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,…
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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…
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…
