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Undated
No. 28
NBC
27 min
Radio City Playhouse ran on NBC from July 1948 to January 1950, produced and directed by Harry W.
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25 April
No. 71
1943
CBS
Sunday
27 min
Radio Reader's Digest was broadcast on CBS from 1942 to 1948, sponsored by the Hallmark greeting-card company and later by Campbell.
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4 December
No. 4
1947
ABC / Mutual
Thursday
29 min
Sky King began on ABC in 1946 and moved to Mutual, following Schuyler "Sky" King, an Arizona rancher and former navy flyer who used his aircraft the Songbird to run down rustlers and fugitives.
Internet ArchiveSkyKingCondition unmeasured
18 April
No. 73
1942
CBS
Saturday
26 min
Stars Over Hollywood was broadcast on CBS from May 1941 to September 1954, one of the longest-running Saturday-morning dramatic anthologies.
Internet ArchiveStarsOverHollywoodCondition unmeasured
8 March
No. 10
1937
Mutual
Monday
26 min
True Detective Mysteries dramatised cases taken from True Detective magazine, broadcast on Mutual from 1937 and later sponsored by Listerine and Oh Henry.
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29 March
No. 16
1950
Mutual
Wednesday
29 min
2000 Plus was broadcast on Mutual from March 1950 to January 1952 and was the first adult science-fiction anthology written directly for American radio, predating Dimension X by a month.
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15 May
No. 35
1948
NBC
Saturday
28 min
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell brought Gilbert Patten's dime-novel hero — the clean-living Yale sportsman — to NBC, first in the mid-1930s and again in a Saturday-morning run from 1946 to 1949 with Lawson Zerbe in the title role.
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Undated
No. 10
Mutual
28 min
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s.
Internet ArchiveCasebookOfGregoryHoodCondition unmeasured
10 June
No. 79
1948
CBS
Thursday
28 min
Hallmark Playhouse was broadcast on CBS from June 1948 to 1953, sponsored by Hallmark Cards and hosted by the novelist James Hilton, author of Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr.
Internet ArchiveHallmarkPlayhouseCondition unmeasured
20 July
No. 10
1951
NBC
Friday
28 min
Inspector Thorne ran on NBC in the summer and autumn of 1951, with Karl Weber and later Staats Cotsworth as the methodical police inspector.
Internet ArchiveInspectorThorneCondition unmeasured
12 May
No. 33
1944
Mutual / CBS / NBC
Friday
27 min
It Pays To Be Ignorant began on Mutual in 1942 and moved to CBS and then NBC, running to 1951.
Internet ArchiveItPaysToBeIgnorantCondition unmeasured
20 May
No. 14
1951
NBC
Sunday
25 min
Mr.
Internet ArchiveMrMotoCondition unmeasured
