Lassie was an unusual series in that the canine star did its own acting, with owner-trainer Rudd Weatherwax giving cues and providing on-air narration. The original Lassie (a male named Pal) took abou...
MR. AND MRS. NORTH, mystery melodrama, based on the novels by Frances and Richard Lockridge.
The Hummerts perfected a soap formula that was best explained by Erik Barnouw. A series of narrative and dramatic hooks was woven into a three- or four-week main storyline. Before the main crisis was...
It was decaffeinated jazz he sent to WJZ via Western Union lines from the Hotel Pennsylvania. A distant echo of New Orleans, yet it spoke to listeners. The ’20s style was lively, rich with saxophone a...
Men Against Death followed the one-man campaign of writer Paul De Kruif against disease, hunger, and poverty. De Kruif burst on the scene with Microbe Hunters, which became a worldwide bestseller upon...
For NBC’s grand opening on Nov. 15, 1926, the network was able to pull in the bands of George Olsen, Vincent Lopez, Ben Bernie, B. A. Rolfe, and Fred Waring from various locations. All were then natio...
MAJOR HOOPLE, situation comedy, based on the comic strip Our Boarding House, by Gene Ahern.
Orson Welles, 21 years old and unknown, offered Shakespeare: Hamlet (Sept. 19 and Nov. 14, 1936) and Macbeth (Feb. 28, 1937).
GLENN MILLER, the epitome of big bands, a group that burst on the scene in 1938, reached the heights, and spent its primary career in five years. Miller was a trombonist, unable to match the technical...
This was not an isolated incident. Crosby in private was easygoing but distant. He was easy to write for, seldom fussing or making major changes in the script. But if he got his back up, there was lit...
On Dec. 9, 1953, Lewis gave in to the inevitable urge to link them by offering The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln on Crime Classics and the play that Lincoln was watching at Ford’s Theater, Our Amer...
Together they were the three musketeers of the airwaves: all for one, one for all. They had met during China’s war with Japan, when all three had enlisted in the Chinese cause. After the war they retu...
He had been angered by Mussolini’s son Vittorio, then on duty with the Italian air force, who described blowing up a group of horsemen during a bombing run as exceptionally good fun. Corwin’s response...
The premise of Heart’s Desire was simple: people wrote in asking for things; the better the cause, the better their chances of getting it. Up to 50,000 letters a week came in, to be read and judged by...
The opening signature of Frontier Gentleman defined it: Herewith, an Englishman’s account of life and death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his colorful and unusual accounts...
This even became a running gag for nightclub comics: the question What does Ozzie Nelson do for a living? was prime trivia. For the record, he was a bandleader; because most of the action of Ozzie and...
CAST: Gertrude Berg as Bessie Glass, operator of a hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Joseph Greenwald (1935) as Barney Glass, her husband. Josef Buloff as Barney, 1953–54. WRITER: Gertrude Berg. House...
Charlie Wild was a product of the Red Scare, NBC’s hurry-up attempt to salvage something when congressional finger-pointing resulted in the loss of sponsorship for radio’s most popular detective, Sam...
It should be admitted at the outset: even today, I Love a Mystery weaves a spell over its fans that is all but inexplicable to an outsider. It is simply the most-sought of all radio shows, the one mos...
In this scenario, Jethro Dumont was made a lama because of his amazing powers of concentration. He chose the color green because it was one of the six sacred colors of Tibet, symbolizing justice. His...
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