Premise: Vaudeville style comedy and variety show.
Ran from: 1942 - 1949
Sponsor: Sal Hepatica, Camel Cigarettes, sustained for last two seasons.
Network: NBC
Premise: Movie scripts adapted to radio format. Almost always used the original stars.
Ran from March through December, 1946
Sponsors: House of Squibb
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates all 39 shows are available.
Vintage Radio Place Log
Premise: Action, adventure
Ran from: 1944-1945
Syndicated
Jay Hickerson estimates all serials are available.
Notes from Dale: These shows and I Love A Mystery have a cult-type following. Both are Carlton E. Morse creations. They may or may not be the best of the adventure shows but they are surely unique.
Premise: mystery, guest panels.
Ran from: 1939 - 1948
Sponsor: Gulf Oil, Bromo Seltzer, Anacin,.
Network: CBS, NBC, ABC.
Jay Hickerson estimates 18 half hour shows are available.
Premise: Situation comedy built around teenagers.
Ran from 1939 to 1953
Sponsor: General Foods, sustained by NBC for last year of broadcast.
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates 119 shows are available, 74 of them with uncertain dates.
Premise: Comedy
Ran from: 1926 - 1960
Sponsors: Pepsodent toothpaste, Campbell Soup, Lever Brothers (Rinso), Rexall.
Network: Started as a local show on WGN in Chicago, ran one year on WMAQ, Chicago, went to NBC in 1929, to CBS in 1948.
Jay Hickerson estimates 308 shows are available which includes 8 of the original "Sam and Henry" shows.
Notes from Dale: This was probably the most listened-to comedy of all time. Movie theaters stopped the show and broadcast Amos 'n Andy into the auditorium. Most felt that was the only way they could break even on the nights when the show was broadcast.
Premise: Drama
Ran from: March 1939 - October 1945
Networks: NBC, Mutual
Jay Hickerson estimates 50 shows are available.
Premise: Comedy with teenage appeal.
Ran from: 1943 -1953
Sponsor: Kraft Foods and Swift
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates all 39 shows are available.
Premise: Crime.
Ran from: June 1941 - November 1942 and returned in 1945 -1946 in sydication.
Network: Local show on WHN in New York.
Jay Hickerson estimates all 26 episodes of the '45-'46 are available.
Note from Dale: No shows from the first series are known to exist
Premise: Crime, investigation.
Ran from: 1951 -1955
Sponsor: mostly sustained by network.
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates 58 episodes are available.
Premise: The unlikely one (for radio) of comedy from a ventriloquist and the world's most famous dummy. The famous guest stars were probably much of the show's appeal.
Ran from: 1936 - 1956
Sponsors: Standard Brands, Chase and Sanborn Coffee, Royal Puddings, Coca Cola, Kraft Foods, possibly others.
Network: NBC until 1949, then CBS
Premise: True crime stories.
Ran from: 1947 - 1955
Sponsor: Pall Mall Cigarettes, Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates 32 episodes are available.
Premise: Newspaper reporting, crime.
Ran from: 1937 - 1951
Sponsors: Ironized Yeast, Bayer Aspirin, Lifebuoy Soap.
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates 45 episodes are available.
Premise: adventure and intrigue, with Bogey and Bacall
Ran from: 1951-1952
Network: syndicated.
Jay Hickerson estimates 28+ episodes are available.
Premise: Private investigations.
Ran from: 1944 - 1950.
Sponsors: Rinso on NBC
Network: NBC the first year, syndicated thereafter.
Jay Hickerson estimates 195+ episodes are available.
Vintage Radio Place Log
Premise: Mystery.
Ran from: 1948 - into the 1950s.
Network: syndicated.
Vintage Radio Place Log
Jay Hickerson estimates all 52
Jay Hickerson estimates all 52 episodes are available.
Premise: Crime solving.
Ran from: Off and on from 1949 - 1954 (was taken off the air and brought back several times).
Network: CBS
Premise: Comedy with George Burns and Gracie Allen
Ran from: 1934 - 1950
Sponsors: White Owl Cigars, Campbell Soups, Grape Nuts, Chesterfield Cigarettes, Hinds Face Cream, Hormel, Lever Brothers, Maxwell House, General Foods, Block Drugs.
Network: CBS and NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates 121 date-certain episodes are available and about 60 undated.
Premise: True police cases.
Ran from: 1933 - 1939.
Sponsor: Rio Grande Oil Company
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates 299 of the 302 episodes are available.
Premise: Crime from a newspaper photographer's point of view.
Ran from: 1943 - 1950 and 1954 - 1955.
