Intro to track has background material on the HGWT series starring John Dehner as Paladin. This was a unique show as the television version gave birth to the radio version... opposite to what took place in most other series, when the radio version gave birth to the television version! Dehner's portrayal of Paladin was very different from that of Richard Boone's portrayal in the TV series. This is the Christmas program from 1958. It will be stored in the "Christmas" Playlist on this podcast.

Track intro has brief background on the Hal McIntyre Orchestra and vocalists as well as the Playlist for this track. Songs include: Song of the Bayou; The Music Stopped; GI Jive; Suddenly It's Spring; Rockin' and Ridin'; I've Had This Feeling Before; I'll Be Around; Embraceable You; and Holiday for Strings. Vocalists are Al Noble, Gloria Vann, and Johnny Turnbull. This track will live in our "Big Band / Jazz Sounds" Playlist.

The Christmas episode from "The Mel Blanc Show" of Dec. 24, 1946. Track intro gives the names of many of the character voices Mel Blanc played over 77 years of his life. He died in 1989 and was born in 1908... he began voicing and performing at the age of 4! Though his own show ran only for 9 months, he was just about the busiest man in "radioland" as well as in the making of animated films. At one time he was working 15 shows a week... some on the same day... using 57 different character voices and sound effects. He worked 60 years in radio. On his gravestone at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA is inscribed "That's All Folks!" This show lives in the "Christmas" Playlist.

Orson Welles played Lamont Cranston (aka Shadow) from 1937-38. The show ran until 1954 so there were many others who took on the role. Brett Morrison was the actor who did the most episodes. In this story Michael Sullivan is sentenced to prison for using counterfeit money and he won't tell the authorities who gave him the money because he is afraid of what might happen to his family if he talks. Perhaps the Shadow can help out? "The Shadow" has its on Playlist on this podcast... and the number of episodes is growing.

Episode 10 on my "Space Patrol" Playlist has Commander Corry and Cadet Happy foil the plan of the evil industrialist Krozer, to place a sick scientist under suspended animation. High adventure in the wild, vast reaches of space! The Space Binoculars (photo) were a premium offered to listeners.. "Space Patrol" has its own Playlist... more episodes to come...

Another very funny episode from this critically acclaimed and extremely popular spinoff show from the Jack Benny Program in 1946. Real life husband and wife, Phil Harris (bandleader and "singer" ) and Alice Faye (actress and singer...really!) team up with a great supporting cast including Walter Tetley, Gale Gordon, Elliot Lewis ...and of course the band and their two girls who played their two daughters..... Laughs are still fresh after 72 years... This and more episodes from this series are in the "Comedy" Playlist, where else? :)

Intro had a short introduction of the show's characters and some historical background information... but the best part is listening to the headline skit "New Drug" and hearing both Phil and Alice do a song or two. This show remains funny and fresh today as it was 72 years ago... really... because the situations that happened to married couples and families are still happening! The show produced 297 episodes in 5 1/2 years on the air. More episodes from this series in the "Comedy" Playlist on this podcast.

By 1947 American audiences were growing bored of Sherlock Holmes... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character had been around for over 60 years and many films, short stories, novels, and radio shows had featured the characters of Sherlock and Dr. Watson. By 1947 Basil Rathbone decided to separate from the character as he was being typecast too often. Tom Conway took over his role, hence the "New" Adventures. Conway sounded very much like Rathbone, intentionally to be sure... the stories were good, well acted, production values high, it is just that the audience had grown tired of Sherlock... so only 39 episodes were produced for ABC radio network.

This episode will live in my "Sherlock Holmes Mystery" Playlist

Introduction to the story has background history on the long-running Sherlock Holmes radio shows and a bit about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his two leading characters. This particular series with Tom Conway taking over from Basil Rathbone as Sherlock, only ran for 39 episodes. Nigel Bruce re-creates his role as Dr. Watson. This episode is stored in the "Sherlock Holmes" Playlist

This is the NBC radio network's "Screen Director's Playhouse" radio adaptation of the classic "Miracle on 34th St." with Edmund Gwenn(Photo) recreating his role as Kris Kringle from the 1947 Academy Award winning film. Gwenn received an Oscar for Best Supporting Role. Most of you know the story. The radio adaptation is very well done and it is nice to hear Edmund Gwenn's voice in the role of Kris Kringle. After listening to this program... maybe with you children... one begins to wonder... was he Santa Claus? Program will live in "Christmas" Playlist