Radio Legends Premier Collections are the signature products of Radio Archives, representing the highest level of audio fidelity and restoration currently available anywhere. But, because Premier Collections are always derived from first generation master recordings, the content of these top notch releases is limited solely to series for which we can acquire original master transcription discs and tapes. There are thousands and thousands of programs in the Radio Archives collection that, though they sound fine and are much loved classics of the medium, are not direct from the masters and, thus, don't qualify for Premier status. To bring these popular shows to you, we're pleased to offer a new line of CD sets, known as Radio Legends collections. Radio Legends CD sets from Radio Archives offer some of the best loved and best remembered shows from radio's Golden Age, all at extremely affordable prices. The shows in these collections are taken from a wide range of top quality sources; in, fact, we've searched high and low for the best versions we can find of these delightful and diverse programs. Before offering these shows to you, each program is run through our CEDAR system and carefully restored so that each vintage broadcast can be enjoyed without the flaws or defects so common to most radio shows from other sources. We think you'll find that Radio Legends sets contain some of the best - and best sounding - old time radio you've ever heard, shows you'll want to play and enjoy over and over again. Each CD set comes complete with full-color artwork, four color labels, and a durable plastic storage case. Purchasing Radio Legends sets, along with Premier Collections, will allow you to build a diverse and enjoyable collection of old time radio entertainment, representing both the best sounding and the best remembered radio shows of all time -- and, best of all, all proceeds go to support the Archives work to "Preserve Radio's Past for the Future".

Radio Legends: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell Item #RL01 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Athlete, sports star, top student, and popular with his peers for his positive outlook, good sportsmanship, and sense of fairness and camaraderie, Frank Merriwell was a symbolic hero and role model for the youth of America for well over sixty years. In 1946, NBC brought him to radio for a popular series of Saturday morning mini-mysteries, twenty of which are featured in this ten hour collection of delightful family-friendly programs. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective Item #RL22 - Ten CD Set $19.95 In the hands of producer/director William Spier as well as in the portrayal of actor Howard Duff, Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade became a likeable and insouciant character, turning many of the tough guy clichés of detective fiction on their heads with a sarcastic tongue-in-cheek slant that makes radio's "Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective" a delight to listen to today. Enjoy twenty full-length episodes in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: The Adventures of the Falcon, Volume 1 Item #RL25 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Based on the character created by writer Michael Arlen, enjoy twenty full-length broadcasts featuring freewheeling freelance detective Michael Waring, aka The Falcon, as he investigates a series of baffling mysteries. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: The Couple Next Door Item #RL27 - Ten CD Set $19.95 In 1957, writer/performer Peg Lynch ("Ethel and Albert") returned to radio with a captivating five-a-week situation comedy series for CBS. Aired during the daytime hours, Lynch and co-star Alan Bunce offered gentle, yet hilarious slices of married life that, even after fifty years, still resonate with modern listeners. You'll enjoy forty eight full-length broadcasts in this value-priced Radio Legends collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Dragnet, Volume 1 Item #RL02 - Ten CD Set $19.95 A precedent-shattering radio landmark that became a national institution -- its influence is with us yet. And now Radio Archives is proud to take you back to the very beginning, with an exciting collection of twenty broadcasts from the very first season of Jack Webb's police procedural classic "Dragnet." Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Escape, Volume 1 Item #RL23 - Ten CD Set $19.95 "Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you ESCAPE!" Enjoy twenty engrossing and adventure-filled broadcasts of this classic CBS anthology series in this new 10-CD Radio Legends release. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Father Knows Best, Volume 1 Item #RL03 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Robert Young stars in "Father Knows Best," offering twenty delightful episodes from one of the brightest and most hilarious situation comedies ever to hit the airwaves. Featuring excellent scripts and outstanding performances from Jean Vander Pyl, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, and Norma Jean Nilsson, this collection offers ten full hours of family-friendly entertainment, just as originally heard over the NBC Radio Network in 1950/51. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Father Knows Best, Volume 2 Item #RL19 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Your entire family will enjoy twenty more fun-filled episodes of "Father Knows Best," the delightful NBC situation comedy starring Robert Young. This new Radio Legends collection offers ten hours of timeless comedy entertainment. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Father Knows Best, Volume 3 Item #RL20 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Times change, people don't -- and that's proven for sure in "Father Knows Best," the timeless comedy series starring Robert Young as the loving but beleaguered father to three bright but challenging youngsters. Enjoy twenty laugh-filled episodes in this new Radio Legends CD collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Father Knows Best, Volume 4 Item #RL21 - Ten CD Set $19.95 When people speak of a classic family situation comedy, one title comes immediately to mind: "Father Knows Best," starring Robert Young. But did you know that it began its long run on radio? Hear how it all began as Radio Archives offers twenty full-length adventures of the Anderson clan - ten full hours of audio entertainment to enjoy with the whole family. