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www.RADIOthen.networkSUSPENSE - Till-Death-Do-Us-Part - December-15-1942SUSPENSE - Till-Death-Do-Us-Part - December-15-1942 Starring Peter Lorre, Alice Frost and Mercedes McCambridge.
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www.RADIOthen.networkStan Freberg "The Declaration of Independence"Stan Freberg - Presents the United States of America, Vol. 1 - The Declaration of Independence. A Stan Freberg sketch explains how Thomas Jefferson may have convinced Benjamin Franklin to sign the Declaration of Independence.
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www.RADIOthen.networkThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "The Devil's Foot"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is an American old-time radio show that aired on US radio networks between 1930 and 1936. The series was adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories by scriptwriter Edith Meiser. For most of the series, Richard Gordon played Sherlock Holmes and Leigh Lovell played Dr. Watson.
The series included multiple original stories by Meiser, in addition to Meiser's adaptations of all of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories except one. Some episodes in the series were remakes of scripts that had been used for episodes in earlier seasons of the show.
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www.RADIOthen.networkThe Shadow - "When the Grave is Open"This episode aired September 9, 1947 on Mutual Radio Network stars Bret Morrison. The police suspect vandalism in the cemetery until a series of ghoulish grave robberies includes the disappearance and murder of the cemetery caretaker. Believing the gravediggers will return to finish what they couldn’t due to an unexpected interruption, Lamont and Margot attempt to observe the late night happenings while avoiding the police standing guard. Digger, one of the two gravediggers, learns Koller’s scheme of digging up fresh corpses, then altering them with identifying marks so the burned remains will simulate his clients. The clients then pay hear...
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www.RADIOthen.networkUSAF SERENADE IN BLUE "Cherokee"The public service radio program Serenade in Blue was written, produced, and performed by men in blue. It featured three top-notch Air Force bands: The Air Force Strings, Symphony in Blue, and the big band sound of Airmen of Note (which was originally started by Glenn Miller during WWII). This episode is from the summer of 1963. Recorded and produced by the Air Force Band radio recording unit at Bolling AFB home of the USAF Band, Col. George S. Howard commander. Captain John Yesulitis conductor. Captain Robert Landers and The Singing Sergeants. Singing Sergeant airman Robert Alan Campbell announcer-producer. Distributed o...
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www.RADIOthen.networkSEARS RADIO THEATER "Retribution"From February 5, 1979 on CBS Radio this is the first episode of Sears Radio Theater. The Host is Lorne Green and stars John McIntire and Janette Nolan. Announcer is Art Gilmore. Air check from KMOX St. Louis.
Sears Radio Theater was a radio drama anthology series which ran weeknightly on CBS Radio in 1979, sponsored by the Sears chain. Often paired with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater during its first season, the program offered a different genre of drama for each day's broadcast.In 1980, the program moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System and became the Mutual Radio Theater. The Mutual ser...
2023-05-3144 min
www.RADIOthen.networkSCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE "The Fighting O'Flynn"Episode 63 on NBC Radio starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Screen Directors Playhouse was a popular American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to NBC Radio beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcasts adaptations of films frequently with the original directors of the films. The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949, to September 28, 1951, under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Directors Guild Assignment, Screen Directors Assignment and, as of July 1, 1949, Screen Directors Playhouse. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II. He is...
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www.RADIOthen.networkSAM SPADE "The Wheel of Life Caper"Aired July 11, 1948 on NBC Radio with Howard Duff as Spade. Sam meets a mystery woman with no memory and a corpse that's been killed by a buzz saw! Sandra Gould replaces Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Sam's secretary. Poppy O'Farrell walks into Sam's office. She has lost her memory and wants Sam to try and trace who she is. All she is aware of is that she was on a cable car that morning and a man came and sat next to her, viciously grabbed her arm and told her that someone called Leverett wanted to see her.
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www.RADIOthen.networkTHE SAINT "Girl In The Lower Berth"Aired June 3, 1951 on NBC Radio. Tom Conway stars as The Saint. The Saint agrees to meet a woman’s husband on the train and ends up investigating the husband’s murder. Tom Conway (born Thomas Charles Sanders, 15 September 1904 – 22 April 1967) was a British film, television, and radio actor remembered for playing detectives (including The Falcon, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond, and The Saint) and psychiatrists, among other roles. Conway played "The Falcon" in 10 episodes of the series, taking over from his brother, George Sanders, in The Falcon's Brother (1942), in which they both starred. He also appeared in several Val Lewton films.
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www.RADIOthen.networkROCKY FORTUNE "Psychological Murder"Aired March 16, 1954 on NBC Radio. Frank Sinatra stars as his character Rocky witnesses the execution of the will of a wealthy woman who thinks that she's going insane. She believes that she's going to kill her husband. Rocky visits Perry Shane at his Law office. He wants Rocky to be a witness for Mrs. Biggolo's Will. Whilst they are going through the formalities of the Will Mrs. Biggolo tells Rocky that she is afraid that she is going to kill her husband. Perry is quite disturbed by this and later asks Rocky to go over to her home and...
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www.RADIOthen.networkRICHARD DIAMOND "Ralph Chace"Dick Powell stars as Private Detective Richard Diamond in his Ralph Chase case on NBC Radio aired May 15, 1949.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
Described as “a modern Robin Hood". Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series features a wisecracking former police officer turned private detective. Episodes typically open with a client visiting or calling cash-strapped Diamond's office and agreeing to his fee of $100 a day plus expenses, or Diamond taking on a case at the behest of his friend and former pa...
