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2000 Plus-500927-24-The Green Thing Apr 04, 2022

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2000 Plus
The Green Thing – From 1950

Radio's Sci-Fi genre

A series focused on space exploration, including alien invasion,
Cast members included Lon Clark, Joseph Julian,
Henry Norell, Bill Keene, Bryna Raeburn and Amzie Strickland.

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Life with Luigi-520401-167-April Fool's Joke Apr 01, 2022

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Life With Luigi
April Fools Joke – From 1952

From just one episode, a spinoff off from The Life of Riley, The Little Immigrant, Life With Luigi is the story of a gentle Italian and other immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia taking US citizenship night school classes. Their new home is Chicago, and their heartwarming encounters with American ways post WWII. J. Carroll Naish, veteran character actor of stage
and screen, makes Luigi Basco come to life in each and every show.

Alan Reed is Pasquale, Jody Gilbert plays Pasquali's daughter Rosa,
Hans Conried is Schultz, Mary Shipp is Miss Spaulding, the teacher of the night class, Joe Forte is Horowitz, and Ken Peters is Olsen, Luigi's classmates and Gil Straton is Jimmy, who is Luigi's partner in a small antique business that Luigi has opened.

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Hallmark Playhouse-511004-148-Country Lawyer Mar 31, 2022

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Hallmark Playhouse Theatre
Country Lawyer - From 1951

Announcer - Frank Goss
Host - James Hilton
Stars - Fred MacMurray, Lurene Tuttle, Parley Baer, Joseph Kearns, Sam Edwards & Stanley Farrar.

From the turn of 1900s, An old fashioned country lawyer, small town upstate New York.
2 men are standing by an office window. The younger of the two is glancing through a dusty old notebook.
He looks up from the pages and smiles at his father.
The notebook has been in his father's office for over forty years, but this is the first time he's come across it.

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Molle Mystery Playhouse-450515-Lady in the Morgue(AFRTS) Mar 30, 2022

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Molle Mystery Playhouse
Lady In The Morgue - From 1945

Host-Peter Lorre
Featured Actor-Ed Gardner

A woman commits suicide yet her body’s missing. The morgue attendant is murdered and the clues point to a redheaded left-handed undertaker. Detective O’Malley hides in the morgue unaware that he is being stalked by the murderer.

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Squad Cars-680913-The Tell Tale Suitcase Mar 29, 2022

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Squad Cars
Tell Tale Suitcase

Squad Cars aired in 1969 and was a South African Police show.

Houseboy Phineas finds his employer dead and calls Johannesburg Police to investigate. Springbok Radio Productions, South Africa.

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David Harding's Counterspy-490908-394-Courageous Come On Mar 28, 2022

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David Harding's Counterspy
The Courageous Come On
From 1949
Stars Mandell Kramer & Don MacLaughlin

In the case of the Courageous Come On you will hear of a girl who was good at being bad until she saw a blind spot. Also a man who had courage for two men. At the end of this episode, Vice President Barkley speaks about hiring disabled veterans.

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Martin Kane, Private Detective-531029-Thompson Framed Mar 25, 2022

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Martin Kane, Private Detective-531029-Thompson Framed

Stars-Mark Stevens

Martin Kane, Private Eye began as a 1949-52 radio series
and moved to television Mark Stevens stars in this episode as a New York City Detective.

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That Hammer Guy-The Barney Miller Syndicate-AkA-The The Trouble With Dames Mar 24, 2022

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That Hammer Guy
Barney Miller Syndicate - aka - The Trouble with Dames
From 1953
Stars-Larry Haines
Mrs. Busby is a dame who stops at nothing,
even if she has to use a gun to get what she wants.
Getting to the truth of the cause of it all...

That Hammer Guy ran on the Mutual/Don Lee Network from 1952 to 1954.
Based of the Mickey Spillane series.
Through Radio Days-Three different actors portrayed Hammer-Larry Haines, George Petrie & Ted DeCorsia.
Velda, and many other female characters, were portrayed by Jan Miner.

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Dramas Of The Courts-xx-08-Trial of Harold Warren Mar 23, 2022

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Dramas Of The Courts

Trial Of Harold Warren - Circa - 1940s

Grace Gibson Productions
Grace Gibson (a Texan by birth) opened her own production company in 1944, having been brought to Australia in 1934 and created the American Radio Transcription Service of Australia.

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Arch Oboler's Plays-641003-The Word(w-William Shatner) Mar 22, 2022

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Arch Oboler's Plays
The Word - From 1964

Stars-William Shatner, Barbra Eiler & Hal Peary

Syndicated, AFRTS rebroadcast.
"The Word". The last couple on Earth descend from the Empire State.

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