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www.RADIOthen.networkUSAF SERENADE IN BLUE "Cherokee"The public service radio program Serenade in Blue was written, produced, and performed by men in blue. It featured three top-notch Air Force bands: The Air Force Strings, Symphony in Blue, and the big band sound of Airmen of Note (which was originally started by Glenn Miller during WWII). This episode is from the summer of 1963. Recorded and produced by the Air Force Band radio recording unit at Bolling AFB home of the USAF Band, Col. George S. Howard commander. Captain John Yesulitis conductor. Captain Robert Landers and The Singing Sergeants. Singing Sergeant airman Robert Alan Campbell announcer-producer. Distributed o...2023-06-0115 min
www.RADIOthen.networkMercury Summer Theater "Search For Henri Lefevre"
Mercury Summer Theater AIRED 1946 07 12 on CBS Radio. Episode 06 "Search For Henri Lefevre".
An original story for radio by Lucille Fletcher
This series produced, directed by and starring Orson Welles. It was a short-lived summer radio series sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, on Friday evenings at 10 p.m. ET lasting 15 episodes. It harked back to Welles's earlier The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938) and its successor, The Campbell Playhouse.
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www.RADIOthen.networkTHE WHISTLER "House On Sycamore Road"Episode 177 aired on CBS WEST Network October 15, 1945. Marvin Miller is host. The Whistler is an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942, until September 22, 1955, on the west-coast regional CBS radio network. The show was also broadcast in Chicago and over Armed Forces Radio. On the west coast, it was sponsored by the Signal Oil Company: "That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler." There were also two short-lived attempts to form east-coast broadcast spurs: July 3 to September 25, 1946, sponsored by the Campbell Soup Company; and March 26, 1947, to September 29, 1948, sponsored by Household Finance. The program was...2022-05-3129 min
www.RADIOthen.networkALAN'S HIDEAWAY "Episode 001"A montage of music and memories from the 20th century by broadcaster R. Alan Campbell. 2022-01-181h 01
www.RADIOthen.networkDJ AIRCHECK "WPAZ, Pottstown PA"
A Great Scott Station WPAZ AM Pottstown in Suburban Philadelphia PA. June 8, 1971. R Alan Campbell covering an air shift for Herb Scott who needed a cover DJ for his vacationing afternoon man. The station, which signed on in 1951, was originally owned by the Scott Family, and later, their subsidiary, Great Scott Broadcasting, Inc. Over time, WPAZ became the "flagship station" for Great Scott Broadcasting, as corporate operations for its expanding group were handled out of the station's Maugers Mill Road studio location. During the period that Herb and Faye Scott owned the company, WPAZ was one of its...2022-01-0527 min
www.RADIOthen.networkR Alan Campbell "WFCC Chatham Mass"Classical music host R Alan Campbell, (WFLN,KHPR) worked a summer schedule in 1995 for WFCC-FM the classical station Cape Cod. This hour is from May.2022-01-0350 min
www.RADIOthen.networkJACK ARMSTRONG "Pelican Catches Fire"Episode from January 2, 1934 part of a serial with young Jim Ameche as Jack Armstrong the all American boy. The Penguin under the command of Captain Campbell has raced to rescue the crew of The Pelican. To make matters even more difficult as they arrived a fire broke out on The Pelican. Despite the best efforts of Captain Hans and his crew the fire has gotten out of control. The situation is desperate, the only way to save the crew is somehow to get a line to them.2021-12-3112 min
www.RADIOthen.networkVINTAGE RADIO "Jason Remington 0107"Audio material was provided to RADIO THEN producer R A CAMPBELL by Jason Remington creator of Little Orphan Archie. This series was distributed to many radio stations several years ago. Enjoy another montage of audio clips from the past2021-12-0259 min
www.RADIOthen.networkVINTAGE RADIO "Little Orphan Archie"Audio material was provided to RADIO THEN producer R A CAMPBELL by Jason Remington creator of Little Orphan Archie. This series was distributed to many radio stations several years ago. Enjoy another montage of audio clips from the past.2021-11-2659 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDJ AIR CHECK "WTMR, R Alan Campbell"Christmas 1968 in the Delaware Valley on WTMR 800khz. Lee Scott, newsman, R Alan Campbell DJ on "the board". ABC Entertainment Network for the Philadelphia area. History: The station began operations in the late 1940s as WKDN. It was originally owned by Ranulf Compton, and was a 1,000-watt, daytime-only station that broadcast middle-of-the-road music. WTMR's power had been increased to 5,000 watts. The call letters became WTMR after the station was sold to Tommy Roberts in 1968. http://www.phillyradioarchives.com/history/wtmr | Campbell was working in the Delaware Valley at WDEL, WTMR and in the late 1960’s...2021-11-1549 min
www.RADIOthen.networkJACK ARMSTRONG "Ship In Distress"Jack, Billy and Betty are on deck of The Penguin which is steaming towards the source of a red distress rocket. But this also means that they are heading straight towards the ice. Captain Campbell will have to use all his sea skills to avoid disaster and rescue the men from the trapped ship, that they soon discover is The Pelican! SPOILER ALERT: This is one episode from a serialized series of 15 minute episodes aired nightly. Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio adventure series which maintained its popularity from 1933 to 1951. The program originated at WBBM in Chicago...2021-11-1114 min
www.RADIOthen.networkWFCC FM Chatham, Mass (Cape Cod) - R. Alan CampbellThe station started broadcasting on March 24, 1987 from state-of-the-art facilities on Route 28 in West Chatham. In 1991, the station's offices and studios were moved to new facilities on Route 6A in Brewster. WFCC-FM was subsequently sold in 1992 to Dolphin Communications, owned by Allan Stanley. WFCC-FM was purchased by Charles River Broadcasting (then owners of Boston's WCRB) in 1996. Photo shows music host, Campbell left, with NPR's Mark Wagner outside the Brewster location in 1995.2021-10-3140 min
www.RADIOthen.networkWAMU-FM USAF BAND "Watergate Concert"In the summer of 1962 JUNE 29, WAMU-FM, Washington DC, presented live coverage of The United States Air Force Band and Symphony Orchestra concerts from the Watergate Amphitheater to the radio stations of The Educational Radio Network. (ERN was pre-National Public Radio). This audio, featuring only excerpts, was captured on cassette in the main control room at WAMU-FM on the campus of American University.
