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The Halls Of Ivy - Romiette & Julio (04-18-51)Romiette & Julio (Aired April 18, 1951)
The Halls of Ivy was an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1950-1952. It was created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn before being adapted into a CBS television comedy (1954-55) produced by ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America. Quinn developed the show after he had decided to leave Fibber McGee & Molly. The audition program featured radio veteran Gale Gordon (then co-starring in Our Miss Brooks) and Edna Best in the rol ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dark Fantasy - Rendezvous With Satan (05-29-42)Rendezvous With Satan (Aired May 29, 1942)
Dark Fantasy was an series dedicated to dealings with the unknown. Originating from radio station WKY, Oklahoma City, it was written by Scott Bishop (of Mysterious Traveler and The Sealed Book fame) and was heard Fridays over stations. Keith Paynton served as announcer. The shows covered horror, science fiction and murder mysteries. Although a short series, the shows are excellent with some stories way ahead of their time.
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The Milton Berle Show - Salute To Literature (03-02-48)Salute To Literature (Aired March 2, 1948)
In 1934-36, Berle was heard regularly on The Rudy Vallee Hour, and he got much publicity as a regular on The Gillette Original Community Sing, a Sunday night comedy-variety program broadcast on CBS from September 6, 1936 to August 29, 1937. In 1939, he was the host of Stop Me If You've Heard This One with panelists spontaneously finishing jokes sent in by listeners. Three Ring Time, a comedy-variety show sponsored by Ballantine Ale was followed by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Father Knows Best - Always Tell The Truth (02-22-51) Always Tell The Truth (Aired February 22, 1951)
The series began August 25, 1949, on NBC Radio. Set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyl. The Anderson children were Betty (Rhoda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson) and Kathy (Norma Jean Nillson). Others in the cast were Eleanor Audley, Herb Vigran and Sam Edwards. Sponsored through most of its run by General Foods, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jeff Regan Investigator - Two Little Sisters (11-16-48)Two Little Sisters (Aired November 16, 1948)
Jeff Regan, Investigator was one of the three detective shows Jack Webb did before Dragnet (see also Pat Novak For Hire and Johnny Modero: Pier 23). It debuted on CBS in July 1948. Webb played JEFF REGAN, a tough private eye working in a Los Angeles investigation firm run by Anthony J. Lyon. Regan introduced himself on each show "I get ten a day and expenses...they call me the Lyon's Eye." The show was fairly well-plotted, Webb's voice was great ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Green Valley Line - Ep.01 and Ep.02 (1947)Episode 01 "Spider And The Stranger" and Program 02 "Pop's New Assistant" (1947)
The Green Valley Line is "the story of a back-country railroad in the early years of the 20th Century". Not much is known about the people or history of the Green Valley Line radio show. It was probably a single radio station production, since it doesn't even have credits. There's a real live quality to the show, since there's mis-reading of dialogue, and skewed inflections, but that's a great deal of the char ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Our Miss Brooks - Taxi Fare (06-19-55)Taxi Fare (Aired June 19, 1955)
Our Miss Brooks, an American situation comedy, began as a radio hit in 1948 and migrated to television in 1952, becoming one of the earlier hits of the so-called Golden Age of Television, and making a star out of Eve Arden (1908-1990) as comely, wisecracking, but humane high school English teacher Connie Brooks. The show hooked around Connie's daily relationships with Madison High School students, colleagues, and pompous principal Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Adventures Of Maisie - Quackenbush (05-10-51)Quackenbush (Aired May 10, 1951)
In July, 1945, Ann took Maisie to radio in a half-hour weekly radio for CBS. Famed radio actor Elliott Lewis co-starred as boyfriend Bill, with other parts going to such seasoned radio players as John Brown and Lurene Tuttle. The series ran two seasons, and was revived in 1949 as a syndicated program, now called The Adventures of Maisie. Included in the repertory cast were Hans Conreid (later on Life with Liugi), Sheldon Leonard, Joan Banks, Elvia Allman, B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Defense Attorney - Client Jim Leonard (09-14-51)Client Jim Leonard (Aired September 14, 1951)
Playing radio's last lady crime fighter was a prominent actress, Mercedes McCambridge. The series began on NBC under the title "The Defense Rests" in the spring of 1951. NBC soon dropped it so ABC picked it up, kept the same cast, re-titled it :"Defense Attorney" and aired it from August 1951 to December 1952. McCambridge, portraying an attorney named Martha Ellis Bryant, spent virtually no time in the courtroom and instead was in the streets, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Man Called X - Rhythm Of Death (12-30-50)Rhythm Of Death (Aired December 30, 1950)
The Man Called X was an espionage radio drama which aired on CBS and NBC from July 10, 1944 to May 20, 1952. Sponsored by Frigidaire and later General Motors, this spy series starred Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston, Intelligence Agent. Marshall, British by birth, starred in films with many of the greatest, especially Detreich in Blonde Venus, Bette Davis in The Virgin Queen, Vincent Price in The Fly, and a great cast in The Razor's Edge, where he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Judy Canova Show - Picnic (09-15-45)Picnic (Aired September 15, 1945)
