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The Battle of Hastings
You Are There. February 13, 1949. "The Battle Of Hastings". The events of October 14, 1066. William, the Duke of Normandy, conquers King Harold and becomes king of England. Guy Sorel, Staats Cotsworth, Don Hollenbeck, Robert Lewis Shayon (writer, producer, director), John Daly, Michael Sklar (writer), Ken Roberts, William Podmore, Oliver Cliff, John Merlin, Peter Hobbs, Alfred de La Fuente. oldtimeradiodvd.com
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Race Against Death
The Man Called X. April 21, 1951. A newsman in Puerto Rico has been murdered by The Nationalista Party. Herbert Marshall, Leon Belasco. oldtimeradiodvd.com
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Japanese Underground
The Man Called X. January 20, 1951. Ken Thurston flies to Japan to find out who killed Professor Reynolds, a scientist who was working on a cure for radiation poisoning. Herbert Marshall has trouble speaking at the end of the program. Herbert Marshall, Leon Belasco, Felix Mills (composer, conductor), J. Richard Kennedy (producer), Jack Latham (announcer), Jeanne Bates, Will Wright, Wilms Herbert, Stan Freberg, Howard McNear, Tony Barrett, Sidney Marshall (writer). oldtimeradiodvd.com
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The Black Arrow
The General Mills Radio Adventure Theatre. March 13, 1977."The Black Arrow". Sponsored by: General Mills. Tom Bosley (host), Robert Newman (adaptor from the tradition story), Skip Hinnant, Ann Costello, Himan Brown (producer, director), Jackson Beck, William Griffis, Court Benson, Gilbert Mack. oldtimeradiodvd.com
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The Other World
The General Mills Radio Adventure Theatre. March 6, 1977. "The Other World". Sponsored by: General Mills. Tom Bosley (host), Ian Martin (writer), Jada Rowland, Russell Horton, Himan Brown (producer, director), Evie Juster, Robert Dryden. oldtimeradiodvd.com
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You'll Be Dead In A Week 3 of 3
Adventures By Morse. October 13, 1946. "You'll Be Dead In A Week". Commercials added locally. The third episode and conclusion of the story. Russell Thorson, Carlton E. Morse (producer, director, writer), Barton Yarborough, Gayne Whitman (announcer). oldtimeradiodvd.com
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Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp
The General Mills Radio Adventure Theatre. March 12, 1977 "Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp". Sponsored by: General Mills. Tom Bosley (host), Paul Tripp (adaptor from a story in, "The Arabian Nights"), Roger Baron, Evie Juster, Himan Brown (producer, director), Robert Dryden, Norman Rose, Roger De Koven. oldtimeradiodvd.com
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You'll Be Dead In A Week 2 of 3
Adventures By Morse. October 6, 1946. "You'll Be Dead In A Week". Commercials added locally. "$200,000 To Lose." Russell Thorson, Carlton E. Morse (producer, director, writer), Barton Yarborough, Gayne Whitman (announcer). oldtimeradiodvd.com
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You'll Be Dead In A Week 1 of 3
Adventures By Morse. September 29, 1946. . "You'll Be Dead In A Week". The first episode of the story, no title given. Russell Thorson, Carlton E. Morse (producer, director, writer), Barton Yarborough, Gayne Whitman (announcer). oldtimeradiodvd.com
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Lost Tomb 3 of 3
The Adventurers Club. February 22, 1947. The third (and final) part of the dramatized adventures of Count Byron De Prorok. The Count and his companions are lost in the desert when a sandstorm strikes. Ken Nordine (host), Jack Sharp (writer), Gretchen Sharp (writer), Jack Simpson (producer), Russ Young (director), Dave McCall (organist), Ed Prentiss. oldtimeradiodvd.com
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Lost Tomb 2 of 3
The Adventurers Club. February 15, 1947. The second part of the adventures of Count Byron De Prorok. The Taurogs attack after the Count loots the tomb Tinan. Ken Nordine (host), Jack Sharp (writer), Gretchen Sharp (writer), Dave McCall (organist), Ed Prentiss, Jack Simpson (producer), Russ Young (director) oldtimeradiodvd.com
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Lost Tomb 1 of 3
The Adventurers Club. February 8, 1947. The first part of the adventures of Count Byron de Prorok. While crossing the Sahara, the Count is in search for the tomb of Queen Tin Hinan. Ken Nordine (host), Ed Prentiss, Jack Simpson (producer), Russ Young (director), Jack Sharp (writer), Gretchen Sharp (writer), Dave McCall (organist).oldtimeradiodvd.com
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Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen 16
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Adventures Club Lost Tomb 2of 3 2/14/47 Sponsor 1-800...
