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Vintage Radio Shows brings you the golden age of entertainment with classic comedies, mysteries, dramas, westerns, and serials from the 1930s–1950s. Enjoy restored recordings from over 40,000 episodes of old time radio, plus historic newsreels, film serials, and vintage cartoons.

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Old Time Radio Detective — Johnny Dollar: "The Star of Capetown Matter Part 3" (1956) | Full Episode

Monday, August 24, 2026 • Duration 14:41

Bob Bailey stars as Johnny Dollar, the freelance insurance investigator with the action-packed expense account. A jittery underwriter sent him to Cape Town to guard the Star of Capetown, a $150,000 diamond owned by a playboy who treats a priceless stone like pocket change — and by the end of the last chapter Johnny was flat on his back and the diamond was gone. In this third chapter of the five-part case, he takes a helicopter out to a cruise liner steaming away from the African coast with the stolen stone somewhere aboard. Now he is locked in at sea with his suspects, working the passenger list and the staterooms while the man who slugged him walks the same corridors. Originally broadcast on CBS, July 18, 1956, with Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Jeanne Tatum, Marvin Miller and Chester Stratton. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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Old Time Radio Mystery — Box 13: "Double Mothers" (1948) | Full Episode

Sunday, August 23, 2026 • Duration 27:20

Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday, the newspaperman who walked away from the city desk to write mystery novels and went looking for plots by running a standing ad in the Star-Times: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything — Box 13." Tonight the box holds an unsigned note asking him to come to a park bench after dark. What waits for him there isn't a client at all but a small girl sitting alone in the night, who says one of her two mothers told her to stay put until he came. Syndicated in 1948 by Ladd's own Mayfair Productions, with Sylvia Picker as his scatterbrained secretary Suzy, Edmund MacDonald as Lieutenant Kling, and music by Rudy Schrager. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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Old Time Radio Sci-Fi — Flash Gordon: "Rules Over Cave World" (1935) | Full Episode

Saturday, August 22, 2026 • Duration 15:06

Before Buster Crabbe ever pulled on the boots, Flash Gordon flew through American living rooms on the Mutual Broadcasting System — a 26-week serial adapted almost panel for panel from Alex Raymond's celebrated Sunday comic page, with Gale Gordon the very first actor to play the hero. In this chapter, broadcast May 25, 1935, Flash collects his prize from the tournament staged by Ming the Merciless and King Vultan of the Hawk Men: the subterranean cave kingdom of Mongo. With Dale Arden beside him he descends into a realm of tunnels, torchlit caverns and uneasy subjects to see just what sort of king he has become — and the Cave World holds more than shadows. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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Old Time Radio Detective — Johnny Dollar: "The Star of Capetown Matter Part 2" (1956) | Full Episode

Friday, August 21, 2026 • Duration 14:36

Bob Bailey stars as Johnny Dollar, the freelance insurance investigator with the action-packed expense account. A nervous underwriter sends him to Cape Town to babysit a fabulous diamond belonging to an eccentric playboy who treats a priceless stone like loose change. In this second chapter of the five-part case, the assignment falls apart: Johnny is knocked cold, the Star of Capetown vanishes, and the trail runs out over open water. He takes a helicopter out to a cruise ship steaming away from the continent with the stolen stone aboard. Originally broadcast on CBS, July 17, 1956, with Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Marvin Miller and Jeanne Tatum. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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Old Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "The Capture of Stacy Gault" (1953) | Full Episode

Thursday, August 20, 2026 • Duration 28:51

James Stewart stars as Britt Ponset, the drifting Texas cowboy at the heart of NBC's folksy 1953 Western The Six Shooter. Word tears into the town of Elk Point that Stacy Gault — bank robber, outlaw, killer — is riding their way, and panic does the rest. Britt sees the rumor for what it is and finds himself the only cool head in town, trying to talk Elk Point down before a jumpy posse guns down a man who may well be innocent. The real danger here isn't the outlaw on the road; it's the fear boiling up inside the townspeople. Written by Frank Burt, with Eleanor Audley, Barney Phillips, Forrest Lewis and Parley Baer. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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Old Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "The Adventure of the Gray Pasha" (1949) | Full Episode

