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Old Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Hail And Farewell Caper" (1951) | Full Episode Apr 23, 2026

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A condemned man sits in San Quentin, hours from execution — and a desperate visitor walks into Sam Spade's office convinced the verdict is wrong. Spade takes the case and races against the clock to uncover the truth before the state makes an irreversible mistake. One of the final episodes from radio's greatest hard-boiled detective series, with all the wit, tension, and sardonic charm that made Sam Spade a household name. 🎧 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 Mystery — The Shadow: "The Poison Death" (1938) | Full Episode Apr 22, 2026

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Someone has declared war on the city's water supply — poisoning it in the name of The Shadow himself. But the real Shadow has other plans. Lamont Cranston traces the terror to a bitter city chemist whose wounded pride has curdled into something far more dangerous, leading to a white-knuckle showdown atop a water tower that only one man will survive. A 22-year-old Orson Welles stars in this chilling 1938 thriller — one of the boldest episodes in golden age radio drama. 🎧 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 — Father Knows Best: "Time For a New Car" (1950) | Full Episode Apr 21, 2026

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Father Knows Best is one of old-time radio's warmest domestic comedies — and in "Time For a New Car," Jim Anderson proves once again that stubbornness has its limits. Jim is absolutely convinced the family automobile is perfectly sound. Daughter Betty calls it a wreck. Jim makes his case with confidence, gives the fender a reassuring tap to prove his point... and the fender falls right off. Robert Young is at his easygoing best in this quintessential family comedy moment from the golden age of American radio. 🎧 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: "The New Sheriff" (1954) | Full Episode Apr 20, 2026

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James Stewart is Britt Ponset, the soft-spoken drifter who always seems to ride into trouble at exactly the right moment. In "The New Sheriff," Ponset arrives in Virtue City as a heated election for sheriff pits a smooth-talking political operator against the town blacksmith — and a warning to stay out of it guarantees he won't. Warm, witty, and quietly thrilling, this is The Six Shooter at its best: small-town justice, frontier democracy, and Jimmy Stewart doing what only Jimmy Stewart could do. 🎧 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 — Fort Laramie: "Still Waters" | Full Episode Apr 19, 2026

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Captain Lee Quince has bigger problems than a brawling regimental band — a Washington delegation hellbent on banning beer from every Army post in the West is coming to Fort Laramie. When Trooper Harrison casually demonstrates how vanilla extract, peppermint, and cologne can be turned into something potable, the Committee on Moral Improvement gets a frontier education it never expected. A sharp, dry comedy from one of old-time radio's most underrated Western series, starring Raymond Burr and produced by the team behind Gunsmoke. 🎧 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 Mystery — ABC Mystery Time: "Half an Hour" | Full Episode Apr 18, 2026

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Lady Lilian has made up her mind — she is leaving her cold, loveless marriage to the wealthy financier Richard Garson and running away with Hugh Paton, the man she truly loves. She has exactly half an hour. Adapted from J.M. Barrie's taut 1913 one-act play and featuring the legendary Sir Ralph Richardson, this intimate drama from ABC Mystery Time wrings extraordinary emotional tension from a compressed, almost real-time timeframe. In the space of thirty minutes, desire and duty collide — and fate has the final word. 🎧 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 Mystery — The Avenger: "High Tide Murder" (1945) | Full Episode Apr 17, 2026

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Jim Brandon — biochemist, crime-fighter, and master of invisibility — picks up three chilling thought-waves on his Telepathic Indicator: the sound of lapping water, howling wind, and a desperate voice crying out the name "Scrawny." Then Inspector White calls with the news: a body has just washed ashore. In this atmospheric mystery from 1945, The Avenger takes to the waterfront to untangle a murder hidden beneath the tide — armed with his wits, his Secret Diffusion Capsule, and a mind tuned to frequencies most men never hear. 🎧 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 — Gunsmoke: "Billy the Kid" (1952) | Full Episode Apr 16, 2026

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It's the episode that launched a legend. On April 26, 1952, CBS Radio premiered Gunsmoke — and the first thing Marshal Matt Dillon faced was murder, a grieving widow who used to love him, and a dangerous young man going by the name of Billy. This is the series premiere: raw, morally serious, and gripping from the first shot fired in Dodge City. 🎧 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 — Ellery Queen: "The Adventure Of The Mischief Maker" (1944) | Full Episode Apr 15, 2026

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A sinister campaign of anonymous letters has thrown a community into turmoil — and Ellery Queen is called in to unmask the mischief-maker. Aired in January 1944 on NBC, this episode showcases the Ellery Queen formula at its finest: a domestic puzzle that conceals something far darker, solved by radio's most methodical detective. Sydney Smith stars as the razor-sharp Ellery alongside Inspector Richard Queen and the ever-reliable Sergeant Velie. 🎧 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 Mystery — The Shadow: "The Phantom Voice" (1938) | Full Episode Apr 14, 2026

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A crooked lawyer has framed a U.S. Senator on bribery charges — and only The Shadow stands between him and a perfect crime. But Lamont Cranston's power of invisibility meets its match when the villain designs a trap that needs no eyes to spring: a room so narrow that two men, arms outstretched, can simply walk toward each other and catch what they cannot see. This is Orson Welles at the peak of his Shadow run, playing the Invisible Avenger with magnetic menace opposite Agnes Moorehead's Margo Lane, in one of old-time radio's most ingeniously plotted thrillers. 🎧 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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