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April-June Monday 4-1 The Aldrich Family "Dinner Date With Kathleen" 1/20/1949 The Charlie McCarthy Show, Guests: Geddes, Vallee, & Murray - Part 1, 4/4/48 Tuesday 4-2 The Charlie McCarthy Show, Guests: Geddes, Vallee, & Murray - Part 2 Broadway Is My Beat: Thomas Hart, 4/14/1951 Wednesday 4-3 The Whistler "Meet Mr. Death" 4/23/1945 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter: Kelsey Upsets Ida #2392 Thursday 4-4 Dimension X "Professor Was a Thief" 11/5/1950 Vic & Sade "Speaking Acquaintances" Friday 4-5 Boston Blackie "Madam Zina, Fortune Teller" 4/20/1949 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Clinton Matter - Part 2" 3/13/1956 Saturday 4-6 The Green Hornet: Smuggler Signs His Name, 11/25/1939 Front Page "My Life of Crime" 11/12/1933 Sunday 4-7 Let George Do It "Murder, It's a Gift" 11/8/1948 The Strange Dr. Weird "Dark Wings of Death" 2/6/1945 Monday 4-8 Alan Young Show "10 Year Old Wedding Proposal" 4/3/1945 The Great Gildersleeve: New Piano Teacher - Part 1, 4/2/1947 Tuesday 4-9 The Great Gildersleeve: New Piano Teacher - Part 2 Murder By Experts "Two Can Die As Cheaply As One" 4/17/1950 Wednesday 4-10 Nick Carter, Master Detective "The Professor's Secret" 4/1/1944 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter: Kelsey Pays a Call # 2393 Thursday 4-11 This is Your FBI "The Soybean Shakedown" 4/6/1951 Tom Mix "Hidden Mesa" 4/18/1941 Friday 4-12 Philo Vance, 4/11/1950 "The Nylon Murder Case" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: 3/14/1956 "The Clinton Matter" Part 3 Saturday 4-13 The Burns & Allen Show, 2/26/1948 "Tax Time" Ozzie & Harriet, 2/6/1949 "Housekeeping" Part 1 Sunday 4-14 Ozzie & Harriet, 2/6/1949 "Housekeeping" Part 2 Escape, 2/7/1950 "The Outer Limit" Monday 4-15 Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, 4/2/1950 "Frankie & The Flying Saucers" Fibber McGee & Molly, 4/15/1941 "Fibber's Eye Exam" Part 1 Tuesday 4-16 Fibber McGee & Molly, 4/15/1941 "Fibber's Eye Exam" Part 2 Inner Sanctum Mysteries, 4/23/1946 "Make Ready My Grave" Wednesday 4-17 Richard Diamond, Private Detective "The Ivory Statue" 4/5/1950 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter: Face Cream Peddler In Town # 2394 Thursday 4-18 X Minus One "Hello Tomorrow" 11/3/1955 Flash Gordon: On The Planet Mongo, 4/27/1935 Friday 4-19 Bold Venture "Man From Sumatra" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Clinton Matter - Part 4, 3/15/1956 Saturday 4-20 Duffy's Tavern: Opera (with Deems Taylor) 3/9/1951 My Favorite Husband: Young Matron's League Play - Pt. 1, 10/9/1948 Sunday 4-21 My Favorite Husband: Young Matron's League Play - Pt. 2 Suspense "Little Piece of Rope" 10/14/1948 Monday 4-22 Life of Riley: Riley is Held Up (Burt Lancaster) 4/8/1949 The Jack Benny Show "Quiz Kids vs. Jell-O Kids" Part 1, 4/6/1941 Tuesday 4-23 The Jack Benny Show "Quiz Kids vs. Jell-O Kids" Part 2 Michael Shayne "Gray-Eyed Blonde" Wednesday 4-24 The Shadow "Aboard The Steamship Amazon" Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter: The Peddler's Trailer # 2395 Thursday 4-25 Have Gun, Will Travel "Maggie O'Bannon" 4/5/1949 The Third Man "Man of Mystery" 4/11/1952 Friday 4-26 Gangbusters "The Park Avenue Pilferers" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Clinton Matter" Part 5, 3/16/1956 Saturday 4-27 Our Miss Brooks "Conklin's Carelessness Code" 7/17/1949 The Red Skelton Show: Cauliflower Fights Tonight - Pt. 1, 10/15/1950 Sunday 4-28 The Red Skelton Show: Cauliflower Fights Tonight - Pt. 2 Dimension X "Nightfall" 9/29/1951 Monday 4-29 Judy Canova: Prettiest Girl At Fashion Show, 5/26/1945 The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy Picks A Husband - Part 1, 5/6/1945 Tuesday 4-30 The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy Picks A Husband - Part 2 The Whistler: Retribution (Audition Show) 