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Gang Busters 55-04-02 (0885) The Case Of The Mistreated Lady aka Roger Kessel Shot By Hitchhikers (HQ)

Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premiered as G-Men, sponsored by Chevrolet, on July 20, 1935.

After the title was changed to Gang Busters January 15, 1936, the show had a 21-year run through November 20, 1957. Beginning with a barrage of loud sound effects — a shrill police whistle, convicts marching in formation, police siren wailing, machine guns firing, and tires squealing — this intrusive introduction led to the popular catchphrase "came on like Gang Busters" — followed by a voice over a megaphone or loudspeaker announcing the title of that night's program: "Tonight, Gangbusters presents the Case of the —" and ending with more blasts from a police whistle.

Gang Busters 55-04-02 (0885) The Case Of The Mistreated Lady aka Roger Kessel Shot By Hitchhikers (HQ)
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Guest Star 59-06-28 (0640) Guest - Johnny Cash (HQ)

Johnny Cash appearing on the long running public service series "Guest Star" from the Treasury Department.

Guest Star 59-06-28 (0640) Guest - Johnny Cash (HQ)
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Private Files Of Rex Saunders 51-05-16-03 Done to Death

The Private Files of Rex Saunders aired Wednesdays at 10:30 P.M. on NBC starring Britain's Rex Harrison in the role of a Manhattan amateur detective along with his sidekick Alec played by Leon Janney. The show was produced and directed by Hyman Brown along with the writing talent of Ed Adamson. RCA sponsor.

Private Files Of Rex Saunders 51-05-16-03 Done to Death
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Stars Over Hollywood 52-05-24 572 The Experiment (HQ)

This episode of Stars Over Hollywood titled "The Experiment" aired May 24, 1952 on CBS starring Angela Lansbury.

A lady doctor uses a convicted murderer to test her new blood disease treatment.

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The Green Lama 49-06-26 (04) The Million Dollar Chopsticks (HQ)

The Green Lama was an American pulp magazine hero of the 1940s. In many respects a typical costumed crime-fighter of the period.

More than three years after the demise of his comic-book, the Green Lama was resurrected for a short-lived CBS radio series that ran for 11 episodes from 5 June 1949 to 20 August 1949, with the character's voice provided by Paul Frees.

The Green Lama 49-06-26 (04) The Million Dollar Chopsticks (HQ)
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The Green Lama 49-06-05 (01) The Man Who Never Existed (HQ)

Lux Radio Theater 43-03-29 0390 Crossroads (HQ)

Crossroads from Lux Radio Theater aired March 29, 0943 starring Lana Turner and Pierre Aumont. A French diplomat who recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can''t remember.

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Lux Radio Theater 49-09-26 0670 The Emperor Waltz (HQ)

Lux Radio Theater broadcast The Emperor Waltz starring Bing Crosby and Ann Blyth on September 29, 1949. Traveling Salesman Virgil Smith (Bing Crosby) wants to sell his Grammophones in pre-WWI Austria. To enhance this, he especially wants to sell one to Emperor Franz Joseph, but at first the Austrian palace guards think he is carrying a bomb. He meets the Countess Johanna von Stolzenberg (Ann Blyth), and after the usual misunderstandings, falls in love with her, this is especially assisted by his dog. But the relation between a Countess and an ordinary U.S. citizen cannot work in Austria, that is the Emperor's opinion. Is he wrong?

Lux Radio Theater 49-09-26 0670 The Emperor Waltz (HQ)
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Lux Radio Theater 48-12-06 0636 The Foxes Of Harrow (HQ)

The Foxes of Harrow is an adventure story from Lux Radio Theater that aired aired December 6, 1948 starring Maureen O'Hara as Odalie d'Arceneaux and John Hodiak as Stephen Fox. In antebellum New Orleans, a roguish Irish gambler buys his way into society--something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate. Sequestering himself in a mansion won in a card game Fox courts the Southern belle Odalie d'Arceneaux.

