Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark
Welcome to Retro Radio: Old Time Radio In The Dark! I bring you classic radio dramas from the darker side of the Golden Age of Radio: horror and the macabre, mysteries and crime, and some dark science fiction. 5-hour marathons go up seven days a week, each one packed with a variety of shows, so turn down the lights before you press play!
THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE ROOM: She Knew The Moment Her Father Died | #RetroRadio
“The Glass Bubble”: Doris has lived since she was a baby in a room eight feet square and white from floor to ceiling, and from her bed there she knew the family cat lay dead on Oak Street and watched her father walk into a great white light the moment he died.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Glass Bubble” (April 23, 1979) ***WD
00:46:01.276 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Murder Bound” (1945-1951)
01:11:06.647 = Sherlock Holmes, “Remarkable Affair Of The Pointless Robbery” (May 05, 1947)
01:41:51.095 = Mystery House, “Death Is An Accident” (1944-1946)
02:08:23.393 = Inner Sanctum, “Musica...
THE GOLDEN GIRL: The Assassin Who Hasn't Been Born Yet | #RetroRadio
A tall young woman who seems to be made of gold, whose written plea says she's never been able to speak, steps up for the Messenger Lawrence's healing touch in front of thousands of his followers and shoots him dead.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Golden Girl” (April 18, 1979) ***WD
00:47:02.591 = Fear on 4, “A Day At The Dentist’s” (March 13, 1988) ***WD
01:17:02.686 = Theater Five, “Congratulations, Mr. Mayor” (December 08, 1964)
01:39:07.873 = Future Tense, “A Pail Of Air” (May 20, 1974) ***WD
02:07:16.613 = Big Town, “Fatal Joke” (March 01, 1949) ***WD
02:37:42.310 = Hall of Fantasy, “Marquis Of Death” (June 22, 1953)<...
RING OF EVIL: She Saw The Ring On The Killer's Hand | #RetroRadio | #RetroRadio
On vacation in Taxco, Mexico, an 18-year-old American watches a woman stabbed in an upstairs window by a hand wearing a blood-red ring, and a few days later her father's old friend sits down to dinner wearing one just like it.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Ring of Evil” (April 16, 1979) ***WD
00:45:51.422 = The Devil And Mr. O, “Revolt of Worms” (October 01, 1971)
01:16:15.872 = Diary of Fate, “Tina Crowley” (March 09, 1948) ***WD
01:45:43.665 = Dimension X, “The Martian Death March” (January 14, 1951) ***WD
02:12:23.911 = The Eleventh Hour, “Ghost Town” (ADU)
02:41:55.156 = Escape, “Seeds of Greed” (December 27, 194...
THE CHARNEL HOUSE: The Clinic Where The Patients Never Leave | #RetroRadio | #RetroRadio
Jane Pryor comes home from Vienna to visit her father at a famous seaside clinic, is told at the door that he died two weeks ago, and is talked into staying on at a place where attack dogs roam the grounds after dark and the new young doctor keeps begging her to leave.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Charnel House” (April 11, 1979) ***WD
00:46:05.113 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Gentle Strangler” (April 24, 1947)
01:16:31.244 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Two Little Punctures” (September 22, 1967) ***WD
01:44:34.174 = All Star Western Theater, “Ghost In Little Deer Canyon” (November 29, 1947) ***WD
02:14:00.8...
Baby Food For The Thing Behind The Steel Door | #RetroRadio
On a domed colony on Neptune in the year 2120, a young man who wants to stop thinking, hands his living body over to a doctor, and the doctor's wife can't understand why she's now carrying pounds of baby food up to a laboratory she isn't allowed to enter.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Permanent Man” (April 09, 1979) ***WD
00:46:03.374 = Witch’s Tale, “Troth of Death” (May 29, 1933)
01:10:27.352 = X Minus 1, “Protection” (March 20, 1957)
01:33:38.134 = ABC Mystery Time, “Four Time Loser” (1957) ***WD
01:58:35.807 = Appointment With Fear, “The Deep Shuddered” (November 20, 1945) ***WD
02:25:18.270 = Arch Oboloer’s Plays, “M...