5/16/1942 Wednesday 5-1 The Lifebuoy Show, Guest: Frank Sinatra, 5/25/1944 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter: Mary Makes a Date With Kelsey # 2396 Thursday 5-2 The Shadow "The Firebug" 4/30/1938 Lear Radio Show: Bull Fighting & Korea, 9/16/1945 Friday 5-3 Crime and Peter Chambers "Abigail Chrisenberry" 5/4/1954 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter - Part 1" 4/9/56 Saturday 5-4 Cisco Kid "Chained Lightning" 4/23/1953 Frontier Fighters #22 "Grenville Dodge/Leland Stanford" Sunday 5-5 Dark Fantasy "W is for Werewolf" 2/13/1942 Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons "Shrieking Prisoner Murder - Part 1" 6/21/1954 Monday 5-6 Bergen & McCarthy, Guests: Orson Welles & John Robert Powers, 11/5/1944 Fibber McGee & Molly: Fibber Bakes A Birthday Cake - Part 1, 5/20/1941 Tuesday 5-7 Fibber McGee & Molly: Fibber Bakes A Birthday Cake - Part 2 Molle Mystery Theatre "Further Adventures of Kenny Andrews" 5/10/1946 Wednesday 5-8 The Green Lama "The Man Who Never Existed" 5/17/1949 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter: Amelia Protests # 2397 Thursday 5-9 Frontier Gentleman "Advice To The Lovelorn" 5/18/1958 Archie Andrews: Day at Camp with Archie 5/17/1946 Friday 5-10 The Adv. of Sam Spade "The Battles of Belvedere" 5/1/1949 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter - Part 2" 4/10/56 Saturday 5-11 Halls of Ivy "Dirty Politics" 3/17/1950 Our Miss Brooks: Pensacola Popovers - Part 1, 7/24/1949 Sunday 5-12 Our Miss Brooks: Pensacola Popovers - Part 2 Stars Over Hollywood "Dead On Arrival" 4/16/1949 Monday 5-13 Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show "Gangster's Trunk" 5/7/1950 Burns & Allen: Quiz Show - Part 1, 5/9/1946 Tuesday 5-14 Burns & Allen: Quiz Show - Part 1 I Was A Communist for FBI "An Un-American Activity" 5/6/1953 Wednesday 5-15 Hopalong Cassidy "Bandit of Blackton Bend" 5/12/1951 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter: An Invitation # 2398 Thursday 5-16 Mysterious Traveler "S.O.S." 5/2/1950 Vic & Sade: Letter to Walter Friday 5-17 Mr. and Mrs. North "Brother Danny" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter - Part 3" 4/11/56 Saturday 5-18 Duffy's Tavern: Archie's Run For Political Office, 2/2/1951 Life of Riley: Riley's Double Wedding - Part 1, 1/26/1951 Sunday 5-19 Life of Riley: Riley's Double Wedding - Part 2 Suspense "The Gift of Jumbo Brannigan" 3/1/1951 Monday 5-20 The Jack Benny Program: Orson Welles Takes Cast to His Movie, 3/21/1943 The Mel Blanc Show: Cousin Dottie Visits Betty - Part 1, 3/18/1947 Tuesday 5-21 The Mel Blanc Show: Cousin Dottie Visits Betty - Part 2 The Falcon "Case of the Happy Hoodlum" 5/22/1952 Wednesday 5-22 Gangbusters "Alcatraz Prison Riot" Gunsmoke "Passive Resistance" 7/8/1956 Thursday 5-23 Crime Classics "Death of a Picture Hanger" 7/20/1953 The Third Man "The Professor Regrets" 6/20/1952 Friday 5-24 Boston Blackie "Millionaire Murdered" 5/14/1946 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter - Part 4, 4/12/56 Saturday 5-25 A Day in the Life of Dennis Day: Dennis Prevents Boy From Running Away, 10/2/1948 Fibber McGee & Molly: Good Grammar - Part 1, 5/6/1947 Sunday 5-26 Fibber McGee & Molly: Good Grammar - Part 2 Rocky Fortune "Catskills Cover Up" 2/9/1954 Monday 5-27 The Red Skelton Show "Going on Vacation" 5/27/1949 Lum and Abner: Boat Launch Blues - Part 1, 6/19/1949 Tuesday 5-28 Lum and Abner: Boat Launch Blues - Part 2 The Chase "Terminate Professor Kolcheck" 6/15/1952 Wednesday 5-29 The Hermit's Cave "The Author of Murder" The Unexpected "Rematch" 8/15/1948 Thursday 5-30 The Great Gildersleeve: Making Honeymoon Preparations, 6/13/1943 The Life of Riley "Fish Story" 6/4/1944 Friday 5-31 Mr. District Attorney "The Case of The Bank Killer" Your Truly, Johnny Dollar: Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter-Pt 5, 4/13/1956 Saturday 6-1 