Herbert Marshall stars in this presentation of Mary Shelleys' Frankenstein. The story of a scientist who brings to life a creature he built from various dead bodies.
Running time - 29:21 min
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Suspense 11-3-52 Frankenstein
Herbert Marshall stars in this presentation of Mary Shelleys' Frankenstein. The story of a scientist who brings to life a creature he built from various dead bodies.
Bold Venture 6-11-1951 The Tears Of Siva
An old-time shipmate of Slate Shannon brings trouble when he comes to Havana and asks Shannon to keep a packet of jewels for him, called the Tears of Siva. Shannon and the shipmate are robbed of the jewels and the shipmate killed, but the jewels turn out to be fake.
Running time - 26:48 min
Monday, April 29, 2013
Command Performance - 42-03-18 - Fred Allen, Henny Youngman, Gladys Swarthout
In this Command Performance, Fred Allen hosts and takes a few jabs at Jack Benny, then he introduces Kenny Baker who sings Johnny Doe Boy Found a Rose in Ireland. Henny Youngman comes on to run through a number of one-liners. Gladys Swarthout sings Bless This House. Sports writer John Kieran gives the sports news. Actress Madeleine Carroll talks with Fred.
Running time - 29:28 min
NBC University Theater 49-03-06 Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
This production of the NBC Theater includes three tales from Edgar Allen Poe, begining with Noseology, followed by The Cask of Amontillado and then the The Fall Of The House Of Usher.
Running time - 59:16 min
Sunday, April 28, 2013
The Whistler 46-01-28 The Strange Sisters
The tale of three sisters, one who inherited their fathers money, and another who manipulates the third one into helping plan the murder of the first.
Running time - 28:34 min
X Minus One 28-8-1956 Surface Tension
Scientists discover a new star will enter the solar system and cause the sun to explode, destroying all life on Earth. With only two weeks until the end, a method is found that will accelerate evolution so that new species of humans will live for thousands of generations, in the remaining two weeks.
Running time - 28:35 min
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Lux Radio Theater 43-02-08 The Maltese Falcon
This Lux Theater stars Edward G. Robinson as private detective Sam Spade, who, after his partner gets killed, searches for the killer and ends up involved with a group of nefarious characters all in search of a priceless statue of a falcon.
Running time - 58:36 min
Friday, April 26, 2013
Bickersons - 47-03-30 John's New Fishing Pole
The Drene Time program starring Don Ameche, Frances Langford, and Danny Thomas. Danny tries to convince Don and Frances that he's much more cultured than they believe. In The Bickersons, John and Blanche argue again over his snoring. Blanche believes she's sick. John finds out his brother-in-law has borrowed his fishing pole to snake out a clogged drain.
Running time - 28:52 min
Sherlock Holmes 1947-04-14 The Carpathian Horror
Holmes takes the case of a man who believes himself to be a murderous vampire, and the local people are coming to believe it as well.
Running time - 29:06 min
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Inner Sanctum - 8 Steps To Murder 6-4-46
A man devises a plan for what he believes will be the perfect murder, only, he can't think of everything.
Running time - 29:02 min
Behind The Mike 40-11-03 Sound Effects
Host Graham Mcnamee presents, among other stories, the story of how radio sound effects are produced. Also an interview with character actor Gilbert Mack.
Running time - 29:44
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Bob Hope 38-11-08 Guest - Chico Marx
Chico Marx visits the show and is ready to leave the moment he arrives. He talks Bob into buying a ticket to the Rose Bowl game.
Running time - 29:06 min
Green Hornet 39-06-08 Trouble Hits The Trolleys
The Hornet goes after the head of a bus company that seems to be involved in causing accidents to a competing trolley company.
Running time - 27:31 min
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Shadow 1948-05-02 Legend of the Living Swamp
Lamont Cranston is asked to investigate a swamp curse that threatens to kill an entire family.
*Note: Audio quality - fair.
Running time - 23:56 min
Jack Benny - 1937-04-18 Lady Milicent's Husband
The famous film star Jack Benny arrives on the show to be interviewed by Don Wilson. Jack later explains that he appeared as his own guest star because he was at Phil's Opening Tuesday and didn't get to say anything. Andy Devine drops in and talks about his experience at Phil's opening. The cast performs their play, Lady Millicent's Husband, for which Jack plays the title role.