THE BELIEVERS: Nobody Ever Leaves Mr. Bolivar's House | #RetroRadio
The people who visit Evan Bolivar never seem to leave, and when one of their cars finally pulls out of his driveway at dawn, Bolivar is behind the wheel alone, so Alan Pearson's mother sends him next door to find out why, and the meeting he's invited to that night ends at a trapdoor in Bolivar's parlor floor.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Believers” (April 04, 1979) ***WD
00:46:52.600 = Stay Tuned For Terror, “The Bogey Man Will Get You” (October 01, 1945) ***WD
01:02:24.081 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Picture Of A Killer” (May 08, 1945...
HE CAME BACK FROM SPACE: But His Daughter Knows Something Is Wrong | #RetroRadio
At three in the morning, a spacecraft lands on the White House lawn and carries the president away, and when it brings him home 24 hours later just as promised, his daughter is the only one who notices he's started calling her by a name her father never used.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Enemy From Space” (March 26, 1979) ***WD
00:45:32.120 = Price Of Fear, “Goody Two Shoes” (May 30, 1983) ***WD(LQ)
01:13:32.592 = Ellery Queen, “Mischief Maker” (January 15, 1944) ***WD
01:39:57.199 = Quiet Please, “The Hat, The Bed, And John J. Catherine” (June 11, 1949) ***WD
02:09:49.719 = Radio City Playhou...
99 YEARS IN THE PEN: And He Came Out Looking Forty | #RetroRadio
All The Time In The World: Small-time con man Harry picks up his old cellmate at the gates of the state pen on the day the man finishes a 99-year sentence, and since his friend doesn't look a day over forty, Harry is already counting the million dollars somebody is bound to pay for the secret of eternal life.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “All The Time In The World” (March 12, 1979) ***WD
00:44:47.520 = Murder at Midnight, “Death Across The Board” (September 18, 1946)
01:12:12.265 = The Black Museum, “The Black Gladstone Bag” (January 22, 19...
BLOWN OUT OF THIS WORLD: The Teacher Who Came Back Reversed | #RetroRadio
Watchers Of The Light: A small-town teacher goes for a lifeguard physical, and the doctor's X-rays show his heart beating on the right side of his chest and his liver turned around. Two weeks earlier, he and his principal set a match to a green powder a student found in an old lime kiln, and the explosion left no trace of either man.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Watchers Of The Light” (March 07, 1979) ***WD
00:46:45.882 = Let George Do It, “Voice Of The Giant” (July 31, 1950) ***WD
01:17:27.684 = Black Mass, “Diary of a Madman”...
SWALLOWED BY THE MOUNTAIN: The Town That Vanished Overnight | #RetroRadio
The Fall of Gentryville: Overnight, the mountain village of Gentryville and all six hundred of its people vanish, and full-grown elm trees stand where the general store was the day before. A washed-up reporter on his last chance goes looking for the reason, and the name that keeps pulling at him is the only "Miss" in the town's telephone book.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Fall Of Gentryville” (March 05, 1979) ***WD
00:47:07.022 = Mystery is My Hobby, “Who Killed David Austin” (1945-1951) ***WD
01:12:20.161 = Sherlock Holmes, “Island of Death” (April 28, 1947)
01:42:30...
SHADOWS FROM THE GRAVE: The Uncle Who Knew He'd Be Dead In A Week | #RetroRadio
An uncle in Fresno tells his nephew, a Hollywood photographer, that he'll be dead within a week, then leaves him everything on one condition: he has to check the locks on the family mausoleum every single day.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Shadows From The Grave” (February 28, 1979) ***WD
00:46:46.506 = Dark Fantasy, “Curse Of Neanderthal” (January 09, 1942) (LQ)
01:11:51.129 = Fear on 4, “Mind Well The Tree” (February 28, 1988) ***WD
01:42:18.285 = Theater Five, “Bug Off” (December 07, 1964) ***WD
02:04:22.312 = Future Tense, “Born Of Man And Woman” (May 16, 1974) ***WD
02:33:19.190 = Ave Maria Hour, “St Benedict of Nursia VS Poison And Wit...
