REMEMBER WHEN (Part 1 of 2) * 35 Minutes Host Bob Camardella

 

REMEMBER WHEN (Part 1 of 2) * 35 Minutes Host Bob Camardella

REMEMBER WHEN (Part 1 of 2) * 35 Minutes Host Bob Camardella remembers early rock n' roll with this 35 minute show, extracted from his original Shoutcast broadcast of August, 2007. Come now and enjoy WPNM Radio, from the 'heart' of historic Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.,"Where the oldies are still young"!! Today's show Includes Jerry Butler, Jr. (The Iceman) - Never Gonna Give You Up Barbara Lewis - Hello Stranger The Carnations - Long Tall Girl The Orlons - South Street The Spinners - It's A Shame Connie Francis - Where The Boys Are Clyde McPhatter - A Lover's Questions Danny & The Juniors - Sometimes (When I'm All Alone) Jimmy Clanton - Another Sleepless Night The Spinners - Games People Play Jimmy Gallagher & The Passions - Just To Be With You The Classics - Till Then

Night Beat - "A Case Of Butter" (09-25-50)

A Case Of Butter (Aired September 25, 1950)

 

INTRO:Bob Plays The Classic IV "Please Be Mine" (1962)

Broadcast on NBC, Nightbeat ran from 1949 to 1952 and starred Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, a tough and streetwise reporter who worked the nightbeat for the Chicago Star looking for human interest stories. He met an assortment of people, most of them with a problem, many of them scared, and sometimes he was able to help them, sometimes he wasn’t. It is generally regarded as a ‘quality’ show and it stands up extremely well. Frank Lovejoy (1914-1962) isn’t remembered today, but he was a powerful and believable actor with a strong delivery, and his portrayal of Randy Stone as tough guy with humanity was perfect. The scripts were excellent, given that they had to pack in a lot in a short time, and there was a good supporting cast, orchestra, and sound effects.

 

THIS EPISODE:

September 25, 1950. "A Case Of Butter" - NBC network. Sustaining. Randy Stone tries to track down twenty tons of contaminated butter before a typhoid epidemic hits Chicago! Anne Whitfield, Don Diamond (producer, host), Frank Lovejoy, Frank Worth (composer, conductor), Joan Banks, Larry Marcus (writer), Lou Rusoff (writer), Nestor Paiva, Peter Leeds, Russell Bender (writer), Tudor Owen, Warren Lewis (director). 29:28. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

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Hancock's Half Hour - "The Blood Donor" (06-23-61)

The Blood Donor (Aired June 23, 1961)

The series broke from the variety tradition dominant in British radio comedy into the sitcom or Situation comedy genre. Instead of sketches, guest stars and musical interludes, humour developed from the characters and situations. Hancock's experiences were based in reality and observation. From the playlet "Look Back In Hunger" in The East Cheam Drama Festival episode, Galton and Simpson showed they were in touch with developments in the British theatre, the use of sighs and silent pauses in common with the work of Harold Pinter which began to emerge towards the end of the series' run. The measured pacing of these episodes were groundbreaking in the days of fast-talking Ted Ray, where every second of airtime had to be filled.

THIS EPISODE:

June 23, 1961. "The Blood Donor" - BBC Network. Anthony Hancock arrives at his local hospital to give blood. "It was either that or join the Young Conservatives", he tells the nurse (Whitfield), before getting into an argument with her about whether British blood is superior to other types. Tony Hancock, Patrick Cargill, Hugh Lloyd, Frank Thornton and June Whitfield, Suzy Aitchison as the nurse. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and was produced by Duncan Wood. 26:12. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Creaking Door - "Three Wishes" (1950)

Three Wishes (1950) *The Exact Date Is Unknown.

INTRO: Bob Plays Chad & Jeremy "A Summer Song" (1964)

The Creaking Door  was South African Radio's attempt to create a compelling program of highly suspenseful, dramatic thrillers with a supernatural bent for their sponsor, State Express Cigarettes. Some commentators insist it was conceived as a spin-off of the already successful Inner Sanctum  episodes that had been syndicated for broadcast in Australia and South Africa during the 1950s. Given the format, one can see the inference, but in fact The Creaking Door stands on its own as a unique, well-produced, engaging supernatural thriller series on its own merit. The etymology of the name, The Creaking Door, bears some reflection. When legendary producer and director, Himan Brown first presented Inner Sanctum as one of three requested sponsorship candidates to Carter Products, he presented Inner Sanctum as The Creaking Door. Carter didn't care for the name, so on the spur of the moment Hi Brown suggested Inner Sanctum as an alternative, and voila, Radio history was made. The emphasis on high production values is perhaps the very reason that several early, morally challenged Radio traders felt they could get away with interspersing many of the Creaking Door episodes with their Inner Sanctum, Mysterious Traveler, and Strange Dr. Weird offerings to a still naive community of radio recording collectors. Although somewhat left-handed, it's still a compliment to both SABC and Springbok Radio that those early 'otr hooligans' managed to get away with the practice for well over 20 years. Show Notes From The Digital Deli.

X Minus One - "Project Mastadon" (06-05-56)

Project Mastadon (Aired June 5, 1956)

INTRO: Bob Plays The Heartbeats "A Thousand Miles Away" (1955)

X MINUS ONE was an NBC science fiction series that was an extension, or revival, of NBC's earlier science fiction series, DIMENSION X. which ran from Apr. 8, 1950 through Sept. 29, 1951. Both are remembered for bringing really first rate science fiction to the air. The first X MINUS ONE shows used scripts from DIMENSION X, but soon created new shows from storied from the pages of Galaxy Magazine. A total of 125 programs were broadcast, some repeats or remakes, until the last show of Jan. 9, 1958. There was a one-program revival attempt in 1973, shown at the end of the log.

