This 3-CD set was issued in 2009 by The Maine Humor Company. As the jacket states, Sample is a humorist and the three CD’s are filled with his comedy routines. But, every now and again, he breaks into song. One of those is called The Jimmy Stewart Song and according to the jacket notes, it…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Salute to You
The following article appeared in the Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, April 24, 1957: A check of the next day’s edition of Star and Stripes radio listing reveals that the show is listed for broadcast in the 8 p.m. time slot: Because the show is not available, we can only speculate on…
Hollywood Star Playhouse – Nor Gloom of Night
The very first broadcast of the Hollywood Star Playhouse was on April 24, 1950, when it replaced Inner Sanctum on CBS. Jimmy Stewart was the star of this premiere presentation. Jack Johnstone was the show’s director. He would later direct the Stewart series, The Six Shooter. The story, Nor Gloom of Night, was written by…
The Academy Awards
The Academy Awards is a 6-cassette set issued by Metacom/Adventures in Cassettes in 1994. Twelve shows from the radio series Academy Award were included in the set, including Jimmy Stewart’s August 28, 1946, appearance in One Sunday Afternoon…
The Six Shooter – Johnny Stringer
Originally broadcast on April 22, 1954, sixty-two years ago, this show is also sometimes known as Tracking Down a Killer. This WHIZ radio station ad from The Times Recorder, Zanesville, OH, lists The Six Shooter as one of its Thursday night shows. Appearing with Stewart in this episode are Virginia Gregg as Maria Gonzalez Mendez,…
Bill Stern’s Sports Newsreel
Jimmy Stewart made at least three appearances on Bill Stern’s Sports Newsreel program. One of those was on April 22, 1949. Stewart even managed to have his picture appear, along with the sports radio listings for the day, in the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, WI: This show is not available. However, we know that Stewart…
Bob Hope Show – April 22, 1953
This was one of several appearances by Stewart on the Bob Hope Show. At this point in time the program was sponsored by Jell-O and was broadcast by NBC Wednesday nights from 10-10:30 p.m. Although Stewart’s photo didn’t appear in any ads for the show, Hope’s did. This one appeared in the Herald-Journal, Syracuse, NY:…
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Easter Sunrise Service
This show aired on Easter Sunday, April 21, 1946, from 8:15-8:30 a.m. on the east coast. As mentioned in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, this show is not available and all that is known about it is what can be gathered from the several newspaper clippings which are available. The first of these appeared in…
Focus on Youth Part 2
Part two of Stewart’s interview with Mitch Semel was broadcast on April 20, 1980. The show credits and sponsor were the same as the first part aired the previous week. To begin the second part of the Stewart interview show, Garth Ancier again outlines Stewart’s history. Although the second part of the interview is mostly…
Suspense – The Rescue
When we began researching this particular show, the audio was not completely available. Approximately 10-minutes at the end of the show were missing from all the available copies. Continuing our research, we came across a script in the collection of the Thousand Oaks Library System in California. An email to them brought us a quick…