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, Volume 1 Item #RL04 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Enjoying a sixteen-year run on NBC, "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch" featured the singing cowboy performing musical favorites, bantering with sidekick Pat Buttram, and playing the lead in dramatic two-fisted adventures. Enjoy ten full hours of tuneful western entertainment in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, Volume 2 Item #RL26 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Hailed as one of the first of the singing cowboys, Gene Autry stars in "Melody Ranch," offering twenty tune-filled broadcasts from one of the longest running family-friendly radio series of all time. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: The Great Gildersleeve, Volume 1 Item #RL05 - Ten CD Set $19.95 One of radio's most realistic situation comedies and an all-time favorite of radio enthusiasts, Hal Peary stars as "The Great Gildersleeve" in twenty original broadcasts from the first season of this delightful family oriented series -- including the very first broadcast. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Have Gun, Will Travel, Volume 1 Item #RL11 - Ten CD Set $19.95 John Dehner stars as Paladin, a stylish, sophisticated, and urbane "white knight" of the old west in this well-produced dramatic series from the late 1950s. Enjoy the first twenty episodes of a late-era radio classic in this 10-CD collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Have Gun Will Travel, Volume 2 Item #RL33 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Though first seen on CBS Television, the dramatic western series "Have Gun, Will Travel" was also a late-era success on CBS Radio. Starring John Dehner as Paladin, the sophisticated San Francisco-based gunslinger, you'll enjoy twenty more sequential episodes in this second 10-CD Radio Legends collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Information Please, Volume 1 Item #RL06 - Ten CD Set $19.95 "Wake up, America! It's time to stump the experts!" Clifton Fadiman hosts twenty broadcasts of "Information Please," one of the most erudite, witty, and consistently entertaining quiz programs ever to hit the airwaves. Featuring series regulars Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran, and Oscar Levant, as well as celebrity guests ranging from literary lions Ben Hecht and John Gunther to actors Basil Rathbone and Lillian Gish, we know you'll enjoy twenty full-length broadcasts from this delightful show -- including the first show of the series. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Let George Do It Item #RL07 - Ten CD Set $19.95 "Let George Do It" offers a change of pace for fans of the hard-boiled crime show genre, as well as an opportunity to hear the popular Bob Bailey ("Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar") in his earliest major radio role: George Valentine, Los Angeles private eye and freelance troubleshooter. Enjoy twenty full-length broadcasts from this delightfully quirky series in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Matinee with Bob and Ray Item #RL29 - Ten CD Set $19.95 "The Boys from Boston" are back, as Radio Archives offers you ten full hours of comedy with the innovative team of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. You'll enjoy the freewheeling atmosphere of their early days in this 10-CD set containing twenty of their earliest programs for WHDH. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Mystery Is My Hobby Item #RL32 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Mystery writer Barton Drake is fascinated by crime the same way that ornithologists are fascinated by birds -- and, as with birds and birdwatchers, he finds a great many baffling crimes seem to regularly come his way. Glenn Langan stars in this Mutual Radio Network series of engrossing mystery shows dating from the late 1940s. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Night Watch, Volume 1 Item #RL08 - Ten CD Set $19.95 A unique blend of “Dragnet” and “Cops,” “Night Watch” was radio’s first reality show, as reporter Don Reed traveled in an unmarked police car on the night watch through Culver City, California. Still vivid and engrossing after more than fifty years, hear ten full hours of authentic police drama in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Nightbeat, Volume 1 Item #RL30 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, a reporter for the Chicago Star, who spends his nights seeking out "the stories behind the stories" -- and frequently finding touching drama, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and surprising nobility among the average people he meets along the way. With a style that might best be described as "film noir for the mind," this Radio Legends collection offers twenty full length NBC broadcasts of "Nightbeat" - including both the audition show and the first program of the series. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Our Miss Brooks, Volume 1 Item #RL13 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Tart-tongued Eve Arden stars as Connie Brooks, Madison High School's bright and acerbic English teacher, in this hilarious series that also features such outstanding performers as Jeff Chandler as shy biology teacher Mr. Boynton, Richard Crenna as the adenoidal teenager Walter Denton, and the unforgettable Gale Gordon as bombastic principal Osgood Conklin. You'll delight in twenty full-length broadcasts from this delightful and timeless radio classic, offered on ten compact discs. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Screen Directors' Playhouse Item #RL28 - Ten CD Set $19.95 A late entry in the Hollywood-movie-adaptation genre, "Screen Directors' Playhouse" may lack the prestige of "The Lux Radio Theatre" or the flashiness of "The Screen Guild players," but this star-studded NBC series stands out as one of the forgotten gems of big time radio's twilight years. Enjoy ten full hours of dramatic radio entertainment in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Space Patrol, Volume 1 Item #RL31 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Smokin' rockets! If you love the high-flying adventures of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, you'll thrill to twenty half-hour broadcasts of "Space Patrol," starring the same cast that made the early 1950s television series a favorite of kids everywhere. Sponsored by Ralston Cereals - and featuring a wide range of tempting special offers in exchange for box tops - we know you'll enjoy this early juvenile favorite in the first of an upcoming series of Radio Legends collections. