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Old Time Radio Shows - 20 CASSETTES - 30 hours

Publisher, Radio Spirits (October 1998)

Twenty cassettes, thirty hours, sixty classic radio episodes from the CBS Radio Network.

You will enjoy the humor, suspense, mystery and excitement of radio from the 30's, 40's and 50's.

In 1928, cigar executive William S. Paley purchased the United Independent Broadcasters, a struggling network of 16 radio stations. By the end of the year, his fledgling network, renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System, had grown to 47 affiliates. Despite the Great Depression, Bill Paley's CBS earned more that $1.6 million in 1932 and established itself as the only serious competition for RCA's mammoth NBC Red and Blue networks. To compete against NBC's high-priced comedy stars, CBS groomed new talent including Bing Crosby, Kate Smith and later Frank Sinatra. By 1935, Paley's Columbia network boasted more affiliate stations than the Red or Blue network. CBS presented high-quality series like the Lux Radio Theatre, and offered innovative dramatic programs directed by Irving Reis, Norman Corwin, William N. Robson and Orson Welles as unsponsored "sustainers" against NBC comedies like The Chase and Sanborn Hour and The Jack Benny Program. CBS dominated network news during the Second World War with commentators H. V. Kaltenborn and Boake Carter and correspondents Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid. By the end of the 1940s, Paley had lured Jack Benny and Amos 'n' Andy to his CBS airwaves, and Arthur Godfrey was becoming the most popular on-air personality in broadcasting history.

Includes:

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe - The Cloak of Kamehameha 05-16-50
The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective Apple of Eve Caper 06-19-49
Amos 'n' Andy Porch wreckers 12-30-51
The Baby Snooks Show Live show at the Bijou 05-13-45
Big Town Wilson Is Shot 10-19-37
The Bing Crosby Chesterfield Show with Connie Boswell 11-27-52
Blondie Scrooge 12-25-39
Broadway Is My Beat Case of Charles Crandall 05-12-51
Burns and Allen Blackmailing Jack Benny 11-09-43
Casey, Crime Photographer The Red Raincoat 08-29-46
The CBS Radio Workshop Report on E.S.P. 03-09-56
The Charlie McCarthy Show with guest, June Allyson 12-18-49
The Columbia Workshop The Path and the Door 08-25-46
Crime Classics Lethal Habit of Marquise De Brinvilliers 05-26-54
The Danny Kaye Show Baby from Washington 02-03-45
Dr. Christian Prelude to Thanksgiving 11-22-39
Escape Leiningen vs. the Ants 08-04-49
The FBI in Peace and War Unfinished Business 08-02-51
The First Nighter Program A Writer in the Family 01-29-48
Fort Laramie The New Recruit 04-22-56
The Fred Allen Show with guest, Charles Laughton 10-04-42
Frontier Gentleman Aces & Eights 04-20-58
Gang Busters Jewel Robbery 10-05-53
Grand Central Station Larkspur to Feed the Soul 12-01-45
Gunsmoke 08-23-52
Have Gun, Will Travel Strange Vendetta 11-23-58
Honest Harold Willis Can't Pass the Physical 02-28-51
Hopalong Cassidy Right Rope, Wrong Neck 02-23-52
Inner Sanctum Mysteries Voice on the Wire 11-29-44
It Pays To Be Ignorant with host, Tom Howard 08-22-44
The Jack Benny Program Going to the racetrack 11-13-49
Jeff Regan, Investigator The Lady From Brazil 10-19-49
The Jimmy Durante Show Christmas show 12-22-44
Let's Pretend Brother and Sister 07-05-47
Life With Luigi Income Tax Problems 03-11-52
Lights Out Oxychloride X 02-16-43
The Line Up Young Woman Murdered 11-19-52
Luke Slaughter of Tombstone Duel on the Trail 02-23-58
Lum and Abner Collection Agency 01-30-49
The Man Called X Stamp Story 05-15-47
Meet Corliss Archer Ideal Babysitters 08-11-46
The Mel Blanc Show Muscle Man Contest 10-01-46
The Mercury Theater on the Air The Apple Tree 09-06-45
Mr. Chameleon Perfect Maid Murder Case 12-21-49
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons Strange Display 03-16-44
My Favorite Husband George Drafted? 01-27-51
My Friend Irma Psychology and Marriage 01-20-52
My Little Margie Vern Adopts Freddie 11-07-54
Our Miss Brooks Faculty Dance 03-06-49
The Philip Morris Playhouse Leona's Room 1949
Pursuit Three for All 11-10-49
The Red Skelton Show Red Gets a Physical 01-08-50
Rocky Jordan Man in the Morgue 11-21-48
Screen Guild Players A Farewell to Arms 04-10-44
Songs By Sinatra with guest, Peggy Lee 01-02-46
Suspense The Search For Henri LeFevre 07-06-44
Tales of Fatima Time to Kill 05-28-49
The Whistler Last Message 06-15-52
You Bet Your Life Secret Word: Clock 10-19-49
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Bodyguard to the Late Robert W. Perry 03-03-50