2023-05-1628 minwww.RADIOthen.networkRADIO'S FIRST 50 YEARS "1920's"
A collection of happenings in radio that touched our lives from the twenties through the sixties.
Ben Gross, The dean of American radio and television editors turns the dials back and forth
and summons, with a wealth of anecdotes, his own remembrance of the events
and personalities of the air waves, past and present.
For twenty-nine years, from the time of the first crystal sets to the moment when
United States Senators are the featured actors at microphones and cameras,
Ben Gross has conducted his column in the New York Daily N...
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www.RADIOthen.networkPURSUIT "Of The Man Who Couldn't Go Home"Aired on CBS Radio July 1, 1950. John Dehner stars as Inspector Black of Scotland Yard. Black is called to a hotel room where a man is out on a ledge, saying he can’t deal with his guilt over a murder he committed.
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www.RADIOthen.networkPHILO VANCE "The Case of the Cellini Cup"John Emery stars as Philo Vance in this episode from April 29, 1943 on NBC Radio. Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, films, and radio. He was portrayed as a stylish—even foppish—dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. "S. S. Van Dine" was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright, a prominent art critic who initially sought to conceal his authorship of the novels. Van Dine was also a fictional char...
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www.RADIOthen.networkPHILIP MARLOWE "Red Wind"From June 17, 1947 on NBC Radio. Van Heflin and Lurene Tuttle star. Phillip Marlowe is minding his own business, having a beer in a bar conveniently located within staggering distance of his apartment. Business is as lite as the beer with only one other customer in the bar. The drunken man has a pile of dimes in front of him and is pounding back shots of rye like there is no tomorrow, which there technically never is.
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www.RADIOthen.networkPAUL HARVEY "Actor On Death Row"The Rest of the Story was a Monday-through-Friday radio program originally hosted by Paul Harvey. Beginning as a part of his newscasts during the Second World War and then premiering as its own series on the ABC Radio Networks on May 10, 1976, The Rest of the Story consisted of stories presented as little-known or forgotten facts on a variety of subjects with some key element of the story (usually the name of some well-known person) held back until the end. The broadcasts always concluded with a variation on the tag line, "And now you know...the rest of the story." On the majority of radio stations...
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www.RADIOthen.networkPAT NOVAK FOR HIRE "Mysterious Set of Books"Ben Morris stars as Pat Novak on this episode of August 10, 1947 on ABC Radio (USA). The regional version originally starred Jack Webb in the title role, with scripts by his roommate Richard L. Breen. When Webb and Breen moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles to work on an extremely similar nationwide series, Johnny Madero, Pier 23, for the Mutual network, Webb was replaced by Ben Morris and Breen by other writers. In the later 1949 network version, Jack Webb resumed the Novak role, and Breen his duties as scriptwriter. The series is popular among fans for its fast-paced, hard-boiled dialogue...
2023-05-0628 min
www.RADIOthen.network21st Precinct "The Visitors"21st Precinct (aka Twenty-First Precinct and Twenty First Precinct) was a police drama broadcast on CBS radio from July 7, 1953, to July 26, 1956. It was initially a summer replacement for My Friend Irma.
The program was produced in cooperation with the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York[2] and presented "adaptations from true criminal records in New York...from the policeman's point of view." Historically, the 21st Precinct had been located near Gramercy Park in Manhattan but in 1929 the department reorganized the precinct numbering, and the 21st designation was dropped from use. No such precinct existed during the show's run...
2023-05-0528 min
www.RADIOthen.networkNORMAN CORWIN "Lighthouse Keepers"
Known as the Poet Laureate of Radio, Norman Corwin is one of the greatest writer-producer-directors the Golden Age
Norman Corwin directed episode 108 of The CBS Workshop. The Lighthouse Keepers starred Ray Collins and Luis d'Antin van Rooten (November 29, 1906 – June 17, 1973). He was a Mexican-born American actor. He was sometimes credited as Louis Van Rooten. Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television. With 900 stage roles to his credit, he became one of the most successful actors in the developing field of radio drama. A friend and associate of Orson Welles...
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www.RADIOthen.networkNIGHT BEAT "Ted Carter Murder Case"The audition program for the series. Film noir star Edmund O'Brien played the role in the audition program but was not in the regular production, having assumed the role as the second Johnny Dollar. Hank Mitchell’s friend is killed and he sets out to use his newspaper column to imply an infamous gangster is behind it. When Hank’s roughed up by some of the gangster’s men, he gets a gun to hunt him down.
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www.RADIOthen.networkNICK CARTER "Echo of Death"July 6, 1943. Mutual Radio. Lon Clark as Detective Nick Carter.
Nick Carter, Master Detective was a popular radio show that aired from 1939 to 1955.
The show followed the adventures of Nick Carter, a private detective who solving crimes using his keen intellect and athletic prowess. Although the cases were often based on real life events, the characters and locations were often fictionalized for dramatic effect. Nonetheless, the show was widely popular and helped to cement the image of the private detective as a smart and resourceful individual.
Nick Carter is the name of a popular fictional detective who first appeared in...
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www.RADIOthen.networkNERO WOLFE "Case of the Killer Cards"
Sydney Greenstreet stars as Rex Stout’s famous corpulent detective. Gerals Mohr as Archie Goodwin. This particular mystery features four criminals who decide to play one winner-take-all game of poker for ownership of their shared illegal enterprises. But there’s murder in the cards and only Nero Wolfe can solve the case! Will Archie Goodwin be given the night off to go on a date? Does the detective really have a meticulous plan to find the solution? Aired January 12, 1951 on NBC Radio.
