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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 — Nero Wolfe: "Vanishing Shells" (1951) | Full Episode
Sydney Greenstreet stars as Rex Stout's brilliant, orchid-loving armchair detective Nero Wolfe in this 1951 NBC mystery. It's bullets on Broadway: when a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Richard Diamond: "Butchers Protection" (1950) | Full Episode
Richard Diamond, Private Detective starred Dick Powell as a wisecracking, song-singing former NYPD cop turned Manhattan private eye. In this episode…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Inner Sanctum Mysteries: "Voice On The Wire" (1944) | Full Episode
Inner Sanctum Mysteries was radio's beloved half-hour anthology of horror and macabre suspense, famous for its slowly creaking door and its smirking host…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Father Knows Best: "Superstitious Folk" (1950) | Full Episode
NBC's gentle Thursday-night comedy turns the Anderson house into a museum of black cats, broken mirrors, and unlucky ladders in 'Superstitious Folk,' first…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Prodigal Panda Caper" (1950) | Full Episode
The Adventures of Sam Spade brought Dashiell Hammett's wisecracking San Francisco private eye to NBC every week, telling each new 'caper' with snappy banter…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — Beyond Tomorrow: "The Trouble with Robots" | Full Episode
From CBS's short-lived 1950 science fiction anthology Beyond Tomorrow -- the network's bid to rival Dimension X. In "The Trouble with Robots," a near-future…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — Journey Into Space: "Operation Luna part 03" (1953) | Full Episode
BBC Radio's landmark 1953 science fiction serial. Captain 'Jet' Morgan and his crew are the first humans on the Moon -- and while exploring a vast lunar…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Dragnet: "The Big Carney" (1953) | Full Episode
Jack Webb's Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith work a string of high-priced shopliftings hitting Los Angeles department stores. Aired May 3, 1953…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Horror — Hall of Fantasy: "Dance of The Devil Dolls" (1953) | Full Episode
Welcome back to The Hall of Fantasy, the series of radio dramas dedicated to the supernatural, the unusual, and the unknown. In "The Dance of the Devil Dolls,"…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "Sam And The Psyche" (1946) | Full Episode
Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled detective steps out of the pages of The Maltese Falcon and into his own radio show, with Howard Duff trading wisecracks with…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Andy Griffith: "Aint it so" | Full Episode
Before Mayberry, Andy Griffith was a stand-up comic with a thick Carolina drawl and a knack for spinning a yarn. 'Ain't It So' is a short, folksy monologue…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Vaphio Cup Caper" (1948) | Full Episode
From 22 August 1948 on CBS, Howard Duff stars as Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled private eye Sam Spade in 'The Vaphio Cup Caper.' A priceless ancient Greek gold…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Let George Do It: "The Robber" (1946) | Full Episode
From the earliest weeks of Mutual's classic 1946 detective series, Bob Bailey stars as George Valentine -- the ex-GI private eye whose newspaper ad reads…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Have Gun Will Travel: "Food To Wickenberg" (1958) | Full Episode
John Dehner stars as Paladin, the chess-knight gunfighter for hire, in a Gene Roddenberry-penned tale from 30 November 1958. On the road to Wickenburg, Paladin…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Mystery — Box 13: "Design For Danger" (1949) | Full Episode
Alan Ladd is Dan Holiday, the novelist who runs a classified ad inviting trouble. In this June 1949 episode, an ex-convict named Johnny Tide returns to his…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — Journey Into Space: "Red Planet part 01" (1954) | Full Episode
The BBC's landmark science-fiction serial Journey Into Space returns with the opening chapter of "The Red Planet," first broadcast 6 September 1954. Captain…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — The Jack Benny Program: "The Don Wilson Story" (1954) | Full Episode
The Jack Benny Program turns the spotlight on its longtime announcer in "The Don Wilson Story," a January 10, 1954 CBS broadcast that plays as part…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — Planet Man: "Three D Dantro" | Full Episode
From the syndicated 1950s juvenile space serial Planet Man comes 'Three D Dantro,' the eleventh chapter in the adventures of Dantro, lawman of the League of…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — Dangerous Assignment: "The Nazi and the Physicist" (1950) | Full Episode
From April 24, 1950: NBC's globe-trotting thriller sends Brian Donlevy's Steve Mitchell into the Alaskan cold on the trail of two missing American scientists…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Burns and Allen: "George Is on Trial" (1940) | Full Episode
George Burns lands in the dock and Gracie Allen takes the stand -- on the same week her made-up 'Surprise Party' presidential campaign was tearing up the…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Sure Thing Caper" (1951) | Full Episode
