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    Flash Gordon - Conquers the Universe 1941

    Flash and his friends return to planet Mongo for an antidote to the Purple Death. But Ming the Merciless has other plans for them...
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    Flash Gordon - Conquers the Universe 1941

    Flash and his friends return to planet Mongo for an antidote to the Purple Death. But Ming the Merciless has other plans for them...
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    Superman - The Fleischer Years 1941-1943

    Watch all 17 episodes of the Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons, including his first animated appearance, available in shorts
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    Superman - The Fleischer Years 1941-1943

    Watch all 17 episodes of the Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons, including his first animated appearance, available in shorts
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    Abbott and Costello

    After working as Allen's summer replacement, Abbott and Costello joined Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on The Chase and Sanborn Hour in 1941, while two of their films (Buck Privates and Hold That Ghost) were adapted for Lux Radio Theater. They launched their own weekly show October 8, 1942, sponsored by Camel cigarettes.

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    Academy Award Theater

    Academy Award was a CBS radio anthology series which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays, novels or films.

    Rather than adaptations of Oscar-winning films, as the title implied, the series offered "Hollywood's finest, the great picture plays, the great actors and actresses, techniques and skills, chosen from the honor roll of those who have won or been nominated for the famous golden Oscar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."

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    Adventures by Morse

    Adventures by Morse was a 52-episode syndicated adventure series produced, written and directed by Carlton E. Morse shortly after NBC canceled his I Love a Mystery series.

    Captain Bart Friday was a globe-trotting San Francisco-based private investigator, portrayed during the series by Elliott Lewis, David Ellis and Russell Thorson. Friday's sidekick from Texas, Skip Turner, was played mostly by Jack Edwards and occasionally by Barton Yarborough. The tales covered such areas as espionage, kidnapping and murder, along with secret Nazi bases, snake worshipers and voodoo.

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    Adventures of Dick Tracy

    Dick Tracy had a long run on radio, from 1934 weekdays on NBC's New England stations to the ABC network in 1948. Bob Burlen was the first radio Tracy in 1934, and others heard in the role during the 1930s and 1940s were Barry Thompson, Ned Wever and Matt Crowley. The early shows all had 15-minute episodes.

    The beginning of the 1 May 1945 episode ("The Case Of The Empty Safe") was interrupted on the Blue Network for a "special news flash" relating that Adolf Hitler had "died of a stroke." Copies of this episode, complete with the mistaken news flash--Hitler had committed suicide the day before, not died of a stroke--still exist today.

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    Adventures of Leonidas Witherall, The

    The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall was a radio mystery series broadcast on Mutual in the mid-1940s. Leonidas is a New England boys' school instructor in the fictional town of Dalton, Massachusetts. He is also an amateur detective, and the accomplished author of the "popular Lieutenant Hazeltine stories." , which he authors under a pen name, in order to keep it a secret from his students and the general populace.

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    Adventures of Philip Marlowe, The

    The Adventures of Philip Marlowe first aired 17 June 1947 on NBC radio under the title "The New Adventures of Philip Marlowe", with Van Heflin playing Marlowe. The first episode adapted Chandler's short story "Red Wind". The NBC series ended 9 September 1947. In 1948, the series moved to CBS with Gerald Mohr playing Marlowe.

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    Adventures of Sam Spade, The

    The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951.

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    Adventures of Superman, The

    Superman came to radio as a syndicated show on New York City's WOR on February 12, 1940. On Mutual, it was broadcast from August 31, 1942, to February 4, 1949, as a 15-minute serial, running three or, usually, five times a week. From February 7 to June 24, 1949 it ran as a thrice-weekly half-hour show. The series shifted to ABC Saturday evenings on October 29, 1949, and then returned to afternoons, twice-a-week on June 5, 1950, continuing on ABC until March 1, 1951.

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    Adventures of the Falcon, The

    The Falcon radio series premiered on the Blue Network on April 10, 1943, continuing on NBC and Mutual until November 27, 1954. Some 70 episodes were produced.

    “Drexel Drake” (a pseudonym of Charles H. Huff) created Michael Waring, alias the Falcon, a free-lance investigator and troubleshooter, in his 1936 novel, The Falcon's Prey. It was followed by two more novels (The Falcon Cuts In, 1937 and The Falcon Meets a Lady, 1938) and a 1938 short story. In 1941, RKO made a movie, The Gay Falcon, based on a 1940 short story, "Gay Falcon," by Michael Arlen, rechristening Arlen's Gay Stanhope Falcon as Gay Lawrence aka the Falcon. It became a film series, and its popularity led eventually to the radio series. No explanation for the nickname was ever mentioned in any of the dramatizations. The Michael Waring Falcon was also the hero in three late 1940s movies starring John Calvert, and a television series starring Charles McGraw.

    Like the Falcon film series, the radio plots mixed danger, romance and comedy in equal parts. Each show began with a telephone ringing and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answering the phone. Speaking with a woman whose voice was never heard, Waring would explain that he had an urgent situation in which he had to deal with criminals. This led into the standard opening, followed by the week's tale of adventure. Often, incompetent police were unable to solve the mysteries without his help.

