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https://www.oldtimeretroradio.comOld Time Radio Classics is a curated collection of the greatest old time radio shows from the golden age of broadcasting.
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Lux Radio Theatre - "Killer Cates" (1946) (opens the original)
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Lux Radio Theatre presents “Killer Cates,” episode 550, originally broadcast on CBS on December 16, 1946. Jack Benny takes a notable dramatic turn alongside Gail Patrick and Alan Reed in this Lux production, adapted from a Warner Bros. screenplay. Benny plays Jeff Morley, a comedian who has spent years portraying the ruthless gangster Killer Cates in a successful stage melodrama. Longing to return to lighter work, Jeff finds the hard-boiled role beginning to blur the line between performance and
Suspense - "The Man Within" (1953) (opens the original)
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Suspense presents “The Man Within,” episode 510, originally broadcast on April 27, 1953. Herbert Marshall stars in this CBS Radio adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1929 novel. In fogbound rural England, a terrified fugitive named Andrews seeks shelter at an isolated cottage, where Elizabeth offers him a precarious temporary refuge. As fear of the man he betrayed closes in, this tense drama explores loyalty, conscience, and the cost of informing. The radio adaptation was written by Morton Fine and Da
Escape - "Orient Express" (1949) (opens the original)
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Escape presents “Orient Express,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on February 19, 1949. This is episode 56, adapted by Sheldon Stark and Walter Newman from Graham Greene’s 1932 novel Stamboul Train, published in the United States as Orient Express. Businessman Gregory Myatt boards the Orient Express in Belgium, bound for Istanbul in 1932. A fellow passenger, a chance encounter, and growing signs of danger draw him into a tense web of Balkan espionage aboard the speeding train. The cast include
Screen Directors Playhouse - "Spiral Staircase" (1949) (opens the original)
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Screen Directors Playhouse presents “Spiral Staircase,” episode 44, originally broadcast on November 25, 1949. This NBC adaptation is introduced by guest screen director Robert Siodmak, who directed the 1946 film version. Dorothy McGuire reprises her film role as Helen, a mute young woman caught in mounting danger after a murder unsettles a small New England village. As a storm gathers around the shadowy mansion where she works, tension rises in this suspenseful adaptation of The Spiral Staircas
Academy Award Theater - "The Pride of the Marines" (2006) (opens the original)
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Academy Award Theater presents “The Pride of the Marines,” episode 12, originally broadcast June 15, 1946. John Garfield reprises his film role as Al Schmid, with Rosemary DeCamp. Adapted by Frank Wilson from the 1945 Warner Bros. drama based on Roger Butterfield’s book Al Schmid, Marine, this World War II story follows a Marine shaped by combat at Guadalcanal as he faces the difficult transition back to civilian life. Produced and directed by Dee Englebach for CBS, the drama also centers on the
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