WPR HOME | IDEAS NETWORK | NPR NEWS & CLASSICAL NETWORK | WPR NEWS | ABOUT WPR | MEMBERSHIP
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIPS | PROGRAM INDEX | LIVE WEBCASTING | AUDIO ARCHIVES | WPR NATIONAL | STORE

Old Time Radio Drama
PROGRAM RUNDOWN ARCHIVES
Home     2013   2012   2011   2010   2009   2008   2007   2006   2005   2004   2003   2002   2001

DECEMBER 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 12/06/08 Jack Benny Christmas Shopping in N.Y. 12/11/38 12/06/08 Dr. Sixgun A Pony for Christmas 12/19/54 12/06/08 Ozzie & Harriet Going to a Concert 12/14/51 12/06/08 Phil Harris The City Hall Christmas Tree 12/18/49 12/06/08 Johnny Dollar Milford Brooks III 12/07/48 12/06/08 Dark Fantasy The House of Bread 12/26/41 12/13/08 Hopalong Cassidy The Memory of Mace Merlot 12/15/51 12/13/08 Life of Riley The New Foreman 12/01/50 12/13/08 Rocky Fortune Carnival One Way 12/08/53 12/13/08 Andrews Sisters Christmas Island 00/00/46 12/13/08 Dr. Kildare Arthur Morgan’s Brain Surgery 12/08/50 12/13/08 Suspense Mission Completed 12/01/49 12/13/08 X-Minus One Nightfall 12/07/55 12/20/08 Challenge of the Yukon Christmas 12/22/48 12/20/08 Gene Autry Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 00/00/49 12/20/08 Gene Autry Here Comes Santa Claus 00/00/47 12/20/08 Great Gildersleeve Christmas Gift for McGee 12/21/41 12/20/08 Columbia Workshop Plot to Overthrow Christmas 12/24/42 12/20/08 Vic & Sade Vic’s Christmas List is Too Long 12/00/39 12/20/08 Casey Crime Photog Christmas Shopping 12/19/46 12/20/08 Whistler The Christmas Gift 12/23/51 12/27/08 Lone Ranger The Fire God 12/12/45 12/27/08 Fibber McGee Fibber Finds a Watch 12/31/40 12/27/08 Box 13 The Hot Box 12/26/48 12/27/08 Space Patrol Last Voyage of Lonesome Lena 12/25/54 12/27/08 Mysterious Traveler If You Believe 12/29/46 12/27/08 Shadow The Cat That Killed 12/31/39
DECEMBER 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 12/07/08 Lightning Jim The Outlaw’s Son 12/07/08 Jack Benny Jack’s Violin Lesson 12/07/47 12/07/08 Bing Crosby White Christmas 00/00/42 12/07/08 Big Town The Lost and Found 12/07/48 12/07/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Window 12/09/53 12/07/08 Boston Blackie Blackie Sent to the Pen 12/03/46 12/07/08 Weird Circle The Great Plague 12/05/43 12/14/08 All-Star Wester Thea One-Shot 12/13/47 12/14/08 Fibber McGee Mailing Christmas Presents 12/10/40 12/14/08 Globe Theater The Show Off 12/06/44 12/14/08 Escape Border Town 12/13/49 12/14/08 Sam Spade The Bouncing Betty Caper 12/12/48 12/14/08 Columbia Workshop Story in Dogtown Common 12/14/39 12/21/08 Great Gildersleeve The Big Day 12/23/41 12/21/08 First Nighter Little Town of Bethlehem 12/22/45 12/21/08 Campbell Playhouse A Christmas Carol 12/24/39 12/21/08 Jack Benny Christmas Eve Open House 12/24/39 12/21/08 X-Minus One Double Dare 12/21/57 12/28/08 Hoplaong Cassidy Spider Woman 12/22/51 12/28/08 Burns and Allen John Garfield, Gangster 12/28/43 12/28/08 Damon Runyan Theatre Pick the Winner 00/00/48 12/28/08 Johnny Dollar The Forbes Matter 1 of 5 12/26/55 12/28/08 Johnny Dollar The Forbes Matter 2 of 5 12/27/55 12/28/08 Crime Classics Coyle and Richardson 12/30/53 12/28/08 Suspense Pink Camellias 12/27/45
NOVEMBER 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 11/01/08 Have Gun Will Travel The Monster of Moon Ridge 03/08/59 11/01/08 Sons of the Pioneers Ghost Riders in the Sky 11/01/08 Ozzie and Harriet Haunted House 10/31/48 11/01/08 Suspense The Dunwich Horror 11/01/45 11/01/08 Dark Fantasy The Headless Dead 01/23/42 11/01/08 Shadow The Three Ghosts 10/31/37 11/01/08 Inner Sanctum Song of the Slasher 04/24/45 11/01/08 Rosemary Brown Lament 00/00/70 11/08/08 Cisco Kid Who Lives By the Gun 09/16/54 11/08/08 Jack Benny Jack Steals Phil’s Girl 11/04/37 11/08/08 Lives of Harry Lime Art Is Long & Lime is Fleeting 11/09/51 11/08/08 Campbell Playhouse The Magnificent Ambersons 10/29/39 11/08/08 Midnight A Case of the Gothic Blues 11/15/08 Gunsmoke Overland Express 10/31/52 11/15/08 Fibber McGee Parking Ticket Trouble 11/14/39 11/15/08 Let George Do It The Robber 11/08/46 11/15/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Clock 11/12/52 11/15/08 Richard Diamond The Garibaldi Case 02/01/52 11/15/08 X-Minus One Child’s Play 10/20/55 11/22/08 All Star Western Thea with Foy Willing 11/22/47 11/22/08 Space Patrol The Sea Monster of Planet X 11/21/03 11/22/08 Vic and Sade Mr. Gumpox Offer 00/00/39 11/22/08 Bergen & McCarthy W.C. Fields 11/22/08 Mysterious Traveler The Man the Insects Hated 10/07/44 11/22/08 NBC University Theater Arrowsmith 11/07/48 11/29/08 Have Gun Will Travel British Courage 01/11/59 11/29/08 Burns & Allen Charles Boyer as Tex 11/30/43 11/29/08 Crime Classics Killing Story of William Corder 11/25/53 11/29/08 Scarlet Queen The Wandering Master 11/13/47 11/29/08 Calling All Cars The Greasy Trail 06/10/38 11/29/08 Shadow Death is Blind 11/20/38
