Those Old Radio Shows

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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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The Voyage Of the Scarlet Queen - King Ascot And The Maid In Waiting Sep 19, 2022

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The Voyage Of the Scarlet Queen - King Ascot And The Maid In Waiting

From-1947

Stars-Elliot Lewis & Ed Max

The Voyage Of the Scarlet Queen was a high adventure program Mutual. It featured Elliot Lewis, who was also its director, as the sea captain Phillip Carney. Ed Max as the supporting character Red Gallagher. Others-include William Conrad, John Denner and Ben Wright.

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Dimension X - With Folded Hands Sep 16, 2022

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Dimension X - With Folded Hands

From-1950

Stars-Alexander Scourby

The perfect "mechanicals" from another planet make humans unnecessary, and they are always "at your service. " The year is 2006. Housework has been made easy by robots (or more correctly referred to in this story as mechanicals) who makes coffee, wash the dishes, and more besides.

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Beyond Midnight - 40th Anniversary Sep 14, 2022

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Beyond Midnight - 40th Anniversary-AKA-Eloise's Whereabouts

AKA-40th Birthday

From-1969

Director & Producer-African author Michael McCabe

A man who has an impending 40th birthday is threatened by his wife's youth and wealth. He decides to make a few minor changes to his life with devastating results.

Springbok Radio

Beyond Midnight a 30-minute radio mystery program written South African author Michael McCabe, was also the director & producer.

It aired in 1960s, it featured stories about death, madmen, ghost,

ghost hunters, & the supernatural. Little information is known

about the show which has at least 70 episodes.

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The Avenger - The Mystery Of The Giant Brain Sep 13, 2022

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The Avenger - The Mystery Of The Giant Brain

From-1945

Announcer-Alyn Edwards, w-James Monks & Helen Adamson

Professor O’Donnell is a great scientist who has become cruel and inhuman and it is for that reason that his assistant Miss St Clair has decided to leave him. The Professor has created Mechanical robots, which go out and capture animals from the zoo so that the professor can use their brains to create a super brain for his robots. But of course he can’t let her go for fear of her telling the police.

He intends to kill her and use her brain too.

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Exploring Tomorrow - Space Baby-AKA-The First Baby In Space Sep 12, 2022

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Exploring Tomorrow - Space Baby -Aka-The First Baby In Space

From-1958

Announcer-Guy Wallace, with-Carol Teitel & Lawson Zerbe

From Mutual, Armed Forces Radio & Television Service rebroadcast. "The Space Baby". Where do you find an incubator in a manned space station when one is needed in a hurry?

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Quiz Show Queen For A Day - February 13th, 1950 Sep 09, 2022

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Quiz Show - Queen For A Day - February 13th, 1950

From 1950

Staring-Jack Bailey

Quiz Shows let listeners hear people just like themselves hit it big, sometimes through sheer luck. Queen for a Day helped to usher in the era of really big prize giveaways.

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Squad Cars - Will She Jump? Sep 07, 2022

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Squad Cars - Will She Jump?

From The 1960s

Broadcast in South Africa, this weekly show presented a dramatized story of the Johannesburg South African Police at work, based on real life cases.

A woman, holding a baby, is found by a parapet on the 14th floor of an apartment building...

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Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis - Guest-Peter Lorre Sep 06, 2022

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Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis - Guest-Peter Lorre

From-1949

Peter Lorre-"The Cheerful Disc Jockey!" featuring, Flo McMichael,

Ed Hurley, Dick Stabile and his orchestra.

Dean sings-"Someone Like You."

In order to sign up a sponsor (played by Roger Price),

the boys try to get Peter Lorre to join them in a mystery program.

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Recollections At 30 - Labor Day Sep 05, 2022

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Recollections At 30 - Labor Day

Announcer-Ed Herlihy

Fred Collins

First it's Bing Crosby at the dedication of NBC's Hollywood studios

(December 7, 1935), Ed Wynn and Nelson Eddy on "The Chase and Sanborn Hour" (August 29, 1937), President Roosevelt speaks (August 31, 1936), Walter Damrosch on "The Music Appreciation Hour" (January, 1937), Ed East and Ralph Dumke as "The Sisters Of The Skillet" (June, 1937), Dinah Shore on "The Chamber Music Society Of Lower Basin Street"

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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure Of The Retired Colorman Sep 02, 2022

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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure Of The Retired Colorman

From-1940

Announcer-Knox Manning

Stars-Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce

Josiah Amberley pleads for Holmes to look into his disappearance of his wife.

"Nobody cares if an Old Man's Heart Is Broken"

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