THE OLD-TIME RADIO HOUR

Plot to Overthrow Xmas 451225 Lights Out "Uninhabited" 381222

Christmas

Columbia Workshop "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" December 25, 1945 CBS by Norman Corwin 

Lights Out "Uninhabited" December 22, 1938 NBC by Arch Obler

Xmas Judy Canova X461221 NBC Our Miss Brooks 491218 CBS

Christmas Theme

The Judy Canova Show first broadcast December 21, 1946 on NBC  

Our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden "Letter to Santa" first broadcast December 18, 1949 on CBS  

Screen Director's Playhouse "It's A Wonderful Life" 490508 "Miracle on 34th Street" 491223 NBC

Christmas 

Screen Director's Playhouse "It's A Wonderful Life" first broadcast May 8, 1949 on NBC with Jimmy Stewart and Frank Capra  

Screen Director's Playhouse "Miracle on 34th Street" first broadcast December 23, 1949 on NBC with Edmund Gwenn and George Seaton  

Abbott and Costello 431125 Thanksgiving Special Armed Forces Radio 441123

Thanksgiving themed shows

The Abbott and Costello Show November 25, 1943 NBC  

AFRS Thanksgiving Special November 23, 1944  Armed Forces Radio Service Lionel Barrymore, Dinah Shore, Fanny Brice, Wally Brown

Thanksgiving Dinah Shore 45 Mel Blanc 46

Thanksgiving

Dinah Shore Birds Eye Open House November 22, 1945 NBC  

The Mel Blanc Show November 26, 1946 CBS 

Lux Radio Theater "Sunday Dinner for a Soldier" February 19, 1945 CBS

Lux Radio Theater "Sunday Dinner for a Soldier" February 19, 1945 CBS 

Andrews Sisters (Sophie Tucker) 451017 Mario Lanza (Giselle Mackenzie) 520307

The Andrews Sisters October 17, 1945 CBS  with guest star Sophie Tucker

The Mario Lanza Show March 7, 1952 NBC  guest star Gisele Mackenzie

The Shadow "The Silent Avenger" 380313 "The Hoodoo Ship" 411019

Halloween 

The Shadow "The Silent Avenger" March 13, 1938 Mutual starring Orson Welles

The Shadow "The Hoodoo Ship" October 19, 1941 Mutual  

Murder at Midnight "The Dead Hand" "The Cabala" Syndicated 1946

Halloween

Murder at Midnight "The Dead Hand" Sept 16, 1946 on WTZ New York

Murder at Midnight "The Cabala" syndicated 1946   

Halloween Mystery in the Air "Medusa" Mysterious Traveler "If You Believe"

Halloween 

Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lorre in "The Mask of Medusa" September 4, 1947 NBC  

The Mysterious Traveler   "If You Believe" December 29, 1946 Mutual  

Mystery in the Air "The Marvelous Barrastro" 470807 "The Black Cat" 470918 NBC

Halloween

Mystery in the Air   "The Marvelous Barrastro" August 7, 1947 NBC  series starred Peter Lorre

Mystery in the Air   "The Black Cat" September 18, 1947 NBC  story by Edgar Allen Poe

Halloween Murder by Experts "Two Coffins" 49 Escape "Mardi Gras" 50

Murder by Experts "Two Coffins to Fill" July 2, 1949 Mutual  

John Dickson Carr story 

Escape "Man Who Stole the Bible" May 5, 1950 CBS  

Lux Radio Theater The Girl from Tenth Avenue May 16, 1938 CBS

Lux Radio Theater The Girl from Tenth Avenue May 16, 1938 CBS starring Loretta Young

Lux Radio Theater "Red River" March 7, 1949 CBS

Lux Radio Theater "Red River" March 7, 1949 CBS  starring John Wayne and Walter Brennan

Lux Radio Theater "Peter Pan" December 21, 1953 CBS

Lux Radio Theater "Peter Pan" December 21, 1953 CBS 

Disney version with Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont with John Carradine as Captain Hook Called Hollywood Radio Theater for non commercial Armed Forces Radio Service

Studio One "Dodsworth" by Sinclair Lewis May 27, 1947 CBS

Studio One "Dodsworth" by Sinclair Lewis May 27, 1947 CBS 

Studio One "Topaze" May 6, 1947 CBS

Studio One "Topaze" May 6, 1947 CBS

Studio One "Alibi Ike" May 20, 1947 CBS

Studio One "Alibi Ike"  May 20, 1947 CBS

comic radio play based on a Ring Lardner story

Crime Classics "Death of a Picture Hanger" 530720 "John and Judith" 531212 CBS

Crime Classics "Death of a Picture Hanger" July 20, 1953 CBS 

Crime Classics "John and Judith" December 16, 1953 CBS

Created by Elliott Lewis, Music by Bernard Herrmann, Narrator played by Lou Merrill

Johnny Dollar "The Little Man Who Wasn't There" "The Story of the Big Red Schoolhouse"

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar starring Charles Russell 

"The Little Man Who Wasn't There" October 29, 1949 CBS 
 "The Story of the Big Red Schoolhouse" April 4, 1950 CBS 

Richard Diamond Private Detective " Jerome J Jerome Case" 490917 " Mr Victor's Daughter" 500115

Richard Diamond Private Detective "Jerome J Jerome Case" first broadcast September 17, 1949 on NBC Starring Dick Powell as Richard Diamond

Richard Diamond Private Detective " Mr Victor's Daughter" first broadcast January 15, 1950 on NBC Directed by Blake Edwards

Academy Award "Jezebel" 460330 Fred Allen with Orson Welles 460303

Academy Award "Jezebel"  March 30, 1946 on CBS  starring Bette Davis

The Fred Allen Show  March 3, 1946 on NBC  guest starring Orson Welles 

RR Hour "Good News" 1948 Hank Williams show 1951

The Railroad Hour "Good News" October 4, 1948 ABC guest stars Dinah Shore and Jane Powell 

Hank Williams for Mother's Best Flour first broadcast in early 1951 by WSM Nashville Tennessee "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"

RR Hour "Anything Goes" 1948 Coconut Grove Ambassadors 1931

The Railroad Hour "Anything Goes" October 11, 2018 on ABC 

Coconut Grove Ambassadors Gus Arnheim "Million Dollar Baby" 1931 

Screen Guild "Yankee Doodle Dandy" Great Gildersleeve "4th of July Speech"

Fourth of July show

Screen Guild Theater "Yankee Doodle Dandy" October 19, 1942 CBS 

The Great Gildersleeve  "Fourth of July Speech" July 2, 1952 NBC