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…

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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,…

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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…

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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:…

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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…

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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…

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Old-Time Radio Famous Westerns

This 10-CD set was issued by Radio Spirits (4473) in 2001. A photo of Stewart appears on the cover. The set included just one Six Shooter program, Red Lawson’s Revenge, along with many other shows including The Cisco Kid, Frontier Gentleman, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger, Red Ryder and Tales…

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Friars Frolic Promo

The following story appeared in the April 13, 1949, edition of Variety: The final paragraph is what caught our attention. It seems that to promote the April 16th event a series of 30-second and 1-minute spots were recorded for play on many of the local, Los Angeles area, radio stations. Heard on these spots were…

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