Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

A broke freelance journalist talks his way into a night alone in the cellar of Marriner's Waxworks, sitting with his back to the wax figure of a Paris throat-cutter the police never caught.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Dominant Personality” (January 26, 1979) ***WD00:47:27.527 = Beyond Midnight, “A Night In The Waxworks” (January 31, 1969) ***WD01:14:35.093 = MindWebs, “Moth Race” (November 19, 1976)01:44:31.614 = Isn’t It A Crime, “Speaking of Murder” (December 14, 1945)02:14:15.391 = Mystery In The Air, “Beyond Good And Evil” (August 28, 1947) ***WD02:44:02.395 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Double Cross” (May 30, 1947)03:14:30.743 = Mr Keen. “Silver Dagger Murder” (October...

On a stormy night with the phone lines down and her baby barely breathing, Madeline Hunter drags a blazing log out of the fireplace without knowing why, and only afterward remembers the Greek myth she'd lectured on that very morning, in which a mother did the same thing to keep her son alive.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Burning Bough” (January 24, 1979) ***WD00:48:00.567 = Jeff Regan, “The Guy From Gower Gulch” (November 13, 1948) ***WD01:18:47.691 = The Key, “The Cellar” (1956) ****WD01:45:34.182 = Lights Out, “Dream” (March 16, 1943)02:14:59.018 = Macabre, “Crystalline Man” (January 01, 1962) ***WD02:44:23.318 = Ph...

A woman rents a cheap, secluded house in Cornwall that comes with a housekeeper she isn't allowed to turn away, and she can't work out how a kitchen she left a wreck late at night is spotless by morning.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Let The Buyer Beware” (January 22, 1979) ***WD00:47:19.125 = Future Tense, “Really Heavy” and “Third From The Sun” (May 15, 1974) ***WD01:15:38.951 = Hall of Fantasy, “Man-Size In Marble” (April 10, 1947)01:42:47.242 = Harry Lime, “Horseplay” (November 23, 1951) ***WD02:09:06.828 = Haunted, Tales of the Supernatural, “A Pair of Hands” (September 06, 1980) ***WD02:37:07.458 = The Haunting Hour, “Death...

A husband's furious insult that his wife is nothing but a heartless white cat starts coming true in front of him, and their doctor wants to tell the world.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Side Effects” (January 19, 1979) ***WD00:46:26.764 = Devil And Mr. O, “Alley Cat” (September 17, 1971) ***WD01:16:36.301 = Dimension X, “The Green Hills Of Earth” (December 24, 1950) ***WD01:43:42.714 = The Eleventh Hour, “Flying Coffin” (ADU)02:08:44.816 = Escape, “Border Town” (December 13, 1949)02:39:01.401 = Murder By Experts, “The Big Money” (July 25, 1949)03:09:31.058 = Exploring Tomorrow, “The Escape” (January 08, 1958)03:29:40.395 = Dark Fantasy, “Resolution” (January 02, 1942)03:55:38.664 = Fear on 4, “Every Detail But One”...

Days before an operation he has a fifty-fifty chance of surviving, Norman Hill finds his office stripped bare, gets a call from a funeral parlor, and reads his own name on a grave.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Long Long Sleep” (January 15, 1979) ***WD00:46:03.456 = Calling All Cars, “Gentle Kidnapping Case” (May 16, 1934)01:15:57.384 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Girl On The Dock” (April 03, 1947) ***WD01:44:22.358 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Wendigo” (1968) ***WD=SONG: “Don’t Listen To The Thing That Calls Your Name” by Crossroads Haint (based on “The Wendigo”)02:16:47.273 = Chet Chetter, “Return of the Mast...

In a future where the government runs legal murder, a clothing man on his seventh hunt tracks his victim to a sidewalk cafe in New York and finds her sitting alone with both hands on the table.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Complete Recovery” (January 01, 1979) ***WD00:47:03.252 = Witch’s Tale, “The Priest of Sekhet” (February 27, 1933) ***WD(LQ)01:13:22.062 = X Minus One, “Seventh Victim” (March 06, 1957)01:36:47.331 = ABC Mystery Time, “Death Walked In” (1956-1957) ***WD02:00:48.532 = Appointment With Fear, “The Speaking Clock” (April 13, 1944)02:29:08.838 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Truth” (June 28, 1945) ***WD02:57:20.767 = Barry Crai...

Mark Twain's errand on the Mississippi began in a Munich morgue, where 36 shrouded corpses lie wired to a bell and a dying American asked him to save his soul.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Dead House” (December 29, 1978) ***WD00:46:13.308 = Suspense, “Fugue In C-Minor” (June 01, 1944) ***WD01:16:07.828 = The Creaking Door, “Haunted Hangman” (May 25, 1964) ***WD01:45:44.388 = The Saint, “Real Gone Guy” (July 30, 1950) ***WD02:14:27.824 = 2000 Plus, “The Giant Walks” (November 05, 1950) ***WD(LQ)02:43:19.062 = The Unexpected, “Find The Man” (1947-1948)02:59:11.818 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Toll Bridge” (1936) ***WD03:15:35.171 = Dark Venture, “Coverup” (February 24, 1947)03:45:22.054 = The Weird Circle, “What Was It” (O...

Edgar Logan lives at 21 South 72nd, and 2172 is the number on the taxi that sideswipes his car, on the lunch check his nephew adds up for him, and on the pink telephone in the apartment he's just gotten for a girl who reads destiny in numbers.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “No Way Out” (December 27, 1978) ***WD00:46:19.059 = Ellery Queen, “World Series of Crime” (October 02, 1943) ***WD01:17:07.604 = Quiet Please, “In The House Where I Was Born” (May 28, 1949)01:47:23.500 = Radio City Playhouse, “Whistle Daughter, Whistle” (July 31, 1948) ***WD02:14:58.191 = Sam Spade, “Vafio Cup Caper” (August 2...