Sponsors: Anchor Hocking, Toni Home Permanents, Philip Morris.
Jay Hickerson estimates 72 episodes are available.
Note from Dale: This show actually had other titles at various periods. It ran as Flashgun Casey and simply as Crime Photographer.
Premise: Historic drama.
Ran from: 1935 - 1953
Sponsor: DuPont.
Network: CBS until 1940 then NBC.
Jay Hickerson estimates that 758 episodes are available, all but 123 of the entire run.
Notes from Dale: A personal favorite that never, in my opinion, has had the popularity it deserves. The best way I know to study history.
Premise: Experimental drama.
Ran from: 1956 - 1957
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 87 episodes are available.
Notes from Dale: Some of the very best radio and some of the very worst.
Premise: espionage.
Ran from: 1942 - 1957
Sponsors: Mail Pouch Tobacco, Pharmacraft, Schutter Candy, Gulf Oil.
Networks: ABC, NBC, Mutual.
Jay Hickerson estimates that 44 date-certain episodes are available and 25 undated shows.
Premise: Historical crimes narrated tongue-in-cheek.
Ran from: 1953 - 1954
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 47 of the 51 episodes broadcasts are available. The audition show is also in circulation.
Premise: Dramatic anthology, great story telling.
Ran from: 1948 - mid 1950s.
Network: syndicated.
Jay Hickerson estimates that all episodes are available.
Notes from Dale. This is a personal favorite. John Brown does a great job as narrator.
Premise: Science Fiction
Ran from: 1950 - 1951
Sponsor: General Mills, sustained for most of run.
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that all 50 episodes, which included 5 repeats, are available.
Premises: Police stories.
Ran from: 1949 - 1957
Sponsor: Fatima Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Premise: Situation comedy.
Ran from 1940 - 1952
Sponsors: Schick, Bristol Myers, Blatz Beer.
Network: CBS and NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 90 date-certain and about 60 undated episodes are available.
Premise: suspense.
Ran from: 1947 -1954
Sponsors: Richland Oil Company, mostly sustained.
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 231 of the 241 episodes broadcast are available.
Premise: Private detective.
Ran from: 1946 - 1951
Sponsors: Pepto Bismol, American Chicle.
Network: ABC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 10 episodes are available.
Premise: crime solving.
Ran from: 1944 - 1958
Sponsors: Wildroot Crème Oil, Lava Soap. Lucky Strike Cigarettes, Wrigley.
Network: CBS.
Jay Hickerson estimates that 40 episodes are available, only nine of which are date-certain.
Premise: Comedy
Ran from: 1935 - 1959
Sponsors: Johnson Wax, Reynolds Aluminum.
Network: NBC.
Jay Hickerson estimates that 528 of the 739 half-hour episodes are available along with most of the 15 minute shows
Notes from Dale: The premier comedy in my house. The word gymnastics are hilarious. This show pioneered the idea of making the commercials part of the show and Harlow Wilcox accomplishes this brilliantly. No radio show supported American troops and the war effort more than this one. Don't miss the war years shows.
Premise: Western/Cavalry
Ran from: January 1956 - October 1956
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that all 40 episodes are available.
Notes from Dale. This show - from the creators of Gunsmoke - just came along too late. Raymond Burr is great as Capt. Quince.
Premise: Comedy
Ran from: 1932 - 1949 (had several titles during it's run)
Sponsors: Sal Hepatica, Ipana Toothpaste, Texaco, Tenderleaf Tea,
Network: NBC and CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 158 episodes are in circulation with 184 which can be heard only at the Boston Public Library.
Premise: Western drama
Ran from: February 1958 - November 1958
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that all 41 episodes are available.
Notes from Dale: In my humble opinion, this is John Dehner's best work. He plays an English newspaper correspondent reporting from the American West. It is a shame there weren't more of these.
Premise: Crime drama.
Ran from: 1935 - 1957
Sponsors: Chevrolet, Colgate, Palmolive, Tide, Sloan's Linament, Waterman Pens, Grape Nuts, possibly others.
Network: NBC, CBS, ABC, Mutual
Jay Hickerson estimates that 66 episodes are available, 46 of them undated.
Notes from Dale: Great sound effects.
Premise: Situation Comedy.
Ran from: 1941 - 1950
Sponsors: Kraft Foods, others.
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 470 of the 556 episodes are available.
Notes from Dale: If you are looking for a show that we don't have or any information about this series, you should contact the ultimate Gildersleeve collector, Bob Marquette,
TrophyBob@aol.com
Bob is a great American and the only Democrat my wife associates with.
Premise: Juvenile crime show.
