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Tina
Tina Nibley, UT, United States Member Since 2007

I'm a mom. I have drama in my life. I don't want books with the F-bomb, nor graphic violence. I read for fun and to bring my family together. I read for reducing stress levels. We have never had a television in our home and our children are now mid twenties to 19. We listen together and look for belly-wrenching laughter. So what is it like to live without a TV? Awesomely educational and inspirational. Each new book is a marvel.

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  • Big In-Laws

    "Crazy reasons for crime"

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    just I guess people do the strangest things anyway. Good sound quality and narration.

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    Big In-Laws

    • ORIGINAL (28 mins)
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    This Dragnet episode originally aired on August 23, 1951.

    Tina says: "Crazy reasons for crime"
  • Big Mug

    "Robbery and more"

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    Dragnet is a great short of the crimes we see in real life. What a crazy series of events. Crime doesn't pay because the victims do. Good sound quality and narration

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    Big Mug

    • ORIGINAL (27 mins)
    • By Dragnet
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    This Dragnet episode originally aired on January 4, 1955.

    Tina says: "Robbery and more"
  • Big No-Tooth

    "Robbery of store"

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    Another robbery story. Good narration and sound quality. I think it is funny how people describe the story to a police officer.

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    Big No-Tooth

    • ORIGINAL (23 mins)
    • By Dragnet
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    This Dragnet episode originally aired on April 5, 1955.

    Tina says: "Robbery of store"
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  • The Shadow: Knight of Darkness
    UNABRIDGED
    Orson Welles, William Johnstone, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead, Margot Stevenson, Marjorie Andersen, Grace Matthews

    The Shadow: Knight of Darkness

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 16 mins)
    • By Orson Welles, William Johnstone, Bret Morrison, and others
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    Radio Spirits is very pleased to present radio's greatest crime fighter, The Shadow, in this new collection of 18 digitally restored and remastered episodes selected from the classic series. Featuring Orson Welles, William Johnstone and Bret Morrison each in the title role, this set also includes the first release of two newly discovered and previously lost episodes starring Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston and The Shadow - "The Old People" and "The Vocie of the Trumpet".

    Ken says: "amazing"
  • A Sam Spade Audio Double-Feature Starring Howard Duff, Volume 1
    UNABRIDGED
    Dashiell Hammett

    A Sam Spade Audio Double-Feature Starring Howard Duff, Volume 1

    • UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 19 mins)
    • By Dashiell Hammett
    • Narrated By Bill Mills, Howard Duff
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    This Audio Archive presentation of The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, contains two complete, 30 minute,Sam Spade radio shows. Each episode is introduced by old radio aficionado and collector Bill Mills, who shares interesting behind-the-scenes anecdotes and informative facts about the program and its stars.

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  • The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Old Time Radio - 105 Shows
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    • Raymond Chandler , Gene Levitt , Robert Mitchell , Mel Dinelli , Kathleen Hite , Parley Baer

    The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Old Time Radio - 105 Shows

    • ORIGINAL (48 hrs and 27 mins)
    • By Raymond Chandler, Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell, and others
    • Narrated By Gerald Mohr, Jeff Corey, Howard McNear
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    Philip Marlowe is a fictional private eye created by Raymond Chandler. Marlowe first appeared, under that name, in The Big Sleep, published in 1939. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio series featuring the Marlowe character. It first aired 17 June 1947 on NBC radio and moved to CBS radio a few months later. By 1949, it had the largest audience in radio. The CBS version ran for 114 episodes. While many fans of classic hard-boiled detective stories are familiar with Chandler's novels and short stories, few have heard these radio shows.

    LLLukas says: "Brilliant Hard Boiled Detective Stories."
  • Brave New World (Dramatized)
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    • Aldous Huxley

    Brave New World (Dramatized)

    • ORIGINAL (1 hr)
    • By Aldous Huxley
    • Narrated By Aldous Huxley
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    The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental series of productions, subtitled "radio's distinguished series to man's imagination" that ran between 27 January 1956 and 22 September 1957. The premiere production was Brave New World, narrated by Huxley himself, with a complicated sound-effects score that evidently took a long time to construct, and comprised a ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, an air hose, a cow's moo, an oscillator, and three kinds of wine glasses clicking together.

  • War of the Worlds (Dramatized)
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    • Orson Welles

    War of the Worlds (Dramatized)

    • ORIGINAL (51 mins)
    • By Orson Welles
    • Narrated By Orson Welles
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    On the evening of October 30th, 1938, Earth went to war with Mars. Martians invaded New Jersey! Here is the famous panic-inducing broadcast that shook the world, starring Orson Welles.