A clerk at the American consulate in Hong Kong turns down a marriage proposal from the wealthy woman who's been bankrolling his roulette system in Macau, then agrees to one last ride with her in the big yellow rickshaw her family has kept for years.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Power Of Evil” (December 22, 1978) ***WD00:45:41.645 = The Black Museum, “Calibre Bullet” (January 08, 1952) ***WD01:09:49.608 = Mysterious Traveler, “The Accusing Corpse” (April 16, 1944) ***WD01:39:31.376 = CBC Nightfall, “Buried Alive” (October 17, 1980)02:04:14.112 = Nightmare, “Coincidence” (November 26, 1953)02:25:56.696 = Obsession, “Raised From The Dead” (February 19, 1951) ***WD02:49:34.633 = Ori...

A classic tale by M.R. James adapted for radio theater. On a stormy night by the fire, a grandmother forbids her grandchildren to pick a single blackberry in the little lane past Collins's cottage, and when they beg for the reason, she tells them about the hill at the top of it.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “It Has To Be True” (December 20, 1978) ***WD00:46:09.566 = The Black Mass, “An Evening’s Entertainment” (October 31, 1964)01:17:10.741 = Michael Shayne, “Museum Theft” (July 30, 1945)01:48:19.048 = Beyond Midnight, “Hobart” (May 09, 1969) ***WD02:15:32.318 = MindWebs, “When We Went To See The End...

A retired navy captain walks home through the Dublin fog on the night his proposal is accepted and hears footsteps behind him the whole way, though every time he turns around, the street is empty.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Familiar Ghost” (December 18, 1978) ***WD00:47:10.481 = Inner Sanctum, “The Girl And The Gallows” (May 01, 1945)01:15:29.512 = Jeff Regan, “The Lady With Too Much Hair” (November 06, 1948) ***WD01:46:02.749 = The Key, “The Archaeologist” (1956) ***WD02:11:32.967 = Lights Out, “The Projective Mr. Drogan” (January 26, 1943)02:41:57.122 = Lux Radio Theater, “The Canterville Ghost” (June 18, 1945)03:41:58.445 = Macabre, “The Avenger” (December 18, 1...

A week after losing a bitter election to lead an ancient college, the archaeologist who wanted the job most raises a toast to the winner and hands him a small black figurine from a dig in Syria.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Search for Myra” (December 15, 1978) ***WD00:45:11.054 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “A Warden For All Saints” (April 29, 1992)01:29:50.871 = Hall of Fantasy, “The Judge’s House” (April 03, 1947) ***WD01:57:12.053 = Harry Lime, “In Pursuit Of A Ghost” (November 16, 1951)02:23:04.135 = Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “Esmerelda” (August 30, 1980)02:49:13.121 = The Haunting Hour, “No Escap...

A small-town Russian doctor who's given up on his filthy hospital starts spending hours in the ward for the insane out back, talking philosophy with one of the patients.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Ward Six” (December 13, 1978) ***WD00:45:59.959 = Dimension X, “Universe” (November 26, 1950) ***WD01:15:57.328 = The Eleventh Hour, “Explosives” (ADU) ***WD01:45:27.736 = Escape, “Command” (December 06, 1949)02:14:38.515...

In 1829 New Orleans, a shoemaker whose slippers are the softest in town turns down the fabric a wealthy father brings in for his daughter's debut and insists on using his own material.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Horror Story” (December 11, 1978) ***WD00:46:40.028 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Strange History of David Swann” (1967) ***WD01:16:14.887 = Chet Chetter, “Elmer Versus...

In 1957, a young surgeon finds an aneurysm the size of a grapefruit on the chest X-rays of the man his sister is about to marry, and that night his dead father sits down across the fire to talk the case through.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Exploding Heart” (December 08, 1978) ***WD00:46:23.841 = ABC Mystery Time, “Death By...

Lord Carnavan's wife lends a visiting sheikh her carved Indian jewel box for one afternoon, and the morning after she wears her diamond necklace to Buckingham Palace, the necklace is gone from the locked box and her husband wants the psychic detective next door on the case.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Devil’s Bargai...

The Shadow: A young chemist tells Lamont Cranston he woke in the night to find a skull burning green and grinning at him in the dark, and by the next morning he's vanished from his own house.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Serpent of Saris” (December 04, 1978) ***WD00:44:33.459 = Sam Spade, “Critical Author Caper” (August 15, 1948) ***WD01:13...

Sonia Gale makes her living faking séances with rigged wires and trick voices, until a dead man's voice at her table tells a client where the money is hidden and Sonia swears she had nothing to do with it.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Romany Revenge” (November 29, 1978) ***WD00:46:05.868 = Nightmare, “Chance of a Ghost” (March 31, 1945) ***WD01...

Leaving Antelope Crossings, Nebraska, for a family funeral in 1958, a childless couple watch something spin out of the sky and into a ravine, and the only thing they find alive down there is a crying baby boy.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Alien Presence” (November 27, 1978) ***WD00:46:00.878 = Mindwebs, “A Walk In The Dark” (October 01, 1976) ***WD01:11...

Not long after a couple in ancient Macedonia buries their only daughter, their old servant looks in on a guest from the king's court and finds the girl asleep beside him.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Night Visitor” (November 24, 1978) ***WD00:45:55.090 = Lights Out, “Battle of Magicians” (July 27, 1946)01:15:41.270 = Lux Radio Theater, “The Big Clock” (November 22, 1948)02:16:01...