American Radio Theater
Fiction & Audio Drama
About
American Radio Theater's podcast of audio drama as it was done in the Golden Age of Radio. ART re-creates programs which do not exist in recorded form using the original scripts from that era. ART also produces new audio dramas using techniques developed and tested during that Golden Age.
Episodes
- The Mysterious Traveler - Between Two Worlds
Two merchant marines are rescued after their ship is sunk by a submarine. They are rescued by a Clipper ship in the fog... or are they?
- Mutual Radio Theater- The Stranger
A stranger comes to town with a lot of money and plans for revenge on four people.
- Cavalcade of America - Flight Nurse
Experiences during a medical flight in WW2 make a flight nurse reasssess her future.
- The Magnificent Montague - Agnes Joins a Cult
Montague tries to use his spot on the radio to fund-raise for Agnes' cult.
- The Mysterious Traveler - Death Dream.
Be careful what you dream.
- The Magnificent Montague - Agnes Quits
The results aren't as expected when Alice quits. Havoc reigns.
- The Story of Doctor Kildare
Veronica Casper has a mysterious ailment and journalist, Lamar Fiske, keeps sticking his nose in.
- The Phantom Filly
Sparky joins his uncle's horse farm. He secretly breeds Lady, a blind trotter, with Hamilcar Chief, the stallion next door. Will Lady's foal be a winner in the sulky races?
- The Mysterious Traveler - The Man with the Stolen Face
John Harrington has worked for twenty years and amassed twenty million dollars. Now he wants to disappear. He has it all planned but it never seems to go as planned.
- Frontier Gentleman - The Last of Belle Siddons
J. B. Kendall is involved with the law in regards to Belle.
- Frontier Gentleman - Belle Siddons Strikes Back
Belle falls in love with another gambler.
- Job Talk - The Sugar Mine
Job Talk! Host Eddie Martin interviews folks with unusual professions. In this episode, Mr. Martin interviews former sugar miner, Sid Noname. Written by Kay Lutz.
- Frontier Gentleman - Belle Siddons Encore
J. B. Kendall comes back to Deadwood and gets re-acquainted with gambler, Bell Siddons.
- The Magnificent Montague - Measles
Who will fill in for Uncle Good Heart when Edwin gets the measles?
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Burning Carr Matter
Johnny mixes business with pleasure in Sarasota, Florida, when he agrees to investigate the arson in the Carr lumber yards.
- The Magnificent Montague - Summer Cottage
To escape from the neighbors' incessant card games, Montague tries our his producer's cottage in the woods.
- Dragnet - Episode One: Slocum
Introduction of Joe Friday and Ben Romero as they pursue the criminals, Slocum and Bantam Campbell.
- Mysterious Traveler - The Cat Died Twice
Old man Kedrick is dying. His niece and nephew want to hurry him along but he is guarded by a large black cat that he got in Egypt.
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective - The Longest Shortcut In the World
Rick takes a shortcut back to New York City only to encounter the Elkins family and their guns.
- The Magnificent Montague #9: South Pacific
Montague auditions for the Planter role in South Pacific but then encounters his father, Cyril, in town.
- Mutual Radio Theater - The Food of Love
Stephanie Goulden gets a little more than she anticipated when she signs up for a cooking class.
- The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy - The Dance
Dr. Tweedy is in charge of the dance at his school. Sugar Kane of The Gum Drops is the bandleader but there are some complications in store.
- Sam Spade - The Main Event Caper
Sam is involved with a boxer, Kid Bolan, and his brotther-trainer, Lonie as The Kid goes up for the Main Event.
- Sam Spade - The Bay Psalm Caper
Sam is asked to locate Roy Rowland. Surprise - It turns into a trail of murder regarding a rare book.
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective - The Gibson Murder Case
Rick is called to a schoolteacher's apartment to do something about the body in her Hepplewhite chair.
