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Music for Millions4 Episodes
Enjoy the classic sounds of some of the biggest names in music from the 1940s and then listen to them do their part for the war effort by promoting Victory Bonds to help finance the war.
1 Volume |
4 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Passing Parade40 Episodes
The show featured two or three factual but fantastic stories with John Nesbitt himself serving as host, writer, and storyteller of extraordinary tales.
1 Volume |
40 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Presidential Thanksgiving53 Episodes
The Thanksgiving Holiday has many spiritual and political implications, but it is also a time for fun.
1 Volume |
53 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Christmas Sing With Bing8 Episodes
After missing Christmas 1954 on the air, Bing Crosby began a new tradition with 'A Christmas Sing.'
1 Volume |
8 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Presidential Hanukkah23 Episodes
The basis for the eight day celebration of Hanukkah states that the Temple only had enough oil to keep one of its most ritual objects; the menorah lit for one day. However, the flame stayed alight for eight days until a new supply of oil could be found.
1 Volume |
23 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Light-Up Time77 Episodes
AFRS broadcast, old blue eyes (Frank Sinatra) smooth talks the audience in Light-up Time which is an enjoyable music program perfect listening for after work.
1 Volume |
77 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Box 1352 Episodes
Alan Ladd in Box 13 found adventures that did not depend on a new corpse every week. Dan Holiday, retired newspaper man turned fiction writer and adventurer extraordinaire. To gain ideas for his books, he places an ad in the paper "Adventure wanted – will go anywhere, do anything – Box 13."
1 Volume |
52 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Beulah40 Episodes
A spin-off of the Fibber McGee & Molly series, Beulah was a novelty character, created and sustained by the startling concept of a white man doing a black woman's voice.
1 Volume |
40 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Defense Attorney13 Episodes
This is a hard hitting old time radio crime drama, with a distinctive feminine touch.
1 Volume |
13 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Personal Album34 Episodes
Some of the most popular actors and singers of the era appeared on AFRS free of charge and in some cases the only ones who would get to hear the AFRS shows were the troops because the recordings were not available to the general public.
1 Volume |
34 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Greatest Sports Thrill9 Episodes
Enjoy the exciting moments in sports by some of sports greatest athletes in history.
1 Volume |
9 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Rare Adventure59 Episodes
Pilots, adventurers, reporters, sea fayers and more make for tales of adventure and intrigue for all audiences.
1 Volume |
59 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Checkerboard Fun Fest (Eddy Arnold)40 Episodes
Check into country fun with the Checkerboard Fun Fest, a country western musical variety show hosted by Eddy Arnold.
1 Volume |
40 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Mel Blanc43 Episodes
Mel Blanc is best known as the voice of the Looney Tunes characters, especially Bugs Bunny, but this "Man of a Thousand Voices" was a hit on radio, not just in his own show but with Jack Benny and many others.
1 Volume |
43 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Abe Burrows Show18 Episodes
After a long career in radio writing and directing, Burrows took a break to perform songs he wrote at nightclubs. These songs became so popular that he was invited to start his own old time radio show.
1 Volume |
18 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Memorial Day Presidential Recordings46 Episodes
As we all gather around the picnic table to spend time with family and friends to ring in the unofficial start of the summer season; let’s remember those empty seats at those picnic tables who gave the ultimate sacrifice for us all to enjoy this time together.
1 Volume |
46 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Celeste Holm23 Episodes
Although she enjoyed success in Hollywood and on Broadway, Celeste Holm's December marriage to a man half her age brought unwanted notoriety at the end of her life.
1 Volume |
23 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Showtime52 Episodes
Featuring Music from Broadway and Sketches from Hollywood Movies!
1 Volume |
52 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Herbert Hoover35 Episodes
The first US President born west of the Mississippi, Herbert Hoover was president during the earliest years of old time radio.
1 Volume |
35 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Frank Merriwell41 Episodes
Now with double the number of episodes: "An echo of the past, an exciting past, a romantic past, the era of horse and carriage, gas lit streets, and free-for-all football games. The era of one of the most beloved heroes of American fiction, Frank Meriwell."
1 Volume |
41 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Adlai Stevenson48 Episodes
If not for his off the cuff exchange in 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, we might not be alive today to enjoy this Adlai Stevenson collection.
1 Volume |
48 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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First Nighter33 Episodes
All of the glory and grandeur of a Broadway premier brought to your radio on First Nighter, starring "radio's first sex symbol", Don Ameche.
1 Volume |
33 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Country Style USA84 Episodes
Announced by Cecil Daniels, the show features some of the best country and folk music of the era and was a United States Army syndication created for army recruitment.
1 Volume |
84 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Remember11 Episodes
The Remember program began in 1946 with film star Robert Young sitting down with a stack of records from a certain year and playing them while sharing stories from the selected year.
