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Hear sixteen stories of trying to beat the clock in NBC radio's thrilling series The Chase!
In 1952, radio program creator Lawrence Klee brought The Chase to NBC radio. Developed as a psychological drama, the premise was that many life situations place their subjects in a chase of one type or another. A chase for fame. A chase from peril. A chase to beat the clock. A chase to escape death. The added twist was the question of, who is the hunter or...
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Hear sixteen stories of trying to beat the clock in NBC radio's thrilling series The Chase!
In 1952, radio program creator Lawrence Klee brought The Chase to NBC radio. Developed as a psychological drama, the premise was that many life situations place their subjects in a chase of one type or another. A chase for fame. A chase from peril. A chase to beat the clock. A chase to escape death. The added twist was the question of, who is the hunter or...
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This collection contains fifteen of the greatest science-fiction broadcasts from the Golden Age of radio, including episodes of X Minus One, Dimension X, Suspense, The CBS Radio Workshop, Escape, The Lux Radio Theatre, and others. Radio's finest actors perform before the microphones in adaptations from the past masters of science fiction. Relive the best radio sci-fi shows from yesterday and the legendary stars that made them amazing in this incredible...
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The Golden Age of radio featured many of the greatest comedy teams of all time, and this collection features the best of the best!
This sixteen-episode collection includes the greatest comedy teams of the Golden Age of radio and includes Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Abbott & Costello, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Fibber McGee & Molly, Baby Snooks & Daddy, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, and Phil Harris & Alice Faye. You'll laugh till your sides ache...
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Enjoy sixteen of the greatest mystery shows from radio's golden age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.
The golden age of radio had incredible mystery shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in spine-chilling radio mystery and horror. In this collection of sixteen episodes, you'll hear Lights Out! with Arch Oboler; three episodes...
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Suspense... Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills! Suspense mixed mystery, suspicion, and dangerous adventure like no other. Featuring the biggest names in Hollywood, it stirred your nerves to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution... until the last possible moment!
Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportions. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962 and...
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Comedian Jack Carson stars in sixteen of his radio-comedy-variety programs with guest stars and music to boot!
Jack Carson had a long radio career beginning in 1943 and ending in 1956. The Jack Carson Show also made the transition to television in 1954. On the radio and TV series, Carson played himself in a factualized version of his home life. Supported by Agnes Moorehead, Arthur Treacher, Normal Jean Nilsson, Irene Ryan, Jane Morgan, and Mel Blanc,...
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This collection contains sixteen of the greatest science-fiction broadcasts from the Golden Age of radio, including episodes of X Minus One, Suspense, The CBS Radio Workshop, Escape, The Weird Circle, and others. Radio's finest actors perform before the microphones in adaptations from the past masters of science fiction. Relive the best radio sci-fi shows from yesterday and the legendary stars that made them amazing in this incredible collection.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were a comedy duo seen in movies, on TV, and heard on radio. Their comedy routine "Who's On First?" helped make them a national sensation.
The duo started in Vaudeville and by the fall of 1942, Abbott and Costello had their own weekly radio program and topped the popularity polls of Radio Daily and Radio Guide. The Abbott and Costello Show ran for seven years until the summer of 1949. By then filming was completed for...
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Host, Cecil B. DeMille brought us the most extravagant radio series ever broadcast, The Lux Radio Theatre. It featured the biggest movie stars in radio adaptations of their classic films. Now, enjoy eight of the greatest hour-long episodes from this famed radio series.
The Lux Radio Theatre was one of the most prestigious and longest-running shows from radio's golden age. It featured the greatest stars in Hollywood appearing in hour-long radio adaptations...
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George Burns and Gracie Allen were one of the biggest comedy duos the world has ever known. Enjoy sixteen of their greatest radio broadcasts!
When real-life husband and wife George Burns and Gracie Allen worked together in vaudeville, George was the comic and his wife, Gracie, had the straight lines. They switched their roles upon discovering that Gracie's delivery got a bigger laugh than George's punch lines. The duo became a big hit on vaudeville...
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The Golden Age of radio featured many of the greatest comedy teams of all time, and this collection features the best of the best!
This seventeen-episode collection features duos including Abbott and Costello, the Bickersons, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, Baby Snooks and Daddy, Lum and Abner, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and Phil Harris and Alice Faye. You'll laugh till your sides ache at these great comedy duos!
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Enjoy sixteen of the greatest mystery shows from radio's Golden Age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.
The Golden Age of radio had incredible mystery shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in spine-chilling radio mystery and horror. In this collection of sixteen episodes, you'll hear Lights Out! with Arch Oboler; three episodes...
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Enjoy sixteen of the greatest western shows from radio's Golden Age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.
The Golden Age of radio had incredible western shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear western heroes catch the bad guys and save ladies in distress. This collection includes Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of the Cavalry on Fort Laramie; William Conrad as...
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Enjoy sixteen classic radio episodes of Amos 'n' Andy, the most popular comedy show of the Golden Age of radio!
On March 19, 1928, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll introduced Amos 'n' Andy, which went on to become one of the most popular and longest-running programs in radio history. During the height of its popularity, almost the entire country listened to the fifteen-minute, Monday-through-Friday adventures of Amos 'n' Andy. Department stores...
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The golden age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars voicing fiction's most famous gumshoes. This collection includes Dick Powell as suave detective Richard Diamond, Vincent Price as the Saint, Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday on Dragnet, Richard Kollmar as "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have...
17) Gunsmoke, Vol. 3
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"Around Dodge City and in the territory out West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with a US Marshal and the smell of ... GUNSMOKE!"
Radio westerns were aimed at kids until 1952 when Gunsmoke hit the radio airwaves. Produced for adult listeners, the stories were grim, the deaths brutal, and life on the plains was harsh. Radio audiences had never heard anything like Gunsmoke, and they made it the #1 Western on...
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Here's adventure ... here's romance ... here's O’Henry's Robin Hood of the old west in sixteen exciting radio adventures of ... The Cisco Kid!
The Cisco Kid was a popular film, radio, television, and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his short story "The Caballero's Way," published in 1907 in the collection Heart of the West. Films and television depicted the Cisco Kid as a heroic Mexican caballero,...
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Created by S. S. Van Dine, Philo Vance was quite popular in books, movies, and on radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, very intelligent, and cultured private detective-an Americanized Sherlock Holmes-working out of New York. In the movies, William Powell, Warren William, Paul Lukas, and Basil Rathbone starred as Vance. On radio, he was voiced by José Ferrer, John Emery, and Jackson Beck. Not that Vance needed any help solving a crime, he did work...
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Detective series Let George Do It came to radio in 1946. It starred Bob Bailey as ex-G.I. and detective-for-hire George Valentine. Clients came to Valentine's office after reading a newspaper carrying his classified ad: Personal notice: Danger's my stock in trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me. George Valentine. Valentine's secretary was Claire Brooks, a.k.a. Brooksie (played by Frances Robinson, Virginia Gregg,...