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A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES on this week's Time Machine broadcast. It's double feature night at the local movie palace...house...
07/27/2025

A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES on this week's Time Machine broadcast. It's double feature night at the local movie palace...house lights are dimming as the usher helps you to your seat (don't spill your popcorn!) The theatre organ plays, and anticipation builds. Finally the curtain opens for your feature presentations..."The Phantom of the Opera", followed by a comedy...what just may well be the lost "Road" picture! I kid you not...it's an evening of thrills, chills and laughter brought to you through the magic of radio from the Golden Age. CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"A Night at the Movies" hosted by Paul McGehee

"THE DEVIL'S RADIO" on this week's Time Machine broadcast. Vintage radio shows featuring Satan himself! First, a great e...
07/20/2025

"THE DEVIL'S RADIO" on this week's Time Machine broadcast. Vintage radio shows featuring Satan himself! First, a great episode of "Dark Fantasy", followed by a couple of real radio rarities, bubbling up from the bowels of Hell for your listening pleasure. CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"The Devil's Radio" hosted by Paul McGehee

"IT'S A CRIME!" on this week's Time Machine broadcast. Crime shows were a staple on the airwaves in radio's Golden Age, ...
07/13/2025

"IT'S A CRIME!" on this week's Time Machine broadcast. Crime shows were a staple on the airwaves in radio's Golden Age, and on this episode you'll hear three great examples, starring radio veterans Victor Jory, John Dehner, Georgia Ellis, Lawrence Dobkin and more. One obscurity is even written by some young kid named Rod Serling, years before he became a household name with the success of "The Twilight Zone"! Mystery! Suspense! Murder!! You'll be on the edge of your seat...CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"It's a Crime!" hosted by Paul McGehee

THE TIME MACHINE this week has some radio rarities featuring the great FATS WALLER. Whereas that harmful little armful, ...
07/05/2025

THE TIME MACHINE this week has some radio rarities featuring the great FATS WALLER. Whereas that harmful little armful, the clown prince of the piano, Thomas 'Fats' Waller appeared frequently on live radio, there unfortunately aren't very many of his performances preserved in recordings floating around; a handful of band remotes and some guest shots on variety shows. On this episode you'll hear some of his lesser-known appearances from the Golden Age of Radio...one never knows, do one? CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"Fats Waller Radio Rarities" hosted by Paul McGehee

"CALL ME! A HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE" on this week's Time Machine broadcast. As you hold your smartphone in your hand, a...
06/29/2025

"CALL ME! A HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE" on this week's Time Machine broadcast. As you hold your smartphone in your hand, a virtual mini-computer with voice and video and text bouncing off of satellites to points spanning the globe, think back to the days when the land-line telephone was new. How one invention has changed the way we live and communicate in such a brief time-span in history is unprecedented. Listen to vintage radio broadcasts of 90 years ago as they honor the great invention, speculating in 1935 that long distance communication would 'bring peoples closer together' and 'usher in 1,000 years of world peace'. Boy, did THEY get the wrong number!! A fascinating and entertaining episode from radio's Golden Age...CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"CALL ME! A History of the Telephone" hosted by Paul McGehee

"TITANIC - WITNESS TO DISASTER" on this week's Time Machine radio show. Listen to vintage radio broadcasts going back to...
06/23/2025

"TITANIC - WITNESS TO DISASTER" on this week's Time Machine radio show. Listen to vintage radio broadcasts going back to the 1930's featuring actual survivors of the ill-fated voyage...with their accounts of what happened given in chilling detail. An episode of TM that is truly living history. CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"Titanic - Witness to Disaster" hosted by Paul McGehee

"THE MEN BEHIND THE WAR OF THE WORLDS" on this week's Time Machine broadcast! Possibly the most famous single live drama...
06/14/2025

"THE MEN BEHIND THE WAR OF THE WORLDS" on this week's Time Machine broadcast! Possibly the most famous single live dramatic performance from the Golden Age of Radio, the 1938 broadcast by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre players made quite an impression upon listeners, to say the least. The night that panicked America. Who were the men behind the Martians? You'll hear from author H. G. Wells and radio script writer Howard Koch telling the tale of how that invasion from outer space was created, along with Orson, and excerpts from the infamous radio show. This EXTRA-LENGTH episode will fascinate you! CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"The Men Behind the War of the Worlds" hosted by Paul McGehee

