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Little Orphan Annie

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Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip, created by Harold Gray (1894–1968), that first appeared on August 5, 1924. The title, suggested by an editor at the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, was inspired by James Whitcomb Riley's popular 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie". Beginning when she was ten years old, Chicago actress Shirley Bell Cole (born 1920) starred on radio's Little Orphan Annie from 1930 to 1940. In 2007, she continued to make personal appearances talking about her experiences on the radio show. Her memoir, Acting Her Age: My Ten Years as a Ten-Year-Old (2005), won two awards at the Chicago Book Clinic's Book and Media Show. From 1931 to 1933, the radio show had two different casts, one in Chicago and one in San Francisco, daily performing the same scripts, many written by Ferrin Fraser. Floy Hughes portrayed Annie in the West Coast version. Little Orphan Annie began in 1930 in Chicago on WGN (720), and on April 6, 1931, with Ovaltine as the sponsor, the 15-minute series graduated to (MORE) .
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u570.jpgA WWII historical drama regarding an informal trial of a German U-boat officer in a POW camp.





Cast

Lt-Cmdr Hans Rahmlow David Ryall
Lt Bernhardt Berndt Nigel Lambert
Lt Wolfgang Stein Michael Deacon
Chief Engineer Michael Shannon
Lt-Cmdr Otto Kruger Paul Gaymon
Major Conrad Shulke Stephen Thorne
Lt Paul Faulk Alan Dudley
Cmdr Willi Leymann Trader Faulkner
Home Guard Captain Jack Carr
Corporal Sion Probert
Harmonica Harry Pitch


Saturday Night Theatre Radio Play
Running Time 88 Minutes.
1st Broadcast 22nd February 1975
2nd Broadcast 24th February 1975

The U-Boat That Lost Its Nerve (1975, SNT)

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Icons Radio Hour

ps.wkmzjdvh.170x170-75.jpgFrom April of 2007 through October 2008 Icons Radio Hour from MODA Entertainment left us with 50 shows. It was hosted by writer/director John Mulholand. Each week, John interviewed those who know classic Hollywood best - actors, writers, directors, producers, and their colleagues, family and friends. The premiere show was co-hosted by Stephen Bogart, son of Hollywood legends Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall.

You will find the shows entertaining and full of nostalgia.

This is an update to the post.  The website and shows do not exist online anymore, but I got them all before they disappeared a few years back. Here is the premiere show, co-hosted by Stephen Bogart, son of Hollywood legends Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall and writer/director & film historian, John Mulholland.

IRH01 - Steven Bogart son of actor HUMPHREY BOGART.mp3

I posted all 50 episodes here   http://ppl.ug/2Lp0bQ8vKxM/

This is truly a collection to keep !!!!

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Outlaw - Series One by Steve DeWinter (Audiodrama)

OutlawSeriesOne.jpg"Steve DeWinter's thriller brings his own retelling of the ultimate American legend, that of the lone ranger. Recorded with a full cast, musical score and sound effects, this re-imagining of America's favorite hero proves that one man can fight against insurmountable odds to keep the Wild West from falling into the hands of a ruthless tyrant."
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Outlaw - Episode One
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Dusty Knight is finally reunited with his brother only to have his past catch up with him at the same time. Dusty agrees to return to San Francisco to visit his dying father, only the road home is not without peril.

Outlaw - Episode Two
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Dusty enters San Francisco only to discover there is more to his past then he even knew. Dusty talks with his father and is quickly introduced to the problems plaguing the family after his departure fifteen years ago.

Outlaw - Episode Three
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The criminal element makes a move against the California Rangers and Dusty is forced to make a choice. With the California Rangers dead and the town overrun with bandits, the merchants demand protection, but Dusty can't do that without risking everything - and everyone.

Outlaw - Episode Four
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Dusty gathers the merchants together to scare off the bandits, but not everyone is working towards the same goal and while Dusty continues to thwart the bandit's plans, they get closer to finding his true identity.

