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Orson Welles directing in a CBS radio studio, 1938; leaning into a ribbon microphone with one hand raised, mid-cue.
Orson Welles · CBS Studio One · 1938

"The greatest hoaxer of them all," mid‑cue.

100 years on the air · 1926 to 1971

Return to the good old days.Forty-six thousand episodes spanning a century of American radio.

Vintage Radio Shows offers you their world-class archive of the best Old Time Radio broadcasts: comedies, mysteries, drama, and the variety shows that kept America at the dial. Original broadcasts. Original sponsors. Family-friendly.

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Adventures of Maisie · Maisie is a Truck Driver

MBS · December 8, 1949
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The Lone Ranger • Suspense • Fibber McGee & Molly • The Shadow • The Jack Benny Program • Inner Sanctum Mysteries • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar • X Minus One • Burns & Allen • Dragnet • Gunsmoke • Lights Out • The Bob Hope Show • Lux Radio Theatre • Box 13 • Cafe Istanbul • The Pepsodent Show • Bold Venture • Big Town • Mystery in the Air • Baby Snooks • The Mercury Theatre on the Air • Kraft Music Hall • The Screen Guild Theater • Our Miss Brooks •
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The voices America stayed in for.

Eight of 550+ series
No. 001

Marlene Dietrich

Cafe Istanbul

91 ep.1952–54
No. 002

Humphrey Bogart

Suspense

CBS1945
No. 003

Bob Hope

The Bob Hope Show

NBC1948–55
No. 004

Peter Lorre

Mystery in the Air

13 ep.1947
No. 005

Fanny Brice

The Baby Snooks Show

198 ep.1937–51
No. 006

Dorothy McGuire

Lux Radio Theatre

926 ep.1934–55
No. 007

Mary Livingstone

The Jack Benny Program

540 ep.1932–55
No. 008

Claire Trevor

Big Town

150 ep.1937–40

Inside the library

Every voice on this page is cross-indexed across every show they made.

Almost every program in the archive now carries a full written history, and every cast and crew member is cross-indexed across every other show they touched. The same forty players turn up across a thousand broadcasts, and you can follow any one of them by name.

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From the archive

The era kept its own scrapbook.

A magazine cover from the autumn of 1934. A promotional postcard for You Bet Your Life, 1953. A trade-press advertisement for Box 13, 1948. A network promo for X Minus One, 1955. The thing-ness of broadcasting before broadcasting was just a feed.

Radio Stars magazine cover, October 1934.

Radio Stars, October 1934

Newsstand magazine
A 1953 postcard advertising the radio program You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx.

You Bet Your Life, 1953

NBC promotional mailer
A 1948 trade-press advertisement for Box 13, the syndicated radio mystery starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday.

Box 13, 1948

Mayfair Transcription Co.
A network promotional graphic for X Minus One, the NBC science-fiction anthology that ran from 1955 to 1958.

X Minus One, 1955

NBC science-fiction anthology
President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated at a microphone for his Election Eve Radio Address to the Nation, November 4, 1938. Nov. 4, 1938 · Election eve
When the dial was the room

Before the news was a feed, it was a voice in the parlor.

My friends, I want to talk to you for a few minutes about banking. Franklin D. Roosevelt · First Fireside Chat · CBS & NBC, March 12, 1933

Eighty-six million Americans listened to that first chat. The radio hour wasn't a slot on a schedule. It was the moment the family put down what they were doing and gathered around the cabinet. We keep the recordings the way that audience heard them.

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