 24, 1939 NBC