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www.RADIOthen.networkNBC UNIVERSITY THEATER "The Marble Faun"Starring Lynn Bari (born Marjorie Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1919 – November 20, 1989). A film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 films for 20th Century Fox, from the early 1930s through the 1940s. This episode aired on March 20, 1949 on NBC Radio.
The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International No...
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www.RADIOthen.networkNBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "Irving Berlin Tribute"Epsode 43 aired April 17, 1957 on NBC Radio. Irving Berlin, original name Israel Baline, (born May 11, 1888, Mogilyov, Russia [now in Belarus]—died Sept. 22, 1989, New York, N.Y., U.S.), American composer who played a leading role in the evolution of the popular song from the early ragtime and jazz eras through the golden age of musicals. His easy mastery of a wide range of song styles, for both stage and motion pictures, made him perhaps the greatest and most enduring of American songwriters.
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www.RADIOthen.networkNBC MONITOR "Durward Kirby"Durward Kirby host on this Monitor segment. He was on only a short time in ’69 (and so was his associate for many years, Garry Moore, who hosted another segment on Monitor). Here he is on Sunday night Monitor on Sept. 21, 1969, from 9 to about 9:20 p.m. ET
Homer Durward Kirby (August 24, 1911 – March 15, 2000), sometimes misspelled Dirwood or Durwood Kirby, was an American television host and announcer. He is best remembered for The Garry Moore Show in the 1950s and Candid Camera, which he co-hosted with Allen Funt from 1961 through 1966. He hosted NBC Radio's MONITOR in 1969.
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www.RADIOthen.networkNBC BANDSTAND "Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey"Bert Parks hosts The Dorsey Brothers on this broadcast from October 11, 1956.
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www.RADIOthen.networkMR KEEN "The Case of the Missing Witness"Aired on CBS Radio January 13, 1944. Mr. Keen - The Case of the Missing Witness. Sponsored by: Anacin, Kolynos, Heet, Kriptin, Bisodol, Hills Cold Tabs. A famous fashion designer has killed her daughter's lover...or has she?
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www.RADIOthen.networkMR DISTRICT ATTORNEY "The Museum Mystery"Jay Jostyn stars as Mr D. A. in this episode aka The Case of the Priceless Miniature. Aired on the NBC Red Network December 10, 1941.
Mr. District Attorney is a radio crime drama produced by Samuel Bischoff that aired on NBC and ABC from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed syndication through 1953).
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www.RADIOthen.networkMIKE HAMMER "Framed For Murder"Larry Holmes stars as Mike Hammer in this syndicated episode from 1953.
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www.RADIOthen.networkMICHAEL SHAYNE "Phantom Gun"August 6, 1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shayne_(radio_program)
Michael Shayne, "the reckless, red-headed Irishman" was a popular hard-boiled detective created by American crime novelist Brett Halliday.
Phyliss Kenny had hired Michael Shayne to find out if her husband was two-timing her. He wasn’t but he’d gotten himself mixed up with a character named Jasper who was following his usual routine of getting close to his blackmail victim by working for him. In this case he was the gardener at the Duval estate and that’s how Dick Kenny got mixed up with him, Dick was the Duv...
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www.RADIOthen.networkMercury Summer Theater "Search For Henri Lefevre"
Mercury Summer Theater AIRED 1946 07 12 on CBS Radio. Episode 06 "Search For Henri Lefevre".
An original story for radio by Lucille Fletcher
This series produced, directed by and starring Orson Welles. It was a short-lived summer radio series sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, on Friday evenings at 10 p.m. ET lasting 15 episodes. It harked back to Welles's earlier The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938) and its successor, The Campbell Playhouse.
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www.RADIOthen.networkMR AND MRS NORTH "RUSSIAN RESTAURANT"
MR AND MRS NORTH - FEBRUARY 3, 1943 - C.F. 006 RUSSIAN RESTAURANT
Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series.
Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. The characters, publisher Jerry North and his wife Pam, lived in Greenwich Village at 24 St. Anne's Flat. They wer...
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www.RADIOthen.networkNBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 "December 12, 1956Selections by singer Lanny Ross, Jack Pearl and Rudy Valle. News by Floyd Gibbons. Singer Carmen Miranda, pianist Art Tatum. Bergin, McCarthy with John Barrymore. Selection by the Lenny Hayton Orchestra.
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www.RADIOthen.networkMonitor, 6th hour last dayAlong with Big Wilson, John Bartholomew Tucker was one of the last two communicators (hosts) of the long-running NBC Radio program Monitor they were on the air when the show signed off for the last time on January 26, 1975. This is the sixth hour on that last day...,a Sunday.
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www.RADIOthen.networkNBC BANDSTAND "The Art Mooney Orchestra"NBC Radio, WGY. October 9, 1956. Bert Parks host. Vocalists Dick Haymes and Ann Gilbert.
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www.RADIOthen.networkMR KEEN "Case of the Moonless Night"This episoded aired on CBS Radio January 6, 1944. Mr. Keen: Tracer of Lost Persons.
Mr. Keen’s in the deep South to find a missing southern gentleman on a plantation with black walnut trees. Bennett Kilpack, Frank Hummert, Anne Hummert, Larry Elliott (announcer).
