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Flashgun Casey, ace cameraman of the Morning Express, covers the crime news of a great city in this 1954 CBS revival starring Staats Cotsworth. Grove Snyder, once the most famous crime reporter in town and now a broke old drunk, swears his explosive memoirs have been stolen. Casey figures it's a touch for five bucks, until Grove turns up shot dead. A torn page, a pair of loaded dice and a 25-year-old Prohibition massacre lead Casey to a secret someone has been willing to kill for, and a newspaperman who never gave up a source. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_54-01-20_Source_of_Information 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_54-01-20_Source_of_Information

Ace Morning Express cameraman Casey and reporter Ann Williams head to a Broadway preview after bartender Ethelbert confesses he's sunk $100 into the musical 'Angel Face' as one of its backers. Backstage, the star is found stabbed with a nightclub boss's knife, a hundred-pound sandbag drops from the flies, and Casey's photographic memory has to place a face before the killer reaches the understudy. Staats Cotsworth stars as Casey with Jan Miner as Ann in this 1947 CBS mystery from Anchor Hocking. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_47-11-13_Too_Many_Angels 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Casey_Crime_Photographer_47-11-13_Too_Many_Angels

Phil Harris and Alice Faye are about to sail for Europe, where Phil and Jack Benny will play the London Palladium, and everyone needs a smallpox shot first. Alice tells Phil the vaccinations are for the kids and plots with Dr. Brannigan to trick the biggest baby in the house into rolling up his sleeve. Julius the grocery boy makes it worse, a sedative sends Phil into a nightmare at Frankie Remley's pool-room doctor, and Alice sings Gershwin's 'Who Cares?' in this 1950 season finale of NBC's beloved Rexall comedy, starring Elliott Lewis as Frankie and Walter Tetley as Julius. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_50-11-26_Investment_In_A_Female_Wrestler 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_50-11-26_Investment_In_A_Female_Wrestler

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was NBC's Sunday-night family comedy, with bandleader Phil Harris and movie star Alice Faye playing themselves at home, flanked by Elliott Lewis as Phil's work-shy guitarist Frankie Remley and Walter Tetley as Julius, the grocery boy who can always be bought. This is the Father's Day broadcast of June 19, 1949. Andy, a French orphan who speaks no English, has landed in Frankie's life by mistake, and the welfare society won't let Frankie adopt him until he's married. So Frankie does the sensible thing: he places a "wife wanted" ad in the Police Gazette and signs it Phil Harris. Phil barricades the doors for the mob of women that never comes, until one very determined applicant does, and Frankie finds himself signing a marriage contract and booking a flight to Las Vegas for Andy's sake. Then word arrives that Andy has relatives in Chicago, Frankie needs out of the deal fast, and Phil hires Julius for ten dollars to play Frankie's obnoxious son. Alice sings "A Wonderful Guy" from South Pacific. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_49-06-19_Frankies_Foster_Son 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_49-06-19_Frankies_Foster_Son

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was NBC's Sunday-night family comedy, with bandleader Phil Harris and movie star Alice Faye playing themselves at home, flanked by Elliott Lewis as Phil's work-shy guitarist Frankie Remley and Walter Tetley as Julius, the grocery boy who lives to make Phil's life harder. This is the October 3, 1948 premiere, the first broadcast under the Rexall banner after two seasons as The Fitch Bandwagon, and the writers turn the sponsor change into the plot. Phil and Alice head downtown to sign their new contract, Alice tells the boys to wait in the reception room, and within minutes Phil and Frankie are behind the drugstore cosmetics counter in borrowed smocks, demonstrating lipstick and rouge on each other for an unimpressed customer. Then Julius turns up, promising to tell the manager everything, and Phil chases him straight into the perfume display. By the time the contract reaches Phil's hand, he cannot hold a pen, and asking Frankie to sign for him turns out to be the worst idea of the afternoon. Phil sings "You Can't Do Wrong Doing Right." 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_48-10-03_First_Rexall_Sponsored_Show 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Phil_Harris_Alice_Faye_Show_48-10-03_First_Rexall_Sponsored_Show

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover and scripts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this August 1954 case, a once-feared gangster turned panhandler is fished out of the East River with a knife in his back. Clover works the bars of Third Avenue, a Broadway informant in a borrowed Hawaiian shirt, and a widow with a young admirer who quotes Cyrano. Where did a broke bum get $5,000, and who ended up holding the knife? Sheldon Leonard guest stars. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_54-08-01_Decker_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_54-08-01_Decker_Murder_Case

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, scripted by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this April 1951 case, a dance-hall girl is stabbed in a Broadway taxi-dance palace and tells Clover she'll keep the knife as a souvenir. The trail runs through a gangster's devoted mother, a parolee who won't talk, and a confessor who can't even dance. Then the mobster himself is gunned down in an alley, and a stranger arrives with an offer: a thick envelope and a killer, delivered. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_51-04-28_The_Georgia_Gray_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_51-04-28_The_Georgia_Gray_Murder_Case