47-02-14 Mason City Globe-Gazette - Adventure (Sat. 10:30 am.m) The true story of Count Byron de Prorok, who solved a 3000-year-old riddle when he found the lost tomb of ancient Queen Tin Hinan in the Sahara, will be continued on "Adventurers' Club." This weeks episode concerns an attack by fierce Taureg desert tribe, who are outraged at the opening of the queen's tomb.
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Tarzan in Young Manhood 9/16/32
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Adventure Theater A Case of Identity 1977
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Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen Episode 1
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Longboat Rescured at Sea by Morgan
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The Manicurist Bookie in the Barbershop
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On The Farm
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Missing Heiress
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Success Story
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Midnight Rendezous
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Two Years Before the Mast
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Adventures of Masie "Eddie The Boyfriend" 12/15/49
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Blair Of the Mounties - 2 Episodes From 1938
Blair of the Mounties is the story of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police -- a fictional series based on the work of the Northwest Mounted Police before the World War I. It was a fifteen minute weekly serial heard every Monday for 36 weeks beginning January 31st, 1938 and running through the 3rd of October of 1938. It may have been on the air as early as 1935, although there’s no actual proof of this. Little is known of the series other than it followed the exploits of Sgt. Blair of the...
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Bold Venture - Robbery By Joe Ralston (1951)
Bold Venture - The Hollywood husband and wife team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall set sail for adventure in the Bold Venture radio series in early 1951. There were well over 400 stations that aired the program. Since thiswas syndicated * the starting date varied from station to station but Mar 26, 1951 was the official date of the first show. Humphrey Bogart portrayed Slate Shannon, owner of a rundown Havana hotel, Shannon's Place. The action took place on land as well aboard Slate's...
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Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen - Green Tourist & Temple...
Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen - First heard on Mutual featuring Elliott Lewis, who as Leonard Maltin writes in "The Great American Broadcast, "…wore every hat imaginable-actor, producer, and director-also penned a good number of scripts for series he supervised, including Suspense." And Maltin says of this show, "On the terrific late-1940's high-adventure series The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen he held down both jobs simultaneously as director and star." As Maltin continues, “Lewis had the...
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Alka Seltzer Show - 2 Episodes (10-09-53) and (10-29-53)
Alka-Seltzer Time (aka The Alka-Seltzer Show) was a 15-minute radio series broadcast weekdays on both CBS and Mutual. Baritone Curt Massey starred with Martha Tilton when the program, sponsored by Alka-Seltzer, began in 1949 as Curt Massey Time (sometimes advertised as Curt Massey Time with Martha Tilton) with a title change to highlight the sponsor's product by 1952. The announcer was Fort Pearson. By 1953, the series was heard simultaneously on Mutual (at noon) and later that same day on...
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The Milton Berle Christmas Show (12-23-47)
The Milton Berle Show - 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 a 1943 program...