Five Dollar Frankie barges into Sam Spade's office swearing he's been swindled out of a guaranteed winner by Gentle Joe Higgins, a notorious horse-doper with a…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Boston Blackie: "Burning His House Behind Him" (1947) | Full Episode
From the postwar heyday of radio crime drama, a reformed jewel thief turned amateur detective takes on a chilling murder. Joe Lang has killed his wife Sally…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — Superman: "The Mystery Of The Letter-Part 3" (1948) | Full Episode
The Man of Steel takes flight in this 1948 serial chapter of The Adventures of Superman. Lois Lane's sister Diana is back from Europe with a mysterious letter…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Guns Across the Border" (1942) | Full Episode
The masked man rides south of the Rio Grande when stolen rifles start fueling raids on both sides of the line. Posing as a horse trader, the Lone Ranger…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — The Avengers: "From Venus With Love Part 3" | Full Episode
Springbok Radio's swinging-sixties spy-fi adaptation rolls on as Steed and Emma Peel hunt the killer of the British Venusian Society. Members keep dropping…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Barrie Craig: "Microfilm in the Fishtank" (1951) | Full Episode
From October 24, 1951, one of the very first episodes of NBC's Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator. William Gargan stars as the smooth Madison Avenue…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — The Jack Benny Program: "Jack Listens to the Mean Old Man" | Full Episode
From March 21, 1954 — Jack tunes in his living-room radio and gets hooked on a soapy serial about a cantankerous, miserly old codger who terrorizes everyone…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "When The Shoe Doesn't Fit" (1954) | Full Episode
James Stewart stars as drifting cowboy Britt Ponset in NBC's beloved 1953-54 Western. In this next-to-last episode of the series, Britt and a traveling peddler…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — The Aldrich Family: "Grouse For Dinner" | Full Episode
The original American teenage sitcom — and the one that gave the world Henry Aldrich's famous voice-cracking "Coming, Mother!" In "Grouse For Dinner," Sam…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Dragnet: "The Big Chet" (1953) | Full Episode
Two armed robbers are working the streets of Los Angeles, and Sergeant Joe Friday is on their trail. A reformed ex-con steps forward with a tip, and one small…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Hail And Farewell Caper" (1951) | Full Episode
A condemned man sits in San Quentin, hours from execution — and a desperate visitor walks into Sam Spade's office convinced the verdict is wrong. Spade takes…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Mystery — The Shadow: "The Poison Death" (1938) | Full Episode
Someone has declared war on the city's water supply — poisoning it in the name of The Shadow himself. But the real Shadow has other plans. Lamont Cranston…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Comedy — Father Knows Best: "Time For a New Car" (1950) | Full Episode
Father Knows Best is one of old-time radio's warmest domestic comedies — and in "Time For a New Car," Jim Anderson proves once again that stubbornness has its…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "The New Sheriff" (1954) | Full Episode
James Stewart is Britt Ponset, the soft-spoken drifter who always seems to ride into trouble at exactly the right moment. In "The New Sheriff," Ponset arrives…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Fort Laramie: "Still Waters" | Full Episode
Captain Lee Quince has bigger problems than a brawling regimental band — a Washington delegation hellbent on banning beer from every Army post in the West is…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Mystery — ABC Mystery Time: "Half an Hour" | Full Episode
Lady Lilian has made up her mind — she is leaving her cold, loveless marriage to the wealthy financier Richard Garson and running away with Hugh Paton, the man…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Mystery — The Avenger: "High Tide Murder" (1945) | Full Episode
Jim Brandon — biochemist, crime-fighter, and master of invisibility — picks up three chilling thought-waves on his Telepathic Indicator: the sound of lapping…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Billy the Kid" (1952) | Full Episode
It's the episode that launched a legend. On April 26, 1952, CBS Radio premiered Gunsmoke — and the first thing Marshal Matt Dillon faced was murder, a grieving…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Ellery Queen: "The Adventure Of The Mischief Maker" (1944) | Full Episode
A sinister campaign of anonymous letters has thrown a community into turmoil — and Ellery Queen is called in to unmask the mischief-maker. Aired in January…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Mystery — The Shadow: "The Phantom Voice" (1938) | Full Episode
A crooked lawyer has framed a U.S. Senator on bribery charges — and only The Shadow stands between him and a perfect crime. But Lamont Cranston's power of…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Drama — Academy Award Theater: "One Sunday Afternoon" (1946) | Full Episode
