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Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Magic Belt" (1942) | Full Episode

The Lone Ranger is an iconic radio western serial about a masked former Texas Ranger and his Native American companion Tonto who right wrongs in the Old West. In this cla

Old Time Radio Drama — Biography In Sound: "Meet Ernest Hemingway" (1954) | Full Episode

Biography in Sound, a CBS documentary series produced by Norman Corwin, presented biographical profiles of notable American figures through dramatizations, interviews, an

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Double For An Outlaw" (1942) | Full Episode

The Lone Ranger is an iconic masked western hero who fights for justice alongside his Native American companion Tonto. Broadcast throughout the 1930s-1950s, this classic

Old Time Radio Sci-Fi — Mercury Theater On The Air: "War of the Worlds" (1938) | Full Episode

Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air present H. G. Wells's tale of a Martian invasion, adapted by Howard Koch and told as a live dance-band broadcast that keep

Old Time Radio Thriller — Suspense: "The Diary of Sophronia Winters" (1943) | Full Episode

Suspense presents Lucille Fletcher's first original script for the series, a study in terror told through a diary. Sophronia Winters is forty, freed by her father's death

Old Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Bouncing Betty Caper" (1948) | Full Episode

A fussy English butler named Carruthers walks into Sam Spade's office, tidies his ashtray, and hires him to go undercover as a chauffeur at Bleakcliff, a clifftop estate

Old Time Radio Horror — Lights Out: "It Happened" (1938) | Full Episode

Jean Taylor is a spoiled rich girl from New York on a chaperoned art tour of Paris, and she is bored stiff. She slips away from the Louvre looking for fun and finds a smo

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Murder Strikes Thrice" (1942) | Full Episode

The Lone Ranger and Tonto ride into Excalibur, a dusty frontier town where somebody is killing men on their birthdays. A year ago, three witnesses swore away the alibi of

Old Time Radio Western — Have Gun Will Travel: "Strange Vendetta" (1958) | Full Episode

The very first radio episode of Have Gun Will Travel, with John Dehner as Paladin, the cultured San Francisco gunman of CBS's "thinking man's Western." San Francisco, 187

Old Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "Britt Ponset's Christmas Carol" (1953) | Full Episode

Jimmy Stewart rides the winter trail as Britt Ponset, the easygoing drifter of NBC's The Six Shooter. With Christmas coming on, he comes upon Johnny, an orphaned runaway

Old Time Radio Comedy — The Jack Benny Program: "Jack and the Bean Stalk" (1954) | Full Episode

Spring has come to Beverly Hills, and Jack Benny is out in the backyard in overalls and long white gloves, planting string beans again — last year's crop was so small the

Old Time Radio Comedy — Abbott & Costello: "Return to P.S. 15" (1944) | Full Episode

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were the fastest, loudest comedy act in America, and their weekly NBC show turned every broadcast into a scheme that got away from them. In th

Old Time Radio Comedy — The Jack Benny Program: "Dennis Wants to Join the Air Force" | Full Episode

For more than twenty years Jack Benny ran the best-loved comedy in American radio, and the joke was always himself: vain, penny-pinching, stuck forever at 39, and hopeles

Old Time Radio Comedy — Our Miss Brooks: "Rare Black Orchid" (1950) | Full Episode

Connie Brooks teaches English at Madison High, dodges her blustering principal, and never quite gets a date with the biology teacher. In this May 1950 broadcast, Mr. Conk

Old Time Radio Thriller — Lights Out: "Execution" (1943) | Full Episode

Lights Out was radio's premier horror series, and it reached its best-remembered form when writer-director Arch Oboler brought it back to CBS in 1942 — a half hour of dre

Old Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Sinister Siren Caper" (1951) | Full Episode

The Adventures of Sam Spade let Dashiell Hammett's hardboiled private eye tell his own stories — every case dictated back at the office to his secretary Effie Perrine, pe

Old Time Radio Horror — Quiet, Please: "Whence Came You" (1948) | Full Episode

Quiet, Please was radio's quietest horror show and its strangest — Wyllis Cooper wrote and directed every episode, and Ernest Chappell told them to you in a calm, confidi

Old Time Radio Detective — Philip Marlowe: "The Orange Dog" (1949) | Full Episode

Gerald Mohr played Raymond Chandler's private eye as radio's toughest and wittiest detective, working a Los Angeles of rain-slick streets, cheap hotels and expensive lies

Old Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Carmen" (1952) | Full Episode

Gunsmoke was radio's great adult western — Dodge City, Kansas in the hard years of the cattle trade, with William Conrad as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon. In this early episod

Old Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Bow Window Caper" (1947) | Full Episode

Howard Duff stars as Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco private eye in the show that made Sam Spade a weekly habit — wisecracks, fast talk, and real menace underneath, dict