Broadway Is My Beat was CBS radio's noir portrait of New York's "gaudiest, most violent, loneliest mile in the world," with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, scripted by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. In this August 1949 case, a scandal columnist gets a typewritten note predicting a girl's murder that very night, and the prophecy comes true. Then a second note arrives, and a third name is on the list. Clover has a stack of typewritten notes, one night, and a killer who announces each victim before the crime. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_49-08-11_The_Jane_Darnell_Murder_Case 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Broadway_Is_My_Beat_49-08-11_The_Jane_Darnell_Murder_Case

Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, "exciting stories of man's escape from his everyday world." This February 1951 broadcast, featuring William Conrad, follows a man into Mexico on the trail of his missing wife, and the further he goes, the more certain he becomes that someone is following him. A tense, sun-baked tale of pursuit and suspicion. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Escape_51-02-18_The_Follower 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Escape_51-02-18_The_Follower

Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, and this July 1948 broadcast tackles H. Rider Haggard's immortal romance of the lost African kingdom ruled by Ayesha, "She Who Must Be Obeyed." Two English explorers follow an ancient legend into uncharted jungle and find a beautiful, ageless queen who has waited two thousand years for the return of her lost love, with a flame of eternal life at her command. Ben Wright stars in this atmospheric adaptation of the Victorian classic. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Escape_48-07-11_She 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Escape_48-07-11_She

Months before Escape became CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, this was the very first pilot, broadcast on February 28, 1947 under the name Out of This World. The story is a chilling ventriloquist tale borrowed from the 1945 British horror classic Dead of Night: a British ventriloquist and an American rival who can't stand each other, and a wooden dummy with ideas of its own. The same script was remade as the March 21 Escape audition, but this is where it all began. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Escape_47-02-28_Out_of_This_World_and_Dead_of_Night_first_audition 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Escape_47-02-28_Out_of_This_World_and_Dead_of_Night_first_audition

In its final season NBC University Theater, billed on air as the NBC Theater, was still bringing a great novel to radio every week from Hollywood. Tonight it is Leo Tolstoy's scandalous "The Kreutzer Sonata," adapted by Richard E. Davis. In a prison cell, Vasya Pozdnyshev (Whitfield Connor) gives his statement to Inspector Karkov (Stanley Farrar): ten bitter years of marriage, and then the handsome violinist Trukhachevsky (Paul Dubov), who came to play Beethoven duets with his wife (Vivi Janiss). Too proud to admit he is afraid, Vasya keeps inviting him back, until one midnight he comes home to find them alone in the music room. Directed by Andrew C. Love; announcer Don Stanley. First aired on NBC January 3, 1951. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_51-01-03_The_Kreutzer_Sonata 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_51-01-03_The_Kreutzer_Sonata

By the fall of 1949 NBC University Theater (now billed simply as the NBC Theater) was broadcasting a full hour of a great novel from Hollywood every Sunday, with college courses built around the plays. This week is Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady," adapted by Richard E. Davis. Isabel Archer, a spirited young woman from Albany, turns down an English lord at a Tudor country house outside London because she wants to see life for herself. An inheritance arranged by her ailing cousin Ralph (Larry Dobkin) sets her free, and the cultivated Madame Merle steers her toward the elegant American expatriate Gilbert Osmond (Tony Barrett) in Florence and Rome, where Isabel learns what her freedom has cost. With Ben Wright as Lord Warburton and Gayne Whitman narrating; directed by Andrew C. Love. First aired on NBC October 2, 1949. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_49-10-02_Portrait_of_A_Lady 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_49-10-02_Portrait_of_A_Lady

NBC University Theater brought the great novels to radio from Hollywood, with film stars in the leads. This hour is Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," adapted by Ernest Kinoy, starring John Lund as Lt. Frederic Henry, an American ambulance officer on the Italian front in the First World War, and Lurene Tuttle as Catherine Barkley, the English nurse he meets through his friend Rinaldi. What starts as a wartime flirtation becomes a love that outlasts his wounding, the chaos of the retreat, and a desperate escape to Switzerland, until the war's logic catches up with them anyway. First aired on NBC August 6, 1948, with commentary by critic Malcolm Cowley, music by Albert Harris, and direction by Andrew C. Love. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_48-08-06_A_Farewell_To_Arms 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Nbc_University_Theater_48-08-06_A_Farewell_To_Arms

Gunsmoke brought the adult Western to radio, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal of Dodge City. In "Kitty Caught," Chester comes back from Wichita with word that the Karp brothers, bank robbers drifting up from the Indian Territory, are headed for Dodge. The warning comes too late. The Karps hit the bank that same morning, kill the cashier, and ride north with Kitty as their hostage, promising to leave her dead on the trail if anyone follows. Matt and Chester track them anyway, past a cowboy the brothers shot out of his saddle, to a lonely prairie cabin. Then they lie in the buffalo grass all day, close enough to the cabin that a single sound could get Kitty killed, and a rattlesnake coils up beside Chester. Written by John Meston and first aired on CBS October 16, 1954, with Parley Baer as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin and Joe Du Val. 🎧 46,000+ classic shows — unlimited listening for about 20¢ a day: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=membership&c=rss&s=Gunsmoke_54-10-16_Kitty_Caught_Guest_Star_Lawrence_Dobkin 📱 Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://www.vintageradioshows.com/go.php?d=app&c=rss&s=Gunsmoke_54-10-16_Kitty_Caught_Guest_Star_Lawrence_Dobkin