Episodes
Burns and Allen - Gracie's Mother Visit (AFRTS)
1948
Announcer-Tobe Reed
Host-Meredeth Wilson
George Burns, Gracie Allen & Verna Felton
Gracie's mother is visiting.
She doesn’t approve of her son in law being in show business,
and has concerns, is George a handy man around the house.
Published 05/10/24
Hall Of Fantasy - Spectre of Denston
1953
Writer-James Workman, Announcer-Harry Elders
w-Eloise Kummer
There was a letter on the table from England. It seems that David Denston’s
uncle had died, an uncle he had never met, and David was the only heir to
the Denston castle and estate.
Published 05/09/24
Encore Theatre - A Man to Remember
1946
Lionel Barrymore, Griff Barnett, Ken Christy,
Howard Duff, Frank Graham & Jerry Hausner
Lionel Barrymore stars as Dr. Bill Brown. The story, adapted from Kathryn Haviland-Taylor's novel, "Failure," deals with the sacrifices of a small-town doctor who set aside personal security for the welfare of the community.
Published 05/08/24
Calling All Cars - Murder at Midnight
1938
James E Davis (host, Chief of The Los Angeles Police Department),
Jesse Rosenquist (dispatcher),
Host Fedrick Chales Lindsey
A few friends are on the hunt looking for bootleg liquor.
There's trouble brewing at the San Pedro pier.
An ambulance may be needed.
Published 05/07/24
John Steele, Adventurer - Comeback
1950
Don Douglas
"One man, consumed by a driving ambition, adds the red color of hate in the blistering heat of the baseball diamond." "Sometimes you can step down, to go upstairs." No credits are given.
Published 05/03/24
Pat Novak for Hire - Killing in a Church,
Father Lahey Joe Feldman
(United Armed Forces Radio)
1949
Jack Webb
Published 05/02/24
The Globe Theatre - Man Called X - Goes to Italy or Murder and a Blonde Madonna
Host and stars - Herbert Marshall, w-Hans Conreid,
Female actors not credited.
Director & Producer William N. Robson
1944 (AFRTS)
Published 05/01/24
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator - The Crimson Queen
Announcer-Carl Carouso
William Gargan & Barbra Weeks
"The major trouble with murder as a career is that it has no future. You come pretty quickly to the end of your rope...and usually it's around your neck."
Published 04/30/24
The Secrets of Scotland Yard - Great Gold Robbery
Late 1940s
Narrator - Clive Brook
The Secrets of Scotland Yard was a successful crime drama series.
Percy Hoskins, a 1950s crime expert and reporter for the London Daily Express. He knew every nook and cranny in London’s seedier districts and personally reported on many of the major crimes of the day.
Published 04/26/24
Wanted - Jailbreak - Henry Clay Tolett
1950
Announcers - Fred Collins & Don Pardo
Walter McGraw
Wanted for Jailbreak
Published 04/25/24
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell - The Unreasonable Aunt
1948
Lawson Zerbe, Elaine Rost and Hal Studer
Frank saves a woman from being cheated out of her soap factory.
Published 04/24/24
Danger With Grainger - The Arnie Lessick Story
Ray Barrett
1940s
"I've been framed", Arnie Lessick was convicted of one of his crimes,
a conviction which led to murder...
Published 04/23/24
Lux Radio Theatre - The day The Earth Stood Still
1954
Announcer-Ken Carpenter, Art Linkletter
Producer-Irving Cummings, Narrator-Paul Frees
Michael Rennie, Jean Peters, Lamont Johnston, Herb Butterfield,
Tudor Owen, Billy Gray, Edith Evanson...
An alien from space gives mankind a final chance to achieve world peace.
Published 04/22/24
Information Please - Sigmund Spaeth & Basil Rathbone
1938
Announcer-Milton Cross, w-Franklin P. Adams
Clifton Fadiman as moderator & Other regulars included Science writer Bernard Jaffe, professor of philosophy Dr Harry Overstreet, Marcus Duffield of the New York Herald-Tribune and later John Kieran a sport's columnist for the New York Times and Oscar Levant a pianist and composer.
Published 04/19/24
The Adventures Of Sam Spade - The Cheesecake Caper
Based on the stories of: Dashiell Hammett
1949
Announcer-Dick Joy
Howard Duff & Lurene Tuttle
Sam finds $50 and a photo of a blonde in his sandwich.
The three words on the photo say, "Find the girl!"
Published 04/18/24
Crime Does Not Pay - Operation Payroll
1951
Donald Buka, w-Harold Vermiliar
Follow my lead & we'll come clean as a whistle,
500 Gs to split between us!...
Published 04/17/24
Mystery Playhouse/Philo Vance - The Girl Who Came back
Narrator-T4Y, w-Jose Ferrer and Francis Robinson
1945
A belief of a girl's death due to a drowning, the body never revcovered.
She then appears at a rich man's home as his daughter. The man claim's he's never seen her before, is she after his money, Philo Vance gets involved.
Published 04/16/24
The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre - The Return of the Moresbys
1974
Announcer-E.G. Marshall, w-Patrick O'Neal,
Daniel Ocko, Nick Pryor & Marian Seldes
Is there a life after death? Can we come back in the body of a living creature.
Published 04/15/24
House Of Mystery - A Gift from the Dead
1947
Stars-John Griggs as Roger Elliot
The story of a sleepy ghost named Wilbur. Roger Elliot & Friend Paul Sheldon were invited by Paul’s sister to her home, then saddened of her husband's death, with cancelling the invitation Jane’s husband had returned from the dead…
Published 04/12/24
Box 13 - Insurance Fraud Scheme
1948
Alan Ladd, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Betty Lou Gerson,
Luis Van Rooten, John Beal & Frank Lovejoy
A doctor, dead for almost seven years, is suspected of still being alive...
Published 04/11/24
Bold Venture - Voodoo Vendetta in Paradise
or Search For Tommy Reed
1950s
Stars-Humphrey Bogart, Lauren BaCall
Jester Hairston as King Moses & Betty Lou Gerson
A murderess searching for Tommy Reed traps Slate and Sailor. She uses poisoned darts and voodoo while Sailor slowly dies.
Published 04/10/24
Under Arrest - Max Kemp
1948
Announcer-Ted Mallie
Joe De Satis, Margaret Drake, Grant Richards & Roc Rogers
A girl reporter's old friend is seen with Max Kemp, a known gangster. Eddie is forced to supply the alibi for a murder.
Published 04/09/24
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Jeanne Maxwell Matter
1953
Announcer-Dan Cubberly, w-John Lund, Dick Ryan,
Jeanette Nolan, Howard McNear, Ted de Corsiar,
Virginia Gregg, John McIntyre & Barney Phillips
A choice of a young girl murdered...or suicide...
Published 04/05/24
Proudly We Hail - Destination Found
1948
C.P. MacGregor, Wendell Niles, w-Gail Patrick
Christine Strokes, who left the security of a university professorship, to teach school in a country town, discoverers both herself and romance.
Published 04/04/24