The following story appeared in the April 13, 1949, edition of Variety: The final paragraph is what caught our attention. It seems that to promote the April 16th event a series of 30-second and 1-minute spots were recorded for play on many of the local, Los Angeles area, radio stations. Heard on these spots were…
Monthly Archives: April 2016
The Six Shooter – Crisis at Easter Creek
This is one of the few Six Shooters where the title is known for sure because it was mentioned during the show. During the break between the two acts, John Wald, the show’s announcer, says the title. Most of the newspaper listings were just that, a simple listing of the show’s title. However, this display…
Boy Scouts – An Update
Here’s an update with photo and audio of the 7-inch, 45 RPM Boy Scout disc (DWP937A/B) covered in Jimmy Stewart on the Air. Those heard on the other side of the record include Ricardo Montalban, Elliott Gould, Chuck Connors, Patrick Duffy and Tom T. Hall, who reads the same script as Stewart. In his spot,…
Focus on Youth Part 1
Focus on Youth Inc. had its beginnings at Jimmy Stewart’s alma mater, Princeton University, in 1974. Billing itself as “America’s Student Produced Press Conference of the Air,” its executive producer and moderator was Garth R. Ancier. It’s main production was a half-hour weekly program titled Focus on Youth. The syndicated program was heard on more…
Command Performance
Command Performance was produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) as entertainment for our troops, especially those stationed outside the U.S. Both the host and the guests on each program were chosen from requests received from servicemen. Jimmy Stewart is known to have appeared on just one show. The show was number 260 in…
The Traitor Within
The Traitor Within was a 30-minute program produced by NBC in cooperation with the American Cancer Society. It was broadcast on Sunday afternoon, April 12, 1953, between 4:30 and 5 p.m. (EST). The show was written by Richard George Pedicini and featured music composed and conducted by Robert Armbruster. Dr. Ian MacDonald was the show’s…
Jimmy Stewart on NBC Monitor #4
The final surviving tape of Jimmy Stewart on the NBC Monitor program is from April 11, 1970. Gene Rayburn and Stewart talk about several films, including After the Thin Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It’s a Wonderful Life and Anatomy of a Murder…
Biography in Sound – Captain Eddie: The Iron Eagle
Biography in Sound was written and produced for NBC by Don Cameron and supervised by James L. Holton for NBC News. This episode aired on April 10, 1958, from 9:05-10 p.m. and was hosted by Walter O’Keefe, who was called a guide. It was a true biography of Rickenbacker, beginning with his pre-World War I…
More Tales of Suspense
This 12-cassete set was issued in 1991 by Greatapes and featured 24 Suspense programs. One Stewart show, Mission Completed, originally broadcast on December 1, 1949, was included…
The Six Shooter – General Gilford’s Widow
General Gilford’s Widow, broadcast April 8, 1954, is also known under the titles The Widow’s Secret and The Wolf. The advertising for the program was similar to what it had been for the past few weeks. The Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, NY, ran this photo ad: Radio station WHIZ, placed this display ad for all of…