1 Volume |
11 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Pabst Show19 Episodes
Old-time radio enthusiasts can't miss a show by one of the most prolific and clever performers of his time.
1 Volume |
19 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Ford Show13 Episodes
Ford's were the All-American Automobile, so the Ford Dealers hired America’s Sweetheart, Dinah Shore, to pitch the cars on The Ford Show.
1 Volume |
13 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Milton Berle Show47 Episodes
Uncle Milty will always be "Mister Television", but he was side-splitting on radio as well. Tune into The Milton Berle Show.
1 Volume |
47 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Speed Gibson178 Episodes
Matching wits with supervillains and flying the latest and fastest airplanes are the dreams of many young boys, but it is all in a day’s work for Speed Gibson.
1 Volume |
178 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Planet Man78 Episodes
This kiddie Science Fiction serial Planet Man teaches us you can't go into outer space without a strong sense of right and wrong and your trusty ray gun!
1 Volume |
78 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Jack Smith Show5 Episodes
Hear one of the most famous radio crooners of the 1940s smile his way through every song in this popular musical variety program, The Jack Smith Show.
1 Volume |
5 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Presidential Fourth of July50 Episodes
Marked with summer tradition, many celebrate July 4th with fireworks, but politicians use the holiday to address the the public.
1 Volume |
50 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Henry Kissinger49 Episodes
Critics say that as secretary of state towards the end of the Vietnam War; he lost his war.
1 Volume |
49 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Concert Hall18 Episodes
Barrymore hosts "Concert Hall," a classical music variety show from the Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II.
1 Volume |
18 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Two Ton Baker12 Episodes
Dick Baker was one of the jolliest music makers on the Chicago scene and a constant presence on WGN radio and TV.
1 Volume |
12 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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American Family Robinson93 Episodes
Listen to the Robinson's as they work, live, and navigate conflicts in their all-American home of Centerville.
1 Volume |
93 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Americans All Immigrants All24 Episodes
An Artistic Triumph in Broadcasting and a celebration of American Cultural Diversity in the pre-WWII Period.
1 Volume |
24 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Big Story45 Episodes
Newspaper reporters from around the country entered their true, heroic stories of reporting the news to win a chance on the airwaves and $500 from the sponsor of the show, Pall Mall.
1 Volume |
45 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Longines Symphonettes48 Episodes
The Longines Symphonettes reflected the watchmaker's luxury with music.
1 Volume |
48 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Front Line Theater9 Episodes
Before AFRS could broadcast a program donated by the networks, the show had to be "decommercialized". Sometimes this meant changing the show title and cutting out the sponsor pitch.
1 Volume |
9 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Living Opera Interviews3 Episodes
Alan Wagner's Sunday morning "Living Opera" on WNYC exposed opera to the masses.
1 Volume |
3 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Smiths of Hollywood28 Episodes
The Smiths of Hollywood is a family situation comedy, but since it is set in Hollywood, you never know which Star might drop by.
1 Volume |
28 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Mama Blooms Brood76 Episodes
Combining a road trip across America in the 30s and a Jewish family situation comedy, Mama Bloom's Brood was one of the nationally broadcast shows which helped to influence the image of American Jews.
1 Volume |
76 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Cuban Missile Crisis69 Episodes
October 14, 1962 U2 spy planes discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off of the Florida Coast.
1 Volume |
69 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Eddy Arnold5 Episodes
Eddy Arnold, "The Tennessee Plowboy, was a cowboy singer with a powerful set of lungs. Slip on your boots and start your toes tappin' because Eddy's in town and he's belting them out with gusto!
1 Volume |
5 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Straight Arrow17 Episodes
Hurry home from school and get your homework done, it is almost time for Straight Arrow, a Comanche boy raised by ranchers who becomes a great warrior to do good and right wrongs.
1 Volume |
17 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Honest Harold38 Episodes
When Harold Peary left The Great Gildersleeve in 1950, everyone seemed satisfied with the way Willard Waterman filled the role. Everyone but Peary, that is, so he recreated Gildy on a new network as Honest Harold.
1 Volume |
38 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Jack Armstrong112 Episodes
Jack Armstrong, The All American Boy not only held the interest of millions of kids after school during two decades, the show helped to prove the value of targeted radio advertising to General Mills and Wheaties.
1 Volume |
112 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Rose Bowl15 Episodes
Started in 1889, The Rose Parade showed off the weather and fruitfulness of California sunshine. Thirteen years later, they parade was joined by and East vs West Football Tournament.
1 Volume |
15 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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News Recordings 1939100 Episodes
New headlines were dominated by the news Europe from the Spanish Civil War to the Blitzkrieg of Poland.
