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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 #239: Top 10 Radio Noir: Trigger Man
This is the final in our series of "Top 10 Radio Noir", and we're bringing an episode of a popular West Coast only radio pulp series, "The Whistler." The story…
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Episode #238: Christmas 1942: Holiday Inn
Today our annual Christmas Advent continues with another shopping trip with Jimmy and Bing as Jimmy is returning his Christmas gift, and Bing Crosby and Fred…
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Episode #237: Pearl Harbor: Mission Completed
Since this episode lands right on Pearl Harbor remembrance day, we decided to pause from our current series to go back and bring you a show that was produced…
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Episode #236: Christmas 1947: The Jack Benny Show
Again this week we are visiting 1947 to take a listen to Christmas of the past. Jack Benny was the number one comedian and the number one show in this year…
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Episode #235: Top 10 Radio Noir: Crossfire
"Crossfire" was an interesting mystery/film noir from 1947, about a group of soldiers, antisemitism, and the sudden violent murder of Joseph Samuels. This…
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Episode #234: Christmas 1947: Fibber McGee and Molly
With Thanksgiving officially past, the gloves are off for our annual march toward Christmas. And as has become our tradition, in this year of 2023, we are…
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Episode #233: Thanksgiving: Feast From the Harvest
Happy Thanksgiving! This year for our annual turkey show, we are going back to Thanksgiving Day of 1942 to hear a fascinating program written and narrated by…
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Episode #232: The Jack Benny Show
A few weeks ago we featured a Jack Benny Show that parodied the movie, "It's A Wonderful Life." Today we are listening to the follow-up show, which is a look…
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Episode #231: Top 10 Radio Noir: Drive-In
It's back to the half-hour format of "Suspense" series this week, and as radio noir goes, Suspense was the absolute best. Today we are presenting the one…
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Episode #230: Abbott and Costello
We are joined by Nick Santa Maria, writer, comedian, and Abbott and Costello expert, for a second discussion about "The Boys." Today they discuss their…
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Episode #229: Top 10 Radio Noir: The Kandy Tooth
In the late 1940s, the famous series "Suspense" took a short departure from its half-hour format to a one-hour stint hosted by movie actor Robert Montgomery…
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Episode #228: Abbott and Costello
Today we are bringing you the first of two tributes to "The Boys," Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Joining us will be Abbott and Costello historian Nick Santa…
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Episode #227: Top 10 Radio Noir: The Third Man
"The Third Man" is one of the all-time great film noir classics. It concerns the bleak setting of post-war Vienna, and the interesting relationships of three…
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Episode #226: Halloween: Calling All Souls
It's our annual Halloween podcast! Today we are doing the second "Quiet Please" Halloween broadcast. It's about a man falsely condemned to death for murder…
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Episode #225: Pre-Halloween Show: Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
It's the Thursday before Halloween, so we thought we'd dim the lights and bring you a show featuring three tales of terror by the original master of horror…
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Episode #224: Happy Birthday, Groucho!
