Friday, November 07, 2008

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Arch Oboler Plays "The Family Nagachi" (09-27-45)


The Family Nagachi (Aired September 27, 1945)


Arch Oboler's Plays was a radio drama series written, produced and directed by Arch Oboler. Minus a sponsor, it ran for one year, airing Saturday evenings on NBC from March 25, 1939 to March 23, 1940 and revived five years later on Mutual for a sustaining summer run from April 5, 1945 to October 11, 1945. Leading film actors were heard on this series, including Gloria Blondell, Eddie Cantor, James Cagney, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Greer Garson, Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin, Katharine Hepburn, Elsa Lanchester, Peter Lorre, Frank Lovejoy, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Paul Muni, Alla Nazimova, Edmond O'Brien, Geraldine Page, Gale Sondergaard, Franchot Tone and George Zucco.


THIS EPISODE:

September 27, 1945. Mutual network. "The Family Nagashi". Sustaining. A well written story about a Japanese family in California just after the end of World War II. The program closing has been deleted. Alan Hewitt, Arch Oboler (writer), Barbara Eiler, Bill Shaw, Dick Wynn (announcer ? Win), Elliott Lewis, Harry Tanoway, Jack Meakin (music), Joseph Granby, Lou Merrill, Lynn Whitney, Mary Jane Croft, Norman Field, Tommy Cook, William Johnstone. 27:37.

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