THIS EPISODE:

June 5, 1956. NBC network. "Project Mastodon". Sustaining. Three adventurers return to prehistoric times, found a country, and try to establish diplomatic relations with the United States. Bob Hastings, Charles Penman, Clifford Simak (author), Floyd Mack, Frank Maxwell, John Larkin, Joseph Julian, Raymond Edward Johnson, Richard Hamilton, William Welch (producer), Daniel Sutter (director), Jerry Damon (announcer). 23:20. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Case Dismissed - "Liability For Minors" (03-27-54)

Liability For Minors (Aired March 27, 1954)

 INTRO: Bob Plays Marvin Rainwater " So You Think You Have Troubles" (1957)

Thus with the pounding of the gavel, the fate of men and women have been decided by the judge. This is the story of our legal rights, the battle to preserve and protect them, and how easily they can be lost. The program shows us just how fragile liberty and justice can be. These stories of everyday events are still interesting, even after 50 years. Stories of criminal liability, legal wills, buying on installment, and leasing an apartment. Each story is well written, and the acting, though dated and a bit hokey by today’s standards, still manages to achieve the desired effect. Not much information is available for this series, it was apparently broadcast on a limited basis, and originated on WMAQ Chicago, an NBC station.

THIS EPISODE:

March 27, 1954. "Liability For Minors" - NBC network, WMAQ, Chicago origination. Sustaining. The program is produced in co-operation with the Chicago Bar Association. John C. Fitzgerald (host, Dean of the Law School, Loyola University), Robert Carmen (writer), Meg Hahn, Charles Flynn, Carlton KaDell, Jack Lester, Harry Elders, Bruce Lindgren, Betty Ross (producer), Herbert Littow (director), Tom Evans (sound effects), Harold Witteberry (engineer), Lee Bennett (announcer). 28:36. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Sleep No More - "The Escape Of Mr. Trimm" (03-13-57)

The Escape Of Mr. Trimm (Aired March 13, 1957)

 INTRO: Bob Plays The Delvikings "Sunday Kind Of Love" (1957)

Nelson Olmsted was a national treasure. Over a broadcasting career of thirty-five years, Olmsted's soothing, reassuring, and highly versatile narrations graced thousands of broadcast recordings. While also a prolific and highly successful actor in both Radio and Television, it's Olmsted's literature readings and narrations that are the focus of this series and this article. Sleep No More was Nelson's Olmsted's contribution to The Golden Age of Radio's rich tradition of broadcasting compelling and stirring supernatural and suspense dramas, predominantly from the finest supernatural literature throughout modern history. Sleep No More arrived during the waning years of the Golden Age of Radio--understandably risky Radio programming for the mid-1950s. On the plus side of the equation were Nelson Olmsted's extremely loyal following throughout the U.S. combined with the classic nature of the stories which comprised the series. These stories were many of the most popular and compelling supernatural stories and adventures in literary history.

THIS EPISODE:
 
March 13, 1957. NBC network. "The Escape Of Mr. Trimm". Sustaining. A very well-done story of suspense. An escaped convict is prevented from getting his complete freedom by a pair of handcuffs. Nelson Olmsted, Ben Grauer (announcer). 28:31. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

INTRO: Bob Plays The Delvikings "Sunday Kind Of Love" (1957)

Broadway Is My Beat - "The Harriet Temple Murder Case" (10-07-53)

The Harriet Temple Murder Case (Aired October 7, 1953)

Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With music by Robert Stringer, the show originated from New York during its first three months on the air, with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover. John Dietz directed for producer Lester Gottlieb. Beginning with the July 7, 1949 episode, the series was broadcast from Hollywood with producer Elliott Lewis directing a new cast in scripts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. The opening theme of "I'll Take Manhattan" introduced Detective Danny Clover (now played by Larry Thor), a hardened New York City cop who worked homicide "from Times Square to Columbus Circle -- the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world."

THIS EPISODE:

October 7, 1953. "The Harriet Temple Murder Case" - CBS network. Sustaining. Harriet Temple has been murdered in her apartment, strangled. Her husband says, "It's too bad." Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Alexander Courage (composer, conductor), Larry Thor, Charles Calvert, Jack Kruschen, Frank Gerstle, Junius Matthews, Martha Wentworth, Eve McVey, Earle Ross, Shepard Menken, Bill Anders (announer). 29:26. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Adventures Of Frank Race - "The Adventure Of The Silent Tongue" (12-04-49)

The Adventure Of The Silent Tongue (Aired December 4, 1949)

The Adventures of Frank Race was a syndicated show, out of Bruce Ells Productions in Hollywood, and began airing on radio in the spring of 1949. A total of 43 episodes were produced, broadcast first on the East coast 1949-50, and then on the West coast 1951-52. The title hero was described in the introduction by announcer Art Gilmore with these words: "Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney, but he traded his law books for the cloak-and-dagger of the OSS. When the war was over, his former life was over too....adventure became his business!" Starring "Chandu The Magician"  Star Tom Collins. Tom Collins, having recently completed his leading role as Chandu in the 1948 run of Chandu The Magician, returned to One Man's Family after The Adventures of Frank Race and almost got a bid to portray his Nick Lacey character from One Man's Family for the Television version of the series in 1949.

THIS EPISODE:

December 4, 1949. Program #32. Broadcasters Program Syndicate syndication. "The Adventure Of The Silent Tongue". Commercials added locally. A killer en route to the Chair asks Race to take a pair of baby shoes to his wife. A clue to $2 million bucks? Paul Dubov, Tony Barrett, Buckley Angel (writer, director), Joel Murcott (writer, director), Bruce Eells (producer), Ivan Ditmars (orgainist), Art Gilmore (announcer). 28:36. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Great Gildersleeve - "New Years Costume Ball" (01-01-47)

New Years Costume Ball (Aired January 1, 1947)

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 films released at the height of the show's popularity. On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. "You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee!" became a Gildersleeve catch phrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic.

Candy Matson - "Candy's Last Case" (05-21-51)

Candy's Last Case (Aired May 21, 1951)

Candy Matson was the private eye star of Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8208, an NBC West Coast show which first aired in March 1949 and was created by Monty Masters. He cast his wife, Natalie Parks, in the title role of this sassy, sexy PI. Her understated love interest, Lt. Ray Mallard, was played by Henry Leff while her assistant and best pal, aptly named Rembrandt Watson, was the voice of Jack Thomas. Every show opened with a ringing telephone and our lady PI answering it with "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209" and then the organ swung into the theme song, "Candy". Each job took Candy from her apartment on Telegraph Hill into some actual location in San Francisco. The writers, overseen by Monty, worked plenty of real Bay Area locations into every plot.

