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Hosted by John Tefteller · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 500 episodes
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Radio collector John Tefteller presents the best of mystery, comedy, horror, and adventure stories, produced by the the greatest writers, directors, composers, and stars.
John Tefteller hosts The Good Old Days of Radio Show, a arts show with 500 episodes published.
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our Whistler series with a 1946 sustaining broadcast titled "The Broken Chain." The story follows Arnold Stanton, a man convinced the only way out of hi
This week, we're starting something we have meant to do for awhile: The Horn Blows At Midnight radio broadcast on The Ford Theater (starring Jack Benny and Claude Rains). It is an entertaining program by itself, but what
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our Whistler series with a terrific 1944 episode titled "Death Sees Double." At the center of the story are identical twin sisters whose lives are torn
This week we have something unusual; two rare Henry Morgan broadcasts from the early days of World War II, both preserved from original transcription discs and unheard by collectors for decades. The first program aired o
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our Whistler series with a 1944 episode about an artist who commits the perfect crime,,, or so he thinks. When a wealthy woman provides him with an unex
We've got another round of ridiculous comedy with a 1945 Armed Forces Radio Service broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant. Host Tom Howard and his panel of "experts", including Lulu McConnell and Harry McNaughton, take the
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our journey through The Whistler with an early episode from June 1943. "Shadow of a Mind" comes from a time before the series settled into the style fan
We're headed to Camp Elliott in 1943 for a wartime broadcast of The Bob Burns Show, also known as The Arkansas Traveler. This episode has a little bit of everything: Bob Burns' down-home humor, a sketch about military tr
This week, we're joined once again by radio historian Dr. Joe Webb for a new 10-week series, this time dedicated to the popular thriller series, The Whistler. We’re starting off with a rare episode that few listeners hav
Today we wrap up radio's most creative late comedies with the final broadcast of The Stan Freberg Show from 1957. By this point, Stan Freberg had already made a name for himself as a voice actor and hit recording artist,
Today it’s a 1947 episode of Escape featuring a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic story, "The Country of the Blind." Starring the versatile Paul Frees, it's a social commentary dressed up as an eerie adventure stor
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, and we are bringing you another “lost" program, the long-missing 1947 fall premiere of The Henry Morgan Show. Back from his summer break, Morgan wastes no time taking aim at everythin
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
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Dr. Patrick Cory · AFRS
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Dennis Day
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Steven C. Smith
author of Music By Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential
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John Tefteller
Paramount Records
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Dr. Alan Young
Professor, South Dakota State Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory and Chief Technology Officer for Medgene Labs · VitalChat
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