Last week’s Jack Benny episode was so much fun, we’re going to do another one.  Tonight, from December 1, 1946, “Jack Appears on Phil Baker’s Program” …. Preview Open

I don’t know about you, but I’m still full from Thanksgiving!  (And we still have relatives in town, so I’m full in other areas, as well.)  So let’s unwind with an after-turkey Jack Benny episode …. Preview Open

Like TV today, radio wasn’t just for amusement and diversion, it was where a great many got their news and information; often from broadcasting pioneers like Edward R. Murrow and more.  Tonight we’ll travel back to the 1950s and catch the news from Billings, Montana – and the world …. Preview Open

What a week!  So let’s get the radio off the deck, bring it in the house, and listen to some music  …. Preview Open

While Superman was a fixture on old time radio, Batman didn’t really take off till the movies and television …. Besides, who would have played The Joker on the radio, anyway?  (Probably Howard McNear.)  But tonight, the Caped Crusader joins Superman ON THE RADIO …. Preview Open

Halloween will soon be upon us, so I brought you a gift:  “A Corpse for Halloween!”  Courtesy of “Inner Sanctum Mysteries” …. Preview Open

“The Gilligan’s Island radio was actually NOT a prop. It was a working radio…Packard Bell model AR-851 table-top AM radio…previously purchased by show creator Sherwood Schwartz to listen to Dodger games in his office. Schwartz didn’t like the black radio used in the pilot…thought the white radio would show better. (He had the prop department […]

As we near the mid-point of the spookiest month of the calendar, the chills continue with “The White Ghost” on the “CBS Radio Mystery Theater” …. Preview Open

The 1934 Crosley Model “Sixty One!” And tonight, from January 8, 1934, one year before the birth of Elvis Presley, our Crosley blasts with the spine-tingling sounds of “The Witch’s Tale” and “The Devil’s Doctor” …. Preview Open

October, the spooky month, is just around the corner.  In that spirit (see what we did there?) we bring you radio’s outstanding theater of thrills: “Suspense!”  Buckle up for  “The Cellar Door” …. Preview Open

Last week’s Crosley Radio was so popular, so highly-acclaimed, so well-received that this week we bring you another.  While last week’s Crosley boomed with the thrills of “Calling Phil Vance,” this week, we’re going to hear how music chimes in:  It’s “Your Hit Parade” from March 29, 1941 …. Preview Open

The 1948 Crosley Record Player/Radio/Liquor Cabinet (I suppose you could put other things in the cabinets, too.)  Tonight, we’ll fire up the ’48 Crosley (and the liquor cabinet) for an exciting episode of “Calling Philo Vance” and “The Merry Murder Case” ….  Preview Open

A couple of weeks ago, in our post about “The Fantastic Four Radio Show,” we mentioned that the Marvel Comics show-producers were following in the footsteps of CBS who the year before had introduced the “CBS Radio Mystery Theater” with then-host E.G. Marshall.  Tonight, we bring you said Mystery Theater and “The Train Stops” …. […]

“The gay, heart-warming story of a woman who is married to a doctor…and likes it!”  Though short-lived, “The Doctor’s Wife,” sponsored by Ex-Lax, was pleasant, delightful, bright, and regular …. as in “Monday through Friday” regular …. Oh, you thought I meant regular as in …. That’s funny …. Tonight, Dr. Sanders visits Mrs. Irwin’s […]

Marvel Comics didn’t go directly from “the funny papers” to the big screen:  First, they were on the radio!  And it all started with “The Fantastic Four.” Yes, “The Fantastic Four Radio Show.”  And this was in 1975!  13 years after radio-dramas were declared “dead.”  (CBS had, one year earlier, revived the format to some […]

Unlike Groucho Marx, I would be thrilled to join a club that would have someone like me as a member!  And to that end, we have found just such a group:  “The World Adventurers Club.” Tonight, prepare to be regaled with the thrilling tale of “The Living Mummy” …. Preview Open

“Ah, Charlie McCarthy, the woodpeckers’ pin-up boy.” One of radio’s great rivalries was that of W.C. Fields and Charlie McCarthy.  Tonight, it’s “The Charlie McCarthy Show” with special guest W.C. Fields …. Preview Open

Just as the merger of the Metro, Goldwyn, and Mayer studios became “MGM,” the merger of Radio Corporation of America and the Victor Talking Machine Company gave us “RCA Victor.” And soon thereafter came one of the most famous mascots in American advertising history:  “Nipper” (of “His Master’s Voice” fame) …. Preview Open

1938 Philco Radios!  Quality!  Style!  And, oh, the sound!  Tonight, we travel back to 1938 and tune our Philcos to “The Shadow” starring Orson Welles … Preview Open

I’m headin’ over to the “Jot Em Down Store.”  Y’all need anything?   This week, on the heels of @drbastiat‘s great piece on how marriage has gotten out of hand (and it has,) we’ll sit a spell with “Lum and Abner” at the “Pine Ridge Matrimonial Bureau”  …. Preview Open