Today we travel back to June 23, 1933 for the last show of the 1932-1933 season. The sponsor is Chevrolet and there are several ads for their $445 car. This one includes an all star party to celebrate Mary's birthday. Of course, all the celebrities are impersonated, often poorly, to comedic effect.

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The original air date for this episode was April 15, 1950. The show is set in 2006 and centers around some "modern mechanical domestic servants" and some of the problems that arise with robots, especially robots (or "humanoids") that are part of an alien invasion. Of note is how people pronounced the word "robot" at this time: like RO-bitt.

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The original air date for this episode, the first of the series, was July 7, 1947. This is an adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling story "The Man Who Would be King."

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The original air date for this show was June 6, 1942 and this is an episode of the Charlie McCarthy show (named for the ventriloquist's doll, not the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen). This features Judy Garland singing absolutely beautifully. NOTE: There are some racially insensitive references that were very common during WW2.

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The original air date for this episode is April 26, 1952. In this first episode of an extremely high-quality program, the main character (Marshall Matt Dillon) crosses paths with the Wild West legend Billy the Kid...before he became Billy the Kid.

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This high-quality syndicated series from 1948 stars Alan Ladd as the main character, Dan Holiday. Holiday was a writer looking for new ideas, who posts an ad in the newspaper and gets his responses to Box 13. The adventures go from there as Holiday gets a new response each week for a total of 52 episodes.

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This show originally aired on June 1, 1936 and features a cast of major stars including Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable, as well as renowned director Cecille B. DeMille. As with all LRT shows, this was broadcast live and is the first broadcast from the new theater built in Hollywood specifically for the show.

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The original air date for this episode was March 31, 1933 and the sponsor for this one is Chevrolet. There is an insensitive remark about Gandhi and a racially insensitive portrayal of one of the characters. There's lots of music, of course, and plenty of in-show ads for the new $445 Chevrolet Six car, which would cost $11,000 in 2025. Mary (played by Jack's wife Sadie Marx) makes her radio singing debut. The cast does a take on Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong" called "She Done Him Right."

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The original air date for this episode was April 8, 1950 and the plot of the story projects forward into 1965 for a fascinating insight into the way people thought the future would unfold. Dimension X was one of only two science fiction shows made for adult listeners. Throughout the series, you get the impression that people had several concerns about the rapidly increasing pace of technological advancement. These included space travel, aliens arriving or invading, and robots taking over the world.

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The original air date for this episode of this amazing anthology series was June 16, 1942. Suspense was one of the longest running radio programs and several episodes are considered classics by old time radio fans.

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