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  • The Whistler - "Death Has A Thirst" - May 8, 1943 - The Great GIldersleeve - "Leroy Wants A Motor Scooter" - December 18, 1946

    The Whistler - "Death Has A Thirst" - May 8, 1943 - The Great GIldersleeve - "Leroy Wants A Motor Scooter" - December 18, 1946
    2021/12/11
    EPISODE DESCRIPTION
    Death Has A Thirst (Aired May 8, 1943)

    The Whistler was one of radio's most popular mystery dramas, with a 13-year run from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. If it now seems to have been influenced explicitly by The Shadow, The Whistler was no less popular or credible with its listeners, the writing was first class for its genre, and it added a slightly macabre element of humor that sometimes went missing in The Shadow's longer-lived crime stories. Writer-producer J. Donald Wilson established the tone of the show during its first two years, and he was followed in 1944 by producer-director George Allen. Other directors included Sterling Tracy and Sherman Marks with final scripts by Joel Malone and Harold Swanton.

    THIS EPISODE:

    May 8, 1943. CBS network. "Death Has A Thirst". Sustaining. A triangle affair trapped on a desert island. Madness and alcoholism rampant. See cat. #45141 for a different production of the same script, produced a year earlier. About two minutes are missing from the middle of the recording. J. Donald Wilson (writer), Wilbur Hatch (composer, conductor). 29:20.

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    Title:leroy wants a motor scooter
    Air Date:12.18.1946 ( December 18, 1946)
    Plot:+ Every year at around this time Gildy sits down Marjory and Leroy and tells them not to expect too much as Santa is very poor then on Christmas day they always get lots of presents! Gildy advises them that the best way to avoid disappointment is not to expect too much. Leroy says he’s only going to ask for one thing – a motor scooter – but oh dear Gildy tells him to be reasonable as those things cost $150.

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  • Molle Mystery Theater - June 12, 1945 - You Bet Your Life - January 14, 1955 (plus bonus material)

    Molle Mystery Theater - June 12, 1945 - You Bet Your Life - January 14, 1955 (plus bonus material)
    2021/12/04
    EPISODE DESCRIPTION
    Breakdown (Aired June 12, 1945)

    The program appears to have aired sustained for its first three months, with three to five sponsors beginning to make an appearance with Program #17, "The Mystery of The Seven Keys" of December 28, 1943. There is a circulating program titled "Homicide for Hannah", that should have been the first Molle Mystery Theatre, but there is no provenance anywhere that the initial program ever actually aired. This is the first circulating program in which we hear the program refer to itself as Molle Mystery Theatre. But throughout its NBC run, we hear sponsorship by Ironized Yeast, Energene, Bayer Aspirin, Sterling Drug, and Molle. To its everlasting credit, NBC clearly went to great lengths to promote the script titles, performers and authors of each program to the nation's newpapers. From 1943 through 1948, Mystery Theatre was one of the most well documented and promoted radio programs of its time. Show Notes From The Digital Deli.

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    June 12, 1945. Program #104. NBC network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Breakdown". A confused English drama about a man planning to murder his mistress, or his wife, or both? AFRS program name: "Mystery Playhouse." Martin Gabel, Ian Martin, Roc Rogers, Robert Bloch (author), Howard Duff (AFRS host).

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    The Secret Word Is Paper (Aired January 14, 1955)

    The mid-1940s was a depressing lull in Groucho's career. His radio show Blue Ribbon Town, sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, which ran from March 1943 to August 1944, had failed to catch on and Groucho left the program in June 1944. After a radio appearance with Bob Hope, in which Marx ad-libbed most of his performance after being forced to stand by in a waiting room for 40 minutes before going on the air, John Guedel, the program's producer, formed an idea for a quiz show and approached Marx about the subject. After initial reluctance by Marx, Guedel was able to convince him to host the program after Marx realized the quiz would be only a backdrop for his contestant interviews, and the storm of ad-libbing that they would elicit. PLUS BONUS CONTENT: The segment that inspired You Bet Your Life: Groucho and Bob Hope on The Walgreens Hour.


