On the show of May 6, 1956, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy celebrated their 20th year on the air. The program was heavily advertised in the media. This first preview is from the Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, TX. This display ad appeared in The Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, IL. A slightly different display ad was run by…
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Crime and Peter Chambers
Twenty-Six episodes of Crime and Peter Chambers, starring Dane Clark, were broadcast by NBC between April 6 and September 28, 1954. Jimmy Stewart never appeared as a guest on any of these shows. He did, however, appear immediately after the ending of the May 4th episode, usually titled Abigail Chrisenberry or Peter Chambers, Murder Suspect,…
Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour
The Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour was also known as The Rudy Vallee Show. When Jimmy Stewart on the Air was published, the evidence for Stewart having appeared on this program was slim at best. Since the show was not available, it was based on this listing from the New York Times: We knew that Stewart was…
A&E Biography for Radio
Jack Perkins was the host of the radio version of the popular A&E TV series, Biography. The shows were very short, averaging just over two minutes. The syndicated show was sponsored by the Salvation Army. Jimmy Stewart was the subject of the show scheduled to be broadcast on Monday, May 5, 2003. The following short…
The Six Shooter – Revenge at Harness Creek
Revenge at Harness Creek was broadcast on April 29, 1954. John Wald says this title as he is introducing the second act of the play. Despite this, the show is also sometimes called The Harcourt Brothers. As they had been doing for some time, the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, NY, ran a display ad for the…
Lux Radio Theatre – No Highway in the Sky
If you listened to yesterday’s blog of the Jack Benny Show, you might remember that at the end of the program, Jack says, “Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to thank Jimmy Stewart for being on my program tonight and be sure to hear him again tomorrow night on the Lux Radio Theatre when he will…
Jack Benny Show – Bend of the River
Jimmy Stewart’s latest film, Bend of the River had just been released in February of 1952. On April 27th of that year, Jimmy was the guest on the Benny show and performed a sketch based on that film. Newspaper previewed the program this way: The cast for the skit included Jimmy Stewart as himself, Jack…
Screen Directors’ Playhouse – Jackpot
One of Jimmy Stewart’s six appearances on the NBC program, Screen Directors’ Playhouse, came on April 26, 1951, when he starred with Margaret Truman in Jackpot. Miss Truman had the role of Amy Lawrence, the part which had been played by Barbara Hale in the film. One of the other very recognizable voices in the…
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…