This month was Groucho Marx's birthday, and as a late tribute, we are bringing you another show from his long running radio series, "You Bet Your Life." It was…
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Episode #223: Top 10 Radio Noir: A Thing Of Beauty
Angela Lansbury is the star of this week's radio noir. This gothic story about a rising starlet and her actor husband who is in the twilight of his career…
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Episode #222: The Red Skelton Show
We return to comedy with one of our favorites from golden radio, Red Skelton. Skelton preferred to see himself as a clown rather than a comedian. Indeed his…
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Episode #221: Top 10 Radio Noir: Five Fingers
Some may debate whether today's selection is actually film noir at all, But we think so! The hard-boiled private eyes, femme fatales, and ex-cons are nowhere…
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Episode #220: King For A Day
During the golden age of comedy, an audience favorite was entertainers that roasted one another. Perhaps the most famous of these "feuds" was between Fred…
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Episode #219: Top 10 Radio Noir: The Pasteboard Box
Joseph Cotten had a diverse leading man career in the movies. On radio he played some characters that made Uncle Charlie from Hitchcock's "Shadow of the Doubt"…
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Episode #218: The Stan Freberg Show
Today we are bringing you the 9th show of a series. Of a "brand new" radio series. Stan Freberg is back with his cast of cartoon voices in an amusing…
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Episode #217: Top 10 Radio Noir: The Glass Key
Dashiell Hammett, the author of "The Maltese Falcon," wrote another famous novel, "The Glass Key." It's a murder mystery that revolves around the seedy world…
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Episode #216: Jack Benny-It’s A Wonderful Life
We started a quest through Jack Benny's 1946-47 season, which is a period where Jack had established a strong cast of characters and his writing team hit a…
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Episode #215: Top 10 Radio Noir: Go Away Dixie Gillian
In the 1940s, a new film making style surged into popularity that featured light and shadow crime dramas that looked dirty, gritty, and violent. "Film noir"…
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Episode #214: Arch Oboler Month: Adam and Eve
It's the final pick in our brief series examining the diverse work of radio writer/director Arch Oboler. We've explored just about every type of script Oboler…
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Episode #213: Arch Oboler Month: The Word
We continue to explore the innovative work of radio writer/director Arch Oboler. This series would not be complete without an Oboler fantasy play. The oddly…
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Episode #212:Arch Oboler Month: My Chicago
Tommy Cook is back with us this week. Tommy is just turning 93 years old, and his memories of working with Arch Oboler as a child actor are still extremely…
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Episode #211: Arch Oboler Month: The Shadow
This show was so unbelievably campy and weird, we almost didn't do it. Arch Oboler wrote the script for this episode of the legendary radio series, "The…
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Episode #210: Arch Oboler Month: Problem Papa
Actor Tommy Cook is our special guest today. Tommy was the youngest member of Arch Oboler's stock company during the 1940s. Today Tommy joins us to talk about…
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Episode #209: Arch Oboler Month: Murder in the Script Department
Today we are back to Arch Oboler's series "Lights Out!" This show is interesting, because it's about two network radio typists preparing scripts for Lights…
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Episode #208: Arch Oboler Month: The House I Live In
During the 1930s, Arch Oboler became very famous for his serious plays, many of which had anti-fascist undertones. When war was declared, Oboler's occasional…
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Episode #207: Arch Oboler Month: Scoop
Arch Oboler's career was sparked in the early days in horror radio when he was brought on to replace Wyllis Cooper on the series "Lights Out!" Oboler…
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Episode #206: Arch Oboler Month: Johnny Got His Gun
We are taking out an entire month to look briefly at the prolific body of work of Arch Oboler. The 1930s saw Oboler in a position of prominence in radio with…
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Episode #205: Arch Oboler Month: He Dug It Up
Those regular listeners of the show will know the name Arch Oboler. We have featured many Arch Oboler shows, particularly his famous horror series "Lights…
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Episode #204: Cartoon Voices On Radio: Command Performance
It is our final visit with radio researcher Keith Scott, with his tremendous tribute to iconic cartoon voices of the golden age who also appeared on radio. For…
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Episode #203: The Thing That Cries In The Night, Part 7
At last we reach the final three chapters of Carlton E. Morse's corking good thriller, "The Thing That Cries In The Night." Plenty of clues are given to the…
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Episode #202: Cartoon Voices On Radio: An Analysis of Satire
We are almost done with our series devoted to the famous voices that worked on radio and cartoons during the golden age. This week, Satn Freberg is back, this…