Outlaw - Episode Five
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Dusty is captured and reunited with a lost relative, but only for a brief moment. Senator Hollister has other plans for this reunion.

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There used to be only two ways to listen to old-time radio in the early days of old-time radio. You could listen to a table model or you could listen to a floor model.

I will never forget visiting my grandparent’s house in Missouri, in the 50′s and listening to their floor model radio, as we listened to radio stations broadcasting out of Kansas City and Des Moines, Iowa. The sound was special as the voices really jumped out at you on such a large radio. It was fun listening to the Kansas City Athletics baseball games being broadcast over the airwaves. The Athletics lost most of the games but the chance to listen to listen to such a powerful radio was something I will never forget.

Old Time Radio Died 50 Years Ago

Nowadays we can listen to old-time radio shows in many different ways. Old time radio is said to have died 60 years ago, on September 30, 1962, but it can be listened to in a myriad of ways today.

Even before the day old-time radio “died”, there had been bakelite radios built to listen to the shows, Then transistor radios and cassette players started playing the old-time radio shows we loved so much.

MP3 CD Breakthrough

Then the shows could be heard on regular audio compact disc players in a sound system or a portable CD player. A major development occurred when the MP3 CD was invented, which enabled a MP3 CD to hold about 50 half hour old-time radio shows. Before the advent of the MP3 CD, owing a lot of old-time radio shows was cost prohibitive since cassettes and CD’s could only play a couple of shows on a tape or a CD.

The sales of MP3 CD’s filled with old-time radio shows accelerated when ebay.com had dealers, who had recorded the shows from a master copy and burned copies of the shows onto a MP3 CD and began selling them to old-time radio fans, much cheaper than a regular CD or cassette.

Cassette Dealers Stuck With Inventory

One bad thing about the popularity of the MP3 CD’s was that old-time radio dealers online, who had a backlog of cassettes to sell found it hard to sell their inventory, since old-time radio fans were flocking to the new technology.

The prices were too low for the old-time radio fans to ignore. For example I bought over 800 Jack Benny Shows for $12 total after shipping and 360 Amos and Andy shows for $7.

This very minute ebay.com lists 3,393 items if you type on old-time radio shows in the search box. This search includes 1,197 CD’s, 13 cassettes and 8 records.

Ways To Listen To Old Time Radio Today

MP3 player with speaker – There are some fine speakers out there that can produce a big sound. I have the Altec Lansing speaker to listen to old time radio. The sound is great for such a little speaker, but the cord is very flimsy and is about to break, so my speaker may not be long for this world.

MP3 Portable CD players – These look like a regular portable CD player, but play MP3 CD’s which a regular portable CD player won’t play.

Portable DVD players – You can play MP3 CD’s on these players, even though they are known more for their ability to play movie DVD’s.

DVD players – MP3 players can be hooked to a DVD player via a USB cord and anything on your MP3 player can be played on your television. A complete list of everything on your MP3 player will show up on the screen and you choose which old-time radio show to listen to. This is by far the best sound I have heard listening to an old-time radio show. It is great for listening to shows with a lot of action like detective shows and westerns. Can’t wait to hear Gangbusters with all that racket. A flash MP3 player can connect directly to the DVD player.

MP3 Radios – Some radios now have MP3 capability via a line in or in the case of an I-Pod a dock to listen to the shows.

Sound systems – Some sound systems can now play MP3 shows via MP3 discs or using a FM transmitter which if tuned to the correct frequency will play anything in your MP3 player.

Car MP3 players – There are some cars today that have MP3 line in on the dashboard, so you can listen to old-time radio shows, while others can play the shows with a FM transmitter in the car tuned to the correct frequency on the car radio.

Note: Dialing in the right frequency with a FM transmitter is an exact science. I have had difficulty with shows cutting in and out, when using a FM transmitter. They can be very frustrating, unless they are making them better today.

MP3 players – A built-in speaker on some MP3 player enables the listeners to hear the shows from the MP3 player itself, but the ones I have heard don’t have that great of a sound.

