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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 29, 2026
Episode 539: Quiet Please: Take Me Out To the Graveyard
It’s our Halloween episode, and we have an episode of Quiet, Please! today fitting for the occasion. It’s called: “Take Me Out to the Graveyard.” Ernest Chappell plays Julius, a taxi driver whose night takes a strange turn or two, as he begins picking up passengers bound for the cemetery. One by one, a mysterious man, a woman in black stockings, and a license inspector, seem to know exactly when they’re going to die. It’s a story full of dark humor, and also a tale spooky enough for the Halloween season.
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Tuesday October 27, 2026
Episode 538: A Night To Remember
It’s kind of a spooky week here, and we are going to keep with the creepy crawlies of the season with a fun offering today: a 1943 broadcast of Lux Radio Theatre with “A Night to Remember,” starring Robert Young and Ann Sothern. It’s a comedy/murder mystery about a writer and his wife who move into a creepy Greenwich Village apartment, discover a dead body, and begin uncovering blackmail and suspicious dealings among their eccentric neighbors.
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.
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.
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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.