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The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time Radio
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time Radio brings together legendary comedy, mystery, crime, suspense, science fiction, Westerns, horror, adventure, and drama from the golden age of broadcasting. Discover iconic programs, unforgettable characters, celebrated performers, and timeless stories from radio’s greatest era. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing…
Episodes
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioDragnet - "The Big Trial" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dragnet presents “The Big Trial,” episode 45, originally broadcast on NBC on April 20, 1950. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioLux Radio Theatre - "Death Takes a Holiday" (Old Time Radio, 1937)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “Death Takes a Holiday,” episode 125, originally broadcast on CBS on March 22, 1937. Produced by Cecil B. DeMille and sponsored by…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Till Death Do Us Part" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
The Whistler presents “Till Death Do Us Part,” originally broadcast November 26, 1950. Episode 443 finds hard-up Los Angeles resident Roy Layton facing…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioSuspense - "A Story of Poison" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
Suspense presents “A Story of Poison,” episode 615, originally broadcast on CBS on September 13, 1955. Joseph Kearns stars in this Antony Ellis drama, based on…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioInner Sanctum Mysteries - "Terror by Night" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Terror by Night,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 29, 1952. Episode 513 stars Agnes Moorehead as Linda Dixon and was…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioEscape - "The Coward" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Escape’s “The Coward” originally aired on CBS Radio Network on August 14, 1954. Episode 222, written by E. Jack Neuman, stars Barney Phillips with Virginia…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “And the Moon Be Still as Bright,” episode 19, originally broadcast on September 22, 1955. This NBC science-fiction drama adapts Ray…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioGunsmoke - "The Man Who Would Be Marshal" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
Gunsmoke presents “The Man Who Would Be Marshal,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 18, 1956. Episode 206 stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, with…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioLux Radio Theatre - "The Curtain Rises" (Old Time Radio, 1936)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “The Curtain Rises,” episode 102, originally broadcast on CBS on October 12, 1936. Hosted by Cecil B. DeMille and sponsored by Lux…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Black Death" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
Suspense presents “Black Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 2, 1955. Episode 609 stars Edgar Barrier as Dr. Gebhardt and William Conrad as Police…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioDragnet - "The Big Sophomore" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Dragnet, “The Big Sophomore” (episode 110), originally broadcast on NBC on July 19, 1951. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, joined by Barton Yarborough…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioEscape - "The Silent Horror" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Escape presents “The Silent Horror,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 22, 1951. Episode 150 stars Harry Bartell as Tom Dawson, in a radio adaptation by…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Escape to Skull Island" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
The Whistler presents “Escape to Skull Island,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 15, 1950. This is episode 398, written by R. Sprague Hall and sponsored…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioGunsmoke - "Crowbait Bob" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
Gunsmoke, “Crowbait Bob,” originally broadcast November 10, 1956, is episode 239 of the classic CBS radio western. William Conrad stars as Marshal Matt Dillon…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioInner Sanctum Mysteries - "The Murder Prophet" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Murder Prophet,” originally broadcast on CBS on September 4, 1945. Episode 235 stars Wendy Barrie as Claudia Dale, with…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Coffin for Mr Cash" (Old Time Radio, 1960)
Suspense presents “Coffin for Mr Cash,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 27, 1960. Catalogued as episode 846, this Robert Arthur thriller stars Leon Janney…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioLux Radio Theatre - "The Paradine Case" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “The Paradine Case,” originally broadcast on May 9, 1949. Episode 657 adapts Alfred Hitchcock’s 1947 courtroom drama, based on…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioEscape - "Figure a Dame" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Escape presents “Figure a Dame,” originally broadcast on CBS on December 20, 1949. Episode 90 stars Frank Lovejoy in a film-noir-tinged mystery adapted by…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Man in the Moon" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “The Man in the Moon,” episode 6, originally broadcast on May 29, 1955. This NBC science-fiction drama was written by George Lefferts and…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioDragnet - "Max Tyler - Escaped Convict" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dragnet presents “Max Tyler - Escaped Convict,” episode 32, originally broadcast on NBC on January 5, 1950. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioGunsmoke - "Another Man's Poison" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
