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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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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

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Four Star Playhouse - The Hunted

4/2/2024
Four Star Playhouse - The Hunted 1949 Robert Cummings, Rosalind Russell, Fred Macmurray & Loretta Young A man helping a damsel in distress, who turns out to be a kleptomaniac. The relationship soon turns to murder.

Duration:00:30:20

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Night Beat - Gus Reed, The Juvenile Gangster

4/1/2024
Night Beat - Gus Reed, The Juvenile Gangster 1950 Weaties Man-Frank Martin Frank Lovejoy, William Conrad, Bea Benaderet, Jack Crushen, Sheldon Leonard, Jeff Silver and Parley Baer While doing life for murder, Gus Reed broke jail, with Neal Ramsay.

Duration:00:30:37

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Family Theatre - The Passion and the Death of Christ

3/29/2024
Family Theatre - The Passion and the Death of Christ Announcer - Tony La Frano Host - Guy Madison Ethel Barrymore, Edward Colmans, Norman Field, Charles Maxwell, Bob Purcell & Janet Scott The Passion and Death". A dramatized version of the condemnation and crucifixion.

Duration:00:30:48

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Dimension X - Perigi's Wonderful Dolls (Full episode)

3/28/2024
Dimension X - Perigi's Wonderful Dolls (Full episode) 1951 Tale about a government official whose daughter finds a doll maker in Washington capable of producing dolls that talk. The cast included Les Tremaine, Joan Alexander and Joe De Santis.

Duration:00:29:56

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Mystery Is My Hobby - Allen Fisher Is Murdered

3/27/2024
Mystery Is My Hobby - Allen Fisher Is Murdered 1940s Glenn Langan & Norman Field Mining engineer Alan Fisher has been murdered, apparently by his lawyer who is in love with his wife. The wife has a few schemes of her own.

Duration:00:24:52

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The Haunting Hour - Assignment Death

3/26/2024
The Haunting Hour - Assignment Death Barry Kroeger Horror doesn't always come wrapped up in a haunted house with the wind howling outside. Sometimes it walks along behind you, breathes down your neck and whispers something about a slug of lead in your back. Editor, Dick Ryan, is here with a scoop that never got into the newspaper... It was late afternoon when Ellen and another photographer, Larry Nelson, walked into his office...

Duration:00:27:38

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Dramas of the Courts - The Cruise of the Castanet

3/22/2024
Dramas of the Courts - The Cruise of the Castanet Grace Gibson an American Australian. Springbok radio production The captain has been murdered, this is the axe, that did it. Whoever had done it, must be still aboard. We don't know who's our friend or foe.

Duration:00:26:53

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Spy Catcher - Game Set Match

3/21/2024
Spy Catcher - Game Set Match 1960 Benard Archard Spy Catcher penned by Robert Barr, and starred Bernard Archard as Pinto.

Duration:00:27:21