WBW Theater

Preview of Walt Disney's 1946 animated film Song of the South with heart warming stories based on the tales of uncle Remus with Walt Disney's animated star Br'er Rabbit. Songs include Sooner or Later and Zipa-dee Doo Dah.

Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Ruth Warrick, James Baskett, Walt Disney

Broadcast Date: 1946

Lipton Tea and Lipton Soup present Arthur Godfrey and his Talent Scouts. Over the next 30 minutes Arthur Godfrey showcases 4 new young talents and the audience are asked to vote for the best act by their applause. The winner’s were then invited on to the Arthur Godfrey Time show for the following three mornings. The audience reaction indicator shows the winner to be Irish tenor singer Johnny Daggan.

Starring: Arthur Godfrey

Broadcast Date: March 11, 1947

In the Texas panhandle of the early 1880s, the town of Shamrock increased in population and importance in direct proportion to the sharp increase in cattle ranching. Many wealthy easterners invested in cattle, and occasionally came west to look over their holdings, and naturally, the shoppers, gamblers and road agents of the region saw opportunity in all of this...

Starring: Jack Mather, Harry Lang

Broadcast Date: September 2, 1958

On Good Friday, April 14th 1865, during a performance of Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. a shot rang out which reverberated around the world. The gun which assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, was a 41 calibre double barrelled Deringer. Ten years later, its lethal use was widespread on the frontier of our west by gamblers, gunmen and grifters - in fact anyone who had need of a hideout gun...

Starring: Jack Mather, Mel Blanc

Broadcast Date: 1959

In last week's episode, adventurer Count Byron De Prorok and his companions succeeded in opening the ancient tomb of the African Queen, Tin Hinan, in the southern Sahara. But Tin Hinan was the ancestor of the fierce Taurog tribe of the desert, and as the explorers were moving precious gold and silver relics from the tomb, a band of enraged Taurog warriors attacked! 

Starring: Ed Prentiss

Broadcast Date: February 22, 1947

Last week, adventurer Count Byron De Prorok, his friend Pierre and their guide, discovered an ancient tomb in the Sahara desert, which they hope is that of the African Queen, Tin Hinan, ancestor of the fierce Taurog tribe. Just as they were about to open an inner chamber, a deadly snake crawled out and frightened away the native workers. With their workers gone, the task seems hopeless...

Starring: Ed Prentiss

Broadcast Date: February 15, 1947

Let's go back to the perilous true story of the lost tomb of the ancient tribal Queen Tin Hinan. Behind the coastal cities of North Africa, stretches the burning wasteland of the Sahara Desert. Mysterious and brooding, the death dealing Sahara swallows men, beasts and machines; searing with heat, choking with sand, withering a man's skin to shrunken leather, sucking the last drop of moisture from his body until he falls, mad from thirst, into a white-hot grave under the merciless sun. Yet men have fought to learn the secrets of the Sahara, for it holds a key to the early origins of man...

Starring: Ed Prentiss

Broadcast Date: February 8, 1947

Fort Laramie starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince is specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier, the saga of fighting men who rode the rim of empire and the dramatic story of Lee Quince captain of Cavalry.

Starring: Raymond Burr, Vic Perrin

Broadcast Date: October 14, 1956

“The boy is offering $10,000 for your property. Whether you sell it or not I’m here to see that he doesn’t get robbed…”

Starring: Ben Wright, John Dehner, Virginia Gregg

Broadcast Date: October 30, 1960

Post Cereals brings you The Roy Rogers Show starring the King of the Cowboys himself, Roy Rogers. The Double R Bar Ranch, transcribed stories and songs of the real West with Pat Brady and the Queen of the West Dale Evans.

Starring: Herb Butterfield, Herb Vigran, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Frank Hemmingway, Ben Welden

Broadcast Date: November 20, 1952