Running time - 30:02 min
Monday, April 22, 2013
The Whistler 43-05-08 Death Has a Thirst
A wife desperate to cure her paranoid alcoholic husband,
arranges to take him on a sea voyage which goes terribly wrong.
Running time - 29;25 min
Fred Allen - Texaco Star Theater 42-12-06 Allen's Alley Begins
Fred and Portland take their very first trip down Allens' Alley, to ask who makes the better coffee, President Roosevelt or Mayor LaGuardia. Guest Georgie Jessel.
Running time - 29:00 min
Sunday, April 21, 2013
NBC University Theater 49-04-10 Moby Dick
NBCs' radio version of the Herman Melville classic, Moby Dick, stars Henry
Hull in this tale of a mans obsession with the destruction of a white whale.
Running time - 57:20 min
Lux Radio Theater 43-04-05 The Road to Morocco
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Ginny Simms star in this LUX Radio version of the classic hit film, Road to Morocco, where Hope and Crosby play two castaways who get mixed up in an Arabian nightmare when they're caught between a bandit chief and a beautiful princess.
Running time - 59:41 min
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Dark Fantasy 42-02-20 A Delicate Case Of Murder
A mediums' husband who wants a divorce but can't get one, arranges an accident for his wife.
Running time - 27:14 min
X Minus One 1955 Hello, Tomorrow
Following the 3rd Atomic War, the human race rebuilds civilization underground to escape the surface radiation, but over the years, lose all tolerance for those considered "genetically inferior".
Running time - 24:15 min
Friday, April 19, 2013
Quiet Please 48-08-09 The Thing on the Fourble Board
Workers on an oil rig discover something brought up from a mile underground, and then, the thing it belongs to.
Running time - 29:43 min
Danny Kaye 45-10-26 Jack Benny Substitutes
While Danny is overseas entertaining the troops, Jack and his gang guest host the show. After Jack returns home from watching a Danny Kaye movie with the gang, he starts to read a ghost story, and is visited by several ghosts.
Running time - 29:49 min
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Mysterious Traveler 52-06-17 The Green Plague
A scientist obsessed with perfecting a plant growth formula, succeeds beyond anyones ability to control the results.
Running time - 27:05 min
The Fat Man 49-07-22 Murder is the Medium
Brad Runyon, known as The Fat Man, exposes a medium as a fraud, and then must solve her murder.
Running time - 27:41 min
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Sherlock Holmes 45-12-31 The Iron Box
Holmes and Watson are invited to Dunbar Castle just in time to witness the transfer of an inheritance, but complications arise because the heir was born on a leap year.
Running time - 30:55 min
Unsolved Mysteries 1936 Lizzie Borden Case
The dramatic telling of the events surrounding the murder of Lizzie Bordens' parents.
Running time - 13:50 min
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Inner Sanctum 44-06-10 Death is a Joker
Peter Lorre stars as a comic actor who loses his temper with an obnoxious colleague and strangles him. He laters learns that his reason for doing so might now be irrelevant. Plus a preview of an upcoming show starring Boris Karloff.
Running time - 30:49 min
Jack Benny Program 37-04-11 Guests Burns and Allen
Gracie arrives to deliver a message from George, but George has to deliver it himself. The cast performs another episode of Buck Benny Rides Again, still trying to catch the outlaw Cactus Face.
Running time - 29:30 min
Monday, April 15, 2013
Suspense - Dunwich Horror with Ronald Colman 11-01-45
H.P. Lovecraft tale about a 'thing' conjured up by a deformed outcast which feeds only on massive amounts of blood.
Running time - 26:10 min
Nero Wolfe 51-03-30 The Telltale Ribbon
Nero and Archie investigate the death of a woman who received threatening letters typed on a typewriter found in her home, and leaving everyone in the household to be suspected of causing her death.
Running time - 29:09
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Out of This World 2-28-47 Dead of Night
The story of the ventriloquist and his dummy with a mind of his own.
