The Good Old Days of Radio Show

Nero was the Roman Emperor of what ancient city? Tom Howard, George Shelton, Lulu McConnell, and Harry McNaughton are back with It Pays To Be Ignorant!, the quiz show spoof. This is another never before released episode from August 17, 1945.

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It's our Christmas show! Bring your kids of all ages. We have a wonderful Christmas tale for you about a charming old gentleman with a snowy white beard who may or may not be the jolly personage we all know. It's Miracle on 34th Street, starring Edmund Gwenn reprising his classic role of Kris.

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Happy Christmas week! Today we feature a brilliant comedian, Red Skelton. Skelton's clean, super charged comedy style centers around a cast of characters he portrays, including Clem Kadiddlehopper and the Mean Widdle Mean Kid, and they are still hilarious now. This is one of the funniest Christmas shows ever aired on network radio.

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Today on our top science fiction series, we journey to the Middle Cretaceous with a group of time travelling sportsmen. So grab your Continental .600, and let's go get a nice Tyrannosaur head to hang over your mantle in L. Sprague de Camp's exciting adventure/sci-fi yarn, "A Gun For Dinosaur."

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A few weeks ago we brought you Dracula from Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre. Today we set sail for Treasure Island with Orson Welles's second excursion into classic literature from the "first person singular," an excellent adaptation of this Robert Louis Stevenson adventure classic beautifully crafted for radio.

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This week, we have a mouse infestation of a most unusual kind. A mild-mannered mouse, the bi-product of an experiment in a top secret laboratory, causes all sorts of mayhem when he asks the government to remove the trap from his front door.

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Today we're dropping you in the middle of a 40-year legacy with a show from what many consider the number one comedian on radio, everyone's favorite vain, insecure tight-wad, Jack Benny. This show revolved around a  large cast of characters, and each became well-known to listeners, even splitting off into shows of their own, as you will hear in this episode from 1946.

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John's selection of 10 best science fiction radio shows continues today, with a creepy story of "lifelike" dolls with an evil streak, bent on world domination. This story was written by George Lefferts, a man who was responsible for bringing many classic science fiction short stories to the air.

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This week John introduces the first episode of a short running comedy series starring the Capitol Records comedy artist, Stan Freberg, and a host of other iconic cartoon voices. Stan came late to radio, but he was a lifelong advocate for audio invention and imagination well after the end of the golden age, and here he is at the top of his game.

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Happy Thanksgiving from The Good Old Days of Radio Show! Today you can enjoy your turkey and mashed potatoes, and we brought a special treat of our own. Walt Disney's Pinocchio, but this time, a fun comedy version with Baby Snooks and Daddy, and Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) in a hilarious take on Jiminy Cricket.

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