The Good Old Days of Radio Show

We continue through some of the best Jack Benny shows from the year 1947. Today's episode is the Jack Benny Show at his best. It features two interesting guests, the famous singer/songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, and the high-powered movie studio executive, Samuel Goldwyn. Don't miss Jack and Goldwyn trying to hold it together reading the hilarious script.

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Today we imagine a future where the entire transit system is made up of gigantic conveyer belts, where you can have breakfast and a cup of coffee in a café on your way to work. But what happens when the engineers have a labor strike? Robert Heinlein is the author of this famous short story, as we continue our journey exploring the world of great sci-fi stories on radio.

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In this episode, we dive into the world of Bob and Ray, the legendary comedy duo that revolutionized radio and television. Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding's weird improvised characters and satire influenced an entire generation of comedy. Today we listen to a Bob and Ray half-hour show from 1954.

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Today we selected a story that doesn't deal with the unusual aliens and fantastic elements so much, but delves into the psychology of complete human isolation. A man has been alone in an outpost in outer space for six years, and lives side by side with his delusions. Now that the time has come to relieve him of his duties, will he know what is real and what isn't?

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It's our 300th episode! That's important to us, anyway, so we are celebrating with an extra whiz-bang extravaganza. It's a 90-minute episode of "The Big Show," the audio showcase of the most popular entertainers from 1951. We are calling this a tribute to Vaudeville, because this particular episode also features several hilarious comedy teams from the days of Vaudeville, brought out of retirement to recreate their acts, including "Smith and Dale," and "Baron Munchausen and Sharlie."

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Its summer, and we are back this week to continue with some of the best science fiction to come from the golden age of radio and sci-fi. Today's imaginative story mixes Nazis and "shrinking" technology. This story by the lesser known writer Villiers Gerson is "Fantastic Voyage" with a unique spin.

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Another great Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show. Phil is worried about getting his tonsils removed and is getting no sympathy from anyone. A lot of sitcoms from the time dealt with this topic, but perhaps none of them as uniquely and hilariously as the writers, Ray singer and Dick Chevillat.

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Happy Independence Day! It's difficult finding great radio specials for July 4th, because all the big shows were on summer break. However, patriotic and historical shows abounded, and this well-written play digs into the backstory of the writing of the Declaration of Independence. It speculates on the wording of the document, and imagines what the nation's learned  forefather's might have wrestled with in the composition of the declaration that would plunge the American Colonies into a bloody conflict.

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For the third and final week of our mini-tribute to the early work of Jack Webb, who was most famous for "Dragnet," we are going back to one of his first radio acting performances on the exceptional CBS series "Escape." This is an emotionally dramatic role for Webb, who usually played it cold, as a tightly-wound individual such as Pat Novak or Pete Kelly. This is a "Mummy"-esque fantastical story of ancient Egypt and life-sustaining magic by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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This week's great science fiction story is by Murray Leinster. He is most famous for his story on artificial intelligence "A Logic Named Joe," where he uncannily predicted the Internet. This story is a little more thinky, as it wrestles with heady problems of a "first contact" with an alien intelligence. Earth explorers encounter an alien ship in the midst of space, but both ships find they can not risk trusting the other, or returning home, doomed to an eternal stalemate.

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