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The Relic Radio Show (old time radio)

John Steele Adventurer and The Key

The Relic Radio Show (old time radio)

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week on The Relic Radio Show, John Steele, Adventurer is up first with Dead Ringer, from July 25, 1950. (30:16) The Key follows that with Twenty Years Later, from 1956. https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/RelicRadio976.mp3 Download RelicRadio976 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support The Relic Radio Show If you’d like to support Relic Radio, please consider a donation at Donate.RelicRadio.com. It makes this podcast [...]

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0:00.0

This is the Relic Radio Show.

0:12.8

Old Time Radio Entertainment still standing the test of time from Relicradio.com.

0:21.6

Welcome back to the Relic Radio show, back this Tuesday with two more stories from the

0:26.2

Golden Age of Radio, as we do every Tuesday here at relicradio.com.

0:31.1

Our first story comes from John Steele Adventurer, is titled Dead Ringer from July 25th,

0:36.5

1950.

0:37.9

After that, it's the key.

0:39.4

And 20 years later, that series aired sometime in 1956.

1:04.3

Music Take one man on a mission of vengeance.

1:08.6

Let him stalk a brutal unknown killer in a town of strangers.

1:10.5

That's our story.

1:14.4

Dead Ringer, taken from the files of John Steele.

1:16.2

Adventure of. Oh! Hello, friends. This is John Steele. We're back this week to bring you another story of suspense and hard fast action. So turn down the light,

1:45.8

get a grip on that chair, and hang on. This week's tale takes us out to the blistering sands

1:51.0

of our own western desert where I first met Bill Allen. But here he is to tell you his story

1:55.9

himself. Bill? You know, Holmes is a funny thing. When you're there, you never appreciate it,

2:01.1

but every mile you get away from it, it starts looking better and better. At least, that's the way it was with me. I'd had a fight with my paw, and I'd been away from home for 15 years, but somehow I'd never really been out of touch with the old place. Every week, Paul had the Canyon City Harrow sent to me, and every once in a while, I'd get a hankering to go back, but I kept putting it off.

2:18.8

Then one day something happened that made up my mind for me. had the Canyon City Harold sent to me, and every once in a while I'd get a hankering to go back, but I kept putting it off.

2:18.8

Then one day something happened that made up my mind for me. The harold said Paul had been shot dead, and his killer got away. I took the train to the nearest depot, bought a horse, and started the three-day ride across the desert to Canyon City. I guess it was about the middle of the second day. The sun was out. It was hot as blazes.

2:37.5

All right. Come on. City. I guess it was about the middle of the second day. The sun was out. It was hot as blazes.

2:37.6

All right.

2:38.1

Come on, boy, now keep your head up.

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