The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Counterspy
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Counterspy (sometimes known as David Harding, Counterspy ) was on radio from 1942 to 1957. David Harding was the chief of the "United S…
According to the Record
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
According to the Record was a five-minute syndicated feature that was available to local stations and local advertisers from 1943 to 1957. T…
Adventures Of Ace Williams
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
The Adventures of Ace Williams was a juvenile serial about the experiences of the famous newsreel cameraman and his assistant, teenager Dick…
Mr Chameleon
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Mr. Chameleon was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, the highly successful pair who were responsible for the kids serial Jack Armstrong, th…
Al Pearce and His Gang
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Al Pearce was a radio comedian and entertainer who was on the air from 1928 to 1947. His catch phrase "Nobody home, I hope, I hope, I h…
The Lineup
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
The Lineup was a police procedural on CBS radio from 1950 to 1953. The program did not have a true star, but used some of CBS' best actors o…
Let's Pretend
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Let's Pretend was a happy and wholesome radio program for children. It evolved from a few different series, starting in the late 1920s, with…
Secret Mission
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Secret Mission was a Cold War program that detailed an exciting undercover story that included a message that Communism was a serious proble…
Grand Central Station
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Grand Central Station was an anthology series that ran from 1937 to 1954. It had one of the greatest show openings in radio. The sound of a …
21st Precinct
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
21st Precinct was a mid-1950s highly respected serious police drama on CBS that critics and listeners (who found it) enjoyed it. The problem…
Planet Man
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Planet Man was an early 1950s syndicated juvenile science fiction serial. Its hero, Dantro, was an agent of the League of Planets. He is fro…
Fifth War Loan Drive June 12, 1944
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
The Fifth War Loan Drive was initiated to raise money for the US effort in World War II. It was conducted from June 12 through July 8, 1944.…
High Adventure
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
High Adventure was a dramatic anthology series broadcast by Mutual. The executive in charge for much of its 1947-1954 run was Bob Monroe, wh…
Three Sheets To The Wind
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
This recording is a 1941 or 1942 radio special by movie producer Tay Garnett. The program had the first act of a proposed movie, Three Sheet…
Adventures of Billy Swift, Boy Detective
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
The Adventures of Billy Swift, Boy Detective was a short-lived Saturday morning kids serial heard mainly on the West coast and in the Southw…
The Big Story
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
The Big Story radio series chronicled the heroic quests that newspaper reporters made for truth and justice in their communities. The very s…
The Adventures Of Champion
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Gene Autry was such a popular star of Western movies and as a radio and music entertainer, that even his horse had a radio program: The Adve…
It Pays To Be Ignorant
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
It Pays to Be Ignorant is a comedy that ran from 1942 to 1951 as a quiz show. That format itself was a gag, as it was really a pretense for …
Indictment
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Indictment was fictionalized account of real-life events as gathered and experienced by a former New York City (Manhattan) assistant distric…
Mr. & Mrs. North
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Mr. and Mrs. North are a fictional married couple who are amateur detectives. The Norths were a highly successful multimedia franchise that …
Aldrich Family
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
The Aldrich Family was one of radio's longest running and popular family situation comedies, debuting in 1939 and leaving the air in 1953. T…
Incomparable Charlie Chan
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
The detective Charlie Chan has been viewed in many different ways over the decades. Earl Derr Biggers, who created the character in novels, …
Inner Sanctum
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Inner Sanctum is one of radio's most famous programs, broadcast from 1941 to 1952. It is best remembered for the sound effect of a heavy loc…
Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen was a very creative, well-written and produced series on Mutual from 1947 to 1948. It starred Elliott Lewis,…
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Richard Diamond starred singer and actor Dick Powell in a marvelously scripted program that played to Powell's talent and wit, and took the …
Whistler USAFE aircheck recordings
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
These are 1960s airchecks from Armed Forces Radio, likely recorded on home equipment by a service person stationed in Europe or a member of …
Intrigue
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Intrigue was a summer 1946 series on CBS. It was produced and directed by Charles Vanda, the creator of Suspense . The star was Joseph Schil…
Man Called X
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The Man Called X was an espionage radio drama that aired from 1944 to 1952. Herbert Marshall played US spy Ken Thurston ("Mr. X") …
The Whistler (Pacific Network)
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The Whistler was one of radio's most successful franchises, but it was rarely a true national program. It began on the CBS Pacific Network i…
Secret Missions
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Secret Missions was a Mutual series that ran from 1948 to 1949. It told true-life stories of wartime espionage under the office of Naval Int…
X Minus One
