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60:18

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Campbell Playhouse, Orson...

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2026/10/25

This Sunday Night Playhouse brings you the Campbell Playhouse presentation of Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, with Orson Welles and Gertrude Lawrence. Longfellow Deeds is a kind-hearted tuba player from a small Vermont town who unexpectedly inherits twenty million dollars and sets off for New York. There he meets lawyers who want his money, a clever reporter who pokes fun at him in print, and a city that can’t believe a man this decent exists. When he decides to give his fortune to struggling

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43:52

Tuesday Night Detectives - Richard Diamond, Private...

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2026/08/25

This week on Tuesday Night Detectives, two very different private investigators, back to back. We open with Richard Diamond, Private Detective and "The Private Eye Test," broadcast 19 March 1950. Dick Powell stars as the wisecracking former cop turned private eye, this time sitting a formal licensing exam alongside every other private investigator in the city. It should be routine, until the staged corpse in the training exercise turns out to be a real one, and Diamond has to solve a murder from

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61:48

Sunday Night Playhouse - Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)

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2026/08/23

Tonight on Sunday Night Playhouse — the very first dramatization of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca in any medium, broadcast 9 December 1938 as the debut episode of Campbell Playhouse. Orson Welles stars as Maxim de Winter and Margaret Sullavan as the unnamed second Mrs. de Winter, with Mildred Natwick as the formidable Mrs. Danvers and Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Van Hopper.This broadcast came just weeks after Welles's infamous War of the Worlds panic, and it marks a turning point for his radio work: the

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91:10

Saturday Matinee - The Jack Benny Program (The...

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2026/08/22

This week on Saturday Matinee, three of the finest half-hours in golden-age American comedy, back to back. We open with The Jack Benny Program's "The Racetrack" (12 March 1950), home to the most famous silence in American comedy — the pause after a mugger demands "your money or your life," which held a studio audience in laughter for nearly a minute. Then Bud gives Lou no end of grief over his sudden ambition to go to sea in The Abbott and Costello Show's "Lou Wants to Join the Merchant Marines" (25

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58:57

Friday Night Noir - Suspense (The A.B.C. Murders) &...

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2026/08/20

This week on Friday Night Noir, two broadcasts from the same landmark month of CBS's Suspense — aired one week apart in May 1943, at the moment the series was establishing itself as the finest anthology drama on American radio.We begin with "The A.B.C. Murders," broadcast 18 May 1943, an adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1936 Hercule Poirot novel. A killer stalking England alphabetically — Andover, then Bexhill, then Churston, each victim announced in advance by a taunting letter signed only "A.B.C."

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59:54

Tuesday Night Detectives — Philip Marlowe (The Panama...

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2026/08/17

Tonight on Tuesday Night Detectives, two great radio detectives take on cases separated by nearly a decade of the golden age of radio.First, Gerald Mohr stars as Raymond Chandler’s private detective Philip Marlowe in “The Panama Hat,” from The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. CBS’s Gerald Mohr series began in September 1948 and became the definitive radio incarnation of Chandler’s detective. Then Bob Bailey takes over as America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator in “The Royal Street Matter”

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59:44

Sunday Night Playhouse - Casablanca (Lux Radio Theatre)

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2026/08/15

After a summer's rest, Vintage Classic Radio is back on the air. Tonight on Sunday Night Playhouse — the hour-long Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Casablanca, broadcast 24 January 1944, a little over a year after the film's release. Hedy Lamarr stars as Ilsa Lund and Alan Ladd as Rick Blaine, with John Loder as Victor Laszlo. Lux Radio Theatre was the most prestigious dramatic anthology on American radio — a full studio orchestra, a live audience, and a production budget that let the show stretch a

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55:07

Tuesday Night Detectives - The Adventures of Sam...

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2025/12/18

This week's Christmas holiday edition of Tuesday Night Detectives brings two hard-boiled mysteries with a season twist. First up is The Adventures of Sam Spade in "The 25", originally broadcast December 15, 1950, as America's most famous private eye follows a case where greed, suspicion, and a Christmas payoff collide in classic noir fashion. Then it's Rocky Fortune, produced by NBC and starring Frank Sinatra, in the offbeat holiday mystery, "The Plot to Murder Santa Claus" originally aired

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38:09

Sunday Night Playhouse - Great Expectations (Charles...

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2025/12/18

Celebrate the Christmas holidays with Sunday Night Playhouse on Vintage Classic Radio, featuring a classic Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "Great Expectations", originally broadcast on October 13, 1947. This elegant radio production brings Charles Dickens' timeless novel to the airwaves with the rich storytelling and star-studded presentation that Lux was known for. Follow young Pip as a single act of kindness sets him on a path from a humble childhood to unexpected riches, complicated

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95:48

Saturday Matinee - The Abbott and Costello Show...

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2025/12/14

This week on Saturday Matinee, we continue the holiday festivities with three heartwarming and hilarious old time radio classics. Abbott and Costello are back in "Lou's Christmas Party" finding the duo in chaotic holiday shenanigans as they try to host the perfect party. In Ozzie and Harriet's "No Show for Christmas", we see Ozzie scrambling to save the day when plans for a quiet Christmas don't go as expected. Finally, in the Halls of Ivy, "The Snowman" tells a charming tale of campus life and a

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55:53

Friday Night Noir - Suspense Double Bill (Arctic...

