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Old Time Radio Comedy — Our Miss Brooks: "Rare Black Orchid" (1950) | Full Episode
Sunday, September 20, 2026 • Duration 29:35
Connie Brooks teaches English at Madison High, dodges her blustering principal, and never quite gets a date with the biology teacher. In this May 1950 broadcast, Mr. Conklin's prized rare black orchid becomes the center of the week's trouble — and Miss Brooks, as always, ends up standing closest to the wreckage. Eve Arden stars with Gale Gordon as Osgood Conklin, Jeff Chandler as Mr. Boynton, and Richard Crenna as Walter Denton.
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Old Time Radio Thriller — Lights Out: "Execution" (1943) | Full Episode
Saturday, September 19, 2026 • Duration 29:15
Lights Out was radio's premier horror series, and it reached its best-remembered form when writer-director Arch Oboler brought it back to CBS in 1942 — a half hour of dread delivered to a country already living through a war. Oboler used the show as readily for human terror as for the supernatural, and "Execution" is one of his sharpest wartime thrillers. In an occupied French village, a German officer claims a woman fired on him from a darkened window. The reprisal is announced at once: unless she comes forward, fifty women of the village will hang. What follows is a long, airless night of suspicion, silence and terrible arithmetic, as neighbors weigh one life against fifty and wait to see who will speak. No ghosts, no monsters — only what people do to each other under occupation.
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Old Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Sinister Siren Caper" (1951) | Full Episode
Friday, September 18, 2026 • Duration 29:04
The Adventures of Sam Spade let Dashiell Hammett's hardboiled private eye tell his own stories — every case dictated back at the office to his secretary Effie Perrine, period, new paragraph. In "The Sinister Siren Caper," broadcast March 16, 1951, a badly rattled man turns up in Spade's office with a warning he can't laugh off: his life is in danger from a red-headed woman. Spade takes the job. Stephen Dunne stars as Spade with Lurene Tuttle as Effie, in one of the last capers of the series' final NBC season.
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Old Time Radio Horror — Quiet, Please: "Whence Came You" (1948) | Full Episode
Thursday, September 17, 2026 • Duration 29:37
Quiet, Please was radio's quietest horror show and its strangest — Wyllis Cooper wrote and directed every episode, and Ernest Chappell told them to you in a calm, confiding voice with nothing behind it but an organ and a lot of deliberate silence. In "Whence Came You," an American archaeologist named Austin comes back to Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo and sees a woman in the lobby who is gone before he can cross to her. Out at the dig, a newly opened chamber holds a gold-robed figure with the head of a hawk, a wall painting of Osiris and his daughter — wearing the face of the woman from the hotel — and a stone slab that comes down behind him. What waits in the dark has been waiting a very long time, and it knows his name.
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Old Time Radio Detective — Philip Marlowe: "The Orange Dog" (1949) | Full Episode
Saturday, September 12, 2026 • Duration 29:32
Gerald Mohr played Raymond Chandler's private eye as radio's toughest and wittiest detective, working a Los Angeles of rain-slick streets, cheap hotels and expensive lies. In "The Orange Dog," a woman hires Marlowe to find her missing sister, last seen with a man named Horner. The only lead is a phrase that means nothing to anybody — the orange dog. Bodies start turning up, a Treasury agent among them, and the trail runs into Chinatown, where Marlowe nearly gets taken at gunpoint. By the time he learns what the orange dog really is, he is standing in the middle of a counterfeiting ring, with two questions still open: whether Horner is dead at all, and whether the missing sister ever existed.
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Old Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Carmen" (1952) | Full Episode
Friday, September 11, 2026 • Duration 29:53
Gunsmoke was radio's great adult western — Dodge City, Kansas in the hard years of the cattle trade, with William Conrad as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon. In this early episode from May 31, 1952, an army payroll is stolen and a major gives Dillon an ultimatum: get the money back, or Dodge City goes under martial law. The trail runs straight to Connie Dell, a young woman with a taste for bad company, who may be the marshal's best lead or his prime suspect. With Parley Baer as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNear as Doc.
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Old Time Radio Detective — Sam Spade: "The Bow Window Caper" (1947) | Full Episode
Thursday, September 10, 2026 • Duration 29:48
Howard Duff stars as Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco private eye in the show that made Sam Spade a weekly habit — wisecracks, fast talk, and real menace underneath, dictated each week as a case report to his long-suffering secretary Effie Perine. In "The Bow Window Caper," a respectable physician hires Sam to do something about his wife: she is wildly jealous, she turns up at his office and drives the patients out, she is wrecking a practice he spent years building — and now she has started talking about a gun. What looks like a delicate domestic errand curdles fast, and Sam finds that in a marriage this poisoned, nobody is telling him the whole truth about who is really in danger. Originally broadcast November 9, 1947.
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Old Time Radio Horror — Inner Sanctum: "The Black Art" (1945) | Full Episode
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 • Duration 29:32
Behind the creaking door, Raymond welcomes you one last time. A man waits out his final night in a small-town jail, condemned for a murder he did not commit — until a beautiful, wealthy stranger offers him a way out. She has money, she has strange powers, and she has teeth. Simone Simon, fresh from Val Lewton's Cat People, plays a rescuer you would be wise not to thank. Broadcast May 15, 1945, this is the last Inner Sanctum hosted by Raymond Edward Johnson, who left radio's most famous ghoul behind to join the Army.
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Old Time Radio Sci-Fi — X Minus One: "A Pail of Air" (1956) | Full Episode
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 30:02
X Minus One was NBC's great science fiction anthology, made in cooperation with Galaxy magazine and counting down into the void every week with stories by the finest writers in the field. In this March 1956 broadcast, adapted by George Lefferts from Fritz Leiber's classic, a passing dark star has torn the Earth away from the sun. The air itself has frozen and fallen as snow, and a boy's nightly chore is to carry a pail out into the endless black cold and bring back a load of frozen oxygen so his family can breathe. Then, out in the dark beyond the Nest, he sees a light moving — and a face.
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Old Time Radio Western — Tales of the Texas Rangers: "Soft Touch" (1950) | Full Episode
Monday, September 7, 2026 • Duration 29:46
Movie star Joel McCrea rides the airwaves as Ranger Jace Pearson in NBC's Tales of the Texas Rangers — a hard-nosed police procedural with sagebrush in its boots, dramatizing real cases from the Ranger files with technical advice from the legendary Captain M.T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas. In "Soft Touch," first heard October 29, 1950, a quiet elderly couple is found beaten to death in their own home. Robbery looks like the motive, but the savagery of the attack tells Pearson something uglier: this was no panicked amateur. Working the lab evidence, the pawn tickets, and the neighborhood gossip, Jace and Charcoal close in on a killer who picked what he figured was an easy mark. Featuring Tony Barrett, Paul Frees, Tom Tully, Virginia Gregg and Byron Kane, with a script by Russell Hughes and Stacy Keach Sr. producing.
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