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| Title | Podcast Description | Author/Reader | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Whistler, Murder on paper 01/29/1945 | Fred Wallis is writer and a gambler. In Florida he met wealthy widowed Vera Durante. She wasnt much to look at but her money was and soon they were married. One day he lost 1,000 dollars to a gangster. Vera refuses to give him the money so he plans to kill her. | www.botar.us | 01:01:31 |
| NBC University Theatre, Alice in wonderland 12/26/1948 | NBC University Theater brings you a seasonal play in the holiday spirit, a story beloved by the young at heart in every generation. This classic tale of Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carrol, includes music, singing and wonderful sound effects. | www.botar.us | 01:01:25 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Wooing Amelia 06/28/1942 | The last show of the season. Gildersleeve is determined to romance Amelia Hooker. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Eager witness 08/27/1949 | It started with a man on trial for his life and an A1 citizen eager to testify, but there it was interrupted and it wasnt until Marlowe found a corpse in a bubbling bath, gunplay in the woods and lots of blackmail that the real eager witness had a chance to talk. | www.botar.us | 00:28:14 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 845, circa 1943 | Glenn Miller, Here we go again | www.botar.us | 00:15:03 |
| Lights Out, Mister Maggs 12/01/1942 | Harold Maggs buys an old unclaimed oak travelling trunk. He does not know what is in it as there is no key but the lock is beautiful gold plate. However, if Mister Maggs knew what the auctioneer knew of the trunk he would curse him to the devil. | www.botar.us | 00:19:51 |
| Gunsmoke, Tara 11/07/1952 | Four months ago Marshall Matt Dillon brought 17 year old Tara back in to town after her father was killed. Kitty was concerned that Tara was hanging around Texas Trail, where some wild characters hung out; it seems she was keeping bad company. | www.botar.us | 01:00:45 |
| Gunsmoke, Square triangle 11/14/1952 | Around Dodge City there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and thats with a US Marshall and the smell of gun smoke. This is the story of the violence that moved west with young America. The story of a man who moved with it - Matt Dillon, United States Marshall. | www.botar.us | 01:00:33 |
| The Whistler, Murder has a signature 01/15/1945 | In an old house back in the trees a little way from the lake lived a wealthy, cranky, miserly and self pitying woman who took pleasure in passing all the loneliness on to her only companion, her servant, Marth. | www.botar.us | 01:00:47 |
| N.B.C University Theatre, After many a summer dies the swan 12/12/1948 | A balding, middle aged English scholar gets a view of the strange new world of California reviewing documents purchased by a wealthy man with an extraordinary fear of death. The ending is typical Aldus Huxley science fiction. | www.botar.us | 01:01:13 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Fathers Day chair 06/21/1942 | Sam Hearn appears as Schlepperman, the furniture dealer. The Chairs Of Gildersleeve, a present for Fathers Day. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Lady killer 08/20/1949 | This time inside of two hours a lavish mansion thief with suspicion, a sealed cabin filled with gas in an artist retreat and a corpse on the floor and all because one man was too good looking to be true to anyone. | www.botar.us | 00:28:23 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 844, circa 1943 | Harry James, Sad sack | www.botar.us | 00:15:32 |
| Escape, Three good witnesses 01/31/1948 | You are speeding through the Turkish night on the tourist express, alone and unarmed, and somewhere on the train is a calm killer from whom you must escape. Mr. Ward was aboard, on his way home to his routine job with the oil company after reporting that there was no oil near Istanbul worth drilling for. | www.botar.us | 00:29:35 |
| Lights Out, Come to the bank 11/17/1942 | Mr. Moss is a physics teacher who believes that man only uses 1 tenth of his mind. He proves that the mind can perform miraculous things when he walks into the wall of a bank. The teller who saw him do it is now deranged as he has been in there for three weeks. She fears he will die if she does not get him out. | www.botar.us | 00:22:48 |
| Gunsmoke, The mortgage 10/24/1952 | The Longhorn had been closed all morning and a sign on the door read, we'll open at eight tonight with new management. Signed the new manager, Maimee. They had never had a woman run a saloon in Dodge City and Dillon reckons the men won't like it. | www.botar.us | 01:00:27 |
| Gunsmoke, Overland express 10/31/1952 | A stranger named Joe Bowdry killed a man in Dodge, got on his horse and rode ninety miles northwest. Later he shot Marshall Dillons horse from under him and then he gave up. He just threw down his guns and walked across the prairie, his hands in the air. | www.botar.us | 01:00:45 |
| The Whistler, Body wouldn't stay in the bay 01/08/1945 | On the docks of the bay outside the Jim Mars Sky Land Club the beautiful Monica Lees body came to the surface and was discovered by the police. She was identified and her body returned to a small town down the coast where it was claimed by relatives. | www.botar.us | 01:01:02 |
| N.B.C University theatre, Three soldiers 12/05/1948 | In Three Soldiers, John Dos Passos tells the story of a man named John Andrews, whose nature brought him into inevitable conflict with army life. | www.botar.us | 01:00:03 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Summer theatre 06/14/1942 | Gildersleeve and his friends are in summer stock. | www.botar.us | 00:30:23 |
| Philip Marlowe, Indian giver 08/13/1949 | It started with an Indian gift of a piece of pottery and led to a brown bear in moccasins, an archaeologist, laughing water, and finally death in an ally. But just to make matters worse, the Indian giver was a female and 100 percent hot blooded Apache. | www.botar.us | 00:28:26 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 843, circa 1943 | Bob Crosby and The Bobcats play "Honky Tonk Train Blues." | www.botar.us | 00:15:32 |
| Escape, Papa Benjamin 01/24/1948 | You are groping down a dark alleyway in the French quarter of New Orleans, driven by terror, hounded by the curse of the Papaloy. A curse from which there is no escape. Enjoy this dramatization of William Irish's eerie short story. | www.botar.us | 00:29:26 |
| Lights Out, Neanderthal man 11/03/1942 | Their car goes over a cliff and they do not die, it is the middle of July and the day has gone from gloriously sunny to cold and wintry and then, when their cries for help are answered, it appears to be a Neanderthal, a caveman extinct for 50,000 years. | www.botar.us | 00:25:17 |
| Gunsmoke, Lochinvar 10/17/1952 | In three days Ben Martin is going to marry Artis Nash. But Frank Craig turns up after a year to claim her back. He claims to have gotten over his wildness and is ready to settle down. He didnt want to cause trouble - just to take his girl and leave. Will he kill anyone who tries to stop him? | www.botar.us | 01:00:02 |
| The Whistler, Windfall 12/18/1944 | Gambler Robert Bradley wanders in to the Silver Dollar Buffet. A thin, pale, nervous man with a handfull of form charts and a cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth. On this night, fate turned a wheel. | www.botar.us | 00:29:21 |
| N.B.C University theatre, Passage to India 11/28/1948 | A portrayal of love, tragedy, and the unjust conditions of a British controlled India and the attempts of a few who tried to remove the barriers of class and race. | www.botar.us | 01:01:00 |
| Great Gildersleeve, The sneezes 06/07/1942 | Gildersleeve's allergic sneezing leads to a strange residence in Leroys tree house. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, August lion 08/06/1949 | It started with death on my doorstep and got worse when I lied to a sympathetic bull, was pistol whipped by a gorilla with dimples and fought with a kitten on the quays. And it might have gone on that way all night if I hadnt been helped by the king of the beasts. | www.botar.us | 00:27:18 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 842, circa 1943 | Benny Goodman, I found a new baby | www.botar.us | 00:15:31 |
| Escape, Leiningen vs the ants 01/17/1948 | You are isolated on a remote plantation in the crawling Amazon Jungle and an immense army of ravenous ants is closing in on you, swarming in to eat you alive. A deadly black army from which there is no escape. Written by Carl Stephenson. | www.botar.us | 00:30:18 |
| Lights Out, Poltergeist 10/20/1942 | Ednas father told her if you walked or danced on a grave the poltergeist would come out of the grave to kill and destroy. That night, as she and two friends on their way home accidentally danced on a gravestone, Edna became hysterical. | www.botar.us | 00:26:31 |
| Green Hornet, Gas pen 04/09/1946 | Two hard faced men sat in a compartment of the city bound express from Washington. The larger, more aggressive looking of the two did most of the talking. | www.botar.us | 00:23:45 |
| Green Hornet, Justice wears a blindfold 03/06/1936 | When a notorious racketeer was brought to trial the public believed he would at last be found guilty of his crime but the racketeer brought pressure to bear on the judge. Brit Reid, as the Green Hornet saw that justice was served. | www.botar.us | 00:25:50 |
| Green Hornet, Liggits citizenship racket 03/17/1936 | Liggit runs a racket that victimizes people coming to the USA for freedom and safety. He arranges someone to take the citizenship exam for a price, and then blackmails the victim, threatening to reveal the fraud. | www.botar.us | 00:28:14 |
| Gunsmoke, Drop dead 09/20/1952 | Matt Dillon, US Marshall, does not like it when things get too quiet in Dodge City as it usually means there is a blow-up coming. And that is exactly what he gets from a thirsty herd and a mean rancher who has fenced off his pond. | www.botar.us | 01:00:11 |
| Gunsmoke, Cain 10/03/1952 | Cain Vestel is a musician who came in to Dodge last night and is leaving for Arizona tomorrow. Cain, a very nice fellow, is suffering from consumption and the Doc said he would be dead in a couple of months. | www.botar.us | 01:00:20 |
