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Novie
Novie Kailua Kona, HI, United States Member Since 2002

Retired nightclub performer/computer technician, I now teach hula and ukulele to seniors, and record Hawaiian music for my halau!

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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
    Overall
    (96)
    Performance
    (39)
    Story
    (39)

    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
    Overall
    (35)
    Performance
    (19)
    Story
    (19)

    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.

Best Sellers

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  • The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Old Time Radio - 52 Episodes
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    The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Old Time Radio - 52 Episodes
    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
    Overall
    (0)
    Performance
    (0)
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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.

  • 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
    (0)
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    (0)
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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.

  • Orson Welles: The Ultimate Collection
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    Orson Welles: The Ultimate Collection
    ORIGINAL
    • Orson Welles

    Orson Welles: The Ultimate Collection

    • ORIGINAL (60 hrs and 44 mins)
    • By Orson Welles
    Overall
    (31)
    Performance
    (26)
    Story
    (24)

    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"
  • Brave New World (Dramatized)
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    Brave New World (Dramatized)
    ORIGINAL
    • Aldous Huxley

    Brave New World (Dramatized)

    • ORIGINAL (1 hr)
    • By Aldous Huxley
    • Narrated By Aldous Huxley
    Overall
    (14)
    Performance
    (12)
    Story
    (12)

    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.

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  • Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen (Dramatized)
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    ORIGINAL
    • Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen (Dramatized)

    • ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 18 mins)
    • By Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Narrated By John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Orson Welles
    Overall
    (202)
    Performance
    (65)
    Story
    (65)

    Here are 12 acclaimed, exciting, fully dramatized performances of Conan Doyle classics. It's elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, 12 timeless tales performed as radio theater and linked by violin-music interludes.

    Robert says: "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be proud"
  • Alfred Hitchcock Radio Movies Collection
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    Alfred Hitchcock Radio Movies Collection
    ORIGINAL
    • Screen Guild Players , Academy Award Theatre , Screen Director's Playhouse , more

    Alfred Hitchcock Radio Movies Collection

    • ORIGINAL (6 hrs)
    • By Screen Guild Players, Academy Award Theatre, Screen Director's Playhouse, and others
    • Narrated By Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Mercedes McCambridge, and others
    Overall
    (2)
    Performance
    (2)
    Story
    (2)

    This collection of radio dramatizations from master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock features many of the classic films' original stars.

  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
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    Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
    ORIGINAL
    • Jack Johnstone

    Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

    • ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 21 mins)
    • By Jack Johnstone
    • Narrated By Bob Bailey
    Overall
    (1)
    Performance
    (0)
    Story
    (0)

    >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.

  • War of the Worlds (Dramatized)
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    War of the Worlds (Dramatized)
    ORIGINAL
    • Orson Welles

    War of the Worlds (Dramatized)

    • ORIGINAL (51 mins)
    • By Orson Welles
    • Narrated By Orson Welles
    Overall
    (15)
    Performance
    (14)
    Story
    (13)

    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"
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  • Audio Archive Presents Dashiell Hammett's 'The Thin Man': A LUX Theater Episode Plus Special Commentary
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    UNABRIDGED
    • Dashiell Hammett

    Audio Archive Presents Dashiell Hammett's 'The Thin Man': A LUX Theater Episode Plus Special Commentary

    • UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 15 mins)
    • By Dashiell Hammett
    • Narrated By William Powell, Myrna Loy, Bill Mills
    Overall
    (60)
    Performance
    (36)
    Story
    (36)

    Here is the classic 60-minute Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the 1930s movie hit, recreated with the original film stars and director! This Audio Archive feature presentation delivers William Powell and Myrna Loy, who reprise thei roles as Nick and Nora Charles, the sophisticated lovers at the heart of Dashiell Hammett's immortal romantic-mystery masterpiece, The Thin Man.

    donna says: "I still love the thin man!"
  • War of the Worlds: The Radio Show that Changed the World
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    War of the Worlds: The Radio Show that Changed the World
    ORIGINAL
    • 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
    Overall
    (0)
    Performance
    (0)
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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.

