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Those Old Radio Shows

Corus Radio Network

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.

Location:

Calgary, AB

Genres:

Nostalgia

Description:

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.

Language:

English


Episodes
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Pat Novak for Hire - Killing in a Church, Father Lahey Joe Feldman

5/2/2024
Pat Novak for Hire - Killing in a Church, Father Lahey Joe Feldman (United Armed Forces Radio) 1949 Jack Webb

Duration:00:32:11

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The Globe Theatre - Man Called X - Goes to Italy or Murder and a Blonde Madonna

5/1/2024
The Globe Theatre - Man Called X - Goes to Italy or Murder and a Blonde Madonna Host and stars - Herbert Marshall, w-Hans Conreid, Female actors not credited. Director & Producer William N. Robson 1944 (AFRTS)

Duration:00:29:52

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Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator - The Crimson Queen

4/30/2024
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator - The Crimson Queen Announcer-Carl Carouso William Gargan & Barbra Weeks "The major trouble with murder as a career is that it has no future. You come pretty quickly to the end of your rope...and usually it's around your neck."

Duration:00:30:23

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The Secrets of Scotland Yard - Great Gold Robbery

4/26/2024
The Secrets of Scotland Yard - Great Gold Robbery Late 1940s Narrator - Clive Brook The Secrets of Scotland Yard was a successful crime drama series. Percy Hoskins, a 1950s crime expert and reporter for the London Daily Express. He knew every nook and cranny in London’s seedier districts and personally reported on many of the major crimes of the day.

Duration:00:19:05

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Wanted - Jailbreak - Henry Clay Tolett

4/25/2024
Wanted - Jailbreak - Henry Clay Tolett 1950 Announcers - Fred Collins & Don Pardo Walter McGraw Wanted for Jailbreak

Duration:00:29:30

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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell - The Unreasonable Aunt

4/24/2024
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell - The Unreasonable Aunt 1948 Lawson Zerbe, Elaine Rost and Hal Studer Frank saves a woman from being cheated out of her soap factory.

Duration:00:29:11

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Danger With Grainger - The Arnie Lessick Story

4/23/2024
Danger With Grainger - The Arnie Lessick Story Ray Barrett 1940s "I've been framed", Arnie Lessick was convicted of one of his crimes, a conviction which led to murder...

Duration:00:24:44

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Lux Radio Theatre - The Day the Earth Stood Still

4/22/2024
Lux Radio Theatre - The day The Earth Stood Still 1954 Announcer-Ken Carpenter, Art Linkletter Producer-Irving Cummings, Narrator-Paul Frees Michael Rennie, Jean Peters, Lamont Johnston, Herb Butterfield, Tudor Owen, Billy Gray, Edith Evanson... An alien from space gives mankind a final chance to achieve world peace.

Duration:01:00:45

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Information Please - Sigmund Spaeth & Basil Rathbone

4/19/2024
Information Please - Sigmund Spaeth & Basil Rathbone 1938 Announcer-Milton Cross, w-Franklin P. Adams Clifton Fadiman as moderator & Other regulars included Science writer Bernard Jaffe, professor of philosophy Dr Harry Overstreet, Marcus Duffield of the New York Herald-Tribune and later John Kieran a sport's columnist for the New York Times and Oscar Levant a pianist and composer.

Duration:00:29:14

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The Adventures of Sam Spade - The Cheesecake Caper

4/18/2024
The Adventures Of Sam Spade - The Cheesecake Caper Based on the stories of: Dashiell Hammett 1949 Announcer-Dick Joy Howard Duff & Lurene Tuttle Sam finds $50 and a photo of a blonde in his sandwich. The three words on the photo say, "Find the girl!"

Duration:00:25:56

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Crime Does Not Pay - Operation Payroll

4/17/2024
Crime Does Not Pay - Operation Payroll 1951 Donald Buka, w-Harold Vermiliar Follow my lead & we'll come clean as a whistle, 500 Gs to split between us!...

Duration:00:26:19

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Mystery Playhouse/Philo Vance - The Girl Who Came Back

4/16/2024
Mystery Playhouse/Philo Vance - The Girl Who Came back Narrator-T4Y, w-Jose Ferrer and Francis Robinson 1945 A belief of a girl's death due to a drowning, the body never revcovered. She then appears at a rich man's home as his daughter. The man claim's he's never seen her before, is she after his money, Philo Vance gets involved.

Duration:00:24:05

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CBS Radio Mystery Theatre - The Return of the Moresbys

4/15/2024
The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre - The Return of the Moresbys 1974 Announcer-E.G. Marshall, w-Patrick O'Neal, Daniel Ocko, Nick Pryor & Marian Seldes Is there a life after death? Can we come back in the body of a living creature.

Duration:00:45:15

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House Of Mystery - A Gift from the Dead

4/12/2024
House Of Mystery - A Gift from the Dead 1947 Stars-John Griggs as Roger Elliot The story of a sleepy ghost named Wilbur. Roger Elliot & Friend Paul Sheldon were invited by Paul’s sister to her home, then saddened of her husband's death, with cancelling the invitation Jane’s husband had returned from the dead…

Duration:00:30:11

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Box 13 - Insurance Fraud Scheme

4/11/2024
Box 13 - Insurance Fraud Scheme 1948 Alan Ladd, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Betty Lou Gerson, Luis Van Rooten, John Beal & Frank Lovejoy A doctor, dead for almost seven years, is suspected of still being alive...

Duration:00:27:51

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Bold Venture - Voodoo Vendetta in Paradise or The Search for Tommy Reed

4/10/2024
Bold Venture - Voodoo Vendetta in Paradise or Search For Tommy Reed 1950s Stars-Humphrey Bogart, Lauren BaCall Jester Hairston as King Moses & Betty Lou Gerson A murderess searching for Tommy Reed traps Slate and Sailor. She uses poisoned darts and voodoo while Sailor slowly dies.

Duration:00:27:23

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Under Arrest - Max Kemp

4/9/2024
Under Arrest - Max Kemp 1948 Announcer-Ted Mallie Joe De Satis, Margaret Drake, Grant Richards & Roc Rogers A girl reporter's old friend is seen with Max Kemp, a known gangster. Eddie is forced to supply the alibi for a murder.

Duration:00:30:31

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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Jeanne Maxwell Matter

4/5/2024
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Jeanne Maxwell Matter 1953 Announcer-Dan Cubberly, w-John Lund, Dick Ryan, Jeanette Nolan, Howard McNear, Ted de Corsiar, Virginia Gregg, John McIntyre & Barney Phillips A choice of a young girl murdered...or suicide...

Duration:00:30:50

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Proudly We Hail - Destination Found

4/4/2024
Proudly We Hail - Destination Found 1948 C.P. MacGregor, Wendell Niles, w-Gail Patrick Christine Strokes, who left the security of a university professorship, to teach school in a country town, discoverers both herself and romance.

Duration:00:29:21

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Murder At Midnight - Red Wheels

4/3/2024
Murder At Midnight - Red Wheels 1946 Announcer-Raymond Morgan, w-John Sylvester, Charles Paul, Jack Gordon, Anton M Leader "I said put that gun away Joe, stop him Freddy"... "He can't hear you Smolie"... "Don't push the switch on me, don't" - sfx- "gunfire."

Duration:00:26:04