For WAMU-FM, George Geesey Station Manager. Nathan Arnold Shaw, Program Director and R. Alan Campbell, announcer.
For USAF BAND, Col George S. Howard commander, Captain John F. Yesulitus , conductor and Staff Sergeant...2021-10-221h 20
www.RADIOthen.networkSERENADE IN BLUE - USAF Transcription"Men who wear the Air Force blue bring you A Serenade in Blue. To encourage civilians to join the Air Force. The US Air Force created this well-done musical program. Each Serenade in Blue program was written, produced, performed by men in blue. It featured three top-notch Air Force bands: The Air Force Strings, Symphony in Blue, and the big band sound of Airmen of Note (which was originally started by Glenn Miller during WWII). Earlier 1950s - 1960s programs include The Air Force Symphony Orchestra and The Singing Sergeants, Col George S. Howard commander. (Photo). This program was...2021-10-1414 min
www.RADIOthen.networkJASON REMINGTON'S "Vintage Radio"Audio material for VINTAGE RADIO was provided to RADIO THEN producer R A CAMPBELL by Jason Remington creator of VINTAGE RADIO. This series was distributed to many radio stations several years ago. Enjoy another montage of audio clips from the days of radio's golden era. 2021-09-2247 min
www.RADIOthen.networkJOHN DEHNER, FRONTIER GENTLEMAN auditionJohn Dehner interview <iframe src="https://anchor.fm/ralan-campbell/embed/episodes/JOHN-DEHNER---RADIOthen-network-e4ipi8/a-aii2pf" height="102px" width="400px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
John Dehner (born John Forkum; November 23, 1915 – February 4, 1992) was an American actor and animator. He had a long and prolific career in radio, television, and film, often as droll villains. Between 1940 and 1989, he appeared in over 260 films, television series, and made-for-television movies.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dehner2021-09-1726 min
www.RADIOthen.networkMYSTERY THEATER "You Can Die Again"Richard Mulligan stars as a husband who believes himself culpable for the murder of his wife. He is also convinced of his affair with another woman. But he simply can't persuade a police officer to believe either. Episode 12 aired January 17, 1974 on the CBS Radio Network. Richard Mulligan ( 13 of November of 1932 - 26 of September of 2000 ) was a film and television actor known for his role American Burt Campbell in Sitcom , Soap and later as Dr. Harry Weston in The Golden Girls and spin-off , Empty Nest . https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mulligan2021-08-2654 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTALES OF TEXAS RANGERS "Open Range"Episode 8 aired August 26, 1950. Western film star Joel McCrea portrayed Ranger Jace Pearson in NBC's Tales of the Texas Rangers, covering "more than 260,000 square miles" of modern-day frontier with "50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America". Their job was to solve major crimes, using old-fashioned tracking techniques and psychological analysis. The series was produced and directed by Stacy Keach, Sr., and was sponsored for part of its run by Wheaties. The series was broadcast on NBC Radio from 1950 through 1952, and was later revived on television. The shows were reenactments of actual Texas...2021-05-1529 min
www.RADIOthen.networkSUSPENSE "Doctor Prescribed Death"Episode 27 aired on CBS Radio on February 3, 1943. Starring Bela Lugosi. A doctor has a theory that people who want to commit suicide, can instead be convinced to commit murder, and sets out to prove it.2021-05-1529 min
www.RADIOthen.networkSIX SHOOTER "Red Lawson's Revenge"Episode 6 aired October 25, 1953 on NBC Radio. Red Lawson says he's going to kill Britt's friend Dan to get revenge for the death of his brother, four years earlier. Britt is riding across the prairie when he comes across a man at a campfire. He prefers the company of people to coyotes so he stops and makes conversation with him. The man is Red Lawson and over a coffee he tells Britt about his plans to get revenge on the man who had murdered his brother. Britt wants to go and warn Dan, the man who Red is planning to...2021-05-1428 min
www.RADIOthen.networkStan Freberg and Daws Butler, Elderly Man River-Elderly Man River by Stan Freberg and Daws Butler. At the time this routine was done on Stan's 1957 radio show, the song was barely 30 years old at the time, 1938... from Broadway's Show Boat by Jerome Kern. Brilliant parody sending up many years in advance what is now called political correctness The risky parts are gradually cleansed thanks to a prudish censor (Butler) who appears in the recording. Music is by Capitol Records band leader Billy May.