Computers – You can listen to thousands of free old-time radio shows at such sites as archive.org, otr.net. radiolovers.com and too many more to mention them all.

So there are a multitude of ways to listen to old-time radio shows today. The old-time radio cassettes can even still be played on the few cassette players still being produced. This is a great time to be an old-time radio fan, with so many ways to listen to the shows.

Happy old-time radio listening!!!

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Bold Venture - High Quality Set

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Bold Venture is a 1951-1952 syndicated radio series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Morton Fine and David Friedkin scripted the taped series for Bogart's Santana Productions.

Salty seadog Slate Shannon (Bogart) owns a Cuban hotel sheltering an assortment of treasure hunters, revolutionaries and other shady characters. With his sidekick and ward, the sultry Sailor Duval (Bacall), tagging along, he encounters modern-day pirates and other tough situations while navigating the waters around Havana. Aboard his boat, the Bold Venture, Slate and Sailor experience "adventure, intrigue, mystery and romance in the sultry settings of tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean."

 

I have posted the collection I have of Bold Venture. It is the ZIV collection captured in high quality 128-44

 

You can view here

http://otrarchive.blogspot.com/2009/09/bold-venture.html

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Lum and Abner

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From 1931 to 1955, the Lum and Abner radio show brought the town of Pine Ridge (Montgomery County), into the homes of millions of listeners across the country. During World War II, Armed Forces Radio took Lum and Abner around the world.

Chester “Chet” Lauck and Findley Norris “Tuffy” Goff, two young comedians from Mena (Polk County), created the characters when they were invited to appear on a statewide flood relief broadcast over KTHS radio in Hot Springs (Garland County) on April 26, 1931. Seconds before being introduced, they created the names Lum Eddards for Lauck and Abner Peabody for Goff.

The two old codgers (Lauck and Goff were actually in their late twenties) ran the Jot ‘Em Down General Store in Pine Ridge. Lum was a bachelor with an eye for women, and his ego usually got in the way of common sense. Abner was a hen-pecked married man, and his gullibility was enormous. They were civic-minded merchants who never seemed to have any money in the cash register. Their schemes for grandeur always brought them to the brink of tragedy.

Additional characters were created for later broadcasts. Lauck portrayed Cedric Wehunt, and nosey Grandpappy Spears, while Goff became Dick Huddleston (the real store keeper in Waters, the town upon which Pine Ridge was based), schemer Squire Skimp, shy Mousey Gray, Mose Moots the barber, town-meany Snake Hogan, and many others. Each character was based on a composite of old friends from Waters and Mena.

The Lum and Abner show was set in the Jot ‘Em Down Store in Pine Ridge. On April 26, 1936, the citizens of Waters changed the town’s name to Pine Ridge in honor of Lum and Abner.

Their humor was clean and honest, reflecting small town life and human nature. The stories had universal themes that have not become dated, and therefore Lum and Abner continues to be popular with old-time radio fans.

KTHS groomed the young talent on Sunday broadcasts for just a few months, and then they auditioned in Chicago for a network show on NBC radio. Lum and Abner was picked up immediately and continued for almost twenty-five years, including 5,800 daily live fifteen-minute programs. A series of contracts saw them on the air for four radio networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, and Mutual), sponsored by such major companies as Quaker Oats, Ford Motor Company, Horlick’s Malted Milk, Alka Seltzer, General Foods, and General Mills.

Lum and Abner was the first network program broadcast from Radio City in New York 11032204700?profile=originalin 1933, the first to do a marathon charity broadcast, and the first to make a transatlantic “simulcast,” with Lauck in London and Goff in Chicago. Their promotions of war effort causes during World War II were especially successful. Their sponsors offered premiums that are now collectibles.