THIS EPISODE:

May 21, 1951. NBC network, San Francisco origination. "Candy's Last Case". Sustaining. The last show of the series. A double murder, a missing half million dollar diamond, and suspicion of Lt. Mallard's innocence can't keep Candy from marriage at the end of her career. Natalie Masters. 29:49. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Casebook Of Gregory Hood - "The Delphene Bloggs Case" (10-30-46)

The Delphene Bloggs Case (Aired October

 

INTRO: Bob Plays The 5th Dimension "One Less Bell" (1970)

 The Delphene Bloggs Case (Aired October 30, 1946) (AKA Gregory Hood Suspect)

The Casebook of Gregory Hood, starring Gale Gordon in the title role, took over where Sherlock Holmes had left off. Sponsored by Petri wine, it used the same "weekly visit" format and the same team of Anthony Boucher and Dennis Green that had written The New Adventured of Sherlock Holmes. Gregory Hood was modelled after true-life San Francisco importer Richard Gump, and many of the stories revolve around a mystery surrounding some particular imported treasure. Hood's sidekick Sanderson "Sandy" Taylor was played by Bill Johnstone. The show aired from June, 1946 through August, 1950. There were an additional couple of shows aired in October 1951. Hood and Sanderson were played in later episodes by Elliott Lewis and Howard McNear, respectively. Gentleman detectives were a popular fiction tradition by the 1940s. There was, of course, Sherlock Holmes, the hands down epitome of the gentleman detective. But the early 20th Century also introduced several other highly popular members of that select fraternity of ostensibly wealthy gentlemen of independent means who, initially dabbled, then over time immersed themselves in crime-related matters. Most of the popular gentlemen detectives found their way to the Golden Age of Radio from literary or pulp novels. Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group and The Digital Deli.

The Jack Benny Jello Program - "Special Guests Are George Burns & Gracie Allen" (04-11-37)

Special Guests Are George Burns & Gracie Allen (Aired April 11, 1937)

Mary Livingstone as his wisecracking and not especially deferential female friend (not quite his girlfriend, since Benny would often try to date movie stars like Barbara Stanwyck, and occasionally had stage girlfriends such as "Gladys Zybisco"); rotund announcer Don Wilson (who also served as announcer for Fanny Brice's hit, Baby Snooks); bandleader Phil Harris as a jive-talking, wine-and-women type whose repartee was rather risqué for its time; boy tenor Dennis Day, who was cast as a sheltered, naïve youth who still got the better of his boss as often as not (this character was originated by Kenny Baker, but perfected by Day); and, especially, Eddie Anderson as valet-chauffeur Rochester van Jones who was as popular as Benny himself.

THIS EPISODE:
 
April 11, 1937. Red network, KFI, Los Angeles aircheck. Sponsored by: Jell-O. Mary reads a letter from Mama. Kenny Baker sings, "Moonlight and Roses." "Special Guests Are George Burns and Gracie Allen" appear to plug their new show for Grape Nuts which is just starting. Another "Buck Benny Rides Again" episode: "Ready, Willing, and Lame." Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Phil Harris and His Orchestra, Mary Livingstone, Kenny Baker, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Harry Baldwin, Ed Beloin (writer), Bill Morrow (writer). 29:48. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Mystery In The Air (Starring Peter Peter Lorre) - The Lodger (08-14-47)

The Lodger - Aired August 14, 1947

Cut from the cloth of tales woven by the imaginations of some of the most famous authors in history, Mystery In the Air was a Summer series consisting of mystery / horror shows. The series was hosted by Peter Lorre who also played the title role in a few of the shows and brings these brilliant horror classics to life spooktacularly, as no other could. Peter Lorre was one of the most popular horror stars of the forties, and with a supporting cast including such greats as Agnes Moorehead, Howard Culver, Lurene Tuttle, Joseph Kearns and Ken Christy, the production was destined to be a success. This collection can also be found included in the Peter Lorre Collection.

THIS EPISODE:
 
August 14, 1947. NBC network. "The Lodger". Sponsored by: Camels, Prince Albert. A good adaptation of the classic story about Jack The Ripper. Peter Lorre, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Baron (composer, conductor), Don Bernard (producer), Cal Kuhl (director), Henry Morgan (later known as Harry Morgan), Michael Roy (announcer), Barbara Eiler, Eric Snowden, Rolfe Sedan, Conrad Binyon, Raymond Lawrence, Paul Baron (composer, conductor), Marie Belloc Lowndes (writer). 25:24.  Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

In The Name Of The Law - Narcotics In The Trunk (07-19-36)

Narcotics In The Trunk (Aired July 19, 1936 )

In the Name of the Law was a True Crime radio show from 1936. It says "In the name of the law, we bring you another of the thrilling stories in this exciting series, taken from actual police case files. In one popular episode, "Two home invaders pick the wrong house and force the home owner (John Snyder) to take them to the targeted neighbors, two elderly brothers who were rumored to have cash and bonds. During the hold up, one of the brothers was shot to death. An angry town insisted on immediate results. The State Police joined the local Sherif and the search was on.

THIS EPISODE:

July 19, 1936. "Narcotics In The Trunk" - Syndicated. Commercials added locally. A woman is caught smuggling heroin into the country. She claims to know nothing about the drugs, then disappears from a locked hotel room. 25:00. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Chase - The Hold-Up (1953)

 The Hold-Up (1953) *The Exact Date Is Unknown.

