Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.
Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum.[1]
Title: special to hollywood
Air Date: 02.17.1941 ( February 17, 1941)
Plot: + The story is a familiar one. Hollywood celebrities fly to a town for the premier of their new picture. The stars in the movie are displayed in a burst of glory and then they rush back to Hollywood again to start their next film project. This story is about the road back from one of these premier excursions. In this particular case, a most unusual road.
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Blondie is a radio situation comedy adapted from the long-run Blondie comic strip by Chic Young. The radio program ran on several networks from 1939 to 1950.
After Penny Singleton was cast in the title role of the feature film Blondie (1938), co-starring with Arthur Lake as Dagwood (the first in a series of 28 produced by Columbia Pictures); she and Lake repeated their roles December 20, 1938, on The Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope. The appearance with Hope led to their own show, beginning July 3, 1939, on CBS as a summer replacement for The Eddie Cantor Show. However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the sponsor, R.J. Reynolds' Camel cigarettes chose to keep Blondie on the air Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Camel remained the sponsor until June 26, 1944.
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In 1944, Blondie was on the NBC Blue Network, sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive's Super Suds, airing Fridays at 7 p.m. from July 21 to September 1. The final three weeks of that run overlapped with Blondie's return to CBS on Sundays at 8pm from August 13, 1944, to September 26, 1948, still sponsored by Super Suds. Beginning in mid-1945, the 30-minute program was heard Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Super Suds continued as the sponsor when the show moved to NBC on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. from October 6, 1948, to June 29, 1949.
When Singleton left the radio series in the mid-1940s, Patricia Lake replaced her as the voice of Blondie for the remaining five years of the show, opposite her real-life husband Arthur Lake. Ann Rutherford and Alice White were also heard as radio's Blondie.[1][2][3]
In its final season, the series was on ABC as a sustaining program from October 6, 1949, to July 6, 1950, first airing Thursdays at 8 p.m. and then (from May) 8:30 p.m. The radio show ended the same year as the Blondie film series (1938–50).
Title: alexander the actor
Air Date: 02.16.1950 ( February 16, 1950)
Plot: + Sponsored by: Ford. Alexander decides that he's the greatest actor to stride the boards since the days of the Bard. + It’s about six o’clock in the evening at the Bumstead household, Dagwood has just come home from the office, has taken his usual dive for the couch and is lying there all unravelled as Blondie tells him what has happened throughout the day…
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