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Spy Catcher - Game Set Match (03-10-60)
Spy Catcher - Famous antipodean actor Russell Crowe appeared briefly in one episode as a child actor at the age of seven. The record of Colonel Pinto and his team in trapping the spies who came to Britain is exceptional and is fully described in Colonel Pinto's two excellent books Spycatcher and Friend Or Foe? which tell in exciting detail both the methods and intentions of the spies and the patience and experience required to trap them. Every efficient spy, says Colonel Pinto, would have a...
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The Man Called X - Italian Art Collection (08-15-48)
The Man Called X was an espionage radio drama which aired on CBS and NBC from July 10, 1944 to May 20, 1952. Herbert Marshall had the lead role of agent Ken Thurston who took on dangerous cases in a variety of exotic locations. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra supplied the background music. Leon Belasco played Mr. X's comedic sidekick, Pagan Zeldchmidt, who always turned up in remote parts of the world because he had a "cousin" there. Pagan would annoy and help Mr. X. Sponsored by Frigidaire and...
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Ports Of Call - Russia (1936)
Ports Of Call - An obscure series from 1935 or 1936 in which each episode deals with a voyage to a different country where events of that country's history are dramatized. They each begin with the low moan of a tramp steamer's whistle and the announcement of the series title, followed by a musical interlude. THIS EPISODE: 1936. Transco syndication. "Russia". Music fill for local commercial insert. In 1605, Boris Gudenov learns that his murdered brother is being impersonated. The missing...
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Speed Gibson Of The International Secret Police - 2...
Speed Gibson Of The International Secret Police - The thrilling adventures of Speed Gibson follows the exploits of another flying “ace”. This popular character held the listeners attention with his tracking down of international crime operatives. Speed and his pals are on the trail of a super-gang and its dreaded leader "The Octopus." The enemy of society had his tentacles in crime everywhere, and without the International Secret Police, the world would be his oyster. The fifteen-minute...
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You Are There - The Battle Of Hastings (02-13-49)
You Are There - Imagine if CBS radio news existed when the Bastille was stormed in 1789, or if radio reporters were stationed in Ford Theater as Lincoln was assassinated, or again at the Battle of Gettysburg? Indeed, such was the premise behind the CBS series, You Are There. Audiences witnessed history through the present-tense accounts of newsmen allegedly witnessing historical events transpiring before their eyes. Don Hollenbeck and John Daley (known for his TV game show panelist...
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Horatio Hornblower - Court-Martial Of Barry McCool...
The Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower - Broadcast 1952; Transcribed in England for the BBC; aired in U.S. on CBS, then again on ABC in 1954 and Mutual in 1957. Starring Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower. a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The radio series was based on twelve Horatio Hornblower novels written by C.S. Forester. These novels were, and still are, well liked due to their realistic tone and historical accuracy in telling the tales of Naval life in...
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Command Performance - Bing Crosby (10-13-42)
Command Performance - AFRS Production for the entertainment of Armed Forces troops. The first name listed was designated the "Master of Cermonies". Dates listed should be taken with a grain of salt. Sometimes the AFRS scripts listed mastering date, sometimes release date, sometimes air date, and sometimes nothing at all. Command Performance was one of the few radio shows that were sent overseas to boost the morale of US Troops during World War 2. In March 1942 it became a weekly show...
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The Kraft Music Hall - Guest Humphrey Bogart (11-06-47)
The Kraft Music Hall was a major NBC radio variety program, featuring top show business entertainers, in a 16-year span from 1933 to 1949. Kraft Foods was the first advertiser to sponsor a two-hour radio program, in an era when many radio programs were only 15 minutes long and few were longer than a half hour. The Kraft Program debuted June 26, 1933 to promote a new product in the Kraft family, Miracle Whip. The musical-variety program featured orchestra leader Paul Whiteman and served to...
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Hear It Now - Episode 20 (04-27-51)
Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began in 1950 and was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Fred Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 p.m. One of the most popular and best selling records of 1948 was I Can Hear It Now 1933-1945. The record was a collaboration between Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. The record interwove historical events with speeches and Murrow's narration and marked the beginning of one of the most famous pairings in journalism history....
