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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 Detective — Johnny Dollar: "The Star of Capetown Matter Part 2" (1956) | Full Episode
Bob Bailey stars as Johnny Dollar, the freelance insurance investigator with the action-packed expense account. A nervous underwriter sends him to Cape Town to…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "The Capture of Stacy Gault" (1953) | Full Episode
James Stewart stars as Britt Ponset, the drifting Texas cowboy at the heart of NBC's folksy 1953 Western The Six Shooter. Word tears into the town of Elk Point…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "The Adventure of the Gray Pasha" (1949) | Full Episode
Every week the announcer calls on a retired Dr. Watson, who pours a glass, opens the old tin dispatch box, and unwraps one more case from the Baker Street…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — X Minus One: "Mars Is Heaven" (1955) | Full Episode
X Minus One is the finest science fiction ever produced for radio — NBC's half hour of adult SF, drawn from the pages of Astounding and Galaxy and adapted by…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Lights Out: "Poltergeist" (1942) | Full Episode
Lights Out is the program that taught radio how to frighten people — Arch Oboler writing for the ear alone, half an hour at a time, with a warning up front to…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Jud's Woman" (1957) | Full Episode
Gunsmoke is the show that invented the adult western on radio: Matt Dillon is the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City in the 1870s, and William Conrad plays him tired…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "The Elusive Agent Part 1" (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 Mystery — Box 13: "Short Assignment" (1948) | Full Episode
Dan Holiday, mystery novelist and former newspaperman, keeps a standing ad running in the Star-Times: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything — write…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Thriller — Suspense: "Twas the Night Before Christmas" (1953) | Full Episode
For twenty years Suspense was radio's outstanding theater of thrills, and its favorite trick was to take a warm, ordinary room and put something terrible just…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — 21st Precinct: "The Platform" (1954) | Full Episode
The 21st Precinct: 160 patrolmen, 11 sergeants, and four lieutenants — and Captain Frank Kennelly is the boss of all of them. CBS built this series from…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Dragnet: "Sixteen Jewel Thieves" (1949) | Full Episode
Dragnet built its reputation on the unglamorous truth of police work — real LAPD case files, the names changed to protect the innocent, and Jack Webb's…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Dragnet: "The Maniac Murderer" (1949) | Full Episode
Dragnet was the show that taught American radio what real police work sounded like. Jack Webb built it out of actual Los Angeles Police Department case files…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "In Flanders Fields" (1945) | Full Episode
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce starred in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for Mutual, with Dr. Watson settling into a chair by the fire each week to tell…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — 21st Precinct: "The Plant" (1953) | Full Episode
21st Precinct was a New York police drama told strictly from the policeman's point of view — adaptations of true criminal records, produced in cooperation with…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Our Miss Brooks: "The Burglar" (1950) | Full Episode
Five o'clock in the morning at Mrs. Davis's boarding house, and there is a man in the kitchen working his way through the refrigerator. Connie Brooks catches…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Fibber McGee and Molly: "Mouse In The House" (1939) | Full Episode
Lord Bingham, a visiting big-game hunter, is looking for a partner for his next African expedition, and Fibber McGee has spent the afternoon selling him a life…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "The Unfortunate Tobacconist" (1945) | Full Episode
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson, broadcast April 30, 1945. Three shopkeepers have been murdered along the fog-blind London docks, and all…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Philip Marlowe: "The King in Yellow" (1947) | Full Episode
Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles private eye came to radio in the summer of 1947 with Van Heflin in the trench coat — half an hour of blackmail, bad money, and a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Rushlight Diamond Caper" (1948) | Full Episode
The Adventures of Sam Spade brought Dashiell Hammett's wisecracking San Francisco private eye to the air every week, with Howard Duff dictating each new…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Adventures by Morse: "The City of the Dead Part 1" | Full Episode
Carlton E. Morse wrote "I Love a Mystery" and "One Man's Family," then went out on his own in the mid-1940s and turned out 52 half-hour adventures for San…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Wild Bill Hickok: "Happy New Year" (1954) | Full Episode
Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his gravel-voiced sidekick Jingles P. Jones ride into New Year's Eve on the frontier, where a town full of celebrating cowhands…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — My Favorite Husband: "George's Mother Visits" (1949) | Full Episode
Before there was Lucy Ricardo, there was Liz Cooper. My Favorite Husband starred Lucille Ball as the scheming, big-hearted wife of Sheridan Falls bank man…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: "Henry's Childhood" | Full Episode
Before the potion, before the laboratory, before Mr Hyde — there is only a boy named Henry Jekyll, and the first faint signs of the two natures already at war…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Bing Crosby Show: "The Andrews Sisters" (1950) | Full Episode
Wednesday nights on CBS, Bing Crosby hosted the most relaxed half hour in radio — a few songs, some easy banter, and whoever happened to drop by the studio. On…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — Exploring Tomorrow: "Planet of Geniuses" | Full Episode
Exploring Tomorrow was science fiction made by science fiction people — hosted, edited and adapted by John W. Campbell Jr. of Astounding Science Fiction, the…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — That Hammer Guy: "The Lillian Martin Case" (1953) | Full Episode
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer was never a gentleman sleuth. He was a blunt instrument with a conscience — a New York private eye who took the beating, threw it…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — The Life of Riley: "Thanksgiving Flashback" (1948) | Full Episode
Chester A. Riley was radio's most lovable blunderer — a big-hearted riveter at the Cunningham Aircraft plant who could turn the simplest situation into a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Dark Fantasy: "The Headless Dead" (1942) | Full Episode
Dark Fantasy was NBC's supernatural thriller anthology, spun each Friday night in 1941–42 from a studio in Oklahoma City by writer Scott Bishop. In "The…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — Tarzan: "Congo Christmas" | Full Episode
Tarzan brought Edgar Rice Burroughs' Lord of the Jungle to radio, and this holiday episode from the 1950s revival trades the usual outlaws and beasts for a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Frontier Gentleman: "The Shelton Brothers" (1958) | Full Episode
An English gentleman with a pen in one hand and a pistol in the other — Frontier Gentleman starred John Dehner as J.B. Kendall, a London Times correspondent…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — You Bet Your Life: "Audition" (1947) | Full Episode
You Bet Your Life was the quiz show that was really a comedy show, built entirely around the lightning-fast wit of Groucho Marx. This is the original audition…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Drama — Screen Guild Theater: "Casablanca" (1943) | Full Episode
The Screen Guild Theater condensed Hollywood's biggest pictures into half-hour dramas, with the original stars reprising their roles and donating their fees to…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — The Weird Circle | Full Episode
The Weird Circle was radio's syndicated home for classic horror, heard from 1943 to 1945, dramatizing the great tales of terror by Poe, Stevenson, Dickens, and…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Thriller — Escape: "The Man With Steel Teeth" | Full Episode
Escape was radio's premier anthology of high-adventure drama on CBS (1947–1954), dropping listeners each week into life-or-death straits and tales of suspense…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Cisco Kid: "Cisco Meets the Apache Kid" (1953) | Full Episode
Ride the frontier trail with the Robin Hood of the Old West. In this episode, Cisco and his loyal, wisecracking sidekick Pancho cross paths with the notorious…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — The Great Gildersleeve: "Gildersleeve vs. Golf" (1952) | Full Episode
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve is Summerfield's blustering Water Commissioner -- long on confidence, short on follow-through, and never quite as impressive as he…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — The Green Hornet: "Put It on Ice" (1939) | Full Episode
Britt Reid, crusading newspaper publisher by day and the masked Green Hornet by night, wages a secret war on the racketeers the law can't reach. In this July…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "More Than Kin" (1953) | Full Episode
The Six Shooter was NBC's warm, character-driven Western, starring James Stewart as Britt Ponset, an easygoing wandering cowboy who keeps drifting into other…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Inner Sanctum Mysteries: "No Coffin For The Dead" (1945) | Full Episode
Step through the famous creaking door into Inner Sanctum Mysteries, radio's beloved horror anthology hosted by the droll, pun-loving "Raymond." In "No Coffin…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Nero Wolfe: "The Hasty Will" (1951) | Full Episode
Sydney Greenstreet stars as Rex Stout's orchid-loving armchair genius in The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe. When banker John Blake asks Wolfe to safeguard a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — Dimension X: "The Lost Race" (1950) | Full Episode