THE CLOCK THAT NEVER CHIMES: A $200 Garage Sale Bargain | #RetroRadio
Charlie and Charlotte Tucker pay two hundred dollars for a dead minister's grandfather clock at a garage sale, and the seller swears it doesn't chime, though it struck one as they walked past. Once it's home, the air inside the case stays cool and damp, the cat won't set foot in the house, and the clock starts striking in the middle of the night.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Hickory Dickory Doom” (February 26, 1979) ***WD(LQ)
00:46:58.058 = The Devil And Mr. O, “Neanderthal” (September 04, 1971) ***WD
01:16:42.741 = Diary of Fate, “Peter Drake” (Febr...
STAY TUNED FOR TERROR: A Halloween Old Time Radio Marathon | #RetroRadio
Halloween horror the way radio told it, with an organ sting, a host’s voice coming out of the dark, and a story nobody wanted to switch off before the end.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = The Whistler, “Break Away” (March 09, 1952)
00:30:56.299 = Witch’s Tale, “Graveyard Mansion” (March 06, 1933)
01:01:08.275 = Dark Fantasy, “Death Is a Savage Deity” (January 30, 1942) ***WD
01:24:48.378 = Escape, “Three Skeleton Key” (November 15, 1949) ***WD
01:53:44.931 = Inner Sanctum, “Corpse For Halloween” (October 31, 1949) ***WD
02:19:48.620 = Mysterious Traveler, “Death Has Cold Breath” (March 29, 1949) ***WD
02:45:21.725 = Quiet Please, “The Thing on Fourble Board” (August 09, 1948)
03:10:29.512 = The Weird Circle, “Heart of Ethan Bran...
STATIC FROM THE GRAVE: A Halloween Old Time Radio Marathon | #RetroRadio
Ghosts, killers, and things that knock on the door after dark, played by the actors and sound-effects crews of radio's golden age for audiences who had nothing to look at but the dial.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = Inner Sanctum, “Wailing Wall” (November 06, 1945)
00:28:37.696 = Lights Out, “It Happened” (May 11, 1938)
00:57:53.236 = Mercury Theater, “The Hitch Hiker” (June 21, 1946) ***WD
01:24:06.274 = Murder at Midnight, “Kabalah” (December 30, 1946)
01:50:09.311 = Mysterious Traveler, “Death Laughs Last” (September 24, 1944)
02:17:12.677 = Mystery In The Air, “Horla” (August 21, 1947) ***WD
02:45:56.196 = Quiet Please, “Pathetic Fallacy” (February 02, 1948) ***WD
03:14:58.799 = Suspense, “Sorry, Wrong Number” (February 2, 1944)
03:44:43.607 = The Unexpected, “Mercy Killing” (April...
DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL: A Halloween Old Time Radio Marathon | #RetroRadio
Old radio horror for Halloween, from the years when the monsters came out of a wooden cabinet in the living room and every listener had to picture them on their own.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = Dark Fantasy, “Thing From The Sea” (November 28, 1941)
00:26:18.983 = Escape, “Ring of Thoth” (August 11, 1947)
00:57:11.121 = Hall of Fantasy, “Man Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947)
01:24:40.416 = Hermit’s Cave, “Notebook on Murder” (1940)
01:48:21.509 = Inner Sanctum, “Judas Clock” (April 17, 1945)
02:18:38.356 = Mercury Theater, “Dracula” (July 11, 1938)
03:15:23.124 = Murder at Midnight, “Murder Is a Lonely Business” (December 16, 1946)
03:42:51.934 = Mysterious Traveler “Accusing Corpse” (April 16, 1944)
04:13:29.633 = Mystery In The Air, “Lodger” (August...
TRESPASSERS WILL BE EXPERIMENTED UPON: The Genius Who Finally Met His Equal | #RetroRadio
Stranded on the Saskatchewan prairie with his world-famous wife, a five-time Nobel Prize winner refuses to fix their stalled car, certain that tonight he'll finally meet his equal, and a castle rises out of the mist with its drawbridge lowering over a moat full of piranhas.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Great Brain” (February 21, 1979) ***WD
00:46:25.997 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Box of Death” (April 17, 1947)
01:16:54.096 = CBC Mystery Theater, “Trespassers Will Be Experimented Upon” (February 11, 1981) ***WD
01:48:21.283 = Chet Chetter, “Elmer Versus The Mutant Rats” (1991-1992) ***WD
02:14:51.310 = The Clock, “Guilty As Always” (March 20...
