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Hawaii Calls 1949 New Years Eve Program (AWR0292)

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A broadcast of the most beloved Hawaiian songs of 1949 as the popular series bids aloha to 1949.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 29, 1949

Originating from Honolulu

Hosted by Webley Edwards

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Campbell’s Playhouse: A Christmas Carol (AWR0291)

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Charles Dickens’ classic tale of Ebenezer’s life-changing encounter with three spirits on Christmas Eve.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1939

Narrated by Orson Welles

Starring: George Coulouris; Bea Benaderet; Ray Collins; Everett Sloane; Frank Readick

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The Comic Weekly Man: Wishing a Merry Christmas (AWR0290)

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The Comic Weekly Man comes for a weekly visit right before Christmas and reads strips from Puck: The Comic Weekly, including Flash Gordon, Dick’s Adventures, Rusty Riley, Donald Duck, Uncle Remus, Roy Rogers, Blondie, and Prince Valiant.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Lon Clark as the Comic Weekly Man

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Screen Guild Theater: Christmas in Connecticut (AWR0289)

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Today’s Story:

A writer who has cast herself as America’s favorite homemaker in her columns faces ruin when her publisher and a war-hero sailor are set to visit her non-existent farm. She agrees to marry a long-time suitor and use his farm for a Christmas celebration. Complications ensue when she falls for the sailor.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 5, 1946

Starring: Jane Wyman; Ronald Reagan; Leon Belasco

Related: Revisionist History: A Very Terminator Christmas

Newspaper Heroes of the Air: Radio Christmas in Connecticut

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Theatre Guild on the Air: State Fair (AWR0288)

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Theatre Guild on the Air’s 1950 production of State Fair offers a gentle, nostalgic journey into the heart of Midwestern life, carried by the warmth of its performances and the shimmer of remembered summers. The Frake family—father Abel, mother Melissa (Gene and Kathleen Lockhart), and their nearly grown children Margie (June Lockhart) and Wayne (Dick Van Patten)—travel to the Iowa State Fair seeking ribbons, excitement, and perhaps just a touch of wonder beyond their everyday routines.

This episode is played in honor of the recent passing of June Lockhart.

Originating in New York

Original Air Date: December 31, 1950

Starrring: Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, June Lockhart, Dick Van Patten, Van Heflin, Rosemary Rice, Roger Pryor, John Gibson, Ed Jerome, Michael Dreyfus, Brad Barker

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The Aldrich Family: Thanksgiving Dance and Turkey Run (AWR0287)

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Henry Aldrich gets his classmates to agree to a turkey run after a school dance in hopes of finding a use for an unwanted live turkey from a country uncle. However, complications ensue.

Original AIr Date: November 25, 1948

Starring: Ezra Stone as Henry Aldrich

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Theatre Royal: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (AWR0286)

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Today’s story: A lawyer wonders why his friend Dr. Jeckyll has formed an association with the wicked, Edward Hyde.

Original Radio Braodcast: January 30, 1954

Originating in London

Starring Sir Laurence Oliver as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hydge, William Mervin, Russell Napier, Campbell Signer, John Frasier

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Family Theater: The Black Arrow (AWR0285)

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Today’s Story:

During the War between the Yorks and Lancasters in 15h Century England, a young man witnesses the murder of a friend with a black arrow and finds a note claiming his friend murdered his father.

Original Radio Broadcast: February 1, 1950

Starring: John Howard as Richard Shelton; Betty Lynn; Junius Matthews; William Conrad; Tudor Owen; Ted de Corsia

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The Hall of Fantasy: Markheim (AWR0284)

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Today’s Story: A gambler murders a pawn broker on Christmas Eve and is haunted by it.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 24, 1947

Originating in Salt Lake City

Starring: , Carl Grayson, Richard Harcourt, Beth Caulder,

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This is My Best: The Master of Ballantrae (AWR0283)

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Today’s Story: The eldest of two brothers is presumed dead in war and the youngest marries his sweetheart and iherits the estate. Conflict comes when the older brother returns determined to reclaim what had been his.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1945

Starring Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Alan Napier

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Your Playhouse of Favorites: The Suicide Club (AWR0282)

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A bored crown prince, looking for excitement, joins a club of men who want to end their lives.

Original Air Date: Sometime between 1947 and 1949

Originating in New York

Starring: Dwight Reese and Walter Vaughn

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Family Theater: Lodging for the Night (AWR0281)

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Today’s story:

In fifteenth-century Paris, a roguish poet finds himself on the run, wanted for a murder he didn’t commit

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 25, 1950

Starring: Robert Alda as Francois Villon; Ona Munson; Tyler McVey; Charles Russell; Robert Griffin; Edward Holden; Robert Bruce; Jeffrey Silver; Raymond Burr

Hosted by Dan Duryea

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Mercury Theater: Treasure Island (AWR0280)

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Today’s Story: Jim Hawkins acquires a treasure map and is named cabin boy on The Hispanola where he encounters adventures, pirates, and mutiny.

Original Air Date: July 18, 1938

Originating in New York

Starring: Orson Welles as Long John Silver Agnes Moorehead, Arthur Anderson, Dan Seymour, George Coulouris

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Favorite Story: The Sire De Maltroit’s Door (AWR0279)

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In 1429, a man, fleeing for his life, goes through a door that will let him in but not out, and finds himself in the hands of a host who makes most unusual demands.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 10, 1946

Stars: Howard Duff as Dennis; Janet Waldo as Blanche

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World’s Great Novels: Kidnapped, Part Three (AWR0278)

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David Balfour escapes the sea only to find himself a victim of circumstance who is running for his life and wanted for murdering a King’s Agent.

Original Broadcast Date: May 14, 1948

Originating in Chicago

Starring: Phil Fine as David Balfour, Larry Alexander as Alan Brechk Stewart,

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