Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

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By: Darren Marlar

Welcome to Retro Radio: Old Time Radio In The Dark! Here I bring you shows from the Golden Age of Radio in the darker genre. I’ll have classic radio of the macabre and horror, mysteries and crime, and even some dark science fiction. 5-hour marathons posted seven days per week with a variety of shows included each day!

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The Traveling Clairvoyant of Tipton Mountain | #RetroRadio
The Traveling Clairvoyant of Tipton Mountain | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Yesterday at 6:04 AM

“Judas Kiss: The Traveling Clairvoyant of Tipton Mountain” — A hermit who claims he can watch distant events from inside a hollow pine tree becomes convinced the woman renting the cabin above his is a murderer — and only he knows what she's done.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Judas Kiss” (March 23, 1978) ***WD
00:45:48.210 = Tales From The Tomb, “Spi...


“Temple of Vampires” — An ‘I Love a Mystery’ Horror Radio Serial | #RetroRadio
“Temple of Vampires” — An ‘I Love a Mystery’ Horror Radio Serial | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Last Friday at 12:00 AM

Stranded in the Nicaraguan jungle beside an ancient temple, three adventurers and their companions discover its priests serve a horror that's all too real — man-sized vampire bats with an appetite for human blood.

"Temple of Vampires," an installment of Carlton E. Morse's I Love a Mystery (originally aired January 02-27, 1950), follows adventurers Jack, Doc, and Reggie as they fly toward Central America with heiress Sonny Richards and a mysterious stowaway boy named Hermie. Water-tainted gasoline forces their plane down on the shore of Lake Nicaragua, near an ancient jungle temple. Exploring it, they find a blood-drained Indian corpse an...


The Peony Lantern: A Ghost's Love Finds a Samurai Beyond the Grave | #RetroRadio
The Peony Lantern: A Ghost's Love Finds a Samurai Beyond the Grave | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Last Thursday at 8:09 PM

A young samurai's forbidden love for a warlord's daughter follows him past the grave, when her returning ghost lures him into a fatal embrace no sacred charm can prevent.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Golden Amulet” (March 21, 1978) ***WD
00:45:50.420 = Sam Spade, “The Calcutta Trunk Caper” (June 08, 1947)
01:10:25.646 = The Sealed Book, “Devil Island” (April 0, 1945) ***WD
01:39:45...


She Said He Came to Conquer Earth — Nobody Believed Her | #RetroRadio
She Said He Came to Conquer Earth — Nobody Believed Her | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Last Wednesday at 2:25 AM

A nightgown-clad stranger in a flying saucer repeats two nonsense words to everyone who'll listen—but only a lonely hospital cleaner can understand what he's really saying, and the warning is one no one wants to believe.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Identified Flying Objects” (March 17, 1978) ***WD
00:45:34.637 = Obsession, “Amnesia” (February 19, 1951) ***WD
01:08:44.909 = Origin of Superstition...


The Time Fold: A Corporate Jet Falls a Thousand Years Into the Future | #RetroRadio
The Time Fold: A Corporate Jet Falls a Thousand Years Into the Future | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Last Tuesday at 2:38 AM

When a corporate jet is torn through a fold in space and time, its passengers find themselves offered a second chance a thousand years from home — if they're willing to leave everything behind.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Time Fold” (March 16, 1978)
00:45:45.739 = Beyond Midnight, “Signalman” (March 28, 1969)
01:14:36.277 = MindWebs, “Sword Game” (February 26, 1983)
01:37:43.928 = Mystery In The Air, “Beyond...


Three Witnesses, a Locked-Room Murder, And a Ghost On The Marble Stairs | #RetroRadio
Three Witnesses, a Locked-Room Murder, And a Ghost On The Marble Stairs | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Last Monday at 12:00 AM

A locked-room death, a fragile heiress convinced her dead mother is beckoning her from the top of the marble stairs, and three witnesses who all swear they've seen the ghost as well.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Impossible Is True” (March 14, 1978)
00:46:17.985 = Jeff Regan, “Lady With The Golden Hair” (July 31, 1948) ***WD
01:15:49.025 = The Key, “Gentleman Co...


(Bonus Episode!) How a Civilization Ended War by Sending Every Teenager Through One
(Bonus Episode!) How a Civilization Ended War by Sending Every Teenager Through One episode artwork
07/05/2026

In a world that has finally outlawed war, every boy must still report for combat at fifteen — and Tom is about to learn exactly what that means.