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Bold Venture - Deadly Merchandise (03-26-51)
Bold Venture - The Hollywood husband and wife team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall set sail for adventure in the Bold Venture radio series in early 1951. There were well over 400 stations that aired the program. Since thiswas syndicated * the starting date varied from station to station but Mar 26, 1951 was the official date of the first show. Humphrey Bogart portrayed Slate Shannon, owner of a rundown Havana hotel, Shannon's Place. The action took place on land as well aboard Slate's...
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The Adventures Of Frank Merriwell - The Duplicate Dean...
Frank Merriwell, the much-loved fictional hero of Street and Smith's Tip Top Weekly, was first introduced to readers on April 18, 1896. Merriwell was the creation of writer Burt L. Standish (real name: Gilbert Patten), and embodied a new type of dime novel hero, one who relied as much upon mental as physical prowess. The Yale-educated Merriwell possessed "a body like Tarzan's and a head like Einstein's," wrote one admiring writer, and thus represented "the perfect union of brain and brawn."...
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The Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower - Alliance With...
The Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower - Broadcast 1952; Transcribed in England for the BBC; aired in U.S. on CBS, then again on ABC in 1954 and Mutual in 1957. Starring Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower. a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The radio series was based on twelve Horatio Hornblower novels written by C.S. Forester. These novels were, and still are, well liked due to their realistic tone and historical accuracy in telling the tales of Naval life in...
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Inheritance - That All May Know (07-25-54)
INHERITANCE - A Dramatized look into American History. NBC Networ in cooperation with the AMERICAN LEGION Sundays 4:30 - 5:00 pm PRUDUCER/DIRECTOR: Albert McCleary ANNOUNCER: John Wald MUSIC: Robert Armbruster. THIS EPISODE: July 25, 1954. Program #16. NBC network. "That All May Know". Sustaining. Not auditioned. 4:30 P. M. The program is produced is co-operation with The American Legion. The after-drama speaker is the past National Commander of The American Legion, Kansas; Harry Kollmary...
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The Challenge Of The Yukon - Two Episodes (03-13-45)...
Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet). The series was first heard on February 3, 1938. Under the title Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, it later transferred to television. The program was an adventure series about Sergeant William Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they fought evildoers in the Northern wilderness during the Gold Rush of the 1890s....
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The Adventues Of Maisie - Mrs. Hammers logger (11-16-50)
Maisie, the first in 1939, was from the book "Dark Dame" by the writer Wilson Collison,who did decades of scripting for the silver screen along with Broadway plays and magazine fiction. From the first, MGM wanted Ann Sothern to play Maisie. She began in Hollywood as an extra in 1927. "Maisie and I were just together - I just understood her," Sothern, born Harriette Arlene Lake, said after several of the films made her a star. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Ann Sothern and Lucille Ball, like...
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Songs By Sinatra - You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby...
Songs By Sinatra - CBS sustaining - Orch Conducted by: Axel Stordahl With: The Pide Pipers; The Bobby Tucker Singers Announcer: MARVIN MILLER Opening Theme: This Love Of Mine Closing Theme: Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) Sunday (7:15 - 7:30); 15 min Originally Broadcast on the CBS Radio Network in 1945 it is one of many different Frank Sinatra Radio Shows. On this series the orchestra was conducted by Axel Stordahl, and the Pied Pipers were also on hand. Though the quality of the...
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Cavalcade Of America - 2 Episodes. "Ice King" and "China...
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was...
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21st Precinct "Armed Robbery At Bar And Grill" (12-15-54)
21ST PRECINCT was one of the realistic police drama series of the early- to mid-1950's that were aired in the wake of DRAGNET. NBC's DRAGNET had proven that a realistic police show could attract and hold an audience. In 1953 CBS decided to use New York City as the backdrop for their own half-hour police series and focus on the day-to-day operation of a single police precinct. Actual cases were used as the basis for stories. The Precinct Captain acted as the narrator for the series. THIS...
