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Episode 36 aired February 22, 1948 over the CBS Radio Network. A professor who has rejected companionship is haunted by an invisible creature. Luis Van Rooten as Professor Guildea and the narrator, Father Murchison played by Parley Edward Baer (PHOTO) (August 5, 1914 – November 22, 2002) who was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. Despite dozens of appearances in television series and theatrical films, he remains best known as the original "Chester" in the radio version of Gunsmoke, and as the Mayor of Mayberry (Roy Stoner) in The Andy Griffith Show.

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Episode 55 aired on NBC Radio June 29, 1950. Professor Kessell's wife has been kidnapped. The show features a moving scene of a Seder. Jack Webb as Sgt Joe Friday is assigned to find the missing woman.

Episode 14 aired January 19, 1974 and starred Norman Rose. A young girl with criminal tendencies is taken by a couple who discover her peculiar talent for retrieving lost things...including corpses. Norman Rose (June 23, 1917 – November 12, 2004) was an American actor, film narrator and radio announcer whose velvety baritone was often called "the Voice of God" by colleagues. He was best known as the narrator's voice in the fictitious coffee grower's Juan Valdez Colombian coffee television commercials and the announcer-narrator of NBC's Dimension X. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rose started acting while a student at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Rose honed his craft at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York, then landed parts in plays on and off-Broadway. Rose was the narrator for the satirical 1972 hit song Deteriorata, which was recorded by comedy group National Lampoon for the album Radio Dinner. He also recorded numerous books for the blind and narrated the 70th anniversary broadcast of the Academy Awards. He also was a drama instructor at the Juilliard School. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rose

California Melodies aired from 1940 to 1942 on the Mutual network and featured the orchestra of composer David Rose, pianist Art Tatum and singer Maxine Gray. The show was a huge orchestral production featuring Rose's music and was broadcast from Hollywood. Episode 9 was broadcast on June 13, 1940. Selections included the orchestra with Beyond the Blue Horizon, Maxine Gray singing the novelty song Six Lessons from Madam Lezonga, the orchestra with Dear Old Southland, Art Tatum playing Louise, the orchestra with Summer Night, Maxine Gray and Let There Be Love, the orchestra with Goucho Serenade, Art Tatum with Rosetta and the orchestra concluding with the Rose arrangement of Minuet in G. 

Episode 20 aired November 26, 1950 on NBC Radio. A story based on the events of May 5, 1947. George Hawks appears to have committed suicide. At 9:15 AM the telephone rang in the office of Finny, Texas sheriff Hanson. It was George Hawks calling to tell him he was going to kill himself. Joel McCrea stars as Jace Pearson a Texas Ranger who while he was converse with gun, horse and wilderness survival was also an expert in the latest techniques of scientific crime investigation.

Episode 94 aired on CBS Radio June 1, 1944 and stars Ida Lupino and Vincent Price. A grand pipe organ built throughout an entire house tends to play itself. Lucille Fletcher wrote the script which deals with brooding anxiety and sharpening suspicion played against the severe and forbidding background of the late Victorian era.

Episode 9 aired September 8, 1957 on CBS Radio. Freberg chats with his friend the abominable snowman about another visit in the Himalayas. We learn the real name of the snowman and meet his wife. Stan exposes how he gets the details for his historical skits. Then we hear one on the Revolutionary War. Based on the painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware.

"Tele-Vee-Shun", an anti-TV song about what television has done to his family, sung in a heavy faux-Trinidadian accent and set to a Calypso tune.  Freberg first recorded the song in 1952, but the 1957 version is the most well known, which lampoons Elvis Presley in one verse: "I turn on Elvis Presley and my daughter scream".

Episode 17 aired January 10, 1954 on the NBC Radio Network. An oldtimer prospector named Hiram strikes it rich. Britt Ponsett uses his guns in a gunfight and gets shot at the assay office during a holdup. Britt’s horse Scar was able finish the eight miles of prairie between the hills and Clay City. It was over six months since their last visit to Clay City and surely Scar couldn’t be remembering the filly at the livery, but something sure was encouraging him to move onwards. 

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the National Broadcasting Company, NBC created a series of shows called Recollections at 30. Using a vast number of archival recordings. Recollections at 30 host Ed Herlihy would assemble some of these transcriptions into a 25-minute show. Some of these shows followed a theme, such as the shows The Crash of the Hindenburg, The Big Bands, and Abraham Lincoln. Others concentrated on popular radio programs, such as Truth or Consequences, and Lights Out. People were honored, like Judy Garland, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Irving Berlin. The second episode aired on June 27, 1956 and featured Minstrels of the 1930's, Easy Aces, Al Jolson with Maxie Rosenbloom, Major Bowes Amateur Hour, actor Leslie Howard, and soprano Rosa Ponselle.