Old Time Radio Shows

Enjoy Hours of Classic Family Fun with these Greatest Old-Time Radio Broadcasts on Re-mastered Audio Compact Discs. Experience first hand the suspense, the mystery and the laughs that radio listeners enjoyed 70 years ago.

From roughly 1928 through 1950, nightly radio broadcasts brought America together by providing family entertainment, news and music programming. The radio stations banded together to form programmingnetworks that became the foundation of today's television networks. The radio programs created genres for situation comedy, detective mystery, suspense and variety which became the foundation for today's television categories.

These radio programs have survived the test of time and have become affectionately known as Old Time Radio. We carry the best selection of professionally remastered, collector sets of Old Time Radio on Compact Discs and Cassette Tapes. These make excellent gifts or collectors items.

Old Time Radio Shows

• Abbott and Costello : Every week 20 million listeners tuned in to catch the verbal antics of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello-two former vaudevillians who took rapid-fire repartee to a new level.
• Amos and Andy : Tune in to hear radio's Amos 'N' Andy, the most popular radio series of all time.
• Baby Snooks : Meet Ziegfield Follies superstar Fanny Brice in the hysterical role that endeared her to millions.
• Fibber McGee and Molly : When was the last time you visited 79 Wistful Vista -- the home of Fibber McGee and Molly?
• Inner Sanctum : "Greetings, friends of the Inner Sanctum. This is your host, welcoming you through the squeaking door for another half hour of horror."
• Jack Benny : For more than 20 years, Jack Benny reigned as the king of radio comedy. How he turned a self-absorbed cheapskate into a beloved icon ranks among the great achievements in entertainment history.
• The Shadow : "Never seen, only heard - as a haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost, as inevitable as a guilty conscience..."
• War of the Worlds : Starring Orson Welles in the most famous radio broadcast of all time that sent the country into a frenzy and a panic.

Featured Old Time Radio Collections

• Arch Oboler Retrospective: 10 Hours on 10 CDs by Suspense
• Favorite Baseball Radio Shows (10 CDs) by Yogi Berra
• Masked Marvels on CD by Legends of Radio
• Ripley's Believe It or Not by Robert Ripley
• Win, Place or Show - 3 Hours on CDs by The Daymon Runyon Theater

Old Time Radio Comedy Shows

• Abbott and Costello: Old Time Radio: Its Time to Smile by Abbott and Costello
• Abbott and Costello Masters of Comedy: Classic Radio Comedy by Abbott and Costello
• Baby Snooks by Fanny Brice
• Baby Snooks: Why, Daddy? by Fanny Brice
• Jack Benny Maestro 10 CDs by Jack Benny
• Jack Benny Neighbors 8 CDs by Jack Benny
• Jack Benny Picture Parodies: Classic Radio Comedy by Jack Benny
• Jack Benny The Gang's All Here 10 CDs by Jack Benny
• Our Miss Brooks on CD by Eve Arden
• The Aldrich Family
• The Bickersons Volume 1 - 3 Hours on CDs by The Bickersons

Old Time Radio Detective Shows

• Adventures of Sam Spade 3 Hours on 3 CDs by Dashiell Hammett
• Green Hornet: Spies and Rackets: 10 Hours on 10 CDs by The Green Hornet
• Green Hornet: The Biggest Game: 10 Hours on 10 CDs by The Green Hornet
• I Was A Communist for the FBI (8 CDs)
• Nick Carter: Master Detective Volume 1
• Nick Carter: Master Detective Volume 2
• Sam Spade: Capers 8 Shows on 4 CDs by Dashiell Hammett
• The Fat Man and the Thin Man (4 CDs)
• The Saint is Heard (10 CDs) by Vincent Price as Simon Templar
• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (6 CDs)

Old Time Radio Drama and Theater

• Leading Ladies: Radio's Legendary Actresses (Tapes)
• Judy Garland Radio Performances: 6 Hours on CDs
• Leading Ladies: Radio's Legendary Actresses
• Old Time Radio: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Old Time Radio Horror Shows

• Frankenstein 1932 Broadcast (Tape) by Mary Shelley
• Highway Horror on CD by Legends of Radio
• Lights Out Volume 2 (Compact Discs) by Arch Oboler
• Radio: Classics Tales of Terror! 3 Hours on CDs
• Radio: Scariest Shows Ever! (10 CDs)
• The Witch's Tale: 10 CDs by Alonzo Dean Cole

Old Time Radio Mystery Shows

• Killer Hand - 3 Hours on CDs
• Suspense Tales Well Calculated: 10 Hours on 10 CDs by Suspense
• The Mysterious Traveler (10 CDs) by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan
• The Shadow Radio Treasures (9 CDs) by The Shadow
• The Shadow: Knight of Darkness (9 CDs) by The Shadow
• The Shadow: Strange Puzzles (9 CDs) by The Shadow
• The Shadow: Unearthly Specters (9 CDs) by The Shadow
• The Shadow: Weird Adventures (9 CDs) by The Shadow
• The Story of the Shadow (4 CDs) by The Shadow

Old Time Radio Science Fiction Shows

• War of the Worlds: Cassette Tape by H. G. Wells
• Science Fiction Radio: Atom Age Adventures 10 CD
• Superman: Last Son of Krypton on 10 CDs by Superman
• Superman: Up! Up! and Away! on 2 CDs by Superman
• The Adventures of Superman by Superman
• War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast by H. G. Wells

Old Time Radio Western Shows

• Hopalong Cassidy 3-hour Collector's Edition (on CD) by WIlliam Boyd
• Radio: Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (10 CDs) by Gun Smoke

Old Time Radio Books

• Raised on Radio by Gerald Nachman

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