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Have Gun â Will Travel was a popular American Western television series that aired between November 23, 1958, and November 22, 1960. There were 106 episode broadcasts on CBS. It was the only significant radio show that originated on television, many of the episodes having been adapted from television programs broadcast earlier, though some were original to radio, and it was also one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters. John Dehner played Paladin and Ben Wright usually (but not always) played Hey Boy.

LET GEORGE DO IT Bob Bailey played George Valentine as a detective handy man, who got his jobs from responses to a newspaper ad. Part-time detective and writer Dan Holiday in Box 13 also used the premise. It pays to advertise! The shows follow the usual formats of crime caper shows, with toughs, mysterious rendezvous and people who aren't who they say they are.

Inner Sanctum - 2 Episodes From 1941 Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBCâs Blue Network in January 1941. Inner Sanctum Mysteries featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history: an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned and the famous âcreaking doorâ slowly began to open. Every week, Inner Sanctum Mysteries told stories of ghosts, murderers and lunatics. Produced in New York, the cast usually consisted of veteran radio actors, with occasional guest appearances by such Hollywood stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Claude Rains.

You Bet Your Life - 2 Episodes From 1954 From 1950 until 1961, Groucho Marx ruled on NBC-TV Thursday nights with, of all things, a game show. You Bet Your Life was originally broadcast on radio beginning in 1947, initially moving to television in 1950 as a radio show with cameras. On the program, contestants could "say the secret word and win a hundred dollars" and a paper-mache duck would come down with the loot. People tuned in to see and hear Groucho grill the contestants, the game itself was almost inconsequential.

CANDY MATSON was the private eye star of Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8208, an NBC West Coast show which first aired in March 1949 and was created by Monty Masters. He cast his wife, Natalie Parks, in the title role of this sassy, sexy PI. Her understated love interest, Lt. Ray Mallard, was played by Henry Leff while her assistant and best pal, aptly named Rembrandt Watson, was the voice of Jack Thomas. Every show opened with a ringing telephone and our lady PI answering it with "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209" and then the organ swung into the theme song, "Candy".

The Shadow - 2 Episodes From 1938On July 31, 1930 a sinister voice came over the radio into American Homes. The voice of the Shadow appeared for the first time. In the beginning the Shadow was not a crime fighter. He was a mysterious narrator of mystery tales taken from the pages of Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. The publisher Street & Smith began to use radio as an advertising medium to promote their fiction publications. The Shadow was a perfectly creepy teller of tales promoting Street & Smith. Orson Welles played the Shadow from 1937 through March 1938. The Shadow became the highest rated radio show on the air at that time.

Escape - 1947-1954 Escape was widely considered radioâs greatest series of high adventure. The opening was usually along the same lines of âTired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of â romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you â Escape!â You, the listener, are in the shoes of some embattled hero. You are alone and you must face the impossible, alone and rise to conquer or be conquered.  

LIGHTS OUT Day 3 of 3 Double Features. American old-time radio program featuring "tales of the supernatural and the supernormal."

LIGHTS OUT Day 2 of 3 Double Features. American old-time radio program featuring "tales of the supernatural and the supernormal."

Lights Out - Day 1 of 3 - (2 Episodes) Lights Out was an American old-time radio program featuring "tales of the supernatural and the supernormal." It was immensely popular, and was one of the first horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. In its heydey, Lights Out rivalled the popularity of those shows.  Lights Out ran through several series and networks, from January 1, 1934 to August 6, 1947. The principal sponsor was Ironized Yeast. Most episodes were broadcast at midnight. Lights Out then made the transition to television in 1949, where it was broadcast until 1952. Created in Chicago by writer Wyllis Cooper in 1934.

Murder at Midnight was an old-time radio show featuring macabre tales of suspense, often with a supernatural twist. It was produced in New York and was first heard over the Mutual Network between September 16, 1946 and September 8, 1947 on radio station WJZ. The show's writers included Robert Newman, Joseph Ruscoll, Max Erlich and William Norwood, and it was directed by Anton M. Leder. The host was Raymond Morgan, who delivered the memorable lines of introduction over Charles Paul's effective organ theme: "Midnight, the witching hour when the night is darkest, our fears the strongest, and our strength at its lowest ebb. Midnight, when the graves gape open and death strikes."

