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The Radio Drama Hour

                                                       January-March 2017
Sunday 1-1-17
The Frontier Gentlemen "Aces and Eights" 4/20/1958 
Gunsmoke "Letter of the Law" 7/15/1956

Monday 1-2
Danny Kaye Show "Flying To DC" 1/27/1945 
Burns & Allen, guest Paul Henreid, Part 1, 1/25/1944

Tuesday 1-3
Burns & Allen, guest Paul Henreid - Part 2
Crime Classics "Final Day of Gen Ketchum & How He…" 7/27/1953

Wednesday 1-4
Wild Bill Hickok "Forge Fire" 1/16/1952 
Adv. of Superman "The Phony Restaurant Racket" Part 5, 1/3/1947

Thursday 1-5
Behind The Mike: Character Actors, 2/16/1941 
Night Editor "Point of Honor"

Friday 1-6
Mystery Is My Hobby "Blue Jay Dude Ranch"
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "Silent Queen Matter" Pt 3, 10/31/56

Saturday 1-7
The Halls of Ivy "Audition: Gale Gordon" 6/23/1949 
Jimmy Durante Show, guest Dorothy Lamour - Part 1, 4/7/1948

Sunday 1-8
Jimmy Durante Show, guest Dorothy Lamour - Part 2
Escape "Dead of Night" (Audition Show) 3/21/1947

Monday 1-9
Our Miss Brooks "Taxidermists" 6/19/1949 
The Life of Riley "The Civil Servant" Part 1, 4/13/1951

Tuesday 1-10
The Life of Riley "The Civil Servant" Part 2
The Weird Circle "The Doll" 10/24/1944

Wednesday 1-11
The Third Man, 4/25/1952 "Harry Joins the Circus" 
Adv. of Superman 1/6/1947 "The Phony Restaurant Racket" Part 6

Thursday 1-12
Screen Director's Playhouse "She Wouldn't Say Yes" 6/2/1950 
Baby Snooks "Hiccups" 1/22/1942

Friday 1-13
Gangbusters "Case of the Metropolitan Motor Mob" 7/2/1949 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "Silent Queen Matter" Pt 4, 11/1/56

Saturday 1-14
Kraft Music Hall, guest Dennis Day, 5/5/1949 
Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show: Babysitter - Part 1, 12/12/48

Sunday 1-15
The Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show: Babysitter - Part 2
Academy Award Theatre "The Maltese Falcon" 7/3/1946

Monday 1-16
Duffys Tavern: Tonsils Out, 2/8/1946 
Jack Benny Show "Nightmare Alley" Part 1, 2/8/1948

Tuesday 1-17
Jack Benny Show "Nightmare Alley" Part 2
The Line Up: Grieving Families Cheated, 7/15/1952

Wednesday 1-18
The Shadow "Murder With Music" 2/3/1946 
The Adv. of Superman "Phony Restaurant Racket" Part 7, 1/7/47

Thursday 1-19
Alan Young Show: Third Try To Get A Trip To Canada, 9/11/1945 
Lum 'n' Abner To Join the Army, 10/8/1942

Friday 1-20
Inner Sanctum "I Walk In The Night" 2/26/1946 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "Silent Queen Matter" Pt 5, 11/2/56

Saturday 1-21
Red Skelton: Town Hall Tax Meeting, 3/19/1950 
Fibber McGee & Molly: Fibber Gets Drafted, Part 1, 3/18/1941

Sunday 1-22
Fibber McGee & Molly: Fibber Gets Drafted, Part 2
The Falcon "Case of the Grand Gamble" 3/13/1952

Monday 1-23
Charlie McCarthy Show, 2/11/1945 guest Dorothy Lamour 
Great Gildersleeve, 4/23/1947 "Joanne Meets Leila" Part 1 

Tuesday 1-24
Great Gildersleeve, 4/23/1947 "Joanne Meets Leila" Part 2 
The Whistler, 6/19/1949 "That Physical Fact" 