Ran from: 1936 - 1952
Sponsors: General Mills, Orange Crush, mostly sustained.
Network: Originated on WXYZ, Detroit; Mutual, ABC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 100 episodes are available.
Premise: Western.
Ran from: 1952- 1961
Sponsors: Chesterfield Cigarettes, L&M Cigarettes.
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 470 of the 480 episodes are available.
Notes from Dale: This is the ultimate Western. Today's TV and movie makers could take some lessons from this show. It was so well done that adults were well aware of Miss Kitty's true profession but children were not.
Premise: Supernatural, horror.
Ran from: 1952 - 1953
Network: Mutual
Jay Hickerson estimates that 43 episodes are available.
Premise: High-brow comedy
Ran from: 1950 - 1952
Sponsor: Schlitz Brewing Co.
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 82 episodes are available, 13 without dates.
Premise: Western adventure.
Ran from: 1957 - 1963
Sponsors: multiple
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that all 106 episodes are available.
Premise: Adventure on the high seas
Ran from: Several short runs between 1952 and 1957
Network: Transcribed by BBC for CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 43 or more episodes are available.
Premise: Action adventure, mystery.
Ran from: 1939 - 1944 and 1949 - 1952
Sponsors: Fleischman's Yeast, Proctor and Gamble
Network: NBC, CBS
This show ran as a series of stories consisting of 10 to 30 episodes each. Jay Hickerson estimates that only two complete stories, The Thing That Cries in the Night and Bury Your Dead Arizona are available with another story, The Million Dollar Curse, missing only one episode.
Premise: Horror.
Ran from: 1941 - 1952
Sponsors: Carter's Pills, Colgate, Lipton Tea, Mars Candy, Bromo Seltzer, Pearson Pharmaceutical
Networks: ABC, CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 137 episodes are available.
Premise: Espionage drama.
Ran from: 1952 - 1954
Network: syndicated.
Jay Hickerson estimates that 62 episodes are available.
Premise: Comedy
Ran from: 1932 - 1955
Sponsors: Canada Dry, Chevrolet, General Tire, Jell-O, Grape Nuts, Lucky Strike.
Network: CBS, NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 714 episodes are available.
Premise: Private Investigator
Ran from: July 1948 - December 1948
Network: CBS West
Jay Hickerson estimates that 29 episodes are available.
Premise: Private investigator.
Ran from: 1946 - 1954
Sponsor: Standard Oil
Network: Mutual
Jay Hickerson estimates that 199 episodes are available, nine without dates.
Premise: Comedy
Ran from: 1944 - 1952
Sponsors: American Meat Institute, Proctor and Gamble, Pabst Beer
Network: ABC, NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 252 episodes are available.
Premise: Comedy
Ran from: 1948 - 1953
Sponsors: Wrigley Gum
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 46 episodes are available.
Premise: horror.
Ran from: 1934 - 1947
Network: WENR, Chicago, NBC, CBS, ABC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 60 episodes are available.
Premise: Juvenile western
Ran from: 1933 - 1954
Sponsor: Silvercup Bread, Merita Bread, Mills,
Network: WXYZ, Detroit to Mutual, ABC.
Jay Hickerson estimates that 668 original episodes are available as well as 410 shows which were rebroadcast 1954-1956.
Premise: Adventure
Ran from: 1951 - 1952
Network: BBC transcribed for syndication in America.
Premise: western
Ran from: February 1958 - June 1958
Jay Hickerson estimates that 16 of the 17 episodes are available.
Premise: comedy
Ran from: 1931 - 1954
Sponsors: Quaker Oats, Ford Motors, Horlicks, Alka Seltzer, Miles Laboratories, Frigidaire
Network: KTHS, Little Rock; NBC, ABC, CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that more than 1,200 episodes are available.
Premise: Drama
Ran from: 1934 - 1955
Sponsor: Lux
Network: CBS, NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 618 episodes are available plus 20 rehearsal tapes.
Premise: espionage.
Ran from: 1944 - 1952
Sponsor: Lockheed Aircraft, Frigidaire, Ford Motors, RCA, Liggett & Myers
Network: CBS, NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 100 episodes are available.
Premise: Comedy
Ran from: 1946 - 1947
Sponsor: Colgate
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that all 41 episodes are available.
Premise: Drama
Ran from: July 1938 - December 1938 and June 1946 - September 1946
Sponsor: Pabst Beer
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 35 episodes are available as well as several rehearsal tapes.
Premise: Private Detective
Ran from: 1944 - 1950
Network: Mutual, then syndicated.
Jay Hickerson estimates that 30 episodes are available.
