Academy Award Theater (aka Academy Award) was a CBS radio anthology series which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays, novels or films.
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Old Time Radio – Academy Award Theater (1944)
Old Time Radio – Adventures by Morse (1944)
Captain Bart Friday was a globe-trotting San Francisco-based private investigator, portrayed during the series by Elliott Lewis, David Ell…
Old Time Radio – Adventures of Sam Spade, The
The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett f…
Old Time Radio – Black Museum, The
The Black Museum was a 1951 radio crime drama program produced by Harry Alan Towers for the BBC and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Yard’s Black Museum. Ira Marion was the scriptwriter, and music for the series was composed and conducted by Sidney Torch.
Old Time Radio – Boston Blackie
The Boston Blackie radio series, starring Morris, began June 23, 1944, on NBC as a summer replacement for The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show. S…
Old Time Radio – CBS Radio Workshop
The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental dramatic radio anthology series that aired on CBS from January 27, 1956, until September 22, 1957. Subtitled “radio’s distinguished series to man’s imagination,” it was a revival of the earlier Columbia Workshop, broadcast by CBS from 1936 to 1947, and it used some of the same writers and directors employed on the earlier series.
Old Time Radio – Christmas Shows
For your holiday listening enjoyment, I have provided some selected Old Time Radio Shows. Christmas from the Golden Age. Give or take, they’res about 60 shows. Download em in MP3 or iisten with the built in web player.
Old Time Radio – Complete Broadcast Day “D Day”
D Day Landing at Omaha Beach
The Normandy Landings were the first operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptun…
Old Time Radio – Dimension X
Dimension X was an NBC radio program broadcast on an unsponsored, sustaining basis from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951. The first 13 episodes were broadcast live, and the remainder were pre-recorded. Fred Wiehe and Edward King were the directors, and Norman Rose was heard as both announcer and narrator.
Old Time Radio – Dr. Sixgun
Doctor Sixgun – Karl Weber as Dr. Ray Matson, “the guntoting frontier doctor who roamed the length and breadth of the old Indian territory, friend and phsycian to white man and Indian alike, the symbol of justice and mercy in the lawless west of the 1870s. This legendary figure was known to all as Dr. Sixgun.” Bill Griffis as Pablo, the doctor’s typsy sidekick, who told the stories.
Old Time Radio – Dragnet
Dragnet is a long-running radio and television police procedural drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant…
Old Time Radio – Escape
Escape was radio’s leading anthology series of high adventure, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Since the program d…
Old Time Radio – Fred Allen
Fred Allen (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956), born John Florence Sullivan, was an American comedian whose absurdist, pointed radio show (1934–19…
Old Time Radio – Gangbusters
Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as “the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories.” It premiered as G-Men, sponsored by Chevrolet, on July 20, 1935.
Old Time Radio – Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories t…
Old Time Radio – Hall of Fantasy
Hall of Fantasy is a horror anthology series. It’s theme is usually that some supernatural…This post is under construction…
Old Time Radio – Harry Lime
he Lives of Harry Lime (original British title The Adventures of Harry Lime) was an old-time radio program produced in London, England during t…
Old Time Radio – It’s Higgins Sir
The Roberts family inherits a butler named Higgins from a distant English relative. This is a precious, short lived radio comedy from 1951. Starring Harold McNaughton as Higgins.
Old Time Radio – Lights Out
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supe…
Old Time Radio – Lux Radio Theater
Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934-35); CBS (1935-54) and NBC (1954-55…
Old Time Radio – Macabre
Does anyone know anything about this series? I found it over at the Internet Archive and it’s pretty good, but I have no idea what it’s history is.
Old Time Radio – Martin and Lewis
Martin and Lewis Old Time Radio
Martin and Lewis were an American comedy team, comprising singer Dean Martin (as the “straight man̶…
Old Time Radio – Matthew Slade Private Investigator
Matthew Slade was an Old Time Radio series that played in 1949 as a part of the Armed Forces Radio Service as part of a show sent to US troops called Starlight Mystery Theater.
Old Time Radio – Mercury Theater/Campbell Playhouse
The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman. After a string of live theatrical pr…
Old Time Radio – My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Husband began on CBS Radio with Lucille Ball and Richard Denning as Liz and George Cugat. After a few early episodes, confusion with…
Old Time Radio – Mystery in the Air
Ready to get scared? Mystery in the Air is a 1945 series starring and hosted by Peter Lorre. It’s one of my favorites. There are some lost episodes. As far as I know these are all that survive.
Old Time Radio – Night Beat
Nightbeat was a radio drama series that aired on NBC from February 6, 1950 until September 25, 1952, sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and Whea…
Old Time Radio – Night Watch
Before “Cops”, before “Americas Most Wanted”, in 1954, the first reality show was produced on Radio. These are the stories of police reporter Don Reid who rode in a prowl car on the night shift with officers from the Culver City, California police department. The recordings are real. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Old Time Radio – Orson Welles
Orson Welles in 1937 photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning Am…
Old Time Radio – Orson Welles on Suspense
One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills,” and focussed on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 are extant in mostly high-quality recordings.
Old Time Radio – Red Skelton
After 1937 appearances on The Rudy Vallee Show, Skelton became a regular in 1939 on NBC’s Avalon Time, sponsored by Avalon Cigarettes. O…
Old Time Radio – Roy Rogers
From his first film appearance in 1935, Roy Rogers worked steadily in western films, including a large supporting role as a singing cowboy whil…
Old Time Radio – Sherlock Holmes
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Together, they starred in 220 episodes which aired weekly on Mondays from 8:30…
Old Time Radio – Suspense
Suspense was a radio drama series broadcast on CBS from 1942 through 1962.
One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subti…
Old Time Radio – Vincent Price is “The Saint”
Simon Templar is a British fictional character known as The Saint, featured in a long-running series of books by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. The Saint was adapted to a radio show starring Vincent Price.
Old Time Radio – Voyage of the Scarlet Queen (1947)
Voyage of the Scarlet Queen was a radio adventure on the high seas, airing on Mutual from 3 July 1947 to 14 February 1948. James Burton produced th…
Old Time Radio – Whistler, The (1945-50)
The Whistler was one of American radio’s most popular mystery dramas, with a 13-year run from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955.The W…
Old Time Radio – X Minus One
Initially a revival of NBC’s Dimension X (1950-51), X Minus One is widely considered among the finest science fiction dramas ever produ…
Old Time Radio – Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama of “the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account — America…