Wednesday 1-25
Mr. and Mrs. North, 3/2/1954 "Cross My Heart" 
Adv. of Superman 1/8/1947 "The Phony Restaurant Racket" Part 8

Thursday 1-26
CBS Radio Workshop "The Joe Miller Joke Book" 11/4/1956 
The Couple Next Door "Ice Carnival" 1/31/1958

Friday 1-27
Nick Carter, Master Detective "Death By Ricochet" 1/21/1945 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Star of Capetown Matter" Part 1, 7/16/56

Saturday 1-28
Suspense "Return To Dust" 2/1/1959 
X Minus One "The Merchant of Venus" 7/18/1957

Sunday 1-29
Frontier Gentleman "Belljoy's Prisoner" 6/8/1958 
Scout About Town, guests Martin and Lewis, 8/5/1947

Monday 1-30
Burns & Allen, 9/25/1949 "George Proposes Again" 
Life of Riley: Riley's Mash Note At Night School, Pt 1, 12/10/44

Tuesday 1-31
Life of Riley: Riley's Mash Note At Night School - Part 2 
Broadway is My Beat, 5/12/1950 "Marcia Dean" 

Wednesday 2-1
Have Gun, Will Travel, 9/6/59 "All That Glitters" (Treasure Hunt)
Adv. of Superman, 1/9/47 "The Phony Inheritance Racket" Part 1

Thursday 2-2
Meet The Meeks: New Neighbors, 12/27/1947 
Night Editor "Homecoming For Two"

Friday 2-3
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons "Country Club Murder" 4/20/1950 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "Star of Capetown Matter" Pt 2, 7/17/56

Saturday 2-4
A Date With Judy: Oogie Pringle & His High School Hot Licks, 11/3/49 
The Bickersons: The Mink Coat - Part 1, 6/12/1951

Sunday 2-5
The Bickersons: The Mink Coat - Part 2
Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator "Blood Money" 8/24/1954

Monday 2-6
Our Miss Brooks "Poetry Mix-Up" 3/20/1949 
Fibber McGee & Molly: Five Tons Of Coal, Part 1, 12/3/1940

Tuesday 2-7
Fibber McGee & Molly: Five Tons Of Coal - Part 2
Boston Blackie "The Rockwell Diamond' 6/23/1944

Wednesday 2-8
Wild Bill Hickok "Cave-In At Careful Smith's Mine" 7/1/1951 
The Adv. of Superman "The Phony Inheritance Racket" Part 2, 1/12/47

Thursday 2-9
Columbia Workshop "Alice and the Echo" 12/14/1946 
Baby Snooks: Christening A Ship, 10/8/1942

Friday 2-10
Murder At Midnight "The Man Who Died Yesterday" 12/2/1946 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Star of Capetown Matter" Part 3, 7/18/56

Saturday 2-11
Aldrich Family "Cross Country Race" 1/1/1940 
My Friend Irma: Dinner Date - Part 1, 4/19/1948

Sunday 2-12
My Friend Irma: Dinner Date - Part 2, 4/19/1948
The Witch's Tale "The Hairy Monster"

Monday 2-13
Judy Canova: Valentines Flashback To Cactus Junct, 2/9/1946 
The Jack Benny Program: Dennis is Quitting, Part 1, 9/26/1954

Tuesday 2-14
The Jack Benny Program: Dennis is Quitting - Part 2
Dimension X "The Lost Race" 5/20/1950

Wednesday 2-15
The Shadow "The Caverns of Death" 9/11/1938 
The Adv. of Superman "The Phony Inheritance Racket" Part 3, 1/13/47

Thursday 2-16
Duffys Tavern, guest Alan Ladd, 1/4/1946 
Lum & Abner: Cedric Will Pick Up Telescope, 10/12/1942

Friday 2-17
The Third Man "Clay Pigeon" 8/17/1951 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Star of Capetown Matter" Pt 4, 7/19/56

