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The Good Old Days of Radio Show
Legendary radio collector John Tefteller presents the best of mystery, comedy, horror, and adventure stories, produced by the greatest writers, directors, composers, and stars.
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Episode 539: Quiet Please: Take Me Out To the Graveyard
It's our Halloween episode, and we have an episode of Quiet, Please! today fitting for the occasion. It’s called: “Take Me Out to the Graveyard.” Ernest…
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Episode 538: A Night To Remember
It's kind of a spooky week here, and we are going to keep with the creepy crawlies of the season with a fun offering today: a 1943 broadcast of Lux Radio…
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Episode 537: Quiet Please: Kill Me Again
It's Thursday and time for another unusual episode of the supernatural series Quiet, Please!: “Kill Me Again,” written and directed by Wyllis Cooper. This one…
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Episode 536: Request Performance
Today we have comedy and variety with a 1945 episode of Request Performance, the CBS variety program sponsored by Campbell’s Soup. The series lasted only 29…
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Episode 535: Quiet Please: Camera Obscura
Today another eerie classic from Quiet Please: “Camera Obscura,” written and directed by Wyllis Cooper. This is a ghost story about a guilt-ridden murderer…
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Episode 534: The Bob Hope Show
A listener sent us some rare, uncirculated discs of The Bob Hope Show. This is one originally broadcast on December 17, 1946. It’s a Christmas-season broadcast…
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Episode 533: Quiet Please: Not Enough Time
We’re back to Wyllis Cooper today and his dark fantasy series Quiet Please. This time we meet Walter McCoy, a mechanic who has spent four years secretly…
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Episode 532: The Firebug Caper
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, and in keeping with our goal to bring you a long “lost” radio show, we have another Adventures of Sam Spade, starring…
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Episode 531: Quiet Please: Bring Me To Life
It’s October again, and John is back, bringing us an imaginative and tongue-in-cheek early episode of the classic supernatural radio series Quiet Please…
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Episode 530: Portrait of Death
Well, this week John is hurrying back from the East Coast through massive storms, and was not able to be here in time to record a podcast. But stepping up to…
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Episode 529: Robert Bloch: Stay Tuned For Terror
This is the final episode in a mini-tribute to writer Robert Bloch. John Tefteller and historian Karl Schadow continue our look at the rare and largely…
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Episode 528: Robert Bloch: Stay Tuned For Terror
We're continuing where we left off, exploring the radio work of Robert Bloch. This time John Tefteller and researcher Karl Schadow dig into a nearly forgotten…
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Episode 527: The Whistler: Design For Murder
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb are wrapping up our epic, 10-week saga into the The Whistler radio series, landing with one of the…
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Episode 526: Robert Bloch: Almost Human
We’re joined this week by researcher Karl Schadow to take a look at the remarkable career of writer Robert Bloch, best known today as the author of Psycho, but…
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Episode 525: The Whistler: Death of Mr. Penny
Once again John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb are here to continue our 10-part series featuring the popular radio series, The Whistler. Today we…
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Episode 524: The Horn Blows At Midnight Part 5
Finally we come to the broadcast we've been building toward: Jack Benny's 1949 Ford Theater radio adaptation of The Horn Blows at Midnight. After spending the…
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Episode 523: The Whistler: A Concerto For Death
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our 10-week Whistler series. We’re in 1948 today with a story that follows a gifted…
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Episode 522: The Horn Blows At Midnight Part 4
We are continuing our run of The Jack Benny Program as we get even closer to Jack's much-anticipated radio adaptation of The Horn Blows at Midnight. In this…
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Episode 521: The Whistler: A Present For Ricky
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our Whistler series with a story about Clyde (no, this has nothing to do with the Phil…
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Episode 520: The Horn Blows At Midnight Part 3
We continue our run of The Jack Benny Program as we get closer to Jack's much-anticipated radio adaptation of The Horn Blows at Midnight. In this episode, Jack…
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Episode 519: The Whistler: Brief Pause For Murder
Today John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our Whistler series with a clever 1946 episode s set in the romantic world of the golden age of…
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Episode 518: The Horn Blows At Midnight Part 2
This week, John Tefteller continues our short run of The Jack Benny Program with another 1949 episode leading up to Jack's much-loved radio sendup of The Horn…
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Episode 517: The Whistler: The Broken Chain
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our Whistler series with a 1946 sustaining broadcast titled "The Broken Chain." The story…
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Episode 516: The Horn Blows At Midnight Part 1
This week, we're starting something we have meant to do for awhile: The Horn Blows At Midnight radio broadcast on The Ford Theater (starring Jack Benny and…
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Episode 515: The Whistler: Death Sees Double
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our Whistler series with a terrific 1944 episode titled "Death Sees Double." At the center…
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Episode 514: Henry Morgan
This week we have something unusual; two rare Henry Morgan broadcasts from the early days of World War II, both preserved from original transcription discs and…
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Episode 513: The Whistler: Married To Murder
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our Whistler series with a 1944 episode about an artist who commits the perfect crime,,, or…
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Episode 512: It Pays To Be Ignorant
We've got another round of ridiculous comedy with a 1945 Armed Forces Radio Service broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant. Host Tom Howard and his panel of…
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Episode 511: The Whistler: Shadow of a Mind
This week, John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb continue our journey through The Whistler with an early episode from June 1943. "Shadow of a Mind"…
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Episode 510: The Bob Burns Show
We're headed to Camp Elliott in 1943 for a wartime broadcast of The Bob Burns Show, also known as The Arkansas Traveler. This episode has a little bit of…
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Episode 509: The Whistler: The Croupier’s Wife
This week, we're joined once again by radio historian Dr. Joe Webb for a new 10-week series, this time dedicated to the popular thriller series, The Whistler…
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Episode 508: The Stan Freberg Show
Today we wrap up radio's most creative late comedies with the final broadcast of The Stan Freberg Show from 1957. By this point, Stan Freberg had already made…
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Episode 507: Country of the Blind
Today it’s a 1947 episode of Escape featuring a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic story, "The Country of the Blind." Starring the versatile Paul Frees…
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Episode 506: The Henry Morgan Show
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, and we are bringing you another “lost" program, the long-missing 1947 fall premiere of The Henry Morgan Show. Back from…
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Episode 505: Home For the Fourth
Happy 4th of July again. This year, we are featuring yet another Norman Corwin production. This is a World War II-era Independence Day drama from 1944: "Home…
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Episode 504: The Edgar Bergen Show
We're taking a look at a weird piece of broadcasting history, a 1955 episode of The Edgar Bergen Show from the twilight years of network radio. If you're…
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Episode 503: Death Is A Joker
We're returning to early Inner Sanctum this week to bring you a 1944 episode starring the incomparable Peter Lorre. Lorre plays a comedian who becomes…
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Episode 502: The Record Collectors
Tuesday is occasionally reserved for the bizarre, and we've got that for you today. The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental program, often with programs…
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Episode #501: On Borrowed Time
Today we bring you Boris Karloff. He's appearing here on Great Scenes from Great Plays in a strange fantasy, in which he plays Mr. Brink, the personification…
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Episode 500: A 500th Episode Lookback!