“The Invisible Enemy” by Arnold Castle, originally published in “Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy” October 1954


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(Bonus Episode!) She Walked In From Another Planet and Announced She'd Marry Him
(Bonus Episode!) She Walked In From Another Planet and Announced She'd Marry Him episode artwork
07/05/2026

A mild-mannered chemistry teacher weighing a lucrative job offer against the quiet life he loves finds his decision complicated when a woman claiming to be from the Pleiades strolls into his house and refuses to leave, insisting to move in.

“A Matter of Ethics” by Russ Winterbotham, originally published by Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, April 1955

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The Marquis of Death: A French Vampire Bride's Curse | #RetroRadio
The Marquis of Death: A French Vampire Bride's Curse | #RetroRadio episode artwork
07/04/2026

An old villager's tale about a beautiful, undead noblewoman feels like harmless folklore to two visiting American brothers — right up until the night one of them meets her.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Wheel of Life” (March 13, 1978) ***WD
00:46:42.838 = Crime And Peter Chambers, “Cemetery Attack” (April 20, 1954)
01:09:59.902 = Hall of Fantasy, “Marquis of Death” (June 22, 1953)
01:33:32.51...


Their Coffins Were Waiting: Funeral Arrangements Completed | #RetroRadio
Their Coffins Were Waiting: Funeral Arrangements Completed | #RetroRadio episode artwork
07/04/2026

A routine trip to claim an inheritance becomes a waking nightmare when a young couple discovers their own coffins waiting for them at a lonely, decaying estate.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Red Scarf” (March 07, 1978) ***WD
00:45:52.916 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Dark Wings of Death” (February 06, 1945) ***WD
00:57:09.764 = The Eleventh Hour, “The Box” (ADU)
01:23:41...


The House With the Green-Eyed Shadow and the Man Who Won't Die | #RetroRadio
The House With the Green-Eyed Shadow and the Man Who Won't Die | #RetroRadio episode artwork
07/03/2026

“The House And The Brain”: A skeptical scientist who swears the supernatural is nonsense spends one night in a house no tenant will stay in—and discovers a terror that follows him out the door.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The House And The Brain” (March 06, 1978) ***WD
00:46:38.363 = Chet Chetter, “The Fall And Rise of the Master Con...


Crazy Town: Where Killers Are Sane and the Sane Are Mad | #RetroRadio
Crazy Town: Where Killers Are Sane and the Sane Are Mad | #RetroRadio episode artwork
07/02/2026

“Crazy Town”: Two bomber pilots who rain death on defenseless villages crash behind the walls of a hidden asylum, where a soft-spoken madman insists they've finally come home to the only community where killers like them belong.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = The CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Assassin” (March 03, 1978) ***WD
00:46:37.892 = Strange Adventure, “The Wind Wagon” (1945) ***WD
00:49:51.994 = Arch Oboler’s...


The Shared Nightmare: Tell Me Your Dreams | #RetroRadio
The Shared Nightmare: Tell Me Your Dreams | #RetroRadio episode artwork
07/01/2026

A tough-talking builder tells his psychiatrist that a man he's never met keeps killing him in his dreams — and then she starts having the same dream.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “You Tell Me Your Dreams” (March 02, 1978)
00:46:35.785 = 2000 Plus, “Alone” (January 15, 1950)
01:17:02.267 = The Unexpected, “Handle With Care” (November 19, 1948)
01:29:00.817 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Toll Bridge” (1936) ***WD
01:43:27.147 = Dark Venture, “Cover...


I Have Been HACKED.
I Have Been HACKED. episode artwork
06/29/2026

I was hacked last night and EVERYTHING I used Gmail for (which is a heckuva lot), I've been locked out of. I am receiving NO emails from anywhere, I can't get into YouTube, I can't recover my account in a timely manner because the hacker has changed the login information, the password, and even the recovery phone number. I was finally able to use a different email address to try and recover, but now I have to wait 48 hours for Google to determine if I'm even who I say I am. I will probably be out of commission for a...


Star Hill: The Reporter Sent to Warminster to Debunk UFOs — and Did the Opposite | #RetroRadio
Star Hill: The Reporter Sent to Warminster to Debunk UFOs — and Did the Opposite | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/29/2026

A skeptical reporter is sent to debunk England's most famous UFO hotspot — but the more nights he spends on Star Hill, the harder it becomes to dismiss what he sees, and the woman who keeps appearing there may be asking him to believe in far more than he ever bargained for.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Thea...


He Gave His Eyes to the Man Who Sent Him to Die | #RetroRadio
He Gave His Eyes to the Man Who Sent Him to Die | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/28/2026

A drifter set to die in the gas chamber for a murder he didn't commit offers one last gift to the man who framed him — never imagining what that gift might carry.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Second Sight” (February 27, 1978) ***WD
00:46:14.838 = Origin of Superstition, “Three On A Match” (December 16, 1932) ***WD
01:00:44.894 = Pat Novak For Hire, “Don’t...


The Atomic Crabs of Bikini Atoll | #RetroRadio
The Atomic Crabs of Bikini Atoll | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/27/2026

Two downed pilots wash up on a deserted Pacific island and discover that the atomic bomb tests there have bred something monstrous in the lagoon — and it's coming ashore. | Mysterious Traveler: “Strange New World”

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Loser Take it All” (February 24, 1978) ***WD
00:46:58.849 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Doctor And Lunatic” (April 26, 1946)
01:16:08.715 = Mr. Keen, “Mr. Trevo...


The Vanishing Bride and the Government's Secret Experiment | #RetroRadio
The Vanishing Bride and the Government's Secret Experiment | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/26/2026

His fiancée disappears without a trace the night they were supposed to set their wedding date, and the deeper Peter digs, the closer he gets to a secret the government would rather keep buried.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Vanishing Lady” (February 23, 1978) ***WD
00:47:12.759 = Lux Radio Theater, “Strangers On a Train” (December 03, 1951)
01:42:29.027 = Macabre, “Man In The Mir...


The Church of Hell: The Tenant Who Was Frightened to Death | #RetroRadio
The Church of Hell: The Tenant Who Was Frightened to Death | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/24/2026

David and Jane Francis come home from a European holiday to find the wealthy widow who'd sublet their country house dead of fright — and the rooms left behind tell of melted mirrors, scorched floors, and a circle burned into the wood that no living tenant should have known how to draw.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Thea...


JUKEBOX WEIRDO | Send Me Your Weirdest Idea, I'll Turn It Into a Song!
JUKEBOX WEIRDO | Send Me Your Weirdest Idea, I'll Turn It Into a Song! episode artwork
06/24/2026

Step right up, Weirdos! Got a strange idea rattling around in your skull — a haunting nobody believes, a cryptid your uncle swears he saw, some true-crime case that still keeps you up at night? Jukebox Weirdo turns it into a real, honest-to-goodness song. You bring the weird, you pick the band off the Weird Darkness Records roster, and I write it and produce it — with your name on the idea. And if it's a keeper, I'll send it out to Spotify, iHeart Radio, YouTube Music, and everywhere else, so you can crank it for everybody you know and holler, "THAT'S my s...


The Looking Glass Girl: What Did They Do To Her? | #RetroRadio
The Looking Glass Girl: What Did They Do To Her? | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/24/2026

Two young Parisians dreaming of artistic greatness stumble upon a squalid countryside farm, where one becomes fatally transfixed by a strange, silent girl the family keeps like livestock — and the price of his masterpiece may be more than either of them can imagine.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Nighteyes” (February 13, 1978) ***WD
00:44:52.381 = Faces In The Window...


Royston House: The Mansion That Forbids Mirrors | #RetroRadio
Royston House: The Mansion That Forbids Mirrors | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/23/2026

A young woman hired to care for an invalid widow in a crumbling Hudson River mansion soon learns why her brooding employer forbids every mirror in the house—and why the dogs are always watching.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Reflected Terror” (February 10, 1978) ***WD
00:46:05.827 = Deep Night CBC, “Ice Screams” (August 05, 2005)
01:20:02.229 = Calling All Detectives, “The Necktie”...


A Doctor Discovers Her Immigrant Patients Aren't Human | #RetroRadio
A Doctor Discovers Her Immigrant Patients Aren't Human | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/22/2026

A young doctor returns to her childhood slum to open a free clinic, but when a dying patient vanishes from her examination room and his grieving cousin swears the boy has simply gone home, she begins to wonder what kind of people she's really been treating.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “All Unregistered Aliens” (February 09, 1978) ***WD


Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and the Fountain of Youth: A Hawthorne Mystery | #RetroRadio
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and the Fountain of Youth: A Hawthorne Mystery | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/21/2026

Four aged friends gather in an eccentric doctor's shadowed study, where he offers each of them a single glass of water he swears was drawn from the Fountain of Youth.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” (February 07, 1978) ***WD
00:47:39.915 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Engulfed Cathedral” (May 06, 1939) ***WD
01:17:52.594 = BBC Radio 4/Radio 7 Ghost Story, “Jonas”...


