Vintage Classic Radio

Vintage Classic Radio
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Welcome to Vintage Classic Radio where we bring to life timeless classics from the golden age of radio. Check out our website at https://www.vintageclassicradiopodcast.com for episodes and more. Please email questions and comments to hello@vintageclassicradiopodcast.com Please share and subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts and anywhere else you get your podcasts.

  1. 1d ago

    Tuesday Night Detectives — Philip Marlowe (The Panama Hat) & Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (The Royal Street Matter)

    Tonight on Tuesday Night Detectives, two great radio detectives take on cases separated by nearly a decade of the golden age of radio. First, Gerald Mohr stars as Raymond Chandler’s private detective Philip Marlowe in “The Panama Hat,” from The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. CBS’s Gerald Mohr series began in September 1948 and became the definitive radio incarnation of Chandler’s detective. Then Bob Bailey takes over as America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator in “The Royal Street Matter” from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. By late 1956 the series had returned from its celebrated five-part serial format to weekly half-hour cases, with Bailey continuing as Johnny Dollar. Between tonight’s two mysteries is an original Mayfield Cigarettes radio commercial, preserved here as a piece of period advertising and broadcasting history. Settle in for another evening of mystery, hard-boiled detectives and classic radio drama on Vintage Classic Radio. Tonight’s programmes: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe — “The Panama Hat” Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — “The Royal Street Matter” Visit vintageclassicradiopodcast.com for more from Vintage Classic Radio and The Archive.

    Tuesday Night Detectives — Philip Marlowe (The Panama Hat) & Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (The Royal Street Matter)

  2. 3d ago

    Sunday Night Playhouse - Casablanca (Lux Radio Theatre)

    After a summer's rest, Vintage Classic Radio is back on the air. Tonight on Sunday Night Playhouse — the hour-long Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Casablanca, broadcast 24 January 1944, a little over a year after the film's release. Hedy Lamarr stars as Ilsa Lund and Alan Ladd as Rick Blaine, with John Loder as Victor Laszlo. Lux Radio Theatre was the most prestigious dramatic anthology on American radio — a full studio orchestra, a live audience, and a production budget that let the show stretch a film's story out to its natural hour-long shape rather than compressing it to thirty minutes. This version of Casablanca has more room to breathe than the shorter adaptations that followed it: more of Rick's café, more of the political tension in Vichy-controlled Morocco, more space for Lamarr and Ladd to build the weight of everything left unsaid between Rick and Ilsa before the story arrives at the airport. Lamarr and Ladd were not the film's original stars, and that is precisely what makes this broadcast worth hearing on its own terms. It is not an echo of Bogart and Bergman — it is a different pair of actors finding their own way into the same story, at the height of their own careers, for an audience who mostly knew the tale already and wanted to hear it told again. New broadcasts every week from Sunday Night Playhouse, Tuesday Night Detectives, Friday Night Noir, and Saturday Matinee. Thanks for your patience — we're glad to be back on the air. Visit us at vintageclassicradiopodcast.com. Please share and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SiriusXM, Pandora, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.

    Sunday Night Playhouse - Casablanca (Lux Radio Theatre)

  3. 12/18/2025

    Tuesday Night Detectives - The Adventures of Sam Spade (The 25) & Rocky Fortune (The Plot to Murder Santa)

    This week's Christmas holiday edition of Tuesday Night Detectives brings two hard-boiled mysteries with a season twist. First up is The Adventures of Sam Spade in "The 25", originally broadcast December 15, 1950, as America's most famous private eye follows a case where greed, suspicion, and a Christmas payoff collide in classic noir fashion.  Then it's Rocky Fortune, produced by NBC and starring Frank Sinatra, in the offbeat holiday mystery, "The Plot to Murder Santa Claus" originally aired December 22nd, 1953, mixing sharp dialogue, street-level intrigue, and dark humour. Settle in for a night of detectives, danger and vintage radio drama in this special holiday episode of Tuesday Night Detectives, only on Vintage Classic Radio.

