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October-December 2015 Thursday 10-1 Gunsmoke "Matt For Murder" 7/26/1954 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter# 2417 - Jimmy is Upset Friday 10-2 Inner Sanctum "Death Bound" 2/3/1947 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Duke Red Matter" Pt 1, 1/23/56 Saturday 10-3 Duffy's Tavern: It's Latin Night At Duffy's Tavern, 5/4/1951 The Great Gildersleeve: The Homemaking Class - Pt 1, 11/11/45 Sunday 10-4 The Great Gildersleeve: The Homemaking Class - Part 2 Crime Classics: Dread Event Surrounding Mr. Thrower's, 8/3/1953 Monday 10-5 The Milton Berle Show: A Salute to Automobiles, 9/23/1947 Burns & Allen: Wisconsin Primary - Part 1, 4/10/1940 Tuesday 10-6 Burns & Allen: Wisconsin Primary - Part 2, 4/10/1940 Damon Runyon Theatre "Earthquake" 7/10/1949 Wednesday 10-7 Rocky Jordan "Black Ball" 11/6/1949 Captain Midnight: Re-unite with Senor Pareda, 10/27/1939 Thursday 10-8 The Shadow "Conversation with Death" 9/17/1939 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter# 2418 - Telegrams From New York Friday 10-9 The Falcon "The Case of the Beautiful Bait" 8/22/1951 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Duke Red Matter" Part 2, 1/24/56 Saturday 10-10 Escape "The Derelict" 4/26/1953 Manhunt "The Accusing Violin" Sunday 10-11 The Man Called X "The Girl Who Couldn't Remember" 8/15/1948 Marine Story "The Bell of Hidalgo" 3/31/1948 Monday 10-12 Meet The Meeks, 9/11/1948 "Party Line" The Jack Benny Program, 10/2/1949, Jack Losses His Memory - Part 1 Tuesday 10-13 The Jack Benny Program, 10/2/1949, Jack Losses His Memory - Part 2 One World Flight, 1/14/1947 "Introduction" Wednesday 10-14 The Saint "Gangster District Attorney" 10/15/1947 Ian Dickerson Interview, Part 1 Thursday 10-15 Meet Mister McNutley "New Desk" 4/22/1954 Scout About Town "Monica Lewis" 10/10/1946 Friday 10-16 Mr. and Mrs. North "Don't Cry Wolf" 3/11/1952 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Duke Red Matter" Part 3, 1/25/56 Saturday 10-17 Family Theatre "Last Run" 6/17/1953 The Couple Next Door: Wedding Preparations, 1/6/1958 Sunday 10-18 Suspense "Thieves Fall Out" 11/16/1943 Calling All Detectives "Shopping for New Suit" 12/31/1948 Monday 10-19 Jack Carson Show: Halloween Date with Brazilian Girl, 10/30/1946 The Life of Riley: The Escort Bureau - Part 1, 11/18/1949 Tuesday 10-20 The Life of Riley: The Escort Bureau - Part 2 Damon Runyon Theatre "The Bloodhounds of Broadway" 7/17/1949 Wednesday 10-21 The Saint "The Bride Who Lost Her Groom" 2/11/1951 Ian Dickerson Interview, Part 2 Thursday 10-22 Wild Bill Hickok "Trail Head Trouble" 9/16/1951 Frontier Fighters "Steven Austin" Friday 10-23 Mystery Is My Hobby "The Mink Coat" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Duke Red Matter" Part 4, 1/26/56 Saturday 10-24 Henry Morgan, 7/2/1947 "Professional Radio Contestants" Fibber McGee & Molly, 6/23/1942 "Locked Suitcase" Part 1 Sunday 10-25 Fibber McGee & Molly, 6/23/1942 "Locked Suitcase" Part 2 Frontier Gentleman, 6/29/1958 "Gambling Lady" Monday 10-26 Our Miss Brooks, 10/30/1949 "Halloween Party" Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show, 10/9/1953 "Little Alice's First Date" Part 1 Tuesday 10-27 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show "Little Alice's First Date" Part 2 The Weird Circle, 4/30/1944 "The Trial For Murder" Wednesday 10-28 The Witch's Tale "Four Fingers and a Thumb" 10/19/1937 Lum and Abner "Phantom Authors Manuscript" 5/26/1942 Thursday 10-29 Houdini Séance: 10th Anniversary and Final Séance, 10/31/1936 Baby Snooks "The Trade" 6/18/1942 Friday 10-30 Lights Out "Death Robbery" 7/16/1947 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Duke Red Matter" Part 5, 1/27/56 Saturday 10-31 Escape "The Dark Wall" 7/1/1954 Passing Parade "The Story of Two Skulls" 12/7/1949 Sunday 11-1 The Shadow "Séance With Death" 5/25/1947 Manhunt "Clue of the Red Thread" Monday 11-2 Archie Andrews: The Flat Tire, 9/11/1948 The Great Gildersleeve: Water Shortage in Summerfield, Part 1, 9/10/44 Tuesday 11-3 The Great