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Step back to radio’s golden age—curated classics in comedy, mystery, drama, westerns, and adventure from the 1930s–1950s. Drawn from a library of 40,000+ restored episodes, with new selections added regularly.
Unknown Host hosts VintageRadioShows.com, a fiction show with 271 episodes published.
Tarzan brought Edgar Rice Burroughs' Lord of the Jungle to radio, and this holiday episode from the 1950s revival trades the usual outlaws and beasts for a quieter Christmas tale. In the isolated village of the Karmiki,
An English gentleman with a pen in one hand and a pistol in the other — Frontier Gentleman starred John Dehner as J.B. Kendall, a London Times correspondent roaming the American West of the 1870s. In this series premiere
You Bet Your Life was the quiz show that was really a comedy show, built entirely around the lightning-fast wit of Groucho Marx. This is the original audition recording — the demonstration disc that Groucho and producer
The Screen Guild Theater condensed Hollywood's biggest pictures into half-hour dramas, with the original stars reprising their roles and donating their fees to the Motion Picture Relief Fund. In this celebrated April 194
The Weird Circle was radio's syndicated home for classic horror, heard from 1943 to 1945, dramatizing the great tales of terror by Poe, Stevenson, Dickens, and Maupassant — all summoned by the toll of a great bell. This
Escape was radio's premier anthology of high-adventure drama on CBS (1947–1954), dropping listeners each week into life-or-death straits and tales of suspense and the supernatural. In "The Man With Steel Teeth," an ordin
Ride the frontier trail with the Robin Hood of the Old West. In this episode, Cisco and his loyal, wisecracking sidekick Pancho cross paths with the notorious Apache Kid, sparking a classic tale of mistaken identity, dan
Britt Reid, crusading newspaper publisher by day and the masked Green Hornet by night, wages a secret war on the racketeers the law can't reach. In this July 1939 adventure, a meat packing plant is being sabotaged, and t
One of old-time radio's most famous and controversial broadcasts. Three days before Christmas 1949, Sergeant Joe Friday is called out when nine-year-old Stanley Johnstone goes missing and bloodstains turn up in the backy
Our Miss Brooks was radio's best-loved schoolroom comedy, starring Eve Arden as the dry-witted English teacher forever pining for bashful biology teacher Mr. Boynton. In this May 7, 1950 episode, Mr. Boynton plans a barb
Step up to the microphone with the kings of comedy. In this March 30, 1944 broadcast of The Abbott and Costello Program, cool Hollywood tough-guy Alan Ladd drops by -- and that's all it takes for Lou to decide he was bor
Step through the famous creaking door once more. Inner Sanctum Mysteries was Himan Brown's masterclass in radio terror, hosted by the pun-loving Raymond. In "Death Is An Artist," first broadcast January 23, 1945, an arti
Step through the creaking door into Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Himan Brown's classic anthology of terror hosted by the sardonic Raymond. In "Death in the Depths," a deep-sea diver alone on the ocean floor lets his mind dri
America's favorite cheapskate is stepping out on the town! In this March 1954 broadcast from New York, Jack Benny gets gussied up for a big date with singer Gisele MacKenzie at the swanky Acme Plaza Hotel -- but his lege
Dick Powell stars as Richard Diamond, the singing private eye, in one of the series' most playful cases. What begins as a routine investigation turns into a gleeful send-up of the whole gumshoe genre after Diamond buries
From the BBC's beloved 1952-1969 Sherlock Holmes series, Carleton Hobbs is Holmes and Norman Shelley is Watson in Conan Doyle's greatest mystery. In Part 1, Dr. Mortimer lays before Holmes the legend of a spectral hound
George Burns and Gracie Allen bring their golden-age comedy to the air, and this 1940 outing finds George stuck with a pile of telephone charges -- until Gracie's wonderfully tangled logic about who really owes the money
From NBC's landmark science fiction series X Minus One comes Ray Bradbury's haunting Martian Chronicles tale. The Fourth Expedition lands on Mars to find its ancient civilization gone -- wiped out by chickenpox carried f
Paladin, the cultured gunfighter-for-hire of CBS Radio's Have Gun -- Will Travel, rides out on an unusual errand: to find Wylie Dawson and tell him he's no longer a wanted man. But clearing a name can be as dangerous as
Sydney Greenstreet stars as Rex Stout's brilliant, orchid-loving armchair detective Nero Wolfe in this 1951 NBC mystery. It's bullets on Broadway: when a prominent stage director is found murdered, Wolfe and his quick-wi
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