Old Time Radio

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 Classics

• 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
• Famous Radio Finales by Legends of Radio
• Favorite Baseball Radio Shows (10 CDs) by Yogi Berra
• Good vs. Evil by Legends of Radio
• Masked Marvels on CD by Legends of Radio
• Old Time Radio Family Fun Pack
• Old Time Radio Shows All Time Best (2 CDs) by Nostalgia Ventures
• Old Time Radio Shows with Famous Guest Stars (2 CDs) by Nostalgia Ventures
• Ripley's Believe It or Not by Robert Ripley
• Sleepy Time Classic Children's Bedtime Stories
• Walter Cronkite's Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows of the 20th Century on CDs by Walter Cronkite
• Win, Place or Show - 3 Hours on CDs by The Daymon Runyon Theater

Old Time Radio Comedy Shows

• Abbott and Costello Masters of Comedy: Classic Radio Comedy by Abbott and Costello
• Baby Snooks by Fanny Brice
• Baby Snooks Volume 2 on 3 CDs by Fanny Brice
• Baby Snooks: Why, Daddy? by Fanny Brice
• Duffy's Tavern 3 Hours on 3 CDs by Duffy's Tavern
• Fibber McGee and Molly Archives Collection 9 CDs by Fibber McGee and Molly
• Great Old Time Radio Comedies on CD by Old Time Radio Legends
• Jack Benny Picture Parodies: Classic Radio Comedy by Jack Benny
• Old Time Radio Family Fun Pack
• Our Miss Brooks on CD by Eve Arden
• Radio: Jack Benny The Gang's All Here 10 CDs by Jack Benny
• The Aldrich Family
• The Best of Amos 'n' Andy by Amos 'n' Andy
• The Bickersons Volume 1 - 3 Hours on CDs by The Bickersons
• The Eddie Cantor Show (On CD) by Eddie Cantor
• The Edger Bergen & Charlie McCarthy Show (On CD) by Edger Bergen
• The Great Gildersleeve on 3 CDs by Harold Peary
• The Life of Riley (3 CDs)
• The Martin and Lewis Show: 3 Hours of Radio on CD by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

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
• I Was A Communist for the FBI (8 CDs)
• 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 Green Hornet 3-hour Collector's Edition (on CD) by The Green Hornet
• The Green Hornet and Kato 6 Hours on CDs by The Green Hornet
• The Radio Adventures of Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout
• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (6 CDs)

Old Time Radio Drama and Theater

• Leading Ladies: Radio's Legendary Actresses (Tapes)
• Big Town (3 CDs) by Edward Pawley
• Dr. Christian (3 CDs)
• 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: The Civil War by Nostalgia Ventures

Old Time Radio Horror Shows

• Frankenstein 1932 Broadcast (Tape) by Mary Shelley
• Highway Horror on CD by Legends of Radio
• Inner Sanctum: Romance Gone Wrong (6 Hours On CD) by Inner Sanctum Mysteries
• Lights Out Volume 2 (Compact Discs) by Arch Oboler
• Lights Out: Volume 1 on Compact Discs by Arch Oboler
• Radio: Classics Tales of Terror! 3 Hours on CDs
• Radio: Edgar Allen Poe's Stories on CD by Edgar Allan Poe
• Radio: Scariest Shows Ever! (10 CDs)
• The Weird Circle
• Tracks of Terror! (10 CDs)

Old Time Radio Mystery Shows

• Killer Hand - 3 Hours on CDs
• Old Time Radio Shows Mystery (2 CDs) by Nostalgia Ventures
• 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: Knight of Darkness (9 CDs) by The Shadow
• The Shadow: Unearthly Spectrers (9 CDs) by The Shadow
• The Whistler 20 CD Set by The Whistler
• The Whistler: 3 Hours on Compact Discs by The Whistler
• The Whistler: Notes on Murder: 20 Hours on 10 CDs by The Whistler

Old Time Radio Science Fiction Shows

• War of the Worlds: Cassette Tape by H. G. Wells
• Escape with H.G. Wells: 3 Hours of Radio on CD 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
• Old Time Radio: The Civil War by Nostalgia Ventures
• Old Time Radio: Westerns (2 CDs) by Nostalgia Ventures
• Radio: Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (10 CDs) by Gun Smoke
• Radio: The Lone Ranger: The Stage Line Challenege by The Lone Ranger
• Radio: The Ultimate Gunsmoke Collection (20 CDs) by Gun Smoke

Old Time Radio Books

• On The Air: Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio by John Dunning
• Raised on Radio by Gerald Nachman