Escape presents “Ancient Sorceries,” episode 28, originally broadcast nationally on CBS on February 15, 1948. This sustaining production was adapted from Algernon Blackwood’s supernatural short story, written for radio by Les Crutchfield and directed by William N. Robson. The cast includes Paul Frees, William Conrad, Jeff Corey, and Ramsay Hill.

A traveler pauses overnight in an isolated Welsh town, only to find that its quiet, watchful residents seem to know him—and that the village exerts an unsettling pull he cannot easily explain. What begins as an ordinary stopover becomes an increasingly eerie encounter with the unknown.

The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:57 Original Broadcast
30:27 Closing

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X Minus One presents “The Martian Death March,” episode 17, originally broadcast on NBC on September 8, 1955. Written by Ernest Kinoy, this production remakes a script first heard on Dimension X in 1951.

On Mars in 1997, an Earthman recalls meeting John, a man sympathetic to the Martians confined to reservations, and Cantalcar, a displaced Martian Highlander. When Martians begin a dangerous desert journey toward their ancestral northern mountains, the story becomes a powerful science-fiction allegory of conquest, prejudice, and the meaning of home. Norman Rose narrates.

The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:59 Original Broadcast
24:25 Closing

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The Whistler, “Murder in Haste,” originally broadcast December 17, 1947, is episode 290. In this CBS Pacific Network presentation, sponsored by Signal Oil, Bill Forman stars as the ominous Whistler.

After a wealthy Miami woman dies, her husband Albert Taylor heads north by train under the watchful eye of a suspicious detective. Desperate to leave his past behind, Taylor glimpses a dangerous chance to take on the identity of a celebrated mystery writer. Written by Eleanor Beeson, this tense tale was a remake of a 1946 Whistler episode of the same title.

The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
30:17 Closing

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Dimension X presents “Mars Is Heaven,” episode 33, broadcast January 7, 1951. This NBC science-fiction drama adapts Ray Bradbury’s short story “Mars Is Heaven!”; the production was written for radio by Ernest Kinoy and is a rebroadcast of the version first heard in July 1950.

Captain John Black, played by Wendell Holmes, leads Earth’s first expedition to Mars in 1987. Instead of the alien landscape the crew expects, they find an eerily familiar small American town, where Black and Dr. Horst (Peter Capell) confront unsettling signs that Mars may hold more than anyone anticipated. Norman Rose narrates.

The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
26:11 Closing

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Suspense presents “The Moonstone - Part Two,” originally broadcast on CBS on November 23, 1953. This is episode 527 and the conclusion of a two-part adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s landmark detective novel.

As Franklin Blake and Sergeant Cuff continue their search for a remarkable yellow diamond that vanished from the Verinder estate, suspicion shifts inward among the household’s family, guests, and servants. Peter Lawford stars as Franklin Blake in this Richard Chandlee adaptation, produced and directed by Elliott Lewis.

The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:53 Original Broadcast
30:48 Closing

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Gunsmoke presents “Cavalcade,” episode 396, broadcast on CBS Radio on November 8, 1959. This airing repeats the original January 31, 1953 broadcast, with William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon and Parley Baer as Chester Proudfoot.

A deputy sheriff arrives in Dodge City from Richmond, Virginia, carrying murder warrants for two fugitives. When the names and an old photograph raise troubling questions close to home, Dillon must carefully sort evidence, duty, and friendship. Written by Les Crutchfield and directed by Norman Macdonnell, the episode also features Lawrence Dobkin as Deputy Ed Hunter.

The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:56 Original Broadcast
27:35 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Murder Comes at Midnight,” originally broadcast on September 9, 1946. Episode 283 stars Mercedes McCambridge and was written by Emile C. Tepperman, with Himan Brown directing and producing.

On a dark summer night in a rented country house, Ethel Canning waits alone while her young daughter sleeps upstairs. When a wounded stranger arrives claiming car trouble, a police bulletin raises chilling questions about the man at her door. This taut CBS mystery turns an isolated home and a nearby radio into instruments of mounting suspense.

The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
26:01 Closing

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Lux Radio Theatre presents “Mother Didn’t Tell Me AFRS,” originally broadcast November 16, 1954. This is episode 897, adapted from the 1950 Twentieth Century-Fox comedy-drama based on Mary Bard’s book The Doctor Wears Three Faces.

Dorothy McGuire reprises her film role as advertising-jingle writer Jane Morgan, opposite Frank Lovejoy as Dr. Bill Wright. After a rainstorm brings Jane to Bill’s office with a cold, their fast-moving romance encounters the everyday pressures of a doctor’s demanding career and the adjustments of young married life. The surviving AFRTS/Hollywood Radio Theater presentation is introduced by producer Irving Cummings.

The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:54 Original Broadcast
53:55 Closing

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Dragnet presents “The Big Make,” episode 66, originally broadcast on NBC on September 14, 1950. Jack Webb stars as Los Angeles police sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as his partner, Sergeant Ben Romero.

Friday and Romero investigate a violent holdup at Stendahl’s Bakery Shop, where the proprietor and his daughter have been wounded. With only limited information from the neighborhood bakery crime scene, the detectives begin assembling the facts in this early, tightly focused Dragnet robbery-detail procedural. The broadcast was sponsored by Fatima Cigarettes.

The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
30:12 Closing

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Escape presents “A Shipment of Mute Fate,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 15, 1947. Episode 10 stars Jack Webb and was written by Les Crutchfield, from Martin Storm’s short story of the same name.

In the Venezuelan port of La Guaira, collector Chris Warner arranges to ship a crated bushmaster snake aboard the liner Chan Kay, bound for New York. With the captain wary of the cargo and a stewardess attempting to smuggle her cat aboard, the voyage begins under increasingly uneasy circumstances. William N. Robson directed and produced.

The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:54 Original Broadcast
25:25 Closing

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