NOVEMBER 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 11/02/08 Gunsmoke Tara 11/07/52 11/02/08 Life of Riley Babs’ Elopement 11/03/50 11/02/08 Challenge of the Yukon Preston Turns the Tables 10/27/48 11/02/08 Lum & Abner Projector Lessons 11/01/43 11/02/08 Billy Matthews Whiskey 11/02/08 Bob & Ray Mr. Trace, Keener than Most 05/31/84 11/02/08 Whistler A Present for Ricky 10/07/46 11/02/08 Suspense The Singing Walls 11/02/44 11/09/08 Gunsmoke Till Death Do Us 10/21/56 11/09/08 Bergen & McCarthy with Elsa Maxwell 11/07/43 11/09/08 Let George Do It The Robber 11/08/46 11/09/08 Big Town The Fatal Chain 11/09/48 11/09/08 Shadow Black Rock 11/13/38 11/09/08 Dimension X The Professor was a Thief 11/05/50 11/16/08 Lone Ranger Gallows Threat 11/16/45 11/16/08 Burns & Allen Fifteenth Anniversary 11/11/48 11/16/08 Screen Director’s Playh Lifeboat 11/16/50 11/16/08 Columbia Workshop A Letter from Above 11/16/39 11/16/08 Lorenzo Jones Scheme to Rob Mrs. Peabody 00/00/39 11/16/08 Bob & Ray Hard Luck Stories 05/31/84 11/23/08 Hawk Larabee The California Kid 10/18/47 11/23/08 Life of Riley Riley’s First Date 11/17/50 11/23/08 Mercury Theater The Pickwick Papers 11/20/38 11/23/08 Horatio Hornblower Rejoining the Fleet 01/09/53 11/23/08 Casey Crime Photog Earned Reward 11/20/47 11/30/08 Have Gtun Will Travel Bitter Vengeance 11/29/59 11/30/08 Fred Allen Adolphe Menjou’s New Suit 11/28/42 11/30/08 Information Please Artur Rubinstein 11/29/43 11/30/08 Horatio Hornblower Barbara Joins Horatio 11/28/53 11/30/08 Philip Marlowe The Hard Way Out 11/28/48 11/30/08 Lights Out! Bon Voyage 11/10/42 11/30/08 Bickersons Bets on the Horses
OCTOBER 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 10/04/08 University Theatre War of the Worlds 10/04/08 10/04/08 Scarlet Queen Tattooed Beaver & Baby Food 10/09/47 10/04/08 Ozzie & Harriet The Prince’s Gift 10/07/45 10/04/08 Gunsmoke How to Die for Nothing 10/10/53 10/04/08 Bergen & McCarthy Laughs Take a Holiday 10/11/08 Hopalong Cassidy Gunfighter in Short Pants 10/13/51 10/11/08 Burns & Allen The Wrecked Car 10/15/43 10/11/08 Dr. Kildare Eddie Jenkins & the Arsonist 10/20/50 10/11/08 Escape The Second Shot 03/25/54 10/11/08 Boston Blackie Diamond Smuggling Gang 08/13/46 10/11/08 Diary of Fate Walter Vincent 05/28/48 10/18/08 Lone Ranger The Man from the East 10/15/43 10/18/08 Duffy’s Tavern Party for Columnists 10/05/51 10/18/08 Great Gildersleeve Appointed Water Commissioner 10/18/42 10/18/08 Rocky Jordan The Bartered Bridegroom 10/31/48 10/18/08 Gangbusters Collector who Robbed Midwest 10/18/08 Shadow Night without End 10/16/38 10/25/08 Vic and Sade Looking for a Photograph 11/06/39 10/25/08 Bickersons Round 1 10/25/08 Screen Director’s Play Yellow Sky 07/15/49 10/25/08 Philip Marlowe The Easy Mark 01/29/49 10/25/08 Columbia Workshop The Devil & Daniel Webster 08/06/38 10/25/08 Radio City Playhouse Tension in 643 08/01/43 10/25/08 NBC Short Story The Lottery 03/14/51
OCTOBER 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 10/05/08 Fort Laramie Galvanized Yankee 10/07/56 10/05/08 Jack Benny Jack Recovers His Memory 10/09/49 10/05/08 Five-Minute Mystery Too Early Bird 10/05/08 X-Minus One A Wind is Rising 10/03/57 10/05/08 Inner Sanctum Death by Scripture 10/09/45 10/05/08 Nightbeat Kenny Day, Amnesia Victim 10/06/50 10/12/08 Lone Ranger The Finger of Death 10/08/45 10/12/08 Fibber McGee Missing Screwdriver 10/15/40 10/12/08 FBI in Peace and War Thirty to One 10/12/08 Suspense Beyond Good and Evil 10/11/45 10/12/08 Mr. District Attorney The Case of Setup for Re-entry 10/04/44 10/19/08 Studio One Singing Guns 10/21/47 10/19/08 Our Miss Brooks The Bookie 10/15/50 10/19/08 Point Sublime Ben Willet Returns to Town 10/06/47 10/19/08 Casey Crime Photog The Camera Bug 10/16/47 10/19/08 Strange Dr. Weird The House Where Death Lives 11/07/44 10/19/08 Bob & Ray Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy 05/31/84 10/26/08 Lightning Jim Disorder in the Court 10/26/08 Great Gildersleeve First Cold Snap 10/11/42 10/26/08 Campbell Playhouse Escape 10/15/39 10/26/08 Boston Blackie Granny’s Witchcraft 10/29/47 10/26/08 Hall of Fantasy The Marquis of Death 06/22/53