  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
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    Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
    UNABRIDGED
    • CBS Enterprises, Inc.

    Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

    • UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 21 mins)
    • By CBS Enterprises, Inc.
    • Narrated By Bob Bailey, Vincent Price
    Overall
    (17)
    Performance
    (12)
    Story
    (12)

    Johnny Dollar, also known as "the man with the action-packed expense account", entertained audiences with his adventures as a freelance insurance investigator beginning in 1949. Now he may have tallied his last expense report for his listeners in 1962, but thanks to the help of Radio Spirits, Johnny Dollar is once again on the case. He travels to exotic locales such as Tahiti and, in "The Price of Fame Matter", to Paris, where he's able to lend Vincent Price a helping hand.

  • Death in the Cards
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    Death in the Cards
    ORIGINAL
    • Tales of the Texas Rangers

    Death in the Cards

    • ORIGINAL (29 mins)
    • By Tales of the Texas Rangers
    • Narrated By Joel McCrea
    Overall
    (3)
    Performance
    (3)
    Story
    (3)

    This episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers originally aired on January 14, 1951.

New Releases

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

    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
    (0)
    Performance
    (0)
    Story
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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.

  • Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Old Time Radio - 122 Shows
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    Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Old Time Radio - 122 Shows
    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
    Overall
    (0)
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    (0)
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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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    Inner Sanctum Mysteries: Oldtime Radio Shows
    ORIGINAL
    • 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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    (0)
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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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    The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Old Time Radio - 52 Episodes
    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
    Overall
    (0)
    Performance
    (0)
    Story
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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.

  • I Was a Communist for the FBI
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    I Was a Communist for the FBI
    ORIGINAL
    • 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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    (0)
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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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    War of the Worlds: The Radio Show that Changed the World
    ORIGINAL
    • 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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    The Bickersons, Volume One
    ORIGINAL
    • Philip Rapp

    The Bickersons, Volume One

    • ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 59 mins)
    • By Philip Rapp
    • Narrated By Don Ameche, Frances Langford
    Overall
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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."

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  • Science Fiction Radio: Atom Age Adventures
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    Science Fiction Radio: Atom Age Adventures
    ORIGINAL
    • Isaac Asimov

    Science Fiction Radio: Atom Age Adventures

    • ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 38 mins)
    • By Isaac Asimov
    • Narrated By Ernest Chappell
    Overall
    (0)
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    (0)
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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.

  • Gangbusters: Cases of Crime
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    Gangbusters: Cases of Crime
    ORIGINAL
    • Phillips H. Lord

    Gangbusters: Cases of Crime

    • ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 28 mins)
    • By Phillips H. Lord
    • Narrated By Radio Spirits
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    When Phillips H. Lord created his long running Gang Busters radio series in January of 1936, crime was rampant and criminals (both actual and fictional) were being glamorized in movies and newspapers. In response, Lord brought the public this police procedural series, dramatizing stories of real cops who kept real counterfeiters, safe crackers, and killers off the streets - and even broadcasting alerts for criminals known to be at large.

  • War of the Worlds: The Radio Show that Changed the World
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    War of the Worlds: The Radio Show that Changed the World
    ORIGINAL
    • 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 Welles
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    (0)
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    (0)
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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's famous novel, War of the Worlds.

  • The Bob Hope Show, Vol. 14
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    The Bob Hope Show, Vol. 14
    ORIGINAL
    • Bob Hope

    The Bob Hope Show, Vol. 14

    • ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 30 mins)
    • By Bob Hope
    • Narrated By Bob Hope
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    This collection features six episodes of the classic NBC radio show starring Bob Hope: William Bendix, Mickey Rooney, Burt Lancaster, Esther Williams, Grace Kelly, and Jerry Colonna.