RADIO

Vincent Price was a major player during the Golden Age of radio, and beyond. Click on the titles for more information and to listen to some episodes.

ALIENS OF THE MIND
Vincent Price and Peter Cushing star in the BBC Radio 4 serial by Doctor Who writer Robert Holmes (First aired from 2 January to 6 February 1977). You can listen to the series by clicking on the title.

BOB AND RAY PRESENT
• Bob and Ray Barber [Aug 21, 1959]

CAVALCADE OF AMERICA
• A Race For Lennie [Jan 29, 1945]

CBS RADIO WORKSHOP
• Speaking of Cinderella [April 7, 1956]
• The Son of Man [April 21, 1957]

COLUMBIA PRESENTS CORWIN
• Undecided Molecule [July 17, 1945]

COMMAND PERFORMANCE
• Dear John [Oct 20, 1948]

CROUPIER
• The Roman [Sep 21, 1949]

DUFFY’S TAVERN
• Actors Club at the Tavern [Jan 26, 1951]

ESCAPE
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Narrated by Paul Frees, this CBS Radio drama series ran from 7 July 1947 to 25 September 1954, with 228 episodes produced. Vincent Price starred in three episodes. You can listen to all of them on the Vincent Price channel on YouTube; just click on the titles below.

• Present Tense (31 January 1950)
• Three Skeleton Key (17 March 1950)
• Blood Bath (30 June 1950)

FAMILY THEATER
• Laughing into Glory [Jun 12, 1947]
• The Happy Prince [Oct 12, 1949]
• Jane Eyre [Oct 25, 1950]
• Where There’s a Will [Jun 9, 1954]

FAVORITE STORIES
• Mister Shakespeare [April 10, 1948]

GUEST STAR
• Portrait By Cupid [Sep 18, 1955]
• Hollywood Fights Back [Oct 26, 1947]

HOLLYWOOD PLAYHOUSE
• Hour of Truth

HOLLYWOOD STAR TIME
• Shock [Feb 3, 1946]
• Hangover Square [Apr 7, 1946]
• Song of Bernadette [Apr 21, 1946]
• The Lodger [May 19, 1946]

INTRIGUE
• Sinister Errand [Aug 7, 1946]

THE JACK BENNY SHOW
• Ford Theater Tryout With Claudette Colbert [Feb 6, 1949]

KIIS HALL OF HORRORS [Oct 31, 1973]

LUX RADIO THEATRE
Vincent Price appeared in six episodes of the long-running live radio anthology series, which ran from 14 October 1934 through to 7 June 1955.
• Shock [Feb 3, 1946]
• Hangover Square [Apr 7, 1946]
• Song of Bernadette [Apr 21, 1946]
• The Lodger [May 19, 1946]

LUX RADIO THEATRE (AUSTRALIAN VERSION)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1955 Australian production)
This rare recording of the 1955 Australian radio drama includes the original ads and an interview with Vincent Price following the drama. Click on the title to read about the production and to listen to the drama.

NAZI EYES ON CANADA
• Holly Metcalf & Bob Maxwell Story [Oct 18, 1942]

NBC PRESENTS: BEST PLAYS
• Angel Street
This is the 22 June 1952 radio adaptation of Angel Street, based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gas Light starring the original leads of the 1941 New York stage production, Vincent Price and Judith Evelyn. You can listen to all of them on the Vincent Price channel on YouTube; just click on the title.

NBC RADIO THEATER
• Snake Pit [January 8, 1956]

NIGHT OF THE WOLF
For your listening enjoyment, here’s the 1975 BBC Radio Play, Night of the Wolf, starring Vincent Price as a 19th-century judge who encounters deadly family secrets while searching for his son in the Cambridge Fenlands. Written by Victor Pemberton and produced by John Tydeman, it also starred Coral Browne and was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Night Theatre in 1975.

OBSESSION
• Paranoia

PHILIP MORRIS PLAYHOUSE
• Leona’s Room [Feb 25, 1949]
• Murder Needs an Artist [May 6, 1950]

THE PRICE OF FEAR
Vincent Price hosted and starred in his own BBC radio drama series, which was broadcast in 1973, 1975 and 1983. Click on the title for a retrospective look at the suspenseful drama, and listen to all the episodes.