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www.RADIOthen.networkHAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Helen of Abajinian"
Episode 7 was aired on CBS Radio January 4, 1959. Paladin is hired to defend an Armenian maiden's honor, but it soon appears that she may not be the one in need of looking after. Script written by Gene Roddenberry (PHOTO). As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for Highway Patrol, Have Gun Will Travel, and other series, before creating and producing his own television series, The Lieutenant. In 1964, Roddenberry created Star Trek. Roddenberry's episode of the series Have Gun Will Travel, "Helen of Abajinian", won the Writer's Guild of America award for Best Teleplay in 1958 which was...2021-05-1222 min
www.RADIOthen.networkESCAPE "Most Dangerous Game"Episode 8 aired October 1, 1947 on CBS Radio. Starring Hans Conried (PHOTO) and Paul Frees. The story features a big game hunter from New York City who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.2021-05-1230 min
www.RADIOthen.networkGUNSMOKE "Drop Dead"Episode 22 aired September 20, 1952 on CBS Radio. Selfish Mr. Howard refuses to allow Jack Jackson to water his cattle during a Kansas drought. Matt Dillon, US Marshall, doesn’t like it when things get too quiet in Dodge City as it usually means there’s a blow up coming. And that’s exactly what he gets from a thirsty herd and a mean rancher who has fenced off his water source.2021-05-1129 min
www.RADIOthen.networkFORT LARAMIE "Shavetail"Lieutenant Seiberts has disobeyed orders for what he thought was a good reason. A battle of wits with Squaw Dog follows. Seiberts was on an assignment to collect 60 horses. When he returns he tells Captain Quince that Indians have ambushed them and has only 35 horses and one man is dead. Captain Quince dresses him down for not following orders and for fighting to try to save the horses. However Quince accepts full responsibility for his actions to his superiors and then takes Seiberts as his second in command on his mission to recover the stolen horses, punish the Indians...2021-05-1029 min
www.RADIOthen.networkESCAPE "Fourth Man"This was episode 7, aired on CBS Radio August 18, 1947 as last in summer series. Escape presented several episodes based on short stories by John Russell, and among these, "The Fourth Man" was the most popular. "The Fourth Man", with Paul Frees (photo), is the story of three French convicts who have just escaped from a prison in Noumea, New Caledonia. The leader of the group, Dr. Dubosc, has made all of the arrangements. First they will be ferried out to sea in a raft and then, when they are safely away from the coast, they will be met by a...2021-05-1029 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDRAGNET "The Wolf"Episode 15 aired on NBC Radio September 10, 1949. Featuring Raymond Burr as Chief Ed Baxter. Friday and Romero try and catch a kidnapper after a 21-year-old girl has disappeared and a letter has been received demanding $30,000 for the girl's return. The letter is signed "The Wolf."
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www.RADIOthen.networkCBS MYSTERY THEATER "The Old Ones Are Hard To Kill"The first episode in the series aired on CBS Radio January 6, 1974. Starring Agnes Moorehead. An old lady rents a room to a sick boarder. She runs into problems with his strange deathbed confession. Moorehead passed away a few weeks later April 30, 1974 at the age of 74.2021-05-0951 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOGART on LUX RADIO "Moontide"This episode, 481, of Lux Radio Theater with Humphrey Bogart aired on CBS Radio April 30, 1945. It is the radio version of the 1942 film Moontide, Bogart taking Jean Gabin's role as Bobo in this radio version of the film. 2021-05-0855 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTALES TEXAS RANGERS "Fool's Gold"This episode, number 7, aired on NBC Radio, August 19, 1950. It is shortly after 9 am on the Tuesday after Labor Day 1946. Two men in a late model black sedan cruise slowly along the main street of the town of Live Oak in West Texas casing a bank. A gold tooth is the clue needed to track down a botched bank robbery and a killing. Based on events of September, 1946. Producer/director Stacy Keach, Sr. (photo) appears in one of the Wheaties commercials.2021-05-0629 min
www.RADIOthen.networkSUSPENSE "Body Snatchers"In old England, doctors would be given human bodies for experimentation from grave robbers. These so-called body snatchers brought fear to the dead and the living all over England. At that time only four bodies per year could be supplied to surgeons for their studies. There was a constant demand for upcoming surgeons so they would resort to body snatchers to supply their needs. One such case was Burke and Hare who instead of robbing graves committed violent murder to supply their doctors. A tale that means well but will still keep you in...2021-05-0529 min
www.RADIOthen.networkSIX SHOOTER "Rink Larken"James Stewart's great Western NBC radio drama, this is the episode called Rink Larkin, which originally aired on October 18, 1953. Brit Ponset is on the trail and has the feeling he’s being followed. It turns out to be an 11 year old runaway boy. They are heading the same direction so after sharing a meal, and learning a little of the boy’s past, they ride on together. The boy’s mom has died, his dad has been away for a while, and he has been living with his aunt. A disturbing letter came, and the boy, named Rink, decided to run...2021-05-0428 min
www.RADIOthen.networkLONE RANGER "Wrong Man"Artifact collector finds something unusual. This radio episode, number 2551, aired in syndication on May 21, 1954.2021-05-0419 min