THE SHOCK OF HIS LIFE: One Jolt From The TV And He Knew Every Winner | #RetroRadio
A Queens bar owner takes a jolt from his TV set that stops his heart, then wakes up able to read tomorrow's front page in his head, and the first thing he does is call his bookie.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Shock Of His Life” (February 19, 1979) ***WD
00:46:46.815 = X Minus 1, “The Lights On Precipice Peak” (March 13, 1957)
01:08:44.881 = ABC Mystery Time, “Four Fatal Jugglers” (1957) ***WD
01:33:26.820 = Appointment With Fear, “The Clock Strikes Eight” (May 18, 1944) ***WD
02:03:10.532 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “History of Mug” (August 09, 1945)
02:33:43.616 = Barry Craig, “Fatal Appointment” (January 16...
THE MISSING DAY: A Twenty-Minute Drive Home That Took Twenty-Four Hours | #RetroRadio
A man who runs a plant that builds nuclear reactors calls his wife to say he'll be home in twenty minutes for their anniversary dinner, walks in a full day later with wilted flowers in his hand and sure it's still Tuesday, and the next morning a truckload of uranium whose schedule only he knew is found hijacked beside the highway.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Missing Day” (February 14, 1979) ***WD
00:46:41.949 = The Saint, “Case of Lonesome Slab” (January 22, 1950) ***WD
01:15:27.653 = 2000 Plus, “Giant Walks” (November 08, 1050) ***WD
01:45:11.323 = The Unexpected, “Revenge” (1948...
THE SINISTER SHADOW: She Met Her Doppelanger In A Bar And Grill | #RetroRadio
On her walk home from the bank, Dory hears her mother's voice in her head, throws her shoulders back, and holds her head high, then looks down to find her shadow still hunched over like a dwarf.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Sinister Shadow” (February 22, 1979) ***WD
00:46:41.621 = Radio City Playhouse, “Special Delivery” (August 07, 1948) ***WD
01:16:43.793 = Sam Spade, “The Lawless Caper” (August 29, 1948) ***WD
01:47:30.325 = The Sealed Book, “Man With The Stolen Face” (July 15, 1945)
02:17:50.951 = The Shadow, “The Little Man Who Wasn’t There” (April 08, 1945)
02:48:09.118 = Sleep No More, “The Storm” (December 19, 1956...
LAST VISIT: Lost In The Newfoundland Fog At The Eternity Cove Hotel | #RetroRadio
Lost in the Newfoundland fog on the way to see their daughter and baby grandson, a couple from Brampton, Ontario, picks up a hitchhiker who sends them to the Eternity Cove Hotel and Lounge, where the man behind the desk already knows their names.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Everybody Does It” (February 07, 1979) ***WD
00:46:36.858 = Nightfall, “Last Visit” (October 24, 1980) ***WD
01:14:14.307 = Nightmare, “The Leech” (April 07, 1954)
= SONG, “The Leech” by Static Wax (based on the story from Nightmare)
01:40:32.231 = Obsession, “Shadow of Huntley House” (February 26, 1951)
02:04:55.681 = Origin of Superstition, “Crossing Your Fingers”...
A NIGHT IN THE WAXWORKS: The Wax Doctor Who Was Never Hanged | #RetroRadio
A broke freelance journalist talks his way into a night alone in the cellar of Marriner's Waxworks, sitting with his back to the wax figure of a Paris throat-cutter the police never caught.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Dominant Personality” (January 26, 1979) ***WD
00:47:27.527 = Beyond Midnight, “A Night In The Waxworks” (January 31, 1969) ***WD
01:14:35.093 = MindWebs, “Moth Race” (November 19, 1976)
01:44:31.614 = Isn’t It A Crime, “Speaking of Murder” (December 14, 1945)
02:14:15.391 = Mystery In The Air, “Beyond Good And Evil” (August 28, 1947) ***WD
02:44:02.395 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Double Cross” (May 30, 1947)
03:14:30.743 = Mr Keen. “Silver Dagger Murder” (October...