Running time - 29:35 min
Thirty Minutes In Hollywood 37-10-24 Guest Judy Garland
Hosted by George Jessel. Seven-year old Josephine Starr sings an aria. Jessel introduces fifteen-year-old Judy Garland as his discovery. Judy sings, "Dear Mr. Gable." George Jessel and Bert Wheeler analyze the history of old jokes.
Running time - 30:34 min
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Dangerous Assignment - 49-08-13 - alien smuggling
Steve Mitchell is assigned to break up a Portuguese racket, smuggling aliens into the United States.
Running time - 29:30 min
Pabst Blue Ribbon Town starring Groucho Marx 2-26-44 guest Jack Benny
Jack visits Groucho for a vacation away from his radio show and doesn't want to
hear anything about radio, but that's all everyone wants to talk to him about.
Running time - 29:13 min
Friday, April 12, 2013
Weird Circle 44-03-12 Spectre of Tappington
A man on leave from service in India, recovering from a head wound, visits the manor house of his cousins. At evening, he's told a legend related to the manor, in which a stranger to the manor was found dead, and his trousers, which supposedly held important documents, were missing. The morning after hearing that story, and every morning afterward, the man awakes to find his own trousers missing, and claims to have seen the ghost taking them.
Running time - 26:12 min
Man Called X 1951-06-22 Vienna
Mr. Thurson becomes involved in Cold War intrigue in Vienna when he learns of a family dispute over the control of a pro western newspaper, run by friends of his.
Running time - 23:49 min
Thursday, April 11, 2013
The Shadow 48-11-28 The Wig Makers of Doom Street
Lamont and Margo investigate the disappearances of
women, which leads them to an elderly pair of wig makers.
Running time - 29:13 min
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Theatre Royal 54-01-30 Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Sir Lawrence Olivier stars in this Theater Royal production of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A dark tale of a respectable doctor, who creates a potion that transforms him into an evil murderer.
Running time - 29:01 min
Sherlock Holmes 1946-05-20 Haunting of Sherlock Holmes
Holmes, while on vacation, becomes witness to the arrest of a female spy, and upon hearing the evidence, refuses to investigate the case. Soon after, Holmes also witnesses the womans execution, but later hears the supposedly dead spy singing along while he plays his violin.
Running time - 28:53 min
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Jack Benny - 1937-04-04 Back From New York
The gang has returned from New York just in time for spring, and talk about their gardening. Phil gets Jack upset up about Fred Allen, then Don gets him upset about Phil. Andy Devine also drops by.
Running time - 29:30 min
Monday, April 8, 2013
The Adventures of Sam Spade 49-04-10 The Stopped Watch Caper
Spade takes on the case of a woman who claims to receive threatening
letters, which she can never find, and suddenly dies right in front of him.
Running time - 28:09 min
That Was the Year 37-06-14 Spotlighting the Year - 1933
Gerald Mohr narrates this program that highlights events from the year 1933.
Running time - 14:41 min
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Orson Welles Radio Almanac 44-06-07 D-Day Program
Orson cancelled the regular program to produced this special show following the news of the start of the D-Day invasion of France. It gives a dramatized perspective of what people at home were experiencing on those first few days, starring Agnes Moorehead.
Running time - 29:25
The Jimmy Durante Show 48-02-25 Goes To The Race Track
Jimmy welcomes Peggy Lee, Candy Candido, and Victor Moore to the show. Jimmy complains of insomnia, and Victor Moore invites him to the race track, where Jimmy accidentally buys a horse.
Running time - 29:32 min
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Lady Esther Presents The Screen Guild Players 43-04-26 Casablanca
The Screen Guild presents their radio version of Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart as Rick, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa, and Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo.
Cynical nightclub owner Rick, in possession of stolen Letters of Transit, learns an old flame and her husband, need them to escape the Nazis, but refuses to sell.
Running time - 28:38 min
Lux Radio Theater 40-06-17 After the Thin Man
This Lux Radio presentation of their radio version of After the Thin Man, stars Myrna Loy and William Powell as Nick and Nora Charles, introduced by Cecil B. DeMille.
Nora persuades Nick to help find a missing relative, who winds up dead, and his wife, Noras' cousin, accused of his murder, so Nick must find the real killer.
Running time 59:16 min
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