Premise: mystery
Ran from: 1942 - 1955
Sponsors: Jergens, Colgate - Palmolive, Halo Shampoo
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 19 date-certain episodes are available plus 10 undated.
Premise: Crime
Ran from: 1939 - 1953
Sponsors: Pepsodent, Bristol Myers, Vitalis
Network: NBC, ABC, syndicated
Jay Hickerson estimates that 70 episodes are available.
Premise: Private investigator
Ran from: 1937 - 1955
Sponsors: Kolynos Tooth Powder, Whitehall Pharmaceutical, American Chicle, Proctor and Gamble
Network: CBS, NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 58 episodes are available.
Premise: mystery, drama.
Ran from: 1943 - 1952
Sponsor: mostly sustained
Network: Mutual
Premise: Crime.
Ran from: 1943 - 1955
Sponsors: Acme Paints, Lin-X, Old Dutch, Cudahy Packing Co., Libby Packing Co.
Network: Mutual
Jay Hickerson estimates that 96 episodes are available.
Premise: The city as seen through a nightshift reporters eyes.
Ran from: February 1950 - November 1950 and 1951 - 1952
Sponsor: General Mills but mostly sustained.
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that most of the episodes are available.
Premise: Comedy
Ran from: 1948 - 1957
Sponsor: Luster Crème Shampoo, Toni Home Permanent, sustained
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 156 episodes are available.
Premise: Private investigator
Ran from: 1946 - 1949
Network: ABC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 23 episodes are available, including 16 of the 18 Jack Webb shows.
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Premise: crime
Ran from: July 1951 - September 1951
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 8 episodes are available.
Premise: Comedy, variety
Ran from: 1946 - 1954
Sponsor: Fitch Shampoo, Rexall
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 92 episodes are available.
Premise: Detective show based on Raymond Chandler's novels.
Ran from: 1947 - 1950
Sponsor: Pepsodent, Ford Motors
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 95 of the 103 episodes are available.
Premise: horror
Ran from: 1947 - 1949
Network: Mutual, ABC
Notes from Dale: This show is not one of my favorites but my wife believes The Thing on the Fourble Board is the best of this genre.
Premise: Private Investigator
Ran from: 1949 - 1953
Sponsors: Rexall, Camel Cigarettes
Network: NBC, CBS, ABC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 118 episodes are available, nine of them without dates.
Premise: Private investigator
Ran from: 1946 - 1951
Sponsor: Wildroot Cream Oil
Network: ABC, CBS, NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 60 episodes are available.
Premise: Adventure, intrigue
Ran from: 1952
Network: BBC, transcribed for syndication in USA
Jay Hickerson estimates all 52 episodes are available.
Premise: Drama
Ran from: 1949 - 1951
Sponsor: Pabst Beer, RCA, Anacin, Chesterfield
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 94 episodes are available.
Premise: crime
Ran from: 1930 - 1954
Sponsor: Blue Coal, Wildroot Cream Oil, Grove Laboratories, U. S. Airforce,
Network: CBS, NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 223 episodes are available.
More lives than a cat. Ran off and on from 1930 until 1956 with different casts, different sponsors, different networks.
Jay Hickerson estimates that 163 episodes are available.
Premise: western
Ran from: September 1953 - June 1954
Sponsor: sustained
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 39 episodes are available, along with an audition tape.
(I have them all).
Premise: As the name implies…
Ran from: 1942 - 1962
Sponsor: Roma Wines, Autolite, sustained
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 902 of the 945 episodes are available.
Premise: variety
Ran from: 1938 - 1940 afterwards ran under several different titles, including The Fred Allen Show, Gordon McRae, Milton Berle Show.
Network: CBS, ABC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 17 episodes are available.
Premise: crime/western
Ran from:1950 - 1952
Sponsor: Wheaties
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 106 episodes are available.
Premise: crime
Ran from: 1945 - 1948
Sponsor: Equitable Life Assurance
Network: ABC
Jay Hickerson estimates that 194 episodes are available.
Premise: adventure
Ran from: July 3, 1947 - February 14, 1948
Network: Mutual
Jay Hickerson estimates that 34 episodes are available plus an audition tape.
Premise: crime
Ran from: 1942 - 1955
Sponsor: Signal Oil
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 453 episodes are available.
Premise: Science Fiction
Ran from: 1955 - 1958
Network: NBC
Jay Hickerson estimates that all 125 episodes are available which includes 13 repeats.
Premise: Insurance investigation
Ran from: 1948 - 1962 (five-parters in 1955 and 1956)
Sponsors: Wrigley
Network: CBS
Jay Hickerson estimates that 440 episodes are available, 56 of them being 5-part stories.