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John Tefteller hosts The Good Old Days of Radio Show, a arts show with 495 episodes published.
Happy 4th of July again. This year, we are featuring yet another Norman Corwin production. This is a World War II-era Independence Day drama from 1944: "Home for the Fourth," featuring a score by Bernard Herrmann. It’s a
We're taking a look at a weird piece of broadcasting history, a 1955 episode of The Edgar Bergen Show from the twilight years of network radio. If you're expecting classic Charlie McCarthy, you may be surprised. By 1955,
We're returning to early Inner Sanctum this week to bring you a 1944 episode starring the incomparable Peter Lorre. Lorre plays a comedian who becomes convinced that he committed murder. As the story unfolds, paranoia ta
Tuesday is occasionally reserved for the bizarre, and we've got that for you today. The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental program, often with programs that defied conventional tropes. Originally broadcast in April 1
Today, we dig into a rare Inner Sanctum Mystery broadcast, with a very early 1941 episode starring Myron McCormick. According to most sources, only a fragment of this broadcast survived, but we have a transcription disc
This week, we’re spending some time with Jack Benny and the gang in a March 1947 episode of The Jack Benny Program, as Jack gets ready for a vaudeville tour that will take him to Chicago and New York. Jack's sophisticate
This week, we’ve got a rare find: Inner Sanctum Mystery with the long-lost 1944 episode “The Dream,” with an appearance by Orson Welles, of all people, as star on the show, at a time where Welles had reached the peak of
It’s the first Tuesday of the month again, and that means we’re bringing out a “lost” show. This week, we’re turning to comedy, and this one we consider quite special, as it belongs to the off-beat and somewhat infamous
Today we’ve got a mystery for you, and we’re asking help from all amateur and professional researchers in our audience: help us figure out this episode of Lights Out! We know it’s an early one, and that’s about it. It co
Today we’ve got a 1944 broadcast featuring Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks and the Wizard of Oz himself, Frank Morgan. They partnered together for a short time on Maxwell House Coffee Time, a condensed half-hour comedy/variet
We go all the way back to 1939 for one of the earliest surviving episodes of Lights Out, the sum total of which you can count on one hand. This one follows two hardened criminals on the run after a string of brutal crime
This week, we’re stepping into a big, star-packed 1946 radio special celebrating 45 years of Walgreens. Bob Hope plays host (and hotel owner) in a fast-moving comedy variety show signature of the era, filled with one-lin
This week, we wrap up our 10-part Crime Classics series with an unusual true crime story. John Tefteller is once again joined by researcher Karl Schadow and Bernard Herrmann expert Steven C. Smith to take a last look at
We're on the final week on our Crime Classics series on Thursday, and today we’ve got a fun late-era episode of The Phil Harris–Alice Faye Show from March 1954 to feature the comedy work of Elliott Lewis. The police are
This week, we dive into another famous true crime story, Crime Classics brings us “The Bloody, Bloody Banks of Fall River.” Host John Tefteller is joined by researcher Karl Schadow and Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven
This week, to enhance our Crime Classics episode from last Thursday, we have a Robert Bloch story that was talked about in that episode called, “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper,” presented on the Molle Mystery Theater. This
This week, we step into the foggy streets of Victorian London with Crime Classics, and possibly the most intriguing real-life unsolved mysteries of all time, “Good Evening, My Name Is Jack the Ripper.” John Tefteller, al
Today, we conclude our Lincoln-themed series through the lens of time travel, from The Mysterious Traveler, with a story about a physicist and a historian attempting to project a modern mind into the past, hoping to prev
This week, we take a more serious turn with Crime Classics and its 1953 episode that zooms in on a crime that had a tremendous impact on the nation, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Host John Tefteller, along with r
This week, we kick off a three-part series on Abraham Lincoln, to compliment our Crime Classics episode on Thursday. We're starting out with a 1938 broadcast from The Mercury Theatre on the Air, starring Orson Welles; a
Orson Welles
Dr. Patrick Cory · AFRS
2 appearances on this show
Frank Morgan
Wizard of Oz
2 appearances on this show
Dennis Day
1 appearance on this show
Steven C. Smith
author of Music By Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential
9 appearances on this show
John Tefteller
Paramount Records
3 appearances on this show
Alan Young
Professor, South Dakota State Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory and Chief Technology Officer for Medgene Labs · VitalChat
1 appearance on this show
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