INTRO: Bob Remembers The Dells "Oh What A Night" (1956)

NBC first envisioned The Chase as a new Television feature. This was not uncommon during the later 1940s and early 1950s. Several Radio features straddled both media, with varying success. Developed as a psychological drama, the premise was that many life situations place their subjects in a 'chase' of one type or another. A chase for fame. A chase from peril. A chase to beat the clock. A chase to escape death. The added twist was the question of who is the hunter or the hunted in these situations. The scripts were faced paced, starred quality east coast talent and were well written. The series' plots and themes focused primarily on predominantly fear inducing pursuits of one form or another. Thus most of the scripts were fraught with tension of one type or another. Whether mental tension, physical peril or a mix of both, the abiding theme throughout the series was the the contrasts between the 'hunter' and the 'hunted' in such Life situations. NBC's Television version of The Chase was in production during May 1953. It was to star Doug Fowley as both narrator and performer. Apparently the powers to be eventually decided to abandon the production. It would also appear that the TV production was abandoned at about the same time the Radio version was pulled, to be replaced by NBC's prestigious NBC Summer Symphony series.

21st Precinct - The Shooting Gallery (9-29-53)

The Shooting Gallery (Aired September 29, 1953)

INTRO: Bob Plays Daryl Hall & John Oates "Shes Gone" (1973)

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. 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. "21st Precinct.., It's just lines on a map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people wedged into the nine-tenths of a square mile between Fifth Avenue and the East River wouldn't know, if you asked them, that they lived or worked in the 21st. Whether they know it or not, the security of their persons, their homes, and their property is the job of the men of the 21st."

THIS EPISODE:
 
September 29, 1953. "The Shooting Gallery" - CBS network origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. A young drug user tries to kick the habit by making a false alarm so he can go "cold turkey" in jail. Everett Sloane, Lawson Zerbe, Raymond Edward Johnson, Ken Lynch, Robert Readick, Gaylord Avery (announcer). 25:57. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Adventures Of Archie Andrews - "Archie The Babysitter" (05-27-51)

Archie The Babysitter (Aired May 27, 1951)

Archie Andrews, created in 1941 by Bob Montana, is a fictional character in an American comic book series published by Archie Comics, a long-run radio series, a syndicated comic strip and animation -- The Archie Show, a Saturday morning cartoon television series by Filmation, plus Archie's Weird Mysteries. Archie Andrews began on the Blue Network on May 31, 1943, switched to Mutual in 1944, and then continued on NBC from 1945 until September 5 1953. Archie was first played by Charles Mullen, Jack Grimes and Burt Boyar, with Bob Hastings as the title character during the NBC years.The sponsor was Swift Products. The Cast: Harlan Stone, Alice Yourman, Arthur Kohl, Gloria Mann, Rosemary Rice. Jughead Jones has been Archie's best friend ever since childhood. When Jughead first came to Riverdale, he was in a bad mood and tended to dismiss Archie. However, Archie, of good heart, tried to cheer up Jughead and the two have been inseparable ever since. Jughead wears a trademark "clubhouse beanie" (a Depression-era style of makeshift hatwear, crafted from an inverted fedora with a scallop-cut brim, and decorated with assorted pinbacks) and an inscrutable, closed-eyelid expression.

Box 13 - "The Clay Pigeon" (08-07-49)

The Clay Pigeon (Aired August 7, 1949)

Box 13 was a syndicated radio series about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holliday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 premiered in 1947. In New York City, it first aired December 31, 1947, on Mutual's New York flagship, WOR. To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holliday ran a classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper where he formerly worked: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything -- write Box 13, Star-Times." The stories followed Holliday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him by such people as a psycho killer and various victims. Sylvia Picker appeared as Holliday's scatterbrained secretary, Suzy, while Edmund MacDonald played police Lt. Kling.

THIS EPISODE:

August 7, 1949. Program #51. Mutual network origination, Mayfair syndication. "The Clay Pigeon". Commercials added locally. A mysterious man has Dan Holiday mention a name to an occult doctor, which nearly scares him to death. Alan Ladd, Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Sylvia Picker, Vern Carstensen (production supervisor). 26:58. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Crime Does Not Pay - "A Piece Of Rope" (12-05-49)

A Piece Of Rope (Aired December 5, 1949)

MGM produced Crime Does Not Pay shorts through 1948, at which time WMGM began airing the Crime Does Not Pay radio program. While some of the Film version themes found their way into the Radio version, almost all seventy-eight Radio Crime Does Not Pay topics are original to the series. Many have theorized that some or all of the Crime Does Not Pay radio scripts had been works-in-progress for the Film version, or perhaps even envisioned for Television, where many of the Film shorts were already airing from time to time. Whatever the medium, Crime Does Not Pay seems to have touched a nerve with the American public.

THIS EPISODE:
 
December 5, 1949. Program #9. MGM syndication. "A Piece Of Rope". Commercials added locally. Dukie Defore works for a "service" business that murders people on contract...and Dukie always kills with a rope! The date above is the date of the first broadcast of this program on WMGM, New York from which this syndicated version may have been taken. Cameron Mitchell, Ira Marion (writer), Marx B. Loeb (director), Jon Gart (composer, conductor), Burton B. Turkas (technical advisor), Bob Williams (announcer). 26:45. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Damon Runyon Theater - "For A Pal" (02-13-49)

For A Pal (Aired February 13, 1949)

INTRO: Bob Plays Kenny Rogers Live "Lady" (1980) #1 Hit

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, preferring instead to be known as "Nathan Detroit", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charlie", "Dave the Dude", and so on. These stories were written in a very distinctive vernacular style: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in present tense, and always devoid of contractions.

THIS EPISODE:

February 13, 1949 - Program #7. Mayfair syndication. "For A Pal". Commercials added locally. The story of the friendship of Little Joey and Blind Benny, and how a doll came between them. Damon Runyon (author), John Brown, Richard Sanville (director), Russell Hughes (adaptor), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor). 26:28. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Crime Classics - "The Tiger & Brad Ferguson" (03-10-54)

 

 

INTRO: Bob Plays The Skyliners "Pennies From Heaven" (1959)
 

 

The Tiger & Brad Ferguson (Aired March 10, 1954)

Crime Classics was a United States radio docudrama which aired as a sustaining series over CBS from June 15, 1953, to June 30, 1954. Created, produced, and directed by radio actor/director Elliott Lewis, the program was a historical true crime series, examining crimes and murders from the past. It grew out of Lewis' personal interest in famous murder cases and took a documentary-like approach to the subject, carefully recreating the facts, personages and feel of the time period. Comparatively little dramatic license was taken with the facts and events, but the tragedy was leavened with humor, expressed largely through the narration. The crimes dramatized generally covered a broad time and place frame from ancient Greece to late 19th-century America. Each episode in the series was co-written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, in consultation with Lewis, although the scripting process was more a matter of research, as the stories were "adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts" or from the works of historians. Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group and The Digital Deli.

