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Premier Collections
Premier Collections are the signature products of Radio Archives, representing the highest level of audio fidelity and restoration currently available anywhere. All of the programs in these delightful and diverse sets have been freshly transferred from top quality original master recordings and professionally and painstakingly restored for outstanding sound quality.

Classic network shows, rare and unique broadcasts unheard for decades, newly discovered episodes from radio's most beloved series, shows you may have read or heard about but never have had the chance to actually hear - all these and more are included in these outstanding compact disc collections.

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Adventures by Morse, Volume 1
Item #PC51 - Ten CD Set $39.95
From the pen of radio's legendary creator/writer/producer Carlton E. Morse comes two spine-chilling ten-part mysteries from "Adventures by Morse," containing all of the suspense, thrills, and adventure that Morse offered in his well-remembered radio classic "I Love a Mystery" -- and more!
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Adventures by Morse, Volume 2
Item #PC56 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Dank jungles...thick fog...howls in the night...an ominous gong sounding in the distance... From the pen of radio's prolific creator/writer/producer Carlton E. Morse comes two more spine-chilling ten-part mysteries from "Adventures by Morse," offering engrossing tales of danger and high adventure, set in strange and exotic locales.
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Adventures by Morse, Volume 3
Item #PC63 - Six CD Set $23.95
A strange and alluring cockney beauty stranded on a distant island...a strange woman carried bound and gagged by a dead man with a knife in his back...an eerie and dangerous journey through a dark and dank swamp...a crime-ridden trip through the Hollywood of the 1940s. From the mind of Carlton E. Morse comes four spine-chilling three-part mysteries from "Adventures by Morse," offering engrossing tales of danger and high adventure. Transferred directly from Morse's own personal disc collection, these timeless tales have been fully restored for outstanding audio fidelity. Click for liner notes, an audio sample, and complete details

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Volume 1
Item #PC29 - Ten CD Set $39.95
"Get this and get it straight: crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel it end up in the gutter, the prison, or the grave..." Enjoy ten full hours of hard-boiled detective action with Raymond Chandler's "white knight in a trench coat" Philip Marlowe in this fully restored ten-CD collection of CBS network broadcasts starring Gerald Mohr
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Amos 'n' Andy, Volume 1
Item #PC67 - Ten CD Set $39.95
For over thirty years, they were a virtual fixture of network radio, creating and starring in one of the most beloved shows of all time. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll star as "Amos 'n' Andy" in twenty half-hour programs from their NBC comedy series. First aired in 1943 and 1944, these still-hilarious shows are the first of their 30-minute series and feature a wide range of guest stars. Fully restored from original transcription recordings, these sparkling programs will be a delightful addition to your old time radio library.
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Amos 'n' Andy, Volume 2
Item #PC71 - Ten CD Set $39.95
In volume two of a continuing series, we offer you twenty more hilarious half-hour shows starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as "Amos 'n' Andy." First aired over NBC in 1944, these delightful programs have been transferred directly from the team's own disc collection for sparkling and fully restored audio fidelity.
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Archive Masters, Volume 1
Item #PC38 - Ten CD Set $39.95
In the first of an ongoing series of diverse and wide-ranging CD collections, the First Generation Radio Archives brings you ten hours of entertainment from ten different radio series -- featuring "Easy Aces," Bob and Ray, dramatic shows starring Charles Boyer, Robert Cummings, and Rosalind Russell, two innovative plays written by radio's "poet laureate," Norman Corwin, domestic comedy with "Mr. & Mrs. Blandings" starring Cary Grant and Betsy Drake, and much, much more!
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The Best of the Big Bands, Volume 1
Item #PC12 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Ten of the big band era's best and most popular orchestras perform live on the air in ten hours of original broadcasts, including many performances not heard in over fifty years.
