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All star Western
Riding out of the sunny back lots of Hollywood, All Star Western Theatre delivered Republic Western-style entertainment with chuck wagon sized doses of fine music, broad humor and guest appearances by the best of the West. The music was provided by the Riders of the Purple Sage, fronted by Foy Willi …
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RadioCity Playhouse
These half-hours of drama and sometimes comedy were often very exciting and suspenseful. The cast was very good New York veterans of radio and stage, including Jan Minor and John Larkin as featured performers. The director, Harry W. Junkin, also served as the show's host and narrator. Each week the …
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Little Lulu: Bored of Education (1946)
Little Lulu: Bored of Education is a classic cartoon featuring Little Lulu and her classmate Tubby as they experience a series of events out of a history book. Produced in 1946,
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This is A Silent Movie The Hazards of Helen: Episode 26, "The Wild Engine" (1915)
SILENT OLD MOViE JUST SIT BACK AND ENJOY The spunky Helen (Helen Holmes) is our hero as a telegraph operator at a remote location along a railroad. She dashes to the rescue when a train engine goes out of control.
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Box 13
Alan Ladd starred as Dan Holliday in "Box 13", a former reporter turned free-lance writer who advertised in the classifieds for material for his stories. Holliday's ad read: "Adventure wanted; will go anywhere, do anything - Box 13."
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Six Shooter
Unknown to many, including me, Jimmy Stewart loved radio drama and appeared in almost as many radio broadcasts as he did movies and stage plays. His radio career spanned over seven decades, starting with Yellow Jack in 1934 and ending with his last performance in a Thanksgiving special, which aired …
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Royal Theater Englands Best Radio
Many fine actors of the British stage and screen were involved, such as Robert Morley, Harry Andrews, Muriel Forbes and Daphne Maddox. Music was by the renown British organist and arranger, Sidney Torch, and featured in some shows the Campbell Singers. Harry Alan Towers produced and directed. The s …
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Lum&Abner
Chet Lauck and Norris Goff were the creators of Lum & Abner. Chet was born on February 2, 1902 in Aleene, Arkansas and Norris was born in Cove, Arkansas on May 30, 1906. Both had moved to Mena with their families by 1911. They lived only a few blocks apart and grew up together. They were both very t …
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The Shadow
These famous words, and the sinister laugh that followed, have become part of Americana, forever embodying the special magic of radio drama and mystery. The adventures of The Shadow have thrilled millions for more than 70 years, demonstrating that "crime does not pay" on radio and movie screens, in …
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frontier Town 1952
Jeff Chandler played the original "Chad Remington" Reed Hadley later replaced Chandler and is shows in the film THE HALF BREED (1952) Chad Remington was a two fisted lawyer in the town of Dos Rios. Chad's sidekick, Cherokee O'Bannon, played by Wade Crosby, who performed his role in a W.C. Fields …
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Death Valley Days 1936
One of the most respected shows of early radio, Death Valley Days was well written and endured throughout the decades. Ruth Cornwall Woodman was asked to write the show in 1930. Though she knew nothing of the desert and its people, New York Vassar graduate Ruth undertook the project with enthusiasm. …
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Ozzie & Harriet
During a period that was to last twenty years, the Nelson Family--Ozzie, his wife Harriet Hilliard, and their two sons, David and Ricky--were regarded as the preeminent icon of the ideal nuclear family. From his bandleading days of the mid-1930s through his reign, a generation later, as the bumbling …
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The Goldbergs April 1938
The Goldbergs is a situation-comedy series about a family living, learning, and loving in a Jewish ghetto of the Bronx, to some it's an East Coast variety of One Man's Family. It is considered to be one of the first popular radio comedies based on the lives of a working-class Jewish family. Gertrude …
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Battle of the Midway 1942
This Academy Award winning documentary was filmed while the attack on Midway Island was underway and director John Ford was injured during filming. The film covers the Japanese attack of American ships at Midway atoll which resulted in the pivotal naval battle of the war in the Pacific. Comprised mo …
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This is your FBI
These were fact-based dramas that told the story of FBI cases from the agent's point of view. Producer/director Jerry Devine had previous radio experience on the show Mr. District Attorney, which was a solid and responsible pro-law enforcement radio drama. J. Edgar Hoover himself endorsed Devine's …
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Guiding Light
Guiding Light is the longest running drama of all time. It began as a 15 minute radio show in 1937, running until 1947. It then ran through its metamorphosis into a television drama until 1956. In 1952, it became a television show and the radio and television programs ran concurrently for some time. …
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Duffys Tavern
Duffy's Tavern was first heard in 1940 and became a regular feature. It was hailed from the start by critics and whole neighborhoods of working-class listeners alike…a duo that doesn't often see eye-to-eye! Duffy's Tavern was a place on Third Avenue and 23rd St. in New York City, where the "elite m …
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Captain Midnight 1942
The Captain Midnight radio series had its beginnings in 1938 on Chicago radio station, WGN. Created by Robert M. Burtt and Willfred G. Moore, the creators of The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen, the series was sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company. In the beginning, "Captain Midnight" was simply an und …
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Avengers
The Avengers burst in the door of spy and super-hero adventure drama on South African radio in 1971, starring Donald Monat as John Steed, and Diane Appleby as the wonderful Emma Peel. It was based on the fine British TV series, which was very popular from the start in the UK, and is an excellent exa …
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Abbott & Lou Costello
Abbott & Costello were one of the greatest comedy teams in the history of show business. They mastered the straightman/clown relationship, creating a magical chemistry that would take them from the burlesque stage to radio to broadway to film and finally, to television Born William Alexander Abbott …
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