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The Whistler presents “Murder on Margin,” originally broadcast on May 19, 1948. Commonly listed as episode 312, this CBS Pacific-network mystery was sponsored by Signal Oil Company. Wall Street stockbroker Edward Jamieson is poised to leave his wife for another woman, but his carefully divided life brings dangerous complications. Willard Waterman and Betty Lou Gerson star in this compact domestic-financial crime drama, from a story by Frank Lovejoy. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:37 Original Broadcast 30:10 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Dead Man’s Deal,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 28, 1945. Episode 234 is an original radio play by Emile C. Tepperman, featuring Larry Haines as small-time gambler Joe Lester. At the Brandon Hotel, Joe joins Barney Flood and Dan Kilmer for a poker game where money, pride, and personal loyalties raise the stakes beyond anything on the table. As the night’s final wager takes shape, the private card game becomes a tense crime-and-suspense drama. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:39 Original Broadcast 30:06 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Lux Radio Theatre presents “The Virginian,” episode 105, originally broadcast on CBS on November 2, 1936. Produced by Cecil B. DeMille, this adaptation of Owen Wister’s classic Western novel stars Gary Cooper, returning to the title role he played in the 1929 film version. In early-1900s Wyoming, the quiet ranch foreman known as the Virginian reunites with an old friend in Medicine Bow and begins courting a newly arrived Vermont schoolteacher. With Charles Bickford as the hostile cowhand Trampus and Helen Mack as Molly Wood, the drama explores friendship, romance, and honor amid the demanding world of cattle country. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:50 Original Broadcast 58:30 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Suspense presents “Will You Make a Bet with Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on November 10, 1942. This is episode 17 of the series, written by John Dickson Carr and produced by William Spier. At Coney Island’s Haunted Mill, Betty Andrews meets Bob Penderel, an analytical chemist racing a deadly deadline under the terms of a grotesque wager with his wealthy stepfather. Michael Fitzmaurice stars as Bob, with Lesley Woods as Betty Andrews and Nicholas Joy as John Destry. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:50 Original Broadcast 30:36 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

X Minus One presents “Mars Is Heaven,” originally broadcast on NBC on May 8, 1955. This is episode 3 of the series, adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Ray Bradbury’s 1948 story, later known as “The Third Expedition” in The Martian Chronicles. Captain John Black leads an Earth expedition to a mist-covered Mars, where he, Dr. Horst, and the crew find something astonishingly familiar: a nostalgic American town that seems impossible on another world. Wendell Holmes and Peter Kapell are among the featured cast in this eerie science-fiction drama. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:46 Original Broadcast 27:02 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Gunsmoke presents “Kitty’s Quandary,” episode 392, originally broadcast on CBS on October 11, 1959. William Conrad stars as Marshal Matt Dillon, with Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell and Parley Baer as Chester. The story was written by Marian Clark and produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell. At Dodge City’s Long Branch, a smooth-talking stranger takes an unusual interest in Kitty and asks pointed questions about her friendship with Matt. When the marshal is sidelined and Chester is left to mind the office, a seemingly quiet evening begins to feel increasingly uneasy. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:44 Original Broadcast 29:50 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Escape presents “Two and Two Make Four,” originally broadcast on August 21, 1954. Episode 223 of the CBS suspense anthology stars Shep Menken as merchant sailor David Parker, in an original story by Walter Brown Newman. Recovering from a head wound in Calais, Parker blacks out and awakens in Dover with no explanation for how he crossed the English Channel. As reality becomes increasingly difficult to trust, he is drawn into a tense fantasy-espionage mystery directed by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:44 Original Broadcast 30:19 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Dragnet presents “The Big Trial,” episode 45, originally broadcast on NBC on April 20, 1950. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. Working the night watch in Los Angeles’ traffic accident investigation detail, Friday and Romero pursue a hit-and-run case involving injured pedestrian Sheila Gordon. As the investigation leads toward court, the detectives face the careful procedural challenges of keeping the case on track. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:39 Original Broadcast 29:58 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Lux Radio Theatre presents “Death Takes a Holiday,” episode 125, originally broadcast on CBS on March 22, 1937. Produced by Cecil B. DeMille and sponsored by Lux Toilet Soap, this adaptation of Alberto Casella’s play stars Fredric March reprising his role as the mysterious Prince Sirki, with Florence Eldridge as Grazia. After an unsettling accident on a moonlit Italian road, Grazia San Luca and Corrado Lambert arrive at Duke Lambert’s castle as strange reports from around the world begin to circulate. The arrival of the enigmatic Prince Sirki brings an eerie, romantic tension to the household, especially as he becomes drawn to Grazia. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:50 Original Broadcast 01:00:22 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

The Whistler presents “Till Death Do Us Part,” originally broadcast November 26, 1950. Episode 443 finds hard-up Los Angeles resident Roy Layton facing eviction when Linda McKelvey offers him $5,000 to enter a temporary marriage that will help her secure a sizable inheritance. Written by Joel Malone and produced and directed by George W. Allen, the cast includes Bill Forman, Wally Maher, and Jean Spaulding. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:49 Original Broadcast 30:14 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Suspense presents “A Story of Poison,” episode 615, originally broadcast on CBS on September 13, 1955. Joseph Kearns stars in this Antony Ellis drama, based on police and court records concerning the historical case of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. In London, a physician takes rooms at a Bloomsbury boarding house following his wife’s death, determined to maintain a respectable appearance. But as Scotland Yard examines troubling evidence, the doctor grows uneasy about a young medical student who may be seeing more than he should. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:51 Original Broadcast 25:24 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Terror by Night,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 29, 1952. Episode 513 stars Agnes Moorehead as Linda Dixon and was written by Emile C. Tepperman and directed by Himan Brown. Driving alone toward Mount Mansfield and Smuggler’s Notch, Linda is delayed on a lonely mountain road as a radio bulletin warns of an armed prison escapee. Rain, darkness, and an all-night service station turn a routine car problem into a mounting ordeal of suspicion and fear. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:40 Original Broadcast 23:38 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Escape’s “The Coward” originally aired on CBS Radio Network on August 14, 1954. Episode 222, written by E. Jack Neuman, stars Barney Phillips with Virginia Gregg and Lou Krugman. Former pilot Frank Dorian arrives in a Mexican coastal town seeking a boat for a secret Caribbean voyage. The only man who knows where a wrecked plane—and its missing payroll—lies, Dorian joins Maria de Salva and the wary sailor Rico on a hazardous run through reefs toward a remote island. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:51 Original Broadcast 30:14 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

X Minus One presents “And the Moon Be Still as Bright,” episode 19, originally broadcast on September 22, 1955. This NBC science-fiction drama adapts Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles story for radio, with Ernest Kinoy’s adaptation and Norman Rose as narrator. After three Earth expeditions fail to return, Captain Wilder leads a fourth mission to Mars and discovers a vast, silent Martian city. Among its deserted streets, towers, and monuments, the explorers confront the legacy of an unfamiliar civilization—and differing ideas about what discovery demands of its newcomers. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:53 Original Broadcast 24:53 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

Gunsmoke presents “The Man Who Would Be Marshal,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 18, 1956. Episode 206 stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, with John Dehner as Emmett Egan. Written by John Meston and produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, the drama is set in frontier Dodge City. Former military man Emmett Egan arrives convinced that his money and command experience make him better suited than Dillon to wear the marshal’s badge. Instead of simply sending him away, Dillon gives Egan a close look at the responsibilities—and dangers—of keeping the peace. The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:48 Original Broadcast 25:40 Closing Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-50-greatest-old-time-radio-shows-old-time-radio--7218119/support. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio