6 May 1937
Oh, the humanity
Herb Morrison watches the Hindenburg burn at Lakehurst
The clip bench
Fifty famous moments, one black-and-gold look
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7 December 1941
The day of infamy
NBC breaks into the afternoon with Pearl Harbor
6 June 1944
D-Day, 0700 hours
CBS carries the invasion as it is confirmed
29 December 1940
The arsenal of democracy
Roosevelt's sixteenth fireside chat
24 April 1933
The locust years
Churchill on the wasted years before the war
11 June 1927
Lindbergh comes home
Washington receives the man who crossed the Atlantic
July 1969
One small step
Armstrong on the surface, carried live
22 February 1948
You are at Gettysburg
CBS reports the battle as though it were breaking news
25 June 1948
Louis against Walcott
The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports at ringside
8 October 1939
Yankees at Reds
Game four of the 1939 World Series
14 May 1954
Derby day with Hope
Bob Hope takes the show to Churchill Downs
20 March 1940
Who's on First
Abbott and Costello, the routine everybody can quote
5 March 1940
The hall closet
Fibber McGee opens the most famous door in radio
14 March 1937
The end of the feud
Jack Benny finally faces Fred Allen
24 February 1941
Gracie is late for the show
Burns and Allen, thirty minutes of beautiful nonsense
8 April 1947
The Kingfish takes in a boarder
The Armed Forces pressing of a much-loved half hour
12 January 1945
Archie adapts Frankenstein
Boris Karloff visits Duffy's Tavern
6 April 1945
Finnegan inherits a diamond mine
Duffy's Tavern at its most hopeless
26 December 1951
Last Christmas presents
The Great Gildersleeve, the day after the day
10 December 1946
The Christmas present
Mel Blanc, every voice at once
28 February 1940
Life at the South Pole
Fred Allen's company go exploring
20 April 1949
The secret word is head
Groucho Marx, entirely off the leash
2 October 1947
Charlie McCarthy calls
Edgar Bergen in the Kraft Music Hall
30 October 1938
The night Mars invaded
Welles and the Mercury Theatre panic a nation
11 July 1938
Dracula
The Mercury Theatre's first broadcast
8 February 1943
The Maltese Falcon
Lux Radio Theatre puts the whole picture on air
9 January 1950
Sorry, Wrong Number
A crossed line and a murder being arranged
25 December 1948
Christmas command performance
Skelton, Darnell and Mostel for the forces
27 May 1937
Crosby's music hall
Bing opens the Kraft hour with a song
20 November 1949
Saturday night at the Opry
Nashville's own barn dance, in full cry
20 April 1943
The chicken heart
Lights Out and the beating that will not stop
20 July 1946
The haunted cell
Lights Out, at the far end of the corridor
11 November 1956
Three Skeleton Key
A lighthouse, a wrecked ship, and the rats
25 August 1957
Leiningen versus the Ants
A plantation owner refuses to run
7 February 1948
Donovan's Brain
The dead man is still giving orders
24 January 1948
The Black Angel
Suspense, at its most unforgiving
10 September 1945
Phone call from death
The Whistler knows many strange tales
7 May 1946
You could die laughing
Inner Sanctum, and that door
14 July 1949
The Drums of the Fore and Aft
Escape, from Kipling, at full pelt
9 October 1938
Death stalks the Shadow
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men
19 January 1950
The Big Man
Friday and Romero work a narcotics case
10 August 1950
The Hartford Alliance matter
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — expense account investigator
2 April 1946
Classified ads
The Green Hornet strikes again
22 September 1951
Requiem
Dimension X takes Heinlein to the Moon
28 March 1956
A Pail of Air
X Minus One on a frozen Earth
6 December 1952
The Space Shark
Space Patrol, thirty minutes of pure serial
10 December 1949
The mechanical monster
Superman, up on the roof of Metropolis
10 September 1941
Bait for the trap
The Lone Ranger rides out of the past
19 March 1961
Joe Phy
Dodge City, and a man with a reputation
6 December 1959
Mistaken identity
Paladin, hired for the wrong reason