The OTRNow Radio Program 2024-018

The Shadow Of Fu Manchu. July 14, 1939. Program #29. Radio Attractions syndication. Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert. The Si-Fan and The "Blue Light" strikes. Hanley Stafford, Gale Gordon. 

11009. The Shadow Of Fu Manchu. July 17, 1939. Program #30. Radio Attractions syndication. Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert. Milk, fish, and trowel. Hanley Stafford, Gale Gordon.

IT'S HIGGINS SIR July 3, 1951. Program #1. NBC net. Sustaining. The first show of the series. Higgins and the ancestral silver descend of the Roberts family, and life will never be the same. Harry McNaughton, Paul Harrison (writer, producer, director, conceiver), Vinton Hayworth, Peggy Allenby
 
CRESTA BLANCA HOLLYWOOD PLAYERS October 1, 1946. CBS net. "Rebecca". Sponsored by: Cresta Blanca Wines. A woman's husband cannot forget his beautiful first wife, and with good reason. A gothic romance. Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Bernard Katz (music), Axel Gruenberg (adaptor), Frank Bingman (announcer).Joan Fontaine reprises her role from the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film "Rebecca" in this radio adaptation.
 
FRANK BUCK' S JUNGLE QUIZ  July 15, 1941. Mutual net. Sustaining. The first program of the series. A game show with orphans from St. John's Orphanage in Brooklyn as guests. The kids try to stump Frank with animal questions. The first question is, "What snake is the deadliest?" The show is so bad, it's good. Frank even interrupts the announcer as he gives the system cue! Frank Buck.
  
THE ADVENTURES OF FRANK RACE May 1, 1949. Program #1. Broadcasters Program Syndicate syndication. Commercials added locally. An untitled story. The Dineen family has lost two of their Victory ships. Were they sunk for their insurance? Tom Collins, Tony Barrett, Buckley Angel (writer, director), Joel Murcott (writer, director), Bruce Eells (producer), Ivan Ditmars (organist).an radio adventure serial syndicated by Bruce Eells Productions. The 30-minute program's first East Coast broadcast was 1949, and the show ran 43 episodes. "
  
THE HALL OF FANTASY February 13, 1947. CBS net, KALL, Salt Lake ity origination. "The Perfect Script". Commercials deleted. An insane radio producer entices a script writer to his isolated beach house to write "the perfect script." Drugs and insanity await him. Robert Olsen (writer), Richard Thorne (performer, producer, director), Carl Grayson, Beth Colter, Nelson Hall, Earl Donaldson (music).