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**Those Old Radio Shows**

Those Old Radio Shows bring you back to a much simpler time when the early days of radio were filled with comedy, drama and mystery programs. Unwind with a light-hearted program or become engrossed in a whodunnit. Those Old Radio Shows has something for everyone.

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Escape - Country Of The Blind Oct 05, 2022

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Escape - Country Of The Blind

From-1948

Writer-H.G. Wells

Host & stars-William Conrad, Paul Frees, Berry Kroger, Peggy Webber,

Herbert Wilms & Byron Kane

A mountain guide finds a hidden valley where the people don't have eyes. However, the blind think that he is the deformity.

Zebarra is a mining engineer in Ecuador near the towering Andes. Up until a year ago his chief sport was mountaineering. His last climb was an attempt to climb the remote and forbidding peak of Parascotopetl, the 20,000-foot crag unconquered by man. It is unconquered still. 3,000 feet from the icy summit his party turned back and fled for their lives all escaping except for one, a guide named Nunez who slipped and fell over the precipice disappearing in to the vast chasm which yearned 10,000-feet beneath them. The horror of him falling has haunted Zebarra’s dreams for years and because of it he has forsaken climbing for the rest of his life, even though today he has seen Nunez...

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Mr. District Attorney - The Case Of Death By Adoption Oct 04, 2022

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Mr. District Attorney - The Case Of Death By Adoption

From-1953

Stars-David Brian

A Phillips H. Lord Production

A used car dealer is blackmailed and then murdered, by the father of his adopted daughter. Larry Cashman sits waiting in his car lot for somebody and it is not a customer - it is a blackmailer. Larry has paid the blackmailer before, but now he thinks enough is enough. He offers him one final large payment on condition he does not visit again, but the blackmailer does not agree. There is a struggle and within seconds Larry Cashman is dead.

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The Adventures Of Sam Spade, Detective Agency - The Adam Fig Matter Oct 03, 2022

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The Adventures Of Sam Spade, Detective Agency,

The Adam Fig Caper

From-1947

Writer of Detective, Fiction stories & Creator of Sam Spade,

Dashiell Hammett.

Announcer-Hugh Holder & Dick Joy

Stars-Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle, Elspeth Eric

Detective Sam Spade is hired to protect an old, sick, very wealthy man. There are lots of gunshots and screams in the night. Sam(Howard Duff) cracks up when an "office robot" given to him by Effie(Lurene Tuttle), fails to work. When Adam Fig walked in to Sam Spade’s office he said he was the butler at Exxon Manor in Los Needos. He came to collect Spade in the limousine and take him to the old Mr. Exxon where his duties would be to simply prevent his death.

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Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator - For Love Of Murder Sep 30, 2022

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Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator - For Love Of Murder

From-1954

Announcer-Eddy King

Stars-William Gargan, Barney Phillips, Tom McKee, Barbra Fuller,

Gloria Ann Simpson & Herb Ellis

Barrie bails out of jail a broken hearted man and possibly a murderer named Damon Runyon. After receiving a begging letter Barrie Craig took a trip to see an inmate named Maxie Potter who was locked up on a charge for 3rd degree assault for hitting Randy Lomax. Lomax was a talent agent who was promoting Maxie’s girl Sadie when Maxie lost his head and hit him with a brick but in court he was denying it. Everything was fine between Maxie and Sadie until Lomax came along.

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The Mysterious Traveler - Stranger In The House Sep 28, 2022

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The Mysterious Traveler - Stranger In The House

From-1944

Stars-Maurice Tarplin, Bryna Raeburn & Lyle Sudrow

An adventure of a young couple in search of a home.

The scene: A small village of Woodford, Vermont. Evening, It's 9pm, and the main street in the village is deserted. A car comes speeding through and with the squeal of its brakes comes to a stop before the home of Dr. Samuel Stewart. A young woman, obviously distraught, gets out from behind the wheel of the car and hurries up the walk to the doctor's home.

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Top Secret - Confession Sep 27, 2022

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Top Secret - Confession

From-1950

Host & Director-Harry W Junkin

Ilona Massey, Luis Van Rooten, Inga Adams,

Alan Stevenson, Guy Repp & Peter Cappel

Friends with the Baroness Karin Geza for years,

Mary Bryant receives a letter from her husband in Bulgaria.

Impossible but it is reported he is a communist.

The Baroness takes on the case.

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The Family Theatre - A Talent For Living Sep 26, 2022

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The Family Theatre - Talent for Living

From-1948

Host- Danny Thomas

Stars-Kirk Douglas, Diana Douglas, Pat Lower,

Myra Marsh & Tommy Bernard

Talent For Living. A working guy becomes engaged to a wealthy decorator. A visit to the groom's family exposes big differences between the two.

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2000 Plus - When The Machines Went Mad Sep 23, 2022

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2000 Plus - When The Machines Went Mad

From-1950

Announcer-Bob Emerick

Stars-Charlotte Manson, Ken Williams,

Joseph Julian & Albert Robertson

It seems Morten’s experiments for the master mechanical brains are succeeding. The electronic men can make other electronic men and could control them absolutely.

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The Mystery Playhouse/Hermit's Cave - Mr. Randall's Discovery Sep 21, 2022

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The Mystery Playhouse/Hermit's Cave - Mr. Randall's Discovery

1940s

Horror

Narrator-Peter Lorre

Turn out your lights!, Mr. Randall wasn't a scientist, just an ordinary man. A Vice President of a small town bank. He experimented in his basement as a hobby, and quite by accident he stumbled upon a secret so amazing, so terrifying...listen in...

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Let George Do It - Tonight The Mayhem's Going To Be Different Sep 20, 2022

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Let George Do It - Tonight The Mayhem's Going To Be Different

Circa-Old Radio Era

Syndicated-With Narration

Stars-Robert Bailey & Virginia Gregg

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