 
THIS EPISODE:

Crime Classics. March 10, 1954. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "New Hampshire: The Tiger and Brad Ferguson, What Happened Then". Sustainng. An excellent drama about a man who owns a carnival and drinks too much. Excellent production techniques, including one transition that really stands out. A phonograph record slowing down turns into a growl of the tiger. Lamont Johnson, Jeanne Bates, Jack Kruschen, Mary Jane Croft, Parley Baer, Paula Winslowe, John Dehner, Lou Merrill (host), Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Bob Lemond (announcer). 28:08. Episode Notes From The Radio
Gold Index. Cat# 113538.

The New Adventures Of Michael Shayne - The Case Of The Eager Victim (12-09-48)

The Case Of The Eager Victim (Aired December 9, 1948)

It was perhaps The New Adventures of Michael Shayne that was the most jarring of all Michael Shayne's incarnations. Bill Rousseau's image of Michael Shayne was more after the pattern of Jack Webb's characterizations of Pat Novak for Hire, or Johnny Madero, Pier 23--but amp'd up about 150% in the process. From some seventeen potential candidates, Rousseau felt that Jeff Chandler was the natural pick over his peers. Chandler could both amp up the electricity of Shayne's character and raise the introductory prologues about 10 decibels, as well as completely reinventing Michael Shayne in Chandler's own mold.Chandler was aided by no less than Jack Webb himself, who'd already collaborated often with Bill Rousseau in several projects and who leant his talent to the New Adventures of Michael Shayne--entirely uncredited.

THIS EPISODE:

December 9, 1948. Broadcaster's Guild syndication, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Case Of The Eager Victim". A man walks into Shayne's office with $1000 and a request to kill him. These syndicated programs were recorded 1948 to 1950. Jeff Chandler, Jack Webb, Raymond Burr, William P. Rousseau (host, director), Brett Halliday (creator), John Duffy (composer, conductor), Don W. Sharpe (producer). 25:46. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Avenger - "The Department Of Death" (09-14-45)

The Department Of Death (Aired September 14, 1945)

The Avenger is a fictional character whose original adventures appeared from 1939 to 1942 in The Avenger magazine, published by Street and Smith Publications. Five additional short stories were published in Clues Detective magazine from 1942 to 1943, and a sixth novelette in The Shadow magazine in 1943. Newly-written adventures were commissioned and published by Warner Brother's Paperback Library from 1973 to 1974. The Avenger was a pulp hero who combined elements of Doc Savage and The Shadow though he was never as popular as either of these characters. The authorship of the pulp series was credited by Street and Smith to Kenneth Robeson, the same byline that appeared on the Doc Savage stories. The "Kenneth Robeson" name was a house pseudonym used by a number of different Street & Smith writers. Most of the original Avenger stories were written by Paul Ernst.

THIS EPISODE:
 
September 14, 1945. Program #15. Michelson syndication. "The Department Of Death". Music fill for local commercial insert. The night watchman of a department store is found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft. Charles Michelson (producer), Walter Gibson (writer), Ruth Braun (writer), Gilbert Braun (writer), James Monks, Helen Adamson, Alyn Edwards (announcer), Doc Whipple (organist). 27:47. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Dangerous Assignment - "Lost Troop Movement Document" (08-02-50)

Lost Troop Movement Document (Aired August 2, 1950)

This thirty-minute international spy adventure featured Steve Mitchell (Brian Donlevy), and investigator of crimes in exotic locations. Herb Butterfield played the Commissioner and Betty Moran was the Commissioner's secretary. Other cast members were GeGe Pearson, Ken Peters, Betty Lou Gerson, Dan O’Herlihy. The director was Bill Cairn and the writer for the series was Robert Ryf. The opening was the same every week “Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can’t even pronounce. They all spell the same thing though, trouble.” He would be summoned to his boss’s office where he would be given his assignment; he would then fly halfway across the globe to save the day! The worldwide locations are dealt up with a feeling of local, and the characters that inhabit these far-away places with strange sounding names are solid and capably acted by veterans.
 
THIS EPISODE:
 
August 2, 1950. "Lost Troop Movement Document" - NBC network. Sponsored by: Wheaties. Steve Mitchell is sent to the U. S. consulate in Vienna to recover documents that have been stolen. Brian Donlevy, Frank Martin (commercial spokesman), Ed Prentiss (commercial spokesman), Luke Apling (who praises Wheaties when interviewed by Ed Prentiss), Robert Ryf (writer), Basil Adlam (music), Bill Cairn (producer, director), Ralph Hollenbeck (conductor), William Conrad. 27:40. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Duffy's Tavern - "Christmas Show With Monty Woolley aka: Christmas Carol" (12-21-43)

 

 

INTRO: Bob Plays Kenny Williams "Old Fashion Christmas" (1973)
 

Early in the show's life, however, its name was changed — first to Duffy's and, for four episodes, Duffy's Variety. A staffer for Bristol-Myers -- whose Ipana toothpaste was the show's early sponsor—persuaded the company's publicity director to demand the name change because the original title promoted "the hobby of drinking" too much for certain sensibilities. Bristol-Myers eventually admitted the staffer had little to go on other than a handful of protesting letters, and to the delight of fans who never stopped using the original name, anyway — the original title was restored permanently. The name change was often subverted by the Armed Forces Radio Network. Radio's Duffy's Tavern didn't translate well to film or television. Burrows and Matt Brooks collaborated on the screenplay for the 1945 film, Ed Gardner's Duffy's Tavern, in which Archie (with regulars Eddie and Finnegan) was surrounded by a throng of Paramount Pictures stars playing themselves, including Robert Benchley, William Bendix, Eddie Bracken, Bing Crosby, Cass Daley, Brian Donlevy, Paulette Goddard, Betty Hutton, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and Dorothy Lamour.

