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January-March 2016 Friday 1-1-16 Casey, Crime Photographer "New Years Party" 1/1/1948 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Nick Shurn Matter" Part 4, 12/22/55 Saturday 1-2 X Minus One "Marionettes, Inc" by Ray Bradbury, 12/21/1955 Passing Parade "The Story of the Three Rascals" 12/2/1949 Sunday 1-3 The Adv. of Frank Race "The Count Treffano's Crest" 1/15/1950 Cruise of the Poll Parrott "The Treasure Hunt" Part 1, 9/25/1937 Monday 1-4 The Halls of Ivy (audition) Gale Gordon, 6/23/1949 Jimmy Durante Show, guest Dorothy Lamour - Part 1, 4/7/1948 Tuesday 1-5 Jimmy Durante Show, guest Dorothy Lamour - Part 2 Escape "Dead of Night" (audition show) 3/21/1947 Wednesday 1-6 Frontier Gentleman "Belljoy's Prisoner" 6/8/1958 Scout About Town, guests Martin & Lewis, 8/5/1947 Thursday 1-7 Damon Runyon Theatre "Lillian" 10/16/1949 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter# 2419 - Amelia Meddles Friday 1-8 This is Your FBI "Floating Stickup" 12/8/1950 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Nick Shurn Matter" Pt 5, 12/23/55 Saturday 1-9 Hopalong Cassidy "Apaches Don't Need Guns" 9/22/1951 Marine Story "Mediterranean Pirates" 4/2/1948 Sunday 1-10 Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons: She Married a Murderer, 4/27/50 Night Editor: Pass the Peanuts Monday 1-11 A Date With Judy: Oogie Pringle & His High School Hot Licks, 11/3/49 The Bickersons: The Mink Coat - Part 1, 6/12/1951 Tuesday 1-12 The Bickersons: The Mink Coat - Part 2 Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator "Blood Money" 8/24/1954 Wednesday 1-13 The Clock: Aunt Emmy, 11/27/1947 The Strange Dr. Weird "Picture of a Killer" 5/8/1945 Thursday 1-14 Screen Director's Playhouse "Tomorrow Is Forever" 1/13/1950 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter# 2420, Will Mary Be a Bridesmaid? Friday 1-15 The Saint "The Saint Goes Underground" 7/31/1949 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Broderick Matter" Part 1, 11/14/55 Saturday 1-16 The Shadow, 12/8/1946 "The Devil Takes a Wife" Shadow Documentary, Part 4 Sunday 1-17 Behind The Mike: Script Writers, 1/12/1941 Cruise of the Poll Parrott "The Treasure Hunt" Part 2, 10/2/37 Monday 1-18 Aldrich Family "Cross Country Race" 1/1/1940 My Friend Irma: Dinner Date - Part 1, 4/19/1948 Tuesday 1-19 My Friend Irma: Dinner Date - Part 2 The Witch's Tale "The Hairy Monster" Wednesday 1-20 A Day in the Life of Dennis Day: Neither Rain Nor Snow, 1/21/48 Lum & Abner: Old Eddards Saying, 6/1/1942 Thursday 1-21 Sam Spade, Detective "Subject: Edith Hamilton" 4/17/1949 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter# 2421 - Jimmy Reads Up Friday 1-22 The Whistler "Smart Boy" 10/15/1950 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Broderick Matter, Part 2" 11/15/55 Saturday 1-23 The Wonder Show "Elephant Boy" 11/18/1938 The Great Gildersleeve: The Football Game - Part 1, 11/25/1945 Sunday 1-24 The Great Gildersleeve: The Football Game - Part 2 The Adv. of Nero Wolfe "Case of the Friendly Rabbit" 12/1/1950 Monday 1-25 Mail Call: Wedding Night with Laurel & Hardy, 11/24/1943 My Favorite Husband: Liz Learns to Swim - Part 1, 6/11/1950 Tuesday 1-26 My Favorite Husband: Liz Learns to Swim - Part 2 Molle Mystery Theater "Murder Without Crime" 5/3/1946 Wednesday 1-27 The Hall of Fantasy "The Automaton" 7/27/1953 Unexpected "Sweet Sixteen" 8/22/1948 Thursday 1-28 Fort Laramie "Still Waters" 10/14/1956 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter# 2422 - Amelia Makes Demands Friday 1-29 Boston Blackie "Case of the Three-Way Split" 7/23/1945 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Broderick Matter" Pt 3, 11/16/55 Saturday 1-30 Crime Classics "Death of a Picture Hanger" 7/20/1953 The Third Man "The Professor Regrets" 6/20/1952 Sunday 1-31 Broadway's My Beat "John Lomax" 12/31/1949 The Couple Next Door: Fighting with the Kendalls, 12/31/1957 Monday 2-1 Archie Andrews: Archie Is Sick, 6/12/1948 Fibber