Dark Fantasy was a short 1940’s Radio show featuring stories of the weird, grotesque and unknown. It aired on NBC as a horror drama. I got these radio shows from this source.
Back before we had screens to endlessly gaze into, people turned the lights off and gazed at the radio with their ears (and sometimes their eyes, too) with the same intensity. Radio can be more magical than any of the best special effects you've seen in movies because it doesn't do everything for you. With the visual component of the story taken out, one is left to fill in that blank with whatever wild fantasies they might come up with. Good writing, characters, acting and all-around storytelling can coax the mind into releasing it's impressions of reality and transport you to another time or place.
Theater Five
Theater Five was ABC’s mid 60’s attempt to revive radio dramas. Every episode is about something different and the show covers a variety of different genres, though a majority of it would be considered Sci-Fi. This show is great, and with so many episodes available (more coming here soon) you can chew on this show […]
Sherlock Holmes
The Sherlock Holmes stories have been done and redone many times by many talented Holmes and Watson pairs throughout the decades. This is just a smattering of what is available out there, there are literally hundreds of surviving recordings from the 1930s up to today. Instead of just dumping several hundred files up here, repeating […]
Bob and Ray
Bob & Ray were, in my opinion, one of the funniest comedy duos to come out of Radio. Their joint careers lasted 5 decades in which time they were featured in many radio shows and some television. These shows came from their home at the Archive. Go there to find more shows I might not have […]
Dimension X
Get ready for some transcribed tales of time and space! Dimension X x x x x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This Sci-Fi radio show started in 1950, ran for 50 episodes and ended in 1951. It is closely related to another “X” themed Sci-Fi radio show also available on this site called X Minus One. They are probably […]
Escape
It’s time to escape to the world of adventure. It’s time to forget for the next half hour the four walls of today and escape beyond the horizons of the mind to yesterday and tomorrow. Another great classic radio show. Escape has a broad and loose theme, doing shows having to do with the speculative […]
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is a long-running 1950’s radio program mostly about Marshal Matt Dillon trying to keep law and order in Dodge City, Kansas during the post civil war era. This is another of those radio shows conjured up along with shows like Dragnet and Your’s Truly Johnny Dollar (among others) when thinking about really classic Old […]
Weird Circle
Weird Circle was a relatively short series running two seasons and airing 78 episodes. It dealt mostly in adapted Supernatural and Horror stories from the likes of Edgar Alan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens. It had a relatively low production value and sparse music, but some have said that fact actually contributes to the show’s […]
Biographies In Sound
This NBC program from the 1950’s paints portraits of the biggest and most accomplished people of the era and before. Every hour long episode of Biographies in Sound gives you personal reflections from people who knew the subject, critics who something about what they did, and plenty of historical recordings that together give a really […]