100 Great Radio Shows: Classic Shows from the Golden Era of Radio

OASIS AUDIO CLASSIC RADIO SHOWCASE SERIES

Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audio book, old time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the early 1950s, the golden era of radio. The series features seven exciting themes with 100 episodes in each. That is 700 classic radio programs in all.

100 Great Radio Shows

New to Old-time Radio? Join Oasis Audio for 100 radio shows from across all genres. Thrill to detective stories and mysteries, dig your spurs in for some dusty trail western adventures, laugh until you cry with the kings and queens of radio comedy, sit on the edge of your seat for the greatest radio dramas. Be filled with nostalgia as you enjoy this unique collection of 100 of the all-time best radio shows.

1. The Abbott and Costello Show 1942-11-19 Guest Merle Oberon with Who’s on First Bonus

2. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet 1949_02_06 Housekeeping

3. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe 1950_01_14 The Covered Bridge

4. The Adventures of Red Ryder 1942_03_10 Dobie Town

5. The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective 1948_09_19 The Hot Hundred Grand Caper

6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1945_10_29 Murder by Moonlight

7. The Adventures of the Thin Man 1948_07_06 The Adventure of the Passionate Palooka

8. The Aldrich Family 1949_02_10 Geometry Homework

9. The Amos N Andy Show 1951_05_06 Annual Lodge Hall Picnic

10. Barrie Craig Confidential Investigator 1953_09_22 Kitchens Come with Knives

11. The Big Story 1948_01_07 Manhunt in Manhattan

12. Big Town 1940_03_26 Death Rides the Highway

13. Bill Stern Newsreel 1948_12_17 Marie MacDonald

14. The Black Museum 1952 The Spotted Bedsheet

15. Bold Venture 1951_03_26 Deadly Merchandise

16. Boston Blackie 1946_09_03 The Stolen Rare Book

17. Box Thirteen 1948_10_03 Short Assignment

18. Broadway Is My Beat 1953_05_30 The Ruth Shay Case

19. The Burns and Allen Show 1946_05_09 Guest Harpo Marx

20. Casey Crime Photographer 1947_07_31 Death in Lover’s Lane

21. The Cavalcade of America 1945_10_08 Spy on the Kilocyles

22. The CBS Radio Workshop 1956_05_11 The Enormous Radio

23. The Charlie McCarthy Show 1943_04_11 Guest Martha Raye

24. The Chase 1952_10_19 Manhunt

25. The Cisco Kid 1954_01_26 The Claim Jumpers

26. Cloak and Dagger 1950_05_07 File Number 2218

27. Crime Classics 1953_09_30 The Bloody Bloody Banks of Fall River

28. The Damon Runyon Theatre 1950_09_26 The Lemon Drop Kid

29. Dangerous Assignment 1950_12_30 When a Friend Is Not a Friend

30. Dimension X 1951_06_17 A Pebble in the Sky

31. Dr. Christian 1938_01_09 Hit and Run

32. Dragnet 1953_09_15 The Big Cab

33. Duffy’s Tavern 1949_03_16 The Bully

34. Escape 1950_03_17 Three Skeleton Key

35. The Fat Man 1951_01_17 The Nightmare Murders

36. Father Knows Best 1952_12_18 The Kids Revolt

37. FBI in Peace and War 1957_01_20 Ladies in Lace

38. Fibber McGee and Molly 1941_05_20 Molly’s Birthday Cake

39. The First Nighter Program 1948_02_12 Love IS Stranger Than Fiction

40. Fort Laramie 1956_01_29 The Boatwright’s Story

41. Frontier Gentleman 1958_10_26 The Rainmaker

42. Gang Busters 1950s The Case of the 24-Hour Twins

43. Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch 1950s Betty Carson’s Cattle Are Poisoned

