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The Black Museum
was a 1951 radio crime drama program with Orson Welles as both host
and narrator for stories of horror and mystery based on Scotland
Yard's collection of murder weapons and various ordinary objects
once associated with historical true crime cases. Walking through the museum, Welles would pause at one of the
exhibits, and his description of an artifact served as a device to
lead into a wryly-narrated dramatized tale of a brutal murder or a
vicious crime. In the closing: "Now until we meet again in the same
place and I tell you another tale of the Black Museum", Welles would
conclude with his signature radio phrase, "I remain, as always,
obediently yours". So sit back, and let Orson Welles keep you enthralled with
stories of homicide and mystery based on Scotland Yard's collection
of murder weapons and objects associated with crime cases for the
next 28 hours, and over 65 episodes of The Black Museum.
The Cinnamon Bear
is an old time radio program. The program was
produced by TRANSCO, the Transcription Company of America, based in
Hollywood, California and specifically designed to be listened to
(six days a week – excluding Sundays) between Thanksgiving and
Christmas. It was first broadcast between Friday, November 26, and
Saturday December 25, 1937. Although some markets like Portland,
Oregon jumped the gun, debuting the program on November 25,
Thanksgiving Day. The story focused on Judy and Jimmy Barton who must venture from
their home to the enchanted world of Maybeland to recover their
missing Silver Star that belongs on top of their Christmas tree.
Helping on this quest for the missing star is The Cinnamon Bear, a
stuffed bear with shoe button eyes and a green scarf. They meet
other memorable characters on this quest. The episodes would air
starting at Thanksgiving and would end at Christmas, with one
episode airing each night. The radio show proved to be so popular
that it is said to be broadcast by a station somewhere in the world
every year during the holidays, even today. In fact, many malls had
a Cinnamon Bear that children would tell what they wanted for gifts
instead of a Santa, and he would show up in Christmas parades.
Let's Pretend was created and directed by Nila Mack was a
long-run CBS radio series for children. There were several different
early formats and titles. When Nila Mack took over as director and
changed the title to Let's Pretend, "radio's outstanding children's
theater." Mack's Peabody Award-winning Let's Pretend included such classics
and fairy tales as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Arabian Nights,
Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin.The show always began with
a characteristic tune, sometimes with lyrics, from its long time
sponsor Cream of Wheat. George Bryan and Jackson Wheeler were the
announcers. So sit back with your children and enjoy
some of the classics with over 50+ episodes and better than 19+
hours of magical enchantment for you and your family.
It Pays to Be Ignorant
was a very popular radio comedy show whose
popularity remained steady during a run on three networks for such
sponsors as Philip Morris, Chrysler and DeSoto. The show was a spoof
on the more authoritative, academic intellectual panel series as
Quiz Kids and Information Please. The beginning of the show parodied
"Doctor I.Q.” The satirical series featured "a board of experts who are dumber
than you are and can prove it". Tom Howard was the quizmaster who
asked questions of dim-bulb panelists Harry McNaughton, Lulu
McConnell and George Shelton. However, the panelists would get the
answer wrong, providing outrageously funny answers instead, followed
by an even more uproarious rationale for their answer. So sit back and laugh till your sides
hurt with over 17 hours and 35 episodes of It Pays to Be Ignorant.
Adventures Of Dick Tracy - While Dick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a
hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police
detective who has matched wits with a variety of often grotesquely
ugly villains, it also had a long run on radio. It’s radio history starts with it run from 1934 weekdays on NBC's
New England stations to the ABC network in 1948. Bob Burlen was the
first radio Tracy in 1934, and others heard in the role during the
1930s and 1940s were Barry Thompson, Ned Wever and Matt Crowley. The
early shows all had 15-minute episodes. So sit back and re-live those great Dick
Tracy moments with over 70+ episodes for the next 20 hours with your
children and relive those inner detective moments from your past!
The Cruise of the Poll Parrot takes place in New Bedford, Massachusetts
during the year of 1858.
The show was launched in 1937, and sponsored by the International Shoe
Company, who purchased Poll Parrot Shoes from Paul Parrot in 1922.
The main character for the show was a 24 year old man from St. Louis,
Missouri, named Marvin Miller. He was the voice for the main character,
Captain Roy Dalton, the Master of the ship Poll Parrot, and also the voice
of the parrot that was the pet of the Captain.
Some of the other characters were Ezra Grange who was the owner of the
Poll Parrot. His sister, Sue, and her friend Johnny Robbins. George
Wainwright, a one legged sailor named Old Dickson, a muteness crew member
named Red Mahooley, a ship keeper Breckenridge, and an agent for another
shipping company, El Testi. Sit back and enjoy listening to this great
talent and more in over seven hours and 39 episodes of The Cruise of the
Poll Parrot.