www.RADIOthen.networkCALIFORNIA MELODIES "Meet Dave Rose"AIRED: March 28, 1940 on the Don Lee Mutual Network. "From out of the west to you," California Melodies features British-American music director and composer David Rose and singer Maxine Gray. David Rose is best known for his exotica, space age and cocktail hour recordings. His 1944 hit composition, Holiday of Strings, went on to become the theme song for Red Skelton shows. California Melodies proved to be a fantastic venue to showcase many of Rose's great compositions. Broadcast from Hollywood, this large orchestral program is easy on the ears and lifting to the heart. Also on this episode singer Betty Jane...2021-05-0329 min
www.RADIOthen.networkLONE RANGER "Wrong Man"Artifact collector finds something unusual. This radio episode, number 2551, aired in syndication on May 21, 1954.2021-05-0322 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "No Visitors"When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagon master, he enlists the aid of a female doctor from a nearby town, but a religious fanatic then tries to bar them from entry. Episode 6, aired December 28, 19582021-05-0224 min
www.RADIOthen.networkFORT LARAMIE "Captain's Widow"Episode 6 aired on CBS Radio February 26, 1956. The supply train will arrive and Captain Quince hears that Mrs. Wentner, the widow of a fallen captain has a letter of authorization to recover her husband's body and give him a proper burial in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. Unfortunately his body is buried a hundred miles away in hostile territory. Major Daggit and Captain Quince try their best to talk the widow out of her plan to recover the body, she sneaks away in the night. Quince must catch up to her before she gets herself killed.2021-04-2929 min
www.RADIOthen.networkGUNSMOKE "Home Surgery"This is episode 21, aired September 13, 1952 on CBS Radio. Marshal Dillon is forced to amputate the leg of a settler on the prairie. Dillon, US Marshall of Dodge City, believes that a man he has been looking for was in the cowboy camp on the north fork of the Canadian river near Dodge. Chester and Matt ride over to take a look. They find a man there with the right name but the wrong face.2021-04-2829 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDRAGNET "Eric Kelby"This episode aired September 3, 1949 on NBC Radio. A woman disappears and her husband is behaving suspiciously. On the surface it appears only as a routine missing persons case. Detective Sergeant Friday has been assigned to Homicide Detail. He starts to investigate and suspicion grows. There is evidence of possible foul play. It's Friday's job to find the woman or find her murderer.2021-04-2729 min
www.RADIOthen.networkSTAN FREBERG "The Yellow Rose of Texas" Stan Freberg had problems with a Yankee snare drummer Alvin Stoller in the hit parody. The Yellow Rose Of Texas featured Stan Freberg, with Billy May’s Orchestra, Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires and drumming by Alvin Stoller. Freberg’s top-20 radio hit was modelled after the arrangement of Johnny Desmond’s version of the civil war song initially popularized by Mitch Miller in 1955. 2021-04-2703 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOGART: "Bullets or Ballots"A Lux Radio Theater presentation on April 16, 1939. A tough cop (Edward G. Robinson) is kicked off the force and goes to work for a criminal gang, but one of the bosses’ top Lieutenants (Humphrey Bogart) is suspicious.2021-04-2657 min
www.RADIOthen.networkESCAPE "Ring of Thoth"Episode 6 of the series aired August 11, 1947 on CBS Radio. Starring Jack Webb as the sorcerer, a person who claims or is believed to have magic powers; a wizard. Based on the short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Escape 's adaptation is an interesting one with an unexpected ending. "The Ring of Thoth" was first published in 1890. Mr. John Vansittart Smith, a British student of Egyptology, has come to the Egyptian Room of the Louvre to study.
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www.RADIOthen.networkSIX SHOOTER "Silver Annie"Sheriff Bill Riddle is the law in Dawson. He faces down an escaped killer without a gunfight...and with good reason. It's midday and Britt Ponset has just rode into Virtue City. Everything looks pretty much the same as the last time Britt had come to town, maybe a little bigger, but there are people who want to change things. One of the railway companies wants to run a line through town, but some people do not want it. Annie Huxley refuses to let the route run through her land. She sits at her homestead day and night with...2021-04-2428 min
www.RADIOthen.networkSUSPENSE "Devil In The Summer House"This episode aired on CBS Radio on September 2, 1942 and stars Martin Gable as Mr. Parker. It was originally written by John Dickson Carr and adapted for this episode of Suspense. The half hour is filled with many thrills typically presented to keep you in... suspense.2021-04-2329 min
www.RADIOthen.networkESCAPE "Dead of Night"
Escape's premier episode was based on one of the stories from the classic British horror film Dead of Night (1945). The movie is a collection of supernatural tales, including the urban legend of "The Phantom Coachman." Its most famous segment is about a ventriloquist named Maxwell Frere, played by Michael Redgrave, and Hugo, his dummy. Dead of Night was also one of the inspirations for the famous Twilight Zone episode "The Dummy" in 1962. Richard Attenborough's 1978 film Magic also borrowed a little from this story. Escape's "Dead of Night" stars Barry Kroeger as the ventriloquist and Art Carney (pictured left...2021-04-2224 min
www.RADIOthen.networkSIX SHOOTER "The Stampede"Episode 3 aired on NBC Radio October 4, 1953. James Stewart, Lou Merrill, James McCallion.
