The Old Time Radio Scripts Page! See below for what is new on the site or click on a letter under "Radio Scripts". Scripts are listed by the first noun in the title.

- Enjoy Radio Scripts from the Golden Age of Radio!

Academy Award Theater: The Great McGinty - script- from: Generic Radio

This is the story of a guy called McGinty who's tendin' bar in a joint south of the border. This is a story of McGinty, his friends, and their brief day o' glory. Preston Sturges' movie comedy, reduced to a half hour of radio, becomes "The Below Average McGinty."

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BBC: The Flowers Are Not for You to Pick - transcript- from: Early Radio

Before he became an influential Shakespearean director, Tyrone Guthrie wrote artsy experimental radio plays for the BBC. Guthrie's 1930 classic "The Flowers Are Not for You to Pick" (which later aired on NBC in July 1933) "demonstrated that cinematic methods of montage, cross-fading and representing past, present, future, inner and outer consciousness had a place in the sound medium. The play exploited radio's novelistic ability to dramatise the inner lives of people. Guthrie's play is all in the mind of its central character ... a drowning man in the middle of an ocean ..."

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Big Town: Occupied Paris - script- from: Generic Radio

The new anti-sneeze Rinso presents Edward G. Robinson as Steve Wilson, managing editor of the Illustrated Press.

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Camel Caravan: Death Takes a Holiday - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

Dramatic sketch from a 1936 variety series. Boris Karloff takes the title role in this brief scene from the famous play.

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Cavalcade of America: A Child Is Born - script- from: Generic Radio

The story of Christ's birth from the point-of-view of the Innkeeper's Wife. Author Stephen Vincent Benét, antifascist propagandist extraordinaire, concocts a curious blend of politics and religion for the holidays.

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Cavalcade of America: Listen to the People - script- from: Generic Radio

Another poetic Stephen Vincent Benét play, suitable for Fourth of July propaganda purposes. With Ethel Barrymore.

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Cavalcade of America: The Undefended Border - script- from: Generic Radio

Yet another Stephen Vincent Benét play, this time a pat-on-the-back tribute to peaceful U.S.-Canadian relations. Like a good propagandist, the author somehow manages to avoid an outright mention of the repeated U.S. invasions of Canada.

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Good Neighbors: Brazil - transcript- from: Quietly Yours

Part of a script by Wyllis Cooper from a straightforward 1941 propaganda series promoting America's Good Neighbor Policy.

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Gunsmoke: Start of a Legend - script- from: Generic Radio

Dodge City accuses a Dutchman of murder -- and gets up a lynch mob. Can U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon hold them off? The first broadcast show of the series, with an amusing surprise ending.

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Lux Radio Theater: The Maltese Falcon - script- from: Generic Radio

Edward G. Robinson, not Humphrey Bogart, plays the role of detective Sam Spade in this hour-long adaptation of the 1941 film based on the Dashiell Hammett mystery novel.

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Our Miss Brooks: Cure That Habit - script- from: Those Were The Days

Two black cats on Friday, the 13th?! Fortunately, Our Miss Brooks, the no-nonsense Madison High School English teacher, isn't superstitious.

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Our Miss Brooks: Friday, the 13th - script- from: Those Were The Days

Have you ever opened your eyes in the morning and felt that everything was going to go wrong that day? And then realized that you’d already made your first mistake by opening your eyes? Another unlucky day for the still unsuperstitious Miss Brooks.

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Quiet Please: 066 Light The Lamp For Me - transcript- from: Quietly Yours

I have but to light my lamp, and think of a time and I am there. There are only two restrictions; one, that I can change only time, not place. If I wish to see Chicago in the mid-nineties, I must go to Chicago; if I would watch the battle of Hastings in 1066, I must go to England. And the other-I may see the future only once. And I find myself incapable of choosing a time in the future which I would want to see.

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Radio Hall of Fame: Times Square - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

A colorful "tabloid panorama" about seven women in New York City's Times Square at the theater hour. Written and performed by Cornelia Otis Skinner as part of an hour-long variety show.

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Richard Diamond, Private Detective: The Nathan Beeker Case - script- from: Generic Radio

I went shopping for my girl, Helen Asher, the other day. You know, stuff for dinner. This town's gotten hotter than a blast furnace in Death Valley so you gotta pick out things that make for a cool meal. Like salads, cold cuts, beer. ... Now about a week ago, I got mixed-up in a case and before it was over, I took so many salt tablets, I am now the best-seasoned private detective in New York.