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Suspense, Volume 1 Item #RL12 - Ten CD Set $19.95 In 1948, "Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills" was given a full-hour Saturday night time slot, hosted by Hollywood leading man Robert Montgomery. The result was a unique and highly entertaining series of edge-of-your-seat dramas that, even today, remain engrossing entertainment. This 10-CD set offers ten full-length broadcasts, featuring such stars as James Cagney, June Havoc, and Howard Duff as Detective Sam Spade. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: This Is Your FBI, Volume 1 Item #RL09 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Featuring newsreel-type dramatic music, outstanding performances by a wide range of talented performers, and employing a semi-documentary style in both its narration and in its portrayal of both criminals and federal agents, "This Is Your FBI" was only radio series officially sanctioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The twenty programs in this Radio Legends collection offer ten full hours of engrossing radio drama from one of the premier crime anthology series of all time. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: This Is Your FBI, Volume 2 Item #RL14 - Ten CD Set $19.95 One of radio's most successful dramatic anthology series, "This Is Your FBI" was based almost entirely on real cases from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Enjoy twenty more suspenseful and engrossing episodes of this ABC Radio Network series on ten full-length compact discs. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: This Is Your FBI, Volume 3 Item #RL15 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Throughout its run, Director/Producer Jerry Devine insisted that "This Is Your FBI" realistically portray the various workings of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This dedication to quality, as well as to well produced entertainment, makes the show as enjoyable to listed to today as it was when first aired well over a half century ago. Enjoy twenty more suspenseful and engrossing episodes of this ABC Radio Network series on ten full-length compact discs. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: This Is Your FBI, Volume 4 Item #RL16 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Featuring outstanding performances by a wide range of talented actors, "This Is Your FBI" brought dramatic style and creativity to its enactment of real cases from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The twenty programs in this Radio Legends collection offer ten full hours of engrossing radio drama from one of the premier crime anthology series of all time. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: This Is Your FBI, Volume 5 Item #RL17 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Featuring full orchestral scores, subtle performances by the best actors from “Radio Row,” and a strong documentary style, each broadcast of "This Is Your FBI" details the painstaking step-by-step approach of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as it tracks down criminals and racketeers. The twenty programs in this Radio Legends collection offer ten full hours of engrossing radio drama from one of the premier crime anthology series of all time. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: This Is Your FBI, Volume 6 Item #RL18 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Police procedural dramas were nothing new when "This Is Your FBI" first hit the airwaves -- but the series soon proved itself to be one of the premier crime anthology series of all time. Enjoy twenty full-length broadcasts in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

NEW in May Radio Legends: The Whistler, Volume 1 Item #RL34 - Ten CD Set $19.95 "I am the Whistler, and I walk by night..." One of radio's most gripping and suspenseful anthology series, "The Whistler" offered strange and cautionary tales of men and women drawn into dangerous webs of revenge, mayhem...and murder. Starring Bill Forman in the title role, with Marvin Miller voicing the commercials and a host of long-time radio favorites bringing these engrossing stories to life, you'll enjoy twenty full-length episodes of this CBS dramatic series in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Volume 1 Item #RL10 - Ten CD Set $19.95 Though consistently well written and acted, "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" was little more than your typical slam-bang detective series until actor Bob Bailey and director Jack Johnstone took over the reins at the same time that CBS decided to turn the long-running show into a five-a-week serial adventure series. Hear the first ten weeks of the reformatted "Johnny Dollar" in this 10-CD Radio Legends collection - a total of fifty full-length broadcasts, episodes which many radio enthusiasts feel was the absolute pinnacle of the series' thirteen-year run. Click for liner notes and complete details

Radio Legends: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Volume 2 Item #RL24 - Ten CD Set $19.95 An all-time radio favorite, enjoy ten more weeks worth of the five-part adventures of "America's favorite free-lance insurance investigator" as Bob Bailey stars in this newly released 10-CD Radio Legends CD collection. Click for liner notes and complete details

CD Storage Case Item #SC12 - CD Storage Case $4.95 All of our compact disc collections come with their own durable plastic CD cases at no extra cost. However, we've heard from quite a few people that they'd like to be able to purchase additional cases as a way to attractively store other old time radio CDs in their collection. Each of our cases holds up to 12 compact discs -- and here's a free bonus: if you bought Radio Archives CD sets before we began packaging them in cases, let us know the specific collections you want cases for and we'll supply you with full color artwork for each set at no additional charge! Simply list the sets you want cases for in the PayPal note box when ordering.