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This year, do your holiday shopping with Radio Archives, offering a delightful series of imaginative audio compact disc collections that will make great gifts for friends and family members both young and old! Our sparkling CD sets, playable on any CD player, are perfect to enjoy while commuting, wrapping gifts, baking cookies, or taking that road trip to spend the holidays with loved ones.

You can choose from a wide variety of timeless radio favorites, including "Fibber McGee and Molly," "Our Miss Brooks," "Suspense," and many others, as well as musical collections featuring legendary vocalists and big band favorites -- or celebrate the holidays with a delightful and family-friendly array of Christmas themed programs from radio's heyday. All will be much appreciated stocking stuffers for those special people in your lives -- and at prices that won't bust your budget!

 

Christmas Classics to Share with the Family

The Complete Cinnamon Bear
 Item #PC31 - Seven Audio 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
$25.00
Hardbound - 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" - 56 Pages
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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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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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Great Gift Suggestions for the Entire Family
Musical and Variety Entertainment

NEW for Christmas The Big Bands on One Night Stand, Volume 2
 Item #PC82 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Whether it’s the unique and innovative sounds of Shep Fields and Bobby Sherwood, the crowd-pleasing showmanship of Xavier Cugat, Blue Barron, Del Courtney, and Guy Lombardo, or the swinging sounds of Harry James, Woody Herman, Sonny Dunham, Cab Calloway, Charlie Barnet, or Glen Gray, you'll thrill to twenty half-hour broadcasts featuring the tuneful melodies of the big bands, appearing live and in-person on "One Night Stand". Transferred from original 16" discs and painstakingly restored for impressive audio fidelity, you'll almost feel that you're dancing at the Meadowbrook or having a drink at the Tropicana when you listen to this second volume of rare and melodic broadcasts.
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The Big Bands on One Night Stand, Volume 1
 Item #PC79 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Twenty of the most popular orchestras and groups of the 1940s and 1950s are featured in 20 live remote broadcasts from some of the top ballrooms and nightspots in the country on "One Night Stand," the Armed Forces Radio Service's legendary series of late-night musical programs. In addition to familiar favorites such as Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Ray Anthony, and Harry James, you'll also enjoy performances by the orchestras of Jan Savitt, Charlie Spivak, Boyd Raeburn, Louis Prima, Leighton Noble, and many others.
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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 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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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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The Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors, Volume 1
 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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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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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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Family Favorites

NEW for Christmas Fibber McGee and Molly - The Lost Episodes, Volume 6
 Item #PC81 - Ten CD Set $39.95
 A secret elopement that isn't so secret...a temporary job with the Postal Service...a deal too good to pass up at a war surplus auction...and, of course, that dad-ratted overstuffed closet that always needs to be cleaned out. Step into Wistful Vista as Jim and Marion Jordan star in 40 long-lost, complete, and consecutive episodes of "The Fibber McGee and Molly Show," just as originally aired over NBC in 1954 and 1955. These delightful programs, fully restored for outstanding audio quality, will be wonderful to share with the entire family.
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Radio Legends: The Couple Next Door
Item #RL27 - Ten CD Set $19.95
In 1957, writer/performer Peg Lynch ("Ethel and Albert") returned to radio with a captivating five-a-week situation comedy series for CBS. Aired during the daytime hours, Lynch and co-star Alan Bunce offered gentle, yet hilarious slices of married life that, even after fifty years, still resonate with modern listeners. You'll enjoy forty eight full-length broadcasts in this value-priced Radio Legends collection.
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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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Radio Legends: Father Knows Best, Volume 1
Item #RL03 - Ten CD Set $19.95
Robert Young stars in "Father Knows Best," offering twenty delightful episodes from one of the brightest and most hilarious situation comedies ever to hit the airwaves. Featuring excellent scripts and outstanding performances from Jean Vander Pyl, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, and Norma Jean Nilsson, this collection offers ten full hours of family-friendly entertainment, just as originally heard over the NBC Radio Network in 1950/51.
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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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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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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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Radio Legends: Our Miss Brooks, Volume 1
Item #RL13 - Ten CD Set $19.95
Tart-tongued Eve Arden stars as Connie Brooks, Madison High School's bright and acerbic English teacher, in this hilarious series that also features such outstanding performers as Jeff Chandler as shy biology teacher Mr. Boynton, Richard Crenna as the adenoidal teenager Walter Denton, and the unforgettable Gale Gordon as bombastic principal Osgood Conklin. You'll delight in twenty full-length broadcasts from this delightful and timeless radio classic, offered on ten compact discs.
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Mystery and Detective Thrillers