Dimension X was NBC Radio's pioneering science-fiction anthology, the first to dramatize stories by the genre's leading authors. In "The Lost Race," adapted…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — 21st Precinct: "The Certified 600" (1953) | Full Episode
Step inside a busy 1950s New York station house with 21st Precinct, the documentary-style CBS police drama that follows a case from the first phone call to the…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — 33 Half Moon Street: "A Kitten for Mr Katz" (1965) | Full Episode
From the files of Assignments Unlimited -- the agency that does anything, anywhere, at any time. In "A Kitten for Mr Katz," chief investigator Aubrey Mason…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Drama — A Quarter Century of Swing: "Show Number 485" (1964) | Full Episode
A Quarter Century of Swing was Armed Forces Radio's love letter to the big-band era -- a half-hour anthology of swing's golden age beamed to U.S. service…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Mystery — Box 13: "The Professor And The Puzzle" (1949) | Full Episode
Dan Holiday, the newspaperman-turned-novelist of Box 13, runs an ad promising to go anywhere and do anything for a good story -- and the letters that land in…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Nero Wolfe: "The Lost Heir" (1951) | Full Episode
Sydney Greenstreet is Rex Stout's brilliant, orchid-loving armchair detective Nero Wolfe, who solves crimes without ever leaving his New York brownstone while…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Philip Marlowe: "Nether Nether Land rehearsal" (1951) | Full Episode
The gold standard of hardboiled radio detection: Gerald Mohr stars as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, the wisecracking, world-weary private eye of…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — The Hermit's Cave: "The House on Lost Lands Bluff" | Full Episode
From one of radio's earliest horror anthologies, the cackling old Hermit beckons you into his cave for a tale of a lonely house high on a windswept point of…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Beyond Midnight: "40th Birthday" | Full Episode
From South Africa's Springbok Radio comes Beyond Midnight, Michael McCabe's anthology of madness, murder, and the supernatural. In "40th Birthday" (also known…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Dragnet: "Twenty Two Rifle for Christmas" (1949) | Full Episode
One of old-time radio's most famous and controversial broadcasts. Three days before Christmas 1949, Sergeant Joe Friday is called out when nine-year-old…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Our Miss Brooks: "Mr Boyntons Barbecue" (1950) | Full Episode
Our Miss Brooks was radio's best-loved schoolroom comedy, starring Eve Arden as the dry-witted English teacher forever pining for bashful biology teacher Mr…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Abbott & Costello: "Radio Station with Alan Ladd" (1944) | Full Episode
Step up to the microphone with the kings of comedy. In this March 30, 1944 broadcast of The Abbott and Costello Program, cool Hollywood tough-guy Alan Ladd…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Inner Sanctum Mysteries: "Death Is An Artist" (1945) | Full Episode
Step through the famous creaking door once more. Inner Sanctum Mysteries was Himan Brown's masterclass in radio terror, hosted by the pun-loving Raymond. In…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Inner Sanctum Mysteries: "Death In The Depths" (1945) | Full Episode
Step through the creaking door into Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Himan Brown's classic anthology of terror hosted by the sardonic Raymond. In "Death in the…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — The Jack Benny Program: "Jacks Big Date" (1954) | Full Episode
America's favorite cheapskate is stepping out on the town! In this March 1954 broadcast from New York, Jack Benny gets gussied up for a big date with singer…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Richard Diamond: "The Ruby Idol Case" (1949) | Full Episode
Dick Powell stars as Richard Diamond, the singing private eye, in one of the series' most playful cases. What begins as a routine investigation turns into a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "The Hound of the Baskervilles Pt1" | Full Episode
From the BBC's beloved 1952-1969 Sherlock Holmes series, Carleton Hobbs is Holmes and Norman Shelley is Watson in Conan Doyle's greatest mystery. In Part 1…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Burns and Allen: "George Owes Money for Phone Calls" (1940) | Full Episode
George Burns and Gracie Allen bring their golden-age comedy to the air, and this 1940 outing finds George stuck with a pile of telephone charges -- until…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — X Minus One: "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" (1955) | Full Episode
From NBC's landmark science fiction series X Minus One comes Ray Bradbury's haunting Martian Chronicles tale. The Fourth Expedition lands on Mars to find its…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Have Gun Will Travel: "Search For Wylie Dawson" (1960) | Full Episode
Paladin, the cultured gunfighter-for-hire of CBS Radio's Have Gun -- Will Travel, rides out on an unusual errand: to find Wylie Dawson and tell him he's no…