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Vintage Radio Shows brings you the golden age of entertainment with classic comedies, mysteries, dramas, westerns, and serials from the 1930s–1950s. Enjoy restored recordings from over 40,000 episodes of old time radio, plus historic newsreels, film serials, and vintage cartoons.
Episodes
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — Escape: "She" (1948) | Full Episode
Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, and this July 1948 broadcast tackles H. Rider Haggard's immortal romance of the lost African kingdom ruled…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Escape: "Dead of Night" Original Audition (1947) | Full Episode
Months before Escape became CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, this was the very first pilot, broadcast on February 28, 1947 under the name Out of This…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1951) | Full Episode
In its final season NBC University Theater, billed on air as the NBC Theater, was still bringing a great novel to radio every week from Hollywood. Tonight it…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "The Portrait of a Lady" (1949) | Full Episode
By the fall of 1949 NBC University Theater (now billed simply as the NBC Theater) was broadcasting a full hour of a great novel from Hollywood every Sunday…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "A Farewell to Arms" (1948) | Full Episode
NBC University Theater brought the great novels to radio from Hollywood, with film stars in the leads. This hour is Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms,"…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Kitty Caught" (1954) | Full Episode
Gunsmoke brought the adult Western to radio, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal of Dodge City. In "Kitty Caught," Chester comes back from Wichita…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Gone Straight" (1953) | Full Episode
Gunsmoke brought the adult Western to radio, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal of Dodge City. In "Gone Straight," a special deputy for the New…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Fibber McGee and Molly: "Numerology" (1943) | Full Episode
For ten dollars, a numerologist over a barbershop promises to put Fibber McGee in harmony with the universe by giving him a new name: Homer K. Frink, eleven…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Fibber McGee and Molly: "McGee Sells Watches" (1941) | Full Episode
A package marked FRAGILE, insured for $800, lands at 79 Wistful Vista, and inside is a leather sample case stamped in gold: Fibber McGee, special…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Johnny Dollar: "Milford Brooks III (Audition)" (1948) | Full Episode
Before Bob Bailey, before Charles Russell, there was Dick Powell. In this December 1948 audition, never broadcast, Powell plays Johnny Dollar, the freelance…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Boss of the Tarantulas" (1942) | Full Episode
The Lone Ranger and Tonto have jailed four of the knife-throwing Tarantula gang with help from Texas Jack of the Border City Cafe, and now Jack hands over a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Hold Up Stagecoach" (1940) | Full Episode
Caleb Saxon and his wife Edith ride the stage to Basin City hoping to leave the whispers back East behind them: a court cleared Caleb, but everyone still…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Osage Bank Robbery" (1938) | Full Episode
The Brogan brothers, two of the most wanted killers in the West, rob the bank at Osage and shoot the banker for no reason at all, then vanish without leaving a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Mystery — Suspense: "The Lodger" (1940) | Full Episode
London, 1888. A quiet, soft-spoken man takes the upstairs room at the Buntings' boarding house, pays in advance, keeps odd hours, and asks that his landlady…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — John Steele, Adventurer: "Cargo Unknown" (1949) | Full Episode
Lou Cardone flew 71 fighter missions over Europe and came home too restless to sit still, so he bought a surplus twin-engine ship and called it the Anything…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Escape: "Dead of Night" (1947) | Full Episode
Before Escape ever became CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, it was auditioned with this: a chilling half hour adapted from the ventriloquist segment of…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — Escape: "The Man Who Would Be King" (1947) | Full Episode
Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, and this is the night it began: the series premiere of July 7, 1947, produced and directed by William N…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — The Green Lama: "Adventure of the Perfect Prisoner" (1949) | Full Episode
Jethro Dumont spent ten years in a Tibetan monastery and came home as the Green Lama, a crime fighter who never carries a gun. In the final broadcast of the…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — The Green Lama: "The Man Who Never Existed" (1949) | Full Episode
Jethro Dumont spent ten years in a Tibetan monastery and came home as the Green Lama, a crime fighter who refuses to carry a gun. In this audition recording of…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Mystery — Lives of Harry Lime: "Mexican Hat Trick" (1951) | Full Episode