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Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen "Rocky III & The Dead Man's...
Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen - First heard on Mutual featuring Elliott Lewis, who as Leonard Maltin writes in "The Great American Broadcast, "…wore every hat imaginable-actor, producer, and director-also penned a good number of scripts for series he supervised, including Suspense." And Maltin says of this show, "On the terrific late-1940's high-adventure series The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen he held down both jobs simultaneously as director and star." As Maltin continues, “Lewis had the...
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The Man Called X "Orient Express" (01-27-51)
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 portrayed W. Somerset Maugham.The Gordon...
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Blair Of The Mounties "Star Ruby Of Talangor" (Pts 1 and...
Blair of the Mounties is the story of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police -- a fictional series based on the work of the Northwest Mounted Police before the World War I. It was a fifteen minute weekly serial heard every Monday for 36 weeks beginning January 31st, 1938 and running through the 3rd of October of 1938. It may have been on the air as early as 1935, although there’s no actual proof of this. Little is known of the series other than it followed the exploits of Sgt. Blair of the...
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Inheritance "Gorgas And The Panama Canal" (10-24-54)
"INHERITANCE" A Dramatized look into American History. NBC Networ in cooperation with the AMERICAN LEGION Sundays 4:30 - 5:00 pm PRUDUCER/DIRECTOR: Albert McCleary ANNOUNCER: John Wald MUSIC: Robert Armbruster. THIS EPISODE: October 24, 1954. Program #29. NBC network. "Gorgas and The Panama Canal". Sustaining. Not auditioned. 4:30 P. M. The program is produced in co-operation with The American Legion. The after-drama speaker is a National Vice Commancder of The American Legion, Leonard...
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You Are There "Declaration Of Independance" (07-04-48)
You Are There - Imagine if CBS radio news existed when the Bastille was stormed in 1789, or if radio reporters were stationed in Ford Theater as Lincoln was assassinated, or again at the Battle of Gettysburg? Indeed, such was the premise behind the CBS series, You Are There. Audiences witnessed history through the present-tense accounts of newsmen allegedly witnessing historical events transpiring before their eyes. Don Hollenbeck and John Daley (known for his TV game show panelist...
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The Aedventures Of Frank Merriwell "Front Page Story"...
Adventures of Frank Merriwell first ran on NBC radio from March 26 to June 22, 1934 as a 15-minute serial airing three times a week at 5:30pm. Sponsored by Dr. West's Toothpaste, this program starred Donald Briggs in the title role. Harlow Wilcox was the announcer. After a 12-year gap, the series returned October 5, 1946 as a 30-minute NBC Saturday morning show, continuing until June 4, 1949. Lawson Zerbe starred as Merriwell, Jean Gillespie and Elaine Rostas as Inza Burrage, Harold Studer...
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Beat The Band "First Show" (01-28-40)
1940---Beat the Band---with Garry Moore hosting, Ted Weems (featuring a vocalist named Perry Como) leading the band, Marvel Maxwell also singing, longtime Easy Aces announcer Ford Bond in the same slot here, and General Mills sponsoring the show for its new corn cereal Kix---premieres on NBC, based in Chicago. A precedent to the later, somewhat landscape-changing hit Stop the Music, Beat the Band listeners will receive ten dollars if their question is used on the air, and the answer is...
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Spy Catcher "Neutral Ground" (10-18-60)
Spy Catcher - (BBC) 1960-1961. A series of true stories in the unceasing search for enemy spys in wartime. Based on the memoirs of Lt. Col. Oreste Pinto of Allied Counterintelligence Services. The shows were extremly popular during the golden age of radio. American producers Paramount Pictures, who backed creator Roger Mirams to begin production without having seen a script. He made the pilot episode, Spy Catcher, which impressed Paramount, and the Nine Network immediately bought the local...
