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April-June 2018 Sunday 4-1 Damon Runyon Theatre "Social Error" 8/28/1949 Bill Stern Sports Newsreel (Sinatra Fills In) 7/9/1948 Monday 4-2 Charlie McCarthy Show: guest Anne Baxter, 3/4/1945 The Couple Next Door: Looking At Apartments, 2/27/1958 Tuesday 4-3 Information Please, guest Boris Karloff, 5/17/1943 Strange Adventure: Episodes 5, 6 and 8 Wednesday 4-4 The Shadow "Death Is A Nursery Rhyme" 2/22/1948 The Adv. of Superman "Knights of the White Carnation, Pt 8" 3/7/1947 Thursday 4-5 Inheritance: Dorothea Lynde Dix, 4/11/1954 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Henry's Father Dies, 12/2/1943 Friday 4-6 Mr. & Mrs. North "The Man With The Rifle" 12/8/1953 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The LaMarr Matter, Part 3" 3/28/1956 Saturday 4-7 Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show: March of Dimes fundraising, 1/20/1952 The Great Gildersleeve: Engagement Notices, Part 1, 1/4/1950 Sunday 4-8 The Great Gildersleeve: Engagement Notices - Part 2 The Sealed Book "The Man With The Stolen Face" 7/15/1945 Monday 4-9 My Friend Irma: Irma Wants to Join Club, 5/17/1948 Jack Benny Program "Alexander Graham Bell, Part 1" 5/28/1939 Tuesday 4-10 Jack Benny Program "Alexander Graham Bell - Part 2" Fort Laramie "Hattie Pelfrey" 3/11/1956 Wednesday 4-11 Big Story: Murder Victim Buried Alive, 5/19/1948 The Adv. of Superman "Knights of the White Carnation" Part 9 Thursday 4-12 Mysterious Traveler "Key Witness" 1/15/1952 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Lost in Mountains, 12/06/1943 Friday 4-13 Nick Carter "The Legend Of Shakespeare's Ghost" 12/30/1945 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The LaMarr Matter" Part 4, 3/29/1956 Saturday 4-14 Judy Canova: Judy's Screen Test, 10/04/1947 Burns & Allen: Gracie Does The Income Tax, Part 1, 1/15/1948 Sunday 4-15 Burns & Allen: Gracie Does The Income Tax - Part 2 Adv. of Nero Wolfe "Case of the Final Page" 3/23/1951 Monday 4-16 Archie Andrews: Unexpected Company, 11/20/1948 Fibber McGee & Molly: Pot Roast for Dinner, Part 1, 6/09/1942 Tuesday 4-17 Fibber McGee & Molly: Pot Roast for Dinner - Part 2 Hawk Larabee "Blind Chuck" 9/06/1947 Wednesday 4-18 Sherlock Holmes "The Dying Schoolboys" 11/09/1946 The Adv. of Superman "Knights of the White Carnation, Part 10" 3/11/1947 Thursday 4-19 The Weird Circle: William Wilson, 10/31/1943 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Meeting in Paris, 12/09/1943 Friday 4-20 Richard Diamond "The Eight O'Clock Killer" 11/22/1950 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The LaMarr Matter, Part 5" 3/30/1956 Saturday 4-21 Our Miss Brooks, 6/12/1949 "The Wishing Well Dance" Behind The Mike, 9/15/1940, Premiere Show, part 1 Sunday 4-22 Behind The Mike, 9/15/1940, Premiere Show Sam Spade, Detective "The Wheel of Life Caper" 7/11/1948 Monday 4-23 Duffy's Tavern: Inheriting A Diamond Mine 4/6/1945 Baby Snooks: Golfing / Hospital Visit, 5/18/1939 Tuesday 4-24 Red Skelton: Rod The Census Taker, 3/5/1950 Lum & Abner: Talks Squire Out of Resigning, 11/11/1942 Wednesday 4-25 Hopalong Cassidy: The Green Valley Payoff, 5/7/1950 Adv. of Superman "Knights of the White Carnation, Part 11" 3/12/47 Thursday 4-26 The Witch's Tale "Rockabye Baby" 3/15/1934 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: John Wants Marriage, 12/13/1943 Friday 4-27 Philip Marlowe "Trouble is My Business" 8/5/1947 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Meg's Palace Matter" Part 1, 9/25/56 Saturday 4-28 Alan Young Show: Goldfish, 3/20/1945 Chase & Sanborn Hour, 9/12/1937, guest Bette Davis, Part 1 Sunday 4-29 Chase & Sanborn Hour, guest Bette Davis - Part 2 Boston Blackie "Hooded Gang" 6/18/1946 Monday 4-30 The Life of Riley: Babs Music Scholarship, 3/9/1946 The Couple Next Door: The Broken Dish, 2/28/1958 Tuesday 5-1 CBS Radio Workshop: Report on the Wee'uns, 11/11/1956 Arthur Godfrey Time: American Tourists in Europe, 10/21/1953 Wednesday 5-2 Suspense "Gold of the Adomar" 1/19/1953 Adv. of Superman "Knights of the White Carnation" Part 12, 3/13/47 Thursday 5-3 Lights Out "Execution" 4/27/1943 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Hyde Interrupts, 12/16/1943 Friday 5-4 Frank Race, Adventures of "The Silent Tongue" 12/4/1949 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Meg's Palace Matter" Part 2, 9/26/56 Saturday 5-5 Mutual Radio Theater Hour "A Small Argument" 4/22/1980 Sunday 5-6 I Was I Communist For the FBI "Burnt Offering" 8/27/1952 Unsolved Mysteries: Desmond Taylor Murder Mysteries Monday 5-7 Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show: Helping Alice, Spring Cleaning, 5/4/52 The Jack Benny Program, guest Eddie Cantor - Part 1, 5/2/1943 Tuesday 5-8 The Jack Benny Program, guest Eddie Cantor - Part 2 X Minus One "The Seventh Order" 5/8/1956 Wednesday 5-9 The Shadow "Friend of Darkness" 2/19/1939 The Adv. of Superman "Knights of the White Carnation" Part 13, 3/14/47 Thursday 5-10 Inner Sanctum "Death In The Depths" 2/06/1945 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Hyde Kills Margaret's Father, 12/20/1943 Friday 5-11 Nick Carter, Master Detective "Case Of The Nameless Blonde" 5/9/1948 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 9/27/56 "The Meg's Palace Matter" Part 3 Saturday 5-12 Our Miss Brooks: Mother's Day, Boynton's Parents, 5/14/1950 Burns & Allen Show: guest Gregory Peck, Part 1, 1/6/1949 Sunday 5-13 Burns & Allen Show, 1/6/1949, guest Gregory Peck - Part 2 The Weird Circle, 4/23/1944 "Falkland" Monday 5-14 Life With Luigi, 9/21/1948 "Luigi Discovers America" Fibber McGee & Molly, 1/18/1944 "Molly Gets Flowers" Part 1 Tuesday 5-15 Fibber McGee & Molly "Molly Gets Flowers" Part 2 Story of Dr. Kildare, 3/15/1950 "Janet Dane" Wednesday 5-16 Gunsmoke, 12/4/1954 "Cholera" Adv. of Superman, 3/17/1947 "Knights of the White Carnation" Part 14 Thursday 5-17 Molle Mystery Theater, 11/28/1944 "Nightmare" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Hettie Commits Suicide, 12/23/1943 Friday 5-18 Sherlock Holmes "Accommodating Valise" 5/23/1948 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 9/28/1956 "The Meg's Palace Matter" Part 4 Saturday 5-19 The Bickersons: John's Snoring Dilemma, 8/21/1951 Vic and Sade: Happy to Be Alive, 9/5/1944 Sunday 5-20 Family Theater "The Scout" 6/15/1949 Police Headquarters "Tommy Evans Run Down" Monday 5-21 Duffy's Tavern, guest Esther Williams, 4/26/1946 Baby Snooks "House Guest & Stealing Chickens" Tuesday 5-22 Alan Young Show "Smashed Fender" 2/8/1946 Lum & Abner: Trouble Getting Rocket Out of Observatory, 11/16/1942 Wednesday 5-23 Gangbusters "Billanski & Tillotson" 9/15/1944 Captain Midnight "An Unlikely Alibi" 11/21/1939 Thursday 5-24 Dark Fantasy "The Headless Dead" 1/23/1942 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Henry Cannot Marry Margaret, 12/27/1943 Friday 5-25 Rocky Fortune "On the Trail of a Killer" 1/5/1954 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Meg's Palace Matter" Part 5, 9/29/1956 Saturday 5-26 Charlie McCarthy Show with Dorothy Lamour, 2/11/1945 Great Gildersleeve "Joanne Meets Leila" Part 1, 4/23/1947 Sunday 5-27 Great Gildersleeve "Joanne Meets Leila - Part 2" The Whistler "That Physical Fact" 6/19/1949 Monday 5-28 The Aldrich Family: Cousin Lionel Visits, 1/6/1949 Jack Benny Program: Frank Sinatra Fills In For Dennis Day, Pt 1, 5/2/48 Tuesday 5-29 Jack Benny Program : Frank Sinatra Fills In For Dennis Day, Pt 2 Nightbeat "Twill Be the Death of Me" 7/10/1950 Wednesday 5-30 CBS Radio Workshop: No Time For Heartaches, 1/13/1957 The Couple Next Door "The Ant Farm" 3/3/1958 Thursday 5-31 Escape "The Red Forest" 8/11/1950 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Doctor's Consultation, 12/30/1943 Friday 6-1 Mr. and Mrs. North "The Crooked Ring" 8/25/1953 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Fathom Five Matter" Part 1, 2/27/1956 Saturday 6-2 Have Gun - Will Travel "Bitter Wine" 6/14/1959 Gunsmoke "New Hotel" 2/19/1956 Sunday 6-3 Suspense "Man Alive" 11/24/1952 Night Editor "In a Manner of Speaking" Monday 6-4 Jack Carson Show "Building Materials" 11/20/1946 Burns & Allen Show: guest Frank Sinatra - Part 1, 12/12/1944 Tuesday 6-5 Burns & Allen Show, guest Frank Sinatra - Part 2 The Saint "The Ghost that Giggled" 9/17/1950 Wednesday 6-6 Fort Laramie "Goodbye Willa" 8/19/1956 Strange Adventure: Episodes 10, 11, and 13 Thursday 6-7 Academy Award Theater "Portrait of Jenny" 12/4/1946 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Sam and Hezra Reunited, 1/30/1944 Friday 6-8 Murder at Midnight "The Dark Chamber" 5/26/1947 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Fathom Five Matter, Part 2" 2/28/1956 Saturday 6-9 The Shadow "Professor X" 9/18/1938 Red Skelton Show: Junior's Anniversary, 11/17/1942 Sunday 6-10 Mutual Radio Theater Hour 5/7/1980 "Vicious Circle" Monday 6-11 The Life of Riley, 6/14/1947 "Father's Day" Fibber McGee & Molly, 10/5/1943 "The New Boarder - Part 1" Tuesday 6-12 Fibber McGee & Molly "The New Boarder - Part 2" Nick Carter, 11/5/1944 "Death In The Pool" Wednesday 6-13 Our Miss Brooks, 6/26/1949 "June Bride" Abe Burrows, 6/12/1948 "The Duke Of Detendorden" Thursday 6-14 The Hermit's Cave "Professor's Elixir" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Marriage Proposal, 2/3/1944 Friday 6-15 Richard Diamond Private Det. "The Rifle Case" 6/28/1953 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Fathom Five Matter" Part 3, 2/29/56 Saturday 6-16 Danny Kaye Show: Kingdom of Brooklyn (Back From Washington) 2/3/1945 Ray Bolger Show: Frank Sinatra's Secret For Attracting Girls-Pt 1, 8/24/45 Sunday 6-17 Ray Bolger Show: Frank Sinatra's Secret For Attracting Girls-Part 2 Defense Attorney "Mike Pelly" 8/31/1951 Monday 6-18 Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show: Saving His Job with Martin & Lewis, 3/29/53 Baby Snooks: Red Cross Exam / Missing Dollar Tuesday 6-19 The Great Gildersleeve "Marjorie Is Pregnant" 9/6/1950 Lum & Abner: Mars Launch is Tomorrow, 11/17/1942 Wednesday 6-20 The Green Hornet "Murder In The Rain" 9/19/1944 Buck Rogers: The Origin Show, 4/5/1939 Thursday 6-21 Crime Club "Death is a Knockout" 6/12/1947 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Newspaper Headline, 2/6/1944 Friday 6-22 Rocky Fortune "A Hepcat Kills the Canary" 11/17/1953 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Fathom Five Matter" Part 4, 3/1/1956 Saturday 6-23 Meet Mister McNutley: Ray's Other Life, 3/18/1954 Burns & Allen: Making George Jealous - Part 1, 1/19/1943 Sunday 6-24 Burns & Allen: Making George Jealous - Part 2 Hawk Larabee: No Luck On A Cattle Drive, 6/27/1947 Monday 6-25 Duffy's Tavern, guest Tallulah Bankhead, 6/1/1943 Jack Benny Program: Phil Shoots A Movie - Part 1, 4/16/1939 Tuesday 6-26 Jack Benny Program: Phil Shoots A Movie - Part 2 The Line Up "The Anita Cameron Case" 5/27/1950 Wednesday 6-27 X Minus One "At the Post" 3/27/1957 Are You a Genius? Crazy Questions Thursday 6-28 The Sealed Book "The Accusing Corpse" 4/29/1945 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Police Questioning, 2/9/1944 Friday 6-29 Sherlock Holmes "The Adv of the Carpathian Horror" 4/14/1947 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Fathom Five Matter" Part 5, 3/2/1956 Saturday 6-30 The Whistler "Whirlpool" 10/10/1948 Origin of Superstition: Walking Beneath Ladder
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Please also note that radio episodes of "Archie Andrews" are based on the old childrens comic book and are no relation to the crap on tv titled "Riverdale"
Lux Radio Theater version of Casablanca with original cast members
If clips above will not play, Click here and access the entire old time radio library as a subscriber. If you cannot hear programs because your computer does not have the latest Flash Player, you can get it free from get.Adobe.com/flashplayerNote: 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"
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 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
Suspense radio series history on Wikipedia
Who'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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Prefer comedy? Check out 1940s radio's Spike Jones Show on YouTube
(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
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