As a result of their radio popularity, Lum and Abner broadcasts moved to Hollywood studios in 1939 in order for the actors to pursue careers in motion pictures. The pair made six movies during the 1940s: Dreaming Out Loud (1940), The Bashful Bachelor (1942), So This is Washington (1943), Two Weeks to Live (1943), Going to Town (1944), and Partners in Time (1946). Lum and Abner Abroad (1956) was made in Europe as a television pilot, with the two characters as Hollywood personalities. Lauck and Goff did not like the result, and it was not released to theaters; it is now sought-after piece of Lum and Abner history.

Lum and Abner began as a lark in Mena, traveled to Hot Springs, and grew in Chicago and other cities. Hollywood fulfilled the dreams of two small-town boys. Early broadcasts were carried by local sponsors, but soon, nationwide sponsors reached into millions of homes. After nearly twenty-five years of radio, television made inroads into audiences, and the programs were again locally sponsored. By 1955, the two were ready to quit, as Norris Goff had been in poor health for many years. Their concept has been copied on such programs as Beverly Hillbillies and by the comic strip “Li’l Abner,” which is often confused with Lum and Abner, but the original has never been equaled.

Lum and Abner made a small town in Arkansas world famous. Today, Pine Ridge is home to the Lum and Abner Museum. The National Lum and Abner Association was founded in 1984 and has 600 members nationwide. (Encyclopedia Of Arkansas)

 

L&A 480926 A Surprise Party For Lum And Abner


L&A 481003 The Store Is Pratically On Someone Elses Property


L&A 481010 Baby Cedric The Mind Reader


L&A 481017 Lum Fakes A Broken Leg


L&A 481024 Lum Becomes The Substitute Postmaster


L&A 481031 Lum Takes Up Surrealist Painting

 

 

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Grand Ole Opry Remembered

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Here is a rare episode of the Grand Ole Opry that Flatt & Scruggs appeared on in 1956. Can you recall watching this live, would like to here your comments.

Host: Carl Smith - Guests include: Buddy Ebsen, Chet Atkins, Collins Kids, The Jordanaires, June Carter, Flatt and Scruggs, Minnie Pearl, etc. Sponsored by Purina with original commercials from April 28, 1956. One interesting scene is Buddy Ebsen dancing for Minnie Pearl in a pair of cowboy boots.



 
 
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Boldventure.jpgCarl Amari, an American film and television producer, actor, director and syndicated radio host, creator of "When Radio Was" has spent his 40+ year career dedicated to preserving and licensing original radio shows. His syndicated nostalgia radio show, Hollywood 360, airs on hundreds of radio stations in the U.S. and in 168 countries via American Forces Radio. Amari is producer/director of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas and the curator of the Classic Radio Club, where fans of original radio shows can collect them directly from the master source material.

Ziv's entire private collection of over 10,000 transcription discs (which have been stored in a controlled environment) has been exclusively licensed to Carl Amari. 

I was contacted by Doug Hopkinson who will be transfering and handling  the digitalization of the Transcription Discs. There will be a Kickstarter in the future to help with the cost of this process.

Bold Venture, which has NEVER been available as a complete series before, is only one of 41 different radio series that can be found in the private collection of Frederic W. Ziv.

Ziv produced a total of 78 programs of the Bold Venture radio series. All 78 programs will be consistent in audio quality, due to the condition of these archival discs, due to the hi-tech ultrasonic wash system that will be employed and due to the array of styli widths that will be available for use. All programs will be digitally recorded and saved in raw 16 bit wav files. At least 18 of these programs have not been heard in 70 years since they were last broadcast over radio.

If this Bold Venture Kickstarter proves successful, there will be future Kickstarters for other vintage radio series from this private collection of un-played discs. These other COMPLETE radio series include Boston Blackie, The Cisco Kid, I Was A Communist for the FBI, Philo Vance, Favorite Story and Mr. District Attorney just to name a few...

When I have more information on this project, I will pass on the details for anyone that may be interested. September 23 is the projected date.

Robert

 

 
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Lux Radio Theater

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I will be posting some high quality episodes of Lux Radio Theater on the COTR Podcast the next few days. Some of these shows might be some you have never heard before and are not in the Archives. Below is the first two post and you can watch the podcast link for additional post if of interest.

