{"podcast":{"title":"Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark","slug":"retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269","podcast_index_feed_id":6785269,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5907415/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://weirddarkness.com/retroradio","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/619f577d320244612f9ba132d595c7a9.jpg","author":"Darren Marlar","episode_count":754,"summary":"Welcome to Retro Radio: Old Time Radio In The Dark! Here I bring you shows from the Golden Age of Radio in the darker genre. I’ll have classic radio of the macabre and horror, mysteries and crime, and even some dark science fiction. 5-hour marathons posted seven days per week with a variety of shows included each day!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T02:19:39.853160+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269"},"episode":{"title":"Pennsylvania Turnpike: The Hitchhiker Who Had Been Waiting 180 Years for a Ride | #RetroRadio","slug":"pennsylvania-turnpike-the-hitchhiker-who-had-been-waiting-180-years-for-a-ride-retroradio","published_at":"2026-05-02T22:53:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269/pennsylvania-turnpike-the-hitchhiker-who-had-been-waiting-180-years-for-a-ride-retroradio","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269","url":"https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0646","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71832890/wdrr0646.mp3","summary":"A filling station on a lonesome stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, an old man paying with colonial gold, a red-haired traveler asking directions to a town nobody has heard of, and a hitchhiker who has been waiting a hundred and eighty years for a ride. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Plan” (September 22, 1977) 00:45:54.201 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “White Pearls of Terror” (December 19, 1944) ***WD 00:57:33.290 = The Eleventh Hour, “Agent” (1941-1946) 01:19:17.165 = Escape, “When The Man Comes, Follow Him” (April 09, 1949) 01:48:43.375 = Murder By Experts, “Dig Your Own Grave” (August 15, 1949) 02:18:39.103 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Cold Equations (The Stowaway)” (April 30, 1958) ***WD 02:36:18.577 = Faces In The Window, “Lightning Rod Man” (January 17, 1953) ***WD (LQ) 02:59:58.903 = Dark Fantasy, “Pennsylvania Turnpike” (March 20, 1942) 03:26:58.808 = BBC Fear on 4, “Green and Pleasant” (1990) 03:55:36.858 = Future Tense, “The Old Die Rich” (May 21, 1974) ***WD 04:24:30.858 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “The Boat Hook” (April 15, 1992) 05:07:58.359 = Show Close (ADU) = Air Date Unknown (LQ) = Low Quality ***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing. CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0646","meta_description":"A filling station on a lonesome stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, an old man paying with colonial gold, a red-haired traveler asking directions to a t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":18529,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269/episodes/pennsylvania-turnpike-the-hitchhiker-who-had-been-waiting-180-years-for-a-ride-retroradio/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269/pennsylvania-turnpike-the-hitchhiker-who-had-been-waiting-180-years-for-a-ride-retroradio.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}