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Blair Of The Mounties "The Murder Hagget's Landing"...
Blair of the Mounties is the story of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police -- a fictional series based on the work of the Northwest Mounted Police before the World War I. It was a fifteen minute weekly serial heard every Monday for 36 weeks beginning January 31st, 1938 and running through the 3rd of October of 1938. It may have been on the air as early as 1935, although there’s no actual proof of this. Little is known of the series other than it followed the exploits of Sgt. Blair of the...
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Lassie - 2 Episodes (11-26-49) and (12-17-49)
Lassie is a fictional collie dog character and a stage name for several dog actors. The fictional character was created by Eric Knight in a short story expanded to novel length called Lassie Come-Home. Published in 1940, the novel was filmed by MGM in 1943 as Lassie Come Home with a talented dog named Pal playing Lassie. Pal then appeared with the stage name "Lassie" in six other MGM feature films through 1951. Pal's owner and trainer Rudd Weatherwax then acquired the Lassie name and...
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Cavalcade Of America "The Declaration Of Independence"...
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was...
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Strike It Rich - August 21, 1951
Strike-It_Rich - The show made it's debut on CBS radio in 1947. Strike it rich was on CBS's primetime schedule July 4, 1951 through January 12, 1955. There were two attempts to revive the show, with Bert Parks as host in 1973 and Tom Kelly as host in 1978. Neither revival was successful. A syndicated game show of the same name with host Joe Garagiola was aired 1986-1987, but it had a different format. Known as "The quiz show with a heart" and the contestants who appeared on the show were...
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Mr and Mrs North "Cry Wolf" [03-11-52]
Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. Publisher Jerry North and his wife Pam lived in Greenwich Village at 24 St. Anne's Flat. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years. The radio program eventually reached nearly 20 million listeners. The characters originated in 1930s vignettes...
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Horatio Hornblower "Return To The Sea" (08-25-52)
Horatio Hornblower - Broadcast 1952; Transcribed in England for the BBC; aired in U.S. on CBS, then again on ABC in 1954 and Mutual in 1957. Starring Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower. a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The radio series was based on twelve Horatio Hornblower novels written by C.S. Forester. These novels were, and still are, well liked due to their realistic tone and historical accuracy in telling the tales of Naval life in the late 1700s...
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The Adventures Of Maisie "The Wild West Dude Ranch"...
The Adventures Of Maisie - In July, 1945, Ann Sothern 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,...
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Avengers "The Fantasy Game" (Show 2 of 2) 1972
The Avengers was a British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s Britain. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation, and created by its Head of Drama Sydney Newman. It was an early example of the spy-fi genre, combining secret agent storylines with science fiction elements. Running from 1961 to 1969, it is the longest running espionage series produced for English-language television, though the American series Mission: Impossible had more episodes....
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Avengers -The Fantasy Game (Part 1 of 2)
The Avengers was a British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s Britain. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation, and created by its Head of Drama Sydney Newman. It was an early example of the spy-fi genre, combining secret agent storylines with science fiction elements. Running from 1961 to 1969, it is the longest running espionage series produced for English-language television, though the American series Mission: Impossible had more episodes....
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Jack Armstrong All American Boy "2 Episodes" (05-16-41)...
Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio adventure series which maintained its popularity from 1933 to 1951. The program originated at WBBM in Chicago on July 31, 1933, and was later carried on CBS, then NBC and finally ABC. The storylines centered around the globe-trotting adventures of Armstrong (played by Jim Ameche until 1938), a popular athlete at Hudson High School, his friends Billy Fairfield and his sister Betty, and their "Uncle Jim," James Fairfield, an industrialist....
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The Challenge of the Yukon "2 Episodes" (11-20-43) and...
Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet). The series was first heard on February 3, 1938. Under the title Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, it later transferred to television. The program was an adventure series about Sergeant William Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they fought evildoers in the Northern wilderness during the Gold Rush of the 1890s....