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    All Star Western Theater

    The All Star Western Theatre graced the airwaves in the mid-1940's and was made up of a variety of different shows. The shows delivered riotous laughs and down-to-earth humor that was a pleasant alternative to other heavier and intense programs. The music of these old radio shows was done by a group called "The Riders of the Purple Sage," and was fronted by Foy Willing.

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    Ann of the Airlanes

    Ann of the Airlanes was a syndicated radio adventure drama series broadcast between 1932 and the 1950s.

    The story focused on Ann Burton, an airplane hostess employed by Interstate Airlines. She also worked with the Secret Service, as did her romantic interest, pilot Jack Baker. Gerald Mohr portrayed Secret Service agent and co-pilot Art Morrison. Also in the cast was John Gibson who portrayed Pete.

    There were more than a few radio aviation dramas during the 1930s, but this was the only one with a female lead.

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    Archie Andrews

    Archie Andrews began on the NBC Blue Network on May 31, 1943, switched to Mutual in 1944, and then continued on NBC radio from 1945 until September 5, 1953. The program's original announcer was Kenneth Banghart, later succeeded by Bob Shepard (during the 1947-48 season, when Swift and Company sponsored the program) and Dick Dudley. Archie was first played by Charles Mullen (1943-1944), Jack Grimes (1944) and Burt Boyar (1945), with Bob Hastings (1945-1953) as the title character during the NBC years. Jughead was portrayed by Hal Stone, Cameron Andrews and later by Arnold Stang.

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    Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator

    Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a detective drama heard on NBC Radio from October 3, 1951 to June 30, 1955.

    Detective Barrie Craig worked alone from his Madison Avenue office. Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Craig had a laid-back personality, somewhat cutting against the popular hard-boiled detective stere

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    Bold Venture

    Bold Venture was the first radio program staring Humphrey Bogart who resisted doing live radio shows because of the time involved. Since this series was transcribed he accepted the offer.

    Humphrey Bogart plays the part of Slate Shannon hotel owner and owner of a boat called the "Bold Venture". He was ready to rescue a friend in need or hunt down and enemy. The setting for the series is Havana, Cuba.

    Other regular cast members include his wife Lauren Bacall, who plays the part of Sailor Duval, and Jester Hairson who plays the part of King Moses, a calypso singer. Of the 78 episodes produced, 57 are in circulation today.

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    Boston Blackie

    The Boston Blackie radio series, starring Chester Morris, began June 23, 1944, on NBC as a summer replacement for Amos 'n' Andy. Blackie, is a former jewel thief and safecracker, who becomes a detective "Enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend." The series continued until September 15 of that year.

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    Box 13

    Box 13 was a syndicated radio series about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holliday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 premiered in New York City on December 31, 1947, on Mutual's New York flagship, WOR.

    To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holliday ran a classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper where he formerly worked: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything -- write Box 13, Star-Times." The stories followed Holliday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him by such people as a psycho killer and various victims.

    Sylvia Picker appeared as Holliday's scatterbrained secretary, Suzy, while Edmund MacDonald played police Lt. Kling. Supporting cast members included Betty Lou Gerson, Frank Lovejoy, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Luis Van Rooten and John Beal. Vern Carstensen, who directed Box 13 for producer Richard Sanville, was also the show's announcer.

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    Broadway is My Beat

    Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover, the show originated from New York during its first three months on the air. For the remainder of the series, the role of Detective Danny Clover was portrayed by Larry Thor. The series featured music by Robert Stringer, and scripts by Peter Lyon. John Dietz directed for producer Lester Gottlieb (eventually succeeding him as producer). Bern Bennett was the original announcer.

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    Buck Rogers

    In 1932, the Buck Rogers radio program, notable as the first science fiction program on radio, hit the airwaves. Initially broadcast as a 15 minute show on CBS in 1932, it was on a Monday through Thursday schedule. In 1936, it moved to a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule and went off the air the same year. Mutual brought the show back and broadcast it three days a week from April to July 1939 and from May to July 1940, a 30 minute version was broadcast on Saturdays. From September 1946 to March 1947, Mutual aired a 15 minute version on weekdays.

    The radio show again related the story of our hero Buck finding himself in the 25th century.

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    Calling All Cars

    Calling All Cars, which was broadcast from November 1933 to September 1939 over the West Coast stations of CBS. The series was written and directed by William N. Robson, who would later become one of radio’s most renowned talents, and depicted actual crime stories, which were introduced by members of the Los Angeles Police Department.

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    Calling all Detectives

    Calling All Detectives ran from 1945-1950, the shows format was a combination of Quiz show and Detective drama. The host Paul Barnes played all the characters in each episode. His primary role was that of Detective Browning. Barnes would start the short crime drama then during a commercial break he would dial a random telephone number from the phone book, the listener would then try to figure the answer to the mystery, then Barnes would finish the rest of the original drama. Some of the listeners were unaware of what was going on during the phone call part of the show, this resulted in Barnes only calling the numbers that had been sent into the show from listeners.

