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The Six Shooter with James Stewart

The Six Shooter with Jimmy Stewart

The Six Shooter brought James Stewart to the NBC microphone on September 20, 1953, in a fine series of folksy Western adventures. Stewart was never better on the air than in this drama of Britt Ponset, frontier drifter created by Frank Burt. Here are several The Six Shooter episodes that you can enjoy listening to…

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Suspense, the Radio Series

Suspense, the Radio Series

The radio show, Suspense, May be the best radio program that you’ve never heard. During the show’s nearly twenty years on the air it featured some of the biggest names on radio and in the movies, and the whos who of writers. Here are several Suspense showss you can enjoy listening to right now. You…

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Tales of the Texas Rangers Radio Show

Tales of the Texas Rangers

Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama was one of America’s all time favorite radio shows during the golden age of radio, , premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger…

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The Amos and Andy Radio Show

Amos & Andy Show

George Bernard Shaw once said, “There are three things I’ll never forget about America – Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains and Amos ‘n’ Andy.” Amos ‘n’ Andy was the story of two black characters—the modest, pragmatic Amos and the blustery, self-confident Andy—created by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. The characters first aired…

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The Shadow with Orson Welles

The Shadow Radio Show with Orson Welles

It doesn’t happen that often that a cultural icon plays a \”genre\” role, and in the 1930’s it probably happened even less. But before a certain well-documented Martian Invasion rocketed him to fame and a contract with RKO, a 22 year-old Orson Welles funded his theatrical productions with radio work, including a year on the…

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The Roy Rogers Show

The Roy Rogers Show

“A little song, a little riding, a little shooting and a girl to be saved from hazard” was how a Christian Science Monitor writer once described The Roy Rogers Show. The program was first broadcast in 1944 on the Mutual Network, and switched between that and NBC over the decade it was on the air….

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X Minus One Radio Show

X Minus One Radio Show Collection

X Minus One aired on NBC from 24 April 55 until 9 January 58 for a total of 124 episodes with one pilot or audition story. There was a revival of the series in 1973 when radio was attempting to bring back radio drama and it lasted until 1975.   Stories for the show came…

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Radio Show

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar – Rare Huge Collection

You can now instantly access and own the largest collection of the historic “Yours Truly Johnny Dollar” radio shows ever assembled. For over twelve years, from 1949 through 1962 (including a one year hiatus in 1954-1955), this series recounted the cases “the man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar”….

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Gunsmoke Radio Show

Gunsmoke Radio Show

  Gunsmoke is one of those long-running classic Old-Time Radio shows that everyone knows and remembers. It’s also one that is still respected for its high values, in all aspects. Gunsmoke first aired on the CBS network on April 26, 1952, billed as the first adult western. It was set in Dodge City, Kansas in…

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1952 CBS TV Election Coverage

1952 TV Election Coverage by CBS News With Walter Cronkite (Rare) Private

Watch this rare footage of Walter Cronkite leading the coverage of the 1952 presidential election. This was the first “made for tv” election coverage of a national electionl This also was the first time that a computer was used and featured to predict the outcome of a presidential election. The computer featured was named Univac….

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