Close your eyes. The only input you have is audio. With a little imagination, you can easily transport yourself back to a comfortable chair positioned next to the fire, in a 1940s’ home. What you are experiencing is exactly the same as what someone in the 1940s experienced if they sat by the fire with their eyes closed.

In the be­gin­ning, most ra­dio pro­grams em­u­lat­ed the vaudeville acts that were the main­stay of pub­lic amuse­ment be­fore ra­dio. Comics and singers ruled the air­waves! Best of all, you no longer had to leave your home to en­joy their tal­ents! Even­tu­al­ly, how­ev­er, au­di­ences ma­tured and oth­er types of pro­grams were added to the ra­dio sched­ule.

Adventures by Morse was an action & adventure series produced, written and directed by Carlton E. Morse, who created the eponymous series after NBC canceled his popular series I Love a Mystery.

Alternately known as ABC Mystery Time, Mystery Time Classics and Mystery Time Classics this series was a limited-run, mystery and suspense show based on short stories from various authors, including Oscar Wilde (Portrait of Dorian Gray) and Nikolai Gogol (Diary of a Madman, The Overcoat).

Ripley’s Believe It or Not 1 Minute Episodes is a 415-part series created by Robert Ripley, an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, amateur anthropologist, and collector of bizarre facts from around the globe. The series featured little known facts about unusual and exotic people, places and occurrences.