Today we travel back in time to July 19, 1948 for the first real episode of this long-running comedy starring Eve Arden as the title character.

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Today we travel back in time to May 10, 1952 for the third episode of Gunsmoke, a long-running and very high quality series.

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Today we travel back to August 8, 1964 for the second episode of Theater Five. This was part of an ABC anthology show which was an attempt to revive the radio drama. This was known as Theater Five because an episode aired each weekday at 5:00 (drive time) and there were five episodes each week. These episodes are about 20 minutes each so the rest of the half hour time slot could be filled with ads and a news update.

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Today we travel back in time to June 8, 1936 for a presentation of The Thin Man. This is a radio adaptation of the wildly popular movie starring the original movie leads, William Powell and Myrna Loy.

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Today we travel back to November 3, 1935 for the first show featuring singer Kenny Baker. The formula that would carry Benny and team through the next 35 years is evidenced here. Jack and team allude to themselves being on the radio or needing to be somewhere to be on the radio. There is also a somewhat offensively (for our time) stereotypical (for the original time) portrayal of an Italian immigrant character.

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Today we travel back in time to April 22, 1950 to a story set "in the future" of 1960. In this episode, a professor describes the force he has named "dynamopsychism." Today, we call it telekinesis. The episode features topics on everyone's minds at the times, nuclear war, robots, science moving too fast for its own good.

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Today we travel back in time to June 24, 1942 with the second episode of this long running show. Today's story is an adaptation of a short story that was well-known to the original audience. This episode features Joseph Kearns, who was one of the CBS radio stalwarts, appearing in thousands of shows over the years.

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Today we travel back in time to August 30, 1942 for an episode of Command Performance, which was a show done as a morale booster for the American armed forces during WW-II. One of the tag lines for the show was that they would keep going "until it's over, over there." There would often be mentions of specific service members who had written in or sent a telegram to request their favorite stars of the era.

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Today we travel back in time to September 20, 1953 to hear James Stewart as Britt Ponsitt, the unusual gun fighter who rarely uses his gun. Instead, he uses his brains to get out of trouble.

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This is the second episode of Box 13 and was syndicated in 1948. Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday in a very well-produced series.

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