Old Time Radio Podcasts

Lon Clark plays Nick Carter, the greatest of all manhunters. Nick appeared in countless books, three movies, and for 12 years in this radio series featuring his unusual adventures. Host Adam Graham guides you through Carter’s prolific radio adventures.

Are you ready for some rare detective programs? You may have heard of the Saint, but what about the Judge or Crime Correspondence? You may have heard of Rocky Jordan, but what about the Cases of Mr. Ace. This podcast contains a mix of programs that never made it past the audition and shows that […]

The Saint “The Robin Hood of Modern Crime” much like Boston Blackie was introduced a thief who robbed from the ungodly. By the 1940s, he’d mostly reformed and came to radio as a crime solver. Enjoy every episode featuring Hollywood legend Vincent Price along with episodes starring Tom Conway and Barry Sullivan.

Join host Adam Graham on two seperate journeys through Box 13, the series starring Alan Ladd as reprorter turned Mystery Writer Dan Holiday. Holiday’s adventures begin as a result of a newspaper ad that reads, “Adventure wanted. Will go anywhere, will do anything.” This podcast features every episode of Box 13 twice. First, originally podcast […]

Enjoy some of the best radio detective programs of all time! This feed features thirty different detective episodes from twenty-five different programs. The Listener’s Choice countdown was made in celebration of the tenth season of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. providing daily old time radio detective stories. Twenty-five episodes were chosen by listeners […]

Barrie Craig was a different kind of detective show and Craig as played by William Gargan was a different type of detective: a big gentle easy going guy who always believed his clients until evidence proved otherwise. In some ways, it poked fun at the private detective genre by giving Craig police-type powers and duties […]

Boston Blackie was created by writer Jack Boyle as a jewel thief and safecracker with a heart of gold. The character was featured in nine silent films. In 1941, Blackie returned to film in the era of talkies. Much likethe Saint, the character reformed from a thief into a detective. Blackie was always Inspector Farraday’s […]

Listen to the adventures of that man with the action-packed account, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. From 1949-62, the freelance insurance investigator relayed his adventures to the golden age of radio listeners via his action-packed account. In one of the longest-running old-time radio mystery detective programs. Six actors played Johnny Dollar. Currently, we’re posting episodes starring […]

Philo Vance was created by S.S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright). Vance first appeared in the novel The Benson Murder Case, which was published in 1925. Twelve novels were published over fourteen years. He was introduced as a wealthy young dabbler in many fields who added solving crime to his many […]

Space Heroes launches into a new space adventures with those space scifi heroes we all grew up with, Buck Rogers,Flash Gordon,space protrol,Tom Corbet all take us into space as Space Heroes.

Mystery is My Hobby came to air as Murder is My Hobby, a title with an amusing double meaning. However, after 34 weeks, the series gained a sponsor–the Benefit Life Insurance Company of Omaha, Nebraska. They didn’t like the name. So thus it was changed.The series starred Glenn Langan as Mystery Writer Barton Drake, who […]

Join host Adam Graham on a journey to the Cafe Tambourine in Cairo, Egypt as we travel through all the circulating adventures of cafe owner and reluctant detective Rocky Jordan as played by Jack Moyles and later George Raft.

Enjoy all 43 action-packed adventures of International troubleshooter Frank Race. The former OSS operative turned freelance troubleshooter traveled the world righting wrongs and solving mysteries. Tom Collins and later Paul Dubov star. Adam Graham is your host, and provides commentary as part of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio podcast.

JEnjoy the old time radio adventures of Casey, Crime Photographer. For more than a decade, the series, under different names, based loosely on the pulp stories of Harmon Coxe, was a mainstay in radio for nearly a decade as Casey, along with reporter Ann Williams and Police Captain Logan solved crimes and then returned for […]

SciFi Friday takes you back to the early days of science fiction. Each week we explore the programs that layed the foundation for science fiction of today.

Welcome to the Old Time Radio Scifi , From its earliest time, radio has always been interested in Science Fiction. There has been science fiction on the radio since before Buck Rogers in 1932. Radio SciFi characters leaped into your living room as the listener would be taken on an adventure into time and space […]

X Minus One is widely considered among the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio. The first 15 episodes were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, […]

Popular and rare vintage radio programs with brief commentary. Posted weekly.