PROUDLY WE HAIL
• Empire State Building

RECOLLECTIONS AT 30
• Vincent Price, Helen Hayes & Al Jolson [Feb 20, 1957]

SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS
• Flesh and Fantasy [Jul 16, 1945]
• On Borrowed Time [Apr 1, 1946]
• Dragonwyck [Jan 20, 1947]
• Champagne For Caesar [Oct 5, 1950]

SEALTEST VILLAGE STORE
• Vincent Price is Guest [March 20, 1947]

SEARS-MUTUAL RADIO THEATER
The US radio drama anthology series, Sears Radio Theater, ran weeknights on CBS Radio in 1979. In January 1980, it moved to the Mutal Broadcasting System and was renamed Mutual Radio Theater. You can listen to Vincent’s episode via archive.org and radioechoes.com.
• Hostages [Feb 7, 1979]
• The Ouija Spells Murder [Feb 21, 1979]
• Wanda [Feb 28, 1979]
• Carmilla [Mar 7, 1979]
• Going Home [Mar 14, 1979]
• Mushrooms Darling [Mar 21, 1979]
• A Whisper In My Ear [Jun 6, 1979]
• Anniversary [Jun 20, 1979]
• A Game Of Cat And Mouse [Jun 27, 1979]
• Melissa [Jul 4, 1979]
• Girl On The Billboard [Jul 11, 1979]
• The Joke Is On Guess Who [Jul 18, 1979]
• The Ransom [Jul 25, 1979]
• Voodoo Lady [Aug 1, 1979]
• Long Distance [Mar 5, 1980]
• Double Exposure [Mar 12, 1980]
• The Mask [Mar 19, 1980]
• An International Sport [Mar 26, 1980]
• The Contractor [Apr 2, 1980]
• The Last Of Scrooge [Apr 9, 1980]
• The Voyage Of No Return [Apr 16, 1980]
• Lion Hunt [Apr 23, 1980]
• House On Fire [Apr 30, 1980]
• Vicious Circle [May 7, 1980]
• Night [May 14, 1980]
• Visions of Death [May 21, 1980]
• Laura D Fair [May 28, 1980]
• The House Warming [Sep 3, 1980]
• Accidentally On Purpose [Sep 10. 1980]
• The Role Of His Life [Sep 17, 1980]
• Death Warmed Over [Sept 24, 1980]
• Freeze Frame [Oct 1, 1980]
• Altered Egos [Oct 8, 1980]
• Love Spelled Backwards [Oct 15, 1980]
• The Man Who Talked To Himself [Oct 22, 1980]

SUSPENSE
Subtitled ‘radio’s outstanding theatre of thrills’, this CBS Radio drama series ran from 1940 through 1962, with 945 episodes produced featuring the leading Hollywood actors of the era. Vincent starred in 13. You can listen to all of them on the Vincent Price channel on YouTube; just click on the titles below.
• The Strange Death of Charles Umberstein (23 November 1943)
• Fugue in C Minor (1 June 1944)
• The Name of the Beast (11 April 1946)
• The Hunting Trip (12 September 1946)
• The Hands Of Mr Ottermole (2 December 1948)
• Three Skeleton Key (11 November 1956)
• Present Tense (3 March 1957)
• The Green and Gold String (9 June 1957)
• The Pit and the Pendulum (10 November 1957)
• Rave Notice (1 June 1958)
• Three Skeleton Key (18 October 1958)
• Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (19 July 1959)

STARS OVER HOLLYWOOD
• The Incredible Truth [Mar 20, 1954]
• Continental Cowboy [Dec 30, 1951]

THE SAINT
Based on the books by Leslie Charteris, The Saint aired from 4 January 1945 to 14 October 1951 on the CBS, NBC and Mutal Radio networks in the US. Vincent Price took on the role of debonair sleuth, Simon Templar, on 8 July 1947, and continued in the role until it ended in 1951. 91 episodes are available by streaming from Archive.org

THEATER OF ROMANCE
• Angel Street [Oct 9, 1945]

THIRTEENTH JUROR
• What Happened to John Wilkes Booth? [Apr 23, 1949]

THIS IS YOUR FBI
• The Straw Hat Shakedown [May 18, 1951]

TREASURY STAR PARADE
• With Vincent Price and Bob Burns
• Porgy and Bess
• Price of Free World Victory
• The Sound of an American
• Mr. Jones and Mr. Washington
• The Goldbergs
• Weep Not For Me
• Second Battle of Brooklyn
• The Life of Molly Pitcher, Soldier
• John Nesbit and Dinah Shore
• The Man With the Broken Fingers