Performance audiobooks

Suspense: Hollywood Hostages

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Two members of a movie crew arrive at a ghost town to shoot a picture. Two desperate criminals have arrived there ahead of the movie crew, but the Hollywood types think the two crooks are a practical joke Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Broken Spur

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Saturday night, June 5th 1948, time, 10pm. On a small ranch ten miles south of Cranston Irwin County, Texas Milton Thomas was counting a large sum of money preparatory to locking it up for the night. As he was counting his dog Rags appeared to be nervous. Thomas tried to quiet him... Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Candy Man

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 4:00 pm April 14th 1947. A prisoner in the jail at Pentland County Texas is being returned to his cell as the visiting hour comes to an end. His name is Paul Abbott, serving out a six-month sentence for petty larson. His cellmate John Sagood has not had a visit for Sagood is being held without bail awaiting trial for murder… Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Taxidermy

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Brooks becomes a taxidermist. Her first job is Mr. Conklin's prize bass! For many teachers June 17th marks the last day of regular school term and this also applies to our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School but unlike many other teachers however, she had volunteered for summer school duty. Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: The Trap

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The two colleagues were delivering a cargo of car radios valued at $39,000 when their truck is sent on a detour to a dead end. The truck and its cargo is hijacked and Rover and Simms are both needlessly killed. Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Blind Justice

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 5.45 am March 6th, 1940 and Pete Salverson owner of the roadside café in West Texas is opening for business. As he sweeps up in the kitchen he hears a sound outside the back door and discovers a beat up and hungry dog there with a strange kind of leash on it like a harness the kind a blind mans dog might wear. When the sheriff turns up he... Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Working in the Stockroom

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the start of the first semester and after a hard day in a faculty meeting Miss Brooks has just retired to bed and dozed off when there is a knock at the door. It is the Principle on a drive for more discipline, less horse-play, towing-of-the-line, and running of the school in an orderly manner. Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Photo Mix Up

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For many people Friday the 13th brings a feeling of pending misfortune. But our Miss Brooks, who teaches English at Madison High School, doesn’t believe in such superstition. Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Babysitting for Three

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Brooks babysits, which gives everyone the idea that she's sharing a love nest with Mr. Boynton! Although our Miss Brooks teaches English at Madison High School, her problems like those of any other teacher aren’t always confined to purely scholastics ones. There’s Mr. Philip Boynton for instance, the biology teacher for whom Miss Brooks is... Read more

Night Beat: Pay Up or Die

By: Frank Lovejoy, Jeff Corey, Hal March & Shepard ...

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlie owed Joe Sligo $3000 from his gambling and Sligo’s motto was pay up or die. Charlie has a family and kids to think about and has been in debt for 6 months. Now he turns to Randy Stone for help. Randy Stone knows that the police are looking for Sligo and tells Charlie his only hope is to let the police know where Sligo is. Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Room 114

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve flies to Rotterdam to find ex-Nazi Rudolph Karpel...with the help of the Glutenschwitzen girls! Read more

Suspense: One Way Ride to Nowhere

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the premiere drama programs of the Golden age of Radio, Suspense was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills”. The protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a bizarre or threatening situation; solutions were “withheld until the last possible second” and evildoers were usually punished in the end. Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Poetry Mix-Up

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who's been sending romantic poetry to Harriet Conklin? Our Miss Brooks manages to keep pretty busy teaching English at Madison High School but in spite of her preoccupation with her own subject she’s managed to find quite a bit of time lately to pursue the study of biology. Read more

My Favorite Husband: Liz Becomes a Sculptress

By: Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh & Jess Oppenheimer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Liz takes up sculpture and hires a model. As we look in on 321 Bundy Drive, Sheridan Falls, it's late afternoon. Liz is just arriving home from her club meeting, and is met at the door by George. Liz has had a very educational day at the club today. They had a lecture on older people and how they can be kept happy and useful, but as Liz has no... Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the U.S. NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal, to... Read more

Suspense

By: Various

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

One of the premier drama programs of the Golden age of Radio, Suspense was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills." The protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a bizarre or threatening situation; solutions were “withheld until the last possible second” and evildoers were usually punished in the end. Read more

Philo Vance Detective

By: Jackson Beck

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Exceptionally entertaining, soft-boiled Detective Philo Vance solves murders with his wits. His brain is a match for the Great Sherlock Holmes, and so is his superior attitude. This radio series pays homage to the original detective novels of Van Dine first published in the mid-1920s. Read more

Our Miss Brooks

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Featuring a witty professional woman as the central character of this old-time radio show, Our Miss Brooks was a groundbreaking concept. Audiences could (and continue to) relate to Connie Brooks as a clever, sarcastic, kindhearted teacher. A year before the radio series ended, it had a television, stage play, and film adaptations of the same title. Read more

Night Beat

By: Various

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This popular radio program followed Randy Stone, a hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman, and his quest for the human-interest story behind the headlines. Running from 1950 to 1952, listeners were invited to join the newsman in his journeys, oftentimes encountering criminals and troubled souls. Read more

My Favorite Husband

By: Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh & Jess Oppenheimer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

My Favorite Husband starred Lucille Ball and Richard Denning as Liz and George Cooper (Liz and George Cugat in early episodes). The couple lived at 321 Bundy Drive in the fictitious city of Sheridan Falls, and were billed as two people who live together and like it. Read more

Philo Vance Detective: Muddy Murder Case

By: Jackson Beck

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Muddy Murder Case began with the shooting of Johnny Williams, racketeer. Although his house was completely surrounded by mud and Williams was killed at close range, there were no footprints in the mud and nobody but Williams' housekeeper was in his home. Philo Vance and DA Markham suspect a racketeer named Foster, especially since they think... Read more

Night Beat: The Black Cat

By: Frank Lovejoy

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For Randy Stone of the Chicago Star, stories begin in many ways. This one began with a Halloween killing and ended with a black cat sweet revenge. Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Death by Adoption

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 9.45 pm on a Saturday night in September 1937. The business district of central city Texas is dark except for the office of Harry Cashman’s used car lot. Cashman is pacing the small office in agitation as a man in a leather windbreaker crosses the lot slipping between the cars for sale and knocks at the door. He is the blood father that... Read more

Suspense: Taming of the Beast

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A scheming phoney doctor is delighted to discover that his wife has a brain tumor that will kill her in three months! Dr Ferrari knew what kind of woman Nora was the moment he laid eyes on her. She was very beautiful and equally utterly heartless. She was the kind of a woman who wants everything, gives nothing and still thinks she’s a passionate... Read more