Old Time RadioAudiobookseBooks
Newsletter
eMailPreservation LibraryBargain Basement



Receive our newsletter!



CallFree Old Time Radio download
(Your shopping cart is empty)
You are here: Home > Radio Archives Newsletter
Radio Archives Newsletter
 
October 4, 2024
 
1 new Old Time Radio set, 2 new eBooks, and 4 featured products from Radio Archives this week!
All new and featured products are discounted the first week.
 
Old Time Radio
New Old Time Radio set
Volume 94
 
Audio Clip
 
Radio Preservation has always been at the core of Radio Archives. This exciting series is derived from our massive collection of thirty thousand radio shows from 16" transcription discs and fifty thousand shows from low generation reels.
 
This 20 hour collection includes shows from the classic days of Radio. You'll find rare and obscure as well as mainstream radio shows from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in the Radio Archives Treasures sets.
 
These shows have all been restored with state-of-the-art CEDAR technology - the audio processing system used by major recording companies to restore older recordings. We expect the shows to be the best sounding copies available anywhere.
 
Radio Archives Treasures are available as MP3 digital downloads or Audio CDs, restored to sparkling digital quality.
 
CD #1
Suspense
The Juvenile Rebellion
Sunday, September 3, 1961 - 30:00 - CBS - Sustaining, No commercials
 
Suspense
The Green Idol
Sunday, September 17, 1961 - 30:00 - CBS - Sustaining, No commercials
 
CD #2
Suspense
The Man in the Fog
Sunday, September 24, 1961 - 30:00 - CBS - Sustaining, No commercials
 
Suspense
No Hiding Place
Sunday, October 1, 1961 - 30:00 - CBS - Sustaining, No commercials
 
CD #3
The Kraft Music Hall
Guests Trudy Erwin & The Kraft Choral Club
Thursday, April 18, 1946 - 30:00 - NBC - Kraft commercials
 
The Kraft Music Hall
Guests Joe Frisco, Peggy Lee, and Bob Hope
Thursday, May 2, 1946 - 30:00 - NBC - Kraft commercials
 
CD #4
Life With Luigi
1st Show
1954 - 15:00 - CBS - Sustaining, No commercials
 
Life With Luigi
3rd Show
1954 - 15:00 - CBS - Sustaining, No commercials
 
Life With Luigi
5th Show
1954 - 15:00 - CBS - Sustaining, No commercials
 
CD #5
You Bet Your Life
Secret Word - Water
Wednesday, May 5, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC - DeSoto-Plymouth commercials
 
You Bet Your Life
Secret Word - House
Wednesday, May 12, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC - DeSoto-Plymouth commercials
 
CD #6
You Bet Your Life
Secret Word - Arm
Wednesday, May 19, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC - DeSoto-Plymouth commercials
 
You Bet Your Life
Secret Word - Chair
Wednesday, May 26, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC - DeSoto-Plymouth commercials
 
CD #7
You Bet Your Life
Secret Word - Clock
Wednesday, June 2, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC - DeSoto-Plymouth commercials
 
You Bet Your Life
Secret Word - Name
Wednesday, June 9, 1954 - 30:00 - NBC - DeSoto-Plymouth commercials
 
CD #8
Hear It Now
Program #26
Friday, June 8, 1951 - 60:00 - CBS - Sustaining, No commercials
 
CD #9
Command Performance
#319 Constance Moore
Tuesday, April 27, 1948 - 30:00 - AFRS - No commercials
 
Command Performance
#320 Marie McDonald
Tuesday, April 27, 1948 - 30:00 - AFRS - No commercials
 
CD #10
Twenty Questions
#120 1st Answer - Einstein's Hair
Saturday, September 11, 1948 - 30:00 - AFRS - No commercials
 
Twenty Questions
#137 Guest Johnny Desmond
Saturday, January 8, 1949 - 30:00 - AFRS - No commercials
 