Britt Ponset finds himself on a cattle drive with two feuding brothers. The rain is thundering down, lightning is flashing, and the wind is howling through the canyon. The expertise of all the riders is necessary to prevent a stampede. However not everyone can be depended upon and the results could prove disastrous, especially when sibling rivalry ensues.2021-04-2128 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTALES TEXAS RANGERS 'Broken Spur"This episode aired August 12, 1950 on NBC Radio. Based on the events of June 5, 1948. A dead man is found in a burned out house. Also found is a broken spur and a fat man with small feet around 10pm. These events occurred on a small ranch ten miles south of Cranston in Irwin County, Texas. Milton Thomas was counting a large sum of money before locking up for the night. As he was counting his dog Rags appeared to be nervous. Thomas tried to quiet him...let's listen to the episode called BROKEN SPUR.2021-04-2029 min
www.RADIOthen.networkSIX SHOOTER "The Coward"This is episode 2 which aired on NBC Radio September 27, 1953. Jimmy Stewart stars as Britt Ponset, legendary Texas plainsman who wandered the western territories righting wrongs along the way. The Coward features Will Fedder, a man considered a coward as he won't wear a gun, finally reaching his breaking point. Cast members include Howard McNear, Michael Ann Barrett, Will Wright and Herb Ellis. Jack Johnstone: producer; Frank Burt: creator/writer; Hal Gibney: announcer; Basil Adam: music director.2021-04-1929 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTHE LONE RANGER "MYSTERY HOTEL"In 1933, producer George W. Trendle and writer Fran Striker had the Lone Ranger ride out of the western sky, and it was "Hi Oh Silver, Away!" from then on via Mutual nationally. Later on ABC Radio and syndication until 1954! Always at his side was his faithful indian companion, Tonto, portrayed by John Todd, who was a loyal, intelligent and resourceful indian - very different from the way indians usually were portrayed on the silver screen.
Brace Beemer began as an announcer on Trendle's WXYZ, but after the tragic auto death of Earle Graser in 1941, Beemer took the...2021-04-1821 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Hanging Cross"Episode 5 aired December 21, 1958 on CBS Radio. Paladin tries to prevent a fight between Matt Beecher and the Pawnees, caused by a small boy claimed as the son of both Matt Beecher and the Indian Chief.2021-04-1724 min
www.RADIOthen.networkGUNSMOKE "Renegade White"This episode, number 15, aired on CBS Radio August 3, 1952. Ord Spicer sells rifles to the Cheyenne. He kills two cowboys with one of his new rifles. Wild Hogg, chief of the Cheyenne Indians, was paying Hoard Spicer for supplying them with these weapons. Marshall Matt Dillon had more respect for the Cheyenne than for Spicer who was a killer and a white renegade.2021-04-1629 min
www.RADIOthen.networkFORT LARAMIE "Boredom"This episode, 05, aired on CBS Radio February 19, 1956. The men at Fort Laramie are to work on building a trail. Private's Soothy and Pulver have been in the garrison three months and on edge, Soothy tries to start a fight with Pulver. Soothy is looking for action and is not content with heavy labor. He is bored with garrison duty and has a plan for getting a little action out of the Indians. The Cheyenne oblige.2021-04-1529 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDragnet "Police Academy-Mario Koski"Aired August 25, 1949 on NBC Radio, e012 - A gang of criminals are committing three and four burglaries a night, eighteen liquor stores and restaurants. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday has been assigned to Robbery Detail. An armed band working fast with four or five robberies every night. The criminals are not amateurs they are well armed and dangerous. It's Friday's job to get them.2021-04-1429 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOGART "House on 92nd Street"The House on 92nd Street was presented on Stars in the Air May 3, 1952. The 30-minute adaptation of the 1945 motion picture. This radio version starred Humphrey Bogart and Keefe Brasselle. In 1939, American standout university student, Bill Dietrich, is approached by Nazi recruiters because of his German heritage. He feigns interest, then notifies the FBI. Agent George Briggs encourages Dietrich to play along. Thus, Dietrich travels to Hamburg, Germany, where he undergoes six months of intensive training in espionage. The Germans then send him back to the United States to set up a radio station on Long Island to relay...2021-04-1328 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTALES TEXAS RANGERS "Quick Silver"Original Air Date: August 05, 1950 Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson) Supporting players Tony Barrett, D.J. Thompson, Byron Kane, Lou Krugman, and Russell Simpson. Writer: Russell Hughes. Producer: Stacy Keach, Sr.
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www.RADIOthen.networkSIX SHOOTER "Jenny"This is the first episode of the series, The Six Shooter, starring James Stewart. Aired on September 20, 1953 over the NBC radio network. Supporting cast members are D. J. Thompson, Harry Bartell, Jess Kirkpatrick, George Neisen and others.
A western drama about an ugly woman and a dying killer. Brit Ponsett, on his way to Lead Creek, came across a man lying down with a bullet wound in his stomach. The man told Brit that he’d been thrown by his horse and that his gun had accidentally gone off but it turns out to be a totally di...2021-04-1028 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTHE LONE RANGER "Laugh of Death"This episode was aired September 19, 1954. Brace Beemer as The Masked Man. The announcer-narrator was Fred Foy. The Lone Ranger finally captures a laughing psychopath.2021-04-1023 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTHE LONE RANGER "Laugh of Death"This episode was aired September 19, 1954. Brace Beemer as The Masked Man. The announcer-narrator was Fred Foy. The Lone Ranger finally captures a laughing psychopath.2021-04-0924 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "The Outlaw"Episode 4 aired on December 14, 1958 on CBS Radio. Paladin accepts the task of capturing an escaped criminal, only to form an irregular bond with the convicted man.
