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Title	Episodes	MP3 CDs ▲	Price
Soldiers of the Press 46 Episodes 1 Volume Enjoy 15-minute dramatic capsules of war correspondents' "on-the-scene" eye witness accounts.	46	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Music Depreciation 23 Episodes 1 Volume Take some pop hits, some classical themes, and take them "on a flyer".	23	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Christmas Seals Recordings 16 Episodes 1 Volume brought in top stars like Fibber McGee and Molly and Frank Sinatra to be sure that every card and package sent during Christmas included a Christmas Seal.	16	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Music America Loves Best 20 Episodes 1 Volume Enjoy music of every kind from opera to big band from the 1940s Music America Loves Best presented by the Armed Forces Radio Service.	20	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Twenty Questions 22 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.	22	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Light-Up Time 78 Episodes 1 Volume 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.	78	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Our Gal Sunday 6 Episodes 1 Volume This classic soap opera rags to riches story is about a orphan girl named Sunday who married a powerful and rich Lord Henry Brinthrope.	6	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Lassie 9 Episodes 1 Volume From rescuing Timmy from a well to untying kidnapped victims, Lassie does it all.	9	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Famous Jury Trials 22 Episodes 1 Volume This courtroom drama takes its cases from real life. The stories and testimonies are sometimes presented as flashback. Famous Jury Trials lets the listener decide guilt or innocence.	22	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
True Detective Mysteries 18 Episodes 1 Volume True Detective Mysteries radio series was based on the "True Detective magazine. Later it was sponsored by Listerine and Oh Henry Candy, but kept the same name. Each week the show presented the "case history of an actual crime. Many were told from the criminal's point of view.	18	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
This is the Story 70 Episodes 1 Volume 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.	70	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Major Bowes 10 Episodes 1 Volume Thousands from All Over the Country Flocked to Join this Gong-style Talent Show.	10	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Radio Readers Digest 87 Episodes 1 Volume Sponsored by the makers of Hallmark Cards, Radio Reader's Digest brought a delightful collection of short stories to the air, highlighting the American way of life.	87	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Hedda Hopper Show 40 Episodes 1 Volume Glorious Hollywood Gossiper, Hedda Hopper's show is full of colorful language, wild hats, and ability to take herself with a grain of salt.	40	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Hardy Family (Andy Hardy) 14 Episodes 1 Volume Enjoy this chaotic situation comedy starring Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy who graduates from high school and becomes and business man.	14	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Humphrey Bogart 53 Episodes 1 Volume Bogie is an actor who continues to rank near the top on everybody's list. He made many appearances on radio after he moved his act from Broadway to Hollywood.	53	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Stop the Music 6 Episodes 1 Volume Bert Parks hosted Stop the Music with Don Hancock as announcer. A quiz show, the producers would play part of a well know song and the contestant would try to guess the title.	6	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Chesterfield Time 44 Episodes 1 Volume Listening to sweet jazz and dance music should make you want to fire up a refreshing smoke... It's Chesterfield Time!	44	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
HV Kaltenborn Edits the News 40 Episodes 1 Volume History repeats itself when H. V. Kaltenborn provides vivid commentary and pointed insight into world affairs and politics in the 1940s and 1950s.	40	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Hour of Charm 22 Episodes 1 Volume features Phil Spitalny and His Hour of Charm All Girl Orchestra and Choir with Evelyn and "Her Magic Violin".Evelyn actually "magically" helped form the all-girl orchestra by auditioning over 1000 female performers.Twenty-two piece charming female musicians were members, all of whom played multiple instruments and sang in the choir.	22	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Crime Club 31 Episodes 1 Volume There was a new Crime Club book "every week, at bookstores everywhere." The old time radio show to tantalize potential purchasers with half hour radio adaptations of the books.	31	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Strange Wills 32 Episodes 1 Volume A will gives the power of an often evil genius to act "from beyond the grave!"	32	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Passing Parade 53 Episodes 1 Volume The show featured two or three factual but fantastic stories with John Nesbitt himself serving as host, writer, and storyteller of extraordinary tales.	