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Test Pilot from Lux Radio Theater aired May 25, 1942 starring Robert Taylor, Rita Hayworth and Robert Preston. The show opens with Cecil B. DeMille and Rita Hayworth giving a message to the armed forces.

An irresponsible test pilot''s wife and best friend try to get him to grow up.

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The Reformer And The Redhead from Lux Radio Theater aired Jun 25, 1951 srarring in their original role Dick Powell as Andrew Rockton Hale and June Allyson as hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire.
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

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Just One More Thing - Columbo!

00001columbo.jpgBroadcast 27 July 2011, BBC Radio 4.

SYNOPSIS
The Hollywood actor Peter Falk, whose name became synonymous with the TV character Columbo  played the part for 35 years. In a program first heard in 2007, crime-writer Mark Billingham delves into the mystery that was one of the small screen's greatest detectives.

The raincoat, the cigar, the spluttering convertible car, the villain's deed in the first scene and the final "...just one more thing". The American TV detective series Columbo was a literature inspired, award winning, rule breaking television original.

Billingham tracks down the unusual suspects who made it possible including star Peter Falk, creator William Link, writer Steven Bochco, director Jonathan Demme and guest star villain Robert Vaughn.

Producer: Peter McHugh.

 

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Jack Benny: Comedy in Bloom (1992)

 11032206668?profile=originalNarrated by Tom Smothers, this affectionate biography features classic clips from Benny's award winning television program, rare photographs, vintage footage and home movies. Interviews with Benny himself and with longtime close friends George Burns, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore, Carol Burnett and Ann-Margaret, shed light on the real Jack Benny who was far from the penny-pinching, vain and exasperating character he portrayed in his routines.

 

 

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I first made the acquaintance of Ann Blyth on the film set of the filming of Danger Signal (1945). Warner Bros had borrowed Ann for this film. But burring filming, Ann suffered a broken back in a sledding accident while briefly vacationing in Lake Arrowhead and her mother and aunt went to Lake Arrowhead for a week. Ann had to be replaced in the role. It was burring this time that, Ann and became friends I would push her around in that wheelchair day after day for over a year and a half in a back brace). It was also at that time I made the acquaintance of Charlie Marie Gordon we also have been friends for a very long time. After two years Ann got a cameo roll with Universal she was still her in her wheelchair-in Brute Force (1947).

It was a close friend, Charles K. Feldman, a talent agent since 1932, who first Introduced Me to Ann Blyth.

It was Feldman negotiated on behalf of Hawks to direct Sergeant York (1941), the Jesse L. Lasky independent production that became a box office smash. During World War II, Hawks and Feldman organized H-F Productions an independent company that acted more like a liaison with the studios to provide the director more creative leverage. H-F acquired talent and story properties, developed material, and then sold each project as a package to a studio, usually with Hawks as producer-director. Two Hawks successes at Warner Bros. originated in this manner, To Have and Have Not (1944) and The Big Sleep (1946).

On vacation in Lake Arrowhead wilh Ann Blyth these photos were taken before her sledding accident. (see my photo album( - ("My time behind a film camera"). Just a few of my still photos of Ann Blyth.

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History Of The Pinkerton Agency - The First Private Eye

We_never_sleep.jpgThe Pinkerton National Detective Agency, usually shortened to the Pinkertons, is a private U.S. security guard and detective agency established by Allan Pinkerton in 1850. Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln, who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during the Civil War.

In the 1850s, Allan Pinkerton met Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in a local Masonic Hall and formed the North-Western Police Agency, later known as the Pinkerton Agency.

Historian Frank Morn writes: "By the mid-1850s a few businessmen saw the need for greater control over their employees; their solution was to sponsor a private detective system. In February 1855, Allan Pinkerton, after consulting with six midwestern railroads, created such an agency in Chicago."