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of radio's longest running shows, airing October 12, 1937 to April 19, 1955, continuing well into the television era. It was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, who based it upon Robert W. Chambers' 1906 novel The Tracer of Lost Persons. More from WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Keen,_Tracer_of_Lost_Persons
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2023-03-2830 min
www.RADIOthen.networkMR DISTRICT ATTORNEY "Man From Alcatraz"Episode 141 aired February 12, 1942. The series focused on a crusading D.A., initially known only as "Mister District Attorney," or "Chief", and was later translated to television. On television the D.A. had a name, Paul Garrett, and the radio version picked up this name in the final years when David Brian played the role.
Mr. District Attorney is a radio crime drama produced by Samuel Bischoff that aired on NBC and ABC from April 3, 1939 to June 13, 1952 (and in transcribed syndication through 1953). The series focused on a crusading district attorney initially known only as Mister District Attorney or Chief, and was later translated to television...
2023-03-2724 min
www.RADIOthen.networkMR AND MRS NORTH "Death With Father"
Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. The radio mystery series aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. Richard Denning and Barbara Britton star in this episode.
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www.RADIOthen.networkTHE ORIGIN OF THE LONE RANGERReleased June 30, 1948 aka The legend of The Lone Ranger...is an incredibly American story that may very well have been inspired by the U.S Marshal Bass Reeves. The legend began 1875, but was introduced into modern culture through a radio show what developed into a popular story in the entertainment industry.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Ranger
2023-03-2329 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHOWARD MILLER SHOW "Eddy Arnold"This episode of The Howard Miller Show aired on CBS Radio February 15, 1957 and features an interview with Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008). Eddy Arnold was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966), Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music."
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www.RADIOthen.networkHopalong Cassidy "Hoppy and the School Marm"Hopalong Cassidy in syndication released 1950-07-16 (episode 029) - Hoppy and the School Marm. Miss Abbott breaks up a saloon that's about to open, and vanishes the following day. The script is based on the Hopalong Cassidy movie, "Borrowed Trouble."
2023-03-1525 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL "The Boss"Episode 64 aired February 7, 1960 on CBS Radio. A visit to Alder Bend, Colorado, for a job with Ira Stokes, a horse and wife beater out to own the town. The Have Gun – Will Travel radio show broadcast 106 episodes between November 23, 1958 and November 27, 1960. It was one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters and one of only a handful of American radio adaptation of a television series. John Dehner (a regular on the radio series version of Gunsmoke) played Paladin, and Ben Wright usually (but not always) played Hey Boy. Virginia Gregg played Miss Wong, Hey Boy's girlfriend, before the te...
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www.RADIOthen.networkheartbeat theater "Once a Thief"The Heartbeat Theater sponsored by the Salvation Army, gives dramatic accounts of regular people helping others through illness, tragedy, and heartbreak. Episodes illustrate problems can be solved with faith, optimism, and the help of good Samaritans.
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www.RADIOthen.networkHarry Lime "Voodoo"Harry lands in Haiti, where he plans to grift a wealthy vacationer of an artifact once belonging to the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti. Episode 5 aired August 31, 1951. THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY LIME was Broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime, an old time radio program produced in London, England during the 1951 to 1952 season. Orson Welles reprised his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 1949 film The Third Man. The radio series is a "prequel" to the film, and depicts the many misadventures of con-artist Lime in a somewhat lighter tone than the character's...
2023-03-0728 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHALLS OF IVY "Leslie Hoff Painting"The American situation comedy that ran from 1950 to 1952 on NBC radio, created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn. The series was adapted into a CBS television comedy (1954–55) produced by ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America. Here is the background and the conception of the series from Wikipedia sources. British husband-and-wife actors Ronald Colman and Benita Hume starred in both versions of the show. Quinn developed the show after he had decided to leave Fibber McGee & Molly in the hands of his protégé Phil Leslie. The Halls of Ivy's audition program featured radio veteran Gale Gordon (then...
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www.RADIOthen.networkGUNSMOKE "Harry Pope"July 11, 1953 episode aired on CBS Radio. White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.
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www.RADIOthen.networkGreen Hornet "Crandell and the Murder Ring"The series originated on January 31, 1936, on WXYZ, the same local Detroit station that originated its companion shows The Lone Ranger and Challenge of the Yukon. Beginning April 12, 1938, the station supplied the series to the Mutual Broadcasting System radio network, and then to NBC Blue and its successors, the Blue Network and ABC Network, from November 16, 1939, through September 8, 1950. It returned from September 10 to December 5, 1952. It was sponsored by General Mills from January to August 1948, and by Orange Crush in its brief 1952 run. Distinguished by its use of classical music for themes and for bridges between scenes, The Green Hornet was "one of radio's best-kno...
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www.RADIOthen.networkGANG BUSTERS "Three Million Dollar Robbery"Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premiered on January 15, 1936, and was broadcast over 21 years through November 27, 1957.
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www.RADIOthen.networkFRONTIER GENTLEMAN "The Shelton Brothers"The pilot and first episode aired February 2, 1958 on CBS Radio. Frontier Gentleman was a radio Western series heard on CBS from February 2 to November 16, 1958, It starred John Dehner as J B Kendall. It was an Englishman's account of life and death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his colorful and unusual accounts. But as a man with a gun, he lives and becomes a part of the violent years in the new territories. Now, starring John Dehner, this is the story of J. B. Kendall, Frontier Gentleman...
