Category: Amazing World of Radio

Feed for the Amazing World of Radio podcast.

AWR0110: Request Performance (Easter Old Time Radio)

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Dick Powell hosts a variety featuring Abbott and Costello and an Easter sketch starring George Raft.

Original Air Date: April 21, 1946

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AWR0109: CBS Radio Workshop: Son of Man (Easter Old Time Radio)

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A Passion Play produced by Herbert Marshall featuring the voices of Marshall, Robert Young, Victory Jory, and Vincent Price as well as the music of Bach.

Original Air Date: April 21, 1957
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AWR0108: Doris Day Show with Guest Kirk Douglas (Kirk Douglas Celebration)

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Kirk Douglas makes a guest appearance on the Doris Day Show.

Original Air Date: November 25, 1952

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AWR0107: Screen Director’s Playhouse: Champion (Kirk Douglas Celebration)

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The story of a young boxer’s (Kirk Douglas) rise from obscurity to becoming a boxing champion.

Original Air Date: March 17, 1950

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AWR0106: Academy Award Theater: Stranger in My House (Kirk Douglas Celebration)

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A psychiatrist falls in love with his patient and moves her in with his family leading to serious problems.

Original Air Date: October 2, 1946

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AWR0105: Suspense: The Story of Markham’s Death (Kirk Douglas Celebration)

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A mystery writer with writer’s block discovers a lost Edgar Allan Poe manuscript while visiting London and decides to rewrite it to bring back his career.

Original Air Date: October 2, 1947

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AWR0104: The Short Career of Dexter Coles (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A writer sells out to a corrupt political machine boss in order to give a better life to his daughter.

Original Air Date: February 8, 1950

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AWR0103: Escape: Poison (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A man’s bigoted friend is trapped in bed with a deadly snake, and the only one who can help is a doctor from India.

Original Air Date: July 28, 1950

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AWR0102: Guest Star: By Mere Coincidence and Hour of St. Francis: Welcome Home, Soldier (Jack Webb Centennial)

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In “Mere Coincidence,” a salesman ends up with someone else’s luggage and then learns the hard way that the owner is a Soviet Agent. Original Air Date:June 21, 1953

In “Welcome Home, Soldier,” Jack Webb reads an open letter to a quadruple amputee veteran of the Korean War. Original Air Date: June 17, 1951

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AWR0101: Guest Star: Road to Yesterday and the Gift of Life (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A woman (Bonita Granville )reflects on her life after death in “The Road to Yesterday”

In “the Gift of Life,” a taxi driver (Jack Webb) tries to help a widowed new mother (Jane Wyatt) and give her some difficult news.

Original Air Dates: November 29, 1948 and February 27, 1949

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AWR0100: The Whistler: The Perfect Alibi (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A private eye falls for a beautiful woman with thousands of dollars in gambling debts and a rich uncle.

Original Air Date: June 12, 1949

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AWR0099: Suspense: You Take Ballistics (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A police lieutenant is convinced a local hood (Jack Webb) has committed murder but doesn’t know how he can prove it.

Original Air Date: March 13, 1947

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AWR0098: Are These Our Children: Edith Hayes (Jack Webb Centennial)

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A teenage girl drops out of school and falls into a car theft ring.

Original Air Date: November 17, 1946

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AWR0097: Three for Adventure: Roundhouse Rosie and the Siamese Cats (Jack Webb Centennial)

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Three Adventurers (played by Jack Webb, Elliot Lewis, and Barton Yarborough) arrive in New Orleans to locate a valuable black opal.

Audition Date: 1949

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AWR0096: Escape: Border Town (Jack Webb Centennial)

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An actor on a bus to Hollywood has $15,000 in counterfeit money planted in his coat and a trip to Mexico to get rid of it leads to dangerous adventures.

Original Air Date: December 13, 1949

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