Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre broadcast of H. G. Welles' War of the Worlds, in which an invading army of Creatures from the planet Mars devastates the Earth with its terrible destructive machines.
Running time - 59:19 min
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Mercury Theatre On The Air 38-10-30 War Of The Worlds
Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre broadcast of H. G. Welles' War of the Worlds, in which an invading army of Creatures from the planet Mars devastates the Earth with its terrible destructive machines.
Archie Andrews 48-10-30 Halloween Party
Archie talks his mom into allowing a Halloween party at the house, much to the frustration of his father who is forced to seek shelter in the kitchen.
Running time - 24:53 min
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Inner Sanctum 49-10-31 Corpse for Halloween
On Halloween night, a man encounters someone he thought he had arranged to be killed in a jungle, but has now returned to seek revenge.
Running time - 26:15 min
Jack Benny Program 37-10-31 The Devine Farm
Andy Devine invites the whole gang to his farm for a Halloween party in his barn.
Running time - 29:30 min
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Murder At Midnight 46-10-11 Deaths' Worshipper
After returning from an expedition in India, a man believing he has summoned the demon Shiva, commits a series of murders.
Running time - 26:32 min
Suspense 44-10-19 Eve
A woman desperate to prove the innocence of her husband who has been convicted of murder, tries to track down the real murderer, and finds him.
Running time - 30:26 min
Monday, October 28, 2013
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy 1944-10-29 Halloween with Orson Welles
Edgar gets mixed up trying to tell Charlie a ghost story. Edgar plans to give Charlie a surprise Halloween costume party. Orson Welles invites Edgar and Charlie to the museum where he is to give a lecture, but when the boys arrive, they find Orson working as a tour guide.
Running time - 28:43 min
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Lights Out 43-09-28 The Author and the Thing
Arch Oboler hosts and plays himself in this story. Arch has trouble coming up with a good story for the next show, but he's been thinking about a terrible monster for the past week. Suddenly the monster he created in his own mind appears in the room with him. The monster commits murders that Arch is blamed for, because no one sees it but him.
Running time - 28:56 min
Bing Crosby - Philco Radio Time 47-10-29 Boris Karloff and Victor Moore
Bing welcomes Boris Karloff and Victor Moore, and they make Halloween plans.
Running time 29:25 min
Saturday, October 26, 2013
The Judy Canova Show 47-09-20 American Life Magazines Story on Judy
Reporters show up to interview Judy for her life story, but after meeting her, they don't think much of her.
Running time - 28:29 min
Friday, October 25, 2013
Sealed Book 45-06-10 The Ghost Makers
A nephew hires a phony psychic professor to scare his aunt out of her estate.
Running time - 29:50 min
Mysterious Traveler 47-07-27 The Man the Insects Hated
A professor with an obsession to kill insects, and believes they want to kill him, is living in the swamps with his wife, trying to perfect a formula that will kill the insects instantly. A stranger arrives claiming to be a handyman looking for work and is hired, but later develops his own plans for the professors' formula, and his wife.
Running time - 29:11 min
Thursday, October 24, 2013
The Shadow 38-10-16 Night Without End
The city is in a panic after being blackmailed by criminals using a stolen black fog machine that has plunged the city into darkness. If 5 million dollars isn't paid, a poison gas will be added to the fog and kill everyone, and the Shadow is the only hope to save millions of lives.
Running time - 24:31
The Man Called X 48-02-22 Operation Silver
Ken Thurston is on the trail of a former Nazi agent, silver candle sticks, and hidden Nazi loot.
Running time - 21:56 min
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
The Jimmy Durante Show 47-10-22 Guest - Victor Moore
Guest Victor Moore joins Jimmy as pirates in a play, where they are looking for The Lady From Twenty Nine Palms.
Running time - 29:27 min
Sherlock Holmes 48-03-21 Death is a Golden Arrow
Holmes solves a case of murder committed using a powerful bow and arrow, that could only be fired by one man that Holmes believes could not be guilty.
Running time - 29:30 min
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Fibber McGee And Molly 48-10-26 Planting a Lawn Six Months Late
It's late October and Fibber rents a tractor and plans to plant grass seed for a new lawn.
Running Time - 29:43 min
Weird Circle 45-02-18 The Oblong Box
Survivors from a shipwreck are rescued along with an odd shaped box with a man strapped to it. One survivor, Edgar Allen Poe, relates to the captain of the rescue ship, the story behind their misadventure, only to be shown by the captain, the contents of the oblong box.
