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Black Flame Amazon tags along with a world famous explorer Harold Noice while he traveled through jungles of South America during the 1930s.

Daredevils of Hollywood was a radio show that featured the true stories of early Hollywood stunt performers: What it was about: The show focused on the excitement and danger of a different stunt performer each week. Who was featured: The show featured stunt performers like Slim Talbot and Bob Clark. Where to listen: You can listen to a classic episode of Daredevils of Hollywood featuring Slim Talbot and Bob Clark on Spreaker.

rmed with a heavy, and temperamental wire recorder Corwin spoke with politicians, street sweepers, spiritual leaders, housewives, students - reaching out to the famous and non famous - recording their thoughts on the meaning of World War II and the possibilities for peace and humanity in the future. Corwin recorded not only these conversations, but the ceremonies, rituals and sounds of the cities, towns and villages that he passed through on his "One World Flight."

The National Broadcasting Company's NBC Radio Network (also known as the NBC Red Network from 1927 to 1942)[a] was an American commercial radio network which was in continuous operation from 1926 through 1999. Along with the NBC Blue Network, it was one of the first two nationwide networks established in the United States. Its major competitors were the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), founded in 1927, and the Mutual Broadcasting System, founded in 1934. In 1942, NBC was required to divest one of its national networks, so it sold NBC Blue, which was soon renamed the American ...

Tobacco company Brown & Williamson, former makers of Kool cigarettes, began producing Avalon in 1932. Avalon was Brown & Williamson's 'economy' brand, while never actually mentioning that term. Instead, they were promoted as either the cigarettes that "cost you less" or the cigarettes that "give you change back".Avalon Time was the first Avalon-sponsored radio program with Show Boat premiering in 1939.The 'Reds''Red' was an ongoing theme and joke on Avalon Time. Coincidentally, all four hosts of the program had "red" hair. Two of the four hosts went by the name "Red". Also, the program ...

Similar to other variety shows of the 1930s, the show featured short jokes and skits with musical interludes of assorted styles. Warren Hull announced the show and Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra performed. Wendy Barrie and Virginia Verrill also perform. The show was sponsored by Log Cabin Syrup.Log Cabin Syrup was created in 1887 by grocer P.J. Towle from St. Paul, Minnesota. He named the syrup Towle Log Cabin Syrup after his childhood hero Abraham Lincoln who grew up in a log cabin. In 1927, General Foods bought the Towle Maple Syrup Company and in 1937 Log Cabin Jamboree was created.

"The Misadventures of Si & Elmer"(aka "Si & Elmer") was a daily 15 minute comedic soap opera, broadcast in the early 1930s. Story of two old fellas who decide later-in-life (their mid-60s) to become detectives. The boys manage to receive their detective licence, quickly open their own agency, studying their work-manual as they investigate.The antics to follow are quite hilarious and worth following - regardless of the 1 and 1/2 Minute Lead-in (and out) of music you will be listening to at opening and closing of show.

Behind the Mike was a Blue Network (NBC) radio series hosted by Graham McNamee, spotlighting behind-the-scenes stories in radio broadcasting. The sustaining show aired Sundays at 4:30 p.m. ET from September 15, 1940, to April 19, 1942. : 76 : 34 The program featured interviews with on-air personalities and announcers, musicians and other performers, composers, the creators of sound-effects, producers, engineers and other technicians involved in radio production.As many as six stories were covered in each broadcast, and questions from listeners were answered in the "Correspondence ...

The Smiths everyday adventures are a little more fantastic than a real average family's are, since being in Hollywood naturally means that such stars as Lucille Ball, William Holden, and Ann Sheridan are prone to drop by. But they're just plain folk off-screen, just like you or I. Good thing there's a solid cast of veteran radio professions to make it funny! They did, and The Smiths of Hollywood is solid radio comedy entertainment.Harry Von Zell became the announcer on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show TV Show beginning in 1951.He also starred in the memorable films "Boy, Did I ...

he Rotary Golden Theater was produced by the International Rotary Association in 1955 to celebrate it’s 50th anniversary. Consisting of thirteen 15 minute episodes, it was provided to local Rotary Clubs for broadcast on local stations. In conjunction, thirteen discussion scripts were also offered to be used as follow-up broadcasts or for use as program and educational material where local broadcast might not be possible. Broadcast from March 1, 1955 through March 18, 1955, five times a week.Each episode featured a different situation involving persons with a problem, with the solution ...

