THE OLD-TIME RADIO HOUR

Lux "Mr Deeds Goes to Town"

Lux Radio Theater "Mr Deeds Goes to Town" February 1, 1937 CBS Starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur

New Years Our Miss Brooks 50 Honest Harold 50

Our Miss Brooks Babysitting on New Years Eve January 1, 1950 CBS

Honest Harold New Years Eve December 27, 1950 CBS

Xmas Railroad Hour "Happy Prince" Bing Crosby 53

Christmas Themed Shows 

The Railroad Hour "The Happy Prince" December 24, 1951 NBC

The Bing Crosby Show December 20, 1953 CBS

The Whistler Xmas Bonus 44 A Christmas Carol Laurence Olivier 53

The Whistler "Christmas Bonus" December 25, 1944 on CBS

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  Laurence Olivier narrates the story and stars as Ebenezer Scrooge created by the BBC and broadcast in the US December 24, 1953 on NBC

Christmas Comedy Jack Benny 36 Abbott and Costello 44

The Jack Benny Program December 20, 1936 NBC's Red Network

The Abbott and Costello Show "Christmas Shopping" December 14, 1944 NBC 

Lux "Christmas Holiday"

Lux Radio Theater "Christmas Holiday" September 17, 1945 on CBS

by Somerset Maughm Loretta Young William Holden David Bruce Guest producer William Keeley

Home for Thanksgiving 471127 Let George Do It "Cause for Thanksgiving" 501120

Thanksgiving Themed Shows

Family Theater "Home for Thanksgiving" November 27, 1947 Mutual 

Let George Do It "Cause for Thanksgiving" November 20, 1950 Mutual

Thanksgiving Jack Benny 1948 Red Skelton 1951

The Jack Benny Program "How the Gang Spent Thanksgiving" November 28, 1948 NBC

 

The Red Skelton Show November 21, 1951 CBS

Railroad Hour "State Fair" Mario Lanza Show 510613

The Railroad Hour "State Fair" October 1, 1951 NBC

The Mario Lanza Show June 13, 1952 CBS

Halloween5 Lights Out "TheDream" "Revolt oftheWorms"

Halloween 5

"The Dark" by Arch Obler recreated from his 1930s radio show

Lights Out "The Dream"  March 23, 1938 NBC starring Boris Karloff

Lights Out with "Revolt of the Worms" October 13, 1942 CBS

Halloween4 Orson Welles "The Hitchhiker" 46 Black Museum "Bedsheet" 51

Halloween 4

Two masterpieces of horror by Orson Welles

The Black Museum "The Spotted Bedsheet" BBC

Mercury Summer Theater "The Hitchhiker"  June 21, 1946 CBS

Sealed Book Design for Death The Avenger

The Sealed Book "Design for Death" August 5, 1945 Mutual

The Avenger "Mystery of the Giant Brain" March 30, 1946 in a transcription for syndication

Halloween2 Inner Sanctum "Lonely Sleep" Saint "Corpse Said Ouch"

Inner Sanctum Mysteries "Lonely Sleep" September 25, 1949 CBS

The Saint  "The Corpse said Ouch" August 6, 1950 NBC

starring Vincent Price 

Halloween1 LightsOut "Valse Trieste" Shadow "Gibbering Things"

Halloween 1

Lights Out "Valse Trieste" March 30, 1938 NBC 

The Shadow "The Gibbering Things" September 26, 1943 Mutual 

NBC Theater "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan"

NBC Theater "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan" April 16, 1950 NBC by Aldous Huxley 

NBC Theater "The Red Badge of Courage"

NBC University Theater "The Red Badge of Courage" May 8, 1949 NBC

NBC Theater "The Light That Failed" by Rudyard Kipling

NBC Theater "The LIght That Failed" by Rudyard Kipling February 12, 1950 

Tribute to Jerry Lewis Bing Chesterfield 51 Martin Lewis 53

Bing Crosby's Chesterfield show November 7, 1951 CBS

 

The Martin and Lewis Show May 19, 1953 NBC guest star Fred McMurray

Western 4 Frontier Gentleman "Wonder Boy" "The Rainmaker"

Frontier Gentleman :"Wonder Boy" August 17, 1958 CBS

Frontier Gentleman "The Rainmaker" October 26, 1958 CBS

Six Shooter Silver Buckle Mayra Barker

The Six Shooter "Silver Buckle" January 17, 1954 NBC

The Six Shooter "Mayra Barker" June 24, 1954 NBC

Starring Jimmy Stewart 

Western 2 Gunsmoke 'Billy the Kid" "Gentlemen's Disagreement" 1952

Gunsmoke "Billy the Kid" April 26, 1952 CBS

Gunsmoke "Gentleman's Disagreement" July 26, 1952 CBS

Western1 Lone Ranger "Cattle Toll""Proposal Deception" 38

The Lone Ranger "Two Bit Cattle Toll" April 25, 1938

The Lone Ranger "Proposal of Deception" May 13, 1938

both episodes aired on a group of associated stations that later became Mutual

June Foray on Stan Freberg Show Episode 3 and 8

 

Tribute to June Foray 

The Stan Freberg Show Miss Universe July 28, 1957 CBS

The Stan Freberg Show St George and the Dragonet September 1, 1957 CBS

You Bet Your Life Groucho Marx 520514 520611

You Bet Your Life starring Groucho Marx May 14, 1952 NBC

You Bet Your Life starring Groucho Marx June  11, 1952 NBC

Martin Lewis Show Madeleine Carroll 49 Anne Baxter 53

 

The Martin and Lewis Show May 1, 1949 NBC 

guest star Madeleine Carroll

The Martin and Lewis Show May 5, 1953 NBC

guest star Anne Baxter