    Ken says: "The classic that shook the world"
  • Orson Welles: The Ultimate Collection
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    • Orson Welles

    Orson Welles: The Ultimate Collection

    • ORIGINAL (60 hrs and 44 mins)
    • By Orson Welles
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    If you are a lover of old-time radio and a fan of Orson Welles, you won't want to miss this treasure chest of legendary Orson Welles radio broadcasts! With his flair for the sensational and innovative, Welles captured audiences' attention with his 1930s CBS weekly drama series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, later renamed The Campbell Playhouse, which featured hour-long dramatizations of classic books. His 1938 production, The War of the Worlds (an H. G. Wells adaptation) was especially memorable, as were many other productions, each featuring talented voices and actors.

    Sandy says: "Sixty Hours of great radio Plays"
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  • The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Old Time Radio - 52 Episodes
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    • Rex Stout , Louis Vittes

    The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Old Time Radio - 52 Episodes

    • ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 24 mins)
    • By Rex Stout, Louis Vittes
    • Narrated By Sydney Greenstreet, Don Stanley
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    Nero Wolfe is an armchair detective created in 1934 by Rex Stout. Like many great detectives from the classic era, Nero Wolfe made the jump to radio and television. Five radio series have been produced starring Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. These episodes come primarily from The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe which aired on NBC radio from October, 1950 to April, 1951.

    Connie says: "This book has 10 episodes, not 52"
  • Robert Heinlein Radio Dramas
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    • Robert Heinlein

    Robert Heinlein Radio Dramas

    • ORIGINAL (1 hr and 46 mins)
    • By Robert Heinlein
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    This collection features four classic, dramatized Robert Heinlein stories: "Universe", "Requiem", "The Green Hills of Earth", and "The Roads Must Roll".

    Chris says: "Heinlein at his Best"
  • Adventures of Nero Wolfe Vol. 1
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    • Adventures of Nero Wolfe

    Adventures of Nero Wolfe Vol. 1

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    • By Adventures of Nero Wolfe
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    This collection of the Adventures of Nero Wolfe contains five episodes of the classic radio series:

    The Shakespeare Folio (12/15/1946)
    Stamped for Murder (10/20/1950)
    Case of the Careworn Cuff (10/27/1950)
    Case of the Dear Dead Lady (11/3/1950)
    Case of the Careless Cleaner (11/17/1950)

  • Science Fiction Radio: Atom Age Adventures
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    • Isaac Asimov

    Science Fiction Radio: Atom Age Adventures

    • ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 38 mins)
    • By Isaac Asimov
    • Narrated By Ernest Chappell
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    From the late 1940's through the 1950's, in a world where space travel and nuclear annihilation were no longer merely the stuff of fantasy, science fiction began to achieve a new popularity. And, the work of noted genre writers began to be adapted in movies and radio programs. Based (however implausibly) on science, these radio broadcasts reflected the depths of the nation's fears, and the boundlessness of its imagination.

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  • Isaac Asimov Radio Dramas
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    • Isaac Asimov

    Isaac Asimov Radio Dramas

    • ORIGINAL (1 hr and 23 mins)
    • By Isaac Asimov
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    This collection features three classic, dramatized Isaac Asimov stories: "Pebble in the Sky", "Nightfall", and "Hostess".

    Bill says: "3 classic short sci-fi stories"
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
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    • Jack Johnstone

    Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

    • ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 21 mins)
    • By Jack Johnstone
    • Narrated By Bob Bailey
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    >Everyone's looking for a way to beat the insurance system, but most of us aren't willing to cheat it. Those who are may be ready to do more than deceive and steal…they may be prepared to kill. The bullets fly and the criminals lie, but the payoff isn't a sure thing - not when "the system" calls in unflinching freelance investigator Johnny Dollar! Bob Bailey stars as Dollar in six digitally restored and remastered five-part serials.

  • X Minus One: Bad Medicine (Dramatized)
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    • Robert Sheckley

    X Minus One: Bad Medicine (Dramatized)

    • ORIGINAL (28 mins)
    • By Robert Sheckley
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    Elwood is a homicidal maniac with a gun who seeks help from a robot psychiatrist. Only problem is, this one is designed to treat...Martians. Based on a story by Robert Sheckley, this episode of X Minus One originally aired on July 10, 1956.

