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	Title	Episodes	MP3 CDs	Price
	House of Mystery 5 Episodes 1 Volume This radio series is a light mystery and suspense show that would be acceptable for some younger listeners sponsored by Post Toasties.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Zorro 7 Episodes 1 Volume Zorro Rides again-mark it with a Z!	7	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Beat the Band 30 Episodes 1 Volume This fun, original music quiz show was a war-time radio musical-quiz program. The first season of Beat the Band was sponsored by that ready-to-eat corn cereal, Kix.	30	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 29 73 Episodes 1 Volume Several of these rare treasures may have been lost to history, leeching away in a landfill, if someone had not thought to turn the original recording over to an OTR Collector who then preserved it digitally so we can all enjoy them.	73	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rare Gossip 39 Episodes 1 Volume Spreading stories about others is a filthy practice, but it is something we are hardwired to love doing!	39	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Twenty Questions 17 Episodes 1 Volume 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.	17	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Serenade in Blue 18 Episodes 1 Volume Air Force Blues and Jazz Bands Perform for Recruits!	18	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Joe Palooka 23 Episodes 1 Volume Joe Palooka embodied everything that people value--honesty, politeness, gentility--wrapped up in a surprising package.	23	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Truth or Consequences 19 Episodes 1 Volume Ralph Edwards hosts the riotous game show where answers were tough, and the consequence for an incorrect answer were even tougher and funnier!	19	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Dunninger The Mentalist 9 Episodes 1 Volume On the old time radio show, he would read the minds of the audience members guessing social security numbers, birthdates, and even serial numbers on dollar bills.	9	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 21 67 Episodes 1 Volume Random and rare old time radio collection from from the great, dusty vaults of radio shows.	67	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Major Bowes 8 Episodes 1 Volume Thousands from All Over the Country Flocked to Join this Gong-style Talent Show.	8	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Did Justice Triumph 13 Episodes 1 Volume Follow police investigators as they move through crime scenes, question witnesses and suspects, and solve real crimes in this rare crime drama.	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Hartz Canaries 4 Episodes 1 Volume Features future 60 Minutes alumnus Mike Wallace as an announcer who used music to teach radio listener's canary how to sing.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	We The People 17 Episodes 1 Volume "Anybody's and everybody's soap box" - We The People is an entertaining old time radio show featuring human interest stories from the 1930's and 1940's.	17	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Candid Microphone 14 Episodes 1 Volume Who knows what people will say in this hilarious hidden microphone show!	14	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 22 57 Episodes 1 Volume We just love finding these rare radio shows, some with only one known remaining episode.	57	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Tex and Jinx Show 5 Episodes 1 Volume The Tex and Jinx Show is a husband and wife morning program which includes interviews with famous people. Starring Jinx Falkenburg (raised in Brazil and was a top model in America) and John Reagan "Tex" McCrary.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rare Aviation Old Time Radio Shows 40 Episodes 1 Volume Rare, hard to find aviation themed old time radio shows including Sky Blazer, Smilin Jack, Howie Wing, Flying Hutchinsons, and many more.	40	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 20 12 Episodes 1 Volume More random collections from deep in the vaults of old time radio with mysteries, game shows, comedies and more rare gems.	12	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Hilltop House 17 Episodes 1 Volume This series follows heroine Bess Johnson, a caseworker at Hilltop House orphanage.	17	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Christmas on the Blue Network 4 Episodes 1 Volume This very special Christmas old time radio show includes skits, music, and the voices of real WWII servicemen from the battle front.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Hobby Lobby 4 Episodes 1 Volume This radio show allowed listeners everywhere to write in about their unusual hobbies so they could come on the radio and "lobby for their hobby." Many of the hobbies were actually people's professions like a female gorilla trainer, a scientist that makes robots, and a beekeeper (whose bees escaped during the show).	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	You Are the Jury 7 Episodes 1 Volume This fictitious crime drama series was written by a criminologist. In each episode the listener is asked to be the jury and guess the verdict in a murder trial.	7	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Wax Cylinders 3 (1905 - 1906) 155 Episodes 1 Volume We continue on our journey through early 20th century recordings: during this time wax cylinders and other recording devises were becoming more popular.	155	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Betty White 4 Episodes 1 Volume With one of the longest careers in show business, Betty White began working in radio in the 1940s. This collection includes all known surviving radios shows starring Betty White.