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Caleb Saxon and his wife Edith ride the stage to Basin City hoping to leave the whispers back East behind them: a court cleared Caleb, but everyone still believes he stole the trust fund he managed for his late friend's son. Then the stranger riding up top pulls a gun, forces the coach down the lonely Creek Trail, and marches the old couple off into the woods with every dollar they own. The young man who swore to get even with Caleb is camped with the Lone Ranger, and the masked man has a hard lesson in mind for him. A July 1, 1940 broadcast with Earle Graser as the Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto. 🎧 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

The Brogan brothers, two of the most wanted killers in the West, rob the bank at Osage and shoot the banker for no reason at all, then vanish without leaving a trail. The sheriff's posse rides out without Sleepy and Missouri, two broke old prospectors who once gave away every dime from their played-out silver mine to the poor families of the county. So the Lone Ranger, posing as an Eastern mining expert, sends the old partners back to their abandoned tunnel with a hint of a new silver vein, a plan, and a bundle of blasting powder. A January 24, 1938 broadcast from radio's golden-age Western, with Earle Graser as the masked man and John Todd as Tonto, and the William Tell Overture riding in the opening. 🎧 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

London, 1888. A quiet, soft-spoken man takes the upstairs room at the Buntings' boarding house, pays in advance, keeps odd hours, and asks that his landlady never touch the black bag he carries. Out in Whitechapel, a killer the papers call the Avenger is working his way through the fog. Herbert Marshall plays the mysterious lodger and Edmund Gwenn is the landlord who slowly begins to wonder whom he has let into his home, in a CBS audition broadcast that helped launch Suspense, the long-running anthology of 'radio's outstanding theater of thrills.' Adapted from Marie Belloc Lowndes' 1913 novel, the same story Alfred Hitchcock filmed in 1927. Broadcast July 22, 1940. 🎧 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

Lou Cardone flew 71 fighter missions over Europe and came home too restless to sit still, so he bought a surplus twin-engine ship and called it the Anything, Anywhere Airline. Then a soft-spoken stranger with a file on every quiet cargo Lou ever flew offers him twenty thousand dollars to carry a man with a bandaged face to Argentina. An engine quits over the Atlantic, and the pilot, the passenger, and a young woman from Vienna spend two weeks on a twelve-foot raft with one revolver, food for two, and a game only one of them can win. From John Steele, Adventurer, Mutual's pulp-style anthology of stories 'taken from the files' of a roving soldier of fortune, with Don Douglas as Steele and a young Ross Martin in the cast. Broadcast July 12, 1949. 🎧 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

Before Escape ever became CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, it was auditioned with this: a chilling half hour adapted from the ventriloquist segment of the 1945 British horror classic Dead of Night. Eric Hickson has clawed his way up from cheap music halls to London's fashionable Kit-Kat Club with his wooden partner Toby. Then the American star Mel Baxter turns up in the audience with his beautiful wife, and Toby starts saying things Hickson never put in his mouth. Berry Kroeger is Hickson and a young Art Carney is the voice of Toby, in the March 21, 1947 audition directed by John Moseman. 🎧 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

Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, and this is the night it began: the series premiere of July 7, 1947, produced and directed by William N. Robson. Les Crutchfield adapts Rudyard Kipling's tale of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan, two loafers who sign a contract to swear off liquor and women until they become kings of Kafiristan, a land no Englishman has entered and left alive. With twenty smuggled Martini rifles and a working knowledge of Freemasonry, they find their kingdom in the snowbound mountains. Then Dravot decides a king needs a queen. Raymond Lawrence is Peachy, Eric Snowden is Dravot, and Herbert Rawlinson is Kipling, the newspaperman who hears the story told. 🎧 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

Jethro Dumont spent ten years in a Tibetan monastery and came home as the Green Lama, a crime fighter who never carries a gun. In the final broadcast of the 1949 CBS series, starring Paul Frees with Ben Wright as his servant Tulku, a reform-minded warden invites Dumont to see a model prisoner pardoned, but the convict sculptor is found with a knife in his back. Then a hundred armed men seize the prison arsenal, a hard-line captain readies the machine guns, and Dumont walks alone and unarmed across the yard to talk them out. The killer turns out to be closer to the warden's office than anyone suspected. 🎧 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

Jethro Dumont spent ten years in a Tibetan monastery and came home as the Green Lama, a crime fighter who refuses to carry a gun. In this audition recording of the CBS series' premiere story, starring Paul Frees with Ben Wright as his loyal servant Tulku, an old friend, archaeologist Harlan Hendricks, phones Dumont for help and is cut off mid-sentence. By nightfall Hendricks is in the morgue with a bullet in his head and every trace of his existence erased: no birth record, no driver's license, nothing. The only clue is a stolen Maya carving of the feathered serpent Kukulkan, and the trail leads from a New York museum to a moonlit excavation outside Mexico City. 🎧 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

Orson Welles reprises Harry Lime, the charming racketeer of The Third Man, in this 1951 series that tells the con man's adventures before that fatal night in Vienna. In "Mexican Hat Trick," a broke Lime in Mexico City is handed a dying pickpocket's confession to a 17-year-old murder, and sells a grieving widow and her daughter Alicia on a search for the lost affidavits that could clear her father's name. The trail leads to the sleepy mountain town of León, a church bell that lost its music the year of the killing, a ragged beggar who tries to kill Harry, and a midnight climb up the bell rope. 🎧 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

Challenge of the Yukon follows Sergeant Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they keep the peace in the Klondike. In "The Stolen Pups," a simple-minded old café handyman longs for a puppy to replace the dog he lost, and two crooked bank clerks use that longing to get their hands on a prospector's $10,000. When the money and two newborn Malamute pups vanish from a cabin, Preston puts King on the scent through the melting northern snow. 🎧 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

Challenge of the Yukon follows Sergeant Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they keep the peace in the Klondike. In "Sam's Gold," a kindly prospector once nursed a cantankerous hermit through a winter, and years later the old man's hidden gold nuggets resurface. Now a trading post owner raising his young granddaughter finds his past catching up with him, and Preston must sort out a moral dilemma and a daring kidnapping attempt in the brutal northern 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

The Lone Ranger is an iconic masked western hero who fights for justice alongside his Native American companion Tonto. Broadcast throughout the 1930s-1950s, this classic radio serial featured thrilling adventures across the American frontier with the legendary William Tell Overture as its theme. In this episode, In 'Double For An Outlaw,' the Lone Ranger faces a daring case of mistaken identity and deception. Someone is impersonating the masked hero, causing trouble and endangering innocent people. The Lone Ranger and Tonto must work together to expose the imposter and restore justice to the frontier. 🎧 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

The Lone Ranger is an iconic radio western serial about a masked former Texas Ranger and his Native American companion Tonto who right wrongs in the Old West. In this classic episode, the masked hero and his loyal companion face danger and intrigue in their mission to bring justice to the frontier. Featuring Brace Beemer as The Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto, with the legendary William Tell Overture as its theme. 🎧 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

Biography in Sound, a CBS documentary series produced by Norman Corwin, presented biographical profiles of notable American figures through dramatizations, interviews, and narration. A pioneering program that brought the lives of American heroes, artists, and leaders to radio audiences. This episode profiles meet ernest hemingway, exploring his life, literary career, and lasting impact on American letters. Originally broadcast on 1954-12-19. 🎧 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

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