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Aunt Mary was a soap opera that follows a story line which appears to have been broadcast in 1945 and early 1946. The plot features a love triangle and involves a young woman in a failing marriage who pays an extended visit to "friends" in Los Angeles to conceal a dark secret from her father and others back in Wakefield. Mary Lane owns a small farm on the outskirts of Wakefield, where she raises chickens and acts as a steadying influence on her live-in niece Peggy and hired hand Lefty Larkin, who has quite a secret of his own. We learn a lot about the farm and the daily routine oflife there. A...

The show, originally targeted to preschool aged children, featured a large cast of characters. Keyes wrote the dialog, wrote, and performed the songs, and voiced all the characters. Characters included Clickety-Clack the wooden man, Yip the wooden dog, Wooly the puppy, Happy Duck, Bugler Murphy, President Pip and many more. Many of the characters did not speak actual words but made noises that Story Man or President Pip interpreted for the children. For example, Clickety-Clack made tapping sounds, Bugler Murphy's voice sounded like a tooting horn. After some dialog with the characters, the ...

Based on real life news stories, Big Story featured murder and other violent crime cases from the point of view of a newspaper reporter. A unique and exciting format, Big Story dramatized a different news reporter and their heroic deed each week. According to the ads of the day, this program starred "a reporter who has solved a crime, exposed a corrupt political administration, smashed a racket, or performed some other notable public service. At the end of each program the real news reporter was brought on the air and given a $500 reward by the sponsor of the show, Pall Mall.Listen to our ...

The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall, or simply Leonidas Witherall, was radio detective series based on the character created by Alice Tilton (the pseudonym of mystery writer Phoebe Atwood Taylor). Walter Hampden starred as Leonidas Witherall, the William Shakespeare look-alike who worked as an instructor on a boys’ school in New England. Witherall was also an amateur detective and an author at the same time. In the series, he wrote the "popular Lieutenant Hazeltine Stories." The show first aired on Mutual Broadcasting on June 4, 1944, every Sunday evenings for half an hour. It ended less ...

“Nick Harris Detective” was an old-time radio show that dramatized the cases of Nicholas Boilvin Harris, a renowned private detective in Los Angeles. The real Nick Harris started as a police reporter for the LA Times before joining the LAPD at the captain’s request. He later founded his own detective agency and a professional detective school. His popularity and success led to the creation of the radio show, which aired from 1923 until 1942, making it one of the longest-running detectives shows of its time.The show was known for its thrilling and complex cases, often rivaling those of ...

Police Headquarters was a 1932 crime radio drama. Bruce Eells Associates produced this series which was syndicated to West Coast NBC radio stations. Each program lasted for about 15 minutes: music was featured in the first part of the show, an announcer would do a commercial or two, then the 12 minute episode would follow. A total of thirty-nine episodes were produced.The program centered on a citizen reporting a crime via telephone and police use of two-way radio to set up a dragnet to find criminals and solve cases. While the programs were based upon actual cases, they were presented in the ...

The Mysterious Traveler was an anthology radio series that ran from 1943 to 1952. It was hosted by a mysterious narrator who would introduce each episode with the following words:This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the strange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. The series featured a wide variety of stories, from fantasy and science fiction to straight crime dramas of mystery and suspense. The narrator would often play a role in the stories, but he was always more of a guide than ...

These fifteen-minute episodes of mystery and espionage from the 1939 broadcasts begin with a prolonged organ intro so the local announcer could get in a couple of commercials for the local furniture store or dairy! Each single episode lasted about 12 and 1/2 minutes, but each "case" is quite interesting and exciting. Walter Pidgeon Agent K-7 is a mild-mannered narrator of these stories. He doesn't sound or seem very heroic or interesting... which would make him even more effective as a spy! The spy's best disguise is a perfectly ordinary and uninteresting demeanor. The radio actors who brought...

The mysterious black rider who leaves his mark on all those who are bad in the world, Zorro zips about on his stallion slashing Z's about the countryside. Zorro is a fictional hero with fast sword skills living during Mexico and Spanish California hacienda culture. The inspiration for Zorro is thought to be Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro is thought to have been the inspiration for such human pulp heroes as Batman, The Phantom, and Green Arrow. Zorro (Spanish for Fox, and a by-word for cunning or devious) is the superhero secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega. He has many ...

Suspicion was not your regular whodunit radio show. On the air in the mid 1930s, the show featured murder and mayhem like normal but there was no solution at the end. Instead, the listening audience was instructed to listen for a clue because there was always a clue that lead to the solution. Audiences were then encouraged to mail in the solution before the next show.Talk about a captive audience! If listeners wanted to know who committed the crime and if they guessed the correct clue, they had to listen to the next show. If you missed the show, you were out of luck!Listen to our radio station...

The Anderson Family is a fairly typical Family Situation Comedy, featuring a noble but semi-inept father, a loving and sometimes acid wife, and a precocious scamp who seems to have more on the ball than his parents. In this case, the program is a showcase for one of radio's longest lasting scamps, Walter Tetley, also known for playing nephew Leroy on The Great Gildersleeve and the delivery boy Julius who had a crush on Alice Faye on the Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show.Listen to our radio station Old Time Radio https://link.radioking.com/otradioListen to other Shows at My Classic Radio https://...

Squad Cars. One of the most popular radio programmes ever broadcast in South Africa. Week by week a dramatized story of the South African Police at work would unfold. The series originally went out for broadcast on Sunday evenings. After 6 months the programme moved to it's familiar Friday night 7.30pm slot on Springbok Radio.

Tales of Antiquity (1975–1976) - Written & Produced by Kenneth Hendel. Broadcast on Springbok Radio, on Sunday evenings. The original series ran for 30 minutes per episode. The series made a brief appearance on Radio South Africa in 1986 but this time running for only 15 minutes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sherlock Holmes Radio Station Live 24/7 Click or copy linkhttps://live365.com/station/Sherlock-Holmes-Classic-Radio--a91441----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Springbok Radio of South Africa produced many original radio shows including Walk Softly Peter Troy. Peter Troy was a show modeled after all of the hard-boiled, noir type detective shows. Set in London, the show featured fast women and lots of action. Keeping with the detective tradition, there was also the friend/enemy detective.

The Crime Club was an imprint of the Doubleday publishing company, which later spawned a 1946-47 anthology radio series. Many classic and popular works of detective and mystery fiction had their first U.S. editions published via the Crime Club, including all 50 books of The Saint by Leslie Charteris (1928-1983). The imprint also published first editions in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu series. The Crime Club began life in 1928 with the publication of The Desert Moon Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan and ceased publication in 1991. In the intervening 63 years, The Crime Club published 2,492 titles. ...

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Listen to Classic Radio Shows. From time passes by, let your imagination run wild.The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio era, was an era of radio programming in which radio was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1960s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice for scripted programming, variety and dramatic shows.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-men-from-the-ministry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...