The Haunted Crossroads: A Hanged Woman's 200-Year Curse | #RetroRadio
The Haunted Crossroads: A Hanged Woman's 200-Year Curse | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/20/2026

A lonely Massachusetts crossroads has been claiming the lives of lawmen for over two hundred years—each one stabbed in the back in a spot so open no killer could possibly reach him, while the only sound in the dark is a woman's cold laughter.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Talking Women” (February 06, 1978) ***WD
00:47:04.966 = 2000 Plus, “The Giant...


What Lives in the Pool Behind Witchwater Green? | #RetroRadio
What Lives in the Pool Behind Witchwater Green? | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/18/2026

A fragile young mother, alone with her infant daughter in a remote old mill, becomes certain that something is moving in the deep black pool behind her bedroom wall, and that the villagers fighting to keep it filled know exactly what it wants.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Ice Palace” (January 31, 1978) ***WD
00:46:31.886 = BBC Radio...


Yesterday’s Giant: A Nevada Nuclear Test Wakes a Family of Neanderthal Giants | #RetroRadio
Yesterday’s Giant: A Nevada Nuclear Test Wakes a Family of Neanderthal Giants | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/18/2026

A nuclear test deep beneath the Nevada desert stirs something that should have died out two hundred thousand years ago, and when two old colleagues climb into the mountains to find it, only one of them grasps what it will cost to bring a living giant back down.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Feature, “Yesterday’s Giant”...


Queen of Thieves: A Widow, a Swindler, and a Cursed Copper Idol | Ranee of Rajputana #RetroRadio
Queen of Thieves: A Widow, a Swindler, and a Cursed Copper Idol | Ranee of Rajputana #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/17/2026

At her own party, a wealthy widow watches her trusted investment counselor's fingers close around a small copper idol — the Queen of Thieves — as if the little goddess had reached out of the shadows and chosen him for her own.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Ranee of Rajputana” (January 24, 1978) ***WD
00:47:42.858 = Mr. Keen, “the Boy Who Used Big...


STAR WARS: Return of the Jedi | NPR Radio Drama | #RetroRadio
STAR WARS: Return of the Jedi | NPR Radio Drama | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/16/2026

Thirteen years after The Empire Strikes Back, the long-delayed finale arrived in 1996 — six episodes that brought the original trilogy to a close. Funding cuts had stalled production for more than a decade, but the conclusion was completed at last, with Anthony Daniels returning one final time as C-3PO, joined by Brock Peters as Darth Vader, John Lithgow's Yoda, and Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt. Still carried by John Williams' score and the original sound effects, it's Return of the Jedi as you've never heard it. | #RRStarWars

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A Ghost Who Forgot Why He Came, a Dying Wife, a Final Anniversary | #RetroRadio
A Ghost Who Forgot Why He Came, a Dying Wife, a Final Anniversary | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/16/2026

A dying woman swears there's a prowler downstairs, but what her husband finds in the dark kitchen is a timid little ghost who can't remember why he's come.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Forgetful Ghost” (January 23, 1978) ***WD
00:46:42.148 = Philip Marlowe, “Grim Echo” (February 14, 1950)
01:16:14.347 = Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, “The Ghost To Ghost Matter” (May 18, 1958) ***WD
01:41...


STAR WARS: Return of the Jedi | NPR Radio Drama | #RetroRadio
STAR WARS: Return of the Jedi | NPR Radio Drama | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/14/2026

Thirteen years after The Empire Strikes Back, the long-delayed finale arrived in 1996 — six episodes that brought the original trilogy to a close. Funding cuts had stalled production for more than a decade, but the conclusion was completed at last, with Anthony Daniels returning one final time as C-3PO, joined by Brock Peters as Darth Vader, John Lithgow's Yoda, and Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt. Still carried by John Williams' score and the original sound effects, it's Return of the Jedi as you've never heard it. | #RRStarWars

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STAR WARS: The Empire Strikes Back | NPR Radio Drama | #RetroRadio
STAR WARS: The Empire Strikes Back | NPR Radio Drama | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/13/2026

In 1983, the team behind NPR's record-breaking Star Wars returned for the darker, colder middle chapter — The Empire Strikes Back, told across ten episodes. Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels were back as Luke and C-3PO, Billy Dee Williams reprised Lando Calrissian from the film, and a young John Lithgow voiced Yoda, all set to the original sound effects and John Williams' score. From the frozen wastes of Hoth to the clouds of Bespin, it's the Star Wars sequel as you've never heard it. | #RRStarWars