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	People Youd Like To Know 5 Episodes 1 Volume Find out more about the person behind the Hollywood star when journalist, Dorothy Kilgallen, tells you more about People You'd Like to Know.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Martin Kane Private Eye 3 Episodes 1 Volume is a smooth New York private eye with a nose for crime.	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Queen for a Day 6 Episodes 1 Volume Quiz Shows let listeners hear people just like themselves hit it big, sometimes through sheer luck. Queen for a Day helped to usher in the era of really big prize giveaways.	6	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Ceiling Unlimited 12 Episodes 1 Volume Orson Welles originally starred in and wrote for Ceiling Unlimited after returning from Latin America in 1942. It was a Patriotic drama series and recounted the heroic efforts of the Allied service men of WWII.	12	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 18 48 Episodes 1 Volume Now in our eighteenth edition, our Random Rarities are getting more rare and much, much more random!	48	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 15 59 Episodes 1 Volume A collection of rare, hard to find shows from all genres including Heart Throbs, Heritage Radio Theater, The Man Behind The Masterpiece, Nightcap Yarns, Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands, Mr. Pickwick's Christmas.	59	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Dark Venture 16 Episodes 1 Volume A psychological thriller old time radio show that keeps you at the end of your seat.	16	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 12 46 Episodes 1 Volume Randomer and Rarer than before, enjoy these old time radio rarities from the lost vaults of time.	46	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show 5 Episodes 1 Volume Hear the other dummy on the radio in this terrific Ventriloquist series.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Clara Lu and Em 13 Episodes 1 Volume Known to be the First Soap Opera with Gossip Galore from your Three Favorite Gals!	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Unsolved Mysteries 12 Episodes 1 Volume Truth IS Stranger than Fiction--Your Skin will Creep!	12	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Lonesome Gal 14 Episodes 1 Volume For a non-visual medium, radio had its share of sex symbols, but few were as blatantly seductive as the Lonesome Gal.	14	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Lightcrust Doughboys 7 Episodes 1 Volume Who would have thought that the roots of Country Music would lead to a flour mill? The Light Crust Doughboys were there at the beginning of Country Swing and set many a housewives toes to tapping!	7	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Abies Irish Rose 4 Episodes 1 Volume This likable old time radio comedy show is about the marriage between a Jewish man and an Irish Catholic lass.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 02 49 Episodes 1 Volume Even Randomer and Rarer than the original with shows never before released!	49	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 03 49 Episodes 1 Volume The Randomest and Rarest collection of them all-an OTRCAT.com original!	49	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Land of the Lost 44 Episodes 1 Volume The Land of the Lost is a children's deep-sea adventure program about two children who travel "in that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the sea."Lead by Red Lantern, the "wisest fish in the sea", Billy and Isabel discover lost objects on the ocean floor.	44	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Singin Sam 107 Episodes 1 Volume Best known as "Singin' Sam the Lawnmower Man" then "Singin' Sam the Barbasol Man", Harry Frankel's musical performances were later sponsored by Coca-Cola. This collection includes recordings from 1911 to the 1940s, including the Reminiscing with Singin Sam, Refreshment Time with Singin' Sam, 70 musical tracks, and more.	107	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Meet Corliss Archer 6 Episodes 1 Volume Sometimes a teenage daughter can seem like nature's way of getting revenge on a successful man. Discover how Harry Archer deals with the world when you Meet Corliss Archer.	6	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Are These Our Children 6 Episodes 1 Volume This series is a unique twist on the crime drama genre featuring true stories from Juvenile Delinquency Court. This show features some of the worst back-talking, drug-abusing, ungrateful, school-quitting, bigoted, sassy teenagers in radio drama.	6	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Reefer Madness 69 Episodes 1 Volume It was obvious to anyone who looked that dope was going to be the scourge of youth. For proof, look no further than our Reefer Madness Collection.	69	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Magic Key 69 Episodes 3 Volume One of the earlier old time radio variety programs sponsored by RCA to encourage radios in every American household.	69	3	Add To Cart: $15.00
