THE SCREEN DIRECTOR’S PLAYHOUSE 12/23/49 “Miracle On 34th Street” starring Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood.  A half-hour radio dramatization of the famous holiday movie.

LUX RADIO THEATER 3/10/47 “It’s a Wonderful Life” starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.  An hour-long radio dramatization of the famous holiday movie.

Carl and Lisa present the radio episode Suspense 8/4/57 Flesh Peddler w/ DeForest Kelly

Carl and Lisa play Name That Tune, Quote This and Learning the Lyrics and present radio episodes of The Great Gildersleeve w/ Hal Peary / Frontier Gentleman w/ John Dehner and Cloak & Dagger w/ Raymond Edward Johnson

Carl and Lisa play Beat the Host and presents the mystery radio show Suspense w/ Zachary Scott

Carl and Lisa play Movie Jeopardy and presents The Philco Radio Time starring Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore

Carl and Lisa present the radio episode The Adv. of Philip Marlowe 4/11/50 The Anniversary Gift

Carl plays Name That Tune, Is It Real Or Is It Ridiculous? and Learning the Lyrics and present radio episodes of Kraft Music Hall 10/7/48 w/ Al Jolson and Edward G. Robinson / Sam Spade 7/25/48 The Mad Scientist w/ Howard Duff / WhiteHall 1212 4/27/52 Case of Francesca Nichelson

Carl and Lisa play Beat the Host and presents the comedy/quiz series You Bet Your Life 2/7/55 Secret Word: Show w/ Groucho Marx

Carl plays Movie Jeopardy and presents the patriotic war drama Arch Oboler’s Plays 3/9/40 Johnny Got His Gun w/ James Cagney

Enjoy two free amateur detective episodes of Casey, Crime Photographer A) 2/6/47 The Grey Kitten w/ Staats Cottsworth B) 2/20/47 The Twenty-Minute Alibi w/ Staats Cottsworth For those who could not get enough of B-movie murder-mysteries, Casey, Crime Photographer was the radio equivalent. It employed similar plot devices, such as the suspect about to reveal important information being shot and killed by the guilty party. Loose ends, disappearing corpses, a lack of clues, and too many...

Enjoy two free mystery episodes of Suspense A) 4/11/46 The Name of the Beast w/ Vincent Price B) 2/6/47 End of the Road w/ Glenn Ford Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportion (Hitchcock was unable to avail himself for its radio run on CBS). Considered by many to be the best mystery/drama series of the golden age, Suspense was known as Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills and focused on climactic stories...

Enjoy two free sci-fi episodes of Dimension X A) 4/15/50 With Folded Hands w/ Peter Capell B) 5/6/50 Knock w/ Arnold Moss Hosted by Norman Rose, Dimension X was one of radio’s first adult science-fiction series and made its mark by adapting short stories by acknowledged masters in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Robert. A. Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and William Tenn. Scriptwriters, Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, who also...

Carl and Lisa present the radio episode The Burns & Allen Show 4/25/46 w/ George Burns and Gracie Allen

Carl and Lisa present two radio episodes of Stay Tuned For Terror from 1945 The Man Who Raised the Dead & Wine of the Wizard

Carl and Lisa present the radio episode The Humphrey Bogart Theater 8/17/49 Dead Man w/ Humphrey Bogart

Carl and Lisa play Name That Tune, Is It Real Or Is It Ridiculous? and Learning the Lyrics and present radio episodes of Lights Out! 10/20/42 Poltergeist w/ Bea Benaderet, Inner Sanctum Mystery 5/7/46 You Could Die Laughing w/ Santos Ortega and Murder By Experts 7/11/49 Prescription for Murder w/ Ken Lynch

Carl and Lisa play Beat the Host and present the radio episode Suspense 11/1/45 The Dunwich Horror w/ Ronald Colman

Carl and Lisa present the scary radio episode Mystery House 7/3/44 The Thirsty Death w/ Bela Lugosi and John Carradine

Enjoy two free comedy/quiz episodes of You Bet Your Life w/ Groucho Marx A) 4/21/54 Secret word: People B) 4/28/54 Secret word: Smile Created by John Guedel, You Bet Your Life was one of the best-loved quiz shows to air on both radio and television. It was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant George Fenneman at his side. It debuted on radio in 1947 and lasted until 1960. For much of this time it was also seen on television. Contestant teams usually...

Enjoy two free mystery episodes of Mystery In the Air w/ Peter Lorre A) 8/28/47 Beyond Good and Evil B) 9/4/47 The Mask of Medusa Peter Lorre had always wanted to star in his own dramatic radio program so when The Abbott & Costello Show took its 1947 summer vacation, NBC and advertising agency William Esty & Company, granted his wish. They turned over the microphones to Lorre as star of thirteen episodes of a chiller series titled Mystery in the Air. Cut from the cloth of tales...

Enjoy two free detective episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes A) 2/10/47 The Strange Case of the Persecuted Millionaire w/ Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce B) 4/18/48 The Case of the Very Best Butter w/ John Stanley and Alfred Shirley Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the legendary, violin-playing detective and his loyal companion were first heard on the air in a 1922 local production of “The Sign of the Four” by pioneer station (Schenectady, New York). Doyle wrote 56 short stories...

Enjoy two free comedy episodes of The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show w/ guests, Marlene Dietrich and Rosemary Clooney A) 3/21/52 w/ guest, Marlene Dietrich B) 9/16/52 w/ guest, Rosemary Clooney In 1949, NBC tapped the comedy duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as a Summer replacement for The Bob Hope Show. Dean and Jerry were popular nightclub performers with sold out crowds everywhere they played. NBC offered them Bob Hope’s vacated timeslot and committed to one of the biggest build-ups...

Enjoy two free detective episodes of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator starring William Gargan A) 12/5/51 The Paper Bullets B) 12/12/51 Death and the Purple Cow Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a popular detective series heard on NBC from 1951 until 1955. Initially it was titled Barry Crane but soon became Barrie Craig. The series starred William Gargan as New York-based Barrie Craig with Ralph Bell as homicide detective, Lt. Travis Rogers. Craig liked to work alone and had...

Enjoy two free western episodes of Gunsmoke starring William Conrad A) 9/19/53 There Was Never a Horse B) 9/26/53 Fawn Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that’s with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of … GUNSMOKE! In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of the Phillip Marlowe radio series, asked his programming chief to develop a hardboiled Western series. Several attempts were made but the project was...