The National Broadcasting Company brings you transcribed from New York The Martin and Lewis Show with special guest Bob Hope, featuring Flo McMichael, Mike Roy, The Martingales, Dick Stabile and his orchestra and Starring Dean Martin with his wonderful singing voice and Jerry Lewis with his not so wonderful singing voice!
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are two young men who have overnight become the nations comedy hit and they are still rather dazed by it all. Now we take you back a few hours to this afternoon. We find the boys in their apartment getting ready somewhat nervously to go to NBC for their first radio show…
Cast: Bob Hope, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Broadcast: December 21, 1948
It’s 8.15 am and Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Richard Kollmar bring you breakfast as usual from their New York apartment on 66th Street. Today they are very happy to have at their breakfast table two friends who are also neighbors, Leo Durocher and his wife Mrs Durocher otherwise known as Lorraine Day.
Cast: Richard Kollmar, Dorothy Kilgallen
Broadcast: May 9, 1947
It’s 8.15 am and Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Richard Kollmar bring you breakfast as usual from their New York apartment on 66th Street. Today they are very happy to have at their breakfast table Florence Pritchett.
Cast: Dorothy Kilgallen, Richard Kollmar, Florence Pritchett
Broadcast: April 26, 1947
"Reaping down upon the underworld to smash ganglands comes a friend of the unfortunate an enemy of criminals, the mysterious all powerful character who is a problem to the police. A crusader for law, in reality Dan Garrett a rookie patrolman loved by everyone but suspected by none of being the Blue Beetle. As the Blue beetle he hides behind a strange mask and a suit of impenetrable blue chain armor flexible as silk but stronger than steel."
This episode sends the Blue beetle swooping down on a group of powerful underworld characheters whose racket is dope. Will he be able to ferret them out? Can he hope to be able to cope with this mysterious ring of ruthless men single handed? Can he discover their leader and bring him to justice? Listen now to both parts of this 2 part story.
Cast: Frank Lovejoy
Broadcast: May 15, 1940
“Hey kids its time for the party with Big Jon and Sparkie”. They were escaping from the dread Mon Gumsy pygmy tribe in Africa in Captain Squinty’s airplane. Captain Squinty Coco Joecal and the rest of the native boys had gone back to camp in their jeep and they were going to fly away from danger but as they got out in to the lake they discovered they were out of gas.
Cast: Jon Arthur
Broadcast: Not Known
When the first space rocket lands on Mars, what will we find? Will we be welcomed with open arms or will the Martians treat us as invaders? Only one thing is certain someday a giant metal ship will take off from earth and travel through the black velocities of the silent states to descend at last in the upper Martian atmospheres. That day man will finally know the answers. The day we first land on Mars.
Cast: Wendell Holmes
Broadcast: 7th January 1951
A program based upon George Creel's book War Criminals and Punishment. It poses the question, "What are we going to do with Hitler when we have ended the war that he started?" The show is brought to you in the form of an open letter to Hitler, written by a man who has read Creel's book and wants to the American public to know what kind of job is ahead if justice is to be done.
Cast: Ned Wever
Broadcast: July 4, 1944
The famous criminologist Roy Post devised this series. Here is your chance to actually take part in the jury trial without leaving your own living room, the chance to find out what kind of juror you’d make. Be warned, it states that the verdict will not be heard while the next episode but in fact it is not heard at all on the recordings and was probably announced live on the radio.
Broadcast: Unknown
For over twenty years, in over 180 different countries, Robert Ripley has collected facts in their strangest, most remarkable form. So let's see what he has in store for you tonight, when he can show you how amazing he truth can be. But first, the show opens with a medley of tunes, from Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra. The first tune is called 'Puttin' On My White Tie'.
Cast: Robert Ripley, Harriet Hilliard, Gino Palmisano
Broadcast: November 3, 1935
Today's show is all about aviation oddities, thrills from high in the air, and some of the strangest and more daring aeronautical feats ever recorded.
Cast: Robert Ripley
Broadcast: December 1, 1935
Today's show bring you lots more interesting facts from Robert Ripley, beginning with a quiz. Here's the first question. Which weighs more? A pound of gold, or a pound feathers? But before you get the answer, first the discussion of the day is one of the most frightening phobias ever to delude mankind - witchcraft. Believe it or not, it began with the publication of one book...
