Classic Old Time Radio Thread

This thread will be dedicated to radio broadcasts from the 1930’s up to present time.

Yes there are still new radio broadcasts produced although it’s down to just a trickle from the Golden Era of Radio (1930-1962).

With the mass introduction to television in the 1950’s radio shows began to die out and it wasn’t until 1974 that long time creator and producer Himan Brown, (Dick Tracy,Flash Gordon,Inner Sanctum among others) revived the old radio dramas with the exceptional CBS Radio Mystery Theater did the public become reacquainted with this medium.

The CBS Radio Mystery Theater ran on local CBS affiliates across the United States from 1974-1982 with a total of 1,399 episodes broadcast over that time.

My first show I will be posting is the first CBS Radio Mystery Theater from January 6,1974 "The Old Ones Are Hard To Kill" starring Agnes Moorehead in one of her last appearances in any medium.

There were so many great shows broadcast over the years from comedy to suspense to adventure and all points in between with various genres.

It will be my attempt to cover them all within this thread, I am open to requests and suggestions and active participants are encouraged to contribute as well if the would like.

So close your eyes, find a comfy chair, shut out the outside world for a moment, and be transported to another time and place.

Bring ’em on.

Show: CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode: The Old One’s Are Hard To Kill
Episode#:1
Date: January 6, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Agnes Moorehead,Leon Janney, Roger De Koven

http://www.fileserve.com/file/5qhUYfj/CBSRMT#1.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode:The Return Of The Moresby’s
Episode#:2
Date: January 7, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Patrick O’Neal, Marian Seldes, Nick Pryor, Dan Ocko

http://www.fileserve.com/file/esCKa8f/CBSRMT#2.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode:The Bullet
Episode#:3
Date: January 8, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Larry Haines, Evie Juster, Ralph Bell, Martin Newman, Leon Janney, Dan Ocko

http://www.fileserve.com/file/VybqrGt/CBSRMT#3.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode:Lost Dog
Episode#:4
Date: January 9, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Kim Hunter, George Matthews, Robert Dryden, Mandy Patinkin, Gilbert Mack

http://www.fileserve.com/file/sZZKb7P/CBSRMT#4.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode:No Hiding Place
Episode#:5
Date: January 10, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Larry Haines, Jackson Beck, Anne Meacham, Sydney Walker, Tom Keena

http://www.fileserve.com/file/QDcgTth/CBSRMT#5.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode:Honeymoon With Death
Episode#:6
Date: January 11, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Lois Nettleton, Teri Keane, Tony Roberts, Norman Rose

http://www.fileserve.com/file/wqfvYeD/CBSRMT#6.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode: I Warn You Three Times
Episode#:7
Date: January 12, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Joan Loring, Mason Adams, Tom Keena, Alan Manson, Sam Gray

http://www.fileserve.com/file/yU8g8Gb/CBSRMT#7.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode: Cold Storage
Episode#:8
Date: January 13, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Ruby Dee, John Baragrey, Bryna Raeburn, Todd Davis, Roxie Roxer

http://www.fileserve.com/file/3P4yYzh/CBSRMT#8.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode: Death Rides A Stallion
Episode#:9
Date: January 14, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Mason Adams, Marian Seldes, Paul McGrath, Barbara Worthington, Harry Bellaver

http://www.fileserve.com/file/pQFeMPD/CBSRMT#9.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode: The Resident
Episode#:10
Date: January 15, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Carmen Matthews, Joan Loring, Gilbert Mack

http://www.fileserve.com/file/vdhCt5q/CBSRMT#10.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode: Account’s Receivable
Episode#:11
Date: January 16, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:William Prince, Joseph Julian, Ian Martin, Ralph Carter, Joan Lovejoy, Robert Dryden, Himan Brown

http://www.fileserve.com/file/w4vxGJn/CBSRMT#11.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode: You Can Die Again
Episode#:12
Date: January 17, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring:Richard Mulligan, Mandel Kramer, Marian Seldes, Bryna Raeburn, Gilbert Mack, Himan Brown

http://www.fileserve.com/file/4ssYHQb/CBSRMT#12.rar

Show:CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode: A Ring Of Roses
Episode#:13
Date: January 18, 1974
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:64K
Size:20MB
Starring: Glynnis O’Connor, George Petrie, Sydney Walker, Elspeth Eric, Holland Taylor, Carol Hilliard

http://www.fileserve.com/file/Eneeekv/CBSRMT#13.rar

Episode: 14
Title: The Girl Who Found Things
Air Dates: First Run – January 19, 1974
Repeat – March 8, 1974
Repeat – November 26, 1978
Plot: A couple takes in a young delinquent girl with a talent for finding lost objects — and dead bodies.
Actors: Norman Rose
Martha Greenhouse
Bryna Raeburn
Robert Dryden
Barbara Caruso
Ann Costello
Writer: Henry Slesar

http://www.peejeshare.com/files/362107121/CBSRMT_14.rar.html

Awesome, a dedicated thread! I love this! And wow, thanks for all these choices, particularly the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. I’ve never heard any of those shows, so this is a real treat for me.

