VintageRadioShows.com

Step back to radio’s golden age—curated classics in comedy, mystery, drama, westerns, and adventure from the 1930s–1950s. Drawn from a library of 40,000+ restored episodes, with new selections added regularly.

VintageRadioShows.com is a fiction podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 304 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts VintageRadioShows.com, a fiction show with 304 episodes published.

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  Old Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "The Adventure of the Gray Pasha" (1949) | Full Episode

  Aug 19, 202625 min

  Every week the announcer calls on a retired Dr. Watson, who pours a glass, opens the old tin dispatch box, and unwraps one more case from the Baker Street years. In "The Adventure of the Gray Pasha," first broadcast May 16, 1949, John Stanley's Holmes takes on an original radio mystery with a whisper of the Empire's far corners about it — a client with more to hide than to tell, and a small detail that Watson walks straight past while Holmes reads a whole history in it. One of the last cases from Stanley's run as the great detective. Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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  Old Time Radio Sci-Fi — X Minus One: "Mars Is Heaven" (1955) | Full Episode

  Aug 18, 202626 min

  X Minus One is the finest science fiction ever produced for radio — NBC's half hour of adult SF, drawn from the pages of Astounding and Galaxy and adapted by staff writers Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts. "Mars Is Heaven" is its most famous half hour. The first rocket to Mars lands in 1987 and the crew comes down the ladder braced for a hostile world. What they find is Green Bluff, Illinois, 1928 — white frame houses, a bandstand, lilacs, a piano playing down the street, and the people they buried years ago. Lustig's grandparents. Captain Black's brother Edward, on the porch of the house Black grew up in. One by one the crew scatters into the arms of family and the mission simply dissolves. Only Dr. Horst, the ship's psychologist, finds nobody waiting for him, and he is the one who says it out loud: the Martians are telepaths, the town is being read out of the crew's own memories, and every man who walks into a house tonight walks in alone. Adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury's 1948 story, later folded into The Martian Chronicles. Broadcast May 8, 1955. Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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  Old Time Radio Horror — Lights Out: "Poltergeist" (1942) | Full Episode

  Aug 17, 202625 min

  Lights Out is the program that taught radio how to frighten people — Arch Oboler writing for the ear alone, half an hour at a time, with a warning up front to send the children out of the room. In "Poltergeist," three young women from the city are walking a snowbound country road when they come across an old burying ground, and one of them dances on a grave as a joke. The nervous one tells them what the country people say about that: it wakes the noisy spirit, the one that throws stones. Minutes later a stone comes out of nowhere. Broadcast on CBS October 20, 1942, the third week of Oboler's fifty-two week revival, and later rerun under the title "Gravestone." Oboler closes by stepping out of the story to read from what he calls authenticated records — a London house in 1872 where stones flew and nobody ever explained it. Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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  Old Time Radio Western — Gunsmoke: "Jud's Woman" (1957) | Full Episode

  Aug 16, 202624 min

  Gunsmoke is the show that invented the adult western on radio: Matt Dillon is the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City in the 1870s, and William Conrad plays him tired, blunt, and often too late to help. "Jud's Woman" comes from the sixth season, a Marian Clark script built around a marriage the whole town can see going wrong and a marshal with no legal standing to stop it. Clark had joined the writing staff that year and would go on to write more Gunsmoke than anyone but John Meston. Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, with Parley Baer as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNear as Doc. Broadcast on CBS, December 1, 1957. Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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  Old Time Radio Detective — Sherlock Holmes: "The Elusive Agent Part 1" (1949) | Full Episode

  Aug 15, 202625 min

  John Stanley's Sherlock Holmes carried Baker Street through radio's late golden age, each half-hour framed as a case Dr. Watson recalls over a glass of sherry. "The Adventure of the Elusive Agent" opens a rare three-part serial, broadcast in the spring of 1949 and set not in the gaslit 1890s but in 1913, with Europe drifting toward war. Mycroft Holmes calls his brother down from retirement and his bees in Sussex: the plans for an experimental armored fighting vehicle have been stolen, the naval officer entrusted with them has been murdered on his honeymoon, and the agent who took them has left almost nothing behind. Part one of three. Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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