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    Captain Midnight

    Captain Midnight was developed at the Blackett, Sample and Hummert advertising agency in Chicago, Captain Midnight began as a syndicated show in 1938, airing through the spring of 1940 on a few Midwest stations, including Chicago's WGN. In 1940, Ovaltine, a product of The Wander Company, took over sponsorship. With Pierre Andre as announcer, the series was then heard nationally on the Mutual Radio Network where it remained until 1942. It moved to the Merchandise Mart and the NBC Blue Network in September 1942. When the U.S. Government broke up the NBC Red and Blue Networks, Ovaltine moved the series back to Mutual, beginning September 1945, and it remained there until December, 1949.

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    Captain Starr of Space

    Captain Starr of Space (1953-1954) was in a similar vain to that of Tom Corbett and Space Patrol. Broadcast twice weekly, Captain Starr traveled the cosmos in his spaceship "Shooting Star" battling martians and various other space baddies. Only a few episodes survive.

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    Casablanca

    Casablanca has had several radio adaptations. The two best-known were a thirty-minute adaptation on The Screen Guild Theater on April 26, 1943, starring Bogart, Bergman, and Henreid, and an hour-long version on the Lux Radio Theater on January 24, 1944, featuring Alan Ladd as Rick, Hedy Lamarr as Ilsa, and John Loder as Victor Laszlo.

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    Case for Doctor Morelle, A

    This is a vintage radio drama series about a criminal psychologist, Dr Morelle, who solves murder cases which are too complex for the police. Morelle is played by English film actor Cecil Parker, and is alternately helped and hindered in his investigations by his secretary Miss Frayle, played by film actress Sheila Sim.

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    Cavalcade of America

    Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802.

    The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitaria

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    Challenge of the Yukon

    Challenge of the Yukon was a radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet), and an example of a Northern genre story. The series was first heard on February 3, 1938. The title changed from Challenge of the Yukon to Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in November 1951, and remained under that name through the end of the series.

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    Chandu the Magician

    American-born Frank Chandler, who had learned occult secrets from a yogi in India. Known as Chandu, he possessed several supernatural skills, including astral projection, teleportation and the ability to create illusions. Chandu's goal was to "go forth with his youth and strength to conquer the evil that threatens mankind."

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    Charlotte Greenwood Show, The

    The Charlotte Greenwood was a situation comedy that originally aired as a replacement for the Bobo Hope Show, but after having a popular summer it would run for five years on the air. The show stared Charlotte Greenwood as Aunt Charlotte who raises three Barton children wile running a lunchroom and a not very productive farm. The show would also feature guest appearances by country musician Eddy Arnold as the Lawyer Mr. Reynolds.

    These recordings are pretty rare and the sound quality for some episodes might be pretty poor.

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    Couple Next Door, The

    The Couple Next Door with a light hearted sitcom that aired on CBS Radio (December 30, 1957-November 25, 1960) with Peg Lynch, who was also the shows writer, and Alan Bunce as the married couple.

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    Crimson Skies Action Theater

    I don't know when these were made, I assume it was early 2000, produced Microsoft as a promotional tool for the video game Crimson Skies, and they aren't so much actual radio shows as they advertisements for the game. They are all really short just few minutes long, but they are interesting to listen to.

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    David Harding Counterspy

    Counterspy was an espionage drama radio series that aired on the NBC Blue Network (later the ABC) and Mutual from May 18, 1942 to November 29, 1957.

    David Harding (played by Don MacLaughlin) was the chief of the United States Counterspies, a unit engaged during World War II in counterintelligenceagainst Japan's Black Dragon and Germany's Gestapo. United States Counterspies was a fictional government agency devised by the program's creator,Phillips H. Lord after Lord "had a certain amount of difficulty with J. Edgar Hoover over story content in Gang Busters."Mandel Kramer played Peters, Harding's assistant.

    The program's plots progressed through three phases. During World War II they involved "threats from the Axis powers." After the war ended, Cold War threats took precedence. In the third phase, "they addressed all manner of illegal activities.

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    Dear Adolf

    Dear Adolf is a series of six narrative letters based on real letters written by Americans to Adolf Hitler during WWII. Produced in 1942, this is a fascinating collection of vignettes American opinions of Hitler and the Nazi regime. Written by Stephen Vincent Benét, the program was created as "a fight-talk programs" which was network based propaganda shows used to boost popular support of the war.

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    Dimension X

    Dimension X was an NBC radio program broadcast on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951. The first 13 episodes were broadcast live, and the remainder were pre-recorded. Fred Wiehe and Edward King were the directors, and Norman Rose was heard as both announcer and narrator (his famous opening: "Adventures in time and space... told in future tense...").

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    Dr. Christian

    Dr. Christian practiced in the Midwest town of River's End with the assistance of Nurse Judy Price. The small-town physician's good humor, innate common sense and scientific training helped drive off a series of villainous types who tried to interfere with the peaceful lifestyle of River's End, as well as dealing with personal problems among his many patients and the majority of those who lived in town.

