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December 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Aimee Semple McPherson

Aimee Semple McPherson

14 Episodes
1 Volume

Fascinating character in American history and an early pioneer in radio evangelism.More than just a radio minister, she was a movement in 1920s America with millions of followers.

14 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Honor the Law

Honor the Law

22 Episodes
1 Volume

These short stories from 1938 focus on police work and bravery: big cases and big busts, but also the interpersonal relationships between officers.

22 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Christmas on the Blue Network

Christmas on the Blue Network

4 Episodes
1 Volume

This very special Christmas old time radio show includes skits, music, and the voices of real WWII servicemen from the battle front.

4 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


November 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Worlds Greatest Short Stories

Worlds Greatest Short Stories

18 Episodes
1 Volume

features dramatizations of classic shorts stores like Tell Tale Heart, The Pickwick Papers, The Little Wife and more.

18 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Complete Broadcast 1941 (Pearl Harbor)

Complete Broadcast 1941 (Pearl Harbor)

56 Episodes
1 Volume

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the history of the world and officially brought the US in WWII. In the Complete Day Coverage of the Blue Network on Pearl Harbor Day (Dec 7, 1941) we can hear a nation moving from the confusion of a surprise attack to one steeled for War.

56 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


October 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Enchanted Hour

Enchanted Hour

17 Episodes
1 Volume

Henry Weber and his orchestra play uninterrupted music by composers such as Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Handel, Debussy, Strauss, and Wagner.

17 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Orbiter X

Orbiter X

4 Episodes
1 Volume

fascinating science fiction radio series about an imaginary space station.This six hour serial follows space pioneers and their struggle to conquer humankind's final frontier, space.

4 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Appointment with Fear

Appointment with Fear

6 Episodes
1 Volume

penned by John Dickson Carr and often dubbed the British version of "Suspense," this collection contains all known existing episodes of the mystery program.

6 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


September 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Cavalcade of Music

Cavalcade of Music

9 Episodes
1 Volume

features "light music" composers such as Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Victor Herbert, and Cole Porter.

9 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Charlotte Greenwood Show

Charlotte Greenwood Show

67 Episodes
1 Volume

Charlotte Greenwood plays the slapstick spinster aunt raising three children.

67 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Vox Pop

Vox Pop

140 Episodes
3 Volume

You won't want to miss this charming program featuring often spontaneous and playful interviews with citizens across the US and abroad. This extensive collection contains rare recordings previously not in circulation.

140 3
Add To Cart: $15.00
This is Civil Defense

This is Civil Defense

13 Episodes
1 Volume

entertaining and informative broadcast created during the Red Scare to teach the public how to act in the case of a disaster such as flooding, tornados, food shortages, and nuclear attack.

13 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Cavalcade of Kings

Cavalcade of Kings

50 Episodes
1 Volume

features the radio dramatization of the fascinating history of the British Monarchy.

50 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Hilltop House

Hilltop House

17 Episodes
1 Volume

This series follows heroine Bess Johnson, a caseworker at Hilltop House orphanage.

17 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


August 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Your Playhouse of Favorites

Your Playhouse of Favorites

7 Episodes
1 Volume

features classic and memorable stories and novels from classic literature.

7 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Junior G-Men

Junior G-Men

65 Episodes
1 Volume

Hosted and produced by famed former FBI agent turned Hollywood player Melvin Purvis, The True Adventures of Junior G-Men features true crime stories from the files of the FBI.

65 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Memorable Villains

Memorable Villains

32 Episodes
1 Volume

Many are mad, many are bad, and all are great memorable rivals to our heroes in this old time radio compilation.

32 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Out of the Deep

Out of the Deep

4 Episodes
1 Volume

Follow Capt. Gunnar Carlisle as his salvages Italian warships off the coast of Africa, threatens crooks with a panther in Guatemala, wrestles a ferocious octopus and more.

4 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Forever Tops

Forever Tops

11 Episodes
1 Volume

features popular American songs and other well loved classics performed by the legendary Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra and choir.

11 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Red Foley Show

Red Foley Show

12 Episodes
1 Volume

known as Mr. Country Music;Foley performed all types of country-western music with gusto including gospel, rockabilly, boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues, also both classic and contemporary country music.

12 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


July 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Love on the Line

Love on the Line

18 Episodes
1 Volume

In this 1940's broadcast teenage, lovebirds, Paul and Peggy, ring each other on the telephone in this fun old time radio comedy.

18 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Stop the Music

Stop the Music

5 Episodes
1 Volume

Bert Parks hosted Stop the Music with Don Hancock as announcer. A quiz show, the producers would play part of a well know song and the contestant would try to guess the title.

5 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Speaking of Liberty

Speaking of Liberty

24 Episodes
1 Volume

features top writers, reporters, and intellectuals who focus on the importance and value of citizenship and liberty for all people regardless of race, creed, or color.