  • X Minus One: Early Model (Dramatized)
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    • Robert Sheckley

    X Minus One: Early Model (Dramatized)

    • ORIGINAL (19 mins)
    • By Robert Sheckley
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    A space explorer wearing a force shield encounters a little problem when he makes first contact. Based on a story by Robert Sheckley, this episode of X Minus One originally aired on July 11, 1957.

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  • Family Theater
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    Family Theater
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    • True Boardman

    Family Theater

    • ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 46 mins)
    • By True Boardman
    • Narrated By Natalie Wood, James Cagney, Tyrone Power, and others
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    Father Peyton of the Holy Cross Fathers wanted to inspire his country with a radio program. Footing the expense of the show himself, he arranged for some of the biggest names in radio and film to donate their services, and for a network to provide the broadcast time. The series that resulted featured heartwarming stories for audiences nationwide. The commercial breaks were filled only with an earnest, non-sectarian appeal for family prayer, reminding listeners that "The family that prays together stays together."

  • Nick Carter: Master Detective: Volume 1
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    • David Kogan

    Nick Carter: Master Detective: Volume 1

    • ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 44 mins)
    • By David Kogan
    • Narrated By Lon Clark, Helen Choate, Charlotte Manson, and others
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    This collection stars Lon Clark as Nick Carter, Master Detective - that "most famous of all man-hunters" - in 18 riveting whodunits selected from this long-running radio series! Joining the private eye in these tales of detection is Helen Choate and Charlotte Manson as Nick's Girl Friday Patsy Bowen, John Kane as Scrubby Wilson, and Ed Latimer as Sgt. "Matty" Mattison. These fantastic episodes, originally released in our long out-of-print cassette collection, are now available in digital from the Radio Spirits Archives Collection.

  • Strange Puzzles: The Shadow
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    ORIGINAL
    • Edith Meiser , Walter Gibson

    Strange Puzzles: The Shadow

    • ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 23 mins)
    • By Edith Meiser, Walter Gibson
    • Narrated By Orson Welles, Bill Johnstone, Bret Morrison, and others
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    Music, madness, death, and darkness face amateur criminologist Lamont Cranston and The Shadow. In the midst of the most classic of mystery motifs - from foreboding castles to frame ups - he unravels each remarkable riddle. From elusive treasure to conclusive evidence: How? Why? And, who dunnit? Let your curiosity lead you through two newly discovered Orson Welles episodes, available here for the first time since their original broadcasts in 1938 - "He Died at Twelve" and "The Black Buddha."

  • Baby Snooks: Why, Daddy?: Baby Snooks
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    • Phil Rapp

    Baby Snooks: Why, Daddy?: Baby Snooks

    • ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 9 mins)
    • By Phil Rapp
    • Narrated By Fanny Brice, Hanley Stafford
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    Fanny Brice described Snooks as "my kind of youngster, the type I like. She has imagination. She's eager. She's alive. With all her deviltry, she still is a good kid, never vicious nor mean." Perhaps, but Daddy and Robespierre may beg to differ. Neither Daddy's time, pet projects, nor peace of mind are safe from Snooks' reliably relentless intrusions. As for how she treats her younger siblings and what she thinks of them…well, the fact that she tries to trade them for cats pretty much says it all! And, corporal punishment doesn't seem to have much effect on this cheeky child.

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  • Doctor Death #3 April 1935
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    Doctor Death #3 April 1935
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    Doctor Death #3 April 1935

    • ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 59 mins)
    • By RadioArchives.com, Zorro
    • Narrated By Joey D'Auria
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    The maddest of the Mad Scientists - Doctor Death - starred in his own bizarre pulp magazine in early 1935. He consorted with demons, elementals, zombies, disinterred mummies, and other unclean denizens of Hell. Standing against him were the Secret Twelve, a band of the top U. S. civil and business leaders, headed by Jimmy Holm, a millionaire criminologist and occultist. One of the rare unabashedly supernatural series the pulps ever produced, Doctor Death returns in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today's listeners.

