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TuneInVintage Radio For Modern Listeners.
The Good Old Days of Radio Show is a podcast that presents the period of American radio commonly known as “The Golden Age”. During this time, audiences were thrilled by comedy, mystery, suspense, and horror, produced by the some of the greatest writers, directors, composers, and famous stars of the time.
In this show we present the best of these radio shows. Each show is carefully selected by record collector John Tefteller as an outstanding example of this classic art form.
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The Story Behind The Good Old Days of Radio Show.
In 1992, John Tefteller brought the first Good Old Days Of Radio Show to the airwaves on local Southern Oregon station, KOPE-FM. For three hours every Saturday and Sunday night, thousands of listeners of all ages tuned in to hear the show, earning it ‘the highest rated radio program’ in its time slot.
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Thursday October 22, 2026
Episode 537: Quiet Please: Kill Me Again
It’s Thursday and time for another unusual episode of the supernatural series Quiet, Please!: “Kill Me Again,” written and directed by Wyllis Cooper. This one is about a man who sells his soul for a million dollars, only to be immediately murdered and sent to the afterworld. There’s just one problem: He arrives “innocent”, leaving the underworld’s director, Mr. Hellman, with no legal grounds to punish him. Instead, Hellman finds a rather unconventional solution, which you’ll have to hear to find out. It’s a darkly comic tale of murder and bureaucracy, and a twist on the popular ”mistake in the afterlife” trope.
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Tuesday October 20, 2026
Episode 536: Request Performance
Today we have comedy and variety with a 1945 episode of Request Performance, the CBS variety program sponsored by Campbell’s Soup. The series lasted only 29 episodes, about half of which appear to be unavailable. It was a very expensive show with a large list of top celebrities of the era, a fact that would soon lead it to early cancellation. This one has Frank Morgan, Rudy Vallée, Diana Lynn, and Jimmy Lydon, and produced by William N. Robson, of all people. There’s music, comedy, piano performances, dramatic readings, and even a short adaptation featuring characters from Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.
Thursday October 15, 2026
Episode 535: Quiet Please: Camera Obscura
Today another eerie classic from Quiet Please: “Camera Obscura,” written and directed by Wyllis Cooper. This is a ghost story about a guilt-ridden murderer confessing to the killing of a man named Philip Vandervert years earlier. But his past comes back to haunt him after he visits a strange tourist attraction in Santa Monica. Inside the darkened building, a lens projects live images from outside onto a circular table, and before long, the murderer sees his victim.
Tuesday October 13, 2026
Episode 534: The Bob Hope Show
A listener sent us some rare, uncirculated discs of The Bob Hope Show. This is one originally broadcast on December 17, 1946. It’s a Christmas-season broadcast packed with music and comedy, featuring singer Jane Harvey, bandleader Desi Arnaz, and special guest Gene Kelly. Bob and the cast joke about Hollywood life, Christmas shopping, and the usual headaches of getting through the holidays, including a department-store sketch so familiar to American life in the mid to late ‘40s.
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John Tefteller has been collecting vintage radio programs since 1971. He is one of the foremost collectors of records and original radio transcriptions in the world.
John grew up in Southern California, and for decades he scoured flea markers, thrift stores, estate sales, garage sales, and private collections for records. Over the past almost 50 years of hunting, John amassed one of the largest private archives of vintage records and radio recordings.