THE BURNING BOUGH: A Mother Pulls Her Son's Fate Out Of The Fire | #RetroRadio
On a stormy night with the phone lines down and her baby barely breathing, Madeline Hunter drags a blazing log out of the fireplace without knowing why, and only afterward remembers the Greek myth she'd lectured on that very morning, in which a mother did the same thing to keep her son alive.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Burning Bough” (January 24, 1979) ***WD
00:48:00.567 = Jeff Regan, “The Guy From Gower Gulch” (November 13, 1948) ***WD
01:18:47.691 = The Key, “The Cellar” (1956) ****WD
01:45:34.182 = Lights Out, “Dream” (March 16, 1943)
02:14:59.018 = Macabre, “Crystalline Man” (January 01, 1962) ***WD
02:44:23.318 = Ph...
A PAIR OF HANDS: The House In Cornwall That Cleans Itself | #RetroRadio
A woman rents a cheap, secluded house in Cornwall that comes with a housekeeper she isn't allowed to turn away, and she can't work out how a kitchen she left a wreck late at night is spotless by morning.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Let The Buyer Beware” (January 22, 1979) ***WD
00:47:19.125 = Future Tense, “Really Heavy” and “Third From The Sun” (May 15, 1974) ***WD
01:15:38.951 = Hall of Fantasy, “Man-Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947)
01:42:47.242 = Harry Lime, “Horseplay” (November 23, 1951) ***WD
02:09:06.828 = Haunted, Tales of the Supernatural, “A Pair of Hands” (September 06, 1980) ***WD
02:37:07.458 = The Haunting Hour, “Death...
ALLEY CAT: He Called His Wife A Cat Until She Became One | #RetroRadio
A husband's furious insult that his wife is nothing but a heartless white cat starts coming true in front of him, and their doctor wants to tell the world.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Side Effects” (January 19, 1979) ***WD
00:46:26.764 = Devil And Mr. O, “Alley Cat” (September 17, 1971) ***WD
01:16:36.301 = Dimension X, “The Green Hills Of Earth” (December 24, 1950) ***WD
01:43:42.714 = The Eleventh Hour, “Flying Coffin” (ADU)
02:08:44.816 = Escape, “Border Town” (December 13, 1949)
02:39:01.401 = Murder By Experts, “The Big Money” (July 25, 1949)
03:09:31.058 = Exploring Tomorrow, “The Escape” (January 08, 1958)
03:29:40.395 = Dark Fantasy, “Resolution” (January 02, 1942)
03:55:38.664 = Fear on 4, “Every Detail But One”...
THE LONG, LONG SLEEP: Fifty-Fifty Odds And His Own Name On A Grave | #RetroRadio
Days before an operation he has a fifty-fifty chance of surviving, Norman Hill finds his office stripped bare, gets a call from a funeral parlor, and reads his own name on a grave.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Long Long Sleep” (January 15, 1979) ***WD
00:46:03.456 = Calling All Cars, “Gentle Kidnapping Case” (May 16, 1934)
01:15:57.384 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Girl On The Dock” (April 03, 1947) ***WD
01:44:22.358 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Wendigo” (1968) ***WD=SONG: “Don’t Listen To The Thing That Calls Your Name” by Crossroads Haint (based on “The Wendigo”)
02:16:47.273 = Chet Chetter, “Return of the Mast...
THE SEVENTH VICTIM: A Legal Killer Finds His Target Sitting In The Open | #RetroRadio
In a future where the government runs legal murder, a clothing man on his seventh hunt tracks his victim to a sidewalk cafe in New York and finds her sitting alone with both hands on the table.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Complete Recovery” (January 01, 1979) ***WD
00:47:03.252 = Witch’s Tale, “The Priest of Sekhet” (February 27, 1933) ***WD(LQ)
01:13:22.062 = X Minus One, “Seventh Victim” (March 06, 1957)
01:36:47.331 = ABC Mystery Time, “Death Walked In” (1956-1957) ***WD
02:00:48.532 = Appointment With Fear, “The Speaking Clock” (April 13, 1944)
02:29:08.838 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Truth” (June 28, 1945) ***WD
02:57:20.767 = Barry Crai...