    The program was also unique in that, by the mid-1940s, listeners contributed the majority of the scripts (some were "professionally polished" before they were used), and an annual script-writing competition introduced in 1942 was the highlight of every season-top prize: the $2,000 "Dr. Christian Award" {with several $500 "runner-up" prizes}; among the later winners were Rod Serling and Earl Hamner, Jr.. Produced by Dorothy McCann, the radio series became a popular success, continuing on CBS until January 6, 1954.

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    Dragnet

    Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of police work. Dragnetearned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers.

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    Duffy’s Tavern

    Duffy's Tavern ran for a decade on several networks (CBS, 1941–1942; NBC-Blue Network, 1942–1944; NBC, 1944–1951), concluding with the December 28, 1951 broadcast.

    The program often featured celebrity guest stars but always hooked them around the misadventures, get-rich-quick schemes and romantic missteps of the title establishment's manager, Archie. Owner Duffy was never heard nor seen heard.

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    Escape

    Escape was an anthology series that aired on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Escape featured stories of High Adventure, with varying themes such as western, science fiction, and the supernatural.

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    Fibber McGee and Molly

    Fibber McGee and Molly premiered on NBC April 16, 1935. Almost all stories took place at the McGee's Home 79 Wistful Vista. The show existed in world where money was never and issue and the McGees never had jobs. With blowhard McGee wavering between mundane tasks and hare-brained schemes, antagonizing as many people as possible, and patient Molly indulging his foibles and providing loving support, not to mention a tireless parade of neighbors and friends in and out of the quiet home, Fibber McGee and Molly built its audience steadily, but once it found the full volume of that audience in 1940, they rarely let go of it.

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    Frontier Gentleman

    Frontier Gentleman was originally broadcast on the CBS network from February 2 to November 16, 1958.

    The program opened with a trumpet theme by Jerry Goldsmith and this introduction:
    Herewith, an Englishman's account of life and death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his colorful and unusual accounts. But as a man with a gun, he lives and becomes a part of the violent years in the new territories. Now, starring John Dehner, this is the story of J. B. Kendall, Frontier Gentleman...

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    G.I. Jive

    Sponsored by Yank, The Army Weekly. G.I. Jive was broadcast over the Armed Forces Radio Service. Each 15 minute episode was hosted by G.I. Jill, and featured letters from enlisted men and music requests.

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    Ghost Corps

    The Ghost Corps is secret origination stationed in the middle east. K.C. Smith is one of their top agents fluent in may languages and dialects of that particular corner of the world. He travels the dark corners of the ancient cities of Cairo, Bagdad and Morocco doing whatever it takes to topple the warlords and gang leaders who threaten peace.

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    Great Gildersleeve, The

    The Great Gildersleeve was one of radio's first spinoffs, and one of it's most sucessful. Originally Gildy was one of the neighbors of Fibber McGee and Molly. His own show began after he leaves his home in Wistful Vista and moves to Summerfield to become the legal guardian of his niece and nephew Marjorie and Leroy.

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    Green Hornet, The

    The Green Hornet, premiered on January 31, 1936, on WXYZ, the same local Detroit station that originated its companion shows The Lone Ranger and Challenge of the Yukon. Beginning on April 12, 1938, the station supplied the series to the Mutual Broadcasting System radio network, and then to NBC Blue and its successors, the Blue Network and ABC, from November 16, 1939, through September 8, 1950. It returned from September 10 to December 5, 1952.[3] It was sponsored by General Mills from January to August 1948, and by Orange Crush in its brief 1952 run.

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    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke ran for nine seasons and was broadcast by CBS. The first episode of the series originally aired in the United States on April 26, 1952, and the final first-run episode aired on June 11, 1961. During the series, a total of 480 original episodes were broadcast, including shows with re-used or adapted scripts. A television version of the series premiered in 1955.

    Gunsmoke is set in and around Dodge City, Kansas, in the post-Civil War era and centers around United States Marshall Matt Dillon as he enforces law and order in the city. The series also focuses on Dillon's friendship with three other citizens of Dodge City: Doctor Charles "Doc" Adams, the town's physician; Kitty Russell, owner of the Long Branch Saloon; and Chester Wesley Proudfoot, Dillon's deputy.

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    Halls of Ivy, The

    The Halls of Ivy featured Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small, Midwestern Ivy College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends, and college trustees.

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    Hancock’s Half Hour

    Hancock's Half Hour was a BBC radio comedy, series from the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, Sid James and Bill Kerr; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, and Kenneth Williams.

    Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam.

    The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

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    Have Gun Will Travel

    The Have Gun Will Travel broadcast 106 episodes on the CBS Radio Network between November 23, 1958, and November 27, 1960. It was one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters and the only significant American radio adaptation of a television series. John Dehner played Paladin, and Ben Wright played Hey Boy. Virginia Gregg played the role of Miss Wong, Hey Boy's girlfriend.