Love the Lux Radio Theater, too. I have several of those, myself. DeMille was such a perfect choice as host – his voice fit the medium like a glove.

I’m jazzed about this thread! This is gonna be fun!

Archive.org has a TON of free OTR available. Go there and root around, the best audio quality is from the OTRR (Old Time Radio Researchers Group) folks. (I even put together a playlist that I call OTR Night – seven different playlists for each day of the week, about three hours each. Good stuff.)

I just saw that Radio Archives put out a box set containing the NPR Doc Savage stories from the mid-80s. Definitely gonna buy that one, as the bootlegs have wonky quality.

Show: The Lone Ranger
Episode: #915 – The Origin of Tonto (aka "Cactus Pete")
Date: December 7, 1938
Format: MP3
Bit Rate: 32K
Size: 6.59MB
Starring: Earle Graser (Lone Ranger) John Todd (Tonto)

http://www.filedropper.com/oldtimeradio-loneranger-1938-12-07-theoriginoftonto

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Thanks for the tip, KidFlash! Just went to go look – my God, that place is Old Time Radio Valhalla.

No problem. Also, there’s a blog out there called Static of the Mind I like. Between the two, there’s a veritable treasure trove of goodies.

Show:The Great Gildersleeve
Episode:Audition Program
Date:5-16-1941
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:32K
Size:7MB

http://www.fileserve.com/file/WjtmzFs/TGG51641.rar

Show:The Great Gildersleeve
Title:Arrives In Summerfield
Episode:1
Date:8-31-1941
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:32K
Size:6MB

http://www.fileserve.com/file/yGdSJHz/TGG83141.rar

Show:The Great Gildersleeve
Title:Marjories Cake
Episode:2
Date:9-7-1941
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:32K
Size:6MB

http://www.fileserve.com/file/aHuvUgZ/TGG90741.rar

Show:The Great Gildersleeve
Title:Leroy’s Paper Route
Episode:3
Date:9-14-1941
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:32K
Size:6MB

http://www.fileserve.com/file/SrZmrgt/TGG91441.rar

Show:The Great Gildersleeve
Title:Marjorie’s Girlfriend Visits
Episode:4
Date:9-21-1941
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:32K
Size:6MB

http://www.fileserve.com/file/wzUWDyn/TGG92141.rar

Show:The Great Gildersleeve
Title:Hiccups
Episode:5
Date:9-28-1941
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:32K
Size:6MB

http://www.fileserve.com/file/QwAB8Qg/TGG92841.rar

Show: The Lone Ranger
Episode: #915 – The Origin of Tonto (aka "Cactus Pete")
Date: December 7, 1938
Format: MP3
Bit Rate: 32K
Size: 6.59MB
Starring: Earle Graser (Lone Ranger) John Todd (Tonto)

www.megaupload.com/?d=K9O34B5W

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Thanks for the tip, KidFlash! Just went to go look – my God, that place is Old Time Radio Valhalla.

Thanks for The Lone Ranger I have an incredible collection Of The Lone Ranger myself, it’s very hard trying to decide what to post and what to leave in my collection.

Show:Gunsmoke
Episode:Billy The Kid
Date:4-26-1952
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:24K
Size:5MB

http://www.fileserve.com/file/4s3TSVJ/GS42652.rar

Show:Gunsmoke
Episode:Jalisco Pete
Date:5-10-1952
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:24K
Size:5MB

http://www.fileserve.com/file/D9ggJtc/GS51052.rar

Show:I Love A Mystery
Episode:Temple Of The Vampires Episode 1 Of 20
Date:1-2-1950
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:32Kbps
Size:3MB
Starring:Mercedes McCambridge,Tony Randall

http://www.fileserve.com/file/YbdYgvG/ILAM10250.rar

Anybody got any The Bob Hope Show (aka "The Pepsodent Show") episodes? In particular, I’m looking for one with the running joke, "It’s not far from the beach!" That show was recorded at Fort Ord, and Bing Crosby was a guest. Incredibly vauge, I know…!

Show:The Bob Hope Show
Episode:1-14-1953
Starring:Ft. Ord~Bing Crosby~Terry Moore
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:24K
Size:5MB

http://www.fileserve.com/file/H2cHZMM/BH11453.rar

Show:The Bob Hope Show
Episode:1-23-1953
Starring:Ft. Ord~Bing Crosby, Jimmy Demaret, Connie Moore
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:24K
Size:5MB

http://www.fileserve.com/file/jxUCeuA/BH12353.rar

Show:Nightbeat
Episode:Zero
Date:2-6-1950
Format:MP3
Bit Rate:32Kbps
Size:7MB
Starring:Frank Lovejoy

http://www.fileserve.com/file/AAfKUgz/NB20650.rar

Nightbeat is a great show. I will post more if there is an interest.

