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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 #179: 10 More Great Horror Shows: Let the Lilies Consider
A beautiful, bright garden full of lilies, the kind hearted man who loves them, and the flowers that love him back. If you think this isn't the kind of story…
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Episode #178: The Jack Benny Show (with J. David Goldin)
Early radio collector J. David Goldin joins John one last time for another Jack Benny Show with Ronald Colman from 1948. This time they discuss, among other…
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Episode #177: 10 More Great Horror Shows: Organ
Our series of radio plays designed to be heard in the dark continues with a story of a family taking up residence in a creepy house full of grim secrets…
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Episode #176: The Lifeboat Mutiny (with J. David Goldin)
J. David Goldin joins John again today with another radio show! It's a humorous science fiction story by Robert Sheckley about a second hand exploratory…
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Episode #175: 10 More Great Horror Shows: There Are Shadows Here
In this series of "listen in the dark" vintage radio shows, don't look at those shapes on the wall. They may be cast by nothing at all. "There Are Shadows…
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Episode #174: Evening Primrose (with J. David Goldin)
John is joined once again by old time radio collector, J. David Goldin. Dave brought along a really unusual episode of Escape about people living in a…
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Episode #173: 10 More Great Horror Shows: Casting the Runes
In 1947, the Escape radio series presented a lush adaptation M.R. James' ghost story with full orchestra. The story concerns a researcher who becomes the…
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Episode #172: The Jack Benny Show (with J. David Goldin)
Today John is joined for an extensive chat with the legendary radio collector J. David Goldin. They talk about how he got into radio and started finding radio…
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Episode #171: 10 More Great Horror Shows: The Ball
We continue with 10 more great horror shows to listen to in the dark. We are going to a horror favorite, with an extremely eerie story of two college boys who…
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Episode #170: You Bet Your Life
We just received two thick volumes of original You Bet Your Life scripts from the actual show. So we are listening to an episode from January 4, 1950 and…
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Episode #169: 10 More Great Horror Shows: Night Has A Thousand Eyes
Horror is one of the most powerful genres in the medium of sound, and we couldn't possibly stop at 10. So today we begin a new series of "10 More Great Horror…
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Episode #168: George Burns and Gracie Allen
It's income tax time, and we go back in time to 1950 to hear a slice of history. A CPA is slowly going crazy trying to sort out Gracie Allen's expenditures, a…
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Episode #167: Very Unimportant Person
We are taking a break between Thursday series to bring you a highly unusual program for Easter, a strange story of the end of the world, the few survivors of…
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Episode #166: The Limping Ghost
GODOR host John Tefteller has a special relationship with the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce "Sherlock Holmes" radio show, a series that strangely we have never…
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Episode #165: Suspense: Eyewitness
Today, the final episode in our 10-week tribute to the radio anthology "Suspense", finds us late in the series, with the story of a man (played by Sam Spade…
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Episode #164: The Stan Freberg Show
Stan Freberg is back today with the 6th show of a series. Joining him is a plethora of well-known cartoon voices, June Foray, Peter Leeds, Daws Butler, to…
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Episode #163: Suspense: Long Night
As our journey through the series "Suspense" nears an end, today we are presenting Suspense in its latter years, under the direction of William N. Robson. This…
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Episode #162: The Henry Morgan Show
Henry Morgan, the obscure nutty comedian of the '40s, is our feature for today, and we are going back in time to hear what sounds like an aircheck of his very…
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Episode #161: Suspense: On A Country Road
Today on our tribute to the great thriller series, "Suspense," don't let the innocuous title fool you. This is one of the most unsettling half-hours in…
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Episode #160: Stan Freberg (with Dr. Demento)
We are joined for the second week by radio legend Dr. Demento. Today Dr. Demento talks about Stan Freberg, and we listen to a full episode of the Stan Freberg…
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Episode #159: Suspense: Three O’Clock
Today, if you do not do well under stress, you may want to avoid this show! We are joined again by radio expert Dr. Joe Webb on our 10-week journey touching on…
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Episode #158: Spike Jones (with Dr. Demento)
Today we are joined by radio legend Dr. Demento, who is here to talk about the music legend Spike Jones, among other things. We listen to a full episode of the…
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Episode #157: Suspense: Give Me Liberty
Today our 10-week tribute to the radio series "Suspense" continues, with "The Thin Man" star William Powell giving an incredibly intense performance as a…
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Episode #156: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Last week we brought you one of the all time classic Suspense shows that starred the great versatile radio supporting actor Wally Mahr. Today Mr. Mahr takes a…
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Episode #155: Suspense: Dead Ernest
Today, on our journey through 10 of the best shows from the radio series, "Suspense," we are looking at one of the most famous Suspense stories, that was…
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Episode #154: Germelshausen
Last Thursday Joseph Cotten appeared as an obsessively unhinged scientist on Suspense. Today we bring you Cotten as a wanderer traveling the countryside who…
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Episode #153: Suspense: The Earth Is Made Of Glass
Today we find the radio series "Suspense" at the top of its game, with a classic Hitchcockian psychological Suspense story of an obsessed scientist (played by…
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Episode #152: The Jack Benny Show
Happy Jack Benny's Birthday! We're celebrating Valentine's Day with an episode of Jack's wildly popular radio program. The famous husband and wife comedy team…
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Episode #151: Suspense: Fury and Sound
Today we continue on our in-depth journey through some of the best and most unusual episodes of the radio series, Suspense. Joining us is Dr. Joe Webb to…
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Episode #150: Amos ’n’ Andy (with Elva Green)
Today we have part two of an interview we did with Elva Green, the daughter of Eddie Green, the famous comedian, filmmaker, and radio actor of the 1930s and…
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Episode #149: Suspense: August Heat
We come to the second in our series looking at "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" today, with one of the great supernatural Suspense episodes, starring…
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Episode #148: Duffy’s Tavern (with Elva Green)
We're beginning a two-part interview with Elva Green, the daughter of the famous comedian, filmmaker, and radio actor of the 1930s and '40s, Eddie Green. We…
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Episode #147: Suspense: Will You Make A Bet With Death?