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The Best of the Big Bands, Volume 2
Item #PC42 - Ten CD Set $39.95
The timeless and nostalgic melodies of the Big Bands are featured in a collection offering twenty original live broadcasts featuring twelve of the most popular bands of the war years and beyond.
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The Big Show, Volume 1
Item #PC33 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Danny Thomas, Ethel Merman, Frankie Laine, Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante, Jose Ferrer, Mindy Carson, Paul Lukas...entertainment by the biggest names in show business as "the glamorous and unpredictable" Tallulah Bankhead hosts five 90-minute broadcasts of "The Big Show" - one of the most expensive and star-studded series in radio history.
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The Big Show, Volume 2
Item #PC43 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Jimmy Durante, Clifton Webb, Eddy Arnold, Charles Boyer, Joe Bushkin, Mindy Carson, Imogene Coca...the biggest names in show business are on hand as "the glamorous and unpredictable" Tallulah Bankhead hosts five more 90-minute broadcasts of "The Big Show" - one of the most expensive and star-studded series in radio history.
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The Big Show, Volume 3
Item #PC49 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Take $100,000.00 a week, divide it up among some of the biggest and brightest stars of radio, the stage, the recording industry, and motion pictures, then add in top-notch writing by some of the best scribes in the business, a 44-piece orchestra, a 16-member choir, and hire a wry, sophisticated, and deep-voiced leading lady as your hostess and what do you get? One of the most amazing, expensive, and entertaining variety shows ever to hit the airwaves: "The Big Show," as transferred from the original NBC recordings and fully restored for outstanding audio fidelity.
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The Big Show, Volume 4
Item #PC61 - Ten CD Set $39.95
For its sheer volume of top-notch entertainment, it's hard to beat "The Big Show"- NBC's star-studded variety extravaganza. With a weekly budget of $100,000.00 paying for the brightest stars of radio, stage, records, and the movies, plus a 44-piece orchestra, a 16-member choir, and the wry sophistication of hostess Tallulah Bankhead, this legendary series brings together the best in the entertainment world. Freshly transferred from the original NBC recordings and fully restored for outstanding audio fidelity, enjoy hour after hour of timeless fun with this Premier Collection.
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NEW in February The Big Show, Volume 5
Item #PC72 - Ten CD Set $39.95
"The Big Show" brings together the top names in film, radio, stage, and musical entertainment for a star-studded ninety minutes of scintillating comedy, engrossing drama, and tuneful fun. NBC spared no expense in producing this gem of late-era network radio, as you'll find out in the fifth volume of this impressive radio extravaganza featuring Meredith Willson and his Orchestra and, as hostess, the uniquely distinctive voice of Miss Tallulah Bankhead.
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The Bing Crosby Show
Item #PC14 - Ten CD Set $39.95
More than a crooner, more than a comedian, more than an actor, more than an entertainer -- Bing Crosby was perhaps the most well rounded personality of the old time radio era...and this collection of twenty programs offers an excellent sampling of his 1949-50 series for Chesterfield Cigarettes, all taken from beautiful Radio Recorders and Empire 16" lacquer linechecks.
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Birds Eye Open House, starring Dinah Shore
Item #PC27 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Enjoy ten full hours of tuneful musical entertainment as vocalist Dinah Shore hosts some of the biggest names in show business - including many appearances by the hilarious and unpredictable Groucho Marx.
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Boston Blackie
Item #PC10 - Ten CD Set $39.95
"Enemy to those who make him an enemy...Friend to those who have no friend..." That's Boston Blackie, safecracker turned crime fighter and long-time radio favorite, featured in twenty original half-hour broadcasts filled with light-hearted detective action and adventure.
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Box Thirteen
Item #PC60 - Ten CD Set $39.95
"Adventure wanted. Will go anyplace, do anything..." "Box Thirteen" features film star Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday, a successful mystery writer who generates plots for his novels by hiring himself out to those who answer this cryptic classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper. Enjoy the first twenty episodes of this syndicated action/adventure series, produced by Ladd's own Mayfair Transcription Company, in this BRAND NEW Premier Collection, taken directly from original master recordings for outstanding audio fidelity.
