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…
Jack Benny Volume II
This single cassette featuring two shows was issued in 1994 by GAA Corporation (7217). Side two of the cassette has the Benny show from April 27, 1952, in which he and Jimmy do a sketch called Bend of the River. …
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…
Screen Directors’ Playhouse – Jackpot (Cassette)
This is a single cassette release from Radio Spirits (#2648). To make it a little easier to read the J-card, here it is in the correct orientation: Jackpot, starring Stewart and Margaret Truman, had been broadcast on April 26, 1951…
The Tim Sample Collection Volume Two, Live on Stage 1992-1999
This 3-CD set was issued in 2009 by The Maine Humor Company. As the jacket states, Sample is a humorist and the three CD’s are filled with his comedy routines. But, every now and again, he breaks into song. One of those is called The Jimmy Stewart Song and according to the jacket notes, it…
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…
The Academy Awards
The Academy Awards is a 6-cassette set issued by Metacom/Adventures in Cassettes in 1994. Twelve shows from the radio series Academy Award were included in the set, including Jimmy Stewart’s August 28, 1946, appearance in One Sunday Afternoon…
The Six Shooter – Johnny Stringer
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,…
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…
