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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 119: Boris Karloff Month: The Dream
Today we feature another Boris Karloff radio classic, from a series of appearances he made in 1938 on the famous horror series, Lights Out! This is not long…
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Episode #118: Boris Karloff Month: The Jack Benny Show
Boris Karloff month continues, and today the famous horror movie star shows up on another comedy program, The Jack Benny Show. In this episode from 1947, Jack…
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Episode #117: Boris Karloff Month: Birdsong For A Murderer
Today we are joined once again by Sara Karloff, daughter of Boris Karloff, in our month-long tribute to the famous actor's radio work. We are jumping forward…
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Episode #116: Boris Karloff Month: The Spike Jones Show
It's the second week of our month-long salute to Boris Karloff, and if you like wacky off-the-wall humor, and Boris Karloff, you've come to the right podcast!…
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Episode #115: Boris Karloff Month: Drury’s Bones
Boris Karloff Month continues today with Mr. Karloff in a mystery about a Scotland Yard detective with amnesia who begins unraveling the dark secrets of his…
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Episode #114: Boris Karloff Month: Arsenic and Old Lace
October is Trick Or Treat Month, and we are dedicating the entire month to one of the silver screen's greatest monsters, Boris Karloff. Joining John today is…
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Episode #113: The Best of Lucille Fletcher: Dark Journey
Today is the last of our 10-week tribute to Lucille Fletcher, and we are featuring one of her last original radio scripts. Don Ramlow joins John one final time…
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Episode #112: It Pays To Be Ignorant!
Another uncirculated episode of It Pays To Be Ignorant today from August 11, 1944. This zany, quick-talking joke-fest features a veteran vaudeville troupe…
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Episode #111: The Best of Lucille Fletcher: The Thing in the Window
Today a Rear Window-esque style mystery from writer Lucille Fletcher, about a man who sees a dead body from an adjacent rooming house window. Special guest Don…
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Episode #110: The Henry Morgan Show
If you know what was popular during the 1940s and '50s, it's especially baffling to think how comedian Henry Morgan ever got a chance to make this show. We are…
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Episode #109: The Best of Lucille Fletcher: The Furnished Floor
Last week we completed our trip through a phase of Lucille Fletcher's most celebrated radio scripts, and we now enter the "sunset" period of her radio writing…
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Episode #108: Speaking of Cinderella
After several weeks of incredibly intense Thursday podcasts, we are taking a breather today with this light offering from The CBS Radio Workshop. This is the…
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Episode #107: The Best of Lucille Fletcher: The Search for Henri Lefevre
We take a momentary pause from Suspense today to showcase the Mercury Summer Theater, which came several years after the famous Mercury Theater left the air…
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Episode #106: Allen and McCarthy
In 1945, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who had one of the top radio comedy programs on the air, left Hollywood to spend a few weeks in New York. While…
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Episode #105: The Best of Lucille Fletcher: Fugue in C Minor
Today Writer Lucille Fletcher’s knack for writing gothic period dramas, and her former experience as a music critic, comes together for one of her best and…
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Episode #104: The Stan Freberg Show
Freberg returns today with another zany trip back to comedy 1957. This is the fourth program of a series by Capitol Records star Stan Freberg that only lasted…
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Episode #103: The Best of Lucille Fletcher: Sorry Wrong Number
Today we are joined by Donald Ramlow to feature one of the most famous and powerful radio scripts ever produced, Lucille Fletcher’s Sorry Wrong Number, that…
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Episode #102: Fibber McGee and Molly
Whoever thought a trip to the hospital to visit a sick friend could be the subject of a comedy show? A couple months ago, we asked fans of Fibber McGee and…
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Episode #101: The Best of Lucille Fletcher: Diary of Saphronia Winters
Our series dedicated to writer Lucille Fletcher with expert Donald Ramlow continues today, as we present her first pairing with actress Agnes Moorehead on…
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Episode #100: Stupendous Groucho Marx Extravaganza!