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Broadway's My Beat, Volume 1
Item #PC36 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Follow homicide detective Danny Clover of the N.Y.P.D. as he investigates the crimes, misfortunes, and heartaches of the people who live around and about the Great White Way in twenty episodes from the classic CBS dramatic series "Broadway's My Beat."
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Broadway's My Beat, Volume 2
Item #PC52 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Walk the beat with Detective Danny Clover as he patrols "Times Square to Columbus Circle...the gaudiest, the most violent...the lonesomest mile in the world" in twenty full-length episodes from the classic CBS dramatic series "Broadway's My Beat."
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Calling All Cars, Volume 1
Item #PC58 - Ten CD Set $39.95
"Crime does not pay!" Those four words sum up "Calling All Cars," a popular crime drama heard from 1933 to 1939. One of radio's earliest police procedural dramas, the program dramatized true crime exploits and featured the voices of real-life law enforcement officials as well as a host of talented and well-known radio performers. Enjoy twenty half-hour episodes of this landmark docudrama in this 10-CD collection, fully restored and remastered from original recordings for outstanding audio fidelity.
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Chuck-Wagon Jamboree, Volume 1
Item #PC57 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Before he starred as Festus Haggen in the long-running television western series "Gunsmoke." actor Ken Curtis was the singing cowboy star of popular movie westerns and his own syndicated radio series, "Chuck-Wagon Jamboree." Offering forty full-length shows, unheard for over half a century, you’ll enjoy ten full hours of tuneful and timeless musical entertainment in this 10-CD set, taken directly from original transcriptions and fully restored for crisp high fidelity sound.
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Chuck-Wagon Jamboree, Volume 2
Item #PC62 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Though best known as the cantankerous but softhearted deputy Festus Haggen on the TV western series "Gunsmoke," actor Ken Curtis was once a two-fisted singing cowboy in a series of B-westerns for Columbia Pictures. Now, for the first time in over fifty years, hear him starring in his own tuneful 1948/49 syndicated radio series, "The Chuck-Wagon Jamboree." Containing forty full-length shows, you'll enjoy ten full hours of tuneful and timeless musical entertainment in this 10-CD Premier Collection, taken directly from original transcriptions and fully restored for crisp high fidelity sound.
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Christmas - On The Air!, Volume 1
Item #PC04 - Four CD Set $15.95
Celebrate the holidays with this four-CD set of Christmas shows from radio's golden age - including programs unheard since their original broadcast over forty years ago.
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Christmas - On The Air!, Volume 2
Item #PC11 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Celebrate the holidays with a selection of some of radio's most entertaining holiday favorites, featuring a galaxy of top stars including Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, and many other radio favorites.
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The Complete Cinnamon Bear
Item #PC31 - Seven CD Set $27.95
Join Judy, Jimmy, the Crazy Quilt Dragon, and Paddy O'Cinnamon on a timeless musical adventure to find the silver star for the top of their Christmas tree in this delightful set of seven compact discs, freshly transferred from the original 1937 transcriptions.
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The Cinnamon Bear in The Adventure of the Silver Star
Hardbound - 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" - 56 Pages $25.00
It's the book you've waited 70 years to enjoy! Paddy O'Cinnamon returns in a lavishly illustrated book recounting his magical adventures in Maybeland - the perfect accompaniment to our "Complete Cinnamon Bear" CD collection.
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The Cisco Kid, Volume 1
Item #PC26 - Ten CD Set $39.95
"The Robin Hood of the Old West" rides again in twenty uncirculated and newly discovered action-packed adventures, full of great western entertainment and newly transferred from original 16" transcriptions.
