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Fall Festival of High Quality Shows

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Over the next few weeks will be posting a selection of high quality old time radio shows on the podcast as part of a Fall Festival. The shows are at 128 kbps and mostly from CDs. Will make a nice collection for the upcomong Holiday season. Enjoy!
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Punishment and Crime - Sears Radio Theater

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Sears Radio Theater was an anthology radio drama series which ran weeknightly on CBS Radio in 1979, sponsored by the Sears chain. Often paired with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater during its first season, the program offered a different genre of drama for each day's broadcast. This selection "Punishment and Crime" is a story of the old west hosted by Lorne Greene starring Parley Baer and Howard Culver. The story was writtrn by Percy Grainger and produced by Fletcher Markle.

Sears Radio Theater 790716 116 Punishment and Crime

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Hollywood Theater of Stars was aired 1948-1951 over Mutual in an unusual daily time slot, 6:30, thirty minuets before prime time. It was billed as radio's greatest daytime dramatic program. The series was hosted by C.P McGregor showcasing the talents of famous Hollywood actors. The show was sponsored by La Rosa.

This episode of "The Powder Puff Kid" stars Robert Mitchum.


Hollywood Theatre Of Stars 49-11-10 The Powder Puff Kid



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The Vulnerable Vixen - Walk Softly, Peter Troy

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Walk Softly, Peter Troy is a detective drama produced in the Durban Studios of Herrick Merril Productions. It starred Tom Meehan, John Simpson, and Merle Wayne. In episode 4 "The Vulnerable Vixen" a machine-gun moll from Chicago invades London with a protection racket.

PTroy 63-12-31 (04) The Vulnerable Vixen

Builders On The River - American Adventure

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Builders on the River from American Adventure aired August 11, 1955. Entertaining tales taken primarily from actual events that occurred in America's past. The shows were produced by the communications center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a lot of the tales are performed by the faculty, students, and townspeople from the University of North Carolina who do an outstanding job of acting. The scripts are written by John Eely, who also performs in the stories, and directed by John Clayton.


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Ringo, Gunfighter - Dr Sixgun

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Doctor Gray Matson, played by Karl Weber, is a frontier physician based from a small western town in the 1870's called Frenchman's Ford. The shows are introduced by a recurring character named Pablo (Bill Griffis), a gypsy peddler who has a talking raven named Midnight as his sidekick.

Dr Sixgun 54-11-21 (13) Ringo, Gunfighter

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The Case of the Empty Tin - Perry Mason

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The Case of the Empty Tin from Perry Mason aired March 8, 1958. Perry Mason by Erle Stanley Gardner, a civil rights lawyer turned author, was the master of American mystery fiction. His mysteries contain intricate and challenging plots full of surprises, whodunits in the best tradition. A tin can, secretly placed among the rows of Mrs. Florence Gentrie's preserves, contains not a speck of food, but it does carry one clue to a murder that took place right next door.


My Little Margie 54-12-12 Verne Only Has 30 Days To Live

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My Little Margie presented 21 year-old Margie Albright, who lived with her widowed father Vernon in a New York City penthouse. Mr. Albright worked as an executive for the investment counseling firm Honeywell & Todd, and was perpetually in fear of losing "the big account" because of Margie's meddling.

Margie Albright
............................................ Gale Storm
Vernon Albright....................................... Charles Farrell

My Little Margie 54-12-12 Verne Only Has 30 Days To Live

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Brother's Keeper - I Cover the Waterfront

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"Brother's Keeper" starring Larry Thor as a waterfront reporter aired august 29, 1955 from CBS radio. Stories from the files of a newspaper man's memory based upon the best selling book "I Cover the Waterfront" by Max Miller. This version includes parts 1 and 2.

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