THIS EPISODE:

December 21, 1943. Blue network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. Archie tries to talk "Guest Monty Woolley" into playing the role of Santa Claus. The script was used on on the "Duffy's Tavern" program of December 22, 1950. Ed Gardner, Eddie Green, Monty Woolley, Bert Reeves and His Orchestra, Charlie Cantor, Bob Graham (vocal), Dick Van Patten (as Finnegan's kid brother), John Roche (producer, director), Jack Bailey (announcer), Sandra Gould (as "Miss Duffy"). 29:47. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Crime Club - "Mr. Smith's Hat" (01-23-47)

Mr. Smith's Hat (Aired January 22, 1947)

The Crime Club was a series of 30-minute murder mystery stories adapted for radio by Stedman Coles or Wyllis Cooper from based on and featuring some of the stories from the Doubleday Crime Club books. Crime Club was broadcast by Mutual and produced and directed by Roger Bower. The post war stories were by various different authors and adapted for radio by among others Stedman Coles and Wyllis Cooper (writer of Lights Out and Quiet Please). The narrator played by Barry Thomson is the supposed curator of the Crime Club library. He speaks to the listener as if they have just arrived or phoned and requested one of the Club's books.

THIS EPISODE:

January 22, 1947. Mutual network. "Mr. Smith's Hat". Sustaining. A man calls the police to say he's going to be murdered. Ten seconds later, the man's daughter calls to say she just found the body. Roger Bower (producer, director), Elaine Kent, Raymond Edward Johnson, William Podmore, Eleanor Phelps, Paul Hammond, Shirling Oliver, Barry Thomson, Helen Riley (author), Stedman Coles (adaptor). 29:42. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Adventures Of Maisie - "Las Vegas" (04-05-51)

Las Vegas (Aired April 5, 1951)

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 many performers in Hollywood, had not one but two careers - one in motion pictures and one on radio.  MGM Studios had created the series of ten motion pictures based on a brash blonde with a heart "of spun gold." Sothern, due in great part to the Maisie films type-casting, would ultimately admit she was "a Hollywood princess, not a Hollywood queen." But in its time, the Maisie series in film and on radio made her known and loved the world over.

THIS EPISODE:

April 5, 1951. " Las Vegas" - Program #60. MGM syndication. Commercials added locally. Maisie becomes the Las Vegas good luck charm of an Indian gambler/gangster (named "Nick The Creek!"). The program has also been identified as program #72. The date above is the date of first broadcast on WMGM, New York City. Ann Sothern, Arthur Q. Bryan, Hans Conried, Harry Zimmerman (composer, conductor), Jack McCoy (announcer), Joan Banks, John L. Green (writer), Peter Leeds, William Conrad. 28:01.

Life With Luigi - Luigi Needs Drivers License (02-27-49)

Luigi Needs Drivers License (Aired February 27, 1949)

Life with Luigi was a radio comedy-drama series which began September 21, 1948 on CBS. The story concerned Italian immigrant Luigi Basco, and his experiences as an immigrant in Chicago. Many of the shows take place at the US citizenship classes that Luigi attends with other immigrants from different countries, as well as trying to fend off the repeated advances of the morbidly-obese daughter of his landlord/sponsor. Luigi was played by J. Carrol Naish, an Irish-American. Naish continued in the role on the short-lived television version in 1952, and was later replaced by Vito Scotti. With a working title of The Little Immigrant, Life with Luigi was created by Cy Howard, who earlier had created the hit radio comedy, My Friend Irma. The show was often seen as the Italian counterpart to the radio show The Goldbergs, which chronicled the experience of Jewish immigrants in New York.

THIS EPISODE:
 
February 27, 1949. "Luigi Needs Drivers License" - CBS network. Sustaining. Luigi wants a driver's license. J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed, Cy Howard (creator, producer), Mac Benoff (writer, director), Lou Derman (writer), Hans Conried, Mary Shipp, Joe Forte, Ken Peters, Jody Gilbert, Lyn Murray (music director). 29:43. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Best Plays - The Philadelphia Story (08-17-52)

The Philadelphia Story (Aired August 17, 1952)

Best Plays was another of the prestigious sustaining productions of the NBC Presents family of presentations from the National Broadcasting Company which, over the years, had presented numerous consistently rich, high-production value series' of NBC-produced and financed dramatic productions. Announced almost six weeks previously, NBC decided to wait until the summer of 1952 to introduce the series as a summer replacement for their Theater Guild series. And indeed, the series was so well received as a summer series that NBC extended the franchise for another full year season. Where this production differed was in presenting 20th Century, award winning Stage Plays exclusively. The common demoninator for the selections were, for the most part, their previous identification by the New York Drama Critics' Circle as a 'Best Play' of the season. Show Notes From The Digital Deli.
 
THIS EPISODE:
 
August 17, 1952. NBC network. "The Philadelphia Story". Sustaining. John Chapman (host), Philip Barry (author), Joan Alexander, Betty Furness, Myron McCormick, Vera Allen, Robert Tallman (adaptor), Joseph Curtin, Karl Weber, William Quinn, Denise Alexander, Edwin Jerome, Gene Leonard, William Welch (supervisor), Edward King (director), Fred Collins (announcer). 55:05. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Beyond Midnight - "The Green Vase" (1968)

The Green Vase (1968) *The Exact Date Is Unknown.

 INTRO: Bob Plays Marvin Rainwater " So You Think You Have Troubles" (1957)

This series was written by Michael McCabe and was produced in South Africa. It was a replacement for another series McCabe produced, called SF68. That series adapted famous Sci-fi stories to radio, and it seems to have been the place where McCabe honed his craft. The subject matter to Beyond Midnight was more horror oriented, including madness, murder, and supernatural sleuths! What survives today doesn't involve a horror host per se, but a few include framing narration (by someone involved in the plot) while others just start up the story with no announcer or lead-in whatsoever. So it's possible the regular host or announcer was left off (edited out) of the recordings. The host-- if there was one-- may have only been heard by those who listened to this series when it first aired. It's another radio mystery we may never know for sure, but we're lucky to at least have some of the recordings!