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The Cisco Kid, Volume 2
Item #PC40 - Ten CD Set $39.95
"Here's adventure! Here's romance! Here's the famous Robin Hood of the Old West..." as the Cisco Kid rides again in twenty newly-discovered action-packed broadcasts from 1953, complete with original commercials voiced by legendary announcer Marvin Miller.
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Claudia, Volume 1
Item #PC59 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Unheard for over sixty years, the charming daytime drama "Claudia" is far more quiet, gentle, and down to earth than most strife-ridden soap operas. Based on the stories by Rose Franken, the series tells the tale of Claudia and David Naughton, newlyweds, just beginning their married life. Young, enthusiastic, and very much in love, we know you'll enjoy hearing the first forty episodes of this long-lost series as the happy couple find their first apartment, get used to each other's quirks, and learn to live together as man and wife.
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Claudia, Volume 2
Item #PC65 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Typical radio soap operas offered listeners a daily dose of strife, agony, infidelity, and dismay, coupled with the overriding emotions of love and sacrifice - a heady mix designed to capture the attention of the overworked and under-appreciated homemakers who listened in daily. In 1947, however, a new and very different serial hit the airwaves: "Claudia," the light-hearted and realistic story of two newlyweds, Claudia and David Naughton, as they experienced the real life trials, tribulations, delights, and surprises of married life. Based on a popular series of stories by writer Rose Franken, "Claudia" offers modern day listeners a day-to-day peek into the past, as well as a reminder that, though times may change, people don't. We bet you'll find much to remind you of your own married life in the forty consecutive episodes of this newly discovered radio classic, unheard since their original broadcast fifty years ago. You'll enjoy ten full hours of family-friendly entertainment in this 10-CD Premier Collection, taken directly from original transcriptions and fully restored for crisp high fidelity sound.
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The Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors
Item #PC70 - Ten CD Set $39.95
In this tuneful 10-CD set, Radio Archives offers you the chance to hear what an evening at the lavish Cocoanut Grove nightclub was like in the early 1930s. Taken from now-impossible to find original recordings, you’ll enjoy performances by four of the Grove's top orchestra leaders: Gus Arnheim, Jimmie Grier, Phil Harris, and Ted Fio Rito. Enjoy twenty full-length episodes in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection.
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Crime Classics
Item #PC19 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Far better known today than it ever was among the audiences of its own era, Elliot Lewis' "Crime Classics" has attained near-cult status among latter-day genre fans -- and you can find out why in this ten-CD set, offering twenty original CBS network episodes, fully restored for outstanding fidelity.
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Dr. Christian
Item #PC20 - Six CD Set $23.95
A long-running family series, "Dr. Christian" is a quiet anthology of small-town life, with the gentle and well-meaning country doctor, played by legendary character actor Jean Hersholt, leading his patients in the right direction...whether they want to be led there or not!
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Fibber McGee and Molly - The Lost Episodes, Volume 1
Item #PC50 - Ten CD Set $39.95
They're among the most sought-after shows from radio's past - and now, after more than fifty years, they can be heard once more: "The Fibber McGee and Molly Show," starring Jim and Marian Jordan, as originally heard five days a week over the full NBC Radio Network in 1954 and transferred directly from the long-lost 16" NBC Reference Recordings.
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Fibber McGee and Molly - The Lost Episodes, Volume 2
Item #PC55 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Transferred directly from the long-lost NBC reference transcriptions, enjoy 40 more hilarious and consecutive adventures with Wistful Vista's favorite couple in "The Fibber McGee and Molly Show," just as originally aired five days a week in the Spring of 1954.
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Fibber McGee and Molly - The Lost Episodes, Volume 3
Item #PC66 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Take your vacation in Wistful Vista this year as Jim and Marian Jordan star in forty long-lost episodes of "The Fibber McGee and Molly Show," just as originally heard over the NBC Radio Network between June and August of 1954. This long-awaited third collection of rare broadcasts finds the duo chairing a hobby show, Fibber learning hypnotism, and both planning a secret dinner for their old pal Doc Gamble.