Gunsmoke, “Another Man’s Poison,” originally broadcast on CBS on September 29, 1957. This is episode 286, written by Les Crutchfield and produced by Norman…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Golden Years" (Old Time Radio, 1962)
Suspense presents “Golden Years,” originally broadcast on CBS on September 16, 1962. Often cataloged as episode 943 (with some logs listing it as #942), this…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioLux Radio Theatre - "The Kiss of Death" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “The Kiss of Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 12, 1948. Episode 598 adapts the 1947 20th Century-Fox film noir, based…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Stranger in the House" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
The Whistler presents “Stranger in the House,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 2, 1948. This is episode 314 of the suspense anthology series, sponsored by…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioEscape - "A Matter of Conscience - 1" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Escape presents “A Matter of Conscience - 1,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 18, 1953. Episode 166 is an Antony Ellis drama directed by Norman…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioInner Sanctum Mysteries - "Birdsong for a Murderer" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Birdsong for a Murderer,” originally broadcast on June 22, 1952. Episode 512 of the CBS series stars Boris Karloff and…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioGunsmoke - "Legal Revenge" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
Gunsmoke, “Legal Revenge” (episode 200), originally broadcast on CBS on February 5, 1956. William Conrad stars as Marshal Matt Dillon, with Parley Baer as…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Nightmare" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Suspense presents “Nightmare,” episode 348, originally broadcast on CBS on September 1, 1949. Gregory Peck stars in this opening broadcast of the 1949–50…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioLux Radio Theatre - "Vivacious Lady" (Old Time Radio, 1941)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “Vivacious Lady,” episode 289, originally broadcast on CBS on January 6, 1941. Sponsored by Lux, this radio adaptation stars Alice…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioDragnet - "The Big Border" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Dragnet, “The Big Border,” originally broadcast on March 20, 1952, is episode 145 of the NBC police drama. Jack Webb stars as Los Angeles robbery detective…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioEscape - "Ancient Sorceries - National" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Escape presents “Ancient Sorceries,” episode 28, originally broadcast nationally on CBS on February 15, 1948. This sustaining production was adapted from…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "The Martian Death March" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “The Martian Death March,” episode 17, originally broadcast on NBC on September 8, 1955. Written by Ernest Kinoy, this production remakes…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "Murder in Haste" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
The Whistler, “Murder in Haste,” originally broadcast December 17, 1947, is episode 290. In this CBS Pacific Network presentation, sponsored by Signal Oil…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioDimension X - "Mars Is Heaven" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Dimension X presents “Mars Is Heaven,” episode 33, broadcast January 7, 1951. This NBC science-fiction drama adapts Ray Bradbury’s short story “Mars Is…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Moonstone - Part Two" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Suspense presents “The Moonstone - Part Two,” originally broadcast on CBS on November 23, 1953. This is episode 527 and the conclusion of a two-part adaptation…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioGunsmoke - "Cavalcade" (Old Time Radio, 1959)
Gunsmoke presents “Cavalcade,” episode 396, broadcast on CBS Radio on November 8, 1959. This airing repeats the original January 31, 1953 broadcast, with…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioInner Sanctum Mysteries - "Murder Comes at Midnight" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Murder Comes at Midnight,” originally broadcast on September 9, 1946. Episode 283 stars Mercedes McCambridge and was written…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioLux Radio Theatre - "Mother Didnt Tell Me Afrs" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “Mother Didn’t Tell Me AFRS,” originally broadcast November 16, 1954. This is episode 897, adapted from the 1950 Twentieth…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioDragnet - "The Big Make" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dragnet presents “The Big Make,” episode 66, originally broadcast on NBC on September 14, 1950. Jack Webb stars as Los Angeles police sergeant Joe Friday, with…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioEscape - "A Shipment of Mute Fate - Jack Webb" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Escape presents “A Shipment of Mute Fate,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 15, 1947. Episode 10 stars Jack Webb and was written by Les Crutchfield, from…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Circumstantial Terror" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Suspense presents “Circumstantial Terror,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 8, 1954. Episode 542 stars Ronald Reagan as Frank Thompson and was written by…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioGunsmoke - "Spring Freshet (better sound, Less complete)" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
