This 10-CD set was issued by Radio Spirits (4473) in 2001. A photo of Stewart appears on the cover. The set included just one Six Shooter program, Red Lawson’s Revenge, along with many other shows including The Cisco Kid, Frontier Gentleman, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger, Red Ryder and Tales…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Tales of Mystery and Suspense Volume 3
This single cassette, featuring two Suspense programs was issued by Greatapes in 1994. One of the two shows included is Jimmy Stewart’s December 1, 1949, broadcast of Mission Completed…
Friars Frolic Promo
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…
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…
