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50 Sampler

Heard
1938–1959
Episodes
50
Language
English

OTR 50 - Mostly Half-Hours

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One each of some of the most popular half-hour (or less) shows -- drama, comedy, detective, sci-fi, horror, western, non-fiction, and variety -- from the 1930's to the 1950's. If you're new to old-time radio, you'll find that little has changed in television and film. Dumb blondes like My Friend Irma still exist on shows like Two Broke Girls

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Oxychloride X

    · 24 min

  2. A Drink of Water

    · 29 min

  3. Command Performance

    · No. 20 · 28 min

  4. HollyHasACrushOnJohnAndrews

    · 28 min

  5. The BogOak Necklace

    · 27 min

  6. Host Groucho Marx - Guest Jack Benny

    · 29 min

  7. Clue in the Clouds, the

    · No. 33 · 30 min

  8. The Mysterious Stranger

    · 28 min

  9. Local Storm

    · 29 min

  10. Double Indemnity

    · No. 235 · 29 min

  11. The Gioconda Smile

    · 29 min

  12. TheFamilyNagachi

    · 28 min

  13. Latin Type

    · No. 48 · 25 min

  14. First Song - Drifting with Tim Holt

    · No. 7 · 28 min

  15. The Fred Allen Show

    · 29 min

  16. Portrait of Jennie

    · No. 37 · 27 min

  17. Rickys Third Prize In School

    · 24 min

  18. Fibbers Model Airplane

    · 28 min

  19. Color Blind Murderer Aboard Ship

    · 48 min

  20. A Day in the Life

    · No. 128 · 28 min

  21. Philadelphia, July 4, 1776

    · No. 23 · 28 min

  22. ThreeOClock

    · 31 min

  23. Secret Word Clock

    · 24 min

  24. Snow Blind

    · No. 166 · 28 min

  25. Angela and Steven Kester

    · 28 min

  26. The Golf Challenge

    · No. 37 · 13 min

  27. The Girl from Pitchfork Corners

    · No. 91 · 26 min

  28. The Fort Ord Story

    · No. 54 · 28 min

  29. Jack Benny Visits Ivy

    · No. 39 · 26 min

  30. The Chateau McLeoud Caper

    · 30 min

  31. GreeleyOfTheTribune

    · 28 min

  32. AcrossAContinent

    · 26 min

  33. Paris Is Not The Same

    · 23 min

  34. The City of the Sun

    · No. 6 · 28 min

  35. That Taylor Boy

    · 28 min

  36. Golden Bracelet of Amoniris

    · 23 min

  37. Moon

    · No. 69 · 27 min

  38. The Big Listen

    · No. 299 · 25 min

  39. Beulah Becomes a Waitress

    · 15 min

  40. Peggy Lee

    · 29 min

  41. Escape The Birds

    · 28 min

  42. Spring Garden

    · 23 min

  43. Mighty Wurlitzer, the

    · 27 min

  44. Portrait of London

    · No. 26 · 30 min

  45. Prime Difference

    · No. 124 · 20 min

  46. CaptainCavalry

    · 13 min

  47. RangeCarnival

    · 24 min

  48. The Center-Fire Bullet

    No date given · 23 min

  49. MY FRIEND IRMA - Irma Learns A

    No date given · 22 min

  50. The Man With The Twisted Lip [1946]

    No date given · 28 min

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. OTR-50_Sampler

    Old Time Radio · PDGazette · 50 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-ND 3.0: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

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