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December 23, 1956 A singing mouse? YES! Johnny has to find a singing mouse before a Christmas Eve show. Let's go traveling in the 'past' lane for this OTR holiday episode. Bob Bailey stars.

Episode three by Robin Morrow. Adolphe Charles Adam (French: [adɔlf adɑ̃]; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire (1856), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) and Si j'étais roi (1852) and his Christmas carol "Minuit, chrétiens!" (Midnight, Christians, 1844, known in English as "O Holy Night" 

December 24, 1945 The Night Before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes tracks clues through his familiar haunts to “eliminate the impossible” and catch his nemesis Moriarty in his dastardly crimes. When he discovers the jolly old gent with the white beard dipping his hand into a bag full of toys, Sherlock surmises that “whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Or is it?  Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) and Nigel Bruce (1895-1953) reprised their successful film roles from the years 1939-46 on radio. Rathbone was tired of both his film and radio roles as Holmes and feared he would become typecast and wanted out. The Mutual Broadcasting Network offered him a generous increase in salary, but Rathbone declined and left the series on May 27, 1946.

JFK, John F. Kennedy death, Four Dark Days In November, WQMR, WGAY-FM, An LP record of audio surrounding the coverage of the assassination of President John F Kennedy. The album was a re-creation taken from actual recordings broadcast that four day period over WQMR radio in Washington DC.

December 25, 1951. Let George Do It was an American radio drama series produced from 1946 to 1954 by Owen and Pauline Vinson. Bob Bailey starred as private investigator George Valentine. Don Clark directed the scripts by David Victor and Jackson Gillis.  Clients came to Valentine's office after reading a newspaper that carried his classified ad which varied from show to show, but always opened with "Danger is my stock in trade" and closed with "Write full details!"

This is the second episode of a 25-episode countdown to a Christmas radio series made by Robin Morrow in the 1960s. Morrow put together a more grown-up oriented syndication, Christmas Fantasy. Rather than a single serialized narrative, Fantasy was a collection of different stories, myths, legends linked by the Christmas theme. OTRcat.com with more

December 22, 1957. An old prospector is dying and wants to change the beneficiary on a $50,000 policy to Carmen Kringle but the nephew Ned Kringle threatened to sue if they let him.

December 21, 1947. John Stanley as Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Watson. Sherlock Holmes is invited to spend the holidays with a family that needs him to assure a wedding occurs.  A Christmas story about a ghostly lady in white who haunts Pendragon Castle.

December 21, 1950. NBC Radio Network. A small boy has been reported missing from his home, his age nine years. Foul play is suspected. It's Detective Sergeant Joe Friday’s job to find him. 

Aired on CBS Radio Network December 25, 1947. This series went on the air on July 7, 1943 and lasted until April 22, 1955. A total of 431 episodes were broadcast. Casey, Crime Photographer had more history than substance. It was a B-grade radio detective similar to The Adventures of the Falcon, Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, and Sam Spade. Casey, the only name given to the character, is played by Staats Cotsworth (1908–1979), American old-time radio actor.