Lux Radio Theater - Manhattan Melodrama 9/09/40 The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman. Orphans Edward "Blackie" Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in life. Blackie thrives on gambling and grows up to be a hard-nosed racketeer. Bookworm Wade becomes a D.A. vying for the Governorship. When Blackie's girlfriend Eleanor leaves him and marries the more down to earth Wade, Blackie harbors no resentment. In fact, their friendship is so strong that Blackie murders an attorney threatening to derail Wade's bid to become Governor. The morally straight Wade's last job as D.A. is to convict his friend of the murder, and send him to the electric chair. After he becomes Governor, Wade has the authority to commute Blackie's death sentence-- a decision that pits his high moral ethics against a lifelong friendship.

A Tribute To Gregory Peck - The Yearling From 01-06-47 The Yearling is a 1946 film which tells the story of a boy who adopts a fawn as a pet. It stars Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills and Forrest Tucker. The movie was adapted by Paul Osborn and John Lee Mahin (uncredited) from the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It was adapted by Clarence Brown. It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color and Best Cinematography, Color and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gregory Peck), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jane Wyman), Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture.

A Tribute To Gregory Peck - Abe Lincoln The Prairie Years - 2-3-49 Somehow, between "Moby Dick" at Cal in 1938 and "Sons and Soldiers" on Broadway in 1943, Gregory Peck became one of America's most distinguished actors. "My training was telescoped," he said. "I had to pay attention. It was survival of the fittest." When he and Ferrer and McGuire founded the La Jolla Playhouse, the idea was to help Hollywood actors polish their chops. He served as president of the Academy Awards body and was active in the Motion Picture and Television Fund, American Cancer Society, National Endowment for the Arts and other causes.

A Tribute To Gregory Peck - Show 1 of 3 The Screen Director's Playhouse - The Gunfighter From 1951 Hollywood legend Gregory Peck has died aged 87. He was the star of more than 60 films, including classics Cape Fear, Spellbound and Roman Holiday. He was one of the most popular leading actors of the 20th Century and was nominated for five Oscars. He won just once, for his role as a lawyer defending a black man against an undeserved rape charge in To Kill A Mocking Bird. He tackled a wide variety of roles, including soldiers, gun fighters, Biblical figures and romantic leads. He played the renegade son in the Western Duel in the Sun and the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil.

Jeff Regan Investigator - 2 Episodes From 1948 A half-hour crime drama which debuted on the CBS West Coast radio network on July 10, 1948. Regan was an operative for the International Detective Bureau, a Los Angeles-based agency supervised by the wily and parsimonious Anthony J. Lyon (played by Wilms Herbert and Herb Butterfield) whose money-grubbing predilections inspired both admirers and critics to dub his firm "The Lyon's Den." Regan himself earned from his clients the nickname of "The Lyon's Eye," as he was the boss' number-one gumshoe, capable of handling the trickiest of assignments.

Suspense - 2 Episodes From 1943 Suspense was one of the premier programs of the Golden Age of Radio, and advertised itself as "radio's outstanding theater of thrills." It was heard in one form or another from 1942 through 1962. In the early phase, the program was hosted by "The Man in Black" (played by Joseph Kearns or Ted Osborne) and many episodes written or adapted by the prominent mystery author John Dickson Carr. Escape was a similar anthology thriller and suspense program. Both occasionally adapted the same stories, though Escape had lower budgets -- and thus, fewer sound effects and name actors.

H onest Harold, T he Homemaker - 2 Episodes From 1950 Honest Harold Hemp lived with his mother and nephew and did a radio homemaker's program. The series received undeserved negative ratings and general negative attitude of the critics. The HONEST HAROLD scripts were well crafted with well developed characters and had excellent acting and production values. First Show: Sep 17, 1950 Last Show: Jun 13, 1951 Number Shows: 38 Audition Show: Aug 23, 1950

The Clock - 2 Episodes From 1947 The Clock was a dramatic thirty-minute suspense and mystery series. It was written by Lawrence Klee and was first broadcast in November 1946. The story always began the same; âSunrise and sunset, promise and fulfilment, birth and death â the whole drama of life is written in the sands of timeâ. Imported from Austrailia it ran from 1946 until 1948. Stories as told by Father Time. Sort of like Twilight Zone for the radio.

Lux Radio Theater Presentation Of My Darling Clementine From 4-18-47 Directed by John Ford, based on the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral between the Earp brothers and the Clanton gang. In 1882, the Earp brothers Wyatt, James, Morgan and Virgil are driving cattle to California when they cross the Clanton family led by the "Old Man". Told of a nearby town, Tombstone, the older brothers ride in leaving the youngest brother James to watch over the cattle. The Earps quickly find Tombstone a lawless town, and when they return to their camp they find the cattle rustled and James dead. Seeking vengeance, Wyatt returns to Tombstone and takes the open job of town Marshall, meeting with the local powers Doc Holliday and the Clantons again and again in order to find out who was responsible.