The Good Old Days of Radio Show

On today's episode, a full hour humorous, strange, unique fantasy from the golden age, about a prize fighter who dies in the first minutes of the story. Cary Grant was great on radio and gives a wonderful, sympathetic performance here.

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Today we kick off a new series as John presents his top 10 list of science fiction stories produced on radio in the 1950s. Today's episode features the bewildering tale by Ray Bradbury of space explorers to Mars who discover an impossible dreamlike world that is too good to be true.

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Today we travel to the early 1950s and listen to an exciting and technically superb production from the series Dragnet, a game of cat and mouse with a man holding a bomb in his lap who threatens to blow up city hall if his brother isn't released from prison by 9 o'clock.

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Today we finish off the current series of “Top 10 Horror” with an episode of Inner Sanctum. Lots of people knew this show only as “The Creaking Door,” so iconic was the show’s opening sound effect. This one stars Universal Studio’s most famous monster, Boris Karloff, a henpecked husband haunted by “The Wailing Wall.”

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Prior to the release of beloved classic The Wizard of Oz in 1939, MGM produced a full hour "behind-the-scenes" promotional/variety show with the original cast, Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Bert Lahr, and Ray Bolger, hosted by Robert Young. If you're a fan of the movie, and if you love the music, this show is a real treat.

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There are many intense performances on radio, and the Suspense series was well-known for pushing actors to their limits. As we near the end of our current horror series, John presents maybe the most disturbing in this series about a couple of sisters, one of whom is insane, and the other is, well, also insane.

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One of the most popular types of programs during the '40s and '50s were quiz shows. This week, by popular demand, It Pays To Be Ignorant returns, the zany quiz show spoof, with Tom Howard, George Shelton, Lulu McConnell, and Harry McNaughton as the crazy panelists in this never before released episode from August 10, 1945.

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Happy Almost Halloween! Today we’re going to break from our usual “top 10” horror shows to bring you our Trick or Treat special, a story with a dark sense of humor, cleverly penned by perhaps the best dialogue writer on radio, Wyllis Cooper. “Don’t Tell Me About Halloween” concerns a man stuck in a difficult relationship... with a witch!

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During World War II, many programs were made for overseas broadcast. Today’s podcast features such a show, perhaps the best ever done, “Dick Tracy in B Flat.” There is a staggering cast of big name stars here, including Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, and the Andrews Sisters.

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It wasn't often the series Suspense did a story of the supernatural, but when they did it was extraordinary. As we approach Halloween, today’s podcast features one of the best ghost stories from this era, about a disc jockey who decides to spend a night in a haunted house.

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