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Station WLS: Scottsboro Limited - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

A brief but potent 1933 radio play (with some surprisingly strong language) about the notorious "Scottsboro Boys" case. The play aired on Chicago station WLS and was published in the Chicago Defender.

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Strange - script- from: Generic Radio

15-minute-long tales of the supernatural hosted by Walter Gibson, best known for writing the pulp magazine adventures of radio's The Shadow.

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Superman: Superman vs. Kryptonite - script- from: Those Were The Days

...Superman escaped ... But not before suffering a loss of memory. Dressed in ragged overalls, not knowing who he was or where he belonged, he wandered about until finally in the little town of Gainesville, he found himself on a baseball field. And under the name of Bud Smith, became the star pitcher for the local team. They just don't write 'em like this anymore, kids. {It says Chapter 18 but it's actually Chapter 19 of "Superman vs. Kryptonite" from "Superman":}

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Suspense: Always Room at the Top - script- from: Generic Radio

Ambitious Helen (played by Anne "All About Eve" Baxter) fails a job interview and, soon after, the interviewer falls to her death. Murder, suicide or accident? Or none of the above? Says one blogger: "When it comes to stories about catty and ruthless female executives, this one takes the cake and runs away with the spoon!"

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Suspense: Dark Journey - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

Two women travel to New York City where one of them tries to use mental will power to finally land her reluctant fiance -- with unexpectedly deadly results. Fascinating drama by Lucille Fletcher, author of those two radio classics, "Sorry, Wrong Number" and "The Hitch-Hiker."

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Suspense: Ghost Hunt - script- from: Generic Radio

As a stunt, a disc jockey plans to spend a night in a haunted house. Ralph Edwards, best remembered as host of "Truth or Consequences" and "This Is Your Life," stars. Script by Walter Brown Newman who was later nominated in three different decades for screenwriting Oscars (Ace in the Hole, Cat Ballou, Bloodbrothers).

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Suspense: On a Country Road - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

A crazy woman with a meat cleaver escapes from a mental hospital and kills some people on the same dark and stormy night that a married couple take a shortcut down the lonely country road where the most recent murders were committed. A nightmarish "mixture of urban legend and cautionary tale like no other," this is generally regarded as one of the best episodes of "Suspense."

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Suspense: On a country Road - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

A much shorter and weaker version of the above.

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Suspense: Plan X - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

An unlikely Martian factory worker is chosen to greet invaders from Earth -- and to carry out "Plan X" against them.

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Suspense: The Black Door - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

An archeologist and his guide search for the Lost City of the Fire God -- where something unearthly is hidden behind the Black Door. One of the last great horror-adventure tales to appear on "Suspense."

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Suspense: The Diary of Sophronia Winters - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

I, Sophronia Winters, have hereby begun this diary because, on this date, I feel for the first time that I've begun to live. Diaries are no good unless one has thrilling experiences. For forty years, I've never had what could really be called a thrilling experience. But Papa's death has changed everything.

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Suspense: The Lost Special - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

Orson Welles in Arthur Conan Doyle's convoluted tale of a train's mysterious disappearance in mid-journey. Special guest villain: Charles Foster Kane!

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The Free Company: His Honor, the Mayor - script- from: Generic Radio

An independent-minded small town mayor must decide whether or not to allow a white supremacist group to hold a meeting. Orson Welles writes, directs and narrates this drama about free speech (and other issues that never seem to go away). He also plugs his new movie, Citizen Kane.

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The Great Gildersleeve: Gildersleeve's New Secretary - script- from: Generic Radio

When Gildy takes his date to his office late one night, the mayor mistakes her for Gildy's new secretary.

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The Hermit's Cave: The House of Purple Shadows - transcript- from: Kingrr's Home Page

The owner of an ominous house mysteriously disappears. Everyone thinks he's dead -- but the house knows better. Straightforward horror story.

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The Witch's Tale: Frankenstein - script- from: Generic Radio

You're right, Satan. A woman named Mary Shelley once writ this yarn of ours in a book. But she and no one else never knowed the true facts of the case, but me. Douse out them lights, settin' in the spooky shadows is the way to hear our pretty tales.

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Weird circle: Frankenstein - script- from: Generic Radio

Yes, the monster stood there - silhouetted against the trees. The monster which I had created, standing like an evil blot of flesh and bone. ... moved in the darkening twilight... and then suddenly - phantomlike - disappeared.

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