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www.RADIOthen.networkFRANK RACE ''The_Hackensack_Victory"February 1948_ep01 The Adventures of Frank Race was an American radio adventure serial syndicated by Bruce Eells Productions. The 30-minute program's first East Coast broadcast was 1949, and the show ran 43 episodes. Because it was syndicated, it aired on different stations on different days. For instance, in New York City, the first episode ran on WINS on April 9, 1949. It "began running in some markets May 1, 1949. The series was broadcast on the West Coast from 1951–52. Each episode opened with a one-minute organ theme and then the following from announcer Art Gilmore: "The war changed many things; the face of the earth an...
2023-02-2728 min
www.RADIOthen.networkFBI IN PEACE AND WAR "The Fixer"This episode from an AFRTS transcription believed to be from December 28, 1950. The FBI in Peace and War was a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewis Collins' book, The FBI in Peace and War. The idea for the show came from Louis Pelletier who wrote many of the scripts. Among the show's other writers were Jack Finke, Ed Adamson and Collins. Airing on CBS from November 25, 1944 to September 28, 1958, it had a variety of sponsors (including Lava Soap, Wildroot Cream Oil, Lucky Strike, Nescafe and Wrigley's chewing gum. Martin Blaine and Donald Briggs headed the cast.
"The Fixer"...
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www.RADIOthen.networkFAVORITE STORY "Ben Hur"Episode 42, Ben Hur, aired April 1, 1947 starring John Beal (born James Alexander Bliedung, August 13, 1909 – April 26, 1997) was an American actor. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century".
2023-02-2429 min
www.RADIOthen.networkEscape "Zero Hour"Escape - 4 OCT 1953 - Zero Hour CBS Stars John Dehner announcer Roy Rowan. You are in your house surrounded by all that is secure and normal while outside your children are playing a new and wonderful game called invasion. All the children under nine years of age are playing it and zero hour is to be at five o’clock.
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www.RADIOthen.networkELLERY QUEEN "One Diamond"Episode 352 of The Adventures of Ellery Queen aired May 6, 1948. The guest is vocalist Peggy Lee.
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www.RADIOthen.networkDRAGNET "Big Customer"Aired June 22, 1954 on NBC Radio. A special officer has been shot and the owner of a liquor store knifed during a robbery. One of the robbers has filthy finger nails. Jack Webb, George Fenneman (announcer).
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www.RADIOthen.networkDangerous Assignment "Assignment Mexico"Dangerous Assignment ep143 Assignment Mexico aired on NBC Radio January 28, 1953. Dangerous Assignment was an NBC Radio drama starring Brian Donlevy broadcast in the US 1949–1953
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www.RADIOthen.networkCandy Matson "The Donna Dunham Case"Candy Matson series released April 4, 1949. The Donna Dunham Case was the first in the series. Candy Matson is a radio program on NBC West Coast that aired from June 29, 1949, to May 20, 1951. It centered on Candy Matson, a female private investigator with a wry sense of humor and a penthouse on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. The program was notable for having a striking female character "without a trace of squeamishness" as well as a veiled gay character in Candy's best friend Rembrandt Watson, voiced by Jack Thomas. Candy's love interest was police detective Ray Mallard, voiced by Henry Leff...
2023-02-0926 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBroadway Is My Beat "Jimmy_Dorn_Case"Broadway Is My Beat episode 001 The Jimmy_Dorn_Case aired July 7, 1949 on CBS Radio. Broadway aka The Great White Way. In its theatres—one day you’re an understudy, the next a star. Your name in headlines and lights. But Broadway has an underbelly. A troubling side through which to view humanity at its worst: corrupt, dark, venal, and violent. For Detective Danny Clover every time he walked that street another case was always just a few footsteps away. He knows everyone along Broadway—from panhandlers to operatic prima donnas—but he’s still sentimental about the street, forever an ever-ch...
2023-02-0728 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOX 13 "Extra extra"Released in syndication September 19, 1948. Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. The premise of the program was that Dan Holiday was an author who wrote mystery novels. To get ideas for his novels he placed an advertisement in a newspaper saying "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything, Box 13." The ads always brought fun adventures of all kinds: from racketeer's victim to psychotic killer looking for fun. Most of the episodes were based on Dan Holiday replying to a letter he received at Box 13. In total there were 52 episodes of this radio program created. It was heard over the Mutual Broadcasting...
2023-02-0726 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOSTON BLACKIE "Alice Manweather"Aired April 8, 1944. Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (1881–1928). Blackie, a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's stories, became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television—an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend."
2023-02-0629 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOLD VENTURE "The Tears of Sheba""Tears Of Shiva" is the 12th episode of the Bold Venture radio program. It was released on Jun 16, 1950. Bold Venture was a 1951-1952 syndicated radio series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Morton Fine and David Friedkin scripted the taped series for Bogart's Santana Productions. Salty seadog Slate Shannon (Bogart) owns a Cuban hotel sheltering an assortment of treasure hunters, revolutionaries and other shady characters. With his sidekick and ward, the sultry Sailor Duval (Bacall), tagging along, he encounters modern-day pirates and other tough situations while navigating the waters around Havana. Aboard his boat, the Bold Venture, Slate and Sa...
2023-02-0528 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOB AND RAY "Biff Burns Sports Room"This is episode 166 of Bob and Ray on CBS Radio. February 15, 1960.