Gildersleeve: Water Shortage in Summerfield - Part 2 CBS Radio Workshop "The Silent Witness" 7/14/1957 Wednesday 11-4 The Charlie McCarthy Show, guest Olivia DeHavilland, 10/1/1944 Burns & Allen: Making George Sick, 3/23/1942 Thursday 11-5 Gunsmoke "The Photographer" 5/6/1956 Have Gun, Will Travel "Birds of a Feather" 4/19/1959 Friday 11-6 Nick Carter "The Numbers Murders" 10/1/1944 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Henderson Matter" Part 1, 11/28/55 Saturday 11-7 Alan Young Show: Alan Makes A Record, 1/23/1945 Life With Luigi: Cold Season - Part 1, 1/17/1950 Sunday 11-8 Life With Luigi: Cold Season - Part 2 The Whistler "Treasure Hunt" 1/21/1946 Monday 11-9 A Day in the Life of Dennis Day "An Old Shipmate Visits" 6/16/1948 The Red Skelton Show "No Work on Sundays" Part 1, 12/12/1951 Tuesday 11-10 The Red Skelton Show "No Work on Sundays" Part 2 Jeff Regan "There's Nothing Like A Pork Chop" Wednesday 11-11 Suspense "Return To Dust" 2/01/1959 X Minus One "The Merchant of Venus" 7/18/1957 Thursday 11-12 Duffy's Tavern "Archie Returns from the Hospital" 2/22/1946 We Care Special Friday 11-13 The Third Man "Too Many Crooks" 8/03/1951 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Henderson Matter" Part 2, 11/29/55 Saturday 11-14 Romance "Maddon's Folly" 9/03/1955 Night Editor "Autumn Fever" Sunday 11-15 Boston Blackie "Reyonlds & the Stolen Goods" 9/01/1948 The Couple Next Door: Did You Lock the Garage Door? 1/09/1958 Monday 11-16 Jack Benny: Violin Lessons & Football, 12/07/1947 Fibber McGee & Molly: Fibber's Home Movies, Part 1, 2/17/1942 Tuesday 11-17 Fibber McGee & Molly: Fibber's Home Movies - Part 2 The Adv. of Nero Wolfe "Case of the Phantom Fingers" 1/26/1951 Wednesday 11-18 The Frontier Gentlemen "Aces and Eights" (Dead Man's Hand) 4/20/58 Gunsmoke "Letter of the Law" 7/15/1956 Thursday 11-19 The Charlie McCarthy Show, guest Lana Turner, 11/16/1947 Family Theater "Gentlemen be Seated" 1/12/1949 Friday 11-20 Gangbusters "Case of the Hue and Cry" 11/26/1949 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Henderson Matter" Part 3, 11/30/55 Saturday 11-21 Jack Carson Show: Thanksgiving Dinner, 11/27/1946 Baby Snooks: Thanksgiving,11/21/1940 Sunday 11-22 The Falcon "Case of the King of Hearts" 5/08/1952 Passing Parade "The Case of the Three Large Teeth" 4/30/1949 Monday 11-23 The Life of Riley: Thanksgiving Flashback, 11/19/1948 The Great Gildersleeve: Thanksgiving Time, Part 1, 11/22/1942 Tuesday 11-24 The Great Gildersleeve: Thanksgiving Time - Part 2 Rogue's Gallery "Blood On The Sand" 12/13/1945 Wednesday 11-25 Hopalong Cassidy, 6/4/1950 "Death Paints a Picture" Frontier Fighters "General S.W. Kearney" Thursday 11-26 Let George Do It, 11/20/1950 "Cause For Thanksgiving" Lum & Abner, 1/20/1943 "Jot 'em Down Store History" Friday 11-27 Big Story, 7/20/1949 "Death and Hate Can Be Partners" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 12/1/55 "The Henderson Matter" Part 4 Saturday 11-28 Judy Canova, 12/27/1944 "Judy Moves To Brentwood" (Rehearsal) Life With Luigi, 4/22/52 "Take A Date To Antique Dealers Dance" Pt 1 Sunday 11-29 Life With Luigi "Takes A Date To Antique Dealers Dance" Part 2 Sherlock Holmes, 8/14/1962 "The Missing Three-Quarter" Monday 11-30 Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, 12/23/51 "Stolen Christmas Presents" The Burns and Allen Show, 12/23/1940 "Christmas Show" Part 1 Tuesday 12-1 The Burns and Allen Show, 12/23/1940 "Christmas Show" Part 2 Exploring The Unknown, 12/21/1947 "The Christmas Cloud" Wednesday 12-2 Wild Bill Hickok, 12/24/1951 "Sir Tommy, The Silver Knight" Treasury Star Parade, 12/25/1942 "A Modern Scrooge" Thursday 12-3 Wonder Show "Christmas Party" 12/22/1938 The Couple Next Door: Betsy and Family Finances, 12/12/1958 Friday 12-4 Mr. & Mrs. North "The Witness" 12/29/1953 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Henderson Matter" Part 5, 12/2/55 Saturday 12-5 Let's Pretend "The Snow Queen" 12/12/1953 Christmas Seals, guest host: Jimmy Durante Sunday 12-6 Dark Fantasy "Demon Tree" 12/5/1941 Front Page "The Christmas