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Calmly disturbing: Old-time radio listening, 31 May

Suspense: August Heat (CBS, 1945)Well before he would star in The Halls of Ivy, Ronald Colman was just about Hollywood's most famous leading...
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Spoiled? Old-time radio listening, 29 May

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show: The Picnic (NBC, 1949)If you take the word of one half of their best writing team, working for Phil Harris and...
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They also served, in their way: Old-time radio listening, Memorial Day

It's not impossible that even Bob Hope and his on-base entertaining (he did his popular radio show from numerous military bases during World...
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A murder with a life of its own: Old-time radio listening, 25 May

Suspense: Sorry, Wrong Number (CBS, 1943)Bernard Herrmann, already composing so much of the music that helps make Suspense a bellwether among old...
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Attorneys-at-lawless: Old-time radio listening, 21-24 May

  • Flywheel Shyster & Flywheel
  • May 24, 2012
Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel: The Ocean Cruise (NBC Blue, 22 May 1933)Before “success” was no longer the secret word for Groucho...
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The first hit spinoff: Old-time radio listening, 15-16 May

The Johnson Wax Program with Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve: From Wistful Vista to Summerfield (Audition Program; NBC, 16 May 1941)"The Johnson...
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For all mothers and their children: Old-time radio listening, Mother's Day

This is the twentieth Mother's Day I have spent since my own mother passed away. She probably listened to a few of these radio offerings in her...
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High-flying Birdie: Old-time radio listening, 12 May

The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy Stays Home Sick (NBC, 1948)In her signature role of housekeeper Birdie Lee Coggins on The Great Gildersleeve, Lillian...
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Reductio ad absurdum, you betchum: Old-time radio listening, 11 May

  • Vic & Sade & Bob & Ray
  • May 11, 2012
Even by their own quietly high standard, today's installments of Vic & Sade and Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network are the kind of...
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"There is no violence or rough stuff": Old-time radio listening, 10 May

  • Texaco Star Theater with Fred Allen
  • May 10, 2012
Texaco Star Theater Starring Fred Allen: The Courting of Nasty and Nell (CBS, 1942)This is not quite Marlene Dietrich's first old-time radio...
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