James Stewart takes the mic as Biff Grimes — a small-town man who spent years nursing bitter regret over the strawberry blonde beauty who chose the wrong man…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Tales of the Texas Rangers: "Open and Shut" (1950) | Full Episode
Joel McCrea stars as Jace Pearson, a crack Texas Ranger who brings modern forensic science to bear on real crimes straight from the Rangers' own case files. In…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Drama — One Mans Family: "The Last Of 1941" (1941) | Full Episode
Three weeks after Pearl Harbor, the Barbour family gathers by the fireplace as a Pacific storm howls outside their Sea Cliff home. Carlton E. Morse's landmark…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Thriller — Suspense: "Othello Part 1" (1953) | Full Episode
Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills tackles its most ambitious production: a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, possibly the first-ever radio…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Drama — Mercury Theater On The Air: "Abraham Lincoln" (1938) | Full Episode
Orson Welles takes the role of Abraham Lincoln in this sweeping Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of John Drinkwater's celebrated stage play, enriched with…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Dragnet: "The Big Compulsion" (1953) | Full Episode
In Dragnet's razor-sharp procedural style, Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith work Robbery Detail to track down a man whose compulsion is making phony…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Target" (1958) | Full Episode
Gunsmoke is the gold standard of radio Westerns — a half-hour of hard, morally complex drama set in Dodge City, Kansas, where Marshal Matt Dillon keeps an…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Nero Wolfe: "Midnight Ride" (1951) | Full Episode
When a terrified woman's phone call cuts off mid-sentence and armed men force Archie Goodwin into a car at gunpoint for a midnight drive into the countryside…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Sci-Fi — Dimension X: "To The Future" (1950) | Full Episode
In a future where war has killed half the world, scientists William and Susan Travis use a government time-travel program to flee to the past — and never come…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — Little Orphan Annie: "Annie And Joe Are Going On Trip" | Full Episode
Pack your bags — Annie and Joe are hitting the road. Little Orphan Annie was one of radio's first great children's adventure serials, running on NBC from 1931…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Adventure — Now Hear This: "Fire At Sea 1st Show" (1951) | Full Episode
When a fire breaks out at sea, every second counts — and every sailor is tested. Now Hear This was NBC's gripping naval adventure drama, produced with the Navy…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Richard Diamond: "The George Lexington Case" (1950) | Full Episode
Step into the world of Richard Diamond, Private Detective — the sharp-witted, wisecracking former New York cop turned private eye created by Blake Edwards and…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Philip Marlowe: "The Black Halo" (1949) | Full Episode
Philip Marlowe was a classic American radio detective drama series based on the hard-boiled private investigator character created by Raymond Chandler…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Boston Blackie: "Lighthouse Ghost" (1947) | Full Episode
Boston Blackie was a popular radio drama series featuring Horatio 'Boston' Blackie, a former jewel thief turned amateur detective who used his criminal…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "The Elusive Agent Part 3" (1949) | Full Episode
Sherlock Holmes Stanley was a radio drama series that brought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective stories to life during the golden age of radio. In this…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Barrie Craig: "Corpse on Delivery" (1951) | Full Episode
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a hard-boiled detective radio drama series that aired from 1951 to 1955, following the adventures of a tough…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Ellery Queen: "The Scarecrow And The Snowman" (1944) | Full Episode
Ellery Queen was a popular American radio mystery series that aired from 1939 to 1948, featuring master detective Ellery Queen solving complex murder mysteries…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Livvies Loss" (1958) | Full Episode
Gunsmoke was one of the longest-running radio drama series in American broadcasting history, set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the 1870s, following Marshal…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Detective — Nero Wolfe: "The Final Page" (1951) | Full Episode
The Adventures of Nero Wolfe was a radio mystery series featuring the brilliant, eccentric detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. In "The Final…
VintageRadioShows.comOld Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Chester's Choice" (1958) | Full Episode
Gunsmoke was one of the longest-running and most popular radio drama series in American broadcasting history, set in Dodge City, Kansas during the 1870s…