44. Grand Central Station 1949_12_2 Miracle for Christmas

45. The Great Gildersleeve 1944_04_30 Engaged to Eve Goodwin

46. The Green Hornet 1946_01_29 Escape for Revenge

47. Gunsmoke 1953_05_09 Buffalo Hunt

48. The Halls of Ivy 1950_05_24 Fighting Med Student

49. Have Gun Will Travel 1959_11_22 Fair Fugitive

50. Hopalong Cassidy 1951_03_A Jailer Named Satan

51. I Was a Communist for the FBI 1952_05_07 Little Red Schoolhouse

52. Inner Sanctum Mystery 1946_05_21 Detour to Terror

53. The Jack Benny Program 1950_02_19 Jack Returns to Los Angeles Via Train

54. Jeff Regan Investigator 1948_12_11 The Gambler and the Lady

55. Let George Do It 1951_04_The Eight Ball

56. The Life of Riley 1951_03_30 Riley the Rent Collector

57. Life with Luigi 1950_04_04 The Traffic Light

58. Lights Out 1943_08_10 Sakhalin

59. The Line Up 1951_02_22 The Story of Charlie

60. Little Orphan Annie 1936 Mr. Flint is Selling Stock in the Toll Bridge

61. The Lux Radio Theatre 1952_12_15 The African Queen

62. The Lives of Harry Lime aka The Third Man 1951_08_31 Voodoo

63. The Man Called X 1952_02_26 Venezuela Waterway Sabotage

64. Mercury Theatre on the Air 1938_10_30 War of the Worlds

65. Murder At Midnight 1946_11_04 The Heavy Death

66. Murder By Experts 1949_09_05 Return Trip

67. My Favorite Husband 1949_05_20 Liz Feels She’s Getting Old

68. My Friend Irma 1948_05_03 Acute Love Sickness

69. The Mysterious Traveler 1947_07_06 The Locomotive Ghost

70. Mystery House 1944_07_The Thirst Death

71. The New Adventures of Michael Shayne 1948 The Case of the Carnival Killer

72. The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe 1950_12_29 The Case of the Bashful Body

73. Night Beat 1950_11_The Black Cat

74. Our Miss Brooks 1949_09_11 School Board

75. Pat Novak For Hire 1949_03_06 Fleet Lady

76. The Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show 1950_01_01 Concert Stage

77. Philo Vance Detective 1949_06_21 Peacock Murder Case

78. Quiet Please 1948_08_09 The Thing on the Fourble Board

79. The Red Skeleton Show 1941_11_11 Red Goes to the Fights

80. Richard Diamond Private Detective 1949_12_17 The John Blackwell Case

81. Rocky Fortune 1953_10_13 Steven in a Rest Home

82. Rocky Jordan 1950_07_The Dead Colleen

83. Rogues Gallery 1945_10_18 Blondes Prefer Gentlemen

84. The Roy Rogers Show 1951_10_26 Prospector Needs Help

85. The Saint 1950_11_19 No Hiding Place

86. The Screen Directors Playhouse 1949_08_04 Fort Apache

87. The Screen Guild Players 1947_04_21 Too Many Husbands

88. The Sealed Book 1945_04_15 Escape by Death

89. The Story of Dr Kildare 1950_06_22 Pricilla’s Broken Arm

90. The Strange Dr Weird 1945_05_08 Picture of a Killer

91. Suspense 1950_11_16 On A Country Road

92. Tales of the Texas Rangers 1951_05_13 Paid in Full

93. This Is Your FBI 1948_08_20 The Wrong Way Shakedown

94. Under Arrest 1948_08_The Spook of Sherwood Mansion

95. Vic and Sade 1945_11_29 Uncle Fletchers Phone Calls

96. The Weird Circle 1944_12_24 The Doll

97. The Whistler 1944_09_Practically Foolproof

98. Whitehall 1212 1952_05_11 The Case of Margery Tate

99. X Minus One 1955_05_15 Universe

100. You Bet Your Life 1957_04_13 Secret Word is Face

Bonus 1. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar 1956_07_20 The Star of Capetown Matter