1 Volume |
100 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Douglas MacArthur17 Episodes
Douglas MacArthur served as US General of the Army and field marshal to the Philippine Army. As Chief of Staff of the Army during the 1930s, he played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during WWII.
1 Volume |
17 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Twenty Questions17 Episodes
This ageless parlor game was a natural for a fun radio Quiz Show, but what made Twenty Questions so popular with listeners was the fact that its panelists all came from the same family.
1 Volume |
17 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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This is the Story49 Episodes
This old time radio show takes a fascinating in depth look into unknown tidbits about people and events that shaped our culture, history, and world.
1 Volume |
49 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street40 Episodes
Swing music is all about having fun, and one of the ways that Swing musicians have fun was by making fun of the more serious classical music scene. Featuring Milton Cross, the normally serious announcer for the Metropolitan Opera.
1 Volume |
40 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Betsy Drake9 Episodes
Best known for being Cary Grant's third wife and his longest marriage, Betsy Drake was also a writer and a survivor of the SS Andrea Doria sinking.
1 Volume |
9 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Andy Williams8 Episodes
After starting in a vocal quartet with his brothers, Andy Williams became one of the most successful vocalists in show business.
1 Volume |
8 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Beatrice Lillie15 Episodes
The funniest woman in the World, Beatrice Lillie was thrown out of a church choir at the age of eight for making the boys giggle during services.
1 Volume |
15 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Answer Man9 Episodes
With a staff of over 40 of brainiest facts finder he could locate, The Answer Man solved thousands of questions written in by listeners.
1 Volume |
9 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Bert Lytell7 Episodes
Although his film career essentially ended with the dawn of talking pictures, Bert Lytell remained an important presence on stage and radio.
1 Volume |
7 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Fun With Revuers7 Episodes
The show is fast moving and highly entertaining, moving from ensemble numbers to monologues to duets to sketches to solos and back to the ensemble.
1 Volume |
7 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Kate Smith36 Episodes
Larger than Life Contralto Presents Singing and Variety
1 Volume |
36 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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CP MacGregor Show42 Episodes
A pioneer of Radio Transcription, C.P. MacGregor put together some great dramas for local broadcasters
1 Volume |
42 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Grand Marquee32 Episodes
It's like Valentines every week with Jim Ameche and Beryl Vaughn. Each episode brings us a new Romantic Comedy with a new situation and characters.
1 Volume |
32 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Bright Star31 Episodes
The series was also called the Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray Show and used big film stars to add to the appeal of the show and gain listeners.
1 Volume |
31 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Henry Morgan45 Episodes
Henry Morgan was a professional humorist, but network executives and his sponsors would argue that his business was making their lives miserable. Fans tuned in to hear what he had to say, and that is what kept him on the air.
1 Volume |
45 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Sam Spade81 Episodes
Created by Dashiell Hammett, Howard Duff appears in this action-packed old time radio show full of dames, wisecracks, adventure, and laughs.
1 Volume |
81 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Melody Roundup18 Episodes
Country Western and Cowboy Songs Galore!
1 Volume |
18 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Dave Garroway Show34 Episodes
Dave Garroway's laid back style made him one of NBC's great communicators on radio and television.
1 Volume |
34 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Ma Perkins70 Episodes
Ma Perkins was one of the most successful radio Soaps, running for 27 years starring Virginia Payne for the entire run. Ms. Payne was just 23 years old when she started playing the no nonsense Ma.
1 Volume |
70 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Churchill (Winston) Recordings114 Episodes
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of United Kingdom during WWII and great orator, wrote his own speeches and delivered them on many radio broadcasts.
1 Volume |
114 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Globe Theater14 Episodes
Some would argue that the high point of English Theatre happened when the Bard performed his plays at the Old Globe Theatre in Elizabethan London. The Globe Theatre does their best to bring the same experience to Old Time Radio.
1 Volume |
14 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Presidential Election 194020 Episodes
Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican businessman Wendell Willkie to be reelected for an unprecedented third term in office.
1 Volume |
20 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Manhattan Melodies17 Episodes
Manhattan Melodies is a recruiting program for the United States Air Force hosted by Airman Tom Wright
1 Volume |
17 | 1 |
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Harry James Show20 Episodes
Big Band Entertainment and Trumped Tooting
1 Volume |
20 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Thin Man14 Episodes
This series follows an ex-detective, Nick Charles, and his sophisticated, glamorous, wealthy wife, Nora Charles, on their escapades to unravel mystery where ever it may lie by sleuthing and solving murders; billed the "happiest married couple in radio."
1 Volume |
14 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Boston Marathon Bombing22 Episodes
On April 15, 2013, two bombs were detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing 3 people and injuring more than 260 others.