2023-02-0518 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBIG TOWN "Mask of Evil"This episode aired January 4, 1949 on NBC Radio. Mystery writer Hannah Harper, and her nervous companion, summon Steve Wilson and Lorelei to the lighthouse in which they're living. They are hearing noises and explosions. Big Town aired from 1937 to 1952. Edward G. Robinson had the lead role of Steve Wilson from 1937 to 1942. Claire Trevor was Wilson's society editor sidekick Lorelei Kilbourne, with Ona Munson taking over that role in 1940. Edward J. Pawley portrayed Wilson from 1942 until 1952 when Walter Greaza was heard as Wilson in the final episodes in the radio series.
2023-02-0429 minwww.RADIOthen.networkBIG STORY "Bobby Sox Kid From Bayonne"Aired October 15, 1947. Based on real life news stories, Big Story featured murder and other violent crime cases from the point of view of a newspaper reporter. A unique and exciting format, Big Story dramatized a different news reporter and their heroic deed each week. According to the ads of the day, this program starred "a reporter who has solved a crime, exposed a corrupt political administration, smashed a racket, or performed some other notable public service. At the end of each program the real news reporter was brought on the air and given a $500 reward by the sponsor of...
2023-02-0329 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBARRIE CRAIG "The Imposter"Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator starred William Gargan. This episode aired March 3, 1953. Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a detective drama heard on NBC Radio from October 3, 1951 to June 30, 1955. Detective Barrie Craig (William Gargan) worked alone from his Madison Avenue office. Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Craig had a laid-back personality, somewhat cutting against the popular hard-boiled detective stereotype. Others in the cast included Ralph Bell, Elspeth Eric, Parker Fennelly, Santos Ortega, Arnold Moss, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg and Betty Lou Gerson. Don Pardo was the announcer. Gargan also starred in the role in an unsuccessful 1952 TV pilot w...
2023-02-0326 min
www.RADIOthen.networkCHALLENGE OF THE YUKON "Blind Man's Bluff"This episode aired on ABC Radio on February 3, 1950 . Sponsored by Quaker cereals. Challenge of the Yukon is an American radio adventure series that began on Detroit's WXYZ and is an example of a Northern genre story. The series was first heard on January 3, 1939. The title changed from Challenge of the Yukon to Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in September 1950, and that title was retained through the end of the series and into a television series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_of_the_Yukon
Řezníček's Donna Diana Overture, was the signature theme music. It was...
2023-02-0229 min
www.RADIOthen.networkYOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "The Slow Boat From China"This episode aired February 25, 1949. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was aired on CBS radio from 1949 to 1962. The radio drama features the many cases of a wisecracking insurance investigator, aka “the man with the action-packed expense account.” “The Slow Boat From China” stars Charles Russell, and was written by Paul Dudley and Gil Doud.
2023-02-0228 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTHE WHISTLER "The Killers"A man is sentenced to an insane asylum after murdering an entire family with an ax. Escaping from custody, he finds himself alone with three women and $1000 on an isolated farm. The rain beats down in torrents, and during the brief flashes of lightning, a certain stone building stands out in the darkness of the night, the courthouse of a southwestern state. This episode aired on May 1, 1943 on CBS Radio, west.
2023-02-0129 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBIG TOWN "Nightmare House"Aired from 1937 to 1952. Written by Jerry McGill. Theme music by Fran Frey. Edward G. Robinson had the lead role of Steve Wilson from 1937 to 1942. Claire Trevor was Wilson's society editor sidekick with Ona Munson taking over that role in 1940. Edward J. Pawley portrayed Steve Wilson from 1943 until 1952 when Walter Greaza was heard as Wilson in the final episodes in this radio drama series. Fran Carlon played Pawley's sidekick, Lorelei Kilbourne, from 1942-1952. During the period in which Pawley starred, Big Town was rated number one among all of the reporter type drama series on radio. It was also rated in...
2023-01-3129 minwww.RADIOthen.networkBIG STORY "Triple Murder"Big Story Triple Murder [T R Johnson] 11/29/50, episode 192. NBC Radio. Based on real life news stories, Big Story featured murder and other violent crime cases from the point of view of a newspaper reporter. A unique and exciting format, Big Story dramatized a different news reporter and their heroic deed each week. According to the ads of the day, this program starred "a reporter who has solved a crime, exposed a corrupt political administration, smashed a racket, or performed some other notable public service. At the end of each program the real news reporter was brought on the air an...
2023-01-3022 min
www.RADIOthen.networkKARL HAAS "Miklos Rosza"Dr Haas looks at the life and music of Miklós Rózsa (Hungarian: [ˈmikloːʃ ˈroːʒɒ]; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995). He was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953 onward. Best known for his nearly one hundred film scores, he nevertheless maintained a steadfast allegiance to absolute concert music throughout what he called his "double life".
2023-01-2755 min
www.RADIOthen.networkACADEMY AWARD THEATER "Jezabel"Jezebel is a 1938 American romantic drama film released by Warner Bros. and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda.
2023-01-2528 min
www.RADIOthen.networkABC THEATER FIVE "Hit and Run"Theater Five aired on ABC Radio (USA) August 3, 1954. THEATER FIVE..... Was a radio drama series, presented by ABC, between 1964 and 1965. The series used an anthology format, presented a number of short twenty minute radio plays, across a number of genres, a number of which reflected topical issues contemporary with its airing. Writers for the show varied, as did actors, although a principal cast included George O. Petrie, Brett Morrison, Jackson Beck, Robert Dryden, Elliott Reid, Court Benson, Cliff Carpenter, and Bryna Raeburn. The show's 1965 run featured several well known actors, including an early role for James Earl Jones (Incident on...