| The Whistler, Lie or consequences 12/11/1944 | To a man who lives by matching wits with the hardened criminals who deal in narcotics the threat of violence is always present. Sometimes that vilence has unexpected consequences. It was late one fall evening when a couple of cops were making their way down a blackened alley toward the hideout of two criminals prominent in the dope trade. | www.botar.us | 00:28:58 |
| N.B.C University Theatre, Short happy life of Grancis Macomber 11/21/1948 | Francis Macomber and his wife Margot are in Kenya on safari. Francis shoots and wounds a lion. As Francis and his guide seek out the wounded lion, Margot ridiculs her husband for his lack of bravery. By Ernest Hemmingway, 1936. | www.botar.us | 01:01:00 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Testimonial dinner for Judge 05/31/1942 | Gildersleeve's old college chum comes to visit and starts selling shares in a magnesium mine. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Mexican boat ride 07/30/1949 | This time I took a beating and gave one, a man who lives in the dark was afraid, someone I never got to meet was murdered and a knife wielding crab was destroyed and all because a girl who hated the water took a boat ride in old Mexico. | www.botar.us | 00:37:17 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 841, circa 1943 | Ambrose, Night Rider | www.botar.us | 00:15:23 |
| Escape, Second class passenger 01/10/1948 | You are trapped in the native quarter of Mozambique, two dead men at your feet and the police closing in on you and beside you a sultry girl who offers you escape. | www.botar.us | 00:29:46 |
| Lights Out, Revolt of the worms 10/13/1942 | All I can do is sit and think and wait. Wait for the floors to lift and the walls to crash. Facts, think of facts. Yes, a journal of facts. | www.botar.us | 00:22:29 |
| Green Hornet, Bait for a two timer 06/06/1950 | A building caves in, killing some occupants. Yet if the building inspector had been honest the building would have been condemned. | www.botar.us | 00:27:15 |
| Green Hornet, Bid and asked 08/09/1941 | Miss Case, Brit Reids secretary, had an offer from the Clarion to be a reporter, but Brit told her if she was going to be a reporter, it would be for the Daily Sentinel. | www.botar.us | 00:30:54 |
| Green Hornet, Black market 05/31/1945 | Brit Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, and Mike Axford, reporter, sat in the living room of Brits apartment having after-dinner coffee. Kato served as they listened to Don Dunroe, well known radio commentator, talk about the black market meat situation which was undermining the economic structure of the country. | www.botar.us | 00:26:24 |
| Green Hornet, Disaster rides the rails 07/06/1939 | In the luxurious club car on the train, Card Sharp Cunningham sat down beside the two unsuspecting men described by the railway detective. Unknown to Cunningham, one of these two men was Brit Reid, wealthy young publisher of the Daily Sentinel who, as the Green Hornet, later is accused of murder. | www.botar.us | 00:26:18 |
| Green Hornet, Exposed 10/28/1947 | Linda Travis had been a reporter for less than a week. She had gotten her job on merit and no one suspected she went to work for the Daily Sentinel just so she could give regular reports to Britt Reid's father, telling him how Britt conducted himself as publisher of the influential newspaper. | www.botar.us | 00:23:51 |
| Gunsmoke, Home surgery 09/13/1952 | Matt Dillon was told that a man he had been looking for, a murderer, was in the cow camp on the north fork of the Canadian river about a half a mile south of Dodge. So Chester and Matt took a ride down to take a look. They found a fellow there with the right name but the wrong face. | www.botar.us | 01:00:08 |
| Gunsmoke, Brothers 09/06/1952 | They all drifted here to Dodge City one time or another, the buffalo killers, the saddle bums, the spoilers. It was the end of the track and the start of the wilderness, a place to stop and take the kind of pleasure you need. It is a place to pass through and sometimes it is a place to die. | www.botar.us | 01:01:12 |
| The Whistler, Doctor operates in crime 12/04/1944 | Tony Angelo is in big trouble and wants the doctor to perform plastic surgery on him. | www.botar.us | 00:29:45 |
| N.B.C University Theatre, Of human bondage 11/14/1948 | Of Human Bondage is the story of a young mans awakening to the complexity of the world and to the agony of love. Author Somerset Maugham, 1915. | www.botar.us | 01:01:42 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Manganese mine 05/17/1942 | Gildersleeves old college chum comes to visit and starts selling shares in a magnesium mine. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Headless peacock 07/16/1949 | This one began with bedlam and got worse as I bumped in to a burglar, a bookie, a Boswell, a body and a big shot named B and before it was over everyone had lost his head because the headless peacock had moved. | www.botar.us | 00:28:14 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 840, circa 1943 | Benny Goodman, plays Buckle down winsocki | www.botar.us | 00:15:27 |
| Escape, Confession 12/31/1947 | You are lost in a London fog, uncertain whether the figures looming around you are real or creatures of your imagination. Somewhere in the wet grayness lurks a murderer from whom you must escape. Written by Algernon Blackwood. | www.botar.us | 00:29:25 |
| Lights Out, Special to Hollywood 02/17/1941 | Hollywood celebrities fly to a town for the premier of their new picture. The stars are displayed in a burst of glory and then they rush back to Hollywood again to start their next film project. The story is about the road back from one of these premier excursions, a most unusual road. | www.botar.us | 00:29:25 |
| Gunsmoke, Juniper tree 08/30/1952 | They all drifted here to Dodge City one time or another, the buffalo killers, the saddle bums, the spoilers. It was the end of the track and the start of the wilderness, a place to stop and take the kind of pleasure you need - a place to pass through and sometimes a place to die. | www.botar.us | 00:59:55 |
| Gunsmoke, Shakespeare 08/23/1952 | The sun was a burning red round chip in the sky and the sweat on a man never had a chance to dry. Doc, Chester and Marshall Dillon rode to old man Gores place because one of his hands went loco with the liquor and shot up the cattle. | www.botar.us | 01:01:16 |
| The Whistler, Death walks a tightwire 11/27/1944 | Everything is going well at the circus, there is a smile of satisfaction on the face of Mr. Morgan as he glances over the nights box office report in his little private wagon. Yes everything is going well - maybe too well. Right at this moment a shadow is creeping over the big top. | www.botar.us | 00:27:54 |
| N.B.C. University Theatre, Arrowsmith 11/07/1948 | N.B.C. University press present their adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis 1925 novel Arrowsmith with Van Heflin in the leading role of Dr. Martin Arrowsmith. | www.botar.us | 01:01:01 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Mystery singer 05/10/1942 | The Masked Marvel Of Mystery, serenades the radio listeners of Summerfield. Gildersleeve is the masked baritone. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Abbott and Costello, Mortimers pet shop 11/02/1944 | Lou found a dog called Hector and tries to auction it off. Bud auctions and Lou is the shill. Lou takes the lost dog to Red Mortons pet shop, but he wants to keep it. Camels salutes Sergent Phillip R. Hampe, and Connie Haines sings "Dance With The Dolly." | www.botar.us | 00:50:10 |
| Philip Marlowe, Dude from Manhattan 07/02/1949 | This time it was going to be a vacation in the wide open spaces, but a black stallion, a tiny emerald and a battered horseshoe meant a twenty four hour delay. It could have been worse because to the dude from Manhattan they meant death. | www.botar.us | 00:29:45 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 839, circa 1943 | Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra, featuring the Casa Loma Stomp | www.botar.us | 00:15:24 |
| Escape, Back for Christmas 12/24/1947 | In a household riddled with hatred, Herbert Carpenter and his wife Herminie prepare to travel to America and Herminie is badgering Herbert again to sort out his arrangements for America whilst he is busy planting devil's garden in his cellar. | www.botar.us | 00:29:37 |
| Lights Out, Bathysphere 11/18/1939 | His Excellency is set to break the record for diving over half a mile to the bottom of the ocean in a steel Bathysphere. But as the Bathysphere dives beyond 3200 feet there are concerns over of his Excellency's safety. | www.botar.us | 00:29:56 |
| Gunsmoke, The lynching 08/16/1952 | Billy Saxton had shot Joe Powell in the back and is about to be lynched by Joes brother. When Matt found him, he told Ken Powell that if he masterminds the lynching he will get a fair trial for murder the same way that Saxton should have had one. | www.botar.us | 00:58:44 |
| Gunsmoke, Kentucky Tolmans 08/09/1952 | Hannah Tolman is concerned that her father will be murdered and wants Marshall Dillon to save him by locking him up. Jed wont tell Dillon who's trying to kill him but it could have something to do with his son, Vic Tolman, who's wanted for robbery and murder. | www.botar.us | 01:00:45 |
| The Whistler, Death sees double 11/20/1944 | Mona and Martha Spencer are identical sisters. Friends can't tell them apart. They are alone in the world, two devoted loving sisters, beautiful, popular, surrounded by admirers. Then along came Bill Edwards, handsome, successful, the catch of the season as they say. | www.botar.us | 00:29:28 |
| NBC University Theatre, Justice 10/31/1948 | Suspicion of passing a forged check falls upon William Falder, junior office clerk, who is in love with a married woman, the abused ill-treated wife of a brutal drunkard. Pressed by his employer, Falder confesses the forgery, pleading the dire necessity of removing his sweetheart from the unbearable brutality of her husband. | www.botar.us | 01:02:39 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Liberty ship christening 05/03/1942 | Gildersleeve, Marjorie, and Leroy get on the wrong train while trying to get to San Francisco for the christening of a new Liberty Ship, the Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve. Mel Blanc plays two roles. | www.botar.us | 00:30:17 |