Archie Andrews, 5/20/1951 "Big Ballgame" Baby Snooks & Daddy: 5/1/1951 "Report Card Blues - Part 1" Sunday 6-2 Baby Snooks & Daddy: 5/1/1951 "Report Card Blues - Part 2" The Shadow: 6/5/1949 "Preview of Terror" Monday 6-3 Alan Young Show: 8/21/1945 "Jury Duty" My Friend Irma: 9/7/1948 "Trip to Coney Island - Part 1" Tuesday 6-4 My Friend Irma: 9/7/1948 "Trip to Coney Island - Part 2" Murder by Experts: 6/13/1949 "Summer Heat" Wednesday 6-5 Frank Race, Adventures of: 6/5/1949 "Vanishing President" D-Day News Broadcast 6/6/1944: Bulletin Thursday 6-6 Escape: 6/17/1954 "Blood Waters Pepper Young's Family "Curt is Leaving For Chicago" Friday 6-7 Bold Venture "He Who Laughs Last" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: 5/7/1956 "The Silver Blue Matter - Part 1" Saturday 6-8 Jeff Regan, Investigator "The Lady Who Wanted To Live" 10/26/1949 Calling All Detectives "Dead Man Claiming to be Alive" 7/20/1948 Sunday 6-9 Suspense "In Fear & Trembling" 2/16/1943 Blackstone Magic Detective "Murder on Stage" 12/26/1948 Monday 6-10 It's Higgins, Sir: Higgins Arranges Dates, 7/10/1951 The Charlie McCarthy Show, Guest: Carmen Miranda - Part 1, 11/23/1947 Tuesday 6-11 The Charlie McCarthy Show, Guest: Carmen Miranda - Part 2 Philip Marlowe "The Busy Body" 6/18/1949 Wednesday 6-12 Fibber McGee & Molly: Picnic At Dugan's Lake, 6/10/1947 Life With Luigi: Papa's Coat Pocket, 6/12/1949 Thursday 6-13 Light's Out "Prelude to Murder" 6/15/1943 Pepper Young's Family: Peggy Wants New Clothes Friday 6-14 The Green Hornet "Walkout for Profit" 6/21/1941 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Silver Blue Matter - Part 2" 5/8/1956 Saturday 6-15 The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show "The Fortune Hunter" 3/5/1950 Father Knows Best: Mother Drives A Car - Part 1, 6/21/1951 Sunday 6-16 Father Knows Best: Mother Drives A Car - Part 2 Philo Vance "Peacock Murder Case" 6/21/1949 Monday 6-17 Judy Canova: Like a Fish Out Of Water, 6/2/1945 Burns & Allen: Kansas City's Favorite Singer - Part 1, 6/6/1944 Tuesday 6-18 Burns & Allen: Kansas City's Favorite Singer - Part 2 Murder by Experts "Three's A Crowd" 4/22/1950 Wednesday 6-19 Henry Morgan: Premiere Episode Vic and Sade, 6/1/1943, Vic Reluctant to Put Up Porch Swing Thursday 6-20 The Whistler, 6/3/1951 "Tall Thin Men" Pepper Young's Family: Will Mr. Young Give His Consent? Friday 6-21 Mystery Is My Hobby, 4/28/1905 "Engaged To Death" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 5/9/1956 "The Silver Blue Matter - Part 3" Saturday 6-22 Our Miss Brooks, 4/1/1951 "Another Day, Another Madame Ameliia Dress" Jack Benny Program, 3/12/1944, From Livermore, Calif - Part 1 Sunday 6-23 Jack Benny Program, 3/12/1944, From Livermore, Calif - Part 2 The Damon Runyon Theatre, 4/10/1951 "Cemetery Bait" Monday 6-24 Red Skelton, 4/16/1950 "Day At The Beach" The Life of Riley, 3/2/1951 "Fit of Jealousy - Part 1" Tuesday 6-25 The Life of Riley, 3/2/1951 "Fit of Jealousy - Part 2" The Mysterious Traveler, 7/6/1947 "The Locomotive Ghost" Wednesday 6-26 Rogue's Gallery "Cabin on the Lake" 7/7/1946 The Adventures of Superman "Sterling Tower - Part 1" 3/4/1940 Thursday 6-27 X Minus One "The Old Die Rich" 7/17/1956 Pepper Young's Family: Peggy Gets a Ring Friday 6-28 Mr. and Mrs. North "Hostage" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Silver Blue Matter - Part 4" 5/10/1956 Saturday 6-29 My Favorite Husband: George Attends a Teenage Dance" 11/20/1948 A Day in the Life of Dennis Day: Dennis Does a Radio Show - Part 1" 1/28/1948 Sunday 6-30 A Day in the Life of Dennis Day: Dennis Does a Radio Show - Part 2 Crime Classics: Checkered Life & Sudden Death of Colonel James Frisk Jr. 6/29/1953Lux Radio Theater version of Casablanca with original cast members
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32 page American Flyer Trains by A.C. Gilbert for 1948 presented by Superman!
