Jim & Marian Jordan star as Fibber and Molly McGee, holding down the homefront in these war year episodes. Fighting the battle of Wistful Vista involves volunteering for the Red Cross, dealing with shortages, contributing to scrap metal and War Bond drives, and sending letters by V-Mail…plus keeping an eye out for spies and an ear out for …
Any comedian can be funny in the studio, but domestic comedy is usually considered the province of actors who happen to do comedy. Jack Benny straddled the two roles for most of his career — the suave, witty master of ceremonies standing on stage in front of a curtain one moment the put-upon householder tormented by a bumptious …
Lucille Ball (The Best of Old Time Radio/Legendary Performers)
The Smithsonian Institution and Radio Spirits proudly present the classic radio broadcasts that made Lucille Ball a star and led to the creation of her classic television series I Love Lucy. Lucy’s versatility is showcased with dramatic roles on Suspense and Lux Radio Theatre and comedic performances of the Abbott and Costello Show, The Gulf Screen Guild …
In the realm of unforgettable radio voices, there is one that stands head and shoulders above all others — one distinctive voice that could never be convincingly duplicated, one that brought its owner undreamed of success. It was a voice of sandpaper and gravel and rusty scrap iron, rasping over a nation’s loudspeakers for more than thirty years. …
Jack Benny was a fearless combat pilot, a brilliant-but-troubled surgeon, the terror of the high seas, and the hero of every conceivable caper. There was nothing Jack Benny couldn’t do, or hadn’t done. To hear him tell it, anyway. The classic Benny persona fit hilariously into hundreds of ridiculous roles, from rough-and-ready adventurers to athletic heroes to …
A grim laugh in the night, a relentless avenger against the forces of evil. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? You know the answer. An invisible crime fighter was an idea tailor-made for an audio-only medium, where the listener’s imagination formed the characters…and everything else. Here are Lamont Cranston’s three most memorable voices …
Baby Snooks was forever asking questions about whatever enterprise her Daddy was foolish enough to attempt around the house. With the fiendishly funny Fanny Brice as Snooks, and the great straight man Hanley Stafford as Daddy, every scene is as irresistible as the urge to give the girl an answer. Poor old Daddy never did know when to …
Whether boasting about his influence in town, his prowess in the kitchen, his grace on the ice, or his savvy with a rod and reel, no man was ever more determined to stick to his guns — and his story – than Fibber McGee! He tells some real whoppers in this batch of blustery broadcasts! Head on …
William Spier, radio’s outstanding producer/director of mystery and crime dramabrings you the greatest private detective of them all: Sam Spade. With a quick mind and a quicker tongue (occasionally planted firmly in cheek), Dashiell Hammett’s daring detective takes the case, takes a few punches, takes the dough (when there is any), and takes advantage of Effie’s…good nature, in …
When last we left our pals from Pine Ridge they were involved in considerable intrigue. They were receiving reports from the Masked Muskrat, threats from the Black Pelican, and a baby from a melancholy mother. The further adventures of Lum Edwards and Abner Peabody find them confounded by one commotion after another. At the Jot ’em Down Store, …