Saturday 2-18
Mail Call: Wedding Night with Laurel & Hardy, 11/24/1943 
My Favorite Husband: Liz Learns to Swim - Part 1, 6/11/1950

Sunday 2-19
My Favorite Husband: Liz Learns to Swim - Part 2
Molle Mystery Theater "Murder Without Crime" 5/3/1946

Monday 2-20
Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show: Fundraising for the March of Dimes, 1/20/52
The Great Gildersleeve: Engagement Notices - Part 1, 1/4/1950

Tuesday 2-21
The Great Gildersleeve: Engagement Notices - Part 2
The Sealed Book "The Man With The Stolen Face" 7/15/1945

Wednesday 2-22
Hopalong Cassidy "The Red Death" 4/16/1950 
The Adv. of Superman "The Phony Inheritance Racket" Part 4, 1/14/1947

Thursday 2-23
CBS Radio Workshop "The Heart of Man" 8/4/1957 
The Couple Next Door: Mr. Piper's Day in Court, 12/8/1958

Friday 2-24
The Falcon "Case of the Worried Champion" 9/10/1950 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Star of Capetown Matter" Part 5, 7/20/56

Saturday 2-25
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  

Sunday 2-26
The Red Skelton Show: No Work on Sundays - Part 2
Jeff Regan "There's Nothing Like A Pork Chop" 8/6/1950

Monday 2-27
Alan Young Show, 1/31/1947 "New Checking Account"
Burns & Allen: George for School Board of Beverly Hills, Part 1, 5/25/43

Tuesday 2-28
Burns & Allen: George for School Board of Beverly Hills - Part 2
The Weird Circle "The Knightsbridge Mystery" 10/17/1943

Wednesday 3-1
Mr. and Mrs. North "The Last Escape" 4/1/1952 
Adv. of Superman "The Phony Inheritance Racket" Part 5, 1/15/1947

Thursday 3-2
Suspense "Three O'Clock" 3/10/1949 
Night Editor "The Big House on the Hill"

Friday 3-3
The Adv. of Frank Race "The House Divided" 1/8/1950 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Plantagent Matter" Part 1, 3/5/56

Saturday 3-4
Gunsmoke "The Photographer" 5/6/1956 
Have Gun, Will Travel "Birds of a Feather" 4/19/1959

Sunday 3-5
Lights Out "Rocket From Manhattan" 7/28/1945 
Vic and Sade "Sacred Stars of the Milky Way"

Monday 3-6
The Life of Riley: Riley Meets Peg, 7/24/1944 
The Great Gildersleeve: Smitten By An Unknown Lady, Part 1, 11/13/46

Tuesday 3-7
The Great Gildersleeve: Smitten By An Unknown Lady - Part 2
The Whistler "Night Melody" 1/27/1947

Wednesday 3-8
Nick Carter, Master Detective "Death Goes To The Post" 3/18/1945 
The Adv. of Superman "The Phony Inheritance Racket" Part 6, 1/16/47

Thursday 3-9
Behind The Mike: Weird Prospective Guest Interview, 1/5/1941 
Baby Snooks: Birth of Twins, 6/11/1942

Friday 3-10
Dark Fantasy "A Delicate Case of Murder" 2/20/1942 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Plantagent Matter" Part 2, 3/6/1956

Saturday 3-11
The Charlie McCarthy Show, guest Lana Turner, 11/16/1947 
Family Theater "Gentlemen be Seated" 1/12/1949

Sunday 3-12
Wild Bill Hickok "Trail Head Trouble" 9/16/1951 
Frontier Fighters: Steven Austin

Monday 3-13
The Jack Benny Program (Dennis Returns) St. Patrick's Day, 3/17/1946 
Fibber McGee & Molly: Early Wedding Anniversary, Part 1, 3/6/1945

Tuesday 3-14
Fibber McGee & Molly: Early Golden Wedding Anniversary - Part 2
Fort Laramie "The Buffalo Hunters" 9/9/1956

