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George Burns and Gracie Allen were one of the biggest comedy duos the world has ever known. Enjoy sixteen of their greatest radio broadcasts!
When real-life husband and wife George Burns and Gracie Allen worked together in vaudeville, George was the comic and his wife, Gracie, had the straight lines. They switched their roles upon discovering that Gracie's delivery got a bigger laugh than George's punch lines. The duo became a big hit on vaudeville...
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Johnny Dollar was America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Enjoy sixteen of his greatest cases from radio's Golden Age!
The Golden Age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite detective find out "who done it?" From 1949 until 1962, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was one of the most popular detective shows on the air. Dollar...
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Enjoy sixteen of the greatest detective shows from radio's Golden Age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.
The Golden Age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars voicing fiction's most famous gumshoes. This collection includes Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet; Richard Kollmar as "enemy to those...
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Enjoy sixteen of the greatest drama episodes from the Golden Age of radio in this collection spanning 1944 to 1956.
This collection contains sixteen of the greatest drama shows ever broadcast during the Golden Age of radio, including episodes of The Big Story, Let George Do It, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and many others. Relive the best radio drama shows from yesterday and the legendary stars that made them amazing in this incredible collection.
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The Cavalcade of America dramatized the greatest events in American history and featured the biggest names in Hollywood!
In 1935, the DuPont Company chose to enhance its image by dramatizing great events in American history to an audience of millions each week on The Cavalcade of America. "Cavalcade" is a term used to describe pioneers who shaped the way America operates today. DuPont's motto, "maker of better things for better living through chemistry,"...
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Enjoy sixteen of the greatest Holiday shows from radio's Golden Age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.
The Golden Age of radio featured many of the greatest holiday programs of all time, and this collection features the best of the best! Enjoy holiday programs and laugh with Amos 'n' Andy, Burns and Allen, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Duffy's Tavern, Fibber McGee and Molly, Phil Harris and Alice Faye, The Jimmy Durante Show,...
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One of Hollywood's true screen legends, Humphrey Bogart, is spotlighted in this collection of radio broadcasts that he starred in.
Humphrey Bogart began his screen career mostly playing gangsters due to his resemblance to John Dillinger. Bogart's breakthrough from supporting roles to A-list stardom came with his performances in High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. His first true romantic lead role, Casablanca, co-starred Ingrid Bergman. He and Lauren...
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This collection contains fifteen of the greatest science-fiction broadcasts from the Golden Age of radio, including episodes of X Minus One, Dimension X, Suspense, The CBS Radio Workshop, Escape, The Lux Radio Theatre, and others. Radio's finest actors perform before the microphones in adaptations from the past masters of science fiction. Relive the best radio sci-fi shows from yesterday and the legendary stars that made them amazing in this incredible...
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Whitehall 1212 was the famous telephone number for Scotland Yard-the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Force-and also an exciting true crime drama from the golden age of radio!
Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper (the creator of Lights Out and Quiet Please), Whitehall 1212 was a crime drama that aired on NBC from 1951 until 1952. It was hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, curator of the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's repository...
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Suspense... Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills! Suspense mixed mystery, suspicion, and dangerous adventure like no other. Featuring the biggest names in Hollywood, it stirred your nerves to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution... until the last possible moment!
Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportions. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962 and...
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Suspense ... Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills!
Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportion. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962 and is considered by many to be the best mystery/drama series of the golden age. Known as Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills it focused on suspenseful stories starring the biggest names in Hollywood. Early in the run, the episodes were hosted...
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Created by Blake Edwards (of Pink Panther fame), Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC radio in 1949 starring film actor and crooner Dick Powell. Powell had recently played Philip Marlowe in the popular RKO film Murder, My Sweet and jumped at the chance to play a suave detective on radio.
Richard Diamond was a light-hearted New York—based private eye who enjoyed ribbing the cops and singing songs to his millionairess girlfriend, Helen...
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New York City Detective Danny Clover worked homicide "from Times Square to Columbus Circle-the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world-Broadway, my beat."
Broadway Is My Beat was a dark, gritty radio crime drama that ran on CBS from 1949 until 1954. The series was originally broadcast from New York with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Police Detective Danny Clover. Produced by Lester Gottlieb, it was directed by John Dietz....
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Enjoy sixteen of the greatest drama episodes from the Golden Age of radio in this collection spanning 1938 to 1953.
This collection contains sixteen of the greatest drama shows ever broadcast during the Golden Age of radio, including episodes of Dragnet, Escape, Gunsmoke, and many others. Relive the best radio drama shows from yesterday and the legendary stars that made them amazing in this incredible collection.
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The golden age of radio featured many of the greatest comedy teams of all time, and this collection features the best of the best!
This eight-hour collection includes the greatest comedy teams of the golden age of radio and features Abbott & Costello, Ozzie & Harriet, Amos 'n' Andy, The Bickersons, Burns & Allen, Martin & Lewis, Fibber McGee & Molly, Lum & Abner, and Phil Harris & Alice Faye. You'll laugh 'till your sides ache at these great comedy...
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From the pens of the world's best-known and respected supernatural fiction authors comes The Weird Circle-tales of mystery, suspense, horror, and the macabre! Now, enjoy sixteen of the greatest mysteries of all time!
The Weird Circle was an anthology of classic thrillers from the pens of the world's best-known and respected fiction authors of the nineteenth century. The focus was horror and suspense stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson,...
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Tom Conway and John Stanley star as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes in sixteen crime stories that will keep you glued to your chain-cup of tea in hand!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective genius, Sherlock Holmes, came to NBC radio in 1930 starring Richard Gordon. By 1939, Basil Rathbone was heard as Holmes with Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. The duo were simultaneously starring in a popular series of Sherlock Holmes features...
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Suspense mixed mystery, suspicion, and dangerous adventure like no other. Featuring the biggest names in Hollywood, it stirred your nerves to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution... until the last possible moment!
Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportion. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962, and is considered by many to be the best mystery/drama...
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Robert Young stars as Jim Anderson, head of the Anderson family and the father who ... knows best! Enjoy sixteen fun-filled comedy episodes from the long-running radio series!
Father Knows Best was a situation comedy built around the Anderson family and life on Maple Street in the fictitious Midwestern town of Springfield. Robert Young starred as Jim Anderson, head of the household, husband of Margaret, and an insurance man by occupation. The couple...
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Wally Maher, Jeff Chandler, and Edmund McDonald star a Brett Halliday's red-haired Irish detective, Michael Shayne, in his nail-biting adventures from the Golden Age of radio.
Michael Shayne, "the reckless, red-headed Irishman," was a popular hard-boiled detective created by crime novelist Brett Halliday. Mike settled in Miami just after WWII, making crime pay by fighting it with a license and an attitude. Like Mike Hammer and Philip Marlowe, Shayne...