The final new Bob Hope Show had been broadcast in April of 1955. NBC kept the show on its schedule for the new season beginning in September, 1956. However, these shows were repeats. The same regulars, Margaret Whiting and Les Brown and his Band of Renown, were used for these programs. Guests stars, some from…
Category Archives: New Radio Show
Launch of Pennsylvania Week
This is a newly discovered radio appearance for Mr. Stewart. The following article from The Pittsburgh Press (October 12, 1947) says that Governor James Henderson Duff and Stewart would appear the following day, October 13th, to launch “Pennsylvania Week.” No audio for the broadcast appears to have survived. In 1952, Stewart recorded a one-minute spot…
We the People (December 22, 1946)
We have already documented Mr. Stewart’s appearance on the June 24, 1947, edition of We the People. Now, we have discovered that he also appeared on the show about six months previous to this date, on December 22, 1946. Here are several listings which confirm this fact. The first is from The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati,…
Stewart Talks with Junior Junction
Junior Junction was a half-hour Saturday morning program broadcast by ABC from 1946 until 1952. It was aimed at the teenage audience. We just recently uncovered the following photo and listing for the show in the February 9, 1952, issue of The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, OH. Here is a typical listing for the show from…
This Is the Story No. 24
This is a new radio show that we only became aware of a few weeks ago. At the same time, in another form, it is a show of which we have been aware since our research began. This Is the Story is an Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) program which was a part of their…
Louella Parsons – Newly Discovered Show Featuring Jimmy Stewart
It is still amazing to us that after more than 10 years of almost constant research, new radio shows continue to turn up. Recently we came across this listing in the Quad-City Times, Davenport, IA. It was dated February 18, 1951, so we searched other newspapers printed on that date. The Louella Parsons Show was…
Same Time, Same Station
Same Time, Same Station is a weekly old-time radio program hosted by Larry Gassman. He is also often joined by Walden Hughes and Patricia. On his May 28, 2017 program, Gassman played two Stewart shows – Child, Save My Fireman (Silver Theater, January 5, 1941) and Jenny (The Six Shooter, September 20, 1953). Possibly of…
Golden Days of Radio 169 (RU 41-1)
An Armed Forces Radio and Television Service disc of this program is housed in the Library of Congress. It is dated 1971, and is a 12-inch disc playing at 33 1/3 RPM. The Golden Age of Radio was hosted by Frank Bresee and was 25-minutes in length. According to the Library of Congress summary, it…
The Naked Spur – Possible Radio Performance
The WOR Collection in the Library of Congress has two 16-inch recordings which are marked as being “radio rehearsals.” The title on the discs is The Naked Spur and the stars are listed as James Stewart and Janet Leigh, the stars of the 1953 film of the same title. The recording date is listed as…
Radio Theatre
The following article appeared in the December 28, 1987, edition of Broadcasting magazine. From the way the article is written, it seems that Starmagic was lifting the actual film soundtrack from the movie and turning it into a radio show. This procedure is still being used today by an organization known as “Movies for the…
