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Old Time Radio Sci-Fi — Dimension X: "The Lost Race" (1950) | Full Episode Jun 19, 2026

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Dimension X was NBC Radio's pioneering science-fiction anthology, the first to dramatize stories by the genre's leading authors. In "The Lost Race," adapted from Murray Leinster and broadcast May 20, 1950, a shipwrecked space crew stumbles onto the ruins of an ancient, long-dead spacefaring civilization -- only to discover the wreckage hides a deadly secret with the power to destroy the present as it once destroyed the past. 🎧 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 — 21st Precinct: "The Certified 600" (1953) | Full Episode Jun 18, 2026

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Step inside a busy 1950s New York station house with 21st Precinct, the documentary-style CBS police drama that follows a case from the first phone call to the final report. In "The Certified 600," a burglary and a wrecked car take a strange turn when a caller phones in claiming to hold the stolen safe -- and demanding ransom to give it back. Captain Kennelly's men work the timeline, trace the call, and close in on a thief with a surprising connection to the victim. 🎧 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 — 33 Half Moon Street: "A Kitten for Mr Katz" (1965) | Full Episode Jun 17, 2026

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From the files of Assignments Unlimited -- the agency that does anything, anywhere, at any time. In "A Kitten for Mr Katz," chief investigator Aubrey Mason takes on a deceptively simple little errand that, true to form, refuses to stay simple. A breezy, witty half-hour of 1960s detective radio with a curious client, a tidy mystery, and Mason's cool head seeing it all through. 🎧 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 Drama — A Quarter Century of Swing: "Show Number 485" (1964) | Full Episode Jun 16, 2026

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A Quarter Century of Swing was Armed Forces Radio's love letter to the big-band era -- a half-hour anthology of swing's golden age beamed to U.S. service members stationed overseas. Show Number 485, from September 11, 1964, gathers another set of hot, danceable big-band recordings spanning the genre's first quarter-century, bringing a warm touch of home in the form of brass, reeds, and an irresistible beat. No mystery to solve here -- just the music itself, the great orchestras that made the world want to dance. 🎧 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 — Box 13: "The Professor And The Puzzle" (1949) | Full Episode Jun 15, 2026

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Dan Holiday, the newspaperman-turned-novelist of Box 13, runs an ad promising to go anywhere and do anything for a good story -- and the letters that land in Box 13 never disappoint. In "The Professor and the Puzzle," a deceptively academic riddle pulls Holiday into real danger, where solving the puzzle and solving the crime turn out to be one and the same. Movie star Alan Ladd both produced this syndicated 1948-49 adventure series and starred as Holiday himself. 🎧 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 — Nero Wolfe: "The Lost Heir" (1951) | Full Episode Jun 14, 2026

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Sydney Greenstreet is Rex Stout's brilliant, orchid-loving armchair detective Nero Wolfe, who solves crimes without ever leaving his New York brownstone while legman Archie Goodwin does the footwork. In "The Case of the Lost Heir," a fortune rides on a missing heir, and Wolfe must sort the genuine claimant from the fraud amid greedy relations and convenient corpses. Aired April 20, 1951 on NBC. 🎧 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 — Philip Marlowe: "Nether Nether Land rehearsal" (1951) | Full Episode Jun 13, 2026

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The gold standard of hardboiled radio detection: Gerald Mohr stars as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, the wisecracking, world-weary private eye of rain-slicked Los Angeles. In "Nether-Nether Land," a frightened woman wakes Marlowe in his own apartment in the dead of night, begs him for help -- and vanishes before she can explain. This is the rare REHEARSAL recording, the cast working through the script before the live 1951 broadcast: a true behind-the-microphone look at how a top network drama was built. 🎧 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 Horror — The Hermit's Cave: "The House on Lost Lands Bluff" | Full Episode Jun 12, 2026

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From one of radio's earliest horror anthologies, the cackling old Hermit beckons you into his cave for a tale of a lonely house high on a windswept point of land. Newcomers arrive at the old place on Lost Lands Bluff only to find it was never truly empty -- and that whatever waits in its dark rooms does not welcome the living. Grisly sound effects, gothic dread, and a trademark twist ending. Turn out your lights -- turn them out! 🎧 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 Horror — Beyond Midnight: "40th Birthday" | Full Episode Jun 11, 2026

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From South Africa's Springbok Radio comes Beyond Midnight, Michael McCabe's anthology of madness, murder, and the supernatural. In "40th Birthday" (also known as "The Room"), a bitter man nearing forty grows convinced that murdering his flirtatious young wife is his only escape -- and when he uncovers a hidden bootleggers' room beneath his garage, he believes he's found the perfect place to do it. A slow-burning tale of dread and dark irony from radio's golden age. 🎧 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: "Twenty Two Rifle for Christmas" (1949) | Full Episode Jun 10, 2026

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One of old-time radio's most famous and controversial broadcasts. Three days before Christmas 1949, Sergeant Joe Friday is called out when nine-year-old Stanley Johnstone goes missing and bloodstains turn up in the backyard. What Friday uncovers -- a Christmas rifle, two boys at play, and a tragic accident -- makes for one of Dragnet's most quietly devastating stories, and a finale of unexpected grace. Jack Webb's stripped-down realism at its most powerful. 🎧 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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