Today we are beginning a new series of 10 episodes taking an in-depth look at one of radio's top dramatic series, Suspense. Joining us for this journey is one…
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Episode #146: Red Skelton
We promised comedy for this week, so we're bringing you one of our favorite nutty comedians, Red Skelton, and we're going back to 1946 for this winter themed…
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Episode #145: Artificial Intelligence: Is This Murder?
For the past nine weeks we have examined a lot of different concepts of A.I. as presented through the eyes of writers from the '40s and '50s. Today is our…
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Episode #144: The Ride Back
Today we are bringing you a first on the show, a radio western. Now, typically radio westerns could be quite generic. But there were a few that from the very…
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Episode #143: Artificial Intelligence: With Folded Hands
In our series on artificial intelligence as seen through the lens of the early science fiction writers, we've selected stories that have ranged from silly…
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Episode #142: The Time of the Big Snow
"Quiet Please" was a genre busting horror series that presented mostly dark and brooding plays. But unlike "Lights Out!" writer Wyllis Cooper often spun off…
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Episode #141: Artificial Intelligence: The Category Inventor
Our dire predictions of the wacky and frightening future co-existing with the gods of our own creation continues in 2023. And today we bring you a story that…
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Episode #140: You Bet Your Life
It's our first podcast of 2023, and what better way to ring in the New Year than to bring you another episode of You Bet Your Life in glorious, sparkling…
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Episode #139: Artificial Intelligence: The Veldt
Today our 10-part series on sentient machines touches on our love-hate relationship with technology, and its relationship with us, with a brilliant story by…
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Episode #138: Phil Harris-Alice Faye
Christmas 2022 has come and gone, but as we all know, there's usually a lot of post-Christmas clean up, and today Phil and Alice are taking an inventory of…
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Episode #137: Christmas: A Christmas Carol
Well, here it is... our big Christmas show! And this year we are bringing you one of the most prestigious programs from the Golden Age of Radio, the great…
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Episode #136: Christmas 1946: The Red Skelton Show
Christmas is right at our chimney this week, and as we prepare for the big day we are taking a trip back to Christmas 1946 to hear the fun Red Skelton…
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Episode #135: Artificial Intelligence: How-To
Today on our series of stories from the 1950s about A.I., we are in the company of the highly-esteemed science fiction writer, winner of three Hugo Awards and…
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Episode #134: Christmas 1948: The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
This week, we are catching a glimpse of the back of the closet with some Christmas goodies from years past. This time, Christmas 1948. Dominating radio at this…
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Episode #133: Artificial Intelligence: A Logic Named Joe
Author Murray Leinster was one of the oldest and most prolific writers from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, beginning with pulp stories published as early…
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Episode #132: Christmas 1946: The Jack Benny Show
This week we are peeking into our Christmas stocking of the past to look in on Christmas as it was in 1946. Today we have not one, but two Jack Benny shows…
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Episode #131: Artificial Intelligence: Marionettes Incorporated
Our series on technology out of control continues today with a fabulous study in irony by the great science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. This story of two men…
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Episode #130: Christmas 1941: Fibber McGee and Molly
In broadcast history, radio was a regular component of the lives of the American public, bringing them the latest news, entertainers, and events. And perhaps…
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Episode #129: Thanksgiving: Snow White
Gather your family around, it's our second Thanksgiving show! And keeping with our short-lived tradition, we are presenting a Walt Disney classic with a twist…
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Episode #128: You Bet Your Life
Today we say the secret word, and travel back to visit the late 1940s to another early You Bet Your Life. It's the game show that was more about the…
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Episode #127: Artificial Intelligence: Child’s Play
Today's story has nothing to do with the modern horror franchise. Rather, this is a somewhat humorous, somewhat disturbing story of a wimpy man who can't get…
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Episode #126: William the Terrified
Today we are featuring a creative fantasy story about a cowardly knight named William the Terrified (played by Dennis Day), who must go on a quest to find…
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Episode #125: Artificial Intelligence: Dwellers In Silence
This is the second in our new series featuring stories about artificial intelligence. "Dwellers In Silence" is an eerie story of an abandoned earth with a…
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Episode #124: Phil Harris - Alice Faye
Phil Harris and Alice Faye are back today with a comedy that was a real original of the time. Bandleader Phil Harris and his guitar-strumming counterpart…
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Episode #123: Artificial Intelligence: Nightmare
With all the recent discussions around artificial intelligence, we decided to travel back to the 1950s, when the subject of machines capable of sentience was…
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Episode #122: The Henry Morgan Show
Today comedian Henry Morgan is back and takes pot shots at just about everything, from popular radio programs, to politics, to commercials. This episode…
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Episode #121: Boris Karloff Month: Cat Wife
This is our Halloween episode, and today we have one of radio's strangest shows, an episode of Lights Out! with a disturbing story of a husband and his wife…
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Episode #120: Boris Karloff Month: The Tell-Tale Heart
Our month-long salute, focusing on the radio work of the beloved "monster" of the movies Boris Karloff continues. Today we are joined once again by Boris…