24 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Magic Collection

Magic Collection

39 Episodes
1 Volume

This collection includes magic themed old time radio shows from multiple genres including comedy, drama, mystery and detective shows.

39 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Last Nighter

Last Nighter

20 Episodes
1 Volume

Last Nighter is a pun filled radio show with music from Jimmy Grier and His Orchestra. Listen carefully because the jokes are plentiful and quick.

20 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Whispering Streets

Whispering Streets

43 Episodes
1 Volume

romantic soap-opera drama with a special twist:The stories are told in a somewhat serial format with the next week's story using a minor character's point of view. This old time radio series had multiple well-known hostesses/narrators throughout the show's run including Bette Davis.

43 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


June 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Border Patrol 1941

Border Patrol 1941

7 Episodes
1 Volume

Based on real exploits of the border patrol: All names were changed to protect the innocent, except the border patrol agents' real names are used. Cases range from a drug smuggler who used a teenage boy as a drug mule to ghosts reported seen at Niagara Falls.

7 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Free Company

Free Company

10 Episodes
1 Volume

Created by an independent group of writers (including Orson Welles) on the eve of America's entrance into WWII, this series of radio dramas reminds Americans of the fundamental freedoms worth defending.

10 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Young Love

Young Love

7 Episodes
1 Volume

is a situational comedy about two naive lovebirds who get married while in college.The couple, Jimmy aka Einstein and Janet, decide that they don't want to wait to get married and try to find room in the course schedule to elope.Jimmy quips, "If we got married, we wouldn't have anything to fight about."

7 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Voice of Firestone

Voice of Firestone

2 Episodes
1 Volume

A pioneer in early old time radio shows, The Voice of Firestone was the first commercially sponsored music radio program.The show was a high-culture offering featured classical, operatic, and semi-classical music.In it's zenith, The Voice of Firestone featured a forty-six piece orchestra.

2 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


May 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Anthology

Anthology

56 Episodes
2 Volume

presents "A selections of readings from poets, past and present and the music to accompany their poetry." Recordings include star-packed casts with poetry readings by Bing Crosby, Helen Hayes, Frank Lovejoy, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead, Walter Huston, and many more.

56 2
Add To Cart: $10.00
Fighting AAF

Fighting AAF

12 Episodes
1 Volume

Broadcast in 1945, this old time radio show focused on the technological achievements of the Army Air Forces (AAF) including: dropping the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, radar defenses, blind landings, hydroponics, the GI Bill, and much more. With dramatic reenactments and jazzy music interludes, this show featured interviews with the principal officers and pilots involved. Update: 1 additional rare recording

12 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
That Was the Year

That Was the Year

39 Episodes
1 Volume

is a fascinating radio show that dramatizes the major historical events between the years 1896-1934. Headlines include Spanish American War in Cuba, Volcano Mt Pelee destroys town of Saint Pierre, Republic of China established, and Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. Every episode ends with a performance of a popular song from the year.

39 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Wax Cylinders 1 (1880 - 1890s)

Wax Cylinders 1 (1880 - 1890s)

126 Episodes
1 Volume

First commercially produced sound recording devices and offer an early look at turn of the century audio technology as well as popular music and culture from the late 19th century and early 20th century. Mass recording were made on Wax Cylinders from music to speeches to comedy routines all to be enjoyed the in comfort of the listener's home. This collection includes highlights from early recordings from the 1880-1890s.

126 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Cowboy Church of the Air

Cowboy Church of the Air

2 Episodes
1 Volume

Stuart Hamblen was the son of a Methodist Preacher and began his career as a gospel singer.In 1926, he began his career as a radio performer and was a member of the orginal Beverly Hillbillies.After seeing Billy Graham in 1949, Stuart Hamblen devoted his life to Christ and changed the tone of his career.He began his radio show "The Cowboy Church in the Air" and it was syndicated across the country.

2 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


April 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Virginia Gregg

Virginia Gregg

391 Episodes
5 Volume

Virginia Gregg had a long and varied career on the airwaves throughout the history of old time radio. She working with such radio greats as Jack Webb, Elliott Lewis, Hans Conried, Gerald Mohr, and Bob Bailey. Some have called her the female equivalent to William Conrad and during her heyday she appeared multiple times a week on the airwaves sometimes appearing on more than one show a day!

391 5
Add To Cart: $25.00
Royal Hawaiian Hotel

Royal Hawaiian Hotel

8 Episodes
1 Volume

Broadcast from the "world famous ballroom" at Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu.Also known as the Pink Palace of the Pacific for it's all pink exterior, The Royal Hawaiian Hotel opened it's doors in a extravagant black-tie party with over a thousand guests in 1927.

8 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Nona from Nowhere

Nona from Nowhere

5 Episodes
1 Volume

A true Soap Opera, Nona from Nowhere is sponsored by Bab-O cleanser! The show only lasted a couple of seasons, but is indicative of the classic 1950s soap opera with murder, drama, and organ rifts.