CD #11
Showtime
#270 The Mikado
1946 - 30:00 - AFRS - No commercials
 
Showtime
#282 The Student Prince
1946 - 30:00 - AFRS - No commercials
 
CD #12
Biography in Sound
Ticket to the Moon With Arch Oboler, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, John Campbell Jr., Willy Ley, Robert Richardson, A. E. Van Vogt, George Pal, Mr and Mrs Forrest Ackerman
Tuesday, December 4, 1956 - 60:00 - NBC - Sustaining, No commercials
 
CD #13
Vic and Sade
Mid-Summer Madness
Thursday, July 18, 1946 - 30:00 - Mutual Don Lee - Fitch Shampoo commercials
 
Vic and Sade
L. Vogel Drum, the Grand Nomadic Stenchel
Thursday, August 1, 1946 - 30:00 - Mutual Don Lee - Fitch Shampoo commercials
 
CD #14
Unit 99
#40 Stickup on 16th Street
Friday, May 23, 1958 - 30:00 - ABC/AFRS - No commercials
 
Unit 99
#41 Kidnapping
Friday, May 30, 1958 - 30:00 - ABC/AFRS - No commercials
 
CD #15
The C. P. MacGregor Show
#49 Inspector Donovan's Secret
1940s - 30:00 - Syndicated - No commercials
 
The C. P. MacGregor Show
#50 The Benevolent Mrs Forsyth
1940s - 30:00 - Syndicated - No commercials
 
CD #16
The Kraft Music Hall
Dress Rehearsal
Thursday, July 1, 1948 - 30:00 - NBC - Kraft commercials
 
Philco Radio Time
#36 Top Tunes of the Year
Wednesday, June 1, 1949 - 30:00 - ABC - Philco Radio commercials
 
CD #17
The College Quiz Bowl
#50 Georgetown University vs. Colgate University
Saturday, April 2, 1955 - 30:00 - NBC - No commercials
 
The College Quiz Bowl
#51 Mount Holyoke College vs. Colgate University
Saturday, April 9, 1955 - 30:00 - NBC - No commercials
 
CD #18
The College Quiz Bowl
#52 Mount Holyoke College vs. Hamilton College
Saturday, April 16, 1955 - 30:00 - NBC - No commercials
 
The College Quiz Bowl
#53 Mount Holyoke College vs. The University of Syracuse
Saturday, April 23, 1955 - 30:00 - NBC - No commercials
 
CD #19
The College Quiz Bowl
Georgetown University vs Syracuse University
Wednesday, May 25, 1955 - 30:00 - NBC - No commercials
 
The College Quiz Bowl
The University of Minnesota vs. Georgetown University
Wednesday, June 1, 1955 - 30:00 - NBC - No commercials
 
CD #20
The Checkerboard Fun Fest
#135
1945 - 15:00 - Syndicated - Purina commercials
 
The Checkerboard Fun Fest
#136
1945 - 15:00 - Syndicated - Purina commercials
 
The Checkerboard Fun Fest
#141
1945 - 15:00 - Syndicated - Purina commercials
 
The Checkerboard Fun Fest
#142
1945 - 15:00 - Syndicated - Purina commercials
 
20 hours - MP3 regular price $39.99
Discounted for the next week - $19.99
 
 
Featured: previously released
Volume 25
 
 
Much of the charm of The Great Gildersleeve came from the supporting cast and townsfolk of Summerfield as it did from Gildy. Leroy and Marjorie, Gildersleeve’s charges, and Birdie Lee added a particular spark to the comedic family antics of the show. Summerfield itself boasted a few citizens that also made their mark. From Bronco Thompson, the man Marjorie would eventually marry to Forrest Peavey, the twangy pharmacist to Leila Ransom, the widow with her sets sight on Gildy, these and more characters helped elevate The Great Gildersleeve from being just another comedy show to one that struck a funny and often loving chord with its audience.
 
A few actors from the show went on to rather promising careers from the program. Gale Gordon, known mostly today for his role on I Love Lucy played Gildy’s wealthy, pompous neighbor, Rumson Bullard. Jim Backus also portrayed Bullard beginning around 1952, possibly as training for playing another millionaire he’d make famous on Gilligan’s Island. Richard Crenna, who portrayed Marjorie’s eventual husband Bronco Thompson, went on to have a long and successful movie and television career.
 
