Just Released Shows
The
Alan Young Show was a radio and television series presented in
diverse formats over a nine-year period and starring
Canadian-English actor Alan Young. It began on NBC radio as a summer
replacement situation comedy in 1944, featuring vocalist Bea Wain.
It moved to ABC with Jean Gillespie portraying Young's girlfriend
Betty. The program was next broadcast by NBC for a 1946-47 run and
was off in 1948. When it returned to NBC in 1949, Louise Erickson
played Betty and Jim Backus was heard as snobbish playboy Hubert
Updike III.
There are
over 45 episodes and better then 22 hours of wonderful life and
hilarity with Alan Young….On a personal note, Mr. Ed is my second
favorite show of all time and part of my own DVD collection.
Casey, Crime
Photographer - Jack
"Flashgun" Casey, was a crime photographer for the newspaper The
Morning Express. With the help of reporter Ann Williams (best
remembered portrayed by Jan Miner, Palmolive's "Madge"), he solved
crimes and recounted his stories to friends at the Blue Note, their
favorite tavern and jazz club where the Archie Bleyer Orchestra and
the Teddy Wilson Trio were featured. Casey,
Crime Photographer, known by a variety of titles on radio (aka Crime
Photographer, Flashgun Casey, Casey, Press Photographer) was a media
franchise from the 1930s to the 1960s. The character was the
creation of novelist George Harmon Coxe. Casey was featured in the
pulp magazine, Black Mask, novels, comic books, radio, film,
television and legitimate theatre. So sit
back, and let, Casey and let keep you enthralled for the next 37
hours, while he tells his stories of how he solved the crime, you
have over 76 episodes to enjoy of this great crime photographer for
the newspaper, The Morning Express.
The
Damon Runyon Theatre
dramatized
52 of
Runyon's short
stories for radio.
John Brown played
"Broadway," who served as host and narrator.
Damon Runyon was a
newspaperman and writer.
His stories were humorous
ones. He
was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of
Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To
New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a
distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The
adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as
to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted. He spun
humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of
whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such
as "Nathan Detroit," "Benny Southstreet," "Big Jule,"
"Harry the Horse," "Good Time Charley," "Dave the Dude," or "The
Seldom Seen Kid."
So sit back and enjoy the
short
stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew
out of the Prohibition era. Humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers,
actors, and gangsters. There
are over 51 episodes and better then 25 hours of wonderful
"Runyonesque" type
of characters as well as situations and dialog, that can only be
found in The Damon
Runyon Theater.
Easy Aces, a
long-running American serial radio comedy (1930-1945), was
trademarked by the low-keyed drollery of creator and writer Goodman
Ace and his wife, Jane, as an urbane, put-upon realtor and his malaprop-prone wife. A 15-minute program, airing as often as five
times a week, Easy Aces wasn't quite the ratings smash that such
concurrent 15-minute serial comedies as Amos 'n' Andy, The
Goldberg’s or Vic and Sade were. Its unobtrusive,
conversational, and clever style, and the cheerful absurdism of its
storylines, built a loyal enough audience of listeners and critics
alike to keep it on the air for 15 years. So
sit back with one of radio’s longest running comedies and laugh over
the Jane-isms and natural banter between Ace and Jane, like so many
other listeners did for 15 years. You have over 54 hours to enjoy
and 236 episodes of comedy all wrapped into one enjoyable package.
The radio show
Favorite Story
brought classic
literature to the radio. Favorite Story broadcasts were hosted by
Ronald Colman. Some of the guest stars included Hans Conreid,
William Conrad, Raymond Burr, and Helen Craig. Favorite Story’s use
of timeless literature lead to its rebroadcast for many
years to come.
So grab your
drink of choice, and sit down for the radio show that brought
classic literature to the radio, along with a virtual cornucopia of
literary classics, and notable figures such as Hans Conreid, William
Conrad, Raymond Burr, Helen Craig, and many more and with
over 37 hours and 78 plus episodes you will have your pick of which
classic you want to listen to.
The
Halls of Ivy
is an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1950-1952. It was created by
Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn before being
adapted into a CBS television comedy (1954-55) produced by ITC
Entertainment and Television Programs of America. British
husband-and-wife actors Ronald Colman and Benita Hume
starred in both versions of the show. The Halls of Ivy
featured Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small,
Midwestern Ivy College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British
musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former
profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends,
and college trustees. So sit back and
enjoy over 37 hours and 76 plus episodes of radio programming that
was ahead of its time, forward looking, and willing to tackle
controversial topics, and get some good laughs at the same time.
The program
originated in the 1940s and was called
The Adventures of Lightning
Jim. It was a West Coast program. The program returned as a
syndicated series in the 1950s. Lightning Jim is
the story of U.S. Marshal Lightning Jim Whipple, his horse Thunder,
and his deputy, Whitey Larson. The shows portray
Native
Americans, the history of the Union-Pacific Railroad, and the West.
There
are over 40 episodes and better then 20 hours of the old west and
all it’s history, so sit back and enjoy the adventures of U.S.
Marshall Jim, his trusty horse, Thunder and his deputy, Whitey.
The New
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was an old-time radio show which aired
in the USA from October 2, 1939 to July 7, 1947. Originally, the
show starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as
Dr. John H. Watson. Bromo Quinine sponsored some of the
earlier programs on the NBC Blue Network and for a period Parker Pen
was the sponsor. The show first aired on the Blue Network but later
moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System.
There are over
100 episodes and better then 49 hours with everyone’s favorite
detective….Sherlock Holmes.