Radio Legends: The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective
Item #RL22 - Ten CD Set $19.95
In the hands of producer/director William Spier as well as in the portrayal of actor Howard Duff, Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade became a likeable and insouciant character, turning many of the tough guy clichés of detective fiction on their heads with a sarcastic tongue-in-cheek slant that makes radio's "Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective" a delight to listen to today. Enjoy twenty full-length episodes in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection.
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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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Radio Legends: Dragnet, Volume 1
Item #RL02 - Ten CD Set $19.95
A precedent-shattering radio landmark that became a national institution -- its influence is with us yet. And now Radio Archives is proud to take you back to the very beginning, with an exciting collection of twenty broadcasts from the very first season of Jack Webb's police procedural classic "Dragnet."
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Radio Legends: Nightbeat, Volume 1
Item #RL30 - Ten CD Set $19.95
Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, a reporter for the Chicago Star, who spends his nights seeking out "the stories behind the stories" -- and frequently finding touching drama, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and surprising nobility among the average people he meets along the way. With a style that might best be described as "film noir for the mind," this Radio Legends collection offers twenty full length NBC broadcasts of "Nightbeat" - including both the audition show and the first program of the series.
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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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Radio Legends: Suspense, Volume 1
Item #RL12 - Ten CD Set $19.95
In 1948, "Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills" was given a full-hour Saturday night time slot, hosted by Hollywood leading man Robert Montgomery. The result was a unique and highly entertaining series of edge-of-your-seat dramas that, even today, remain engrossing entertainment. This 10-CD set offers ten full-length broadcasts, featuring such stars as James Cagney, June Havoc, and Howard Duff as Detective Sam Spade.
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Radio Legends: This Is Your FBI, Volume 1
Item #RL09 - Ten CD Set $19.95
Featuring newsreel-type dramatic music, outstanding performances by a wide range of talented performers, and employing a semi-documentary style in both its narration and in its portrayal of both criminals and federal agents, "This Is Your FBI" was only radio series officially sanctioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The twenty programs in this Radio Legends collection offer ten full hours of engrossing radio drama from one of the premier crime anthology series of all time.
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Radio Legends: The Whistler, Volume 1
Item #RL34 - Ten CD Set $19.95
"I am the Whistler, and I walk by night..." One of radio's most gripping and suspenseful anthology series, "The Whistler" offered strange and cautionary tales of men and women drawn into dangerous webs of revenge, mayhem...and murder. Starring Bill Forman in the title role, with Marvin Miller voicing the commercials and a host of long-time radio favorites bringing these engrossing stories to life, you'll enjoy twenty full-length episodes of this CBS dramatic series in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection.
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NEW for Christmas Radio Legends: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Volume 3
Item #RL44 - Ten CD Set $19.95
There's action, adventure, and cliff-hanging suspense as Radio Archives brings you another series of shows featuring ace insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey in the title role. Featuring a host of radio favorites - including such talented performers as Hans Conreid, Virginia Gregg, Peter Leeds, John Dehner, Parley Baer, and Marvin Miller - you'll enjoy ten more five-part adventures in our third 10-CD Radio Legends collection.
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Westerns

Fort Laramie, Volume 1
 Item #PC47 - Ten CD Set $39.95
 Raymond Burr stars as Captain Lee Quince, commanding officer of a 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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Radio Legends: Have Gun, Will Travel, Volume 1
Item #RL11 - Ten CD Set $19.95
John Dehner stars as Paladin, a stylish, sophisticated, and urbane "white knight" of the old west in this well-produced dramatic series from the late 1950s. Enjoy the first twenty episodes of a late-era radio classic in this 10-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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Radio Classics

The Lux Radio Theatre
 Item #PC76 - Ten CD Set $39.95
 "Lux Presents Hollywood!" A legion of tinsel town's top talent come together in ten star-studded broadcasts of "The Lux Radio Theater," radio's premier playhouse of silver screen entertainment. Taken directly from original master recordings, you'll hear such movie legends as Charles Laughton, Susan Hayward, Ronald Colman, Lynn Bari, Al Jolson, Dorothy McGuire, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, and Alan Ladd in CBS broadcasts originally heard in 1945 and 1947 - timeless and engrossing entertainment you’ll play and enjoy again and again.
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The Mercury Theatre on the Air
 Item #PC80 - Ten CD Set $39.95
Though best remembered for "The War of the Worlds," Orson Welles, John Houseman, and their talented troupe of Mercury players also presented some of the best, most creative, and groundbreaking programs ever heard. In this 10-CD set, taken directly from original source recordings and painstakingly restored for excellent audio quality, you'll hear ten legendary broadcasts of "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", just as originally aired over CBS in 1938.
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Radio Legends: Screen Directors' Playhouse
Item #RL28 - Ten CD Set $19.95
A late entry in the Hollywood-movie-adaptation genre, "Screen Directors' Playhouse" may lack the prestige of "The Lux Radio Theatre" or the flashiness of "The Screen Guild players," but this star-studded NBC series stands out as one of the forgotten gems of big time radio's twilight years. Enjoy ten full hours of dramatic radio entertainment in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection.
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Radio Legends: Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher
Item #RL39 - Ten CD Set $19.95
Thrill to the adventures of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, as he makes contact with two expeditions in search of the Forbidden City of Asher: one determined to rescue the son of its leader and another bent on obtaining “the Father of Diamonds.” Originally broadcast in 1934, this adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novel "Tarzan and the Forbidden City" is complete in 39 fifteen-minute broadcasts, digitally restored for outstanding audio quality.
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