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| Amos 'n' Andy was arguably the most popular program in the history of broadcasting. Each night, a third of the nation's populace tuned in to hear the comic misadventures of the proprietors of the... |
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| The Red Skelton Show came to NBC on October 7, 1941 after years as a mainstay on Cincinnati's powerhouse station WLW. Red scored with radio audiences as Junior, "the mean widdle kid," a character he... |
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| Dragnet, radio's landmark police series, pioneered new levels of realism on radio. Every crime investigated by Sgt. Joe Friday was taken from the actual case files of the Los Angeles Police Department,... |
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| Orson Welles’ dramatic anthology series Mercury Theater on the Air, infamous for its Halloween broadcast of War of the Worlds, found a sponsor and became Campbell Playhouse in December 1938. The... |
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| “Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men? The Shadow knows!” One of the best known characters in all of Old Time Radio is the wealthy Lamont Cranston who used the mystical powers he learned in... |
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| During the war years, Bob Hope’s Pepsodent Show was radio’s highest rated series. Hope's legendary broadcasts from military bases around the world helped boost American morale during some of our... |
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| From Humphrey Bogart to Bette Davis, the stars of Hollywood recreated some of their most unforgettable roles in this dramatic series. A success with critics and audiences alike, this half-hour program... |
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| Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade burst out of the pages of The Maltese Falcon and into his own radio series on July 12, 1946. This hard-boiled private investigator attracted unusual clients who had a... |
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| Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade burst out of the pages of The Maltese Falcon and into his own radio series on July 12, 1946. This hard-boiled private investigator attracted unusual clients who had a... |
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| Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade burst out of the pages of The Maltese Falcon and into his own radio series on July 12, 1946. This hard-boiled private investigator attracted unusual clients who had a... |
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