Originally broadcast on January 10, 1954, this story is also known by the titles The Prospector and Hiram Grover’s Strike. The role of Hiram Grover is played by Howard McNear. Others in the play are Herb Vigran as Enoch Wilson, Bill Johnstone as Doc Nibbles and Barney Phillips and Tony Barrett as the outlaws Len…
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The Jack Benny Show with Jimmy Stewart
Jimmy’s first appearance on The Jack Benny Show came on Sunday, January 9, 1949, in an episode called Lunch at the Brown Derby. The CBS program was broadcast from 7 to 7:30 p.m. The Benny show, having been on the air for many years, usually didn’t get more than a mention in the radio listings…
Jack Benny – Volume Two
Jack Benny – Volume Two is a six-cassette set issued by Radio Spirits in 1995. Jimmy Stewart was the guest on one of the shows included in the set. It was the show titled Lunch at the Brown Derby, which had been originally broadcast on January 9, 1949. It begins on Side-A of tape 5,…
The Shootist – Soundtrack
Jimmy Stewart plays the role of E.W. “Doc” Hostetler in this 1976 John Wayne film. “Doc” has to tell John Wayne’s character that he has terminal cancer and will die an agonizing death. No soundtrack album was released at the time of the film. For years, only a few tracks from the Elmer Bernstein scored…
The Six Shooter (1988)
The Six Shooter came back to radio for a time in the eighties. The first hint of this came to our attention in the Radio & Records Program Suppliers Guide ’88. The following ad appeared in the “Drama/Nostalgia” section: There were originally 39 shows in the series, plus an audition show, for a total of…
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The 5th New York Film Critics Circle Awards for 1939 were announced on December 27, 1939, and the awards ceremony was broadcast just over a week later on January 7, 1940. The show was broadcast by NBC from 6:30-7 p.m. eastern time. The New York Times ran this listing on the day of the broadcast:…
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…
The Comedy Series That Never Was
On February 6, 1949, this “Erskine Johnson in Hollywood” column was published in the Daily Ardmoreite, Ardmore, OK: Mr. Johnson’s second point is that Stewart has his agents searching for a radio comedy series in which he could star. It’s a shame that their hunt turned up empty. We can only imagine what might have…
Silver Theater – Child, Save My Fireman
There seems to be some disagreement over the title of this broadcast. Although almost all online sources refer to it as Child, Save My Fireman, the newspaper previews gave a different title. Here are several newspaper listing for the program from the day of the broadcast, January 5, 1941. The first is from the Morning…
Louella Parsons (January 5, 1947)
Louella Parsons was the writer of a Hollywood gossip column for the Hearst chain, with her work appearing in more than 400 newspapers. She also hosted several different radio shows in the 1940’s and 50’s. Jimmy Stewart is known to have appeared on her program several times. The first documented occurrence came on January 5,…
