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This charming radio broadcast of Christmas on the Moon series follows the bed-time story of protagonist, Jonathan Thomas . The series played one episode a day in 1938 between Thanksgiving and Christmas. With the help of his teddy bear and man on the moon, Jonathan sets out to rescue kidnapped Santa Claus. There can be no Christmas without Santa Claus, so when our hero finds out that he has been ki...

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Spirits of Christmas Past...

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.   Happy Holidays,

Isolationism was a popular sentiment in the years and months before December 7, 1941. After the Date Which Would Live in Infamy, people from all over the nation, from all walks of life suddenly rose as one and dedicated their efforts to defeating the Axis. Industrial workers produced more planes and guns and bullets. Farmers raised more food than ever before. On the radio,  they produced more...

The World's Great Novels Experience distance learning 1940s style with The World's Great Novel presented by the NBC University of the Air. The World's Great Novels , produce by the NBC University of the Air ,  worked with the University of Louisville, the University of Tulsa and Washington State University to present serialized adaptions of classic novels over two to six episodes. Listeners c...

Well, most of us spend Christmas Eve with our family and friends but our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School wasn’t quite so fortunate, her family were too far away to visit and it seemed her friends had other plans.  Duration: 25:49  Starring: Eve Arden  Broadcast Date: 25th December 1949

Beavers Come to Jack's for Christmas The Christmas Tree

Claudia is an old time radio show about the ups and downs of being a newlywed.  Topics include dealing with in-laws, burning dinner, losing socks, buying really big dogs, and all the little moments that make up a life together. Originally originating as a script on The Kate Smith Show, the original roles were played by Patricia Ryan (Claudia) and by Richard Kollmar (David). The characters Cla...

Joe Wharton didn’t expect to be out of jail for Christmas but with his good behaviour he was out and Christmas was as good a time as any for what he had to do. He planned on killing the cop who testified and got him convicted and finds he has more reason to do it when he discovers the cop has fallen in love with and married his girl Lucile. Lucile had promised she’d wait for Joe and now Joe plans...

Christmas day has come and gone and there reposes now in the Riley living room a very special gift. Just how this particular package from Santa Claus came to be there is quite a story. A story that began three days before Christmas. . .  Duration: 26:33  Starring: William Bendix  Broadcast Date: 27th December 1947

Merry Christmas everyone.   

Merry Christmas.   

Happy Holidays.   

Spend some of your Christmas time with Bing Cosby.

Heartbeat Theater (1956 - 1985) was the last live, regularly scheduled radio drama produced in Hollywood. The first one was produced in December of 1955 and released in March, 1956. I think Preston Foster was in the first one. Raymond Burr did some, Greer Garson--everyone's done a 'Heartbeat' at one time or another. All sorts of famous people appeared on the show. The Salvation Army saved "Heartbe...

The Charlotte Greenwood Show was a radio situation comedy in the United States. It was broadcast on ABC June 13 - September 5, 1944, and on NBC October 15, 1944 - January 6, 1946. The program began as a summer replacement for The Bob Hope Show. Newspaper columnist Hedda Hopper reported, "The interesting thing is that she [Charlotte Greenwood] got the job on a couple of scripts written by her husba...

Guests:   Bing Crosby  Dinah Shore

Christmas Seals Recordings brought in top stars like Fibber McGee and Molly and Frank Sinatra to be sure that every card and package sent during Christmas included a Christmas Seal. Christmas Seals donated money to various charitable organizations for over 100 years. The organization began in the early 1900s when in the industrial cities many children and adults alike suffered from tubercuosis. In...

A university lecture is down in his cellar digging up the floor when his nagging wife catches him. She asks him what he’s doing and he explains that he is planting some rare flowers called “Devil Orchids”. She nags him about his barber’s appointment and their impending trip to America. He has no option but to do as he is told - as usual. On his way back from the barbers he calls into his favorite...

After the Christmas gifts have been opened, one exception is noticed: Ricky's catcher's mitt. Ozzie guesses it might have been delivered to another Nelson family across town, as a package had before. They go there and find a poor, young widow with small kids. Ozzie, Harriet and the boys decide to give them a merry Christmas.

The story, which Holmes always referred to as the Adventure of the Christmas Bride concerns a ghostly lady in white who was supposed to have disappeared centuries ago, the honor of a noble family and a certain Father Christmas who suddenly sang base. . .  Duration : 27:22  Starring: John Stanley  Broadcast Date: 21st December 1947

In 1945 the name of this show changed from Casey, Press Photographer to Casey, Crime Photographer. Casey and his girlfriend Ann Williams, reporter, are out Christmas shopping and stop off in a bar when Casey sees well known pickpocket “Fingers” take the wallet from a fat guys pocket. When Casey informs the fat guy, the fat guy denies having his wallet picked. The story thickens when fingers gets a...

Gildy Earns Christmas money by selling Insurance Christmas Shopping Leory's Christmas Job Christmas Gift for Fibber Mcgree Disappearing Christmas Gifts Christmas Present for Paula Christmas Show - Present for Kathryn Gildy and Hooker Feud at Christmas Twas the Night Before Christmas Christmas Carling at Gildersleeve Gildy and Leory Alone for Christmas Leory's Christmas Dog Christmas Eve at Gilders...

Sit back and listen to Jean Hersholt in his Christmas Dr Christian story and also featuring miss Gloria Holden as the young nurse Goldie. There’s no place on earth that you’d get a better feeling of excitement at Christmas than the children’s ward of a hospital. Those little tots have something to look forward to at last, the Christmas party, cake, candy a tree with a present. It was a few days be...