Orson Welles reprises Harry Lime, the charming racketeer of The Third Man, in this 1951 series that tells the con man's adventures before that fatal night in…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — Challenge of the Yukon: "The Stolen Pups" (1947) | Full Episode
Challenge of the Yukon follows Sergeant Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they keep the peace in the Klondike…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — Challenge of the Yukon: "Sam's Gold" (1947) | Full Episode
Challenge of the Yukon follows Sergeant Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they keep the peace in the Klondike…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Double For An Outlaw" (1942) | Full Episode
The Lone Ranger is an iconic masked western hero who fights for justice alongside his Native American companion Tonto. Broadcast throughout the 1930s-1950s…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Magic Belt" (1942) | Full Episode
The Lone Ranger is an iconic radio western serial about a masked former Texas Ranger and his Native American companion Tonto who right wrongs in the Old West…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Drama — Biography In Sound: "Meet Ernest Hemingway" (1954) | Full Episode
Biography in Sound, a CBS documentary series produced by Norman Corwin, presented biographical profiles of notable American figures through dramatizations…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — Mercury Theater On The Air: "War of the Worlds" (1938) | Full Episode
Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air present H. G. Wells's tale of a Martian invasion, adapted by Howard Koch and told as a live dance-band…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Thriller — Suspense: "The Diary of Sophronia Winters" (1943) | Full Episode
Suspense presents Lucille Fletcher's first original script for the series, a study in terror told through a diary. Sophronia Winters is forty, freed by her…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Bouncing Betty Caper" (1948) | Full Episode
A fussy English butler named Carruthers walks into Sam Spade's office, tidies his ashtray, and hires him to go undercover as a chauffeur at Bleakcliff, a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Lights Out: "It Happened" (1938) | Full Episode
Jean Taylor is a spoiled rich girl from New York on a chaperoned art tour of Paris, and she is bored stiff. She slips away from the Louvre looking for fun and…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Murder Strikes Thrice" (1942) | Full Episode
The Lone Ranger and Tonto ride into Excalibur, a dusty frontier town where somebody is killing men on their birthdays. A year ago, three witnesses swore away…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Have Gun Will Travel: "Strange Vendetta" (1958) | Full Episode
The very first radio episode of Have Gun Will Travel, with John Dehner as Paladin, the cultured San Francisco gunman of CBS's "thinking man's Western." San…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "Britt Ponset's Christmas Carol" (1953) | Full Episode
Jimmy Stewart rides the winter trail as Britt Ponset, the easygoing drifter of NBC's The Six Shooter. With Christmas coming on, he comes upon Johnny, an…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — The Jack Benny Program: "Jack and the Bean Stalk" (1954) | Full Episode
Spring has come to Beverly Hills, and Jack Benny is out in the backyard in overalls and long white gloves, planting string beans again — last year's crop was…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Abbott & Costello: "Return to P.S. 15" (1944) | Full Episode
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were the fastest, loudest comedy act in America, and their weekly NBC show turned every broadcast into a scheme that got away from…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — The Jack Benny Program: "Dennis Wants to Join the Air Force" | Full Episode
For more than twenty years Jack Benny ran the best-loved comedy in American radio, and the joke was always himself: vain, penny-pinching, stuck forever at 39…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Our Miss Brooks: "Rare Black Orchid" (1950) | Full Episode
Connie Brooks teaches English at Madison High, dodges her blustering principal, and never quite gets a date with the biology teacher. In this May 1950…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Thriller — Lights Out: "Execution" (1943) | Full Episode
Lights Out was radio's premier horror series, and it reached its best-remembered form when writer-director Arch Oboler brought it back to CBS in 1942 — a half…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Sinister Siren Caper" (1951) | Full Episode
The Adventures of Sam Spade let Dashiell Hammett's hardboiled private eye tell his own stories — every case dictated back at the office to his secretary Effie…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Quiet, Please: "Whence Came You" (1948) | Full Episode
Quiet, Please was radio's quietest horror show and its strangest — Wyllis Cooper wrote and directed every episode, and Ernest Chappell told them to you in a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Philip Marlowe: "The Orange Dog" (1949) | Full Episode
