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Change: and others. The Red Skelton Show ran on the radio for 12 years (minus 23 months beginning in 1944 when Red was drafted).Cowboys on Radio Hop-along Cassidy, Gene Autry, Red Ryder, Roy Rogers, the Texas Rangers, The Lone Rangerand many morePage Links Reorganized
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Change: Show hit the airwaves on NBC, giving Red just the forum he needed for Clem Kadiddlehopper, Willy Lump-Lump and others. The Red Skelton Show ran on the radio for 12 years (minus 23 months beginning in 1944 when Red was drafted). Cowboys on Radioand many morePage Links Reorganized
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Change: After a highly successful run on CBC Radio, they warily switched to television in 1954. Their legendary international success came in 1958 when they were
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Change: was one of the most enduring family-based situation comedies. Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and their sons David and Ricky (16 and 13 respectively at the
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Change: presented the antics of Amos Jones, an Uncle Tom-like, conservative; Andy Brown, his zany business associate; Kingfish Stevens, a scheming smoothie; Lawyer Calhoun, an underhanded
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Change: the two dollars on.(4/24/1941) Well, we're coming up on June, the month of weddings. You know marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before. (5/25/1982) Hear Bob tell some more! AMOS AND ANDY
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Change: told stories of ghosts, murderers and lunatics. Produced in New York, the cast usually consisted of veteran radio actors, with occasional guest appearances by such Hollywood stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Claude Rains.What made Inner Sanctum Mysteries unique among radio horror shows
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Change: ThisThese linklinks hashave many onlineold time radio shows that you can listen to now as you did when you were a kid in the 40's and 50's.http://www.freeotrshows.com/otr/l/Lux_Radio_Theater.htmlHere a a few of my old favourites that
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Change: don't put the two dollars on.(4/24/1941) Well, we're coming up on June, the month of weddings. You know marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before. (5/25/1982) Hear Bob tell some more!
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Change: get away racy jokes.Charlie: "May I have a kiss good-bye?" Dale Evans: "Well, I can't see any harm in that!" Charlie:Charlie: "Oh. I wish you could. A harmless kiss doesn't sound very thrilling." .BOB HOPE lasted a lifetime with his silly jokes.....
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Dec 28 2009, 5:09 PM EST
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Change: ventriloquist. It was Bergen's skill as an entertainer and vocal performer, and especially his characterization of Charlie, that carried the show. Charlie was always presented as a highly precocious child - a debonair, girl-crazy, child-about-town. As a child, and a wooden one at that, Charlie could get away racy jokes.
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Change: never wavered. The show would usually open with a song by the orchestra or banter between Benny and Don Wilson. There would then be banter
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Change: in the history of classic radio. We listened to this show after school.George and Gracie were very funny and it was so sad when Gracie died....but George carred on with the same old funny gags.So did Jack Benny....the tight-wad gag lasted a lifetime....
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Change: http://www.freeotrshows.com/otr/l/Lux_Radio_Theater.htmlHere a a few of my old favourites that I listened to on the radio, where all us kids curled up in our bunks and wafted away to adventure on the radio waves.THE DETECTIVESWhile investigating mysteries, Blackie invariably encountered harebrained
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Change: and Orson Welles, to name just a few of the film legends who appeared on the show. COMEDYFibber McGee and Molly was one of the longest-running comedies in the history of classic radio.
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Change: Produced and hosted by film legend Cecil B. DeMille, Lux Radio Theater strove to feature as many of the original stars of the original stage
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Change: This series was broadcasted from June 3, 1949 to February 26, 1957 on NBC at various times and days, starring Dragnet starred Jack Webb as
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Change: as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie, and took a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character than the novel or movie. ................
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Change: The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The
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