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X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction anthology series that ran on NBC from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958. The program was a reviv…
John J. Anthony (The Good Will Hour)
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
John J. Anthony was a marriage counselor who offered advice to couples over the air. He would real letters that started with “Mr. Anthony, I…
Joe Penner Show
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Joe Penner was an early radio comedian who found his success in the mid-1930s. He developed his routines and catch phrases ("Wanna buy …
Molle Mystery Theater
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Mollé Mystery Theatre was a half-hour anthology series that ran from 1943 to 1948. The show was produced in New York, and with high p…
John Steele, Adventurer
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
John Steele, Adventurer was a Mutual network program broadcast from 1949-1955. Steele would introduce grand stories of danger and adventure …
Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons (half hour series)
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons ran from 1937 to 1955 in serial and half-hour format at various times of its history. It was produced by Fr…
Murder Clinic
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Murder Clinic was a crime program broadcast on Mutual from August 1942 to November 1943. Each week, a detective story from a well-known myst…
Suspense 1: The Early Years (June 1942 - November 1943)
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Suspense was a long-running dramatic anthology on CBS from Summer of 1942 to what many consider final day of radio's golden age on September…
Douglas Of The World
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Douglas of The World was a 1953 Armed Forces Radio exclusive starring Jack Moyles, best known for his lead role in the CBS series Rocky Jord…
My Friend Irma
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
My Friend Irma was a situation comedy that was so popular that it inspired movies, comic books, and a television program. Marie Wilson was t…
My Favorite Husband
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
My Favorite Husband was a married couple situation comedy that starred Lucille Ball. The program brought her abilities as a comedic actress …
Mystery House (audition with Bela Lugosi)
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Mystery House was an audition program for a planned radio series starring horror film legend Bela Lugosi. The program also included stage an…
Duffy's Tavern
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Duffy's Tavern was one of radio's most successful comedies, known for its telephone ringing opening and the line "Hello, Duffy's Tavern…
Casey, Crime Photographer
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Casey, Crime Photographer was adapted from the pulp novels of George Harmon Coxe. The series began in July 1943 with the name Flashgun Casey…
NBC Radio Theater
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NBC Radio Theater was an anthology series in hour-long format that was broadcast Monday through Friday starting at the end of April 1959. Th…
Dunninger, the Mentalist
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Dunninger was a "mentalist," a magician whose performances specialized in hypnosis, clairvoyance, telepathy, and other mind contro…
NBC Story Shop
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NBC Story Shop was an anthology series that ran from 1947 to 1948. It dramatized classic and new children's stories. * * * These recordings …
Chandu the Magician (half hour series)
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Chandu the Magician was a serialized radio drama that dealt with the supernatural. It began in 1931 in Los Angeles and was gradually picked …
Night Beat
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Night Beat was one of radio's finest series for its writing, creativity, production, and its performances. The series starred Frank Lovejoy,…
Charles Frederick Lindsley
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In the early 1930s, Charles Frederick Lindsley was a Southern California radio personality known for his professional speaking and acting ta…
Tennessee Jed
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Tennessee Jed was a juvenile western serial about Tennessee Jed Sloan. With his horse, Smoky, Jed was the "deadliest man with a rifle e…
1939 NY World's Fair Opening
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The 1939–40 New York World's Fair was held in Queens, New York, at a site near today’s LaGuardia Airport and the CitiField baseball stadium …
FBI in Peace and War
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
The FBI in Peace and War was a radio crime drama, but despite its name, did not have the official cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Inves…
Encore Theater
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Encore Theater was a 13-week series sponsored by Schenley Laboratories, a pharmaceutical manufacturer. The big-budget, well-produced series …
Let George Do It
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Let George Do It was a west coast program broadcast over the Mutual-Don Lee Network starting in 1946 and ending in 1954. It started as a com…
The Chase
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The Chase aired on NBC from 1952 to 1953. Veteran radio writer Lawrence Klee ( Mr. Keen Tracer of Lost Persons and other Hummert productions…
The Clock (US)
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The Clock is a drama anthology series that ran on ABC from 1946 to 1948. The program was narrated by "Father Time". The creator an…
Jolly Bill and Jane
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
Bill Steinke was a cartoonist and vaudevillian who started the kid's show Jolly Bill and Jane in 1928. It was on and off the air at various …
ABC Closed Set
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
This is one of the more curious recordings in the Hehn collection. It is a special information broadcast for ABC affiliates on May 27, 1946 …
A Date With Judy
The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection
A Date with Judy was a popular teenage comedy series that was on the air from 1941 to 1950. The show began as a 1941 summer replacement for …