I hope this is
useful to someone, as
I’m a big
(unashamed) fan of Old Time Radio Drama. There are seriously thousands
of episodes available on the internet for free download. They are all
in the public domain, which means there is no copyright on them
anymore and they are available to the public.
So for all you
people stuck at home looking for something different to do... try
some old time radio while you go about your day.
I’ve compiled a
list of shows, but this is only a fraction of the shows available.
These are only ones I’ve heard episodes from, in part or in whole.
The website below is from the Old Time Radio Researchers group
library and you can find all the shows listed below on their site,
unless otherwise linked.
Here is a website
https://otrrlibrary.org/index.html
And here is my list
of recommendations.
A:
Adventures of
Rin-tin-tin
children’s show
about a dog, and his heroics
Air Adventures of
Jimmie Allen
show for boys
Aldrich Family
family, comedy show
All Star Western
Theater
family/children’s
show, western songs and short stories with guest stars from western
pictures
Anne of the Airwaves
show for girls
B:
Barrie Craig,
Confidential Investigator
adult show,
detective
Boston Blackie
adult show,
gangster and crime-fighting Boston Blackie
Buck Rogers
scifi for kids
C:
Chase, The
suspense show
involving a chase scene
Cisco Kid, The
kids western show,
Mexican hero cowboy
Cloak and Dagger
suspense show, WW2
and other true spy stories of the OSS
Counterspy
Spy stories and how
they caught them
D:
Dambusters
during WW2, how the
dambusters went in and blew up a dam
Dangerous Assignment
secret agent gets
assigned his dangerous assignment all around the world. Suspense.
Dick Tracy
kids detective show
E:
F:
Family Theater
family show, each
episode is a different story with moral lessons and on each episode
they encourage families to pray together.
Father Knows Best
comedy family show
FBI in Peace and War
adult show, stories
from the FBI
Fibber McGee and
Molly
Comedy where Fibber
McGee get’s himself into scraps and tries to get out of scraps with
his fibs
Frank Merriwell
youth adventure
show. Frank is a collage kid who finds adventures and mysteries.
Frontier
Fighters/Frontier Gentlemen
adult westerns
Frontier Town
adult westerns
G:
Gang Busters
adult show, crime
fighting gangster stories
Gene Autry’s
Melody Ranch
kids western show
with Gene Autry on his ranch
The Green Hornet
kids/family show,
The Green Hornet, son of the newphew of the Lone Ranger, and
publisher of a newspaper, fights crime with his side kick and his
fancy car.
Gunsmoke
adult western show
with sheriff Matt Dylan in Dodge City
H:
Have Gun, Will
Travel
Adult western, this
gun for hire for good
Hop Harrigan
kid/family
adventures and mysteries with Hop a pilot
Hopalong Cassidy
kids western show
with Hoppy
I:
I was a communist
for the FBI
undercover man in
the US who is a communist... for the FBI
J:
Jack Armstrong
for boys... Jake
Armstrong the all American boy adventures
Jerry of the Circus/
Jerry at Fair Oaks
kids show, Jerry of
the circus comes first. Boy joins the circus looking for long lost
relitive.
Jungle Jim
kids show, Jungle
Jim goes all over the world fighting badguys.
K:
L:
Les Miserables
the story is in 7
parts
Let George Do It
family detective
show
The life of Riley
comedy show
The Lone Ranger
family western show
Lux
Lux radio theatre
has all sorts of stories, may of them from old movies, adapted for
radio.
M:
The magic island
youth adventure
show. Nothing magical about it though, all sci fi.
The Man Called X
government agent
goes all over the world, with a side kick
My favorite Husband
Lucy Ball’s
comedy radio show, before she went to TV
N:
O:
One Man’s Family
Family show
Our Miss Brooks
Comedy about a
school teacher and her mishaps
Ozzie and Harriet,
The Adventures of
Family comedy show
P:
Paul Harvey and the
rest of the story
history stories
Philip Marlowe, The
Adventures of
adult detective
show
Q:
R:
Red Ryder
kids western show
with Red Ryder and his kid sidekick Little Beaver
Richard Diamond,
Private Detective
adult detective
show
Roy Rogers Show
Kids western show
Ranger Bill
kids show, Ranger
Bill was put out by Moody and is a Christian kids show
S:
Scarlet Pimpernel
based on the books,
these episodes take you from England into France during the
revolution as the Pimpernel rescues people from the death
Sherlock Holmes
family detective
show
The Silent Men
true life stories
of government men catching badguys
Speed Gibson of the
international secret police
kids show about
Speed and his uncle hunting down the Octapus gang all over the world
The Six Shooter
adult western
Sky King
kids show,
western/airplane
Space Patrol
sci fi youth show
The Adventures of
Superman
sci fi youth show
T:
Tales of the Texas
Rangers
adult show, real
life stories from the Texas rangers
Tarzan
kids/youth show
Tom Corbett, Space
Cadet
youth show sci fi
Top Secret
adult WW2 and spy
stories
W:
Wild Bill Hickok
kids western show
Y:
Yours Truly, Johnny
Dollar
adult insurance
investigator
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