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    Hop Harrigan – America’s Ace

    Hop Harrigan aired from August 31, 1942 to February 6, 1948. The series began on the ABC Blue network and moved October 2, 1946, to the Mutual Broadcasting System. Charles Stratton appeared in the title role with Ken Lynch as Tank. Lynch was later replaced by Jackson Beck, voice actor for Bluto (Popeye), King Leonardo and Perry White (Superman). Mitzi Gould played Hop's girlfriend, Gail Nolan. One of the writers for this series was noir novelist David Goodis.

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    Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy

    Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio adventure series which maintained its popularity from 1933 to 1951. The program originated at WBBM in Chicago on July 31, 1933, and was later carried on CBS, then NBC and finally ABC.

    A short Jack Armstrong animated TV pilot was developed by Hanna-Barbera for a proposed television series. However, when negotiations for rights to the characters collapsed, the planned series was reworked into what became the animated adventure Jonny Quest (1964). Some of the Jack Armstrong footage survived in the closing credits for Jonny Quest.

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    Jack Benny Show, The

    Jack Benny first appeared on radio as a guest of Ed Sullivan in 1932. He was then given his own show later that year,beginning May 2, 1932, on the NBC Blue Network. On October 30th 1932 Benny moved to CBS until January 26, 1933. The show moved back to NBC on March 17, 1934 until January 2, 1949 when the show returned to CBS and stayed there until it ended on May 22, 1955.

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    Jungle Jim

    Jungle Jim Ran from 1938-1954 Jungle Jim was Jim Bradley a business man who made his fortune in the wild. He's an intelligent hunter aware of the environment, similar to another comic strip character Mark Trail.

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    Leatherstocking Tales

    In 1932, the Leatherstocking tales were adapted as a thirteen-part serial radio drama. It is directed and performed by Charles Fredrick Lindsay and contains both Deerslayer and Last of the Mohicans.

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    Les Paul and Mary Ford Show, The

    The Les Paul Show, on NBC in 1950, featured his trio (himself, Ford, and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humor between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented dazzling re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as "In the Mood," "Little Rock Getaway," "Brazil," and "Tiger Rag."

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    Let George Do It

    Let George Do It ran from 1946 to 1954. George was George Valentine, a WWII veteran, turned detective-for-hire. Clients found him through his personal newspaper notice: Danger's my stock in trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me. George Valentine.

    Valentine's secretary was Claire Brooks, aka Brooksie. As Valentine made his rounds in search of the bad guys, he usually encountered Brooksie's kid brother, Sonny, Lieutenant Riley and elevator man Caleb.

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    Life of Riley

    The radio program starring William Bendix as Riley initially aired on the Blue Network, later known as ABC, from January 16, 1944 to June 8, 1945. Then it moved to NBC, where it was broadcast from September 8, 1945 to June 29, 1951. The show followed the misadventures of lovable blue collar worker, and loving family man Chester Riley.

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    Life with Luigi

    Life with Luigi is an American radio situation comedy series which began September 21, 1948 on CBS Radio, with the final episode broadcast on March 3, 1953.

    The story concerned Italian immigrant Luigi Basco, and his experiences as a newly naturalized American citizen in Chicago. Many of the shows take place at the English classes that Luigi attends with other immigrants from different countries, or concern his attempts to fend off the repeated advances of the morbidly-obese daughter of his landlord/sponsor. Luigi was played by J. Carrol Naish, an Irish-American actor.

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    Life with the Lyons

    "Life With The Lyons" was a British radio & television domestic sitcom dating from the 1950s. What was most unusual about this sitcom, was that it featured real-life American family members, Ben Lyon & his wife, Bebe Daniels.

    The real life couple had settled in London during World War II & were featured with comedian Vic Oliver in the radio series (1940-1949) "Hi, Gang!"

    "Life with the Lyons" carried on where "Hi, Gang!" left off, and together with Ben & Bebe, were featured their children, Richard & Barbara Lyon. Although this program was completely scripted, it expanded on real-life events.

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    Lightning Jim

    Lighting Jim originated in the 1940s and was called The Adventures of Lightning Jim. The stories were about U.S. Marshal Lightning Jim Whipple, his trusty horse Thunder, and his deputy, Whitey Larson. The shows are stereotypical portrayals of Native Americans, the history of the Union-Pacific Railroad, and other Western related subjects.

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    Lives of Harry Lime, The

    The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime) was an old-time radio programme produced in London, England during the 1951 to 1952 season.

    Orson Welles reprised his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 1949 film The Third Man. The radio series is a "prequel" to the film, and depicts the many misadventures of con-artist Lime in a somewhat lighter tone than the character's villainy in the film.

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    Lone Ranger, The

    The Lone Ranger is a fictional character, a masked ex-Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West.

    The Lone Ranger first appeared in 1933 on radio station WXYZ. The show proved to be a huge hit, and spawned an equally popular television show that ran from 1949 to 1957, as well as comic books and movies. The title character was played on radio by George Seaton, Earle Graser, and most memorably Brace Beemer. To television viewers, Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger. Tonto was played by, among others, John Todd, Roland Parker, and in the television series, Jay Silverheels.