| Abbott and Costello, Matrimonial agency 10/26/1944 | Lou has 75 dollars in the bank and he and Abbott plan to open a matrimonial agency. Freddie Rich plays 'The Very Thought Of You,' Connie Haines sings 'It Had To Be You.' | www.botar.us | 00:30:14 |
| Philip Marlowe, Key man 06/25/1949 | This time a nervous breakdown and a driving rain, a cape with a high collar and a tiny sliver of glass led Marlowe from the ballet and a beautiful dancer to the edge of a cliff and death. | www.botar.us | 00:29:52 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 838, circa 1943 | Benny Goodman, Alexanders ragtime band | www.botar.us | 00:15:04 |
| Escape, Wild oranges 12/17/1947 | You are trapped in the dank darkness of a ruined plantation house and somewhere in the pitch black room is a homicidal maniac with a knife, groping for you trying, to prevent your escape. Story by Joseph Hergesheimer. | www.botar.us | 00:29:24 |
| Lights Out, Devil's due 04/26/1939 | Jean Taylor rebels against her teacher on a school trip in Paris. What does she care about the Louvre and its art, she wants to have fun. She is recognized and approached by a friend of her fathers who suggests that they go places together. He wants to show her the real Paris. | www.botar.us | 00:30:19 |
| Gunsmoke, Renegade White 08/02/1952 | Wild Hogg was chief of the Cheyenne Indians and was paying Hoard Spicer big money for supplying them with rifles. Marshall Matt Dillon had no respect for Spicer, who was a killer and a white renegade. | www.botar.us | 01:01:51 |
| The Whistler, Beware the bridegroom 11/13/1944 | Johnny Lane is a fraudster who marries penniless Julie Warren because he thinks she is worth millions. Then Johnny remembers an insurance policy she has which is worth 20,000 dollars... | www.botar.us | 00:29:40 |
| NBC University Theatre, They stooped to folly 10/24/1948 | When lovely woman stoops to folly and finds too late that men betray, what charm can sooth her melancholy, what arts can wash her guilt away? Based on a story by Ellen Glasgow. | www.botar.us | 01:00:53 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Gildys goat Horace 04/26/1942 | The story of Horace The Goat, played by Mel Blanc. | www.botar.us | 00:30:19 |
| Abbott and Costello, Back home again 10/05/1944 | Lou at Los Angeles railroad station coming back from trip to his uncles farm. He and Abbott are going toinvest in war bonds. Lou falls asleep and dreams of 10 years later. Freddie Rich and Connie Haines make music. | www.botar.us | 00:31:34 |
| Philip Marlowe, Busy body 06/18/1949 | It started as a routine search for a rich girls fiancee and the trail led to a silent house haunted by a face at the window and blood in an open chest. But before it was over it became a search for a corpse that wouldnt sit still. | www.botar.us | 00:28:14 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 837, circa 1943 | Stan Kenton, Eager Beaver | www.botar.us | 00:15:30 |
| Escape, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 12/10/1947 | You are standing on a bridge over Owl Creek, a noose around your neck. You have but a few seconds left to live , a few second left to plan your escape. A very gripping tale based on one of the greatest short stories of American literature by Ambrose Bierce. | www.botar.us | 00:29:24 |
| Lights Out, Cat wife 03/30/1938 | When Linda arrives home with her friends, an argument ensues with her husband. He accuses her and her friends of behaving like a pack of yowling, screaming alley cats and says he is through with her. Then she cruelly informs him that she only married him for his money. He accuses her of being a big white heatless cat. | www.botar.us | 00:31:09 |
| The Whistler, Beloved fraud 10/30/1944 | Bitterness, like wine, matures with age. This is a story of the bitter Woodford sisters as they sit in their comfortable parlour before the and read poetry to each other. | www.botar.us | 00:29:28 |
| N.B.C. University theatre, History of Mr. Polly 10/17/1948 | Starring Boris Karloff. Many a little man like Mr. Polly has dreamed of escape from the dullness of middleclass life. Of rebellion against all the many conventions so irksome to the individual but so necessary to our civilization. A brilliant satirical comedy by H.G. Wells. | www.botar.us | 00:59:13 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Leroy sells seeds 04/19/1942 | Leroy tries to sell seeds door-to-door, but winds up planting a Victory Garden. | www.botar.us | 00:30:20 |
| Abbott and Costello, At the circus 03/16/1943 | Guest stars Alan Hale, Warner Brothers star of The Adventures of Mark Twain. Camels salutes Lieutenant Colonel William Leverette. Freddie Rich plays Speak Low. Connie Haines sings Salt Water Cowboy. | www.botar.us | 00:29:39 |
| Philip Marlowe, Pigeons blood 06/11/1949 | This one had soft brown eyes and an accent and she came to town with a job to do. But before it was done, death had struck three times, then she was gone. And all because of thirty drops of pigeons blood worth 150,000 bucks. | www.botar.us | 00:27:38 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 836, circa 1943 | Benny Goodman, goes "Jumpin at the Woodside" | www.botar.us | 00:15:34 |
| Escape, Taboo 12/03/1947 | You are alone in the dark forest and behind somewhere is the werewolf waiting to drink your blood and you desperately desire the impossible - to escape. Tonight we escape to the backward world of Eastern Europe where ancient superstition still lives in the minds of men. | www.botar.us | 00:29:10 |
| Sights Out, Dream 03/23/1938 | The fourth anniversary of Lights Out celebrates as Boris Karloff performs this psychological drama. A play in which the principle character is taken not by the character himself, but by his thoughts. Daryl Hall, a convicted murderer sits in a court room waiting for a jury to decide his fate. | www.botar.us | 00:30:27 |
| Gunsmoke, Doc Holiday 07/19/1952 | Doc Holiday may be a gunman but he is square with the law and a better man than Thorne Finley will ever be. Thorne's father, Big Jack Finley, was the self made king of Southern Kansas. Love for his son blinded him to the fact that his son had gone bad. | www.botar.us | 01:01:44 |
| The Whistler, Death comes with a lunch kit 10/23/1944 | A man offers Peters a lot of money to forget something one morning. It didnt matter to Peters that the man had a foreign accent or that his country was at war or that his crime was to be one of the lowest in the book... | www.botar.us | 00:59:36 |
| N.B.C University theatre, An American tragedy 10/10/1948 | Raised by poor and devoutly religious parents who force Clyde to participate in street missionary work, Clyde is anxious to achieve better things. His troubles begin when he takes a job as a bellboy at a local hotel. Written by Theodore Dreiser. | www.botar.us | 00:59:31 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Letters to servicemen 03/29/1942 | Gildersleeve helps Marjorie write to soldiers. Complications ensue when a proposal seems just around the corner. | www.botar.us | 00:30:09 |
| Abbott and Costello, Bugs Bunny and Lucille Ball 11/14/1943 | Listen to the music of Freddie Rich and his orchestra, Billy Grahams Little Matilda, Mel Blanc as the famous cartoon character Bugs Bunny, and star of the Metro Goldwyn Meyer film, Best Foot Forward, Lucile Ball. | www.botar.us | 00:22:45 |
| Philip Marlowe, Unfair lady 06/04/1949 | I was hired to find a thief and I did, a thousand miles from home. What I found was a fresh corpse in the closet and all because the only woman in sight wouldn't play fair. | www.botar.us | 00:29:23 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 835, circa 1943 | Tommy Dorsey and the Big Band swing to the strains of 'Well Get It.' | www.botar.us | 00:16:09 |
| Escape, Casting the runes 11/19/1947 | Escape to London in a world made terrifying by the workings of an ancient curse. It is midnight and you are alone. Suddenly the room is plunged into darkness. You sit frozen with terror, because something is there behind you... | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Escape, Country of the blind 11/26/1947 | Zebarra is a mining engineer in Ecuador haunted by the memory of his friend, Nunez' fall from an Andean mountain peak. | www.botar.us | 00:29:33 |
| Gunsmoke, Boughten bride 07/12/1952 | It had been a long time since they had any real trouble. But of course that will not last. The stage that was due was carrying fifty thousand dollars in gold when it was held up and Mr. Carters fiance kidnapped. However the stage rider said it looked more like she went along willingly. | www.botar.us | 00:59:52 |
| The Whistler, Tale the dead man told 10/16/1944 | The Tale The Dead Man Told is the story of a man who gambles his life and the tale he tells. | www.botar.us | 00:30:20 |
| N.B.C. University theatre, Lord Jim 10/03/1948 | Brian Aherne stars in the title role in Joseph Conrads novel Lord Jim completed in 1900. | www.botar.us | 00:59:37 |
| Great Gildersleeve, New neighbors 03/22/1942 | Gildersleeve and his family have new neighbors, and they are very obnoxious. | www.botar.us | 00:26:10 |
| Abbott and Costello, Hunting guide 01/14/1943 | Listen to the great rhythms of Freddy Rich and his Orchestra, Camel Five sing Happy Go Lucky ,Connie Haines sings Doin It For Defense, guest Claire Trevor Bud and Lou go on a hunting trip. | www.botar.us | 00:29:52 |
| Philip Marlowe, Ebony link 05/28/1949 | Vicious blackmail that mushroomed into murder and all because a wild artist on a hilltop, a man in a wheelchair, and a red haired manicurist were held too tightly together by one small ebony link. | www.botar.us | 00:26:06 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 833, circa 1943 | Les Brown and his Band of Reknown play Swanee River. | www.botar.us | 00:15:25 |
| Evening Primrose 11/05/1947 | You grope in the midnight dimness of a gigantic department store and realize you're not alone. A hundred eyes glare at you from the shadows and a hundred hands reach for your throat. Based on the short story "Evening Primrose" by John Collier. | www.botar.us | 00:30:26 |
| Young man with cream tarts 11/12/1947 | Travel back to London in the 19th century. A London where a gentleman still valued his word of honor above his life. This is the strange tale of a desperate man who joins The Suicide Club hoping that he will be killed, but is shocked when he is chosen to murder another man. | www.botar.us | 00:30:24 |