In Jerry at Fair Oaks, the follow up program to Jerry of the Circus, we are delighted by more of our orphaned hero's adventures, only this time away from the circus in which he grew up in, but at Fair Oaks School instead. Again the shows are fifteen minutes in length, perfect for even very young children.So sit down with our hero Jerry Dugan again, for 65 episodes and 15 plus hours, only this time the shows will focus on his adventures at Fair Oaks School. You and the children will be glad you did.

RCA Thesaurus obtained permission to serialize Rice's popular "The Tumult and The Shouting" via their transcription subscription service. Titled The Grantland Rice Story, the 15-minute series comprised fifty-two sequential installments. First airing regionally as early as August 1955, the entire run soon appeared across the nation on various stations at varying times. Some aired it every weekday, some three days a week, some weekly.The program's 15-minute installments closely followed the text of Rice's book. Jimmy Powers, himself a noted sportswriter and announcer of 30 years, narrated, read...

Secret Agent X-9 was a comic strip created by writer Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) and artist Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon). Syndicated by King Features, it originally ran from January 22, 1934 until October 1936X-9 was a nameless agent who worked for a nameless agency. X-9 used the name "Dexter" in the first story ("It's not my name, but it'll do") and kept using it or being called by it in later stories.A radio drama, featuring Secret Agent X-9 was broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in January 1994. It's 1934 and a New York warehouse is ablaze on the Lower East Side. A gang of gun-runners are ...

What is Life on Red Horse Ranch? Life on Red Horse Ranch successfully combines a genuinely thrilling serial story, with the colorful music of the old west.A vivid moving story filled with suspense that stirs the imagination of every listener.deftly woven into the script is the picturesque music of the open range, by the Texas Rangers, music heard in its natural setting.Life on Red Horse Ranch has all the elements of a successful radio show:DramaRomanceComedyMusicDRAMAthe struggle of old Sam Carter to save Red Horse Ranch from land grabbers.the tense excitement of a deadly fight with cattle...

NBC University of The Air presented several educational programs between 1942 and 1948. The subject matter and themes ranged from politics and philosophy, to music appreciation and history. The programming from NBC University of The Air was deemed so instructive that it was incorporated into the curricula of many high schools, colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Canada during the period. Indeed, Columbia University of New York collaborated extensively with NBC in developing several of NBC University of The Air productions throughout the era.By far the most interesting and ...

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series that ran for eight seasons from April 15, 1951, through September 24, 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from June 5, 1955, through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958. The Kellogg's cereal company was the show's national sponsor. The series was also exported to Australia during the late 1950s.

Democracy in America is a well-produced dramatization of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book of the same name. These fourteen, thirty-minute episodes follow Tocqueville and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, from their landing in New York in May of 1831 through their departure nine months later, with the final episode twenty years later. The series is an educational one, produced Division of General Education of New York University in conjunction with the Fund for Adult Education.Although educational the production are far from dry, pedantic lectures. They are high quality programs with music, ...

The Cisco Kid is a fictional character found in numerous film, radio, television and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story "The Caballero's Way", published in Everybody's Magazine, v17, July 1907, as well as in the collection Heart of the West (1907). Originally a murderous criminal in O. Henry's story, the Kid was depicted as a heroic Mexican caballero later in films, radio and television adaptations.In O. Henry's original story, the character is a 25-year-old desperado in the Texas–Mexico border country who bears...

Rogers of the Gazette is a classic radio broadcast that is available on Spreaker as part of the GSMC Classics collection. The collection features classic radio broadcasts, novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical presentations from the golden age of radio. Some of the Rogers of the Gazette disc numbers include: RotG 530729 04 Surprise Engagement and RotG 530805 05 That Taylor Boy.

With that porters' cry, we climb onboard the Club Car Special. The Club Car Special is based on the March of Events and City Life Section of the Hearst Sunday newspapers throughout the country.This section is devoted to the cartoons and writings of America's foremost humorists -- O.O. McKentyre, Will Rogers, George Eads, Stan Hilman, Arthur 'Bugs' Bayer, Milt Gross, Damon Runyon and many others.So, let's climb on board right now, for a lark and a laugh.