SEPTEMBER 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 09/06/08 Lone Ranger Thunder God 02/17/48 09/06/08 Jack Benny Northwest Passage 05/19/40 09/06/08 Planet Man Episodes 5-6 09/06/08 Escape The Most Dangerous Game 10/01/47 09/06/08 Lux Radio Theater The Thin Man 06/08/36 09/13/08 Cisco Kid A Spanish Shawl 09/13/08 Burns & Allen Good Help Is Hard to Find 02/02/48 09/13/08 Crime Classics Sudden Death of James Fisk 06/29/53 09/13/08 Radio City Playhouse The Unguarded Moment 08/29/49 09/13/08 Boston Blackie Building Fire 08/20/46 09/13/08 Inner Sanctum Terror by Night 09/18/45 09/20/08 Duffy’s Tavern Army Surplus Helicopter 09/07/50 09/20/08 Vic and Sade Names of Wildflowers 09/22/39 09/20/08 Jungle Jim The Bat Woman 11/02/35 09/20/08 Adventures by Morse Deepest Grave in the World 04/01/44 09/20/08 Richard Diamond Death in Hair Restoration Salon 09/20/50 09/20/08 Shadow The Caverns of Death 09/25/38 09/21/03 Sealed Book I’ll Die Laughing 05/27/45 09/27/08 Lone Ranger Cattle for Sale 09/13/43 09/27/08 American Trail Dispatch to New York 09/27/08 Life of Riley The Birth of Babs 03/04/45 09/27/08 Candy Matson The Egyptian Amulet 10/23/50 09/27/08 NBC University Thea Gulliver’s Travels 09/24/48 09/27/08 Suspense Two Sharp Knives 06/07/45 09/27/08 Bandwagon Corresp The Automated Garden
SEPTEMBER 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 09/07/08 Fort Laramie The Buffalo Hunters 09/09/56 09/07/08 Great Gildersleeve Marjorie’s Cake 09/07/41 09/07/08 Box 13 Blackmail is Murder 09/05/48 09/07/08 Columbia Workshop San Quentin Breakout 09/05/36 09/07/08 Escape The Red Forest 08/11/50 09/07/08 X-Minus One Shanghaied 09/01/55 09/14/08 Gunsmoke Home Surgery 09/13/52 09/14/08 Theatre Guild For Love or Money 09/19/48 09/14/08 Richard Diamond Wrong Laundry Number 09/06/50 09/14/08 Hermit’s Cave House with a Past 09/14/08 Johnny Dollar Expiring Nickels 09/04/49 09/21/08 Let’s Pretend The Elves & the Shoemaker 09/05/42 09/21/08 Gene Autry Lonesome Cowboy 09/17/49 09/21/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Food 09/21/59 09/21/08 Dragnet The Big Pair 09/21/50 09/21/08 CBS Radio Workshop Time Found Again 09/15/57 09/21/08 Shadow Dead Men Talk 09/24/39 09/21/08 Easy Aces Jane Buys Johnny Two Suits 09/28/08 Hopalong Cassidy A Shot in the Dark 09/29/51 09/28/08 Ozzie & Harriet Randolph’s Party 00/00/54 09/28/08 Scarlet Queen Shore Leave & Unhappy Wife 09/25/47 09/28/08 Big Town Double Murder 10/12/48 09/28/08 Pete Kelly’s Blues June Gould 09/12/51 09/28/08 Eleventh Hour Tavern of Lost Souls 00/00/41
AUGUST 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 08/02/08 Hopalong Cassidy Rainmaker of Eagle Nest Mt. 01/08/50 08/02/08 Jack Benny The Train Porter 03/28/37 08/02/08 Studio One Babbitt 03/30/48 08/02/08 Black Museum A .32 Caliber Bullet 06/03/52 08/02/08 Dark Fantasy The Demon Tree 12/05/41 08/09/08 Dr. Sixgun Land Development Scheme 09/09/54 08/09/08 Red Skelton Well-Intentioned Nuisances 05/28/46 08/09/08 Green Hornet The Stuffed Panda 10/04/45 08/09/08 Philip Marlowe The Orange Dog 01/22/49 08/09/08 Mercury Summer Thea The Search for Henri Lefevre 07/12/46 08/09/08 Witch’s Tale The Priest of Sekhet 05/08/36 08/16/08 Great Gildersleeve End of Vacation at Grass Lake 08/29/43 08/16/08 Green Hornet Put It on Ice 07/04/39 08/16/08 Cloak & Dagger The Trojan Horse 05/28/50 08/16/08 Life with Luigi At the Beach 07/17/49 08/16/08 Suspense Footfalls 07/12/45 08/16/08 Boston Blackie The Killer Cuckoo Clock 07/23/46 08/23/08 Frontier Town Return to Dos Rios 09/26/52 08/23/08 CBS Radio Workshop Roughing It 10/05/55 08/23/08 Screen Guild Theater The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 11/03/47 08/23/08 Lives of Harry Lime Ticket to Tangier 08/24/51 08/23/08 Dark Fantasy The Letter from Yesterday 05/01/42 08/23/08 Hall of Fantasy The Judge’s House 04/03/47 08/30/08 Have Gun Will Travel Finn Alley 08/09/59 08/30/08 Dr. Kildare Buffalo Barnie McClure 08/10/50 08/30/08 Fibber McGee Not Getting His Personal Mail 03/04/47 08/30/08 The Lineup Candy Store Killing 11/16/50 08/30/08 Suspense Dealings of Mr. Markheim 06/28/45 08/30/08 Two Thousand Plus The Insect 08/15/51