| Gunsmoke, Buffalo killers 06/07/1952 | They all drifted here to Dodge City one time or another, the buffalo killers, the saddle bums, the spoilers. It was the end of the track and the start of the wilderness, a place to stop and take the kind of pleasure you need. A place to pass through and sometimes... a place to die. | www.botar.us | 01:00:17 |
| Gunsmoke, Never pester Chester 07/05/1952 | A couple of drunk cowboys are harassing the ladies on the High street. Chester asks them politely to leave the ladies alone as they do not want any trouble. But trouble is what they're going to get from Marshall Dillon after they rope Chester and drag him out of town. | www.botar.us | 01:00:28 |
| The Whistler, Finders weepers 10/09/1944 | Finders Weepers is the story of a fabulous fortune with no one to claim it and a search that ended with finders weepers. | www.botar.us | 00:30:21 |
| N.B.C. University Theatre, Gullivers travels 09/24/1948 | This book, written in 1727, did not die with the customs and men it ridiculed and satirized. It has become one of the greatest of all childrens classics, a story to charm and delight the young of every generation and every century. | www.botar.us | 00:30:48 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Ten best dressed 03/15/1942 | Gildersleeve has been named one of the ten best dressed men in Summerfield, which places Gildy into a new Orkney Twist suit. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Abbott and Costello, Knights in shining armor 11/19/1942 | Listen to the music of Leith Stevens and his orchestra, the songs of Connie Haines and the Camel Quintet, Guest star Miss Marlene Dietrich and of course lots of slapstick comedy from Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. | www.botar.us | 00:30:27 |
| Philip Marlowe, Night tide 05/21/1949 | When it started, the tide was high on the San Pedro waterfront, where a hot tempered kid had murder on his mind. There was a knife at my throat under the piers and a corpse on the beach before the tide went out again. And the kid was finally stopped. | www.botar.us | 00:30:13 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 833, circa 1943 | Benny Goodman and his orchestra, playing "Change." | www.botar.us | 00:15:15 |
| Escape, Fall of the House of Usher 10/22/1947 | An abridged version of the classic Edgar Allen Poe short story and one an old radio classic. | www.botar.us | 00:30:32 |
| Escape, Pollock and Porrah man 10/29/1947 | You are the victim of a native witch doctor, pursued from the west coast of Africa to the West End of London by the grinning face of a dead man. You are under the curse of a Porrah man. | www.botar.us | 00:30:27 |
| Gunsmoke, Ben Slandes saloon 05/24/1952 | Jones had been in Dodge buying supplies when he was found near his wagon, the horse still hitched, stabbed to death and his money gone. This was the third stabbing in the last two months and Marshall Dillon suspects it was the same killer. | www.botar.us | 00:58:16 |
| Gunsmoke, Carmen 05/31/1952 | Two United States Army soldiers are murdered while carrying payroll. Major Reynolds wants to know what Dillon plans on doing about it. Things seem to improve when a beautiful young woman arrives in Dodge | www.botar.us | 01:01:21 |
| The Whistler, Not if I kill you first 10/02/1944 | This is the story of a weird game of murder. | www.botar.us | 00:29:57 |
| N.B.C. University theatre, Purloined letter 09/10/1948 | In this classic Poe story of Parisian Intrigue Adolph Menjue as Detective Auguste Dupin in the The Purloined Letter. The story is told as narrated by Poe himself conferring with Dupin. | www.botar.us | 00:30:38 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Fortune teller 03/01/1942 | Gildersleeve the fortune teller. Is there trouble in his future? | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Abbott and Costello, Bank robbery 10/15/1942 | Listen to the music of Leith Stevens and his orchestra the songs of Connie Haines and the Camel Quintet, Guest star Marlene Dietrich and of course lots of slapstick comedy from Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. | www.botar.us | 00:30:07 |
| Philip Marlowe, Promise to pay 05/14/1950 | It was only a gamblers marker, a promise to pay with a thousand dollars and Marlowe was hired to find it. Which sounded easy until he realised that it meant the whole future to two men, freedom to a third and death to the girl in the cottage. | www.botar.us | 00:28:45 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 832, circa 1943 | Bobby Sherwood, plays Elks parade for your listening pleasure. | www.botar.us | 00:15:14 |
| Escape, Dangerous Game 10/01/1947 | You are alone and unarmed in the green hell of the Caribbean jungle. You are being trailed by a pack of blood thirsty dogs and a mad hunter armed for the kill - one who believes that you, a human being, are the most dangerous game. | www.botar.us | 00:30:48 |
| Escape, Shipment of mute fate 10/15/1947 | Escape to a tropic harbor in Venezuela and the story of a grim voyage of impending death, which started from there as Martin Storm tells it in this exciting story. | www.botar.us | 00:30:48 |
| The Whistler, Married to murder 09/25/1944 | In the night the ship convoys slip into line and move out past the Gold Gate, past the fog enshrouded rocks and past rocks where the tourists go, where the lovers go, They move out in to the Pacific, undisturbed by the body of a girl laying face down in the rocks. | www.botar.us | 00:29:47 |
| N.B.C. University Theatre, Peter Ibbitson 09/10/1948 | The story of Peter Ibbitson, by George Du Maurier was first published in 1891. It was a book for those who loved to dream and those who dream of love and all who share loves dream. And yet the story begins in the gloom of an asylum for the criminally insane. | www.botar.us | 00:30:20 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Selling the drugstore 02/22/1942 | It is Washingtons birthday, a time for telling the truth. This makes doing business rather difficult. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Feminine touch 05/07/1950 | An iron skull was their trademark. Their business was climbing walls and it was all done on wheels at 70 miles an hour, but that was a cinch for the death cheaters until they felt murder and a feminine touch. | www.botar.us | 00:29:42 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 831, circa 1943 | Woody Herman, revisits the Woodchoppers Ball with Gipper Mouth Blues. | www.botar.us | 00:15:23 |
| Escape, Ring of Thoth 08/11/1947 | Based on the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ring of Thoth is based in the Egyptians relics room of the Louvre in Paris. In less than half an hour you are swept off not only to the Paris of the late 19th century, but to the land of Pharaohs. | www.botar.us | 00:30:24 |
| Escape, Fourth man 08/18/1947 | Takes place in the South Pacific, at the penal colony of New Maya, where the cutthroats, sadists and the dregs of French society were sent to a living death. Tonight you are invited to escape from New Maya in John Russells story The Fourth Man. | www.botar.us | 00:30:59 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, From here to Boston 11/27/1960 | The last show of the series. Paladin inherits a fortune and moves to Boston, after narrowly avoiding being poisoned. | www.botar.us | 00:24:19 |
| The Whistler, Black magic 09/18/1944 | The people in an equatorial African mining village are being struck down one by one with Malaria. Arnold, the mine's manager, has enlisted the help of an American doctor, Roger Kent. Kent has brought his lovely wife, Nora, who just happens to be a past love interest of Arnold. | www.botar.us | 00:29:56 |
| N.B.C. University Theatre, Candide 09/03/1948 | A dramatization of the novel "Candide" by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire. | www.botar.us | 00:30:30 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Auto mechanic 02/08/1942 | Gildersleeve is forced into giving a lecture about auto mechanics to the ladies of the Red Cross. | www.botar.us | 00:30:18 |
| Philip Marlowe, Lady in mink 04/30/1950 | The big fog that clung to Los Angeles made searching for the girl who was going to kill herself slow and uneasy, but in the end I'd have settled for that and more because murder happened twice before I found the lady in mink. | www.botar.us | 00:29:44 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 830, circa 1943 | Woody Herman, takes us to the Woodchoppers Ball | www.botar.us | 00:15:07 |
| Escape, Typhoon 07/28/1947 | A sailing tale about the China Seas based on Joseph Conrad's short story. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Escape, Sire de Maletroits door 08/04/1947 | It is the dark of the moon, 1429, Paris. The House of Burgundy holds the throne of France and English men at arms patrol the narrow streets. Troubled times for any man to be lost on foot at night. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. | www.botar.us | 00:29:53 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Martha Nell 11/20/1960 | Paladin travels to Greenwood to solve the murder of a young man. He finds the beautiful widow Martha Nell and a very protective friend. | www.botar.us | 00:24:47 |
| The Whistler, Local storm 09/10/1944 | The invalid Mrs. Wentworth resides in a lonely Devon village. Her snappy tongue and commanding attitude turn away friends and visitors except for the doctor. He is in the living room of the cottage now, giving Mrs. Wentworth one of her treatments. | www.botar.us | 00:29:54 |
| N.B.C University Theatre, Romantic comedians 08/27/1948 | "The Romantic Comedians," by Ellen Glasgow. Stars Albert Decker as Judge Honeywell, who had a perfect marriage to Cordelia, but at her graveside, it seems to him, that he lived those years with a stranger. | www.botar.us | 01:00:27 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Matchmaker 01/25/1942 | Leroy runs away from home. Gildersleeve makes a fine patriotic speech from a jail cell. | www.botar.us | 00:30:21 |
| Philip Marlowe, Cloak of Kamehameha 05/16/1950 | Marlowe received the message in two parts. The first, from Horace Schindler, was some money and instructions to meet him and the second was just more money. He is to meet Nannette Collier and go to her place to pick up the cloak of Kamehameha. | www.botar.us | 00:29:37 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 829, circa 1943 | Benny Goodman, and his orchestra wail to the strains of 'Margie.' | www.botar.us | 00:15:09 |
