WBW Theater

Buck Rogers was born here right in our own times in the twentieth century. The story of how he got started on his adventure so far in the future is mighty interesting. So now we are going to turn the dial, which will project us ahead in time and find out all about it that way. The capital of 25th century America is Niagara and there it is that Dr Huer the great scientist has his marvellous laboratory. In one room of it he’s working on a strange looking device, which sends a peculiar greenish light down on to a human figure lying on a table before him…

Cast: Matt Crowley

Broadcast: April 5, 1939

"Helloooo below there. When the signalman heard my voice calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled around its short pole. One would have thought he could not have doubted the location from where the voice came, but instead of looking up, to where I stood at the top of a steep cutting over the railway line, he turned himself about and looked down the line. There was something remarkable about the man, and the way he stood. Something strange, perhaps uncanny. Then, I know now what was remarkable about that man, and even though years have gone by, I still see his figure, foreshortened and shadowed down the deep trench."      

The game continues at the last half of the seventh inning of New York Yankees Vs Boston Red Sox 16th August 1958. Broadcast on the 10th anniversary of the passing of the great Babe Ruth. This final part concludes the game.

Broadcast Date: August 16, 1958

The game continues at the last half of the fifth inning of New York Yankees Vs Boston Red Sox 16th August 1958. Broadcast on the 10th anniversary of the passing of the great Babe Ruth.

Broadcast Date: August 16, 1958

Baseball continues New York Yankees Vs Boston Red Sox 16th August 1958. Broadcast on the 10th anniversary of the passing of the great Babe Ruth.

Broadcast Date: August 16, 1958 

Baseball New York Yankees Vs Boston Red Sox 16th August 1958. Broadcast on the 10th anniversary of the passing of the great Babe Ruth and includes some commentary of facts on Babe Ruth.

Broadcast Date: August 16, 1958

“We take you now to England. If it only were as simple as that, if you could take a man like a radio wave and whisk him over the Atlantic and then drop him through a loudspeaker and let him wander for a month over the face of this island would he be any different at the end of his wandering? How would he feel about the war and about England? Would the United States look very much different to him from the outside, from the Anglo-American angle?”

Starring: Joseph Julian

Broadcast Date:  September 7, 1942

"This was Elliott Roosevelt's day again today, before the Senate Committee investigating the Howard Hughes / Henry Chrysler plane contracts during the war. He was on the stand for five hours, morning and afternoon, in the historic Senate caucus chamber in Washington..."

The only surviving 'ABC Special Event' show was a melodramatic account, narrated by ABC's John Edwards, featuring excerpts from the congressional hearing of the infamous Howard Hughes investigation, involving the former President, Theodore Roosevelt's son, General Elliott Roosevelt.

In 1947, many people including Howard Hughes himself, were summoned to testify before the Senate Committee to explain the why, what, when, where and how an extraordinary amount of money had been spent during the development of commissioned war planes.

The hearings transfixed the nation during August and November 1947, and gave the listener at home the opportunity to form their own opinion on the fallout, from listening to many different witness testimonies, rather than reading a journalist's account in the newspaper.

Narrator: John Edwards

Broadcast Date: August 5, 1947

These five-minute mystery programs were used on stations as fillers. They are full dramatizations complete with sound effects and music. At the end of the program you are invited to identify the culprit and what led you to your conclusion. Then after the musical interlude, where station identification would be, the solution is given.

This is a great little show for budding detectives. 

The business of being summer hotel owners is getting more and more complicated for the two fathers Patrick Murphy and Solomon Levy.

Broadcast Date: June 17, 1944