53	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Joyce Jordan MD 40 Episodes 1 Volume Soap opera about a female doctor in the 1930s, she works in a male dominated profession and looks for respect and love starring Frank Lovejoy, Agnes Moorehead and Mercedes McCambrdige.	40	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Mary Foster Editors Daughter 78 Episodes 1 Volume This soap opera is about the life and trials of a newspaper editor's daughter who solved the problems of those around her.	78	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Serenade in Blue 45 Episodes 1 Volume Air Force Blues and Jazz Bands Perform for Recruits!	45	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Telephone Hour (Music From America) 15 Episodes 1 Volume The Best of Classical and Broadway Music, presented by Ma Bell.	15	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Harry James Show 29 Episodes 1 Volume Big Band Entertainment and Trumped Tooting	29	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Charles Lindbergh 10 Episodes 1 Volume By becoming the first aviator to fly non-stop from New York to Paris, Charles Lindbergh became a driving force in the practical acceptance of aviation.	10	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Quick as a Flash 7 Episodes 1 Volume This popular, high-paced, snappy spark of a quiz show testing contestants' knowledge and reaction speed.	7	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Its Your Life 31 Episodes 1 Volume Pioneering the use of magnetic tape in radio production, It's Your Life brought compelling Public Health Stories to the Air.	31	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Frank Merriwell 46 Episodes 1 Volume 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."	46	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Ripley Believe It Or Not 47 Episodes 1 Volume starred Robert Ripley himself as he explains the weird and strange stories from his travels around the world.	47	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Babe Ruth 35 Episodes 1 Volume The Adventures of Babe Ruth was produced in 1934 on the Blue Network, with sponsorship by Quaker Oats, and was the best of the lot. It told in-depth, fully dramatized episodes from the Babe's career, so there was a sense of the real man there in the dugout and on the field.	35	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Bob Burns Show 17 Episodes 1 Volume This comedy show debuted in September 1941 as The Arkansas Traveler. Featuring the music of Spike Jones, the show featured Bob Burns playing his "Bazooka," a homemade instrument that he made from a whiskey funnel and two gas pipes.	17	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Meredith Willson 47 Episodes 1 Volume Famous and Creative "Chiffon Swing" Composer!	47	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Smilin Eds Buster Brown Gang 32 Episodes 1 Volume Smilin Ed's Buster Brown Gang was a fun Saturday morning kids shoe with fanciful characters who reminded kids to remind their parents to buy Buster Brown Shoes.	32	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Art Baker 69 Episodes 1 Volume One of the most popular announcers in Hollywood, Art Baker got his start giving talks at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.	69	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Art Bakers Notebook 16 Episodes 1 Volume Although typecast in film, Art Baker had a reward Radio career.	16	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
National Barn Dance 13 Episodes 1 Volume Broadcasting from Chicago, the WLS National Barn Dance was just as popular as Nashvilleâ€™s Grand Olâ€™ Opry, bringing hillbilly music to country and city folk alike.	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Downbeat 59 Episodes 1 Volume AFRS WWII jazz program Downbeat had different performers come into the studio to play and comment on their records.	59	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Old Gold Comedy (Harold Lloyd Comedy Theater) 31 Episodes 1 Volume Laugh with this old time radio comedic variety hour starring Alan Young, Francis Langford, Dick Powell, Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra, and many others!	31	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
This is Our Enemy 10 Episodes 1 Volume WWII wartime propaganda show with fictional and outrageous tales of the evil doings of the Axis Powers.	10	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Box 13 52 Episodes 1 Volume 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."	52	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Elmer Davis and the News 84 Episodes 1 Volume During the months before Pearl Harbor, FDR appointed Elmer Davis to head up the Office of War Information. From this bully pulpit, Davis helped to whip the Nation into a fury over the aggressions of the Nazi's in Europe.	84	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Jack Carson 35 Episodes 1 Volume Hilarious Parody of the Life of a Showbiz Star!	35	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Dick Tracy 77 Episodes 1 Volume 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!	77	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
