Episodes 258
Avg. Duration 27m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.2 (46)
Since Jan 2000
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Schedule
Daily
Consistency
48%
Hosting
vintageradioshows.com

About This Podcast

Vintage Radio Shows brings you the golden age of entertainment with classic comedies, mysteries, dramas, westerns, and serials from the 1930s–1950s. Enjoy restored recordings from over 40,000 episodes of old time radio, plus historic newsreels, film serials, and vintage cartoons.

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Dragnet -- Twenty Two Rifle for Christmas

Jun 10, 2026 27m

One of old-time radio's most famous and controversial broadcasts. Three days before Christmas 1949, Sergeant Joe Friday is called out when nine-year-old Stanley Johnstone goes missing and bloodstains…

Our Miss Brooks -- Mr Boyntons Barbecue

Jun 09, 2026 30m

Our Miss Brooks was radio's best-loved schoolroom comedy, starring Eve Arden as the dry-witted English teacher forever pining for bashful biology teacher Mr. Boynton. In this May 7, 1950 episode, Mr.…

Abbott and Costello -- Radio Station with Alan Ladd

Jun 08, 2026 29m

Step up to the microphone with the kings of comedy. In this March 30, 1944 broadcast of The Abbott and Costello Program, cool Hollywood tough-guy Alan Ladd drops by -- and that's all it takes for Lou…

Inner Sanctum -- Death Is An Artist

Jun 07, 2026 29m

Step through the famous creaking door once more. Inner Sanctum Mysteries was Himan Brown's masterclass in radio terror, hosted by the pun-loving Raymond. In "Death Is An Artist," first broadcast…

Inner Sanctum -- Death In The Depths

Jun 06, 2026 29m

Step through the creaking door into Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Himan Brown's classic anthology of terror hosted by the sardonic Raymond. In "Death in the Depths," a deep-sea diver alone on the ocean…

Jack Benny -- Jacks Big Date

Jun 05, 2026 25m

America's favorite cheapskate is stepping out on the town! In this March 1954 broadcast from New York, Jack Benny gets gussied up for a big date with singer Gisele MacKenzie at the swanky Acme Plaza…

Richard Diamond -- The Ruby Idol Case

Jun 04, 2026 30m

Dick Powell stars as Richard Diamond, the singing private eye, in one of the series' most playful cases. What begins as a routine investigation turns into a gleeful send-up of the whole gumshoe genre…

Sherlock Holmes Hobbs -- The Hound of the Baskervilles Pt1

Jun 03, 2026 26m

From the BBC's beloved 1952-1969 Sherlock Holmes series, Carleton Hobbs is Holmes and Norman Shelley is Watson in Conan Doyle's greatest mystery. In Part 1, Dr. Mortimer lays before Holmes the legend…

Burns and Allen -- George Owes Money for Phone Calls

Jun 02, 2026 28m

George Burns and Gracie Allen bring their golden-age comedy to the air, and this 1940 outing finds George stuck with a pile of telephone charges -- until Gracie's wonderfully tangled logic about who…

X Minus One -- And the Moon Be Still as Bright

Jun 01, 2026 23m

From NBC's landmark science fiction series X Minus One comes Ray Bradbury's haunting Martian Chronicles tale. The Fourth Expedition lands on Mars to find its ancient civilization gone -- wiped out by…

Have Gun Will Travel -- Search For Wylie Dawson

May 31, 2026 24m

Paladin, the cultured gunfighter-for-hire of CBS Radio's Have Gun -- Will Travel, rides out on an unusual errand: to find Wylie Dawson and tell him he's no longer a wanted man. But clearing a name…

Nero Wolfe -- Vanishing Shells

May 30, 2026 28m

Sydney Greenstreet stars as Rex Stout's brilliant, orchid-loving armchair detective Nero Wolfe in this 1951 NBC mystery. It's bullets on Broadway: when a prominent stage director is found murdered,…

Richard Diamond -- Butchers Protection

May 27, 2026 29m

Richard Diamond, Private Detective starred Dick Powell as a wisecracking, song-singing former NYPD cop turned Manhattan private eye. In this episode, originally heard on 8 January 1950, a worried…

Inner Sanctum -- Voice On The Wire

May 21, 2026 29m

Inner Sanctum Mysteries was radio's beloved half-hour anthology of horror and macabre suspense, famous for its slowly creaking door and its smirking host Raymond. In "Voice On The Wire" (29 November…

Father Knows Best -- Superstitious Folk

May 20, 2026 29m

NBC's gentle Thursday-night comedy turns the Anderson house into a museum of black cats, broken mirrors, and unlucky ladders in 'Superstitious Folk,' first heard 25 May 1950. Robert Young's Jim…

Sam Spade -- The Prodigal Panda Caper

May 19, 2026 29m

The Adventures of Sam Spade brought Dashiell Hammett's wisecracking San Francisco private eye to NBC every week, telling each new 'caper' with snappy banter, hard-boiled atmosphere, and a leading man…

Beyond Tomorrow -- The Trouble with Robots

May 18, 2026 19m

From CBS's short-lived 1950 science fiction anthology Beyond Tomorrow -- the network's bid to rival Dimension X. In "The Trouble with Robots," a near-future household discovers that the real problem…

Journey Into Space -- Operation Luna part 03

May 17, 2026 24m

BBC Radio's landmark 1953 science fiction serial. Captain 'Jet' Morgan and his crew are the first humans on the Moon -- and while exploring a vast lunar crater, Jet vanishes from sight without…

Dragnet -- The Big Carney

May 16, 2026 29m

Jack Webb's Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith work a string of high-priced shopliftings hitting Los Angeles department stores. Aired May 3, 1953 on NBC, "The Big Carney" is classic…

Hall of Fantasy -- Dance of The Devil Dolls

May 15, 2026 22m

Welcome back to The Hall of Fantasy, the series of radio dramas dedicated to the supernatural, the unusual, and the unknown. In "The Dance of the Devil Dolls," originally broadcast February 9, 1953…

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VintageRadioShows.com has published 258 episodes since January 2000, covering topics in Arts, Comedy.

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VintageRadioShows.com is currently highly active with new episodes daily. Average episode length is 27m.

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