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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 #59: Top 10 Adventure: Moby Dick
Today, a real spotlight of 1940s radio, a gorgeous adaptation of Herman Melville's haunting masterpiece of one man's obsession with a monster of the unknown…
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Episode #58: The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
This week, we continue our celebration of great comedy series from the '40s and '50s. Phil Harris (Baloo the Bear from Disney's 1967 The Jungle Book) is back…
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Episode #57: Top 10 Adventure: Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Today’s continuation of our top 10 adventure radio shows, we present a full hour production of John Huston's 1948 film, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,"…
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Episode #56: The Jack Benny Show
Today we bring back the popular Jack Benny Show, with another great episode from the 1945-46 season. Edgar Bergen shows up in this one, another leading…
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Episode #55: Top 10 Adventure: The Black Door
Today we open the pages of a real two-fisted pulp adventure of the middle 20th century. We are traveling with a stout American fortune-hunter and his guide…
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Episode #54: The Stan Freberg Show
In December we brought you an entertaining and well-written show from Stan Freberg and Company. Today Stan is back with another clever program from this…
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Episode #53: Top 10 Adventure: The 39 Steps
Today the third in our top 10 adventure series. We delve deeply into the deadly and fast-paced world of hidden identities and international espionage, as…
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Episode #52: The Red Skelton Show
This week we are once again showcasing the incredible, super-charged comedic talents of Red Skelton. In the 1940s, the big sensation sweeping the country were…
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Episode #51: Top 10 Adventure: Leiningen Vs the Ants
Today's story is one of the most popular amongst radio fans, and one of the best man vs nature stories ever written. If you've never heard this story of a man…
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Episode #50: The Bickersons
Today we have vintage comedy again, introducing The Bickersons. If you've ever overheard petty bickering between a husband and wife, you may not have thought…
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Episode #49: Top 10 Adventure: The Most Dangerous Game
Today we're beginning a new series of 10 of the greatest adventure stories produced for radio. We start with the ultimate terrifying game of pursuit on a…
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Episode #48: Sam Spade, Detective
Today we have a double bill of radio's Sam Spade, starring Howard Duff, the private detective made famous in the movies by The Maltese Falcon. First, Spade is…
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Episode#47: Top 10 Horror Poll Results & Postmortem
This week, John Tefteller takes a brief respite between series and is joined by co-creator Daniel Chase to chat about the people's choice for the top scariest…
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Episode #46: Command Performance
This week we introduce to this show a forgotten comic of the '40s and '50s, Judy Canova. Judy Canova was a talented novelty singer and hayseed comedian. This…
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Episode #45: Top 10 Sci-Fi: Brave New World
In 1956, while most of America was obsessed with the newest novelty, television, one of the great masterpieces of radio was produced, the grim social…
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Episode #44: The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
It's comedy day, and today we feature the real life husband and wife team, Phil Harris, who started as a bandleader and became famous on the Jack Benny Show…
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Episode #43: Top 10 Sci-Fi: Dr. Grimshaw’s Sanitarium
A hard boiled private detective, drug addiction, a mysterious suicide, and a mad Nazi scientist. Sounds like a perfect recipe for a camp masterpiece. But this…
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Episode #42: The Red Skelton Show
Red Skelton is back! Along with Willie Lump Lump and the Mean Widdle Mean Kid. This show is all about the housing shortage, which happened proceeding the…
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Episode #41: Top 10 Sci-Fi: The Martian Chronicles
Again we visit the fantastic worlds of Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles book is a loosely connected series of short stories about earth's conquest of Mars…
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Episode #40: Captain January
Fans of classic movies will know today’s star well. She was number one at the box office during the dark days of the depression, and was most popular before…
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Episode #39: Top 10 Sci-Fi: There Will Come Soft Rains and Zero Hour
Today we have two stories “about the future” by Ray Bradbury, one of the most adapted for radio science fiction authors. "There Will Come Soft Rains" is about…
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Episode #38: The Stopped Watch Caper
Today we visit a wacky house of horrors in a swamp with killers, a butler who sounds like Peter Lorre, and man-eating plants. Radio’s Sam Spade, a youthful…
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Episode #37: Top 10 Sci-Fi: The Old Die Rich
Our Science fiction series continues today. What is causing old people to die of starvation with their pockets full of money? This is a fantastic, head…
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Episode #36: The Red Skelton Show
Happy New Year! What better way to welcome 2022 than with a wild comedy show from 1946. We bring you one of our favorite comedians, Red Skelton, with his New…
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Episode #35: Top 10 Sci-Fi: Time and Time Again
It’s the last podcast of 2021! Today we are jumping backwards and forwards in time more than Marty McFly. We’re traveling back to 1950 to hear an excellent…
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Episode #34: It Pays to Be Ignorant!