Fred Foy 1-hour interview (Lone Ranger, Sgt. Preston, Green Hornet)
Note: radio episodes of Chandu The Magician had no relation to the Boris Karloff movie of the same name, in which Karloff plays Chandu as a villain
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Paul Harvey delved into the forgotten or little-known facts behind stories of famous people and events. Harvey's widely known The Rest of the Story has been broadcast since 1946, similar to the weekly story segment of Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel. Substitutes when Paul was away or ill included Mort Crim (1980-84), Gil Gross, Doug Limerick and Paul Harvey, Jr. Paul Harvey 1966 broadcast (more audio on Paul Harvey page). KEX radio Morning Update archive (2007-2009, including Paul Harvey) ABC Radio Networks has notified affiliates that ABC News Radio's Gil Gross and Doug Limerick will fill the three daily slots of Paul Harvey News & Rest Of The Story. Gil Gross also has a 2-hour interview program. Paul Harvey reads a letter from God
Robert L. Ripley's radio series ran from 1930 to his death in 1949. Music was provided by 1930s band leader Ozzie Nelson and vocalist Harriet Hilliard--who later became sitcom stars, believe it or not!
Peg Riley on "The Life of Riley" (ABC Radio: 1944-1945; NBC Radio: 1945-1951) was played by Paula Winslowe (1910-1996), who had previously been the voice of Bambi's mother in the Disney animated movie, and later played Mrs. Conklin in the TV version of Our Miss Brooks (1953-58) as well as reprising her (uncredited) role as Bambi's mother in Disney cartoon short No Hunting (1955)
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Turner Classic Movies is doing movies based on radio series this year including Fibber McGee, Gildersleeve, I Love A Mystery, The Whistler, Crime Doctor, etc.
Blake Edwards created Richard Diamond for radio, then later the hard-boiled private eye tv-series "Peter Gunn"
Jack Benny Show broadcasting live
Part 2 of Jack Benny broadcast
Jack sneaks onto Groucho's quiz show as a contestant
Beverly Sills died 7-2-07 from cancer complications. Beverly Sills spoofing opera on the Danny Kaye Show
Gracie Allen vs. the Tax Auditor
(he leaves in confusion) Gracie Allen was born in 1895 but her birth certificate was lost in the 1906 San Francisco Fire/Earthquake so she always gave 1906 as her birthdate
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Ripley's Believe It Or Not (1932 clip)
Origin of the term "Pot-head" for a drunk in Korea
This is Wally Ballou reminding you to Hang by your thumbs.
I love a mystery so welcome again through the squeaking door
Note: Stan Freberg hosted "When Radio Was" for 10 years, after previous host Art Fleming passed away suddenly. His final broadcast as host was 10/6/06. The new host from then until June, 2007 was Chuck Schaden. Greg Bell, program director and host of XM Radio’s very popular old-time radio channel, "Radio Classics", has been named as the new host. Chuck Schaden has interviewed some of the radio stars (recorded in the 1970s, see broadcast archive).
Superman 1950s TV intro, now a major motion picture
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Fun fact:
Jimmy Stewart's The Six Shooter only lasted one season (he wouldn't accept a tobacco company as sponsor), and he made the Hitchcock movie "Rear Window" the same year.
Walter B. Gibson co-created and wrote the Shadow novels. When he left The Shadow magazine after asking for more money, he became head script writer for radio's Nick Carter, Master Detective for awhile.
X Minus One/Dimension X had no big-name guest stars because most of the weekly budgets were used to purchase broadcast rights to the latest sci-fi stories
Morton Downey "The Irish Nightingale" was a popular singer on 1930s radio (and TV host of 1950s Star Of The Family), heard alternate nights on a 5-day a week radio broadcast from his New York nightclub. His son Morton Downey, Jr., went instead into talk radio with a spoof of bombastic Wally George on a California radio station - when he left radio in 1988 to do a TV-version of his show, the Sacramento station replaced him with someone named Rush Limbaugh.