Buckle in, it's our 100th episode, and we are doing a super, colossal, egregiously overproduced Groucho Marx 2-hour extravaganza. We will be featuring You Bet…
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Episode #99: The Best of Lucille Fletcher: Remodeled Brownstone
On the third episode in our series, John and special guest Donald Ramlow delve into one of Lucille Fletcher's early ghost stories from The Columbia Workshop…
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Episode #98: On Borrowed Time
This is one of the most unique plots ever conceived for film, a fantasy about a crochety old man (Lionel Barrymore) whose number is up, a 10 year old boy (Ted…
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Episode #97: The Best of Lucille Fletcher: Someone Else
Today an early ghost story by our featured writer Lucille Fletcher, as we are once again joined by Fletcher Guru Don Ramlow on a chronological journey through…
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Episode #96: Casablanca
Take one of the top-rated films in movie history, condense it into a 20-minute script, and you have "Casablanca" on radio. This one has a lot going for it…
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Episode #95: The Best of Lucille Fletcher: My Client Curly
Today we are beginning a new 10 week series exploring the life and career of the celebrated ghost story writer, Lucille Fletcher. John is joined by expert and…
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Episode #94: The Lazarus Caper
That popular detective of the 1940s, Sam Spade, is back to crack another baffling, rapid fire, humor-laced caper. Today, Sam is hired to bring the strange Mr…
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Episode #93: Top 10 Monsters: Donovan’s Brain
The radio series "Suspense" was an A-List show during most of the Golden Age of Radio, employing the top writers and performers that money could buy. And…
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Episode #92: The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
Phil Harris is back today with his pal Franky, and in traditional fashion, this show puts them in the most awkward situations possible. This time they get…
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Episode #91: Top 10 Monsters: Strange New World
In today's podcast, we go back to the 1950s, when TV was new, Rock and Roll was king, and the world was suddenly living in the frightening shadow of the…
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Episode #90: The Jack Benny Show
It's Jack Benny time! Today we are featuring another 1946 episode that is an exceptional example of this show. This one guest stars a Hollywood bad guy icon we…
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Episode #89: Top 10 Monsters: Spider
If you have arachnophobia, you may want to steer clear of today's offering. This story is pure horror from the imaginatively gruesome pen of writer Arch…
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Episode #88: We Hold These Truths
Happy Independence Day! Today we celebrate July 4th with a spectacular all-star production that was created to mark the 150th anniversary of the American Bill…
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Episode #87: Top 10 Monsters: Rain On New Year’s Eve
Today's show is from Wyllis Cooper, who started as a staff writer at NBC and went to Hollywood for a brief period of time to write for the movies. Perhaps not…
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Episode #86: The Henry Morgan Show
Today it's off-the-wall comedy from Henry Morgan. Not the star of MASH. This Henry Morgan was a New York comedian from the '30s and '40s, who was a true…
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Episode #85: Top 10 Monsters: Sub-Basement
Today you are about to go on a trip… down… into the dark, underground, where monsters might lurk below our feet. This is an episode of Lights Out!, and this…
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Episode #84: You Bet Your Life
By request, You Bet Your Life is back today, with a fast-paced joke barrage by Groucho Marx with real-life contestants from October of 1949. Also John offers a…
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Episode #83: Top 10 Monsters: The Abominable Snowman
Our top 10 monsters continue today as we accompany a group of adventurers seeking to catch a glimpse of the Kang Admi, the elusive icy creature of the…
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Episode #82: The Life of Riley
This is our Father's Day show, and we are bringing you that average, loving, blue collar dad of the '40s. Film actor William Bendix plays reactive Chester A…
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Episode #81: Top 10 Monsters: Little Old Lady
Today, a terrific horror story from 1943 by Arch Oboler. The radio series "Lights Out!" made especially good use of sound, as you will hear in this story about…
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Episode #80: Vic and Sade
