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The Quiz Kids was TV game show that began on NBC during the earliest days of television in 1949. Host Joe Kelly would pose difficult questions to five teenager with exceptional IQs and academic records. The top three contestants would continue to the next week, where they would be joined by two new teens. All of the contestants were under 16 years of age. "Quiz Kids" began as a radio program in 19...

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nd now to Sycamore Terrace and the Higgins family. . . Easter is almost here and with it the new outfits for that stroll down the avenue on Easter Sunday, but Easter finery costs money and money is what poor daddy Higgins is always without. Having been victorious with mommy who wanted a anew Easter outfit he’s just started a second one with Snooks. . .  Duration: 28:49  Starring: Fanny B...

Pasquale plays what starts out to be an April Fools day joke on Luigi but fails to tell him it was a joke in the hope that his April fool will turn Rosa in to a June bride!  Duration: 29:48  Starring: J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed  Broadcast Date: 1st April 1952

Our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School is has always tried to get along with her fellow faculty members regardless of whether they are male or female. There’s one thing that they all have in common they are all under paid. But as she points’s out when the male doesn’t have enough money to go to the movies at least he can stay at home and look at his Esquire calendar! Miss Brook...

The jokes take on a nautical feel, when Red Skelton talks about sailors, ships, and storms. Phil Davis plays, Begin the Beguine. Red talks about his new suit. When the phone rings, he gets a gig at the policeman’s ball. Is he as big of a shot as his secretary, Edna Stillwell? Should he take the tickets to see the big fight, or stick to his public speaking class? The instructor in proper diction co...

Mel plays an April Fool's Day joke on Mr. Colby by telling him that he's inherited a fortune from England. -- Notes -- Mel Blanc is best known as the voice of the Looney Tunes characters, especially Bugs Bunny, but this "Man of a Thousand Voices" was a hit on radio, not just in his own show but with Jack Benny and many others.

The Comic Weekly Man Based on what is published in the weekly paper, The Comic Weekly Man entertains us with a dramatized reading of the Sunday comics, complete with sound effects and music. Young and old alike would follow along with the print copy in hand.

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Adam had grown up in Chicago where he used to go for walks along the lake when fish used to swim in it before the dark days. It’s all swamp now and mutant stock lives in it now. Adam was about twenty when the war started and Chicago was pretty well destroyed and it wasn’t safe to be in the street. Adam stumbled upon a big warehouse, which looked like a fine big safe place and moved in. Then on the...

Bragston on the Marsh in the heart of the Norfolk Fens, is the scene at the beginning of this tale. Holmes is looking for a vital clue which he hopes will help convict the last of the Moriarty Gang. Whilst there, they visit a gypsy fair and a chance meeting brings them into contact with Arthur Threadgold and his wife Olive who live at the Manor House. He tells Holmes that the gypsies have threaten...

Abigail Murray receives a threatening letter telling her she should have stayed in Milwaukee but now it is too late for tonight she is going to die.  Duration: 28:00  Starring: William Gargan  Broadcast Date: 27th September 1947

Gildersleeve appears to be in fine spirits this morning and a pretty fair voice. What’s come over him? He’s up before daylight and in his bathroom shaving, yes believe it or not the clock stands at ten to seven and the kids have noticed he’s not as gruesome as usual and the reason? Aunt Hattie has decided that her job here his done and she is finally leaving.  Duration: 29:00  Starring:...

It is morning at the Cougat’s house and Katy the maid has gone out to the mailbox to see if the postman has left any adds or blotters and Liz is cooking breakfast and George is still upstairs dressing. . .  Duration: 29:53  Starring: Lucille Ball, Richard Denning  Broadcast Date: 24th September 1948

It had been a long time since they’d had any real trouble and Matt Dillon, United States Marshall liked it peaceful for a change and hoped it would stay that way. But of course it doesn’t. The stage that was due in was carrying fifty thousand dollars in gold when it was held up and Mr. Carter’s fiance was kidnapped. However ´ the stage rider said it didn’t much look like she was kidnapped, more li...

The 19th edition of the Academy Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) was held on March 13, 1947 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, United States, awarding the best films of the year 1946. The ceremony was presented by Jack Benny.  The movie with the most nominations at the Academy Awards 1947 was The Best Years of Our Lives  with 8 nominations and The f...

Herewith a disturbing broadcast, a dramatization by Milton Wain, George Orwell’s 1984. In his 1949 widely discussed novel Orwell has projected the totalitarian techniques abroad in the world to their terrible extreme. The plight of the individual in this world are left to you to assess for yourself as you listen to the story of Mr Winston Smith played by the internationally known British actor Dav...

David Barr calls upon Diamond to discuss a business arrangement. He wants him to guard his store, a most fashionable haberdashery that had been vandalized two nights ago. The only item missing was 1 blue serge suit then last night the store was broken in to again and the whole stock of blue serge material was taken but leaving two other suits and a grey flannel suit untouched. Barr wants Diamond t...

Michael Shayne has received a letter requesting him to appear at Judge Forman’s house that night at seven o’clock. Shayne does not yet know why and before he arrives Judge Forman has seemingly committed suicide because of the threats he was receiving on his life.  Duration: 29:22  Starring: Wally Maher, Cathy Lewis  Broadcast Date: 14th October 1947

“Get this and get it straight, crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave. There’s no other end, but they never learn. This time the main theme was Main Street and the counter melody was full of sharps from a burlesque house in flats from Skid Row. It was wine, women and murder. . . ”  Duration: 29:22  Starring: Gerald Mohr, Jack Moyles...

Sun Up Serenade - Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon Tales from the Diamond K - Horse Named Gunpowder 10-2-4 Ranch – First Song : Song of the Bandit Red Skelton  - Stolen Plans East Coast Broadcast The Life of Riley - Riley Becomes An Actor On TV Caltex Theater -   You Only Die Once Frontier Town - All Trails Lead to Trouble Nero Wolfe - Room304 Inner Sanctum Mysteries - The Corpse No...

For most teachers the first few schooldays after the Easter week vacation pose a problem in readjustment to routine but our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School didn’t let the idiosyncrasies of her pupils dampen her spirits one bit. . .  Duration: 29:11  Starring: Eve Arden  Broadcast Date: 24th April 1949

Because of a hobby that is dear to his heart and certainly innocent enough Lloyd Bascum he has received several threats on his life of late.  Duration: 29:54  Starring: Bob Bailey, Frances Robinson  Broadcast Date: 27th December 1948

It’s Sunday and it’s New Years Eve. Johnny wants to get a report finished so that they can celebrate the New Year with a quiet night, but oh no that’s not for Terry all year long she’s slaved in this office and now she wants to celebrate in style. But neither of them gets the night they’d bargained for sitting in a museum with an ancient Egyptian mummy called Queen Sheshack. . . This was the final...