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Fibber McGee and Molly - The Lost Episodes, Volume 4
Item #PC69 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Take your vacation in Wistful Vista this year as Jim and Marian Jordan star in forty long-lost episodes of "The Fibber McGee and Molly Show," just as originally heard over the NBC Radio Network between August and October of 1954. This fourth collection of rare broadcasts features delightful appearances by Bill Thompson ("Wallace Wimple") and Arthur Q. Bryan ("Doc Gamble").
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Fort Laramie, Volume 1
Item #PC47 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Raymond Burr stars as Captain Lee Quince, commanding officer of 559a rugged cavalry outpost, in twenty broadcasts of "Fort Laramie," a subtle and realistic dramatic series first heard over the CBS Radio Network in 1956 and created, written, and produced by many of the same talented people who made radio history with the groundbreaking adult western "Gunsmoke."
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Frontier Town
Item #PC16 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Action star Jeff Chandler is Chad Remington, a tough-but-dedicated lawyer in the rough and tumble frontier town of Dos Rios in this western adventure series from the early 1950s.
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The Great Gildersleeve, Volume 1
Item #PC06 - Eight CD Set $31.95
One of radio's most heart-warming situation comedies and an all-time favorite of radio enthusiasts, "The Great Gildersleeve" is back in sixteen original broadcasts, freshly transferred from original NBC reference recordings and fully restored for outstanding audio fidelity.
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The Great Gildersleeve, Volume 2
Item #PC35 - Seven CD Set $27.95
Starring Willard Waterman in the title role and featuring Richard Crenna, Marjorie Robb, and Walter Tetley, enjoy fourteen long-lost broadcasts - seven full hours - of heartwarming family entertainment with "The Great Gildersleeve," digitally transferred from original 16" NBC reference recordings.
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Jeff Regan, Investigator
Item #PC21 - Four CD Set $15.95
Jeff Regan is the main operative of the International Detective Bureau, run by the wily and parsimonious Anthony J. Lyon in this dramatic CBS action series that invites radio listeners to "stand by for mystery, suspense and adventure!"
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Jonathan Thomas and his Christmas on the Moon
Item #PC53 - Six CD Set $23.95
Join six-year-old Jonathan Thomas, the Man in the Moon, and Gorgonzola the Horse on a 26-part adventure to rescue Santa Claus from the nasty King Squeebeeble and save Christmas! This delightful children's serial is sure to become a part of your holiday traditions this year and for many years to come.
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Jump Jump and the Ice Queen
Item #PC41 - Six CD Set $23.95
Fans of "The Cinnamon Bear" will thrill to "Jump Jump and the Ice Queen," a newly discovered twenty-five-part Christmas serial adventure that was first heard in 1948 and is certain to become a yearly part of your holiday traditions.
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The Komedy Kingdom
Item #PC68 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Radio programs from the 1930s are extremely rare and hard to find, so it's very exciting indeed when the complete thirty-nine-episode run of a long-lost variety show is discovered. That's the case with "The Komedy Kingdom," a 1937 series produced and syndicated by Transco, the same company that brought you "The Cinnamon Bear", and starring such entertainers as Elvia Allman, Morey Amsterdam, Gus Van, Tony Romano, and Mabel Todd. Unheard for seventy years, here's your chance to travel into the hilarious and musical past to spend some delightful hours with Queen Elvia and her royal court of mirth. It's a journey we know you'll enjoy for many years to come!
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The Kraft Music Hall starring Al Jolson
Item #PC09 - Five CD Set $19.95
"The World's Greatest Entertainer" stars in ten original NBC network broadcasts featuring witty pianist Oscar Levant and an exciting array of top-name guest stars.
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Let George Do It, Volume 1
Item #PC32 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Before Johnny Dollar came along, radio favorite Bob Bailey cut his teeth on another detective show favorite: a decidedly offbeat private-eye series entitled "Let George Do It," offered here in twenty action-packed adventures from the late 1940s.
