The Old Time Radio Snack Wagon
Get ready for the first-ever snackable Old Time Radio podcast. Each week listen for a bite-sized sample of the Golden Age of Radio and journey back to the twentieth century. Gain keen insights into life in the 1930s, 1940s , and 1950s through short-form old-time radio programs including comedic moments, full-cast short dramas, stories from the greatest storytellers of the past. Unearth legends and rediscover those who have long been forgotten, all while gaining keen insights into life in a world that was. Each episode brings you self-contained short programs or excerpts from longer programs, skillfully introduced by Adam, who provides brief commentary and historical background. For history enthusiasts seeking a tantalizing trip through time, the Old Time Radio Snack Wagon awaits you. If you want a bite-sized trip through time, the Old Time Radio Snack Wagon will be ready to serve you starting August 7th. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5919985/advertisement
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Original Air Date: 1937
John Gibson appears, so likely the program originated from New York.
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We start out with a song from One Night Stand on June 3, 1946 by Bobby Sherwood sure to get your appetite going.
Then we check in with Falstaff's Fables starring Alan Reed and Alan Reed, Jr. explaining why we have turkey on Thanksgiving on November 23, 1950.
Then a brief comment from Bob Bailey at the end of an episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar from November 18,...
Cast: James Edwards, Nestor Paiva, Ivan Dixon, Richard Reinauer.
Hosted by Robert Young
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1965
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From Rudy Vallee's Royal Desserts Hour
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 28, 1938
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Original Radio Broadcast: October 10, 1948
The program was sponsored by the Bates Manufacturing Company and starred Norman Card, Dorothy Eichorn, Eleanor Ledbetter, Elsie McCalhoun, Floyd Smiley, and Lee Whiscup
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Originally Aired in 1949
Sponsored by US Navy Recruiting and the Announcer is Jackson Beck
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Then Jimmy Durante, Tallulah Bankhead, and Jack Carson star in a comedic version of the same story, "Avenge: The Son of Revenge"
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Groucho Marx hosts a version of his classic game show You Bet Your Life with some unusual couples. First up is Baby Snooks (Fanny Brice) and Daddy (Hanley Stafford), then Tallulah Bankhead and Meredith Willson.
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John Nesbitt tells the story of La Libre Belgique, a Belgian underground newspaper that published the truth about the German occupation during World War I at a stunningly high cost and how the paper is printing again in opposition to Nazi Germany.
The story was told on the July 21, 1942 episode of the Johnson Wax Summer program.
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This week, the series has a guest storyteller in Kay Kyser (aka: The Old Professor) host of radio's classic music quiz program The Kollege of Musical Knowledge.
He reads the story, "Hot Piano" introduces us to a respectable professor of music appreciation who just engaged to an equally respectable psychology pro...
The year is 1937. A young filmmaker is about to release a groundbreaking new work, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Walt Disney was invited on the Lux Radio Theater to be interviewed Hollywood director Cecil B Demille and what future projects he was working on.
The interview took place on December 20, 1937 in Hollywood, the day before Snow White's premiere.
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While Unsolved Mysteries was a syndicated True Crime series in the 1930s. It didn't start out that way. We take a look...
This was the basis of a stunt on a post-war episode of People Are Funny. And we'll find out in today's excerpt from that program hosted by Art Linkletter.
This comes from an A...
Whether you're a Sports fan or not, this episode will be of interest as we take a look at America's most legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice and his friendship with legendary Notre Dama Football Coach Knute Rockne. We also take a look at how he turned one particular Notre Dama backfield into "The Four Horsemen."
This is an episode of The Grantland Rice Story. It aired originally in the fall of 1955...
Join us as we travel back in time to a small town where Doctor Grant Adams dispenses medicinee for the body and common sense advice for the soul in this little-known family drama series from the 1930s.
In this first episode, a teenage girl becomes the subject of gossip after some church money turns up missing. Can Doc Adams prevent a tragedy?
Potential series air dates for the series vary f...
We start out with the first verbal barbs between Fields and McCarthy on May 1, 1937 and then on June 27, 1937, Fields has to talk his way out of a $12 million defamation lawsuit by Charlie McCarthy in response to Fields' barbs in the pre...
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 1, 1949
Originated from Hollywood
Also featured: Jeff Chandler and Sam Edwards
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Each week listen for a bite-sized sample of the Golden Age of Radio and journey back to the twentieth century. Gain keen insights into life in the 1930s, 1940s , and 1950s through short-form old-time radio programs including comedic moments, full-cast short dramas, stories from the greatest storytellers of the past age.
Unearth legends and rediscover those who have long b...
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