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Title:

The 60 greatest old-time radio shows of the 20th century [sound recording] / selected by Walter Cronkite.

Format:

[sound recording] /

Publisher:

Radio Spirits,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

20 sound cassettes (30 hrs.) : analog ; in container 23 x 25 cm. + 1 booklet (58 p. : ill., ports. ; 13 cm.)

Subject:

Radio plays--United States.
Radio programs--United States.

Other Authors:

Cronkite, Walter.

Notes:

Title from cover of clamshell container.

Contents:

Tape 1. Walter Cronkite audio foreword -- Mercury Theater on the Air -- Abbott and Costello Show -- Tape 2. Adventures of Philip Marlowe -- Chase & Sanborn Hour -- Tape 3. Six Shooter -- Baby Snooks Show -- Escape -- Tape 4. Fibber McGee and Molly -- On a Note of Triumph -- Tape 5. CBS Radio Workshop -- Burns & Allen -- Tape 6. Jack Benny Program -- Lux Radio Theatre -- Tape 7. Suspense -- Grand Central Station -- Philco Radio Time -- Tape 8. Saint -- Have Gun, Will Travel -- Vic and Sade -- Lum and Abner -- Tape 9. We Hold These Truths -- Arthur Godfrey Time -- Walter Winchell Show -- Tape 10. X-Minus One -- Adventures of Superman -- Mercury Summer Theater -- Big Town -- Tape 11. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar -- Tape 12. Columbia Presents Corwin -- Dimension X -- Eddie Cantor Show -- Tape 13. Escape -- Chase and Sanborn Hour -- Tape 14. Cavalcade of America -- Fred Allen Show -- Tape 15. Lights Out -- Jack Benny Program -- Tape 16. Command Performance -- Columbia Presents Corwin -- Dragnet -- Tape 17. Shadow -- Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective -- Bickersons -- Tape 18. Inner Sanctum Mysteries -- Great Gildersleeve -- I love Lucy -- Tape 19. Arch Oboler's Plays -- Suspense -- Lone Ranger -- Tape 20. Gunsmoke -- Let's Pretend -- Bold Venture -- Quiet, Please.

Summary:

Sixty of the greatest radio shows of the 20th century selected by Walter Cronkite. Performers include Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, James Stewart, Fanny Brice, William Conrad, Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Arthur Godfrey, Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Groucho Marx, Eddie Cantor, Ray Bradbury, Vincent Price, Burgess Meredith, Fred Allen, Boris Karloff, Frank Sinatra, Jack Webb, Don Ameche, Agnes Moorehead, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

ISBN:

9781570192432
157019243X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42939350

Locations:

XBPE737 -- Lied Public Library - Clarinda (Clarinda)

SHPC094 -- Denver Public Library (Denver)

SXPC124 -- Greene Public Library (Greene)