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2025/12/13

We continue the holidays with chills on Friday Night Noir. Joseph Cotten braves a deadly mission in "Arctic Rescue", while Raymond Burr faces a holiday night gone dangerously wrong in "Out for Christmas". Tense, gripping, and full of twists, these classic Suspense episodes bring winter's cold edge straight to your ears on Vintage Classic Radio.

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58:32

Tuesday Night Detectives - The New Adventures of...

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2025/12/08

This week on Tuesday Night Detectives, we open with The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in "The Great Gandolfo" starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Watson and Holmes square off against a master of deception whose illusions hide a far deadlier game, one that only the world's greatest detective can unravel.Then we turn up the pace with a double helping with Episodes 5 and 6 of Dick Barton, Special Agent. Barton plunges deeper into a high-stakes investigation packed with coded clues, shadowy

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36:37

Sunday Night Playhouse - The Plot to Overthrow...

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2025/12/07

This week on Sunday Night Playhouse, Vintage Classic Radio presents Norman Corwin's sharp and spirited 1944 holiday classic, "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas". In this witty rhymed fantasy, a council of history's great villains meets to hatch a plan to destroy Christmas itself. Corwin uses humour and imagination to take aim at tyranny and the forces that thrive on fear, cruelty, and authoritarian power. It's a clever, fast-paced Christmas tale with an unmistakable wartime message: joy, freedom, and

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93:18

Saturday Matinee - Jack Benny (Christmas Open House),...

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2025/12/06

Kick off the holidays with this week's Saturday Matinee on Vintage Classic Radio!Laugh along with Jack Benny in "Christmas Open House", enjoy the festive chaos with Fibber McGee and Molly in "Listening to Carols", and feel the holiday spirit with Frank Sinatra, who stars in the Hallmark Playhouse radio play, "Room for a Stranger". Three classic Christmas stories full of humour, music, and heartwarming holiday moments celebrating the true meaning of Christmas.

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60:23

Friday Night Noir - Suspense ('Twas the Night Before...

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2025/12/05

Kick off the holiday season with a Christmas double feature on Friday Night Noir. First, an episode from Suspense in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" (1953), a gripping Christmas Eve search for a missing girl. Then Escape follows with "Back for Christmas" (1947), a darkly clever tale of a professor whose holiday plan hide a chilling twist. Classic tension and vintage radio charm. Welcome to Friday Night Noir on Vintage Classic Radio, where even Christmas has a shadow.

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59:27

Tuesday Night Detectives - Big Town (Prelude to...

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2025/12/02

This week on Tuesday Night Detectives: Celebrate the season with two classic holiday mysteries from radio's golden age. First, Big Town delivers a heartfelt Christmas tale in "Prelude to Christmas" (1948) where a simple assignment leads to an unexpected act of compassion. Then, George Valentine takes on a puzzling holiday case in Let George Do It with "Christmas Letter" (1952). Cozy up for intrigue, nostalgia, and a touch of Christmas magic on Vintage Classic Radio.

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60:04

Sunday Night Playhouse - Green Dolphin Street (Lana...

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2025/10/05

Vintage Classic Radio presents this week's Sunday Night Playhouse, welcoming you back to the golden glow of classic Hollywood on the airwaves.This week, we feature a lush adaptation from Lux Radio Theatre's "Green Dolphin Street", originally broadcasted September 19th, 1949. Set against the backdrop of 19th century New Zealand, this sweeping romantic drama follows two sisters whose lives are upended by a fateful love letter and a destiny neither could have foreseen. It's a tale of ambition,

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116:30

Saturday Matinee - Our Miss Brooks (Stretch to...

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2025/10/05

This week's Saturday Matinee is a lively triple bill packed with laughs, hijinks, and Hollywood sparkle! We kick off with Our Miss Brooks in "Stretch to Transfer", where Connie Brooks juggles school politics and student antics as she tries to keep Stretch Snodgrass from being transferred out of Madison High. Next up is The Aldrich Family in "The Great Weiner Roast", and Henry Aldrich's plans for a simple cookout spiral into a riot of misunderstanding, teenage schemes and small-town

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55:04

Friday Night Noir - Arch Oboler's Plays (Strange...

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2025/10/02

This week on Friday Night Noir, we invite you into two unforgettable journeys through the darker corners of radio drama. We begin with Arch Oboler's Plays in "Strange Morning" originally broadcasted April 5th, 1945. An ordinary day unravels into an eerie and unsettling experience in Oboler's uniquely haunting style. Then, from Quiet Please, comes "Good Ghost" broadcasted on October 24th, 1948. A tale that blends the macabre with the tender, as a gentle spirit finds new meaning in the

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53:08

Tuesday Night Detectives - The Adventures of Sherlock...

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2025/09/29

Step back into the golden age of radio mystery with this week's double feature of intrigue and suspense!First, in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' as the great detective and Dr. Watson unravel the chilling case of "The Death of Mrs. Abernetty", originally broadcast on November 30th, 1946. A curious death, a tangle of motives, and Holmes' razor-sharp deductions promise a classic detective's tale. Then, we lighten up with wit and sophistication in Dashiel Hammett's iconic detective duo, Nick and

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