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…
The Traitor Within
The Traitor Within was a 30-minute program produced by NBC in cooperation with the American Cancer Society. It was broadcast on Sunday afternoon, April 12, 1953, between 4:30 and 5 p.m. (EST). The show was written by Richard George Pedicini and featured music composed and conducted by Robert Armbruster. Dr. Ian MacDonald was the show’s…
Jimmy Stewart on NBC Monitor #4
The final surviving tape of Jimmy Stewart on the NBC Monitor program is from April 11, 1970. Gene Rayburn and Stewart talk about several films, including After the Thin Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It’s a Wonderful Life and Anatomy of a Murder…
Biography in Sound – Captain Eddie: The Iron Eagle
Biography in Sound was written and produced for NBC by Don Cameron and supervised by James L. Holton for NBC News. This episode aired on April 10, 1958, from 9:05-10 p.m. and was hosted by Walter O’Keefe, who was called a guide. It was a true biography of Rickenbacker, beginning with his pre-World War I…
More Tales of Suspense
This 12-cassete set was issued in 1991 by Greatapes and featured 24 Suspense programs. One Stewart show, Mission Completed, originally broadcast on December 1, 1949, was included…
The Six Shooter – General Gilford’s Widow
General Gilford’s Widow, broadcast April 8, 1954, is also known under the titles The Widow’s Secret and The Wolf. The advertising for the program was similar to what it had been for the past few weeks. The Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, NY, ran this photo ad: Radio station WHIZ, placed this display ad for all of…
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring was a 13-week series produced in co-operation with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In the cities in which it aired, it was sponsored by the local chapter of the Chamber of Commerce. The show was very heavily publicized, as shown by the collection of newspaper stories below which were printed on April…
Bing Crosby – Jimmy Stewart…Babysitter?
On April 6, 1949, the 100th Bing Crosby show was broadcast and Jimmy Stewart was his guest, along with Kay Starr. This display ad for the program appeared in the Winona Republican Herald, Winona, MN. Stewart’s contract for the show was a simple one: plot of the Crosby-Stewart sketch is simple. Jimmy is babysitting, but…
Theatre Guild on the Air – The Silver Whistle
The Silver Whistle, a Robert E. McEnroe play adapted for radio by Robert Anderson, was presented on the Theatre Guild on the Air on April 6, 1952. The program was sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation, directed by Homer Fickett and produced by George Kondolf. Norman Brokenshire was the announcer and the original music…
This Is It
Since the publication of Jimmy Stewart on the Air, more information about the Army Day Drama for 1946 has come to light. Most importantly, we now know that the title of the show was This Is It, not Army Day Drama. The show remains unavailable, but we now know this information. First, here is a…