Running time - 25:07 min
Monday, October 21, 2013
Haunting Hour 49-05-23 Assignment Death
Three reporters believe they tricked a camera-shy mobster into getting a photo of him, but one of them disappears after developing the film, and now the other two fear for their lives.
Running time - 31:01 min
Eddie Cantor 41-12-17 Guest - Boris Karloff
Eddie talks about having appeared as a department store Santa Claus, and then Boris Karloff arrives and insists Eddie get him a doll. Eddie is in a panic after being warned that Karloff may try and poison him.
Running time - 29:40 min
Sunday, October 20, 2013
X Minus One 57-03-13 The Lights on Precipice Peak
A pair of mountain climbers attempt to reach some odd glowing lights atop a mountain. When one of the men becomes trapped after falling into a precipice, he's rescued by a strange otherworldly being.
Running time - 21:04 min
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Quiet Please 49-02-27 If I Should Wake Before I Die
An apathetic scientist, totally disinterested in the consequences of his research, becomes responsible for the deaths of his brother, much of the Earth, and the destruction of the moon, but doesn't care.
Running time - 29:37 min
Screen Director's Playhouse 49-11-18 The Uninvited
Ray Milland stars in this radio adaptation of the 1944 film; The Uninvited. The tale of a brother and sister who move into an old seaside home and discover it to be haunted by a ghost. The previous owners' granddaughter believes the ghost is that of her mother.
Running time 29:09 min
Friday, October 18, 2013
Inner Sanctum 45-11-06 The Wailing Wall With Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff stars as a man who murders his wife and bricks her up in a wall, but is not so sure she's dead, because of strange sounds coming from within the wall.
Running time - 25:41 min
Bob Hope 46-10-29 Guest - Fred Allen, Minerva Pious
Fred Allen and members of Allens Alley join Bob and Jerry Colonna in a play about the Ride of Paul Revere.
Running time - 25:42 min
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Dangerous Assignment 50-02-06 Missing Japanese Weapons
A shipment of Japanese weapons disappeared right before the end of the war, and are now believed to be somewhere in Panama. Steve Mitchell is assigned to replace another agent, a friend of his, that was killed trying to locate the weapons.
Running time - 29:20 min
Fred Allen - Texaco Star Theater 41-02-26 Western Union
Fred presents the News Of The Week and interviews victims of unscrupulous loan merchants, and then interviews a Loan Shark. Kenny Baker gets in character for the western sketch, changing his name to Bad Bill Baker, and changes Portland Hoffa into an Indian named Little Field Mouse. The question for the Texaco Roundtable is, "Should boys and girls consult their parents before getting married?" And the Texaco Workshop Players perform their version of, "Western Union".
Running time - 61:41 min
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Edward R. Murrow News 51-03-20 UN Troops Face Stiff Opposition
Murrow reports on, the war in Korea, the Senate Organized Crime hearings, sending more troops to Europe, the Shah of Iran declares martial law, atomic testing, and more.
Running time - 14:17 min
The Whistler 43-06-19 House of Fear
A young couple argue because the woman has decided to marry another man. The marriage doesn't work out and she leaves her husband, and runs into the man she jilted, and marries him. Later, workmen discover the body of her first husband.
Running time - 29:44 min
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Jack Benny Program 46-03-24 I Stand Condemned - Peter Lorre
Jack conducts the show rehearsal like a courtroom. Jack and the cast perform "I Stand Condemned", with Peter Lorre, about a man who meets a mysterious stranger who pays him a lot of money for his possessions.
Running time - 29:30 min
Monday, October 14, 2013
Hall of Fantasy 53-04-13 Demon of the Night
After a stranger moves into town, the sounds of a wolf are heard, and later some kind of animal breaks into a womans' house and kills her. She is only the first.
Running time - 22:20 min
Lights Out 42-10-13 Revolt Of The Worms
A scientist recounts the story of his obsession with inventing a formula for growing perfect roses, and the horror that his experiments unleashed.
Running time - 22:01 min
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Campbell Playhouse 39-03-17 Beau Geste
Orson Welles hosts the Playhouse production of Beau Geste, starring Laurence Olivier, Naomi Campbell, and Noah Beery. A jewel turns up missing, and so does Beau Geste who joins the French Foreign Legion followed by his two brothers. They find themselves stationed at a garrison in French North Africa under attack.
