Those Old Radio Shows

The FBI In Peace & War - Strictly Business

From-1955

Martin Blaine & Donald Briggs

The FBI in Peace and War a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewsis Collins book, The FBI in Peace and War. The idea for the show came from Louis Pelletier who wrote many of the scripts. Among the show's other writers were Jack Finke, Ed Adamson and Collins.

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The Life Of Sherlock Holmes - The Strange Case of Murder In Wax

Announcer & Host-Harry Bartell

Stars-Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

One of the most sinister murderers who ever threatened the peace of London and is also known as The Hampton Heath Killer. Rose Bishop was the fifteenth girl to be murdered on the heath stabbed to death. Sherlock Holmes recognized the weapon as a collectors item a knife over 100 years old. Under the microscope he discovers wax on the knife which leads him to a waxworks exhibition.

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Mercury Theatre On The Air - Dracula

From-1938

Author-Bram Stoker

Announcer-Dan Seymour

Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins,

Elizabeth Farah & Martin Gabel

Bram Stokers' Dracula. 

The first show of the series starring Orson Welles

Dr. Arthur Seward, who presents the story based on documents, telegrams, clippings from the press of the day, memoranda, and letters in various hands and begins with excerpts from the private journal of Jonathan Harker. Harker recalls his journey to Dracula's castle with the purpose of sealing real estate deal for the Count in England. Harker meets his host and hears the wolves howling. Next night Harker begins to shave in his room and gets scared, when Dracula approaches him, as Harker saw no reflection of the Count in the mirror. 

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Abbott & Costello - Meet Bela Lugosi

Circa-1940s

Featuring-Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bele Lugosi,

Susam Miller with-Matty Matlock & His Orchestra

Abbott & Costello investigate Bela Lugois' home.

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Beyond Midnight - The Locked Room

Author-Michael McCabe

Cast & Crew-No Info-N/A

"Let us journey into the land that lies beyond midnight,

into a world of ghost hunters, men going mad".

Beyond Midnight-South African Author, director & producer-Michael McCabe. It aired in the 1960s, and featured stories about death, madmen, ghost and ghost hunters, and anything supernatural. Little information about the show is available, including the number of episodes, at least 70.

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The Haunting Hour - Ptolomey's Grave

From-1946

Host-Barry Kroeger, Various Actors

Cast & crew info-N/A

Over the tomb, which held the mummy of Ptolemy III, these words were written, “Death to him who disturbs the everlasting resting place of these sacred remains.” Two weeks ago William Cartwright a famous Egyptologist defied this curse. He bought the mummy and had it sent home. That same day he slowly walked down the stairs through his upstairs study. His wife Martha heard his familiar footsteps in the hall over the stairs, but she did not know that her husband was then walking in to nothingness, that he would completely disappear…

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Radio Mystery Theatre/Inner Sanctum Mysteries

Make Ready My Grave

From-1946

Host-Paul McGrath & Raymond Edward Johnson

Stars-Joan Banks & Santos Ortega, 

John Loomis brings his new bride to the family mansion, 

where she discovers the many nooses and learns the secret of the family curse!

Betty has just gotten married, and is in a state of euphoria which ends rather quickly.

First, on the train her husband gives her a gun and makes her promise to shoot anyone

who tries to kill her, even if it's him. Then she notices that he's absent-mindedly

twisted a bit of string into a hangman's noose. And when they arrive at his 

ancestral home, they find a freshly dug grave, waiting to be filled.

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The Great Gildersleeve - Election Day, Gildy Loses 

From-1944

Arthur Q. Bryan, Harold Peary, Jim & Marion Jordan, Lillian Randolph,

Walter Tetley, Richard LeGrand, Lurene Tuttle, Erle Ross,

Bea Benadaret, Shirley Mitchel & Ken Capenter(Kraft Cheese Announcer) 

Gildersleeve wins the election and becomes mayor of Summerfield...or does he?

Gildy is confident that no matter how the election goes he cannot lose. 

We find two eager officials Fibber McGee & Molly! The actual election returns, 

It’s late Sunday night and the final week of campaigning is over and only one day

remains before the good citizens of Summerfield go to the polls to cast their votes.

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Dark Venture - The Only Inhabitant

From-1946

Narrator-John Lake, w-Betty Moran & Dwight Hauser & William Tracy

Over the minds of mortal men come many shadows, shadows of greed and

hate, jealousy & fear. Darkness is the absence of light, so in the sudden

shadows which fog the minds of man & women, ought to be found the 

strange impulses which edge them into the unknown. 

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The Whistler - The Thief

From-1943

Announcer-Marvin Miller, Bill Forman-The Voice Of The Whistler,

w-CBS Staff & Crew

A strange story about a woman who meets her son for the first time, after he's grown up.

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