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    January 14, 1955. Syndicated, WNEW-TV, New York audio aircheck. "The Secret Word Is Paper". Participating sponsors. The first contestant is Frank Farber. Syndicated rebroadcast date: April 7, 1975. Groucho Marx, George Fenneman (announcer), Jack Meakin (music), Frank Farber. 29:48.

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  • Screen Directors Playhouse - November 25, 1949 - the J-E-L-LO Program (Jack Benny) - March 10, 1940

    Screen Directors Playhouse - November 25, 1949 - the J-E-L-LO Program (Jack Benny) - March 10, 1940
    2021/11/27
    Spiral Staircase (Aired November 25, 1949)

    From 01/09/49 to 09/28/51 this series was greatly enjoyed by the radio listening audience. It opened as NBC Theater and was also known as The Screen Director’s Guild and The Screen Director’s Assignment. But most people remember it simply as Screen Director’s Playhouse. Many of the Hollywood elite were heard recreating their screen roles over the radio. John Wayne in his rare radio appearances, Cary Grant, Edward G. Robinson, Lucille Ball, Claire Trevor, Tallulah Bankhead and many others were on the air week after week during these broadcasts. Many of Hollywood’s directors were also heard in the recreation of their movies. The President of the Screen Director’s Guild appeared on 02/13/49, and Violinist Isaac Stern supplied the music for the 04/19/51 broadcast.

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    November 25, 1949. NBC network. "The Spiral Staircase". Sustaining. A fine Gothic suspense mystery, well adapted for radio. Dorothy McGuire, John Dehner, Steve Dunne, Jane Morgan, Jimmy Wallington (announcer), Robert Siodmak (screen director).

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    1 時間 8 分
  • Thanksgiving Special 2021 - 4 old time radio shows this week.

    Thanksgiving Special 2021 - 4 old time radio shows this week.
    2021/11/20
    A Command Performance show - Thanksgiving Special from November 1944.
    Our Miss Brooks - Thanksgiving Program from November 19, 1950
    Burns & Allen - November 17, 1942
    The Jack Benny Program - November 21, 1943

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    2 時間 8 分
  • Lights Out - "Revolt Of The Worms" - Oct. 13, 1942 - "The Jack Benny Show" - March 28, 1948

    Lights Out - "Revolt Of The Worms" - Oct. 13, 1942 - "The Jack Benny Show" - March 28, 1948
    2021/11/13
    Lights Out - "Revolt Of The Worms" - An experiment backfires as a man and his assistant used human hormones and worms to make roses grow faster.. + All I can do is sit and think and wait. Wait for the floors to lift and the walls to crash. Facts, think of facts. Yes, a journal of facts - think - how it began - why it is happening. Journal of facts, until the walls crash in - the thick flesh. Charles Pentice, there's a fact, chemist and fool - fool - run away, run away, run away from reality. War, war, war, run away.

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    The Jack Benny Show - March 28, 1948 - This March 28, 1948 episode, featuring Jack Benny’s most famous gag, took place 16 years into
    his radio program’s run, when the characters and plot were as familiar as a favorite old bathrobe.
    What could Benny possibly do at this point to “top” himself after so long?
    At the halfway point of the broadcast, Jack is walking down a neighborhood street at night. We
    hear him softly humming and his shoes contentedly tapping down the sidewalk. (He’s carrying
    Ronald Colman’s Oscar statuette, which he has borrowed to take home to show off to his valet,
    Rochester, but that’s another story….)
    Suddenly, a menacing male voice leaps out of the dark quiet, growling at Jack, “Hey buddy…
    this is a stick up!... Your money…or your life?”
    Silence. All we hear is seconds of silence . . . and the nervous tittering of the studio audience.
    Silence, or “dead air,” was a risky proposition in commercial network radio broadcasting. It may
    have given listeners the impression that someone was thinking, but it often left listeners falling
    into a void of ether nothingness and loosened the grip of the advertisers over their attention.
    Breaking into the tense stillness, the robber repeats his demand, “Didn’t you hear me?! I said
    …Your money...or...your life!?”
    Again the silence, stretching, stretching, but this time accompanied by the growing laughter of
    the studio audience, chortling at the absurdity of Benny’s continuing delay, each second
    compounding the hilarious suspense….
    “I’m thinking it over!” Benny exasperatedly cries.
    The radio studio audience exploded into roars of laughter, releasing a pent-up emotional
    response of relief and disbelief that swept across the auditorium. Their reaction was shared by
    millions of radio listeners in homes across the nation. Their beloved, fallible “fall guy” had
    faced a dire situation and responded in a hilarious, typically self-centered way. But this wasn’t
    simply a joke, and not quite a full comic routine; it was an exchange distilling an essential aspect
    of a continuing character, a moment that drew on more than 15 years of writers’ and performer
    labor as well as 15 years of audience familiarity with Jack’s infamously parsimonious character.
    The “Your Money or Your Life” gag, so long in the making, was subsequently replayed by
    critics, fans and Benny himself for the rest of his radio and television career, and is key to his
    lasting legacy in American entertainment. The genius of Jack Benny’s humor is that it rarely
    stemmed from jokes with standard set-ups and punch lines. It stemmed from character,
    embedded in a narrative, in countless stories of a foolish man’s humiliation, enriched by the
    actors’ voices, tone, and timing, with radio comedy’s richness captivating the ears and
    imaginations of its listeners.