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Escape "Snake Doctor" (East Coast) 02-08-48
Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high adventure, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense, it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950. Despite these problems, Escape enthralled many listeners during its seven-year run. The series' well-remembered opening combined Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain...
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John Steele Adventurer "The Darkened Ring" (11-07-50)
John Steele Adventurer - This drama thriller series was heard over the Mutual radio network from 04/26/49 to 07/16/56 and starred Don Douglas in the title role. John Steele treks sweaty-browed through jungles and deserts, fighting lions and saving women. Thrilling indeed. Also heard throughout the program were John Larkin, Jack Edwards, and Bryna Raeburn. THIS EPISODE: November 3, 1950. Mutual network. "The Darkened Ring". Sustaining. Not auditioned. "A man with a gnawing hunger for glory...
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Mr. & Mrs. North "Fool's Gold" (10-14-52)
Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. Publisher Jerry North and his wife Pam lived in Greenwich Village at 24 St. Anne's Flat. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years. The radio program eventually reached nearly 20 million listeners. The characters originated in 1930s vignettes...
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The Adventures Of Maisie "Running For Mayor" (11-29-51)
The Adventures Of Maisie - 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, Bea...
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Blair Of The Mounties - The Hamilton Mystery Part...
Blair of the Mounties is the story of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police -- a fictional series based on the work of the Northwest Mounted Police before the World War I. It was a fifteen minute weekly serial heard every Monday for 36 weeks beginning January 31st, 1938 and running through the 3rd of October of 1938. It may have been on the air as early as 1935, although there’s no actual proof of this. Little is known of the series other than it followed the exploits of Sgt. Blair of the...
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Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower "Prisoner In 1811"...
Broadcast 1952; Transcribed in England for the BBC; aired in U.S. on CBS, then again on ABC in 1954 and Mutual in 1957. Starring Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower. a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The radio series was based on twelve Horatio Hornblower novels written by C.S. Forester. These novels were, and still are, well liked due to their realistic tone and historical accuracy in telling the tales of Naval life in the late 1700s through the mid 1800s....
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The Adventure Of Frank Race "The Roughneck's Will"...
The Adventures of Frank Race, by Bruce Ells Productions, was first heard in May of 1949. The main character, Frank Race, was an attorney before World War II. As a result of his activities in the war, when it was over, he traded his law books for a career with the OSS. There, "Adventure" became his business. Tom Collins played the role of Frank Race initially, immediately following his stint as Chandu, The Magician. The lead role was taken over later by Paul Dubof. THIS EPISODE: September 25,...
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Adventure Ahead "Green Mantle" (10-28-44)
Adventure Ahead - Famous stories for the young and the old. The series ran in 1944, on the NBC nertwork, and on Saturdays 10:30 - 11:00 am. The Director was Joseph Mansfield. Some cast members included Jack Manning, Juano Hernandez, Ken Reynard, Jim Tansey, Nicholas Joy, Bernard Lenrow, Leo Kampinsky (composer), Henri Nosco (conductor), Hubert Skidmore, Lawson Zerbe and visiting narrator Alexander Scourby. THIS EPISODE: October 28, 1944. Red net. "Greenmantle". Sustaining. An exciting story...
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Challenge Of The Yukon "2 Episodes" (09-18-43) and...
The Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet). The series was first heard on February 3, 1938. Under the title Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, it later transferred to television. The program was an adventure series about Sergeant William Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they fought evildoers in the Northern wilderness during the Gold Rush of the 1890s....
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Escape "The Notebook" (07-26-53)
Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high adventure, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense, it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950. Despite these problems, Escape enthralled many listeners during its seven-year run. The series' well-remembered opening combined Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain...
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Mr. & Mrs. North "Who Killed Mr. Stefano" (12-02-50)
Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. Publisher Jerry North and his wife Pam lived in Greenwich Village at 24 St. Anne's Flat. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years. The radio program eventually reached nearly 20 million listeners. The characters originated in 1930s vignettes...