Running time - 43:36 min
The Weird Circle 1943 The Horla
An old man living alone, contacts his cousin and tells her he is in danger from a living shadow that wants to possess him.
Running time - 24:33 min
Saturday, October 12, 2013
The Witch's Tale 35-01-07 The Entomologist
On a ship sailing for South Africa, a young couple become engaged, but also on board is a mad scientist who has plans to rule the world, and wants the future bride for himself.
*Note: Audio quality poor, but I think still enjoyable.
Running time - 30:46 min
Friday, October 11, 2013
Unsolved Mysteries 1936 Harry Houdini's Challenge To Death
A dramatization of Houdini performing a dangerous escape trick, then explaining how he did it.
Running time - 14:21 min
The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre 47-02-10 Heavenly Days
Fibber McGee and Molly star in this radio adaptation of their 1944 film Heavenly Days. Mollys' cousin invites the pair to Washington D.C. for a visit, but Fibber doesn't want to go until he gets the idea that Washington needs to hear from an "Average Man".
Running time - 29:45 min
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Burns and Allen 40-08-12 Gold Rush Gracie
George talks about his vaudeville days. George and Gracie perform their version of the 1940 film Gold Rush Maisie, that they call Gold Rush Gracie.
Running time - 29:47 min
Lights Out 1938-03-23 The Dream
Boris Karloff stars in this fourth anniversary broadcast of Lights Out. Karloff portrays an accused murderer awaiting the return of the jurys' verdict. While waiting, he recounts to himself the events leading up to this day. He is a man who had never had a dream in his life, until he started dreaming of a demonic woman.
Running time - 29:56 min
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Sherlock Holmes 47-03-03 Queue For Murder
Holmes and Watson investigate murders committed by a member of an opium gang.
Running time - 29:46 min
Haunting Hour 45-08-18 People in the House
A young couple are forced to endure the sadistic torments of the husbands wealthy stepfather, who ultimately meets his fate at the hands of his own past.
Running time - 25:00 min
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
The Jimmy Durante Show 47-11-05 Guest - Bing Crosby
Jimmy has a music publishing company, and plans to get Bing Crosby to sing one of Jimmys' songs.
Running time - 28:56 min
Dangerous Assignment 49-08-06 Millionaire Murders
Steve is sent to Paris to investigate the murders of members of a group of millionaires who plan a merger to finance industry.
Running time - 29:03 min
Monday, October 7, 2013
The Shadow 38-01-23 The Society of the Living Dead
A crook under investigation, kidnaps his innocent business partner to try and force him to sign a confession to a crime he himself committed.
Running time - 29:20 min
Jack Benny Program 45-04-01 How Jack Found Phil
Rochester tells Mary that Jack has been made an Admiral in the Nebraska navy. Jack tells a reporter the story of how he met and hired Phil Harris.
Running time - 29:30 min
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Quiet Please 47-11-03 Take Me out to the Graveyard
A cab driver picks up a fare who wants to be taken to a cemetery, any cemetery, to die, but the driver puts him out before they arrive, but then the man dies. Months later, another fare wants to go to, any graveyard, to die. It happens again and again, and each still dies before reaching their destination.
Running time - 24:35 min
Easy Aces 43-01-2 Jane Is Driving A Bus For The War Effort
Jane and Dorothy are in charge of a bus to get war workers to their jobs, and when their boss tries to explain all the "man hours" lost because the bus is late, Jane causes more confusion.
Running time - 12:58 min
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Life of Riley 44-09-24 Making Each Other Jealous
Riley gets jealous when Peg hears from an old boyfriend. When he realizes that he's been taking her for granted, he brings her flowers and promises to take her out to dinner, but his friends talk him into going to a stag party instead. At 15:00 minutes into the program, there's a brief news bulletin about the war against Japan.
Running time - 29:41 min
Dimension X 50-09-22 Dr Grimshaws Sanitarium
A private detective, after having an auto accident with a suspicious hearse from a sanitarium, investigates posing as a patient. To his horror, he discovers fiendish experiments performed by a Nazi doctor.
Running time - 30:25 min
Friday, October 4, 2013
Escape 47-12-03 Taboo
People in a remote area of Hungary are forced to go into the woods to hunt down a werewolf.
Running time - 28:39 min