Wednesday 3-15
The Shadow "The Vengeance of Angela Nolan" 6/27/1954 
The Adv. of Superman "The Phony Inheritance Racket" Part 7, 1/17/47

Thursday 3-16
Our Miss Brooks "Rumors" 9/10/1950 
Lum & Abner: Necessity is the Mother of Invention, 10/13/1942

Friday 3-17
Sherlock Holmes "Adv. of the Veiled Lodger" 6/20/1948 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Plantagent Matter" Part 3, 3/7/1956

Saturday 3-18
Red Skelton: The Golf Course, 6/11/1950 
Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show: Red Paint on Poodle, Part 1, 1/8/50

Sunday 3-19
Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show: Red Paint on Poodle - Part 2
The Saint "The Horrible Hamburger" 9/10/1950

Monday 3-20
Academy Award Theater "My Man Godfrey" 10/2/1946 
X Minus One "Open Warfare" Part 1, 1/23/1957

Tuesday 3-21
X Minus One "Open Warfare" Part 2
Mysterious Traveler "Murder In 2952" 4/29/1952

Wednesday 3-22
Frontier Gentleman "Last of Belle Siddon" 9/7/1958 
The Adv. of Superman "The Phony Inheritance Racket" Part 8, 1/18/47

Thursday 2-23
Thursday 3-23
CBS Radio Workshop "Seven Hills of Rome" 6/9/1957 
The Couple Next Door: Lost Coat At Restaurant, 2/3/1958

Friday 3-24
Gangbusters "Case of the Counterfeit Combine" 1/29/1949 
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Plantagent Matter" Part 4, 3/8/1956

Saturday 3-25
Hopalong Cassidy "Death Paints a Picture" 6/4/1950 
Frontier Fighters "General S.W. Kearney"

Sunday 3-26
Father Knows Best "Income Tax" 3/9/1950 
Baby Snooks: Quizzing Snooks, 4/30/1942

Monday 3-27
Alan Young Show 2/27/1945 "Honeymoon Train"
The Burns & Allen Show 4/13/1943 "George Burns, Esquire - Part 1" 

Tuesday 3-28
The Burns & Allen Show 4/13/1943 "George Burns, Esquire - Part 2" 
Dr. Sixgun 10/21/1954 "Immigrant Settler"

Wednesday 3-29
Pursuit 11/20/1951 "Pursuit On The Night Ferry" 
Night Editor "Desert Justice"

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Lux Radio Theater version of Casablanca with original cast members

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Note: Turner Classic Movies had a marathon showing of all of "The Whistler" movies followed by Red Skelton's "Whistling In" movie trilogy and even a Lum & Abner movie

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). ABC Radio Networks 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 but it only lasted about a year after Paul Harvey's passing. Gil Gross also had 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"
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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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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)
Note: in 1943, NBC sold its Blue network, creating the American Broadcasting System (the name was changed to American Broadcasting Company the following year). The Columbia Broadcasting System promptly dropped the call letters of its New York radio station WABC (which ABC snatched up)

For those interested in more trivia facts about radio drama, we suggest the book, "On The Air: An Encyclopedia Of Old Time Radio," by John Dunning. The publisher is Oxford Press. It is one of the many books used in radio drama research.

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Gracie Allen's Roast Beef Recipe

1 large roast beef
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 which sounds similar "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 were G-E-C musical notes, for General Electric Co. NBC's special alert 4 chimes was used for Hindenberg crash, Pearl Harbor, and WW2 bulletins

Fun facts:
When a pitcher, catcher & umpire get into an argument, 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 or The Falcon...The Green Hornet strikes again
The Shadow knows (old radio script)
The Jack Benny Program, 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 (Gunsmoke, TV version can be seen on Encore Westerns)
Henry? Henry Aldrich...Hi ya, Baldy...Up, Up and away!
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

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I wonder what The Lone Ranger would sound like in Jamaica

There was even a radio version of Doc Savage By Lester Dent
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(guests include Groucho Marx, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone & Boris Karloff)

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