AUGUST 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 08/03/08 Fort Laramie The Massacre 08/05/56 08/03/08 Great Gildersleeve Leroy Behaves Too Perfectly 08/06/52 08/03/08 Let’s Pretend The Yellow Dwarf 07/27/46 08/03/08 X-Minus One The Veldt 08/04/55 08/03/08 Suspense A Man in the House 08/02/45 08/03/08 Quiet Please It’s Later Than You Think 08/02/48 08/03/08 Bickersons Lose Their Apartment 08/10/08 Gunsmoke Sweet and Sour 08/05/56 08/10/08 Lum and Abner Cedric’s Insomnia 08/10/43 08/10/08 Vic and Sade Bacon Sandwiches 08/14/40 08/10/08 Richard Diamond The Wheat Germ Case 08/09/53 08/10/08 Encore Theatre A Man to Remember 08/06/46 08/10/08 Philip Marlowe The August Lion 08/06/49 08/10/08 Bob & Ray Komodo Dragon, Gabe Preston 00/00/69 08/10/08 Dimension X The Castaways 08/11/50 08/17/08 Hopalong Cassidy The Disappearing Deputy 08/13/50 08/17/08 Radio City Playhouse Fanny 08/21/49 08/17/08 CBS Radio Workshop A Dissertation on Love 08/17/56 08/17/08 Suspense Summer Storm 10/18/45 08/17/08 Scarlet Queen The Eight Historic Periods 08/21/47 08/17/08 Crime Classics Trial of Laura D. Fair 08/17/53 08/24/08 Lone Ranger Single Tracks 08/24/45 08/24/08 Burns & Allen No Money 08/29/44 08/24/08 Counterspy Bouncing Bank Robber 08/23/49 08/24/08 Escape Crossing Paris 08/25/50 08/24/08 Clock Professor Leonard Higgins 08/25/47 08/24/08 Weird Circle The Fall of the House of Usher 08/29/43 08/31/08 Have Gun Will Travel For the Birds 08/28/60 08/31/08 Can You Top This? Suitors 08/15/45 08/31/08 Damon Runyan Theatre Breach of Promise 00/00/48 08/31/08 Black Museum The Leather Bag 00/00/52 08/31/08 Lives of Harry Lime Voodoo 08/31/51 08/31/08 Hall of Fantasy The Diamonds of Death 08/31/53 08/31/08 Bandwagon Corresp Back to School
JULY 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 07/05/08 Dr. Sixgun Indians Poisoned 09/02/54 07/05/08 Jack Benny Nightmares of Fred Allen 01/30/37 07/05/08 Gangbusters A Date with Death 06/04/49 07/05/08 Damon Runyon Theater A Very Honorable Guy 07/05/08 Political Humor Adlai Stevenson: The Boar 07/05/08 Radio City Playhouse The Birthday Party 07/25/49 07/05/08 Inner Sanctum The Edge of Death 01/15/46 07/12/08 Our Miss Brooks Hillbilly Heifetz 07/03/55 07/12/08 Theater Guild Pygmalion 10/21/51 07/12/08 Night Beat Old Pop Musician 08/07/50 07/12/08 Calling All Cars Case of Dallas Egan 02/01/38 07/12/08 Mysterious Traveler The Haunted Trailer 04/29/52 07/19/08 Have Gun Will Travel Deliver the Body 07/20/59 07/19/08 Life of Riley Peg’s Old Flame 09/24/44 07/19/08 Johnny Dollar The Robert Perry Case 03/04/49 07/19/08 Suspense Bank Holiday 07/19/45 07/19/08 Philip Marlowe Heir for the G-String 08/25/51 07/19/08 Two Thousand Plus When the Worlds Met 05/03/50 07/26/08 Gunsmoke Gentlemen’s Disagreement 07/26/52 07/26/08 Great Gildersleeve The Fishing Trip 08/30/42 07/26/08 Theater Five Big Deal on Sutton East 07/29/65 07/26/08 Scarlet Queen Boston Geisha & Chesapeake 07/24/47 07/26/08 Green Hornet Juvenile Delinquency 07/26/08 Casey, Crime Photog The Self Made Hero 07/17/47
JULY 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 07/06/08 Challenge of the Yukon Unscheduled Escape 07/06/44 07/06/08 Hop Harrigan Mystery of the Vanishing Men 07/07/47 07/06/08 Can You Top This? with Peter Donald 07/05/47 07/06/08 Bold Venture Isle of Pines 07/06/08 Nick Carter The Echo of Death 07/06/43 07/06/08 I Was a Communist FBI Where the Red Men Roamed 07/02/52 07/06/08 Black Mass Rats in the Wall 07/03/64 07/13/08 Hopalong Cassidy Hoppy Sees Red 07/09/50 07/13/08 Lum & Abner Mousey’s Injury 07/12/43 07/13/08 Lum & Abner Miss Melrose Moves Out 07/13/43 07/13/08 Dr. Kildare Dan Mallory’s Peptic Ulcer 07/13/50 07/13/08 Calling All Cars The Man Who Talked 07/14/38 07/13/08 Rocky Jordan The Race 07/17/49 07/13/08 Political Humor Brooks Hayes 07/13/08 X-Minus One The Green Hills of Earth 07/10/55 07/20/08 Lone Ranger Town of the Lawless 07/18/45 07/20/08 Tom Corbett Pursuit of Danger, 1 of 2 06/17/52 07/20/08 Tom Corbett Pursuit of Danger, 2 of 2 06/19/52 07/20/08 Bob & Ray Hobby Hut 05/31/84 07/20/08 Dragnet The Big Gent, Part 1 07/20/50 07/20/08 Richard Diamond Martha Campbell Kidnapped 07/26/50 07/20/08 Radio City Playhouse Of Unsound Mind 07/17/48 07/27/08 Have Gun Will Travel Delta Queen 07/24/60 07/27/08 CBS Radio Workshop Never Bet the Devil Your Head 07/28/57 07/27/08 Political Humor Billy Matthews: Whiskey 07/27/08 This Is Your FBI The Connoisseurs of Crime 07/27/08 07/27/08 Dragnet The Big Gent, Part 2 07/27/50 07/27/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Name 07/02/56
