Sydney Greenstreet stars as Rex Stout’s famous corpulent detective. Gerals Mohr as Archie Goodwin. This particular mystery features four criminals who decide to play one winner-take-all game of poker for ownership of their shared illegal enterprises. But there’s murder in the cards and only Nero Wolfe can solve the case! Will Archie Goodwin be given the night off to go on a date? Does the detective really have a meticulous plan to find the solution? Aired January 12, 1951 on NBC Radio.

Starring Lynn Bari (born Marjorie Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1919 – November 20, 1989). A film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 films for 20th Century Fox, from the early 1930s through the 1940s. This episode aired on March 20, 1949 on NBC Radio. The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical...

Epsode 43 aired April 17, 1957 on NBC Radio. Irving Berlin, original name Israel Baline, (born May 11, 1888, Mogilyov, Russia [now in Belarus]—died Sept. 22, 1989, New York, N.Y., U.S.), American composer who played a leading role in the evolution of the popular song from the early ragtime and jazz eras through the golden age of musicals. His easy mastery of a wide range of song styles, for both stage and motion pictures, made him perhaps the greatest and most enduring of American songwriters.

Durward Kirby host on this Monitor segment. He was on only a short time in ’69 (and so was his associate for many years, Garry Moore, who hosted another segment on Monitor).  Here he is on Sunday night Monitor on Sept. 21, 1969, from 9 to about 9:20 p.m. ET  Homer Durward Kirby (August 24, 1911 – March 15, 2000), sometimes misspelled Dirwood or Durwood Kirby, was an American television host and announcer. He is best remembered for The Garry Moore Show in the 1950s and Candid Camera, which he...

Bert Parks hosts The Dorsey Brothers on this broadcast from October 11, 1956.

Aired on CBS Radio January 13, 1944. Mr. Keen - The Case of the Missing Witness. Sponsored by: Anacin, Kolynos, Heet, Kriptin, Bisodol, Hills Cold Tabs. A famous fashion designer has killed her daughter's lover...or has she?

Jay Jostyn stars as Mr D. A. in this episode aka The Case of the Priceless Miniature. Aired on the NBC Red Network December 10, 1941. Mr. District Attorney is a radio crime drama produced by Samuel Bischoff that aired on NBC and ABC from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed syndication through 1953). 

Larry Holmes stars as Mike Hammer in this syndicated episode from 1953.

August 6, 1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shayne_(radio_program) Michael Shayne, "the reckless, red-headed Irishman" was a popular hard-boiled detective created by American crime novelist Brett Halliday. Phyliss Kenny had hired Michael Shayne to find out if her husband was two-timing her. He wasn’t but he’d gotten himself mixed up with a character named Jasper who was following his usual routine of getting close to his blackmail victim by working for him. In this case he was the...

Mercury Summer Theater AIRED 1946 07 12 on CBS Radio. Episode 06 "Search For Henri Lefevre". An original story for radio by Lucille Fletcher This series produced, directed by and starring Orson Welles. It was a short-lived summer radio series sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, on Friday evenings at 10 p.m. ET lasting 15 episodes. It harked back to Welles's earlier The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938) and its successor, The Campbell Playhouse.

MR AND MRS NORTH - FEBRUARY 3, 1943 - C.F. 006 RUSSIAN RESTAURANT Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. The...

Selections by singer Lanny Ross, Jack Pearl and Rudy Valle. News by Floyd Gibbons. Singer Carmen Miranda, pianist Art Tatum. Bergin, McCarthy with John Barrymore. Selection by the Lenny Hayton Orchestra.

Along with Big Wilson, John Bartholomew Tucker was one of the last two communicators (hosts) of the long-running NBC Radio program Monitor they were on the air when the show signed off for the last time on January 26, 1975. This is the sixth hour on that last day...,a Sunday.

NBC Radio, WGY. October 9, 1956. Bert Parks host. Vocalists Dick Haymes and Ann Gilbert.

This episoded aired on CBS Radio January 6, 1944. Mr. Keen: Tracer of Lost Persons. Mr. Keen’s in the deep South to find a missing southern gentleman on a plantation with black walnut trees. Bennett Kilpack, Frank Hummert, Anne Hummert, Larry Elliott (announcer). Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of radio's longest running shows, airing October 12, 1937 to April 19, 1955, continuing well into the television era. It was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, who based it upon Robert W....

Episode 141 aired February 12, 1942. The series focused on a crusading D.A., initially known only as "Mister District Attorney," or "Chief", and was later translated to television. On television the D.A. had a name, Paul Garrett, and the radio version picked up this name in the final years when David Brian played the role. Mr. District Attorney is a ⁠radio⁠ ⁠crime drama⁠ produced by ⁠Samuel Bischoff⁠ that aired on ⁠NBC⁠ and ⁠ABC⁠ from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed...

Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. The radio mystery series aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. Richard Denning and Barbara Britton star in this episode.

Released June 30, 1948 aka The legend of The Lone Ranger...is an incredibly American story that may very well have been inspired by the U.S Marshal Bass Reeves. The legend began 1875, but was introduced into modern culture through a radio show what developed into a popular story in the entertainment industry.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Ranger

In an early radio role Jack Webb portrays Jeff Regan. Jeff Regan is chief investigator for International Detective Agency, an agency owned by Anthony J. Lyon (hence the series often being referred to as 'The Lyon's Eye').  This episode aired on CBS Radio July 17, 1948.

Ira Cook's artist of the day is John Allan Jones aka JACK JONES (born January 14, 1938) an American singer and actor. Son of singer Allan Jones. Jack Jones is primarily a straight-pop singer whose forays into jazz are mostly of the big-band/swing variety. He has won two Grammy Awards. Note as of this post (8/21/2023) Jones is 85 years of age and continues to perform.

This episode of The Howard Miller Show aired on CBS Radio February 15, 1957 and features an interview with Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008). Eddy Arnold was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and...

Hopalong Cassidy in syndication released 1950-07-16 (episode 029) - Hoppy and the School Marm. Miss Abbott breaks up a saloon that's about to open, and vanishes the following day. The script is based on the Hopalong Cassidy movie, "Borrowed Trouble."

HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCH - 460818 Roman Totenberg, violin Leopold Stokowski, cond.- Il Segreto Di Susanna

Episode 64 aired February 7, 1960 on CBS Radio. A visit to Alder Bend, Colorado, for a job with Ira Stokes, a horse and wife beater out to own the town. The Have Gun – Will Travel radio show broadcast 106 episodes between November 23, 1958 and November 27, 1960. It was one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters and one of only a handful of American radio adaptation of a television series. John Dehner (a regular on the radio series version of Gunsmoke) played Paladin, and Ben...

The Heartbeat Theater sponsored by the Salvation Army, gives dramatic accounts of regular people helping others through illness, tragedy, and heartbreak. Episodes illustrate problems can be solved with faith, optimism, and the help of good Samaritans.