Get ready to make lodge robe alterations, radio's homefolks are back, Vic and Sade Gook, Uncle Fletcher and Russell. We are doing two war-time episodes of this…
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Episode #79: Top 10 Monsters: Tanglefoot
Most people pay little mind to the tiny creatures under their feet or over their heads. And for good reason. But our monster today is one of those little ones…
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Episode #78: On A Note of Triumph
The history of the Golden Age of Radio and WWII go hand-in-hand. Today for Memorial Day we are bringing you one of the most moving radio productions ever done…
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Episode #77: Top 10 Monsters: Frankenstein
Although there are many monsters conceived in human imagination, few have had as much cultural impact as Mary Shelley's unnamed monster, constructed by Victor…
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Episode #76: Diamond As Big As The Ritz
On today's podcast, a fantasy from the "Jazz Age," F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story that is part science-fiction, part satirical comedy, part romantic…
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Episode #75: Tribute to Ken Greenwald
This week we lost Ken Greenwald, a long time friend of old time radio, and as John's tribute to him, he plays two of Ken's favorite radio shows. We will hear a…
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Episode #74: You Bet Your Life
Today we present the first in what we hope will be many episodes showcasing the amazing unscripted quip-master, Groucho Marx, from You Bet Your Life. Although…
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Episode #73: Top 10 Monsters: An Exercise in Horror
WARNING: Today's episode is not for the squeamish! But for you lovers of all things horror, "Drop Dead: An Exercise in Horror" is essential listening. This…
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Episode #72: The Stan Freberg Show
It's the third show of a series. Of a brand new radio series. We travel back to 1957 to hear Stan Freberg and Friends (the great talents of June Foray, Peter…
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Episode #71: Top 10 Sci-Fi Series Review
Today we're talking old-time science fiction on radio. Join us as we mark the end of another series with a deep dive between host and radio collector John…
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Episode #70: Phil Harris-Alice Faye
Sunday is Mother's Day, so Phil and Franky are trying to get a bargain rate Mother's Day gift for Alice, but instead wind up with several visits to Police…
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Episode #69: Top 10 Adventure: Beau Geste
Today we finish off our series of favorite adventure stories on radio with an all-star production of maybe the most famous adventure story of the 1930s, that…
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Episode #68: The Jack Benny Show
It's Jack Benny day again today, with a hilarious show about pretty much nothing. We get to hear from film star Ronald and Benita Colman in this episode as…
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Episode #67: Top 10 Adventure: Slim
Today we ride the rails, looking over the shoulder of a young hobo as he takes his first trip over the Great Divide, along with his mysterious veteran…
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Episode #66: Vic and Sade
Today we are bringing you a crispy dry comedy from the late 1930s that is revered by more American intellectuals, both of its time, and beyond, than perhaps…
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Episode #65: Easter: The Death and Resurrection of Christ
In celebration of Easter, we pause from our current series, to hear a really remarkable program broadcast in 1947. It is a moving and dramatic reading from the…
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Episode #64: Fibber McGee and Molly
Today, it's the beginning of Easter Week, and we are pausing from our normal schedule to bring you programs from around Easter time during The Golden Age of…
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Episode #63: Top 10 Adventure: The African Queen
Today, the exciting, romantic adventure classic, "The African Queen," about a little steam launch and its rough Canadian pilot (Academy Award winner Humphrey…
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Episode #62: Season of Disbelief and Hail and Farewell
Today we have two odd stories about "aging" from 1954 from the dream-like imagination of Ray Bradbury. The production and storytelling is lush with detail…
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Episode #61: Top 10 Adventure: Blood Bath
Today we bring you a survival story about a band of cut-throat fortune hunters in the Amazon who strike it rich, but must get back to their boat, despite…
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Episode #60: George Burns and Gracie Allen
George Burns and Gracie Allen were one of the titans of popular American comedy during the Golden Age of Radio, and later Television, and we are paying tribute…