Tape 1. Adventures of Philip Marlowe -- Adventures of Sam Spade, detective -- Amos 'n' Andy -- tape 2. Baby Snooks show -- Big town -- Bing Crosby Chesterfield show -- tape 3. Blondie -- Broadway is my beat -- Burns and Allen -- tape 4. Casey, crime photographer -- CBS radio workshop -- Charlie McCarthy show -- tape 5. Columbia workshop -- Crime classics -- Danny Kaye show -- tape 6. Dr. Christian -- Escape -- FBI in peace and war -- tape 7. First nighter program -- Fort Laramie -- Fred Allen show -- tape 8. Frontier gentleman -- Gang busters -- Grand Central Station -- tape 9. Gunsmoke -- Have gun, will travel -- Honest Harold -- tape 10. Hopalong Cassidy -- Inner Sanctum mysteries -- It pays to be ignorant. Tape 11. Jack Benny program -- Jeff Regan, invetigator -- Jimmy Durante show -- tape 12. Let's pretend -- Life with Luigi -- Lights out -- tape 13. Lineup -- Luke Slaughter of Tombstone -- Lum and Abner -- tape 14. Man called X -- Meet Corliss Archer -- Mel Blanc show -- tape 15. Mercury theater on the air -- Mr. Chameleon -- Mr. Keen, tracer of lost persons -- tape 16. My favorite husband -- My friend Irma -- My little Margie -- tape 17. Our Miss Brooks -- Philip Morris playhouse -- Pursuit -- tape 18. Red Skelton show -- Rocky Jordan -- Screen Guild players -- tape 19. Songs by Sinatra -- Suspense -- Tales of Fatima -- tape 20. Whistler -- You bet your life -- Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Summary:
A unique collection of 60 of the greatest radio shows broadcast over the CBS radio network in the 1930's, '40s and 50s. Comedy, mystery, detective, western, drama and variety shows are presented. You'll hear Jack Benny, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Danny Kaye, William Conrad, Fred Allen, Orson Welles, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Lucille Ball, Groucho Marx and many others.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.