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Let George Do It, Volume 2
Item #PC44 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Bob Bailey, the popular star of "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar," is featured in twenty more newly discovered episodes of "Let George Do It," an intriguing, witty, and well-written detective series first heard over the Mutual-Don Lee West Coast Network from 1946-1954.
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Little Orphan Annie
Item #PC05 - Five CD Set $19.95
Twenty-one complete and newly discovered fifteen-minute episodes sponsored by Ovaltine and dating from 1936 and 1938, unheard since their original broadcast seventy years ago.
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And that's not all: five of the broadcasts in this collection contain secret coded messages intended only for members of Annie's Secret Society. You can decode these messages by printing out and assembling your own personal 1936 decoder badge by clicking here.
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Lum and Abner, The Early Years, Volume 1
Item #PC15 - Ten CD Set $39.95
See what's happening down in Pine Ridge in this fully restored collection of forty shows from 1935 - the earliest continuity of consecutive "Lum and Abner" broadcasts known to exist.
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Lum and Abner, The Early Years, Volume 2
Item #PC22 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Continuing the sequence begun in Volume 1, Lum and Abner join the circus and get involved in a bizarre but highly lucrative chain letter scheme in this fully restored collection of forty consecutive shows from 1935.
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Lum and Abner, The Early Years, Volume 3
Item #PC30 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Lum's status as the "Hog King" comes to an end and the boys decide to open a movie theater in this third collection of rare consecutive broadcasts from 1935 - ten full hours of hilarious down-home family entertainment, digitally transferred from original 16" Victrolac electrical transcriptions.
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Lum and Abner, The Early Years, Volume 4
Item #PC34 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Lum and Squire Skimp become partners in a silver mine and the boys from Pine Ridge develop a revolutionary new way to sell groceries door-to-door in this fourth collection of consecutive broadcasts from July, August, and September 1935, digitally transferred from original 16" Victrolac electrical transcriptions.
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Lum and Abner, Volume 1
Item #PC03 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Take a trip to Pine Ridge with this ten-CD set containing forty consecutive fifteen-minute shows dating from April thru June of 1944, newly transferred from original 16" Keystone transcription discs.
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Lum and Abner, Volume 2
Item #PC07 - Five CD Set $19.95
Continuing the sequence started in Volume 1, this five-CD set contains twenty more consecutive fifteen-minute shows dating from June and July of 1944, newly transferred from original 16" Keystone transcription discs.
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Matinee with Bob and Ray, Volume 1
Item #PC45 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Hear Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding at their early freewheeling best in twenty hilarious full-length broadcasts of "Matinee with Bob and Ray," their first radio series for WHDH-Boston, transferred directly from the original one-of-a-kind 16" transcriptions for outstanding audio fidelity.
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The Milton Berle Show
Item #PC17 - Ten CD Set $39.95
For more than seventy years, Milton Berle never lost his taste for good old-fashioned bust-a-gut comedy -- and here's your chance to enjoy ten full hours of Uncle Milty's best: a 10-CD collection containing twenty episodes from his classic 1947-48 series for NBC.
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Mr. President, Volume 1
Item #PC02 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Edward Arnold stars in "Mr. President," a dramatic anthology series offering little-known events from the lives of the Presidents of the United States, in twenty-one half-hour episodes originally aired over ABC.
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Mr. President, Volume 2
Item #PC37 - Ten CD Set $39.95
History buffs, as well as those who just enjoy well-produced audio drama, will enjoy Edward Arnold starring in "Mr. President," a popular ABC radio series that dramatizes little-known incidents from the lives of the men who have lived in the White House.
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The Old Gold Comedy Theatre, Volume 1
Item #PC25 - Five CD Set $19.95
Unheard since their original broadcast, "The Old Gold Comedy Theatre" is am hilarious 1944/45 NBC series hosted by comedy star Harold Lloyd and featuring some of the biggest names of film and radio.