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Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen - "The Wandering Master &...
Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen - First heard on Mutual featuring Elliott Lewis, who as Leonard Maltin writes in "The Great American Broadcast, "…wore every hat imaginable-actor, producer, and director-also penned a good number of scripts for series he supervised, including Suspense." And Maltin says of this show, "On the terrific late-1940's high-adventure series The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen he held down both jobs simultaneously as director and star." As Maltin continues, “Lewis had the...
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Jack Armstrong The All American Boy "Man Of Ice" (2...
Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio adventure series which maintained its popularity from 1933 to 1951. The program originated at WBBM in Chicago on July 31, 1933, and was later carried on CBS, then NBC and finally ABC. The storylines centered around the globe-trotting adventures of Armstrong (played by Jim Ameche until 1938), a popular athlete at Hudson High School, his friends Billy Fairfield and his sister Betty, and their "Uncle Jim," James Fairfield, an industrialist....
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The Eddie Cantor Show "How Eddie & Al Jolson Got...
Eddie Cantor appeared on radio as early as February 3, 1922, as indicated by this news item from Connecticut's Bridgeport Telegram: Local radio operators listened to one of the finest programs yet produced over the radiophone last night. The program of entertainment which included some of the stars of Broadway musical comedy and vaudeville was broadcast from the Newark, N. J. station WDY and the Pittsburgh station KDKA, both of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company. The Newark...
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The Challenge Of Yukon "2 Episodes" (07-17-43) (07-24-43)
Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet). The series was first heard on February 3, 1938. Under the title Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, it later transferred to television. The program was an adventure series about Sergeant William Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they fought evildoers in the Northern wilderness during the Gold Rush of the 1890s....
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Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower "The Sealed Orders"...
Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower - The Sealed Orders (08-18-52) - Broadcast 1952; Transcribed in England for the BBC; aired in U.S. on CBS, then again on ABC in 1954 and Mutual in 1957. Starring Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower. a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The radio series was based on twelve Horatio Hornblower novels written by C.S. Forester. These novels were, and still are, well liked due to their realistic tone and historical accuracy in telling...
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The Adventures Of Maisie "Clothes For The Poor"...
The Adventures of Maisie - Maisie, the first in 1939, was from the book "Dark Dame" by the writer Wilson Collison,who did decades of scripting for the silver screen along with Broadway plays and magazine fiction. From the first, MGM wanted Ann Sothern to play Maisie. She began in Hollywood as an extra in 1927. "Maisie and I were just together - I just understood her," Sothern, born Harriette Arlene Lake, said after several of the films made her a star. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Ann...
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Adventures Of Frank Race "The Three On A Match"...
The Adventures of Frank Race, by Bruce Ells Productions, was first heard in May of 1949. The main character, Frank Race, was an attorney before World War II. As a result of his activities in the war, when it was over, he traded his law books for a career with the OSS. There, "Adventure" became his business. Tom Collins played the role of Frank Race initially, immediately following his stint as Chandu, The Magician. The lead role was taken over later by Paul Dubof. THIS EPISODE: September 18,...
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Challenge Of The Yukon "Christmas Present" (12-19-46)
Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet). The series was first heard on February 3, 1938. Under the title Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, it later transferred to television. The program was an adventure series about Sergeant William Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they fought evildoers in the Northern wilderness during the Gold Rush of the 1890s....
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The Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower "The Guerilla...
The Adventures Of Horatio Hornblower - Broadcast 1952; Transcribed in England for the BBC; aired in U.S. on CBS, then again on ABC in 1954 and Mutual in 1957. Starring Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower. a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The radio series was based on twelve Horatio Hornblower novels written by C.S. Forester. These novels were, and still are, well liked due to their realistic tone and historical accuracy in telling the tales of Naval life in...
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