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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Richard Diamond, Private Detective starred Dick Powell as a wisecracking, song-singing former NYPD cop turned Manhattan private eye. In this episode, originally heard on 8 January 1950, a worried Italian butcher and his
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Inner Sanctum Mysteries was radio's beloved half-hour anthology of horror and macabre suspense, famous for its slowly creaking door and its smirking host Raymond. In "Voice On The Wire" (29 November 1944), a tormented ma
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NBC's gentle Thursday-night comedy turns the Anderson house into a museum of black cats, broken mirrors, and unlucky ladders in 'Superstitious Folk,' first heard 25 May 1950. Robert Young's Jim Anderson sets out to cure
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The Adventures of Sam Spade brought Dashiell Hammett's wisecracking San Francisco private eye to NBC every week, telling each new 'caper' with snappy banter, hard-boiled atmosphere, and a leading man who was equal parts
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From CBS's short-lived 1950 science fiction anthology Beyond Tomorrow -- the network's bid to rival Dimension X. In "The Trouble with Robots," a near-future household discovers that the real problem with mechanical serva
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BBC Radio's landmark 1953 science fiction serial. Captain 'Jet' Morgan and his crew are the first humans on the Moon -- and while exploring a vast lunar crater, Jet vanishes from sight without warning. As Doc, Mitch and
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Jack Webb's Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith work a string of high-priced shopliftings hitting Los Angeles department stores. Aired May 3, 1953 on NBC, "The Big Carney" is classic Dragnet: patient legwork,
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Welcome back to The Hall of Fantasy, the series of radio dramas dedicated to the supernatural, the unusual, and the unknown. In "The Dance of the Devil Dolls," originally broadcast February 9, 1953 on WGN Chicago and the
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Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled detective steps out of the pages of The Maltese Falcon and into his own radio show, with Howard Duff trading wisecracks with Lurene Tuttle's perfect secretary Effie. In this fourth broadcas
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Before Mayberry, Andy Griffith was a stand-up comic with a thick Carolina drawl and a knack for spinning a yarn. 'Ain't It So' is a short, folksy monologue from his 1950s Capitol and Colonial Records run -- the wide-eyed
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From 22 August 1948 on CBS, Howard Duff stars as Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled private eye Sam Spade in 'The Vaphio Cup Caper.' A priceless ancient Greek gold cup pulls Sam into a tangle of collectors, forgers, and char
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From the earliest weeks of Mutual's classic 1946 detective series, Bob Bailey stars as George Valentine -- the ex-GI private eye whose newspaper ad reads, "Danger's my stock-in-trade." A robbery brings a client to his do
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John Dehner stars as Paladin, the chess-knight gunfighter for hire, in a Gene Roddenberry-penned tale from 30 November 1958. On the road to Wickenburg, Paladin stops in the little town of Bluebell -- and a stretch of bad
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