Ear Play!

Nightbeat is a great show. I will post more if there is an interest.

Oh, Night Beat is terrific. Here are my playlists (95% snagged from Archive.org and Static of the Mind). These are all worth checking out. My goal was to download enough that I would have 52 weeks worth of nightly radio. Not quite there yet, as I like to download as ‘the year’ goes on. I’ve had to replace some shows as some of my shows had short runs (and I prefer late 40s-early 50s radio). My original idea was to conform to real schedules as well, but that was too much work. Enjoy!

Monday
Dragnet
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
X Minus One
Escape
Lux Radio Theater

Tuesday
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
Rocky Fortune/Crime and Peter Chambers
The Adventures Of The Falcon
Dimension X
Suspense
Academy Award Theater/Screen Guild Theater

Wednesday
21st Precinct/The Lineup
Dr. Kildare
The Six Shooter/Tales of the Texas Rangers
Stand By For Crime/Mystery Is My Hobby
The Saint/Dangerous Assignment
Theater Five

Thursday
The Halls Of Ivy
Father Knows Best
Fort Laramie
The Adventures Of Phillip Marlowe
On Stage
CBS Radio Workshop

Friday
The Marriage/Our Miss Brooks
Frontier Gentleman/Luke Slaughter
Box 13
Boston Blackie
Crime Classics
Secrets Of Scotland Yard

Saturday
The Harold Peary Show
Bright Star
Theatre Royal
Philo Vance
Casey, Crime Investigator
Broadway Is My Beat

Sunday
The Big Show
Gunsmoke
Let George Do It
Night Beat

WildwoodPark, when you get a chance, can you re-up these? I hadn’t gotten all of them yet. Thanks.

WildwoodPark, when you get a chance, can you re-up these? I hadn’t gotten all of them yet. Thanks.

I dunno, what’s the last one you downloaded?

I dunno, what’s the last one you downloaded?

Um, well, from this thread, actually….uh….none of them….but I’d been meaning to! *blushing intensely*

No rush, my friend, no rush. Whenever you can, however much you’re willing to do, even just onesies & twosies.

But, if you don’t want to, it’s OK. I’ll understand.

New links added.

Wow, man, you rock. Thank you so much!

Earplay was the longest-running of the formal series of radio drama anthologies on National Public Radio, heard from 1972 into the 1990s. It approached radio drama as an art form with scripts written by such leading playwrights as Edward Albee, Arthur Kopit, Archibald MacLeish and David Mamet.

Airing in stereo, Earplay provided a showcase for original and adapted work. Eventually, the less-sustained successor series NPR Playhouse drew episodes from the Earplay run. Often presented by NPR member stations on a weekly basis, Earplay episodes were produced with much attention to recording technique and sound-effects.

In 1975, it scored a triumph with Listening, an original play written by Edward Albee for stereo radio, employing one speaker for one character and another speaker for another character. Since both characters are seated in a room, the illusion is created that they are in the same room as the listener. After its premiere on radio, Listening was later performed on stage.

Along with the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Sears Radio Theater, The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, Christian radio’s Unshackled and public radio’s The National Radio Theater of Chicago, Earplay was among the most ambitious nationwide projects in the medium in the U.S. during the 1970s and 1980s.
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22 episodes Internet archive Retrieved 2011 September 15

Here’s a download link for the Earplay series, from Archive.org –

http://www.archive.org/download/EARPLAYNPR/EARPLAYNPR_vbr_mp3.zip

*tap tap tap* Wildwood… Fileserve is no more…. 🙁

*tap tap tap* Wildwood… Fileserve is no more…. 🙁

Well they were when I posted those links 5 days ago.

That’s the reason I’m not re-upping things for a while.

Well they were when I posted those links 5 days ago….okee…sowwie….

CBSRMT Episode #14 added.

Just reviving this thread for anyone interested in Old Time Radio. Found this incredible site which contains all 1,399 episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which was broadcast from 1974-1982, all absolutely FREE to download in mp3 format or just listen to online.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater – Free Show Downloads | CBSRMT Episode Guide (http://www.cbsrmt.com/)

jvp3,

Thanks JVP3. Looking forward to this.

TRXSCOR

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And thanks WildwoodPark for the start-up.

TRXSCOR

Excellent thread!!! 🙂 I am a big fan of old time radio of all kinds, but my favorites are in the horror and SF genres…Lights Out, Quiet Please, Inner Sanctum, Dimension X, X Minus One…wonderful stuff. 🙂

Excellent thread!!! 🙂 I am a big fan of old time radio of all kinds, but my favorites are in the horror and SF genres…Lights Out, Quiet Please, Inner Sanctum, Dimension X, X Minus One…wonderful stuff. 🙂

Yes I love those old programs as well I have most all of them as well as comedies like The Great Gildersleeve, Amos & Andy,Jack Benny Show, Bob Hope etc.