The Good Old Days of Radio Show

Happy 2024! Well, we all seem to be here with everything still intact, so to usher in this New Year, we are once again bringing you a great variety show from the Golden Age of Hollywood. This was an expensive show, with only the top movie stars of the day, and in this wild episode Dick Powell gives Lou Costello a singing lesson, and George Raft shows up for a feely sketch, among others. Abbott and Costello have everyone rolling on the floor, and the actors and announcers can barely get out their lines!

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This week we invited back our friend, radio researcher Keith Scott. Keith graciously agreed to be with us for a new series of 10 episodes about one of his favorite series, "Escape." It was an extraordinary show from late in radio, and Keith has selected 10 unusual Escape episodes to represent the series, starting with Rudyard Kipling's "Drums of the Fore and Aft." It's a character-centered story of two young boys and courage on the battlefield.

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This week for fans of the Marx Brothers we produced two offerings. For the podcast, it's a variety show episode of Command Performance, with Spencer Tracy as master of ceremonies, and popular entertainers of the time (including Victor Borge doing his famous phonetic punctuation routine), and Groucho Marx in a "John and Mary Thorndyke" sketch with Barbara Stanwyck. We also filmed an exclusive for our Youtube channel, a full episode of a You Bet Your Life radio script.

Here's that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnPPgHIILgM

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It's the last stop on our Christmas list, and for our big winter spectacular, what better than a grand, whopping, two-hour Christmas blockbuster, packed with more top entertainers of vintage Hollywood than you can shake a reindeer at? This fun holiday sleigh ride features Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Herbert Marshall, Jimmy Durante, Jerry Colonna, Johnny Mercer, Judy Garland, Ed Gardner, Frances Langford, Kay Kyser, Frank Sinatra, Mel Blanc, The Robert Mitchell Boys Choir, Cass Daley, Harry Truman, and more! 

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This is the last episode before our big Christmas extravaganza, and it's a fun one. First, Bing and Jimmy are back for one final trip to the store, and then George Burns and Gracie Allen present their Christmas fairytale at the North Pole, with the famous character actress Edna May Oliver playing the Wicked Witch. Those familiar with the Burns and Allen TV show will find this one a curiosity, as it is an example of the husband and wife comedy team shortly before they reinvented their program into the more recognizable sitcom format.

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This is the final in our series of "Top 10 Radio Noir", and we're bringing an episode of a popular West Coast only radio pulp series, "The Whistler." The story concerns a shady attorney who gets in too deep with the wrong side. The Whistler played by announcer Bill Forman was a conscience-like voice who narrated the story of someone in the process of committing some crime. Its claim to fame (beside the famous whistled theme) was the final act with a twist ending.

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Today our annual Christmas Advent continues with another shopping trip with Jimmy and Bing as Jimmy is returning his Christmas gift, and Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire reprising their roles to present a condensed version of Irving Berlin's Christmas classic "Holiday Inn" (Fred Astaire even dances on the radio!). All this, and a shot with Fibber McGee and Molly. This is an episode chock-full of classic Christmas cheer!

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Since this episode lands right on Pearl Harbor remembrance day, we decided to pause from our current series to go back and bring you a show that was produced at a time when the events of Pearl Harbor and the bloody aftermath of WWII was still fresh in the public's memory. Jimmy Stewart gives a marvelous performance in this taut thriller of a paralyzed soldier, whose condition is overcome by his desire for revenge.

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Again this week we are visiting 1947 to take a listen to Christmas of the past. Jack Benny was the number one comedian and the number one show in this year, and their annual "Christmas shopping" episode was a tradition, with many of the characters staples that would move into television. In addition we have a bonus clip of Bing Crosby and Jimmy Stewart Christmas shopping from 1951.

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"Crossfire" was an interesting mystery/film noir from 1947, about a group of soldiers, antisemitism, and the sudden violent murder of Joseph Samuels. This radio version of the film is a full-hour Suspense show and pulled in an impressive cast of high powered movie stars to reprise the five principles in the story: Robert Young as Inspector Finley, Robert Mitchum as Keely, Robert Ryan as Montgomery, Samuel Levine as Samuels, and George Cooper as Mitchell.

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