This is Jazz 19 Episodes 1 Volume Hosted by Jazz critic Rudi Blesh, This is Jazz had guests including Louis Armstrong, Leadbelly, Sidney Bechet, Bertha Chippie Hill, Canada Lee, Blue Lou Lee, and Mama Alberta Price.	19	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Eleanor Roosevelt 26 Episodes 1 Volume Known as "First Lady to the World", Eleanor Roosevelt was the legs and face of FDR's presidency, appearing where and when he could not.	26	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt Own Program 8 Episodes 1 Volume a radio program created by Eleanor Roosevelt to give the public a glimpse into life at the White House.	8	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Les Brown 60 Episodes 1 Volume Les Brown and his Band of Renown was one of the longest-running acts in Swing Music	60	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Club Fifteen (Club 15) 18 Episodes 1 Volume A popular and well received music show, it was broadcast until 1953, and was the Andrews Sisters longest running radio engagement.	18	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Voyage Scarlet Queen 35 Episodes 1 Volume Step aboard The Scarlet Queen and let Elliott Lewis, master captain of drama, chart a course to exotic ports of call and thrilling adventures.	35	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Words with Music 68 Episodes 1 Volume Featured dreamy organ music reveries intertwined with poetry read by guest stars include Agnes Moorehead, Ona Munson, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Burr.	68	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Abe Burrows Show 38 Episodes 1 Volume 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.	38	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Kate Smith 41 Episodes 1 Volume Larger than Life Contralto Presents Singing and Variety	41	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Camel Caravan (Benny Goodman) 23 Episodes 1 Volume Big Band Show for Saturday night with swing era favorite Benny Goodman.	23	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Angela Lansbury 10 Episodes 1 Volume Angela Lansbury has been working in show business for seven decades	10	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Zasu Pitts 18 Episodes 1 Volume She was a popular character actress during the Thirties, making both features and shorts for Hal Roach. Her willowy spinster persona was the inspiration for the voice of Olive Oyl in Max Fleischer's Popeye cartoons.	18	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Dr IQ 34 Episodes 1 Volume Audience members were contestants by Host Lew Valentine who would ask questions from the stage announcing "I have a gentleman (or lady), Doctor."	34	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Chesterfield Supper Club 61 Episodes 1 Volume Chesterfield Supper Club is a splendid music and variety show, sponsored by Chesterfield Cigarettes. Each night the host (Perry Como, Jo Stafford, or Peggy Lee) would perform live along with top name guest performers including Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Nat King Cole, and more!	61	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
First Nighter 35 Episodes 1 Volume 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.	35	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Tony Wons Scrapbook 4 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?"	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Hearthstone of the Death Squad 6 Episodes 1 Volume Fans of detective stories can rest assured that the "implacable man hunter of The Metropolitan Police" always got his man, and sent the evil doer to "the chair."	6	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Betty and Bob 42 Episodes 1 Volume was the first widely popular daytime serial soap opera created by the powerhouse producer-couple Anne and Frank Hummert in 1932.	42	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Road of Life 76 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.	76	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Spike Jones 110 Episodes 1 Volume The hilariously popular Spike Jones!	110	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Nora Drake (This is Nora Drake) 22 Episodes 1 Volume Pretty Problems Solver with Dick York	22	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Sealtest Variety (Dorothy Lamour) 41 Episodes 1 Volume Even when she was not on The Road in her sarong, Dorothy Lamour channeled Bing and Bob as hostess of The Sealtest Variety Theatre.	41	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Truth or Consequences 26 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!	26	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Take It or Leave It 5 Episodes 1 Volume was the precursor to the television show, The $64,000 Question.The old time radio show, however, dealt in smaller change (contestants could win up to $64),and took itself less seriously than its television counterpart.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Martha Raye 37 Episodes 1 Volume She began her entertainment career at the age of three, she later became a popular guest on variety show and on the nightclub circuit.	37	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Tex and Jinx Show 8 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.	8	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Sad Sack 5 Episodes 1 Volume was originally a comic strip created by Sgt. George Baker during WWII. The comic strip followed Sad Sack troubles and foibles of a misfit in military life. The situation comedy radio show picks up with Sad Sack returning home to make a civilian life.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Charlie Barnet 31 Episodes 1 Volume One of the Jazzmen who embodied the joy of the Jazz world was saxophonist and bandleader Charlie Barnet.	31	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