JUNE 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 06/07/08 Planet Man Episode 2--the Planet Man 00/00/53 06/07/08 Planet Man Episode 3–Emperor of Mars 00/00/53 06/07/08 Campbell Playhouse Ah, Wilderness! 09/17/39 06/07/08 Jack Benny Ah, Wilderness! 05/16/37 06/08/08 Lineup Bad Booze Bootleggers 06/07/08 X-Minus One Early Model 07/11/57 06/07/08 Dark Fantasy The Man Who Came Back 11/14/41 06/14/08 Frontier Town The Opening of Tioga Reserve 11/21/52 06/14/08 Fibber McGee Shrimps McGee 05/27/47 06/14/08 Frank Race The Airborne Adventure 06/19/49 06/14/08 Suspense The Last Detail 07/05/45 06/14/08 NBC University Thea An American Tragedy 10/10/48 06/21/08 Have Gun Will Travel Helen of Abajinian 01/04/59 06/21/08 Dr. Kildare Gordon Mallory’s Lead Poising 06/08/50 06/21/08 Harry James Seems Like Old Times 06/21/08 Campbell Playhouse June Moon 03/24/40 06/21/08 Lives of Harry Lime Too Many Crooks 08/03/51 06/21/08 Inner Sanctum Dead Laugh 01/08/44 06/28/08 Hopalong Cassidy Dead Man’s Hand 01/01/50 06/28/08 Great Gildersleeve In Love with Amelia 06/28/42 06/28/08 CBS Radio Workshop Gettysburg 06/20/57 06/28/08 Mr. District Attorney Case of the Unknown Source 07/14/48 06/28/08 Bold Venture Haven’s Venezuelan Isle 03/17/52 06/28/08 Dark Fantasy I Am Your Brother 06/05/42
JUNE 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 06/01/08 Hopalong Cassidy The Letter from the Grave 05/28/50 06/01/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Clothes 06/04/52 06/01/08 Dragnet The Big Fake 06/01/50 06/01/08 NBC Short Story I Want to Know Why 04/25/51 06/01/08 Crime Classics Mr. Jonathan Jewett 06/02/54 06/01/08 Mr. Keene Murder & the Star of Death 06/09/49 06/08/08 Lone Ranger Trigger Kid’s Nemesis 06/10/46 06/08/08 Burns & Allen Kansas City’s Favorite Singer 06/06/44 06/08/08 Green Hornet The Hornet Does It 06/11/44 06/08/08 Nightbeat Mechanical Brain 06/05/52 06/08/08 Clock Coming Events 06/08/47 06/08/08 Inner Sanctum Death Across the Board 06/05/45 06/15/08 Have Gun Will Travel Leddy Kane & the Silver Queen 05/17/59 06/15/08 Great Gildersleeve Father’s Day Chair 06/21/42 06/15/08 Radio City Playhouse Love Came to Professor Guildea 06/13/49 06/15/08 Strange Wills The Prince of Broadway 06/15/08 Political Humor JFK at the White House 00/00/62 06/15/08 Sam Spade The Apple of Eve 06/19/49 06/15/08 Hall of Fantasy The Jewels of Kali 06/15/53 06/22/08 Gunsmoke Hot Horse Wyatt 06/08/58 06/22/08 Fibber McGee Amusement Park 06/17/41 06/22/08 Green Hornet Not One Cent for Tribute 06/13/39 06/22/08 On Stage An Ideal Couple 06/18/53 06/22/08 Political Humor Adlai Stevenson 00/00/62 06/22/08 Molle Mystery Theater The Four Fatal Jugglers 06/26/44 06/22/08 Sealed Book The Ghost Makers 06/10/45 06/29/08 Fort Laramie The Winter Soldier 06/17/56 06/29/08 Jimmy Durante Presidential Candidate Married 05/12/48 06/29/08 Thea Guild on the Air Call It a Day 06/02/46 06/29/08 Nick Carter The Haunted Rocking Chair 05/27/45 06/29/08 Hermit’s Cave The House of Purple Shadows
MAY 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM... 05/03/08 Red Ryder Dobie Town 03/10/42 05/03/08 Life of Riley Engaged to Two Women 01/26/51 05/03/08 Gangbusters Snyder Kennedy 05/03/08 Escape He Who Rides the Tiger 05/12/49 05/03/08 Fat Man Murder Rings a Bell 05/03/08 Suspense Fear Paints a Picture 05/03/45 05/10/08 Jack Benny Alexander Graham Bell 05/28/39 05/10/08 Richard Diamond The Private Eye Test 03/19/50 05/10/08 Studio One An Enemy of the People 05/13/47 05/10/08 Two Thousand Plus The Flying Saucers 00/00/50 05/10/08 Arch Oboler Chicken Heart 05/10/08 The Bickersons At Sea 05/17/08 Tom Mix The Vanishing Village, Pt. 1 08/10/45 05/17/08 Rowdy Wright I’m a Wandering Bronco Rider 05/17/08 Charlie Chan The Murder of Deacon Jessup 05/17/08 Bickersons Round 3 05/17/08 Unexpected Handle with Care 05/17/08 Boston Blackie The Green Line Hijacking 07/16/46 05/17/08 Escape Second Class Passenger 01/07/48 05/17/08 Screen Director’s Play Ivy 01/11/51 05/24/08 Gulf Screen Guild Thea Tight Shoes 04/12/42 05/24/08 Your Playhouse Rip van Winkle 05/13/48 05/24/08 This Is Your FBI The Traveling Bride 11/09/51 05/24/08 Scarlet Queen The Death of David Malone 02/02/47 05/24/08 Two Thousand Plus A Veteran Comes Home 00/00/50 05/24/08 Sealed Book Middle Toe of the Right Foot 12/10/47 05/24/08 Duke Ellington Caravan 05/01/45 05/31/08 All-Star Western Thea with Foy Willing 08/09/47 05/31/08 Romance The Lady or the Tiger? 05/12/56 05/31/08 Lux Radio Theater The Plutocrat 09/26/36 05/31/03 Shadow Circle of Death 11/28/37 05/31/03 Hall of Fantasy The Perfect Script 02/13/47