McGee & Molly: Locked Out - Part 1, 1/22/1952 Tuesday 2-2 Fibber McGee & Molly: Locked Out - Part 2 Tales of the Texas Rangers "Dead Head Freight" 1/7/1951 Wednesday 2-3 Lights Out "Rocket From Manhattan" 7/28/1945 Vic and Sade "Sacred Stars of the Milky Way" Thursday 2-4 Meet Mister McNutley "Fur Coat-Jingle Contest" 5/27/1954 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter# 2423 - Where is Tom Going? Friday 2-5 Nick Carter, Master Detective "Webs of Murder" 3/11/1945 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Broderick Matter" Part 4, 11/17/55 Saturday 2-6 Jack Benny Program: Life of Jack Benny Movie, 3/6/1955 Jack Benny Program, guest: Bing Crosby - Part 1, 2/15/1953 Sunday 2-7 Jack Benny Program, guest: Bing Crosby - Part 2 Inner Sanctum "The Ghost in the Garden" 2/10/1947 Monday 2-8 It's Higgins, Sir: Newspaper Interview, 9/25/1951 The Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show: The Lost Ring, Part 1, 1/9/49 Tuesday 2-9 The Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show: The Lost Ring - Part 2 Richard Diamond, Private Detective "Jacoby Back In Town" 11/19/49 Wednesday 2-10 Family Theater "The Happiest Person in the World" 1/8/1948 Baby Snooks: Baby Buggy, 7/2/1942 Thursday 2-11 Big Story "The Case of the Final Curtain" 12/10/1947 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter# 2424 - Tom Has Left Valley Springs Friday 2-12 Gangbusters "Dakota Badman" 2/28/1948 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Broderick Matter" Part 5, 11/18/55 Saturday 2-13 Alan Young Show, 8/28/1945 "Planning A Trip To Canada" The Couple Next Door, 1/8/1958 "A Simple Question of Algebra" Sunday 2-14 Pat Novak For Hire, 4/30/1949 "Watch Wendy Morris" Cruise of the Poll Parrott, 10/16/1937 "The Treasure Hunt" Part 4 Monday 2-15 Duffy's Tavern: Lady Visits From the Draft Board, 1/12/1951 Burns & Allen, 4/3/1940 "Campaign Funding" Tuesday 2-16 Burns & Allen: Campaign Funding, part 2 An American Gallery "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dan O'Herlihy" Wednesday 2-17 Gunsmoke "Cows & Cribs" 5/13/1956 Have Gun, Will Travel "The Silver Queen" 5/17/1959 Thursday 2-18 Mr. and Mrs. North "Winter Honeymoon" 2/23/1954 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter#2425 - Amelia Wants a Map Friday 2-19 Adv. of Sherlock Holmes "Case of the Dog Who Changed his Mind" 9/28/47 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "Chesapeake Fraud Matter" Part 1, 10/17/55 Saturday 2-20 Life of Riley: Babs Entertains, 10/1/1944 Charlie McCarthy Show, guest Walt Disney & Donald Duck - Pt.1, 9/21/47 Sunday 2-21 The Charlie McCarthy Show, guest Walt Disney & Donald Duck - Pt.2 Suspense "The Most Dangerous Game" 9/23/1943 Monday 2-22 Meet The Meeks: Meeks Turn Gangster, 1/24/1948 The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy Gets a New Teacher Part 1, 9/9/1945 Tuesday 2-23 The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy Gets a New Teacher Part 2 Philip Marlowe "Last Laugh" 4/2/1949 Wednesday 2-24 The Weird Circle "The Spectre of Tappington" 3/12/1944 Lum and Abner: Cedric Tries to Get a Date, 6/5/1942 Thursday 2-25 CBS Radio Workshop "The Crazy Life" 1/27/1957 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter#2426, Jimmy Gets a Dog Friday 2-26 The Saint "Murder on the High Seas" 10/1/1947 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "Chesapeake Fraud Matter" Pt 2, 10/18/55 Saturday 2-27 Columbia Workshop "Metzengerstein" 12/16/1937 Passing Parade "The Ice King's Story" 12/5/1949 Sunday 2-28 Escape "The Killer Mine" 2/11/1951 Cruise of the Poll Parrott "The Treasure Hunt" Part 5, 10/23/1937 Monday 2-29 Milton Berle: Salute to Horseracing, 3/30/1948 The Jack Benny Program "Snow White & The 7 Gangsters" Pt 1, 4/24/38 Tuesday 3-1 The Jack Benny Program "Snow White & The 7 Gangsters" Part 2 Mr. District Attorney "The Case of the Wounded Killer" 4/12/1953 Wednesday 3-2 Mysterious Traveler "Death at 50 Fathoms" 4/18/1950 Vic and Sade: Fred Might Join the Lodge, 1/7/1943 