- Nero Wolfe - The Case of the Calculated Risk
Three partners dissolve their partnership with murder. One of the remaining partners returns to New York to Avenge and stops by Nero Wolfe's on the way for a little insurance.
- The Mysterious Traveler - Death Plays the Tune
John's girlfriend has turned into a blackmailer and p;d Schultz has constructed a music box with a deadly punch.
- Forbidden Planet
United Planets cruiser is on a special mission to the gourth planet of the great main sequence star to check on a lost space rocket. They find Mobius and his daughter Alta the only survivors, amidst the ancient Krell civilization reliques.
- Hallmark Playhouse - Harrington's Ghost
Arnold Harrington's publisher takes matters into his own hands err pen when he wants to correspond with one of Harrington's fans.
- Leave It to Joan - Wedding Proposal
Joan's father's proposal to Suzanne Fletcher gets accidentally mailed. Suzanne is clearly a gold digger and everyone works at getting this annulled before the wedding.
- An Elaborate Garnish
This show is an extreme spoof of a certain form of British comedy. It's campy, it's creepy and if done right it's hilarious.
- Candy Matson - Jack Frost
Candy gets Rembrandt to substitute for Santa's helper, Jack Frost, as she searches for the murderer of the real one.
- Blondie - Scrooge
Dagwood imagines Dithers as Scrooge.
- Incident at Scarlyn
Two chapters from Joy Jackson's Book of Tir. Bayadire Donaire takes a troupe of actors on a caravan to Clan Scarlyn. Lasrty gets involved in a duel with the clan heir.
- Broadway Is My Beat - Helen Shelby
A young girl is found dead just before changing living quarters. Danny Glover gets to the story behind the killing.
- Babylon Revisited - Porraits in Literature
F. Scott Fitsgerald's story of an American ex-pat returning to his old haunts in Paris to retrieve his daughter.
- Sam Spade - The Gold Rush Caper
Sam is called back by Elihu Person about disappearing gold bricks from his mine.
- Rawhide Jones
Marshal Jones and his roly-poly deputy encounter a woman Sheriff while tracking two killers in the early west.
- Philip Marlowe - A Long Way Home
Ennis Harper hires Marlowe to find his wife. She went off to the laundromat and didn't come back.
- Magnificent Montague - Shakespeare Under the Stars
Montague is asked to perform at an event in Brooklyn at the Civic Club but Shakespeare has never been done that way before.
- Lux Radio Theater - Mother Is a Freshman
Abigail Fortitude finds herself in financial trouble and takes advantage of her grandmother's endowment to attend college but she didn't count on falling in love with her daughter's professor.
- The Cat's Meow
American Radio Theater presents and original play written by Kay Lutz. Ned Nifkins desperately wants to be able to talk to his cat, so he tries the spell of transformation. But he finds there are a lot of disadvantages to becoming a cat.
- Luke Slaughter - Heritage
Luke, while helping the sheriff bring in four Indians watches a friend of his gun down a man. How can he save his friend from the gallows?
- Magnificent Montague - Baby In the House
Mrs. Zinzer is having her tenth child and Lily has plans to have it come home to the Montague house.
- My Favorite Husband - Knitting Baby Booties
Liz is knitting baby booties for a friend but Cory and husband, George, think she is expecting.
- Mysterious Traveler - Meet Me at the Morgue
Harry Wilson works hard at appeasing his demanding wife so he has no clue that she's planning mischief when she sends him out for medicine on a wildly rainy night.
- Romance - I Am Not a Stranger
Larry is captivated by a small town in North Carolina, which doesn't seem to be the typical southern town, and a girl.
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Matter of the Medium Well Done
Johnny investigates a bequest that seems fishy, involving mediums and death.
- Sam Spade - Sam and the Scythian Tiara
Sam finds lots of trouble trying to return a curio called the Scythian Tiara. Is no one as they seem?
- Blondie - Dinner With the the Dithers
Dagwood surprises Blondie by bringing his boss home for dinner.