Children's Shows
Fire Fighters
- is an old time
radio series for children. We get to see our firefighters in action every
week in various fire fighting situations. In addition to being very
entertaining, it is also very informative cover a variety of topics in the
real life scenarios of fire fighters, with shows on different types of
fires, what causes a fire and more. This series is a must hear for those boys and girls
who want to become “Fire Fighters” when they grow up. Plus the episodes are
geared to a child’s attention span. Most episodes run 12 to 15 minutes. There are 140 episodes
and better then 25 hours of extraordinary fire fighting and mystery
contained on the CD.
Adventures In
Research - A wonderfully informative old
time radio series can be found in Adventures In Research. With tales that
are not only wonderfully dramatic, but at the same time extremely
interesting and entertaining. Hear about the development of the parachute; History of 1st Regular
Radio Broadcast; learn about the George Westinghouse; be amazed at The
First American Patent; the horrible Dread Scourge - Typhus; be in awe of
The Man Who Found A Continent; and so much more wonderful history.
With 75 episodes and over 18 hours of listening and learning fun, you will
have lots of opportunity for some great discussions too!
The Old Time Radio show,
Jerry of
the Circus, is a wonderfully heartwarming and
delightful
children's series, syndicated in 1937. The show is fifteen minutes in length
and follows the adventures of Jerry Dugan and his dog, Rags. Jerry and Rags
join Sam Randall’s Circus after the death of his family. So sit back
and gather the family around. Jerry and Rags will enthrall not only the kids
but adults too. After all, what child doesn’t want to “run off to the
circus” at some point in his or her young life. So run off to the circus
with Jerry and Rags for over 125 episodes and
30 plus hours.
In Jerry at Fair Oaks, the follow up program to Jerry of the
Circus, we are delighted by more of our orphaned hero’s adventures,
only this time away from the circus in which he grew up in, but at Fair
Oaks School instead. Again the shows are fifteen minutes in length,
perfect for even very young children. So sit down with our hero Jerry
Dugan again, for 65 episodes and 15 plus hours, only this time the shows
will focus on his adventures at Fair Oaks School. You and the children will
be glad you did.
Quiz Kids was a popular radio-TV series of the 1940s and 1950s. It was
created by Chicago public relations and advertising man, Louis G. Cowan.
Originally sponsored by Alka-Seltzer, the series was first broadcast on
NBC from Chicago, June 28, 1940, airing as a summer replacement show for
Alec Templeton Time. It continued on radio for the next 13 years. On
television, the show was seen on NBC and CBS from July 6, 1949, to
September 27, 1956. One of the notable Quiz Kids is the Nobel
Prize-winning biologist James D. Watson. Others include actor and dialect
coach Bob Easton, legendary Hollywood acting coach Roy London, producer
Harve Bennett and actress Vanessa Brown. And let us not forget Jack Benny
and Fred Allen. You won’t
want to miss a minute of all the fascinating and informative tidbits the
Quiz Kids give you in over 36 hours and 76 episodes.
Magic Island was a syndicated serial radio show
that first aired in 1936. Magic Island tells the story
of a mother, Mrs. Patricia Gregory, and her search for her lost daughter,
Joan Gregory. She finds her on a man-made
island that can submerge to avoid detection. Joan has survived by
living on a man-made, "magic" Island that is so secretive, that it can
submerge under the water in order to evade exposure.
So grab some popcorn, gather round the family and be entranced with over 24
hours (130 episodes) of adventure with Mrs. Gregory, Jerry and others
to find her lost daughter in “Magic Island.”