Gunsmoke, “Spring Freshet” (episode 258), originally broadcast on CBS on March 17, 1957. William Conrad stars as Marshal Matt Dillon, with Parley Baer as…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioDimension X - "Destination Moon" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dimension X presents “Destination Moon,” episode 12, originally broadcast on NBC on June 24, 1950. Adapted from George Pal’s 1950 film and credited to Robert…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Death Wish" (Old Time Radio, 1957)
X Minus One presents “Death Wish,” episode 115, originally broadcast on NBC on October 10, 1957. This science-fiction drama was adapted for radio by William…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioLux Radio Theatre - "Dark Victory" (Old Time Radio, 1940)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “Dark Victory,” episode 245, originally broadcast on CBS on January 8, 1940. Produced by Cecil B. DeMille and sponsored by Lux…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioEscape - "The Time Machine - Jeff Corey" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Escape presents “The Time Machine - Jeff Corey,” originally broadcast on May 9, 1948. Episode 40 adapts H. G. Wells’s classic novel, with Jeff Corey as…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Dead Ernest" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Suspense presents “Dead Ernest,” episode 205, originally broadcast on CBS on August 8, 1946. Written by Merwin Gerard and Seeleg Lester and produced and…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioDragnet - "The Big Switch" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “The Big Switch,” episode 230, originally broadcast on NBC on January 12, 1954. Jack Webb stars as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, with Ben…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioGunsmoke - "The Trial" (Old Time Radio, 1959)
Gunsmoke, “The Trial,” originally broadcast March 22, 1959 (episode number variously listed as 361 or 363), stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon. This…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioInner Sanctum Mysteries - "Twice Dead" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Twice Dead,” originally broadcast on November 6, 1950. This 28-minute ABC installment was the ninth episode of the 1950 Mars…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioLux Radio Theatre - "Killer Cates" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “Killer Cates,” episode 550, originally broadcast on CBS on December 16, 1946. Sponsored by Lux and hosted by William Keighley, this…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioDimension X - "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dimension X presents “And the Moon Be Still as Bright,” episode 26, originally broadcast on NBC on September 29, 1950. This sustaining, commercial-free drama…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Dateline - Lisbon" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
Suspense presents “Dateline - Lisbon,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 5, 1944. Episode 112 stars John Hodiak as American correspondent William Baldwin…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioEscape - "Border Town" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Escape presents “Border Town,” episode 89, originally broadcast on CBS on December 13, 1949. This compact crime-adventure stars Jack Webb, with William Conrad…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioGunsmoke - "Miguel's Daughter" (Old Time Radio, 1958)
Gunsmoke, “Miguel’s Daughter,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 3, 1958, is episode 330 in the full-series radio log. William Conrad stars as Marshal Matt…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioLux Radio Theatre - "The Winslow Boy" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “The Winslow Boy,” episode 864, originally broadcast January 18, 1954. Adapted by F. H. Barnett from Terence Rattigan’s play, this…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioThe Whistler - "The Killers" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
The Whistler presents “The Killers,” episode 50, originally broadcast May 1, 1943. This early CBS Pacific Network sustaining drama was written and directed by…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioDragnet - "The Big Present Afrs" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet, “The Big Present” (episode 223), originally broadcast November 24, 1953. Jack Webb stars as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday in this NBC crime drama…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioInner Sanctum Mysteries - "Death of a Doll" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Death of a Doll,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 18, 1948. Series episode 392, written by Fred Maytho, features Mason…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time RadioX Minus One - "Nightmare" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
X Minus One presents “Nightmare,” episode 10, originally broadcast on NBC Radio on July 21, 1955. Adapted for radio by George Lefferts from Stephen Vincent…