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Script writer Norman Corwin's "The Odyssey of Runyan Jones" appeared on CBS Radio several times. This is episode 6 of a Columbia Workshop series "26 By Corwin" which aired June 8, 1941. It was called a fantasy for children. It stars Larry Robinson as Runyon Jones in this delightful fantasy about a young boy searching for his lost dog in purgatory with several actors including Norman Lloyd and Frank Lovejoy.
Episode 19 aired June 6, 1950. Frank Lovejo y starred as Randy Stone, a reporter who covered the night beat for the Chicago Star, encountering criminals, eccentrics, and troubled souls. Listeners were invited to join Stone as he "searches through the city for the strange stories waiting for him in the darkness." Most episodes leaned towards suspense, crime and thriller themes, but Night Beat also featured occasional humorous or sentimental stories. Each episode ended with Stone at his desk as he finished typing a news story based on his latest exploits, and shouting for the copy boy to deliver his story to an editor. Night Beat, sometimes spelled Nightbeat, is an NBC radio drama series that aired February 6, 1950–September 25, 1952, sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and Wheaties.
The decade long feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen featured barbs between the two comedy greats on multiple old time radio shows.Since 1932, Jack Benny long amused radio audiences with his continuing gags, including his ah-hem thrifty spending habits, his perpetual age of 39, that dreadful violin playing. Fred Allen also began his career in radio comedy since 1932, when he began the show "The Lint Bath Club Revue" with wife Portland Hoffa. Allen was famous for ad-libbing and cracking up the audience with running comments on the jokes.
Bradley Crandall (born Robert Lee Bradley; August 6, 1927 – March 14, 1991) was an American radio personality, voice-over announcer, and film narrator, best known for his radio show on WNBC in New York City, which aired from March 1964 to September 1971.
Here is an episode of the NBC weekend radio service, MONITOR from 1968 with host Brad Crandall. "Going places and doing things, you're on the Monitor beacon". That was the cue for local staff announcers such as me to break away with local weather, commercial or news. I was working the Saturday and Sunday evening shift on the NBC affiliate WBAL AM 1090 kc, in Baltimore3 , Maryland.
Larry Haines stars as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in the series for Mutual Radio. c1953.
Orson Welles presents Alice Frost with him in this episode aired June 21, 1946 on CBS Radio. Alice Frost (August 1, 1910 – January 6, 1998) was an American actress. An inaugural member of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre on radio and the stage, she later performed the role of Pamela North on the radio series Mr. and Mrs. North for nearly 10 years.
Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin perform as Pam North and Jerry North on "Mr. and Mrs. North," a CBS Radio program. New York, NY. Episode 504 dated 1953.
Easy Listening music format for AFRTS with Jim Ameche. Opens with conductor Roberto and his orchestra.
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