 

History Of The Pinkerton Agency - The First Private Eye

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Adventures Of The Falcon, The (OTRR Certified)



"This hard boiled spy drama began as an RKO Radio Pictures theatrical serial in the 1940s, went on radio in 1943, and then came to TV around ten years later in a Syndicated series produced for distribution by NBC
Films; the series was about an American agent whose code name was "Falcon".

The success of the films led to a radio series that premiered on the American Blue Network in April 1943, and aired for the next ten years on various networks. It was here that his transition into a private eye was finalized, with The Falcon, now called Michael Waring working as a hardboiled insurance investigator, with an office and a secretary, Nancy.

Barry Kroeger was the first radio voice of The Falcon, followed by James Meighan, Les Tremayne, George Petrie, and Les Damon. Nearly all the shows were broadcast from New York.

You can find more about the series and shows in the Collections Group
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Devil in a Blue Dress - by Walter Mosley

devilinabluedress.jpgWalter Mosley's thriller, read by Paul Winfield. Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1990 hardboiled mystery novel by Walter Mosley, the first of his mystery novels featuring Easy Rawlins, a black private detective in post-World War II Southern California. The novel addresses issues of race and gender, as well as the post-war condition of black Americans. The plot follows Rawlins as he has been hired to find a woman who is involved in a brewing political scandal. The book was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name, which starred Denzel Washington as Rawlins, and also featured Jennifer Beals, Tom Sizemore, Maury Chaykin, and Don Cheadle as the unhinged "Mouse". Five episodes of approximately thirty minutes each - episode summaries witheld to avoid spoiling the plot.   ADULT CONTENT

Devil in a Blue Dress - 1.mp3
Devil in a Blue Dress - 2.mp3
Devil in a Blue Dress - 3.mp3
Devil in a Blue Dress - 4.mp3
Devil in a Blue Dress - 5.mp3
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Spy Catcher

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A series of true stories of the unceasing search for enemy spies in War Time, based on the memoirs of Lieutenant Oreste Cornel Pinto of the Allied Counter Intelligence service Oreste Pinto was a Dutch Intelligence Officer whom General Eisenhower called "the greatest living expert in security." The radio program, Spy Catcher, was based on Pinto's work in the Allied Counter intelligence Service.

Each episode has Pinto interrogating a political refugee or seeming Allied Serviceman. Using all the psychological and verbal tricks at his command, Pinto tries to prove that the subject is a Nazi Spy. Spy Catcher was penned by Robert Barr, and starred Bernard Archard as Pinto. Barr went on to write twenty six episodes for Radio, with Archard continuing his role.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Memoirs_of_sherlock_holmes.jpgThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

Adventure 1: “Silver Blaze”
Sherlock Holmes investigates the disappearance of a race horse and the murder of its trainer.
Adventure 2: “The Yellow Face”
A man asks Holmes to investigate the strange behavior of his wife.
Adventure 3: “The Stockbroker’s Clerk”
Sherlock Holmes is faced with a case involving a man that is lured away from his place of business and is caught up in strange activity.
Adventure 4: “The Gloria Scott”
While in college, Holmes visits a friend and strikes a tender spot when talking to his friend’s father. This leads him into his investigation of a mystery involving blackmail.
Adventure 5: “The Musgrave Ritual”
Two of Musgrave’s domestic servants disappear after he catches the butler looking at the Musgrave ritual. He asks for Holmes’s assistance in finding them.
Adventure 6: “The Reigate Puzzle”
Holmes becomes involved with a case that involves a robbery of an invaluable assortment of things and then the murder of a coachman of a nearby estate.
Adventure 7: “The Crooked Man”
Holmes calls Watson to witness his last move in a case about the murder of a colonel. His wife is the prime suspect because they were having an argument when he died.
Adventure 8: “The Resident Patient”
A man is found in an unusual business agreement and entreats Holmes for his help.
Adventure 9: “The Greek Interpreter”
A man comes to Mycroft Holmes and tells him of his strange encounter. Sherlock Holmes then becomes involved because of his brother’s laziness.
Adventure 10: “The Naval Treaty, Part 1”
Dr. Watson receives a letter from an old friend that tells about a treaty that was stolen from his office. Watson refers the letter to Holmes to investigate.
Adventure 10: “The Naval Treaty, Part 2”
A conitnuation of part 1 in which Dr. Watson receives a letter from an old friend that tells about a treaty that was stolen from his office. Watson refers the letter to Holmes to investigate.
Adventure 11: “The Final Problem”
Holmes arrives at Watson’s home after escaping three murder attempts and a threat from his nemesis Moriarty. Holmes is determined to bring Moriarty to terms in order to uphold justice and make his career.
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The Screen Guild Theater