Summerfield typified small town America. Most of the episodes took place within eight blocks around the Gildersleeve home. There was a park nearby. Mr. Peavey’s drugstore cornered on the street that Gildy lived on, Judge Hooker living just across the street from the pharmacy. Down the avenue was Floyd’s Barber Shop, which would become home to the unofficial fraternal order Gildy would join, the Jolly Boys. A water reservoir also was oddly placed in this eight block area, but would prove to provide Gildy with something he needed, a job as water commissioner.
 
Visit Summerfield and laugh with and at The Great Gildersleeve in the twelve original broadcasts of The Great Gildersleeve, Volume 25, complete with Kraft Foods commercials and restored to sparkling digital quality.
 
6 hours - MP3 regular price $11.99
Discounted for the next week - $5.99
 
 
Audiobooks
Featured: previously released
Outlaws of the Moon
by Edmond Hamilton
Read by Milton Bagby

 
Curt Newton leads his valiant band of Futuremen in the thrilling campaign to preserve a priceless Lunar heritage!
 
From the pages of classic Pulp, Captain Future flies into action, displaying the most exciting aspects of Science Fiction. Although modeled to a degree after Doc Savage, Captain Future is also the ultimate space opera hero. Coming complete with not only a tragic, yet inspiring origin story driving him into defending interstellar justice, everyone and everything Curt Newton encounters is colorful, vibrant, and over the top, definite trademarks of the best space opera.
 
Although an orphan, Curtis Newton’s parents left him with gifts that would most definitely lead to him becoming Captain Future, the superman of the spaceways. His mother, Elaine, provided him with his mission, to become the protector of the solar system, to fight for justice wherever it may take him. Roger, his father, not only passed on incredible genius and scientific skills, but he provided him with three caregivers that would grow to be the greatest team a space faring hero could have - The Futuremen!
 
The Futuremen all have their origins in the Moon Laboratory that is both home and headquarters to Captain Future. Referred to as a ‘citadel of science’, the Moon Laboratory is designed in a circular fashion and contains quarters for the Futuremen, even though not all of them, such as Grag, actually require rest. A reference library containing the vast knowledge of the universe, the Brain’s personal lab, a large room that serves as both workspace and social area with a glassite window as ceiling, and many other rooms make up the Moon Laboratory, definitely the perfect place for an interplanetary hero to call his own.
 
Rocket into science fiction adventure and discover new worlds. Ripped from the pages of the Spring 1942 issue of Captain Future magazine, “Outlaws of the Moon” is read with wonder and excitement by Milton Bagby.
 
6 hours - MP3 regular price $11.99
Featured: previously released
Volunteer Corpse Brigade
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
 
 
What chance had Civilization to survive — with Smiler Miordan’s vast Underworld Union coming to full power... with his new and deadly plague destroying all who dared oppose him?... Could Nita’s pitifully brave coup stay the Murder Tide long enough for the Spider, himself infected, to organize an army of patriotic lepers?... One of Richard Wentworth’s most stirring crime sagas!
 
Author and former crime reporter Norvell W. Page, who penned the majority of the Spider’s exploits as Grant Stockbridge in Popular Publications’ infamous pulp magazine, The Spider, once described his hero in gigantic but unflinching terms: “His exploits had raised him to the proportions of a legendary hero. In ancient times, Rome would have made him an emperor-god. Salem might have burned him as a sorcerer. The modern world—well, the police had offered rewards totaling thousands of dollars for his capture ‘dead or alive.’ And the Underworld hated him and plotted his destruction with a fierceness bred of abject terror.
 
“Yes, Richard Wentworth was a murderer in the eyes of the law—a butcher who had slain a hundred, a thousand of his fellow men. They took no account of the fact he killed only those who richly deserved to die, that he alone had prevented a score of master criminals from overwhelming the forces of law and order.”
 
