Suspense, Vol. 2: The Classic Radio Collection

Suspense: Classic Radio Collection, Volume 1

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Hollywood 360
• Narrated By full cast

A thrilling collection of episodes from the classic radio show Suspense.

Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportion. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962 and is considered by many to be the best mystery series of the golden age. Often referred to as "Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills," the show focused on suspenseful thrillers starring the biggest names in Hollywood.

Suspense: Tales Well Calculated - Volume 1

• ORIGINAL (99 hrs and 40 mins)
• By CBS Radio Network
• Narrated By full cast

Suspense went through several major phases, characterized by different hosts, sponsors, and director/producers. Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: The protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation; solutions were "withheld until the last possible second"; and evildoers were usually punished in the end.

The Shadow - The Complete Radio Show Collection - Including more than 250 Shows

• ORIGINAL (106 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Orson Welles
• Narrated By Orson Welles

The Shadow was long believed to have debuted on radio as a program in its own right on September 26, 1937, on the Mutual Broadcasting System. But the character actually premiered in September 1931, on CBS, as part of the hourlong The Blue Coal Radio Revue (named for the show's sponsor), featuring Frank Readick - The Shadow announcer of Detective Stories - as The Shadow, and playing Sundays at 5:30 p.m. Eastern standard time.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries: Oldtime Radio Shows

• ORIGINAL (66 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Radio Revival
• Narrated By Old Time Radio

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

Night Beat: Lost Souls

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Night Beat
• Narrated By Frank Lovejoy

"Sometimes the best stories a reporter gets are the ones he can't print..." The city after dark is a world of crime and corruption, of mystery and vice, of a thousand stories waiting to be told. And, Frank Lovejoy, as newshound Randy Stone, is just the man to tell them. Prowling the streets alongside Lovejoy are radio favorites William Conrad, Georgia Ellis, Parley Baer, Lurene Tuttle, Larry Dobkin, Jeanette Nolan, Bill Johnstone, and more.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Volume 1

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 8 mins)
• By John Dawson, Robert Ryf, Les Crutchfield
• Narrated By Bob Bailey

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar began in 1949 as a typical slam-bang detective series, and though consistently well written and acted, the series never really captured an enthusiastic audience. However, in the fall of 1955, Bob Bailey took over the title role; veteran director Jack Johnstone and writers John Dawson, Robert Ryf, and Les Crutchfield joined the production team; and the series was transformed into a quarter-hour, five-a-week strip show.

Great Radio Detectives

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By various writers
• Narrated By Vincent Price, Bob Bailey, Dick Powell

Gunshots, fist fights, and footsteps in the dark! Come hear crime and mystery, action and suspense with radio's greatest detectives! Ten hours of bracing crime-stopping broadcasts bring you Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, The Saint, The Shadow, Johnny Dollar, Bulldog Drummond - and 14 more favorites! Vincent Price, Bob Bailey, Basil Rathbone, Howard Duff, Dick Powell, and more star in 20 tales that are hard boiled and heroic, brilliant and bloody.

The Whistler: Root of All Evil

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 14 mins)
• By J. Donald Wilson
• Narrated By Betty Lou Gerson, Bill Forman, William Mohr

It is said that the love of money is the root of all evil. Yes, cold, hard cash can be the inspiration for dark journeys into cold, hard hearts! Step into the shadows with The Whistler and find out exactly what happens when avarice goes unrestrained. Attend fables of finances and fear, of wives and wealth, of debts and death, in 20 digitally remastered episodes starring Bill Forman as The Whistler. William Conrad, Gerald Mohr, Frank Lovejoy, Betty Lou Gerson, Tom Collins, and more provide the voices of the voracious.

Lights Out, Everybody!

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Arch Oboler
• Narrated By Boris Karloff

It... is... later... than... you... think! Radio's premier showcase for heart-stopping horror is presented in this collection of 20 great episodes of Lights Out! Produced, written, and directed by broadcasting legend Arch Oboler - and starring Boris Karloff, Mercedes McCambridge, Dinah Shore, Gloria Blondell, and more - these tales are devilishly devised to keep you up all night!

Theater Five - The Ultimate Collections

• ORIGINAL (89 hrs and 8 mins)
• By ABC Radio
• Narrated By full cast

Theater Five was ABC's attempt to revive radio drama during the early 1960s. The series name was derived from its time slot, 5:00 p.m. Running Monday through Friday, it was an anthology of short stories, each about 20 minutes long. News programs and commercials filled out the full 30 minutes. There was a good bit of science fiction, and some of the plots seem to have been taken from the daily newspaper. Fred Foy of The Lone Ranger fame was an ABC staff announcer in the early '60s who, among other duties, did Theater Five.

Suspense: Ties That Bind

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 7 mins)
• By CBS Radio
• Narrated By Jack Webb, Mickey Rooney, Edward G. Robinson

To what lengths will people go to protect their children? Spite their siblings? Murder the missus? Find out in 21 digitally remastered and restored episodes spanning two decades of radio's outstanding theater of thrills.

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

• ORIGINAL (49 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Blake Edwards
• Narrated By Dick Powell, Virginia Gregg

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).