People Are Funny 50 Episodes 1 Volume Hosted by Art Linkletter, stunts on this old time radio program continued to get more and more outrageous (and funny) as the show continued its 18 year run.	50	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Silver Theater 50 Episodes 1 Volume Romance galore when Silver Theater brings us tales of love lost and found, featuring some of the screen's biggest heart-throbs.	50	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Young Doctor Malone 25 Episodes 1 Volume Advertised in Young Dr Malone Sponsored by General Food and Post Cereals, this cereal serial has it all â€“ love, jealousy, hate, crippling diseases, rich philanthropists, treacherous characters, death and marriage.	25	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Random Rarities 26 50 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.	50	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Comedy Sampler 1 58 Episodes 1 Volume This Comedy Sampler will give you the giggles all day! Popular shows include Fred Allen Show, Duffy's Tavern, Amos n Andy, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly and so much more timeless gems!	58	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Harry Richman 18 Episodes 1 Volume Best known for introducing Irving Berlin's hit "Puttin' On the Ritz" in the 1931 movie of the same title, Harry Richman was a musician that lived life to it's fullest.	18	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Skippy Hollywood Theater 43 Episodes 1 Volume Popular and Fun Broadcast-one of the First to Use Prerecorded Programs!	43	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Standard School Broadcast 24 Episodes 1 Volume The Standard School Broadcast began airing in 1928 under the sponsorship of Standard Oil of California, making it one of the earliest educational radio programs.	24	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Sealtest Village Store 30 Episodes 1 Volume Sealtest Icecream tried to attract patrons to the fountain at The Sealtest Village Store.	30	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Rogues Gallery 26 Episodes 1 Volume Rogue's Gallery featured detective Richard Rogue (first played by Dick Powell) and his often annoying alter ego, Eugor.	26	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Concert Hall 41 Episodes 1 Volume Barrymore hosts "Concert Hall," a classical music variety show from the Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II.	41	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Front Line Theater 25 Episodes 1 Volume 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.	25	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Morton Downey 35 Episodes 1 Volume Nicknamed the "The Irish Nightingale", Morton Downey's was a popular recording artist and songwriter in the 1930s and 1940s penning tunes like" Sweeten Up Your Smile."	35	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Time Out with Allen Prescott 13 Episodes 1 Volume A great music program that gives listeners a daily time out to recharge and move on with their day.	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Red Ryder 43 Episodes 1 Volume Best remembered today for his 1,000 shot Daisy Carbine Air Rifle, Red Ryder started out as "Americaâ€™s famous fighting cowboy" in the comics and later on radio.	43	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Random Rarities 02 50 Episodes 1 Volume Even Randomer and Rarer than the original with shows never before released!	50	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Herbert Hoover 36 Episodes 1 Volume The first US President born west of the Mississippi, Herbert Hoover was president during the earliest years of old time radio.	36	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Mayor of the Town 26 Episodes 1 Volume What if Old Mr. Potter, the meanest man in town, was actually the Mayor and had a heart of gold? That is how we find Lionel Barrymore as he plays The Mayor of the Town.	26	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Meet Corliss Archer 7 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.	7	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Music for Millions 10 Episodes 1 Volume 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.	10	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Andre Kostelanetz Show 25 Episodes 1 Volume An Orchestral Treat from a Master of Easy Listening Music.	25	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
Lets Go To the Opera 5 Episodes 1 Volume brought opera music sung in English into the homes of everyday people over the Mutual Network in 1946.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Lutheran Hour 26 Episodes 1 Volume "Bringing Christ to the Nations" on the airwaves.	26	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
Mystery House 33 Episodes 1 Volume These unique radio broadcasts were testing ground for a Mystery Publishing House!	33	1	Add To Cart: $5.00

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