MAY 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 05/04/08 Have Gun Will Travel The Colonel & the Lady 04/12/59 05/04/08 Fibber McGee Salmon Dinner 05/14/41 05/04/08 Sam Spade Battles of Belvedere 05/01/49 05/04/08 Escape The Footprint 08/18/50 05/04/08 Hermit’s Cave The House on Lost Man’s Bluff 05/11/08 WYRF Winners 2008 Various 05/11/08 05/11/08 Challenge of the Yukon The Dawson Fire 05/07/42 05/11/08 Duffy’s Tavern Latin Night 05/04/51 05/11/08 Man Called X Knocked off His Feet 05/12/51 05/11/08 Sherlock Holmes In Flanders Fields 05/14/45 05/11/08 Vic & Sade Hank’s Indebtedness 05/06/40 05/11/08 Unexpected The Cripple 05/30/48 05/18/08 Gunsmoke Indian Horse 05/15/54 05/18/08 Riders in the Sky Little Joe, the Wrangler 05/18/08 Great Gildersleeve House Hunting 05/16/42 05/18/08 Frank Merriwell The Ballot Box Mystery 05/15/48 05/18/08 Damon Runyan Theater Butch Minds the Baby 00/00/48 05/18/08 Philip Marlowe The Promise to Pay 05/14/49 05/18/08 Weird Circle Werewolf 05/07/45 05/25/08 Fort Laramie Trooper’s Baby 05/27/56 05/25/08 Jack Benny Jack is Sick 05/23/37 05/25/08 Calling All Cars Some Words and a Fingerprint 05/23/34 05/25/08 Molle Mystery Theater Goodbye, Darling 05/24/46 05/25/08 Suspense Donovan’s Brain, Part 1 05/18/44 05/25/08 Suspense Donovan’s Brain, Part 2 05/25/44
APRIL 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 04/05/08 Lone Ranger Trouble on the Rio Grande 05/21/41 04/05/08 Fibber McGee Back Yard Barbeque 09/12/50 04/05/08 Ma Perkins Carl Michael’s Leaving Town 04/05/08 Fireside Chat Democracy & Dictatorship 04/00/38 04/05/08 Dragnet Man Shot Down in Street 04/03/52 04/05/08 Shadow The Bride of Death 03/13/38 04/05/08 WHA Players This Side of Eternity 07/15/48 04/12/08 Jack Benny Jack’s Split Personality 05/21/44 04/12/08 Bergen & McCarthy Achilles Heel 04/12/08 Road of Life The Detective 04/12/08 Mercury Summer Thea Hell on Ice 08/09/46 04/12/08 Escape The General Died at Dawn 04/16/49 04/12/08 Nero Wolfe The Case of the Lost Heir 04/02/51 04/12/08 Mysterious Traveler The Last Survivor 10/11/49 04/19/08 Lone Ranger The Army Mule 06/14/54 04/19/08 Fibber McGee To Find an Architect 01/21/47 04/19/08 Speed Gibson Leeds Kills Himself 00/00/37 04/19/08 I Love a Mystery The Temple of Vampires 01/00/50 04/19/08 Escape The Finger of Doom 03/19/49 04/19/08 Nero Wolfe A Slight Case of Perjury 04/06/51 04/19/08 Quiet Please Shadow of the Wings 04/17/49 04/26/08 Archie Andrews Picnic 08/21/48 04/26/08 Life of Riley Peg’s Father Comes to Visit 01/05/03 04/26/08 Guiding Light Taking Advantage of Distance 06/10/5- 04/26/08 Bickersons Round 1 04/26/08 Philip Marlowe The Sound & the Unsound 09/15/03 04/26/08 Suspense Eve 01/24/48
APRIL 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 04/06/08 Gunsmoke Jayhawkers 04/04/53 04/06/08 Lum & Abner How to Propose 04/26/43 04/06/08 Lum & Abner Grandpap and Charity 04/27/43 04/06/08 You Are There The Spanish Armada 08/11/47 04/06/08 Boston Blackie The Bus to Valley Junction 04/01/47 04/06/08 This Is Your FBI The Phantom Hitchhiker 03/28/52 04/06/08 Lights Out Valse Triste 03/30/38 04/13/08 Hopalong Cassidy The Bandits of Ridge Creek 04/02/50 04/13/08 Burns & Allen Victory Garden 03/30/43 04/13/08 Strange Wills Seven Flights to Glory 04/13/08 Gangbusters The Case of the Elusive Leader 10/22/49 04/13/08 Johnny Dollar The Perikoff Matter 02/11/49 04/13/08 Suspense The Name of the Beast 04/11/46 04/20/08 Lone Ranger The Law West of the Pecos 04/17/44 04/20/08 Tex Ritter Have I Stayed Away Too Long? 11/23/43 04/20/08 Jimmy Durante The Housing Shortage 04/14/48 04/20/08 Pat Novak for Hire The Bruno Zeiss Case 04/23/49 04/20/08 Calling All Cars Hammers in Honduras 04/18/34 04/20/08 Suspense Brother John 04/15/62 04/20/08 Dark Fantasy The Edge of the Shadow 04/10/42 04/27/08 Gene Autry Steve Williams 04/27/08 Gene Autry You Are My Sunshine 06/18/41 04/27/08 ene Autry/Jimmy Long Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine 10/29/31 04/27/08 Jack Benny In the Spring 04/25/37 04/27/08 Rocky Jordan Consignment for Naples 04/24/49 04/27/08 Box 13 Find Me, Find Death 04/24/49 04/27/08 CBS Radio Workshop A Living Portrait 04/20/56 04/27/08 X-Minus One And the Moon Be Still as Bright 04/22/55
