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One in this long-running series of comedy/variety programs sponsored by Chase & Sanborn coffee. This program features as host ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who is aided by his dummy Charlie McCarthy. Live musical performances are interspersed with short comedy sketches. As the show opens, Orson Welles and McCarthy trade humorous insults. Air date on NBC appears to be October 29, 1944.

Episode 11 aired April 17, 1950 on NBC Radio. Randy Stone tries to prevent a Tong war from erupting into violence in Chicago.

Episode 13 aired September 19, 1956 on NBC Radio. Ruth Etting sings, A King Abdicates, Frank Black's Revilers Julia Sanderson, Eddie Cantor.

Jim Lowe hosts this episode on NBC Monitor with a special for the 68th birthday of comedian Groucho Marx. Julius Henry " Groucho " Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star. He is generally considered to have been a master of quick wit and one of America's greatest comedians.

July 16, 1954. The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend, Tonto

Audiophile and electronics pioneer Joseph Tushinsky had a refurbished Vorsetzer in his home and over the years collected some 2,800 Welte piano rolls and created this radio show in his living room. This episode is devoted to Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( 15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) He was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the main Romantic era composers, and his music...

The topic of the opening segment of this episode is 'Royalty'.

Final chapter in this episodic adventure of Jack Armstrong from 1934.

The 1049th episode of Ira Cook's AFRTS series opens with a selection by British vocalist Matt Monro. Matt Monro (born Terence Edward Parsons, 1 December 1930 – 7 February 1985) was an English singer who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1950s and 1970s. Known as The Man with the Golden Voice, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls, and sta...

September 2, 1955 on CBS Radio. Howard Miller chats with vocalist Nat King Cole. Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. He recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole also acted in films and on television an...

Syndication April 30, 1950. A soft-spoken paragon of virtue on the range, Hopalong Cassidy brought law, order and justice to the frontier. He was a model of integrity, courage, hard work, tolerance, patriotism, chivalry and good-natured decency and he attempted to instill these values in his young listeners, all while delivering action-packed entertainment.

Episode aired on CBS Radio June 28, 1959. Ed Stacey is a a man wrongly jailed for two years who has returned home to an unwelcome reception. John Dehner as Paladin.

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Episode 55 aired on CBS Radio May 9, 1953.  Gatliff brings a dying buffalo skinner into Dodge. His face had been pushed into a pan of hot lead. Soon afterwards, a nester is found stabbed to death.

Episode 5 aired August 5, 1946 on NBC.  Sustaining program originating from NBC Chicago from 1946 to 1947. Each episode was a light-hearted romantic comedy illustrating the difference between men and women. Jim Ameche was the primary star in each show.

Episode 31 aired August 26, 1956 on CBS Radio. One of many episodes in the series written by Kathleen Hite (Photo). http://www.kathleenhite.com/fort-laramie.html Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. 

Episode 80 aired October 15, 1949 on CBS Radio. Escape to a lonely schooner sailing through the hot Caribbean night carrying a fortune and the heedless passions of reckless men as John and Gwen Bagney tell it in their exciting tale The Sure Thing. Starring John Hoyt (Photo) and William Conrad. John Hoyt was an American actor. He began his acting career on Broadway, later appearing in numerous film...

Episode 110 aired July 19, 1951 on NBC Radio. Harry Dunbar admits a series of petty thefts, but is reluctant to explains his reasons

Episode 10 in syndication starring Alan Ladd. A murdered magician's assistant. Death from an impossible trick? Dan Holiday is a fiction writer who receives his material for his books through his provocative ads in the Star Times which read “adventure wanted – will go anywhere –do anything-Box 13”.

 Episode 179 February 19, 1960 over CBS Radio and recorded from KCBS San Francisco. Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network, 1959-60. "Their finest series was probably the 1959-60 quarter-hours for CBS."---John Dunning, in "On the Air: The Encyclopedia".

Bill was one of the KMPC talents between 1951-59, later at KGIL and KRHM.  He was also a famous record producer.  In 1969 he was honored with a concert at the Hollywood Palladium.  He also did in flight music programming.  We lost Bill in 1993 from congestive heart failure.  (AFRTS ARCHIVE)

Aired on NBC Radio December 7, 1948. Dick Rutter, the star reporter of a competing paper, disappears. Steve Wilson of the Illustrated Press suspects a connection to the "Lucky Louie" murder.

April 25, 1946 (AFRTS Transcription) André Kostelanetz specialized in “light classical” music which was accessible to the everyday listener. CBS President William S. Paley gave the maestro his own weekly show to spread this somewhat high-brow form of cultural enlightenment. Kostelanetz was then married to famed soprano Lily Pons from 1938 to 1958, when they divorced.

Karl Haas (December 6, 1913 – February 6, 2005) was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his sonorous speaking voice, humanistic approach to music appreciation, and popularization of classical music. He was the host of the classical music radio program Adventures in Good Music, which was syndicated to commercial and public radio stations around the world. He also published the b...

Late lounge with Little Orphan Archie. Novelty songs, one hit wonders and comedy from the mid 20th century.