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The Old Gold Comedy Theatre, Volume 2
Item #PC28 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Continuing the series begun in Volume 1, enjoy ten full hours of newly discovered programs in this fully restored ten-CD collection of "The Old Gold Comedy Theatre," a 1944/45 NBC series hosted by comedy star Harold Lloyd and featuring some of the biggest names of film and radio.
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One Man's Family, Volume 1
Item #PC01 - Six CD Set $23.95
One of radio's best loved family series, Carleton E. Morse's "One Man's Family" was a broadcast staple for nearly thirty years -- and this set offers nearly six hours of original NBC programs, including many recently discovered shows.
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One Man's Family, Volume 2
Item #PC64 - Six CD Set $23.95
Running for almost three decades, Carlton E. Morse's "One Man's Family" is an undeniable radio classic. Detailing the daily lives of the Barbour family, the series became such a part of American life that many long-time listeners came to think of Henry and Fanny Barbour, their children, and grandchildren as almost being a part of their own extended family. You'll enjoy twelve sequential episodes of "One Man's Family" in this BRAND NEW Premier Collection, just as originally broadcast over NBC between July 11 and September 26, 1949 - a fully self-contained series of programs in which the family gathers for a summer vacation at Sky Ranch. Digitally transferred, this six-CD set has been fully restored for outstanding audio fidelity
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The Planet Man, Volume 1
Item #PC23 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Travel the galaxy with Dantro, the Planet Man, intergalactic troubleshooter for the League of Planets - "the law enforcement body for peace and justice in the celestial world" - in this fully restored collection of fifty campy sci-fi shows from the 1950s.
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The Planet Man, Volume 2
Item #PC24 - Five CD Set $19.95
Thrill to the conclusion of the action-packed adventures of Dantro, the Planet Man in this ray gun-zapping, edge of your seat CD collection that takes off where Volume 1 left off!
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Radio's Popular Vocalists, Volume 1
Item #PC54 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Fourteen of the most popular vocalists and musical ensembles of the mid-20th century are featured in thirty full length radio broadcasts dating from 1946 thru 1959. Enjoy the sparkling high fidelity sound of these timeless singers performing many of your musical favorites.
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Item #PC39 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Actor Dick Powell stars as the world's first "singing detective" in twenty full-length broadcasts from NBC's delightfully tongue-in-cheek action/adventure program "Richard Diamond, Private Detective," as originally aired from 1949-1951.
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Rocky Jordan, Volume 1
Item #PC13 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Flashing eyes and flashing knives...intrigue, mystery, and murder...it's time for another series of exotic adventures in Cairo with Rocky Jordan, featured in twenty original and fully restored CBS broadcasts.
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Rocky Jordan, Volume 2
Item #PC46 - Ten CD Set $39.95
You'll hear echoes of "Casablanca" in twenty adventures with "Rocky Jordan," a CBS west-coast dramatic series starring Jack Moyles as the American owner of the Cafe Tambourine, hub of underground activities and dramatic events in post-war Egypt.
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The Shadow of Fu Manchu, Volume 1
Item #PC08 - Six CD Set $23.95
Thrill to twenty-three engrossing and atmospheric programs full of adventure and suspense, as originally broadcast between August and September of 1939 and featuring Sax Rohmer's nefarious villain of the Far East.
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The Story of Dr. Kildare, Volume 1
Item #PC18 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore star in twenty episodes of this engrossing medical drama series, produced by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and based on the characters featured in their popular movie series.
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The Story of Dr. Kildare, Volume 2
Item #PC48 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Based on the characters created by Max Brand, "The Story of Dr. Kildare" brings to the airwaves Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore in the roles they made famous on the silver screen in a 10-CD set featuring twenty well-written medical dramas, produced for radio syndication by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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