5 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


March 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Western Musical

Western Musical

87 Episodes
1 Volume

Included in the Western Music Collection is a sampling of the very best western and country old time radio music shows -- from hillbilly twangs to Texas swing.

87 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Western Party (Cowboy Hit Parade)

Western Party (Cowboy Hit Parade)

6 Episodes
1 Volume

also called Cowboy Hit Parade aired every Friday Nights from 8:30 PM-Midnight featuring top western songs. An early country-western disk jockey show highlighting top notch western music, listen for some fantastic guest performers

6 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Dinner Bell Roundup Time

Dinner Bell Roundup Time

6 Episodes
1 Volume

billed as a "live country music show," this old time radio series highlighting easy cowboy listening with songs.

6 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Johnnie Lee Wills and his Boys

Johnnie Lee Wills and his Boys

37 Episodes
1 Volume

join Johnnie Lee and his square-shootin musicians for their musical program full of your favorite western tunes, old time hoedown numbers, and sentimental ballads.

37 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Sage Brush Round-Up

Sage Brush Round-Up

4 Episodes
1 Volume

toe-tapping old time western music radio show.The upbeat western tunes are intermixed with commercials and light-hearted banter.

4 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Dale Evans

Dale Evans

38 Episodes
1 Volume

married to Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys, she was the Queen of the West. An unstoppable duo force in the singing cowboy genre, together they made 28 movies and recorded over 300 songs. This collection includes some of Dale Evans early classic radio works on the Bergen and McCarthy show and well as a sampling of her performances on the Roy Rogers old time radio show.

38 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Western Radio Show Compilation

Western Radio Show Compilation

74 Episodes
1 Volume

Yee-haw! OTRCAT.com's exclusive Western Sampler gathers the best of the western adventure and drama old time radio shows from American Adventure to Wild Bill Hickok.

74 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Western Adventures with Historical Figures

Western Adventures with Historical Figures

19 Episodes
1 Volume

Over more than two decades on the air, the Masked Man ran into a good many historical figures, but the Lone Ranger never let recorded history get in the way of a good story. Old Time Radio's favorite western heroes meet real western historical figures like Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley, Billy the Kid, even a young Teddy Roosevelt.

19 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Chuck Wagon Jamboree

Chuck Wagon Jamboree

80 Episodes
1 Volume

"Let's be Happy, gather 'round, 'cause it's time for you and me to sing a song as we jog along to the Chuck Wagon Jamboree!" Festive and happy country music old time radio show hosted by Ken Curtis, best known as TV's Gunsmoke Festus Haggen.

80 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


February 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players

Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players

4 Episodes
1 Volume

"Each week a great star.Each week a great story." This classic radio show featured big Hollywood stars in excellent performances including Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotten, Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, John Garfield, Paulette Goddard, Gene Kelly, Gregory Peck and more.

4 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Doctors Wife

Doctors Wife

3 Episodes
1 Volume

"The gay, heart-warming story of a woman who is married to a doctor...and likes it!" Doctor Dan Palmer and his supportive wife Julie live and work in a small town full of big personalities in this short lived old time radio soap opera.

3 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Hobby Lobby

Hobby Lobby

4 Episodes
1 Volume

This radio show allowed listeners everywhere to write in about their unusual hobbies so they could come on the radio and "lobby for their hobby." Many of the hobbies were actually people's professions like a female gorilla trainer, a scientist that makes robots, and a beekeeper (whose bees escaped during the show). Update: 2 additional rare recordings

4 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Lindas First Love

Lindas First Love

8 Episodes
1 Volume

Starring Arline Blackburn as Linda, the shop girl thrust into a rags to riches story as she tries to adjust to life with her new wealthy husband and his family.

8 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Pirates

Pirates

60 Episodes
1 Volume

Includes pirate theme shows from a variety of old time radio shows, it's a listener's treasure chest of "arrghs", "aye, mateys" "ahoys" and wild pirate-themed adventure, detective shows, drama, and comedy.

60 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Its Maritime

Its Maritime

6 Episodes
1 Volume

Produced in cooperation with The War Shipping Administration during WWII, It's Maritime featured stories from the history of man's adventures on the high seas.

6 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Strange Adventure

Strange Adventure

256 Episodes
1 Volume

featuring short well told adventures stories with diverse topics such as Zombies in Haiti and a pet monkey that saves the day. All stories are written and performed by Pat McGeehan on this exciting old time radio show.

256 1
Add To Cart: $5.00


January 2009

Title Popularity Ep. Downloads
Detectives Black and Blue

Detectives Black and Blue

6 Episodes
1 Volume

An early comedy detective show featuring two unlikely heroes, Detectives Black and Blue aren't too clever but they seem to solve crime in spite of themselves.

6 1
Add To Cart: $5.00
Freedoms People

Freedoms People

2 Episodes
1 Volume

A deeply patriotic radio show which celebrates democracy and freedom. Made by and for African-Americans, the show featured some of the greatest leaders in 1940s black culture

2 1
Add To Cart: $5.00