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Behind the creaking door, Raymond welcomes you one last time. A man waits out his final night in a small-town jail, condemned for a murder he did not commit — until a beautiful, wealthy stranger offers him a way out. She has money, she has strange powers, and she has teeth. Simone Simon, fresh from Val Lewton's Cat People, plays a rescuer you would be wise not to thank. Broadcast May 15, 1945, this is the last Inner Sanctum hosted by Raymond Edward Johnson, who left radio's most famous ghoul behind to join the Army.

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X Minus One was NBC's great science fiction anthology, made in cooperation with Galaxy magazine and counting down into the void every week with stories by the finest writers in the field. In this March 1956 broadcast, adapted by George Lefferts from Fritz Leiber's classic, a passing dark star has torn the Earth away from the sun. The air itself has frozen and fallen as snow, and a boy's nightly chore is to carry a pail out into the endless black cold and bring back a load of frozen oxygen so his family can breathe. Then, out in the dark beyond the Nest, he sees a light moving — and a face.

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Movie star Joel McCrea rides the airwaves as Ranger Jace Pearson in NBC's Tales of the Texas Rangers — a hard-nosed police procedural with sagebrush in its boots, dramatizing real cases from the Ranger files with technical advice from the legendary Captain M.T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas. In "Soft Touch," first heard October 29, 1950, a quiet elderly couple is found beaten to death in their own home. Robbery looks like the motive, but the savagery of the attack tells Pearson something uglier: this was no panicked amateur. Working the lab evidence, the pawn tickets, and the neighborhood gossip, Jace and Charcoal close in on a killer who picked what he figured was an easy mark. Featuring Tony Barrett, Paul Frees, Tom Tully, Virginia Gregg and Byron Kane, with a script by Russell Hughes and Stacy Keach Sr. producing.

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Creeps by Night was the Blue Network's 1944 anthology of subtle, psychological chillers — a series so unnerving that listeners with heart conditions were warned to stay away. Boris Karloff launched it; by this July broadcast the host was known only as "Dr. X." In "Six Who Did Not Die," the captain of a pearl-diving schooner murders his crew so he can keep their share of the haul. Greed draws him back to the same lagoon for another run at the king-size pearls — until the new head diver, alone on the bottom in a brass helmet, reports that there are men down there in the dark with him. Only a handful of this series survives, making it one of the rarest horror anthologies of the golden age.

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James Stewart stars as Britt Ponset, the drifting Texas plainsman of NBC's The Six Shooter. Old Hiram Grover has spent forty years scratching at the hills, and at last the assay comes back rich — Hiram has struck gold. But word of a strike travels faster than a man can guard it. Two drifters get to Hiram first and leave him shot up and near death, and it falls to Britt and Doc Nibbles to keep the old prospector alive. The bullets turn out to be the easy part: what nearly finishes Hiram is losing the dream he spent a lifetime chasing. Britt has to work a little frontier psychology on the old man to give him a reason to get back on his feet — and before the hour is out, Britt does something he almost never does on this program. He draws. Originally broadcast January 10, 1954. Written by Frank Burt, produced by Jack Johnstone, with Howard McNear as Hiram.

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X Minus One was NBC's great science fiction anthology, adapting the best of Galaxy and Astounding for adult ears. In this Clifford D. Simak story, Gordon Knight orders a build-it-yourself robot dog kit and receives, by clerical error, an experimental android named Albert. Albert never tires, never sleeps, and — given raw material — can build more of himself. Soon a crew of robots is remaking the Knight property, the How-2 Company is suing to get its prototype back, the tax men are demanding payment on the robot family, and Albert has taken up counterfeiting to cover the bills. It all ends in a courtroom, where a judge must decide whether a machine that reasons is property or a person.

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Eve Arden is Connie Brooks, the wisecracking English teacher of Madison High, forever fielding a blustering principal, a scheming student, and one bashful biology teacher who will not take a hint. In this Mother's Day broadcast from May 14, 1950, Mr. Boynton's mother and father arrive in town, and Connie sees the opening she has waited two years for: win over the parents, and maybe the son will finally come around. The plan requires a great deal of help and a version of Miss Brooks far more wholesome than the real article — and every bit of it goes gloriously sideways.

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Paladin is a West Point man with a Shakespeare habit, a suite at San Francisco's Carlton Hotel, and a business card that reads "Have Gun, Will Travel." John Dehner plays him with velvet in his voice and gravel underneath. This time the trouble comes to his own front door: a physician calling himself Doctor Dreckle, lately of Vienna, opens a consulting parlor right inside the Carlton, and the fashionable of the city line up for his continental cures. Paladin doesn't like the smell of it — and in a hotel full of trusting patients, finding out why is close, quiet, dangerous work. Written by radio master William N. Robson, with Ben Wright, Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Peggy Webber, and Shirley Mitchell.

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Boston Blackie is the reformed jewel thief who works the underworld from the inside — an enemy to those who make him an enemy, a friend to those who have no friend. In this 1947 episode, the Buckley Protection Agency is a shakedown racket dressed up as a business, and it wants Blackie on the payroll. When he turns the offer down, the outfit answers with a murder: Harry Dale turns up dead and Mary Wesley is framed for it. With Inspector Faraday chasing evidence Buckley planted and Mary headed for a cell, Blackie has to work the racket from the inside and break the frame before it holds.

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Paladin dressed for the opera and rode out in black — a West Point man with a chess-knight calling card who would rather talk you down than shoot you, and who was very good at both. Here the Governor of Nevada wants a man named Jeremy Thompson delivered to Carson City, and Thompson is locked up down in Yuma. That's five days of desert between the prison gate and the handoff: five days alone with a prisoner who has every reason to talk his way loose, and an accomplice out there somewhere who would rather he never arrive at all. John Dehner stars in one of the last great westerns of network radio.

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