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The Screen Guild Theater was a popular radio anthology series during the Golden Age of Radio, broadcast from 1939 until 1952, with leading Hollywood actors performing in adaptations of popular motion pictures such as Going My Way and The Postman Always Rings Twice.

The show had a long run, lasting for 14 seasons and 527 episodes. It initially was heard on CBS from January 8, 1939 until June 28, 1948, continuing on NBC from October 7, 1948 until June 29, 1950. It was broadcast on ABC from September 7, 1950 to May 31, 1951 and returned to CBS on March 13, 1952. It aired under several different titles: The Gulf Screen Guild Show, The Gulf Screen Guild Theater, The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater and The Camel Screen Guild Theater.

George Murphy hosted the show in 1939. In 1940, Roger Pryor began hosting the show. The show began as a general variety show and later changed formats to include old time radio versions of popular films. It starred most of the big name Hollywood celebrities of the time.

Actors on the series included Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Eddie Cantor, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Jimmy Durante, Nelson Eddy, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Johnny Mercer, Agnes Moorehead, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore. Fees these actors would typically charge were donated to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, in order to support the creation and maintenance of the Motion Picture Country Home for retired actors. The series came to an end on CBS June 29, 1952.  Visit show page here.

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Radio Hall of Fame

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The Radio Hall of Fame was a variety show that ran from 1943 to 1946, sponsored by Philco, featuring the very best in comedy, drama and music while starring some of the greatest performers of the 1940's, such as Fred Allen, Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx, Jimmy Durante, Andrews Sisters, Burns and Allen just to name a few.


Radio Hall of Fame.zip (All Shows)