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STAR WARS: A New Hope | NPR Radio Drama | #RetroRadio
STAR WARS: A New Hope | NPR Radio Drama | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/13/2026

In 1981, National Public Radio turned the biggest movie in the world into a thirteen-episode radio epic that went on to break the network's listening records. George Lucas sold the rights for a single dollar and handed over the original sound effects and John Williams' score, letting a full cast bring the galaxy to life in sound alone. Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels reprised Luke Skywalker and C-3PO in a sweeping retelling that expands well beyond the film — the original Star Wars as you've never heard it.

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Is My Son a Demon? | Grandpa Died After the Boy Went to Bed, Then It Happened Again! | #RetroRadio
Is My Son a Demon? | Grandpa Died After the Boy Went to Bed, Then It Happened Again! | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/11/2026

“The Enchanted Child”: A polite little boy keeps pushing away his favorite dessert at Sunday dinner — and every time he does, somebody in the family doesn't live to see Monday.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Enchanted Child” (January 20, 1978) ***WD
00:47:10.132 = House of Mystery, “The Ghost Who Forgot Halloween” (October 27, 1945) ***WD
01:18:31.060 = Incredible But True, “The Stowaway” (195...


He Summons the Dead, And Steals Daughters | Sophia And The Pilgrim | #RetroRadio
He Summons the Dead, And Steals Daughters | Sophia And The Pilgrim | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/11/2026

A skeptical census taker's idle curiosity about a mystic who can summon the dead draws his old friend's beautiful, restless daughter into the stranger's orbit — and she may never come back.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Sophia And The Pilgrim” (June 19, 1978) ***WD
00:46:22.976 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “The Boat Hook” (April 15, 1992)
01:29:50.477 = Calling All Cars, “T...


BLACK MAGIC: Locked Away for a Hatchet Murder, She Came Home to Raise the Dead | #RetroRadio
BLACK MAGIC: Locked Away for a Hatchet Murder, She Came Home to Raise the Dead | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/10/2026

Twenty years after she was locked away for taking a hatchet to her own sister, fragile Ann Pettigrew comes home obsessed with one desire — and on a storm-lit night, with candles burning and a circle drawn on the floor, she works a forbidden rite to summon back the only man she ever loved, no matter what comes walking up the veranda steps to answer.

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CH...


Ghost Story: They Killed Him on the Road, Now He Follows Them Everywhere. | #RetroRadio
Ghost Story: They Killed Him on the Road, Now He Follows Them Everywhere. | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/09/2026

A scheming wife and her spineless lover pull off the perfect murder of her wealthy husband — until the dead man starts turning up in the snow, at the bar, waiting in the shadows, and refuses to stay buried.


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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “In Another Place” (January 16, 1978) ***WD
00:47:10.460 = The Clock, “Ghost Story” (December 13, 1955) ***WD
01:13...


“Exorcism”: The Christmas Feast That Turned to Blood and Bone | #RetroRadio
“Exorcism”: The Christmas Feast That Turned to Blood and Bone | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/07/2026

Two wealthy couples settle in for a lavish Christmas dinner at a lovingly restored country cottage, until the lights die, the wine turns to blood, and the house itself seals them inside with something that remembers what once happened within its walls.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Laughing Maiden” (January 13, 1978)
00:45:48.046 = BBC Radio 4/Radio 7 Ghost...


Bride of Death: Slain on the Road to His Own Wedding, the Earl Comes Courting Anyway | #RetroRadio
Bride of Death: Slain on the Road to His Own Wedding, the Earl Comes Courting Anyway | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/07/2026

A betrothal feast turns to terror when the man who comes courting Lady Margaret may be the same Earl of Dunbar who was stabbed to death on the road to claim her — and a Highland prophecy that the last of her line would be the bride of death seems to be coming true.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radi...


The Ninth Volume: Did It Hold the Fate That Already Destroyed a World Exactly Like Ours? | #RetroRadio
The Ninth Volume: Did It Hold the Fate That Already Destroyed a World Exactly Like Ours? | #RetroRadio episode artwork
06/06/2026

A young geologist drilling four miles into a Rocky Mountain ridge breaks through into a sealed chamber and finds something impossible: a fully furnished modern house, twelve billion years old, holding a library that has already written the history of a world exactly like ours — including the volume that tells how it ends.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radi...