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    Lord Haw Haw

    Lord Haw-Haw was the nickname of several announcers on the English-language propaganda radio programme Germany Calling, broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Great Britain on the medium wave station Reichssender Hamburg and by shortwave to the United States. The programme started on 18 September 1939 and continued until 30 April 1945, when Hamburg was overrun by the British Army. This nickname, Lord Haw-Haw, generally refers to William Joyce, who was German radio's most prominent English-language speaker and to whom it gradually came to be exclusively applied. However, it was also applied to other broadcasters, mostly in the early stages of the war. As an aside from the author of this site let me clear in this. Nazis suck.

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    Lum and Abner

    Lum and Abner was an American radio comedy network program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was aired from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to Pine Ridge after the show's fictional town.

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    Lux Radio Theater

    Lux Radio Theatre was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934-35); CBS (1935-54) and NBC (1954-55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. It became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s.

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    Mama Bloom’s Brood

    This early series (circa 1934) combines elements of the soap opera with those of the situation comedy. The episodes are fifteen minutes long and serialized as well as having a domestic focus, tending to place the show in the soap opera genre. But the treatment of plot and character is light-hearted and humorous, similar to what is found in the myriad of sitcoms that sprang up during radio's golden age.

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    Mark Trail

    On January 30, 1950, Mutual Broadcasting System launched a radio adaptation, Mark Trail, featuring Matt Crowley in the title role. The 30-minute episodes aired three times weekly, and 174 episodes were produced, running until June 8, 1951. A second radio series, starring Staats Cotsworth, was broadcast on ABC beginning September 18, 1950, with 51 half-hour shows that ran thrice weekly until January, 1952. The series then switched to a 15-minute format, producing 125 episodes that aired weekdays through June 27, 1952. Only a handful of the 15-minute episodes are known to have survived.

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    Mel Blanc Show, The

    The Mel Blanc Show, which ran from September 3, 1946, to June 24, 1947. Blanc played himself as the hapless owner of a fix-it shop, as well as his young cousin Zookie (who sounded quite a bit like Porky Pig). Many episodes required Mel to impersonate an exotic foreigner or other stranger in town, ostensibly for carrying out a minor deception on his girlfriend's father, but of course simply as a vehicle for him to show off his talents.

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    Mercury Theater on the Air, The

    The Mercury Theatre on the Air was a radio series of live radio dramas created by Orson Welles. The weekly hour-long show presented classic literary works performed by Welles's celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company, with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann.

    The series began July 11, 1938, as a sustaining program on the CBS Radio network, airing Mondays at 9 p.m. ET. On September 11, 1938, the show moved to Sundays at 8 p.m.

    After the front-page headlines generated by the "The War of the Worlds" (October 30, 1938) — one of the most famous broadcasts in the history of radio due to the mass panic it accidentally caused — Campbell's Soup signed on as sponsor. The Mercury Theatre on the Air made its last broadcast December 4, 1938, and The Campbell Playhouse began December 9, 1938.

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    Molle Mystery Theater

    NBC's Mystery Theatre began airing with much fanfare on September 7, 1943. The series promised stories from the greatest classical and contemporary mystery authors -- and production values to match. And it kept its promise. It was aided from the outset by the addition of an 'annotator'-- as it was described in the 1940s --named Geoffrey Barnes. The annotator served in the role of expositor, filling in on the plot development as necessary and providing a back-story when needed. The apparent distinction made between a narrator and an annotator, was a matter of degree. Mr. Barnes, a distinguished and celebrated amateur criminologist in his own right, was apparently on hand to help the listener analyze and understand the various mysteries and their underlying crimes within each script.

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    Mr. and Mrs. Blandings

    Mr. & Mrs. Blandings was an NBC sitcom, starring Cary Grant & Betsy Drake as Jim & Muriel Blandings, a spin-off from Cary Grant's hit movie "Mr. Blandings Build his Dream House."

    Robert Cummings & Jane Wyatt eventually did a pilot for the parts held by Cary Grant & Betsy Drake, as Grant asked to be released from his contract with the program.

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    Mr. and Mrs. North

    Mr. and Mrs. North passed themselves off as a publisher and his homemaker-spouse who would make lighthearted wisecracks as they stepped over bodies in dark alleys and were rendered unconscious by unknown assailants dispensing blows to the head almost every week... The feminine half of the twosome was at least equal to the husband in solving cases that often baffled law-enforcement officers with years of training and practice—except in reading clues.

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    New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The

    The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes aired from October 2, 1939 to July 7, 1947. Originally, the show starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Together, they starred in 220 episodes which aired weekly on Mondays from 8:30 to 9:00pm.

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    Nick Carter, Master Detective

    Nick Carter, Master Detective was a Mutual radio crime drama based on tales of the famed detective from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Nick Carter first came to radio as The Return of Nick Carter, a reference to the character's pulp origins, but the title was soon changed to Nick Carter, Master Detective.

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    On Stage

    After working together for years on such shows as Suspense, and Sam Spade, Cathy and Elliot Lewis created On Stage in 1953.