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www.RADIOthen.networkGUNSMOKE "Gentleman's Disagreement"Ed makes no secret of his intention to kill Bert for marrying the girl Ed wanted. So when Ed is the one who turns up dead, folks assume that Bert did it.Episode 14. Aired July 26 1952 on CBS Radio Network. Stars:
William Conrad (Matt Dillion)
Parley Baer (Chester)
Georgia Ellis (Kitty)
Howard McNear (Doc)
Special Guests:
Lawrence Dobkin
Tom Tully
Lynn Allen
Barney Phillips2021-04-0730 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTHE SIX SHOOTER "Britt Ponset"James Stewart starred as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of the wild west. Episodes ranged from straight western drama to whimsical comedy. A trademark of the show was Stewart's use of whispered narration during tense scenes that created a heightened sense of drama and relief when the situation was resolved. Some of the more prominent actors to perform on the program included Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Howard McNear, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Alan Reed, Marvin Miller and William Conrad (often credited as "Julius Krelboyne" because he was also the star of CBS' Gunsmoke...2021-04-0629 min
www.RADIOthen.networkFORT LARAMIE "Woman at Horse Creek"Episode 4 aired February 12, 1956 on CBS Radio. Mrs Dennis, recently widowed, now all alone out on the prairie is easy prey for Indians. Mrs Dennis and her husband Luther lived in a very remote area. She watched her husband die from gangrene from a broken leg. When Captain Lee Quince and Sergeant Gorce found her they buried her husband and suggested she leave the land, as it was no place for a woman to live by herself. Mrs Dennis did not want to leave the home where her husband was buried.2021-04-0529 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDRAGNET Episode 009, Benny TrounselDragnet episode 009 aired August 14, 1949 on NBC Radio. A small-time narcotics user named Benny Trounsel has been beaten to death shortly after tipping the cops to a new narcotics ring in town. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday has been assigned to narcotics detail. For many weeks Doctors offices, hospitals, drug stores and drug suppliers have been burglarized for narcotics. The criminals are expert and it is Friday's job to get them.2021-04-0429 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOGART in BOLD VENTURE "Spanish Gold"Bold Venture is the radio adventure series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall that originally aired in 1951-52. Bogart plays hotel and boat owner Slate Shannon, and Bacall plays his ward, Sailor Duval. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bold_Venture Spanish Gold (a.k.a. Treasure On Flamingo Cay) aired November 19, 1951 Beginning in March 1951, the Frederic W. Ziv Company syndicated 78 episodes via electrical transcription. Heard on 423 stations, the 30-minute series earned $5,000 weekly for Bogart and Bacall.2021-04-0325 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTALES TEXAS RANGERS "Trigger Man"
The "Trigger Man" aired July 29, 1950 on NBC Radio. This episode is based on events of May 27, 1947. The killers are the Gordon brothers who are wanted for a series of murders as they head for the Mexican border. A gas station attendant-operator on Oklahoma highway 8 was preparing to shut down for the night when two men in a green convertible pulled in to the service island when a series of horrible events happened. Joel McCrea stars as Texas Ranger Jace Pearson who has been assigned this case.2021-04-0229 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Ella West"Episode 3 aired December 7, 1958 on CBS Radio. A character named Ella West is an unrefined Annie Oakley and Paladin is hired by Tomahawk to refine her. Paladin quotes Keats to Ella, who plays a character more complex than that of Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion'. In the end, Paladin does Tomahawk a big favor.2021-04-0123 minwww.RADIOthen.networkRADIO Then (Trailer)2021-04-0100 min
www.RADIOthen.networkFORT LARAMIE "Squaw Man"Episode 3 aired February 5, 1956 on CBS Radio. The cavalry must assure a wagon train gets to it's destination safely. Pioneer women are attracted to men in the troops and word comes from a frontiersman that an Indian uprising is eminent. The Indians feel that the government hasn’t been caring for them properly. Raiding parties will attack wagon trains if something doesn’t change. Captain Quince has his ideas on how to cope with the Indians but his ideas are closed down by the major. He must follow government orders but allows Quince to proceed and the troops move out.2021-04-0129 min
www.RADIOthen.networkGUNSMOKE Boughten BrideEpisode 12, aired on CBS Radio July 12, 1952. Stage robbers get $50,000 worth of gold, and kidnap Carter's girl friend. When she returns to Dodge, and she's not very eager to reunite with Carter. Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, likes it peaceful. However the stage that was due in was carrying gold when it was held up and Dillon must get to work to apprehend the culprits. A companion on the stage said it looked like she was cooperating with the bandits.2021-03-3029 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTALES TEXAS RANGERS "Apache Peak"Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Episode 3, Apache Peak, aired July 22, 1950.
Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal (or "Charky," as Jayce would sometimes refer to him), to track them down. The shows were reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases.2021-03-2729 min
www.RADIOthen.networkFORT LARAMIE "Boatwright's Story"January 29, 1956 Captain Quince, Raymond Burr, and his patrol must stop the sale of Henry rifles to Yellow Knife. Quince heads to the Indian reservation to see his compadre Chief Wild Dog for information about the white man who is supplying Indians with rifles. Chief Wild Dog tells Quince where the rifle smuggler meets Yellow Knife. Private Boatwright hates the Indians and knew the only way to conquer his fear was to kill one of them.2021-03-2629 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Road to Wickenburg"Episode 2, November 30, 1958. CBS Radio network. Paladin wakes up after being drugged, beaten and robbed in the town of Blue Bell by five men, one of whom is the town's sheriff. They took his money, gun, bullets, horse and saddle. All he has left is his two-shot derringer.2021-03-2523 min
www.RADIOthen.networkThe Lone Ranger episode "Brightest Star" May 17, 1954"The Lone Ranger" radio program was created by George W. Trendle (photo insert) and Fran Striker. First aired on Trendle's radio station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan, in 1933. The radio series was carried by more than 400 American stations by the end of the decade. The Michigan Radio Network then the original Mutual Radio Network. Later on the ABC Radio Network and lastly in syndication by the ad agency representing General Mills, the sponsor. Cheerios, Wheaties and Betty Crocker products. The Lone Ranger’s theme song, Gioachino Rossini’s William Tell overture, became a familiar piece of music in every child’s repe...2021-03-2422 min
www.RADIOthen.networkCBS STAN FREBERG SHOW - 01_1957-07-14_ - Musical_SheepThe Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fifteen episodes in 1957–58. The show, starring comedian Stan Freberg and featuring the vocal talents of Daws Butler, June Foray, and Peter Leeds and the musical direction of Billy May, ran in the 7 p.m. Sunday evening time period.2021-03-2429 min
www.RADIOthen.networkFORT LARAMIE "Playing Indian"January 22, 1956. Premiere episode. Captain Quince sets a trap for a group of horse thieves and murderers who are hoping the cavalry will think they are Arapahos. Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry at Fort Laramie on the Wyoming frontier. An entire family have been killed. But not by the Arapaho’s... it was white men.2021-03-2329 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTALES OF TEXAS RANGERS 'WHITE ELEPHANT'Joel McCrea stars as Jace Pearson in Tales of the Texas Rangers, a contemporary procedural crime Western. With all of the technology available in the mid 20th century. It was one of the most popular shows of that era. Produced by Stacy Keach, Sr., a successful actor, producer, writer and director for over fifty years. (Father of actors Stacy and James Keach). He created, produced and directed this legendary “Tales of the Texas Rangers” for NBC Radio in the early 1950’s. The show was also included in the Smithsonian Archive Presentation of the most famous Radio Detective shows of the...2021-03-2229 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "Strange Vandetta"Have Gun Will Travel, the first episode on radio was broadcast on CBS network, November 23, 1958 the show continued until November 22, 1960. Paladin 'Gun For Hire' lived in and worked from the Carleton Hotel, in San Francisco around 1875. Have Gun Will Travel was one of those programs which got its start on television (CBS TV 1957 thru 1963, starring Richard Boone), successfully moving to radio. The Series was created by Herb Meadow, Sam Rolfe and starred John Dehner as Paladin, Ben Wright as Heyboy and Virginia Gregg as Miss Wong. In this first episode a simple theater invitation turns...2021-03-2122 min
www.RADIOthen.networkArticle about The Lone RangerHI YOU SILVER The radio image2021-03-2103 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOGART Theater of Romance "One Way Baggage"From December 18, 1945 with Joan Bennett. Theater of Romance ran for over 12 years between 1943 and 1956 on CBS Radio. The show substituted for a number of shows and changes drastically with content, producers, directors and performers throughout its broadcast history, but all the episodes fall under the broad category of "romance."2021-03-2124 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDRAGNET "City Hall Bombing"Episode 007 aired July 21, 1949 An ex-con bears a grudge against the city of Los Angeles. He wants to blow up city hall unless his demands are met. He has a powerful bomb. The police find 28 sticks of dynamite in his apartment. Only Sergeant Friday has the power to stop this 1950s terrorist attack.2021-03-2030 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTHE BADGE OF HONORMay 14, 1954 episode from transcription. Many ABC network stations would not clear the series any longer so General Mills distributed the series to individual market stations on a subscription basis. Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting, which were widely used during the "Golden Age of Radio". They provided material—from station-identification jingles and commercials to full-length programs—for use by local stations, which were affiliates of one of the radio networks.
Physically, electrical transcriptions look much like long-playing records that were popular for decades. They differ from consumer-oriented recordings, however, in that they were...2021-03-1819 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOGART PRESENTS "Dead Man"An unaired pilot for a Bogart-produced anthology series in which Humphrey Bogart plays a railroad policeman who is killed by a young hobo who hears the dead policeman’s voice wherever he goes.
