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Vintage Radio Shows brings you the golden age of entertainment with classic comedies, mysteries, dramas, westerns, and serials from the 1930s–1950s. Enjoy restored recordings from 46,000+ episodes of old time radio, plus historic newsreels, film serials, and vintage cartoons.

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Old Time Radio Comedy — Phil Harris-Alice Faye: "The Vaccinations" (1950) | Full Episode

Phil Harris and Alice Faye are about to sail for Europe, where Phil and Jack Benny will play the London Palladium, and everyone needs a smallpox shot first. Alice tells P

Nov 6
29 min

Old Time Radio Comedy — Phil Harris-Alice Faye: "Frankie's Foster Son" (1949) | Full Episode

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was NBC's Sunday-night family comedy, with bandleader Phil Harris and movie star Alice Faye playing themselves at home, flanked by Elliott

Nov 5
29 min

Old Time Radio Comedy — Phil Harris-Alice Faye: "The First Show for Rexall" (1948) | Full Episode

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was NBC's Sunday-night family comedy, with bandleader Phil Harris and movie star Alice Faye playing themselves at home, flanked by Elliott

Nov 4
29 min

Old Time Radio Detective — Broadway Is My Beat: "Decker Murder Case" (1954) | Full Episode

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover and scrip

Nov 3
29 min

Old Time Radio Detective — Broadway Is My Beat: "The Georgia Gray Murder Case" (1951) | Full Episode

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, scripted

Nov 2
29 min

Old Time Radio Detective — Broadway Is My Beat: "The Jane Darnell Murder Case" (1949) | Full Episode

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, scripted

Nov 1
29 min

Old Time Radio Adventure — Escape: "The Follower" (1951) | Full Episode

Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, "exciting stories of man's escape from his everyday world." This February 1951 broadcast, featuring William Conrad, fo

Oct 30
29 min

Old Time Radio Adventure — Escape: "She" (1948) | Full Episode

Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, and this July 1948 broadcast tackles H. Rider Haggard's immortal romance of the lost African kingdom ruled by Ayesha,

Oct 29
29 min

Old Time Radio Horror — Escape: "Dead of Night" Original Audition (1947) | Full Episode

Months before Escape became CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, this was the very first pilot, broadcast on February 28, 1947 under the name Out of This World. The s

Oct 28
29 min

Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1951) | Full Episode

In its final season NBC University Theater, billed on air as the NBC Theater, was still bringing a great novel to radio every week from Hollywood. Tonight it is Leo Tolst

Oct 27
30 min

Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "The Portrait of a Lady" (1949) | Full Episode

By the fall of 1949 NBC University Theater (now billed simply as the NBC Theater) was broadcasting a full hour of a great novel from Hollywood every Sunday, with college

Oct 26
59 min

Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "A Farewell to Arms" (1948) | Full Episode

NBC University Theater brought the great novels to radio from Hollywood, with film stars in the leads. This hour is Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," adapted by Er

Oct 25
59 min

Old Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Kitty Caught" (1954) | Full Episode

Gunsmoke brought the adult Western to radio, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal of Dodge City. In "Kitty Caught," Chester comes back from Wichita with word

Oct 24
29 min

Old Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Gone Straight" (1953) | Full Episode

Gunsmoke brought the adult Western to radio, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal of Dodge City. In "Gone Straight," a special deputy for the New Mexico Stock

Oct 23
30 min

Old Time Radio Comedy — Fibber McGee and Molly: "Numerology" (1943) | Full Episode

For ten dollars, a numerologist over a barbershop promises to put Fibber McGee in harmony with the universe by giving him a new name: Homer K. Frink, eleven letters, a pr

Oct 22
29 min

Old Time Radio Comedy — Fibber McGee and Molly: "McGee Sells Watches" (1941) | Full Episode

A package marked FRAGILE, insured for $800, lands at 79 Wistful Vista, and inside is a leather sample case stamped in gold: Fibber McGee, special representative of a fanc

Oct 21
29 min

Old Time Radio Detective — Johnny Dollar: "Milford Brooks III (Audition)" (1948) | Full Episode

Before Bob Bailey, before Charles Russell, there was Dick Powell. In this December 1948 audition, never broadcast, Powell plays Johnny Dollar, the freelance insurance inv

Oct 20
29 min

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Boss of the Tarantulas" (1942) | Full Episode

The Lone Ranger and Tonto have jailed four of the knife-throwing Tarantula gang with help from Texas Jack of the Border City Cafe, and now Jack hands over a dead sheriff'

Oct 19
29 min

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Hold Up Stagecoach" (1940) | Full Episode

Caleb Saxon and his wife Edith ride the stage to Basin City hoping to leave the whispers back East behind them: a court cleared Caleb, but everyone still believes he stol

Oct 17
29 min

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "The Osage Bank Robbery" (1938) | Full Episode

The Brogan brothers, two of the most wanted killers in the West, rob the bank at Osage and shoot the banker for no reason at all, then vanish without leaving a trail. The

Oct 16
29 min

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I absolutely love the shows that you have here. A lot of variety and the quality of the shows is also good. By far one of the best OTR sites.

LoveOTR · Mar 2006

I love Old Time Radio and I love how you have a nice variety! Keep up the good work! Maybe add more comedy shows....

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