The head man was George W. Trendle, who by 1935 had The Lone Ranger well established and was looking for a Ranger derivative. This would not be a spinoff as such, except for the fact that the characte...
HERCULE POIROT, mystery drama, based on the novels by Agatha Christie. BROADCAST HISTORY: Feb. 22–Oct. 14, 1945, Mutual. 30m, Thursdays at 8 until Oct. 7; then Sundays at 9. April 1, 1946–Nov. 21, 194...
Wyllis Cooper, who created, wrote, and produced it, was then a 36–year-old staffer in Chicago’s NBC studios. Cooper, Newsweek continued, created his horror by raiding the larder. For the purposes of L...
The Lineup took its listeners behind the scenes of a police headquarters where under the cold, glaring lights pass the innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer. The police lineup opened and clos...
THE BILLIE BURKE SHOW, situation comedy.
MICHAEL SHAYNE, detective melodrama, based on the books by Brett Halliday.
GRANBY’S GREEN ACRES, situation comedy. BROADCAST HISTORY: July 3–Aug. 21, 1950, CBS. 30m, Mondays at 9:30. CAST: Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as John and Martha Granby, ex-bank teller and wife who m...
And go look and see the book was missing from that back room.
Richard Durham was a black writer whose credits in radio would run a gamut from Irna Phillips serials to prestige plays for such as The CBS Radio Workshop. But in Destination Freedom Durham wrote from...
KING’S ROW, soap opera, based on the novel by Henry Bellamann. BROADCAST HISTORY: Feb. 26–Oct. 12, 1951, CBS. 15m, weekdays. Oct. 15, 1951–Feb. 29, 1952, NBC. 15m, weekdays at 11:30 A.M. Colgate. CAST...
He was successful where it counted, at the box office and record stores. He was one of the most ardent bond salesmen on the air during the war years, making an estimated 1,000 appearances at camps, ho...
Gale Gordon as Rumson Bullard, the rich, obnoxious neighbor who lived across the street from Gildersleeve. Jim Backus as Bullard, ca. 1952.
But DeMille’s tenure came to an abrupt end in January 1945, in a political dispute with the American Federation of Radio Artists, the actors’ union. At issue was Proposition 12, a ballot proposal popu...
Bowes collected many honorary titles in his life: his real title, major, was often suspected of being a trump-up, but it was genuine enough—he had held that rank in the U.S. Army Reserve during World...
Though the series took its name from, and promoted, Simon and Schuster’s Inner Sanctum line of mystery novels, the radio stories were mostly originals. More than 100 shows are available, valued today...
The show was not generous with acting credits: the unmistakable voice of Frank Lovejoy can sometimes be heard among the East Coast actors who worked the series
She was sometimes called the female Arthur Godfrey, combining a down-home charm with a keen and astute interviewing style. Her voice was girlish, hesitant, often bewildered, in the opinion of Life mag...
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Welles wanted a spook show, deciding against better judgments to dust off the 40-year-old H. G. Wells fantasy The War of the Worlds and air it Oct. 30. The dissenting voices were afraid that the story...
The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.