Old Time Radio - OTRNow

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Maxwell House Coffee Time. September 26, 1946. NBC net. Sponsored by: Maxwell House Coffee, Birdseye Foods. George and Gracie go on a quiz show to win new appliances. They're going to appear on, "It Pays To Be A Schnook," but wind up on Kay Kyser's show instead. Kay Kyser sounds like he is being impersonated. The Maxwell House production commercial is based on, "Ramona.". George Burns, Gracie Allen, Meredith Willson and His Orchestra, Frank Nelson, Bill Goodwin, Kay Kyser (?), Mel Blanc, Paul Henning (writer), Keith Fowler (writer).


Frontier Gentleman. February 02, 1958. CBS net. "South Sunday". Sustaining. The first show of the series. Kendall takes on the entire Shelton gang in a small town in the Montana Territory. Parts of the public service announcements have been deleted. The story titles given for this series are subject to correction, in fact, the series may not have story titles at all. John Dehner, Jack Kruschen, Harry Bartell, Barney Phillips, Virginia Gregg, Stacy Harris, Johnny Jacobs (announcer), Antony Ellis (creator, writer, producer, director), Jerry Goldsmith (composer, conductor).

The Lux Radio Theatre. October 11, 1937. CBS net. "Stella Dallas". Sponsored by: Lux. The third anniversary show of the series. A tearful story of mother love and sacrifice, "soon to be made into a radio serial.". Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Bruce Satterlee, Cecil B. DeMille, Dickie Jones, Elia Braca (doubles), Frank Nelson (doubles, commercial spokesman, program opening announcer), Grace Kern (doubles), Hudson Faussett (doubles), Jack Egger, James Eagles (doubles), Joan Taylor (doubles, commercial spokesman), Lou Merrill, Louis Silvers (music director), Margaret Brayton (triples), Margaret McKay (doubles), Mary Lansing (doubles), Melville Ruick (announcer), Ross Forrester (doubles), Sada Cowan (doubles), Teresa Harris (doubles), Wallis Roberts (doubles), Sarah Y. Mason (screenwriter), Victor Heerman (screenwriter), Harry Wagstaff (adaptor), Gertrude Purcell (adaptor), Joe Bigelow (additional dialogue), Frances Marion (screenwriter), Olive Higgins Prouty (author), T. Keith Glennon (intermission guest: operations manager for Paramount), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 

Crime Classics. December 3, 1952. CBS net. "The Crime Of Bathsheba Spooner". Sustaining. An audition recording. The script was used for the first show of the series on June 15, 1953. The story of the first woman tried and executed in the United states. Lou Merrill (host), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Mary Jane Croft, William Johnstone, Tudor Owen, Georgia Ellis, Herb Butterfield, Ben Wright, Sam Edwards.

Lights Out. March 09, 1943. Program #21. CBS net origination, syndicated rebroadcast. "The Ball". Sponsored by: Commercials added locally. A ghastly story of the headless, walking dead. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Paris Macabre." See cat. #77942 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Arch Oboler (writer, host), Bea Benaderet, Jane Morgan.

TOTAL TIME: 2:59:13.184
SOURCES: Wikipedia and The RadioGoldindex.com

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