	Rare Westerns 51 Episodes 1 Volume This collection contains many rare episodes of western-theme old time radio shows, many of which are the only known existing episodes to have survived. Tales of the Old West were very popular during Radio's Golden Age, although not every show made it to the big time.	51	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Life O Riley in Hollywood 13 Episodes 1 Volume Although this program from the early '30s has nothing to do with the popular sitcom starring William Bendix, it is great fun!	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Hello Sucker 17 Episodes 1 Volume HELLO SUCKER was created to help protect Chicago consumers and home owners from crooks, cheats, schemes, scams, swindles, rip-offs, and rackets, but also protecting racial minorities from real estate discrimination.	17	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Tony Wons Scrapbook 3 Episodes 1 Volume In this rare conversational show, Tony Wons is like an old friend who stops by for a chat. Anthony "Tony" Wons often asked the listening audience "Are you listening?"	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Ziegfeld Follies of the Air 6 Episodes 1 Volume Experience the music and laughs of the famous Ziegfeld Follies entertainers like Helen Morgan, and Will Rogers.	6	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rarities from the 1930s 83 Episodes 2 Volume This unique compilation includes rare dramas, comedy, and unique radio broadcasts from the 1930's.	83	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Rare Soap Operas 251 Episodes 4 Volume Packed with more sudsey value for your dollar, OTRCat is proud to present this compilation of rare soaps series and including some programs that are the last surviving recordings of their shows.	251	4	Add To Cart: $20.00
	Religious Recordings 21 Episodes 1 Volume Uplifting and Inspirational Sermons from Reverend Beale and Reverend Charles Fuller	21	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Road of Life 75 Episodes 1 Volume This old time radio soap opera centered on handsome doctor Jim Brent and his wife Jocelyn in the small town of Merrimac. As the heroine of a medical drama, Jocelyn would suffer from almost every dread disease known to medicine.	75	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Doorway to Life 4 Episodes 1 Volume this old time radio show focused on common issues of parenthood that people faced in the late 1940s.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	US Navy Shows 48 Episodes 1 Volume If great music was all it took to get young men to the recruiting office, these U.S. Navy Shows would have found more sailors than we have ships. As it was, these great programs from the USN Recruiting Command gave us hours of toe-tapping goodness and dreams of the high seas.	48	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Art Bakers Notebook 3 Episodes 1 Volume Although typecast in film, Art Baker had a reward Radio career.	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 30 56 Episodes 1 Volume Even more Rare and Random programs which defy classification but are entertaining listening.	56	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Right to Happiness 8 Episodes 1 Volume Created by Irna Phillips, The Right to Happiness is a soap opera spinoff for Guiding Light character Rose Kransky.	8	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Intrigue 5 Episodes 1 Volume Are you ready for "tales of espionage, manhunts and high adventure" as Academy Award winner Joseph Schildkraut guides you through stories of Intrigue.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Thrills Highway Patrol 5 Episodes 1 Volume Follow the Men in Uniform on California's Streets!	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 09 43 Episodes 1 Volume Long lost in the archives for ages, these rare old time radio shows have not been heard on air for decades.	43	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Wax Cylinders 4 (1907 - 1908) 173 Episodes 1 Volume Featuring the earliest recording artists of their day including Enrico Caruso, Billy Murray, as well as minstrel team Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan.	173	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Skippy Hollywood Theater 34 Episodes 1 Volume Popular and Fun Broadcast-one of the First to Use Prerecorded Programs!	34	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Radio Guild 3 Episodes 1 Volume Winning the endorsement of National Advisory Council on Radio in Education (NACRE), the producers of the Music Appreciation Hour developed an instructor's manual as a companion to the series called Radio Guild.	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 11 37 Episodes 1 Volume It is lucky to have saved these rare old time radios once lost in the vaults of time.	37	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Continental Celebrity Club 9 Episodes 1 Volume Featuring John Charles Daly, this is a true variety show with drama shorts, orchestra music, celebrity guests, and comedy.	9	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	High Moment 4 Episodes 1 Volume This old time radio show from 1950s dramatizes real life events by real life individuals working to make America a better place.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Strange As It Seems 63 Episodes 1 Volume Similar to a Ripley's Believe It Or Not and originally sponsored by Exlax in the 1930's, this series featured bizarre stories based cartoons created by John Hix who was a staff artist at the Washington Herald.	63	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	World Security Workshop 2 Episodes 1 Volume Powerful dramas by the United World Federalists to make the World a better and safer place.	2	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 07 50 Episodes 1 Volume an OTRCAT.com original collection of rare never released shows from the golden age of radio	50	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Raffles (The Adventures of Raffles) 4 Episodes 1 Volume Listen as E. W. Hornung's gentleman thief, A. J. Raffles-London's many of mystery-solves murders and works to defeat the Nazis.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 25 46 Episodes 1 Volume Now for something completely different, More Random Rarities! Enjoy our Twenty-fifth collection of Programs which are beyond classification.	