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration 24:35

Every week the announcer calls on a retired Dr. Watson, who pours a glass, opens the old tin dispatch box, and unwraps one more case from the Baker Street years. In "The Adventure of the Gray Pasha," first broadcast May 16, 1949, John Stanley's Holmes takes on an original radio mystery with a whisper of the Empire's far corners about it — a client with more to hide than to tell, and a small detail that Watson walks straight past while Holmes reads a whole history in it. One of the last cases from Stanley's run as the great detective. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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Old Time Radio Sci-Fi — X Minus One: "Mars Is Heaven" (1955) | Full Episode

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 • Duration 26:20

X Minus One is the finest science fiction ever produced for radio — NBC's half hour of adult SF, drawn from the pages of Astounding and Galaxy and adapted by staff writers Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts. "Mars Is Heaven" is its most famous half hour. The first rocket to Mars lands in 1987 and the crew comes down the ladder braced for a hostile world. What they find is Green Bluff, Illinois, 1928 — white frame houses, a bandstand, lilacs, a piano playing down the street, and the people they buried years ago. Lustig's grandparents. Captain Black's brother Edward, on the porch of the house Black grew up in. One by one the crew scatters into the arms of family and the mission simply dissolves. Only Dr. Horst, the ship's psychologist, finds nobody waiting for him, and he is the one who says it out loud: the Martians are telepaths, the town is being read out of the crew's own memories, and every man who walks into a house tonight walks in alone. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury's 1948 story, later folded into The Martian Chronicles. Broadcast May 8, 1955. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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Old Time Radio Horror — Lights Out: "Poltergeist" (1942) | Full Episode

Monday, August 17, 2026 • Duration 25:26

Lights Out is the program that taught radio how to frighten people — Arch Oboler writing for the ear alone, half an hour at a time, with a warning up front to send the children out of the room. In "Poltergeist," three young women from the city are walking a snowbound country road when they come across an old burying ground, and one of them dances on a grave as a joke. The nervous one tells them what the country people say about that: it wakes the noisy spirit, the one that throws stones. Minutes later a stone comes out of nowhere. Broadcast on CBS October 20, 1942, the third week of Oboler's fifty-two week revival, and later rerun under the title "Gravestone." Oboler closes by stepping out of the story to read from what he calls authenticated records — a London house in 1872 where stones flew and nobody ever explained it. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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Old Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Jud's Woman" (1957) | Full Episode

Sunday, August 16, 2026 • Duration 24:20

Gunsmoke is the show that invented the adult western on radio: Matt Dillon is the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City in the 1870s, and William Conrad plays him tired, blunt, and often too late to help. "Jud's Woman" comes from the sixth season, a Marian Clark script built around a marriage the whole town can see going wrong and a marshal with no legal standing to stop it. Clark had joined the writing staff that year and would go on to write more Gunsmoke than anyone but John Meston. Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, with Parley Baer as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNear as Doc. Broadcast on CBS, December 1, 1957. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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Old Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "The Elusive Agent Part 1" (1949) | Full Episode

Saturday, August 15, 2026 • Duration 24:39

John Stanley's Sherlock Holmes carried Baker Street through radio's late golden age, each half-hour framed as a case Dr. Watson recalls over a glass of sherry. "The Adventure of the Elusive Agent" opens a rare three-part serial, broadcast in the spring of 1949 and set not in the gaslit 1890s but in 1913, with Europe drifting toward war. Mycroft Holmes calls his brother down from retirement and his bees in Sussex: the plans for an experimental armored fighting vehicle have been stolen, the naval officer entrusted with them has been murdered on his honeymoon, and the agent who took them has left almost nothing behind. Part one of three. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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