“There’s a madness that gets in me when the Spider walks....” Richard Wentworth once admitted.
 
Once more,the incomparable Nick Santa Maria reads another thrilling Spider exploit. Volunteer Corpse Brigade originally published in The Spider magazine, November, 1941.
 
5 hours - MP3 regular price $9.99
Discounted for the next week - $4.99
 
 
eBooks
New eBook
 
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
 
Shiver me timbers, Matey! Aye, it be Pirates off the port bow! Swift action tales of high adventure from exotic ports of call across the seven seas. The Jolly Roger — the black flag displaying the skull and crossbones. The smell of salt air; the cry of seagulls, the rolling decks as the 40-cannon galleons swept into battle! And treasure... golden plunder taken from ships regardless of nationality! Although pirate stories had appeared in various pulps such as Action Stories, Thrilling Adventures, and the grandaddy of them all, Adventure, it wasn't until 1934 that a new magazine appeared that was devoted strictly to pirate adventures. The first issue was dated November 1934 and it offered swashbuckling tales in the tradition of Blackbeard, Anne Bonny and Henry Morgan. After four issues, for its final two issues, it combined with High Seas Adventures, and then — after a grand total of six rousing issues — the magazine sadly closed with the August 1935 issue. Pirate Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Regular price $3.99
 
 
New eBook
 
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
 
A steely-eyed private dick with an unshaven jaw of granite... a gat of dull gun-metal gray sags heavily under his armpit... he works the seamy underbelly of the city, coming up against squinty-eyed thugs, weasels who value human life less than the coins jingling in their pocket, and red-lipped bimbos with hot breath, wide eyes and long silky legs. The stories are hard, gritty and action-packed. They fairly scream, "pulp!" This was what Private Detective Stories offered beginning with its first issue in June of 1937. It came from the same publisher who brought you Blazing Western, Candid Detective, The Lone Ranger Magazine, Speed Adventure Stories and Speed Mystery. In all, 134 issues were published until the magazine closed in June of 1949. Private Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Regular price $3.99
 
 
Featured eBook
The Spider #98 eBook
November 1941
 
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.
 
Another epic exploit of America’s best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men! Richard Wentworth — the dread Spider, nemesis of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that grim no-man’s land between Law and lawless — returns in vintage pulp tales of the Spider, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
 
 

Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want. New Kindle's use ePub. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.
 

 Bargain Basement

 
The Bargain Basement is where you find all the discounted Audio CDs including everything featured in this newsletter.
 

Comments From Our Customers!
 
William Kruder III writes:
The Spider #93. So far, it's been great shopping here. Particularly that you have deals. Keep up the good work and I'll continue to purchase.
 
Stephen K Lau writes:
The Big Bands on One Night Stand, Volume 2. Great live recordings sponsored by Coca Cola during WWII. Includes some of the greatest big bands and some of the lesser known ones.
 
If you'd like to share a comment with us or if you have a question or a suggestion send an email to [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you!
 

3 ways to order
Email The easiest way is to Reply to this newsletter with what you would like and we'll place your order for you. Payment information will be sent to you.
Voicemail Call 800-886-0551 to leave a message or to order Audio CDs.
 
Audio CD ordering information
We offer Audio CDs of all of our Old Time Radio sets and Pulp Audiobooks. To order click here for the Audio CD Order Form or by voicemail at 800-886-0551. All discounted Audio CDs are in the Bargain Basement.
 

Having troubles ordering from the website?
eMail us at [email protected]
 
The Radio Archives Newsletter is emailed every Friday morning. The products in this newsletter are just a small fraction of what you'll find waiting for you at RadioArchives.com. Whether it's the sparkling audio fidelity of our classic radio collections, or the excitement of our pulp audiobooks and pulp eBooks, you'll find 2,300 intriguing products at RadioArchives.com.
 
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter, or if this newsletter has been sent to you in error, please click here to Unsubscribe and your name will immediately be removed from our mailing list.
RadioArchives.com

 About Us
 Privacy Policy
 Send Us Feedback