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RHOF_43-12-12_002_Carmen_Jones.mp3
RHOF_43-12-26_004_New_Years_Message.mp3
RHOF_44-01-02_005_First_Song_Valencia.mp3
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RHOF_44-02-06_010_First_Song_Beso_Mucho.mp3
RHOF_44-02-13_011_Jane_Eyre.mp3
RHOF_44-03-05_014_First_Song_Take_It_Easy.mp3
RHOF_44-04-30_022_No_Uncommon_Clay.mp3
RHOF_44-05-07_023_Moral_Victory.mp3
RHOF_44-05-14_024_In_The_Fog.mp3
RHOF_44-05-21_025_Times_Square.mp3
RHOF_44-06-04_027_Take_It_Easy.mp3
RHOF_44-06-11_028_First_Song_Salt_Water_Cowboy.mp3
RHOF_44-06-18_029_First_Song_Louise.mp3
RHOF_44-06-25_030_Dont_Sweetheart_Me.mp3
RHOF_44-07-02_031_Stars_And_Stripes_Forever.mp3
RHOF_44-07-09_032_Lady_Of_Spain.mp3
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RHOF_44-07-30_035_Suzy.mp3
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RHOF_44-08-13_037_Sweet_And_Lovely.mp3
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RHOF_44-09-03_040_Blue_Room.mp3
RHOF_44-09-10_041_Lady_Be_Good.mp3
RHOF_44-09-17_042_Dance_With_The_Dolly.mp3
RHOF_44-09-24_043_All_Star_All_Request_Program.mp3
RHOF_44-10-01_044_Wilson.mp3
RHOF_44-11-05_049_The_Evil_War.mp3
RHOF_44-11-12_050_Condemned_In_Paris.mp3
RHOF_44-11-19_051_Brooklyn_Dodgers.mp3
RHOF_44-11-26_052_The_Two_Mrs_Carrolls.mp3
RHOF_44-12-03_053_A_Bell_For_Adano.mp3
RHOF_44-12-10_054_First_Anniversary_Show.mp3
RHOF_44-12-17_055_Judy_Garland.mp3
RHOF_44-12-24_056_The_Happy_Prince.mp3
RHOF_44-12-31_057_Showboat.mp3
RHOF_45-01-07_058_Now_And_Then.mp3
RHOF_45-01-14_059_Thank_Dixie_For_Me.mp3
RHOF_45-01-21_060_Breakfast_In_Hollywood.mp3
RHOF_45-01-28_061_Evelani.mp3
RHOF_45-02-04_062_Experiment_Perilous.mp3
RHOF_45-02-11_063_Victor_Herbert_Tribute.mp3
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RHOF_45-02-25_065_Earl_Carroll_Tribute.mp3
RHOF_45-03-04_066_The_Tell-Tale_Heart.mp3
RHOF_45-03-11_067_Believe_It_Or_Not.mp3
RHOF_45-03-18_068_Vic_And_Sade.mp3
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RHOF_45-04-15_072_Music_Loved_By_All_The_World.mp3
RHOF_45-04-22_073_Alter_Ego.mp3
RHOF_45-05-06_075_Paul_Whiteman_Salute.mp3
RHOF_45-05-13_076_Mothers_Day_Special.mp3
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RHOF_45-05-27_078_George_Gershwin_Salute.mp3
RHOF_45-07-22_086_Everytime.mp3
RHOF_45-07-29_087_Guest_Gloria_Agostini.mp3
RHOF_45-08-05_088_Landing_Craft_Musical.mp3
RHOF_45-08-12_089_The_Navajo_Trail.mp3
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RHOF_45-08-26_091_Georgia_Gibbs_Birthday_Party.mp3
RHOF_45-09-02_092_I_Want_To_Be_Happy.mp3
RHOF_45-09-16_094_School_Days.mp3
RHOF_45-09-23_095_One_Road_Mary.mp3
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RHOF_45-11-11_102_Honoring_Oscar_Levant.mp3
RHOF_45-11-18_103_Honoring_Gene_Kelly.mp3
RHOF_45-11-25_104_Honoring_The_Metropolitan_Ope..>
RHOF_45-12-02_105_Guest_Kate_Smith.mp3
RHOF_45-12-09_106_Guest_Eddie_Cantor.mp3
RHOF_45-12-16_107_Guest_Judy_Canova.mp3
RHOF_45-12-23_108_Christmas_Program.mp3
RHOF_45-12-30_109_Guest_Sophie_Tucker.mp3
RHOF_46-01-06_110_Guest_Ralph_Bellamy.mp3
RHOF_46-01-13_111_Guest_Don_McNeill.mp3
RHOF_46-01-20_112_Annual_Film_Critics_Award.mp3
RHOF_46-01-27_113_Guest_Red_Skelton.mp3
RHOF_46-02-03_114_Guest_Abbott_And_Costello.mp3
RHOF_46-02-10_115_Guest_Jerry_Colonna.mp3
RHOF_46-02-17_116_Guest_Jack_Haley.mp3
RHOF_46-02-24_117_Guest_Jimmy_Durante.mp3
RHOF_46-03-03_118_Guest_Bob_Crosby.mp3
RHOF_46-03-10_119_Guest_Hedda_Hopper.mp3
RHOF_46-03-17_120_Guest_Lionel_Barrymore.mp3
RHOF_46-03-24_121_Guest_Agnes_Moorehead.mp3
RHOF_46-03-31_122_Guest_Walter_Pidgeon.mp3
RHOF_46-04-07_123_Guest_Larry_Storch.mp3
RHOF_46-04-14_124_Guest_Roland_Young.mp3

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