THE DEAD HOUSE: Thirty-Six Corpses Wired To A Bell, And Mark Twain's Errand | #RetroRadio
Mark Twain's errand on the Mississippi began in a Munich morgue, where 36 shrouded corpses lie wired to a bell and a dying American asked him to save his soul.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Dead House” (December 29, 1978) ***WD
00:46:13.308 = Suspense, “Fugue In C-Minor” (June 01, 1944) ***WD
01:16:07.828 = The Creaking Door, “Haunted Hangman” (May 25, 1964) ***WD
01:45:44.388 = The Saint, “Real Gone Guy” (July 30, 1950) ***WD
02:14:27.824 = 2000 Plus, “The Giant Walks” (November 05, 1950) ***WD(LQ)
02:43:19.062 = The Unexpected, “Find The Man” (1947-1948)
02:59:11.818 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Toll Bridge” (1936) ***WD
03:15:35.171 = Dark Venture, “Coverup” (February 24, 1947)
03:45:22.054 = The Weird Circle, “What Was It” (O...
NO WAY OUT: The Number 2172 Kept Finding Edgar Logan | #RetroRadio
Edgar Logan lives at 21 South 72nd, and 2172 is the number on the taxi that sideswipes his car, on the lunch check his nephew adds up for him, and on the pink telephone in the apartment he's just gotten for a girl who reads destiny in numbers.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “No Way Out” (December 27, 1978) ***WD
00:46:19.059 = Ellery Queen, “World Series of Crime” (October 02, 1943) ***WD
01:17:07.604 = Quiet Please, “In The House Where I Was Born” (May 28, 1949)
01:47:23.500 = Radio City Playhouse, “Whistle Daughter, Whistle” (July 31, 1948) ***WD
02:14:58.191 = Sam Spade, “Vafio Cup Caper” (August 2...
THE POWER OF EVIL: The Woman Who Bankrolled A Gambler In Macau | #RetroRadio
A clerk at the American consulate in Hong Kong turns down a marriage proposal from the wealthy woman who's been bankrolling his roulette system in Macau, then agrees to one last ride with her in the big yellow rickshaw her family has kept for years.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Power Of Evil” (December 22, 1978) ***WD
00:45:41.645 = The Black Museum, “Calibre Bullet” (January 08, 1952) ***WD
01:09:49.608 = Mysterious Traveler, “The Accusing Corpse” (April 16, 1944) ***WD
01:39:31.376 = CBC Nightfall, “Buried Alive” (October 17, 1980)
02:04:14.112 = Nightmare, “Coincidence” (November 26, 1953)
02:25:56.696 = Obsession, “Raised From The Dead” (February 19, 1951) ***WD
02:49:34.633 = Ori...
AN EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENT: The Blackberry Lane Granny Won't Let Them Near | #RetroRadio
A classic tale by M.R. James adapted for radio theater. On a stormy night by the fire, a grandmother forbids her grandchildren to pick a single blackberry in the little lane past Collins's cottage, and when they beg for the reason, she tells them about the hill at the top of it.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “It Has To Be True” (December 20, 1978) ***WD
00:46:09.566 = The Black Mass, “An Evening’s Entertainment” (October 31, 1964)
01:17:10.741 = Michael Shayne, “Museum Theft” (July 30, 1945)
01:48:19.048 = Beyond Midnight, “Hobart” (May 09, 1969) ***WD
02:15:32.318 = MindWebs, “When We Went To See The End...
THE FAMILIAR GHOST: The Footsteps That Followed Captain Barton Home | #RetroRadio
A retired navy captain walks home through the Dublin fog on the night his proposal is accepted and hears footsteps behind him the whole way, though every time he turns around, the street is empty.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Familiar Ghost” (December 18, 1978) ***WD
00:47:10.481 = Inner Sanctum, “The Girl And The Gallows” (May 01, 1945)
01:15:29.512 = Jeff Regan, “The Lady With Too Much Hair” (November 06, 1948) ***WD
01:46:02.749 = The Key, “The Archaeologist” (1956) ***WD
02:11:32.967 = Lights Out, “The Projective Mr. Drogan” (January 26, 1943)
02:41:57.122 = Lux Radio Theater, “The Canterville Ghost” (June 18, 1945)
03:41:58.445 = Macabre, “The Avenger” (December 18, 1...
