Sat, 14 May 2022
We begin this evening with “The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe.” This is a particularly clever and twisty plot involving a high-stakes card game. Then on “The Jack Benny Program,” Jack is a little concerned that his contract for next season hasn’t been renewed yet. Is he going to be replaced by his competition?
Episodes The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe The Jack Benny Program
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Fri, 29 April 2022
Tonight, we start off with a couple episodes of “The Goldbergs.” Not the TV series set in the 1980s, but the long-running radio series from the 1930s and 40s. The show tells the story of the daily life of the Goldbergs, a Jewish family living in New York and, later, Connecticut. The program was created by and starred Gertrude Berg. When the program moved to television in the 1950s, she was the first recipient of the Emmy Award for “Lead Comedy Actress.” “The Goldbergs” was a daily, 15-minute dramedy. The family was explicitly Jewish and explicitly trying to assimilate -- a true media rarity at the time. Like the best of the Golden Age of Radio, the episodes produced during World War II are a real window into home front America. “The Goldbergs” in particular concentrated on themes of everyone working together. How good a writer was Gertrude Berg? Listen to Molly’s speech to another mother at the end of the first episode. In 2013, that episode was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry for works that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." Then on “Information Please,” are you up on famous chapter titles, political defeats, and the origins of idiomatic phrases? Get ready to stump the experts.
Episodes The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Information Please
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Wed, 13 April 2022
We start off tonight with everyone’s favorite medical drama, “The Story of Dr. Kildare.” Here Drs. Kildare and Gillespie help an aging Western movie star with psychological difficulties. Then we drop by 79 Wistful Vista for a visit with “Fibber McGee and Molly.” Tonight, Fibber is very busy with big business as he takes huge orders for the mysterious AJB Company. Episodes The Story of Dr. Kildare Fibber McGee and Molly
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Sat, 26 March 2022
We start off with a tale well-calculated to keep you in … “Suspense.” In this twisty episode, tough guy actor Edward G. Robinson stars as both himself and as a humble little nothing of a man who has big ideas. Robinson made his mark playing gangsters in movies like “Little Caesar” and “Key Largo,” not to mention the corrupt overseer Dathan in “The Ten Commandments.” This episode is so clever and audacious. Until the very end, the listener wonders what they are going to do with this. How are they going to pull it off? It’s a classic. Then we return to “The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show.” Usually, it’s Phil who gets caught up in the ridiculous shenanigans. This time it’s Alice, and she has some fantastic lines. This episode directly follows the previous week’s wherein the character of Frankie Remley was forced to change his name to the actor’s actual name of Eliot Lewis.
Episodes Suspense The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
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Sat, 12 March 2022
The school bell is ringing, so let’s check in with a handful of very bright youngsters on “The Quiz Kids.” I hope you know your baseball scoring rules, animals associated with each of the 48 (!) states, and that favorite topic of 8th graders everywhere: opera. Then on “The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show,” the couple returns from vacation to find that Phil’s pal Frankie Remley has turned the Harris’ house into a hotel – and that’s not all he’s changed.
Episodes The Quiz Kids The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
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Fri, 25 February 2022
We start off tonight with another “X Minus One” adaptation of a classic science fiction short story. This time it’s Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations,” a controversial tale that’s still a subject of discussion. Then on “The Great Gildersleeve,” Mr. Peavy finally gets a day off while Gildy minds the drug store. What could possibly go wrong?
Episodes X Minus One August 25, 1955 “Cold Equations” 2:02 The Great Gildersleeve February 7, 1951 “Day Off for Peavy – 30th Anniversary” 26:18
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Sat, 29 January 2022
Episodes Information Please October 2, 1944 “Guests: Christopher Morley and Esme Davis” 2:26 The Adventures of Ellery Queen September 7, 1947 “Number Thirty One” 33:14
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Sat, 15 January 2022
Episodes Mr. and Mrs. North January 4, 1951 “Die Hard” 1:57
A Day in the Life of Dennis Day December 17, 1947 “Dennis Helps Mrs. Anderson Become President of the Ladies Club” 28:29
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