Nero was the Roman Emperor of what ancient city? Tom Howard, George Shelton, Lulu McConnell, and Harry McNaughton are back with It Pays To Be Ignorant!, the…
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Episode #33: Christmas: Miracle on 34th Street
It's our Christmas show! Bring your kids of all ages. We have a wonderful Christmas tale for you about a charming old gentleman with a snowy white beard who…
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Episode #32: Christmas 1945: The Red Skelton Show
Happy Christmas week! Today we feature a brilliant comedian, Red Skelton. Skelton's clean, super charged comedy style centers around a cast of characters he…
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Episode #31: Top 10 Sci-Fi: A Gun For Dinosaur
Today on our top science fiction series, we journey to the Middle Cretaceous with a group of time travelling sportsmen. So grab your Continental .600, and…
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Episode #30: Treasure Island
A few weeks ago we brought you Dracula from Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre. Today we set sail for Treasure Island with Orson Welles's second excursion…
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Episode #29: Top 10 Sci-Fi: Chain of Command
This week, we have a mouse infestation of a most unusual kind. A mild-mannered mouse, the bi-product of an experiment in a top secret laboratory, causes all…
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Episode #28: The Jack Benny Show
Today we're dropping you in the middle of a 40-year legacy with a show from what many consider the number one comedian on radio, everyone's favorite vain…
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Episode #27: Top 10 Sci-Fi: Perigi‘s Wonderful Dolls
John's selection of 10 best science fiction radio shows continues today, with a creepy story of "lifelike" dolls with an evil streak, bent on world domination…
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Episode #26: The Stan Freberg Show
This week John introduces the first episode of a short running comedy series starring the Capitol Records comedy artist, Stan Freberg, and a host of other…
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Episode #25: Pinocchio
Happy Thanksgiving from The Good Old Days of Radio Show! Today you can enjoy your turkey and mashed potatoes, and we brought a special treat of our own. Walt…
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Episode #24: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
On today's episode, a full hour humorous, strange, unique fantasy from the golden age, about a prize fighter who dies in the first minutes of the story. Cary…
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Episode #23: Top 10 Sci-Fi: Mars Is Heaven
Today we kick off a new series as John presents his top 10 list of science fiction stories produced on radio in the 1950s. Today's episode features the…
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Episode #22: The Big Bomb
Today we travel to the early 1950s and listen to an exciting and technically superb production from the series Dragnet, a game of cat and mouse with a man…
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Episode #21: Top 10 Horror: The Wailing Wall
Today we finish off the current series of “Top 10 Horror” with an episode of Inner Sanctum. Lots of people knew this show only as “The Creaking Door,” so…
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Episode #20: The Wizard of Oz
Prior to the release of beloved classic The Wizard of Oz in 1939, MGM produced a full hour "behind-the-scenes" promotional/variety show with the original cast…
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Episode #19: Top 10 Horror: The Ten Years
There are many intense performances on radio, and the Suspense series was well-known for pushing actors to their limits. As we near the end of our current…
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Episode #18: It Pays To Be Ignorant!
One of the most popular types of programs during the '40s and '50s were quiz shows. This week, by popular demand, It Pays To Be Ignorant returns, the zany quiz…
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Episode #17: Don't Tell Me About Halloween
Happy Almost Halloween! Today we’re going to break from our usual “top 10” horror shows to bring you our Trick or Treat special, a story with a dark sense of…
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Episode #16: Tracy in B Flat
During World War II, many programs were made for overseas broadcast. Today’s podcast features such a show, perhaps the best ever done, “Dick Tracy in B Flat.”…
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Episode #15: Top 10 Horror: Ghost Hunt
It wasn't often the series Suspense did a story of the supernatural, but when they did it was extraordinary. As we approach Halloween, today’s podcast features…
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Episode #14: The Maltese Falcon
On today's episode, it's John Huston's early noir classic, The Maltese Falcon, Sweetheart. This radio version gathered together (almost) the complete original…
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Episode #13: Top 10 Horror: Whence Came You?
On today's creepy-cast, we descend into ancient Egyptian tombs with a strange archeological expedition in Wyllis Cooper's radio version of The Mummy. And John…
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Episode #12: The Fred Allen Show
Today on the podcast, John talks about a largely forgotten personality, who during his time was considered one of the great wits in American comedy, Fred…
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Episode #11: Top 10 Horror: Three Skeleton Key
On today’s “scary” podcast, John presents a story many people consider one of the best ever done in any medium; “Three Skeleton Key,” with a famous star of…
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Episode #10: Walt Disney‘s Pinocchio
Today’s special extended podcast will present two programs specially chosen for families. First, a beautifully produced audio version of Walt Disney’s…
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Episode #9: Top 10 Horror: The Story of Mr. Maggs
Today we feature Arch Oboler’s famous series, Light’s Out! John was friends with Arch Oboler, and in today’s podcast he’s going to talk about that. And don’t…
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Episode #8: The Foley Caper
Today on the podcast, Wildroot Cream Oil “makes your hair stand on end” with a terrific thriller, featuring the detective originally made famous in The Maltese…