MARCH 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 03/01/08 Lone Ranger An Outlaw Manhunt 07/24/40 03/01/08 Mel Blanc Show with Spike Jones 09/03/46 03/01/08 Suspense My Own Murderer 05/24/45 03/01/08 Nero Wolfe The Disappearing Diamonds 03/02/51 03/01/08 Mercury Theater Dracula 07/11/38 03/08/08 Frontier Town Seminole Strip 11/07/52 03/08/08 Great Gildersleeve Gildy Disappears 01/09/52 03/08/08 Mr. & Mrs. North Fool’s Gold 02/16/51 03/08/08 NBC University Thea Of Human Bondage 11/14/48 03/08/08 Fat Man Murder for Sale 03/15/08 Lone Ranger The Stolen Watch 12/13/50 03/15/08 Life of Riley Junior’s Lawn Mowing Business 12/01/50 03/15/08 Romance Bill Gunn’s Mermaid 09/08/56 03/15/08 Escape Conqueror’s Isle 03/05/49 03/15/08 Frank Race The Baradian Letters 06/12/49 03/15/08 Philip Marlowe The Medium was Rare 09/08/51 03/22/08 Cisco Kid Sam Grant’s Ranch & Will 03/22/08 Fred Allen with Sydney Greenstreet 05/12/46 03/22/08 Screen Dir Playhouse Prince of Foxes 01/04/51 03/22/08 Boston Blackie Skating Rink 07/09/46 03/22/08 Suspense Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 07/19/59 03/29/08 Frontier Gentleman Claim Jumpers 03/09/58 03/29/08 Fibber McGee McGee’s Citizenship 06/03/47 03/29/08 Studio One Topaz 05/06/47 03/29/08 Escape Man Who Could Work Miracles 09/18/48 03/29/08 Inner Sanctum Mind Over Murder 08/22/49
MARCH 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 03/02/08 Hopalong Cassidy Stampede at Semole’s 03/01/52 03/02/08 Jack Benny The Fight of the Century 03/07/37 03/02/08 NBC University Thea The Heart of Midlothian 02/27/49 03/02/08 Gangbusters Case of the Dakota Badman 02/28/48 03/02/08 Sealed Book The Hand of Death 03/18/45 03/09/08 Lone Ranger The Double Cross Waller 03/08/43 03/09/08 Tex Ritter & His TexansHave I Stayed Away Too Long 11/23/43 03/09/08 Fibber McGee Fibber Changes His Name 03/25/41 03/09/08 Dr. Kildare Edward Carlton’s Dog Bite 03/09/51 03/09/08 CBS Radio Workshop Air Raid 03/10/57 03/09/08 Fat Man Murder Makes a Ham 03/09/08 Hall of Fantasy Death in the Bayous 03/09/47 03/16/08 Fort Laramie The Beasley Girls 03/18/56 03/16/08 Great Gildersleeve Income Tax 03/14/43 03/16/08 CBS Radio Workshop Cops and Robbers 03/16/56 03/16/08 Adventures By Morse A Coffin for the Lady 1 of 3 03/18/44 03/16/08 Sam Spade The Sinister Siren Caper 03/16/51 03/16/08 Quiet Please Dark Rosalie 03/13/49 03/23/08 Have Gun Will Travel They Told Me You Were Dead 03/27/60 03/23/08 Our Miss Brooks The Auction 03/19/50 03/23/08 Green Hornet A Pair of Nylons 03/19/46 03/23/08 Adventures By Morse A Coffin for the Lady 2 of 3 03/25/44 03/23/08 Tom Corbett Atmosphere of Death 1 of 2 03/18/52 03/23/08 Tom Corbett Atmosphere of Death 2 of 2 03/20/08 03/23/08 Bickersons Pink Slip 03/30/08 Luke Slaughter Yancy’s Pride 03/09/58 03/30/08 Life of Riley Riley the Rent Collector 03/30/51 03/30/08 Damon Runyan Theater Princess O’Hara 03/30/08 Adventures By Morse A Coffin for the Lady 3 of 3 04/01/44 03/30/08 Nightbeat The Man Who Claimed He Was Dead 03/20/50 03/30/08 Sealed Book The King of the World 03/25/45
FEBRUARY 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 02/02/03 Frontier Town Poisoned Water Hole 10/24/52 02/02/08 Jack Benny I Stand Condemned 01/19/47 02/02/08 Richard Diamond The Dixon Case 03/14/52 02/02/03 Sherlock Holmes The Out-of-Date Murder 09/17/45 02/02/03 Frank Race The Vanishing President 06/05/49 02/02/03 Escape The Lost Special 02/12/49 02/09/08 Frontier Gentleman Kendall’s Last Stand 02/23/58 02/09/08 Duffy’s Tavern Archie’s Philosophy 02/09/49 02/09/08 Green Hornet Washington Story 02/05/46 02/09/08 Clock Dr. Carter’s Experiment 02/23/47 02/09/08 Inner Sanctum Elixir Number Four 02/12/46 02/09/08 Once Upon a Midnight Malice Aforethought 05/11/45 02/16/08 Frontier Gentleman The Honkeytonkers 02/16/58 02/16/08 Great Gildersleeve Leroy Demands Freedom 02/27/52 02/16/08 Our Miss Brooks Cow in the Closet 04/24/54 02/16/08 Escape Orient Escape 02/19/49 02/16/08 Nero Wolfe Case of the Party for Death 02/16/51 02/16/08 X-Minus One Skulking Permit 02/15/56 02/23/08 Lone Ranger Dodge City or Bust 04/25/41 02/23/08 Green Hornet Charity Takes It on the Chin 02/21/42 02/23/08 Our Miss Brooks Cure That Habit 01/15/50 02/23/08 Escape When the Man Comes, Follow 04/09/49 02/23/08 X-Minus One Project Mastodon 06/05/56 02/23/08 Weird Circle The Vendetta 09/12/43
