Famous Weekly Old Time Radio Shows

Famous Weekly Shows

Here is a list of some of the old-time radio programs that were broadcast at least once a week. If you see something with yellow highlighting, click on it to read a short history of the show, or to hear a short sound clip.

If you are interested in listening to old commercials, you can find some of them in our OTR Commercials page.

Day	Time	Network	Series	Sponsor	Years
var	var	CBS, NBC, ABC	Adventures of Ellery Queen	Bromo Seltzer, Anacin	1939 - 1948
var	~8:00 PM	ABC, CBS, NBC	Adventures of Sam Spade	Wildroot	1946 - 1951
var	~ 8 or 9 PM	NBC, CBS, Mut, ABC	Adventures of The Thin Man, The	Woodbury, Post, Pabst, Heinz	1941 - 1950
Fri or Sun	var	NBC, CBS	Amos 'n' Andy	Pepsodent, Campbell Soup, Rinso, Rexall	1928 - 1960
var	var	CBS, NBC	Bing Crosby	Cremo, Chesterfield, Woodbury, Kraft, Philco, GE,others	1931 - 1956
Tue	8:00p	MUT, ?	The Black Museum	Usually sustained. F. Savor Co.	1952
var	5:45p	WGN, Mut, NBC	Captain Midnight	Skelly Oil, Ovaltine	1939 - 1949
var	9:00 PM		Creaking Door	555 Cigarettes
Mon - Fri	8:00 PM	CBS	Crime Classics	Sustained	1953 - 1954
Sat	8 or 10 PM	Mutual	Crime Club	Sustained	1946 - 1947
Mon	2:30p	NBC Blue	Del Courtney Orchestra		1939
Mon or Thu	var	NBC	Dragnet	Fatima, Chesterfield	1949 - 1957
Sat	var	CBS, NBC	Duffy's Tavern	Shick, Sanka, Ipana	1941 - 1952
var	~8:00 - 9:30 PM	NBC, CBS	Edgar Bergen - Charlie McCarthy	Chase & Sanborn Coffee, Coca-Cola, Richard Hudnut	(1937) - 1954
var	var	CBS	Escape	Richfield Oil, Ford	1947 - 1954
Sun	~7:00 - 8:30 PM	Mut, NBC	Falcon	Several - see description	1943 - 1954
var	9:30 PM	NBC	Fibber McGee & Molly	Johnson's Wax	1935 - 1956 [1959]
var	7:15 or 10:00p	CBS	Glenn Miller Show	Chesterfield Cigarettes	1939 - 1942
Var	var	NBC Blue, Mutual, ABC	Green Hornet	General Mills, Orange Crush	1936 - 1953
Tue & Thur	var	CBS	Gunsmoke	Chesterfield, L&M, Post Cereals, Buick	1952 - 1961
var	6:05p	CBS	Have Gun, Will Travel	Several	1958 - 1960
var	11:30 PM	WJR	Hermit's Cave	Olga Coal	1940 - 1944
Sun		CBS	Jeff Regan, Investigator		1948 - 1950
Tue	var	NBC, CBS, ABC	Lights Out	Ironized Yeast, Energine, Snow White Bleach, Eversharp	1934 - 1947
Sat		Syn	Lives of Harry Lime, The (The Third Man)		1951 - 1952
var	7:30P 5:30P	MUT ABC NBC	Lone Ranger	Silvercup, Bond Bread, Cheerios	1933 - 1956
			Master of Mystery	Majestic Radios	1931 - 1934
	8 - 9:30 PM	NBC, CBS, ABC	Molle Mystery Theatre	Molle shaving cream	1943 - 1954
MWF?	var	NBC Blue, CBS, NBC	Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons	Bi-So-Dol, Kolynos, Chesterfield, Proctor & Gamble	1937 - 1955
var	9:30 or 10:30 PM	WJZ, Mut	Murder at Midnight	?	1946 - 1947 [1950]
var	9:00 PM	Mutual	Mysterious Traveler	Sustained	1943 - 1952
Mon	var	ABC	Pat Novak for Hire		1946 - 1949
Wed	8:00 PM	NBC	Pete Kelly's Blues		1951
var	10:30	Mutual	Sealed Book	?	1945
Sun	5:00 PM	Mutual	Shadow	Blue Coal	1930 - 1954
Sun	var	NBC, Mut, ABC, BBC	Sherlock Holmes	George Washington Coffee, Household Finance, Bromo Quinine, Petri Wine, Semler Co., Trimount	1930 - 1956
Sun	var	CBS, NBC, ABC	Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang	Buster Brown Shoes	1929(?) - 1953
var	8:00 PM	Mutual	Straight Arrow	Nabisco	1948 - 1951
var	~8:00 PM	CBS	Suspense	Roma Wines, Autolite, Philip Morris, Marlboro, Kellogs	1942 - 1962
Mon	8-9 PM	CBS, ABC	The Inner Sanctum	Carters, Colgate, Bromo Seltzer, Mars	1941 - 1951
var	8:30 PM	ABC	This is Your FBI	Equitable Life; Sustained	1945 - 1953
Fri	Var	CBS, NBC, Mut, ABC	Tommy Dorsey Orchestra	Raleigh, Kool, Nature's Remedy, others	1934 - 1946
Var	8:00 PM?	CBS	Whistler	Signal Oil	1942 - 1955
Sun	Var	NBC	Will Bradley Orchestra		1940s
Var	8-9 PM	NBC	X Minus 1	Street & Smith, Bromo; Pabst	1955 - 1958
var	var	CBS	Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar	Usually Sustained, Wrigley	1949 - 1962