THE BLACK MUSEUM Opening in 1875, the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard is the oldest museum in the world purely for recording crime. Your donations help keep us "on the air" and growing. Among the films to get the Benny treatment were I AM A FUGITIVE FROM THE CHAIN GANG, Mae West's SHE DONE HIM WRONG, which Benny turned into "She Done Him Right," LITTLE WOMEN recast as "Miniature Women," and even the . Jack Gets, Jack Is Invited to the Colman's for Dinner, Violin Practice Interrupts Ronald Coleman's, Jack Is Upset Because Phil and Dennis Have T, Christmas Party at Birmingham General Hospit, Gracie Wants to Listen to Jack on the Radio, What Happens after the Show Goes off the Air, Jack Tries to Find Replacement for the Sport, Jack Wants Goldwyn to Do 'the Life of Jack B, Jack Fixes a Phonograph and Buys a Baseball, Jack Takes Violin Lessons and Goes to the Va, Going to Denver for March.of.Dimes Benefit, Jack's Girlfriend Gladys Comes to Rehearsal, Jack Returns to America by Ship and Hears An, Jack and the Gang Listen to the World Series, Jack Tries to Reach His Advertising Agency, Professor La Blanc Gives Jack a Violin Lesso, Jack Buys a Wallet for Don As Christmas Gift, Guests Claudette Colbert and Vincent Price, Don Wilson's Story of Twenty.Five Years in R, Jack Spends an Evening at Home Playing Cards, Mary Buys Jack a Pencil Sharpener for Christ, Rochester Is Shocked by an Electric Alarm Cl, Jack Can't Make Mary's Party and Is Stood Up, To New York on the Train for the Heart Fund, Jack Returns on the Train to Los Angeles And, Jack Tries to Buy Tickets to the Usc-Ucla Ga, Jack Prepares to Go to New York to Do His Tv, The Cast Is Dissatisfied with Their New Cont, Jack Meets Speed Rigs at the Doctor's Office, Jack and Mary See 'Golden Girl' with Dennis', Jack Dreams the New York Symphony Plays His, Jack Goes to the Doctor for a Vitamin Shot, Dennis Is Told to Quit the Show by His Mothe, Jack's Tv Breaks While Watching Wrestling. 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Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. on December 30, 2019, There are no reviews yet. Clients came to Valentine's office after reading a newspaper carrying his classified ad: Personal notice: Danger's my stock in trade. From September, 1949 through February 1957, Dragnet 's 30 minute shows, broadcast on NBC, brought to radio true police stories in a low-key, documentary style. The Jack Benny Radio shows February 4, 11, 18, and 25 1940 presented the trip to and the adventures at Yosemite starring the Jack Benny Gang. The gun in his holster is gray steel and rainbow mother-of-pearl. The series was built around the character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular element of the radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly . The intellectual level required for quality comedy is at least quintuple that required for drama. X?" Pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snows, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions. A spooky melodramatic organ score (played by Lew White) punctuated Raymond's many morbid jokes and playful puns. The show aired from 1950-1952. 298 episodes of Dragnet. Some fine isolated science fiction stories were developed on the great anthology shows, Suspense and Escape . It starred Jack Benny. I have been listening to them every day since 2005, either at work or before I go to bed to wind down. The year was 1937, and the first role offered Eddie Anderson on The Jack Benny Program on radio was that of a Pullman porter.It was to be a one-time part, but there was something about the gravely-voiced African-American actor that led the producers to use him again -- first as a waiter, and another time as a fellow who has an altercation with the star, Jack Benny. Herb Butterfield was the Commissioner, a taskmaster shrouded in secrecy who served up the situations that Mitchell seems never to refuse. Cover artwork added. With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Improved audio, removed commercials. Thousands of Old Time Radio series and hundreds of thousands of episodes are still in existence today. Due to the great writing, the outstanding cast, and the great ability of Jack Benny to work it all together, this is my favorite show. From then until 1949, Sam Spade was a Sunday-night thriller for Wildroot Cream Oil, starring Howard Duff in the title role. Fortunately the radio was usually tuned properly when the timer went off. Re: Doesn't this belong in Pulp Fiction, not Old-Time Radio? Old Time Radio shows from Radio Spirits that have been digitally re-mastered and are available in cassette, CD, and DVD formats. In the post-war years, Mel Blanc was at the top of the list. Jack Benny Program scripts Collection Overview Collection Organization Container Inventory Scope and Contents The collection consists of 40 bound volumes, holding some 600 radio and television scripts and encompassing over 14,000 pages. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. on January 4, 2011. Hilarious comedy show of OTR. Listen to Superman, X-Minus One, Tarzan, Philip Marlowe, Gunsmoke, Jack Benny and many more . Although presented episodically because of Jack's half hour time slot, these four shows are a single radio play running approximately 80 minutes. In vaudeville, he delivered the snappy comebacks and one liners with intelligence and wit, but it was only with the continuing development of his personal trait comedy that he really became the Jack Benny we all know so well. Then they'd complain he'd raised the price from the last time they were there. Uploaded by He is remembered for his television programme The Benny Hill Show, an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and double entendre in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with Hill at the focus of almost every segment.. Hill was a prominent figure in British television . This upload contains 1,228 episodes of the fantastic Old Time Radio show, Fibber McGee and Molly. 1949. He died on 10 August 1985 in Solvang, California, USA. These recordings are of varying quality with most in the good to very good sound range. L.A. Times Archives. Classic Mel Blanc sketch on "The Jack Benny Show" Sy Si Sue Sew. To New York on the Twentieth Century Limited, Don Wilson's Fifteenth Anniversary in Radio, Jack Tells How He Saved Fred Allen's Life, Jack Goes into Training for Fight with Fred, Jack Challenges Fred Allen to a Boxing Match, Phil Shoots the Movie 'Man about Town' Behin, Jack Discovers He Bought an Ostrich for Than, Birthday Party for Jack Who's Recovering Fro, Jack Revives Buck Benny after Three Years, Jack Is Held up on His Way to Don's House, Jack Prepares for Appearance on the Quiz Kid, Jack's Upset about His Appearance on the Qui, NBC Tribute to Jack Benny's Tenth Anniversar, Jack Talks about a Christmas Party He Gave, New Year's Eve Party at the Biltmore Bowl, Carole Lombard's Death . It ran from November 18, 1951 until September 28, 1952. Cranston learned the secret of clouding men's minds to make him invisible, allowing him to become The Shadow and work on the side of law enforcement to prove to young and old alike that crime does not pay! Featuring Old Time Radio Shows that dramatize the stories of the Bible. Rochester Sleeps Through Jack's Show: 62. I loved this show even as a kid. MUSIC. The title was changed to Nick Carter, Master Detective shortly thereafter. Well worth adding to any collection. The character was introduced in the October 3, 1939 episode (number 216) of that series. These are out of my collection of Radio Dramas with Mark Hamill from 1981. See the Content Index file (an Excel spreadsheet) for a detailed listing of all articles and other content for the issues of this newsletter. Originally promoted as Joe Canto, Private Eye, the series was never actually OLD RADIO TIMES Newsletters The Official Newsletter of the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. on the Internet. One of the most popular and enduring radio series of its time, it ran as a stand-alone series from 1935 to 1956, and then continued as a short-form series as part of the weekend Monitor from 1957 to 1959. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a private investigator drama, with Charles Russell, Edmond O'Brien and John Lund portraying Dollar in succession over the years. This broadcast is from Halloween night, celebrating the 8th annual radio show broadcasting horror .