It's episode 500, and if you will forgive a self-aggrandizing episode, we think we've earned a show where we talk about The Good Old Days Of Radio Show for…
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Episode 499: The Hunter From Beyond
Today, we dig into a rare Inner Sanctum Mystery broadcast, with a very early 1941 episode starring Myron McCormick. According to most sources, only a fragment…
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Episode #498: The Jack Benny Show
This week, we’re spending some time with Jack Benny and the gang in a March 1947 episode of The Jack Benny Program, as Jack gets ready for a vaudeville tour…
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Episode 497: Inner Sanctum Mystery
This week, we’ve got a rare find: Inner Sanctum Mystery with the long-lost 1944 episode “The Dream,” with an appearance by Orson Welles, of all people, as star…
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Episode 496: The Henry Morgan Show
It’s the first Tuesday of the month again, and that means we’re bringing out a “lost” show. This week, we’re turning to comedy, and this one we consider quite…
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Episode 495: Lights Out Mystery Show
Today we’ve got a mystery for you, and we’re asking help from all amateur and professional researchers in our audience: help us figure out this episode of…
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Episode 494: Fanny Brice and Frank Morgan
Today we’ve got a 1944 broadcast featuring Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks and the Wizard of Oz himself, Frank Morgan. They partnered together for a short time on…
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Episode 493: Devil’s Due
We go all the way back to 1939 for one of the earliest surviving episodes of Lights Out, the sum total of which you can count on one hand. This one follows two…
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Episode 492: Radio’s Biggest Show
This week, we’re stepping into a big, star-packed 1946 radio special celebrating 45 years of Walgreens. Bob Hope plays host (and hotel owner) in a fast-moving…
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Episode 491: Crime Classics: The Death Of A Baltimore Birdie...and Friend
This week, we wrap up our 10-part Crime Classics series with an unusual true crime story. John Tefteller is once again joined by researcher Karl Schadow and…
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Episode 490: The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
We're on the final week on our Crime Classics series on Thursday, and today we’ve got a fun late-era episode of The Phil Harris–Alice Faye Show from March 1954…
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Episode 489: Crime Classics: The Bloody, Bloody Banks Of Fall River
This week, we dive into another famous true crime story, Crime Classics brings us “The Bloody, Bloody Banks of Fall River.” Host John Tefteller is joined by…
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Episode 488: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
This week, to enhance our Crime Classics episode from last Thursday, we have a Robert Bloch story that was talked about in that episode called, “Yours Truly…
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Episode 487: Crime Classics: Good Evening, My Name Is Jack The Ripper
This week, we step into the foggy streets of Victorian London with Crime Classics, and possibly the most intriguing real-life unsolved mysteries of all time…
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Episode 486: The Man Who Tried To Save Lincoln
Today, we conclude our Lincoln-themed series through the lens of time travel, from The Mysterious Traveler, with a story about a physicist and a historian…
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Episode 485: Crime Classics: The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln
This week, we take a more serious turn with Crime Classics and its 1953 episode that zooms in on a crime that had a tremendous impact on the nation, the…
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Episode 484: Abraham Lincoln
This week, we kick off a three-part series on Abraham Lincoln, to compliment our Crime Classics episode on Thursday. We're starting out with a 1938 broadcast…
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Episode 483: Crime Classics: The Seven Layered Cake Of Madame LaFarge
This week, we are serving up another dainty confection from Crime Classics. John Tefteller, along with researcher Karl Schadow and Bernard Herrmann expert…
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Episode 482: Vic and Sade
If you like your comedy quiet and odd, we’re lining up two back-to-back broadcasts of the offbeat 1944 sitcom Vic and Sade, a show famous for its understated…
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Episode 481: Crime Classics: If A Body Need A Body, Just Call Burke and Hare
This week, we’re back with another dark story from Crime Classics. We are once again joined by researcher Karl Schadow and Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C…
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Episode 480: The Case of the Travelling Rat
It's the first Tuesday of the month, and that means host John Tefteller and radio historian Dr. Joe Webb dig into another rediscovered show from the golden age…