Casey, Crime Photographer: The Red Raincoat (August 29, 1946)

Suspense was a CBS radio anthology of mystery and thriller dramas that ran from 1942 to 1962. This January 12, 1943 broadcast adapts Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” with Henry Hull in the lead role. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

X Minus One was NBC’s science fiction radio anthology, broadcast from 1955 to 1958 as a successor to Dimension X. In “Mars Is Heaven,” first broadcast May 8, 1955, an Earth expedition lands on Mars and finds an eerily familiar town. The episode adapts a story by Ray Bradbury. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gunsmoke brought a more adult Western to CBS radio, with William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon. “Billy the Kid” was the series’ first broadcast on April 26, 1952. It opens with Dillon preparing a wanted poster for Clay Richards, a fugitive accused of murder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Great Gildersleeve spun off from Fibber McGee and Molly in 1941, with Harold Peary as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve. In this early episode, Leroy takes on a paper route and Gildy gets drawn into his delivery-day troubles. “Leroy’s Paper Route” originally aired on September 14, 1941. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, the Chicago Star’s night-shift reporter, in Night Beat, an NBC drama following the human stories and dangers Stone finds after dark. In “The Devil’s Bible,” an unusually valuable old book leads Stone back to an unsolved murder. Originally broadcast July 24, 1950. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.