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NBC Short Story

Heard
1951–1952
Episodes
20

Wonderful anthology of Old Time Radio short story shows. Very high quality productions. Authors ranger from Shelley to Bradbury to Edgar Allen Poe. Too bad there were only 25 or so of them!

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Success Story

    · 15 min

  2. Mr Arqularis

    · 30 min

  3. Crazy Sunday

    · 28 min

  4. The Lottery

    · 28 min

  5. Shadow of Evil

    · 30 min

  6. The Honored

    · 23 min

  7. Beautiful Summer in Newport

    · 30 min

  8. I Want to Know Why Im a Fool

    · 30 min

  9. The Piano

    · 26 min

  10. The Rocket

    · 30 min

  11. The Windfall

    · 27 min

  12. Scuttlebutt

    · 29 min

  13. De Mortious

    · 23 min

  14. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    No date given · 27 min

  15. Bell Tower Of Beladono

    No date given · 25 min

  16. Cast Of Amontiago

    No date given · 21 min

  17. The Fall of the House of Usher

    No date given · 26 min

  18. The Oblong Box

    No date given · 25 min

  19. Thing in the Tunnel

    No date given · 29 min

  20. The Tell-Tale Heart

    No date given · 26 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. NBC Short Story

    Old Time Radio · 20 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

1 more set holds only episodes played here from a set above.

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

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