| Escape, Operation fleur de lis 07/14/1947 | On the 14th of July 1789 the people of Paris stormed the Bastille and let loose the French revolution. The torch of liberty set afire that day never burned more fiercely than during the years when France was occupied by the Nazis. | www.botar.us | 00:29:12 |
| Escape, Diamond as big as the Ritz 07/21/1947 | You are a prisoner in the magnificent mountain retreat of the richest man in the world who is haunting you. Terrifying you is the knowledge that the ultimate escape will be death, authored by F. Scott Fitzgerald. | www.botar.us | 00:30:38 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, The map 11/13/1960 | Paladin is hired by the army to recover a 90,000 dollar payroll by impersonating one of the robbers. | www.botar.us | 00:24:47 |
| The Whistler, Practically foolproof 09/03/1944 | Edward Bowman and Marco Lorenz run a popular new library catering to a highly respectable clientele. A clientele who would be shocked to overhear their conversation as they sit in the back of their shop huddled over a crudely drawn diagram. | www.botar.us | 00:29:25 |
| N.B.B. University Theatre, Noon wine 08/20/1948 | Noon Wine, a story by Katherine Anne Porter with humorous overtones, violence and brutality. Its characters are linked by a destiny imposed on them by forces in their own hearts. Stars Beulah Bondi. | www.botar.us | 01:00:37 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Matchmaker 01/25/1942 | Gildersleeve tries to get a mate for Judge Hooker, but complications follow. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Heat wave 04/16/1949 | It was hot and still, an August night in the middle of April, but that didn't matter to the striptease dancer in the golden mask, because murder made her blood run cold the night the heat wave struck. | www.botar.us | 00:30:04 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 756, circa 1943 | Harry James, Two oclock jump | www.botar.us | 00:15:21 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Strands of death 03/12/1946 | A man kills his wife with a pair of nylons. | www.botar.us | 00:28:52 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, The odds 11/06/1960 | Out in Nebraska, Paladin meets young Jim Buford, who is tired of farm life and is looking for action. | www.botar.us | 00:24:48 |
| The Whistler, Till death do us part 07/30/1944 | From where Roy Layton sat on the edge of the sagging poster bed, the view of the outside world was a dismal one. The assortment of unopened bills and collection notices held their grim message too. They said that he whould have to be moving on soon. | www.botar.us | 00:28:07 |
| NBC University Theatre, Number one 08/13/1948 | NBC University Theater presents a radio play based on the great American story "Number One," by John Dos Passos and adapted for radio by John C. Wilson and starring Barry Sullivan. | www.botar.us | 01:01:04 |
| Great Gildersleeve, A new bed for Marjorie 01/18/1942 | Gildie buys a new bed for Marjorie. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Name to remember 04/09/1949 | The partner from Mexico City, the stranger dead in Nevada, and the man with the cauliflower ear all added up to a corpse on a concrete floor but Marlowe could not figure why until he found out that there was one name above all that had to be remembered. | www.botar.us | 00:37:21 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 755, circa 1943 | Glenn Miller, Caribbean clipper | www.botar.us | 00:15:20 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Hitch hiking corpse 01/23/1950 | A motorist driving west meets a strange and beautiful hitch hiker. | www.botar.us | 00:23:56 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Oil 10/30/1960 | Paladin is hired to supervise the purchase of a suspicious oil well. | www.botar.us | 00:24:24 |
| The Whistler, Last of the Devereaux 07/23/1944 | A newly rich lout, Paul Vertel seeks to take over the ancient mansion of the aristocratic Devereaux family. | www.botar.us | 00:29:29 |
| NBC University Theatre, Farewell to arms 08/06/1948 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway stars John Lund and Lurene Tuttle. Against the mud and dirt of the Italian front in the First World War Hemingway tells a story of a love. | www.botar.us | 01:01:52 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Arrested as a car thief 01/11/1942 | Gildersleeve switches cars and a box of rabbits becomes a load of dynamite. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Last laugh 04/02/1949 | It was a grim joke that started when six heirs came to an ugly house on a rain swept island to hear a madmans will. The joke soon turned to murder and in the end it was hard to tell who had the last laugh. | www.botar.us | 00:29:60 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 722, circa 1943 | Jimmy Lunceford, For dancers only | www.botar.us | 00:22:48 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Till death do us part 10/27/1947 | Two newlyweds witness a murder. Running from the gunman, the couple find the dead body back in their tourist cabin. The landlady finds the corpse and the groom winds up killing her. | www.botar.us | 00:22:45 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Hell knows no fury 10/23/1960 | Lola Blackwood, an actress, has telegraphed Paladin from Grass Valley, asking for help. | www.botar.us | 00:23:32 |
| The Whistler, Death demands a payment 12/19/1943 | A tale of avarice and greed and the awful price John Hendricks paid for selling his soul to the devil. | www.botar.us | 00:29:45 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, War of the worlds 02/08/1955 | The famous tale about the invasion from Mars. The story is different in many ways from the Orson Welles version. Stars Dana Andrews and Pat Crowley. | www.botar.us | 01:00:41 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Gildys diet 01/04/1942 | Gildersleeve bets Judge Hooker one hundred dollars that he can lose ten pounds in a week, and goes on a diet. | www.botar.us | 00:27:56 |
| Philip Marlowe, Green flame 03/26/1949 | When it started it was simple, just a lawsuit for damages. Before it was over, the damages were murder. All because of a red headed woman, a ghost writer with ambition, and a match that burned with a bright green flame. | www.botar.us | 00:31:29 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 721, circa 1943 | Bob Crosby, plays the Sugarfoot Strut | www.botar.us | 00:22:46 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Beneficiary death 04/17/1950 | A businessman badly in need of money sees his opportunity when a hitchhikers body in a car crash is identified as his. | www.botar.us | 00:30:08 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Stardust 10/16/1960 | Lola Blackwood, an actress, has telegraphed Paladin from Grass Valley, asking for help. | www.botar.us | 00:24:58 |
| The Whistler, Patients for the doctor 11/21/1943 | James Herod believes he is a doctor but there isn't much call for doctors near his remote home. Suddenly, three people riding along the highway in a driving storm need him... | www.botar.us | 00:30:25 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Road to Morocco 04/05/1943 | Madness and adlibs in the sands of the desert, stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. | www.botar.us | 00:52:21 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Leroys big dog 12/28/1941 | Gildersleeve tries to get rid of Leroys huge dog. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Dancing hands 03/19/1949 | They were identical twins, equal in beauty and talents only one was deadly and the other was not. Marlowe couldn't tell which was which until he found a green purse, a fresh corpse and a pair of dancing hands. | www.botar.us | 00:29:08 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 706, circa 1943 | Count Basie grooves with Blue Lou | www.botar.us | 00:15:22 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Sam Crow 10/09/1960 | The life of Sam Crow, avian companion of Skeeter Hickshaw, is threatened. | www.botar.us | 00:23:48 |
| The Whistler, Mirage 10/03/1943 | There was something wrong, something terribly wrong. She planned to wait a few more days to be sure and then she was going to take care of Joe - she was going to kill him. | www.botar.us | 00:29:46 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Mister Belvedere goes to college 01/16/1950 | Comedy about the mature and very capable Mr. Belvedere, who finds it expedient to attend an institution of higher learning. Stars Clifton Webb, Coleen Gray and Robert Stack. | www.botar.us | 00:55:57 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Chirstmas gift for McGee 12/21/1941 | Gildersleeve tries to buy the ideal Christmas present for Fibber McGee. | www.botar.us | 00:30:21 |
| Philip Marlowe, Grim hunters 03/12/1949 | It was a hunt through a jungle of city streets with danger waiting at every intersection until half way through when the hunters became the hunted and death brought an end to the game. | www.botar.us | 00:28:13 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 705, circa 1943 | Tommy Dorsey, jives to Blue skies | www.botar.us | 00:15:25 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Telinka 10/02/1960 | Paladin is asked to help Amos R. Leland Jr., an army officer with evidence of military corruption, who fears for his life. | www.botar.us | 00:24:34 |
| The Whistler, Blind alley 09/24/1943 | Young Henry Cartaris III and his widowed mother live with Henrys wealthy Grandfather. Henry takes after his late Father; a weak gambler and drinker. Grandfather tries to cut down on Henrys allowance... | www.botar.us | 00:29:59 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Wife husband and friend 04/28/1941 | When a mans wife decides to resume her operatic career, she flops badly, but her husband succeeds in a big way. Stars George Brent, Priscilla Lane and Gail Patrick. | www.botar.us | 00:59:56 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Cousin iron reindeer 12/14/1941 | The program opens with war bulletins. Gildersleeve and his family sell an iron deer for scrap. | www.botar.us | 00:29:43 |