Host: Robert Ripley
Broadcast: August 4, 1947
It's the year 4000, and the colonization of the planet Mars is a fact. The folks up there aren't much different to those on Earth - except maybe a little wiser. Today's tale is the story of Matt Morrow, editor of the successful telepaper The Morrow News, and of what happened after a strange little man walked into his office, wearing a shiny blue suede suit and a straw hat - the kind that went out of fashion on Earth hundreds of years ago. The strange man was little, he was incongruous, and he was frightened.
Cast: Maurice Tarplin, Raymond Edward Johnson, Rolly Bester, John Raby
Broadcast: April 2, 1953
Maurice Tarplin starred as the Mysterious Traveler in this supernatural drama series. The stories began; “This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the strange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves, and be comfortable – if you can!"
Cast: Vicki Volante, Ann Sheppard, Bret Morrison, Lawson Zerbe, Maurice Tarplin, Orson Welles, Ted Osborne, Various, Jackson Beck, Lon Clark, Ed Begley, Lyle Sudrow, Eric Dressler, Roger DeKoven, Robert Dryden, Mary Jane Higby, Joyce Gordon, Ralph Bell, Cliff Carpenter, Joe Julian, Leon Janney, Bill Zuckert, Helen Shields, Bryna Raeburn, Jack Manning, Alan Manson, Art Carney, Chuck Webster, James Van Dyk
Broadcast History: 5 December 1943 to 16 September 1952
Ellery Queen begins by dedicating this program to the fight against crime. Not merely crimes of violence and crimes of dishonesty but crimes of intolerance, discrimination, and bad citizenship, crimes against America.
He then tells us the story of a mysterious international figure suspected of diamond smuggling.
Cast: Hugh Marlowe
Broadcast: 7th September 1947
Professor O’Donnell is a great scientist who has become cruel and inhuman and it is for that reason that his assistant Miss St Clair has decided to leave him. The Professor has created Mechanical robots, which go out and capture animals from the zoo so that the professor can use their brains to create a super brain for his robots. But of course he can’t let her go for fear of her telling the police. He intends to kill her and use her brain too.
Cast: James Monks
Broadcast: 15th June 1945
Jeff Martin had been engaged to Gloria Bennett 15 years ago before he murdered her and now he believed her ghost was back to haunt him and his wife Helen.
Cast: Peter Lorre
Broadcast: 3rd February 1954
Did you ever have a dream in which you were running and running, running away from some grotesque horrible thing that was after you to kill you? And you scream and you keep running it runs too and no matter how you run, how fast you run it’s still after you. This thing, this thing runs fast and you can’t get away from it no matter where you turn. When you wake up you know you’ve been dreaming but the sweat soaks your body like a wet shroud and your heart beats wildly and you find it’s a silkscreen because even though you’re awake that thing is still there in the room with you. It clings like a leech.
Listen then to this story of a man and of a leech he couldn’t get away from but in this story the Leech was dead and it was human…
Cast: Peter Lorre
Broadcast: 7th April 1954
A mid fields of clover,
'T was just a little over a hundred years ago,
A handful of strangers,
they faced many dangers to make their country grow,
It's now quite a nation of wond'rous population,
And free from every king,
It's your land, it's my land,
A great do or die land,
And that's why I sing.
From all sorts of places,
They welcomed all the races to settle on their shore,
They didn't care which one,
The poor or the rich one,
They still had room for more,
To give them protection,
By popular election,
A set of laws they chose,
They're your laws and my laws,
For your cause and my cause,
That's why this country rose.
America, I love you,
You're like a sweetheart of mine,
From ocean to ocean,
For you my devotion, is touching each bound'ry line,
Just like a little baby,
Climbing it's mother's knee,
America, I love you,
And there's a hundred million other's like me.
Cast: Edgar Leslie, Archie Gottler
Broadcast: 1915
Avalon Time with Red Foley, Janette Davis, Edna Stillwell, The Avalon Chorus, Bob Strong and his Orchestra and radio’s redheaded ragamuffin Richard “Red” Skelton. It’s Edna’s birthday and today she is having a party to celebrate.
Red Skelton opens the show with his topical stand-up comedy routine. Red Foley is first up to sing.
Cast: Red Skelton, Red Foley, Janette Davis, Edna Stillwell, Bob Strong
Broadcast: 1939
Avalon Time with Red Foley, Janette Davis, Edna Stillwell, The Avalon Chorus, Bob Strong and his Orchestra and radio’s redheaded ragamuffin Richard “Red” Skelton. It’s Edna’s birthday and today she is having a party to celebrate.
Red Skelton opens the show with his topical stand-up comedy routine. Red Foley is first up to sing.
Cast: Red Skelton, Janette Davis, Edna Stillwell
Broadcast: 1939
