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Father Knows Best is one of old-time radio's warmest domestic comedies — and in "Time For a New Car," Jim Anderson proves once again that stubbornness has its limits. Jim is absolutely convinced the family automobile is perfectly sound. Daughter Betty calls it a wreck. Jim makes his case with confidence, gives the fender a reassuring tap to prove his point... and the fender falls right off. Robert Young is at his easygoing best in this quintessential family comedy moment from the golden age of American radio.

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James Stewart is Britt Ponset, the soft-spoken drifter who always seems to ride into trouble at exactly the right moment. In "The New Sheriff," Ponset arrives in Virtue City as a heated election for sheriff pits a smooth-talking political operator against the town blacksmith — and a warning to stay out of it guarantees he won't. Warm, witty, and quietly thrilling, this is The Six Shooter at its best: small-town justice, frontier democracy, and Jimmy Stewart doing what only Jimmy Stewart could do.

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Captain Lee Quince has bigger problems than a brawling regimental band — a Washington delegation hellbent on banning beer from every Army post in the West is coming to Fort Laramie. When Trooper Harrison casually demonstrates how vanilla extract, peppermint, and cologne can be turned into something potable, the Committee on Moral Improvement gets a frontier education it never expected. A sharp, dry comedy from one of old-time radio's most underrated Western series, starring Raymond Burr and produced by the team behind Gunsmoke.

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Lady Lilian has made up her mind — she is leaving her cold, loveless marriage to the wealthy financier Richard Garson and running away with Hugh Paton, the man she truly loves. She has exactly half an hour. Adapted from J.M. Barrie's taut 1913 one-act play and featuring the legendary Sir Ralph Richardson, this intimate drama from ABC Mystery Time wrings extraordinary emotional tension from a compressed, almost real-time timeframe. In the space of thirty minutes, desire and duty collide — and fate has the final word.

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Jim Brandon — biochemist, crime-fighter, and master of invisibility — picks up three chilling thought-waves on his Telepathic Indicator: the sound of lapping water, howling wind, and a desperate voice crying out the name "Scrawny." Then Inspector White calls with the news: a body has just washed ashore. In this atmospheric mystery from 1945, The Avenger takes to the waterfront to untangle a murder hidden beneath the tide — armed with his wits, his Secret Diffusion Capsule, and a mind tuned to frequencies most men never hear.

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It's the episode that launched a legend. On April 26, 1952, CBS Radio premiered Gunsmoke — and the first thing Marshal Matt Dillon faced was murder, a grieving widow who used to love him, and a dangerous young man going by the name of Billy. This is the series premiere: raw, morally serious, and gripping from the first shot fired in Dodge City.

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A sinister campaign of anonymous letters has thrown a community into turmoil — and Ellery Queen is called in to unmask the mischief-maker. Aired in January 1944 on NBC, this episode showcases the Ellery Queen formula at its finest: a domestic puzzle that conceals something far darker, solved by radio's most methodical detective. Sydney Smith stars as the razor-sharp Ellery alongside Inspector Richard Queen and the ever-reliable Sergeant Velie.

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A crooked lawyer has framed a U.S. Senator on bribery charges — and only The Shadow stands between him and a perfect crime. But Lamont Cranston's power of invisibility meets its match when the villain designs a trap that needs no eyes to spring: a room so narrow that two men, arms outstretched, can simply walk toward each other and catch what they cannot see. This is Orson Welles at the peak of his Shadow run, playing the Invisible Avenger with magnetic menace opposite Agnes Moorehead's Margo Lane, in one of old-time radio's most ingeniously plotted thrillers.

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James Stewart takes the mic as Biff Grimes — a small-town man who spent years nursing bitter regret over the strawberry blonde beauty who chose the wrong man, only to discover the life he actually built was the one worth having all along. Academy Award Theater was CBS Radio's prestige Hollywood showcase in 1946, bringing A-list stars live to millions of listeners in polished, cinematic productions. Based on James Hagan's beloved Broadway play — previously filmed as The Strawberry Blonde with James Cagney — this episode aired while Stewart was simultaneously shooting It's a Wonderful Life, making his warm performance feel all the more personal.

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Joel McCrea stars as Jace Pearson, a crack Texas Ranger who brings modern forensic science to bear on real crimes straight from the Rangers' own case files. In "Open and Shut," Pearson takes on a case that looks straightforward from the start — but in Texas, the obvious answer is rarely the whole story. This is Dragnet with spurs on: crisp, procedural, and ice-cold under pressure. Find it and thousands more golden-age classics at VintageRadioShows.com.

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