| Philip Marlowe, Friend from Detroit 03/05/1949 | When Marlowe's telephone rang, it jerked him out of one nightmare and right in to the middle of another, where a woman with a secret, a worried man and a shadow out of the past met with fear and fury in the dead of night. | www.botar.us | 00:29:44 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 704, circa 1943 | Stan Kenton, performing Eager beaver | www.botar.us | 00:15:23 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Dead mans deal 08/28/1945 | A good story about a poker game with murder as the stakes. | www.botar.us | 00:29:58 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Bringing up Ollie 09/25/1960 | Paladin visits Ollie and Cora in Colorado, and finds Ollie in jail, and a hero during a jail break. | www.botar.us | 00:24:06 |
| The Whistler, Tangled web 09/10/1943 | Hester Mayberry, an elderly widow, has inherited a large estate from her late husband. She has adopted two children, Claude, and Lita. Aunt Hester has plans for them, plans for keeping the estate in one family. | www.botar.us | 00:29:30 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Blossoms in the dust 02/16/1942 | The story of The Texas Childrens Home and Aid Society and the tragic life of the woman who founded it, stars Bea Benaderet and Bobby Larson. | www.botar.us | 01:02:24 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Cousin Octavia visits 12/07/1941 | Gildersleeve has won a canary named Napoleon, but he will not sing. | www.botar.us | 00:28:39 |
| Philip Marlowe, Lonesome reunion 02/12/1949 | A corpse that would not stay dead, a pistol with a silencer and a fortune in a black satchel spell death for the big city boys when they finally got together in lonesome Arizona, population 802. | www.botar.us | 00:35:38 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 703, circa 1943 | Benny Goodman, features the Bugle Call Rag | www.botar.us | 00:15:23 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Death is an artist 01/23/1945 | Four dead cats and a man are found in an apartment all with their throats slit or their heads cut off. | www.botar.us | 00:32:33 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Nellie Watsons son 09/18/1960 | The son of Nellie Watson asks Paladin's help with his step father, with whom there is no love lost. | www.botar.us | 00:24:03 |
| The Whistler, Destiny 09/03/1943 | For twenty five years mild-mannered Milton Strong has worked in an office as a bookkeeper, earning the stupendous salary of 35 dollars a week. He has grown a bit sour but has never had the nerve to ask for a raise. Today, however, is going to be different. | www.botar.us | 00:29:34 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, My Bill 03/03/1941 | A strange drama about a scatterbrained widow whose young son Bill stays with her and with his three brothers and sisters. He finally leaves to live with an evil aunt, stars Kay Francis and Warren William. | www.botar.us | 00:59:45 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Canary wont sing 11/30/1941 | Gildersleeve has won a canary named Napoleon, but he will not sing. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Long rope 02/05/1949 | There was a man with a bad heart, a phone number scribbled on a receipt and a corpse on the other side of town, but Marlowe couldn't see the connection between them until he realised they were tied together by A long rope worth 30,000 dollars. | www.botar.us | 00:37:25 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 618, circa 1943 | Andy Kirk, plays Riding along | www.botar.us | 00:22:49 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Murder faces East 12/13/1948 | An oriental idol promises riches and wealth in return for a murder. | www.botar.us | 00:25:43 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Deadline 09/11/1960 | Paladin becomes a railroad foreman and enlists the aid of Hey Boy's Celestial Dragon Society to beat a construction deadline. | www.botar.us | 00:23:60 |
| The Whistler, Death in the air 08/13/1943 | A girl steps out of an elevator of a swank apartment house, pauses for a moment before a certain door, opens it and steps inside. A handsome man jumps to his feet, stares at her and then she closes the door behind her. | www.botar.us | 00:29:52 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Champ 06/29/1942 | A classic melodrama about a washed up ex-boxer and his young son adrift in the slums of Tijuana, stars Wallace Beery, Noah Beery and Bobby Larson. | www.botar.us | 00:59:08 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Leroy smokes a cigar 11/23/1941 | The day Leroy and his friend sampled Gilderlseeve's cheap cigars. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Easy mark 01/29/1949 | Marlowe was hired to find a blackmailer and he did - but first he found a badly beaten Adonis, a jezebel and a man who was an easy mark for murder. | www.botar.us | 00:37:12 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 617, circa 1943 | Bing Crosby, Rollio rolling along | www.botar.us | 00:22:54 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Flame of death 02/21/1949 | A woman receives a letter from her dead husband, who had been burned to death in a cabin fire. | www.botar.us | 00:32:33 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Eat crow 09/04/1960 | Paladin helps Adam Foley when his wife injures her head. But Foley is an ex-con in need of money, and the sheriff suspects that he is planning a big job to pay for the operation. | www.botar.us | 00:24:53 |
| The Whistler, Eye for an eye 07/09/1943 | Just before dawn a small yacht with a crew of four and five passengers sets out from Honolulu into the open sea. Dr. Gerant, the owner is in the ward room, and greets his guests as they arrive for breakfast. | www.botar.us | 00:29:33 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Men in white 01/04/1937 | A young doctor learns the hard way, what a life dedicated to medicine really means, stars Spencer Tracy and Virginia Bruce. | www.botar.us | 00:58:56 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Serviceman for Thanksgiving 11/16/1941 | It's Thanksgiving, and Gildersleeve is trying to invite some soldiers to share his turkey. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Orange dog 01/22/1949 | A startled corpse, a blue-eyed woman and a cryptic message scrawled by a dying man were the pieces of a Chinese puzzle that would not fit together until Marlowe found out what was deadly about the orange dog. | www.botar.us | 00:29:60 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 602, circa 1943 | Count Basie, performs Blue Lou | www.botar.us | 00:15:22 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Deadly dummy 01/24/1949 | The ventriloquists wife and her lover kill the man but not the mannequin. | www.botar.us | 00:23:11 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, For the birds 08/28/1960 | Paladin undertakes to deliver an exotic pair of pea fowl across the entire country. | www.botar.us | 00:24:48 |
| The Whistler, Avengers 07/02/1943 | The mining town of Rainbow is a raucous place with a number of stores, saloons and a federal land office where the fortune hunters file their claims. In the back room of the Crystal Palace Bar, a young man and woman hold an earnest conversation. | www.botar.us | 00:29:50 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, I'll never forget you 09/22/1952 | A story of time travel and eternal love, stars Tyrone Power and Debra Paget. | www.botar.us | 00:53:23 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Birdie quits 11/09/1941 | Judge Hooker hires Birdie away from Gildersleeve. | www.botar.us | 00:30:13 |
| Philip Marlowe, Black halo 01/15/1949 | Somewhere in the cold, persistent rain that made the city itself seem a thing of evil, a girl had disappeared and it was Marlowes job to find her. But before he did, he found death and a devil. | www.botar.us | 00:30:01 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 601, circa 1943 | Benny Goodman performs Honeysuckle Rose | www.botar.us | 00:15:24 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Death rides a riptide 09/06/1948 | A narrow ledge at the foot of a cliff holds the clue to murder. The rising tide evens the score. | www.botar.us | 00:24:21 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Warrent 08/21/1960 | Paladin is captured by a bounty hunter, to be turned over to an evil sheriff out for his blood. | www.botar.us | 00:25:28 |
| The Whistler, Blank wall 06/26/1943 | A thin man paces nervously up and down the floor of his office, runs his hands nervously through his hair, and lights cigarette upon cigarette. The tension increases with every passing moment. | www.botar.us | 00:29:58 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Lady Eve 03/09/1942 | A pair of swindlers set their sights on a wealthy ale heiress, just back from the Amazon, stars Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Milland. | www.botar.us | 00:44:53 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Minding the baby 11/02/1941 | Gildersleeve goes to visit an old pal and becomes a benefactor and baby sitter. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Restless day 01/08/1949 | An inventor killed in an explosion aboard his yacht hires Marlowe to find his killer. | www.botar.us | 01:00:10 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 510, circa 1943 | Tommy Dorsey, Boogie woogie | www.botar.us | 00:22:57 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, The doomed 01/26/1948 | A man who is cheating on his wife wakes up next to her dead body. | www.botar.us | 00:32:33 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Extended viva 08/14/1960 | Paladin and his Indian friend continue their efforts to transport an organ across a war zone. | www.botar.us | 00:24:48 |
| The Whistler, House of fear 06/19/1943 | In an apartment overlooking New York City, a young man and a young girl stand facing each other, the girl is calm, the young man is tense with anger. | www.botar.us | 00:29:52 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Lady is willing 03/01/1943 | An actress marries a baby doctor so she can adopt a baby, stars Kay Francis and George Brent. | www.botar.us | 00:58:56 |