Mysterious Traveler: Dark Destiny

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 58 mins)
• By David Kogan, Robert Arthur
• Narrated By Phillip Clarke, Staats Cotsworth, Sandra Gould

He takes the same train every week at this time, with tales to thrill you a little and chill you a little! Here's Maurice Tarplin as The Mysterious Traveler, your sardonic seatmate on the fast track to mystery! Rushing you headlong into mistrust, misdeeds, and murder are Phillip Clarke, Staats Cotsworth, Sandra Gould, Santos Ortega, Joseph Julian, Elspeth Eric, Cameron Prud'Homme, and Raymond Edward Johnson, playing the parts of the unwise, the unwary, and the undone.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Murder Matters

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Johnny Dollar
• Narrated By Bob Bailey

America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator faces cases of killing for vengeance and keeping silent for honor... "dead" men who won't stay down for long (or alive for much longer)... beneficiaries that can't be found and beautiful mixed up risk-takers who may be out on their last ledge. He pads his expense account in pursuit of stolen jewels, arsonists, crooked cops, and romance, all while he tries to solve matters of murder.

Classic Radio's Greatest Detective Shows, Vol. 1: Classic Radio Collection

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Hollywood 360
• Narrated By Various performers

This collection contains 12 of the greatest detective shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You'll hear Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe, Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Tom Conway and Nigel Bruceas Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Edmond O'Brien as Johnny Dollar, and Les Tremayne as Nick Charles, a.k.a. "The Thin Man" - plus many more gumshoes, including Boston Blackie, Philip Marlowe, The Fat Man, and others.

Mysterious Traveler: Out of the Past

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Robert Arthur
• Narrated By Art Carney

The mournful whistle of a ghostly locomotive heralds the approach of The Mysterious Traveler. Maurice Tarplin plays this blithesome bringer of bad tidings and terrifying tales. From out of the past, he brings stories of suspensefully unsuitable spouses, treasure hunters and time travel, the mysteries of the dead and their designs on the living, and the future… as imagined by a former generation.

Escape: High Adventure

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 48 mins)
• By W. Somerset Maugham, Stephen Vincent Benet, John Collier, and others
• Narrated By William Conrad, Paul Frees, Georgia Ellis, and others

"Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of… romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you…Escape!" Radio Spirits is pleased to present 20 classic tales from one of radio's greatest action and adventure series. This collection will bring you tales of black pearls, headhunters, volcanoes, Nazi convoys and cargos of gold in exotic settings and locales - from South of the Border to Dutch East India, Paris, North Africa and points unknown!

Dragnet: Old Time Radio - 379 Episodes

• ORIGINAL (137 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Frank Burt, James E. Moser, John Robinson
• Narrated By Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, Ben Alexander, and others

Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave millions of audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work.

Actor and producer Jack Webb's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved both goals, and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media.

Suspense: Tales Well Calculated

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Blake Edwards, Antony Ellis, E. Jack Neuman, and others
• Narrated By Dana Andrews, Richard Widmark, Joseph Cotten, and others

Radio Spirits is pleased to present 20 classic episodes of Suspense, one of radio's longest running and best mystery anthology series. This collection features programs from the early 1950's as produced and directed by Elliott Lewis.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Volume 1: Classic Radio Collection

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Hollywood 360
• Narrated By Bob Bailey, full cast

First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar chronicled the adventures of freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, "the man with the action-packed expense account."

For 14 years, it was one of the most popular detective shows on the air, lasting until the final days of network radio drama in 1962. Each story started with a phone call from an insurance executive calling on Johnny Dollar to investigate an unusual claim. His investigations usually required him to travel to distant locales and often involved murder.

The Whistler, Volume 1

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 49 mins)
• By J. Donald Wilson
• Narrated By Bill Forman

The Whistler, Volume 1 contains haunting stories of fate, dramas of crime, deception, and manipulation building to a sudden and shocking denouement, and through it all, the sardonic, mocking laughter of The Whistler! One of radio's most memorable thriller anthologies, the Whistler's stories revolve around ordinary people, pushed by the pressures of daily life into taking drastic action.

Great Radio Horror

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Edgar Allan Poe, Arch Oboler, Guy de Maupassant, and others
• Narrated By Boris Karloff, Maurice Tarplin, Paul McGrath, and others

The screams...the grisly sound effects...the rumbling organ music. Sounds in the dark come strange, mysterious, and terrifying in 21 episodes of such classic series as Lights Out, Inner Sanctum, Suspense, and many more. Spine-chilling tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Arch Oboler, Robert A. Arthur, David Kogan, and Alonzo Deen Cole dabble in dark realms. Boris Karloff, Maurice Tarplin, Paul McGrath, and Bernard Lenrow deliver pulse-pounding performances.

Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Dan Lewis
• Narrated By Jeremy Arthur
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Did you know that there are actually 27 letters in the alphabet, or that the U.S. had a plan to invade Canada? And what actually happened to the flags left on the moon? Even if you think you have a handle on all things trivia, you're guaranteed a big surprise with Now I Know. From uncovering what happens to lost luggage to New York City's plan to crack down on crime by banning pinball, this book will challenge your knowledge of the fascinating stories behind the world's greatest facts.

Let George Do It: Cry Uncle

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Original Radio Broadcasts
• Narrated By Bob Bailey, Wally Maher, Frances Robinson

He'd rather use his head than his fists or a gun, but sometimes you can't be too choosy! Bob Bailey stars as freelance investigator George Valentine, roaming postwar California in search of adventure, mystery, and more! Wally Maher plays his contrary police contact, Lieutenant Riley, alongside many of radio's usual suspects: Joseph Kearns, Gloria Blondell, Howard McNear, Virginia Gregg, Larry Dobkin, Lurene Tuttle, and more.