Gerald Mohr played Raymond Chandler's private eye as radio's toughest and wittiest detective, working a Los Angeles of rain-slick streets, cheap hotels and…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Carmen" (1952) | Full Episode
Gunsmoke was radio's great adult western — Dodge City, Kansas in the hard years of the cattle trade, with William Conrad as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon. In this…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Bow Window Caper" (1947) | Full Episode
Howard Duff stars as Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco private eye in the show that made Sam Spade a weekly habit — wisecracks, fast talk, and real menace…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Inner Sanctum: "The Black Art" (1945) | Full Episode
Behind the creaking door, Raymond welcomes you one last time. A man waits out his final night in a small-town jail, condemned for a murder he did not commit —…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — X Minus One: "A Pail of Air" (1956) | Full Episode
X Minus One was NBC's great science fiction anthology, made in cooperation with Galaxy magazine and counting down into the void every week with stories by the…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Tales of the Texas Rangers: "Soft Touch" (1950) | Full Episode
Movie star Joel McCrea rides the airwaves as Ranger Jace Pearson in NBC's Tales of the Texas Rangers — a hard-nosed police procedural with sagebrush in its…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Creeps By Night: "Six Who Did Not Die" (1944) | Full Episode
Creeps by Night was the Blue Network's 1944 anthology of subtle, psychological chillers — a series so unnerving that listeners with heart conditions were…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "Hiram's Gold Strike" (1954) | Full Episode
James Stewart stars as Britt Ponset, the drifting Texas plainsman of NBC's The Six Shooter. Old Hiram Grover has spent forty years scratching at the hills, and…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — X Minus One: "How-2" (1956) | Full Episode
X Minus One was NBC's great science fiction anthology, adapting the best of Galaxy and Astounding for adult ears. In this Clifford D. Simak story, Gordon…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Our Miss Brooks: "Mr. Boynton's Parents" (1950) | Full Episode
Eve Arden is Connie Brooks, the wisecracking English teacher of Madison High, forever fielding a blustering principal, a scheming student, and one bashful…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Have Gun Will Travel: "Doctor From Vienna" (1960) | Full Episode
Paladin is a West Point man with a Shakespeare habit, a suite at San Francisco's Carlton Hotel, and a business card that reads "Have Gun, Will Travel." John…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Boston Blackie: "The Buckley Protection Agency" (1947) | Full Episode
Boston Blackie is the reformed jewel thief who works the underworld from the inside — an enemy to those who make him an enemy, a friend to those who have no…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Have Gun Will Travel: "Five Days To Yuma" (1960) | Full Episode
Paladin dressed for the opera and rode out in black — a West Point man with a chess-knight calling card who would rather talk you down than shoot you, and who…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Thriller — Suspense: "Headshrinker" (1958) | Full Episode
For twenty years Suspense was radio's outstanding theater of thrills, dropping ordinary people into extraordinary danger and letting the tension do the rest…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Quiet Please: "Wear the Dead Man's Coat" (1948) | Full Episode
Quiet Please was radio's quietest horror show — Wyllis Cooper writing, Ernest Chappell talking straight to you, one organ in the dark, and almost no sound…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Boston Blackie: "Joe Nelson's Pet Shop Gambling Scheme" | Full Episode
Boston Blackie is the reformed jewel thief who solves the cases the police can't — "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend" —…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Mystery — Box 13: "The Haunted Artist" (1948) | Full Episode
Dan Holiday, the mystery novelist who goes looking for trouble through a newspaper classified ad — "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything, write Box…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "The Elusive Agent Part 2" (1949) | Full Episode
John Stanley's Sherlock Holmes carried Baker Street through radio's late golden age, each half-hour framed as a case Dr. Watson recalls over a glass of sherry…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Johnny Dollar: "The Star of Capetown Matter Part 3" (1956) | Full Episode
Bob Bailey stars as Johnny Dollar, the freelance insurance investigator with the action-packed expense account. A jittery underwriter sent him to Cape Town to…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Mystery — Box 13: "Double Mothers" (1948) | Full Episode
Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday, the newspaperman who walked away from the city desk to write mystery novels and went looking for plots by running a standing ad…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — Flash Gordon: "Rules Over Cave World" (1935) | Full Episode
Before Buster Crabbe ever pulled on the boots, Flash Gordon flew through American living rooms on the Mutual Broadcasting System — a 26-week serial adapted…