  • The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Old Time Radio - 105 Shows
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    The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Old Time Radio - 105 Shows
    ORIGINAL
    • Raymond Chandler , Gene Levitt , Robert Mitchell , Mel Dinelli , Kathleen Hite , Parley Baer

    The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Old Time Radio - 105 Shows

    • ORIGINAL (48 hrs and 27 mins)
    • By Raymond Chandler, Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell, and others
    • Narrated By Gerald Mohr, Jeff Corey, Howard McNear
    Overall
    (1)
    Performance
    (1)
    Story
    (1)

    Philip Marlowe is a fictional private eye created by Raymond Chandler. Marlowe first appeared, under that name, in The Big Sleep, published in 1939. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio series featuring the Marlowe character. It first aired 17 June 1947 on NBC radio and moved to CBS radio a few months later. By 1949, it had the largest audience in radio. The CBS version ran for 114 episodes. While many fans of classic hard-boiled detective stories are familiar with Chandler's novels and short stories, few have heard these radio shows.

    LLLukas says: "Brilliant Hard Boiled Detective Stories."
  • Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Old Time Radio - 122 Shows
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    ORIGINAL
    • Blake Edwards

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Old Time Radio - 122 Shows

    • ORIGINAL (49 hrs and 43 mins)
    • By Blake Edwards
    • Narrated By Dick Powell, Virginia Gregg
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    Richard Diamond, Private Detective is a detective drama which was on radio from 1949 to 1953 and on television from 1957 to 1960. Dick Powell starred in the Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series as a rather light-hearted detective who often ended the episodes singing to his girlfriend, Helen (played by Virginia Gregg).

  • Inner Sanctum Mysteries: Oldtime Radio Shows
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    • Radio Revival

    Inner Sanctum Mysteries: Oldtime Radio Shows

    • ORIGINAL (66 hrs and 11 mins)
    • By Radio Revival
    • Narrated By Old Time Radio
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    This is an collection of Inner Sanctum Mysteries, an oldtime radio show from the 1940s and 1950s. If you love a good horror story, you'll love these. You get all these (and many others plus more of the same genre):

    • Homicidal Maniac
    • The Tell-Tale Heart
    • Song of the Slasher
    • Murder Comes to Life
    • Death on the Highway
    • The Scream
    • Island of Death
    • Man From Yesterday
    • Color Blind Formula
    • Desert Death

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  • The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Old Time Radio - 52 Episodes
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    ORIGINAL
    • Rex Stout , Louis Vittes

    The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Old Time Radio - 52 Episodes

    • ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 24 mins)
    • By Rex Stout, Louis Vittes
    • Narrated By Sydney Greenstreet, Don Stanley
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    Nero Wolfe is an armchair detective created in 1934 by Rex Stout. Like many great detectives from the classic era, Nero Wolfe made the jump to radio and television. Five radio series have been produced starring Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. These episodes come primarily from The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe which aired on NBC radio from October, 1950 to April, 1951.

    Connie says: "This book has 10 episodes, not 52"
  • I Was a Communist for the FBI
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    • Cvetic Matt

    I Was a Communist for the FBI

    • ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 19 mins)
    • By Cvetic Matt
    • Narrated By Dana Andrews
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    In 1941, the FBI asked citizen Matt Cvetic to join the Communist Party and report back on their activities. After emerging in 1950 to testify before congress about his experience, his exploits were chronicled in magazines, on the silver screen, and in a taut and entertaining radio series suggested by his real life adventures: I Was a Communist for the FBI. Starring Dana Andrews as Cvetic, this exciting radio series conveys the machinations of the Communists in the U.S. during the period.

  • War of the Worlds: The Radio Show that Changed the World
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    • H. G. Wells , Howard Koch (adaptation)

    War of the Worlds: The Radio Show that Changed the World

    • ORIGINAL (55 mins)
    • By H. G. Wells, Howard Koch (adaptation)
    • Narrated By Carl Phillips, Orson Wells
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    This is the "so-called" reason the government won't reveal all they know about UFOs. The panic from this broadcast was significant. Although Orson Welles, Mercury Theatre and the Columbia Broadcasting System couldn't "soap the windows" of their listeners the night before Halloween back in 1938, they could annihilate the world for them. And that's exactly what they did with this radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' famous novel, War of the Worlds.

  • The Bickersons, Volume One
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    ORIGINAL
    • Philip Rapp

    The Bickersons, Volume One

    • ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 59 mins)
    • By Philip Rapp
    • Narrated By Don Ameche, Frances Langford
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    The Bickersons reigned supreme for five years as America's favorite radio couple. Like their name suggests, they spent many a night bickering, mainly over the fact that Blanche has to suffer through John's buzz saw-like snoring. The interplay between husband and wife, as they sarcastically banter back and forth, is what makes this show so great and why listeners continue to praise this "combative comedy."