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From the earliest weeks of Mutual's classic 1946 detective series, Bob Bailey stars as George Valentine -- the ex-GI private eye whose newspaper ad reads, "Danger's my stock-in-trade." A robbery brings a client to his door, and Valentine and his sharp-tongued secretary Brooksie set out to untangle who's pulling the job and who's covering for whom in this 8 November 1946 broadcast.

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John Dehner stars as Paladin, the chess-knight gunfighter for hire, in a Gene Roddenberry-penned tale from 30 November 1958. On the road to Wickenburg, Paladin stops in the little town of Bluebell -- and a stretch of bad luck costs him his money, his gun, and his horse, while somehow leaving him with the affections of a woman. Was it a fair exchange? Tune in and decide.

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Alan Ladd is Dan Holiday, the novelist who runs a classified ad inviting trouble. In this June 1949 episode, an ex-convict named Johnny Tide returns to his hometown of Watertown with revenge on his mind, and Holiday finds himself walking a tightrope between a paroled man's grudge and the people he means to punish.

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The BBC's landmark science-fiction serial Journey Into Space returns with the opening chapter of "The Red Planet," first broadcast 6 September 1954. Captain Jet Morgan faces a press corps of eager reporters as he prepares Discovery and her crew -- Lemmy, Doc, and Mitch -- for an epic flight to Mars. Charles Chilton's space-age adventure was the last BBC radio drama ever to outdraw its television rivals.

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The Jack Benny Program turns the spotlight on its longtime announcer in "The Don Wilson Story," a January 10, 1954 CBS broadcast that plays as part affectionate roast and part tribute. The Benny troupe -- Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Dennis Day, Mel Blanc, and bandleader Bob Crosby -- trade gags about Don's hearty laugh, his Lucky Strike pitches, and his improbable twenty-year tenure beside Jack, while the cheapest man in radio milks every moment for a punchline.

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From the syndicated 1950s juvenile space serial Planet Man comes 'Three D Dantro,' the eleventh chapter in the adventures of Dantro, lawman of the League of Planets. When the Planet Man's identity is suddenly doubled, Dr. John Darrow, his daughter Pat, and engineer Slats must figure out which Dantro is the real one before an impostor turns the spaceways to chaos. Atomic-age pulp fun for kids of all ages.

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From April 24, 1950: NBC's globe-trotting thriller sends Brian Donlevy's Steve Mitchell into the Alaskan cold on the trail of two missing American scientists -- one of them a former Nazi whose loyalties may not have thawed with the war. A pulp Cold War manhunt where the wrong handshake can get a man killed and the right one might save a continent.

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George Burns lands in the dock and Gracie Allen takes the stand -- on the same week her made-up 'Surprise Party' presidential campaign was tearing up the headlines. From September 2, 1940 over NBC, a vintage half hour of golden-age radio comedy as only Burns and Allen could play it, with announcer Truman Bradley and Ray Noble's orchestra along for the ride.

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Five Dollar Frankie barges into Sam Spade's office swearing he's been swindled out of a guaranteed winner by Gentle Joe Higgins, a notorious horse-doper with a "sure thing" up his sleeve. Spade smells more than a fixed race, and the deeper he digs, the meaner the tip turns out to be. From radio's golden age, this 1951 NBC chapter of The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective stars Steve Dunne as Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco private eye, with Lurene Tuttle as the unflappable Effie Perine.

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From the postwar heyday of radio crime drama, a reformed jewel thief turned amateur detective takes on a chilling murder. Joe Lang has killed his wife Sally and buried her in the basement under fresh concrete -- but when his rattled accomplice runs to Boston Blackie for help, the body vanishes and the house goes up in flames. Inspector Farraday is closing in, the killer is one step ahead, and the truth turns on a twist nobody saw coming. Originally broadcast August 13, 1947, starring Richard Kollmar as Boston Blackie.

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