    On Stage provides a hodge podge of both classics and original stories, including mystery, drama, comedy, satire, and adventure.

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    Our Miss Brooks

    Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast on CBS from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952–56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.

    Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time.

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    Pat Novak for Hire

    Pat Novak, for Hire is set on the San Francisco, California waterfront and depicts the city as a dark, rough place where the main goal is survival. Pat Novak is not a detective by trade. He owns a boat shop on Pier 19 where he rents out boats and does odd jobs to make money.

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    Pepper Young’s Family

    In the storyline, high school athlete Larry "Pepper" Young and his sister Peggy lived in the small town of Elmwood where their father, Sam Young ran a manufacturing company. Pepper's girl friend was Linda Benton and his buddy was Nick Havens. Leaving school, Pepper took a job as a reporter with the local Free Press.

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    Phil Harris Alice Faye Show, The

    The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, a comedy radio program which ran on NBC from 1948 to 1954, evolved from an earlier music and comedy variety program, The Fitch Bandwagon. Singer-bandleader Phil Harris and his wife, actress-singer Alice Faye, became the earlier show's breakout stars, and the show was retooled into a full situation comedy, with Harris and Faye playing fictionalized versions of themselves as a working show business couple raising two daughters in a slightly madcap home.

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    Point Sublime

    Starring Cliff Arquette as storekeeper and mayor of Point Sublime, Ben Willet, and Mel Blanc as August Moon and Ben Willet's side-kick, the show is a comedy about the small town named Point Sublime.

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    Richard Diamond, Private Detective

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC in 1949. Diamond was a slick, sophisticated detective, with a sharp tongue for folks who needed it. Diamond enjoyed the detective life, but not as much as entertaining his girl, Helen Asher. After each show, he would croon a number to his Park Avenue sweetheart. Mr. Powell, a former song and dance man, was perfect for the role. He added an extra dimension to the 40's hokey private eye drama.

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    Rocky Fortune

    Rocky Fortune appeared on NBC for only a short run of 25 or 26 shows. The lead character, who goes by the name of Rocky Fortune but whose real name is Rocko Fortunato, was played by Frank Sinatra. Rocky, always ready with a wise remark, seems to be a magnet for trouble, most often with the variety of odd jobs he takes. There is frequently a beautiful woman involved, some good girls, some bad. Rocky's a tough guy who stays just inside of the law but we get an occasional glimpse of a soft heart beneath the hard exterior.

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    Roy Rogers Show, The

    The Roy Rogers program was first broadcast in 1944 on the Mutual Network, and switched between that and NBC over the decade it was on the air. The show was originally sponsored by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and later Miles Laboratories, Quaker Oats, Post Toasties and Dodge automobiles financed this popular evening western adventure.

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    Saint, The

    Simon Templar, AKA "The Saint" 1947-51 was a s refined, gentleman of leisure, style detective who was willing to do some un-saint like things to take down the bad guys.

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    Shadow of Fu Manchu

    The Shadow of Fu Manchu was an adventure radio drama adapted from the first nine Fu Manchu novels by Sax Rohmer. The syndicated series aired from 1939 to 1940 in 15-minute installments.

    The plots of Rohmer's insidious figure and Smith and Petrie's attempts to thwart the archenemy formed a repetitive theme in the story line. A stunningly exotic Karamaneh became the slave girl of the evil doctor; an objective of the combatants was to secure her release. The series, though brief, is memorable, and focused on one of the most effective villains to surface in adolescent radio.

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    Six Shooter, The

    The Six Shooter lasted only one season of 39 episodes on NBC (Sept. 20, 1953-June 24, 1954). Through March 21, 1954 it was broadcast Sundays at 8 p.m. Beginning April 1, 1954 through the final episode it was on Thursdays at 8 p.m.

    James Stewart starred as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of the wild west. Episodes ranged from straight western drama to whimsical comedy. A trademark of the show was Stewart's use of whispered narration during tense scenes that created a heightened sense of drama and relief when the situation was resolved.

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    Space Patrol

    Space Patrol is a science fiction adventure series that was originally aimed at juvenile audiences of the early 1950s via television, radio, and comic books. However, it soon developed a sizable adult audience such that by 1954, the program consistently ranked in the top 10 shows broadcast on a Saturday.

    The stories followed the 30th-century adventures of Commander-in-Chief Buzz Corry of the United Planets Space Patrol and his young sidekick Cadet Happy, as they faced nefarious interplanetary villains with diabolical schemes.

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    Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police

    Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police ran weekly from January 2, 1937 to May 25, 1940. The show centered on the adventures of Speed Gibson, a fifteen-year-old pilot who, through his uncle Clint Barlow, becomes a member of the International Secret Police. Speed was described as “a typical American boy: interested in short wave radio, aviation and most of all - The International Secret Police.”