Eve Ghost" 12/24/1933 Monday 12-7 Alan Young Show "Stolen Purse" (Christmas) 12/20/1946 Jack Benny Program "Christmas Shopping in New York" Pt 1, 12/11/38 Tuesday 12-8 The Jack Benny Program "Christmas Shopping in New York" Part 2 Screen Director's Playhouse "It's A Wonderful Life" 5/8/1949 Wednesday 12-9 The Mysterious Traveler "Christmas Story" 12/25/1951 The Couple Next Door "Post Office Problems" 12/9/1958 Thursday 12-10 Screen Guild Theatre "Blue Bird" 12/24/1939 Suspense "Dog Star" 12/22/1957 Friday 12-11 Inner Sanctum "Between Two Worlds (Mr. Whiskers)" 12/20/1948 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Nick Shurn Matter" Part 1, 12/19/55 Saturday 12-12 Judy Canova Show "A Quiet Christmas Party" 12/23/1946 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show "Health Food Diet" Part 1, 11/21/1948 Sunday 12-13 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show "Health Food Diet" Part 2 Lights Out "Christmas story" 12/22/1937 Monday 12-14 Red Skelton Show "Junior's Christmas Play" 12/24/1950 Fibber McGee & Molly: Doc Surprise Party, Part 1, 12/23/1952 Tuesday 12-15 Fibber McGee & Molly: Doc Surprise Party - Part 2 Romance of the Ranchos "Christmas At San Gabriel" 12/24/1941 Wednesday 12-16 Kraft Music Hall "Christmas Program" 12/14/1944 The Couple Next Door: Exchanging Gifts With Neighbors, 12/16/1958 Thursday 12-17 Nightbeat: Five Days Off For Christmas, 12/21/1951 Baby Snooks Show: Christmas Skates, 12/19/1940 Friday 12-18 Nick Carter Master Detective "Case of the Phantom Shoplifter" 12/25/49 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Nick Shurn Matter" Part 2, 12/20/1955 Saturday 12-19 The Andrews Sisters, guest Ray Noble, 12/19/1945 The Life of Riley: Christmas Club Let Down - Part 1, 12/23/1949 Sunday 12-20 The Life of Riley: Christmas Club Let Down - Part 2, 12/23/1949 Have Gun, Will Travel, 12/21/1958 "Hanging Cross" Monday 12-21 Jack Carson Show, 12/11/1946 "Christmas Gift for Jack" The Great Gildersleeve, 12/24/1944 "Christmas Eve" Part 1 Tuesday 12-22 The Great Gildersleeve, 12/24/1944 "Christmas Eve" Part 2 The Adv. of Sherlock Holmes, 12/24/1945 "The Night Before Christmas" Wednesday 12-23 Charlie McCarthy Show, 12/24/1944 "The Night Before Christmas" The Couple Next Door, 12/22/1958 "Aunt Effie Finds a Sweater" Thursday 12-24 CBS Radio Workshop, 12/23/1956, All is Bright (Story of Silent Night) Lum and Abner, 12/24/1942 "Special Christmas Story" Friday 12-25 Family Theater, 12/17/1952 "Crossroads of Christmas" Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 12/21/1955 "The Nick Shurn Matter" Part 3 Saturday 12-26 Fibber McGee & Molly, 12/28/1948 "New Year's Eve Dance" Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show, 12/26/48 "No Presents From Rexall" Pt 1 Sunday 12-27 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show, 12/26/48 "No Presents From Rexall" Pt 2 Jack Benny Program, 12/31/1950 "New Year's Fantasy" Monday 12-28 Our Miss Brooks "Exchanging Christmas Gifts" 12/31/1950 Red Skelton "Old Man Winter" (New Year) Part 1, 12/31/1946 Tuesday 12-29 Red Skelton "Old Man Winter" (New Year) - Part 2 Father Knows Best "New Year's Sitter" 12/31/1953 Wednesday 12-30 Burns & Allen Show "Last Year's Christmas Bills" 1/9/1947 The Couple Next Door "The Homesick Dog" (New Year's Eve) 12/31/58 Thursday 12-31 Greatest Story Ever Told "Flight Into Egypt" Suspense "32nd of December" (New Year's Eve) 12/28/1958 Friday 1-1 Casey, Crime Photographer "New Years Party" 1/1/1948 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Nick Shurn Matter" Part 4, 12/22/55 Current scheduleNote: Your local radio station may forget and run a When Radio Was hour from a previous week or month
Lux 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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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
1 small roast beef
Take the 2 roasts and put them in the oven. Turn oven on. When the little one burns, the big one is done.
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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