The Clock - "A Helping Hand" (12-29-46)

A Helping Hand (Aired December 29, 1946)

INTRO: Bob Plays The School Boys "Please Say You Want Me To) (1956)

The Clock was a mix  of the traditional crime drama and the supernatural dramas of the previous fifteen years. One or the other of the two genres had been traditionally popular formats throughout the Golden Age of Radio era. To its credit, ABC gave The Clock all the time it needed to create an audience. It kept the series in pretty much the same timeslot throughout its seventy-eight episode run, maintained reasonably high standards of talent--both in front of and behind, the mike--and simply waited to see what developed. NBC, by contrast was fairly brutal in its approach to new programming: if it didn't attract a sponsor by the magical thirteenth installment, NBC moved it all over the Radio dial on the slightest programming whim, in an effort to find either a home, an audience, or a sponsor for it. The Clock might well have found a larger audience had ABC had either the budget or resolve to promote it. Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group and The Digital Deli.

THIS EPISODE:

December 29, 1946. Grace Gibson syndication, WRVR-FM, New York aircheck. "A Helping Hand". Participating sponsors. A man and a woman pick up an apparently homicidal maniac while driving on a deserted highway. WRVR rebroadcast date: July 13, 1973. The date above is the date of this program's broadcast on ABC. The date and story title are subject to correction. Charles Tingwell, Harp McGuire, John Sahl (director), Lawrence Klee (creator, writer), Owen Weingart, Ozzie Wendlin, Wendy Clayfair. 24:20. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Dark Fantasy - "Debt Of The Past" (01-16-42)

Debt Of The Past (Aired January 16, 1942)

 INTRO: Bob Plays Dean Martin "Baby It's Cold Outside" (1959)

WKY, Oklahoma City had been a highly respected and equally highly sophisticated Radio operator for over eight years by the time this series first aired, so it was no great leap for NBC to take the gamble in taking the series nationwide. NBC-Red and it's flagship station, WEAF, indeed began airing Dark Fantasy in New York simultaneously with the broadcasts airing out of WKY, Oklahoma City. WKY's talented writer, Scott Bishop, was responsible for all of the scripts. Indeed, the scripts were so chilling that both WKY and NBC felt obliged to air the program well after 1940s children had fallen soundly asleep. NBC-Red picked up Scott Bishop's Dark Fantasy series, from November 21, 1941 forward. In 1943, NBC sustained Bishop's Strange Dr. Karnac series.  Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group.

THIS EPISODE:
 
January 16, 1942. Program #9. NBC network, WKY, Oklahoma City origination. "Debt Of The Past". Sustaining. "A strange and weird adventure, laid in modern America with the flavor of the nineteenth century. The story of a businessman who was almost too honest, who found a method of paying a long-standing debt of honor, although thirty years in his grave." Scott Bishop (writer), Tom Paxton (announcer), Jane Wyatt (guest), Ben Morris, Eleanor Naylor Corin, Muir Hite. 27:17. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Dragnet - "Big Blast" (05-17-51)

The Big Blast (Aired May 17, 1951)

INTRO: Bob Plays The Penguins "Earth Angel" (Will You Be Mine) 1954

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 was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in American media history. The series gave millions of Americans a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real life police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers. Actor and producer Jack Webb's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved both goals and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media.

THIS EPISODE:
 
May 17, 1951. Program #101. NBC network. "The Big Blast". Sponsored by: Fatima. The program begins "Fatima is proud to present its Academy Award winning radio show" (the motion picture "Academy" never gave awards for radio programs!). Josephine Stevens has been murdered with a shotgun, as her seven-year-old boy watched! A well written, good show! Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough. 28:56. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Bonanza - "Gift Of Water" (02-11-62)

Bonanza chronicled the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by wise widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright (played by Lorne Greene). He had three biological sons, each by a different wife: the oldest was the intelligent and moody Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts); the second was the fun and lovable Eric, better known to viewers by his middle name: "Hoss" (Dan Blocker); and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or "Little Joe" (Michael Landon). The family's cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing (Victor Sen Yung). The family lived on a thousand-square-mile ranch called "The Ponderosa", on the shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada; the name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West.

THIS EPISODE:

Febuary 11, 1962. "Gift Of Water" - A drought has ravaged the flat lands and Hoss stops to water at the Ganther farm where Jason Ganther is attempting to dig a well and get to water which he believes is just a few further feet down. Hoss decides to help him and they begin drilling for water. Meanwhile ranchers in the high country have started up a vigilante group to keep families from leaving the flat lands and settling in the high country where water is plentiful. Disgusted by the vigilantes the entire Cartwright family soon begins helping the Ganthers. Tensions mount between the two groups as the Cartwrights race against time to find the water before violence erupts. Director: Jesse Hibbs. Writer:Borden Chase. Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts and Dan Blocker.

I Was A Communist For The FBI - "Red Clouds On The Good Earth" (07-13-52)

Red Clouds On The Good Earth (Aired July 13, 1952)

INTRO:  Bob Plays Johnny Mathis It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (1958)

Throughout most of the 1940's, Matt Cvetic worked as a volunteer undercover agent for the FBI, infiltrating the Communist Party in Pittsburgh. In 1949, his testimony helped to convict several top Party members of conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government. Cvetic sold his account to "The Saturday Evening Post" and it was serialized under the title "I Posed as a Communist for the FBI". It later became a best-selling book. In 1951, Warner Brothers released a film based on these accounts entitled "I Was A Communist For The FBI", starring with Frank Lovejoy as Cvetic. In 1952, in the midst of the Red scare of the 1950's, the Frederick W. Ziv Company produced the syndicated radio series with the same title as the movie. It was produced without assistance from the FBI.