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Jack Benny vs. the Floor Walker (Frank Nelson)
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Gracie Allen's Roast Beef Recipe
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In addition to starring in both the radio & TV versions of "Life With Luigi" J. Carrol Naish portrayed Dr. Daka, the first villain to go up against Batman on the silver screen, in "The Batman" (1943 serial). He also appeared in two episodes of Lux Theater after it moved to TV
Life Of Riley was originally co-created by Gummo Marx for his brother Groucho as The Flotsam Family. But the sponsor saw William Bendix in a 1942 movie and cast him instead.
Marcus Brace Beemer (born in 1903) and John Todd (born as Fred McCarthy in 1877) played The Lone Ranger & Tonto on radio. They also both had to lie about their age to serve (separately) in WW1. Beemer was too young (15) to enlist and Todd too old (30). The War Department says Beemer was the youngest U.S. serviceman in WW1; he was wounded while serving in France. By the way, Arthur Godfrey was almost killed in an auto accident in the 1930s, yet learned to walk and fly his own plane. When he was turned down for WW2 enlistment as a Navy flier due to the old injury, he asked friend FDR for help. The President told an Admiral to accept Godfrey since he couldn't walk at all yet was serving as Commander in Chief!
The greeting "How" may not be a Hollywood invention. There is an actual Indian greeting "A-Hau," which means Peace be with you or All is well. The first Texas Rangers used muzzle-loading single-shot rifles. But their first hand guns were actually a 5-shot revolver, not a 6-gun!
Jack Benny was born on Valentine's Day, and Robert L. Ripley was born on Christmas Day, believe it or not! In 1974, Jack Benny & George Burns were cast in The Sunshine Boys but George became ill and was replaced by Walter Matthau, then George got better and Jack suddenly died.
In the 1930s, comic strip Terry & the Pirates had many storylines in which Japan (changed to "the invaders" by nervous newspaper editors) attacked China and then Pearl Harbor. This storyline was also adapted for the radio series Captain Midnight, also before the real attack on Pearl Harbor! Fran Stryker wrote the life output of Shakespeare every 15 weeks: How he did it
NBC/GE chimes (G-E-C musical notes, for General Electric Co.) NBC's special alert 4 chimes (used for Hindenberg crash, Pearl Harbor, and WW2 bulletins)
Fun facts:
When a pitcher, catcher & umpire get into an arguement, it's called a "rhubarb." This term dates back to live radio drama when angry crowds would be represented by 5 or 6 actors saying "rhubarb" over and over. Nick Carter, Master Detective predated Sherlock Holmes by a couple of months--the American detective appeared in his own Street & Smith magazine just before the first Holmes appearance in Strand Magazine. Walter B. Gibson, co-creator of The Shadow in print, wrote for radio's Nick Carter during WW2.
Countdown to blast-off X-5,4,3,2,X-1...Fire
It's Sunday night and time for Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy
Who is it? The Fatman...The Falcon...The Green Hornet strikes again
The Shadow knows in 1939, in 1941 and 1948...the end
The Jack Benny Program presented by Lucky Strike. There's always room for Jello...Sold: American!
Welcome to the Hermit's Cave...Duffy ain't here
Welcome to the Black Museum (Orson Welles) That was the end of Harry Lime
I'm the first person they look for and the last they want to meet
Henry? Henry Aldrich...Hi ya, Baldy!
I carry a badge. Hi-Ho Silver. I am The Whistler. Yes King, this case is closed. A tale calculated to keep you in Suspense!
Join the new 1940 Flight Patrol with Captain Midnight. Flash! Ethiopia surrenders to Mussolini
Turn your lights out, everybody. If you are easily frightened, turn your radio off now.
It is I, Digby Odell, the friendly undertaker By golly, I believe that's our ring. Don't open that closet. Heavenly days!
Mr. Keen, tracer of lost persons. How do you do? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar
This is your FBI
Suspense radio series history on WikipediaWho're you gonna vote for?
I wonder what The Lone Ranger would sound like in Jamaica
There was even a radio version of Doc Savage By Lester Dent
Lester Dent bio on YouTube
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(guests include Groucho Marx, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone & Boris Karloff)
CBS Radio Theater (these are big MP3 audio links so save it to your computer or ipod if you are on a slow dialup) series by Hyman Brown, creator of the original Inner Snctum radio series
Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula (broadcast date unknown)
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