In 1943, she began her own radio program, The Judy Canova Show, that ran for 12 years—first on CBS and then on NBC. Playing herself as a love-starved Ozark bumpkin dividing her time between home and Southern California, Canova was accompanied by a cast that included voicemaster Mel Blanc as Pedro (using the accented voice he later gave the cartoons' Speedy Gonzales) and Sylvester (using the voice that later became associated with the Looney Tunes charact ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke" - Paid Killer (01-17-53)Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Gunsmoke" - Paid Killer (Aired January 17, 1953)
The radio show first aired on April 26, 1952 and ran until June 18, 1961 on the CBS radio network. The series starred William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, and Parley Baer as Deputy Chester Proudfoot. Doc's first name and Chester's last name were changed for the television program. Gunsmoke was notable for its critically acclaimed cast and writ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Silent Men - Confess Or Die (03-19-52)Confess Or Die (Aired March 19, 1952)
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. played the parts of "special agents of all branches of the federal government, who daily risk their lives to protect the lives of all of us... to guard our welfare and our liberties, they must remain nameless - The Silent Men!" At each episode, Fairbanks checked in with his chief, played by either William Conrad or Herb Butterfield. Regulars included Virginia Gregg, Raymond Burr, Lou Merrill, Lurene Tuttle, Paul Frees and John De ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dad's Army - Sorry Wrong Number (05-06-74)Sorry Wrong Number (Aired May 6, 1974)
The unmistakable voice of Bud Flanagan singing 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?', a cod-Second World War propaganda singalong written especially for the show (by Jimmy Perry), introduced Dad's Army, the zenith of the British broad-comedy ensemble sitcom. Consistently good writing and a wonderful cast of old timers and newer talents combined to produce a whimsical period-piece that continues, justifiably, to be savoured and has now assumed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Damon Runyon Theater - What No Butler? (12-04-49)What No Butler? (December 4, 1949)
Damon Runyon Theater - Broadcast from January to December 1949, "The Damon Runyon Theater" dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories for radio. Damon Runyon (October 4, 1884 – December 10, 1946) was a newspaperman and writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. He spun tales of gamblers, petty thieves, actors and gangsters; few of whom go by "square" names, prefer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Great Gildersleeve - Leroy Buys A Car (09-05-51)Leroy Buys A Car (Aired September 5, 1951)
The Great Gildersleeve (1941-1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Theater Guild On The Air - The Third Man (01-07-51)The Third Man (Aired January 7, 1951)
The Theater Guild On The Air - The theatrical society in U.S.A. is termed as Theatre Guild. Founded in New York City in 1918 by Lawrence Langner (1890-1962) and others, the group proposed to produce high-quality, noncommercial plays. Its board of directors shared responsibility for choice of plays, management, and production. After the premiere of George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House in 1920, the Guild became his U.S. agent and staged 15 of his pla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Sealed Book - Till Death Do Us Part (07-08-45)Till Death Do Us Part (Aired July 8, 1945)
The Sealed Book starred Philip Clarke as “the keeper of the book”, a croaking, cackling hermit, with knowledge of the black arts, who in each show unlocked “the great padlock” that kept “the sealed book safe from prying eyes.” There was a spook story each week with tales of secrets and mysteries of mankind through the ages.
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July 8, 1945. Program #17. Mutual network origination, syndicated. "Till Death Do Us Part". Commer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
You Bet Your Life - Secret Word Is "Paper" (01-14-55)Secret Word Is Paper (Aired January 14, 1955)
Groucho Marx matches wits with the American public in four episodes of this classic game show. Starting on the radio in 1947, You Bet Your Life made its television debut in 1950 and aired for 11 years with Groucho as host and emcee. Sponsored rather conspicuously by the Dodge DeSoto car manufacturers, the show featured two contestants working as a team to answer questions for cash prizes. Another mainstay of these question and answer segments w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Falcon - The Case Of The Vanishing Varmint (07-11-44)The Case Of The Vanishing Varmint (Aired July 11, 1944)
The success of Falcon films led to a radio series that premiered on the American Blue Network in April 1943, and aired for the next ten years on various networks. It was here that his transition into a private eye was finalized, with The Falcon, now called MICHAEL WARING working as a hardboiled insurance investigator, with an office and a secretary, Nancy. Barry Kroeger was the first radio voice of the Falcon, followed by James Meigha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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