THIS EPISODE:

July 13, 1952. Program #16. ZIV Syndication. "Red Clouds On The Good Earth". Commercials added locally. Cvetic is ordered to pose as a farm implement salesman and subvert the future farmers of our country. Dana Andrews, Truman Bradley (announcer), Henry Hayward (director), David Rose (music). 27:17. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Campbell Playhouse - "Showboat" (03-31-39)

Showboat (Aired March 31, 1939)

The Campbell Playhouse was a sponsored continuation of the Mercury Theater on the Air, a direct result of the instant publicity from the War of the Worlds panic. The switch occurred on December 9, 1938. In spite of using the same creative staff, the show had a different flavor under sponsorship, partially attributed to a guest star policy in place, which relegated the rest of the Mercury Players to supporting cast for Orson Welles and the Hollywood guest of the week. There was a growing schism between Welles, still reaping the rewards of his Halloween night notoriety, and his collaborator John Houseman, still in the producer's chair but feeling more like an employee than a partner. The writer, as during the unsponsored run, was Howard Koch.

THIS EPISODE:

March 31, 1939. CBS network. "Show Boat". Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. Edna Ferber, the author, also makes her acting debut in the story and speaks about her novel after the drama. The classic about love on the Mississippi features Helen Morgan in the role she made famous (and that made her famous). Edna Ferber (author), Ernest Chappell (announcer), Everett Sloane, Grace Cotten, Helen Morgan, Margaret Sullavan, Orson Welles (host), Ray Collins (narrator), William Johnstone. 58:42. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

You Bet Your Live - "The Secret Word Is "Dress" (06-07-50)

The Secret Word Is "Dress" (Aired June 7, 1950)

You Bet Your Life is an American quiz show that aired on both radio and television. The most well-known version was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant George Fenneman. The show debuted on ABC Radio in October 1947, then moved to CBS Radio in 1949 before making the transition to the NBC Radio and NBC-TV networks in October 1950. Because of its simple format, it was possible to broadcast the show simultaneously on the radio and on television. In 1960, the show was renamed The Groucho Show and ran a further year. 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.

The Amazing Mr. Malone - "Hard Work Never Killed Anyone" (06-22-51)

Hard Work Never Killed Anyone (Aired June 22, 1951)

Based on Craig Rice’s (a female crime novelist who rivaled Agatha Christie in book sales) novels of crime drama, Frank Lovejoy (and later Gene Raymond and George Petrie) plays “fiction’s most famous criminal lawyer,” John J. Malone. Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting clichés, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a strong offense is the best defense, seek and ye shall find, and so on. Stories are gripping.

THIS EPISODE:
 
June 22, 1951. NBC network. "Hard Work Never Killed Anyone". Sustaining. Danny Braden tries a little blackmail on a former wife and gets a bullet for his trouble. George Petrie, Larry Haines, Craig Rice (creator), Eugene Wang (writer), Richard Lewis (director), Bernard L. Schubert (producer), Fred Collins (announcer). 29:35. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Roy Rogers Show" - Seven Arrows (10-16-52)

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Roy Rogers Show" 

Seven Arrows (Aired October 16, 1952)

 

INTRO: Bob Plays Mariah Carey "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (1994)

Roy Rogers was born to Andrew ("Andy") and Mattie (Womack) Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his family lived in a tenement building on 2nd Street. (Riverfront Stadium was constructed at this location in 1970 and Rogers would later joke that he had been born at second base.) Dissatisfied with his job and city life, Andy Slye and his brother Will built a 12-by-50-foot houseboat from salvage lumber, and, in July 1912, the Slye family floated on the Ohio River towards Portsmouth, Ohio. Desiring a more stable existence in Portsmouth, the Slyes purchased land on which to build a home, but the flood of 1913 allowed them to move the houseboat to their property and continue living in it on dry land.

THIS EPISODE:

October 16, 1952. "Seven Arrows" - NBC network. Sponsored by: Post Cereals. Roy's Indian friends are framed for deer poaching by a renegade Indian agent and his arrow-shooting henchman. Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Frank Hemingway, Herb Butterfield, Charles Seel, Ken Peters, Frank Gerstle, Art Rush (producer), Milton Charles (music), Fran Van Hartesfeldt (writer, director), Art Ballinger (announcer). 26:21. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Black Museum - Glass Shards (1952)

Glass Shards (1952) *The Exact Date Is Unknown.

Opening in 1875, the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard is the oldest museum in the world purely for recording crime. The name Black Museum was coined in 1877 by a reporter from The Observer, a London newspaper, although the museum is still referred to as the Crime Museum. The idea of a crime museum was conceived by Inspector Neame who had already collected together a number of items, with the intention of giving police officers practical instruction on how to detect and prevent burglary. It is this museum that inspired the Black Musuem radio series. The museum is not open to members of the public but is now used as a lecture theatre for the curator to lecture police and like bodies in subjects such as Forensic Science, Pathology, Law and Investigative Techniques. A number of famous people have visited the musuem including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Orsen Welles hosted and narrated the shows. Following the opening, Mr. Welles would introduce the museum's item of evidence that was central to the case, leading into the dramatization. He also provided narration during the show and ended each show with his characteristic closing from the days of his Mercury Theater on the Air, 'remaining obediently yours'.
 

THIS EPISODE:

1952. Harry Alan Towers syndication. "Glass Shards". Sponsored by: Commercials added locally. A man and his son find an intruder in their apartment. The older man is shot by a small man. Orson Welles, Ira Marion (writer), Sidney Torch (composer, conductor), Harry Alan Towers (producer). 29:42. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

The Academy Award Theater - The White Cliffs Of Dover (09-18-46)

The White Cliffs Of Dover (Aired September 18, 1946)

INTRO: Bob Plays The Platters "The Magic Touch" (1957)

The list of films and actors on Academy Award Theater is very impressive. Bette Davis begins the series in Jezebel, with Ginger Rogers following in Kitty Foyle, and then Paul Muni in The Life of Louis Pasteur. The Informer had to have Victor Mclaglen, and the Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet (this movie was his first major motion picutre role) plus Mary Astor for the hat trick. Suspicion starred Cary Grant with Ann Todd doing the Joan Fontaine role, Ronald Coleman in Lost Horizon, and Joan Fontaine and John Lund were in Portrait of Jenny. How Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio were done is something to hear!

THIS EPISODE:

September 18, 1946. CBS network. "The White Cliffs Of Dover". Sponsored by: Squibb. An American woman marries an English peer during the first World War in Britain. Irene Dunne, C. Aubrey Smith.  29:25