2023-01-2220 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBIG TOWN "Fatal Alibi"Aired March 5, 1949 on NBC Radio. Edward Polly as Steve Wilson editor of The Illustrated Press. Announcer-Narrator is Dwight Wiest.
2023-01-1629 min
www.RADIOthen.networkFRONTIER GENTLEMAN "Jesse James Parts 1 and 2"Frontier Gentleman was a radio Western series heard on CBS from February 2 to November 16, 1958. (47'50) FRONTIER GENTLEMAN starring John Dehner. Jesse James Parts 1 and 2 aired July 1958 on CBS Radio. Frontier Gentleman was one of several "adult westerns," along with Gunsmoke (1952–1961), Luke Slaughter of Tombstone and others, that appeared on radio and television in the early 1950s..
2023-01-1647 min
www.RADIOthen.networkYOURS TRULY JOHNNY DOLLAR "Dick Powell, audition"From CBS Radio, December 7, 1948. Dick Powell as Johnny Dollar. As originally conceived, Johnny Dollar was a smart, tough, wisecracking detective who tossed silver-dollar tips to waiters and bellhops. Dick Powell starred in the audition show, recorded in 1948, but withdrew from the role in favor of other detective programs, Rogue's Gallery and Richard Diamond, Private Detective. The Johnny Dollar role went instead to Charles Russell. The show for which Powell auditioned was originally titled Yours Truly, Lloyd London, although the name of the show and its lead character were changed to avoid legal problems with the actual insurance company, Lloyd's...
2023-01-1428 min
www.RADIOthen.networkESCAPE "Zero Hour"Aired October 4, 1953 on CBS Radio. Stars Paula Winslow with John Dehner as narrator. CBS announcer Roy Rowen. Paula Winslowe (born Winifred Reyleche March 23, 1910 – March 6, 1996) was an American television, radio and voice actress, best known for her role as the voice of Bambi's mother in the Disney animated feature movie.
2023-01-1422 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDRAGNET "Big Seventeen"Episode 117 aired September 6, 1951 on NBC Radio. Upper middle-class teenagers in Los Angeles are going crazy. They trash a movie theater, beating up the manager and pushing a young man through a plate glass window. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday who must get to the bottom of what is causing this to happen.
2023-01-1128 min
www.RADIOthen.networkBOSTON BLACKIE "Fifty Dollar Shoeshine"Aired on Mutual Radio September 3, 1947. Richard Kollmar stars. Richard Tompkins Kollmar (December 31, 1910 [1] – January 7, 1971), also known professionally as Dick Kollmar, was an American stage, radio, film and television actor, television personality.
2023-01-1128 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDangerous Assignment - The Nazi & The PhysicistDangerous Assignment - Aired 24 APR 1950 - Steve goes to Alaska to find two missing scientists, one of whom is an ex-Nazi. The Nazi & The Physicist starred Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell.
2023-01-1128 min
www.RADIOthen.networkGREEN HORNET "Tornado On Wheels"Episode aired November 14 1942. The Green Hornet is a superhero created in 1936 by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, with input from radio director James Jewell. Since his 1930s radio debut, the character has appeared in numerous serialized dramas in a wide variety of media. The Green Hornet appeared in film serials in the 1940s, The Green Hornet television series in the 1960s (which costarred Bruce Lee in his first major adult role), multiple comic book series from the 1940s on, and a feature film in 2011. The franchise is owned by Green Hornet, Inc., which licenses the property across a...
2023-01-1127 min
www.RADIOthen.networkMercury Summer Theater - Passenger To BaliMercury Summer Theater aired JULY 5, 1946 on CBS Radio. Passenger To Bali stars Orson Welles
2023-01-1029 min
www.RADIOthen.networkMr Mrs North - Death With FatherMr Mrs North - Death With Father Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. Richard Denning and Barbara Britton star in this episode.
2023-01-0825 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTHE LONE RANGER "The Fugitive"This episode 2587 in syndication August 13, 1954. Brace Beemer as The Lone Ranger (Photo). Fred Foy announcer-narrator.
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www.RADIOthen.networkIRA COOK SHOW "Billy Vaughan"For AFRTS Ira Cook plays popular music and leads off this episode with The Billy Vaughan Orchestra.
2022-12-2929 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHOWARD MILLER SHOW "Liberace"CBS broadcast of October 29, 1955. Howard chats with Liberace the larger-than-life pianist whose talent and charm made him an American icon for flamboyance and glittering excess.
2022-12-2914 min
www.RADIOthen.networkHOPALONG CASSIDY "Hoppy Sees Red"Episode 28 was released in syndication on July 9, 1950. The Bar-20's cook quits and Hoppy fears the man will end up dead or at the end of a noose.
2022-12-2825 min
www.RADIOthen.networkTHE WHISTLER "House On Sycamore Road"Episode 177 aired on CBS WEST Network October 15, 1945. Marvin Miller is host. The Whistler is an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942, until September 22, 1955, on the west-coast regional CBS radio network. The show was also broadcast in Chicago and over Armed Forces Radio. On the west coast, it was sponsored by the Signal Oil Company: "That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler." There were also two short-lived attempts to form east-coast broadcast spurs: July 3 to September 25, 1946, sponsored by the Campbell Soup Company; and March 26, 1947, to September 29, 1948, sponsored by Household Finance. The program was...
