Newly added to our collection is this 2-cassette set from England (Hodder Headline Audiobooks HH 328). This was number 3 in a series of releases. Packaged in a 4 x 5 ½ inch case, it features four Screen Directors’ Playhouse programs from the 1940’s. The Stewart show, It’s a Wonderful Life, was originally broadcast on…
Tag Archives: Hans Conried
Christmas Collection
This 10-CD set of Old Time Radio Christmas shows features mainly half hour programs. The Screen Directors’ Playhouse version of It’s a Wonderful Life, starring Stewart, Hans Conried (Mr. Potter) Arthur Q. Bryan (Clarence Oddbody) and Barbara Eiler (Mary) is one of the shows included. The program was originally broadcast on May 8, 1949. Other…
The Moon’s Our Home (Cassette)
The Lux Radio Theatre version of The Moon’s Our Home, starring Jimmy Stewart, Carole Lombard, Verna Felton and Hans Conried, was issued on cassette by Radio Showcase (D-299). The show had originally been broadcast on February 10, 1941. You can read more about and listen to that broadcast here…
Golden Age of Radio
Many radio stations continued, and still continue to this day, to air classic radio shows from the golden era of radio well past the time when networks had stopped broadcasting new shows. The following preview appeared in The Indianapolis Star on January 21, 1988. This version of It’s a Wonderful Life, stared Stewart, Arthur Q…
NBC Theater – It’s a Wonderful Life
The NBC Theater was also known as Screen Directors’ Assignment and Screen Directors’ Playhouse. It was different from other dramatic series in that the director of the film, from which the story was adapted, was also a guest on the program. In this case, Frank Capra introduced the show and was part of the interview,…
Lux Radio Theatre – The Moon’s Our Home
Stewart’s second appearance on the Lux Radio Theatre took place on Monday, February 10, 1941. He and Carole Lombard starred in The Moon’s Our Home. Verna Felton, as Boyce, and Hans Conried, as Horace, are other voices you will hear. As Stewart was under contract to MGM at the time, a special contract was needed…
Screen Directors’ Playhouse – Magic Town
Jimmy Stewart had starred in the 1947 film, Magic Town, as Rip Smith and now he was back to play the role again on Screen Directors’ Playhouse. The show was broadcast by NBC on January 6, 1950. The show was advertised heavily in the newspapers. Jimmy’s hometown paper, The Indiana Gazette, even ran this short…
