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NBC Bandstand - aired August 24, 1956 - Featuring Claude Thornhill's band with So In Love. Bert Parks is host. Bert Parks' Bandstand was a daytime radio show based on the the Big Band sound. Radio audiences kept it on for years, but a TV version, called "NBC Bandstand" which was also simulcast on the NBC Radio network, didn't do as well. The show debuted July 30, 1956 and had its last broadcast on...

Your Home Front Reporter - May 11, 1943. Host Fletcher Wiley with tenor Frank Parker and soprano Eleanor Steber. Light opera, War News, and getting the most out of your Ration Points were the features of Your Home Front Reporter. The Owens-Illinois Glass Company came up with a way to inform housewives about ways they could help to win the War with Your Home Front Reporter. Created by the D'Arcy Ad...

Episode 01 aired on January 14, 1947. One World Flight consisted of 13 episodes which aired on CBS radio on Tuesday night from 14 Jan – 8 Apr 1947. The documentary series was produced by Norman Corwin who was the recipient of the first One World Award by the Wendell Willkie Memorial and the Common Council for American Unity. First prize was a round-the-world trip. According to Time Magazine articl...

Episode 20 aired June 19, 1950 on NBC Radio. Frank Lovejoy starred as Randy Stone, a reporter who covered the night beat for the Chicago Star, encountering criminals, eccentrics, and troubled souls. Listeners were invited to join Stone as he "searches through the city for the strange stories waiting for him in the darkness." Most episodes leaned towards suspense, crime and thriller themes, but Nig...

NBC RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 - December 5, 1956 - ep 24 Children's Programs

An hour of NBC MONITOR aired February 22, 1969. Host is Joe Garagiola. Joseph Henry Garagiola Sr. (February 12, 1926 – March 23, 2016) was an American professional baseball catcher, later an announcer and television host, popular for his colorful personality. Garagiola played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and New York Gia...

Aired on Mutual Radio in 1953. Ted de Corsia (as "Mike Hammer")/Jan Miner/Ed Adamson (writer)/Richard Lewis (director)/Mickey Spillane (author)

Geraldine Mary Fitzgerald (November 24, 1913 – July 17, 2005) was an Irish actress and a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame. In 2020, she was listed at number 30 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. She joins Orson Welles in this episode presented January 12, 1942 on CBS Radio. KNX Los Angeles.

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 se...

Transcription released August 9, 1954 Episode 2585. Brace Beemer is The Lone Ranger. Your announcer, Fred Foy. 

Syndicated STORYBOOK OF LIFE with story teller Jim Ameche - Episode 30 about Thomas Moore and Madam Curie. 

AFRTS transcription features artist of the day The Stan Kenton Orchestra and Singers. Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades. Though Kenton had several pop hits from the early 1940s into the 1960s, his mus...

Aired on CBS Radio Network October 4, 1955 .The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in American popular music. The group was composed of three sisters: Ruby Christine McGuire (July 30, 1926 – December 28, 2018) Dorothy "Dottie" McGuire (February 13, 1928 – September 7, 2012) Phyllis Jean McGuire (February 14, 1931 – December 29, 2020) Among their most popular songs are "Sincerely" and "Sugartime",...

Syndication released June 25, 1950. William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Andy Clyde (California Carlson) Creator:, Clarence Mulford Producer:, Walter White Jr. The Mutual Broadcasting System began broadcasting a radio version of Hopalong Cassidy in January 1950; at the end of September, the show moved to CBS Radio, where it ran to 1952.

The Have Gun Will Travel radio show broadcast 106 episodes on the CBS Radio Network 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)...

Episode 3 syndicated August 17, 1951. The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime) was 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 adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The Third Man. The radio series is a "prequel" to the film, and depicts...

Episode 66 aired on CBS Radio July 25, 1953. Gunsmoke is one of those long-running classic Old-Time Radio shows that everyone knows and remembers. It's also one that is still respected for its high values, in all aspects. Gunsmoke first aired on the CBS network on April 26, 1952, billed as the first adult western. It was set in Dodge City, Kansas in the 1870's.

This dramatic series was heard on NBC for only a little over a year. It was directed by Director Norman Felton. Virginia Stafford Lynne was the writer. Leading roles near the end of its run were frequently played by Jim Ameche, Olan Soule and Beryl Vaughn. The shows were 30 minutes long and frequently light-hearted comedies. The program originated from Chicago. The series started as a Summer repla...

Episode 76 aired on CBS Radio June 30, 1937. This "best remembered" of all the crime stoppers shows was billed as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." Gang Busters aired on CBS from January 15, 1936 to June 15, 1940, sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive and Cue magazine. From October 11, 1940 to December 25, 1948, it was heard on the Blue Network, with various spo...

Episode 39 aired on CBS Radio October 21, 1956. Fort Laramie Western series starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. It aired Sunday afternoons January 22–October 28, 1956, at 5:30pm ET. Produced and directed by Norman MacDonnell, this Western drama depicted life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century. The 41 episodes starred Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of the cavalry. One year la...

Each episode of Favorite Story featured an adaptation of a story selected by a celebrity — purportedly his or her favorite story. The celebrities came from various fields: actors, directors, bandleaders, and athletes, to name but a few. Because they did not appear on the air. Stories presented were adaptations of literary classics, including Alice in Wonderland , Frankenstein , Dr. Jekyll & Mr...

Episode 104 aired January 3, 1950 on CBS Radio and stars Gerald Mohr. Western about the first Colt six-shooter, the California gold fields, and a double-crossing dance hall queen. Also starring Betty Lou Gerson, Charles McGraw, Will Geer and Edward Marr. Gerald Mohr (June 11, 1914 – November 9, 1968) was an American radio, film, and television character actor and frequent leading man, who appeared...

This is episode 140 which aired on NBC Radio February 14, 1952. Sgt. Friday questions a jeweler regarding the robbery of a colleague. The man takes offense at being questioned about the incident, but as the detectives begin to amass evidence, the jeweler's outrage quickly begins to lose credibility.

December 1948 Episode 18 in syndication stars Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holiday. When a child's copybook turns up at Box 13, followed by a letter asking for its return, Dan thinks nothing of it. But upon meeting the book's alleged owners, Dan finds there's something off about the whole business. Could the bizarre and grotesque drawing inside the book captioned "The Sad Night" be something more than...

Wally Ballou covers a space launch and an episode of One Fellas Family on this episode from March 3, 1960 on CBS Radio.