Comedians and Comedy shows from classic Old Time Radio. Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, Fred Allen, Groucho Marx, and more. New episodes posted weekly. For FREE you can listen to and download all my OTR podcast at https://otr.duane.media. Feedback and comments welcome at my email: Info@duane.media or @duane.otr on Instagram. – Thank you and […]

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio presents the adventures of several amateur gentleman detectives who solve crimes with their wits and for the thrill of it. A Life In Your Hands The forgotten, underrated Erle Stanley Gardener-created radio series A Life in Your Hands remains a diamond in the rough. It was a summer […]

Host Adam Graham makes his second journey through every episode of Dragnet as well as quite a few bonus episodes and programs starring Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday.

What do a Prohibition-era Speak-easy clarinetist, a boys school headmaster who looks like William Shakespeare, a piano player, and a criminologist have in common with tough cops, an assistant DA, private eyes, and defense attorneys? They’re all among the forgotten detectives of old time radio. Join your host Adam Graham and rediscover these long-forgotten programs. […]

Host Adam Graham makes his second journey through every episode of Dragnet as well as quite a few bonus episodes and programs.

Dragnet was created and produced by Jack Webb, who starred as the terse Sgt. Friday. Webb had starred in a few mostly short-lived radio programs, but Dragnet would make him one of the major media personalities of his era.Webb was a stickler for accurate details, and Dragnet used many authentic touches, such as the LAPD’s […]

Old Time Radio Suspense will captivate you with spin tingling tales that will keep you guessing who did it. Enter the realm of mystery and suspense with the greatest story tellers on the radio.

Classic Dramas achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment.

The Cisco Kid came to radio October 2, 1942, with Jackson Beck in the title role and Louis Sorin as Pancho. With Vicki Vola and Bryna Raeburn in supporting roles and Michael Rye announcing, this series continued on Mutual until 1945. It was followed by another Mutual series in 1946, starring Jack Mather and Harry […]

The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, was a radio-TV comedy series which ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century comedy. Jack Benny (February 14, 1894 in Chicago, Illinois â December 26, 1974 in Beverly Hills, California), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, […]

Boston Blackie is a fictional character who has been on both sides of the law. As originally created by author Jack Boyle, he was a safecracker, a hardened criminal who had served time in a California prison. Prowling the underworld as a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television, the detective Boston Blackie was […]

Perry Mason is a fictional defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. This long running radio drama had several actors who played the famous lawyer starting with Bartlett Robinson and then followed by Santos Ortega, Donald Briggs, and finally John Larkin who played the famous attorney after 1947. The radio […]

Presenting the biggest legends of Hollywood starring in “Suspense,” radio’s outstanding theater of thrills! Each week, we’ll hear two chillers from this old time radio classic featuring one of the all-time great stars of stage and screen.

Old time radio and new audio versions of classic pulp stories and novels.

Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, […]

Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroit’s station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet), and an example of a Northern genre story. The series was first heard on February 3, 1938. The program was an adventure series about Sergeant William Preston of the Northwest Mounted […]

The Jack Benny Show AKA The Jello Program AKA The Lucky Strike Program aired from the 1930’s right through to the 1950’s. Each week your host, John Henderson, brings an episode from that week 60-80 years ago. It’s old, yet still as funny as ever. “The Jack Benny program, starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingstone, […]

Detective Danny Clover solves crimes along the Great White, an area he describes as “the gaudiest, the most violent…the lonesomest mile in the world.” The series initially began in New York with Anthony Ross but shifted to Hollywood where, under the eye of New York-born director Elliott Lewis and writers David Friedkin and Morton Fine, […]

Adam Graham is your guide as each week we present another episode of Dangerous Assignment, a 1949-53 radio starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, a troubleshooter who throws into danger all around the world in stories of mystery and international intrigue.

Old Time Radio Network Detectives Stories, continues America’s love affair with private eyes. Each week we give you “Just the facts” with all detective and cop shows. We will listen to Dragnet, unraveling another murder mystery, Richard Denning and Barbara Britton in Mr. and Mrs. North telling the story of intrigue. Crime dramas include Treasury […]

A podcast for the Filk community featuring music and news from all the worlds of Filk.

