The appearance of Destination Moon in movie houses helped make 1950 the year of S-F on radio. Dimension X rose to the task, proving that radio and science fiction were ideally compatible. The series d...
Calling All Cars was one of the earliest police shows on the air. It dramatized true crime stories introduced by officers of the Los Angeles and other police departments. The show was a crude forerunn...
These shows have all been in circulation more than 20 years. Since then: almost nothing. Connoisseurs of the Hollywood run generally disdain the New York shows as inferior product. But as William Faul...
And go look and see the book was missing from that back room.
At CBS, it was pursued by William S. Paley himself, who scheduled a demonstration of sound quality for Met chairman Otto Kahn. Paley recalled (in his memoir) that Kahn was inspired as he listened. Jus...
HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL, western adventure. BROADCAST HISTORY: (Originated on TV: Sept. 14, 1957–Sept. 21, 1963, CBS.) Radio: Nov. 23, 1958–Nov. 27, 1960, CBS. 30m, Sundays at 6. Multiple sponsorship. C...
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...
It seems strange that George Burns and Gracie Allen would be discovered, as radio properties, by the British. They were doing a vaudeville tour in England, playing to packed houses everywhere. The Bri...
THE BILLIE BURKE SHOW, situation comedy.
In his four months in England, wrote Corwin, I did not once interview a high government official. The main objective of the series was to establish the character of the British people and not dissemin...
It should have run that summer of 1947 and disappeared, if the track records of other such programs are indicative. It came late in radio’s history, a fact that may have contributed in a strange way t...
For several months McNeill wrote out his scripts by twisting news events into cornball humor. He wore out two jokebooks in the hunt for fresh material. Then the show passed a plateau: about three mont...
The pairing of Dick Haymes (who had made his name as a popular singer) and George Fenneman (one of radio’s smoothest announcers) as actors in an adventure series was unusual. As Crane, Haymes played a...
The camaraderie of the trail was a constant. To Cisco, Pancho was Chico, and their allegiances were first and foremost to each other. Though Cisco would often scold his partner for stupidity, no other...
It seemed the whole world loved Gracie: her wacky, innocent way with a quip, her ability to make the most ridiculous comment seem almost logical. She captured the nation’s affection in that first seas...
It was Striker, most agree, who came up with the ideas of the silver bullets and the silver shoes for the great stallion. It was Striker who at least pointed the way toward the Ranger’s famous call, H...
In the late ’40s, the listener was tantalized by three questions: Worried about the United Nations? … Anxious about those bills piling up? … Want to get away from it all? We offer you … ESCAPE!
Mr. and Mrs. North was conceived for radio as it had begun in literature: as a light comedy. When he wrote the original stories for the New Yorker in the 1930s, Richard Lockridge made them light domes...
The opening signature was vivid and long-remembered, with a thrilling theme and a gusty Voice of the Law giving the hero’s credo: Mister District Attorney! Champion of the people! Defender of truth! G...
Accounts vary as to how much DeMille had to do with The Lux Radio Theater beyond his job of announcing the plays. He was billed as producer and sometimes referred to as director, though he certainly n...
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