| Great Gildersleeve, A visit from Oliver 10/26/1941 | Marjorie's friend Oliver spends the night when Gildersleeve's cat gets treed and Gildy gets locked out. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Old acquaintance 12/26/1948 | A girls wedding and New Years Eve were only six hours away and Marlowe didn't think the bride to be would make either of them. But that was before he ran into the slot machine operator, the escaped convict and the old acquaintance. | www.botar.us | 00:59:38 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 509, circa 1943 | Harry James, and the Backbeat boogie | www.botar.us | 00:22:57 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Death bound 02/03/1947 | A stranger in the park predicts that a man will get ten thousand dollars before the end of the evening, and will be dead before morning. | www.botar.us | 00:30:23 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Viva 08/07/1960 | Paladin and his Indian companion try to bring a church organ to a mission. | www.botar.us | 00:24:29 |
| The Whistler, Justice 06/12/1943 | Wealthy, old farmer John Henderson, a widower, recently married a young woman named Marta, a girl from the city. But the shortage of help and overwork has been too much for his aging heart. He has to trust the running of his farm to his eccentric son. | www.botar.us | 00:29:52 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, In which we serve 06/21/1943 | A portrait of the British people, told through flashbacks of the men on a sinking destroyer, stars Ronald Colman and Edna Best. | www.botar.us | 00:56:51 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Investigating the city jail 10/19/1941 | Is Leroy pulling all the pranks at school or is Gildersleeve? | www.botar.us | 00:30:21 |
| Philip Marlowe, Hard way out 11/28/1948 | Marlowe gets to the bottom of an embezzlement case and find out why the perpetrator is committing the crime. | www.botar.us | 00:29:43 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 466, circa 1943 | Harry James, featuring the Backbeat Boogie | www.botar.us | 00:22:46 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, A corpse there was 06/04/1951 | A pair of newlyweds witness a murder. | www.botar.us | 00:25:42 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, My son must die 07/31/1960 | Paladin and Hey Boy go fishing and catch a damsel in distress. | www.botar.us | 00:31:03 |
| The Whistler, Shadow of a mind 06/05/1943 | Dr. William Richter, is a brilliant scientist. He has his own laboratory with all expenses paid for his experiments; but is his assistant all that he appears? | www.botar.us | 00:29:50 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Les miserables 12/22/1952 | Victor Hugo's classic, stars Ronald Colman, Debra Paget and Robert Newton. | www.botar.us | 00:47:04 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Investigating city jail 10/05/1941 | Gildy tries to get himself arrested so he can check up on municipal graft. | www.botar.us | 00:29:26 |
| Philip Marlowe, Heart of gold 10/24/1948 | Marlowe catches up on his bookkeeping when he gets a special delivery letter. He rips it open and a crisp 50 dollar bill slips to the floor. This innocent gift leads to a beating, double-cross and attempted murder. | www.botar.us | 00:30:51 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 465, circa 1943 | Benny Goodman plays Lets Dance | www.botar.us | 00:22:51 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Death has claws 12/28/1941 | A cat lover sharpens his claws. | www.botar.us | 00:32:33 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Delta queen 07/24/1960 | Paladin is protecting one of the steamboats in a great sternwheeler race from sabotage. | www.botar.us | 00:25:01 |
| The Whistler, Final decree 05/29/1943 | Two hunters are fired upon - Is it merely an accident, or an attempt on their lives? | www.botar.us | 00:27:10 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, It started with Eve 11/20/1944 | A sophisticated comedy about a dying old man who is introduced to a stranger as his sons fiancee. Complications ensue when the old codger decides not to die. Stars Charles Laughton, Dick Powell and Susanna Foster. | www.botar.us | 00:56:13 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Hiccups 09/28/1941 | Gildersleeve has a bad case of the hiccups. | www.botar.us | 00:30:22 |
| Philip Marlowe, Where there is a will 10/17/1948 | When the will was read, everybody figured she had been crazy when she wrote it. And that included me. But I changed my mind after spending a night on an island with a pig, a cat and an ape. Because in reality - they were people. | www.botar.us | 00:29:56 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 460, circa 1943 | Eddie Miller performing Shortnin' Bread | www.botar.us | 00:22:49 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Undead 12/18/1945 | A woman's husband is the thirstiest bloodsucker this side of the Vampire State Building. | www.botar.us | 00:30:17 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Little guns 07/17/1960 | Paladin travels to Preston, Arizona when his old friend James Ellis hires him to prevent a range war. | www.botar.us | 00:25:05 |
| The Whistler, Man who waited 05/15/1943 | The Bartletts huge ancestral home in New England is ruled by Lydia Bartlett, a cruel and cantankerous woman. Into this unhappy home comes young Genevieve Garrison, Lydia's new secretary-companion. Lydia's son, the handsome Barry, is instantly attracted to Genevieve. | www.botar.us | 00:29:49 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Magnificent obsession 11/13/1944 | A weepy melodrama about a playboy and a blind widow, stars Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche. | www.botar.us | 00:54:02 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Marjories girlfrind visits 09/21/1941 | Leroy gets a job delivering newspapers, which lands Gildersleeve in police court. | www.botar.us | 00:30:11 |
| Philip Marlowe, Panama hat 10/10/1948 | Sounded good to Marlowe, real good, a weekend in Malibu expenses paid and a cash bonus thrown in. But that was before he knew about the henchman, the redhead, and the corpse. These three and the white Panama hat ruined it all for him. | www.botar.us | 00:30:50 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 459, circa 1943 | Glenn Miller, featuring 'Hallelujah' | www.botar.us | 00:22:50 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Color blind formula 12/06/1944 | A story about the murder of the man who invented a cure for color blindness. | www.botar.us | 00:23:57 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Five days to Yuma 07/10/1960 | Paladin is hired to deliver a British prisoner named Jeremy Thompson to the Carson City jail. Jeremy's mother proves an unexpected problem. | www.botar.us | 00:25:12 |
| The Whistler, Death has a thirst 05/08/1943 | The long black car with the handsome man at the wheel and the woman beside him returns to the highway and speeds on through the night. The man is Harvey Davis and the woman is Mrs. Victor Jackson, wife of the unconscious man recently deposited at the sanitarium | www.botar.us | 00:29:56 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Pied piper 11/06/1944 | An Englisman starts the impossible task of bringing a group of children through Nazi occupied France to safety. | www.botar.us | 00:53:60 |
| Great Gildersleeve, 09/14/1941 | Leroy gets a job delivering newspapers, which lands Gildersleeve in police court. | www.botar.us | 00:30:20 |
| Philip Marlowe, Persian slippers 10/03/1948 | Marlowe gets the job of tracking down Norma Dellany, a stunningly beautiful wife who disappeared after a phone call from Madame Janette. The phone call is Marlowe's only lead. | www.botar.us | 00:30:21 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 450, circa 1943 | Lucky Millinder, Jitters | www.botar.us | 00:22:43 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Dad blamed luck 07/03/1960 | Jamie Howard, inveterate gambler and part time horse thief, hires Paladin to regain his lost gold mine. | www.botar.us | 00:25:07 |
| The Whistler, Killers 05/01/1943 | A murder trial ends in a Southwestern state; a sensational trial in which the young killer is convicted of the brutal slaying of five people. The defense, appointed by the state, contended that the killer was insane and now he stands before the judge. | www.botar.us | 00:29:44 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, A womans face 11/02/1942 | A courtroom drama about the criminal career of a Swedish woman with a deeply scarred face. | www.botar.us | 00:58:21 |
| Great Gildersleeve, Marjories cake 09/07/1941 | After eating a cake baked by Marjorie, Gildersleeve and Leroy try to bake their own cake. | www.botar.us | 00:30:20 |
| Philip Marlowe, Red wind 06/17/1947 | Marlowe witnesses a chance killing involving a shady lady whose string of pearls is stolen. He tries to protect the damsel in distress and recover her forty one matched pearls. | www.botar.us | 01:33:27 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 449, circa 1943 | Erskine Hawkins, Limehouse Blues | www.botar.us | 00:22:47 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Murder by prophecy 09/27/1948 | A man inherits an old mansion, and perhaps a lot more, if he can correctly interpret the cryptic prophecy that begins with a murder. | www.botar.us | 00:24:52 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Doctor from Vienna 06/26/1960 | Paladin has suspicions about the unusual Doctor Dreckle from Vienna. He has a parlor right in the Carlton Hotel. | www.botar.us | 00:24:24 |
| The Whistler, Penalty 03/28/1943 | Young Alan Harper is gloomy and in trouble. He is wavering between careers as a lawyer and a detective. Then the door opens and a figure steps into the dimly lighted room. | www.botar.us | 00:29:46 |
| Great Gildersleeve, 08/31/1941 | Gildersleeve leaves Wistful Vista to go to Summerfield, and winds up staying. | www.botar.us | 00:34:25 |
| Philip Marlowe, Who shot Waldo 06/12/1947 | Marlowe witnesses a chance killing involving a shady lady whose string of pearls is stolen. He tries to protect the damsel in distress and recover her forty one matched pearls. | www.botar.us | 00:28:17 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 417, circa 1943 | Ginny Simms sings I'm like a fish out of water | www.botar.us | 00:22:48 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Confession 01/22/1946 | A dying bank robber gives an impoverished pharmacist a taste of death and murder. | www.botar.us | 00:32:33 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Too too solid town 06/19/1960 | Paladin travels to Lawrence Kansas for a reunion of his old cavalry outfit. One old soldier is seeking revenge. | www.botar.us | 00:25:01 |