Relive the adventures of America’s hero’s,Superman,Tarzan,and Captain Midnight. Adventure and Action from early radio.Join us each week only on the Old Time Radio Network,oldtimeradiodvd.com

Paris police detective Inspector Maigret,Maigret is more of a “thinking detective”. He uses his perception and psychological insight to solve the complex crimes that come his way. More often than not, he’s more interested in the “why” of a crime than “who”.

The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society Podcast revisits the great horror and suspense shows from the golden age of radio, including tales from Suspense, Lights Out Everybody, The Witch’s Tale, The Shadow, and more. Each episode features a classic, or maybe-not-so classic story from the scary old-time radio vault, complete with historical notes and nerdy […]

Old time Radio broadcasts from otrnow.com.We feature all types of Old Radio programs from our growing collection of over 50,000 shows including comedy, mystery, drama, serials, news, adventure, game shows etc. Many of our shows are reprocessed for the best sound quality possible and because our collection is so vast you will hear programs you […]

The All Star Western Theatre graced the airwaves in the mid-1940’s and was made up of a variety of different shows. The shows delivered riotous laughs and down-to-earth humor that was a pleasant alternative to other heavier and intense programs. The music of these old radio shows was done by a group called “The Riders […]

Chicago Star Reporter Randy Stone walks the Night Beat, searching for stories for his column and finding heartache and mystery along the way in this classic and well-written 1950-52 mystery drama series. Adam Graham is your host and guide to every circulating episode of Night Beat.

“My Favorite Husband” is a classic American radio sitcom that aired from 1948 to 1951. It was created by Jess Oppenheimer and starred Lucille Ball and Richard Denning. The show served as a precursor to the famous television sitcom “I Love Lucy,” in which Lucille Ball played a similar character. The show revolves around the […]

The great ones are back in action.

Presenting the best detectives from the Golden Age of Radio. Each week, we’ll bring you an episode starring one of Old Time Radio’s greatest detectives and the story behind the show. Join us for adventures of Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Johnny Dollar, and many more.

Some called it, “Dragnet on Horseback.” But this 1950-52 Old Time crime Series focused on the exploits of the Texas Rangers and provided keen insights into the work of one most storied police forces in the world and vital nature of their work investigating major crimes across the state of Texas, often operating hundreds of […]

Wagons West hosted by E.L. Huffman takes you back to the early days of Westerns on Radio by presenting the best of Old Time Radio Westerns and heroes.

Re-Imagined Radio adapts and shares stories via the radio medium that engage your ears. Play out for your mind’s eye. And spark your imagination. Our radio storytelling draws from dramas, comedies, oral and aural histories, documentaries, fictions, soundscapes and sonic journeys, radio and sound art. Each story utilizes the fundamental components of radio storytelling: dialogue, […]

Wayback Radio Theater presents modern re-creations of classic oldtime radio shows along with newly written audio theater productions inspired by that golden age.

Jeff Regan was the Lyon’s eye earning $10 a day + expenses. Played by Jack Webb and later Frank Graham followi Regan on his adventures. This podcast comes with commentary by Adam Graham and is part of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio at http://www.greatdetectives.net.

Vintage radio shows from the 1930’s onwards.

Here on the Old Time Radiocast, we take the most horrifying tales from the golden age of radio, clean them up, and remaster them for your listening pleasure, preserving the very best era in audio entertainment with stories of suspense, mystery and horror. Here you’ll find the most terrifying episodes of your favorite old time […]

Comedy from radio’s golden age. Brought to you by RelicRadio.com

Duffy’s Tavern was a popular American radio situation comedy which ran for a decade on several networks (CBS, 1941–1942; NBC-Blue Network, 1942–1944; NBC, 1944–1951), concluding with the December 28, 1951 broadcast.

How many western radio programs can you recall if any? Can you recall two, ten, or fifteen of them. How about twenty titles? Well, there were more than thirty different radio westerns that aired over the years. Some have become an example of radio excellence and others just memories. Each week we will be covering […]

Experience great plays,performances, and compelling stories each week from the archives of Old Time Radio Drama. Each of the Drama shows include the best actors of the generation and will entertain you each night.

Continuing America’s love affair with comedy and those lovable characters that make us laugh with great entertainment from early radio.http://oldtimeradiodvd.com