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Old Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Sure Thing Caper" (1951) | Full Episode May 03, 2026

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Five Dollar Frankie barges into Sam Spade's office swearing he's been swindled out of a guaranteed winner by Gentle Joe Higgins, a notorious horse-doper with a "sure thing" up his sleeve. Spade smells more than a fixed race, and the deeper he digs, the meaner the tip turns out to be. From radio's golden age, this 1951 NBC chapter of The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective stars Steve Dunne as Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco private eye, with Lurene Tuttle as the unflappable Effie Perine. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Detective — Boston Blackie: "Burning His House Behind Him" (1947) | Full Episode May 02, 2026

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From the postwar heyday of radio crime drama, a reformed jewel thief turned amateur detective takes on a chilling murder. Joe Lang has killed his wife Sally and buried her in the basement under fresh concrete -- but when his rattled accomplice runs to Boston Blackie for help, the body vanishes and the house goes up in flames. Inspector Farraday is closing in, the killer is one step ahead, and the truth turns on a twist nobody saw coming. Originally broadcast August 13, 1947, starring Richard Kollmar as Boston Blackie. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Adventure — Superman: "The Mystery Of The Letter-Part 3" (1948) | Full Episode May 01, 2026

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The Man of Steel takes flight in this 1948 serial chapter of The Adventures of Superman. Lois Lane's sister Diana is back from Europe with a mysterious letter -- and a masked villain will kill to get it. With both Lane sisters held captive, Superman must race across Metropolis to break the case wide open. Bud Collyer stars as Superman/Clark Kent in part three of a Cold War-tinged spy thriller. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Western — The Lone Ranger: "Guns Across the Border" (1942) | Full Episode Apr 30, 2026

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The masked man rides south of the Rio Grande when stolen rifles start fueling raids on both sides of the line. Posing as a horse trader, the Lone Ranger infiltrates a smuggler's camp while Tonto trails the wagons through the desert -- and discovers a respected freight agent is the secret ringleader. A 1942 episode of the classic western drama starring Brace Beemer and John Todd. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Detective — Dragnet: "The Big Chet" (1953) | Full Episode Apr 30, 2026

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Two armed robbers are working the streets of Los Angeles, and Sergeant Joe Friday is on their trail. A reformed ex-con steps forward with a tip, and one small detail — a stutter — becomes the thread Friday pulls until the whole case unravels. This is Dragnet at its most methodical: no theatrics, just the facts, and the relentless procedural grind that made this show the template for every police drama that followed. Premiering on NBC in 1949 and built from real LAPD case files, Dragnet ran for nine seasons and set the standard for the entire genre. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Adventure — The Avengers: "From Venus With Love Part 3" | Full Episode Apr 29, 2026

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Springbok Radio's swinging-sixties spy-fi adaptation rolls on as Steed and Emma Peel hunt the killer of the British Venusian Society. Members keep dropping under a blinding flash of white light while gazing at the night sky -- and the trail leads to a very peculiar optician with a laser-equipped sports car and a personal grudge. Donald Monat and Diane Appleby star in this 1972 South African radio adaptation of the classic Patrick Macnee/Diana Rigg episode. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Detective — Barrie Craig: "Microfilm in the Fishtank" (1951) | Full Episode Apr 28, 2026

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From October 24, 1951, one of the very first episodes of NBC's Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator. William Gargan stars as the smooth Madison Avenue private eye called in when a protection racket burns a tailor shop to the ground. The trail leads to a humble goldfish bowl -- and a roll of microfilm worth killing for. Cool, witty, early-fifties Manhattan detective fiction with brains over fists. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Comedy — The Jack Benny Program: "Jack Listens to the Mean Old Man" | Full Episode Apr 27, 2026

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From March 21, 1954 — Jack tunes in his living-room radio and gets hooked on a soapy serial about a cantankerous, miserly old codger who terrorizes everyone around him. The trouble is, that mean old man on the radio sounds awfully familiar — tight with a dollar, allergic to gift-giving, perpetually 39. A sly bit of self-parody from one of the greatest comedy casts in radio history: Jack, Mary, Rochester, Dennis, Don, and the rest of the gang on The Lucky Strike Program. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "When The Shoe Doesn't Fit" (1954) | Full Episode Apr 26, 2026

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James Stewart stars as drifting cowboy Britt Ponset in NBC's beloved 1953-54 Western. In this next-to-last episode of the series, Britt and a traveling peddler named Azel Dorsey ride into a frontier town and discover a young woman called Cindy being worked to the bone by her stepmother and stepsisters. What follows is an Old-West retelling of Cinderella — fairy-tale ending and all, played out in wagon ruts and lantern light instead of glass slippers and palace ballrooms. Stewart loved this story so much he returned to it for television five years later as Ford Startime's "Cindy's Fella." 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Comedy — The Aldrich Family: "Grouse For Dinner" | Full Episode Apr 25, 2026

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The original American teenage sitcom — and the one that gave the world Henry Aldrich's famous voice-cracking "Coming, Mother!" In "Grouse For Dinner," Sam Aldrich is preparing a special wild grouse meal that is meant to be a small, intimate family dinner. Henry has one job: invite no one. Naturally, his best pal Homer turns up at the door, and the rest of the half hour is a master class in escalating domestic chaos as Henry tries to gently uninvite a guest who was never technically invited, while the kitchen falls apart over a missing rare herb. Classic late-1940s Aldrich Family comedy — the prototype for every awkward-adolescent sitcom that came after. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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