Old Time Radio Show of the Week

LUX Radio Theater 

November 23rd 1936

"The Story of Louis Pasteur"

starring Paul Muni 

The famous scientist fights overwhelming opposition to his germ theory of disease.

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope

October 29th 1946

Originating from Boston, MA

guest Fred Allen and Allen's Alley

The gang does their version of Paul Revere's midnight ride.

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The Great Gildersleeve

October 1st 1944 (Sunday)

"The House is Sold"

Gildy is tricked into selling his house and finds himself in need of a new house....quickly!

Old Time Radio Show of the Week - Suspense

SUSPENSE

"End Game"

July 31st 1960

A chess master is forced to play a game against a mad sheriff...with murder as the stakes

The Old Time Radio Show of the Week

GUNSMOKE

"Uncle Oliver"

July 9th 1955

Season 3 episode 44

Oliver and Viney Stang decide to get Chester's job, and the easiest way to do that is to shoot him...which is exactly what they do

Old Time Radio Show of the Week - X Minus One

X Minus One

"Project Mastodon"

by Clifford D Simak

June 5th 1956

Entrepreneurs appeal the government to award official state recognition to their own personal republic of Mastodonia, 50,000 years in the past. Sounds like a great opportunity to make a fortune, but the past is not all it's cracked up to be... 

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

DRAGNET

starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as Sgt. Ben Romero

December 13th 1951

"The Big Overtime"

A banker's 22 year old daughter, Judith Sullivan, had been kidnapped and held for a $30,000 ransom 

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The Mysterious Traveler

"Death is the Visitor"

August 25th 1946

We're going to pay a visit to the home of Albert and Louise Jordan, the nicest couple you could hope to meet. The story begins at the Jordan home on a late summer night. Albert Jordan is asleep and is having a nightmare in which his mother-in-law torments and taunts him. Louise awakens him to ease his nightmare and warns him to please be quiet because his mother-in-law needs a good night's sleep for her trip tomorrow.

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The Mysterious Traveler

"New Year's Nightmare"

January 5th 1947

Your Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The New Swan Show starring Bob Hope

December 21st 1948

guest Gregory Peck

Old Time Radio Show of the Week (10/10/2015)

ESCAPE

October 11th 1953

"Elementals"

with William Conrad

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The Johnson Wax Program 

starring Fibber McGee and Molly

"Aunt Sarah's Picture"

May 2nd 1944

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

Our show this week is "Suspense" and its to celebrate what would have been the 94th birthday of a radio legend, William Conrad.  Famous for being Marshall Matt Dillon on the radio version of "Gunsmoke" during its entire run from 1952 to 1960.  He was also know for being in almost every dramatic show on radio at some point, the narrator of "Escape", roles in "X Minus One", etc., he narrated this classic episode :

"The Whole Town's Sleeping" 

June 14th 1955

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

This week's show is probably my favorite old time radio show not called Gunsmoke,
"The Jack Benny Program" which starred of course, Jack Benny.  Jack was a comedy and radio legend and transitioned to television with no problem and deftly took his show with him and became a tv legend.
Jack along with his famous cast saw little change in lineup from his debut in 1932 to the final radio show in 1955.   He made household names out of his wife Mary Livingstone, announcer Don Wilson, singer Dennis Day and band leader Phil Harris.  In the early 1950s Phil Harris left Jack's show and was smoothly replaced by Bob Crosby (brother of Bing Crosby) and it was seamless.   Jack himself said that his role was to have a funny show and it didnt matter who got the laughs because it was always The Jack Benny Program the people remembered.

October 24th 1954

"The Drive In Movie"

CBS Radio

(Jack, Don and Dennis have a night out at the movies)

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

This week's show is the fantastic show "ESCAPE".  This show that had a different adventure or sci fi or horror or classic short story each week from July 1947 to September 1954.   Introduced each week by the rumbling voice of the legendary William Conrad, who sometimes starred in the story (like this week's) or just gave us the classic introduction starting with.."Are you tired of the everyday?....

ESCAPE

(story by T.S. Stribling)

"Green Splotches"

episode 104

originally aired March 31st 1950

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

This week we get a visit from "The Mysterious Traveler".

This anthology radio program was on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1943 to 1952.

Episodes ranged from suspense, science fiction, fantasy and sometimes straight crime drama.

Today an example of the science fiction

THE BIG BRAIN

aired March 14th 1950

Friday Old Time Radio (Our Miss Brooks)

Enjoy the pick for the first Old Time Radio Friday

Our Miss Brooks

March 13th 1949

"The Madison High Cafeteria Boycott"

It even has its own introduction by Brent Abramhamson

Gunsmoke on Radio - The Debut

April 26th 1952 CBS radio debuted a new "adult western" for its radio audiences.  Starring radio veteran William Conrad as Marshall Matt Dillon, this Norm MacDonnell and John Meston creation was aimed at a more adult audience instead of a fast action shoot'em up like Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger or Cisco Kid.   This was an almost true to life depiction of the old west with all its grit,grime and death.  Known for not usually a happy ending that had kids cheering, the end was one could have expected to have actually happened in the life of Marshall Dillon in a wild town of Dodge City, Kansas.

The last great drama in the golden age of radio, Gunsmoke would be on the air until 1960, but by then radio was an antiquated form of entertainment and television and Gunsmoke's own version on television had become a huge success.  Still consider by many old time radio enthusiast and experts as the best drama radio produced it to this day remains a popular choice on social media sites old time radio.

 April 26th 1952

Billy the Kid

Season 1 Episode 1

guest star Dick Beals as Billy

Golden Age of Radio - Christmas

Here are some selected Christmas episodes from the great radio classics, The Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Jack Benny, Duffy's Tavern, Red Skelton, Bing Crosby, Dragnet, Martin and Lewis, Bob Hope and we finish it off with a version of "A Christmas Carol" from CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

Enjoy the fun and please visit my friend Buck Benny at his OTR podcast 

A Jack Benny Christmas

A few classic Christmas episodes from The Jack Benny Show on radio.  Some years Jack had 2 "Christmas episodes" I have included both from 1943.

Thank you to OTR Halloweenholidaze on Youtube and Buck Benny and his podcast