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Episode #201: The Thing That Cries In The Night, Part 6
Today Jack is on the trail of the murderer, a radio actress, and the mysterious "They" that haunt the dark hallways of the Martin mansion. Listeners of the…
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Episode #200: Cartoon Voices On Radio: Phil Harris-Alice Faye
We are continuing our series "cartoon voices on radio" with our special guest, radio researcher, and voiceover artist Keith Scott. Today we are bringing you a…
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Episode #199: The Thing That Cries In The Night, Part 5
Today the mystery deepens, as a gathering of the Martin family leads to answers and more questions, and another murder takes place in a dark room in the eerie…
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Episode #198: Cartoon Voices On Radio: Fibber McGee and Molly
Today we continue on our journey with guest Keith Scott, as he presents some of the great work of famous cartoon voices who appeared regularly on its sister…
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Episode #197: The Thing That Cries In The Night, Part 4
Jack, Doc, and Reggie are embroiled in a dark mystery, involving a creepy house, a wealthy family run by the overbearing "Grandma" Martin, and her three…
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Episode #196: Cartoon Voices On Radio: Ancient Sorceries
This week, we are bringing you a radio show that is a tale not for the faint of heart. No one better to tell you the story of the creeping cat people than the…
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Episode #195: The Thing That Cries In The Night, Part 3
Carlton E. Morse's "I Love A Mystery" 15-minute radio serial about a creepy Hollywood mansion inhabited by the unseen "They" continues in this episode, and…
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Episode #194: Cartoon Voices On Radio: Mickey Mouse Theatre
We are back to cartoon voices today with our special guest Keith Scott. Today he once again brings us to the Walt Disney branch of animation. Walt himself is…
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Episode #193: The Thing That Cries In The Night, Part 2
Jack Packard finds himself in an interview with the snobbish "Randolf" Martin today, and he and his companions meet Faith, Hope, and Charity in the strange…
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Episode #192: Independence Day: A Tooth For Paul Revere
Happy July 4th! Today we are going back in time, with a tale of the American Revolution, with a heavy dose of folklore and humor, by the celebrated poet…
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Episode #191: The Thing That Cries In The Night, Part 1
Today we are beginning a 7-week venture into the pulp radio writing of Carlton E. Morse. Considered one of the most unique writers of imaginative adventure…
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Episode #190: Cartoon Voices On Radio: Never Bet The Devil Your Head
The CBS Radio Workshop was a series that was truly "experimental" radio. Existing purely for the indulgence of creative radio people at CBS, the Workshop took…
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Episode #189: 10 More Great Horror Shows: Pavane
This is the final week of our series of 10 great radio tales to listen to in the dark. Following this theme, this is the perfect quiet story of a little…
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Episode #188: Cartoon Voices On Radio: Walt Disney’s Snow White
In 1937, Walt Disney, best known at the time for his theatrical shorts, stunned the world with his artistic cinematic masterpiece "Snow White and the Seven…
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Episode #187: 10 More Great Horror Shows: I Saw Myself Running
The radio series "Escape" was best known for original pulp adventures, sometimes classic short stories, rarely horror. And yet today we are bringing you one of…
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Episode #186: Cartoon Voices On Radio: The Mel Blanc Show
Today we pay tribute to "The Man of a Thousand Voices," Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc started in radio and became best known as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig…
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Episode #185: 10 More Great Horror Shows: The Smell of High Wines
Our series devoted to tales best heard alone, in the dark. This is an unsettling tale from the typewriter of Wyllis Cooper from his series "Quiet Please." If…
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Episode #184: Cartoon Voices On Radio: The Stan Freberg Show
We have briefly mentioned the wonderful crossover of radio voices and classic cartoons. But today we are beginning an in-depth series laser-focused on the…
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Episode #183: 10 More Great Horror Shows: Confession
We are back with more spooky sound tales. Today we are featuring a rare tale by the English weaver of spook tales, Algernon Blackwood, and the story of a…
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Episode #182: The Stan Freberg Show
Stan Freberg is here with episode 7 in his short summer-replacement program for Jack Benny. This is a classic show, presenting some of the best known skits…
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Episode #181: Memorial Day: Your Air Forces
For Memorial Day 2023, we pay tribute to all branches of the service with this well-written and produced episode from the short-running patriotic series "This…
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Episode #180: The Red Skelton Show
Red Skelton was a supercharged comedian who was famous for his physical comedy and characters. Today we tribute him with an episode of his show which features…