Audition Date: September 17, 19492021-03-1632 min
www.RADIOthen.networkGUNSMOKE Slades SaloonA series of murders of men who have been lucky while gambling leads Marshal Dillon to a most unusual killer. Jones’s had been spending time in Dodge City buying supplies and food before he was found laying near his wagon, the horse still hitched, stabbed to death and the three thousand dollars he was carrying was missing. This was the third stabbing in the last two months and Marshall Dillon suspected it was the same killer.2021-03-1628 min
www.RADIOthen.networkLONE RANGER - 1954 05 12 -episode 2547 Infernal MachineThe Lone Ranger is an American radio and television show created by George W. Trendle and developed by writer Fran Striker. 2021-03-1424 min
www.RADIOthen.networkThe Lone Ranger episode: Indian Trooper aired May 17, 1956The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend, Tonto. The character has been called an enduring icon of American culture. He first appeared in 1933 in a radio show on WXYZ (Detroit)2021-03-1423 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDRAGNET "CORDAY CASE"A well liked waitress named Helen Corday has been murdered with a steel pipe. The suspect's name is Larson. Somewhere in the tangled web of the city there's a killer on the loose, a young woman has been brutally murdered, the weapon? A bludgeon. Here sets the scene for another "real life" homicide case for Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero.2021-03-1229 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOGART in SUSPENSE a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962.Humphrey Bogart & Lurene Tuttle in "Love's Lovely Counterfeit" by James M. Cain for Suspense Radio. March 8th 1945. The show was on the air for a little over twenty years beginning in January, 1942 and was rarely pre-empted. There were 947 performances. When SUSPENSE left the air, radio was never to see the likes of such a series again. Now the great medium of radio where imagination can run free has been recreated here on RADIOthen.network
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www.RADIOthen.networkThe masked man's musicThe most popular radio adventure show in history, The Lone Ranger held an audience of millions spellbound for over two decades. Key to its success was the music used on it-music rendered so beautifully, chosen with such delicate precision, that for half a century listeners have frantically searched for an answer to the question, "What was the music used on the Lone Ranger?" This book answers that question and many more, including, "Who performed it?" "Who recorded it?" "When?" "Where?". Set in Detroit, New York, Hollywood, and Mexico City against a backdrop of cliffhanging events that shaped the broadcasting...2021-03-031h 16
www.RADIOthen.networkGUNSMOKE BILLY THE KIDThis is the first show of the series. Great old time entertainment. The script, acting and especially the sound effects are excellent. I'm certainly someone who appreciates great, detailed sound effects. A Dutchman draws a lynch mob after the whole town accuses him of murder.
2021-03-0229 minwww.RADIOthen.networkDRAGNET Werewolf“Werewolf” aired June 17, 1949.
The women are left half-dead, victims of robbery and horrible attacks. “The Werewolf” as dubbed by the local papers, was a maniac that attacked, beat, and robbed 18 victims. The attacks are so brutal leaving the women in the hospital with horrible wounds, that Joe Friday fears the Werewolf will kill…and he’s right.2021-03-0229 min
www.RADIOthen.networkNBC RECOLLECTIONS...RADIOthen.network To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the company, NBC created a series of shows called Recollection at 30. Using a vast number of archival recordings, Recollection at 30 would assemble some of these transcriptions into a 25-minute show.
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
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www.RADIOthen.networkJOHN DEHNER...RADIOthen.network John Dehner (born November 23, 1915 – February 4, 1992) was an American actor and animator. He played roles in radio, television, and film, often as droll villains. Between 1940 and 1989, he appeared in over 260 films, television series, and made-for-television movies. RADIO: As Paladin "Have Gun Will Travel" and J B. Kendall in "Frontier Gentleman".2019-07-0929 min
www.RADIOthen.networkCreation of GUNSMOKE...RADIOthen.network Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.
The radio version ran from 1952 to 1961 and is commonly regarded as one of the finest radio dramas of all time. 2019-07-0826 min
www.RADIOthen.networkThe AFRS Story...American military radio The American Forces Network (AFN) is the broadcast service operated by the United States Armed Forces' American Forces Radio and Television Service for its entertainment and command internal information networks worldwide. The AFN worldwide radio and television broadcast network serves American servicemembers, Department of Defense and other U.S. government civilians and their families stationed at bases overseas, as well as U.S. Navy ships at sea. AFN broadcasts popular American radio and television programs from the major U.S. networks. It is sometimes referred to as the Armed Forces Network. AFRTS, American Forces Network and AFN are...2019-07-0728 min
www.RADIOthen.networkE G MARSHALL...CBS MYSTERY THEATER E. G. Marshall was an American actor, best known for his television roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s and as neurosurgeon David Craig on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the 1970s. Among his film roles he is perhaps best known as the unflappable, conscientious "Juror #4" in Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama 12 Angry Men (1957). He played the President of the United States in Superman II (1980). Marshall was also known as the host of the radio drama series, CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974–82). 2019-07-0554 minwww.RADIOthen.networkHollywood Is On The Airxx2019-07-0228 min
www.RADIOthen.networkNEWS ReportingGolden radio memories of news reporting hosted by Frank Knight. 1920's and 1930's. KDKA, Luck Lindy, Amos and Andy, Eddie Cantor, Billy Sunday, FDR, E C Hill, Hindenburg blimp crash with Herb Morrison.2019-07-0218 min
www.RADIOthen.networkNEWS Reports in old time radioOld Time Radio NEWS Reporting in the 1930s. BBC, NBC. British monarchy, WWII, Submarine rescue, Hitler speech, Britian declares war and Beethoven symphony excerpt.2019-07-0117 min
www.RADIOthen.networkFRED FOY...Lone RangerFRED FOY best known Lone Ranger announcer and narrator.2019-06-3029 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBRACE BEAMER...LONE RANGERA Tribute to the radio actor who is most remembered as the Lone Ranger.
Brace Beemer (December 9, 1902 – March 1, 1965) was an American radio actor and announcer at radio station WXYZ (AM), Detroit, Michigan. He is best known as the radio voice of the Lone Ranger.2019-06-3027 min