Oldtime Radio

If you remember how much department store clerks cringed when they saw Jack Benny coming on Christmas Day, or remember listening to Martians attacking New Jersey, or worried about how Kitty Kelly was going to be exonerated of those murder charges this time, then The Golden Age of Radio Quiz Book: 1,001 Questions About Old-Time Radio, might be a book you will enjoy!This e-book quiz book contains 1,001 trivia questions on all aspects of old-time radio: The shows, the stars, the characters, the networks...

Now long out of print, John Dunning's Tune in Yesterday was the definitive one-volume reference on old-time radio broadcasting. Now, in On the Air, Dunning has completely rethought this classic work, reorganizing the material and doubling its coverage, to provide a richer and more informative account of radio's golden age...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART I: INTERVIEWS CHAPTER 1: PARKER FENNELLY "TITUS MOODY" ON THE FRED ALLEN SHOW, WITH WIFE, CATHERINE CHAPTER 2: JOAN MERRILL VOCALIST ON THE EDGAR BERGEN PROGRAM CHAPTER 3: WARD BYRON PRODUCER OF MUSICAL PROGRAMS CHAPTER 4: FRANK NELSON & VEOLA VONN FRANK, COMEDIAN ON THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM AND VEOLA, ACTRESS ON VARIOUS PROGRAMS CHAPTER 5: HILDEGARDE CHANTEUSE, THE RALEIGH ROOM CHAPTER 6: MIRIAM WOLFF ACTRESS ON THE WITCH'S TALE AND LET'S PRETEND CHAPTER 7: DOROTHEA COLE WIDOW OF WRITER AND ACTOR ALONZO DEEN COLE CHAPTER 8: ROBERT VAN DEVENTER PANELIST ON TWENTY QUESTIONS CHAPTER 9: MARY SMALL VOCALIST ON LITTLE MISS BAB-O'S SURPRISE PARTY CHAPTER 10: ANNE DEMARCO VOCALIST AND ONE OF FIVE OF THE DEMARCO SISTERS CHAPTER 11: JANET CANTOR GARI DAUGHTER OF EDDIE CANTOR CHAPTER 12: PAT HOSLEY ACTRESS ON MANY PROGRAMS CHAPTER 13: SANDRA MICHAEL CREATOR AND WRITER OF AGAINST THE STORM AND LONE JOURNEY CHAPTER 14: PEGGY MOYLAN VOCALIST AND ONE OF THE MOYLAN SISTERS ON THE HORN AND HARDART CHILDREN'S HOUR PART II: RESOURCE GUIDE TO THE ORAL HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2: LIST OF ORAL HISTORIES

The advent of the VCR has made the movies of the 1930s and 1940s available to a contemporary audience, but radio shows from that era have remained elusive. This wonderful collection sets out to rectify that problem, offering 60 shows from that golden age of radio. The range of entertainment--the set contains 20 hours of material--is breathtaking, running the gamut from comedy routines (Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First") through mystery serials ("The Saint" with Vincent Prince) to variety shows (Jack Benny's "Money or Your Life") and radio plays (Orson Welles's infamous 1937 "panic broadcast" of the "War of the Worlds")...

The year is 1934, and amiable New York gag writer Artie Plask has taken the West Coast plunge. His first day on staff with a top radio show introduces him to the irresistible Mariel Fenton, a wit among wits who immediately takes an interest in all aspects of Artie's life—especially his private life...

A brief history, review and episode guide for the 1950 old-time-radio comedy "Granby's Green Acres." A summer replacement series that had a very brief run, it was later used as the model for the successful 1960s television series "Green Acres."