1 Volume |
22 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Family Doctor39 Episodes
Old Doc Adams spends more time dealing with small town rumors and scandals than treating sick people. This early soap opera contains a complete drama in each episode, so don't worry if you miss a few days.
1 Volume |
39 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Dick Tracy71 Episodes
Dick Tracy came from the comic strips to the radio in this great serial. He still fights bizarre villains and the 15 minute shows are filled with cliff-hangers. Tune In!
1 Volume |
71 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Big Sister56 Episodes
Sponsored by Rinso, Big Sister stars Alice Frost as Ruth Evans. In this soap, Ruth is a modern day heroine, giving up her life and love to take care of her orphaned siblings
1 Volume |
56 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Bert Lahr20 Episodes
Best known as "The Cowardly Lion" in The Wizard of Oz, Bert Lahr got his start at age 15 after running away from home to join a juvenile vaudeville troupe where he was known for his rubber-faced antics.
1 Volume |
20 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Presidential Election 195626 Episodes
Incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) defeated Adlai Stevenson (D) in a rematch, largely due to a strong economy and Cold War leadership.
1 Volume |
26 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Danger Doctor Danfield26 Episodes
Let Dr. Dan Danfield, criminal psychologist, give you a little of a criminal psychologist's caseload.
1 Volume |
26 | 1 |
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Light and Mellow Show26 Episodes
Singer Armand Girard led The Light and Mellow Show for San Francisco's Regal Pale Brewing.
1 Volume |
26 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Presidential Election 194426 Episodes
In 1944 in the middle of WWII, the US had an election for President, and FDR, after three terms as president decided to run for an unprecedented fourth term after it was believed that after his 1940 win he would retire in 1945.
1 Volume |
26 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Steve Lawrence Show32 Episodes
Known from husband and wife duo Steve and Eydie performed a syndicated program for US Army Recruiting.
1 Volume |
32 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Great Scenes from Great Plays22 Episodes
Well written highbrow radio with Jane Powell, Joan Caulfield, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, and Eddie Albert.
1 Volume |
22 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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News Recordings 193853 Episodes
The winds of WWII were swirling in the headlines in 1938, as the Japanese Navy was growing, Germany annexed Austria, anti-Trotsky trials were run in Russia, and religion was being oppressed in Germany.
1 Volume |
53 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Date with Judy53 Episodes
A Date with Judy evolves around the life of Judy, a teenager who spends her day on the telephone, arranging, discussing, and lamenting the lack of dates.
1 Volume |
53 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Mel Torme39 Episodes
Tagged the Velvet Fog, Mel Tormé was one of the smoothest and most musical of all the great crooners.
1 Volume |
39 | 1 |
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Personalities in Print5 Episodes
A master of Wordplay, Willard Espy interviewed prominent figures on Personalities in Print.
1 Volume |
5 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Ginny Simms35 Episodes
Born in Texas and raised in California, Ginny Sims knew a thing or two about sunshine, and everyone who heard her sing knew it! She almost married Kay Kyser, but left the Ol' Professor’s band to start her own radio show.
1 Volume |
35 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Living God5 Episodes
Here is a fanciful retelling of the Easter Story seen through the eyes of a "Man on the Street" reporter.
1 Volume |
5 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Ronald Reagan Attempted Assassination37 Episodes
On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan outside a hotel in Washington D.C.
1 Volume |
37 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Gasoline Alley29 Episodes
Skeezix and the whole gang made the move from the comic pages to the radio on Gasoline Alley.
1 Volume |
29 | 1 |
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Walter Mondale40 Episodes
Mondale was a lawyer and politician who servers as Vice President to Jimmy Carter from 1977-1981.
1 Volume |
40 | 1 |
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Standby for Adventure16 Episodes
Standby For Adventure takes us on a journey into the strange and unknown that will keep you in the edge of your seat.
1 Volume |
16 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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General Electric Theater9 Episodes
A glittering all star cast and compelling tales make the anthology series General Electric Theater a must-have in any radio collection.
1 Volume |
9 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Address Unknown37 Episodes
Address Unknown is a well-performed show about missing persons from South Africa. Each show dramatizes a real case of a missing person taken from the Missing Persons Bureau files in London.
1 Volume |
37 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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I Was There5 Episodes
rare but excellent historical old time radio show which gives an eyewitness account to notable events in history and extraordinary news stories.
1 Volume |
5 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Pepper Youngs Family93 Episodes
Pepper Young's Family was one of the longest running radio serials of all time sponsored by Beech-Nut Gum.
1 Volume |
93 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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Halloween Comedy Capers33 Episodes
Halloween had a resurgence in popularity in the early 20th century America and after the sugar rations of WWII, Trick-or-treating came back into favor in America and in media including radio shows.
1 Volume |
33 | 1 |
Add To Cart: $5.00
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