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  • Inner Sanctum Mysteries - January 15, 1946 - The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet - September 2, 1945

    Inner Sanctum Mysteries - January 15, 1946 - The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet - September 2, 1945
    2021/11/06
    EPISODE DESCRIPTION
    The Edge Of Death (Aired January 15, 1946)

    Produced in New York, the cast usually consisted of veteran radio actors, with occasional guest appearances by such Hollywood stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Claude Rains. What made Inner Sanctum Mysteries unique among radio horror shows was its host, a slightly-sinister sounding man originally known as “Raymond.” The host had a droll sense of humor and an appetite for ghoulish puns, and his influence can be seen among horror hosts everywhere, from the Crypt-Keeper to Elvira. Raymond Edward Johnson was the show’s host until 1945; Paul McGrath took over the role until the show left the air in 1952.

    THIS EPISODE:

    January 15, 1946. CBS network. "The Edge Of Death". Sponsored by: Lipton Tea, Lipton Soups. The story of the night Satan played a game of murder. A man is given the bejeweled rapier once owned by Rasputin, the mad monk of Russia. Larry Haines, Paul McGrath (host), Fred Maytho (writer), Mercedes McCambridge, Himan Brown (director), Mary Bennett (commercial spokeswoman), Arnold Moss, Ann Shephard. 26:23.

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    The Dripping Faucet (Aired September 2, 1945)

    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet launched on CBS October 8, 1944, making a mid-season switch to NBC in 1949. The final years of the radio series were on ABC (the former NBC Blue Network) from October 14, 1949, to June 18, 1954.The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, an American radio and television series, was once the longest-running, live-action situation comedy on American television, having aired on ABC from 1952 to 1966 after a ten-year run on radio. Starring Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Hilliard (she dropped her maiden name after the couple ended their music career), the show's sober, gentle humor captured a large, sustaining audience, although it never rated in the top ten programs, and later critics tended to dismiss it as fostering a slightly unrealistic picture of post-World War II American family life. When Skelton was drafted, Ozzie Nelson was prompted to create his own family situation comedy. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet launched on CBS October 8, 1944, making a mid-season switch to NBC in 1949. The final years of the radio series were on ABC (the former NBC Blue Network) from October 14, 1949, to June 18, 1954.

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  • Dragnet - December 15, 1949 - The Philip Morris Playhouse - July 29, 1949

    Dragnet - December 15, 1949 - The Philip Morris Playhouse - July 29, 1949
    2021/10/30
    EPISODE DESCRIPTION
    The Garbage Chute Murderer (Aired December 15, 1949)

    Dragnet was a long-running radio and television police procedural drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet debuted inauspiciously. The first several months were bumpy, as Webb and company worked out the program’s format and eventually became comfortable with their characters (Friday was originally portrayed as more brash and forceful than his later usually relaxed demeanor). Gradually, Friday’s deadpan, fast-talking persona emerged, described by John Dunning as "a cop's cop, tough but not hard, conservative but caring." (Dunning, 210) Friday’s first partner was Sgt. Ben Romero, portrayed by Barton Yarborough, a longtime radio actor. When Dragnet hit its stride, it became one of radio’s top-rated shows.

