WBW Theater

WBW Theater

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WBW Theater episodes

  • 262. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - House Of Mystery - Gift From The Dead
    It began in a hotel in San Francisco where Roger Elliott had taken a room to wait for Paul Sheldon an old friend of his who was flying in from Kansas City to join him. Some weeks ago he and Paul had been invited by Paul’s sister Jane to spend a few days at her home in the beautiful but rugged big country a 150-mile south of San Francisco. They’d accepted Jane’s invitation with enthusiasm as evidence of her complete recovery from the shock of her husband’s death. Then Roger receives a surprise note from Jane cancelling their invitation followed by a frantic call from the housekeeper saying that Jane’s husband had returned from the dead…
    Starring: John Griggs
    Broadcast Date: August 3, 1947
    28 min
  • 261. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - The Creaking Door - The Informer
    White Oaks is a gloomy estate, somewhere along the jagged coast line, which has long passed its heyday. On the floor in the corner of the library, staring blindly at the ceiling is an old man, whose cheek and neck are riddled with bullets. Across the room there is a young man, who is mortally wounded, and ten feet away from him is a safe. Against the safe door is a home made chemical bomb, with its fuse sizzling, like a giant fire cracker about to explode...
    Broadcast Date: January 11, 1965
    30 min
  • 260. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - The Railroad Hour - Starlight
    The Railroad Hour present Lawrence and Lee's delightful musical play Starlight. It is a memory of the good old days of Vaudeville with Dorothy Warenskjold playing the role of Helen Harris and Gordon MacRae as singer Harry McKaye.
    songs include Picnic at the Palace and Starlight.
    Starring: Gordon MacRae, Dorothy Warenskjold, Benny Rubin, Tyler McVey
    Broadcast Date: July 20, 1953
    31 min
  • 259. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Philco Radio Time - Road To Hollywood
    Many people have asked when Bing and Bob met, many people have asked where they met and many have asked why they met! Listen here to a hilarious vignette of how they met on the way to Hollywood meeting the beautiful Dorothy Lamour along the way. Includes songs, My Heart Goes Crazy, The Tumbling Tumbleweed, On The Way To Morocco and When The Bluebird Sings.
    Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
    Broadcast Date: January 29, 1947
    31 min
  • 254. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Murder By Experts - Dark Island

    The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Murder By Experts with your host and narrator Mr John Dickson Carr, world famous mystery novelist and author of the best seller “The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle”.

    Look now at the small tree covered island lying in darkness several miles off the rocky coast of mainland. Now and then the moon breaks through the clouds revealing for a few brief moments the figure of a girl pacing back and forth on the boat landing by the waters edge. She watches anxiously as a small launch approaches the island…

    Starring: Bernard Grant, Gertrude Warner

    Broadcast Date: August 8, 1949

    31 min
  • 253. WBW Theater Classic Old Time Radio - Gangbusters - Basket Weaving Burglar

    Tonight's case it's a very exciting one, about an unusually vicious criminal. The date is August 21st 1938, and at 7:15 that morning, in an outlying section in the Kentucky hills, we find Mrs Godfrey struggling with her dog, who has been poisoned. Whilst Mr and Mrs Godfrey were sleeping the previous evening, someone had been into the house, poisoned Tiger the dog, and then robbed them.

    30 min

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