    Tuesday Night Detectives - The Adventures of Sam Spade (The 25) & Rocky Fortune (The Plot to Murder Santa)

  4. 12/18/2025

    Sunday Night Playhouse - Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

    Celebrate the Christmas holidays with Sunday Night Playhouse on Vintage Classic Radio, featuring a classic Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "Great Expectations", originally broadcast on October 13, 1947. This elegant radio production brings Charles Dickens' timeless novel to the airwaves with the rich storytelling and star-studded presentation that Lux was known for. Follow young Pip as a single act of kindness sets him on a path from a humble childhood to unexpected riches, complicated relationships, and hard-earned wisdom. In the end, Pip learns that character and compassion matter far more than social standing or money.  Settle in and enjoy this week's holiday edition of Sunday Night Playhouse, only on Vintage Classic Radio.

    Sunday Night Playhouse - Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

  5. 12/14/2025

    Saturday Matinee - The Abbott and Costello Show (Lou's Christmas Party), Ozzie and Harriet (No Show for Christmas) & The Halls of Ivy (The Snowman)

    This week on Saturday Matinee, we continue the holiday festivities with three heartwarming and hilarious old time radio classics. Abbott and Costello are back in "Lou's Christmas Party" finding the duo in chaotic holiday shenanigans as they try to host the perfect party. In Ozzie and Harriet's "No Show for Christmas", we see Ozzie scrambling to save the day when plans for a quiet Christmas don't go as expected. Finally, in the Halls of Ivy, "The Snowman" tells a charming tale of campus life and a magical winter surprise that brings warmth and laughter to the holiday season. Listen to all the heartwarming holiday humour this Saturday on Vintage Classic Radio.

    Saturday Matinee - The Abbott and Costello Show (Lou's Christmas Party), Ozzie and Harriet (No Show for Christmas) & The Halls of Ivy (The Snowman)

  6. 12/13/2025

    Friday Night Noir - Suspense Double Bill (Arctic Rescue & Out for Christmas)

    We continue the holidays with chills on Friday Night Noir. Joseph Cotten braves a deadly mission in "Arctic Rescue", while Raymond Burr faces a holiday night gone dangerously wrong in "Out for Christmas". Tense, gripping, and full of twists, these classic Suspense episodes bring winter's cold edge straight to your ears on Vintage Classic Radio.

    Friday Night Noir - Suspense Double Bill (Arctic Rescue & Out for Christmas)

  7. 12/08/2025

    Tuesday Night Detectives - The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The Great Gandolfo) & Dick Barton, Special Agent (Double Bill)

    This week on Tuesday Night Detectives, we open with The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in "The Great Gandolfo" starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Watson and Holmes square off against a master of deception whose illusions hide a far deadlier game, one that only the world's greatest detective can unravel. Then we turn up the pace with a double helping with Episodes 5 and 6 of Dick Barton, Special Agent. Barton plunges deeper into a high-stakes investigation packed with coded clues, shadowy villains, and the trademark cliffhangers that made this British thriller a sensation. Settle in for sharp wits, crackling suspense, and classic detective storytelling at its best here on Vintage Classic Radio.

  8. 12/07/2025

    Sunday Night Playhouse - The Plot to Overthrow Christmas (Norman Corwin)

    This week on Sunday Night Playhouse, Vintage Classic Radio presents Norman Corwin's sharp and spirited 1944 holiday classic, "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas". In this witty rhymed fantasy, a council of history's great villains meets to hatch a plan to destroy Christmas itself. Corwin uses humour and imagination to take aim at tyranny and the forces that thrive on fear, cruelty, and authoritarian power. It's a clever, fast-paced Christmas tale with an unmistakable wartime message: joy, freedom, and human decency are worth defending.

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Welcome to Vintage Classic Radio where we bring to life timeless classics from the golden age of radio. Check out our website at https://www.vintageclassicradiopodcast.com for episodes and more. Please email questions and comments to hello@vintageclassicradiopodcast.com Please share and subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts and anywhere else you get your podcasts.

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  • Creator
    Vintage Classic Radio
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    356
  • Rating
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    © Vintage Classic Radio
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