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    Stand by for Crime

    Not a true crime show, as this is drama, but this show features Chuck Morgan, as played by Glen Langen, a very believable news anchor at KOP, a Los Angeles radio station. He is pals with Lieutenant Bill Miggs of the police force, who tips him off to hot crime news. Also in on the capers is Morgan's "Gal Friday", Carol Curtis, played by Adele Jurgens. The three meet all types -- mostly on the shady side of the street.

    In real life, Glen and Adele were husband and wife, the two marrying in 1949. They had met on the movie set of The Treasure of Monte Cristo. On the show, the repartee between the two is strictly old school and quite enjoyable. The dialogue is solid and makes the most of the plots. Unheralded and left for dead, Stand By for Crime is well worth your time.

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    Suspense

    Suspense was an anthology series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1942 through 1962. Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation; solutions were "withheld until the last possible second"; and evildoers were punished in the end.

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    Tales of the Texas Rangers

    Tales of the Texas Rangers aired on NBC from July 8, 1950 to September 14, 1952, and thereafter a 52-episode CBS television series broadcast on Saturday mornings from 1955 to 1958. Film star Joel McCrea voiced the radio version as the fictitious Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who uses the latest scientific techniques to identify criminals. His faithful horse, Charcoal (or "Charky"), helps Pearson to track down the culprits.

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    The Shadow – Australia

    This is the Australian version of the Shadow radio program. There's not much information on these shows, the most I have is that they were recorded between 1940-1949 and the cast member names.

    Lamont Cranston/The Shadow: Lloyd Lamble
    Margo Lane: Lyndall Barbour
    Announcer: Lloyd Berrill

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    Thrilling Adventure Hour

    A staged show in the style of old-time radio performed live, monthly at Largo at the Coronet in Hollywood. Starring all of your favorite stars from the worlds of television, film, comedy, animation, sketch, and the stage. Created and written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker.

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    Vic and Sade

    Vic and Sade was an American radio program created and written by Paul Rhymer. It was regularly broadcast on radio from 1932 to 1944, then intermittently until 1946, and was briefly adapted to television in 1949 and again in 1957.

    The central characters, known as "radio's home folks," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook, his wife Sade and their adopted son Rush. The three lived on Virginia Avenue in "the small house halfway up in the next block." The program was presented with a low-key ease and naturalness, and Rhymer's humorous dialogue was delivered with a subtleness that made even the most outrageous events seem commonplace and normal.

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    War Telescope

    Broadcast on NBC from 1943 - 1944, this weekly 15-minute radio news report , broadcast on Saturdays, featured Morgan Beatty and Elmer Peterson reporting on the events happening in the European theater as World War II raged on. The reports often featured interviews with military personnel of all ranks in the American and Allied armed services.

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    Weird Circle, The

    The series was a Ziv Production, produced at RCA's New York studios and licensed by the Mutual Broadcasting System, and later, NBC's Red network. It was lasted two seasons, 39 shows each (78 total) consisting mostly of radio adaptations of classic horror stories from the pens of the world's best known and respected supernatural fiction authors like Edgar Alan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens.

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    Whistler, The

    The Whistler was an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955.

    The stories followed a formula in which a person's criminal acts were typically undone either by an overlooked but important detail or by their own stupidity. On rare occasions a curious twist of fate caused the story to end happily for the episode's protagonist. Ironic twist endings were a key feature of each episode. The Whistler himself narrated, often commenting directly upon the action, taunting the criminal from an omniscient perspective.

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    Whitehall 1212

    Whitehall 1212, named after the then famous telephone number of Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Force, the show was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper and broadcast by NBC. Whitehall 1212 told the story of a case entirely from the point of view of the police starting from the crime scene. All episodes were performed by an all British cast and followed a formula similar to another radio show of the same time period Dragnet and todays Law and Order, all three shows were at one time an NBC radio or television program.

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    Words at War

    Words at War ran from 1943-1945, it was produced by NBC with the cooperation of the Council on Books in War Time the show was self described as "A series based on the most important books to come out of this war. Stories of the battlefronts, of behind the scenes diplomacy, of underground warfare, of the homefront, of action on the seas, each is a living record of this war and the things for which we fight."

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    X Minus 1

    X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC.

    Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

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    You Can’t Do Business with Hitler

    You Can't Do Business With Hitler, a series of radio shows, written and produced by the radio section of the Office of War Information (OWI), was transcribed four times a month. Elwood Hoffman writes the scripts, and Frank Telford directs the production.

    This series is one of the many thousands of government propaganda plays that were broadcast to help the war effort during World War II.

    You Can't Do Business with Hitler, based on the experiences of Douglas Miller, who was for 15 years commercial attaché to the American Embassy in Berlin. Douglas Miller reveals the NAZI technique of plundering and looting conquered lands. This transcribed program written by Elwood Hoffman and directed by Frank Telford was brought to you by the Radio Section of the Office for Emergency Management in Washington.

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    Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

    Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama of "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account — America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator."

    Each Johnny Dollar story started with a phone call from an insurance executive, calling on Johnny to investigate an unusual claim. Each story required Johnny to travel to some distant locale, usually within the United States but sometimes abroad, where he was almost always threatened with personal danger in the course of his investigations.

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