Lux Radio Theater 48-12-06 0636 The Foxes Of Harrow
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Lux Radio Theater 51-06-25 0753 The Reformer And The Redhead (HQ)

The Reformer And The Redhead from Lux Radio Theater aired Jun 25, 1951 srarring in their original role Dick Powell as Andrew Rockton Hale and June Allyson as hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire.
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

Lux Radio Theater 51-06-25 0753 The Reformer And The Redhead (HQ)
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Philip Marlowe 49-01-15 (016) The Black Halo (HQ)

NBC produced Phillip Marlowe as a summer replacement series for the Bob Hope Show. It featured several adaptations of Chandler short stories, but was considered too talky and slow-moving. Erle Stanley Gardner, in a letter to Chandler, confided he found it all rather difficult to follow. But the CBS series, THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE, that followed the next year, really clicked. After a three episode trial run on THE PEPSODENT PROGRAM in September of 1947 with Van Hefflin in the title role, THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE premiered as a weekly series on September 26, 1948. It was well-produced, less introspective than the books or the previous series on NBC, but it had a secret weapon. Gerald Mohr excelled as Marlowe, and his snappy delivery, coupled with well-written stories and intriguing characters makes for entertaining listening. By 1949 the show was pulling the biggest audience on American radio, with a rating of 10.3 million listeners.In 1950, Radio and Television Life Magazine named Gerald Mohr as the Best Male Actor on radio.

Philip Marlowe 49-01-15 (016) The Black Halo (HQ)
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This Is Your FBI 51-11-09 (345) The Traveling Bride (HQ)

This Is Your FBI was a radio crime drama which aired in the United States on ABC from April 6, 1945 to January 30, 1953 for a total of 409 shows. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover gave it his endorsement, calling it "the finest dramatic program on the air".

This Is Your FBI 51-11-09 (345) The Traveling Bride (HQ)
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Sherlock Holmes 04 The Veiled Lodger

THESE TWO STORIES come from The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, the last of the nine books about the great detective to be written by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

"The Mazarin Stone", being based on a stage play, "The Crown Diamond", works well as a radio drama. Our script incorporates some devices from "The Crown Diamond". In "The Veiled Lodger" Holmes and Watson are listeners with us to the story of a past crime - but what a story it is! Devotees will recognize elements from Conan Doyle's apocryphal tale "The Field Bazaar".

JIM CROZIER and DAVE HAWKES play Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, with LINDSAY LLOYD, BETH WALTERS, CYRIL BAGSHAW, VINCE WEBB, DEAN HEMPSTEAD, ANGIE BUDD and JESSE POWIS. The violinist, Michael Patton, was recorded by Digital Media Services. The plays were written by M J Elliott, directed by Roger Johnson and produced by Dennis Rookard for Hosiprog Productions.

The scripts are copyright © 2007 by M J Elliott. The recorded production is copyright © 2007 by the Old Court Radio Theatre Company

Find more stories from Hosiprog

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Sherlock Holmes 03 The Mazarin Stone

Whatever Became Of 67-01-xx Gang Busters

Great Scenes From Great Plays 48-12-17 Young Mr Lincoln

Henry Fonda stars in "Young Mr Lincoln in this episode from Great Scenes from Great Plays. The show aired December 17, 1948. Two brothers are accused of murder and defended by Lincoln. A certain book provides a vital clue in the trial.

Great Scenes From Great Plays 48-12-17 Young Mr Lincoln

Whatever Became Of 67-02-14 Buck Rogers with Wilma Deering & Dr. Huer

Anthony Rogers was a fictional character that originated in two short stories by Philip Francis Nowlan, "Armageddon 2419 A.D." and "The Airlords of Han" published in Amazing Stories (August 1928, March 1929).

The character was renamed Buck Rogers as a comic strip, making its first newspaper appearance January 7, 1929. Rogers also appeared in a serial film, a television series (where his first name was changed from Anthony to William) as well and other formats.

Nowlan, Creator and Author and John F. Dille Co., a syndicate, later known as the National Newspaper Syndicate contracted to make the comic strip. Nowlan and Dille enlisted editorial cartoonist Dick Calkins to illustrate. Nowlan took the first episode from "Armageddon 2419, A.D." and changed the hero's name from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers.

The adventures of Buck Rogers in comic strips, movies, radio and television became an important part of American popular culture. This pop phenomenon paralleled the development of space technology in the 20th Century and introduced Americans to outer space as a familiar environment for swashbuckling adventure.

In 1932, the Buck Rogers radio program, notable as the first science fiction program on radio, hit the airwaves. It was broadcast four times a week for 15 years, from 1932 through 1947.