Thursday 3-3 Frontier Gentleman "The Cowboy" 5/25/1958 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter: Tom Comes Back #2427 Friday 3-4 Murder at Midnight "Trigger Man" 10/14/1946 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "Chesapeake Fraud Matter" Pt 3, 10/19/55 Saturday 3-5 Red Skelton "All Night Disc Jockey" 5/7/1950 Couple Next Door: Sleeping in Your Guest Room, 1/14/1958 Sunday 3-6 The Whistler "Legacy of Death" 2/14/1943 Cruise of the Poll Parrott "The Treasure Hunt" Part 6, 10/30/1937 Monday 3-7 Judy Canova: Two-Gun Gertie - A Play, 6/15/1946 Fibber McGee & Molly: Fibber, The Author - Part 1, 1/26/1943 Tuesday 3-8 Fibber McGee & Molly: Fibber, The Author - Part 2" Let George Do It "The Corpse That Took A Powder" 8/23/1948 Wednesday 3-9 Father Knows Best: Income Tax, 3/9/1950 Baby Snooks: Quizzing Snooks, 4/30/1942 Thursday 3-10 The Hermit's Cave "Crimson Hand" 2/6/1944 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter: Telegram From George #2428 Friday 3-11 The Falcon "The Case of the Mighty Muscle" 2/11/1951 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "Chesapeake Fraud Matter" Pt 4, 10/20/55 Saturday 3-12 The Fred Allen Show, guest Ed Gardner, 3/26/1944 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show: The Birthday Gift - Part 1, 11/20/53 Sunday 3-13 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show: The Birthday Gift - Part 2 Crime and Peter Chambers "Masquerade Party" 7/13/1954 Monday 3-14 The Jack Carson Show, guests Burns and Allen, 1/15/1947 The Burns & Allen Show, guest Charles Laughton - Part 1, 2/9/1943 Tuesday 3-15 The Burns & Allen Show, guest: Charles Laughton - Part 2 Candy Matson "The Fort Ord Story" 10/3/1949 Wednesday 3-16 Suspense "Sundown" 5/4/1958 Gunsmoke "Dirty Bill's Girl" 10/28/1956 Thursday 3-17 Pursuit: Pursuit Of The Loch Ness Killer, 12/11/1951 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter#2429, What's Happening With George? Friday 3-18 The Sealed Book "My Beloved Must Die" 7/22/1945 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "Chesapeake Fraud Matter" Pt 5, 10/21/55 Saturday 3-19 Lights Out "Meteor Man" 12/22/1942 Night Editor "Smoke Rings" Sunday 3-20 Sherlock Holmes: Remarkable Affair of the Pointless Robbery, 5/5/47 Cruise of the Poll Parrott: The Treasure Hunt - Part 7, 11/6/1937 Monday 3-21 Our Miss Brooks: Dyeing Easter Eggs, 4/9/1950 The Life of Riley: Promotion Exam - Part 1, 12/8/1945 Tuesday 3-22 The Life of Riley: Promotion Exam - Part 2 The Line Up "The Silver Swan Case" 2/22/1951 Wednesday 3-23 Academy Award Theater "Ruggles of Red Gap" 6/8/1946 Lum and Abner: Greeting Card Business, 6/8/1942 Thursday 3-24 The Shadow "The Plot That Failed" 3/24/1940 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter# 2430 "Where Is Geri?" Friday 3-25 Nick Carter, Master Detective "An Eye For An Eye" 1/28/1945 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "Alvin Summers Matter" Pt 1, 10/24/1955 Saturday 3-26 Alan Young Show: 10 Year Old Wedding Proposal, 4/3/1945 The Great Gildersleeve: New Piano Teacher - Part 1, 4/2/1947 Sunday 3-27 The Great Gildersleeve: New Piano Teacher - Part 2 Murder By Experts "Two Can Die As Cheaply As One" 4/17/1950 Monday 3-28 The Aldrich Family, 5/21/1940 "School Picnic" The Jack Benny Program, 3/8/1942, guest Joan Bennett - Part 1 Tuesday 3-29 The Jack Benny Program, 3/8/1942, guest Joan Bennett - Part 2 Whisperer, 8/19/1951 "Into Each Life" Wednesday 3-30 CBS Radio Workshop 6/2/1957 "Epitaphs" The Couple Next Door: Conflicting Dinner Invitations, 1/22/1958 Thursday 3-31 Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons "Strange Murder of Carrie Ellis" 8/3/1951 Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter #2431, George and Mary Look for Geri April 1 X-One 5/19/99 "Star Wars Episode 1"Note: Your local radio station may forget and run a When Radio Was hour from a previous week or month
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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