| The Whistler, Fools gold 02/21/1943 | My plan is sound, mathematically sound, it cannot fail, it is perfect. Three months from now I will be worth 50,000 dollars, and Independent for life. | www.botar.us | 00:30:03 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Made for each other 02/19/1940 | A melodrama about a young lawyer, his wife, his sickly baby, and his disappearing mother, stars Carole Lombard and Fred Macmurray. | www.botar.us | 01:02:20 |
| Great Gildersleeve, 05/16/1941 | Gildersleeve leaves Wistful Vista to go to Summerfield, and winds up staying. | www.botar.us | 00:34:25 |
| Diary of Fate, Darrell James 08/10/1948 | Darrell James was a bright young man about Wall Street. His classmates thought he was the most likely to succeed but predictions in college yearbooks are merely wishful thinking, but the ultimate end is written on the larger ledgers in the diary of fate. Fate is just and demands that Darrell James must die for committing murder. | www.botar.us | 00:28:17 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 416, circa 1943 | Lucky Millinder features the "Apollo jump" | www.botar.us | 00:22:48 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Search for Wylie Dawson 06/12/1960 | Paladin hires out to young Dusty for one dollar and six one cents, to keep his uncle from beating him and shooting his dog. | www.botar.us | 00:25:01 |
| The Whistler, Legacy of death 02/14/1943 | It was ten years ago that Henry Mitchell, formerly a biologist, married Martha Hollerston, the widow of a wealthy cotton grower. Martha continued to direct the business of the plantation with the aid of Henry as overseer. She had one child, a daughter, by her deceased husband, a girl named Doreen. Martha now lies on her death bed after being ill for nearly a year. | www.botar.us | 00:29:55 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Wake Island 10/26/1942 | A good war drama about the relatively undefended Pacific Island attacked by the Japs shortly after Pearl Harbor, stars Mary Lou Harrington and Paul Langton. | www.botar.us | 01:02:20 |
| Fibber Mcgee and Molly, Biography for luncheon 10/15/1953 | Fibber is writing a speech for a luncheon at the Executive Club. | www.botar.us | 00:15:16 |
| Diary of Fate, Rollie Andrews 08/03/1948 | It was inevitable that Stanley Becker would perish because of the narcotic hypocrisy on which his ego fits but the one person he deceived most of all was himself. | www.botar.us | 00:28:17 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 415, circa 1943 | Lucky Millinder features "Are you ready" | www.botar.us | 00:27:50 |
| The Whistler, In the dark 02/07/1943 | The courthouse walls of a county in an eastern state have echoed for many years the vibrant, persuasive voice of William Marshall, who defended many persons, great and small, and never lost a case. He attributes his success to never taking a case where he was not convinced that the defendant was innocent or the victim of circumstance. | www.botar.us | 00:29:58 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, My favorite blonde 10/19/1942 | Bob and Virginia dodge Nazi spies to protect The Scorpion, stars Bob Hope and Virginia Bruce. | www.botar.us | 00:59:52 |
| Fibber Mcgee and Molly, Awaiting a phone call 10/12/1953 | McGee is trying to write a speech. | www.botar.us | 00:15:17 |
| Diary of Fate, Stanley Becker 07/27/1948 | It was inevitable that Stanley Becker would perish because of the narcotic hypocrisy on which his ego feeds, but the one person he deceived most of all was himself. | www.botar.us | 00:27:50 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 414, circa 1943 | Today's featured song is the "Joe Turner Blues" | www.botar.us | 00:22:44 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Shadow of death 10/02/1945 | Death seems to follow Howard everywhere he goes. | www.botar.us | 00:29:17 |
| Have Gun Wll Travel, Dusty and his uncle Muncie 05/29/1960 | Paladin hires out to young Dusty for one dollar and six cents, to keep his uncle from beating him and shooting his dog. | www.botar.us | 00:24:37 |
| The Whistler, Confession 01/31/1943 | The courthouse walls have echoed the vibrant, persuasive voice of William Marshall for many years. He has never lost a case. He attributes his success to never taking a case in which he was not convinced that the defendant was either innocent or the victim of unfortunate circumstances. | www.botar.us | 00:30:02 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Morning glory 10/12/1942 | A girl from Vermont arrives in New York determined to become a Broadway actress, and a star. Stars Judy Garland and John Payne. | www.botar.us | 00:56:44 |
| Fibber Mcgee and Molly, Mailing Christmas packages 12/10/1940 | A visit to the post office to mail Christmas packages. | www.botar.us | 00:30:18 |
| Diary of Fate, Matt Cooper 07/20/1948 | Matt Cooper led a life of high adventure as a deep sea diver. He learns many things on his travels but nothing of the simplest truth of the universe; the inexorable principle of justice. Because of that ignorance, fate intervenes with fatal consequences. | www.botar.us | 00:28:09 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 272, circa 1943 | Film star Carol Bruce presents "Good Queen Bess," a musical tribute to Queen Isabella. | www.botar.us | 00:22:33 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Lucky penny mine 05/22/1960 | The Lucky Penny mine has suddenly started to produce gold again, and Paladin smells a rat. | www.botar.us | 00:24:17 |
| The Whistler, Mind over matter 01/24/1943 | A weird tale of telepathy, deceit, disappearing family members, strange noises, freshly dug graves and blood curdling screams. As Herbert Randal dozes, he receives a telepathic message from Dr. Thomas Banning - a writer he has never met. He is requested to track down Bannings unfinished manuscript entitled Mind Over Matter... | www.botar.us | 00:30:12 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, City for conquest 02/09/1942 | A big city romance as boy and girl tackle New York City. She is a dancer - he is a boxer, stars Alice Faye and Robert Preston. | www.botar.us | 00:59:54 |
| Diary of Fate, John Haynes 07/13/1948 | John Haynes led a life of compromises, shrewd lies and elaborate infidelities for his own selfish ends. This led to killing his brother in law. The intervention of fate spells undoubted doom. | www.botar.us | 00:28:02 |
| GI Jive, AFRS 271, circa 1943 | Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra performing "Mandy Make Up Your Mind" | www.botar.us | 00:28:02 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Silent hands 05/13/1944 | Two sisters in white evening dresses, one is a murderess. | www.botar.us | 00:32:28 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Lena Countrymen 05/15/1960 | Lena Countryman, a schoolteacher, is going to be killed by Dutch Talbot because she caused the death of his son trying to teach him to swim. | www.botar.us | 00:25:55 |
| The Whistler, Thief 01/17/1943 | Katherine Ford sits in the library of the Ford mansion and wonders how to tell her wealthy husband about her past, which is about to catch up with her. | www.botar.us | 00:29:55 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Love crazy 10/05/1942 | A marital farce about a husband who has to prove himself crazy to stay married, stars Hedy Lamarr and William Powell. | www.botar.us | 00:59:06 |
| Gibber Mcgee and Molly, Package from Uncle Sycamore arrives 12/19/1939 | A mysterious Christmas package from Uncle Sycamore arrives, so Fibber pays a visit to an X-Ray machine to find out what is inside. | www.botar.us | 00:29:57 |
| Diary of Fate, Keith Raymand 07/06/1948 | Victor Wakeman works for the United States Military government in Berlin. His position as a civilian interpreter in the intelligence unit offered many opportunities. Opportunities to choose between good and evil. He chose evil and because of fate, Victor Wakeman is destined to die. | www.botar.us | 00:28:02 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Corridor of doom 10/23/1945 | A horror story about a sick man in a hospital who finds himself walking down an endless hallway. | www.botar.us | 00:23:43 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Pat Murphy 05/08/1960 | Paladin sets out to take a doctor away from a bounty hunter, to save a sick baby. | www.botar.us | 00:25:31 |
| The Whistler, Nemesis 01/10/1943 | A dark, silent man and a beautiful blond woman watch the crowd of passengers getting off a train. Eventually they see the man they are looking for, Cartier the Magician, and lead him away to start a 5 day quest to recover two thousand dollars. If he fails in his mission it will be the end of Cartiers career. | www.botar.us | 00:30:19 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Unfinished business 10/06/1941 | A bittersweet romance about a loveless marriage, stars Irene Dunne and Don Ameche. | www.botar.us | 00:59:23 |
| Fibber Mcgee and Molly, Jewelry store robbery 12/12/1939 | Fibber, the detective, recovers a missing necklace after a jewelry store robbery. | www.botar.us | 00:29:09 |
| Diary of Fate, Victor Wakeman 06/29/1948 | Victor Wakeman is an American citizen employed by the U.S. Military government office in Berlin. His position as a civilian interpreter in the intelligence unit offered many opportunities. Opportunities to choose between good and evil. | www.botar.us | 00:27:29 |
| Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Honeymoon with death 09/19/1949 | A woman on her honeymoon finds out that her husband is a killer. | www.botar.us | 00:32:28 |
| Have Gun Will Travel, Dressed to kill 05/01/1960 | Paladin delivers a railroad payroll to the town of Terminal and rescues a kidnapped damsel in distress. | www.botar.us | 00:25:45 |
| The Whistler, Weakling 01/03/1942 | A gripping tale involving the spineless son of the District Attorney, a spurned lover, an unfortunate accident, and the dodgy dealings of an underworld big boss. | www.botar.us | 00:30:21 |
| Lux Radio Theatre, Heaven can wait 10/11/1943 | A romance about a man who appears before the Devil, asking for admittance into Hell. stars, Don Ameche and Maureen O'Hara. | www.botar.us | 00:55:50 |
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