    THIS EPISODE:

    December 15, 1949. Program #29. NBC network. "The Garbage Chute Murderer". Sponsored by: Fatima, Velvet Pipe Tobacco. Laura Barclay has been strangled with a lamp cord. The killer seems to have entered through an unused garbage chute. Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 29:01. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

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    Crashing The Colby's Society Party (Aired April 15, 1947)

    In 1936, Mel Blanc joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, which made animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Blanc liked to tell the story about how he got turned down at the Schlesinger studio by music director Norman Spencer, who was in charge of cartoon voices, saying that they had all the voices they needed. Then Spencer died, and sound man Treg Brown took charge of cartoon voices, while Carl Stalling took over as music director. Brown introduced Blanc to animation directors Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, and Frank Tashlin, who loved his voices. The first cartoon Blanc worked on was Picador Porky as the voice of a drunken bull. He took over as Porky Pig's voice in Porky's Duck Hunt, which marked the debut of Daffy Duck, also voiced by Blanc.

    THIS EPISODE:

    April 15, 1947. "Crashing The Colby's Society Party" - CBS network. Sponsored by: Colgate Toothpowder, Halo Shampoo. Mel poses as an expert on affairs operatic and is exp0sed with dramatic violence worthy of a Wagnerian finale. The local banker's wife is scheduled to make her singing debut at a big social event, and her instructor fears he'll lose a pupil when her lack of talent is realized. Mel, to help out, masquerades as an Italian opera expert, and praises her singing. When Mel is unmasked, the real trouble begins. 30:04. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

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    1 時間 8 分
  • Have Gun Will Travel - December 21, 1958 - Alien Worlds - August 5, 1979

    Have Gun Will Travel - December 21, 1958 - Alien Worlds - August 5, 1979
    2021/10/23
    "Have Gun Will Travel" - The Hanging Cross (Aired 12-21-58)

    Starring John Dehner as Paladin, Have Gun, Will Travel brought its brand of Western adventure to CBS airwaves from 1957 until 1963. What makes it a rarity, however, is that it was television show for the entire span, but the radio version did not debut until 1958 and left the air in 1960. The supporting cast included Ben Wright as Hey Boy. Virginia Gregg played Missy Wong (Heyboy's girlfriend) and other main roles. The show followed the adventures of Paladin, a gentleman-turned-gunfighter (played by Richard Boone on television, and by John Dehner on radio), who preferred to settle problems without violence, yet, when forced to fight, excelled. Paladin lived in the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, where he dressed in semi-formal wear, ate gourmet food, and attended opera. In fact, many who initially met him mistook him for a dandy from the East.

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    December 21, 1958. CBS network. "The Hanging Cross". Sponsored by: Kent. Paladin tries to prevent a battle between Matt Beecher and the Pawnees, caused by a small boy claimed as the son of both Matt Beecher and the Indian Chief. A good Christmas story. The script was used on the "Have Gun, Will Travel" television show on December 21, 1957. John Dehner, Ben Wright, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Gene Roddenberry (writer), Hugh Douglas (announcer), John Dawson (adaptor), Vic Perrin, Jess Kirkpatrick, Roy Woods, Dick Beals, Anne Morrison, Virginia Christine, John James, Bill James (sound effects), Tom Hanley (sound effects), Herb Meadow (creator), Sam Rolfe (creator). 25:40. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

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    Alien Worlds was soon heard on a weekly basis by millions of fans and was eventually carried by over 1500 top-rated FM radio stations worldwide. The series' sponsor was Peter Paul, Cadbury which advertised Cadbury Caramello chocolates touting their caramel centers. The ISA, or International Space Authority, is a governing body of space development and exploration. Organized by all earth nations, it advances humans into deep space. Their base is officially named "The Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory" or "Starlab." Commissioner White commands the base, and under his command aboard Starlab are Research Director Dr. Maura Cassidy along with Starlab's Director of Operations, Jerry Lyden, and two ISA Pilots affectionately known as "rocket jockies" Captains Jon Graydon and Buddy Griff.

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