46	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 26 49 Episodes 1 Volume Increasingly more Random than Rare, this 26th edition comes to us from every corner of the nation and from the beginning to the end of the Golden Age of Radio.	49	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 27 44 Episodes 1 Volume Our latest batch of Rarities with even more unclassifiable broadcasts to astound and delight listeners.	44	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 28 73 Episodes 1 Volume More Old Time Radio Rarities to add to your collection.	73	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Bride and Groom 6 Episodes 1 Volume features the wedding ceremony of a real bride and groom.The couple shares with radio audiences their love story minutes before they are married privately off the air in the chapel at the Chapman Park Hotel in Los Angeles.	6	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rare Captain 13 Episodes 1 Volume Ahoy! Wild, Random and Rare Captain-Themed Adventures, Aye Matey!	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Dorothy Kilgallen Diary 5 Episodes 1 Volume Sit in on fascinating stories from the Golden Age of Broadway with Dorothy Kilgallen's Diary.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Hoofers 22 Episodes 1 Volume This rare 1934 old time radio show about two dancers competing in the world of vaudeville.	22	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Nebbs 4 Episodes 1 Volume situation comedy based off the popular and well-loved comic strip characters of the same name by Sol Hess.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Portia Faces Life 2 Episodes 1 Volume This old time radio soap opera follows Portia Blake, a widowed attorney raising her ten year old son while fighting crime and corruption.	2	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Oldsmobile Show 4 Episodes 1 Volume this rare 1930's music series features singer Ruth Etting, Johnny Green and his Orchestra, and announcer Ted Husing.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Band of the AAF Training Command 3 Episodes 1 Volume Presented by Uncle Sam and directed by Captain Glenn Miller.	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Pinto Pete and his Ranch Hands 104 Episodes 2 Volume This series is meant for listening to while roaming on the prairie or kicking back. The music is intermixed with Cowboy philosophy and soft thoughts from Pinto Pete including a message about faith in God and yourself.	104	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Out of the Deep 4 Episodes 1 Volume Follow Capt. Gunnar Carlisle as his salvages Italian warships off the coast of Africa, threatens crooks with a panther in Guatemala, wrestles a ferocious octopus and more.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Bell Telephone Hour Encores 50 Episodes 2 Volume This collection includes some of the rare broadcasts known to exist and features some of the brightest stars in the day, even comedian Fred Allen.	50	2	Add To Cart: $10.00
	Mae West 8 Episodes 1 Volume Enjoy this collection of sultry and witty guest appearances including the controversial skit that banned her from the airwaves.	8	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Big Guy 3 Episodes 1 Volume Follows the adventures of single dad detective, Joshua Sharp who wears size 902 in a triple D shoe.	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	I Deal In Crime 3 Episodes 1 Volume has all the right stuff for a perfect detective show including gangs, dames, and descriptive narrative. William Gargan is best known for his character roles as a detective or private investigator.	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Freedoms People 2 Episodes 1 Volume A deeply patriotic radio show which celebrates democracy and freedom. Made by and for African-Americans, the show featured some of the greatest leaders in 1940s black culture	2	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players 4 Episodes 1 Volume "Each week a great star.Each week a great story." This classic radio show featured big Hollywood stars in excellent performances including Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotten, Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, John Garfield, Paulette Goddard, Gene Kelly, Gregory Peck and more.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Nona from Nowhere 5 Episodes 1 Volume A true Soap Opera, Nona from Nowhere is sponsored by Bab-O cleanser! The show only lasted a couple of seasons, but is indicative of the classic 1950s soap opera with murder, drama, and organ rifts.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Cowboy Church of the Air 2 Episodes 1 Volume Stuart Hamblen was the son of a Methodist Preacher and began his career as a gospel singer.In 1926, he began his career as a radio performer and was a member of the orginal Beverly Hillbillies.After seeing Billy Graham in 1949, Stuart Hamblen devoted his life to Christ and changed the tone of his career.He began his radio show "The Cowboy Church in the Air" and it was syndicated across the country.	2	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rare Children 70 Episodes 1 Volume Children's' programming took many forms; the most obvious examples are after school serials, stories which might not appeal to parents, but filled the airtime before Dad came home.	70	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rare Serial 13 Episodes 1 Volume For writers, serialized stories provide a much wider canvas to work on, although it does have restrictions.	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Tales of Fatima 2 Episodes 1 Volume Basil Rathbone and His Sly Detective Eye!	2	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
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