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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 337 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts VintageRadioShows.com, a fiction show with 337 episodes published.

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  Old Time Radio Sci-Fi — Mercury Theater On The Air: "War of the Worlds" (1938) | Full Episode

  Sep 30, 202659 min

  Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air present H. G. Wells's tale of a Martian invasion, adapted by Howard Koch and told as a live dance-band broadcast that keeps being interrupted by news bulletins. A meteor lands at Grover's Mill, New Jersey; a professor peers at the smoking crater; then the Martians rise from the pit with their Heat-Ray and the tripods begin to wade toward New York. Broadcast on CBS on Halloween eve, October 30, 1938, with Welles as Professor Pierson and Bernard Herrmann conducting, it is the most famous half hour in the history of radio, and it still works on anyone who hears it cold. 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 Thriller — Suspense: "The Diary of Sophronia Winters" (1943) | Full Episode

  Sep 29, 202630 min

  Suspense presents Lucille Fletcher's first original script for the series, a study in terror told through a diary. Sophronia Winters is forty, freed by her father's death, and on her first holiday in St. Petersburg, Florida when a charming hotel owner from Maine sits down beside her on the beach and proposes within the week. Married, she rides north to his enormous, empty hotel at the end of a foggy road, where the doors are locked and her husband has strange things to say about his late sister-in-law, who happened to share her name. Agnes Moorehead, fresh from Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, stars with Ray Collins, produced by William Spier and heard here on CBS in April 1943. The solution waits on the last page of the diary. 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 — Sam Spade: "The Bouncing Betty Caper" (1948) | Full Episode

  Sep 28, 202625 min

  A fussy English butler named Carruthers walks into Sam Spade's office, tidies his ashtray, and hires him to go undercover as a chauffeur at Bleakcliff, a clifftop estate near Squid Beach. Someone keeps trying to kill young Kathy McGraw, and the household blames her troubled brother Tony. Kathy blames her stepfather, a psychiatrist and fortune hunter. Before Spade can prove anything, a wartime German land mine goes off in the doctor's office. Howard Duff plays Spade and Lurene Tuttle is Effie in this 1948 CBS caper, heard here in its Armed Forces Radio Service rebroadcast. 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: "It Happened" (1938) | Full Episode

  Sep 27, 202630 min

  Jean Taylor is a spoiled rich girl from New York on a chaperoned art tour of Paris, and she is bored stiff. She slips away from the Louvre looking for fun and finds a smooth stranger who says he knows her father and offers to show her the real Paris. By nightfall she is locked in an empty house with a man who wants $150,000 in revenge, a heavy candlestick in her hand, and nowhere to run but down, into the black, rushing sewers beneath the city. Down there an old man named Louis pulls her from the water. He has a workshop, and a hobby: exquisite lace-like necklaces, carved from what the current brings him. Arch Oboler wrote and directed this Lights Out nightmare, letting you hear both Jean's voice and the frantic thoughts racing through her head. First broadcast May 11, 1938, from NBC's Chicago studios. Also known as "Her Name Was Jean." 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 — The Lone Ranger: "Murder Strikes Thrice" (1942) | Full Episode

  Sep 26, 202630 min

  The Lone Ranger and Tonto ride into Excalibur, a dusty frontier town where somebody is killing men on their birthdays. A year ago, three witnesses swore away the alibi of a young drifter named Paul Zember, and the court sent him to prison for life on his own birthday. Now Cole Rankin has been poisoned at his birthday toast, Lem Parsons knifed in his bed, and Seth Hollins shot in the street, each on his birthday. The town is sure the convict has come back for revenge, the honest sheriff has been voted out, and the judge who passed sentence may be next. But the judge is hiding a secret of his own, and the masked man suspects the killer wants the town looking the wrong way. Brace Beemer stars as the Lone Ranger, with John Todd as Tonto, in a Fran Striker story first broadcast October 2, 1942. 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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