2022-05-3129 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDJ AIRCHECK "WPAZ, Pottstown PA"
A Great Scott Station WPAZ AM Pottstown in Suburban Philadelphia PA. June 8, 1971. R Alan Campbell covering an air shift for Herb Scott who needed a cover DJ for his vacationing afternoon man. The station, which signed on in 1951, was originally owned by the Scott Family, and later, their subsidiary, Great Scott Broadcasting, Inc. Over time, WPAZ became the "flagship station" for Great Scott Broadcasting, as corporate operations for its expanding group were handled out of the station's Maugers Mill Road studio location. During the period that Herb and Faye Scott owned the company, WPAZ was one of its...
2022-01-0527 min
www.RADIOthen.networkR Alan Campbell "WFCC Chatham Mass"Classical music host R Alan Campbell, (WFLN,KHPR) worked a summer schedule in 1995 for WFCC-FM the classical station Cape Cod. This hour is from May.
2022-01-0350 min
www.RADIOthen.networkJACK ARMSTRONG "Pelican Catches Fire"Episode from January 2, 1934 part of a serial with young Jim Ameche as Jack Armstrong the all American boy. The Penguin under the command of Captain Campbell has raced to rescue the crew of The Pelican. To make matters even more difficult as they arrived a fire broke out on The Pelican. Despite the best efforts of Captain Hans and his crew the fire has gotten out of control. The situation is desperate, the only way to save the crew is somehow to get a line to them.
2021-12-3112 min
www.RADIOthen.networkVINTAGE RADIO "Little Orphan Archie"Audio material was provided to RADIO THEN producer R A CAMPBELL by Jason Remington creator of Little Orphan Archie. This series was distributed to many radio stations several years ago. Enjoy another montage of audio clips from the past.
2021-11-2659 min
www.RADIOthen.networkDJ AIR CHECK "WTMR, R Alan Campbell"Christmas 1968 in the Delaware Valley on WTMR 800khz. Lee Scott, newsman, R Alan Campbell DJ on "the board". ABC Entertainment Network for the Philadelphia area. History: The station began operations in the late 1940s as WKDN. It was originally owned by Ranulf Compton, and was a 1,000-watt, daytime-only station that broadcast middle-of-the-road music. WTMR's power had been increased to 5,000 watts. The call letters became WTMR after the station was sold to Tommy Roberts in 1968. http://www.phillyradioarchives.com/history/wtmr | Campbell was working in the Delaware Valley at WDEL, WTMR and in the late 1960’s announcing at WPBS on Domino...
2021-11-1549 min
www.RADIOthen.networkJACK ARMSTRONG "Ship In Distress"Jack, Billy and Betty are on deck of The Penguin which is steaming towards the source of a red distress rocket. But this also means that they are heading straight towards the ice. Captain Campbell will have to use all his sea skills to avoid disaster and rescue the men from the trapped ship, that they soon discover is The Pelican! SPOILER ALERT: This is one episode from a serialized series of 15 minute episodes aired nightly. Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio adventure series which maintained its popularity from 1933 to 1951. The program originated at WBBM in Chicago...
2021-11-1114 min
www.RADIOthen.networkWFCC FM Chatham, Mass (Cape Cod) - R. Alan CampbellThe station started broadcasting on March 24, 1987 from state-of-the-art facilities on Route 28 in West Chatham. In 1991, the station's offices and studios were moved to new facilities on Route 6A in Brewster. WFCC-FM was subsequently sold in 1992 to Dolphin Communications, owned by Allan Stanley. WFCC-FM was purchased by Charles River Broadcasting (then owners of Boston's WCRB) in 1996. Photo shows music host, Campbell left, with NPR's Mark Wagner outside the Brewster location in 1995.
2021-10-3140 min
www.RADIOthen.networkWAMU-FM USAF BAND "Watergate Concert"In the summer of 1962 JUNE 29, WAMU-FM, Washington DC, presented live coverage of The United States Air Force Band and Symphony Orchestra concerts from the Watergate Amphitheater to the radio stations of The Educational Radio Network. (ERN was pre-National Public Radio). This audio, featuring only excerpts, was captured on cassette in the main control room at WAMU-FM on the campus of American University.
For WAMU-FM, George Geesey Station Manager. Nathan Arnold Shaw, Program Director and R. Alan Campbell, announcer.
For USAF BAND, Col George S. Howard commander, Captain John F. Yesulitus , conductor and Staff Sergeant Harry G...
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www.RADIOthen.networkSERENADE IN BLUE - USAF Transcription"Men who wear the Air Force blue bring you A Serenade in Blue. To encourage civilians to join the Air Force. The US Air Force created this well-done musical program. Each Serenade in Blue program was written, produced, performed by men in blue. It featured three top-notch Air Force bands: The Air Force Strings, Symphony in Blue, and the big band sound of Airmen of Note (which was originally started by Glenn Miller during WWII). Earlier 1950s - 1960s programs include The Air Force Symphony Orchestra and The Singing Sergeants, Col George S. Howard commander. (Photo). This program was...
2021-10-1414 min
www.RADIOthen.networkJASON REMINGTON'S "Vintage Radio"Audio material for VINTAGE RADIO was provided to RADIO THEN producer R A CAMPBELL by Jason Remington creator of VINTAGE RADIO. This series was distributed to many radio stations several years ago. Enjoy another montage of audio clips from the days of radio's golden era.
2021-09-2247 min