Old Time Radio Christmas Shows
Christmas radio is a seasonal listening tradition that cuts across comedy, drama, detective stories, Westerns and supernatural tales. This collection highlights broadcasts with clear Christmas-season themes rather than pretending that the programs themselves are Christmas-only shows.
Programs with Christmas Listening
Program membership identifies shows with meaningful holiday material; the hub does not claim every episode in those shows is Christmas-themed.
PROGRAM GUIDEChristmas Spirits (BBC)
A Golden Radio Hour collection of BBC Christmas-season supernatural and ghost dramas. The recordings come from different productions, so they are presented…
PROGRAM GUIDELux Radio Theatre
A major dramatic anthology adapting popular motion pictures and stage works for radio, usually with prominent Hollywood actors and often with stars…
PROGRAM GUIDEFather Knows Best
A family situation comedy about Jim and Margaret Anderson and their children, using everyday household problems and generational misunderstandings for warm comedy.
PROGRAM GUIDEDuffy’s Tavern
A character comedy set around New York's Duffy's Tavern, where fast-talking manager Archie schemes, argues with the regulars, and tries to impress…
PROGRAM GUIDEThe Great Gildersleeve
A pioneering situation comedy following the pompous but good-hearted Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve as he raises his niece and nephew and becomes part…
PROGRAM GUIDEThe Lone Ranger
A masked Western hero and his companion Tonto travel the American frontier fighting injustice, protecting the innocent, and bringing criminals to the…
PROGRAM GUIDEThis Is Your FBI
A dramatized crime series produced with FBI cooperation, presenting cases involving espionage, kidnapping, fraud, organized crime, and other federal investigations.
PROGRAM GUIDEFibber McGee and Molly
A landmark radio comedy following Fibber and Molly McGee in the fictional town of Wistful Vista, surrounded by recurring neighbors, running gags,…
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Representative recordings from the existing Golden Radio Hour episode archive.
Miracle on 34th Street {Maureen O’Hara, Edmond Gwenn}
A department-store Santa who insists he is the real Kris Kringle transforms a skeptical mother and child, eventually forcing a courtroom to decide whether his extraordinary claim can…
A Hans Christian Andersen Christmas
On Christmas Eve, Jim tells the family a story about Hans Christian Andersen, whose encounters with townspeople and his own storybook characters reveal lessons about love, faith, compassion,…
The Cast Does ‘A Christmas Carol’
Archie presents a chaotic Christmas variety show at the tavern and caps it with his own comic version of A Christmas Carol, in which even his stingy Scrooge…
Xmas Comes to Sandy
At Christmas, a poor mining-company cashier is framed for robbery, leaving the Lone Ranger to clear the innocent man and restore hope to his family.
The Return of St. Nick
An FBI agent on leave helps a boy search for a missing department-store Santa and uncovers an old family secret along the way.
(xx) AFRTS Christmas Program Featuring Jim Jordan
This Fibber McGee and Molly installment centers on “AFRTS Christmas Program Featuring Jim Jordan,” the situation identified in the transcribed episode index.
Old Time Radio Christmas Shows
The page combines dedicated seasonal material with verified Christmas episodes from long-running series. Program cards below therefore mean “shows with Christmas listening in the archive,” not that every recording in that program is holiday themed.
As the archive grows, this hub can expand through additional verified seasonal recordings without changing the canonical show or episode pages.
Performers to Explore
Performer links shown only where the Golden Radio Hour relationship catalog supports them.
Jim Jordan
Marian Jordan
William Conrad
Brace Beemer
Raymond Edward Johnson