The radio show again related the story of our hero Buck finding himself in the 25th Century. Actors Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin all voiced him at various times. The beautiful and strong-willed Wilma Deering was portrayed by Adele Ronson, and the brilliant scientist-inventor Dr. Huer was played by Edgar Stehli.

Whatever Became Of 67-02-14 Buck Rogers with Wilma Deering & Dr. Huer
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Whatever Became Of 68-xx-xx Green Hornet (HQ)

The Green Hornet is a masked superhero, created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker for an American radio program in the 1930s. The character also has appeared in film serials in the 1940s, a network television program in the 1960s, and multiple comic book series from the 1940s to the present (2010). Though various incarnations sometimes change details, in most incarnations the Green Hornet is Britt Reid, a newspaper publisher by day who goes out in his masked "Green Hornet" identity at night to fight crime as a vigilante, accompanied by his similarly masked Asian manservant Kato -- who drives their car, equipped with advanced technology, called "Black Beauty".

Here is an episode of "Whatever Became Of" from 1968 featuring an interview with Al Hodge who played the Green Hornet on radio from January 1936 until January 1943. Albert E. Hodge (April 18, 1912 - March 19, 1979) was also known for playing space adventurer Captain Video on the DuMont Television Network from December 15, 1950 to April 1, 1955.

Whatever Became Of 68-xx-xx Green Hornet (HQ)

Meet Miss Sherlock 46-09-12 Wilbur And The Widow

Bing Crosby 521218 Ep11 Guests- Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Venuti (HQ)

Philo Vance 48-08-24 (007) The Poetic Murder Case (HQ)

Philip Marlowe 48-10-03 (002) The Persian Slippers (HQ)

Philip Marlowe 47-06-17 (001) Red Wind (HQ)

THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE - NBC produced Phillip Marlowe as a summer replacement series for the Bob Hope Show. It featured several adaptations of Chandler short stories, but was considered too talky and slow-moving. Erle Stanley Gardner, in a letter to Chandler, confided he found it all rather difficult to follow. But the CBS series, THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE, that followed the next year, really clicked. After a three episode trial run on THE PEPSODENT PROGRAM in September of 1947 with Van Hefflin in the title role, THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE premiered as a weekly series on September 26, 1948. It was well-produced, less introspective than the books or the previous series on NBC, but it had a secret weapon. Gerald Mohr excelled as Marlowe, and his snappy delivery, coupled with well-written stories and intriguing characters makes for entertaining listening. By 1949 the show was pulling the biggest audience on American radio, with a rating of 10.3 million listeners.In 1950, Radio and Television Life Magazine named Gerald Mohr as the Best Male Actor on radio.

Philip Marlowe 47-06-17 (001) Red Wind (HQ)

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 59-11-08 (664) The Larson Arson Matter (HQ)

The Shadow 38-01-16 (103) Sabotage (HQ)

Fred Allen Show 46-03-03 (060) Chicken Surplus (HQ)

Mystery House 46-06-14 Bases Loaded (HQ)

The Mysterious Traveler 44-02-27 (013) The Good Die Young (HQ)

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell 48-09-18 (103) The Pigskin Problem (HQ)

The Martha White Show (1953)

The Martha White Show (1950's) was a 15 minute early morning show from Nashville Tennessee featuring Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, also playing fiddle is Benny Martin. Lester Flatt, Earl Sruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys reached bluegrass legend status with the help of Martha White. In 1953, the company hired an unknown band to barnstorm the South, promoting its flour and corn meal. The members became known as the "World's Greatest Flour Peddlers," appearing on the Grand Ole Opry, playing on the Martha White early morning radio show, and hosting the Flatt and Scruggs television program.

Lester Flatt, who had the voice, and Earl Scruggs, known as the fastest banjo picker in the world, performed at Carnegie Hall twice, played the Hollywood Bowl, recorded the theme song for "The Beverly Hillbillies" and appeared on that television show six times.

Here is a compilation of the The Marta White Show. One song featured in the show is Benny Martin singing and playing "Me And MY Fiddle".

"How many biscuits can you eat this morning?"

"Goodness Gracious, It's Good!"

The Martha White Show (1953)

By the way, the hometown of Lester Flatt is Sparta, Tennessee which also is the location of the Calfkiller River. This is where the Calfkiller Old Time Radio web site name was taken from, and it is said Calfkiller was the name of a Cherokee Indian Chief from this area of Tennessee.

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