Newly added to our collection is this 2-cassette set from England (Hodder Headline Audiobooks HH 328). This was number 3 in a series of releases. Packaged in a 4 x 5 ½ inch case, it features four Screen Directors’ Playhouse programs from the 1940’s. The Stewart show, It’s a Wonderful Life, was originally broadcast on…
Category Archives: Cassette Release
The Six Shooter (Audio Classics)
We recently purchased a large collection of old time radio shows on cassette tapes. Included in that set were 11 cassettes from Jimmy Stewart’s The Six Shooter series. Each cassette featured two half-hour shows, for a total of 22 programs. The cassettes were issued by Audio Classics, Inc., of St. Charles, MO. The J-cards for…
The New Sheriff/When the Shoe Doesn’t Fit (Cassette)
Jimmy Stewart’s The Six Shooter shows have been issued in many different forms and by many different companies through the years. Here is one we have not seen before. This is a single cassette released by American Image Archives (Mr. Old Time Radio Shows) of Long Beach, CA. The New Sheriff was first broadcast on…
The Moon’s Our Home (Cassette)
The Lux Radio Theatre version of The Moon’s Our Home, starring Jimmy Stewart, Carole Lombard, Verna Felton and Hans Conried, was issued on cassette by Radio Showcase (D-299). The show had originally been broadcast on February 10, 1941. You can read more about and listen to that broadcast here…
No Highway in the Sky (Cassette)
The Lux Radio Theatre version of No Highway in the Sky was issued on cassette by Radio Showcase (D-524). The show starred Stewart and Marlene Dietrich and had been broadcast April 28, 1952. To read more about the original broadcast and also listen to it, click here…
The Spirit of St. Louis – Soundtrack, the Cassette Version
When The Spirit of St. Louis soundtrack was re-issued on CD in 1988 by Varese Sarabande, it turns out that it was also issued in cassette format by the label (VSC-5212). Both the CD and cassette are now difficult to find and command higher prices than you would have paid for them in 1988…
Call Northside 777 (Cassette)
This single cassette was issued by Metacom (BB #429). It could be purchased alone or as part of a 6-cassette set called Mystery Superstars Vol. 2. The set was housed in a plastic replica of an old-time radio. On the cassette were two Screen Directors’ Playhouse shows, one of which starred Jimmy Stewart. That show…
Six Shooter Pack
This cassette set was issued in 1999 by the British firm, Hodder & Sloughton on their Hodder Headline label (HH301). We have found this audio cassette on several sites, but it is listed as “out of stock” on all of them. So, exactly which shows are featured here remains unknown. We will continue to search…
It’s a Wonderful Life (Cassette)
This single cassette was issued in 1997 by the J.C. Entertainment Company (JCC-112). This is yet another release of the Lux Radio Theatre version of It’s a Wonderful Life starring Stewart and Donna Reed. It had originally been broadcast on March 10, 1947. …
The Glenn Miller Story (Cassette)
The Glenn Miller Story was issued by 18 Hits (40187) as a part of their “Big Band Era” series. Except for the fact that several photos of Stewart and June Allyson, from The Glenn Miller Story film, the cassette has no connection to Stewart. All of the music was performed by the original Glenn Miller…