FEBRUARY 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 02/03/08 Fort Laramie Boatwright’s Story 01/29/56 02/03/08 Fibber McGee Egyptian Good Luck Ring 02/13/40 02/03/08 You Bet Your Life Secret Word is Chair 02/03/58 02/03/08 NBC University Theater Gulliver’s Travels 02/06/49 02/03/08 Weird Circle The River Man 02/04/45 02/10/08 Gunsmoke Dutch George 11/20/55 02/10/08 Burns & Allen The Marriage Contest 02/07/46 02/10/08 Richard Diamond Timothy the Seal 02/05/50 02/10/08 Suspense Drury’s Bones 01/25/45 02/10/08 Murder at Midnight The Ace of Death 01/06/46 02/17/08 Cisco Kid The Black Kerchief 10/05/54 02/17/08 Life of Riley Riley Quits 02/17/50 02/17/08 CBS Radio Workshop Season of Disbelief, Hail & 02/17/56 02/17/08 Falcon The Case of the Mighty Muscle 02/11/51 02/17/08 Suspense The Lucky Lady 02/14/46 02/17/08 Witch’s Tale The Devil Doctor 02/19/34 02/24/08 Luke Slaughter Duel on the Trail 02/23/58 02/24/08 Walker & Sullivan When My Blue Moon Turns 03/09/41 02/24/08 Duffy’s Tavern Job Opening 02/23/51 02/24/08 Crime Classics The Good Ship Jane 02/24/54 02/23/08 Gangbusters Case of the Dakota Badman 02/28/48 02/24/08 Suspense Sorry, Wrong Number 02/24/44 02/24/08 Rocky Jordan Champagne, Caviar & Hot Ice 02/06/49
JANUARY 2008 SATURDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 01/05/08 Challenge of the Yukon The Silent One 01/03/48 01/05/08 Fibber McGee McGee Builds a Dog House 01/02/40 01/05/08 Great Gildersleeve Big New Year’s Costume Ball 01/01/47 01/05/08 Mr. & Mrs. North Milk Run 07/15/47 01/05/58 Texaco town Follies with Eddie Cantor 01/03/37 01/05/08 Suspense I Had an Alibi 01/04/45 01/12/08 Lone Ranger Fort Laramie Incident 06/21/48 01/12/08 Terry & the Pirates Hong Kong 01/14/47 01/12/08 Buck Rogers Origins 4 04/12/39 01/12/08 Jack Benny First Show for CBS 01/02/49 01/12/08 Suspense The Crowd 09/21/50 01/12/08 Nero Wolfe Case of the Tell-Tale Ribbon 03/30/51 01/12/08 Shadow The League of Terror 01/09/38 01/19/08 Fibber McGee Man’s Untapped Energy 03/11/47 01/19/08 Frontier Town Carne, Claim Jumper 01/19/08 NBC University Thea Lord Jim 10/03/48 01/19/08 Gangbusters The Case of the Hue & Cry 01/19/08 Philip Marlowe The Black Halo 01/15/49 01/26/08 Lone Ranger Gold Shipment 01/26/53 01/26/08 Lux Radio Theater Shane 02/22/55 01/26/08 Great Gildersleeve The Diet 01/04/42 01/26/08 Suspense Sorry, Wrong Number 09/06/45 01/26/08 Nero Wolfe Case of the Midnight Ride 03/09/51 01/26/08 Strange Dr. Weird Survival of the Fittest 01/23/45
JANUARY 2008 SUNDAYS
AIR DATE TITLE........... EPISODE........... FROM.... 01/06/08 Straight Arrow The Brave Blackfoot 01/07/50 01/06/08 Ozzie & Harriet Sports Heroes 01/09/49 01/06/08 Favorite Story Change of Face 12/28/48 01/06/08 Bold Venture Death by a Fighting Bird 01/03/51 01/06/08 Mysterious Traveler New Year’s Nightmare 01/05/47 01/06/08 Suspense Angel of Death 01/03/46 01/13/08 Lone Ranger The Pink Umbersol 01/15/45 01/13/08 Jack Benny from Bangor, Maine 01/03/43 01/13/08 Damon Runyan Theater A Nice Price 01/13/08 Scarlet Queen Fang Rubies & Black Siamese 01/14/48 01/13/08 Big Town The Mask of Evil 01/04/49 01/13/08 Nick Carter The Wandering Corpse 01/06/46 01/20/08 Gunsmoke Kangaroo 01/18/59 01/20/08 Bergen & McCarthy with Louis Bromfield 01/14/45 01/20/08 Twenty-First Precinct The Visitors 01/20/54 01/20/08 Radio City Playhouse Portrait of Lenore 01/20/49 01/20/08 X-Minus One Chain of Command 11/21/56 01/20/08 Witch’s Tale Suicide 01/22/37 01/27/08 Hoplaong Cassidy Danger Wears Two Faces 01/19/52 01/27/08 Jimmy Durante Jimmy Returns 01/28/48 01/27/08 Lux Radio Theater Dark Victory 01/07/40 01/27/08 Scarlet Pimpernel Hostage Children 01/27/08 Falcon Case of the Bellicose Boxer 01/28/51
Old Time Radio Home Page


HOME | ABOUT | PROGRAM INDEX | MEMBERSHIP | SPONSORSHIPS | WPR NEWS
IDEAS NETWORK | NEWS & CLASSICAL NETWORK | RADIO STORE
LIVE STREAMS | AUDIO ARCHIVES

For questions or comments about our programming, call Audience Services
at 1-800-747-7444, email us at listener@wpr.org, or use our Online Feedback Form.
View our Privacy Policy.   Send comments about our website to webmaster@wpr.org.

©2013 by Wisconsin Public Radio - a service of the
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
and University of Wisconsin - Extension.