FIBBER MCGEE AND MOLLY RARITIES on this week's Time Machine broadcast. You'll hear the origin of one of the best-loved c...
06/08/2025

FIBBER MCGEE AND MOLLY RARITIES on this week's Time Machine broadcast. You'll hear the origin of one of the best-loved comedy programs of radio's Golden Age, and vintage recordings spanning 50 years between 1931 to 1981 from "Smackout" to a fond farewell. Jim and Marian Jordan were radio pioneers, going back to the early 1920's on local Chicago airwaves with songs and snappy patter...but did you know that Jim entertained the troops in Europe in World War I, years before that Bob Hope fellow? True! This episode of The Time Machine will keep you laughing; 90 minutes with those folks at 79 Wistful Vista. CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"Fibber McGee and Molly Rarities" hosted by Paul McGehee

"AN OCEAN CITY MEMORY" ON THIS WEEK'S TIME MACHINE BROADCAST. A truly fun listen about a family trip to the beach in the...
06/01/2025

"AN OCEAN CITY MEMORY" ON THIS WEEK'S TIME MACHINE BROADCAST. A truly fun listen about a family trip to the beach in the 1960's, as seen through the eyes of a five-year old. This production, which I wrote, produced and narrated, has been described as "The Wonder Years" meets "A Christmas Story". And, it was under consideration for a Peabody Award a few years ago. This encore presentation, the 'director's cut', has been restored to its original length with improved sound. You'll hear vintage local radio circa 1965, the music, the DJ's, the commercials...all weaving together the story of a trip to Ocean City, Maryland 60 years ago. Exactly what you would hear on the transistor radios in the sand, while bodies slathered in Coppertone and Sea & Ski baked in the relentless sun. The sounds of the beach...the sounds of the boardwalk. And then there was the ride through the Haunted House...CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"An Ocean City Memory" hosted by Paul McGehee.

THE FASCINATING STORY of how one of radio's best-loved adventure programs morphed into one of the coolest animated shows...
05/25/2025

THE FASCINATING STORY of how one of radio's best-loved adventure programs morphed into one of the coolest animated shows of the 1960's! Jack Armstrong, spawned in the 1930's as a means to sell Wheaties cereal on the new medium of radio, was more than an inspiration to the studio suits at Hanna-Barbera when they were searching ideas for a new show that would reach both kid and adult audiences...and then the lawyers got involved. Listen to the tale of Jack Armstrong/Jonny Quest on this week's edition of The Time Machine. CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"Jack Armstrong/Jonny Quest" hosted by Paul McGehee

FOOD, RECIPE AND COOKING PROGRAMS from the infancy of radio on up through the years...stir in a heapin' helpin' of enter...
05/18/2025

FOOD, RECIPE AND COOKING PROGRAMS from the infancy of radio on up through the years...stir in a heapin' helpin' of entertainment as well! You'll hear from Betty Crocker, Aunt Jemima, Ernie Kovacs, Mary Lee Taylor, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, The Mills Brothers, Bo Carter, Louis Jordan, Cab Calloway, Paul Harvey and more! An interesting episode of The Time Machine is on the menu this week...CLICK BELOW to hear the show:

"Let's Eat!" hosted by Paul McGehee

AFTER VE DAY - JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTION on this week's Time Machine broadcast. 80 years ago, the week of May 8th, 1945, a...
05/11/2025

AFTER VE DAY - JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTION on this week's Time Machine broadcast. 80 years ago, the week of May 8th, 1945, and the allied world was celebrating the end of World War II in Europe...but after the partying ended, there was grim work to be done in the aftermath of the conflict. Europe was in chaos, cities in ruins, with broken masses seeking shelter, food, medicine. The black market was rampant, and even though the shooting war was officially over, the allied peacekeepers were still in the crosshairs of those who formerly wore the uniform of the N***s. It was a dangerous time, those years following the second world war. In Germany, where it all began in the 1930's with Hi**er's mad plan of world domination and ethnic cleansing, there was justice to be had for those left behind. Judgement Day had arrived for those responsible for the terror of the Final Solution. A series of trials before a United States Military Court were scheduled, to close the door on N**i Germany. By the Fall of '45 they had begun. Adolf Hi**er was not there, however, as he had escaped prosecution and retribution earlier that year in a bunker in Berlin with a single shot from a Walther PPK. But others in the Reich remained, from the top German officials on down the line to those underlings who aided the twisted regime.

"After VE Day - Justice and Retribution" hosted by Paul McGehee

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