A WARDEN FOR ALL SAINTS: The Black Figurine From The Dig In Syria | #RetroRadio
A week after losing a bitter election to lead an ancient college, the archaeologist who wanted the job most raises a toast to the winner and hands him a small black figurine from a dig in Syria.
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Search for Myra” (December 15, 1978) ***WD
00:45:11.054 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “A Warden For All Saints” (April 29, 1992)
01:29:50.871 = Hall of Fantasy, “The Judge’s House” (April 03, 1947) ***WD
01:57:12.053 = Harry Lime, “In Pursuit Of A Ghost” (November 16, 1951)
02:23:04.135 = Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “Esmerelda” (August 30, 1980)
02:49:13.121 = The Haunting Hour, “No Escap...
WARD SIX: The Only Man In Town Worth Talking To Was Locked Up | #RetroRadio
A small-town Russian doctor who's given up on his filthy hospital starts spending hours in the ward for the insane out back, talking philosophy with one of the patients.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Ward Six” (December 13, 1978) ***WD
00:45:59.959 = Dimension X, “Universe” (November 26, 1950) ***WD
01:15:57.328 = The Eleventh Hour, “Explosives” (ADU) ***WD
01:45:27.736 = Escape, “Command” (December 06, 1949)
02:14:38.515...
A HORROR STORY: The Diary Behind The Chimney Brick On Common Street | #RetroRadio
In 1829 New Orleans, a shoemaker whose slippers are the softest in town turns down the fabric a wealthy father brings in for his daughter's debut and insists on using his own material.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Horror Story” (December 11, 1978) ***WD
00:46:40.028 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Strange History of David Swann” (1967) ***WD
01:16:14.887 = Chet Chetter, “Elmer Versus...
THE EXPLODING HEART: A Father's Ghost And An Impossible Operation | #RetroRadio
In 1957, a young surgeon finds an aneurysm the size of a grapefruit on the chest X-rays of the man his sister is about to marry, and that night his dead father sits down across the fire to talk the case through.
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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 Exploding Heart” (December 08, 1978) ***WD
00:46:23.841 = ABC Mystery Time, “Death By...
THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN: The Psychic Detective Who Finds What He Steals | #RetroRadio
Lord Carnavan's wife lends a visiting sheikh her carved Indian jewel box for one afternoon, and the morning after she wears her diamond necklace to Buckingham Palace, the necklace is gone from the locked box and her husband wants the psychic detective next door on the case.
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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 Devil’s Bargai...
THE CASE OF THE BURNING SKULL: The Shadow Hunts A Glowing Skeleton
The Shadow: A young chemist tells Lamont Cranston he woke in the night to find a skull burning green and grinning at him in the dark, and by the next morning he's vanished from his own house.
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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 Serpent of Saris” (December 04, 1978) ***WD
00:44:33.459 = Sam Spade, “Critical Author Caper” (August 15, 1948) ***WD
01:13...
CHANCE OF A GHOST: The Fake Medium And The Voice She Didn't Fake | #RetroRadio
Sonia Gale makes her living faking séances with rigged wires and trick voices, until a dead man's voice at her table tells a client where the money is hidden and Sonia swears she had nothing to do with it.
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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 Romany Revenge” (November 29, 1978) ***WD
00:46:05.868 = Nightmare, “Chance of a Ghost” (March 31, 1945) ***WD
01...
ALIEN PRESENCES: The Baby From The Burning Wreck In The Ravine | #RetroRadio
Leaving Antelope Crossings, Nebraska, for a family funeral in 1958, a childless couple watch something spin out of the sky and into a ravine, and the only thing they find alive down there is a crying baby boy.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Alien Presence” (November 27, 1978) ***WD
00:46:00.878 = Mindwebs, “A Walk In The Dark” (October 01, 1976) ***WD
01:11...
NIGHT VISITOR: The Dead Daughter In The Guest Room At Amphipolis | #RetroRadio
Not long after a couple in ancient Macedonia buries their only daughter, their old servant looks in on a guest from the king's court and finds the girl asleep beside him.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Night Visitor” (November 24, 1978) ***WD
00:45:55.090 = Lights Out, “Battle of Magicians” (July 27, 1946)
01:15:41.270 = Lux Radio Theater, “The Big Clock” (November 22, 1948)
02:16:01...
